Renovations to Cheviot St. John’s facilities are underway, thanks to a huge fundraising effort by the community. The $350,000 project is expected to take two to three months. Locals Ellis & Sanna Emmett as well as making significant personal contribution, now sponsor guest speaker.
Property investors, Ellis and Sanna Emmett, along with real estate agent Jopseph Ransfield, put up their two inner city apartments for auction with a reserve set at $1.
Hurunui News – St John Cheviot Area Committee chairman Jane Maxwell says that the hard work of many varied individuals over the past 12 months has paid off, and she pays tribute to the generosity of several groups and individuals who have been particularly helpful this past year.
And there’s always Ellis Emmett, the Kiwi bloke who got this whole Cheviot adventure started. (He’s the one who brought us on the rafting trip back in March, and thus introduced us to our first clients) The tree house is on hold because there’s a big wave headed his way. He’s off on another adventure, a real-estate adventure of sorts, beckoning for us to come along, only this time we’re not jumping off a 120-foot cliff with a rope tied around our waist. He might just be launching us to the moon…
The thrill-seeker Ellis Emmett could have “blamed it all on his genes” but he would have been quite mistaken.
When daredevil Ellis Emmett was rescued from a disastrous attempt to cross Cook Strait in a tiny boat with broom handle and plywood oars, he could have blamed it all on his genes.
Emmett ment no harm – Strait cable star – Ellis planning a new show? Ellis Emmett, the Cheviot man, who sailed across Cook Strait in the nautical equivalent of a 1972 Vauxhall Victor, is not just a random crazy adventurer, this diary is pleased to reveal. Cheviot’s favorite son is no stranger to adventure travel, having hosted a Canadian cable TV travel show.
Captain Cook himself would have been impressed – It was with a heady sense of nationalistic pride that I read of the magnificent maritime misadventure of two of our most intrepid seafarers, and their valiant near-crossing of the treacherous waters of Cook Strait. The men, Ellis Emmett, from Cheviot, and Dutchman Sander Verbiest, […]
Police are calling it foolish, but Cheviot man Ellis Emmett says his ill-fated trip across Cook Strait in his tiny boat is all part of an ‘adventurous antidote to everyday life’. Ellis Emmett spent his Easter weekend attempting to sail a 3.5m dinghy with a sail across the treacherous Cook Strait and down the coast to Gore Bay, near his home.
Ellis Emmett’s sailing antics landed him in one of New Zealand’s shipping magazines as the entertainment relief.
