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Gala Dinner "With
Dancing With The Stars"
Norm Hewitt & Shane Cortese
Support Special
Olympics New Zealand 2005
Norm Hewitt Shane Cortese
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As
a major event on the Canterbury calendar, Norm Hewitt, winner of
Dancing
With The Stars, will join Shortland Street
actor, Shane Cortese to speak at the
Special Olympics gala
dinner at Christchurch Casino on Tuesday 22 November.
The event
will raise funds for over 1,200 intellectually disabled athletes
attending
their biggest national event. 11 sports and 3 demo
sports will be
offered.
Special Olympics New
Zealand National & Asia-Pacific Invitation Games
are held from
30 November- 3 December 2005
Special Olympics New
Zealand is a registered charitable organisation that has
operated
nationwide since 1983. It offers people with
intellectual disabilities unique opportunities to
participate in
sports. This makes a huge difference to their health, wellbeing
and social skills.
Currently over 3,800 Special Olympians
benefit from this programme.
All Special Olympics
programmes are athletic centred, family based and volunteer
driven,
using community facilities.
Lady Adrienne Stewart is Games patron.
Special Olympics Gala Dinner
tickets NOW available
Superb auction items !
($1,000 per table of 10) from Aaron Flynn,
Phone 372 8878 or email
aaron@christchurchcasino.co.nz
www.specialolympics.org.nz or
www.sharonlingham.com
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About Norm Hewitt
Former NZ Maori team captain and All Black,
Norm Hewitt is one of most sought after
motivational speakers on sport with community and personal
fulfillment!
The winner of TV One’s most popular show,
Dancing With Stars, Hewitt’s chosen charity,
Books in Homes,
raised $206,000.
“Teachers are dream releasers”, says Norm.
Hailing from Hawkes Bay, he was hooker for 1988 and 1994 for 92 matches.
Also the win over the 1993 Lions and the 1994 French games.
From 1995-1997, Hewitt played 22 matches for
Scotland. His third Provincial side was
Wellington, where he
played 31 matches between 1999-2001.
He was the leading side in spite of a broken
arm in the NPC
divisional final of 2000 against Canterbury.
The Stalwart of the Hurricanes, NZ Maori
sides, often as captain, Norm played in 66
Super 12 matches. He
was in the Maori side for over ten years.
Norm Hewitt’s message to the All Blacks-
“You
should use dance as part of your training routine”.
Norm
grew up in a small community-his brothers
and sisters made
up
a
third of
the school roll! He knew he was going to be an All Black at the
age of seven.
From Provincial, Super 12, and NZ Maoris matches
besides appearances in various trials,
national sides including
the Colts, the Divisional XV and New Zealand A Selections,
Hewitt managed to accumulate 296 first class matches in 14
years!
Community
spirited, Norm is Outward Board Ambassador and is acting as a
cultural advisor to the organisation. He was also The Gifted
Kids Programme
(GKP) Ambassador ,
Books in Homes and a board member on the Cloud 9 Children's
Foundation.
Has formed the He Papapounamu Foundation with
well known New Zealanders
Celia Lashlie and Trevor Grice which
works along side communities with
the philosophy the "it takes a
community to raise a child."
“Gladiator” autobiography with former MP Michael Laws-sold 35,000 copies.
About Shane Cortese
Shane
Cortese began his career in Musical theatre in England starring
in many well known shows in London’s prestigious West End and
touring nationally on many occasions.
He
returned home for the role of Dominic Warner on Shortland
Street
a role the New Zealand public has not forgotten even
after the
character was killed off in dramatic
fashion. He was the streets
longest serving villain having
played him over a 2 year period.
More recently Shane danced his way into the hearts of the New
Zealand
public on the hit show “Dancing With the Stars”. He and
dance partner
Nerida Lister shimmied their way into the final
and on their way
raised $156.000.00 for Shane’s chosen charity
the Starship Foundation.
Shane created a band called “Class of 58” which plays to sell
audiences
whenever they get together. They play some of the best
Rock n Roll music ever written and a memorable part of the
show
is Shane doing the Elvis numbers.
A role he played for a year in
London.
He has just finished touring New Zealand in James Griffins new play
Special Olympics Gala Dinner tickets NOW available
