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INSIDE CLASSIC RABBITS WINSTON’S ISSUES HOCKEY AIMS HIGH PIRATE ATTACK SUNLIVE FINANCE EDUCATION HOMEBASE FOOD HEALTH LETTERS WHAT’S ON CLASSIFIEDS

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Seeking travellers’ bounty

A new interactive murder-mystery dinner show with pirates is set to become the first of its kind in the Bay – with the aim of attracting tourists to stay in Tauranga longer. The ‘Pirates of the Pacific – The Pirate King’ is the creation of Papamoa resident, actor and director Tom Kay – known for his success with the Prime Suspects murder-mystery dinner shows. For the full story see page 10.

Pictured: A few of The Prime Suspects from left: Alan Williscroft as Captain Claw, Matthew Simmons as Captain ‘Black Jack’ Tui, Maree Bieleski as Saucy Mary Celeste and Chris Strawn as Master William Baites. Photo by Tracy Hardy.

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So here we are in the depths of winter, the darkest of days. But maybe not as dark as 2007 when the country was ruled by the iron hand of Clark Vader and Nanny State. To cheer you all up, here’s a reminder of the draconian issues of the day, when Nanny State was trying to dictate every miniscule part of our life: from the length of your shower, to the number of shells you could pick up on the beach, to even controlling your hot water bottle! This classic RR column, from June 2007:

Sleeping with the enemy Forget Global Warming, war, famine and disease. Be assured that our Government is moving swiftly and decisively on the matters that really count.

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In a pre-emptive strike against terror in our homes, it has declared a new ban on the sale of unsafe hot water bottles.

You think our nation is a dangerous place with paroled killers on the loose, boy racers hurtling out of control on every street corner and power companies cutting supply to life support machines? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet, as my Gran often said, compared to the threat of spontaneous combustion, feet first, from a Rogue Hot Water Bottle.

These things stalk their victim insidiously, lurking in the depths of your cosy bed; the one place you feel safe and secure. They strike when you are most vulnerable – prone, semi-conscious and wearing paisley flannelette.

Stepping in to save us is New Zealand’s Most Prominent Hot Water Bottle Safety Official: Stephen O’Brien, Acting Manager, Measurement and Product Safety Service, Ministry of Consumer Affairs. We have re-titled him: Hottie Man. (We think his mum will still call him Stephen, however.)

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tected from unsafe rubber hot water bottles as well as PVC ones.

The ban on unsafe rubber hot water bottles was first put in place in November 2004 after a number of incidents were reported to the Ministry, where hot water bottles had perished or leaked and in some cases causing serious burns.

“Since the ban there have been no complaints about hot water bottles.

This shows the ban is working,” says Hottie Man. However, here at The Sun, we suspect the Rogue Hot Water Bottles are just getting more evil… now there are no survivors.

They’ve gone from simply wetting your bedsocks; to going bankrupt owing you thousands then appearing on Dancing with the Stars; to then scalding and maiming; to now instantly poaching their victims alive.

Hottie Man says that to make sure hot water bottles are safe, consumers are encouraged to check the safety standard on their hot water bottles. If they are unsure whether it is genuine, they should either dispose of the hot water bottle or contact the free phone: 0508 627 774.

The Ministry reminds consumers they need to take care filling and using hot water bottles. They should not use boiling water when filling, and cover the bottle, such as wrapping in a towel. And always put the milk in first. No, hang on, that’s only when you’re making tea.

Taking chances

Here at the Sun, we don’t think you should take any chances. Sure, wrap the thing in a towel. But then take it out into the yard and beat it with a large stick. Even better, if you’ve got a chainsaw, use that.

This technique will also be much more

graphic for the series of horror movies that are sure to be spawned.

“Attack of the Killer Hot Water Bottles.”

The sequel, “Revenge of the PowertoolWielding Scalded Grannies.”

Kevin Costner’s post apocalypse sci-fi, “Hot Water World.”

The chick flick sequel: “The Hot Water Bottles of Madison County.”

The environmental docu-drama with failed politician and a lot of graphs: “An Inconvenient Wet Feeling Between the Toes.”

The low-budget porno, “Hot Rubber, Wet Spots.”

And of course, the gay version, “Brokebladder Mountain.”

Anyway, once you have rid yourself of the Rogue Hot Water Bottle, go back to bed with an extra pair of socks or a large Labrador on your feet. Both are more friendly to the environment and will help prevent global warming. Although that may depend on the Labrador’s diet.

Those of you, who still persist in running the gauntlet and using potentially dangerous hot water bottles, be warned: 1. Use a crocheted hot water bottle cover with your initials on it. That way, individual hot water bottles can be identified on security cameras if they go feral.

2. Put the hot water bottle inside a bag of party ice before placing in bed. This will cause frostbite, but at least the ice will cancel out the burning effect of any spilled hot water.

3. Turn up the television when a Vince Martin advert comes on, a subtle reminder to the hot water bottle that’s it’s only a meltdown away from being recycled as a retread.

4. Don’t let your hot water bottle associate with the teapot or the thermos flask.

We don’t need them finding strength in numbers.

5. Beware of Nigerian hot water bottles wanting you to help launder vast sums of cash and whatever you do, don’t ever tell the hot water bottle your pin number.

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No plans to work with Winston At the National Party conference this weekend, policies will be discussed for the election and beyond – there will be no talk of working with Winston Peters says Simon Bridges.

The New Zealand First Party leader was in Tauranga on a voting crusade this week saying the National Government has its priorities back to front.

“The Prime Minister has ruled out working with Winston Peters after the election. “Nothing has changed,” says Simon.

Winston spoke to Tauranga residents in a public meeting at the Classic Flyers Club this week.

He says the government’s priorities are back to front and it’s time things change to reflect the principles of the past.

“There was always going to be a day of reckoning and now it is upon us.

“This week, in what used to be called the ‘mother country’, there have been riots that have stunned the world. Just kilometres away from a leading international capital, they have rioted at a time when the global economy is in freefall.”

Winston says the issues behind the riots have accrued from the

NZ First leader Winston Peters spoke to Tauranga residents this week regarding party policies. build at last a real KiwiSaver plan global financial crisis and are and invest it at home in industries prevalent in New Zealand as well. and areas that will give our young “Last year those on our rich list people a real future.” enjoyed wealth growth of 20 per Tauranga MP Simon Bridges cent. The gap between our rich says the National Party conference and poor has been growing over this weekend promises to be a very the last 25 years.

“One of the most neglected areas positive event for the National Party and the country. is youth employment and trade “A full group of delegates are training.” going from Tauranga to WellingWinston says unemployment in ton for the conference where we the 15-19 year bracket is 27.6 per cent. In the 15-24 year bracket it’s will interact with ministers of the government and hear about and about 18 per cent. discuss policy for the election and “New Zealand’s financial future beyond. is now a gamble. But we still have “The highlight will be the speech a chance – if we take it – of turnby the Prime Minister on the ing this nation’s decline around as Sunday morning.” long as we keep what we’ve got,

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Tauranga club machines at knitting The Tauranga Machine Knitters Club is celebrating its 50th birthday this weekend.

To celebrate the half century milestone, a luncheon is being held at Greenwood Park, with current and ex-members attending.

Janice Graham has been part of the machine knitters

club since 1985 and is looking forward to this weekend’s celebration.

“We have invited all our ex-members, so will have about 35-36 people at the luncheon at Greenwood Park.

“People will be coming from all over the place.”

Janice says the Tauranga branch of machine knitters was started at the back of a shop many years ago.

She says while she’s been a member since the mid 80s, there are members of the club who have been there longer than that.

“It’s now a hobby, but people used to do it to make money. I like the creative side of it. You can knit lots of things not just garments and it’s a lot quicker.”

Janice says people can be more creative with machine knitting and “can achieve more pictures”.

“Machines are easier to use, opposed to needles – you can use

Janice Graham loves to machine knit.

Photo by Bruce Barnard.

more colours and also weave on the machine.

“To knit a jersey, it would take hours and hours, but on a machine you can do it in four hours.”

Back in the 70s and 80s, the Tauranga Machine Knitters Club had about 120 members and had many more on the waiting list.

“But now people are working and you can’t get new machines in New Zealand.

“They were made in Japan and I think they have stopped making them now. You can still buy them in England,” says Janice.

By Letitia Atkinson

Waiting on costings Five options for the redevelopment of the Mount hot salt water pools are being considered as directions for the future of the pools.

Tauranga City Aquatics Ltd director Warren Banks and chief executive Tania Delahunty presented the options without costs to Tauranga City Council’s Projects and Monitoring Committee this week.

The options, with costs and business plans, will be brought back before council for consideration on which one is the best to take forward.

Option one is the existing pools, with new pipes and a filtration system to meet New Zealand standards, plus new concourses and a repaint.

Option two has a new children’s pool. Option three has a new children’s pool and three new sensation pools, plus a refurbished entry and four or five massage rooms.

