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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 $50 Little Ed voucher and will be featured in our newspaper and on our website. We award one Community Hero in each edition of our newspaper, published twice a month.
Our early November recipients are Doug and Jill Phelps, nominated by Sarah Hancock, who writes:
“Every day, bar Sundays, rain or shine, Doug and Jill scale the roads and hills of Bombay collecting rubbish. They are very humble and would be mortified to know they had been nominated for this, but they are absolute legends.
“Both are in their seventies, both have had hip replacements (shhhh), yet they walk a good 6km to 10km every day picking up trash. Any items they find that they think may have been accidentally dropped, they dutifully put on the local grapevine and track down their owners.
“Thank you, Doug and Jill.”
Tiffany Potini also nominated the couple, echoing Sarah Hancock’s appreciation.
