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Number’s up for plastics

By Jeremy Smith

The country’s major supermarkets say they have plans to remove plastics which Waipā District Council has voted to remove from recycling bins.

Countdown - owned by Woolworths New Zealand - and Foodstuffs, which oversees New World and Pak ‘n Save, said they already have policies which will conform to the soon to be adopted Council change.

Waipā will limit recycling to plastics displaying numbers 1, 2

and 5. That includes milk and soft drink bottles. They are the only plastics which should be placed in a recycling bin.

Plastics marked 3, 4, 6 and 7 will be consigned to landfills. They include items like styrofoam cups, some types of plastic containers and some plastic plates and cutlery.

Countdown and Foodstuffs have both signed the Ministry for the Environment’s New Zealand Plastic Packaging Declaration – committing them to using 100 percent reusable, recyclable or compostable packaging in their

New Zealand operations by 2025 or earlier.

“We absolutely have to make changes – consumers and companies - and as quickly as possible. We’re determined to meet this,” Countdown’s general manager of sustainability Kiri Hannifin said.

Foodstuffs New Zealand head of corporate affairs Antoinette Laird said they were making great strides.

Laird said Waipā District Council’s plans to limit recycling to grades 1, 2 and 5 reflected the

global market and were the most widely recyclable plastic grades in New Zealand.

She cited a 2016 shift from polystyrene foam – plastic Grade 6 meat trays - to clear Grade 1 trays and stopping single-use plastics bags in January last year as examples of work Foodstuffs was doing towards a sustainable future.

At Countdown Hannifin said New Zealand’s waste system faced big challenges.

“At this stage, we’ll not be removing products from shelves in our Cambridge or Te Awamutu

Some Finns happening…

Crowded House and Fleetwood Mac’s Neil Finn has struck a chord with thousands of fans world-wide – launching a daily online show.

Finn, originally from Te Awamutu, went live for daily performances via broadcasting app Mixlr, on a daily radio show called Fangradio.

He also used his Facebook page, which has nearly 100,000 followers, to perform and upload a series of what he called ‘Live From Home’ concerts.

On Monday, the latest upload on Finn’s Facebook page saw Crowded House - which alongside Finn includes his sons Liam and Elroy and Nick Seymour and Mitchell Froom - “performing individually from home” a version of the band’s hit Don’t Dream It’s Over.

Finn’s post said the video was to mark the 33rd anniversary of Crowded House reaching Number 2 on United States music charts.

He said the video was recorded between continents over a few hours

on Anzac weekend for the Music From the Home Front benefit concert in Australia and New Zealand.

“I really like the way it sounds and the process of flying tapes back and forth was fun, pure and simple,” the post said.

With his brother Tim, Finn was the co-frontman for Split Enz, a project that he joined after it was initially founded by Tim and others.

Crowded House formed in Australia in 1985 and ended in 1996. About a decade later, the band announced its 2007 reformation.

Since 2018, Finn has also been part of Fleetwood Mac, playing rhythm guitar and singing lead and backing vocals.

Other entries in Finn’s ‘Live From Home’ series have included covers of David Bowie’s Heroes, which has half a million Facebook views, a cover of When Doves Cry by Prince and he, Liam and Elroy also teamed up to perform Better Be Home Soon fittingly from home.

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A screen shot of Crowded House performing ‘Don’t Dream It’s Over’ live from home in a video uploaded to Neil Finn’s Facebook page on Monday.

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stores in light of this district council change but we’re working as hard as we can to come up with appropriate alternatives within our own brand range. We’re asking suppliers to do the same.”

The company said it purge on plastics had resulted in a total of 150 tonnes of it being removed from its produce department alone.

“We’re introducing more recycled and recyclable packaging wherever we can.”

Waipā District Council transportation manager Bryan Hudson said the recycling change councillors approved was prompted by the loss of export markets for Grades 3, 4, 6 and 7. “…so we have nowhere to send them.

They are very hard to recycle and have very little value.”

Waipā’s decision follows the same decisions being made by the Tauranga City Council, Hutt City Council and Nelson City Council.

“Our aim is to try and promote waste reduction and ensure all recycling we do collect can be sold onto the market,” Mr Hudson said.

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On the beat with Senior Constable DEB THURGOOD Time to buy local, stay local Hello again - four weeks of Level 4 and now Level 3 has arrived! Didn’t we do well?

Yes, Police had to have a friendly chat with some of you to remind you of lockdown rules, to turn your car around or send your friends home. As always, there were a small proportion for whom the chat was not enough, who persisted in repeating their behaviour and those people now have a day booked in court. It seemed like most of you did what was needed however and along with the rest of the country, we are seeing the positive progress as a result.

Level 3 brings a sense of relief at a little more freedom, however our lives should not and cannot go back to the ‘old normal’ yet. We still need to stay home and keep local as much as possible. Regional travel should be limited to essential work travel or (if you got caught out away from home at lockdown), to return to your normal address.

