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Rangiaowhia…

Now it’s tears of joy

On February 24 News journalist Benjamin Wilson reported that two iwi were mourning the sale of land at Rangiaowhia. They didn’t have the means to match the selling price. Today, The News exclusively reveals a remarkable turnaround.

“We will shed tears of joyful reconnection not painful separation.”

That was the reaction from Ngati Apakura kaumatua Tom Roa to a deal that will see a piece of land at Rangiaowhia returned to mana whenua.

The Anglican Church has been working on several levels with Ngati Hinetu and Ngati Apakura to secure the land adjacent to St Paul’s Church. However, the group was an unsuccessful bidder when the land sold recently at auction.

The primate of the Anglican Church, Archbishop Philip Richardson, said that shortly after the auction an opportunity arose for a discussion with the successful bidder, which in turn has led to the land being on-sold “which is a wonderful result.”

“A number of parties have enabled this purchase to happen,’ he said.

All parties had agreed to keep the detail of the new deal private.

Archbishop Philip said for the church the deal was a step in the right direction.

“This is a small step in a long journey. We have a long way still to travel and much korero is still to be had between the church and mana whenua regarding the history of Rangiaowhia.”

Tom Roa said deep hurt has lingered since the events at

Iwi will now talk about plans for the land, and how to put them in place.

Rangiaowhia in 1864.

“It has long been a goal to re-establish a uniquely Māori Christian Mission at Rangiaowhia and to see land returned to Ngati Apakura and Ngati Hinetu,” said Reverend Cruz KarautiFox, Missioner of Waikato at Te

Hui Amorangi o Te Manawa o te Wheke - the Waikato arm of Tikanga Māori of the Anglican Church.

“We look forward to exploring this with mana whenua,” he said.

Bill Harris, Chair of the Apakura Runanga Trust Board said the

property is a highly significant piece of land and this deal was a joyous moment.

“We have been working with the church to reconcile the events of 1864 and will continue to do so.”

He told Benjamin Wilson “we got together at 61 Rangiaowhia

Road to acknowledge and celebrate the purchase of the land… it’s joyous, we had a shared lunch to celebrate it.

“We shed some more tears. Next, we need to begin to talk about what plans we have and how to put those in place.”

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What we need

I have just read the letters in this week’s News and they all touch on important topics and ideas for improving Cambridge.

There needs to be a slowdown on releasing new sections until the infrastructure is improved. A third bridge is essential... the idea of an on and off ramp at the golf course is also great.

A community hub for teens is so overdue.

These kids want to be busy and to connect.

Parking. How about an underground car park or a Park’n Ride on the outskirts with regular buses into the central business district? These work well overseas.

Public transport is way overdue. An orbital bus from Hautapu-Cambridge North… cbd… Leamington and looping back across the low level bridge is essential for disabled, elderly and people who can’t drive.

More investment in local smaller playgrounds in neighbourhoods and a couple of larger destination playgrounds is needed.

The Te Awa bike path is a great example of getting people out of their cars for leisure. However, put in a regular bus service from Cambridge to Hamilton and Te Awamutu and you may find people like myself commute daily on the bus. There are hundreds of people who go to the hospital to work and appointments... however, no direct bus.

Cambridge is a great place to live... however it appears that the desperate need to develop more and more farmland is taking priority over meeting the needs and quality of life of its current residents.

Sue Hazlewood Cambridge

Pool issues

I’d like to address the lack of disability facility for exercising and relaxation at the Cambridge hydrotherapy pool, in opposition to the article recently placed in your newspaper.

I have Progressive MS (Multiple Sclerosis) and I’m in a wheelchair. Part of my exercise programme to help my muscles is using a hydrotherapy pool, which have included the Te Awamutu, Te Rapa and Waikato hospital pool (physio training only), all of which all have hand rails that in certain cases are essential for a disabled person and their safety.

The Cambridge facility does have a rail but across the deep end of the pool only, where the water is too deep for me to exercise even though I’m 173cm tall. Ideally there needs to be a handrail from the shallow to deep end thereby allowing people of varying heights to hold on. There are finger grips along the pool that are not suitable for many disabled people including myself.

In early October 2021 I raised this issue with council who took six weeks to reply (after a reminder). In December 2021 council asked the design team (the architects) to advise the cost of design and manufacture of a rail.

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I last asked what Waipā District Council is going to do to help its people, as New Zealand enters a ‘Cost of Living’ crisis.

I can now with confidence inform the people – Council is doing absolutely nothing to help its people!

In my opinion taking advantage of ratepayers by subtle deception during times of economic hardship is appalling.

April 2021: WDC confirms the 2021 – 2031 10 Year Plan. The proposed rates increase over the entire 10 years will have an average 1.8% for all rates types; the first two years the average rates increase will be 4.2%, with the remainder eight years being respectively an annual 1.2% average rates increase. Icannot see this happening.

February 2022: WDC breaks its promise by admitting publicly that it will increase the proposed average rates increase from 4.2% to 4.3%.

March 2022: WDC again breaks its promise, on their Official Council Website.

The proposed average rates increase has now miraculously increased another 0.1% in less than a month to 4.4%.

The latest disturbing increase has been done under a shroud of secrecy, without public consultation just was was the purchase of the Karāpiro Farm and Te Awamutu Bunnings Building was.

We did not agree to an increase from 4.2 to 4.4%.

Whose, to say that each property won’t have an average proposed rate increase of 5% or greater? At the time of invoicing, no one gets to see what figure WDC finally uses, especially when considering the

above broken promises – its gut wrenching especially when you know ratepayers are struggling.

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This week has seen tragedy hit Waipā with the loss of local lives in a boating accident off North Cape. I send my sincere condolences to the families affected and their friends.

They say it takes a village to raise a child and in today’s hectic world, that is sometimes not easily achieved.

We have had a few calls recently about unsupervised young children. Often the callers wish to remain anonymous, and in a neighbourhood setting, I can understand this.

It is more difficult for Police to assist where this anonymity is the case however, particularly if we do not find the children in the risky situation ourselves.

I wanted to highlight that another avenue is to contact Oranga Tamariki. They are well placed to handle reports of concern for any child where you perceive a risk to that child – if they are unsafe or at risk of harm or

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danger; if you believe they are experiencing neglect, ill treatment or abuse. If you are unsure about a situation involving a child and want advice you can also contact them.

You can make a report of concern anonymously if you wish. Phone 0508 326 459 or email contact@ot.govt.nz. Naturally, if there is immediate risk to a child or abuse in progress, you should call 111. Whichever avenue you take, your call will spotlight a need for support for a family and this can be put in place.

