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12 June 2015, Issue 755 The Bay’s largest circulating, most read newspaper.

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to the homes of 159,700 residents throughout TAURANGA, MOUNT MAUNGANUI, PAPAMOA, WAIHI BEACH, KAIMAI, KATIKATI, TE PUKE, PAENGAROA, OTAMARAKAU and all RDs

Trikies’ passion for ‘Boom’ – p25

A plunge to warm the heart – p37

Planting native knowledge – p50

Home track advantage Round four of the six-part ProKart national series roars into the Bay of Plenty Kart Club’s home track, between Te Puke and Papamoa, this weekend and things are getting serious.

Professional kart racing drivers are making the trip from across the country and the Tasman Sea, with 90 competitors turning out at Fagan’s Valley Raceway to reach speeds of 120km/h.

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Bike breakthrough In local news, it’s great to see TCC now backing the Omokoroa-Tauranga cycleway project.

This column rallied in support of the bike track a few weeks ago and the reneging city council has U-turned, last week deciding to put in $400,000 after all. The decision changed after bike protests and a Tauranga Roundtable contribution of $100,000 towards the project; most likely the tipping point the council needed to reconsider.

TCC needs to be careful, this could be construed as the council listening to the people.

Whatever, it’s a great result.

The cycleway will be a major boost for the region and a great way to keep fit and get fresh air. Also, it will be a much safer option for cyclists than using the Highway from Hell north of the city. Bring it on!

are a symbol of our country and a source of national pride”.

Spock isn’t commenting, other than to say “it’s irrational”.

Here in Nuzzilin, we don’t condone the defacing of banknotes and it is illegal.

But if anyone was to enhance the por-

traits on our dollars, here’s some possible outcomes. Do not try this at home.

While trying to garner public support for a new flag with patriotic patronising to Kiwis, the guvmint has only succeeded in lining the coffers of offshore-owned media.

They might have well have drawn up a new flag in green and yellow with a bunch of kangaroos jumping around in hats with corks on strings, waved by a pissed wombat sucking a can of Fosters.

Forget the flag deal. The vast majority don’t want to change. The project has only succeeded in ironically taking $26 million off the long-suffering NZ taxpayer and, in the name of national pride, gifting a pile of it overseas.

Flag deal: Gone with the wind

In the Dogg house

Sun staff ‘spocking’ our bills: J. Campbell, Abe Lincoln, Brad Thorn.

Currency vulcanised

Canada’s banknotes are boldly going where no currency has gone before. The country is in the grip of a craze to deface its fivers since the passing of actor Leonard Nimoy.

Star Trek fans have been ‘spocking’ the five dollar notes. It seems Canada’s former prime minister Wilfrid Laurier makes a pretty convincing Spock, when he’s had pointy ears, some brow and hair work and a bit of Vulcan makeover.

The Bank of Canada is not amused, asking Trekkie defacers to stop. It’s apparently not illegal there.

But the banks says: “there are important reasons why it should not be done. Writing on a bank note may interfere with the security features and reduces its lifespan. Markings on a note may also prevent it from being accepted in a transaction.

“Furthermore, the Bank of Canada feels that writing and markings on bank notes are inappropriate as they

would have funnelled our tax bucks back into the communities from where it was generated. Alas, it is squandered offshore.

Speaking of national pride, we can this week confirm he flag project has officially been stripped of any shred of patriotism.

This is because a whole pile of the $26 million project that’s being spent on promotion and advertising, to inspire a patriotic response from you Kiwi taxpayers, is actually not being spent with Kiwiowned media companies.

This is the scandal of the decade.

And a wake-up call for all those who have branded Rogers as a right wing “bluenoser” as so eloquently described by persistent readers, both of you, such as Graeme Sproull. That’s right Graeme, this should serve as evidence the National Government, brilliant as they are most things, are not beyond a good whipping from this column when they falter.

Inept marketing

On this flag issue they’ve not only staggered at the jump; they’ve face-planted badly into the deep and unforgiving bog of public perception.

There’s comprehensive coverage of the country available via the NZ Community Newspapers Association, which seems to have been completely overlooked by the inept marketers in the Department of PM and Cabinet. All those CNA members are NZ-owned media companies. Some advertising here

Rapper Snoop Dogg has upset half the world by describing transsexual Caitlyn (formerly Bruce) Jenner as a ‘science project’. Snoop was voicing his view that Akon’s efforts to supply millions of Africans with solar power isn’t rating as major news “but that science project Bruce Jenner is”.

We hear ya, Snoop.

Mr Dogg joins a growing list of media commentators pointing out that while the world has been obsessing over the Caitlyn sort of nonsense, with mainstream media’s unwavering focus on gossip, celebrity trivia and social froth; many important news stories have been sidelined.

Parting shot: Beyond Facebook

Presently, I’m trying to make friends outside of Facebook while applying the same principles.

Therefore every day, I go on the street and tell passersby what I have eaten, how I feel, what I have done the night before, and what I will do after, I give them pictures of my wife, my daughter, my cat and tips on how to improve their life.

Plus some helpful and deep quotes.

I also listen to their conversations and I tell them I like them. And it works. I already have three people following me; two police officers and a psychiatrist. brian@thesun.co.nz Facebook: Rogers Rabbits Blogger.

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Scramble for rental homes Home is where the heart is – homeless man Jay Lucas bunks down in his car for the night. Photo by Tracy Hardy

It was like a Queen St sale.

They counted down, the doors flew open and the stampede began.

But they didn’t have fistfuls of disposable dollars and they weren’t looking for bargains – these were Tauranga’s disadvantaged and vulnerable looking for somewhere to live, looking for somewhere to rent.

It’s a sellers’ market – in this instance, one three-bedroom home at $320 a week and two dozen anxious people scrambling over each other for the chance.

“You wanna live here?”

I’m house-hunting with a hopeful, a less-than-hopeful hopeful.

“Nuh! But needs must.”

It’s a modest functional home in the back of beyond, crammed at the top of a long muddy drive and dodgy-looking neighbours on loud motorbikes.

But desperation breeds compromise. And when the agent asks if

she’s interested, of course she is.

It’s depressing and demeaning.

“Now I have to wait while they sift through the ‘interested’, while they do credit and Tenancy Tribunal checks. The agent will draw up a short-list and the owner will choose on advice from the agent.”

“Even if I get on the short list, it’ll go to a couple. Why do they think a couple is a better risk?

Relationships crumble.”

It’s a lottery – and invariably the result is “not a winning ticket”.

Isn’t she anxious? She should be because she’s desperate, she’s homeless, she has nowhere to live – she’s out on the street.

And it’s one of those suffocating, dark, manky winter’s afternoons that drains the spirit. She rolls her shoulders this time.

I suspect she’s immune to disappointment. “I can’t let things get me down otherwise I’d be hopeless. And that’s not an option for mother.” She’s very in charge of her emotions.

But what makes a stunningly

attractive, well presented, smart law student in her mid-40s and her two boys such undesirable tenants. This email from Sue Warburton at Prime Rentals is a clue.

“Hi – we have turned down your application as your checks don’t meet our requirements.”

Then it cuts deeper. “You would be wasting your time coming to this viewing today. Kindest regards.”

“I have wasted a lot of time,” says the woman. “Two hours a day on TradeMe researching, and then viewing and applying. It’s time expensive.”

All this around being a mother and her studies. The law degree would drag her out of this black hole, so would her business studies. But the marks have suffered.

“I’ve been looking for three or four months.” Last weekend she had to vacate her rented home because she ran out of time.

To read the full story, go to SunLive.co.nz and search ‘The rental home scramble’. By Hunter Wells

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End of Relationships Aotearoa

After weeks of speculation and discussions over possible partnerships, Relationships Aotearoa closed its doors for good on Tuesday.

The closure marked the end of an era spanning back to 1949, when RA (then called Marriage Guidance) dealt with the dislocation within relationships involving returning servicemen from World War II. In Tauranga, 11 staff and one administrator are affected and each year an estimated 2500 cases, or 6000 clients, receive counselling in the city.

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Karts of competition Knowing the intricacies of Fagan’s Valley Raceway at 120km/h could be the key to Bay of Plenty drivers taking the chequered flag at the latest round of the NZ Rotax Max Challenge and ProKart Series.

Round four of the six-part ProKart national series roars into the Bay of Plenty Kart Club’s home track, between Te Puke and Papamoa, this weekend with drivers making the trip from across the country and the Tasman Sea. A total of 90 competitors will turnout in six categories, with the fastest karts reaching speeds of 120km/h down the back straight.

More than just a series, ProKart has cemented itself as home for the country’s elite KZ2 drivers competing in either Masters, Restricted or Open.

This series is hosted by the country’s top facilities, helping aid the challenge facing ProKart drivers of race distance and format which has proven during past years to crown a true champion.

As well as the senior KZ2 drivers, junior Cadet ROK, and Vortex Mini ROK have been added to the series for the first time this year, giving a great opportunity for newcomers to experience the challenges of this series.

Bay of Plenty Kart Club race secretary Jo Adlam says it’s fantastic to have the event Bay of Plenty Kart Club’s is lining up the action with the ProKart Series coming to the club’s home track this weekend.

Loggerheads over Papamoa log

The new owner of the Papamoa beach log is going to find bureaucrats circling like seagulls if they try and take their purchase away.

Rosalie Crawford, who runs the Papamoa Facebook page, put the log up for sale on TradeMe with a $1 reserve, which was met almost immediately.

The successful bidder, however, will have to leave the log where it is or face the prospect of obtaining a resource consent from Tauranga City Council if they wish to remove it.

Zespri’s McDonald’s coup

Mount Maunganui-based kiwifruit marketer Zespri has scored a major marketing coup with one million pieces of its new SunGold variety to be enjoyed by Mexican children as part of their McDonald’s Happy Meals this month.

Zespri general manager Carol Ward says the launch in Mexico City last weekend has been enthusiastically received by children and parents.

“The children ate all their SunGold fruit and said it was tasty and sweet,” says Carol.

Dogs back on Papamoa agenda

Random patrols and a specialised dog patrol vehicle are to be considered as the next step in an ongoing campaign against dogs on Papamoa Beach.

Councillor Steve Morris raised the issue in March, seeking to bring forward a review of the dogs’ bylaw because of complaints about dog behaviour on the beach.

He raised the dog issue again in Tauranga City Council’s Long Term Plan deliberations this week, and succeeded in a motion for council to consider putting more resources into dog control in the 2016/2017 Annual Plan.

Firefighters still on measles alert

Bay of Plenty firefighters caught up in a measles scare during a national fundraising effort are being advised to remain alert for any secondary cases of the infection.

Last month 58 Bay firefighters took part in the Firefighter Sky Tower Stair Challenge in Auckland, raising money for Leukaemia and Blood Cancer New Zealand.

Now they are being warned to place themselves in isolation if they feel unwell or think they might have measles.

The alert stems from the Auckland Regional Public Health Service confirming a person who took part in the event developed measles symptoms when returning home to Palmerston North.

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in the Bay of Plenty once again, hopefully playing into the hands of the local drivers.

Leading the local charge is Josh Adlam, sitting seventh in the Rotax Max Light division, and 13th placed Taylor Harte in the DD2 division.

Others include Hunter Cheetham in the Rotax Max Junior, Niki Urwin, who is third in the DD2 Masters division, and Blake Austin and Gemma Winters both taking part in the Vortex Mini Rok. There is also a smattering of Australian talent with two junior and two senior drivers on the grid, as well as Palmerston North karting international Josh Hart, who is now living and working in NZ after six years overseas.

The winner of the Rotax Max Light, DD2 and Rotax Max Junior divisions will all book their spots at the Rotax World champs in Spain later this year.

This means there is some serious racing to be held across the weekend as the series nears the business end of the season, says Jo. “It’s quite major, these drivers are the top in NZ and have these six rounds to get as many points and try to get to the worlds.

“It’s great to have a round here in the BOP and hopefully a good advantage for the local drivers.”

Tomorrow’s opening day has an eightminute qualifying round for all drivers followed by two heats. Subsequent heats, pre-finals and finals are held on Sunday.

Both days run from 9am-4pm.

Drivers then head into round five in Auckland before the sixth and final round in Hamilton.

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Community halls now owned by BVL Ownership of nine city halls has been transferred to Bay Venues Ltd, Tauranga City’s council-controlled organisation created to operate the city venues.

Buildings to be transferred are The Queen Elizabeth Youth Centre and Memorial Hall, excluding Daniel’s, the Mount Maunganui Sports Centre, Bethlehem Hall, Greerton Community Hall, Matua Hall, Tauriko Hall, Welcome Bay Hall, Arataki Community Centre, and Papamoa Sport and Recreation Centre.

Submissions from the public to Tauranga City Council’s Long Term Plan on the issue were divided.

While ratepayers were keen for the promised efficiency gains, fears were also expressed it could result in the sale or closure of venues and increases in hire costs to bring them up to commercial rates.

Councillors also approved the setting of BVL’s operating grants budgets for the 2015/2016 year at operating grant of $2,515,887, interest grant of $520,000, and

a depreciation charge of $3,382,773 which is not a grant, but retained within TCC. The council also receives the internal submission on BVL Capital programme and approved an amended budgeted capital programme for 2015/2016 of renewal capital $3,712,161 and new capital $2,560,900.

At Blake Park an additional $60,000 to relocate the cricket wicket and install sports field lighting is approved. TCC also increased the operational grant budget for Tourism Bay of Plenty for 2015/2016 to $915,000.

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When power bills cause chills But St Vincent De Paul Tauranga support person Carol Devoy-Heena says they can barely give them away.“We got thousands of heaters but nobody wants to use them.” Why? “They can’t afford to use them.”

Carol says many Tauranga are families struggling to pay their power bills.

“It’s just horrific. I’ve had families who are in Housing New Zealand Corporation houses with old panel heaters. Now the Housing NZ Corporation won’t replace those [with alternative type of heater], they’ll only give you another one – and I’m talking one panel heater in a house and it just chews through power.”

Otherwise, Housing NZ homes are provided with a fire. “But the means of a solo mother getting firewood and paying for it is extremely difficult.

it but couldn’t afford the electricity to turn it on.

“We challenge the Government to immediately adopt the Green Party’s plan for a warrant of fitness for all rentals, to ensure no child has to live in the same conditions Emma-Lita was forced to,” says Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei.

The Government must also instruct Work and Income NZ to be compassionate and flexible when granting payments to families who need help to pay the power bill this winter, says Meteria.

“Families who can’t afford the power to heat their homes should be given grants to pay their power bill that they do not need to repay.”

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Carol agrees. “I do think it’s a good idea but people who privately own rentals and Housing Corporation need to clean up their act.

“Most have heaters which hardly heat the home in the first place and it’s costing tenants a fortune to run.”

Carol says the result is families stop using heaters.

It’s a hard one – they’re pushed.

They try to think they’ll do without a heater but you get a few cold St Vincent De Paul Tauranga’s nights and it’s simply too cold.”

Problem not limited Many families approach St Carol Devoy-Heena says many Carol says the problem is not only Vincent de Paul Tauranga, asking Tauranga families don’t use heaters limited to beneficiaries. “I have a for grants to pay power bills after because they can’t afford the power friend and she suffers bronchioliWINZ has turned them down, or bills for running them. tis. All she’s got in her house is a ordered they pay back a power bill fireplace but she can’t afford the firewood – she’s on a grant. “They come to us – and we do look at it but low wage.” This week Green Party is calling on Govmore often than not we can’t pay it. ernment to make non-recoverable grants to families “We spent something like $40,000 on paying off struggling with power bills this winter, to help prepower bills alone last year and we simply couldn’t vent children becoming sick from cold, damp homes. sustain it.

This comes as coroner Brandt Shortland ruled “Being a charity organisation we’ve just had to say a cold, damp Housing NZ home may have conno because the power costs have got so high.” tributed to the death of Otara toddler Emma-Lita To read the full story , go to SunLive.co.nz and search Bourne. The family had been given a heater to warm ‘Bay heating bills that bite’.

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Tauranga’s new diamond in the rough There isn’t a pretzel or hot dog in sight but for a group of Tauranga baseball fanatics it doesn’t mean the next homegrown sporting star can’t swing a bat and pitch a ball on the highest stage.

Think Dan Carter kicking it in rugby, Rhett Ellison in American football or Winston Reid plying his trade in the English Premier League. Now why not baseball?

Widely renowned as America’s pastime, it’s one of the last major team sports New Zealand’s vast sporting prowess can tap into, according to Baseball New Zealand.

So with this vision in mind the Tauranga City Baseball

Club has been formed – bringing the widely popular sport to the Bay of Plenty for the first time.

Founder Richard Gilligan says the driving force is to offer their children a wider range of sporting opportunities – and a possible career path.

Not to be confused with softball, baseball sees the ball pitched overarm with Major League Baseball players earning in excess $3 million per season.

