YOUR TARANAKI MAGAZINE CELEBRATING THE ARTS AND CULTURE OF THE TARANAKI REGION
WHO ARE WE? Debra and eRiQ Quaadgras lived and worked in Tauranga but felt the city had become too big for them and they needed a fresh start. “We’d reached a time of life when we were free to go anywhere, Tauranga had become so busy, the traffic was faster, shopping more crowded and we just needed a change,” said Debra. The couple had looked at towns and cities all over the country, but it was Debra who had spent quite a bit of time on the internet, reading about smaller towns,
4 Who Are We? 6 Road Works 8 Textures of Taranaki 10 MOUNTAIN 12 Reflections of Taranaki Art 14 Hawera Arts in the Park 16 Egmont A&P Show 20 Poet Tree 26 2019 Taranaki Garden Festival 32 2019 Americarna 38 Profile on Cath Sheard 40 The Great Opunake Yarn Bomb 44 Poetry Corner – Justine J. Olckers 46 Covered – Novels by South Taranaki authors
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who first thought about Hāwera. “We looked at Taupo, Gisborne, up north and New Plymouth, but when we stopped here in 2018, we looked at each other and eRiQ said ‘We don’t even need to go to New Plymouth’. We both knew immediately Hāwera was the place for us”. It doesn’t take much time talking to these new Hāwerians to learn Tauranga’s loss is South Taranaki’s gain.
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