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Park plan sparks debate By Jeremy Smith
A concept plan for Te Awamutu’s 65-year-old War Memorial Park has sparked public debate before the Waipā District Council has looked at it. The debate follows the tabling of the plan at last month’s meeting of the Te Awamutu Community Board, which favoured putting it out for public comment. The plan suggests replacing the Te Awamutu and District War Memorial Park archway in favour of a new entrance and erecting a memorial feature in place of the existing peace fountain. Other suggestions
include reinstating the three Mangaohoi Stream bridges, moving the amphitheatre and creating an educational and reflective gathering place. The draft plan will go to Council’s Strategic Policy and Planning Committee on May 5 with a recommendation it be put out for public consultation. When the Te Awamutu Region Community Grapevine Facebook page posted parts of the plan last week the majority of the almost 100 reactions and responses favoured the status quo. Marc Dawson, likely to give council one of its largest individual submissions against the proposed upgrade, told the
News the report’s suggestions were an erosion of the original vision of the near 7ha park. He believed the park needed repairs and maintenance, not an entirely new concept. Mr Dawson, who has lived in Te Awamutu all his life called the proposal a “cv-building exercise which over-looked the heritage of the park”. “It doesn’t need a new concept - its concept is that the park in its entirety is a war memorial. We have to remember our heritage and our history.” Te Awamutu Community board chair Ange Holt said nothing project-wise was a given yet.
The board had voted in favour of the document being put up for public comment – it had not voted on whether or not it supported the concept. “As a board, we are here to listen to the voice of the community. “When the draft plan does go out for public consultation, as a board we will look to ensure that not only will the public’s voice be heard and listened to, but that people know how to use the proper channels to make that voice heard.” She believed it was possible to upgrade the park while upholding and respecting its history. Te Awamutu RSA president and district councillor Lou Brown sympathised with Mr Dawson’s concerns and agreed it was important to honour the park’s heritage and history. But he was also open to change. “Memorial Park is a key location where we commemorate Anzac Day in town every year and of course we will always value it. “It’s vitally important, but I am also mindful that as a society in general we need to grow, develop and progress.” Waipā District Council senior reserves planner Anna McElrea said having a Memorial Park concept plan provided an opportunity for council to hear how the community wanted to see the park developed. “We are really looking forward to receiving feedback and understanding people’s aspirations and preferences, prior to finalising the plan,” she Photo supplied said.
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We’ll still remember them… Ahead of New Zealand’s “most unique” Anzac Day in more than a century tomorrow, Te Awamutu RSA president Lou Brown has a message. “No question, it’s unprecedented, but commemoration and remembrance are very personal things people can still do in their own individual ways in their spaces and bubbles.” Formal April 25 Anzac Day events are cancelled, and Poppy Day postponed - both for the first time in New Zealand – because of Covid-19. Usual Te Awamutu Anzac Day commemorations include the dawn service at War Memorial Park and a civic service at Anzac Green. Wreaths are normally laid at those services – and still can be this year, albeit slightly differently. “People wanting to lay a wreath can visit the Cenotaph in their bubbles and smaller groups to pay their respects over the next week or so, just not all at once,” Mr Brown said. Tomorrow, the New Zealand flag will be flown in Memorial Park, Anzac Green, the RSA cemetery and at Kihikihi Memorial. People can ‘Stand at Dawn’ in their driveways or elsewhere in their bubble for a moment’s silence at 6am. Anzac Day marks the anniversary of the landing of the ANZACs - Australian and New Zealand soldiers - at Gallipoli in 1915 during WWI. Thousands lost their lives, including 8500 Australians and 2779 New Zealanders. Mr Brown said Anzac Day was a tangible way to honour the memory of all service people lost in wars. “We shall remember them,” he said.
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As we are forced to pause most of our social life in our Covid 19 bubble there is time to think, and to consider what the future might be like. For now, there is grief for lives lost, jobs, businesses and opportunities lost, whole sectors of our society stalled. For thousands of us, casualties of decisions beyond our control, there will be ongoing financial insecurity, despite Government financial support. The Salvation Army and UNICEF are responding to unprecedented need for food and other goods in New Zealand. This could have been expected, given that the narrative in this country since the early 1990’s has been the domination of financial values over social and environmental values. The idea that there has to be a trade-off between the goals of the state and the goals of ‘the market’ is outdated. As the last 30 years in this country have shown, the market does not provide: 320,000 of our society’s children live with hunger and deprivation every day, according to Statistics NZ, in households with less than 60% median equivalised disposable household income, after housing costs. GDP measures the taxable economy, but it does not measure courage, caring and social contribution. We see supermarket workers, carers who look after our older people, health professionals - nurses, midwives, doctors, pharmacists, cleaners and orderlies and security people - who keep our hospitals running, go out each day risking infection to help others. It wasn’t so long ago that nurses and doctors went on strike simply to
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get a fair wage and protection for their work hours. We have an opportunity to create a ‘’kinder” society, a word our Prime Minister repeatedly uses. Perhaps the coalition government’s Well-being Budget is the beginning of a change. The market does not support our natural environment: we use the earth’s resources faster than they can replenish. Dr Rod Carr, Climate Change Commission head, and former Reserve Bank Governor, has advised government ministers they need medium and long-term plans for climate change, while still working in the present for jobs, job security and keeping our society safe. The danger is to want to get back to ‘normal,’ when our society could be better. He advises that a climate change lens needs to be applied to the exceptional government investment of a possible $20 billion, to support industries, and to roll out projects that are ready to go. Investment decisions need to take into account six principles:
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This week I would like to start with a bouquet from Cambridge Police. On April 15 Senior Constable Casey Walker was flagged down by a concerned member of the public on Maungatautari Road. This person had seen an obviously intoxicated male swerving on the road. Senior Constable Walker found the male asleep behind the wheel of a motor vehicle which was still running. When she went to wake him up the vehicle began rolling forward with an oblivious driver. He was processed for driving with excess breath alcohol. Senior Constable Walker would like to make contact with the person who flagged her down, so if you know them please contact the Cambridge police station. This year for the first time since 1916 Anzac Day will not be observed with a public service. This year instead the RSA and New Zealand Defence Force would like you to join us to #standatdawn. Remember those who given their lives for our country. This is a time to pay respect and acknowledge the many thousands of our military people who are serving or have served, who are called upon to support New Zealand in times of war, conflict and disasters. Join us at 6am tomorrow. Stand at your letterbox, at the front door, in your lounge rooms, balconies, in your driveway. Wherever you are in the world, stand with us and take a moment to remember our fallen – but please stay within your ‘bubble’. Tune into Radio NZ National (AM & FM
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frequencies), listen live on the internet or on your phone for the official dawn service broadcast commencing at 6am. Veterans are encouraged to wear their medals and head dress just as they would for the official public gathering. I would also like to acknowledge Waipā District Councils’ local hero Dave Nordell. I have known Dave for a number of years and am not surprised to see him being named a local hero by the council for helping the vulnerable source firewood, obtain prescriptions and help with food deliveries. Congratulations Dave. And my last thing. Sadly, a brickbat; A number of essential workers, mainly nurses and healthcare workers, are finding they are getting abuse when out shopping from people who fear they may spread COVID-19. This is the most uninformed fear mongering that I have heard of throughout this crisis. Our healthcare workers at the coalface of this crisis take the greatest care to protect themselves while helping others - then run a gauntlet of ignorance when trying to feed their families. It is disgusting behaviour and those who take part in this need to take a good look at themselves. In the Prime Ministers own words; “Be Kind”.