I know the call of McDonalds, KFC, pizza, your favourite coffee house and the like is strong, but stick with your closest takeaways for now…and the closest supermarket too, not the one across town. There is no better time to truly ‘Buy Local’. Enjoy the greater availability of online shopping but respect our courier and delivery drivers’ space.

Follow contactless collection and delivery protocols and keep the retail workers, drivers and yourselves safe too.

So what about those bubbles? Level 3 means we can extend them slightly to reconnect with family or provide additional

support to elderly or vulnerable family members. But… we need to keep the bubble tight. Anyone being added into your bubble needs to be local. Should anyone feel ill, they will need to immediately self isolate from all others in the bubble.

In these hard times, we have seen great community support. Waipā communities have banded together, helping those who need it whether with food parcels, grocery shopping or pharmacy trips. For some people, lockdown has brought a great reduction in social connection. Social distancing does not mean disconnecting from communication. Keep saying hi to your neighbours, smile and wave to others you pass in the street or when standing in the supermarket queue. You may be the only social interaction a person has had all day.

Violence Free Waipā want us all to become ‘Waipā Wavers’. What a great initiative! A friendly wave can make a huge difference to someone’s mood and day.

And so, we have two weeks at Level 3.

As with Level 4, the better we do this, the better the outcomes. Look after your bubble, look after your neighbours, look after your community.

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a 4.2% proposed rates increase which is tantamount to double what is outlined in the 10 Year Plan.

It’s as though their suggestion to review the proposed rates increase is just a smoke screen to quell the complaints from the public masses whilst Council overcomes the hurdle of procedural formality and continues with its own agenda.

I don’t deny that we still require to look after the basic essential services - water, sewer, stormwater and roading. But there is no need for the non-essential items at present like the Te Awamutu Museum or Cambridge Library when our way of life could in future profoundly change with no places of gatherings allowed as Covid 19 still lingers.

The argument “we need to look after what we have” to justify council’s spending is weak. What happened to looking after what we had in the past? If it had been looked after in the first instance council wouldn’t be wanting to spend up large now.

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Hospital visits

A new restricted visitor policy has been launched across Waikato District Health Board hospitals. Alert level 3 standard visiting hours will be 11am-1.30pm and 4-8pm. Visitors are required to provide personal details. Patients may have one adult visitor a day and all visitors must be from the same bubble. The 'no visitors' policy remain in place for Critical Care (ICU and HDU) and the Henry Rongomau Bennett Centre.

Some exceptions may be possible - for more details go to www.waikatodhb.health. nz/covid-19-visitors-policy/

Hunting returns

The return of hunting on private land under at Alert Level 3 will be welcomed in Waipa and King Country, Western Waikato Emergency Operations Centre Duty Controller Wayne Allan says. "Allowing hunting on private land at Alert Level 3 means people can once again provide for their families, and that's a great source of pride," he said. Hunters must have the landholder's permission, stay within their region, hunt only on foot and stay in their bubbles. The duck shooting season will open on the second Saturday following the introduction of Alert Level 2, unless that date falls on May 30.

On the road

The Hamilton section of the Waikato Expressway project has resumed this week but it's not clear how much the time off will impact on the projected 2021 finish date. The expressway project work starts at Tamahere and will take traffic east of Hamilton to link up with the expressway north of the city. "Right now we're concentrating on getting the project up and running safely and efficiently, to make the most of the favourable weather," Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency acting portfolio manager Wilton said. The Visitor Centre at Percival Road, Newstead, remains closed.

Anzac Day draws attention

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By Jeremy Smith

As dawn broke over Cambridge on Anzac Day, a self-proclaimed “ordinary pensioner” made his way – shrouded in darkness - to the end of his driveway to pause for reflection and remembrance.

It was the first time in more than a century, thanks to the Covid-19 lockdown, formal April 25 Anzac Day events in New Zealand were cancelled.

In their place, thousands of New Zealanders chose to this year ‘Stand at Dawn’ at the end of their driveways at home in their lockdown bubble at 6am on April 25.

Among them was 95-year-old Laurie Gatfield, for whom the moment of remembrance held particular pertinence.

The early riser has attended Anzac Day services for as long as he can remember and said he wasn’t going to let the fact things looked a bit different this year stop him from paying his respects.

Mr Gatfield served in the New Zealand Army for more than a decade. It culminated in almost three years as a J Force soldier. New Zealand troops joined the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) as Allied Forces entered Japan at the end of WWII following the Japanese

surrender.

The 4000-strong J Force was deployed between 1946 and 1948.

After returning to New Zealand Mr Gatfield served as a regular soldier.

He recalled his time in Japan was a deployment spent “on edge”.