Kiwis are already beginning to be snapped up on the US scene with the likes of Daniel Bradley, Ben Thompson and Cooper Hutchinson all in the semi-professional leagues or on baseball scholarships.

“They all got started in baseball clubs in NZ and we want to develop players

in Tauranga and give our kids a chance to pursue their baseball dreams and compete competitively here and overseas. “This is part of our club vision statement,” says Richard.

So the not-for-profit, incorporated society is hunting for registrations of interest from people to play, coach, umpire or manage teams.

Children as young as seven can register ahead of an envisaged inaugural Under 13 and Under 11 competition this spring. Richard

says; they’re working closely with Tauranga City Council, Sport Bay of Plenty and the sport’s governing body – and their efforts aren’t going unnoticed.

“Richard and Shane, and their group, they are fast-moving and dynamic,” says Baseball NZ chief executive Ryan Flynn. “They are one of the most go-get-them groups of individuals I’ve seen in my five years in the country.

“So I have a lot of faith Tauranga baseball is going to be a great success,” says Ryan. He admits

NZ is a relative latecomer to the sport, offering considerable global potential, yet in the last five years player jumped from 600 to 6000 and three clubs turned into 18.

Formal registrations are in July and August. For more information, email TaurangaCityBaseball@gmail.com or see Tauranga City Baseball Club on Facebook.

To read the full story, go to SunLive.co.nz and search ‘Baseball comes to Tauranga.”

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“Six of our girls have just come back from Australia where they placed well in Figures, Duets, Solos and Open Team categories,” says Tauranga Synchronised Swimming coach Julieta Diaz.

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During lifts swimmers are required not to touch the bottom – yet pull off an outstanding lift.

Julieta says the club’s beginners group, the Dolphins, most of which have only started with Tauranga Synchro this year, will be showing off their very first routines in a display on Sunday – one to music from ‘The Lion King’ and the other to ‘The Bare Necessities’ from ‘The Jungle Book’.

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At age three, Zoe Beck was convinced she was a five-yearold boy called Daniel. She wore boys’ swimming shorts with flames on them and shark goggles all summer.

Now, the 15-year-old’s hip-hop, streetwear-inspired fashion collection is hitting the runway at New Zealand Eco Fashion Week in Wellington this weekend.

“I’m really excited,” says Zoe. “I never would’ve dreamed a year ago that this is where I’d be as a designer in such a short space of time.”

Zoe is the youngest designer to be accepted to show a collection on the catwalk, alongside more than 25 established NZ and international designers.

“I really didn't think I’d be taken seriously at 15 as an emerging designer. To be honest, I didn’t think I was going to be accepted.”

Zoe’s entire collection is made from used and second-hand clothing, using a range of textures including satin, jersey, vinyl and stretchy fabric – as well as beaded fabric from pre-loved Indian kurtas.

“It sounds really crazy to combine all of these, but it works,” says Zoe. To her, fashion is art – and art is expression. “You can express who you are and who you want to be through what you wear.”

However, Zoe knows teenagers can be judgemental of people’s fashion choices.

“I want to tell people to just be yourself, don’t be false and follow the crowd. Wear what makes you happy and stop worrying about everyone else.”

Zoe always loved dressing up and creating clothes. “I’d cut up old T-shirts and paint them – add things to my jeans and tie strips of patterned material to my wrists and ankles.”

Fashion seems a fitting career for Zoe. “It’s like playing dress-ups forever,” says Zoe. But she knows it’s also a lot of hard work.

“I’ve had to miss out on so much during the last few months. I’ve spent every weekend and evening designing, drawing, thinking of ideas and sewing until late at night. It’ll all be worth it though.”

So what’s next for the young designer? Well, without saying too much, Zoe’s been invited to design for a major upcoming NZ fashion event. But her lips are sealed.

Zoe thanks her mum Donna for her constant support. Follow Zoe’s journey on her Facebook page Zoe Beck Designer.

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Domain athletics track half-funded Tauranga City Council will pay for half of the purchase cost of a new athletic track for Tauranga Domain, and it will pay the ongoing depreciation costs.

The current track installed in 2007/2008 at a cost of $1.5 million, was expected to have a working life of 15 years, but this year was revealed it will be unusable in less than three years.

During Long Term Plan delibera-

tions this week TCC resolved to pay $395,350 or half the total project cost, whichever is towards the resurfacing costs in 2017/2018.

The council money is subject to the Tauranga Millennium Track Trust securing the remainder of funds required.

The council will fully fund depreciation of the new track at a cost of $60,000 per annum. A new user fees and charges regime will be formally consulted through the 2016 Annual Plan process, with any charges to be implemented starting in the 2016/2017 year.

Fruit of the Pacific volunteers Sam Charrington and Zane Holloway are currently in Fiji learning and filming/documenting the process of earthship hut building.

Te Puke’s earthship build This weekend Te Puke and its Vanuatu kiwifruit workers are coming together to build a possible safe shelter solution for the Pacific Island nation during disasters.

Te Puke’s Sam Charrington and Zane Holloway this month went over to learn the skill. Next week they return to project manage the earthship build in Te Puke.

Kylie says earthships are windresistant structure, making them ideal for Vanuatu.

“The particular model we’ll

to make the structures is people – and there’s a lot there who’ve lost everything, or are willing to put energy into something that’s going to keep them safe.”

Safety factor

The safety factor is key to Kylie.

“There’s just so many people I know who literally ran from house to house as homes flew Te Puke’s Fruit of the Pacific away around them during the charitable trust is spearheading cyclone, while carrying their a two-week project to teach Ni children in their arms. I can’t Vanuatu RSE workers how to imagine something much build an ‘earthship’ when they scarier than that.” return home – to use as houses Kylie says if Ni vans don’t or safety shelters. build earthship huts as Earthships are a self-conhomes, building one as a tained, impact-minimising survivor shelter in each villand-based ‘ship’ – constructed lage will be beneficial. “So from what others throw away everyone has somewhere and designed to work in harsafe to go.” Tomorrow and mony with the environment, Sunday, preparation work say their designers Earthship begins to build an earthship Biotecture.

An earthship hut in Philippines - built by at the Branns Farm at PaenFruit of the Pacific’s Kylie Earthship Biotecture in response to typhoon. garoa before Sam and Zane’s DellaBarca Steel witnessed arrival, with the pair to teach Cyclone Pam hit Vanuatu on RSE workers the skill.

March 15-16. build – it doesn’t have four stand“The build is open to the com“I saw what it did to people’s ard walls and a normal roof. houses and RSE workers have “It’s circular and completely cov- munity to help too.”

This weekend, people can help been coming here for seven years ered in dirt so wind blows around out and bring tools to use in the now, and slowly built themselves and over it and it doesn’t have a build, then donate them to RSE permanent houses back home, roof structure to lift off, because workers to take to Vanuatu. mostly made of corrugated iron. it’s usually when a roof lifts off “They’re all really keen to learn that the strength of a house strucbecause they just don’t have the No homes ture disappears.” resources to build a new home “But in four hours everything Another benefit is the low-cost and the money they earn here is was ripped off around them and of an earthship’s main materials – going to paying for survival. they ended up with no homes.” tyres and dirt.

The earthship build is at Branns Learning about earthships from “Tyres in Vanuatu are either Farm, 814 Allport Rd, Paengaroa. a documentary, Kylie emailed the dumped in big piles like in NZ To donate tools, call 027 286 creators to see if they’d help in or people burn them, which is an 7993 or email kylie.fop@gmail.

Vanuatu. She got a reply saying issue, or bury them. com they’re building one in Fiji, so “After tyres, the biggest resource

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Collecting for the Lions’ kitty Maxine Shanks and Dianne Watson sort through a collection 78rpm Bakelite disks getting ready for the Kiwicoast Lions’ book sale on June 18-21. Photo by Tracy Hardy

Stacks and stacks of books, CDs, DVDs, games, puzzles and magazines are in storage in Te Puke awaiting the big move to the Memorial Hall for the Te Puke KiwiCoast Lions 20th book fair next Thursday.

The fair opens at 8am Thursday, June 18 and Friday, June 19, and 9am on Saturday, June 21, in what has become the Kiwicoast Lions’ biggest fundraiser. The book fair is always popular, says Kiwicoast Lions’ Maxine Shanks.

“When we open the doors on the Thursday morning there’s usually about 80 people waiting outside the doors to get in, and they literally push one another to get through the doors,” says Maxine.

“We stand back to watch. If it’s raining the say ‘let us in, let us in’. But we are not going to let them in till we are ready. We will open the doors at eight

o’clock.” As well as the books there are also collectable books and this year a collection of 50-60 78rpm Bakelite disks.

They pre-date vinyl records and are now collectable, says Maxine.

“People just drop things off and we don’t know where they come from.

“It’s quite amazing. I volunteer at the Te Puke Hospice Shop, and two or three weeks ago we actually had the HMV gramophone and some records to go with it on TradeMe. “It was a good price, yeah.”

Book fair hours are June 18-19 from 8am-6pm and June 20 from 9am-3pm.

And funds raised go back into the Te Puke community. “Proceeds get distributed to a lot of things, sometime youth. We’ve done the fire brigade, Plunket, St John Ambulance, the school,” says Maxine.

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Katikati College is hosting a music concert this month to raise funds to purchase new sound and lighting gear for the school.

Tickets are now on sale for the June 20 concert featuring Sarah Spicer, Zuhana and other guests.

Held at Katikati College Hall on June 20, doors open 6.30pm for a 7pm start. Tickets cost $10 each from Katikati College Office or text message 022 328 3006.

It was the night of Maureen Guy’s unrehearsed and undignified descent of the mezzanine staircase at Baycourt.

She tripped and tumbled.

Maureen Guy – a true friend of Baycourt. Photo by Tracy Hardy. and taking them to print.

It’s important because it’s an official record of the first three decades of the cultural hub of this city. Songs and scripts and shows course through Maureen’s veins.

“I love the theatre, I love this theatre.”

A smart aleck stepped out of the interval crowd and offered the crumpled heap a Mintie. “It’s times like this…” and all that. In theatre, in comedy, it’s all about the timing. Maureen tells the story at her own expense in ‘The Story of Baycourt’ – the newly published warts and all, blow by blow, show by show, success and failure account of 30 years in theatre – our theatre.

Important

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Isn’t it quite an important cultural document? “Mmm, yes,” says Maureen, after trawling through her vast private collection of 299 show programmes, scrapbooks and archives, gathering anecdotes, collating, writing up

So ‘The Story of Baycourt’ is something very personal, very passionate for her. “I suppose it was my baby,” she says. A six-month gestation – an enjoyable and at times problematic gestation.

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Like the Baycourt opening – that was sheer theatre because the curtain went up – figuratively – before the curtain could actually go up – literally. It was April 1983 and Prince Charles and Princess Diana were still a headline act.

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Russian King Jesse James, 17, plays Ukranian King Oscar van der Beek, 18, with chess pieces Courtney Gilbert, 17, Tessa Matier, 17, and Ellie Sardelich, 17. Photo by Tracy Hardy.

It was a real life bloody and prolonged conflict over ownership of territory on the Crimean Peninsula. Hundreds of thousands died and it ultimately ended in a stalemate.

Now the conflict is being played out on a chess board, on a stage, by almost 150 Mount Maunganui College students.

They’ll bring the whole gruesome affair to life at Auckland’s Aotea Centre on June 26. They’re calling their 2015 Stage Challenge performance ‘Stalemate’.

Mount Maunganui College’s head of drama and dance Wayne Flanagan says the overall message of their performance is anti-war.

“There is a sentiment from part of the country to go back to Russian rule. So there’s a conflict within Ukraine as to whether they should be self-ruled or Russian ruled.

“Of course, Russia has invaded so there’s a tension in the area. We’re examining that tension in the Crimea.”

And they’re doing it all on a chess board. A sixmetre by seven-metre carpet painted black and white.

The students – pawns, rooks, bishops, knights and the king and queen – will take their place on the

chess board. Pro-Russian on one side, pro-Ukraine on the other.

“It begins when the Ukrainians and protestors come to the town square and Russians soldiers come to subdue them,” says Wayne.

“It reaches the point of tension. A war bird appears with half a dozen helpers; they set up the chess board and everybody takes their places.”

And just like the real war, there’ll be casualties.

Obviously fake, but realistic ‘show’ deaths.

“It’s a very contemporary dance piece,” says Wayne.

“The dancers act on the chess board and as each of the players are taken, they’ll be carried off by stretcher-bearers.”

Though unlike the real war – in this re-enactment there’ll be romance. An underlying narrative of the love affair between the Ukrainian king and Russian queen.

“The queen has to choose whether to conquer her lover or to live her life,” says Wayne. Without giving away the ending, Wayne says the queen’s choice will end in not a checkmate – but a stalemate.

Thirteen Tauranga schools will take part in two massive nights of youth creativity and expression at

By Zoe Hunter Baycourt Theatre on June 11-12.

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Show favourites Te Mata Figs, Culley’s hot sauces and Desserts

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New exhibitors Te Horo Foods, Durello Cheese Bread, and Doug Jarvis Butchers will also be there, and they‘re all proudly NZ owned and operated businesses that pride

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Council chooses medium development plan for city Tauranga City Councillors have chosen the medium level of $8 million to be spent on The Strand and central city during the next five years. The choice was $4 million, $8 million or $12 million.

The development of the waterfront will provide both a venue for events and also a place where the city can celebrate its heritage and its connection to water.

A redeveloped waterfront and series of streetscape and open space projects are intended to become some of the city’s great places and spaces, and contribute to the improvement of the city centre.

Councillors followed staff advice to go for the $8 million plan in this week’s Long Term Plan deliberations this week – and signal the intention to review funding during the 2018-2028 LTP. The council’s intention to lift the quality of urban open space is one of the factors that attracts both businesses and individuals to a city and to a city centre, as was highlighted by the private sector in the Martin Jenkins 2014 report.

Instead of starting out with a comprehensive overall plan like the multiple failed waterfront designs, the intention now is to adopt a concept plan and engage with the community and end users on each project within the proposed schedule prior to detailed design stage.

The decision was unanimous, but there was discussion over the motion to include a proposed Memorial Park/Strand walkway and cycle track in the CBD/ Strand decision.

This is in addition to the decision to spend $30,000 having another look at the project.

Originally part of the southern pipeline project, the walkway was dropped in 2007 when after spending $1 million or more on consents, the $12 million project was dropped when KiwiRail wouldn’t let the pipeline hitch hike on its bridge.

That was when the walkway was to follow the

A Memorial Park walkway is ‘riddled with issues’. route of the Southern Pipeline, which was back then intended to follow the shoreline to the railway bridge.

But now the Government and the New Zealand Transport Agency are both offering cycleways subsidies that could substantially reduce the costs, says TCC councillor Steve Morris.

“We have an opportunity here and we must at least consider it,” says Steve.

Mayor Stuart Crosby was against bringing the walkway project into the CBD/waterfront ‘bridge to bridge’ budget, saying it’s an ad-hoc approach and that council should stick to the CBD/waterfront resourcing it consulted the public on.

While he supports the concept, he warns it’s “riddled with issues” and it isn’t going to happen in two or three years. “It’s absolutely a complex piece of work that someone is going to have to do,” says Stuart. “There are boat sheds there people have (riparian) rights to.

“In terms of an alignment sure, but it should be treated as a separate project and not muddled and confused with what we have determined to be the ‘bridge to bridge’ from the waterfront perspective.”

By Andrew Campbell

Kiwisaver still an attractive savings tool With many Kiwis returning back from Australia, the opportunity exists for these returning migrants to join KiwiSaver for the first time or possibly get their existing scheme going again.

Despite the loss of the $1000 kickstart, KiwiSaver still remains a very attractive retirement savings vehicle.

Employees still benefit from employer contributions of at least three per cent per annum of salary, plus member tax credits of up to $521 per annum.

For the self-employed, or those not working, contributing at least $1042 per annum will get you the member tax credit of $521 per annum.

In addition, Kiwis working in Australia are likely to have been contributing to Australian Super Funds and these funds can be transferred back to your New Zealand KiwiSaver.

Recent improvements to KiwiSaver have made it more attractive for younger people to use to help build a deposit for their first home.

In my view, every employee should be in KiwiSaver.

KiwiSaver is big business and here to stay – and savers should regularly review their funds to ensure they meet their objectives.

Don’t just put the annual state-

ment in the draw! Take some time to study your statement –after all, it is your money.

KiwiSaver should form an important part of retirement planning for most people and I’m constantly surprised by how many people I meet who don’t know who their KiwiSaver provider is and what their fund is worth.

The end of June is the deadline to make sure you have contributed at least $1042 in the KiwiSaver contribution period of 12 months, to ensure you get the Government Member Tax credit of $521 added.

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SunLive updated mobile app allows people to connect to blogs, videos, what’s on in the community and breaking news alerts.

