Alpine Fresh - Keep NZ Beautiful

Monday 4th October 2010- Alpine Fresh the Aoraki Mount Cook Village community clean up event.

With the sun shining the community gathered together to make our beautiful home even better with an afternoon of rubbish collection from around all the pathways, parkland and roads in the village.

23 volunteers joined the event and together we collected over 23 bags of rubbish.

With prizes from the sponsors The Hermitage Hotel, YHA, Real Journeys and Heliline everyone had a blast, not only did they have the satisfaction of seeing our community work together and make our alpine home 'fresh and clean' but there was also awesome prizes up for grabs.

• An art competition sponsored by YHA and Real Journeys - covering categories wearable, practical or decorative -the only rule the items had to make completely of rubbish it was a tough call over who would win with so many great entries but Marion & Gilbert Seymour took out the top prize with their fabulous entry.
  
  
• It was the GIRLZ team who collected the most rubbish and courtesy of the Hermitage Social club they walked away with $100 prezzie card each.

• The most unusual item was found by Adrian and Rod when they came across a Golf Cart -very strange when the nearest course is 55km away! the scenic flight from Heliline made the effort of dragging it from the bushes all worth while.

Of course no community event would be complete with out a yummy BBQ sponsored by the Hermitage Hotel there was steak, lamb cutlets, salmon, salads, cake and drinks! It was a great finish to the day.

Big Thank you to everyone who helped and especially to - The Hermitage Hotel, YHA, Department of Conservation, Real Journeys and Heliline.