Option four is the plan B presented at mediation without the wellness centre, including new fresh water children’s pools and play areas, four or five treatment rooms and new reception area.

Option five includes an 11 room wellness centre built over camp sites, but not over quite as many as the 24 campsites originally expected to be taken from the public reserve for the commercial activity.

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Photo by Bruce Barnard.

There’s a whole raft of reasons to be visiting Baycourt this weekend – and it’s not just the container load of secondhand books on sale.

Bookarama, the Otumoetai PTA’s annual fundraiser is 25-years-old this weekend. One of the book buyers during the weekend will receive a spot prize of silver jewellery to mark the occasion.

Bookarama opens on Friday,

A container load of reading

August 12 at 8am, closing at 8pm. On Saturday, the book sale opens at 8am, closing at 4pm and Sunday hours are from 9am until noon.

In previous years, people begin queuing early on Friday morning – a couple of hours before opening says PTA member Robert Pinkerton.

He’s expecting returns to pick up this year.

“We raised $15,000 last year, but last year we didn’t have as many books.

“We have got the numbers back

up this year. We’ve got a whole container full.”

Bookarama’s best year was $23,000 in sales, also out of a full container says Robert.

Tauranga author Silvia Bowden will also be at Bookarama, selling and signing copies of her books ‘How to stop your kids going broke’, and ‘The NZ Budget Kit.’ Silvia will be there from 5-6.30pm Friday and from 10am till noon on Saturday.

Sylvia is donating a portion of her sales to Otumoetai College.

By Andrew Campbell

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Not an Orange Festival replacement There is no truth to a rumour that some downtown retailers have approached Steve Crow to organise an annual parade to replace the defunct Orange Festival parade.

Thanks to a media fuelled free promotion, some 3000 people reportedly turned out (I was at a TECT Park meeting at Barkes Corner and didn’t witness first hand) to watch the ‘parade’ and the ‘entertainment’ provided by about 40 protestors scuffling with police.

It’s hard to figure motives when it’s those opposed to the parade who are the ones requiring police intervention. Murray Guy and Bill Grainger reportedly had a look at the crowd, but not the parade. Apparently they had considered leading the parade on their motorbikes as a protest, but kept a low profile in light of the turnout. Some retailers along the route had the best day’s takings in months. Many people enjoyed a day out of the ordinary. College students were there (no doubt for research only) but it was only the boys who were reported. The Girls’ College students had a mufti day so went unreported. From a council perspective, council couldn’t be seen to condone this. The protestors played into the hands of Mr Crow and media manipulation.

Trying to stop the parade, had it succeeded, would have been the icing on Mr Crow’s cake. It reminds me of the days of six o’clock closing and the beer barons surreptitiously funding the well meaning people of the temperance league. For next year the message is that no protest equals no publicity means no public reaction means parade will fizzle – just like the Orange Festival did so many years ago.

Selling the silver?

Sale of so called family silver assets, but not core services like water, will be seriously considered if elected member preliminary discussions come to fruition in the ongoing three year/Ten Year Plan meetings. Of course, all decisions will come to you for consultation when draft proposals are made. There will be wails, screams and gnashing of teeth from some, but they will need to also outline their options. Many are expert at telling the problems, including a few elected members, but are short on acceptable solutions to the majority. We are at the end of the line financially so asset sales have to be in the mix. There looks like a shortfall of about $30 million in development contributions over the next 10 years.

Guess where that will have to come from.

Forwards into the black

Negotiations are ongoing with central government over Hairini Link and Route K and a successful outcome will ease the debt envelope. Even though it’s serious, at least the financials are well managed and controlled.

At TECT Park Committee a proposal for a Bush Railway and Old Sawmill was received. Enthusiasts from Rotorua say they have the money, gear and enthusiasm to put it in.

Staff will report on implications, but Murray Guy, fresh from the parade, spoke fiercely against.

New arena looking rosy

An update from Tauranga City Venues Ltd (TCVL), which runs Baypark Stadium and will run the new

TECT Arena. Previously known as Indoor Sport and Recreation Centre, this new amenity is a real stunner. TCVL has purchased the speedway promotion rights and will be taking over the catering as well in a joint venture. Details are confidential at present, but have been financed with a council loan, interest bearing at commercial rates.

There is no rates funding for the stadium, but the new arena will get ratepayer subsidy for construction loan of $25 million and operations. Council aims at an around 20 per cent user fee component initially. This went to community consultation and was negotiated with user groups. Bookings for the arena are pouring in and plans are afoot for an upgraded stadium operation. Already there are more big time rugby events coming and a new speedway manager has been appointed. Plans are for a revamped speedway operation. There are still issues to be addressed like a walkway around the oval, but TCVL say they are on to it. Baypark will be a great attraction for the food, beverage, accommodation and entertainment industries in our city.

Golden methods

It’s been 20 years since Tauranga struck up its Sister City relationship with Yentai in Shendong province in China. Celebrations planned in Tauranga commence next week. China is now New Zealand’s second biggest trading partner and the Yentai relationship has been an easy fit with Tauranga, even though they have a population of six million. Like the world over, most people just want to get on with life and Yentai is no different.

It’s a modern Chinese city, but with a laid back lifestyle.

Beijing is the older cultural centre and Shanghai the bustling commercial centre. The relationship is now more business orientated, but we still maintain good personal relationship too. (One great thing about Chinese culture is punctuality – an 8pm finish for a function means that – 8.01pm and there’s only Kiwis standing around!)

Poolside blues

At projects and monitoring there was another presentation from Tauranga City Aquatics Ltd on the Mount Hot (Saltwater) Pools proposal. TCAL highlighted that the proposal for an expanded operation was in line with council’s objective of a nil rates subsidy for aquatics (presently $2 million). The short term objective is to get the pools operating again while planning issues are sorted. This (surprise, surprise) will take a while, we were told.

Interesting bits fall out of these discussions and it was relevant to hear that the vacant land behind the complex, adjacent to the Palm Tree, is only used over Christmas to store camper’s trailers. For the rest of the year it’s vacant. If sustainable use of resources is not selective then it would be a good idea to convert it to a proper car park for the pool as well and use it all year round. Instead of a mindbender this week, here’s some one liners from (unnamed) elected members (not me!) referring to the RMA as the Resource Mongrel Act. Discussion on Meatloaf concert someone said: ‘I’ll do anything for love – but I won’t do that’ to which came an instant reply: ‘Two out of three ain’t bad.’ (Both Meatloaf songs).

During TCAL discussions someone asked if TCAL stood for ‘The Company Ain’t Listening’. – Oh dear.

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Team AIMS for medal goal Members of the Otumoetai Intermediate School’s top girl’s hockey team are pulling out all the stops to win gold at the upcoming AIMS Games later this month.

Coach Mark Tingey says the team has won a medal every year since the New Zealand Community Trust Aims Games started eight years ago, including bronze last year and gold in 2009.

They are aiming for another medal this year in the national intermediate school sports tournament.

Mark says the team is looking particularly strong – with 13 of the team’s players in Tauranga’s two regional representative teams – with some training six days a week.

Otumoetai Intermediate School top hockey players, from left; Siennah Cowles, Sophie Gordon, Sophie Samson and Anna Tingey are training hard to reclaim the gold medal at the AIMS Games. Photo by Tracy Hardy.

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“All the girls are really excited about it. They are highly motivated and giving it their best.”

Mark says part of the school’s success came from taking students from strong hockey ‘feeder’ schools – including Matua, Pillans Point and Otumoetai. He says strong support from the school helped.

Teacher-in-charge of hockey Shannon Crook – who has been involved with the team since the NZCT AIMS Games started – believes the school’s culture of hockey excellence contributes to the team’s success.

“That’s where everyone wants to be.

“If they have been playing hockey, they will probably know about the girl’s team and want to be in it.

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While the school’s A team has dominated the competition, the hockey culture flows through to the B team – which also competed well in the NZCT AIMS Games the year it joined in to make up numbers.

“I don’t know why year after year we’ve had such great success,” says Shannon.

“It has become a matter of fact the team will play well and everyone rises to that level to make it happen.”

Last year Otumoetai Intermediate was fourth on the medal tables with a tally of 16 medals, behind Tauranga Intermediate at second equal with 29 medals. The NZCT AIMS Games takes place in Tauranga from August 28 to September 2 with 4300 students taking part in 15 sports. By Hamish Carter

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Military collection unravels old war time stories As a schoolboy, Sean Treanor was fascinated by his grandfathers’ action in World War Two and the medals, prompting him to collect campaign medals.

“They had different campaign stars – one served in the Pacific and one in the Middle East – so that probably got me interested in collecting them all,” says the Tauranga military collector.

A desire to collect all campaign stars – including medals that cost up to $200 – saw him working hard on his paper run to save the money. Looking back now, he says he was obviously satisfied when he had all eight stars because he stopped collecting for many years.