The SunLive mobile app has been updated daily news updates and breaking news via email, so readers can have their say on the stories that matter to to include more information for readers them. to be better connected, as the company The app is available for iPhone, iPad and Android phones – or the mobile friendly website is available at continues its aim of leading the way www.sunlive.co.nz in both digital and print news.

Readers can get the app by going to the App Store on Apple devices, or the Google Play store on Android, The mobile app gives readers fast, up-to-date or visiting www.sunlive.co.nz on their favourite web coverage of regional news in Tauranga and Western browser.

Bay of Plenty – as well as Eastern BOP and CoromanSunMedia digital services manager Jay Burston says del. having the new, upgraded app means SunMedia is at Now, the upgraded version allows people to conthe forefront in the ever-increasing world of mobile nect to blogs, videos, what’s on in the community and content, delivering up-to-the-minute news to people breaking news alerts. on the move.

Readers can also register to comment and receive

Hear the city leaders’ views on Tauranga’s future Tauranga residents have an opportunity to hear directly from their senior city leaders at this month’s City Leaders Annual Lunch.

Dubbed “an event you shouldn’t miss”, speakers include Tauranga MP Simon Bridges, who’ll give the central government view of what is

planned for the Bay, the infrastructural spend, whether that includes Local Government reform and what that may look like.

Mayor Stuart Crosby will look at the city, the region and the future, and touch on amalgamation and the future city developments.

Plus Westpac Business Leader

for 2014 Steve Saunders will speak on the innovation eco system here in the Bay and what it can deliver to the region. The City Leaders Annual Lunch is on Friday, June 19 from 11.45am-2pm at Tauranga Chamber of Commerce.

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Pampering pooches and doggy daycare Not only do the professional and friendly team at Papamoa Kennels and Cattery care for animals while their owners are away for the day – they can groom them too.

than 20 years specialising in small animal medicine, so customers can be rest assured their fury four-legged friends are in good hands during their stay.

If it’s just a tidy up needed for the pooch pal, dog groomer Suzy Knowles is the woman to see.

Suzy is a qualified veterinary nurse Owned by Chris and Craig McCulland has been grooming for about six och, Papamoa Kennels and Cattery months – and she loves her job. offer competitively-priced boarding “I’ve always loved dogs,” says Suzy. and dog stay services, as well as a full “I’m animal mad professional groomand I like the ing service for all creative side of sized dogs. it too.

The Day Stay for “I like making Dogs service keeps them look pretty pooches of any type and feeling good and size socialised, again.” exercised and stimuTo keep lated while their canines’ coats owners are at work looking top for the day. notch, Suzy Their facilities cater suggests for loads of activity regular brushwith large grassed ing – particularly areas for bigger dogs for long-haired and separate running dogs. areas for the smaller “We recomdogs and toy dogs. mend a regular Chris is a qualified Papamoa Kennels and Cattery bath and brush veterinarian for more dog groomer Suzy Knowles. between grooms, and we can take care of the maintenance from there.”

For a friendly and professional service in doggy stays or grooming, contact Papamoa Kennels and Cattery on the corner of Welcome Bay Rd and State Highway 2 today.

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Western Bay dog tags go yellow These dogs are among the hundreds which will sport new yellow registrations tags from next month.

It’s nearly dog registration time and this year’s canine fashion accessory in the Western Bay is yellow, says Western Bay of Plenty District Council compliance and monitoring manager Alison Curtis.

“Current registration expires on June 30 and dog owners should look out for a reminder coming to letterboxes soon.

“This will have information about the registration process. It’s really easy to do. You simply update the details on the registration form and return to council along with the fee,” says Alison.

“Once you’ve done this we’ll provide you with the stylish yellow tag for the 2015/2016 year.”

The registration pack includes news on the new animal services team at the Western BOP council and the services they provide.

These include microchipping, education, and enforcement. There will also be updates on registering and adopting dogs online – and details about where you can exercise your dog in the district.

WBOPDC animal services team responds to complaints about dogs and stock, monitors the behaviour of dogs in the community and educates dog owners and the wider public.

The ultimate aim is to keep our community safe around dogs and ensure dogs are well looked after.

“You can do your bit by making sure your dog is wearing yellow this July,” says Alison.

Don’t skip past Skip My name is Skip and I’m a seven-year-old male huntaway-cross. I came to Tauranga SPCA from another SPCA as I need to find a new home in a different town from where I used to live.

I’m a big, handsome, lovable boy who adores being around people, so much so you’ll hear me barking and trying to get your

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attention when you come down to the SPCA dog area. I don’t bark all the time, only when people are around, so when I find my new home I will not be so noisy once I’m settled and content.

Please ask the SPCA team if you can meet me if you’d like to add a big, happy bundle of joy in your home.

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Wrap up warm for winter It’s goodbye to the summer wardrobe and hello to winter. Now the colder weather is here, it’s the perfect time to warm up the wardrobe.

To help heat up your winter apparel – The Weekend Sun has browsed some must-have fashion items for the winter wardrobe.

Bring out the boots to warm up the footsies – these can be ankle or knee high. Add some sparkly or patterned socks that peep above the boot for a stylish look.

It’s time to put the legs away with some leggings or stockings – choose some with patterns for a fresh and funky look.

Winter is the time to wrap up with layers. Add a sweater on top of a longer long-sleeve blouse.

Tunics are a must-have - dress up a sleeveless one with a snug bright-coloured long-sleeved top underneath.

To keep warm up top, add the winter accessories including beanies and scarves.

How about a snood, which can be worn sitting comfortably on the shoulders or pulled up over the head for a relaxed weekend look.

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Have you ever looked in the mirror and not liked what you’ve seen? Or maybe you just don’t feel your usual confident, fresh-faced self.

The problem many people face when considering undergoing cosmetic surgery procedures is feeling embarrassed that others may think they are vain.

That’s why it’s important people who are concerned about their appearance discuss it with a professional who can give the best advice about cos-

metic surgery and its suitability.

Within this feature are plenty of professionals within this field, happy to offer their advice and expertise.

These days such procedures in New Zealand and abroad are well regarded, and a real option for people who want to feel more comfortable with their appearance.

They are becoming more common, and many procedures today are not overly invasive. So do your research and follow your heart.

Try a natural, fresh look When we age, so does our skin. Sun, lifestyle and genetics all have an impact on our skin. Our skin turns a little duller, less lustrous, and wrinkles start to appear. At some point, it happens to all of us.

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We can’t stop aging but we can do something to refresh and smooth away wrinkles and restore volume.

Restylane products – we have heard of them as dermal fillers – contain a substance called hyaluronic acid.

This occurs naturally in the body and has many functions, one is giving the skin hydration. Naturally it lasts only a few days, but through a stabilisation process unique to Restylane the results are long-lasting and well-tolerated.

Restylane products have been thoroughly researched and have a proven safety record. There have been more than 15 million treatments worldwide.

Restylane is not a permanent filler. As we age, we want our treatments to suit our needs and wishes at the time.

We don’t want our lips or cheeks to look the same at age 60 as they were at age 20. It doesn’t look natural and what we want to achieve with cosmetic enhancement is a natural, fresh look. Not a Beverly Hills housewife!

Treatments can be tailored to suit individual budgets and needs. Consultations are free and confidential.

Whether you’re wanting a few lip lines corrected or your cheek volume restored, maybe skin texture improved, Restylane could be for you. It has minimal downtime and discomfort for maximum results.

Contact the Skin Centre to arrange a complimentary consultation on 0800 SkinCentre (754 623).

By Leanne Cashmore, New Zealand registered nurse

Leanne Cashmore is a registered nurse trained in appearance medicine, specifically the expert use of Botulinum toxin, Botox/Dysport and dermal filling and Restylane.

Affordable and accessible surgery Jackie Brown’s goal is to make cosmetic surgery affordable and accessible to everyone.

The owner of Bums Tums and Gums escorts Travel Smart Groups to Thailand for restorative surgery. Jackie can guide people step-by-step through the whole surgery or dental holiday process.

“I offer a range of packages so you can look and feel your best, and make

the most of your natural beauty.”

Affordable cosmetic surgery, including breast implants, reductions, face-lift, liposuction, tummy tuck, eyelift, rhinoplasty, gender reassignment surgery – and more – are available from top surgeons in Thailand.

Jackie understands the decision to have plastic surgery or dental treatments can be a big one – and choosing to have these medical procedures oversees can make it an

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“I am here to answer any questions and concerns to make sure that you can make an informed decision about your procedure in Thailand,” says Jackie.

She understands clients have different needs but all the same goals – to look and feel great.

“Whatever your reason, the goal is the same: to reveal your true self, to make you the best you can be, to renew your energy and spirit and to live your dreams.”

Jackie encourages people to shape their dreams into reality by talking to Bum Tums and Gums about either travelling independently or going on an escorted tour.

Listen to Jackie speak on surgeries available on Tuesday, July 7 at 5.30pm. Email jackie@ bumstumsandgums.co.nz and register for the venue location.

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Don’t put up with niggling imperfections Lots of sun, sea and fresh Bay of Plenty air might be good for the soul, but what about those niggling imperfections due to Mother Nature?

Plastic surgeon Tristan de Chalain believes there is no reason to put up with drooping eyelids, sagging skin or overlarge breasts.

“For example, brow lifts can enhance both vision and appearance, breast reduction removes the discomfort and restriction of large breasts – and a labiaplasty allows for better-fitting clothing and functionality in day-to-day activities.

“Reasons for tackling these

“Don’t be afraid of being rejected by others. Most of the time it has nothing to do with you” – LAURA HOUSSAIN. If you miss out on something, think you are out of the loop or are feeling excluded, it’s easy to let feelings of rejection or inferiority become overwhelming. However,

being rejected doesn’t hold you back from anything, only you can hold yourself back.

And often there is a misunderstanding or combination of circumstances beyond anyone’s control behind what happened, rather than a deliberate act of rejection.

Finding out why things happened

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There are three award levels, and ‘Whanau' is the second, given to ECE services which have strengthened their healthy eating and physical activity knowledge and practice.

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problems are as practical as they are aesthetic.”

Tristan says not only will these improvements contribute to a sense of wellbeing, they will also impact on one’s ability to function.

“These days, cosmetic procedures are becoming more and more refined and are safer and quicker.

Importantly, these enhancements are designed to look as natural as possible.”

A former president of New Zealand Foundation of Cosmetic Plastic Surgery, Tristan spent 10 years at Middlemore Hospital lending his skills to post-trauma, craniofacial and cleft palate surgery, before moving to his private practice. as they did could be the first step to resolving the situation…and it may be important to do so as a relationship could depend upon it.

Do you immediately examine what has happened when you feel rejected or do you let yourself stay in that place of overwhelm?

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Tristan is an experienced plastic surgeon and has worked on multiple continents. He provides tailored top-to-toe solutions that meet his individual patient’s expectations.

He offers solutions for an extensive range of issues including skin cancers,

paediatric conditions, post-trauma reconstruction, as well as an extensive range of aesthetic procedures.

His wide-ranging interests, as well as his surgical expertise, means he has an easy rapport with patients and relates to people from all walks of life.

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Let dinner be easy with lentils Want something easy to make when you arrive home in darkness on a winter’s night?

Lentils are quick to cook, and with their earthy flavour and high nutrition content, they make a fantastic vegetarian meal.

Chopped smoked almonds add crunch and an unexpected hint of smoky flavour.

Ingredient tip: Brown lentils have an earthy flavour and cook quickly,

in about 20 minutes. With a sweet, nutty flavour, red lentils are a beautiful alternative to brown, but they take a bit longer to cook, about 30 minutes. Green lentils, which have a stronger flavour with a hint of pepper, take the longest to cook, about 45 minutes.

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Smoky lentils with vegetables 1 tbsp sesame oil 2 tsp whole cumin seeds 1 carrot, chopped 1 celery stalk, chopped 1 leek, trimmed and chopped

3 garlic cloves, minced 3 cups gluten-free Vegetable broth 1 cup brown lentils, drained and rinsed Salt Freshly ground black pepper Garnish: ¾ cup unsalted smoked almonds, coarsely chopped ½ cup plain Greek yogurt Method Heat sesame oil in a stockpot set over low heat. Add cumin seeds and cook, stirring, until fragrant, about one minute.

Increase the heat to high and add carrot, celery, leek, and garlic. Cook, stirring, until the vegetables begin to soften, about three minutes.

Add vegetable broth and lentils and lower the heat. Simmer, uncovered, until the lentils are tender, about 20 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.

Serve hot, garnished with the almonds and yogurt.

Per serving: Calories 307, total fat 9.3g, saturated fat 0.9g, trans fat 0.0g, sodium 97mg, total carbohydrates 40.3g, sugars 7.7g, protein 18.6g.

The pain of ditching the junk food this June Chocolate, lollies, cakes and booze – I’m giving it all up for the entire 30 days of June. Well, I might have to compromise on the booze.

They’re calling it Junk Free June. It’s the latest trend and it’s all for a good cause. Junk Free June is a new fundraising event for the Cancer Society that challenges our ability to say ‘no’.

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The hashtag #junkfreejune is trending and many are taking up the challenge, including celebrities such as David Farrier, Amber Pebbles, Jamie Ridge and Millie Elder-Holmes. She’s going vegan for the month as she already eats clean. Then there’s me.

For someone with a very large sweet tooth, I can tell you I’m off to a very bad start.

I see lollies everywhere – and I want them. My sweet tooth feels like it’s pulsating through my gums. I’ve found it so difficult my flatmate has enlisted himself as my personal adjudicator – and boy he’s harsh! But very encouraging. He’s taught me how to make the best omelette for lunch and inspired many of my new healthy snack ideas.

For some reason when you’re not allowed something, the temptation is even more overwhelming.

The other day I was invited to a high tea for a cousin’s birthday. That’s high tea with platefuls of macaroons, scones topped with jam and cream, and a personal favourite – the chocolate brownie which I subconsciously helped myself too. Please don’t tell my flatmate! This is our secret.

I admit this new trend has challenged my inability to wield self-control. On Monday I devoured half a bag of lollies, on Tuesday I sipped on a glass of wine. I apologise, but I promise to make up for it in donations to the cause.

My friend Morgan is doing much better than me.

She’s given up alcohol, refined sugars and general junk food.

“I started off by doing a three-day juice cleanse to kick-start my system – that was the hardest bit,” says Morgan.

Her junk food cravings haven’t been too bad. But, like me, she’s missing her wine. Despite this, she knows it’s for a good cause.

“We all know someone who has been affected by cancer and it’s making a good lifestyle change for me too.”

You can show your support for Morgan by donating to www.junkfreejune.org.nz/participants/ morgan-storrie or share your escapades using the hashtag #junkfreejune

By Zoe Hunter

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Solving sight woes in low light In a Bay of Plenty first, Mount Maunganui’s Fischer and Fischer Optometrists has invested in new equipment that can test the performance of prescription lenses and eyewear in both low light and high glare before purchase.

Fischer and Fischer Optometrists director Karl Fischer says many people find new glasses improve their eyesight in daylight conditions, but had problems at dusk or midday due to glare.

“Often they don’t even realise there is a problem until after they’ve been wearing their new glasses for a while, so they either live with the problem or have costly lens corrections made.”

Karl says to help patients get the correct

glasses right from the start, Fischer and Fischer Optometrists has invested in new equipment that simulates all lighting conditions during the test.

“We’re very excited about the equipment as we’re the first and only Optometrists in Bay of Plenty to be using it.

“At Fischer and Fischer Eye Care

we’re committed to providing highly personalised service to our patients, to ensure they get the best possible product to enhance their eyesight.”

With four team members, including two optometrists and a dispensing optician – Fischer and Fischer has 95 years’ combined experience working in eye care.

Fischer and Fischer Optometrists’ Anya and Karl Fischer are offering a solution to eyesight woes at dusk and midday due to glare.

Setting a new challenge to beat diabetes Eat For Keeps recently set up a new charitable trust called NZ BloodSugar Foundation to raise funds to provide people with free advice and support to help with their weight and diabetes issues.

We’re delighted NZBSF has already been provided with pro bono fees from local law and accounting firms Sharp Tudhope and KPMG, and Verve, a Wellington event company.

The first project will be to run a free three-month wellness challenge pilot, which will launch this September.

Details will be released about this challenge as progress is made. An important part of this project will be to recruit up to 20 type 2 diabetics with the primary objective to study the effectiveness of treating their condition with an appropriate combination of food and drink, a specific regime of physical exercise, and motivational and support techniques using wearable technology.

As glucose intolerance improves, in conjunction with the participant’s GP, diabetic medications will be decreased. And the end goal is for participants to ultimately present with lower HbA1c levels and other key medical markers within the normal range – and possibly be free from diabetic medication.

They’ll be issued with an electronic watch called a Fit Bit, which will enable them at a glance to keep track of their heart rate, steps taken, kilometres walked, stairs climbed and sleep patterns.

