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Letters

Star performance I would like to give a big thumbs up to the Kihikihi Tavern who hosted a great night of Christmas Carols in their rustic garden bar on Sunday night.

The Te Awamutu Brass band provided the the music,and the Kihikihi Meat Factory provided the sausages which were expertly cooked by a big man with a long beard who only added to the favour. Fee tea and coffee was laid on, all to support Riding for the Disabled.

The Tavern provided the true hospitality that can only be found in these honest country pubs. I came away feeling truly blessed after meeting and singing along side a 95-year-old lady who was as bright as a button. Well done.

Terry Lloyd, Te Awamutu Pool costs I would like to comment on Waipa District Council’s reply to Bernard Westerbaan’s letter regarding additional expenditure

required for the Cambridge Pool. Bernard raises some very thought-provoking questions that deserve an answer.

Council alludes that the additional expenditure of $500,000 plus required to fix the existing pool was anticipated. If it had been anticipated it would have been included within the budget as a scheduled item or as a non-scheduled contingency item, and there would be no requirement to seek for additional funds. Clearly, Council is confused here.

It is clear here from what little explanation that Council provides that the faults with the existing pool have been most likely caused by compaction vibration caused by the mobilisation of heavy machinery around site during construction. Therefore, any competent Project Manager would seek to make a claim with the main contractor under their indemnity insurer to recover the costs incurred.

This would limit any exposure to the ratepayer for a project that has been full of financial dramas and cost overruns already.

(Abridged) Hayden Woods, Te Awamutu

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The Waipa District Council responds: The additional works on the 50m pool are necessary due to the age of the existing pool and its associated assets. The outdoor pool was constructed in 1971 making it 48 years old and at the end of its 50-year asset life. Some areas of the structure have deteriorated and there is evidence of old cracks, exposed reinforcing and corrosion on some of the pipework. The defects are not as a result of the adjacent construction works on the new building, therefore there is no claim against the contractor undertaking these construction works. Council had anticipated remedial works would be required due to the age of the pool. However, we were unable to determine the scope of the works until the existing pool was safely emptied and inspected, which includes both internal and external inspections to the pool tank and the balance tank (confined space entry required). Due to the unknown extent of the work this was not included in the scope of the contract for the new build as a contractor would not have been able to cost the works prior to knowing what would be needed. The inspections were untaken by a qualified structural engineer and costs assessed by independent quantity surveyor.

with Ryan Fleming

This week I would like to discuss technology in abusive relationships.

With the proliferation of smartphones, abusers now have further methods of control over their victims.

Technology can be used to help abusers monitor email communication, use GPS technology to monitor locations, sending repeated text messages, and use your online identity to send disinformation or sexually explicit messages to friends and family. If the abuser has or had access to your phone or computer, they can install apps or programs such as a key log app, or a location app.

With email I always advise people who are being abused to set up a new email address. This should be set up at a public computer such as the library and only used on computers and phones the abuser has not had ready access to. Regularly review your settings on social media such as Facebook, change your passwords and ensure again, that this is done from a computer your abuser does not have access to.

Now that there are smart homes that link to smartphone systems, technology can play an even bigger role in harassment. For example, abuse can involve remotely setting alarms and turning on lights and televisions. In other words, “gaslighting” - a tactic in which a person seeks to gain more power by making their victim question their reality or sanity.

When planning an escape from abuse, the victim should try to get a disposable “burner” phone with which to contact the support

network. If you suspect that your actual device is being monitored, the safest thing may be to get a new device with an account that the abusive person doesn’t have access to. A pay-as-you-go phone is a less expensive option. Put a passcode on the new device, and don’t link it to your old cloud accounts like iCloud or Google that the person might have access to. Consider turning off location and Bluetooth sharing. You also might keep the old device so that the person thinks you are still using it and doesn’t try to get access to the new device.

One of my colleagues has partnered up with Kainga Aroha and St John Op Shop to collect and distribute surplus cell phones from a collection point in Te Awamutu at the St John’s Opportunity Shop at 16 Alexandra Street. If you have any working condition cell phone with a charger, please consider donating it.

I draw your attention to the following questions. They are a quick way of determining if you are in an abusive relationship.

• Do you feel nervous around your partner?

• Do you have to be careful to control your behaviour to avoid your partner’s anger?

• Do you feel pressured by your partner when it comes to sex?

• Are you scared to disagree with your partner?

• Does your partner criticise or humiliate you in front of other people?

• Is your partner always checking up on you or questioning you about what you do

without your partner?

• Does your partner control where you go or check the mileage on your car?

• Does your partner repeatedly and wrongly accuse you of seeing or flirting with other people?

• Does your partner tell you that if you changed, he or she wouldn’t treat you like this?

• Does your partner’s jealousy stop you from seeing friends or family?

• Does your partner make you feel like you are wrong, stupid, crazy, or inadequate?

• Has your partner ever scared you with violence or threatening behaviour?

• Does your partner throw or break objects to intimidate you?

• Does your partner make you feel scared by driving too fast and refusing to slow down when you ask?

• Does your partner say, “I will kill myself if you break up with me” or “I will hurt/kill you if you break up with me”?

• Does your partner make excuses for the abusive behaviour? For example: saying, “It’s because of alcohol or drugs,” or “I can’t control my temper,” or “I was just joking”?

• Does your partner brag about bullying or harming others or animals?

• Has your partner abused or killed your animals?

• Does your partner impose stereotypical gender roles?

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Christmas parades set to sparkle What’s

By Steph Bell-Jenkins

Festive spirit is pumping in Te Awamutu and Otorohanga as the two towns prepare for the fun and sparkle of their annual Christmas parades.

Otorohanga’s float parade is happening today at 6.30pm, starting at St David’s church and heading south down Maniapoto St before turning in Whittington Ln and looping back.

All children riding on a float receive a free ice block from the Otorohanga Business Association, which is running and sponsoring the popular event.

“I think last year apart from the likes of the tractor club and the hot rod club we probably had 20 or 30 floats, so we’re looking forward to the same sort of turn out this year,” said OBA chairman Eric Tait.

“We’re really grateful to Inframax Construction, which manages the road closure for us.”

The fun will continue on Sunday with the Otorohanga Carriers Association holding “Ride a Truck Day” to celebrate a year since the Jim Barker Memorial Playground opened.

Held at the Otorohanga Club, the event starts at 11am, with attractions including the fire brigade, vintage machinery, food, raffles and a trucking simulator. Children can take a ride around town in a truck for a gold coin donation.

Meanwhile, Rotary is busy organising the Te Awamutu float parade, happening on December 14 at noon in Alexandra St. Rotary Te Awamutu took over running the event last year and Chris Kay, who heads the parade organising committee, said it was “a

huge success”.