Talking of neighbourhoods, disagreements between neighbours also regularly come to Police attention – unfortunately usually at a stage when things have escalated to angry altercations. Early, respectful and direct communication is so important in these situations. Try to approach your neighbour with a focus on a solution rather than just complaining or blaming the neighbour for

whichever behaviour is causing upset.

While neighbourhood disagreements can be upsetting and cause emotions to run high, try to remain calm. Explain why your neighbour’s behaviour is disturbing you and suggest a compromise that might suit everyone. Be prepared to listen to what your neighbour has to say and let them know you are listening to their point of view. Often people will write notes rather than talk in person and this can lead to misunderstandings and defensiveness, when a simple conversation could have sorted things out. Everyone is entitled to peaceful enjoyment of their home property, but living in close proximity, some activity/noise is to be expected. If a situation does escalate to the point of threats or you feel unsafe, you should call Police.

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Briefs…

Lotto winner

A ticket sold at Pak’N Save Te Awamutu picked up a slice of the top Lotto prize last weekend. Eight tickets were worth $125,000 after the draw on Saturday.

Record hits

The online story about George Clark’s 100th birthday created a new page view record for our website www.teawamutunews.nz last week boosted by visits to our Facebook page by his friends and family. Clark, who farmed in Te Pahu for decades before retiring to Waihi Beach, is the father of former Prime Minister Helen Clark who shared our post with her network of followers around the world.

Regent manager

The former manager of the Lido Cinema in Hamilton, Paige Larianova, has taken up the role of manager of Te Awamutu’s Regent Theatre.

From Friday next week the Allan Webb Charitable Trust, chaired by Alan Livingston, will administer the theatre.

Lake name

The News has changed it style for the writing of Lake Ngā Roto from Lake Ngaroto.

The lake has been in the news this year because thousands of wildlife deaths resulted from a deterioration in the water quality. See Tom Roa’s new column today on Page 9.

Ukraine vigil

Students at Cambridge High and St Peter’s are organising a candle-light vigil for Ukraine tomorrow outside the Cambridge Town Hall.

Covid restrictions will limit numbers. Both the Town Hall and the clock tower will be lit up in the yellow and blue of Ukraine.

Checking tool

Biosecurity New Zealand has released a new web tool so people can report suspected exotic pests and diseases online. The tool can be found at report.mpi.govt.nz .

Waipā mourns five after tragedy

All five people who died in the waters off North Cape late on Sunday night were from the Waipā district.

They were Cambridge men Geoffrey James Allen, 72, Michael Patrick Lovett, 72, Richard Eldon Bright, 63 and Mark Keith Walker, 41, and Mark Kenneth Sanders, 43, of Te Awamutu.

The men were with five other people on board the charter boat Enchanter which left Mangonui on Thursday for a five-day trip to the Three Kings Islands, north of Cape Reinga.

The alarm was first raised when an emergency locator beacon was set off at about 8pm on Sunday. It is understood a rogue wave hit and broke apart Enchanter’s bridge near Murimotu Island.

Search efforts, led by the Rescue Coordination Centre at Maritime NZ, began hours later with five people, including captain Lance Goodhew, pulled alive from the water.

Bright was the publican at Cambridge’s Group One Turf Bar, Lovett worked as a handyman at The Oaks Stud while Sanders was a Te Awamutu builder. Allen was a Cambridge director while Walker was self-employed.

Five died, and five were rescued after the the fishing charter vessel Enchanter sank.

Power chief is on home turf

By Mary Anne Gill

The incoming Waipā Networks chief executive knows if you asked several people on the streets of Te Awamutu or Cambridge what the company does, most would struggle to answer.

Sean Horgan is unfazed by that and instead is looking forward to meeting social and community agencies, iwi and developers replicating an approach he had when first appointed The Lines Company chief executive five years ago.

Then he inherited an electricity distribution business based in Te Kuiti with a reputation so low, its customers regularly contacted the media, including Fair Go, to dob the company in.

“I spent 100 hours in Town Hall meetings, meeting people. I needed to do that

with The Lines Company, so my intention is do something similar here,” he said.

Waipā Networks provides lines function services to customers in an area covering the two large towns of Te Awamutu and Cambridge, Tamahere and rural areas like Kāwhia, Waikeria and Pukeatua.

With 28,000 consumers, it is the fifth largest network in New Zealand and growing.

It is 100 per cent owned by the Waipa Networks Trust which appoints the company directors.

The company, on behalf of the trust, provides a discount to customers through sixmonthly distributions.

Horgan has a home-town advantage in his new job.

He has lived in the district since 2016 when he and wife Lisa, and their two children Sophie and Ethan returned to New Zealand from

Australia.

Prior to that Horgan had worked in Malaysia, Thailand and the UK. Both he and his wife are originally from Tauranga.

Horgan moved to Waikato where he studied a Master of Management Studies at Waikato University, majoring in management systems.

He completed a post graduate course at London Business School and was a recipient of the NZ Prime Minister’s Business Scholarship.

Once the family settled in Cambridge, Horgan stood for the Goodwood School board of trustees and has chaired it for the last three years.

Goodwood has recently finished building new classrooms.

“It’s a great school, a great community and an excellent leadership team,” he said.

“I thought the electricity industry dealing with engineers was complicated, education is a completely different kettle of fish.”

While Horgan was not actively looking to leave The Lines Company, the Waipā Networks job became available.

“Part of the reason that I was keen for the Waipā role, I would like to do that in the community I live in.”

He is looking forward to growing the company’s environmental performance.

“We’ve got residential customers who will invest in electric vehicles and solar for example.”

Accelerating decarbonisation (the removal or reduction of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere) opportunities is top of his list as is that community engagement he championed at The Lines Company.

Sean Horgan, new Waipā Networks boss.

“There aren’t too many businesses the scale of Waipā that are owned by the community. That drives a great culture.

“We’re not out there driven by profit, commercial returns are important, but so too is the community.”

Horgan starts at Waipā Networks in three months.

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So now we have a cost-of-living crisis to add to our housing crisis – to add to a worldwide pandemic and being on the brink of another world war. Some days it feels as of the world is imploding, and there is nothing firm on which we can rely.

I’m sure it felt like that for our forbears during the turmoil of world wars during last century.

My dad was a child evacuee during WWII. Like thousands of English children, he, with his entire school community, was sent to a place deemed safer than his home city of Portsmouth.

After about six months, authorities thought it was safe for them to return, only to quickly realize their error.

