Former WHS student Kaitlin Firmin had experience in driving farm machinery for stock feeding on the Gateway programme. Whanganui High School employment coordinator Peter Reid has some enthusiastic...
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Team buoyed by success at the champs - May 2015
SWIMMING SUCCESS: Subway Wanganui swim team from left, Shannon Schimanski, Laura O'Keeffe (WHS student), Sarya Lower, Elena Forlong (WHS student) competed at the New Zealand age group championships...
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Teams dig deep for placings - February 2015
EXHAUSTED: Former WHS student Toby Brooke after a race at Lake Karapiro. He will need recovery time before heading to Sydney for the Australian GP2 competition. They just about had to be helped...
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Teen gets tour of Third World medicine - February 2015
WORTH IT: While she no longer wants to be a doctor, Anastasia O'Leary recommends the experience to others. Standing feet away from wide-awake patients with their insides on display, it occurred...
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Teen is walking on water after wins - January 2015
WANGANUI'S own Lily Meade franked the form that gained her selection to the junior world water skiing championships in Peru with unbeaten performances at Lake Wiritoa at the weekend. The 14-year-old...
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Teen Koroi surprise pick for AB Sevens
Vilimoni Koroi, in Kaierau colours for the 2014 Whanganui club sevens, has just been named in the All Black Sevens team for this weekend's Wellington Sevens. Former Whanganui High School sevens...
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Teen lands medals on international debut - April 2015
INTERNATIONAL SUCCESS: Kasey Watson and his Wanganui Judo Clubmates celebrate the two silver medals and one bronze the 15-year-old won on his international debut. Wanganui Judo Club teenager Kasey...
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Teen selected to help foster cultural relations - May 2015
ADVENTURE AHEAD: Wanganui High School student Mika Gordon leaves Wanganui for Thailand next week, where she will attend school to learn and teach. Mika Gordon is off to Thailand as an exchange student...
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Teen triumphant in Singapore - November 2014
Wanganui teenager Millie Manning was unfazed by the heat of competition at the Singapore Prime Invitational gymnastics event this month. The Wanganui Boys and Girls Gym Club gymnast won gold with her...
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Teen writer is already an author
AUTHOR: Ana Gilligan with KodaPHOTO / PAUL BROOKS At 17, Whanganui High School student Ana Gilligan is an author, and that's all she's ever wanted to be. "I've wanted to be an author since I was...
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Teenage entertainer shines - October 2015
VICTORIOUS: Overall winner WHS student Briella Maua, 15, with Muddy River Country Music Awards convenor Elaine Holden. Briella Maua sang her way to winning yet more trophies in Wanganui last weekend...
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Teenager Tanner master of the River
Former WHS student Erica Tanner, front left, and Barry Hurley, front right, head out for the start of the Whanganui River Challenge yesterday.PHOTO: Stuart Munro. WHS students first/second in the...
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Teens jet off for tournament
SYDNEY BOUND: WHS student/Wanganui Athletic's Blake Sherman, left, Majre Apiata-Cook and coach Symon King (not shown)are excited for their Central Football squad's games in Australia this coming...
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Teens prepare for national stage - May 2015
WANGANUI hockey is in excellent health with six teenagers selected for Central North Island under-18 duties at the nationals in July. Five of the six - four boys and two girls - have direct links with...
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Teens triumph at ministock event - February 2016
NIGHT RIDERS: The Whanganui contingent who competed in Rotorua last weekend. WHS students, from left, Dylan Smith, Trazarn Ryland-Annabell, Callum Sturzaker, Jemma Barnes, Brody Casey, Kaelin...
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