Twelve years ago, Sean’s interest in collecting was revived with the advent of TradeMe and his growing interest in military history.

“I got back into it and haven’t stopped since.”

Medals, badges, war-time photos, certificates and military books – Sean collects them all. He likes to find the human story behind the memorabilia by researching the person’s military record and finding out where and when they served and if they were wounded.

“Every medal has got some story behind it. You have some very sad stories about people who were badly injured or died shortly after returning,” says Sean.

“One of the most unusual ones I have Medal collector Sean Treanor likes to research the people behind the military medals he collects to help give each medal a story. is one that was named to a serviceman that was shot by a guard on sentry Photo by Tracy Hardy.

Ngauruhoe bathed in pink

Picture this; its 5.30pm and I’m sitting close to the Whakapapa roadside with my tripod, camera and 70-200mm zoom lens in front of me. Its ‘friggin’ cold, but I don’t mind because it’s a calm evening and Mount Ngauruhoe is picture perfect – bathed in pink light.

After many attempts to capture the best moment, I felt this one was close.

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duty on the first night after liberating a Pacific island of the Japanese.”

Sean is displaying his medals at the Arms and Militaria Show at Greerton

Hall from 9am-3pm August 20-21.

The show includes displays of guns and varied military memorabilia.

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Murder mystery to pirate tourism numbers From front cover

A new interactive murder-mystery dinner show, The Pirates of the Pacific – The Pirate King, is hoped to become an instant hit with both residents and visitors, says writer and director of the show Tom Kay. Having written the script from scratch, combining elements of classic British comedy and spoofing the successful Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, Tom says the new big-budget professional show will be unlike anything they have done before.

“With our current Prime Suspects murder-mystery shows, the audience like that they can get involved,” says Tom. “We have developed a winning formula that is a big hit with the public, groups and corporates and I wanted to develop this into something bigger.”

A professional actor, who originally emigrated from

England to work on The Hobbit, Tom says he fell in love with the Bay of Plenty.

He wanted to give Tauranga a regular event and develop a way to generate business and job opportunities for venues and actors in the region.

Tom hopes to turn Pirates of the Pacific into a unique attraction that will keep visitors and residents entertained throughout the year.

“Often visitors get off the cruise ships and are taken straight to a bus to go to Rotorua. I want to create a killer night out for everyone and keep our share of the tourism business in Tauranga.”

The current Prime Suspects murder-mystery dinner, which runs until the end of August, and the new Pirates show both provide local talent the opportunity to perform at a paid professional level.

With a hand-picked team of 20 of the most talented local performers, Tom says his troupe offers actors the ability to be part of a professional show. He would like to point out The Prime Suspects are the actors behind The Bay’s original murder mystery show and

The cast of Pirates of the Pacific – The Pirate King enjoy a good old fashion stand-off on Mount Maunganui beach. Photo by Tracy Hardy. are no longer connected to Rosie’s or the Whodunit brand.

“I have chosen to work with venues that can offer a high quality dining experience. I cast actors who are naturally funny and can improvise in any given situation.

“You never know what to expect on each night. There is great food and some real high quality moments of comedy, with PG rated pirate humour that is not for the faint hearted.”

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Conference tourism boost Tourism operators in the Western Bay of Plenty are hoping for a boost in visitor numbers after the area hosts the annual Inbound Tour Operator Council conference next week.

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The event – drawing about 200 visitors from the industry – is an important opportunity to showcase the region.

ITOC chief executive Lesley Immink warns not to expect immediate results, saying it usually takes 12-18 months to see results from a promotion like this.

Tourism Eastland chief executive Graham Breckell agrees it takes “a long time” to get results, but when it hosted the conference in Gisborne two years ago one hotel was getting bookings directly from the event within two months.

He encourages local tour operators and hotels to work hard to make good contacts and maintain them.

Tourism BOP communications manager Catherine Connell says the event is a “fantastic” opportunity to impress the tour operators who handle most packaged trips and she is confident it will lead to more visitors to the region.

She says the area has a good reputation as a domestic travel destination, but the greatest potential lay with international visitors.

“A lot of these people don’t get out to the regions very often so it is a great opportunity to showcase the region and get them interested in what we’ve got to offer.”

Latest figures for Bay of Plenty for the year ended May 2011 show visitor stays at commercial accommodation went up 4.5 per cent to 1085,409 – international guest nights 252,005 and domestic 833,404.

Tourism New Zealand forecasts an increase in annual regional visitor spend from $434 million to $498m in 2016.

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“I was only kidding” A social outing…well I had to clean my Gucci handbag, polish my toe nails – the boss even brushed my sultry locks – and we were set to visit Animal Antics’ brilliant new store on Owens Place.

treated with love and attention and brought up mixing with other dogs are not man-eaters. It is the other ones that are not registered, caged up all day and have owners with massive ego problems who are the issue. And that is why I have been barking on that responsible owners need to get a rebate on registration costs and they should not be subsidising the idiot owners out there.

It always gets back to; if you cannot afford the relevant costs of bringing up a pet, DO NOT HAVE ONE!

What an outing it turned out to be; canines in all shapes and sizes, it was almost too much for me.

The boxer decked out as “Super Dog” for me was the best dressed there – and that is saying something; especially when I came round the corner of an aisle and came face-to-diapers with a goat – or what I thought was a goat – only to be told that it was some sort of rare South African lamb.

Waste of space

Lambs and goats

I thought they were kidding, but when it started bleating I realised that in fact some sort of lamb; you cannot pull the wool over my eyes, and it was in diapers after all!

Apparently it even sleeps with Super Dog – now that to me is a little kinky; a little like the old story about the Auckland cricket umpire going over the Huka falls or Hugh Heffner’s smoking jacket.

Anyway, as there were so many people and pets there, I could not get close to the bird section; just as well really, as I seem to have a wild fascination with feathered things.

Animal Antics open day saw animals getting around in unusual forms of transport.

It was a tremendous afternoon.

Congratulations to Ross and Dianne and the team from Animal Antics for opening a wicked new store for all the pet loving twoleggers out there. It was so good to see dogs in all guises, shapes and sizes, out being social with their owners and just having a little fun. It just goes to show – animals

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Which brings me around to Steve Crows latest showing; what a waste of space. As the boss said to me coming round the corner of The Strand and almost running into them, “Ady my girl, I have seen better looking ‘boobies’ in the cowshed”.

What a waste of space and council time. Tauranga should have done what Waihi and Paeroa did; which is ignore them.

All the press did – us included – was give him the publicity that he so craves. As far as I am concerned, it did not even register on my chart of stimulating occurrences, but I can imagine that most of the college male students that were in attendance had some sort of stimulation…get one of Hugh’s magazines instead lads.

Also, while I am all for the freedom of speech thing and if you want to protest go ahead, but respect other peoples rights too. How many of them would have been protesting if “pretty boy Dan” had been riding down the road on a Harley with his undies around his ears?

On that thought, it was magnificent to see the ABs give “Dingo Deans” and his lads a spanking. Mind you, a word of warning, “it is a college boy that peaks to early, a knarly old veteran lasts the entire distance”. So be wary boys, remember winning this cup thing is all about endurance; it’s not all wam-bam, thanks for coming. You have to pace yourself.

Okay, that’s about all for another

week. I would like to say a big howdy to “Steffi” my GSP cousin, who sends me cool comments on SunLive; great about your feathered news, we should get together and tag team the swans and the owner with the “Staffie” that is having duvet problems…well tough – we catch the ducks so we can use the down in our duvets, so get over it and go and buy your own.

Again a big hearty congratulations to Ross, Dianne and the team at Animal Antics; a great store, great staff and we shall see you again soon – that is when I can persuade the boss to polish my nails again.

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Waste spilling into our harbour As far as I am concerned, any sewage that gets into our harbour is very regrettable.

It can occur in two ways – from septic tanks adjacent to the harbour, which are not adequate or properly maintained, or from overflows from municipal reticulated sewerage systems.

Concerned about reports from constituents about sewage overflows in Tauranga, Bay of Plenty Regional Councillors asked staff to report on how well Tauranga City

Council is managing its sewerage network.

A recent independent report on the performance of Tauranga’s sewerage reticulation system made some key points which I would like to share.

Unfortunately, no urban sewerage system can be designed cost-effectively to cope with all extreme weather events, so from

Thanks for the cards and letters Thank you to all of the readers who have kept in contact with me over the last year.

authorities. My second problem, is that I have had only two complaints. Am I being too nice?

If anyone is thinking of writing with a complaint, please do.