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Govt media ‘favouritism’ criticised Cambridge and Te Awamutu News publisher David Mackenzie went into bat for the country’s community newspaper industry last week.
The government has been told community newspapers should have been permitted to print and deliver – rather than daily and Sunday publications – during the Covid-19 lockdown. In an appeal to allow his members to do their jobs, NZ Independent Community Newspapers Association (CNA) President David Mackenzie told the Covid-19 Epidemic Response Committee last week the decision to ban community publications was flawed. Community newspapers, which are largely free and have increasing circulations, were initially declared nonessential and ordered to stop printing by the government, which ruled only daily newspapers, which have lost tens of thousands of readers in the last decade and carry a cover price, were essential
and should continue. A review of the decision to ban community newspapers from publishing enabled some mastheads to continue but the near-week long deliberation was fatal to many publishers who went into Covid hibernation. “The digital alternative that the Ministry has imposed on most of our members is not an option for us. We cannot secure the advertising revenue to support this way to publish…it simply does not work,” Mackenzie said. Mackenzie, who spoke during a four-hour committee hearing, noted that even after the ban on all community papers was lifted, the government continued to ignore CNA members when placing Covid-19 advertisements, and instead showed favouritism towards foreign owned print and
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Covid-19 testing came to Waipā as part of a Ministry of Health Waikato initiative to look for undetected community transition - and drew blanks. The Waikato District Health Board set up five pop up CBACs (Community Based Assessment Centres) at Countdown supermarkets at the end of last week. A total of 64 people were tested in Cambridge and 90 in Te Awamutu – all returned negative results for Covid-19. A total of 308 people were tested through Waikato in Hamilton, Matamata, Ōtorohanga, Cambridge and Te Awamutu. The DHB spokesperson said supermarkets were considered a place most likely to find people during lockdown, and Countdown had supported the activity. Matamata saw one of the largest Covid clusters, and the Waikato District Health Board has carried out more than 7000 tests - one of the highest testing volumes in the country. The DHB region has a population of more than 420,000. Early this week the DHB had recorded 28 cases of Covid-19 in Waipā and five in the Otorohanga district. Waikato wide there had been more than 180 confirmed and probable cases and almost 100 people had recovered.
digital companies. “We are being warned about fake news on social media…so stop supporting the platforms that distribute this,” he said. “Community newspapers have a much deeper engagement with their local communities than dailies.” The CNA has 80 New Zealand owned mastheads producing newspapers all over the country. They are still banned from delivering in urban areas, though the move to Level 3 is expected to open the door to more deliveries. The exclusion of community newspapers to urban letterboxes had been a major concern, Mackenzie said. He asked why daily newspapers were allowed to continue while community newspapers – which usually print one day a week – were
not. “The objective was to minimise movement… stopping the dailies from distributing and keeping communities would [have been] a better way to minimise movement.” He said his submission to the committee was “not just about getting community newspapers to be able to fully publish again”. “We need our advertisers operating again… it’s all very well being able to publish but without support from our local businesses we can’t publish. Our local businesses need to know their local community newspaper is fighting for them and their business as well. “We are an organisation made up of predominantly SME’s with on average 10 FTE staff working and located at each town the
publication serves - right now none of our members are expecting our businesses to better than break even.” He told the committee the CNA wanted to see all community newspapers publishing again. “We need local businesses to survive, we need our local advertisers to have a reason to start advertising again,” he said. He said any government financial assistance should apply to all New Zealand media – “not just a few big corporates whose balance sheets were challenged well before Covid-19”. Hours before the government announced its plans to revert to Lockdown Level 3, one of those corporates benefitting from government advertising, Stuff, announced a supporter programme where readers
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could make financial contributions. David Mackenzie doubted CNA members would follow suit. “From our perspective, we are here to serve our readers – and I am thinking particularly of elderly urban readers who have been isolated and missed their community newspapers during the lockdown - not ask them for money.”
Level 3: it’s a ‘great start’ By Jeremy Smith
Waipā District Council is preparing to resume a range of its services, but the heads of the Cambridge and Te Awamutu Chambers of Commerce say many of the district’s retailers won’t benefit immediately as New Zealand moves to Covid-19 Alert Level 3 next week. The change will be made at 11.59pm on Monday. Cambridge Chamber of Commerce CEO Kelly Bouzaid said broadly speaking the Government’s announcement of the shift earlier this week was a “great start”, because of the number of New Zealanders who could now start preparing to return to work. But from a “front door perspective” not much would initially change for many Waipā retailers. Her Te Awamutu counterpart Kris Anderson echoed the sentiment, adding the level three move was a positive step. “We have to accept that having their front doors closed has been excruciating for them”, Mrs Bouzaid said. “And it’s absolutely heartbreaking hearing from many business owners just how much they are hurting.” Mr Anderson said a long-term view and common-sense approach was required. “We will get through this. The government has made its decision and what we need to do now is focus on moving ahead with the
information provided. “Importantly, I would encourage people in our community to think about ways we can help and be there for our business and retail sector in the future.” Kelly Bouzaid said while chambers didn’t have a “magic wand” to wave, they were working as hard as possible to support business owners. From a council perspective, work on major capital projects put on hold prior to the lockdown – such as the Waikeria and
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Rain welcome, more needed By Jeremy Smith
Weekend rain “alleviated some pressure” but wasn’t enough to remove the dreaded ‘d-word’ from farmers’ vernacular. Karapiro dairy farmer Matt Hoskin told the News on Monday while farm life amid the Covid-19 shutdown had for the most part been almost business as usual, 30mm of rain had been a step in the right direction as they dealt with
an already challenging farm environment. “We’re still in a drought, but in a way, we’ve been lucky to have had patches of rain up until now. “It’s been just enough to keep the grass alive really.” Dairy farming is an essential service during the lockdown. Rain levels which fell in central Cambridge between Friday and Sunday reflected what Matt recorded on his property.