“I think we had 51 floats; it was a lot of fun and a great day out, and it’s shaping up to be just as big this year,” he said.

“We have partnered with Coresteel Buildings Waikato this year, who have not only provided financial support but also a lot of support and help towards organising the parade as well. We’re thrilled to have them on board; they have a great Christmas spirit and they’re very keen on putting on a good event for Te Awamutu.

Our other two big sponsors are the Te Awamutu Community Board and Waipa District Council.”

Floats can be entered up until next Tuesday via an online entry form at www.teawamuturotary.org. nz. Cash prizes are up for grabs in three categories: children and youth, commercial and business and service clubs and societies.

Rotary has also introduced a shopping competition to encourage shoppers to head to the main street before the parade starts and stay in town.

Participating shops will display an item they don’t usually see in their window (for example a soft drink can in a clothing shop) and shoppers will need to find it and record it on their entry form.

Shopping competition entry sheets can be picked up and submitted at three Alexandra St locations from 10am-3.30pm on parade day and the first two correct entries will win prizes.

The parade, held “to promote peace, goodwill and tolerance in the Waipa community”, will conclude with a prize giving and lolly scramble in Selwyn Park.

“It’s always a fun event,” Mr Kay said. “We’re looking forward to it.”

Pirongia Hall now open Pirongia War Memorial Hall on Franklin Street (pictured right) reopened this week after being sealed off from the public for over a year and a half.

It was closed in April 2018 after an independent structural assessment for earthquake proneness found it did not meet the minimum safety level required in the national building standards, measuring the hall’s seismic resistance capacity at 15 percent, less than half the 34 per cent minimum.

But a more detailed seismic assessment last month found the hall’s seismic resistance capacity rating was actually well above the minimum level, after x-ray spot scanning uncovered additional structural framing within the building. That, along with other measurements in the new assessment, lifted the rating from 15 to 50 per cent.

The opening came a week late after it was initially set Council initially announced it would be opened to the public again in late November, but it came a week late. After a clean up by the property team council announced this week it was now open and ready for bookings. No opening celebrations were planned.

Council’s custodian for the hall, Kira Sunnex, manages bookings for the venue and can be contacted via email or phone, kira@sunnexfamily.com or 021 0266 7928.

The hall is available for one-off, weekly and monthly events. Council also manages the Cambridge and Kihikihi town halls – more details available through the website.

You and your family are invited to:

A Service toRemember Held at: Rosetown Chapel, 262 Ohaupo Road, Te Awamutu Tuesday 10 December, 5.30pm RSVP with numbers attending by 6 December, 2019 to 07 870 2137 or office@rosetown.co.nz

in a name?

The Te Awamutu News and its sister the Cambridge News has spent much of 2019 attempting to improve the quality and quantity of stories it provides you.

Good Local Media owner David Mackenzie recruited a former Waikato Times colleague, Roy Pilott, to drive the improvement.

Pilott held a series of senior editorial posts at the Times when Mackenzie was its general manager.

And the previous sentence is part of the reason you are reading this story.

“Print media around the country grappled for a long time with honorifics before the majority elected to drop them more than a decade ago,” Pilott said.

“It was long accepted that we ignored honorifics in sport, but other news was a different matter.

So when we dropped honorifics this year in the sister papers I was aware that some would see it as disrespectul and others would support it.

I do appreciate that many readers believe it deviates from the ‘community’ thread of our news.”

As a result of reader feedback, we want to take your pulse. Let’s debate the issue – should we use a story-by-story approach and make a decision on the basis of the type of story we are presenting? Should we restore honorifics to all general news stories? Are we simply worrying about nothing?

This is your newspaper – let us know what you think. Email editor@ goodlocal.nz. It should make for a busy letters to the editor column next week.

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FRIDAY DECEMBER 6, 2019

New housing project starts

Initial ground works started this week on a housing development project which will see 127 housing sections established in Otorohanga, starting with 63 sections in Stage

One beginning February 2020.

Almost half of the first-phase sections of the Westridge II Subdivision have been sold already, and once all of them have

sold, development of Stage Two will begin, developer Tom Smit explained.

“This project will be the largest within the Otorohanga district since the Otorohanga District Council completed the original Westridge Subdivision.”

Like many Waikato towns, Otorohanga has experienced a shortage of sections and homes available to buy, Smit said, and housing companies had already been very proactive in purchasing sections from Stage One of the subdivision.

Sections in Stage One start at $145,000, with the highest price at $165,000 for sections averaging 600m² in size. It provides an affordable option for families entering the market, Smit said.

“The new stages of the development will be constructed to the similar high standards of subdivisions constructed in the Waikato in recent years but will be at a price that will make it very affordable for purchasers to construct new houses for a reasonable cost.”

Sales are being managed by John Rothery at Ray White Otorohanga.

RCL Construction & Civil Ltd was this week completing testing of the ground in conjunction with the development’s geotechnical engineer, Tonkin & Taylor, and removing the existing farm fencing in preparation for the commencement of bulk earthworks in the new year. Site establishment and site offices will be completed in late January 2020.

World fame in Te Awamutu

Contractors began ground testing and site clearing this week for a housing development which will see new 127 sections available in Otorohanga.

Pirongia-born author Heather Morris will become the 29th person inducted into the Te Awamutu Walk of Fame.

She will be acknowledgement for her international success with a pou in Selwyn Park.

The Walk of Fame recognises and celebrates Te Awamutu born identities who have achieved world recognition in their field.

Morris wrote The Tattooist of Auschwitz, a historic novel based on interviews with holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov.

The novel has sold more than one million copies since its release last year, was a New York Times and International Bestseller.

This week, Morris travelled to Te Awamutu to launch its sequel, Cilka’s Journey, based on a true story of a young woman who survives Auschwitz, only to find herself locked away again.

At the book launch on Monday, Waipā District Council mayor Jim Mylchreest announced Heather would be inducted into the Te Awamutu Walk of Fame.

“Heather has made a huge impact around the world with her writing and we are proud to know her roots are

Heather Morris

in the Te Awamutu area,” Waipā mayor Jim Mylchreest said, in announcing she would be inducted.

Other names in the Te Awamutu Walk of Fame include musicians Tim and Neil Finn, husband and wife Pat and Paddy Stephens, who were integral in establishing the Te Awamutu Rose Garden, and Rewi Manga Maniapoto, widely respected for his knowledge, oratory and leadership skills, as well as military acumen.

Inductees to the Te Awamutu Walk of Fame must have been born in Te Awamutu or its environs or achieved their notable success as a resident.