You might like to ring me first I have endeavoured to stimulate though. I probably have further With Brian Anderson debate in this column on local supporting documentation and body council direction and support relevant quotes that I am quite willing to share. a more participatory democracy for the residents of Western Bay. Brian Anderson’s column this week mentions I have two problems now: So many people have the five complaints he has received and some available called with their council problems that I can’t answer forums to give feedback to council. them all into this paper – but we have helped many Read in full on the Bay of Plenty’s leading people by assisting with information, writing letters news website www.sunlive.co.nz and submissions or referring the complaints to relevant

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Bay of Plenty Regional Council can be rightly proud of the way it has protected and grown its investments.

However 99 per cent of this success can be directly attributed to its investment in the Port of Tauranga.

Quayside Holdings, the 100 per cent regional council-owned company that manages the council’s investments – including the 54.96 per cent shareholding in the Port of Tauranga – last year boasted

a surplus after tax of $39.886 million in its Annual Accounts to 30th June 2010.

However this is consolidated with the Port, which made $38.016 million – showing Quayside made less than $2 million from its other investments. These other investments include $54 million in share market investments, $20 million in direct property investments – Rangiuru and Tauriko – and another $4 million in “other”.

So the bottom line last year was a $1.87 million profit on $78.4

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Blog of the Week: property blogger Dennis McMahon writes about predictability of uncertainty in investment markets at this time. Read it at www. sunlive.co.nz Comment of the Week: By user Pipidog about the Filthy Fews’ funeral procession of more than 100 bikes through central Tauranga this week: “If your loved one passed away, you would do the same... I know I did. Lou loved his bike and his family. Louie was loved by so many people, this young boy wasn’t just in a gang, he was so much more.

A funeral procession through central Tauranga on Thursday is costing some Filthy Few motorcycle club members $50 each. More than 100 motorcyclists led a hearse down Cameron Road at about 1.30pm on Wednesday en route to the Pyes Pa crematorium where club member Louis Ross Gray-Morgan’s funeral was being held. Many of the riders did so without wearing helmets. The procession was monitored by police, but they did not intervene. After the funeral, however, police stopped the riders at a roadblock on Koromiko Street. Senior Sergeant Rob Glencross says the bikes were inspected and all were street legal, but police did issue 40 $50 infringement notices for not wearing a helmet.

There were no arrests. Louis died in a motorcycle crash on State Highway 2 in Te Puna on Thursday, August 4.

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Clear vision on drink driving education

Using interactive methods to teach students the consequences of drink driving is how Tauranga Girls’ College students hope to reduce “unnecessary loss� of life, says the college’s Students Against Driving Drunk committee member India Wallace.

The committee ran a week-long event this week based on the journey of a teenage drink driver on a typical Saturday night.

Events included a party with ‘mocktails’, experiencing the ‘booze bus’ with Tauranga police and seeing firsthand a wrecked car after a serious crash. One of the more realistic events was an obstacle course with students wearing ‘Fatal Vision Goggles’ – impairing a student’s vision as if they were intoxicated, but still under the legal limit. See video interview with India on SunLive.

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Roger Bailey is the new Baypark speedway manager. Tauranga City Venues Ltd announced his appointment this week and its general manager, Ervin McSweeney, say he is the right man for the job owing to his 13 years in the events and motorsports industry and for his avid personal interest in speedway. Roger’s initial focus will be on welcoming back and attracting new competitors, working closely with other speedway promoters around the country, examining the safety aspects of the track and producing top class events for the spectators, competitors, volunteers, sponsors and club members.

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Grooming your business for sale at the best possible price Part of the lifecycle of many a successful business is selling the enterprise for a tidy sum – and there are many steps an entrepreneur can take to prepare their business for sale.

process must be to demonstrate that your business has moved away from this situation and the business would operate successfully under new ownership.

The key to obtaining the very best price for your business is Now is as good a time as any to preparation, preparation and consider selling your business, espestill more preparation. Once the cially with looming Capital Gains Tax sale process has begun, you will suggestions and the imminent baby not be able to tidy things up boom scenario, which could along the way. have a significant negative Much of my working effect on the value of your week is focused business. on helping and Far too often, a business assisting business is too dependent and owners preparing reliant on the ownertheir business for operator for leadership, sale. management and techYou sell your nical expertise. A large house on “looks” part of the grooming and your busiSteven Matthews.

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Tips for running a successful franchise The next meeting of the Bay of Plenty branch of the Franchise Association will see a presentation by Ian Robertson – the national franchise manager of the well known Paper Plus Group.

Ian gave a presentation to the recent Franchise Association of New Zealand conference in Rotorua attended by members of the franchise industry, both nationally and internationally.

The presentation was so well received Harris Tate felt it appropriate Ian’s message be given the

chance of a re-airing and there can be no better place for that to happen than here in Tauranga.

Paper Plus is a three-brand cooperative franchise consisting of Paper Plus, Take Note and Office Spot – with a turnover exceeding well in excess of $100m per annum.

Paper Plus is a uniquely 100 per cent owned franchise and Tauranga is fortunate to see the first of the rebranded stores in New Zealand.

Ian will explain the importance of the re-brand, the positioning of the brand and the outfitting of the stores for best effect.

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Ian will cover some interesting aspects of how Paper Plus do this, together with some facts about benchmarking, one of the new buzz words in franchising.

Paper Plus achieved success in the last Franchise Association of New Zealand awards, picking up the winning trophy in the Retail Franchise System of the Year and also the award for the Best Media Campaign of the Year.

Attendees at the next meeting will see the value of a well established franchisor and the benefits that can bring to each individual franchisee in the network.

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Sportswoman in the making She may be young, but five-year-old Lilliana Guy is showing promise as a future Football Fern.

Bethlehem College teacher Heather Robinson says Lilliana is one of the only girls in her class in the school soccer team and is an impressive player.

“She practises every Wednesday in her lunchtime and when she can hire Left: Future sportswoman Lilliana Guy enjoys giving all sports a go, but her favourite is soccer.

Photo by Tracy Hardy.

some balls from the PE shed and that – she is quite motivated for a little wee thing,” says Heather.

Lilliana has been Heather’s student for just over a year.

She says Lilliana only started to play soccer recently after her family encouraged her to take part in a sporting activity, but Heather says she really picked it up quickly.

Not only that, but Lilliana is also an impressive cross country runner, making a top 10 position in her first school cross country.

“The race for them is almost a 1.5km so that is pretty good considering how far they have to go, she is very strong

‘Unexpected’ success for squash team deal for the team as it was so unexpected against the longstanding Rotorua champions.

“It was a long weekend of squash with about five games in the eliminations, so with a young team of players aged 13 to 16-years-old they were perhaps able to recover a bit quicker than the older players.

“The Superchamps has been a long standing event in squash because it is

From back: C grade team; William Moore, Michael Dunstan, Marcus Niles (captain), Alex Revington, Josh Oakley and Jamie Oakley.

Tauranga Squash C-grade men’s team has qualified for the Bay Superchamps after beating favourites Lakes High.

The team has emerged top of their grade after battling elimination rounds and will compete at a national level in Timaru in September.

Dame Susan Devoy – whose sons Josh and Jamie Oakley compete in the team – says the win was a big

grading people with the same abilities as your own so it is really popular.”

The B-Grade men’s team also qualified in their regional competitions and represent Bay of Plenty in their national competition in Whakatane.

A quiz night is being held on August 26 at the Tauranga Squash Club to raise funds for the team’s travels around the country. To purchase tickets phone 021 0466 838 or email mniles@orcon.net.nz

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The debate over vulnerable children As a country our statistics around vulnerable children are appalling – given that every hour, two children in New Zealand are physically, sexually or emotionally abused.

This despite the hundreds of millions of dollars being invested in health, education, welfare, the justice system and Child, Youth and Family in the last two decades.

Our statistics around child death through maltreatment are even more shocking; 1.2 deaths for every 100,000

children, placing New Zealand third equal in the world with Hungary.

Our future

At no other time in our history have children been at the forefront of so many government commissioned reports and consultation papers. The difference now, is that with all of the scientific research and advances over the last 20 years, we now know what effect abuse and neglect has on both the developing child and the cost to society as that child turns into an adult.

The old cliche is true; ‘children are the future’. It is long overdue that children in this country became the focus for both government and the citizens of New Zealand to ensure they come first and are placed at the centre of all of government policy development. What this country has been doing hasn’t been working; if it had, our statistics wouldn’t be so shocking and children would not be hospitalised from horrific abuse leading to deaths.

Last Wednesday, Minister Paula Bennett released a Green Paper on vulnerable children for comment and consultation. The intent of the

Green Paper is to assist society to stop failing its children by providing an opportunity for us all to consider and debate controversial and uncomfortable issues. Many of these issues are complex and require decisions that will last more than a three year political term.

Have a say

She described the report as an opportunity to have a say in “how we care for and protect them, the trade offs and sacrifices we’re prepared to make and the opportunities we want them to have to ensure every child thrives, belongs and achieves”.