But for the year to date – measured between June 1 last year and up to May 31 this year – rain levels at the central site are much lower than the previous 12 months. From June to June last year 1350mm of rain fell, while so far between last June and up to this point in 2020, 939mm of rain has fallen. Now in his fifth season on a 90-effective hectare Karapiro farm – which he owns with his business
partner – Matt said temperature will be key to pasture growth. “Fortunately, up to this point anyway, it has remained relatively warm.” Still milking once a day in their “high input” system, Matt said they had sold some of the animals from their roughly 300-cow herd and would aim to reach “some point in May” before they dry off, or stop milking. Matt said he and his family have maintained their
Kiwi spirit for Kiwi house By Jeremy Smith
Part of the Ōtorohanga Kiwi House and Native Bird Park facility was stuck by lightning midlockdown – then the park was struck by community spirit. Staff posted after the lightning that the Barry Rowe Aviary – a large dome-shaped structure – was “unscathed” following the strike - and more importantly, “all the animals are safe and accounted for”. A skeleton crew of about five – the park normally has up to 20 staff on its books – have worked throughout the lockdown. General Manager Jo Russell said in the days following the lightning strike the Ōtorohanga community came to the party after also learning
the park was running short of fruit and vegetables. In just a day, 36 families, including some in Te Awamutu, came forward online and the park soon had several weeks’ worth of the produce it
‘This is not just Ōtorohanga’s kiwi park, this is Waikato’s kiwi park.’ – Jo Russell needed. “It’s just amazing what a community can achieve when it comes together - and we have the most generous, giving community.” The park will re-open when New Zealand moves to level two.
lockdown bubble, the only person they have allowed in being the tanker driver who collects their milk. Lockdown meant the way Matt purchases and collects the essential farm goods he needs to operate had changed drastically – with many more safety measures in place. And on farm he said he was aiming to use his time as wisely as possible. “Now is the time of year when you want to be ticking
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off as many of those jobs that are on your list as possible,” he said.
The enforced closure would hit hard, “but the park has been here for 50 years and we will find ways of making sure it continues,” Jo Russell said. “I would say we have one of the largest collections of native birds in New Zealand - this is not just Ōtorohanga’s kiwi park, this is Waikato’s kiwi park.” The park cares for more than 200 animals. A silver lining of sorts amongst it all has been the fact two of the park’s kiwi - Kaitiaki and Flufarse - have had their second kiwi chick for the season. Once the chick reaches 500 grams it will be put into one of the outdoor nursery pens to begin life as part of the park’s captive breeding The Ōtorohanga Kiwi House & Native Bird Park’s second kiwi chick of the season. programme.
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Where do you go when you need to buy 17,000 computers? The Ministry of Education seems to know. In the last couple of weeks, the Ministry has handed out around 5000 devices and has orders for 17,000 more, through a programme designed to provide internet and technology to every Kiwi student who needs them. A total 5000 computers still leaves approximately 140,000 students off the digital grid, according to the New Zealand Herald. But if the Ministry can push through queues in the international supply chain, there’s a possibility every student could, for the first time, be digitally connected. This greater digital connectivity means that many of the new technologies that claim to revolutionise learning will reach a greater slice of the population in the long term (Schools do have the ability to decide to take the devices back after lockdown.) In low decile areas especially, this is a big deal. Of all the things covid-19 has impacted, education is a big one. Nine out of 10 students worldwide are out of school. But it’s not been all-bad. Lockdown has certainly opened our eyes to the potential of digital classrooms, and some of the online tools the lockdown has forced schools to adopt are definitely worth absorbing into the status quo. At Cambridge High, the digital learning site we’re most often on now is “Education Perfect.” The premise is that teachers can set subject-specific quizzes and long-form answers for us to complete, and a computer marks them. But what happens next highlights the promise of online learning tools. An Artificial Intelligence system then analyses the type of questions you got wrong, and the type
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of questions you got right, producing a “recommended learning quiz.” Education Perfect has effectively pinpointed your learning stage and tailored its lessons to suit you. Tech evangelicals claim A.I. “teachers” like the one my school is experimenting with could revolutionise education. “Imagine a tutor who knows everything,” Derek Haoyang Li told The Guardian, “and who knows everything about you.” Which brings me back to the Ministry’s device handout programme. With more students from lower decile schools now potentially connected to tools like Education Perfect, A.I. teaching systems could make learning more accessible. And there are other facets of lockdownstyle learning that might pay to keep when we move back to in-person school. Our now online-based school system has created a kind of “home schooling-lite” environment. It’s opened up our time to delve into other projects and organise our own learning to suit us best. The freedom of home school, after all, produced creatives from Agatha Christie to Billie Eilish. What about, then, a four-day school week, moving out of lockdown? In-class learning for four days, and a further day of flexible online tasks, personal projects encouraged. (I promise I’m not being bribed by my fellow students for that idea.) It all sounds a bit radical. But if there’s anything this Covid-19 crisis has taught us, it’s that the previously far-fetched can quickly become reality.
