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THURSDAY JANUARY 13, 2022
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Taking care of business
Welcome in: Volunteers sort through donated items at HospiceShop in Te Awamutu. By Mary Anne Gill
When the Hospice Waikato retail managers in Cambridge and Te Awamutu arrived to start the new year raising muchneeded funds for palliative care, quite different scenes welcomed them. In Cambridge, Justine WebbElliott saw lots of rubbish such as an old barbecue, soiled clothes and broken furniture. Opportunists had already picked through any of the good stuff leaving the rest at the mercy of neighbourhood rodents. But in Te Awamutu, Hassan Shariff had no such problems because the message had finally got through. “Please only leave donated goods during shop
hours.” So why the difference? Hospice Waikato chief executive Craig Tamblyn pinpoints the change in attitude in Te Awamutu to a fire in the George Street premises several years ago. The subsequent publicity and near loss of the building was a real wake up call. “We’re quite lucky in Te Awamutu. They don’t dump there, they wait till we’re open and they come in,” he said. Not so in Cambridge and while Tamblyn says they still want donated goods and clothing, they would rather people dropped them off when the store is open. Te Awamutu is open Monday to Friday 10am to 2pm and
Saturday 10am to 2pm. In Cambridge, that is Monday to Friday 10am to 3pm and Saturday 10am to 1pm. There is photographic evidence of many of the people who donated rubbish in Cambridge for the hospice volunteers to sort through. Tamblyn said he had no hesitation in contacting the police. “We have prosecuted people before and will do it again.” Hospice Waikato has eight shops throughout the Waikato relying on a network of dedicated volunteers. Profits from the hospice shops provide funds for people living with a terminal illness. The shops are an integral part of the hospice’s fundraising efforts.
Heat will stay on By Mary Anne Gill
If you thought it was scorchingly hot in Waipā last week, it sure was -and a Niwa meteorologist says it is going to get hotter. The temperature gauge hit 34.7°C at Niwa’s Lake Karāpiro station on January 4, easily beating Waipā’s hottest day last year of 30. 9°C on January 14. Meteorologist Ben Noll said temperatures across the country were last year on average one degree higher than the previous year and the warmest year on record. “Be prepared for more hot weather though,” he said. Niwa has three Waipā stations at Waikeria, where readings were first taken last year on February 7, Karāpiro and Hamilton Airport.
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Stats for 2021: Hottest day - Waikeria, 29°C, February 21, Karāpiro, 30.9, January 14, Airport, 29.6, February 29. Coldest day – Waikeria, -3.7, July 14, Karāpiro 0.7, August 10, Airport -3.7, August 10. Driest month – Waikeria April, 50mm, Karāpiro February, 12mm, Airport, February, 42mm. Wettest month – Waikeria October, 140mm, Karāpiro March, 145mm, Airport September, 178mm. Windiest month – Waikeria February and November average wind speed 7.6kms/hr, Karāpiro May and September 7.2, Airport October 13.3kms/hr. Frosts – Waikeria 14 (May/June 4, July 9, August 1, Karāpiro none, Airport 17, May3, June 5, July 7, August 2).
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