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November 2019 marked ten years since the Te Awamutu Walk of Fame was officially opened by King Tūheitia, with 18 pou unveiled.

The concept was initiated

by Te Awamutu Alive, an organisation set up to promote and recognise Te Awamutu and district identities, and it has since been adopted by Council.

Morris will be inducted at an official Walk of Fame ceremony next year. The full list of names featured in the Te Awamutu Walk of Fame are available at www. waipadc.govt.nz/yourwaipa/about-waipa/walksof-fame.

FRIDAY DECEMBER 6, 2019

Waipā thriving

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Scholarship for Paige

By Savannah Patterson Te Awamutu College student Paige Ellis is one of 21 Waikato school leavers to receive a $6000 scholarship as part of The David Johnstone Charitable Trust.

Ellis, 18, was one of six students to receive funds to pursue a teaching degree at the University of Waikato where she hopes to become a secondary school teacher, teaching music and drama.

“It’s a great honour to receive this scholarship as very few are awarded and there are so many hardworking students who would also deserve this

Waipa District Mayor Jim Mylchreest addressing the 2019 Friends of Council gathering at the Mighty River Domain’s Don Rowlands Centre.

By Viv Posselt Local governance has made significant strides over the past 30 years, says Waipa District Mayor Jim Mylchreest.

It was three decades ago that the Waipa District grew out of a local government reorganisation that saw the merging of six former independent councils, or parts of those councils. That move in October 1989 propelled Waipa from an era when, “parochialism was alive and well, with many still resisting change and jealously guarding their individual community assets,” to a region that has grown from a population of 36,000 to 56,000, and is the envy of many.

Addressing the 2019 Friends of Council gathering at Mighty River Domain’s Don Rowlands Centre, Mylchreest said the Waipa District Council today was in a “sound financial position”, with an independent assessment by the global Fitch Group giving it an AA- rating and predicting a stable medium outlook.

“This assessment is valuable, as it enables council to obtain a saving of 15 basis points on any long-term borrowing, which is already at a record low.”

He said council was on track to deliver its 2018-28 10 Year Plan with a major emphasis on the infrastructure needed to support the steady growth being experienced district-wide.

“Growth in Cambridge is exceptional on the back of the completion of the Cambridge section of the expressway, with numerous residential developments underway or planned,” he said.

Of particular significance, he said, is the private plan change instigated by Mitch Plaw of APL (Architectural Profiles Ltd) - the country’s largest manufacturer of aluminium windows and doors - to rezone 56ha of industrial land at Hautapu. The

resulting development bordering the Waikato Expressway will be Waipa’s largest industrial park.

“Construction has already commenced on a massive glass manufacturing building, with the relocation of their aluminium extrusion business to the site over the next few years. It is fantastic that business owners like Mitch want to invest in the district. This development is the most transformative industrial development, I would suggest, in Cambridge’s history.”

Mylchreest spoke following the showing of a short video that captured some of Waipā’s highlights over the past year. They included 1200 new jobs in the district; employment growth of 5.4 percent; 1339 building consents processed (400 through the new online system); the delivery of $55.1 million in capital works and services, roads, water, wastewater and stormwater; and council investment of $21.6 million in the renewal of pipes, roads, treatment plant and reservoirs.

Among major projects started is the Waikeria wastewater pipeline and pump station; the securing of Te Awamutu’s treated water supply; and the installation of three waters (water, wastewater and stormwater) infrastructure to the Hautapu industrial area in Cambridge north.

Mylchreest said like other councils, Waipa could expect to be challenged in the medium to long term with climate change, environmental standards, the lack of social cohesion caused largely by the inequitable distribution of resources, and the move towards a carbon neutral economy.

“Councils can play an important role in supporting central government in resolving a number of these issues should they choose to include local government as the organisations closest to the people, and where these impacts will be felt first.”

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scholarship,” she said.

She will study a Bachelor of Arts, double majoring in Theatre Studies and Music and plans to follow that with a graduate diploma in teaching.

She has always had a passion for drama and music, and they were her most successful subjects at school.

“Over the years I’ve had some amazing teachers that have really helped me reach my true potential."

She says something that helped her realise she wanted to go into teaching was Lacrosse coaching.

“I’ve been playing for the past five years and I’ve had

the opportunity to play in the school’s premier team for the last two years and I’ve also played for Waikato rep teams.

“I started coaching at the end of year 11 with an Intermediate team and since then I’ve coached numerous college, intermediate and club teams - I really enjoyed watching the girls grow as players and as people.”

The Trust is managed by Perpetual Guardian and has offered a total of $126,000 in scholarships to students.

The awards event featured Olympic gold-medallist rower Eric Murray speaking on the topic of perseverance.

Farm spill fines handed down Seven farming entities, including one in Waipā have been fined a total of more than $300,000 for unlawfully discharging farm animal effluent into the environment.

The prosecutions, taken by the Waikato Regional Council, related to pollution in August and September 2018 and the sentences were handed down by District Court Judges Melanie Harland and Melinda Dickey in the last two weeks.

One case related to a Waipā entity, Alan Robert Worsnop, of Cambridge, who was fined $56,000.

“These cases reflect the focused approach we are taking to inspecting high risk dairy farms,” said council investigations manager Patrick Lynch.

“We are urging all farmers to have

adequate effluent management infrastructure on their farm that can cope with various weather patterns and other on farm work commitments.

He said the seven there had been significant and avoidable unlawful discharges of effluent into the environment.

The other convicted parties were Okaeria Farm Limited, Te Kauwhata, $54,000, Graze Limited, Morrinsville, $49,875, Were Te Kumi Limited, Te Kūiti, $47,250, Dean Mark Bertling, Pipiroa, fined $40,000, Jeffery Reginald Gatenby, Taupiri, $31,000 and Patrick John Clune, Te Kauwhata, fined $25,500.

Reports of environmental pollution can be made to the regional council by calling the 24-hour freephone 0800 800 401.

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Writer in residence watches Waipā

The newest writer in residence at the University of Waikato is set to take inspiration from a range of places next year including within the Waipa area.

Richard von Sturmer will take up residence at the University of Waikato in January.

The poet and lyricist, who has published seven books featuring a mixture of poetry, prose poems and creative nonfiction, will work on two projects during his residence.

The first, a collection of 300 short prose poems with the working title Slender Volumes, will be a mosaic of memories, fables, travel fragments and reflections on the current state of the world – climate change in particular.

His second project will take him to towns in Waikato and Waipa as well as surrounding areas including Huntly, Ngaruawahia, Matamata and Kihikihi.

He will write site-specific pieces for each place, finding new ways of talking about their geography, their history, and their people.