Then the British government offered passage to those who had family elsewhere in the Commonwealth. Dad’s family had a distant relative in New Zealand so grandma took the opportunity to send dad far enough away to be properly safe from the war.

He was nine when he landed in Wellington. He spent the next five years living on a farm in Te Karaka, near Gisborne.

Then the war was over, and along with the other child evacuees, he was abruptly returned to England, without even the chance to farewell his school mates or teachers.

He described that as being more traumatic than being shipped out as a child.

Four years later he returned to make a permanent life in New Zealand, to give back to the country which had given him safety and hope.

Like most of his generation, he believed in the need to care for everyone in the community, even the most difficult.

He understood that he had received extraordinary generosity by being taken into a family which had very little to share.

His experience convinced him that helping others was a core part of our human duty.

Dad’s life was shaped by his love of God and desire to live according to the guidance of the Bible which reminds us that we are all part of the body of Christ.

No part is less valuable than any other, and the entire body is only as well as the least well part.

How does that relate to our broken world today? How are we, are you, caring for your community both local and international?

The rising cost of petrol is having an immediate effect on wellbeing of many.

Combine that with the need to isolate for those testing positive or household contacts and the sheer numbers of people who are presently ill with Covid, the Te Awamutu food bank has seen a huge rise in the number of food parcels it is delivering each week over and above those specifically going to isolating families.

Many of the people in our community are struggling to feed themselves and their families.

Just as my dad was supported by New Zealanders during a crisis, so we as a community can respond to this present crisis in a loving way, especially as we know those most affected are children.

A very specific thing you could do to care is to support the Te Awamutu foodbank with donations of food, money or time. If you would like to volunteer or to make a general enquiry call Shelley Walker on 027 694 8779.

The Foodbank is funded by donations from businesses and individuals. If you want to donate, here are the bank details: ​Te Awamutu Combined Churches Foodbank, 03-1564-0023878-00.

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The year is flying by at council, we are in full swing with a multitude of projects underway.

But firstly with Omicron rapidly spreading through our community I certainly appreciate the space we are all in at the moment, our personal need to ensure our family is taken care first and how our businesses and households are affected will be top of mind for many.

I can now speak with some experience having contracted Covid recently, the whole family down at one time was a very interesting experience and I do think I could have been better prepared. Feel free to contact me if you would like some tips!

I have bought a bicycle – I’m not known for my athleticism at all - but the time has come.

Agreement around our Council table was for a new community committee to be established to challenge and scrutinise any further projects in Waipa that involves cycle/walkways for our towns. Remember there is $10 million spread across our district over the next 10 years.

I am chairing this committee and the inaugural meeting is this month and there is no better way to fully understand the best routes to cycle them myself and understand the ramifications. Yes, I’m slow and probably annoying on the roads but actually I have come to enjoy it a little. I do watch the criticism shown on facebook towards cyclists at times – so this will be an interesting experience for me to understand both sides.

It is also really important to note that our internal transport routes are critical to how

a town functions. We will be reviewing your submissions over the next few weeks in order for a high-level transport strategy to be confirmed.

I am very keen to see communities think about how new technology might influence our thinking for our towns. In particular the My-way trial in Timaru has caught my attention (it is a public on-demand bus network) amongst other modes that are currently being trialled, for example driverless cars and ride shares.

Another important reason for this strategy is to ensure robust plans can be put to Central government to help build a business case for major new routes – for example, new river crossings to accommodate future needs. Building this business case will bring central government to our table and hopefully enable a cost sharing arrangement for big ticket items.

Our Waipa annual plan is also out for public comment, I am acutely aware of the increased financial stress many of us having been feeling over the last two years.

Creating balanced communities means we have a thriving business community as well.

“Nice to have” projects sometimes have to wait if our community feels the time isn’t quite right but this is up to you. I think it is important to understand how your money gets spent so we have outlined this in our plan document.

I urge you to make sure you let your friends and family know if you do get Covid so there is a support network in place.

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Libraries: the key to reading

By Viv Posselt and Mary Anne Gill

Waipā school librarians say they’re the answer to a declining nationwide literacy rate.

Former School Library Association of New Zealand president Glenys Bichan says nearly a quarter of school libraries had budget cuts before Covid.

Of the country’s 2500 schools, only 900 had paid librarians. Yet during the pandemic it was school libraries that helped deliver online support to families trying to navigate learning from home, she said.

Bichan, library manager at Cambridge High School and her Te Awamutu College colleague Janet Burgoyne-Thomas both say they are in the fortunate position of having flourishing school libraries and supportive principals in Greg Thornton and Tony Membery.

And they operate in a district where council libraries in both towns are issuing record numbers with lack of space for more books and library items cited as the primary problem. In Cambridge planning is underway for a new town library.

Other Waipā primary school libraries are less fortunate and across New Zealand some libraries have closed due to dwindling support or poor choices. One closed within six months of a new principal being appointed, another put one-time librarian funding into a new lawnmower.

A call to ring fence libraries,

Full house: Te Awamutu College students in their school library this week. Pictured from left, with reading material were Mathew Pearce, Jacob Chetwin, Hunter Coleman, Karamea Harmon, Petra Coleman, Lachlan Thompson, Tegan Rice and Tara Morris.

provide equitable access and appropriate funding has been supported by Waipā journalist Lisette Reymer, who has been reporting for Newshub in Ukraine. (see story Page 6).

Global research supports a link between well-run school libraries and literacy rates, said Bichan.

“At least a third of the emails I received during my presidency said library spaces had been turned into classrooms, and in just the last quarter of 2021, I received 56 emails

from schools stating their libraries were at risk,” she said.

“They were either losing budget, losing funded librarian hours, or their library spaces.”

A new report from The Education Hub think-tank, Now I don’t know my ABC - the perilous state of literacy in Aotearoa New Zealand, released this week drew on multiple studies to paint a stark picture of the crisis in reading and writing.

Nearly one in five 15-year-olds were not meeting the lowest

benchmark for reading, and a further 20 percent were only achieving at the most basic level.

Most of the data used was pre Covid. Two years of disrupted learning made the current situation even worse, said Bichan.

Burgoyne-Thomas said the Te Awamutu College library had never experienced budget cuts.

“It helps to have an English teacher as a principal,” she said.

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The students frequently come and ask about securing the next books in series they have read. And you bet I get them.”

The college library has 17,000 books and magazines and a dozen study tables, 16 computers and 15 laptops. It is a hub where 100 students regularly gather.

Burgoyne-Thomas says when that environment is removed, there is a corresponding drop in literacy rates. Young people who read enjoy benefits in other areas of their education and lives, she said.