There’s always been comfort in the reliable, steady, familiar chiming of the Cambridge Town Clock. It’s surprising how readily simple things in life become part of the fabric of our existence and we end up taking them for granted. That is, until something happens that causes those things to be withdrawn for whatever reason and they are no longer at hand. So it was, early on in the Covid-19 ‘lockdown’, that this paper reported how the Town Clock in Cambridge would be silent for the lockdown’s duration. The clock is usually wound twice a week but for now, since it is not an ‘essential service’, Council staff will not be exposed to unnecessary risk to keep it operational. I have missed the peripheral reminder of time marching on as the clock chimed away in the background and will be glad when someone resumes climbing up to maintain and ensure its faithful continued service. The fact it graces Cambridge at all, is something to be thankful for, since it could quite easily not even be there. Ninety years ago the clock gazed down upon the town from another spot - an elevated position high up on the now empty ‘turret’ of the old General Post Office building (currently an Italian restaurant). Following the devastating Napier earthquake in 1931, the clock’s structure was seriously damaged and it was deemed a dangerous hazard liable to topple off its perch. Rather than doing a demolition job on the clock tower, it was dismantled and re-built on the location where it now stands. The melody that our town clock chimes,
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Mylchreest cautious Teamwork gets the shopping done about zero-rate rise
Waipā mayor Jim Mylchreest has sounded a warning about the consequences of freezing rates in the wake of the Covid-19 epidemic. He said his council could not be short sighted and had to consider the needs of the community while catering for economic recovery. Councils throughout the country are reviewing their annual plans and some have indicated they want to keep rates at existing levels through a “zero-rates increase”. Waipā was planning to increase the rates pie by 4.2 per cent and its plans are already in the public domain for feedback. The proposals were largely driven by capital works programmes. “A zero rates increase at the very least would involve stripping away or pushing back the majority of these much-needed projects, which is a massive risk with ageing infrastructure,” Jim Mylchreest warned. “To achieve a zero-rates increase in the current climate however, much more than just major projects would need to be stripped from the budget because of loss in revenue.” Half of the council’s income is from rates. The rest comes from Government agencies and fees
and charges. The Council says it has already seen a significant decrease in the remaining 50 per cent of its revenue stream. The draft annual plan budgets for about $114 million for essential services such as water services, recycling, roading infrastructure and parks and reserves maintenance. Around $29 million would be spent on community services and facilities, $22 million on roads and footpaths, $13 million on water treatment and supply and $11 million on wastewater treatment and disposal. “To achieve a zero-rates increase, we would have to look at making reductions in levels of service,” Jim Mylchreest said. “This could mean poorer quality roads and footpaths, infrastructure that is less resilient because it is not being renewed, more leaves in gutters, less-frequent recycling collections, and fewer open spaces for the community to enjoy, just as a few examples.” He said council would look at which projects were absolutely necessary, such as waters infrastructure, and which could be delayed without causing future hardship for the district. “We also need to keep in mind which projects would yield the highest number of jobs and
provide the greatest boost to the economy,” Mylchreest said. “It is our job to think about the current needs of the community while also catering for economic recovery. Boosting the economy would get us out of a recession faster but we are also very aware that families may not be able to pay their rates.” He believed the Government’s call for ‘shovel-ready’ projects to stimulate jobs and economic recovery would help. In Waipā projects such as the waters strategy, Te Ara Wai, Southern Links, the expressway, Cambridge growth cells and a possible sub-regional wastewater treatment plant to service Cambridge could qualify. More than 23 shovel-ready projects and nine projects providing medium to longer term opportunities were presented to the Government in a joint application involving Hamilton City Council, Waikato District Council, Waikato Regional Council and Waipā District Council. Not all of them will attract funding. Submissions on Waipā’s draft annual plan will be considered by the Strategic Planning and Policy committee on May 26. It is scheduled to go to Council for adoption on June 30. Advertorial
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Financial markets have staged a remarkable recovery since the depths of the sell-off a month ago. This is in no small part due to the actions of central banks and governments who have steadfastly undertaken market intervention in order to reduce market volatility, underpinning financial assets. Whilst it seems inevitable that the world economy will enter a period of recession, the level of intervention should make for a quicker recovery. The market over the past few weeks has taken a positive cue from this and is focussing on the economic rebound. It may be that the recent rally has also been partly driven by a fear of “missing out” on the lower market prices. What seems beyond doubt is that the post-pandemic world will be quite different from pre-crisis, as suggested below. Globalisation A more nationalistic approach to supply chain and procurement was starting to emerge before COVID-19. The post-pandemic reality of tighter border controls and social-distancing will have a negative impact on globalisation. This may lead to higher prices, but will encourage the use of technology and innovation to reduce costs per unit. Telecommunication Social-distancing has increased the realisation that face-to-face connections are not always crucial. Remote-working, online education, tele-medicine, zoom-socialisation, will all become more normalised. This should play into the hands of companies with a focus on cloud computing products, e-commerce and cyber security.
Retail Retailers who have a robust online presence should really benefit over those who do not. Bulk providers may increasingly bypass wholesalers/retailers and go direct to the consumer, who will also start buying in bulk. Warehousing, logistics, freight and trucking should all be sectors that benefit, should this trend play-out. Mergers & Acquisitions Cash is king in this environment and those companies with strong balance sheets, low debt and access to cash will be in a good position to buy out their distressed competitors. Investors will need to understand who are likely to be the winners and sadly who are likely to be the losers.
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Gearing up for life after COVID-19
Cambridge Resthaven’s lockdown shopping for residents’ experience is unleashing a raft of positive outcomes for both parties. Bulk shopping for residents has become the new norm at the complex’s retirement village. The start of lockdown last month saw a staff team rustled up to shop regularly for around 100 people – making shopping days a big affair. Village manager turned ‘professional shopper’ Joanne Sutherland said the move, which was proving popular with both residents and their families, minimised the number of outside people doing deliveries into the village and “keeps residents safer in their bubble”. She gave Cambridge New World a big tick for the “awesome job” they were Resthaven residents Linda and Trevor Gorham are among those who have pitched doing with the ordering process. in to help sort the orders for fellow residents. Other team members include Resthaven’s project and sales residents of the resthome.” manager Sandy Bennett, and Only one person’s order has been maintenance team leader Shane lost, said Joanne, due to a “comedy Milne. Joanne said shopping lists of errors” that had seen it only provided by residents are collated temporarily misplaced. and emailed to the supermarket by “It all worked out fine in the end,” Sandy as one big order. “It’s usually she said. “With lockdown we are all three or four trolleys fully loaded up, in this together. Shopping days create a bit of excitement, and it makes our which Shane and I collect from New day to see the residents’ happy faces World in the village van, bringing when they get their deliveries.” it back to our shopping HQ in the Sandy, who has always quite village centre,” she said. “A few of our residents help on the ‘production fancied herself as a ‘professional shopper’ it seems, said: “I had line’ to re-pack the groceries into pictured clothes and furniture, not boxes that we then deliver to the grocery shopping!” residents. We also do orders for the
WE COLLECT RECYCLING ON PUBLIC HOLIDAYS! If your collection falls on a public holiday, put it out on the kerbside like normal. This will not affect your rubbish collection. Rubbish collection in Waipā is a private service. Check with your provider for collection dates over the holidays.
If you are looking to take advantage of the post COVID-19 recovery that will inevitably come, get in touch with the team at Forsyth Barr Cambridge. Michelle Rolley, Andrew Flexman, Hamish Bond and Pip Irwin, whose views and opinions are expressed in this article, are Authorised Financial Advisers with Forsyth Barr Cambridge. To discuss your investment objectives in confidence, call (07) 823 0800 or contact us via our website: www.forsythbarr.co.nz. Source: Forsyth Barr WMR Global Roundup, 16 April 2020. This column is general in nature and should not be regarded as personalised investment advice. Disclosure Statements for Forsyth Barr Authorised Financial Advisers are available on request and free of charge. Fees and charges will apply if you elect to have a continuing relationship with Forsyth Barr.