“The Japanese, of course, objected to being occupied,” he said, and that meant J Force personnel often faced “the odd bit of gunfire”.

Mr Gatfield said standing at dawn on Anzac Day had been different, but still “very personal and very special”.

For him, in moments of reflection and remembrance - as well as recalling the sacrifice of all service people lost in wars – one person was particularly always at the forefront of his mind.

“My dad - Corporal Robert Miles,” he said. “I just remember him. He was a soldier at Gallipoli in 1915 during WWI and was deployed to France for about five years.”

In a year when there were no major gatherings, Mr Gatfield reflected on the year on year increase in young people attending formal Anzac Day services as “out of this world”.

“That’s amazing – it’s pleasing to see the younger generation taking time to remember the sacrifice of their forefathers and give them due

credence.”

Mr Gatfield and his wife Phyl came to Cambridge in 2009 to be closer to his sister Gloria, who lives in town.

Their family of two daughters, a granddaughter and two great-grandsons live in Melbourne.

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Te Awamutu does RSA proud

By Viv Posselt

Te Awamutu and surrounds adapted to a lockdown Anzac Day well, says Te Awamutu and Districts RSA president and ex-serviceman, Lou Brown. He joined many others in town who stood on their driveway at 6am on Anzac Day, then moved on to mark the occasion at 7am and 11am, one at the First World War memorial in Bank St and the other at the sunken cross in War Memorial

own street had a one hundred percent Park, off Mangahoe St. Flags were raised, the sounds of driveway turnout at 6am, and people bugle and bagpipes were heard, and all over town displayed about 300 special words recited. Attending one of them was Waipa District Mayor Jim Mylchreest and a handful of others, with the small group observing social distancing throughout. Lou and his wife later laid a wreath at the war memorial in Kihikihi.

“Despite the lockdown, I feel very strongly that Te Awamutu did us proud in marking Anzac Day. My

crosses and a lot of specially made poppies that they would normally have laid at the memorials.”

Anzac Day in Le Quesnoy

Cambridge’s sister city, Le Quesnoy, marked Aanzac day in numerous ways, despite the ongoing lockdown in northern France. Flags were draped outside homes, windows were decorated with kiwiana, and a ceremony took place at the site of the city walls, scaled by New Zealand soldiers in November 1918 to free Le Quesnoy from German occupation.

This photograph was sent to the Cambridge Brass Band, alongside links to a speech made in English by Le Quesnoy mayor, Marie-Sophie Lesne. With her in the picture are Government representative Sous-Préfet Alexander Ribeaud, president of the town’s Le Quesnoy-New Zealand Association Gérard Richon, and the president of the town’s veteran’s association, George Lagny.

Te Awamutu’s World War 1 memorial in Bank Street, with some of its early Anzac Day commemorations.

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Three’s not a crowd…

By Viv Posselt

While the shift from COVID-19 response level four to three might offer businesses a little more certainty, it is unrealistic to expect anything akin to a “return to normal” says Te Awamutu Chamber of Commerce CEO Kris Anderson.

“At least it offers more certainty around where we’re headed,” he said, “and it does allow us to put support in place for

businesses able to open under level three. But level two is where we need to be.”

Kris said he believed the steps taken by the New Zealand Government in its handling of the COVID-19 outbreak had put the country in a good position.

But with projections of an extended recession gaining ground, “possibly of a year to 18 months”, there were many challenges to come.

He said the hospitalitytourism sector was taking the biggest hit. Similarly

disadvantaged are retail outlets which had not been offering the sort of online service prior to lockdown that could mean they are able to re-open at level three.

“The bigger worry is how long they can hold out. Realistically, life is not going to return to what we regarded as ‘normal’ … there will be significant changes ahead for most businesses. Look at cinemas, for example. How do they accomplish social distancing without seriously impacting

their business? And that’s just one example.”

He commended both the Government and Te Waka, Waikato’s regional economic development agency, for their efforts over the past few weeks. “There has been a lot of support shown in terms of getting people up and running in the virtual space ... finding out what they need and where.

“But the reality is that many of our local businesses would rely on face-to-face traffic and won’t have an

A lockdown link to heaven

By Viv Posselt

St Andrews Anglican Church vicar Rev Malcolm French is fast becoming a skilled ‘virtual’ vicar.

The Canadian-born churchman started livestreaming services from the vicarage on March 29, using Zoom and the techsavvy nous of one Colin Morley. He had 34 computer logins that day, with about 60 people joining the service and more watching it later on Facebook.

Apart from a few challenges stemming initially from matching hardware to software, and what worked on an iPad versus what worked on his desktop - all has been going swimmingly.

“I have noticed that it has certain advantages,” he smiled. “My mother-inlaw and brother were able to listen in from Canada, which is great. Hypothetically,

people can join in from anywhere in the world. It opens a whole new vista.”