Bichan said the School Library Association of New Zealand was working with the New Zealand Libraries Partnership Programme, a government-led initiative launched in May 2020 to support Covid recovery work across the country’s library system. The aim is to work with local authorities, schools, non-Government organisations and other groups to support libraries and secure staffing into the future.

Part of the initiative is Communities of Learning, or Kāhui Ako, a group of education providers established to nurture school libraries.

Bichan is also involved in the School Libraries Transform Campaign, aimed at pushing for school library funding to be ‘ring-fenced’ rather than reliant on schools’ operational funds.

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Bringing the news from Ukraine

By Mary Anne Gill

It's 7.50am in Ukraine and Lisette Reymer's eyes are blood-shot; her body language oozes fatigue.

The Waipā-raised Newshub reporter and Daniel Pannett, a Methven camera operator, have spent three weeks covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

They are in Odesa, a port city on the Black Sea in southern Ukraine, and just finished a live cross with Newshub Live’s Mike McRoberts and Samantha Hayes before they join The News via Zoom.

Lisette, 27, the youngest of Cambridge dairy farmers Garry and Marie-Jose Reymer’s five children tries to relax while sitting in the hotel room where hours earlier she made pasta in a kettle.

Grabbing sleep and food have been problematic for the pair as they chase the stories or run to safety in underground bomb shelters.

As we start the interview, the fire siren goes off in Cambridge.

“That’s a little bit triggering,” she says, a reference to the air raid sirens which go off regularly in Odesa because the city is on the Russian missile path to Kyiv from Crimea.

Little wonder viewers back home are anxious about her.

“People don’t need to worry about me, it’s very nice they do worry, and I know why they do. We’re as safe as we can be in Ukraine and we’ve had a lot of support around us to see we stay that way.”

She reveals they are heading ‘home’ to England later that day. “I shouldn’t call it home, it’s a pseudo home.”

But even when she gets back, it is unlikely she will get much time to relax.

On assignment – Lisette Reymer and Daniel Pannett in Ukraine.

“News never sleeps, the war is still going on.”

Lisette took over from Lloyd Burr as Newshub’s Europe correspondent last year after she finished covering the Olympic Games in Japan.

When she was eight, and attending St Peter’s Catholic School in Cambridge, she wrote that when she grew up she wanted to be a television journalist.

Her brother Bjorn, 10 years older, the eldest of the five and the only boy, was at Broadcasting School in Christchurch.

“I just wanted to be like him. Lots of his

friends were doing journalism, I just wanted to be cool like them.”

Bjorn had set up a radio station on the family’s Kaipaki farm; the children would take turns broadcasting on it and Garry, an old boy of Te Awamutu College, would listen to it on his lawnmower or on the farm. He may well have been the only listener, Lisette surmises.

She was a storyteller even then on the radio and making up stories to explain why she was late to netball games or showing off during Mass when she was an altar girl.

“I’d sit there and gas bag with the gal I was

on with. I’d do the ding ding (ringing of the altar bell), everyone’s looking at me, life in the spotlight, I’d think I’d nailed it.”

Then outside church her parents would give her a dressing down and tell her off for being a show pony, she says.

Lisette followed her mother and sisters Anna, Christina and Kate to Sacred Heart Girls’ College in Hamilton.

The school is also where fellow broadcasters Kerre McIvor (nee Woodham) and Bernadine Oliver-Kerby attended some years before her.

Sacred Heart’s vision is to produce inspiring young women to change the world.

Lisette has done that with her storytelling from Ukraine and she credits three teachers for helping her. The first is Gillian Kneebone, who taught at St Peter’s Catholic and retired last year, and the other two were English teachers – Margaret Crawford and Kathleen Wilson “the backbone of the English department” - at Sacred Heart.

“They were so passionate; it was impossible not to fall in love with the subject.

“I wanted to be a journalist, I wanted to go to Broadcasting School.”

Ara Institute of Canterbury only took 20 broadcasting students a year, so the career advisor urged her to look at other options.

“I hate when people tell me I can’t do something. It strengthens my resolve.”

Plus, her brother had done it, so Lisette knew it was possible.

In Year 13, thanks to Mrs Crawford who was always looking for ways students could expand their talents, Lisette won a competition to win a camera and $500 for the school and had an article about her mother published in the NZ Herald.

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By then she had also been working as a volunteer in Hamilton community radio using her Catholic upbringing to host a religious show every Sunday.

“I would do these really longwinded spiels about a Bible passage and then I would link it to some modern-day music I wanted to play as opposed to playing religious hymns.”

She graduated from Ara in 2015 and was by then working for TVNZ having spent her internship the previous year on Breakfast TV. “It’s like baptism by fire. The internships are the most eyeopening thing you can do.”

She was in a newsroom working alongside people she had admired for so long.

“I grew up in a family where my dad would not miss the 6pm news and my opa (grandfather) would rush home not wanting to miss the

news and I’m like sitting in this newsroom, a 19-year-old that my 50-year-old dad doesn’t want to

“I hate when everyone messages me and say, ‘you made me cry.’” miss a second of.”

Four years ago, she moved to Newshub on Channel Three conceding it was scary “but the best decision I’ve made.”

“A lot of people swap between the two channels. The industry is pretty small. I could have spent my entire career in one workplace. That doesn’t challenge you, you don’t learn. You get too comfortable. You don’t meet new people.

“Every person that I’ve worked alongside has shaped who I am now. You get to be really greedy and pick all the best bits of these legends you’re working with and

Lisette Reymer, second left, and Daniel Pannett, third right with Ukrainians in Odesa.

that shapes your storytelling.”

Fast forward to February 2022 and she is the Europe correspondent when the big story breaks in Ukraine.

“We had to be here. That’s the job, that’s what you do.”

The stories have been heartbreaking.

“I hate when everyone messages me and say, ‘you made me cry.’”

“These stories are really important and sometimes you have to hit people where it hurts to make them care about something that is thousands of kilometres away.

That’s what we aim to do here.”

Daniel, who has been Newshub’s camera operator in the Europe bureau since January 2019, grew up on a Methven pig farm so they are both Kiwi country kids on the world stage.

Lisette said they are worn out.

“This week we’ve pretty much done a month of 22 hours of work a day. On top of that we’re dealing with some pretty big stuff obviously. We just work all day, then we’re travelling and changing time zones all the time and dealing with this pretty massive issue.

“I don’t think it’s hit us until now. We’re both getting sick. When you’re tired your brain can’t resist thinking about things.

