Community Hero: Helen Clotworthy

The Franklin Times is recognising the many wonderful people in our community who go out of their way to help others with our regular Community Hero award.

If you know someone who’s doing amazing things in our community, please email 50 to 100 words describing why they deserve this recognition, highlighting specific actions they’ve taken to benefit our community, with your and their contact details and a high-resolution photo of them, if possible, to editor@franklintimes.co.nz.

Be sure to include details about what they’ve been doing, the impact they’ve made, and how long they’ve been involved in these efforts.

The award is sponsored by Little Ed Pukekohe. Recipients will receive a $50 Little Ed voucher and will be featured in our newspaper and on our website. We award one Community Hero in each edition of our newspaper, published twice a month.

This week’s recipient is Helen Clotworthy, who was nominated by Karen Houghton, who writes:

“Helen has been a fabulous member of the Pokeno community for many, many years. She has been on our community committee for well over 10 years, including being the chair of the committee. In that time, she worked on many projects designed to improve the fast-expanding Pokeno township.

“However, through her business, she also gives so much to local community groups – providing sausages for many sports groups and schools free of charge for their fundraising as well as thousands of meat packs to Pokeno School for their annual gala day. Helen is a very worthwhile recipient for this award.”