The main proposals from the report include: • Priority treatment for parents to access a range of services; • Mandatory reporting of abuse including for doctors, teachers and nurses; • Reconsideration of the preference to send children removed from their homes to relatives; • And better sharing of information, even when there were privacy issues.

Appalling statistics: • 21,000 cases of abuse and neglect in 2009/10 confirmed

by Child, Youth and Family; • On any given day, more than 30,000 students were truant from schools; • 7342 school leavers left with no qualification in 2009; • 13,315 avoidable hospital admissions in 2008/09 were for children under five, and 1286 admissions for all children were as a result of assault, neglect or maltreatment.

• 47,374 children – aged 0-16 – lived with a victim of family violence incidents reported to police in 2010.

• Research has shown that at any one time 15 per cent of children – or 163,000 children aged under 18 years – needed support and intervention.

To download the Green Paper visit http://www.msd.govt.nz/ documents/about-msd-andour-work/work-programmes/ policy-development/greenpaper-vulnerable-children/ green-paper-for-vulnerablechildren.pdf.

You have until February 28, 2012 to have your say.

Next week: Children’s tantrums

Labour of love creates a hilarious road trip My First Car Was Red

by Peter Schossow, Gecko Press, RRP $19.99 An entertaining tale of a child’s first car given to him by his grandfather. It’s a rusty old car, but exactly the right size for the boy.

“Diesel or gas?” I asked Grandpa.

“Sweat,” he said.

Grandpa and the boy set to work in the workshop to restore the old pedal car. It’s a shared labour of love.

They hammer, sand, drill holes, tighten nuts, patch and paint. The boy’s preschool brother watches progress with interest. The finished car is a beautiful sight.

After driving lessons, the boy plans the perfect route for his first outing, however, his little brother wants to be a passenger. Up to this point, the younger boy has been a silent observer. Now he has definite ideas on where to drive and their journey turns into an hilarious adventure. They cause mayhem and go from one dire situation to another.

Nostalgic illustrations in muted colours suggest a previous era. The characters dress in old-fashioned overalls, helmets and d r i v i n g goggles. Yet modernday road signs sit alongside the text and new tyres are found

on the internet. The characters appear several times on each page, which gives an impression of continuous movement.

There’s a lovely relationship between the older boy and his small brother. A book to treasure and enjoy reading many times.

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More than just a council Left: Network coordinator Janet Smith talks with Louise Park at the newcomers network coffee morning about services available at the Tauranga Regional Multicultural Council.

After establishing themselves in the Historic Village three years ago, the Tauranga Regional Multicultural Council is offering a wider range of services to help visitors and residents in Tauranga.

President Ewa Fenn says the council offers a place for migrants to meet, to source information and support and it is becoming a resource centre for the Tauranga region.

English conversation classes, which run during the school terms every Thursday morning, are great value at $2 a session and are well attended – mainly by people who do not qualify for free ESOL classes.

The latest initiative is Bay of Plenty Interpreting Services, which will start the first training course on August 27. There are still a few places available for Korean and Pacific Island speakers.

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“We have now a lovely group meeting every Wednesday morning for a coffee and chat and anyone is welcome to come and join us,” says Ewa. In addition to social programmes, the council now offers several free services like weekly Justice of the Peace clinic, monthly

registered immigration adviser and a legal aid clinic.

Tauranga Regional Multicultural Council is an organisation run by volunteers, mostly immigrants and the aim is to help new immigrants to settle successfully in Tauranga – their new city and country. The council organises the Tauranga Multicultural Festivals run in March each year and the Living in Harmony evenings.

English approved to enter workforce Overseas immigrants looking to live, work and learn in New Zealand have the opportunity to study for the internationally accredited English test in Tauranga with The University of Waikato.

IELTS, the International English Language Testing System, sets the standard for English language testing.

Thousands of organisations and test takers around the world trust and recognise IELTS as a secure, valid and reliable indicator of true-to-life ability to communicate in English for education, immigration and professional accreditation.

Tutor Liz Howell says while a lot of people walk off the street and take the test, it is recommended to study for the examination.

“This is what we call a high stakes test, where there is a big impact if you don’t get the results you want.

Some get private tuition, but most take a course.”

Liz offers a workshop designed as an evening course so it is available to those who work or are unable to attend during the day. The course runs two nights a week for nine weeks and is designed to prepare people for undergoing this high-stakes test.

Tutor Liz Howell.

Liz has 30 years of teaching experience under her belt and tutors small classes in the four language skills required to pass the test; listening, reading, writing and speaking – for both general workplace training and for future academic study.

The University of Waikato offers the only IELTS testing centre for the Waikato region. For more information contact the university on 0800 WAIKATO.

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Travelling books a cure for literacy

Palm Beach Post Shop owners Vicky and Brian Barton and Literacy and Literacy BOP Literacy manager Annamaria Grafas show Gabriel Kerr, 4, Te Hiraroa Moss-Chaplin, 3 and Aaliyah Kerr, 4, the books available. Photo by Tracy Hardy.

An innovative way to encourage New Zealanders to read will see more than 2000 books making their way around New Zealand, passing from reader to reader.

Literacy Aotearoa and New Zealand Post have developed the travelling book scheme; where 2250 books are distributed on Friday, August 12 to residents in different areas.

The aim is for the books to be passed on once read and left in a ‘dry, safe public place’ for someone else to pick up and read.

Literacy manager for Literacy and Language Bay of Plenty Annamaria Grafas says the programme was developed to encourage everyday Kiwi’s to read and share the love of reading.

Annamaria decided it would be great to partner with NZ Post in Palm Beach Plaza for two reasons.

“Firstly, this is a joint venture with NZ Post and Literacy Aotearoa – which Literacy and Language BOP is affiliated with.

“Secondly, as luck would have it, the new owner of NZ Post Palm Beach (Brian Barton) was the manager of Literacy Waikato before taking on his new role.

“We have the opportunity to work together again sharing our desire to increase literacy in New Zealand.”

NZ Post Palm Beach owner Brian Barton says from a personal point of view, he was keen to support Literacy Aotearoa and as he has just moved over to the Bay of Plenty with his wife Vicky, they wanted to get involved and help the community.

One million adult New Zealanders lack literacy skills.

Group sponsorship manager for NZ Post Nicola Airey says by making reading fun, they hope to aid New Zealand’s literacy issue.

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Polytech’s international student push Plans to boost international students at the Bay of Plenty Polytechnic are being helped with the launch of ‘English as a second language’ training.

The ESOL training unit at Windermere was opened three weeks ago for the second semester and is already attracting 13 students from Saudi Arabia.

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International manager Peter Grant says the unit’s launch was a key part of the polytechnic’s plans to grow international student numbers. He says an increased focus was on attracting full fee-paying international students to offset a cap in government funded student places.

Peter says the polytechnic currently has 118 international students – and it hopes to begin the growth by doubling this number within a year.

“The council is very interested in increasing the number of international students,” says Peter.

“Compared with many other polytechnics, we have a relatively small proportion of international students so we have the scope to grow.”

International students account for 13 per cent of all tertiary students nationally – but the polytechnic wants to keep below this level.

International students are now two per cent of the roll.

New research by polytechnic staff Cath

Simpson and Pam Simpson shows two-thirds of international students at the polytechnic would have liked to have done English language classes as part of their studies.

Peter says the polytechnic’s previous ESOL unit closed about five years ago following a drop-off in language student enrolments.

Since then, students wanting to improve their English language had to take classes at other centres. The new unit means they can offer a full package says Peter.

The majority of international students come from India, but the polytechnic is launching campaigns to attract students from North Asia – China, Japan and Korea – South Asia – India, Nepal and Sri Lanka – and South America.

Polytech academic director Terry Fulljames says the ESOL unit opens the door to start marketing again into Asia and South America – two regions where students want English language training.

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Teaching programmes to suit all options predominantly online programmes. The Bachelor of Teaching Early Childhood programme examines areas such as professional practice and theories of learning and development, as well as giving students the opportunity to enhance knowledge in subject areas.

Students in the Bachelor of Teaching Primary programme study compulsory professional education papers such as curriculum and assessment and classroom

management, as well as curriculum papers to enhance knowledge of the subjects studied in schools.

The Post Graduate Diploma in Secondary Teaching covers themes such as the New Zealand curriculum, assessment and teaching and learning processes. They also work with specialist tutors in the subject they intend to teach.

Teaching ‘practicums’ are an important part of all programmes – when students get

the opportunity to put theory into practice during several weeks of teaching experience at local schools.

The Faculty of Education also offers a diverse range of postgraduate choices in Education, Educational Leadership and Sport and Leisure Studies.

Summer School programmes offered at both campuses provide another excellent avenue for practising teachers looking to extend their skills and knowledge.

Former University of Waikato student Catherine Vos works with students at Tauranga’s Selwyn Ridge Primary School during her third year practicum.

If you’re thinking about going teaching, the University of Waikato – New Zealand’s leading teacher education institute – offers a range of programmes to suit career goals.

