Published: 11:26AM Friday April 24, 2009
Good Sorts is a new series on ONE News that celebrates
everyday New Zealanders doing great things in your community.
Young people, old people, brown people, white people, there are
great people everywhere doing some great stuff and Good Sorts will
tell their story each and every Sunday.
We are also giving you the chance to nominate people who
you think have done something good in the community and need some
recognition. Simply click on the link below and put forward your
favourite community person.
Nominate someone for Good Sorts
Good Sorts celebrates the good in every community... Every Sunday.
November 8
Johnny Johnson spends hours every day cleaning a rugby
park for a little bit of petrol money, the odd free beer and a
smile.
November 1
Tapai McLeod is a parking warden and as a man in
a uniform people often love to hate him. However he is not your
usual parking enforcer and this is why he is a ONE News good
sort.
October 25
Kate Jurlina spent months organising a
fundraising day for a young cancer sufferer she had not
even met.
October 18
Evan Davies has made the walk into Spring Hills
Prison many times, but Sunday is different - he has a care package
for some prisoners.
October 11
Shirley Blackwell hates the limelight. She was
quite bewildered when she was nominated as a ONE News Good Sort for
her work on the children's ward at Whangarei hospital.
October 4
Christchurch's
Verna Carr loves looking after children so much
that she has devoted her life to it, taking in hundreds of children
over three decades.
September 13
Sometimes the worst situations in life really can have a
silver lining and that's how it is for
Gill Fahey and Margaret Sweet.
September 6
For most people a job is what we do to sustain the lifestyle we
have become accustomed to, but in one cramped office in Mangere
Sue Baudet is living the dream.
August 30
Arthur Drower is a man who has created history by
serving his community for six decades.
August 23
Mother
Jo Poland is a ONE News Good Sort, who can reminds
us all about the true meaning of family.
August 16
It has been three months since a Rotorua service station owner fled
the country with nearly $4 million of Westpac Bank's money.The
heist left victim's in Rotorua. That is where good sort
Jeffrey Morgan came in a rather random act of
kindness.
August 9
The pupils and staff at Gladstone primary school,
nominated
Ces Pettit to be a ONE News Good Sort because he
is a man who has still got some small town values, in the big city
that is Auckland.
August 2
When
George Shierny sees a problem and the council
will not do anything about it, then George does what comes
naturally - he gets out his tools and fixes it.
July 26
Far from a neighbourhood gossip,
Di Simpson tells Great Barrier Islanders the
things they really need to know.
July 19
Chris O'Connor is a man who saw something wrong
in his community, and instead of shrugging it off decided to do
something about it.
July 12
Barry John MacIntyre spent his life as a Good
Sort, and he is a saver of four lives too.
July 5
John Griffiths is a man who spends his days on
the streets of Dunedin, and he is a ONE News Good Sort.
June 28
Gerry Guy is a Good Sort who does not help the
wider community directly, but in his line of work he has been the
cornerstone.
June 21
Emmy Pratt is the voice of Great Barrier Marine
Radio and a lifeline for those out on the water.
June 14
Claire Sawyers has always been a giver - she gave
some of her first paycheck to the SPCA
May31
Estella Lee is a newish New Zealander who fell in
love with our country and decided to do her part for the
environment, she is a ONE News good sort.
May 25
Sometimes you don't need to go far and wide to help out other
people, just ask
good sort Ila Johnson. Ila, a Whangarei senior
citizen, helps others in her community from the comfort of her lazy
boy chair.
May 17
A man who jacked in a job he thought was rubbish for a job that's
all about rubbish is the latest ONE News good sort.
Hayden Smith found his vocation , keeping
Auckland's beautiful Hauraki Gulf garbage free.
May 10
New Plymouth grandmother
Barbara Shearer normally doesn't move too fast
but when her family's life was on the line, she ran like the
wind.
May 5
Peter Akich , a lifeguard from south Auckland is
one of the community's unsung heroes.
April 26
In the first of the ONE NEWS Good Sorts series, reporter
Hadyn Jones meets Chris Geerkens , a young man
from Kaio School in Whangarei who wants to save the planet.
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