Biomedical data will be collected both manually and electronically, evaluated and written up as a scientific paper by our science adviser Monique Francois.

Based on past experience, the EFK team expect many participants to achieve life-changing results, where they either reverse or improve their type 2 conditions and substantially reduce or come off diabetic and other medications.

If you’re a type 2 diabetic on medication, motivated to improve your condition and would like to know more about this, email leigh@eatforkeeps.com or call 027 294 1980.

“Between us, we’ve seen every conceivable eyesight and spectacle problem you could imagine,” says Karl.

Fischer and Fischer Optometrists is open from 8.30am-5pm Monday to Friday.

Call the friendly team today to make an appointment.

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Grace, style and ageing well in the city The oldest lady in the club is 107.

She’s from Detroit Michigan. She’s a 1908 Hupmobile and she’s ‘Ageing Well’.

Kaaren Smylie is nowhere near that vintage. She’s a committee member with the Bay of Plenty Vintage Car Club and she too is proudly ‘Ageing Well’.

“I’m doing very well thank you – nothing to complain about.”

This isn’t intended to be churlish or discourteous because ‘Ageing Well’ is the theme of the club’s first ever foray into charitable fundraising.

And Kaaren is one of the masterminds.

“Vintage is trending

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again,” says Kaaren. “There are vintage stores. It’s not just something granny does.”

So they decided to tap into the club demographic – a healthy, active and very sociable club of 250 mostly mature members – to raise money for a good cause.

In this case it’s the Heart Foundation, which leads the fight against NZ’s biggest killer – heart disease.

The ‘Ageing Well’ event this Sunday will feature a fashion parade, demonstrating it’s possible to age gracefully and stylishly.

“A raft of on-trend fashion for winter for the mature person,” says Kaaren.

There will also be a 10-minute demonstration of how to look good and some youthful tips for your make-

up, to help feel young at any age.

There’ll be high tea – dainty finger sandwiches, scones and pastries and tea perhaps. And a goodie bag – chocka with beauty products for men and women.

All of this will be at the BOP Vintage Car Clubrooms, Cliff Rd, at 1.30pm this Sunday afternoon, when there will be a lot of redblooded, classic car-loving, Kiwi males. “Well if the women don’t get involved they get left behind – but we want the men to come

too,” says Kaaren.

The men can bring their old cars, there will be videos of rallies gone by and some entertainment for them – The Pitch Pipe Playboys.

Tickets are $20 from Kaaren on 07 576 4180 or e.kaaren@smylie. co.nz Every cent raised will be given to t h e Heart Foundation to fund vital research into heart disease and the promotion of healthy heart lifestyles.

By Hunter Wells

Event model Merilyn Anderson with a 1930 Model A Ford Roadster.

Photo by Tracy Hardy.

Yoga retreat for women with cancer Following on from their weekly ‘Pink Yoga Classes’ at Tauranga Yoga Centre, Sue Furey and Brigid Macalister are running a mini retreat for women treating or surviving cancer.

Sue and Brigid say practising yoga offers women who are affected by cancer an opportunity to take an active part in their recovery and

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Children injury statistics ‘alarming’ Close to 40,000 children in New Zealand were admitted to hospital due to preventable injuries during a five-year period from 2008-2012, says Safekids Aotearoa.

The non-profit organisation has created infographics of recent unintentional and intentional child injury statistics available for each district health board area in the country.

The majority or 97 per cent of all child hospital admissions were classified as unintentional injuries – these include motor vehicle crashes, falls and drowning. This is in contrast to assaults numbering one per cent, and self-harm with one per cent.

Falls-related injury is the

leading cause of hospital admissions, with boys the most at-risk. Fractures and open wounds feature highly throughout each DHB area.

For deaths during the 2006-2010 period, suffocation – including Sudden Unexpected Death of an Infant – is the number one killer for most DHB regions, followed by motor vehicle traffic crashes.

Safekids Aotearoa director Ann Weaver says the figures are alarming. “Every week on average about 150 children in New Zealand are hospitalised with serious injuries from an unintentional injury, and a further one to two children are killed the same way.”

“We hope that these infographics can be used by DHBs to work with injury prevention stakeholders across the country, delivering evidence based interventions that include falls injury prevention campaigns, safe sleeping educa-

Soothing spinal fractures If you’re nearing age 60 and have back pain, don’t assume it’s a normal part of getting older.

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Trike together and stay together The weather looked settled so Tanners Point man Lee Gilmour was happy to bring the ‘baby’ to town.

“He won’t take it out in the rain,” explains wife Yvonne Gilmour.

They’re not overly protective parents as such. But sort of.

And the ‘baby’? – is $65,000 worth of glistening, grunty, custom-built, precision German engineering.

It feels like I’m trivialising this menacing black beast to call it a trike, but that’s what it is. A big bloke’s and blokette’s trike.

And it’s a love triangle story. Lee and Yvonne went to school together, fell in love with motorcycles and then each other, got married and after 35 years of bliss it was “boom” or rather “Boom.” They were three.

“We decided to buy something nice to celebrate our anniversary,” says Yvonne. She did her research and they both instantly knew this was right for them – the bike, the trike, the German ‘Boom’.

“They provide you options, you choose, they build,” says Lee. And the ‘Boom baby’ was born – all 1600cc of double overhead cam, handcrafted touring excellence.

“We’d always been interested in trikes,” says Lee. But they were always ‘bit of car, bit of bike’ – VW engine, with motorbike front suspension and variations thereof.

Not the ‘Boom baby’. It’s a thoroughbred, purpose-

built complete kit with a 1600 Zetek engine that also powers the Ford Focus, gear box and suspension “all neatly crafted and compacted into the vehicle”.

And if you drop your left hand off the handlebars it lands straight on the manual five-speed H-shift transmission.

I asked Lee to explain to someone who has never ever been on a motorbike, not ever, just what sets this machine apart.

“Never been on a motorbike, ever? That’s sick. You haven’t lived.”

But he did go on to talk up the Boom’s stability and the fact it was “extremely directional”. I shall leave that thought with the aficionados.

The Gilmours did try another brand of trike in Wellington. “But the thing just about shook itself apart idling at the lights. Yvonne hated it.”

But not the baby.

It reeks of romance – from the ‘his’ and ‘hers’ seats to the ample trunk space, the complete kit and caboodle for the big tour. That appealed to Yvonne.

As did the space age helmet with the GoPro – this appealed to Yvonne the photographer – he drives, she shoots. And the full leathers, riding gloves and boots, all in black of course.

I suppose Yvonne’s business card sums them up – the three of them – Lee, Yvonne and the Boom. “Be yourself and have fun.”

The couple are quietly weaning the baby before ‘being themselves’, triking off into the next three-anda-half decades of marriage and fun. By Hunter Wells

‘Boom’ with owners, Tanners Point trikers Lee and Yvonne Gilmour.

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Campbell sits second in NZRC Champs Despite gearbox issues, Tauranga’s Phil Campbell and Venita Fabbro recorded an impressive third placing during the recent Lone Star Rally Canterbury.

The third round results from May 30-31 secures Campbell and Fabbro’s spot near the top of the Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship, where they currently sit in second place.

“There are a lot of positives to take out of the weekend,” says Campbell.

“I’m really happy with the times we set and although we had a problem, we probably didn’t lose anything points wise from it.

“It puts us in a really solid position in the championship so I’m really looking forward to Gisborne.”

Night stages opened the Canterbury rally, with Campbell recording third fastest in two stages to head into the overnight break second overall, despite Fabbro suffering car sickness on the second stage.

The following day the pair immediately powered The Roofing Store Mitsubishi Evo 9 to two stage wins to open up the day, backed up by the second fastest time on stage five.

The near perfect start to the event was put in jeopardy on special stage six, the longest of the event at

44.48km, when a gear selection issue left Campbell with only third gear for the entire stage.

Having managed to complete the stage, Campbell lost almost two-and-a-half minutes.

With the Campbell Rally Sport team working miracles in the half-hour service, Campbell headed for the final four stages with the use of second and fourth gears but performed like he had all five.

Campbell conceded only half a second to rally leader Ben Hunt across stages seven and eight as he set a string of second fastest stage times, then taking bonus points with the third fastest time on the event finishing the power stage to secure third for the event.

The Campbell Rally Sport team now turn their attention to Fuchs Rally Gisborne on June 27.

By David Tauranga

Tauranga’s Phil Campbell and Venita Fabbro placed third in the Lone Star Rally Canterbury.

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Cooper and Townley shortlisted for 2015 MXoN Mount Maunganui’s Cody Cooper and Tauranga’s Ben Townley have made the initial shortlist for the New Zealand team competing at the upcoming Motocross of Nations.

Three Kiwi riders will eventually be selected to represent the nation at the annual competition, which this year is being held in France on September 26-27.

Motorcycling New Zealand received numerous applications from throughout the country and expects to announce the three-rider team in

Mount Maunganui motocross rider Cody Cooper (pictured) and Tauranga’s Ben Townley have been shortlisted for the team to represent New Zealand and the 2015 Motocross of Nations.

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coming weeks. The selection panel consisted of MNZ motocross commissioner Howard Lilly, motorcycle sports commentator Neil Ritchie and Wellington motorcycle businessman Mike McLeod, who will also be the team’s manager in France.

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Motiti Blue swims to third nomination An educational children’s book created in the wake of October 2011’s Rena cargo ship disaster has been nominated a finalist in the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.

Tauranga children’s book author Debbie McCauley’s ‘Motiti Blue and the Oil Spill: A story from the Rena Disaster’ receives a third book award nomination.

Already a finalist in the LIANZA Children and Young Adult Book Awards, ‘Motiti Blue and the Oil Spill: A story from

the Rena Disaster’ is a bilingual picture book about NZ’s worst maritime environmental disaster.

Author Debbie McCauley, a Tauranga librarian, says the news of a third nomination for her book is fantastic.

“New Zealand is a place that inspires creativity with writers and illustrators producing some excellent work for children.”

Debbie says ‘Motiti Blue’ tells the story of a little blue penguin caught up in Rena’s oil spill before being rescued and treated at the Te Maunga Oiled Wildlife Response Centre.

“The disaster was devastating, not only for the people of the area, but for the many thousands of birds and sea creatures who were covered in the toxic oil,” says Debbie.

“I’ve tried to tell a positive story out of all the carnage caused by the oil spill.

“The story of the thousands of sea crea-

tures that died was just too sad to be the main focus of a children’s book.”

With simple text, Motiti Blue is useful as a read-aloud for children and text is supported by an abundance of fact boxes, along with a timeline, maps and graphics.

The cover is by Tauranga artist Elliot Mason, translation into Te Reo Maori

by Tamati Waaka, and the layout was a collaboration between Debbie and book designer Sarah Elworthy.

Next week Debbie flies to Wellington for the LIANZA Awards Ceremony at The National Library on June 15.

She’ll also take part in an author tour of selected Tauranga schools as part of the NZ Book Awards and in conjunction with Tauranga City Libraries on August 3.

Winners of the NZ Book Awards are announced August 13 at Government House, Wellington.

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Bethlehem College’s primary school is putting this to the test, with the portable planetarium – Starlab – on school grounds next week. From June 15-17, astronomer Gloria Witheford will educate Bethlehem College’s primary school pupils about common astronomical concepts inside the igloo.

“For the kids it’s something quite different to climb into a blown-up igloo and see the night sky,” says assistant head of primary Jamin Lietze.

Children will explore the relationships between planet earth, the solar system, the galaxy and the universe.

Jamin says for the Christian school, the night sky is an example of God’s creation.

He hopes the children will have their space questions answered, be inspired – and perhaps consider a career in astronomy. “I think the universe and what we see is common for all of us because we all experience it in the evening but we don’t know much about it.”

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Fulfilling your bathroom dream Have you got a manky old bathroom with mildew creeping up the walls? Or water dripping from places they shouldn’t be? It’s time for a new bathroom.

Here are some top tips to consider when it comes to renovating the bathroom.

Firstly, sit in a bathtub before buying it.

Remember, bigger isn’t always better.

A 60-inch tub will do the trick, with enough room to stretch out and relax in the bubbles without feeling crammed.

Select durable,

water-resistant flooring, including ceramic marble and stone tiles for the bathroom floors. If the budget allows, how about adding underfloor heating so the footsies aren’t stepping onto cold ground, sending a shock to the system after relaxing in a hot bath.

Dunny, loo, potty – whatever you call it, the toilet is one of the most important items in your house.

Here’s some tips to help you choose a high-performance dunny that will fit your bathroom, budget and backside.

When buying a toilet, consider features including flushing mechanisms, sizes, shapes, water-saving efficiency, noise, comfort and whether it’s easy to clean.

While the colour and cost matter too when it comes to the design and budget of your bathroom renovations – how much water the dunny uses and how well it flushes matters more.

A good one conserves water and generates enough power to clean the bowl in a single flush. A bad one can be a 20-year pain in the butt.

A non-glamorous but necessary job Cleaning the bathroom isn’t the most glamorous job – and one we often try our best to put it off.

But by keeping up with frequent bathroom cleans, the dreaded job can become much less painful.

Here are some top tips on how to keep the bathroom looking sparkling clean.

Firstly, prepare for the clean with a little tidy up. Dust away the cobwebs and sweep the floor.

Remove anything that doesn’t belong in the bathroom including clothes and dirty towels that have been left dripping wet on the floor. Also remove all surface items.

When cleaning the toilet, pour some bleach or any other type of disinfectant into the bowl and clean. This helps not only sanitise the bowl, but the toilet brush too.

Top tip: leave the doors and windows open for ventilation so you don’t get a fuzzy head on the fumes.

For a greener alternative, mix a

tablespoon of baking powder with some white vinegar and water.

Slip on the rubber gloves and turn your attention to the walls, windows and ceilings.

Spray a disinfectant mix of bleach and water onto any mould on the ceiling and let it sit for a couple of minutes before scrubbing.

The showerhead can become clogged with hard water buildup and scum.

Remove it and soak it overnight in a mix of water and vinegar and clean with an old toothbrush.

And if really want to keeps things sparkling clean you can do a bit each day.

After showering, take a minute to wipe down the tub and faucets with a cloth to help remove

soap scum and prevent mineral deposits. Or wipe your shower walls with a squeegee before you hop out.

Or think about the oily products you use during showers and choose a greener alternative to stop product build-up.

Make sure you have a decent bathroom fan to use during a shower – this can take away much of the steam and moisture and leave less to cause mildew later on.

Open the window if you have to!

And think about the tools you’re using in the bathroom. Don’t use products which are too abrasive or scrubbers or squeegees that are rough enough to mark your magnificent new bathroom. There’s heaps of kinder alternatives!

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Jazzing up your outdoor living Bay of Plenty homeowners can enhance their outdoor living space with an elegant curved pergola manufactured and installed

by Steve Tucker at RCH Construction.

Steve says his unique curved pergolas are a perfect way to jazz up the backyard, maximise living space and provide protection from the weather.

“They’re made out of powder-coated aluminium, which means they’re strong, lightweight and low maintenance.

“The clear, corrugated Alsynite roofing is UV-rated, which gives you shade and protection from UV rays.”

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Curved pergolas can maximise outdoor living spaces and provide weather protection.

Manufactured by RCH Construction, the curved pergolas are measured and assembled on-site – and can be colour matched to existing colours of the home exterior. Steve will also offer a free quote.

A trade-qualified licensed builder, Steve has more than 30 years’ experience in the trade and quality of work is important to him. He always strives to complete a job to his utmost best.

A personal touch to selling clients’ homes Listening to clients and understanding that every home seller’s needs are different is Janelle Ganley’s personal touch in Mount Maunganui’s real estate world.

“I always say that communication is very important, acknowledging that everyone’s needs are different – and I strive hard to make my client’s experience a positive and successful one from start to finish,” says Janelle.

The Bayleys Mount Maunganui real estate agent is looking for more residential stock to sell in the seaside suburb, with strong demand outstripping supply.

“Properties are selling quickly – there’s just not enough property to supply to all of the buyers.

“And we’re getting a lot of enquiry from Auckland with people either

wanting to move down here now or invest with the aim of moving down at a later time.”

With Bayleys Mount Maunganui since 2012, Janelle was raised in Mount Maunganui, so has a sound knowledge of the area, and is equipped with the latest market knowledge to share with clients.

Janelle Ganley is seeking new This is backed up with listings in the Mount area. high quality advertising Valley Rd and 96 complementing each listing Ranch Rd each for – to showcase to the widest over $1 million.” possible buyer.

“That’s sort of the “But my point of difference is area I’m focusing on I’m calm, positive and I’m but I also market approachable.” properties outside of Janelle takes on any residential that as well.” stock in any price range in Mount To list your Mount Maunganui Maunganui, but says full sites are or Papamoa property, call very popular at the moment.

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Brewers field on the market again

Tauranga City Council is again tyring to sell Soper Reserve, known as Brewers Field.