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Love thy neighbours
Residents are being urged to register with Neighbourhood Support in order to strengthen existing networks. Neighbourhood Support Cambridge’s community engagement officer Jenni Dacomb said it was particularly important now to keep the support chain strong. “I have heard many stories of people who have looked after elderly or isolated individuals during lockdown, but what happens if that care person was to get ill? It is important for people to register with Neighbourhood Support themselves, and perhaps register their isolated neighbours so we can provide help if needed at any time – both now and in the future.” Waikato’s 0800 800 405 welfare helpline has assisted over 1400 people throughout the region since it was established on March 31 in response to the non-health related consequences of Covid-19. Early this week it had fielded 1426 requests from those struggling to access goods and services. In the western Waikato – covering Waipā, Waitomo and Ōtorohanga – almost 100 people had received assistance through the helpline. Western Waikato Emergency Operating Centre (WWEOC) controller Andrew Loe said while statistics may seem low for the combined districts, it did not reflect the volume of help going on in the background. “As part of the emergency operating centre, the welfare team works seven days a week to ensure the needs of our communities are met. It not only provides assistance to those calling the 0800 number, but also helps in other ways, including direct referrals, co-ordinating volunteers and managing their ‘buddy system’, supporting foodbanks, organising food parcels, accommodation, medical assistance and more.” He said the capability existed to provide even more support. “Help is available if you need it,” he said. To request assistance, call 0800 800 405 between 7am and 7pm.
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Covid-19 information This is your starting guide to life in Waipā during our lock-down. Most (but not all) information you will need is on the Government website (www.covid-19.govt.nz). In the coming weeks, we will be publishing information specific to our local community as it to comes to hand. We will carry an updated version of this graphic next week. Email editor@goodlocal.nz if you have information that you think will be useful to share with our local community and we will include it in next week’s edition. Waipā District Council: Essential services such as recycling, road safety, water, customer support and animal control will continue to operate throughout the fourweek shutdown. Go to waipadc.govt.nz, waikatodistrict.govt.nz or otodc.govt.nz for more information. Police: Read ‘On the Beat’ on P2. Medical Centres: Consult your health provider. Community Testing for COVID-19: Your nearest centre is at Claudelands Event Centre, open from 8am to 8pm. It is accepting both drive-throughs and walk-ins. Please use the Gate 3 entrance off Brooklyn Rd. Please use this centre if you think you have symptoms of Covid-19. Pharmacies: Pharmacies around Waipā are open on both weekday and weekends throughout the lockdown. If you need to pick up a repeat prescription, ring ahead to your pharmacy and arrange a time for collection. Pharmacy hours vary. In Cambridge Unichem Leamington Pharmacy is open 8.30am-5.30pm weekdays and 9am-12pm on weekends. In Te Awamutu, the Unichem Pharmacy in Teasdale St open from 8am-6pm Monday to Friday and from 9am-1pm on Saturday. Supermarkets: Households are asked to send one nominated shopper whenever a trip is required and customer numbers in-store are limited. As of Wednesday, Countdown hours are 8am-8pm. New World is advertising 7am to 9pm hours. Post Office: Go to www.nzpost.co.nz/ and click on Covid-19 updates. If you do not
Lockdown will be lifted, and We Will Be Back On Board Operating Under Government Regulations.
have internet, call either the Cambridge Post Shop, based at Paper Plus, on (07) 827 4360, or the Te Awamutu Postshop on (07) 871 5199. Working from home: In Cambridge, contact Thinus du Preez at CompuHub on (07) 823 4666 if you need help. In Te Awamutu, call Computer Aid on (07) 871 3837. For non-urgent matters, please visit their website, www.computeraid.co.nz, and fill out the online contact form. Banks: Banks are updating their websites constantly. Check your bank’s website for information or ring your bank if you do not have internet facilities. Rest Homes: Please do not visit elderly relatives in our rest homes. Time to start writing daily letters and cards, send texts or make regular phone calls. Justices of the Peace: All our JPs are seniors so are unavailable for now. If you need the services of a JP, please ring and make an appointment at Te Awamutu District Court or Hamilton District Court 0800 268 787 for either. Churches: Whether you are in Cambridge or Te Awamutu, please contact your local priest, vicar or pastor for information. Several churches in Cambridge and Te Awamutu are updating their websites and producing multiple online services a week. Garages: For any assistance, if you have online access, please visit either https:// vtnz.co.nz/ or www.nzta.govt.nz Many Waipā service stations remain open, but with social distancing practices in place. There is no indication of a supply issue.
Automobile Association: All AA sites are closed, and the AA will not provide driver/ vehicle licensing or WOF services. Go to https://www.aa.co.nz/membership/ important-covid-19-update/ for details. Citizens Advice Bureau: Both the Cambridge CAB and the Te Awamutu CAB offices – based on Alpha St and Alexandra streets respectively – are closed during the lockdown but will still operate from volunteer’s homes. They can be contacted by phone - 0800 367 222. Schools, Kindergartens, Day Care Centres: These are all closed for the next four weeks. Community Hubs: The government has done everything it can to limit the spread of Covid-19 in New Zealand and how we manage at the local community level will be very important in the coming weeks. There are many ways we can form small local hubs to ensure everyone has access to what they need. Consider forming a Whatsapp street group or a local Facebook group so you can help each other out or just pass the time! Our Elderly in the Community: Our elderly are among our most vulnerable and anyone over 70 is required to stay at home for now. There are many elderly people living independently in our community – please keep them on your radar and support them in any way you can. Many of our elderly do not have Internet access, so if you are in a position to help them out with online shopping, paying bills online or ringing them up for a chat please do so.
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THE AGE OF REASON
Wednesday – when we get to see Santa Grocer The pronouncement on Monday afternoon indicating the gradual progress towards Level 3 has, as expected, been received with mixed views. The sad negative people whose idea of excitement is to make bold statements on radio talk-back appears to have been well trounced by those with a greater degree of common sense. Simply put, we only get one shot at this debilitating virus and its associated problems. It is a team effort and, to quote the Prime Minister, the team of five million have pulled together to achieve a hopedfor result. Or at least clearing a pathway towards a positive solution. In the course of the past shut-in weeks I have been talking with a number of retirement villages around the country to see how my fellow villagers are managing. Most are like myself and my
immediate neighbours – being cared for by a considerate and watchful manager and her staff acting in our best interests. This is not nursing home stuff – this is people in a lifestyle environment lead active, thinking and physical wellbeing lives. Sadly, some villages have suffered where the staff have fled, the gates left wide open and no protection for those inside. These organisations need to be named and shamed. Cutting people (average age 79) adrift in a close-together environment without sensible rules in place is tantamount to opening them up to risks that they, singly or collectively, cannot combat. However, by far the greater majority of retirement villages are run on more professional lines with firm overviews and rules in place from their owning companies. So, commerce – at least
some of it – is to be permitted to see the light of day again. Getting your fish and chips out on the sidewalk should be interesting. But we shall remain with our weekly cartons of goodies delivered to our door by the local supermarket. ‘Our’ day is Wednesday, and we greet the cartons like kids at Christmas. Having forgotten exactly what it was we ordered about 10 days previous we greet the delivery driver as Santa Grocer. When all this saga is truly over, we should declare a public holiday for all those hard-working people from numerous sectors who have kept the country afloat - at times at great risk to themselves. Looking ahead, the bike is ready to roll. The ability to stroll under the lovely Cambridge trees is getting closer. The chance for a coffee lakeside at Karapiro has a
quality to it not perceived to such a height previously. Like kids in the candy store we are itching to be permitted to smell, touch and longingly view all those items and opportunities that have been denied us - a bit like my early youth when war-driven food
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Briefs… Covid tragedy
A New Zealand man who died in Peru had earlier been scheduled to be on a Covid-19 mercy flight home. A death notice in the New Zealand Herald said Edward Storey, 49, died at Easter in Cusco. The report said he was the son of Te Awamutu couple Keith and Delysse Storey.
