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CHRISTCHURCH David Attenborough presents the amazing lyre bird
✤ Healthy Living Festival stall
which mimics almost everything else in the forest!
✤ Vegan potlucks ✤ Lyttelton St Party: Vege BBQ
Youtube - lyre bird
✤ Regular meetings ✤ Climate Smart Film Festival
✤ Sham (veggie ham) giveaways
HAMILTON ✤ Film night: End of the Line
✤ Inner city street stall ✤ Eco Expo stall
✤ Pet Expo stall ✤ Vegetarian Expo stall
✤ Natural Health Expo stall ✤ International talk: Karen Dawn
✤ Library displays
PALMERSTON NORTH ✤ SBS Marathon as ‘pigs!’
✤ Day-long pig action
✤ Factory farming stall OAMARU LOVEPIGS COLOURING COMPETITION
✤ New SAFE group formed SAFE’s promotions manager Amanda Sorrenson organised a fabulous
✤ Monthly meetings colouring competition to help show how wonderfully smart pigs are
KAPITI COAST
and why children should care about pigs. Many newspapers published
✤ Collection ✤ Fundraising collection
the competition that attracted over 100 entries from kids between
✤ Library display four and twelve years old. Fabulous effort!
“No dear, I can’t stay for coffee. I’m off to visit a friend at the hospital.”
There was always a good reason keeping Elizabeth from spending
leisurely time with her fellow activists, after her hard graft at a SAFE
demonstration. She was simply always too busy.
Elizabeth was actually a secret hero of mine. The kind of elderly
person I want to be - independent, glamorous, fit and active, still driving always looked sparkly and fabulous, her scarf draped glamorously over
- and a keen activist to boot! Elizabeth believed it was her business to her shoulder as she handed leaflets to the public.
get out onto the streets to protest, distribute leaflets or even lie on the I have missed Elizabeth over the last years. She told me her
street for hours wearing an animal mask and toe-tag, covered with a forgetfulness had made assisting SAFE too difficult. In recent years we
‘blood-stained’ sheet, to help prevent cruelty to animals. spoke a few more times, and I visited her to advise on setting up a run
I recently discovered that Elizabeth was actually in her mid-eighties for the ex-battery hens she planned to adopt. She kept those hens until
when she began volunteering in 2004. Elizabeth also collected for SAFE just recently, when they were re-homed when she went into care.
during each Christmas appeal without fail, compensating for her petite Elizabeth died in November 2009 at the remarkable age of 90,
street presence by purloining somebody’s canine. honouring SAFE with a considerable bequest. SAFE has earmarked
It turns out Elizabeth’s activism for SAFE was not well known by a portion to produce SAFE’s next humane education resource for
her children, who could only second guess the nature of their mother’s secondary schools, which focuses on animal experiments. It seems a
activities based on whether their dog was still at home! Daughter fitting tribute for Elizabeth that she can continue to help laboratory
Frances tells us “Mum used to take part in street collections and once animals, given that she was determined to lie on a cold footpath for
she went to my house, without me knowing, and took my rambunctious many hours protesting against the use of animal experiments. Her
Huntaway dog with her. Apparently he was very well behaved for her, daughter assures us Elizabeth would be pleased.
and thank heavens, as she was already fairly frail then.” From all of the SAFE team, we thank you Elizabeth. It’s time to rest
Elizabeth was an asset to SAFE, bringing an added level of dignity and (and put your feet up!).
respectability that being elderly affords. If we had older people on our
team we must be addressing serious matters! Elizabeth always listened If you would like to know more about leaving a legacy to SAFE in
carefully and got straight to work! She was a no-nonsense person, who your will please email us at: safe@safe.org.nz.