Malcolm had been tinkering with the idea of going virtual since he joined St Andrews four years ago. He was on the point of success when lockdown happened, inspiring him to hastily eliminate the glitches and set up an old desk in his lounge room as his altar.

Week two saw 50 logins with around 100 people, which boosted his confidence as he headed into lockdown planning for one of the biggest Christian weeks of the year, Easter.

“It was a very different sort of Holy Week and Easter,” he admitted. “We had 125 computers logged in over the Triduum [Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Eve and Easter Day], with an estimated audience of well over 200 people. That included a handful of people

from outside Cambridge, and some from overseas. Considering a goodly portion of our people aren’t online, I’d say that’s a fairly good uptake.

“We’ve gradually been improving our production as we learn more about how Zoom works, and by Easter Day we had folk from other locations reading the lessons and leading the prayers of the people.”

Such is their newfound success that Malcolm has determined how others can dial into the audio of the service using a normal telephone.

Which all goes to show, that once you’ve sorted out those sweeping shots of the ceiling, worked out what to do with the dog and got used to a eucharist for two, there’s nothing a lockdown can’t teach you about finding new ways to connect – even to a higher power.

online presence. That will be a challenge. It will be particularly hard for some business owners who have not previously operated in that space to access and fund the technology they need.”

Even as businesses struggled with the ongoing restrictions, most of them understood and accepted the seriousness of the associated health challenge and were supportive of the Government’s moves, he said.

“Everyone’s worried, of

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Tourism: the five year plan

By Jeremy Smith

It could be five years before Waikato’s tourism sector rebounds to pre-Covid-19 lockdown levels, Waipā District Council’s Finance and Corporate Committee has been told.

But Waipā’s strategic geographic location, natural environment and world-class event venues give it a “stronger position” to recover from than many other places.

Hamilton & Waikato Tourism chief executive Jason Dawson told the committee last week tourism will look different post lockdown.

The organisation, based at Hamilton Airport, is Waikato’s regional tourism organisation - or RTO. Its role is to increase Waikato’s domestic and international visitor numbers and major events and conventions.

Waikato is the country’s fifth largest region for visitor spend - up to January, visitor spend was annually injecting $1.58b into the regional

economy.

Waipā’s annual visitor spend was $194m - $157m from domestic visitors, $38m from international travellers.

Lockdown was forcing a tourism sector rethink.

“It’s more than a shock, it’s a circuit breaker for us all to look around, reimagine the tourism sector and plan how we’ll do business differently going forward,” Mr Dawson said.

Tourism was initially affected in January when international group travel from China abruptly halted.

That was Waikato’s fourth biggest international tourism market – and restoring the region’s prelockdown international travel numbers was a “long burn over years”.

Mr Dawson said 2.5 million New Zealanders live in a three-hour radius of Waikato and a campaign to capture that market is being planned.

In Mighty Local, the “first campaign off

the starting blocks”, the RTO is working with regional economic development agency Te Waka, partnering with Waikato Councils, chambers of commerce, i-SITEs and others in developing a campaign telling people about essential service operators.

He said Hamilton & Waikato Tourism would work with several other organisations to “mitigate, restart and reimagine” fresh life into tourism.

A gradual two-year, four stage plan - made up of respective three-month long hyper-local and regional recovery efforts and year-long domestic and international recovery focusses - is planned.

Mr Dawson said tourism was one of the first sectors severely impacted, so they had “head space to move from response to re-imagination”.

Committee chair councillor Andrew Brown praised Hamilton & Waikato Tourism’s efforts.

“That’s a fantastic response to what must have been a massive shock to the industry.”

Board chair hails ‘fantastic’ technology

By Jeremy Smith

Te Awamutu Community Board is switching on to the use of technology.

And the success of a first-time foray into online meetings at its April gathering last week might have put further, future use of technology in the frame.

The board shifting online reflects moves recently made by Waipā District Council – the district’s first ever extraordinary full Council meeting held entirely online took place last month.

And like her Council counterparts, board chair Ange

Holt told the News following the board’s April meeting on Zoom she was impressed by the opportunities the platform afforded them.

The board had previously held a workshop via Zoom, but last week was the first full online meeting.

It was also live streamed on YouTube.

Ange Holt called the technology “fantastic”.

“Essentially it means that as a board we are able to keep meeting and functioning, making decisions and meeting deadlines, even though we aren’t able to meet together in person.”

In board spheres, she could see scope for future technology use.

Some other councils and community boards were using technological and live-streaming capabilities and if Waipā District Council decided to go down that road she was open to it.

She added that when meetings returned to the Council chamber, a positive of them being either live-streamed or broadcast would be that board members unable to attend in person could essentially watch online and be “remotely part of things”.

