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Good Sorts: The teacher aid swapping one person’s trash for another’s treasure

July 7, 2019

This week’s Good Sort is Annette Patterson from the South Otago town Owaka.

This week’s Good Sort is Annette Patterson from the South Otago town of Owaka.

Annette is a teacher aid and when her school came up with a great idea for swapping one person’s trash for another person’s treasure, she picked it up.

And she’s run with it, never stopping.

Watch her full story above.

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