Toilet humour
Countdown may be in the running for the worst press release of the Lockdown. It announced last week that the “Great Toilet Paper Shortage of 2020” was over and “when it comes to having shelves stocked with toilet paper - we’ve got it in the bog.”
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Award judge named
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Letters
Heroes from our ‘other’ pandemic
During the Covid-19 lockdown we are encouraged to stay local, only going out for essentials. There is a group who either feel lockdown does not apply to them - or their idea of “stay local” covers is far larger area than for everyone else - cyclists. Since lockdown there has been only a slight decrease in the number of cyclists who use the Maungakawa, Te Miro, Whitehall route. These are not locals. For those not familiar with this it is a 30km-plus route with a 100m climb. It caught my attention in one of your articles where a cyclist had a “planned ride the first Saturday of lockdown” and “at the top” which would suggest a ride up Maungakawa Road. After reading this on Friday I went to Cambridge (for essentials - food) in weather that only the most dedicated would venture out. There were cyclists, one was an early teen at the entrance to Gudex reserve (closed for Covid-19) talking and getting a water bottle from someone who I assume was mum who had driven there. Covid-19 lockdown is not a sport and not a time to push the limits. Stay Home, Save Lives is the call. Cycling is doing itself no favours as riders are seen by many to be flouting the rules. At level 3 where a stay regional but still “stay home” is preferred, will cyclists consider a ride anywhere between Bombay and Taupo to be acceptable as it is the Waikato region? (Abridged). Chris Phillips Cambridge
By Matteo Di Maio
Riding orders
As a lethal form of influenza ravaged its way across New Zealand in November 1918, Cambridge nurses Linda Veale and Margaret Watt worked quickly to transform the Town Hall into an emergency hospital. On November 21, Veale, Watt and a small team of doctors and nurses housed and treated Cambridge’s 31 serious cases of the disease. Their efforts are a reminder that the Covid-19 outbreak is not the first pandemic the people of Waipa have been through, nor the most serious. Soon after, the pandemic peaked in Cambridge. By November 26, the temporary hospital was housing up to 50 people. Unlike most of the patients they treated, Veale and Watt didn’t survive. Veale succumbed, on December 7, 1918, to a disease that eventually killed 50 million people worldwide: the “Spanish Flu.” She was 41. Watt died in January, according to Council funeral records. The nurses were two of five Cambridge residents reported to have died from the Spanish Flu. At Veale’s funeral in December four soldiers acted as pall bearers. A New Zealand flag was draped across her coffin, which is buried in Hautapu cemetery. “For many years there were plaques commemorating [the two] nurses in the Town Hall,” Cambridge Community Board Chairman Sue Milner said. The News understands the plaques are no longer there. December also marked Waipā’s emergence from the peak of the pandemic in mid-November. Cambridge, with a population of about 1500, got off lightly. The fatality rate was one of the country’s lowest. There were a group of “lucky towns with low death rates,” Kathryn Parsons, Manager at the Cambridge Museum said. “Cambridge was one of them.” The Cambridge-based Waikato Independent—the major local paper of the time—commended the actions of locals as part of the reason the town was able Advertorial to weather the worst of the pandemic so well.
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New South Wales Christmas Bush (Ceratopetalum gummiferum) Growing in a garden in Hamilton Road, this small tree had me mystified. Tolerant of -2 degrees of frost, it is a native of Papua New Guinea and eastern Australia, where it grows to 12 metres in height – so not really a bush. It is usually found growing in sandstone or old sand dunes, as it enjoys a well-drained soil. It was first described to the western world by the English botanist, James Edward Smith in A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland (1793). The leaves are tri-foliate, each leaflet
being about 5-8 cm long and 0.5 cm wide. In late spring it is covered in sprays of tiny, white, five-petalled flowers (some of which can be seen in the photo), but these often go unnoticed until they begin to die and the sepals then enlarge and become pink in colour. This display peaks at Christmas in Australia, perhaps a little later in New Zealand. These pink sprays will last in water for weeks. The leaves contain aesculin, a coumarin glucoside (also found in certain chestnut trees) which is sometimes used in the treatment of lupus, and also as an ultra-violet radiation screen in suntan lotion. It is used as a fragrance in some skin care and bath products, with a scent reminiscent of freshlymown hay.
On December 10, the Independent wrote: “The town is looking really fine at the moment and the person who is not proud that he lives there should be escorted to the railway station.” Residents praised Veale and the team of Town Hall nurses. “I desire to ex-press my sincere thanks to the nurses and assistants at the Cambridge Temporary Hospital for the care and kindness… and also the neighbours… who performed many acts of kindness during this anxious time,” resident J. Grainger wrote in a letter to the paper. Te Awamutu—then with a population of just over 1000—was hit harder. A total of 24 people died there, and its death rate was one of the highest in the Waikato. A temporary hospital was also set up in the Te Awamutu Town Hall and 52 people were admitted in 14 days. “You think this is all new… but when you look at [the 1918 Pandemic], they had schools closed, public paths disinfected…” said Parsons. All public buildings closed, mass gatherings were banned, school children sent home, public meetings and church services called off and footpaths disinfected. “The Cambridge Borough Council was soon asking for voluntary aid to assist families in distress,” reads an article by the Museum. Geoffrey Rice, author of the book Black November: The 1918 influenza pandemic in New Zealand told the New Zealand “the big lessons from 1918 were that delay is dangerous and complacency kills”. “Remarkably, [Kiwis] kept their heads … they’d had four years of war and people were more accustomed to obeying orders. They helped each other.” Soldiers returning from the First World War likely brought the pandemic to New Zealand in early October. By the time the disease had eased in December, 9000 New Zealanders had died. It is estimated 2500 were Māori. The Māori death rate was eight times that of Europeans and it is thought one in three deaths went unrecorded. As Cambridge’s outbreak came to an end in December, the Waikato Independent had a message for the people of Cambridge. “The epidemic has in the majority brought out the splendid qualities … the heroic self-sacrifice shown by hundreds during this time of sorrow and affliction demonstrates that the community still clings to the golden rule.”