After a few initial adjustments to the intricacies of Zoom, such

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Waipā wants Covid-19 information is your starting guide to life in Waipā during our lock-down. Most (but not all) information you will need is on Te Awa funds This the Government website (www.covid-19.govt.nz). In the coming weeks, we will be publishing information specific to

Waipa is bidding for $16.2 million of government funding to complete Te Awa Cycleway – which is expected to attract 100,000 users every year.

The Waipā section is budgeted to cost $4.8 million.

The proposed 20km walking and cycle route for the Cambridge to Hamilton section would go from the Avantidrome, to along Tamahere Drive, Hooker Road and Newell Road, across the Mangaonua gully at Riverlea and on to Wairere Drive in Hamilton.

The Waipā District Council proposals was made on behalf of Hamilton City Council, Waikato District Council, the NZ Transport Agency and the Te Awa River Ride Charitable Trust.

The region is looking for a $2.8 billion economic stimulus package to kick-start the economy post-Covid 19.

The government has asked regions to put forward projects which will create jobs, be ready for construction within six months, provide public benefit, modernise the economy and are worth at least $10 million.

Waipā has put up proposals worth around $214 million.

Te Awa river will eventually be a 70km path following the Waikato River from Ngaruawahia to Horahora.

The NZ Transport Agency has nearly completed the Tamahere Drive/ Hooker Road section.

Waipā Mayor Jim Mylchreest said the proposal we’ve put to government will create 40-50 jobs and will drive demand for local product including concrete, timber, aggregate and plants.

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 four-week 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 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.

Waikato Welfare Call Centre: The centre is open seven days a week between 7am-7pm.

It’s open to everyone for access to essential needs like food, medication, blankets, basic clothing, hot water bottles, companion pet food, help with groceries and transport to appointments. Call 0800 800 405.

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Wintec students up

When Wintec Centre for Business and Enterprise tutor Beverly Taylor’s classes went online, she got a pleasant surprise. “In week one of teaching online, my class attendance actually increased with more students attending online classes than face-toface classes. It’s going to be interesting to see if this trend continues,” she said.

Kiwi house appeal

A Give a Little page opened for the Ōtorohanga Kiwi House and Native Bird Park has already raised more than $5000. The link is at https:// givealittle.co.nz/cause/support-thekiwi-house-during-covid-19

Levy vote

Dairy farmers are being encouraged to have their say in the 2020 milksolids levy vote, which is now open for voting. DairyNZ conducts the process every six years and the levy funds industry good activities which delivers dairy sector research, development, advocacy and expertise.

Levy payers are eligible to vote until May 30.

Business accept support

A poll of Waikato businesses has shown that 92% of respondents have not laid off staff during the Covid-19 crisis. The Waikato Chamber of Commerce’s poll of its business members also found that almost 79% had applied for and received the Government’s Wage Support Subsidy. “It’s reassuring to see that Waikato businesses are accessing the Government’s financial support mechanisms to help keep people in jobs,” Don Good, executive director of the Chamber, said.

Work resumes

Waikato Regional Council has stepped up its fieldwork activities, including resuming pest and plant control and flood protection and land drainage work. Waikato Regional Council chief executive Vaughan Payne said offices will remain closed, the majority of staff who can work from home will continue to do so, and meetings and interactions with each other, stakeholders and customers will continue to be virtual. “But we’ve closely examined the government’s Alert Level 3 guidelines and identified fieldwork in particular that can safely resume,” he said.

Students form tutor ‘army’

By Matteo Di Maio

On March 23, Sebastian Bartley and a group of other Cambridge High School year 13s sat down with their teacher Blair Ludlam to answer the question: what could the class do to help younger students learn in the event of a lockdown?

“Ironically,” Bartley said, “school was then closed the next day.”

The idea Bartley and fellow “Extension 4” accelerated learning student Blake Lawton came up with was a free “Discord server” learning platform.

Dubbed “New Zealand Student Volunteer Tutors,” the platform aims to provide a place where current and past extension students can pitch in to offer tutoring to other pupils struggling with lockdown learning conditions.

“Due to recent events, face to face teaching is no longer possible,” Bartley, who has tutored before, said. “As a result

of this change, we thought students may struggle.”

“The idea behind the server was to provide a casual, safe, learning environment where students can seek advice and tutoring from fellow student volunteers.”

Students can click a link, which directs them to a chat platform run by Bartley’s class. There, they can post questions about areas they need support with, and Extension 4 students can reply.

“If students need ongoing help, they can contact one of our verified tutors directly and schedule a one on one lesson,” Bartley said.

It’s not just for CHS students, Bartley added: “This includes students from other schools, and even other areas – we want to help all NZ high school students.”

A bonus of the Discord platform is the anonymity it provides to students looking for help, Bartley said. The server is partly directed at students who might be find it hard to ask

questions of their teachers under the newfound spotlight of a video call with their whole class.