“This week, there’s been a few times where I’ve said to him: ‘Can you just pray to someone, pick a God, any God, but we need someone right now on our side.’”

The two manage to laugh a lot and get comfort knowing their stories are making a difference back home.

Daniel says Lisette is one of the most professional journalists he has

worked with. “She is extremely hard working to a point where I have to say, ‘maybe we should have a couple of hours off here.’”

Lisette is grateful she has that “huge” family back home.

“I love Cambridge. It’s one of the best places in the world,” she says.

“I think of them all the time, I’m

constantly messaging them and I miss all my nieces and nephews so much.”

But for now, Europe is her news’ patch and she is doing exactly what that eight-year-old Waipā schoolgirl dreamed of doing; being a television reporter and an expert storyteller.

In the news tonight – Lisette Reymer, backed by the Independence Monument, reports from Kyiv.

Photo – Daniel Pannett

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One for the history books

By Benjamin Wilson

Francis Joseph Krippner celebrated his 90th birthday at the start of this month. Aware of her dad’s mortality, Maree Smith asked The News to share some of the wealth of local history that her father has lived through.

Franz was born on March 1, 1932 and grew up in Te Rore. He was one of five siblings who attended Te Rore School. Back then, the school had 21 students and the kids walked to school each day on roads that were made from gravel and sand.

“We were lucky if we would see one car a day,” Franz said.

Franz worked on his father’s farm before he eventually started his own. In 1954 he bought 56 acres of land from his uncle Percy, and sent his first batch of milk to the Te Awamutu Lotus Dairy Co July 26, 1956. He continued to milk cows for the next 45 years.

Franz is a lover of history, and as the world around him changed, he recorded it along the way. He has a vial of ash collected after falling on his homestead in 1975 from Mt Ngāuruhoe erupting, as well as a vial of dust from a 1942 Australian dust storm.

He has notarised many of his lived experiences, as well as his family’s history in a small book.

These notes vary from obscure to profound.

On the first page of his book, Franz records Franz and Jeanette Krippner the year Te Rore School was built (1879), ZL1AJD. In 1964 he received a DXCC award as well as the names of his first teachers, for contacting 100 different countries with including a Mr Ferguson, who became a his two-way radio. He has since contacted pilot officer in WW2, before he died in a over 155 countries. Franz became friends Sunderland flying-boat crash. with many of the people that he spoke to, Franz trained as a radio operator as part and in May 1961 he travelled on a cruise ship, of his compulsory military service, which the Oriana, to meet one of these friends in sparked a lifetime interest in amateur radio.

On another page of his book, Franz detailed Hawaii.

In 1965 Franz met Jeanette Moreland listening to the countdown of a nuclear bomb during a Catholic social event. They married test in Enewetak Atoll, using a radio that he the following year and had six children who built. all attended Te Rore School.

“In 1962 USA were conducting high Franz is a keen photographer and was a altitude atom bomb tests, I listened in on the member of the Te Awamutu Camera Club. countdown. When the blast went off I could “He’s always got his camera with him hear the click on the radio, then silence. I went wherever he goes,” Jeanette said outside and after about a minute in the north https://outlook.office365.com/mail/inbox/id/AAQkAGZjZDFlMzY4L...

He captured many moments from New rays of light rose up and went right across Zealand’s recent history, including the 1951 the sky to the south. An amazing sight,” he Tangiwai Disaster and both of Ruapehu’s wrote. eruptions, in 1995 and 1996. Jeanette and Franz joined the Te Awamutu Amateur Franz watched Ruapehu erupt for over an Radio club, and his radio call sign was

Photo – Benjamin Wilson

hour from the side of the road.

“The strange part was there wasn’t any sound coming from it, it was dead quiet,” Franz said.

Franz and Jeanette are both seasoned travellers, but Te Awamutu will always be their hometown. They share a unique perspective of it, as they grew alongside the town and saw first-hand how it changed over the years. Both are sentimental to the days of old.

Jeanette said when she first saw Te Awamutu, she couldn’t believe that they had a town clock.

“Why they took it down, I’ll never know.”

Franz recalled the now non-existent Te Awamutu Train Station, which he used to travel to Wellington in 1951, marking the start of his military service.

The pair exclusively shopped at Three Guys Te Awamutu until it closed in 2003.

They have since committed to shop at Fresh Choice, where Three Guys used to be. Jeanette remembered shopping at McKenzie’s, and laments that it is one of many stores in Te Awamutu that are now closed.

“It changed Te Awamutu forever, shutting those shops down,” Jeanette said. “When the Warehouse came, they all seemed to go,” Franz.

To celebrate his 90th birthday, Maree treated Franz to a ride in a 1928 Hudson, Franz pointed out bits of local history that Maree had no idea about as they drove around the district. Franz now spends a lot of his free time on YouTube, using it to learn of the world. Jeanette says this is “Why he’s still got a big brain.”

He also uses skype now, instead of a valve radio.

“You been on Skype ever? Brilliant, isn’t it?” he said.

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HE WHAKAWHITIWHITINGA WHAKAARO Today we introduce a new columnist. Tom Roa is Te Mata Ahurangi - Tikanga Advisor – at Waikato university. Dr Roa is a former Chair of Te Arataura, Waikato Tainui’s Executive, and a Ngāti Maniapoto kaumatua. His column is titled He Whakawhitiwhitinga Whakaaro – which translates from te reo into English as “sharing some thinking”.

Why names are important

By Tom Roa, Tikanga Advisor, Waikato University

What’s in a name? ‘That which we call a rose. By any other name would smell as sweet.’

Shakespeare in his play Romeo and Juliet appeared to be suggesting that a name is nothing but a name.

That names themselves do not hold worth nor meaning. They simply act as labels to distinguish one thing or person from another.

Sorry Mr Shakespeare! There is something more to this ‘name’ thing.

There is another English proverb that says ‘Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me!’

This is directly opposite to the Māori proverb, ‘He tao rākau e taea te karo; He tao kupu e kore e taea te karo.’ An attack with a weapon can be easily parried. An attack of words cannot be so easily pushed aside.

The pen, Mr Shakespeare, is mightier than the sword.

The word/name ‘Pākehā’ has met with some controversy. The first humans in Aotearoa were Polynesian who later called themselves Māori. In their migration from Polynesia some termed themselves ‘iwi moana’ – ‘people of the sea’. In settling this larger land mass they called themselves ‘tangata whenua’ – ‘people of the land’.

