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Two of the key people that made it happen, Lucy Skou, left, and Brenna O’Neill cut the ribbon to officially open the new Marton playground.
Rain didn’t put a dampener on the excitement at the opening of Marton’s newest asset. Te Āhuru Mōwai Playground was officially opened after four years of hard work and dedication sparked by two mothers who wanted a better community playground for their rural town. Lucy Skou and Brenna O’Niell, founders of the Marton Development Group, cut the ribbon on their labour of love project on Saturday with hundreds of local supporters cheering them on after the years of challenges getting the playground over the line were finally over.
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Saturday, 10 April 2021, 5:23 pm
The Marton community is having a grand opening for Te
Āhuru Mōwai, their new destination playground, at 10am on
Saturday 17 April.
The playground is four years in the
making and cost $1.3m, nearly all of which was raised
through grants and donations from the local
community.
Chairperson for the Marton Development
Group (the not-for-profit organisation behind the
playground) Lucy Skou said the group was beyond excited to
finally open the playground and to share it with the Marton
community.
“We can’t wait for everyone who has
supported this playground through fundraising, working-bees,
donations, auctions, sausage sizzles and more to come and