Council staff included the sale in 2012’s Long Term Plan discussions but were stopped by Soper family members, who said the family gifted it and there was a buy-back option if land use changed.

The Bay of Plenty Badminton Association wants the Newton St land for new clubrooms.

In LTP deliberations this week TCC resolved to further analyse the reserve’s use, to whether some land is required for event purposes – and the part considered surplus to requirement, to identify persons it should be offered back to. If no offer-back requirements exist, TCC will start a consultation process to sell 95 Newton St, and discuss with NZTA buying a strip of land to the rear, to enable the 95 Newton St to be disposed of as one parcel.

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Shutting out the winter cold with new curtains Now that winter has arrived, it’s time to make sure the home is warm and cosy.

Harvey Furnishings Tauranga manager Chris Lambie and the team believe having good quality curtains are an ideal way to keep the heat in and save on power bills.

Harvey Furnishings has a huge range of curtain solutions for their customers.

“To get the Harvey Furnishings team members Janice Reilly, most insulation out Margaret Gill, Donna Wilson and Lesley Hooper of curtains and roman with the botanical blackout curtains. blinds you should problem. Harvey’s offer a free in-home choose quality thick fabric and lining,” consultation service. Their highlysays the team. “They also need to be qualified consultants have a full range of installed correctly, so they fit snugly samples for customers to view with their against the wall or frame around your colour scheme and furnishings – and window.” they’re happy to provide designs advice.

With a huge range of fabrics to choose “With more than 55 years as New Zeafrom, the team at Harvey’s will custom land’s largest manufacturer and retailer of make curtains in any style to suit the curtains and blinds, Harvey Furnishings customer’s home décor. is here to help you.”

Roman blinds and shutters are also Visit Chris and the team at the options for winter as they can be fitted snugly to the window frame, which helps Tauranga showroom at 387 Cameron to trap heat in.

Rd, or contact them to book a consultaDon’t know what to choose? No tion today.

HomeStart roadshow rolls into town Bay of Plenty residents are being invited to a free HomeStart roadshow meeting this month, which will aim to give insight on how the KiwiSaver HomeStart grant scheme works.

The Housing New Zealand Corporation is hosting the roadshow on Monday, June 29 at Club Mount Maunganui from 7pm-8.30pm.

The event will see Building and Housing Minister Dr Nick Smith introduce KiwiSaver HomeStart, plus get advice from the specialists who know KiwiSaver HomeStart inside out.

According to the Housing NZ website, those who’ve been making regular con-

tributions for three years to Kiwisaver – of at least the minimum allowable percentage of your total income – may be entitled to a HomeStart grant.

If purchasing an existing/older home, the HomeStart grant is $1000 for each year of contribution to the scheme, with the maximum amount $5000.

And if purchasing a new home, a property bought off the plans or land to build a new home on, the HomeStart grant is $2000 for each year of contribution to the scheme, with the maximum amount $10,000.

And applicants can only receive the HomeStart grant or its predecessor, the KiwiSaver deposit subsidy, once.

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The facts on home heat loss Barbara and Phil Evans know uncovered windows account for about 30 per cent of a home’s heat loss.

They say Weathermaster Whisper Architella blinds are the next best thing to double glazing when combatting that loss.

“The myths are that others with cheaper imitations claim they perform equally well, whereas they generally do not,” say the owners of Weathermaster Blinds and Awnings in Mount Maunganui.

They say the 10mm and 20mm honeycomb Whisper blinds are attractive, durable and are tops in window insulation, with good ‘R’ ratings.

“Also available is a fabric option

that has a silver metallic coating on the inside of the honeycomb, which further increases the insulating performance.”

Barbara says with the Whisper design, there is only a tiny light gap at the side, often as little as 5mm.

“The blinds have a small headspace when pulled up, looking neat and not protruding.”

Barbara and Phil say Weathermaster also offers modern, 25mm Thermostop venetian blinds that keep the heat in, as well as timber blinds and other that are good insulators.

So, if you want to keep the cold on the outside and the warmth on the inside, contact them at Weathermaster Blinds and Awnings and they will come and show you how.

Weathermaster Blinds and Awnings owners Barbara and Phil Evans.

When projects turn to custard Building the family home is often referred to as the third most stressful undertaking, fraught with emotional attachment and expectations.

So when things go astray the situation can quickly boil over if one of the affected parties attempts to overpower the other, in order to take control of the situation.

There are two key aspects I look for when dealing with building disputes.

The ability for the parties to keep communicating and for each party to understand their obligations under the building contract.

I find the most complicated disputes to deal with is when the owner is involved with the building contract and the lines of who is responsible for what becomes blurred.

For example, a builder does the framing and plaster board, and the owner takes care of the stopping and painting.

If defects appear in the finish, it can become difficult to pinpoint who is responsible for repair and reinstatement.

Communication is always key and I encourage both parties to keep these lines open, even if it

means a little compromise.

For low level disputes I’m finding facilitation meetings are working well, it’s simply a third party on hand who guides discussion, keeping it factual and contained to issues.

From this point adjudication under the Construction Contracts Act is considered; it’s industry relevant, swift and proving to be balanced.

Certified Builders Association has an interest to ensure any disputes involving members are resolved amicably and offers disputes intervention.

A popular model to let there be light Bay of Plenty homeowners can light up dark hallways, kitchens, bathrooms and living areas with natural light from a skylight installed by Solar Innovations.

The Tauranga-made Suntrenz Sun-Tube is a popular model, which transmits the light from a dome on the roof to the ceiling below, through a highly reflective reinforced foil tube.

Papamoa residents Jeanette and Bill Jenner have transformed their home from a dark living space to a bright and sunny area after installing a Suntrenz skylight.

It was the company’s affordable prices and smart looking skylights that made Suntrenz stand out from the others, say the couple. The bonus was, they’re New Zealand-made.

“We highly recommend them,” says Jeanette. “They do a great job and clean up after themselves. “Everything’s spot on, we’ve had no troubles.”

The skylights have lightened up Jeanette and Bill’s dining room, kitchen and walk-in wardrobe, where they used to have to keep turning the lights on.

Solar Innovations has gone above and beyond for the couple, with the company also organising the installation of skylights for their daughter in Bill and Jeanette Jenner Auckland. enjoy their skylight.

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Furnishing entire homes with rental goods Whether it’s a couch, fridge, dishwasher or any other home accessory – Mr Rental Tauranga owner Steve Warne says the Chapel St store has whatever is needed to furnish entire homes.

The best part is delivery, installation, pick-up and servicing is free – with guaranteed repair or replacement of any items that may develop a fault.

People can rent combo packages which include individual or two-seat and three-seat couches, coffee tables and side tables for the lounge – as well as entertainment units, including stereos and home theatre systems.

“We have plenty of TVs from 32 inch to 60 inch in stock,” says Steve.

There’s also gaming including PlayStation3 and Xbox for home entertainment – as well as laptops, computers, tablets and phones.

Mr Rental has seven-piece or five-piece dining tables for rent – as well as fridges, dishwashers and microwaves for the kitchen.

For the laundry, washing machines and dryers are also available for rent.

Single, double and queen beds are also available for

rent for all of the extra visitors during the holidays – as well as bedroom packages which include the bed, tallboy and bedside tables.

They also have treadmills, rowers, Mr Rentals mobile representative cross trainers, Ryan Alderton says they offer exercycles and complete combo packages for the spin bikes home, which include couches. available for rent for the gym-shy, to exercise in the privacy of their own home.

Mr Rental can also fit out entire holiday homes, stage properties before selling and offer household packages for people moving home and waiting for their essentials to arrive.

Steve says the beauty of it all is there’s a minimum short-term fixed rate for people to rent equipment for up to a month – or the flexibility of the week-by-week

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Trendsetting blinds are on their way You can’t miss it – the new Bay Blinds sales car with its eye-catching signwriting is in town.

Soon it will be heading towards another discerning customer who wants their home decked out in the latest blinds from Tauranga’s iconic Bay Blinds.

National sales manager Peter Morrow says just a simple phone call to Bay Blinds will ensure a visit from Bay Blinds sales consultant Michelle in her attention-getting new car.

“Michelle really knows her blinds and she will happily consult and then advise you on the best vertical, Venetian, roller, creation or sunscreen blinds for your home.”

Peter says it’s really busy out there, with the construction industry going ‘full tilt’ at present, so he advises not to leave it too long before giving them a call.

“Our production is increasing all the time and we have just expanded our storage area to compensate.

“We make all of our blinds locally and this extra area holds our bulk components. It allows us to buy at even better rates, which we pass on to the consumer.

“Even with this increased space, we are moving through our supplies really fast, and as it gets nearer to Christmas this year we expect demand to be high – so please The new Bay Blinds don’t leave ordering your eye-catching car. blinds to the last minute.”

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Old fashioned winter tips When we’re cold – it’s easy to switch on the heaters and heat pumps.

When it’s below 10 degrees outside, we don’t mind keeping them on for hours at a time. But then the power bill comes.

Aside from those often expensive tactics – what else can we do to cheaply and quickly heat up the home?

Here’s a few cost-effective – and perhaps old-fashioned – tips to save money in winter.

One way to prevent unnecessary heat loss from radiators is to use heat reflective aluminium tin foil behind the radiator.

Let the sunlight in during the day by opening up the curtains. Close them before sundown to trap as much natural – and free – warmth in.

Shove a door or draught stopper – the ones that look like snakes – at the foot of the door. This stops cold air coming through the cracks. You can put these on window sills too.

Shut the doors to unused rooms and cover bare floorboards with large rugs and blankets.

Heat up a wheat bag or hot water bottle to cuddle.

And if you absolutely must put the heater on – set a timer. This way you don’t lose track of how long it’s been on for and you can control the power bill a little better.

Heat pumps in high demand The friendly and professional team at Webber Refrigeration and Air Conditioning understand heat pump and air conditioning units are now recognised as an ideal method of heating and cooling homes.

Located on Birch Ave, the company specialises in air conditioning, refrigeration and heat pumps.

Sales manager Russell Turner says

the discerning buyer has quickly recognised the advancement of technology and the new designs available, with the introduction of very modern sleek heat pumps for which there’s been a very steady demand for.

Daikin has introduced the Next Generation Zena Hi-Wall model with its ultra-modern shape design and innovative technology – and comes with Wi-Fi adaptably. Daikin’s expanded range of other models

provides many options for comfort by design.

Just released this month is the new Daikin Nexura Floor Console, with a number of special features including whisper quiet operation, radiant mode, superior heating – and is ‘extremely stylish’. It features state-of-the-art heating technology through the unique front radiant heat panel.

Russell says the sleek modern appearance of Mitsubishi’s new Designer Series Hi-Wall models are proving very popular and are regularly being selected for new homes through a number of building companies.

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Keep the real books I say One of the hats I wear is a committee member of Friends of the Tauranga City libraries Inc. I have learned, with great disappointment, that proposed savage cuts to the library books are likely to go ahead.

This week council will have made final decisions about the Long Term Plan. One of the decisions they will have made is whether to continue with cutting 20,000 books out of the libraries every year for the next 10 years.

In exchange the library will get a few more e-books.

At the end of 10 years Tauranga Libraries will have so few real books we will all be rationed to one or two books per library card.

Does this sound like an AgeFriendly City with an expanding population? Where will parents

get bedtime stories? Where will children get enjoyable books to practise reading?

Do the councillors think everyone will move to e-books to save them money? Some people can’t afford e-readers.

That’s why they borrow free books from the library.

The council thinks the library can mainly supply e-books!

Even students are moving back to real books because reading on a screen for long periods is uncomfortable. There is also evidence now that watching a screen before going to bed inhibits sleep.

Screens are fine for short stuff but for in-depth reading and thinking, or a good yarn, real books are much better.

I use both for different purposes, but I want to have a choice about it.

Apart from all of the above,

Bay continues to thrive

The Bay is set to continue its surging growth and bring with it more jobs and better prospects for families in our region.

A recent study released by Infometrics shows the Bay of Plenty grew by 3.2 per cent in the first quarter of this year compared to a year earlier.

We’re tracking above the country’s average growth and the Government’s economic policies are keeping us in good stead, despite a low dairy prices this year.

Our growers and agri-farmers have done very well in supporting us through a bumper season, where Zespri posted a $939 million annual return thanks to a strong performance in gold and green varieties.

the worldwide uptake of e-books is not at the speed the council expects us to accept, and who can honestly forecast what the technology will be in the next five to 10 years.

I certainly cannot and I’ve been heavily involved in IT since I started as a computer programmer in 1967. I say: Keep real books!

T Hawker, Papamoa.

Editor’s note: Last week TCC changed its mind on reducing the amount of money spent on library books, and lifted the amount from $758,000 a year to $1 million a year during the next 10 years.

Living free from flooding?

Recent heavy rain in Dunedin and Wellington shows it’s near impossible for any city in New Zealand to live free from flooding.

A month's worth of rain fell within 24 hours in both cities this year. No city in NZ would have the infrastructure to cope with that amount of rainfall.

A one-in-100-year event in the 1970s is now only a one-in-60-year event by today’s standards. More rain is falling within shorter timeframes – and it’s forecast to continue intensifying.

The rising sea levels will make it harder for the city’s pipes to drain water away – the high tide was a key issue in the Mount during the April 2013 floods.

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Have some respect for the city’s bus drivers I’m writing on behalf of this city’s bus drivers, who are regularly abused and poorly paid.

During the last few weeks a woman bus driver was assaulted by a passenger, an older bus driver was punched in the face by a passenger who then broke the driver’s glasses and a male bus driver was spat on.

This is just a small selection but raises the question of why anyone should have to put up with abuse from the people they are providing a service to?

Bus drivers are also treated badly by other drivers who will do anything not to let a bus back into the traffic, even swerving into the path of approaching cars or driving along the median strip.

What’s so terrible about being courteous and letting a bus out? Are you really in that much of a hurry you cannot afford a few seconds to help? How sad if this is your attitude.

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other drivers’ poor driving. They are also friendly and helpful, providing a quality service to the public.

Why then, are they paid little more than minimum wage? ‘That’s not my problem’ I hear you say. True.

So whose is it? I’ve contacted the council but they say it isn’t their problem; they merely accept the lowest tender – it’s down to management.

So I’ve contacted the management. The directors weren’t interested enough to acknowledge my letter and the HR department felt there wasn’t a problem. I’d like to see these people cope on the same wage in their cosy offices. Anyone spit on, or punch them, lately?

It’s time those in charge of their wages realised the driver’s worth. They wouldn’t have much of a bus service without the drivers and they’d have problems on their hands if the drivers lacked the skills and qualities to avoid accidents and offer a good customer service.

It’s also time passengers changed their attitudes and were at least civil to the drivers - pleasant would be nice and manners would be amazing. Remember - the bus drivers are taking you to your destination safely.

And it’s time other drivers regarded buses with more courtesy and refrained from cutting them off and giving them verbal and visual abuse.

S Gifford, Omanawa.

Become informed about amalgamation At last a sensible comment from City Councillor Catherine Stewart calling for a meaningful debate on possible Local Government amalgamation following the recently cancelled debate with an entry cost of $120 each.

You just needed to look at who was on the debating panel, of the cancelled debate, to realise it seemed to be very much loaded in favour of future amalgamation and many of the people involved would potentially have benefitted from amalgamation happening.

But I still believe with the limited information available the ratepayers would be the losers.

The Government has clearly stated they’d support Local Government amalgamation but they’ve also clearly stated local communities must support any such changes and in reality any future changes must be a win-win for all involved unlike what seems to have happened in Auckland.

Watch this space and please become informed or it will occur without our involvement. M Baker, Bethlehem.

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E N T E R T A I N M E N T G U I D E The Weekend Sun’s ever popular guide to ‘What’s On’ in the Bay.

Saturday 13 June

A Ball – Mount Sequence Dance

Ladies, get glammed up – ball gown, jewels etc. Men, dinner suit or tails if you have them.

Live band, quality supper. Mt Sequence Sports Centre cnr Hull & Maunganui Rds, Mt Maunganui 7.30pm.

Entrance $7. Organised my Mt Scottish Soc. Elizabeth 544 5633 Alcoholics Anonymous Women’s meeting at St Andrews, Dee St 10-11am, children welcome.

0800 229 6757

Ascension Consciousness Workshop

Constable Gallery June 20 9am - 1pm.

Explore past - present - future life patterns hypno-meditation. Connect with your super conscious, spiritual guides & life plan. Cost $35, tea/coffee provided.

Please book - limited places. Terry 021 595 892 or terry@empower-u.net (www.empower-u.net) Bayfair Night Market Arts, crafts, jewellery, fresh produce, food stalls & more.

Bayfair Shopping Centre, cnr Maunganui Rd & Girven Rd, Mt Maunganui 6-11pm. Free entry. 022 588 2282 or email: tauranganightmarket@hotmail. com Belvedere Tauranga City United Vs Hibiscus Coast, Links Ave 12.30pm kick off. Free entry. All welcome.