New South Wales Christmas Bush (Ceratopetalum gummiferum)
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Cambridge Community House (CCH) is seeking more funding as burgeoning needs related to the Covid-19 lockdown strain existing resources. The Leamington-based charity is considered an essential service, and has developed a way of working that fits for both Level 3 and 4. It has been able to maintain its counselling, whānau support and financial mentoring services throughout lockdown, thanks largely to a Covid-19 grant from Trust Waikato that helped support the additional IT and communication costs involved in working remotely while maintaining client confidentiality. CCH general manager Harriet Dixon said since lockdown began, team members have delivered most of their regular sessions and handled a rise in referrals caused by families coming under greater economic and emotional pressure. She said Cambridge and the surrounding area has also seen a rise in family violence cases.
Vetted volunteers have supported community actions, such as food delivery, she added, but there was a need for additional funding to support continued food box delivery to those in need. “As the weeks of lockdown proceed, we expect the number of people needing food support to rise sharply. I’m hoping our community can get behind us, donate and help our services meet the demand,” Harriet said. “Our community support is outstanding … for example, the offer of free B&B accommodation meant we could move a homeless couple from sleeping in their car and into a warm bed. Another community member donated $1000 to help those in financial need. Their donation is making a positive difference at this very difficult time. These acts of generosity are heartwarming.” Lockdown has also brought a temporary halt to work on the CCH extension and postponed crucial fundraising activities needed to secure the remaining
Cambridge Community House general manager Harriet Dixon.
$50,000 required to complete the project. “It’s inevitable we will continue to need more funds as we ready ourselves for a surge in calls for help from right across the local community. Hopefully, we’ll see a surge in donations, too,” she said. CCH remains open for calls, emails and texts, as well as contact via its website and Facebook page. The number is 07-827 5402, and email is office@ camcomhouse.org.nz. Those who wish to donate can do so directly to the BNZ account for the Cambridge Community House Trust (02-0300-0053796-025).
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Busy time for ‘essential’ staff By Jeremy Smith
Wearing personal protective equipment, two Waipā Disrtict Council staff have continued an “especially significant” essential role throughout the nation-wide Covid-19 lockdown. Waipā District Council parks and reserves supervisors Craig McCurdy and Stephen Bagnall manage the district’s 10 cemeteries, conducting several burial services. “We’re doing our utmost to ensure families who lose loved ones at this time have the proper opportunity, as best we can give them, to pay their respects,” Craig said. Given Covid-19, wearing PPE gear ensured the safety of everyone involved as that happened, he said. Craig and Stephen have worked with Council for 14 years and 10 years respectively. Craig said when burials
happen during lockdown, where possible, families in their bubble could be graveside as loved ones were laid to rest. “Several family members who have been in that situation have said just how special it was being able to be there. From our perspective, we want to do the best we can by them too.” Burials occur as they are booked and additional cemetery and park checks happen three times a week. All told, the pair are two of the Council’s nearly 100 staff - about a third of its entire workforce – who are essential service workers during lockdown. Roles include everything from water and parks services, animal control, recycling collection and maintaining roads to urgent building compliance work. Parks and reserves teams manage park and garden maintenance in Cambridge, Kihikihi and Te Awamutu.
Staff ensure there are no health and safety issues at parks and reserves. They monitor closed playgrounds, skateparks and boat ramps, remotely communicate with both their staff teams and take customer calls. Craig said lockdown was a “very busy time juggling everything”. “We need to be agile and respond as and when needed.” Daily face to face interaction with his team had been replaced by technology like Zoom and Facetime. Council chief executive Garry Dyet said residents might not realise what happened in the background to provide services which sustained Waipā. “These staff carry out vital duties, without which life could be much harder for everyone. The work done in the background isn’t often noticed but could cripple the district if it wasn’t being done.
Waipā District Council parks and reserves supervisors Craig McCurdy and Stephen Bagnall at Leamington Cemetery. Photo supplied
“Unlike most of us they are leaving their homes, their families and their bubbles to go out and do their jobs. We are very lucky to have such committed people in these roles.” Currently, 36 essential Council staff work in the
Social agency widens support By Viv Posselt
Te Awamutu’s Kainga Aroha Community House is flat out meeting the increased community need brought about by the COVID-19 lockdown. Kainga Aroha Community House manager Kane Rangitonga said they had been fully operational throughout. “We have been providing all our regular services to existing clients, just not face-to-face. We’re also working hard to support other people in the community needing help right now, usually with deliveries of groceries or mediations. Our domestic violence volunteers have had to go out with the
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And after a video was posted on the Te Awamutu Region Community Grapevine Facebook page showing how he, mum Kaz and sister Aotea sorted his takeaway demands during lockdown, the community does too. The clip shows 15-year-old Trampas – a Te Awamutu College Patricia Avenue School satellite unit student – being driven through a homemade McDonald’s drive thru. Mum Kaz is chauffeur, sister Aotea the McDonald’s team member. His favourite meal? A ‘Big Mac hunger buster combo’. Trampas lives with autism and a daily routine makes him feel safe, so his week is marked by key events on the same day. Friday is lollies from College Superette
Aotea then hand delivers Trampas’ order. Even the seemingly small aspect of Trampas paying was intentional. “He’s seen me do it lots of times – so paying for himself would have made him feel like king of the world.” The clip has received international attention - on a United Kingdom-based parenting Facebook page and a New York firm wants to put it on their “viral video” website. Kaz is a “part-time farmer, full time career and mum” and runs Inspire Belief. “Trampas has completely changed me in such good ways, ways I could never have imagined.”
She’s also full of praise for Aotea (13) – in her first year at Te Awamutu College. “She’s great with him, really loving and caring. It’s very special.” When Trampas visits the doctor, being there in person makes his day. And so, on Easter Saturday, Trampas became Mahoe Medical Centre’s first lockdown video call patient. “After the doctor made himself available to talk, Trampas left that call ecstatic.” Between now and the end of lockdown the goal is clear. “We’ll focus on as many normal things as possible.”