“As a writer you always have your antennae out, picking up images, snatches of conversation, ambiguities, anomalies and in general things that give a certain place its unique quality,” he says.

“I will do research on each town so that I can be aware of echoes from the past, but the real writing will be done very much in the present moment.”

Von Sturmer was based in the United States from 1991 to 2003, living and working at the Rochester Zen Centre, a Buddhist community in Upstate New York.

At the beginning of 2004, he and his wife returned to New Zealand and founded the Auckland Zen Centre in Onehunga.

“There is a Zen thread that runs through my work and I gain inspiration from Japanese literary forms, in particular haiku and tanka.”

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Vape store owner hits back

By Sophie Iremonger

A vape store owner in Te Awamutu says he wants to set the record straight following a call by Waipa and Auckland principals to usher in strict regulations on the growing trend of nicotine delivery.

Kevin Carroll, owner of one of five Vice Vape Co stores which opened on Jacobs St last weekend, agrees with much of the proposed regulations on vaping – requiring proof of age for online sales, and limiting the packaging and ‘glamorous’ advertising.

But he said banning the devices, or taking away the non-tobacco flavours, would take away a technology which helps smokers quit, or at least transition to a healthier alternative, and would simply be removing a product which adults should have the right to enjoy.

“Vaping is absolutely revolutionary, and at the end of the day it’s an adult choice,” he said. “It shouldn’t be seen as a means of enticing under 18s into smoking, any more than RTDs would into drinking alcohol, because there are controls are in place if you are a responsible retailer.

But there’s always cowboys out there that will spoil it for everyone.”

He said an investigation by the Centre for Disease Control into 47 vapingrelated deaths in the United States found they involved a cheaper, black-market vape liquid with synthetic THC laced with Vitamin E acetate.

He said the acetate was used to make cheap liquids look like pharmaceutical grade vaping liquids.

Kevin Carroll (left), pictured with store clerk Sid Cobb, has opened his fifth Vice Vape Co store in Te Awamutu, and wants to set the record straight on the myths in the media around vaping.

The water-based vape liquids sold by retailers, he said, simply contain vegetable glycerine, propylene glycol, nicotine and flavours.

It was these “backyard” vape liquids that caused the serious problems abroad “because vitamin E acetate is an oil which coats your lungs and creates these problems”.

Carroll, a 20-year industry veteran with a masters in tobacco strategy, said rather than a blanket-approach to ban vaping, people should be given correct information so they could make an informed decision.

He said his own sales seemed to disprove the idea that vaping was a gateway into smoking cigarettes, but more often a gateway out

of it.

“Our tobacco sales have dropped by 50 percent in the last three years, but that loss in tobacco sales has been gained in vaping, so you can see the transition. We’ve had a lot of success stories.”

He compared the idea to ban the sweet, fruity nontobacco vape flavours in the same light as telling liquor store owners they could only sell one flavour of alcoholic beverage.

“About 90 percent of our sales are flavoured liquid, vaping flavours are very important in this game.

That’s what our customers tell us, if they remove the flavours they’ll just go back to smoking, because it’s a mental reminder of where they’ve come from. People

love the flavours.

“Vaping helps them quit because they can reduce the nicotine levels in their vape liquid over time, and unlike patches or gum it still provides them with that hand-to-mouth habit. But at the same time it’s something different, it’s something fruity. If you’re transitioning from a tobacco product, the last thing you want to be reminded of is a tobacco flavoured e-liquid.

“Where does the police state or the nanny state stop?

At the end of the day this is an R18 product, if you’re an adult surely you should be given the benefit to make a decision whether you want a peach flavoured liquid or a tobacco flavoured liquid. It’s all about choice.”

Sports success recognised Waipa will have a huge representation at the 2019 Brian Perry Waikato Regional Sports Awards in January.

The event finalists showcase achievement from grassroots clubs through to high performance level and were selected from the winners and judges’ recommendations from the nine District Sports Awards held throughout November.

Sport Waikato CEO Matthew Cooper said it was difficult for the judges to select a winner from such a high standard of finalists. “It’s been a great year for our sportspeople and those who help make sport happen in the Waikato region.

Our awards finalists are a reflection of that success and our athletes have had some outstanding achievements both locally, nationally and internationally. They should all be extremely proud to be nominated for these awards,” Cooper said.

The awards night will be held at the Claudelands Conference and Exhibition Centre, Hamilton on January 30.

Waipa and King Country finalists: Administrator David Kite, Ohaupo Rugby Sports Club.

Club Te Awamutu BMX Club.

Community Coach Colin Dixon, Cycling, Cambridge High School; Craig Stevenson, Rugby, Hautapu Sports & Recreation Club; Leanne Walker, Basketball, St Peter’s, Cambridge; Rangi Te Whare, Multiple Sports, Te Kuiti High

School.

Club Team Hautapu Premier A Rugby Team Rugby Union Disability Eltje Malzbender, Cycling, Morrinsville Wheelers Cycling Club;Tuhua Takato-Litz, Basketball, St Peter’s, Cambridge.

Emerging Talent Ally Wollaston, Cycling,Te Awamutu Sports; Finn Fisher-Black, Cycling, St Peter’s, Cambridge.

Sportswoman Brooke Donoghue, Rowing, Waikato Rowing Club; Rushlee Buchanan, Cycling, Te Awamutu Sports.

Sportsman Chris Lord, Woodchopping, Waitomo Axe and Gun Club; Luke Jacobson, Rugby, Hautapu Sports & Recreation Club.

Innovation in Sport & Recreation Cambridge Football Club & Cambridge Junior Cricket Club, Pitch DevelopmentMultiple Sports; Lugtons Waipa Fun Run Running/ Walking; New Zealand’s Cycling Festival Cycling, Waipa.

Secondary School Sportswoman Beckie Leigh, Rowing, St Peter’s, Cambridge; Charlisse Leger-Walker, Basketball, St Peter’s; Leila Walker, Cycling, Cambridge High School; Mya Anderson, Cycling, Cambridge High.

Secondary School Sportsman Jack Carswell, Cycling, Cambridge High.

Secondary School Team St Peter’s Cambridge Premier Girls Basketball and St Peter’s, Cambridge Premier Netball.

FRIDAY DECEMBER 6, 2019

Wheels rolling for World Cup

By Sophie Iremonger

Waipā will get an economic boost from international class cycling starting today.

Hundreds of elite cyclists and thousands of spectators are in Cambridge for the fourth round of the Track Cycling World Cup at the Avantidrome.

The three day event, a Tokyo 2020 Olympicqualifier, has attracted a record number of competitors from 44 nations. They include 20 world champions and over 500 riders and staff.

