Picton holiday programme for the young

Press, 18 December 1985, Page 45

Picton holiday programme for the young

Picton’s summer holiday programme will once again provide interest, variety and entertainment for the young and not so young from December 27 to January 8 on the Picton foreshore. Foreshore frolicks, a young children’s fun hour, will be presented by the Picton Sports and Recreation Office daily, until January 4, with the exception of January 1 and 2. Other regular features include the popular variety entertainment by Sparx. The junior Miss Picton competition (10 years and under) will be held at 2 p.m., on December 27.

The Picton Promotions junior Iron Man competition (under 16 years) will be held

at 2.30 p.m., on December 28. and the Hertz super sportsman of the Sounds competition at 3.15 p.m., the same day. The junior Master Picton competition (10 years and under) is scheduled for 2 p.m., on December 30. Starters in the 4.Bkm fun run will leave Waikawa for Picton at 6.30 p.m. Daughters aged three to six years are eligible to enter with their mothers in the mother and daughter competition on the foreshore at 2 p.m., on December 31. The Blenheim Axemen’s Club will present an axemen’s carnival from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., on New Year’s Day. Runners in the “Live Life: Be Active” team run-

ning from Bluff to Cape Reinga are scheduled to arrive in Picton at 4.30 p.m. Entrants in the 1986 Marlborough Walk will leave Blenheim at 6 a.m., on January 2. The walk medal presentation will be held on the foreshore at 7 p.m. The junior talent competition for children 15 years and under will be held at 3 p.m., on January 3, and the Trusteebank Canterbury talent competition at 7 p.m., the same day. Picton Jaycees will take to the water for their annual harbour raft race at 2 p.m., on January 4. The finals of the Trusteebank talent competition will be held on the foreshore at 7 o’clock that evening.