The girls chasing Awatapu College sisters Kara and Zia Macdermid didn't even see their clean pair of heels in the Manawatū secondary schools' cross-country, last Wednesday.
Two boys were flown to hospital at the weekend after being injured in a rugby match played at the same high school where a Palmerston North boy was seriously injured last month.
A woman who has improved education for Pacific children has been awarded the highest honour of any Manawatū resident in this year's Queen's Birthday Honours list.