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day. Saturdays are chicken nuggets and chips from Pirongia’s Mountain View Bakery day, and Mondays are McDonald’s day. The McDonald’s driveway drive-thru was an effort to restore “some level of normality” for Trampas. “He is an amazing person, it’s just that living with autism means he sees the world in a unique way,” Kaz said. “The smallest change “freaks Trampas out. He knows something is different - but at home our goal is to keep life full of fun and laughter.” The video she posted has more than 700 likes and 200 comments. The car loops around the driveway to meet Aotea, the McDonald’s worker. Trampas orders, swipes his Eftpos card – through a sky remote – and pays.
TV dinner… Aotea helps Trampas pay for his latest order.
Mila Lockett couldn’t quite understand why her friends couldn’t join her to celebrate her fourth birthday. Mila loves fairies and was going to have a fairy themed birthday party. Just as it looked like the Lockdown would spell an end to the fairy party, up stepped Casey Walker. The Cambridge Senior Constable pulled up in Mila’s driveway dressed in a fairy outfit, complete with fairy wings, to pay her a visit. “She was quite excited, but also just a little bit shy,” Mila’s mum Lisa said. Senior constable Walker also came bearing gifts for Mila – a notebook and some colouring pens. When news of the visit to Mila’s house was shared on the Waikato Police Facebook page, it received nearly 2000 likes and about 150 comments. “How amazing that amongst all the chaos, the police still find time to put a gigantic
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Regional leaders pledge thousands Waikato Regional Council chair, Russ Rimmington, and chief executive, Vaughan Payne, will donate 20 per cent of their salaries for the next six months to help support vulnerable people. The donation will amount to more than $33,000. Cr Rimmington said the regional council was on track to achieve its commitment to ratepayers of a zero per cent rates revenue impact, but he and Mr Payne believe they also have a responsibility to take personal action.
“We’re concerned about the stress people are under and want to be able to help.” For Cr Rimmington, the focus is community groups who are supporting those struggling the most. “To keep doing what they do, these groups need money, and every dollar helps. That’s why I’m donating a percentage of my salary,” Cr Rimmington said. The money will go to the Waikato Community Funders Group – a collection of the region’s philanthropic trusts and funders, including Waikato Regional
Council, who are working together to make sure funds get to where they’re needed the most during this pandemic. “Over the last five days, I’ve looked at all sorts of options for getting this money into the right hands. I’ve settled on the Waikato Community Funders Group because it has a good understanding of community groups right across the Waikato who are working at the coalface.” Mr Payne’s contribution will formalise and bolster a long term commitment he and his wife Jane have made to helping
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Te Awamutu’s Frost family won two of the three categories at this year’s Great Pumpkin Carnival – which moved from its traditional Hamilton Gardens home to online. And the third category was won by a Te Awamutu school. PICTURED ABOVE: The winning family entry was a pumpkin person balancing on a globe. Inset left: Luis Frost won the open class with this creation. Inset right: St Patrick’s Catholic School went for “fruity tootee”.
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Get gardening Dave steps up – it’s a ‘no-brainer’ Buying groceries, collecting prescriptions and sourcing firewood is all in a day’s work for Western Waikato Emergency Operations Centre volunteer ‘buddy’ David Nordell. The Kihikihi resident is one of 122 volunteer buddies available to help vulnerable people in Waipā, Ōtorohanga and Waitomo districts during the COVID-19 response. Volunteer buddies can assist their support person with buying groceries, medication and household goods, providing psychosocial support and transporting to and from essential appointments. The buddy system was set up by the Western Waikato Emergency Operation Centre’s welfare team which recognised some people referred by the Waikato Welfare Call Centre required more in-depth support. “It was a ‘no-brainer’ for me to put my hand up,” Nordell said. “I knew there was a need in my backyard and I’ve got the time and skills to help.” Nordell has been assisting three local people who need practical support and advice. He also checks in on his neighbours by phone to see if they need assistance. “Life has changed very quickly for many people, and there are some residents who need help navigating life during the lockdown,” he says. The support role comes naturally to Nordell, who has experience in Search and Rescue and community patrol and owns a car restoration business in Kihikihi. “I’ve always grabbed life by the horns and am generally quite resourceful and practical,” he says. “Plus, being a well-connected local means that I know who to reach out to for help and how to join the dots if someone needs to solve a problem.” Nordell says vulnerable people might not find it easy to receive help from a stranger. “Part of my job is to build up that rapport and trust with the people I support over time.” It’s a message echoed by Western Waikato Emergency Operations Centre local controller Dave Simes. “Don’t be too proud to ask for help if you are in need - we have support at hand.” Simes says the service has been popular since it launched on Friday April 3, with more than 20 volunteer buddies supporting people.
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her of that positivity, help spread some why Jan is an out of a major reason can choose to get journey is also the Blind and Low Vision “Every day you of every avid supporter Puppy Appeal bed and be positive.” Jan Nesbit has New Zealand Red Given what Cambridge’s is profound. March statement year. will be held on been through, that ago, Jan was diagnosed In 2020 the appeal Just over a decade 13 and 14. dystrophy, a genetic collectors will be The sensitive with Cone-rod In Cambridge, effects the light – Countdown, condition which outside four locations Leamington cells of the retina. hot on the heels Warehouse, FreshChoice The diagnosis followedand she lost the surgery and Paper Plus. love enough money of unrelated hip “We would really there for sight “quite quickly”. being guide dogs out majority of her Jan went from to get a few more Within six weeks, a 50-60 out of people.” and holding down said roughly 40 able to drive – travelled all new Worldwide, Jan job in which she who are prospectivestages hour per week Zealand and sometimes every 100 puppies training throughout New and “sitting through to the down to longer driving guide dogs go Australia – to no still are whittled and then fewer dogs. guide pretty at home”. was trained It fully sudden. the only “It was just that a while. I won’t lie, I did becomedog Portia is thought to be Jan’s for hard work there guide dog in Cambridge. think.” she still currently active three months I her dog Gretel, who howl for about a year after losing stage Her previous guide of And then, about news – a diagnosis owns, has retired. me through my sight came more taken has “Gretel she’s been so four breast cancer. to complete a University – everything – chemotherapy away.” She had planned have given her counselling Sciences with a loyal I could not is also involved put paid degree in Social Here in town, Jan cancer diagnosis Blind & Vision element, but the in the Cambridge Group, which meets on an to that. all of that, Jan has Impaired Support of the month at 10am Even in spite of every third Thursday Church amazing outlook. believe positivity is the of their at Cambridge Baptist “Oh yes, I still do give a few hours of things. Those who can collector on either best way to handle to get out of bed and time to be a volunteer days can call 0800 “You can choose can choose to think year’s two appeal or register online at you or this day, all do?’” feel sad day, what can we 787 743 (0800 PUPPIES), on.org.nz/ ‘yippee another remission for five years. https://blindlowvisi Jan has been in in the hopes she may Sharing her story
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