Garage Sale At St Mary’s Church Hall, Bayfair 8.30am. Crockery & cutlery, electrical items, ornaments, handbags, beauty products, jewellery, books & more. 575 9945 Genealogy Informal Group Lots of genealogy discussion today DNA, ipads, websites & more.

860 State Highway 2, Te Puna 1.30pm. Winsome 552 5813

Ha Derech/The Way Messianic Kehilat

Now at Hillier Centre, Bayfair Shabbat/ Saturday 10am. A one new man community & welcome all seekers of the truth.

544 7424 or 021 0226 3515

Let’s Dance Ballroom & Latin Dance Club Live dance tempo music. Second Sat

of month at Bethlehem Hall 7-10.30pm.

Bruce 576 5598 NZ Rotax Max Challenge And ProKart Series Saturday & Sunday at BOP Kart Club’s Fagan’s Valley Raceway, Te Puke. More than 90 drivers from NZ & Australia taking part in Round 4 of the national go kart series.

Papamoa Group Dogwalking Fortnightly group dog walk around waterways & beaches. Meet at Papamoa Plaza 9am.

Tennille 021 030 6835 Sailing (IOM) International One Meter Radio Controlled Yachts - The fastest growing sailing class of today. Come for a sail & get hooked. Every Sat & Weds at Landing Drive, The Lakes 1-4pm. Pat 0274 731 765 Taichi Qigong Every Sat in Memorial Park between mini golf & playground 10am. Free to join in.

Tauranga Farmers Market Fresh & artisian produced food. Tauranga

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News, reviews and opinionated raving on the music scene. Pg 42 Primary School cnr 5th Ave & Cameron Rd every Sat 7.45am - 12pm. Trixie 552 5278 or www.taurangafarmersmarket. co.nz Tauranga Floral Art Group Meet at Baptist Hall cnr Cameron Rd & 13th Ave 9.30-11.30am. New members & visitors welcome. 543 2157 Tauranga Ikebana Group Meet 2nd Sat of month at St Methodist Hall, 13th Ave 10am – 12pm. 544 2828 Tauranga Synchro Hosting North Island swimming champs at Baywave June 13 & 14. Best times for spectators are Saturday 3.30-6pm & Sunday 9am – 12.30pm.

Also on display – routines by the NZ Team, the Aquaferns. Ange 552 5416 Village Radio Community radio broadcasting from Tauranga Historic Village 1368 kHz AM. Music of 1920’s - 80’s weekends 9am - 5pm, weekdays 10am - 5pm. Specialty programmes. www.villageradio.co.nz or 571 3710

Community events and occasions across the Bay. Pg 43 Quakers in Tauranga Mainly silent worship, hour long meeting followed by tea & talk. Every Sunday in hall behind Brain Watkins Historic House 10am. 544 0448 Radio Controlled Model Yachts Meet Sun & Thurs 1.30pm at pond behind 24 Montego Drive, Papamoa, to sail electron & similar 3ft long yachts for fun. Beginners welcome. Graham 572 5419

Weekend Activities for the Over 60’s

Walks, dinners, day trips & good times.

Richard 578 3894 Youth Leaders Breakfast 2015 At Elim Youth Café, 14 Christopher St (behind McD’s) 8-9.30am with special guest Yvonne Godfrey. 5 important things you need to know before you leave school. Free entry.

Includes continental breakfast, waffles, coffee/hot chocolate.

Presented by Summerhill Youth Academy.

RSVP to Garth 027 828 8940 email: garth@summerhillacademy.co.nz

Sunday 14 June

Bay Bible Fellowship/Lord’s Day Wor-

ship & communion service. Welcome Bay Primary School Hall, 309 Welcome Bay Rd 10am. “Unforgettable Forgiveness” Part 2. All welcome. www.bbf.net.nz Bible Seminars Greerton Senior Citizen’s Hall, Maitland St, Greerton 1.45pm.

Title: “The important people of the New Testament,” DVD presentation. Interactive, Q&A. Refreshments provided. Vic 543 0504

BOP Vintage Car Club Charity Event

Held at BOPVCC rooms 1.30pm. Ladies & men’s fashion parade for the mature person. Local entertainment. High tea.

Goodie bag. Spot prizes. Nominated charity: The Heart Foundation. Kaaren 576 4180 or email: kaaren@smylie.co.nz Czech & Slovak Club Tauranga School & kindy classes for children with Czech/ Slovak background every Sunday at Arataki Community Centre 10am-12pm except school holidays. www.facebook. com/csclubtauranga, email info@csclubtauranga.nz Papamoa Lions Club Market Held second & fourth Sunday of month at Simpson Reserve, cnr Dickson & Parton Rd 7.30-12.30pm.

Petanque Tga/BOP Club Every Sun & Thurs at Cliff Rd 12.45pm. Boules available, tuition given. 578 3606

Spiritual Fellowship, The Psychic Cafe

A large group of spiritual, psychic & healing practitioners at Community Hall, Greerton. Doors open 7pm for 7.15pm. Free refreshments. Door charge $10, everything else free. 578 7205 Theosophical Society “Saving the planet part 2 - villagers, scientists & volunteers” at Tauranga Yoga Centre, Elizabeth St West 2pm. Entry by donation. June 576 6106 Underwater Hockey Every Sunday at Baywave. Gear & coaching available for beginners. New members welcome.

Juniors (under 15) 5-6.15pm. Seniors (over 15) 6-7.40pm. Lance 027 287 4731 or lancepotaka@orcon.net.nz Unity of Tauranga Metaphysical study & meditation group meet 2nd Sunday monthly at Matua Community Hall, Levers Rd 3pm. 576 0165

Monday 15 June

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on Mondays. 1st, 3rd & 5th Mon at St Stephen’s Church Hall, Brookfield, Tga 7.30pm. Chrissy 543 9493 Badminton Tauranga Badminton Club every Mon & Weds at Bethlehem College Events Centre 7.30-9.30pm. All players welcome. Sue 021 194 4335 Badminton Junior Club Bethlehem College Events Centre every Mon 6-7.30pm.

Racquets available. Sue 021 194 435 www.taurangabadmintonclub.co.nz Bay Salsa Presents beginner salsa lessons at Otumoetai Action Centre 6.45pm new intake every 4 weeks. $12 per class. www.baysalsa.co.nz Bethlehem Bowls Every Mon at Bethlehem Hall, Main highway 7.15pm. First 3 nights free. Young or old welcome.

Wendy 578 2585 Body & Soul Fun Fitness For over 50’s, social events & guest speakers. Mon & Fri Greerton Hall Cameron Rd. Tues Wesley Church Hall, 13th Ave. Weds City Church cnr Otumoetai Rd/Sherwood St. Thurs at Tauranga Senior Citizens Hall, Norris St behind Pak n Save. All classes 9.15-10.15am. First class free. For men & women. Dianne 576 5031 Qualified Instructor/Cardiac Care leader.

Chess Mt Maunganui Mount RSA Chess Club every Mon at Mount RSA, 544 Maunganui Rd. Juniors 6.157.15pm during school term. Open club 6pm & 7.30pm onwards. Noel 579 5412

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Free, confidential info & advice about anything call in

OUT THERE Stories, snippets, strangeness, and general entertainment. Pg 44 Mon - Fri at 38 Hamilton St, Tauranga 9am - 5pm or free-phone 0800 367 222 or 578 1592. Justice of Peace service every Mon 1-4pm, Weds & Thurs 9-11.30am & Weds CAB Service at Welcome Bay Community Centre 9.30am - 12.30pm. Migrant clinics Tues - Fri 1-4pm. No appointment necessary.

Civic Choir Tauranga Every Monday at Wesley Church, 13th Ave, Tauranga 7.30pm. New members welcome. Heather 575 9092 Fitness League Safe effective, low impact fun exercise set to music using the Bagot Stack technique, designed for women of all ages & abilities. First class free. Every Mon at Settlers Hall Omokoroa 9.30am & Tues St Johns Anglican Church Waihi 9.30am. Dorothy 549 3378 Free Antenatal Classes Te Ha Ora. Day & night classes. Kaupapa Maori - but open to all cultures. TeRina 552 4573 xt 706 or t.joseph@pirirakauhauora.org.nz

Junction Mental Health Peer Support

And advocacy: coffee & chat 10am – 12pm. Junction 543 3010 Leisure Marching For exercise, fun & fellowship. Ladies 50+ required. No experience needed. Coreen 570 0172 Meditation Group Free classes Mon 10am & Weds 7.30pm. Find peace, spiritual awareness & the meaning of your life. David 576 9764 Otumoetai Indoor Bowls Aggregate Night, Matua Primary School Hall, Clivedene St, 7.15pm. New members welcome. Karen 576 0443 Recycled Teenagers Gentle exercise for 50’s forwards, & injury or illness rehabilitation. Mon & Weds at 14 Norris St, Tauranga Citizen’s Club behind Pak n Save. Tues at St Mary’s Church Hall cnr Girven Rd & Marlin St, all classes 9-10.30am. First class free. Jennifer 571 1411 Tauranga Creative Fibre Every Mon at Arts Centre, Elizabeth St from 9.30am. Spinning, weaving, felting, knitting, crochet & more. Learn & share in a mutually supportive club. Also on Thurs evening twice a month. Joan 577 6781 Tauranga Senior Citizens Club Cards, 500 & Bridge Mon & Thurs. Indoor Bowls Tues, Weds & Sat at 14 Norris St, behind Pak n Save 1-4pm. Register by 12.45pm. $2 includes afternoon tea.

New members welcome.

Welcome Bay Art Group Meet every Mon at Lighthouse Church 9.30am 12pm. Bob 544 4499 YMCA - ALFS Active Lifestyles For Seniors. First class free. Open to both men & women. Mon: Matua Community Hall, Levers Rd 9am & 10.15am. Arataki Hall, Zambuk Way (off Grenada St) 9am. Tues: Papamoa Community Centre, Gravatt Rd 9am & 10.30am.

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Centre 11.30am. Smooth Movers Weds Welcome Bay Hall, Welcome Bay Rd 9.15am. Sit & Be Fit Greenwood Park Village, Welcome Bay 11am. Thurs: Otumoetai Action Centre, Windsor Rd 9am. Bethlehem Hall, Bethlehem Rd 10.30am. Fri: Papamoa Community Centre, Gravatt Rd 9am & 10.15am.

578 9272 www.ymcatauranga.org.nz

Tuesday 16 June @ The Clothesline Pre-

loved quality clothing every Tues 10am - 2pm.

Children’s $1, adults $2. Also prayer for healing on request. Face2Face Church, 36d MacDonald St, Mt Maunganui.

ABC - Avenues Badminton Club Every Tues at Tauranga Intermediate School Sports Centre. Juniors 6-7.30pm (term time). Seniors (Adults) 7.30-9.30pm.

Club racquets & coaching available.

Delwyn 027 212 4720

Alcoholics Anonymous Mt Maunganui Open meeting every Tues 11 Victoria Road St Peters Hall 7.30pm. 0800 229 6757 for more meetings or assistance.

Altrusa Club of Tauranga Women’s community service group. Dinner & business meeting 2nd Tues. Social programme 4th Tues, monthly.

Interested? Denise 570 3134

Anxiety Support Group

Support for people with an experience of anxiety 1-2pm.

Junction 543 3010 for info or if you need a ride.

Badminton (Social) Every Tues at Otumoetai Baptist Hall 9.30am 12pm. Racquets available. All welcome.

Lorraine 579 3229 Bayfair Petanque Club Tuition & boules available for learners & visitors.

Every Tues & Thurs at Bayfair Reserve, Russley Drive 1pm. Margaret 572 3173 Bethlehem Pottery Club Open Tues, Weds & Thurs 10am - 3pm, or when the flag is flying. Call in & meet the members & find out how to join.

Email: bethlehempottery@gmail.com or Jane 552 0046 after 6pm.

Cards 500 Every Tues & Thurs at Mt Maunganui Senior Citizens, 345 Maunganui Rd 1pm. 575 4650 DadzKare A support group for separated fathers. Meet every Tues at 538 Fraser St 7.30pm. 928 4323 Darts At Club Mt Maunganui, Kaiwaka St 7pm.

Everyone from 12-112 yrs welcome. Faye 0274 748 061 Drawing/Painting Varied art programmes every Tues at 171a Elizabeth St West 7-9pm. Interested?

576 9592 Excel Toastmasters Meet every 2nd, 4th & 5th Tues of the month at Arataki Community Centre, Zambuk Way, Bayfair 6.15-8.30pm. Learn leadership & public speaking skills. Kaaren 572 5988

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Ladies 50 plus exercise with dance to music. Improve posture, energy, toned body, increased strength. Every Tues at St Columba Church, 502 Otumoetai Rd, Cherrywood 9.3010.30am. Gloria 573 4429

Every Tues at Tauranga Bridge Club, Ngatai Rd 9am. 3 games $3. New players welcome. 544 8372

At Hillier Centre, 31 Gloucester Rd, Mt Maunganui 7pm. A traditional Chinese self-cultivation practice to improve mind & body. Easy to learn. Judy 021 0425 398 en.falundafa.org

Readers Circle 1.30pm. 8 Palmer Place, Te Puke. 573 9621

Free Falun Dafa Classes

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Mackay Shield at Papamoa, 16 players required. 7.30pm. Kevin 543 4044

Golden Kiwis Leisure Marching Team

Meet every Tues at Blake Park netball courts, Mt Maunganui 10am. Fun, fellowship, exercise for ladies 55+.

Coreen 570 0172 Greerton Village Community Music Morning For seniors – come along & join us in a morning of music. 1st Tues of month at Greerton Hall 10-11.30am. Guest artist. Entry $4, includes morning tea.

Di/Charley 027 626 2496

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Tga Lyceum Club 7.15-9.30pm.

Confidence building, speaking skills, leadership skills. Alan 544 5989

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Te Puke Senior Citizen’s Club

Players & beginners invited to play indoor bowls, cards, 500 every Tues & Fri 12.45pm. $3 includes afternoon tea. Weds, bolivia cards 1pm. Jocelyn St, Te Puke.

573 7887

Wednesday 17 June Age Concern Walking Group

Meet at Briscoes, Chappel St 10am.

Fish n Chips after. All welcome. 578 2631 Badminton @ Mount Indoor Sports Centre Give badminton a go. Trial it for free & if you like to come every Weds 7-9pm. $8pp. Racquets available. Eve 021 906 481

Baywide Community Law Service

Israeli Dancing

Drop in clinic every Weds at 63 Willow St 5-6.30pm. No appointment necessary. Free legal assistance. 571 6812. Every Tues morning at Te Puke Clinic. For appointment 573 5614.

Every 2nd Thurs morning at Katikati Clinic. For appointment 549 0399

Leisure Marching Team

Do you play cribbage or would like to learn the game? Every Weds at Tauranga RSA 1pm. New members welcome.

Rona 578 7939

Every Tues at Bethlehem Community Church, 183 Moffat Rd 6.55pm. Enjoy the challenge of singing & performing varied repertoire. Cathy 579 2040 email: inachordchorus@gmail.com Beginners class every Tues at Gate Pa Primary School, Cameron Rd 7-8pm.

All ages welcome, no partner required.

Maria 544 1680 or 022 165 2114 Seeking new members aged 30-50+ for friendly leisure marching. Practice Tues 6-8pm. Ph/txt Ardell 027 937 4248

Merge Social Connections

New residents recently moved to Tauranga welcome. 1st & 3rd Tues of month at Comida Tapas Bar, 59 The Strand, Tauranga 5-7pm for social get together & meet new friends. Email merge.tauranga@gmail.com

Mount Morning Badminton

Social, competitive, all ages, beginners welcome. Racquets available. Visitors $5 per session. Every Tues at Mount Sports Centre, Blake Park 9am - 12pm.

Maxeen 575 0162

Neighbourhood Run

Cards

Fernlands Spa Water Exercise Classes

Weds 10.4511.45am. Held rain or shine but not during school holidays. New participants planning to attend ph Jennifer 571 1411

Freemasons

Gate Pa Lodge meet at Hairini Freemasons Masonic Centre 7.30pm.

Ph/txt Glen 027 918 9096

Friends of the Library

Papamoa Library Book Group meet 10am. Topic this month: Winter.

Visitors & new members welcome. Pam 571 2566

Gate Pa Indoor Bowls

Running all year round. Cheyne Rd 6am start. Free. Every Tues/ Thurs/Fri. Svetlana 027 616 2124

Club night, Greerton Hall 7.30pm.

Kevin 543 4044

Community choir meet every Tues at St Andrew’s Church Hall, Dee St, Mount 7-9pm. New members welcome.

Terry 578 5937

Social tennis for all levels. Make new friends while getting some exercise.

No commitment or fee for first 3 attendances. Every Weds 9am - 12pm.

