DEVASTATION: Silver Fern and Southern Steel netballer Liana Barrett-Chase checks out the demolished courts area of Stadium Southland. It was her first time back in Invercargill since the stadium's roof collapsed.

SHADE OF PINK: Bonnie Miller, 5, of Gore, at the annual rhododendron festival in the town.

GOLDEN GLOW: Silver Fern netballer Liana Barrett-Chase shows off her Commonwealth Games gold medal in Invercargill.

THIS WON'T HURT: Southern Institute of Technology second-year nursing students Amanda Boulton (left) and Taryn Smail, who held a diabetes screening stall at the health expo.

SAYING NO: Invercargill parent Sarah Dew has withdrawn her young children from classes she says have highly sexual content.

NOISY BUNCH: Southland Stags rugby players Kane Thompson and Jamie Mackintosh (at back, centre) with a band of Spikers Club members in the Stags changing rooms at Rugby Park. About 200 young fans took part in the Spikers Club end-of-season break-up, where they met their favourite players.

WINNERS: Southland Young Enterprise Scheme winners show off their winning product an unfolding cube. From left, Grace Smith, 16, Annabel Crawford, Brittany Jackson, Anna McDonald, all 17, Ashleigh Horton, 16, and Shieana Pemberton, 18.

GOING NOWHERE: Looking forlorn behind a fence overgrown with weeds, Kingston residents are gutted their flyer won't be moving for the summer tourist season.

GRASSY CHALLENGE: James Hargest College team members Aaron Findlay (left), Tyler Ward, Axel Umuhuri (driver) and Hamish Dempsey at the 2010 Grass Kart Challenge held at Aurora College.