The signatories to the Treaty of Waitangi were the ‘rangatira’, the leaders of the ‘tangata whenua’ and the representative of the Crown of England, a primary mechanism by which those who came to settle this land had gained the permission of the people of the land – ‘tangata whenua’ – to settle here. Many were called ‘Pākehā’. Some came to the belief that the term was not complimentary. A significant number of them assert that they have

been part and parcel of this land for five, six, even seven generations – and they are not Māori, but have become people of this land. They have a point!

The Chief Judge of the Waitangi Tribunal Sir Taihākurei Durie, elegantly suggested a new term, ‘tāngata tiriti’ – people of the Treaty.

There is more to a name, than just the name itself. Labels are important. My everyday name is Tom (sometimes Tame) Roa. I am named for my father’s favourite uncle, his father’s brother, Tame (sometimes Tom) Roa. The word ‘tame’ is another word for ‘male’. So a male pig is called a ‘tame poaka’, a rooster is a ‘tame heihei’. I take pride in carrying that name.

Just north of Te Awamutu is the lake we know today as ‘Ngāroto’. A ‘roto’ is a lake. The plural, lakes, in Māori, is ‘ngā roto’. The region in preEuropean times was dotted as it is today with a number of lakes, hence the name ‘Ngā Roto’, but the present Lake Ngāroto was much greater in area and volume of water than it is today. Streams were blocked in order to form an artificial lake where Ngāti Apakura and their fellow hapū/iwi including Ngāti Hikairo and Ngāti Paretekawa amongst others, farmed the fresh water tuna (eels) and pārera (ducks), enjoying a reputation for aquaculture and agriculture. On this vast artificial lake they also built floating island pā. The region was named ‘Ngā Roto’ for the lakes, but the largest now known as Ngāroto was called ‘Wai Roto’.

I congratulate the News editorial decision to use Ngā Roto instead of its past usage of Ngaroto.

There is indeed something in a name.

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The brand was launched by chair Hinerangi Raumati-Tu’ua at the Tārangawaewae Marae poukai at Ngāruawāhia and follows an extensive consultation and design process.

Mrs Raumati-Tu’ua said the new brand establishes an identity that is aligned to Waikato-Tainui and reflects the more recent growth and direction of the company.

“This new brand is grounded in the significance of the hoe (paddle) to Waikato-Tainui. Hoe steered the great Tainui waka on its journey to Aotearoa.

It is symbolic of the courage of our tūpuna in forging a new future, and it signifies the close affinity of our iwi to the Waikato River and our identity as river people,” said Mrs Raumati-Tu’ua.

“It is also an acknowledgment of pre and post-colonial tūpuna who galvanised the local economy through their entrepreneurship, growing and harvesting goods which they transported to market via their highway – the Waikato River,” she said.

TGH chief executive Chris Joblin said the brand review was undertaken at a time of significant change and growth for TGH including the delivery of game changing projects for the iwi and the region at the Ruakura Superhub, across the Kirikiriroa CBD and in the future along the Hamilton to Auckland corridor.

“TGH has been on a journey over the past five years to transform the way we work and ensure our internal culture is

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strongly aligned to Waikato-Tainui and our remit as the commercial arm of the iwi,” said Mr Joblin. “It also reflects the strong growth that TGH is experiencing and the economic wealth we are creating for the iwi today and for generations to come.”

Development of the brand included a comprehensive process to ensure the new identity was led by tribal perspectives, tikanga, histories and cultural considerations alongside business objectives and needs.

The process included the establishment of Kupu Toi, an advisory group of tribal leaders to provide advice and guidance at all stages of the review, as well as kanohi ki te kanohi (faceto-face) interviews with tribal leaders, kaumātua, rangatahi, business partners and kaimahi (employees).

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Belfield on fire in America

Te Awamutu sprinter Leah Belfield has bagged an American title and broken New Zealand records during a stellar period of form.

The 21 yar old excelled in conference finals last month to quality for the USA NCAA division 2 finals in Pittsburg.

During the Conference event she a 7.42s 60m time n the indoor track eclipsed a national record set by Kim Robertson in Paris 37 years ago.

The NCAA finals take the top 16 to 20 athletes from across America to a round of heats and finals. There are approximately 460,000 athletes spread over 2000 Track and Field teams across America.

The finals had eluded Belfield -a straight A student - in her first two years at West Texas A&M, primarily through Covid, due to cancellations and then limitations on numbers – so to finally get there was a big deal.

On the opening day Belfield sent a message to her rivals by dominating both of her heats – setting another New Zealand record in the 60m running 7.41 and securing second qualifying spot, and then 23.95 in her

200m to secure top spot. The following day she closed the gap on the top qualifier in the 60m and finish second, just 0.04s behind, and established yet another NZ record of 7.40.

Then an hour later she had a nervous episode with the 200m final. Raced as timed finals with two races of four athletes, seeded after the heats. In theory the top four were in her race, however because of a disqualification and then reinstatement of an athlete in the heats one of her main rivals was in the first final.

That athlete laid down the gauntlet running 23.95s on the difficult flat surface - indoor tracks are usually 200m round with banked bends but this track was 300m and flat.

Leah started strongly in her final soon making up the stagger outside her but as they entered the bend things tightened up before she exploded off the bend to win the second final. She then had to wait for the time which soon popped up us 23.93 – enough to become the National Champion of America.

Her former coach and mentor, Te Awamutu club president Murray Green,

Catch me if you can – sprint ace Leah Belfield. on the phone later Belfield discussed the difficulty she had running on the track.

The usual one lap 200m had taken some getting used to but this time they were starting on a straight and

had to go all out for 40m before effectively coasting around the bend to maintain control before surging to the finish.

“She was elated with the outcome, which was beyond

her wildest dreams when heading to America on a Scholarship three years ago,” Green said.

Belfield is now looking forward to the outdoor season which starts

immediately.

“It was an incredibly proud day for her parents, Alan and Karina Belfield, sitting at home on the family farm in Arohena.” Green said.

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Water standards warning

Many small water suppliers in the region will be caught up in the proposed changes to standards of drinking water, says Waikato Regional Council.

In its submission on the proposed amendments to the National Environmental Standards for Sources of Human Drinking Water (NES-DW) and the Improving the protection of drinking-water sources discussion document, the council has asked the government to engage with communities and suppliers, so they are fully aware of compliance requirements.

At the latest strategy and policy meeting, there was robust conversation around what the proposed amendments would mean for small water suppliers, including farmers, bach owners and those on small community supplies.

The amendments seek to correct gaps in the activities that pose risk to source water and provide adequate protection to water

supplies serving less than 500 people, therefore there will be more registered “water suppliers” under the NES-DW. The proposals will also require regional councils to map the default source water risk management areas (SWRMA) for all registered drinking water supplies in their region.

