Famous MoBros - our moustaches get famous.
Today we had the pleasure of getting together as many of the Bowater's MoBro's as we could for a photo for the Nelson Mail. With 6 different locations spread out across the region it is always hard to co-ordinate all of our MoBro's but we managed to get about a third of those participating this year to the photo shoot.
Hopefully this photo and resulting article in tomorrow's paper will generate some more donations to our Bowater Motor Group Movember page, which if you click here will take you through to where you can donate. It is easy, safe and secure and will only take a couple of minutes and we will be most grateful.
Martin de Ruyter from the Nelson Mail was as professional as always and snapped a great shot of us all, which is posted further down in the article.
The Bowaters MoBro's at today's photoshoot - from left Peter Cantrick, Nigel Last-Harris, Brian Mercer, Gordon Mains, Nick Devereux, Philip Stevens, Andrew Maitland, Chris Bowater, Andrew Huffman, Martin de Ruyter (Nelson Mail), seated: Al Mapperley, Sam Newman-Watt
We are very much looking forward to the reaction from tomorrow's newspaper article and hopefully a surge in donations to our Movember account. We are currently ranked 906th on the national list so are not doing too badly, but wouldn't it be great to get within the top 100! Come on Nelson Tasman, help us help the Movember cause! Donate now.
The momentum has been building this week as the Bowaters MoBros realise that there is only a week left. The itchiness has moved on for most and many are into serious manscaping territory in order to keep it all tidy. The donations have been rolling in but we could always do with more.
Hopefully the photo that Martin took will raise even more awareness and spread the message further. Men's health is important and something that does not get discussed often in our culture. Kiwi men tend to be quiet achievers that just get on with it, and normally aren't ones to be going to the doctor willy nilly for checkups. With enough conversation about the need for checkups, especially as we get older, hopefully this may change.
The photo for the Nelson Mail on Martin's camera.
Chris Bowater had some great things to say about it all as we sat around with Martin talking about Movember and how it impacts our community.
"Being in the community since 1947 has given our company plenty of time to get to know our community and over that time we have also employed quite a lot of local people. We really value the importance of the health and wellbeing of everyone we employ, so if there is an opportunity to get on board with a cause that raises both money and awareness of health we will get behind it. Men's health, and regular checkup's for things such as prostate cancer, are things that are sadly neglected by a great number of men, so if we can talk more about it hopefully more of us will take our health seriously and get regular checkups. Despite all of the itchiness and grief from the wive Movember is a great thing to get involved with, and another step in the right direction for us all as a community".
We will keep you posted as to the success of the Nelson Mail newspaper photo and article.
You can read the Nelson Mail article here.