Paihia Christmas parade: Alien invasion
Paihia was taken over by aliens on Friday night as gleaming space ships rumbled through town and hundreds of little green (and orange and pink and blue) men marched down Marsden Rd. It was not a real extra-terrestrial invasion but the town’s highly competitive Christmas parade, which was this year themed ‘out of this world’. Paihia School organised an intergalactic convention for their winning float, with every class representing a different planet and principal Jane Lindsay captaining a life-size space ship; others came as the Starship Enterprise, Daleks, the crew of a crashed spaceship, and Avatar-inspired blue-skinned beings. The winners were... Business category: 1 Crafty Creations, 2 Kebabulous, 3 Fullers GreatSights, highly commended Paihia Early Education. Community category: 1 Paihia-Waitangi Kindergarten, 2 Bay of Islands Rotary Club, 3 Paihia Cubs, highly commended Opua School. Overall winner: Paihia School. Photos by Peter de Graaf.
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