The ashes of a high profile Wellington HIV outreach and support volunteer have been scattered on Mt Victoria after he died of an AIDS-related illness.
Warren Shore, 51, was a long-time volunteer at the Awhina Centre where he prepared safe sex condom packs distributed around the Wellington region and further afield and made up the thousands of red ribbons needed for the Centre's annual street collections. "
According to Shore, he wishes he was cremated and his ashes brought to the Awhina Centre. A celebration of his life was held was then held at Our Bar, one of his favourite haunts. Awhina staff then scattered the ashes around a kauri tree planted in Plimmer Park on Mt Victoria in 2006 in memory of those lost through AIDS.
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