Erica wins Kapiti Island trip

	Erica with Lucy Best, Cr Peter Glensor and Sophie Best

Onslow College student Erica Finnie is the lucky winner of an overnight trip for two to Kapiti Island, courtesy of Greater Wellington Regional Council.

Greater Wellington donated the prize as part of its sponsorship of the Climate Action Festival, held at Waitangi Park last Saturday (6 December), the Global Day of Action on Climate Change.

All those who travelled to the festival sustainably, e.g. walked, took public transport, cycled, or rollerbladed were eligible to enter the draw for the prize.

In a purely coincidental move, Erica’s name was drawn immediately after she had appeared on the festival stage to present an environmental message she had delivered recently at Parliament.

The prize was drawn by three year old Sophie Best, grand-daughter of Cr Peter Glensor, Deputy Chair of Greater Wellington and Chair of the Transport and Access Committee.

Cr Glensor, who addressed festival-goers before the prize draw, said it was appropriate that his grandchildren were with him on the stage as the festival was very much about protecting our environment for the future generation.

The festival featured the inaugural Frocks on Bikes in which cyclists dressed up in their feminine finery and rode to Parliament through the city. And two-wheeled sustainable transport triumphed over the four-wheeled fossil fuelled variety in the Super Shopper Sprint – where cyclists competed against motorists on journeys to three supermarkets around the city. Cyclists trounced motorists on all three trips.