The Franklin Times is recognising the many wonderful people in our community who go out of their way to help others with our regular Community Hero award.
If you know someone who’s doing amazing things in our community, please email 50 to 100 words describing why they deserve this recognition, highlighting specific actions they’ve taken to benefit our community, with your and their contact details and a high-resolution photo of them if possible, to editor@franklintimes.co.nz.
Be sure to include details about what they’ve been doing, the impact they’ve made, and how long they’ve been involved in these efforts.
The award is sponsored by Little Ed Pukekohe. Recipients will receive a $100 Little Ed voucher and will be featured in our newspaper and on our website.
Our very first recipient is Marlene Green.
She’s nominated by Janine McCarron who writes: “Marlene does amazing work in Franklin, looking after stray cats at times having to trap them at night and then takes them to the vet to get desexed, checked over, and then finds homes for these precious babies.
“Marlene has not only fostered cats and kittens but also tamariki which she has then gone on to adopt. She is a superstar!
“She always helps people also find cats owners as she has her own microchip scanner and offers on the grapevine if cats have been run over so that their owners can be contacted.”