“The reality is that unlike in a physical environment where a quiet word can be had with the teacher, online learning can shine an unwelcome spotlight on a student who speaks up. It is our hope that the casual nature of the server will make seeking help less intimidating,” Bartley said.

With 18 students offering their services “we just need students” now, he added.

Bartley’s team of tutors offer help on subjects from Physics and English, to Drama, Maths, French and more.

One Waikato University master’s student even offered to pitch in with the Extension 4 initiative, writing in a Facebook reply: “If there are any students struggling with tourism – I am more than happy to help them out.”

Students – and student tutors - who want to join the platform can do so at www.nzvst.com.

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Clapping for NZ

By Matteo Di Maio I never used to like New Zealand that much.

I’m not saying I hated it. But I always had it concreted in my mind that as soon as I could move out, I would.

You could call it the small-town incarceration mindset, only on a “small country” scale. I wanted out. Everything seemed bigger and better everywhere else in the world, and New Zealand, in comparison, seemed a bit dull.

But in the last few months, things have changed. I’ve found that, at a time when I’m physically unable to leave N.Z., I also— for the first time—don’t want to.

I wasn’t alone in wanting out. Kiwi teens, on the whole, are certainly not the most patriotic bunch.

In 2016, a One News survey put those in the 18-29 age group as the least likely to agree with the statement that “New Zealand is the best country in the world.”

But the way we’ve dealt with the Covid-19 crisis (touch-disinfected-wood), or our Prime Minister when you stand her up next to Donald Trump, has, I think, rekindled the feeling of patriotism for many young New Zealanders.

There’s a graph that’s been circulating recently—a visualisation of how a range of countries’ new case rates skyrocketed, plateaued or dropped in the days since their 100th case.

As is often the case with New Zealand, we’re off the map. As the United States follows an exponential curve, our line dunked right off the bottom of the graph, as if we declared to the world: “we’re outta here!”

Looking at this, I can’t help feeling pride

for my plucky little country.

At 4pm on April 20, my family gathered around the kitchen table and tuned into the Beehive briefing room. As Jacinda Ardern told us all: “we have done what very few countries have been able to do, we have stopped a wave of devastation,” my heart leapt a little for New Zealand.

I surveyed my fellow teens late last week on whether New Zealand’s response to the coronavirus had made them prouder to be Kiwis. A total of 26 out of the 30 who replied said yes.

And it’s an apt time to feel proud of New Zealand, 104 years on from the Anzac landings at Gallipoli.

Politicians everywhere have used the language of war to rally us to our Covid-19 battle stations—our homes. Yes, as those posts from health workers that went viral recently remind us, our current bravery pales in comparison to the Great War. “Our ancestors went to war for your lives, all you have to do is stay home,” they read.

But there’s a reason Ardern declares “war on Covid-19.”

Wars are collective endeavours. They don’t work unless we’re all invested in the side we’re fighting for: in both cases, New Zealand.

And that language of war, of solidarity, has rubbed off so that when we see a victory, we feel a rush of pride for our country.

Writing this on Anzac Day, I rather like New Zealand.

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FAITH IN WAIPĀ

Best we don’t forget…

By Murray Smith, Senior leader, Bridges Church Last weekend it was Anzac Weekend. Sadly under lockdown, we forfeited gatherings up and down the nation to remember the sacrifice of New Zealanders who lost their lives in World War 1 and World War 2 in particular.

War is a terrible thing… loss of life, destruction, misery and the inevitable collateral damage following in the wake of war presents nothing to glorify.

Yet stories of courage and bravery - of those who laid down their freedoms, whose personal hopes and aspirations of a future were put aside, ought to be honoured.

The Gallipoli campaign was a nightmare… on top of atrocious battle casualties, contagious diseases particularly gastrointestinal ailments took a toll on New Zealand and Australian troops at Gallipoli.

A fly-borne epidemic of intestinal infection ravaged the troops compounded by defective sanitation and rubbish disposal. Lack of clean water was an issue and while latrines were built, rubbish was burned and bodies were buried, it was inadequate to arrest the continual spread of disease among troops -especially as their nutritional status waned.

In this woeful, ill-conceived episode engaging some 16,000 Kiwi soldiers, about 60% were to become casualties. Australian allies similarly suffered huge losses with the Turkish defenders in the tops of the hilly cliffs suffering horrendously as well.

A while ago I visited the Te Papa Museum in Wellington and was impacted by the WW1 exhibition which highlighted the Gallipoli atrocity.

One display made a lasting impression on me. It was a little prayer book which had been given to a soldier and curiously, it had a bullet embedded in its pages. The accompanying

description explained how it had saved the life of a young man from Ahipara who was sent off to war with the 28th Maori Battalion…

Hone Tahitahi and brother Pita landed in Gallipoli on April 25, 1915. Hone was ordered up the cliffs to cut through barbed wire - however a bullet from a Turkish defender struck him in the chest above his heart. He was knocked backwards and unconscious.