Geoff 570 1168 or 021 474 807

Oriana Singers

Otumoetai Toastmasters

Leadership skills, speaking skills. At Lyceum Club rooms, 68 1st Ave 7.159.30pm. Alan 544 5989

Petanque - Tga/BOP Club

All welcome to try a new sport.

Equip available, all coaching given.

Club Mt Maunganui 12.45pm start.

Neita 572 3768

Gate Pa Tennis Club

Greerton Gold Leisure Marching Team

Seeking ladies of all ages. Every Weds meet at Moreland Fox Park 8-9.30am.

No experience required. Marion 578 1108

Healing Rooms

South City Bowling Club

Experience God’s healing touch at Bethlehem Town Centre cnr shop behind PO/Bookstore every Weds 1-3pm. 021 110 0878 or at Papamoa Fashion Island, 42 Gravatt Rd, next to Esquires ever Weds 3-4pm. 022 120 5406. No appointment necessary, no charge. All ages welcome. www. healingrooms.co.nz

Spiritual Guidance & Bowen Therapy

Every Weds at Ohauiti Settlers Hall 7.15-9.30pm. No experience necessary.

All ages welcome. Glennis 544 4022

Sequence Dancing

Tauranga Social & Leisure Club. St John’s Anglican Church Hall, 94 Bureta Rd, Otumoetai. Every Tues 7-9.30pm except second Tues of month 3.30-6pm.

Visitors welcome. Murray 576 3294 Club night – Kirk Rosebowl Format, Greerton Hall 7.30pm. New members welcome. Mary 541 0687 Room 2 behind Wild Herbs Natural Health, 775 Cameron Rd, Tauranga.

For appointment, Kerry 552 6768 or 021 607 797

Tauranga Acoustic Music Club

Jam sessions. Sing, play or just listen & enjoy. Greerton RSA 7.30-10pm. Sheryl 552 5906 Tauranga Continuing Education (50+) Group Speaker: Kit Wilson, external affairs co-ordinator Newmont Waihi Gold ‘New Zealand Tunnellers in WWI’. At Historic Village, 17th Ave, Tauranga, 3rd Tues of month. Lectures start 10am. & $3 charge to cover expenses. 07 863 8192

Tauranga Morning Badminton Club

Every Tues & Thurs at Queen Elizabeth Youth Centre, Memorial Park cnr 11th Ave & Devonport Rd 9-11.30am. Heather 574 0976

Indoor Bowls at Ohauiti

Mount Healing & Spiritual Centre

Scottish Country Dancing

Every Weds at Senior Citizens Hall, Maunganui Rd, Mt Maunganui. Beginners class 6pm, regular class 7.30pm.

Lynne 573 5055

Single Coffee Club 60+

Mixed company of singles 60+ that meet up once a week of coffee, enjoy socialising & meeting new friends.

Email: mixandmingle@xtra.co.nz or 027 439 3267

Table Tennis Tauranga

At Memorial Hall, QEYC every Weds 1-3pm & 7-9pm & every Fri 7-9pm.

Bill 578 1662 www.sportsground.co.nz/ tabletennistauranga

Tauranga Embroider’s Guild

Every Weds at Tauranga Rowing Club rooms, Memorial Park 10am - 2.30pm & 7-9pm. Juniors 4-5.30pm. Beginners & experienced stitchers welcome.

Nancy 544 4778

Tauranga Mid-Week Tramping Group

Wharewhara towards Te Rere hut & return. Old Baldy option. Grade mod, approx 5.5hrs. Alan 576 1715 Tauranga RSA Texas Hold-em Poker Club New members welcome, will teach you how to play. Buy in $10. Every Weds 7.30pm. PJ 543 2279

Toastmasters City Early Start

The 6 F’s Club - Fast, focused, flexible, feedback, friendly & fun.

Confidence & leadership building.

Every Weds at Avgas Cafe, Classic Flyers 6.50-8.15am. 021 044 5654 LaniDTM@gmail.com or http:// cityearlystart.toastmastersclubs.org

Thursday 18 June

Bay Salsa Presents Salsa on the Strand

Intro class at La Mexica 8pm followed by social dancing. Really social, no partner required. $2 entry fee (members free). www.baysalsa.co.nz

Club Mt Maunganui

Social games club. Play indoor bowls, 500 & Bolivia every Thurs 12.45pm.

John 575 2422

Community Bible Study International At 14th Ave Gospel Centre 10am - 12pm for a non denominational Bible Study on the Book of Mark. Jack/Betty 544 3809

Safe, effective, low impact exercise to music using the Bagot Stack technique, designed to help with posture, balance & stamina, combination of exercise, movement & dance. All ages & abilities. Complementary 1st class.

Thurs: Central Baptist Church Hall, cnr 13th Ave/Cameron Rd 9.30am.

Weds: Katikati Memorial Hall 10am.

Pam 549 4799 or 021 117 7170

French Connection

For lovers or all things French. Come & meet like-minded people over a relaxed drink. Meet every second Thurs at Comida on the Strand between 4.30-6.30pm. Email Andrea at agohns@yahoo.co.nz

More Than Craft

Every Thurs at Greerton Bible Church Hall cnr Oropi/Chadwick Rds 9.3011.30am. 10 crafts with talented tutors.

Welcome to view. June 544 0823

Mount Maunganui Creative Fibre

Every Thurs at Arataki Community Centre 9am - 1pm where we share, learn & enjoy spinning, weaving, crochet, knitting, felting & other creative crafts. New members welcome.

Kris 579 9994

Orange City Square & Round Dance Club

Tues morning class 10am 12pm. Weds advanced, Thurs club night & new dancers 7.30pm. Frontiersmen’s Hall.

543 1063

Assist in community based activities & enjoy fellowship & social. Meet 1st & 3rd Weds of month. Fellowship 5.30pm followed by meal 6.30pm.

Visitors & new members welcome.

Robert 576 8445 or http://www. lionsclubs.org.nz/Clubs/202L/Zone-9/ Otumoetai

Every Thurs at Papamoa College Gym 7-9pm. New members welcome. John 572 0129

Papamoa Garden Circle

Papamoa Table Tennis

Schizophrenia Support Group

Support for people who have a diagnosis of schizophrenia 1-2pm.

Junction 543 3010

Senior Tennis

Meet in Dune Room, Papamoa Sport & Recreation Centre 1pm. Elaine 575 5055

At Tauranga Lawn Tennis Club, Wharepai Domain, for ages 35+ from 9-11.30am. $3 ball fee. New members welcome.

Meet first Weds of month at Papamoa Sports & Recreation Centre 11.15am.

All welcome. Sue 574 3280

Ladies craft group every Thurs at Arataki Community Centre, Bayfair 9am - 2.30pm. Bring your favourite

Papamoa Palms Probus Club

Social Tai Chi Practice Group

Meet every Thurs at Methodist Church Hall, 13th Ave 9.30am. Lee 578 2342

Sunshine Dance Group

Learn sequence dancing at a friendly club. Meet every Thurs at Baptist Church Hall, cnr 13th Ave & Cameron Rd 7-8.30pm, followed by dancing till 10pm. $2pp, entrance includes supper. Jan 544 4379

Tai Chi Qigong

Every Thurs at Ohauiti Settlers Hall 11am.

Class takes approx 1hr. $1pp. Eric 577 1988

Taoist Tai Chi

Exercise your body. Challenge your mind.

New beginners class starts June 25 at 15 Koromiko St, Judea 12.30pm. Ann 577 9145

Tauranga Heart Support Group

Low impact group exercise for those with or at risk of heart disease. Every Thurs at City Church, Otumoetai, & every Monday at St Enoch’s Church Hall, 16th Ave, both 9.30-10.30am. $4pp includes light refreshment. Hannah (Clinical Exercise Physiologist) 0508 227 342

Tauranga Model Railway Club

Every Thurs 7.30pm. Ed 543 1108 www. taurangamodelrailwayclub.co.nz

Tauranga Rock n Roll Social Dancers

Have fun dancing to authentic rock & roll music every Thurs at Senior Citizens Hall, 14 Norris St (behind Pak n Save) 7.30-9.30pm. $3pp. Check out FB. Maria 576 7326

Te Puke Kiwicoast Lions Book Fair

20th annual book fair at Te Puke Memorial Hall, Te Puke June 18 & 19 8am - 6pm & June 20 9am - 3pm.

Tennis Seniors WBOP

Players 35+, Tauranga Lawn Tennis Club, Wharepai Domain 9am - 12pm. $3 ball fee.

New members welcome. Lynda tswbop@ gmail.com

Te Puna Community Library

AGM at Te Puna School Library 7.30pm.

The Mount Art Group

Meet every Thurs at St Peters Church Hall, Victoria Rd, Mount 9am - 1pm. Merilynn 575 6777

Toastmasters - Kickstart Breakfast Club

Speak confidently in a fun environment.

Alimento Cafe 7am, guests welcome. Helen 571 6181

Winter Delights

Free cup of soup & entertainment held by Mount Lions, at Arataki Community Centre 6.30-8pm June 18, 9 July, 6 August, 27 August. If you’d like to help contact Brenda 021 188 8308

Young Parents Group

(For ages 20 & under) every Thurs at Plunket, 471 Devonport Rd, Tauranga 12pm. Lunch provided. Text Rozi 027 924 6526

Friday 19 June Alcoholics Anonymous

Open meeting every Fri at Hamner Clinic, 1235 Cameron Rd, Greerton (behind Bridgestone) 7.30pm. 0800 229 6757 for more meetings or assistance.

Chess Tauranga

Every Fri at Tauranga RSA, Greerton 6pm & 7pm onwards for the whole family.

Werner 548 1111 http://www. westernbopchess.weebly.com/

Free Immigration Clinic

Every Fri - legal advice & information on immigration issues. For appointment, Baywide Community Law 571 6812 ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Support BOP EasiYoga upstairs 14B Hocking St, Mt Maunganui June 19 11am - 12noon.

Gentle exercises. Bring your own mat. Tina 281 1480 or email: tina@mebop.org.nz

New to New Zealand?

Free new migrant’s workshop at Kaimai Room, Tauranga City Council, Willow St, Tauranga 11.30am 2pm. Topics: Networking & finding NZ referees; CV’s & covering letters & more.

578 1592 or email: cab.tauranga@xtra.co.nz

by June 17.

The Sociables

30’s/40’s age group of males & females that meet up once a week to socialise by dining out or participating in local activities & event. Email sociables@outlook.co.nz

U3A Tauranga

General meeting. Guest speaker: Julia Graham, Mauao Wildlife Trust “Their work around Mt Mauao, & the surrounding area.” Wesley Church Hall, 13th Ave 10am. Visitors welcome.

Fitness League

Fellowship & celebration at Omanu Bowling Club, Golf Rd, Mount. Doors open 7pm for 7.30pm. Tonight: Meet the Mediums, door charge $5. All welcome. Janet 027 264 0226

Otumoetai Lions

craft or do a new one. Great company, casual, fun environment! Jenny 572 5396

Simplee Cre8tive

“What’s On” is a FREE service for non-profit clubs & organisations.

Email julie@thesun.co.nz or Fax 571 1116 or post to PO Box 240, Tauranga.

Deadline 3pm Tuesdays.

Contributions should be less than 20 words.

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The Weekend Sun

By Winston Watusi

Reopening a whole barrel of monkeys Damn you Rogers Rabbits for writing the catchiest column in the world.

And after all the help I got from transcendental meditation and industrial quantities of counselling that would have rendered the Energizer bunny calm and mellow.

Like you, I was happy floating along in my silent, simple world, until your column came out in last Friday’s The Weekend Sun. See it at www.sunlive. co.nz/blogs/8341-catchiest-songs-world.html). Now it’s back to therapy again...

Unique horror

Because you’ve reopened that whole barrel of monkeys. The unique horror that – for each of us – is the catchiest song in the world.

What you’ve sadly forgotten is that, where

alarmingly catchy songs are concerned, we music columnists are the first line of defence.

We’re the ones out there on the edge of the trenches, ready to hurl our hardened ears upon previously unheard grenades of catchy choruses and take the blast.

Foot tapping

That party in your cerebellum, and worse, the rhythmelodical subcortical, the part of the brain that triggers uncontrollable foot tapping and dad dance moves – we’re the ones poised to prevent that, trained professional psychological noise control officers, ready to weed out and quarantine you from the worst dangers of extreme catchiness.

And now look what you’ve done. Even the strict training we undergo is only a few choruses deep.

Even we can crumble in the face of a list of catchy songs, such as the one you published.

Suddenly, all those worst nightmares of catchiness come bubbling up from deep in our damaged psyches: ‘YMCA’, ‘We are the Champions’, ‘Living on a Prayer’, ‘Mickey’, and the one that sent me into extended Music Critic Detox: ‘Put a Ring on It’.

Yes, Beyonce, my therapist will be sending you the bills, along with Rogers Rabbits for so insensitively re-raising this dangerous matter.

I’ve retreated to the only safe haven available in such circumstances: rhythm and blues. R&B can be catchy sometimes but there’s a long-standing melodic rule that the tougher the musical backing the more catchiness is allowed.

Brilleaux has one last Tauranga gig on June 13 before they start a UK tour.

Walwyn, is joining them for their final show in Leicester. They get back here on the last day of the month.

As a long-time observer of the Tauranga scene I must say I’m blown away. This is the band’s second trip to the UK; they have some great gigs lined up and some spectacular guests.

Damn fine!

And – with apologies to Brilleaux fans – I’ve been listening to the band’s new album and I want to tell you it’s English summer fantastic.

And so we come to Brilleaux.

Apologies? Well I have an advanced Brilleaux are off on Tuesday, flying over the horizon copy and there are no other copies to what they optimistically expect to be an English in New Zealand. When Tim Julian summer. On Thursday they play the first show of finished mixing at Colourfield, the their UK tour, in Brighton where Gordon Russel – masters went straight to England to be ex-Dr Feelgood guitarist – and Geno Washington will pressed. be joining them on stage.

I think it’s probably their best yet.

Then it’s a two-day festival in Torquay, the ChichGraham Clark’s singing and harp ester Blues on the Farm Festival, where their special playing are best yet, guitarist Bruce guest will be John Potter of Wilko Johnson’s Solid Rolands proves again to be a master of Senders, three days of cider-tasting in Somerset and studio layering and simply a great guimore gigs. Another Dr Feelgood guitarist, Steve tarist, Brian Franks’ uniquely inventive

aggressive bass approach gives the band an edge that raises the music beyond cliché and drummer Ian ‘Beano’ Gilpin just gets better with every album. And sings stellar harmonies.

Geezer songs

The songs? This is Brilleaux going through their ‘English period’; the lean towards mock-cockney geezer songs is noticeable. Thankfully outings like ‘Jack the Lad’, ‘Strapped for Cash’, and the title track ‘Pictures of the Queen’ are as tough as they are funny.

Which is just as well since they are so damned catchy as well.

Though, luckily falling just below therapy-inducing levels...

I don’t know if there is any room left but Brilleaux are doing one last show before they jet off – it’s this Saturday, June 13 at Drivers Bar. Doors open 8pm, tickets are $15 from Drivers. watusi@thesun.co.nz

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Shane & the Shazam Band.

Drivers Bar Saturday 13 – Brilleaux live 8pm Celebrating the solid gold soundtrack of 1960’s – 70’s. Door start. Tickets $15 from the bar. sales from 4.30pm. Entry $10.

Mount RSA The Crown & Badger Friday 12 – Mark Taupiri Friday 12 – Celsius.

7.30pm.

Saturday 13 – One One One. Saturday 13 – The Tornados 7.30pm.

The Matua Sunday 14 – Hans 4.30pm.

Sunday 14 – Alice Sea 3-6pm.

Wednesday 17 – A Taste of Tauranga Citz Club Country Night 7.30-10pm.

Sunday 14 – NZ pop legend

Friday Jun 12 to Wed Jun 17 131 Jellicoe Street, Te Puke.

PLAYING THIS WEEK

Capitol Cinema 4

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (R16)

Across No. 1426 6. Famous dolphin 6. Chubby (5) 11. Many (8) (7,4) 7. Maori vegetable (4)13. Stirred up (6) 8. Name (8) 14 Number (6) 9. Disapprove (6) 15. Chess piece (6) 10. Small boat (6) 16. Push (5) 12. Six musicians (6) 18. River (SI) (4) C F N B E A T S I R A S H 15. Bewilder (6) A M E K B M 17. Famous painter (8) SJ AL UN EA ET FF RL M M A P E D 19. Tuber (4) S C A R E I M P E L K A M 20. Electric shock (11) E O D E D R G L X M E R E U N T R I M M E D J K D M Down Y E L S OWO T O E A T O A G C D C R A F T S M A N 1. Empty (5,3)) G L I B I A G L T C I M K 2. Come (6) A O C L Y D I A I O H A U A R I A E I I N I R O Z K 3. Climb (6) A Y C C O U R G E T T E S 4. Final (4) F E T K E S E E O S T D R 5. Drawing (6) Solution 1425

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ALOHA (PG) Coarse Language.