Strategy and policy chair Pamela Storey says the committee approved of the proposed amendments in principle, however more information was needed, and that information also had to be shared with those impacted.

“We want safe drinking water for everyone – we feel very strongly about the need to provide for the health and wellbeing of our communities,” says Cr Storey.

“But we’re concerned about how this will work in practice. There are many suppliers who will be caught up in this. Many farms in this region supply water to farmhouses,

and that means they will need to treat those supplies and follow the standards.

“We don’t want this to be overcomplicated for our rural communities or costs to be too prohibitive, otherwise we will see wholesale non-compliance of a system that is set up to fail.”

As with all the council’s recent submissions to the government, it was noted that sufficient resourcing needed to be provided by central government to ensure successful implementation and uptake.

“There will be a cost to the council, to map the water areas and amend plans to align with the proposed amendments. And this cost is inevitably handed down to our ratepayers,” says Cr Storey.

“We want more tools in the toolkit to identify what constitutes a water supplier, and central government needs to connect closely with communities on this.”

Skatepark work starts

Work has started on Te Awamutu’s skatepark upgrade in Rewi Street.

Waipā District Council’s contractor Fluhler Contracting Limited, alongside Acid NZ who helped develop the skatepark design, began work on the six-month construction programme at the Centennial Skatepark on Monday.

Large sections of Centennial Park around the skate facility will be closed during the work and there will be limited access to the main carpark.

Council’s Acting Community Services Manager Brad Ward said there was a strong need for a new

skatepark in Te Awamutu as many skaters had told the council they were travelling out of town to better-equipped skateparks.

“The upgraded skatepark will cater to all skill levels and will provide our skate community with a great local facility connected to existing footpaths so they don’t have to travel elsewhere.”

To maximise the potential of the skatepark, Council went through two consultation processes with the community which helped to shape the plans and ensure the new plans were providing the community with what they

wanted, Ward said.

“We’re very thankful our community have been so keen to get involved throughout the planning process. We’ve had so much positive feedback during the most recent dropin session, we think we’ll be delivering a skatepark that everyone is happy with.

“With around 90 people providing feedback on the first draft concept plan, we were able to make the majority of the changes at the start. Getting that early input was paramount to align the final designs with what our communities wanted and we’re really grateful for that.”

As part of the construction, a shaded hang-out zone will also be installed connecting separate activity spaces at the park.

The park will also feature a parkour space and other play features.

The Cambridge Skatepark’s next consultation will be next month and with the revised concept plan and construction is set to start later in the year.

Council is also in the process of identifying appropriate sites for future skateparks in Pirongia and Kihikihi and will be coming to the communities for their input over the year, added Ward.

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The magic of interest

By Peter Matthews

Sometimes the ink is barely dry on a column before I’ve had an idea for the next one. In other weeks I’ll get to Tuesday morning with a deadline at lunchtime with not a clue of what’s to be written.

This morning, in the latter situation, I was putting a couple of empty bottles in the recycling when I discovered my subject for the week.

There was a sheet twisted into what looked like a passable escape attempt from a second-floor prison cell, hanging over a stepladder in the garage.

Obviously, yesterday’s persistent rain prevented it from being hung on the line outside. I do have a recollection of a request made to a teenager to “hang this up to dry in the garage”.

People will only learn something effectively if it’s important to them or if it interests them. The same teenager responsible for the damp sheet in the garage this morning, several years ago was able to recite, and probably still can, the names of 842 different Pokémon.

Not only that, he could give you a detailed summary of their characteristics and capabilities. It can only be because he was passionately interested at the time, in the lives and escapades of the various Pokémon characters, whereas his interest in tidying up after himself or ensuring that his bed linen is washed and subsequently dried could be summarised on the head of a pin.

He left school last year under less than auspicious circumstances; Cambridge High School having failed, through no particular fault of theirs, to capture his interest. Since then he has gone some way towards teaching himself to speak Japanese and has declared his intention to spend six weeks in Japan later in the year.

There it is: Interest is the magic ingredient in learning, and saints are those rare teachers who can stimulate it.

There was a bit of an altercation in our home a couple of evenings ago when the lady of the house went to some lengths to express her disappointment and frustration at the persistent gathering of used crockery on the draining board, not a metre away from the dishwasher.

Yet to encourage the children to move said items that last part of the journey appears to be an impossible task despite several years of instruction, pleading, begging, telling, teaching, and imploring.

What hope is there for the planet if one can’t impress upon young, supposedly impressionable minds the importance of doing something useful?

How does one persuade a world full of adults, set in their ways, prejudiced, and otherwise disinterested, that they should make a radical change to their lives in order to preserve the planet which, on any given day, appears to be perfectly fine?

There is, in my view, as much chance of the combined nations of the world sticking to the Parisagreed 1.5° global temperature rise by the end of this century as is there is of a teenager hanging out the washing correctly.

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However, the architects appeared to be busy with other pool issues and have given no time frame for their reply and the Council seem to be reluctant to push them.

There are several issues here: 1. What experience do the architects have with this type of facility design and what is their knowledge of disabled people’s needs.

2. What community consultation with disabled people was there before/during construction. I asked this question and was told there are no records of consultation.

3. Why was no changing table for disabled (only added recently) included in the original plan. While this has been included now the shower seat has been removed. The poor initial planning means I cannot use the shower in this changing room.

4. The lack of electric doors into the hydrotherapy pool (although elsewhere) and even door stops for the manual doors were absent at my visit in October. Although presently they’re firmly wedged open on both sides.

5. My husband visited the hydrotherapy pool today and asked a member of staff if they had many disabled people (in wheelchairs or with other devices) using the hydrotherapy pool. Not many at all was the answer. Perhaps this raises a question about suitability of the facility for disabled. Also a source of revenue that Waipa Council are not receiving.

These issues are examples of a lack of design experience and awareness. A visit to the Te Rapa pool facility by the design team would have been a basic starting point.

My husband has been my voice in verbal communication (MS making me unable to) and met with council at the pool to address the issues and one of the many comments was, it’s not just a hydrotherapy pool but a dual purpose learn to swim and we couldn’t include everything.

When the new Ministry for disabled people is formed from July 1, hopefully this will lead to better control over compliance requirements for new facilities and disabled users.

Sadly in the meantime I cannot use the facility which I, as a ratepayer, contributed to. Instead, I (and others in my position) have to travel 58km round trip, very expensive in fuel and time, compared with 6km to our local Cambridge pool.

One day I hope to use the Cambridge hydrotherapy pool.