“This is shaping not only as the biggest event that we have hosted here at the Avantidrome, but arguably the hottest competition in a very important phase for countries towards their Olympic qualification,” said Cycling New Zealand chief Jacques Landry.

Cambridge hosted a round of the series in January when it attracted 7000 spectators.

Destination Cambridge and Cambridge i-Site CEO Miff Macdiarmid said it was a huge event for Cambridge, and expected a turnout of roughly 8000 spectators this year.

“There will be a big impact on restaurants, cafes and other local activities and shopping over the event,” she said. “Accommodation is getting very full.”

She said compared to January, session times were more suited to allow visits to shop tomorrow morning and “grab lunch before heading out to the Avantidrome.”

Macdiarmid said attendees would be provided with an event programme, a new initiative this year, promoting local businesses and things to do in Cambridge along with a map guide.

“It’s an extremely well-run event, hence us getting another Track World Cup so soon after the last one.”

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Cambridge Business Chamber CEO Kelly Bouzaid expected the event would create buoyancy in the Cambridge economy. “…it’s definitely great for our broader tourism market and provides an opportunity to showcase our wonderful town and local product.”

Cycling New Zealand has entered two teams into the UCI event, including 14 riders across the sprint and endurance disciplines.

The event, covered live on SKY, is $30 for adults to attend per session, and $15 for children.

Spectator tips

If you’re going to the cycling, these tips will help you enjoy the event experience: • No matter the weather outside, the venue will always be 25°C or more to ensure optimal competition conditions for the riders. Wear lightweight t-shirts and shorts and bring a water bottle.

Chilled refreshments are available to purchase on site.

• Bike out to the Avantidrome along the Te Awa River Ride. You can lock up and leave your bike while you are enjoying the cycling – just don’t forget a light for heading home after the night session.

• Gates open one hour before racing, so get there early and enjoy the event atmosphere with food trucks and Good George’s outdoor bar.

• Tickets can be scanned via paper or mobile device screen.

• Tickets for the event are available to purchase from Ticketek. Visit www. trackworldcup.nz for more information.

Choristers sing for a new shuttle

By Viv Posselt Te Awamutu’s Rosetown Choristers have raised $1500 to go towards a muchneeded new community health shuttle.

They raised the money at the November 17 Festive Tones for All benefit concert at Te Awamutu’s St John’s Anglican Church, and presented the cheque last week to Te Awamutu Community Health Transport Trust chairman Robyn Atherton. She thanked the choristers for their input and said the funds were a welcome addition to the monies already raised.

The Trust has been fundraising for a new vehicle to replace the shuttle service’s ageing Ford Transit van, which has done over 280,000km and is struggling to cope with a growing number of clients. Robyn Atherton said thanks to the generosity of donors and the hard work of fundraisers, the Trust was on track to replace the Ford Transit with a new automatic vehicle by early next year. One of the biggest expenses is an anticipated $30,000 required to fit out a new vehicle with the required accessories, she

said, such as a wheelchair hoist and automated doors.

That, combined with the cost of a new vehicle, is likely to put the full cost at around $100,000.

David Brown, who is on the Rosetown Choristers committee, said the choir selected the health shuttle as its 2019 benefit charity through a process involving input from all its members.

He also said the choir, which has been in existence for over 30 years, is looking for new members, particularly men, to swell its

ranks. All ages are welcome and applicants need only pass an audition. More details are available from David Brown on 07-870 3442, or Robin Astridge on 07-870 4424.

Meanwhile, fundraising for the new shuttle van is continuing. Those keen to donate should contact Dianne Burgess on 021 178 7997, email tahsxtra.co.nz, or deposit directly into ANZ bank account number 06-0317-0944851-02, with the reference ‘newvan’.

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Rosetown Choristers committee member Carrie Dean, left, presents the $1500 cheque to Te Awamutu Community Health Transport Trust chairman Robyn Atherton. Watching on are Rosetown Choristers committee members Teresa Crowe and David Brown (right), and Te Awamutu Community Health Transport Trust committee member Murray Wallis.

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Water safety checks start Hipkins’ funding boost for schools The Government’s education funding package announced this week is good news for Waipā Schools.

Education Minister Chris Hipkins said the capital injection in 2020 would be worth about $693 for every student and would enable schools to bring forward urgent school property improvements.

The one-off payment is the first project from the Government’s new package to future proof the economy and will see some schools receive up to $400,000 to spend on needed upgrades that have been put on the back burner.

Large schools will receive the maximum $400,000 and the smallest schools can expect at least $50,000 no matter how small their roll.Te Awamutu College qualifies for the top amount, Otorohanga College will receive $217,000. The announcement was welcomed by Roto-O-Rangi head Wayne Donnellon.

“Any funding boost for property works is welcomed by schools,” he said.

“This boost will be most appreciated by smaller schools, as economies of scale often make it very difficult for these schools, with their existing funding, to do any significant modernisation projects or upgrade areas other than classrooms.”

He said for a school the size and age of Roto-O-Rangi, “nearly our entire 5YA (five-year agreement funding) was taken up with essential infrastructure needs - replace water system, roofing, electrical work.”

He said the small amount left over would not have been enough for any significant modernisation of classrooms and the school would have “yet again” just been tinkering with the existing spaces.

“Now we have the opportunity to add the two amounts together and create a meaningful modification or upgrade our admin area.”

The Waikato Regional Council has general guidance only. animal faeces from rural and urban commenced its annual season of checks “Conditions can change between runoff. on the region’s swimming spots and tests, and cyanobacteria and toxins People who think they have seen is telling swimmer to look before they are not evenly spread through lakes, bloom should call the Waikato Regional jump. so may be concentrated in some areas Council on 0800 800 401.

‘If the water looks discoloured, smells by wind and water movements. That Anyone who has health concerns as a unusual, or if there is scum on the means even where monitoring does result of swimming should contact their surface of lakes or on the beds of rivers, occur it is important to check the water doctor or the Public Health Unit of the swim or play somewhere else,” Waikato before you get in.

Waikato District Health Board on 0800 Regional Council environmental He said swimmers should avoid 800 977. monitoring manager Ed Brown said rivers, streams and harbours for 48 Updates on health warnings can be The council will be checking for signs hours after heavy rainfall because the found at www.waikatoregion.govt.nz/ of E.coli, as well as cyanobacteria (the water is likely to be contaminated with algal-blooms-in-the-waikato-region micro-organism that causes potentially toxic algal blooms) until the end of March.

Both can make people sick.

If significant bacteria are found a public health warning will be issued by either Waikato District Health Board or Toi Te Ora Public Health.

Direct exposure to algal blooms can cause health effects such as skin rashes and stomach upsets. Hay fever and asthma may also worsen.