ADVENT, THRILLER. Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron. ACTION, ADVENTURE, SCI-FI. in 2D: Fri 6:00. Sun 7:10pm. Tue 6:00pm. Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard.

COMEDY, DRAMA, ROMANCE. Bradley Cooper, Rachel McAdams, Emma Stone, John Krasinski, Bill Murray, Alec Baldwin.

SPY (R16) Violence, Sexual References &

Fri 1:00, 6:00. Sat 6:00pm.

Sun 6:30pm. Mon 6:30pm.

Tue 8:30pm. Wed 6:30pm.

(M) Violence.

IT FOLLOWS (R16) Viol, Horror & Sex Scenes.

in 2D on MEGAscreen: Fri 12:45, 6:00pm. Sat 10:30, 3:30, 8:35pm. Sun 1:45, 7:00.

Mon 3:30, 6:15pm. Tue 1:00, 6:00pm. Wed 6:15pm. in RealD 3D: Fri 3:20, 8:30. Sat 12:40, 5:50pm. Sun 11:15, 4:30. Mon 6:00pm.

Tue 3:15, 8:35pm. Wed 3:20pm.

NOBLE (M) Violence, Off Language & Sex Scenes.

SAN ANDREAS (M)

in RealD 3D: Sat 8:40pm. Wed 6:00pm.

Off Language. ACTION,

COMEDY. Melissa McCarthy, Jason Statham.

Sat 8:20pm. Sun 4:00pm.

Mon 3:45. Tue 6:00pm.

HORROR. Fri 4:20. Sat 3:45. Sun 7:10pm.

BIOGRAPHY, DRAMA. In Lounge.

Fri 2:30, 8:00. Sat 11:45, 5:50. Sun 1:20, 5:15. Mon 4.

Tue 1:00, 6:10. Wed 6:20.

THE GROUND WE WON (M)

Off Lang, Sexual References, Nudity, Content That May Offend.

NZ DOCO. A rugby team of farmers strive to redeem themselves from a long run of bitter loses.

Offensive Language.

ACTION, DRAMA, THRILLER. Dwayne Johnson.

In the aftermath of a massive earthquake, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey.

in 2D: Fri 3:30, 8:20pm.

Sat 6:10. Sun 4:30. Tue 1:00, 8:40pm. Wed 3:40pm. in 3D: Sat 3:20. Mon 3:30.

PITCH PERFECT 2 (M) Sexual References.

COMEDY, MUSIC. Anna Kendrick. Fri 8:40pm.

Sat 1:05pm. Sun 11:15am. Tue 3:35pm.

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Coarse Language. ACTION, ADVENT. George Clooney, Britt Robertson.

From the Director of The Incredibles.

Fri 3:20pm. Sat 10:30, 3:20.

Sun 1:25. Tue 3:20. Wed 3:45.

PAPER PLANES

(G) Sam Worthington.

FAMILY. Saturday 1:10pm. Sunday 11:15am.

HOME (PG) (2D only). Sat 10:30am.

CINDERELLA (G) ADVENT, DRAMA.

Fri 12:45, 6:10. Sat 1:45, 7:45. Sun 11:30, A ROYAL NIGHT OUT(M)Adult Themes 3:20. Mon 6:20. Tue 3:00, 8:05. Wed 3:45. FINAL DAYS! Fri 1:00pm. Tue 1:00pm.

Lily James, Cate Blanchett. Sunday 2:00pm.

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Outdoors films indoors a Tauranga first Film buffs and outdoor adrenalin junkies listen up – this month Tauranga is to become one of 400 communities in 40 countries to host this year’s Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour.

The festival – the largest and one of the most prestigious mountain festivals in the world – is bringing to town a collection of the most inspiring action, environmental and adventure films on offer.

Every year the Banff World Tour team chooses about 25 films featuring a range of styles and themes, including climbing, skiing, kayaking, biking, adventure, culture and the environment.

NZ Alpine Club member Tim Sainsbury says his club is hosting the festival in Tauranga with a showing on June 19.

“It’s an international event that happens across the world and this is the first time it’s happening in Tauranga.

“You can watch a few of the films previews online at www.banff.nz” The Tauranga showing

Tavern transforms into winter wonderland Tonnes of snow and plenty of other winterthemed installations will turn Papamoa Tavern’s garden bar area into a winter wonderland this month.

something people look forward to in winter here in the Bay,” says Tim. Performing for the first time together, Papamoa musician Tiki Taane will join Shapeshifter singer PDigsss on stage at the festival – as well as Mount Maunganui’s Such&Such.

Party-goers are encouraged Tim says there are a to dress up in their winter kit number of prizes to be won and come and play in the snow at the event including heaps Part-goers enjoyed the last event held at at the Papamoa Beach Winter of Mount Ruapehu DiscovPapamoa Beach Tavern. Photo: B-line Photography.

Festival 2015 at Papamoa ery Packages – perfect for Beach Tavern on June 27 from 4pm-10pm. people wanting to hit the slopes this season.

Festival promotions manager Tim Williams says after “Included in this package is free festival food prepared many years spent in the Bay of Plenty, friends would

by The Big Smoke BBQ team – so you get to enjoy talk about winter not only bringing the cold – but the amazing music, a winter festival environment and the fact there’s nothing ‘cool’ to go to during winter atmosphere and yummy tummy warming food.” months.

Tickets to the R18 event cost $25 and are available “With the likes of the Ohakune Mardi Gras and from Papamoa Beach Tavern and winter festivals in Queenstown it seemed some of us www.eventfinder.co.nz. Booking fees may apply. were missing out on this season that was The Weekend Sun has five double passes celebrated by other Kiwis. to the Papamoa Beach Winter Festival 2015 “So it was decided an event that celebrates to give away to lucky readers who can tell us the winter season and hopefully gets people what dates the event is on? out to enjoy some of the elements it brings Enter online at www.sunlive.co.nz under with it was required.” the competitions section. Entries must be As a result, Papamoa Beach Tavern has crereceived before Wednesday, June 17. ated something for BOP people to enjoy this

By Zoe Hunter winter.

“We’ve worked on making sure this is an event that’ll hopefully happen annually for the area and become

will feature ‘And Then We Swam’ about a UK duo crossing the Indian Ocean, Kai Lightner’s ‘14.c’ plus ‘Afterglow’ about big mountain skiing, ‘Arctic Swell’ by surfing photographer Chris Burkard, and ‘Just Keep Running’ about Kiwi Ruby Muir, who is one of the world’s most promising young trail runners.

The Tauranga showing is at Holy Trinity Church next Friday, June 19 from 6.30-9pm.

Tickets cost $15 for NZ Alpine Club members and students, or $20 general admission from Macpac Tauranga, Bivouac Outdoor Tauranga or www.banff.nz

The Weekend Sun has three double passes to give away to three lucky readers who can tell us what date the Banff Mountain Film Festival is held in Tauranga?

Enter online at www.sunlive.co.nz under the competitions section.

Entries must be received before Wednesday, June 17.

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The Weekend Sun

Get big bang for your buck The Metropolitan is the world’s biggest purpose-built opera house – hailed as home to the world’s best voices.

A few big blocks across Manhattan is Broadway – home to the musical, Rogers and Hammerstein and the like. It’s defining American popular culture.

And 9000km away in Tauranga that musical divide will be bridged in what’s been described as “one scintillating evening of hits, classical songs, arias and opera” called ‘From

Broadway to The Met’. New York will miss the moment because this musical potpourri will be blended at Holy Trinity Tauranga on Devonport Rd next Saturday night in a fundraiser for Waipuna Hospice.

“You can’t get better bang for your buck as far as talent and repertoire,” says pianist and musical director Rosemary Barnes. “This is not a night for Tauranga to stay at home.”

Rosemary’s ‘talent’ includes opera’s Martin Snell, who’ll sing some “buffo” pieces, comic opera as well as ‘Some Enchanted Evening’ from ‘South Pacific’ and ‘If I were a Rich Man’ from ‘Fiddler on the Roof ’.

Grace Park excels at music theatre. “She’s pretty damned hot,” says Rosemary. Grace will

deliver Mozart’s ‘Alleluia’ and that rich contralto Kate Spence will sing Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ‘Bali Hai’ from ‘South Pacific’.

There will be duets – Grace and Martin will team for ‘Do You Love Me’ from ‘Fiddler on the Roof ’ and there will be a “lovely Mozart trio to end with,” says Rosemary.

The concert is the result of months of collaboration – and Waipuna Hospice fundraising manager Trish Rae says they’re proud to have attracted performers of this calibre to Tauranga.

“Tauranga often bemoans it’s bereft of good national tours. Well here’s an opportunity to have a memorable, world class evening’s entertainment.”

Tickets cost $55 and students $40.

They are available at Waipuna Hospice and hospice shops at Greerton, Fraser Cove, the Mount and Te Puke, Holy Trinity Church, and online at waipunahospice.co.nz or call 07 552 4380.

The Weekend Sun has two double passes to give away to two lucky readers who can tell us where ‘From Broadway to The Met’ will be held in Tauranga?

Enter online at www.sunlive.co.nz under the competitions section.

Entries must be received before Wednesday, June 17.

Musical director Rosemary Barnes says ‘From Broadway to The Met’ is full of talent and repertoire – and promises to be an evening in Tauranga you won’t want to miss.

Classical trio come to town

Want to listen to a performance from three distinguished musicians with extensive international performance experience who have dayjobs as NZ School of Music Te Koki Trio’s Martin Riseley, lecturers in classi- Inbal Megiddo and Jian Liu play cal performance? in town this Sunday.

Then book out this Sunday afternoon for Te Koki Trio, who are headlining Tauranga Musica’s 2015 Concert Series’ third instalment on June 14.

Martin Riseley on violin will perform with Inbal Megiddo on cello and Jian Liu on piano, at Tauranga Boys’ College.

This Sunday’s programme has works by Fanny Mendelssohn, Gillian Whitehead and Clara Schumann.

The Te Koki Trio performs at the Graham Young Youth Theatre, Tauranga Boys’ College, this Sunday, June 14 at 3pm.

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Right: Fairhaven School pupils Shaydon Steele, 8, and Matthew Earle, 8, planting around the school grounds.

Welcome Bay’s Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Otepou School’s netball team is now sporting beautiful new uniforms thanks to support from the ANZ netball grant scheme.

Team coach Marie Karaka is pleased the girls will take to the court this year in brand new uniforms, which includes bibs, balls and a gear bag.

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Players pictured are Heriata Whauwhau, mascot Aoraki Karaka, Ketura Russell, Kiriwehi Kuka, Mahinarangi Tester, and Mikayla Hunter. At back is coach Marie, manager Mel, and Julie from ANZ.

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More than 350 children took part in the annual Small Schools and Tall Poppies Cross Country event hosted by Whakamarama School – part of the Western Bay of Plenty School Cross Country module.

Andre Maurice from Omokoroa Point School, Cullum Muir from Matahui School and Harry Larkworthy from Omokoroa Point School in the Year 6 boys’ race.

Room 20 pupils Chloe Hamblyn, 9, and Kate Earle, 8, get in on the planting.

Fairhaven School has planted a native bush garden on school grounds to explore, learn and play in.

The aim of the garden is to attract native birds for environmental education, as well as a place for children to play and explore.

It will also act as a legacy for future Fairhaven pupils.

Building interest in plaza

Adorned in hard hats and with a bag of toy tools in their hands, 30 children from Child’s Wonder Private Preschool and Infant Care in Papamoa walked through the construction zone of their local shopping centre this week. Papamoa Plaza is undergoing a $20 million redevelopment during the next couple of years. The children’s favourite part of the visit was playing on the digger.

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Praying for God’s Kingdom - Part 2 “What should we pray for?” the disciples asked Jesus one day.

“When you pray,” replied Jesus, “ask for these things”.

“Firstly, pray that our Heavenly Father, Yahweh the God of Israel will be acknowledged as the one and only true God. “Yahweh is Holy and there is absolutely no one who can even be compared with him; so great and righteous is his name.”

Secondly, pray: “Your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is in heaven” (Matthew 6:10).

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One day, said Jesus: “I will return again as King of Kings and Lord of Lords and all the kingdoms and governments of this world will come under the control and reign of My Father”.

In the meantime pray the heavens will be opened and the Holy Spirit will bring a supernatural manifestation of God’s Kingdom to planet earth.

Pray: “Let your Kingdom come!” Pray that the blind will see, the lame will walk, the sick will be healed, the deaf will hear, the dead will be raised and good news will be preached to the poor.

Heavenly Father our hearts cry: “Let your kingdom come let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Amen”.

By Dave Fredrickson, Mount Baptist Church

McCoskrie to speak in Tauranga Well-known for his stand on behalf of families and children’s rights, Bob McCoskrie will speak in Tauranga on Sunday.

Bob came to be prominent NZ figure as a talk-back host and later a TV presenter on the Rhema Broadcasting Group’s ‘Current Affairs’ programme.

He’s noted for speaking about common sense and values on a broad range of family issues and his organisation Family First NZ, of which he is national director, has become a household name following its launch in 2006.

His speech will precede the Voice For Life Bay of Plenty Charitable Trust AGM at St Mary’s

Catholic Church, on the corner of Elizabeth St and Cameron Rd at 2pm on Sunday, June 14.

Sunday Gatherings 10:00 am Mount Sports Club 51 Miro Street Blake Park The Mount

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CONTAINER RECYCLING EVENT FOR ALL Agrecovery is holding a container collection event at Farmlands, Minden Road in Te Puna on Thursday, 18 June, 10am-2pm. People can recycle containers from more than 60 participating brand owners in the agrichemical, biological, animal health and dairy hygiene industries for free. Containers must be empty, triple rinsed and 60 litres or under in size. To be eligible containers must still have their label on. Visit agrecovery.co.nz for full acceptance criteria, and a list of permanent collection sites.

DISTRICT UPDATE

LONG TERM PLAN – DECISIONS MADE

ISSUE 123 • 12 JUNE 2015

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This week was a big one! Our Elected Members sat down to make all of the decisions on our 2015-2025 Long Term Plan (LTP).

We received 1060 submissions on our draft LTP – and heard from a further 132 people who spoke about their submission at our public hearings.

That meant our Councillors had a lot of feedback to consider and discuss before making their final decisions. We had some pretty big projects in this LTP – such as our District cycleways, the Katikati Library, stormwater and rates.

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Detail of these decisions can be found on our website. Thank you again to everyone who gave feedback, you will receive a detailed response to your submission in the mail at the end of June. The final LTP will be adopted on Thursday, 25 June.

ADOPT A DOG ONLINE! Efforts to find new homes for ownerless dogs in the Western Bay have stepped up a gear with the launch of Council’s online Adopt a Dog service.

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The Adopt a Dog project is one of two initiatives aimed at increasing the number of happy endings emerging from our four pounds.

Some beautiful dogs end up in our care, unwanted or unclaimed – and many would make great pets. That’s why we’ve launched Adopt a Dog. We can’t guarantee a dog’s behaviour, but all dogs are temperament tested before going

up for adoption. They’re also microchipped, de-sexed, registered and ready for a new family!

A page has also been set up online to display all of the ‘lost’ dogs we’ve found in the District – helping owners to visibly identify dogs through photographs and descriptions.

If your dog goes missing – please visit our website to see if they’ve ended up with us.

Anzac Bay in Athenree is one of 16 place names, linked to World War 1, set to become official as part of the New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa (NZGB) contribution to the Government’s ‘New Zealand WW100’ programme.

Anzac Bay was formally called St George’s Bay. In 1915 the Katikati Domain Board proposed the name change, due to the beach’s steep ascent, which closely resembled the Gallipoli Peninsula.

The Tauranga Harbour Board accepted the suggestion, resolved that renaming the bay after the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps would be a fitting ‘commemoration of the heroic local men and their fellow soldiers.

On 6 January, 1916, a ceremony was held to ‘christen’ the Bay and open its new jetty and shelter shed, with both the Mayor of Tauranga and

the Mayor of Waihi in attendance.

This renaming was one of the first measures adopted in New Zealand to commemorate those who served at Gallipoli.

The NZGB is supporting the New Zealand WW100 project, which serves to commemorate the WW1 centenary, by approving existing WWI-linked names that have not been made official, and publishing the stories behind them.

Thirty of these WWI place names exist throughout New Zealand. All 30 were considered by the NZGB in April this year, with 16 approved as official.

CARPARK WORK BEGINS Work began this week on the development of a new carpark at the end of Wharawhara Road, in Katikati.

This project is a partnership between Council, Department of Conservation, and J Swap Contractors.

It is part of a wider initiative to upgrade road endings that link up to the

Kaimai/Mamaku Forest Park.

During construction, public access to the forest park will be closed to vehicles, but pedestrians will still have entry.

All going well, the project should be completed by the end of June.

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