At the university’s Tauranga and Hamilton campuses, students can complete the three-year Bachelor of Teaching – in either Early Childhood or Primary.

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Fire safety starts at home Teaching fire safety in the home starts young as 30 children from KidzZone made a special trip to the Mount Maunganui Fire station.

see the specialist clothing the firemen wear and also play with a high-pressure hose.

Alicia Evans from KidzZone says since the children had shown an interest in firemen and fire safety, the teachers organised a special trip to learn about it first hand.

“We have been going through with them what to do in a fire and we sent them home with emergency evacuation plans,” says Alicia.

“There is a CD with a fire wise song and the kids have been learning that too.”

The children got to sit in the fire truck,

Bree Torr, 3, enjoys the high pressure hose at Mount Maunganui fire station.

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Moisture leads to bad health in the home Did you know 45 per cent of New Zealand homes suffer from moisture and mould issues?

The average home produces about eight litres of moisture from our daily activities. Good air quality and ventilation are really important in order to create a healthier home.

In this article, we will look at a couple of the key areas that produce a lot of moisture and how you can reduce it.

We’ve also included an important smart tip on how to remove mould.

The kitchen is one of the main contributors – so what can you do here?

The first thing is to install an extractor fan if possible. If you have one, check to see it is vented outside. Some older models are not able to be vented.

If this is the case, make sure the filters are clean, this helps it to operate as efficiently as possible.

For those considering renovations, you could look to replace it with a fan that can be vented to the outside. Another energy efficiency idea and way to reduce moisture is to ensure the lids are on pots and where possible, have a window open when cooking.

Bathroom

The next area to look at is the bathroom. Once again, an extractor fan is important if you do not have one. If you do, make sure it is vented outside, you will be surprised at how many are only vented into the ceiling cavity.

This can cause the insulation to get damp and therefore causing mould to grow on the ceiling.

A key tip in reducing moisture from entering the house is to keep the door

closed and if possible, leave a window open and the extractor fan going for a couple of minutes after showering. You will be surprised how much moisture comes out of the bathroom after showering and the door is left open.

Cleaning mould smart tip

The cheapest and best way to get rid of mould is to use undiluted white vinegar.

Add some vinegar to a clean spray bottle and spray directly onto the mould or wipe it on with a clean cloth or old toothbrush if it’s in a tricky corner.

Don’t rinse, as the vinegar needs time to work. In a few days, clean up the dead mould with some soap and water.

Use a clean sponge or cloth when cleaning up and keep it well rinsed to reduce the risk of any spores spreading.

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Create a new living space with glass If you have recently flown into Tauranga airport, chances are you would have spotted the new GlassArt building. With its vibrant coloured glass tiles dissipating along the black exterior walls, it is hard to drive – or fly by – without being distracted.

GlassArt is all about colour and glass for kitchens and bathrooms. Its core colour range is filled with subtle neutrals, lively metallics and bold reds, blues and greens.

GlassArt NZ sales and marketing manager Glenn Hancock says “we have more than 70 core colours specifically designed for glass, but if you want a custom colour we can match just about anything”.

GlassArt now offer something completely original and unique to the splashback market; the new GlassEffects range.

“The new range consists of various glass textures and digital images that come in black or white tones,” says Glenn.

“The client’s first option is either black or white – or they can choose a colour and texture that suits their personality.”

The GlassArt showroom reflects GlassArt NZ the possibilities for glass within sales and marketing the kitchen or bathroom. One side of manager Glenn Hancock. the showroom displays a beautiful galley Photo by Bruce Barnard. kitchen with a stunning digital image of

Teen advice helps homes It was Kim Marshall’s own experience as a parent that led her to bring politically incorrect advisor Nigel Latta to Tauranga as a fun fundraiser.

The Bethlehem College Hockey Club organiser went to visit her son at Otago, and “found it a bit unsettling to see him in a university environment for the first time and away from home”.

“On the way back to Tauranga, I saw Nigel’s book about parenting teenagers – and after reading it on the plane, it got me thinking other parents could benefit from his guidance.”

Nigel is performing his hit seminar ‘The Politically Incorrect Guide to Teenagers’ at the Bethlehem College Performing Arts Centre on Thursday, August 18.

Kim says the money raised is going towards developing the college’s upcoming hockey players.

“We are lucky to have our development coach Lincoln Churchill – and we would like to keep him to develop our rising stars.”

Tickets for are available from Baycourt, through Ticket Direct or door sales on the night.

Mauoa as the feature splashback. The other side shows off a seamless glass vanity, basin and shower.

“The options for glass are endless,” says Glenn.

“We are always looking at new concepts for glass and colours.”

For consultation on renovation and building, visit GlassArt’s new showroom for some design and colour ideas.

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A kitchen made to match the owners Lyneen Adkins and her husband re-sited a modest bungalow onto their property in a delightful rural setting on Esdaile Road and wanted to adapt their kitchen to suit.

Lyneen, who runs Justcats Holiday Inn, approached Kitchen House to design a kitchen that suited the style of the architecture of the bungalow, her family requirements and her busy lifestyle.

Kitchen House designers established that with Lyneen’s warm personality she enjoyed having friends pop in for a coffee and this, coupled with her great cooking skills, meant Lyneen’s kitchen would be the heart of the home.

The extra wide counter top enables the coffee machine to sit at one end, allowing plenty of space for friends to gather and means Lyneen can take part in the conversation while making the coffee. Specific requirements such as a dedicated place to feed Lyneen’s five home cats, with storage above to accom-

An interior shot of the new kitchen. modate the cat bowls and cat food, were designed into the kitchen.

Clever design enabled a drinks cupboard to be incorporated to the back of the cabinetry that housed the refrigerator.

When asked what it is she likes most about her new kitchen – Lyneen says she is happy with everything.

“I am delighted with my new kitchen. It meets all my requirements, it looks so good and it works so well.

“It was such a pleasure dealing with Joanne and Carla at Kitchen House. They treated my kitchen as if it was their own.”

Kitchen House Tauranga is located at 65 Chapel Street, Bay Central – opposite Briscoes.

Leaving a vibrant mark NEW ZEALAND’S FAVOURITE AIR

Papamoa resident Mark Adamson’s business Lasting Impressions has an apt title, considering he has helped put many residential and commercial buildings on the map with his vibrant paint work.

Specialising in painting – both interior and exterior – his latest project Animal Antics has seen the new Owens Place building transformed.

“We have had hundreds of very positive ‘wows’ about how the vibrant colours bring the shop to life,” says Animal Antics owner Dianne Mitchell.

“He has certainly left an impression and in return helped us leave ours.”

With more than 20 years experience in the industry, Mark’s work involves painting of all kinds including spray painting,

wallpaper, feature walls and more.

Mark would like to thank Animal Antics for allowing him to revamp their new home and wishes them all the best for their new premise.

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Real estate a flexible career option Think you have a knack for sales? Looking for an industry to challenge you?

You could be the next graduate from Bay of Plenty Polytechnic’s National Certificate in Real Estate (Salesperson) Level 4 programme.

Programme coordinator Lyall Winter says “In 2008 the Real Estate Agents Act was passed, which means any new sales person entering the industry must complete the qualification before obtaining a license.”

The Real Estate programme is now available in Tauranga. There are two programmes still on offer this year – Monday, August 29 and Monday, October 3.

The programme consists of four main course areas. Students learn legislative environment, appraisal, marketing and land ownership and transfer – which will give them essential skills to be successful in the real estate industry.

based campus; the Bongard Centre.

“Students attend class two days a week, but most of the programme is delivered online, supported by experienced tutors,” says Lyall.

There is also a part-time option, which is delivered fully online.

Online classes start on the first and third Monday of each month, with individual students setting their own completion time within a maximum of 30 weeks.

“Recent classes show the industry appeals to women who want a career that allows some flexibility to be involved in other non-work activities such as children’s schooling,” says Lyall.

The programme is likely to change next year, which may mean an extension of the duration of the Bay of Plenty Polytechnic students programme or even an increase in get extensive knowledge to join the enrolment fees. real estate industry.

“If you have an interest in completing this programme, it makes The full-time study option can sense to complete it sooner rather be completed in just 12 weeks and than later.” is taught at the Polytechnic’s city-

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“We are not surprised by the response and uptake of this product, as it suits today’s busy lifestyle and endures the heavy demand for the interior investment for consumers’ homes”, says Gerrand Floorings owner Leanne Rich.

“The first piece of feedback we usually receive when following up an install is how soft the product is underfoot.”

Feltex Carpets is also continuing with product development of its other fibre offerings and only a few weeks ago released a new solution dyed nylon cut-pile product into the market.

Solution dyed nylons are not new, but the weight of this new product at 70oz, called Calluna, sits right at the top end.

It has also hit the market with a very attractive price point when compared to other products of equivalent weight and quality.