Dr Brown said it was not possible for the council to monitor all locations where people are in the water and it was “always safest that you check the water before you get in”.

Algal hotspots include small lakes and side-arms of the hydro-lakes where water can be stagnant and the water temperatures higher than for flowing rivers.

“These factors can sometimes support the rapid growth of algae, resulting in very visible algal blooms, sometimes described as ‘pea soup’,” Dr Brown said.

He said test results, which are available at www.lawa.org.nz/explore- A Waikato Regional Council environmental monitoring officer collecting samples from one of 19 data/swimming. should be used for sites monitored for contaminants and toxic algae.

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Bowls won on countback

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Te Awamutu Bowling Clubs’ monthly tournament last week came down to a differential equation after four teams completed play with three wins and a loss.

A host club combination of Ken Parker, James Riley and Wilma Watson took the honouts with a 20 shot differential followed by club-mates Daphne Finn, Pat Oliver and Nic Bartosiak on 16.

A Raglan trio of Ross Turner, Alan Price and Tim Ryan finished third with a 14 shot differential.

The tournament had everything in its favour – good weather, both the greens in great order and strong support from within the club and the wider bowling community in the Waikato and Northern King Country.

The event was strongly supported by way of sponsorship by The Hay and Straw Co, to the extent that prizes were handed out down to seventh place and there was even a token prize for the Wooden Spooners who recorded four losses, but made some of the winning teams really work for their win.

The club’s next tournament is a Christmas Hams event, an open fours, next Wednesday.

The broodmare paddock is beckoning Xpression, but one final Group One tilt remains in the offing for the daughter of Showcasing.

Xpression was covered by Snitzel earlier this season and has returned to the barn of Hastings trainers Guy Lowry and Grant Cullen to sign-off her racing career.

The Group One performer had been campaigning in Australia under the care of leading Sydney trainer Chris Waller where she recorded a Group Three placing in the Toy Show Quality (1100m).

“It’s always hard for a sprinter to go over there and perform, but her Group Three placing was a pretty good effort. I know that she wasn’t that easy over there,” Lowry said.

Lowry has fond memories of training Xpression, having recorded three wins and four placings with the mare in her seven starts for the Hawke’s Bay horseman.

Highlights included victories in the Gr.2

Wakefield Challenge Stakes (1200m) and the Gr.3 Barneswood Farm Stakes (1400m), while she was also runner-up behind Avantage in the Gr.3 Hawke’s Bay Breeders’ Gold Trail Stakes (1200m) and Group One placed behind Media Sensation in the New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m).

Xpression has only recently rejoined the Lowry/Cullen stable, but they are wasting no time with a raceday resumption, with the fouryear-old set to line-up in the Jack Doig Loved His Racing Premier (1200m) at Trentham on Saturday.

“It’s great to have Xpression back in the stable, she arrived back on Saturday,” Lowry said.

“It is good to have her back, she is in-foal to Snitzel, so she will probably only have a couple of starts.

“I worked her along this (Wednesday) morning and I am happy with her, she seems to have settled back into the stable really well. I couldn’t be happier with her.”

Trentham will be a testing ground on Saturday

Xpression winning the Group 3 Barneswood Farm Stakes in Ashburton.

Final home bow for WaiBOP women Waipā hosts its final game of the national women’s football season on Sunday when WaiBOP meet title contenders Northern Lights.

The match completes a series of six at John Kerkhof Park, Cambridge, in the National Women’s League and provides spectators one last chance this season to see some of the best players in the country.

The game kicks off at 2pm, after a curtainraiser in which the region’s best U-13 girls will play a warm-up game ahead of this year’s national age group tournament.

Northern Lights – who represent the region north of Auckland’s harbour bridge – have several up and coming players, including two newcomers to the Football Ferns in goalkeeper Lily Alfeld and defender Claudia Bunge.

The pair were chosen for the New Zealand squad to play China this year and have emerged as strong players in the NWL. The home side will feature another Football Fern, Kate Loye, who at 26 is making a return to the NWL. WaiBOP will also include former Cambridge junior Grace Wisnewski who has played a prominent role in recent New Zealand U-17 and U-20 age group squads.

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“We will see how she goes on Saturday and if she performs well we will continue onto the Telegraph,” Lowry said.

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Divine Festive Delights Sweet delights bring a happy, satisfying ending to a festive dinner. And they can be prepared ahead. I admit to enjoying conjuring up festive desserts rather more than eating them. My desire for over-the-top Christmas dinners has diminished over the years. And after serving two courses to our family, I’m more inclined to go for a relaxing glass of bubbles.

But I love watching the happy faces of my grandchildren when the trifle, pav, cheesecake, berries and ice cream are wheeled into the dining room. I prepare sweet endings that will appeal to all family members — both young and old. The young usually say they’d like a little bit (or too much!) of everything. And little helpings of everything is exactly what they get.

In restaurants they’re called tasting plates.

Steamed Christmas pudding is not something that everyone enjoys but if you like a bit of tradition then check out my microwave pudding (in my recipe collections) on the web. Make it well ahead so the flavours develop. The pud can be refrigerated or frozen and reheated in the microwave once thawed.

Serve it doused with custard, brandy sauce or one of the many yummy yoghurt dessert delights now available.

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This is gluten and dairy-free. Use mini meringue nests or the larger ones, depending on appetites and number of diners. You may need to increase the ingredients. The nests are available from the bakery department of your supermarket.

10-12 mini meringue nests 3/4 cup thick coconut yoghurt 3/4 cup diced strawberries 10-12 each: blueberries small mint leaves Place the meringues in a circle on a flat plate or tray. Spoon the yoghurt into the centres. Top with the berries and mint leaves.

This should be prepared at least 1 hour before enjoying or up to 8 hours. Serves 6-12.

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This cheesecake can be frozen for up to 3 months.

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200g plain or gluten-free biscuits, crushed 75g butter, melted 3 teaspoons powdered gelatine 2 tablespoons orange juice 200g cream cheese 3 tablespoons icing sugar 300ml cream 3/4 cup fruit mincemeat Line the base and sides of a 20cm loose-based cake pan with baking paper.

Combine the crushed biscuits and butter and mix well. Press onto the base of the cake pan.

Chill for at least 20 minutes.

Meanwhile, soften the gelatine in the orange juice.

Beat the cream cheese and icing sugar, until smooth. Whip the cream, until thick. Fold into the cream cheese mixture.

Dissolve the gelatine over hot water or in the microwave then mix into the fruit mincemeat.

Fold into the cream filling.

Spoon into the lined cake pan and smooth the top. Chill overnight to set. Serves 8.

