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Arty hen's do steals the show at Enviro Fest

Samantha Motion
By Samantha Motion
Regional Content Leader·Bay of Plenty Times·
21 Jul, 2018 12:59 AM2 mins to read

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Amelia Hayter rides her hen party themed bike down Maunganui Rd. Photo / Andrew Warner

Amelia Hayter rides her hen party themed bike down Maunganui Rd. Photo / Andrew Warner

Californian bride-to-be Amelia Hayter briefly stole the show at the Mount Enviro Festival on Saturday.

Dressed in pink with all the traditionally tacky trappings of a hen's do, she came careening down Maunganui Rd to cheers and laughter on a bike decorated with, among other things, champagne glasses, pipe cleaner hearts and twigs.

She said her soon-to-be mother-in-law Anna Dixon and her friends had decorated a bike for a competition at the festival and nominated her to ride it in as a hen do challenge.

"They told me I was going to be in a parade, actually," said Hayter, who is getting married in California in August.

Hayter went on to win the adult section of the bike decorating competition.

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The junior winner was Sienna Olsen, 7.

Event organiser Ingrid Fleming, of Mount Mainstreet, said one of the goals of the sustainability-themed event was to get people more familiar with "wheels" as a transport option over cars.

Another main point of the festival was to celebrate new fence art created by local schools along 44m of construction fence at the former Phoenix carpark.

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Fleming said Arataki School's artwork had been crowned the winner, while the top student artwork belonged to Zoe from Mount Primary School.

Envirohub general manager Laura Wragg said 32 Mount Mainstreet businesses had committed to moving towards zero single-use plastic in advance of the event.

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