School Holidays
We wanted to say a big thanks to all of the amazing people in our community who help to run our school holiday events. Once again we had a full schedule of yoga, pickleball, lego, arts and crafts, basketball,  cooking for kids and of course an Easter Bunny hunt. It was great to see our community space come alive with kids of all ages coming along to participate. We also want to acknowledge the Invercargill City Council wellbeing fund which has supported the running of our school holiday events over the last few years. 
 
Dog Park shelter painting
Have you noticed a few extra paw prints at the dog park lately? A few helpers from the Rotary Invercargill South Club came along and gave one of the shelters a fresh coat of paint complete with a few paw prints. Thanks guys you did an awesome job!

                           
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Orchard of the Month
Our Fruit and Nut team are showcasing the local orchards they have established in their orchard of the month series. This month they headed to Panton St to show the neighbours what is growing, promote community foraging, when they can pick (remembering wind blown fruit/nuts on the ground is at times as good as the fruit/nuts on the trees). These have wrapped up now for the season but will start again in Spring.
 
Drive-in movies
What an awesome couple of nights we had down behind the Newfield Tavern with our Drive-in movies. We kicked things off with Pork Pie on Friday and had a family night on Saturday watching Sing 2. We loved seeing the classic cars, picnic rugs and sleeping bags all come out for these 2 nights of fun. Thanks to Sono Sounds for the set up, ICC wellbeing fund for some funding support, all our food trucks for feeding the movie go-ers, and the Newfield Tavern for letting us take over their carpark.
 
Wow that was a big list of thank you’s but I guess that is what we are all about – different people in the community pitching in and helping make South Invercargill a great place to live, work and play!
 
So what is coming up for May? Youth Week is happening from 15 – 21 May and there are lots of fantastic opportunities for our rangatahi….

• Mental health workshop presented by the Y’s Raise Up Crew 

• Youthline’s t shirt printing – event here at South Alive – Thursday 18 May 4-6pm. See this Facebook link for more infomation – https://fb.me/e/2POnHD0WM

Radio Show
Do you have any gardening woes? We started a new agony aunt for gardening troubles on our radio show last week, so if you have any questions drop them hear and tune into Radio Southland 96.4FM every second Saturday at 9.30am and we will have our South Alive volunteers who are gardening experts provide their solutions.
Missed one of our previous shows? You can hear them clicking on the button below.       

‘Poipoia Te Kākano Kia Puawai – Nurture The Seed, And It Will Blossom’
 

It’s not often we get to celebrate a Royal Coronation! We were delighted that we sold out for our Right Royal High Tea fundraising effort which was held on Sunday May 7.  We are so lucky to have had Dr Murray Pfeifer speak with proceeds from the afternoon going to Cancer Society NZ.

Also, as we head into winter it might be timely to mention our Pay It Forward food box programme where, with your support, we give boxes of food to those who need it in our community.