An e-waste collection service, zero waste cooking and waste reduction workshops, washable sanitary pads and modern cloth nappies will all be funded by Waipā District Council’s Waste Minimisation Fund.

More than $36,000 will be distributed to nine community groups; including an early childhood education centre, a local marae and a community garden, whose projects provide great ideas and community incentives for waste minimisation.

The fund is designed to support individuals or groups with projects that rethink, reduce and reuse waste. It is held annually in time with Hamilton City Council to allow for cross-boundary projects.

Waste minimisation officer Sally Fraser said Council had received a number of highquality applications in this round seeking support for projects that would help reduce waste in Waipā.

“The projects were innovative, well planned out and will have a really positive effect on our community. One successful

applicant, Cambridge Community Gardens, will be given funding to improve their composting system. They currently make four cubic metres of compost a month and take food scrap donations from the Rest Haven Retirement Village and other locals.”

Another applicant, Kate Meads, will be offering Food Lovers Master Class workshops to the community, said Fraser.

“Kate’s workshops are always a great time with lots of ingenious tips and tricks to make the most of the food in our panty. We are really excited to bring Kate back to Waipa”.

Funding will also be given to the Parawera Marae, southeast of Te Awamutu, to help repurpose old mattresses into paepae seating and beanbags, and to a local early childhood education centre which will be trialling modern cloth nappies on their children while at pre-school.

For more information about the Waste Minimisation Fund, head to www.waipadc. govt.nz/wasteminimisationfunding.

PEACH & PASSIONFRUIT TRIFLE

To prevent them discolouring, sprinkle raw peaches with a little lemon juice or vitamin C powder dissolved in a little water. Poached peaches can also be used.

6 ripe peaches 4 tablespoons orange liqueur 1 cup vanilla custard 200g sponge cake 3/4 cup each: passionfruit pulp, cream (whipped) Halve, peel, stone and thinly slice the peaches.

Poach in a sugar syrup, if preferred.

Combine the liqueur with the custard. Cut the sponge into 3cm cubes.

Place some sliced peaches in the base of a serving dish. Spoon a little passionfruit pulp, over the top. Add some cubes of cake. Top with the custard, smoothing with a spoon. Add some whipped cream and smooth the top.

Carefully place more peach slices on top and drizzle with more passionfruit pulp. Serves 6.

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Charlie Hunter, was recognised for his achievements in the sport at an event in Auckland on Thursday night ahead of the Inter Dominion carnival held at Alexandra Park.

The long-time servant of harness racing and Cambridge Raceway patron was presented with an award for distinguished service by the Inter Dominion Event Committee, soon after being made an Inter Dominion ambassador.

“It was a nice surprise. You don’t do the things you do in your life looking for acclaim and awards, but it is very nice when you are recognised, particularly from an Australasian viewpoint,” he said.

“I have enjoyed everything I have done in harness racing, whether it be administration, training, or driving.”

Hunter remains one of the most successful trainers to have competed in the series, winning three finals and becoming the only trainer to have won both finals in the same year.

He won his first Inter Dominion Final in 1971 when he trained and drove Geffin to win the Trotters series.

Four years later, at Alexandra Park in Auckland, Hunter became the first (and to date only) trainer to secure both titles in the same year, winning the Trotters Final with Castleton’s Pride, and taking out the Pacers Final with a horse he labelled as the best he has trained, Young Quinn.

“He just did things that other horses haven’t done,” Hunter said.

“In the 1975 season, he won 19 of his 22 starts, including the three heats and final of the Inter Dominion and a whole bunch of races prior to going over to Australia and winning top freefor-all pacing races, and then in Canada and the United States.

He was just a super horse.”

As well as the three Inter Dominion Final victories, Hunter came close in other years, as both a trainer and an owner.

He was second at Auckland with French Pass in 1968 and again in the early 1980s with Jenner, also at Auckand.

“Sovereignty ran a place in the Inter Dominions at Melbourne and then at Auckland we were fourth. He was thereabouts without getting the job done, but he did a lot of good things.”

Hunter had been looking forward to contesting this year’s carnival with Group One-winning trotter Lemond, however, the Ross Paynter-trained seven-year-old was ruled out through injury.

He is still taking plenty of interest in the carnival, particularly with the performance of trainers Mark Purdon and Natalie Rasmussen, who he believes can take out both finals this year.

– Cambridge Raceway.

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What’s On… SPORTS & EXERCISE CLUBS Te Awamutu Athletic Club – Provides for children from 3 and up. Club nights are Tuesday from 5.30 pm, from 15 October through to March, during school terms. Based at the stadium (Velodrome). Info: 07 871 5257 / 027 621 6608 Te Awamutu BMX Club – Come along to the BMX Club on a Monday evening at 5.30 and talk to us about the sport of BMX. Info: Nick – 027 554 6627 Te Awamutu Small Bore Rifle club – The club meets at 7pm Tuesday night from March through to November. Come and learn to shoot in a safe environment. No gear required. Info: 07 871 4619 Twilight Bowls at Kihikihi Bowling Club, Monday evening, 5.30-7.30. Bring a team of four or we will put you in a team. Bowls can be supplied. We also have bowls Tuesday and Saturday for anyone wanting to try. Contact Dave on 8702006.

Sporting Clays – Clay Target shooting open for practice 4pm till 7pm Tuesday Evenings. Phone Sean 0272220410 for details.

Te Awamutu Bowling Club – Twilight bowls and dinner, Friday December 13. Two games of bowls followed by a meal, non members and beginners welcome. Registration 5.30pm. Contact person Judy Cato, 8715388.

MUSIC CLUBS Rosetown Choristers – We rehearse Wednesdays 7.30 – 9.30pm in the Te Awamutu Baptist Church hall. New singers are assured of a warm welcome. Ability to hold a tune a must.

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Te Awamutu Seriously Social Cycling Group – every Wednesday, leaving at 9.30am from the Mitre 10 carpark, Cambridge Road, Te Awamutu.

Wear: bright clothing and a helmet. Includes a café stop at the end. All ages involved (30 to 80).

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Te Awamutu and Districts Highland Pipe Band – The band practices on Monday nights, 7.00pm to 9.00pm in the Hairini Hall, Rangioawhia Road.

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The monthly Car Boot Market Day is being held outside Te Kuiti’s St Luke’s Anglican Church this Saturday, 8am - 12pm at 85 Esplanade St, Te Kuiti. The all ages, free event includes a wide range of stalls from plants and produce to bric-a-brac, books and preserves. Home baking, tea and coffee and a sausage sizzle available, along with live music, face painting and a hangi.

The Avantidrome will host round four of the UCI Track Cycling World Cup this Friday to Sunday.