Calluna is available in nine colour tones from the

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The experienced and educated team can assist you with the features and benefits of all the carpet fibres and options to ensure you can make the best possible informed decision and you can start thinking of ways to use that Prezzy Card reward.

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Gardener’s paradise opens in Te Puna Value, great quality, knowledge and advice – a complete package being offered by Tauranga’s newest retail plant nursery.

Grower Direct owner Paul Nielsen says the Te Puna nursery has almost 30 years history growing quality plants for garden centres and is opening up to retail direct to the public at wholesale prices.

“Our pricing strategy is purely wholesale,” says Paul.

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“We are keeping our prices at wholesale rates – and aren’t compromising the quality of our plants to save money.”

A dramatic fall-off in plant sales in recent times – which industry veteran Paul blames on the economic slowdown – prompted him to change from selling plants to garden centres to offering them directly to the public.

Set amongst an established garden – boasting 60-foot high Redwoods and assorted other large trees – the centre at 52 Borell Road, Te Puna is an actual working nursery, where you can talk to the growers to learn from them or do a tour of the nursery.

“It’s all about getting people back into gardening. It’s a Kiwi institution – everybody loves it and it’s great for your property value.”

To encourage children into gardening they are establishing a communal vege plot where children will be able to get free seedlings to grow.

“You will come back from our place with a complete garden at a fraction of the cost that you pay at other garden centres.”

Grower Direct Owner Paul Nielsen and production manager Ursula Knott.

Paul says the nursery will offer something for everyone with 50,000 plants on offer ranging from $1 to $300 – all at 50 per cent or less standard retail prices.

Photo by Tracy Hardy.

The nursery opens Saturday, August 13 with a two-week grand opening promotion – including a sausage sizzle on August 20.

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Owners of leaky homes have recently been given another means of redress to fix failed buildings.

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Filo philosophy Part 2: sweet success Last week I warned you should always try to use the whole packet of filo pastry in one go.

This week, I’m giving you two Middle Eastern desserts that will help you use up the whole packet. These desserts are personal favourites and both have orange blossom water and a sugar syrup mix

poured over once they are baked. There is a secret to that as well, hot syrup on a chilled pastry and cool syrup on a pastry fresh from the oven.

Greek custard pie

I was first introduced to Greek filo semolina custard pie one night after an all night drinking session at about 4am in a cafe creperie in Lefkada, Greece.

It had a texture quite unlike our Kiwi custard square and it was light, tasty

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Serves four to six Ingredients 3 cups milk 1/2 cup fine semolina 1 split vanilla pod or good vanilla extract 300 grams castor sugar 4 large eggs, beaten 100 mls orange blossom water 1/2 packet of filo pastry Butter for brushing

Method Warm milk with 100 grams of the caster sugar and split vanilla pod or good vanilla extract. When milk is near boiling point, pour in semolina, lower the heat and stir until thick. Remove from heat and whisk in the beaten eggs. Beat well to

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amalgamate, then allow to cool after removing any vanilla pod sticks.

With the remaining sugar, make a syrup with one cup of water – you can add some orange zest if you like.

Allow to cool and add the orange blossom water.

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Repeat with two more layers – don’t roll to tight as the filling expands.

Place on baking paper covered tray, bake for about 20 mins at 250 degrees. Once cooked, allow to cool slightly then glaze with orange blossom syrup and let the custard absorb some of the flavour.

1/2 cup brown sugar Orange blossom syrup as described in first recipe

Dazz’s baklava tips

Baklava – the most famous of all Middle Eastern pastrys – has been around since Ottoman times and there are many variations on both the filling and methods. Traditionally, bakalava has 40 layers of pastry; 20 below the filling and 20 above. I have put a twist on that by putting the filling between each layer. Then I cover with baking paper with another tray to weigh down while cooking – preventing the pastry drying out too much and flaking away. Have all the ingredients ready for either recipe so you can work quickly to avoid the pasty drying. Enjoy these morish filo pastries.

Baklava

Makes 15-20 squares Ingredients I/2 packet of filo pastry Butter for brushing 150 grams walnuts, chopped 150 grams pistachio nuts, chopped 1/2 cup liquid honey

Method Mix chopped nuts and brown sugar together, then warm liquid honey so very runny. Place first filo sheet onto baking sheet, brush well with melted butter, sprinkle mixed nuts on lightly them drizzle a little honey over. Place another buttered sheet over that and repeat process, pushing down firmly between each layer.

Get a bit more heavy handed with nut mix towards the middle of the pastry and more sparing closer to the final layers. Place baking paper over the top and another tray the same size on top of that. Bake at 280 degrees for 30-35 minutes, remove top tray and score into squares or triangles with a sharp knife. Place back in oven with no tray on top for 5 minutes. Once ready, remove and pour over syrup.

Allow to absorb and cool completely before final cutting then dust with icing sugar and serve.

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Check out this great new product exclusive to Mount Maunganui’s Good Food Trading Co. Fresh As freeze dried whole raspberries are made in New Zealand and really pack an intense flavour punch!

You can eat them as they are, dip them in chocolate or mix them with cereal (great addition to your homemade muesli).

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Hope you have all had a good week. Mine has been full on with cooking classes, but in the same time we have had a lot of fun.

The demos this week included passing on some tips and sharing a few recipes from my trip to Italy.

I thought I would take myself out of my Italian kitchen and make my favourite slice. I call it my turtle slice; the kids

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Dry Ingredients 2 cups self raising flour 260g melted butter 2 cups brown sugar 2 cups coconut or sub for corn flakes 2 tbsp cocoa Approx 1 cup coconut 1/2 cup apricots, chopped or sub for raisins 70g sliced almonds 1 cup chocolate, chopped – dark or white Condensed milk Method Pre-heat oven to 180 degrees. Line a sponge roll tin with baking paper. Mix all the dry ingredients first and press out in the tin. Bake for 17 min until golden.

Remove from oven and sprinkle with a little coconut, sprinkle apricots, almonds, then chocolate and finish with coconut covering the chocolate. Pour over the condensed milk – enough to cover the mixture – and place back in the oven for a further 10-15 minutes until golden. Allow to cool before cutting.

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Tauranga strengthens sister ties A week of cultural and recreational activities is being held next week to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Tauranga’s sister city relationship with Yantai in China.

New Zealand

CHINA WEEK

15-21 AUGUST

2011 marks the 25th Anniversary of the Tauranga and Yantai China Sister City relationship.

To celebrate this, New Zealand China Week is being held. Check out the schedule below to see the great activities that are on offer.

MONDAY 15 AUGUST NZ China Week exhibition opening, followed by a special screening of Mao’s Last Dancer at Rialto (tickets $20)

DURING THE WEEK Kung Fu and Tai-Chi demonstratrion

Table Tennis demonstration and challenge

Chinese lantern making

Ma-Jong

SUNDAY 21 AUGUST Sister City celebration concert at Tauranga Boys’ College 3.30pm free entry

For more information on all of these events visit www.tauranga.govt.nz and search NZ China Week

New Zealand China Week, from August 15-21, is being organised by a group of interested organisations, including the Tauranga - NZ China Friendship Society, Creative Tauranga, the Chinese Language School, Education Tauranga and Tauranga City Council.

The planned schedule of activities is designed to highlight and celebrate the two cities’ special relationship and cultural uniqueness. Tauranga’s sister city agreement with Yantai was signed in 1986 by the then Mayor, Noel Pope. The original aims of the agreement were to “promote goodwill and mutual understanding between the citizens of each nation, and contribute to the peace of the world.”

Since then the aims have broadened to

promote citizen and civic exchanges, educational and cultural exchanges, and economic and tourism opportunities.

The relationship has developed over the years and both cities will celebrate the milestone and support opportunities for the community to participate in cultural activities. As Mayor Stuart Crosby gives part of this exchange a cultural dance Kiwi gifts in Yantai. troupe from the Yantai Children’s Palace will perform a free concert in Tauranga and be hosted by home stay families from Greenpark Primary School. The Tauranga Intermediate School's kapa haka group has also been invited to perform at the free show.

A civic delegation from Tauranga, including Mayor Stuart Crosby, will attend official

celebrations in Yantai in the first week of September.

A local Maori performing arts group organised

by Nga Potiki will perform at the welcome and also at a free concert for Yantai citizens.

Cultivating a long standing relationship The New Zealand China Friendship Society is all about building new friendships on solid foundations.

Marking 25 years with Tauranga’s sister city Yantai, the New Zealand China Friendship Society reflects on their long-standing relationship with modern China.

This organisation was one of the first overseas organisations to recognise the new China. In May 2012 it will celebrate its 60th birthday at the annual conference in Auckland.

The NZFS works primarily in educational and charitable ways, teaching people in New Zealand about China and visa versa.

The society has established educational tours for New Zealanders in China; to give a first hand account of life in China, providing education exchanges and historical photography tours. The society is currently working on a new programme for young people from impoverished areas of China to experience working life in New Zealand.