Upon recovery Hone noticed the bullet had been stopped by his prayer book which he had in his breast pocket. Still embedded, the bullet point rested under Jesus’ words in Matthew 14:27 “Kia manawanui. Ko ahau teni, ahau e wehi.”

Be of good cheer. It is I. Be not afraid.

Literally, ‘God’s Word’ had stopped a bullet, miraculously saving Hone’s life.

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THE AGE OF REASON

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In Jacinda we trust

By Peter Matthews There can be no doubt that New Zealand’s approach to the Covid19 pandemic has been successful so far.

There are several reasons for this; good science, sensible interpretation of it, and the courage to make the necessary decisions. Our government’s reactions to the developing crisis way back in early/mid-March were not knee-jerks. They were carefully considered, rational plans enacted in a calm and timely manner.

What a contrast to the ducking and diving, the chaos, the denial, and the blame dodging which have been displayed by governments elsewhere.

Our prime minister saw what was coming, listened to her advisers, worked with them to devise a plan including the 4 level alert system, and then she fronted up to the public.

The public listened and responded with “fair enough, if that’s what it is going to take - that is what we will do”.

And we did. Now, at the end of the level 4 lockdown, the director general of health, Ashley Bloomfield has said that the virus has been eliminated. This does not mean zero cases - but officials know where all new cases are coming from. Notwithstanding that there is a long way to go, this is a huge achievement and we can all be proud. Proud of our country, our leadership, and ourselves.

Notwithstanding that there is a long way to go, this is a huge achievement and we can all be proud. Proud of our country, our leadership, and ourselves.

I think the key has been honesty. The New Zealand public accepted the strict measures placed upon us because, whether or not we agree with her politics, we trust Jacinda Ardern. We do not suspect her of wanting

to run the country purely to boost her own ego.

We don’t assume she is lining her own pockets, and those of her cronies as fast as she can. We believe that she has our best interests at heart, that she actually cares about her country and the people in it.

That’s a rare leader, and we’re lucky to have her. These things have been noted too, she’s become a bit of a rock star around the world - if she wasn’t already.

Compare that with the profoundly inept and self-serving president of the United States who firstly said there wasn’t a problem, then said it was under control, then said they would ‘shake it off by Easter’, then told everyone how well he was doing while withdrawing funding from the WHO, then suggested that injecting disinfectant might be an idea worth looking into.

The death toll in the US alone is well over 50,000. Italy was caught totally on the hop, Britain didn’t realise how serious things were until they were in the thick of it, and Spain has been hit hard. In Brazil the regional governors and health officials are desperately trying to contain the situation - a fact which is, to this day, is being actively denied by the idiot the people of that country voted into its top job.

Nobody knows how long New Zealand’s borders will have to remain closed, or what life in this country is going to be like in the months and years to come, but I am pretty sure that going ‘hard and early’ has put us in the strongest position possible.

The mind is still willing…

By Peter Carr As one approaches the alleged twilight years the memory starts to play tricks. Some matters of more recent vintage tend to fade away (or become fractured) while those of a longer distant past are crisp and clean.

Most of us have vivid recollections of our school days – including names of immediate peers with whom one shared those formative years progressing up the educational ladder.

And those memories usually are still bright with regard to the teachers who were thrust upon us. In my case one such sage was the Latin master who, in the Lower Third and Upper Third (now years 12 and 13) thrust upon my unwilling mind the necessity to be able to handle the conjugations – all four of them.

Luckily for me – and thankfully for him – I departed from Latin classes after two years leaving behind those of a more academic bent who were destined for either medicine, science or teaching. While the dislike of the master did not desert me entirely, I did realise that Latin as a base root of the English language was very important. Especially later when the purest form spoken in Rome was blended with the ‘romance’ languages from essentially the Low Countries.

And when words placed together in some sequential semblance of order, they became prose – and in turn sentences. From which readable structure led us to look back into history and to understand why we say / write what we do. That was until the Americans usurped that which was pure into an easy-going re-spelt jargon. Sad really, but it is what it is.

This dipping back into schoolboy days (no ladies at that establishment) carries with it memories of the school bus, cadet force,

rugby, the livein Headmaster’s nubile daughter and those painful times when the cane was administered with force upon one’s rear anatomy.

And it was at one of those painful episodes that the Head wielding his cane informed me that I would never make anything of my life. It was all part of the learning curve that expands later as life’s pathway. Well I am pretty satisfied that I have ‘made it’ not only in numerical years (80 next April) but that socially and professionally my experiences have belied his crystal ball gazing.

So, look now at where we oldies find ourselves - in a bubble of perception. On the last day at the age of 69 one is just one of the bunch, but immediately post your 70th birthday you are totally ‘vulnerable’, cannot think for yourself, must be wrapped in cotton wool and treated as some bewildered, frail, being who cannot fend for himself.