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Monavale Homestead at 3553 Cambridge Rd is welcoming the public to come along and enjoy their Carols by Candlelight event this Friday and Saturday beginning 8pm. Gold coin entry with supper provided. Bring a blanket or seating and enjoy the evening. Note: this is an alcoholfree event.

THE IRISHMAN Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran is a man with a lot on his mind. The former labour union high official and hitman learned to kill serving in Italy during the Second World War. He now looks back on his life and the hits that defined his mob career, maintaining connections with the Bufalino crime family. In particular, he goes back to the part he claims to have played in the disappearance of his life-long friend, Jimmy Hoffa, the former president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, who mysteriously vanished in late July 1975 at the age of 62. “The Irishman is one of the best stories put to film in years. Al Pacino looked in his prime. De Niro, Pesci and everyone else is as good as you’d expect. The CGI de-aging is revolutionary. Everything about it is top shelf and whilst the roles of the leads are quite restrained, there is no shortage of blood. An interesting insight into 1950 America and the influence of the crime families, with fingers in every facet of American life. Definitely an Oscar Best Picture Nominee. I watched again today as it is so good and such a lot of detail.

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11.00am 11.00am 4.10pm 11.30am 1.20pm 12.30pm 1.45pm 4.15pm 3.45pm 2.30pm 4.00pm 1.15pm 8.30pm 4.30pm 6.10pm 6.15pm 8.30pm 1.10pm 11.00am 1.15pm 3.30pm 8.40pm 12.50pm 6.40pm 4.15pm 3.00pm 5.45pm

11.00am 3.50pm 1.00pm 11.30am 11.00am 11.20am 11.00am 11.30am 11.30am 12.30pm 8.45pm 6.15pm 6.40pm 1.20pm 6.15pm 6.15pm 6.45pm 5.50pm 4.00pm 1.15pm 8.30pm 6.15pm 4.30pm 8.30pm 8.40pm 6.40pm

11.00am 4.10pm 5.45pm 5.50pm

1 hr2 52 hrsmins 4 mins !!NEW!!

VITA AND VIRGINIA (M) TheBRUCE Guilty (M) 1 hr 40 mins SPRINGSTEEN

4.10pm 6.15pm 8.00pm

1.40pm 11.00am

1.00pm

3.35pm

6.30pm

4.30pm

8.35pm

www.tivolicinema.co.nz 4.10pm

8.45pm

2.30pm WESTERN STAR (E)Bookings 823 5064 – 32 Lake Street, Cambridge 1 hr 38 mins !!NEW!!

www.tivolicinema.co.nz

Bookings 823 5064 – 32 Lake Street, Cambridge

6.40pm

R13

FISHERMAN’S FRIENDS

PG

3.20pm 8.30pm

1.00pm 6.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 5.45pm 8.15pm 8.00pm 1.35pm 5.30pm 11.40am 5.30pm 1.30pm 8.10pm 1.00pm 5.50pm 5.45pm 5.00pm 6.00pm 8.00pm 7.45pm 8.20pm

1.45pm 11.15am

THE IRISHMAN

www.teawamutu.co.nz/regent/sessions.html

3.40pm

8.00pm 11.20am 6.00pm 5.40pm

1.30pm 11.15am

2.00pm 6.00pm

www.flicks.co.nz/cinema/regent-theatre-te-awamutu/

20 Mar

1.45pm 6.30pm

1.15pm 3.15pm

1.40pm 3.45pm

3.40pm Wed,

10.50am 6.00pm

1.45pm 11.15am

1.45pm 4.00pm

11.15am Tue, 3.45pm 19 Mar

20 Mar

8.15pm

3.45pm

3.20pm 11.00am

2 hrs 5 mins

19 Mar

8.30pm

11.30am 3.35pm 6.15pm 8.45pm 11.30am 3.45pm

RIDE LIKE A GIRL (M) Swimming With 1 hr 53 mins Stan & Ollie (M) Men (M)

Swimming With Men (M) GOOD TheTHE Guilty (M) 1LIAR hr 40 mins

17 Mar

15 Mar

1.45pm 8.20pm

1 hr 52 mins 1 hrTHE 53 mins ADDAMS FAMILY (PG) 1 hr 44 mins !!NEW!!

6.15pm Fri,

16 Mar

11.30am 11.30am Sat, Sun, 1.10pm 3.30pm 16 Mar 2.40pm 17 Mar

Stan & Ollie (M)Could Talk LAST CHRISTMAS (M) If Beale Street (M)

1 hr153hrmins 57 mins 2 hrs 15 mins

15 Mar

Ph 871 6678

8.30pm

For 2 Weeks Only.

THU, FRI & SAT 6:20, SUN 4:20, TUE 5:55, WED 6:20

THU 5:20, FRI 10:10 & 5:20, SAT 12:50 & 4:10, SUN 10:50 & 2:10, TUE 5:25, WED 10:10 & 5:20

DOWNTON ABBEY PG 4th Glorious Month. SAT 3:05, SUN 1:05 ___________________________________

THE ADDAMS FAMILY PG THU & FRI 5:40, SAT 12:20 & 2:15, SUN 10:20 & 12:15, TUE 5:45, WED 5:40 ___________________________________

RIDE LIKE A GIRL PG THU 7:40, SAT 1:00 & 5:30, SUN 11:00 & 3:30, TUE 7:55 ___________________________________ JOJO RABBIT M THU & FRI 7:40, SAT 5:35 & 7:50, SUN 3:35 & 5:50, TUE 7:45, WED 10:00 & 7:40 ___________________________________ LAST CHRISTMAS M SAT 3:35 & 7:35, SUN 1:35 & 5:35, WED 10:20 ___________________________________

KNIVES OUT M THU 5:15 & 7:30, FRI 10:00, 5:15 & 7:30, SAT 1:10, 5:00 & 7:40, SUN 11:10, 3:00 & 5:40, TUE 7:35, WED 5:15 & 7:30 ___________________________________ FROZEN 2 PG THU & FRI 5:05, SAT 12:30, 2:50 & 5:10, SUN 10:30, 12:50 & 3:10, TUE 5:35, WED 5:05 ___________________________________

BELLBIRD M FRI 10:20 & 7:40, SAT 3:00, SUN 1:00, WED 7:40 ___________________________________

MALEFICENT: MISTRESS OF EVIL PG, LION KING PG, TOY STORY 4 G NEXT WEEK ___________________________________

FORD VS FERRARI M THU & FRI 7:15, SAT 7:20, SUN 5:20, WED 7:15

STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER STARTS DEC 19

MORNING SESSIONS FRIDAY, SUNDAY AND WEDNESDAY WITH ESPECIALLY SELECTED FILMS

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FRIDAY DECEMBER 6, 2019