Joan Landers Cambridge Sally Sheedy, Group Manager, Customer and Community Services responds: Waipā District Council has been working with a member of our community who has requested additional facilities at the Perry Aquatic Centre to meet their individual needs. We are currently investigating the feasibility and costings of this request and recognise that this has taken longer than anticipated, due to a number of factors including current contract requirements, pool operations and the impact of Covid-19. There may be further delays due to developing supply chain issues.

At present, this is the only request

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Police find $90k haul

Waikato Police have had arrests and recovered $90,000 worth of stolen goods following burglaries in the Waikato.

Police were alerted to a burglary at Noel Leeming in Duke St, Cambridge around 5am on Saturday.

They say a group arrived in a vehicle stolen from Hamilton earlier that morning and caused significant damage to gain entry to the building, as well as to cabinets and store rooms in the store.

A substantial number of electronic items were taken, including Apple i-Phones, Apple accessories and gaming accessories.

Police linked the same group to a series of other burglaries in the Waikato. That included the theft of a large quantity of electronic items from Heathcote Appliances in Hamilton.

“Police would like to give special thanks to members of the Cambridge community, who promptly reported the incident to police as it was happening,” a police spokesperson said.

“They provided police with details of the vehicle involved which led police to make arrests quickly.”

A search of the address where the arrests were made uncovered a significant amount of stolen property valued at around $90,000.

Three youths and one adult are before the courts on various charges relating to the burglaries.

Low Vision appeal

Blind Low Vision NZ hopes to raise $600,000 during its annual Guide Dog Puppy Appeal, which runs tomorrow and Saturday.

The appeal is also designed to raise public awareness about the importance of the dogs.

It costs around $175,000 to raise, train and keep one guide dog in service and the organisation receives no government funding.

With the help of donations, Blind Low Vision NZ Guide Dogs can continue to breed and train the next generation of guide dogs so more blind, deafblind, and low vision New Zealanders can live the lives they choose.

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of this nature we have received for the Learn to Swim/Hydrotherapy pool, however we are and will continue to progress options for an additional handrail while still providing a flexible pool space.

With regards to design, a design team for the Perry Aquatic Centre was appointed to ensure the facility was built to meet the use requirements of our community, the New Zealand Building Code, and NZS 4121, the New Zealand Standard for design for access and mobility. The Perry Aquatic Centre Learn to Swim/ Hydrotherapy Pool is a multifunctional pool space to provide maximum flexibility of use. It was not designed specifically as a dedicated hydrotherapy pool such as the Te Rapa facility was designed, and subsequently the grip hold along the edge of the pool, a hoist and wheelchair available for access into this pool were designed to serve this multifunctional purpose.

Automatic doors were not included in the design due to the warmer aquatic environment in this pool space, and the resulting ongoing maintenance impact within this environment, however the GoWaipa Team offer support to assist our customers to use this facility at any time.

We are open to receiving feedback on any of our facilities and such feedback has already helped to improve the existing change room equipment to enable greater use by the wider community. This has been wellreceived to date.

We appreciate the support and use of the Perry Aquatic Centre since its opening, in particular through the more challenging pandemic times.

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Flavours

with Jan Bilton

High-five faves

You don’t need a supermarket in your pantry to create and enjoy delicious meals. And when you’re running from work to make the school pick-up followed by the shuttle service to dance classes or sports practice, when you get home easy meals are a must.

Five-ingredient meals using clever combinations plus a few basics from your pantry can be quickly and attractively prepared. The flavourful dinners that follow prove that you don’t need much to make a great meal.

I kick off today’s recipes with a frittata that uses roasties from my supermarket’s freezer. They’re already spiced and add heaps of flavour to this popular dish. Roasties don’t always have to be roasted! I’ve combined them with cherry bocconcini. These useful little fresh mozzarella cheese balls add eye appeal as well as low-fat protein to dishes.

Smoked salmon has a good shelf-life in the fridge and adds a smoky deliciousness to the gratin up next. I’ve chosen thinly-sliced smoked salmon but hot smoked seasoned salmon could substitute Risotto is comfort food and although it is necessary to add the stock to rice in about half cup portions stirring until it is absorbed each time, one can often ask for a helping hand.

Or you can just stir and chat.

NB: Salt, pepper and cooking oil are essentials and don’t count as one of the five ingredients.

SOUTHERN-STYLE POTATO FRITTATA 2 tablespoons olive oil 350g frozen southern-style roasties 4 large eggs, lightly beaten 4 medium tomatoes, sliced 8 cherry bocconcini, halved Heat the oil in a medium, non-stick frying pan.

Add the roasties in a single layer. Fry for 3-4 minutes. Turn and continue cooking for another 3-4 minutes.

Pour in the eggs, cover and cook over medium-low heat for 10-15 minutes until the base and edges have set.

Meanwhile, preheat a grill. Place the tomatoes and

Southern-stylen potato frittata

Spanish risotto

bocconcini on top of the frittata. Place the pan under the grill until the tomatoes are soft and cheese slightly melted.

Serves 4.

SPINACH RISOTTO 5 cups chicken stock 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 onion, diced 1 1/4 cups arborio rice 400g spinach, washed and chopped 3/4 cup finely grated parmesan cheese freshly ground salt and pepper to taste Bring the chicken stock to the boil.

Heat 2 tablespoons of the oil in a large non-stick frying pan.

Sauté the onion until softened. Add the rice and stir until coated in oil, toasted and fragrant.

Add the boiling stock a half cup at a time stirring until it has been absorbed by the rice before adding the next 1/2 cup.

Cook until the rice is tender about 18 minutes in total. The consistency should still be a little runny, not solid. Stir in the spinach and cook until warm. Remove from the heat and stir in the parmesan.

Great topped with extra grated parmesan and a drizzle of olive oil. Serves 4.

SMOKED SALMON & SPINACH GRATIN 400g potatoes, peeled and thinly sliced 100g spinach, chopped 200g smoked salmon, chopped freshly ground black pepper to taste 200ml cream Preheat the oven to 160°C. Place the potatoes in a shallow microwave dish. Cover and microwave for 3 minutes. Cool.

Place the chopped spinach in a microwave bowl. Cover and microwave for 1-2 minutes until limp. Cool then squeeze out any excess moisture.

Layer half the potatoes in a 22cm x 12cm baking dish. Top with half the spinach and salmon. Season. Repeat the layers.

Pour the cream evenly and slowly over the mixture. Bake for about 45 minutes until the potatoes are fully cooked and the tops is lightly golden. Serves 2.

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