While we enjoy sometimes jumping the queue at the supermarket there are a great percentage of us capable of walking the streets without falling over, thumbing a ride with St John or astride a scooter adorned with an orange flag. Age has suddenly especially in Covid times - become the great leveller.

Well take notice folks - we still breath the good air, vote, imbibe (most of us), take part in Pilates or similar activities and influence those of younger years - who sometimes even listen!!

A reminder; All playgrounds, skateparks, pump tracks and boat ramps will remain closed at Alert Level 3.

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More buses Waikato Regional Council will increase its public bus services under Covid-19 Alert Level 3, but numbers on board will still be restricted to meet government physical distancing rules. Bus travel will remain free during the Level 3 lockdown to prevent direct contact between drivers and passengers. An average of about 650 passengers use the service daily – about five per cent of the usual patronage.

That will increase because travel has been opened up to people going to and from work, their children up to year 10 getting to school, and those needing to access services such as healthcare and the supermarket.

Libraries still shut The doors of the Cambridge and Te Awamutu libraries and the Te Awamutu Museum will remain shut throughout Alert Level 3 - but free e-resources are still available.

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Tyre distributor busy

By Jeremy Smith

There’s less traffic on the road, but more online as essential workers in Te Awamutu and the wider Waikato seek help to stay motoring throughout the lockdown.

A national tyre distributor with its roots in Te Awamutu is reporting marked increases and full capacity in online customer traffic as those essential workers need either new car tyres or puncture repairs.

Tyreline Distributors says demand for retreading tyres – particularly those on truck and trailers - had also surged.

It’s projected to get busy on the bus front too – as companies like Go Bus begin routes again soon.

Tyreline, an essential service which distributes tyres via most retailers nationwide, began life in the 1980s on managing director

Grant and his wife Barbara Rushbrooke’s Te Awamutu farm.

The Tyreline Group includes 55 companyowned Beaurepaires stores, with contactless retail and fitting services and vehicle servicing.

One of Tyreline’s directors, Justin Edgington, said its full gamut of tyre services shifted online.

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Tyreline – distributors of both Michelin and BFGoodrich tyres - also has a Michelin tyre re-tread factory in Hamilton - customers like Go Bus are on its books.

Essential workers were being especially astute keeping their vehicles to warrant of fitness standards, Mr Edgington said.

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“It was such a lovely day,” Joan said. “I can’t thank Te Awa enough for how special they made it.”

Roy, 97, and Joan, 89, first met in Sunday School, Roy came to Cambridge aged two, Joan was born and raised here.

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Cambridge, told the News his parents have always been “great encouragers” of their family.

“They were always there for us. Dad’s a people person, always able to start a conversation with anybody, mum was good at public speaking.”

She’s also written six books.

While Murray said his parents were very different personality types, he agreed that their faith in God was always central.

“Opposites attract I suppose,” Murray smiled.

“One’s weakness is another’s strength.”

As Joan headed off to lead a weekly bible study group at Te Awa Lifecare, she offered some advice for longevity.

“A lot about life has changed over the years, yes”, she said.

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made poppies and posters for their streets and contributed pavement chalk pictures and drawings, to the high school group who decorated the area behind the Cenotaph and to those who made wreaths or posies and laid them at our Memorial sites.

The Community Board met via a Zoom meeting last week to finalise and then pass a motion to make submissions to the Council’s Annual Plan, we’re submitting on a variety of topics including the library, library fees, Cambridge Town Hall, Waipuke Park, parking in the CBD, Lake Te Koo Utu,

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Lockdown at level four didn’t stop the quiet April 24 handover of Raeburn Lifecare rest-home into Cambridge Resthaven’s ownership.

The facility also has a new name – Resthaven on Burns, named for the Leamington street in which is situated.

Handover day was marked with a special cake and small morning tea – a bigger celebration will be planned for the post-lockdown era. The welcome cake was baked and decorated by Rebecca Hall, daughter and household bubble companion of Cambridge Resthaven CEO David Hall.

Rebecca has made numerous cakes for Resthaven events over the years.

David said: “The most important thing, as Resthaven on Burns becomes part of the Resthaven family, is for us to make the transition as smooth as possible for the ladies and gentlemen who live at Resthaven on Burns, their families and for staff.”

He said the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown restrictions had made the purchase and handover process more difficult, adding: “It’s all come together; both teams have been superb, going above and beyond during trying times.”

Cambridge Resthaven is Community Trust not-for-profit organisation. It is 100 percent community-owned and was established by the community more than 45 years ago to build a rest-home in Vogel St. David Hall said: “It’s great that we now have a rest-home in Leamington, because it means residents wanting to stay in Leamington don’t have to move far from family and familiar surroundings.”

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