Te Awamutu Primary School students Vivana Perika, left, and Milla Westgate show the tree they and other students were part of creating to Te Awamutu Business Chamber chief executive Shane Walsh, left, and Christmas tree project manager Ken Huberts. Photo: Jeremy Smith
“Wow.”
Put simply, that was Te Awamutu Business Chamber chief executive Shane Walsh’s reaction when he visited Te Awamutu Primary School last week.
He was there with project manager Ken Huberts to survey the work students had put into preparing their contribution to an inaugural Te Awamutu Business Chamber initiative which will see 30 wooden
Christmas trees placed outside Alexandra St shops tomorrow (Friday), as part of the chamber’s Black Friday
Blow Out street party.
Three completed trees were at the primary school when The News visited last week, and deputy principal Kim Tautari-Scott said the students had spent the five weeks of the school term so far working on them.
Alexandra St retailers have adopted the 30 now complete trees from more\ than 10 Te Awamutu schools
which were involved – but the children who decorated them have no idea which retailer has theirs.
Tomorrow night, they and their parents will be on the hunt in town to find out.
As part of Black Friday Blowout, Alexandra St will be closed to traffic and there will be food trucks, live music and face painting.