Tauranga committee member John Hodgson says the New Zealand Fenglin College work expe-

rience programme is a plan whereby selected students on a three year horticulture course at Fenglin College in Jiangxi, China, will come to New Zealand to gain practical experience with selected contractors in the Tauranga kiwifruit industry.

The programme is designed for Chinese students to gain practical skills, further building ties between young Chinese workers and give New Zealand business the chance to benefit from young motivated people coming into the country.

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Can antioxidants help COPD and asthma? LIVING with John Arts

COPD – chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – refers to a group of degenerative lung and airway diseases which include emphysema, chronic bronchitis and bronchiectasis.

These are similar to asthma, in that they involve narrowing of airway passages making breathing difficult.

The difference is asthma is generally reversible, while COPD is considered degenerative and irreversible.

Respiratory problems such as asthma and COPD are very serious and people with these problems should be under medical care. My comments here are designed to be implemented alongside medical treatment.

Personal experience

I had a personal brush with COPD – suffering from chronic bronchitis and early stage bronchiectasis for 10 years. After 15 years of good nutrition and targeted nutritional therapy, I no longer have these problems.

From personal experience and helping thousands of others, we should never underestimate the power of the body to heal once we feed it what it needs.

There has been a significant amount of research into the disease processes in COPD. One excellent paper titled ‘The role of oxidative stress in the pathogenesis of COPD: Implications for therapy’ (Rahman et al 2005) concluded chronic inflammation and oxidative stress are important features in the airway destruction in COPD. By inflammation they refer to the local immune cells in airway passages producing significantly greater

Measles reminder Parents should check measles immunisations are up to date to help protect children against an outbreak says Toi Te Ora Public Heath Service’s medical officer of health Neil de Wet.

amounts of inflammatory chemicals. This causes the airway narrowing.

Oxidative stress basically means local antioxidant defences cannot deal with the amount of free radicals being produced. The free radicals produce inflammation and to make it worse – inflammation produces even more free radicals.

These twin processes drive the destruction of airways.

The researchers conclude with comments about the role of antioxidant therapy in COPD.

Therapeutic quantities

Introducing therapeutic quantities of various antiinflammatory nutrients, we effectively starve the immune system of the ability to produce inflammation.

There are a number of natural anti-inflammatory nutrients that have positive impact on airway passages.

Secondly, we can introduce broad spectrum antioxidants which help the stretched defence systems cope with the free radical onslaught driving airway destruction and narrowing.

During the years, we have seen many people with respiratory problems such as asthma and COPD get some real improvements in their quality of life. I cannot give specific recommendations here, but feel free to contact me for nutritional advice applicable for your circumstances.

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There were no confirmed cases of measles in the region when The Weekend Sun went to print, but with 17 cases confirmed in Waikato and 104 in Auckland, Neil believes it is likely the outbreak will reach the Bay of Plenty.

“This is an opportune er fashion time for parents to check pring / Summ S ew N that their immunisations are up to date.”

It is never too late to immunise – even in the face of an outbreak – because it begins working immediately to improve disease resistance.

“Our advice is those born before 1969 are immune and those born after should check if they have received an immunisation.”

Most medical centres The Sun phoned had not been busy with a rush of immunisations, but a few were getting more calls checking they were up to all 2011 date and one centre was % to 75% off 0 5 contacting those needing shots.

Measles immunisations are due at 15 months and at four years.

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Identifying means correct treatment What is it – a Verrucae or corn?

If you are asking yourself this question, I may be able to help.

By Stefan Edwards, Podiatric Surgeon

Treatment often involves simple day stay surgery. The procedures are painless and you can usually walk after a couple of days.

Quite simply, we provide a one off lifetime cure to corns by fixing the root cause – not just the symptoms.

Easy test

Treatment of verrucae is different to that of a corn. If the verrucae is more than 3mm diameter, it usually requires gentle, painless surgical removal as freezing or

chemical treatment often isn’t enough to remove all the infected tissue.

Corns are not infectious and are caused by excessive mechanical stress and causes the deepest layer of the effected area of skin – the basal cell layer – to become irritated.

They react by producing more skin cells aimed at protecting the area from the excessive pressure.

They rise to the surface and “stack up” upon each other, producing the corn. Thankfully, corns can be permanently removed.

Verrucae

Hard Corn

Soft Corn

Verrucae – or warts – are caused by a viral infection, the Human Papillomavirus – HPV 2 and 7 – that can enter the skin through tiny incisions – micro injury. The feet are often susceptible to this when they are wet and the skin is soft, for example showers, swimming pools etcetera.

Different treatment

An easy test to see if you have a verrucae or a corn is simply to pinch the area. If it stings and burns – it is normally a verrucae. If it hurts when you push on to the area – it is normally a corn.

Selenium for good skin and breath

By David Walpole, industrial chemist, teacher, farmer, and researcher

Statistics show about one in six New Zealanders are affected by asthma.

An adult, whose picture appeared in a paper, had been troubled since childhood. Animal association seemed to be a stimulus for an attack. She went onto selenium and for years she was able to reduce her medication. When her level dropped the asthma reasserted itself.

Another asthmatic was badly affected – prior to a game of golf he would have to prepare and take his medication with his puffer. Studying his selenium intake, he rarely uses his inhaler now, and when summer pollens are around.

Eczema is often associated with asthma. Two people whose eczema extended to large callouses on the palms of their hands as well as signs on their faces, found on taking selenium that the affected areas cleared up completely.

With older men our skin thins, becomes papery, and is easily broken by knocking. A good selenium level presents a whole new situation – more strength, pliability, and smoothness results.

Another friend had developed permanent cracks in the soles of his feet.

After commencing selenium usage, the cracks all disappeared and have not returned. Several people with skin rashes have likewise found their rashes quietly disappeared.

Cold sores seem to be another item that Se can prevent. However, if levels drop below 1.6 micromol/lt they can return.

How do we know 1.6 is the threshold level? Two double blind trials in America have shown that going from a low level to a higher level can half some cancer rates, but going above 1.6 makes no further difference. Two Brazil nuts a day gives this level within two months.

Selenium is an essential trace element in inadequate concentrations in New Zealand soils. Until the Ministry of Health realises this, we will have diseases and associated costs, caused by it. Agriculture could always add more selenium to fertiliser and hence our food chain, as happens in Finland.

In the meantime, it is up to each one of us to look after our own situation.

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Chinese medicine to be properly regulated An ongoing discussion with the Ministry of Health to regulate traditional Chinese medicine may be resolved this month, as submissions close to register the profession under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003.

A joint proposal was made by the New Zealand Register of Acupuncturists, with the New Zealand Register of TCM Practitioners Inc in September 2010 to regulate the profession – in light of unqualified practitioners operating businesses.

Submissions for the proposal close on August 19, indicating the profession may finally be regulated by a code of practice.

President of the New Zealand Register of Acupuncturists Paddy McBride says regulations were delayed in 2009 after a change in criteria for professions under the Act, so the organisation had to reapply to become regulated.

“We are moving in line with Australia, where as of July 1, 2012 all acupuncturists and practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine will have to be registered,” says Paddy.

“There are currently no registrations for a practitioner so anyone could do a month long course and set up a business.

“To be registered will mean you have to have a bachelor degree or equivalent qualification to practice, so essentially what the Act would do is protect the public so they know the practitioner they are seeing is properly qualified.”

Tauranga acupuncturist and Chinese herbalist James Johnson has more than 20 years experience and is registered under the NZ Register of Acupuncture Inc and the NZ Federation of Chinese Medical Science Inc. This means he has to follow certain rules and hold certain qualifications.

He says out of the 20 or so businesses practicing Chinese medicine in Tauranga, only four or five are registered and therefore heave to adhere to the registrations codes of ethics.

“Anyone can practice acupuncture. These regulations are a good thing to make sure people are treated professionally and people have a good impression of those who practice Chinese medicine.”

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stretched Birth control Africa’s problem Boundary I would like to publicly disagree with the decision

Re: those “Save the Children” ads on TV. Yes, I do feel very sorry for those African children who are living on next to nothing in most of the slum areas.

They are only doing what nature requires – to grab what morsels of food they can get, mostly not fresh.

The ones to blame are their parents who are ignorant of the human plague already on our planet, as food is becoming more scarce each year while humans expand, which increases the greenhouse effect, and more poisonous

emissions are produced, with consequently more severe weather change!

Birth control is an urgent problem which should have been enforced many years ago, and that would have lessened the already bad situation of too many humans.

Problems will get worse – not better, as we reach seven billion by December 2011, and eight billion by 2035!

It is nature’s way of controlling life, but we have intervened, with dire consequences.

Ernest Izett, Tauranga.

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of the Mainstreet board to support (or not oppose) the ‘Boobs on Bikes’ parade downtown. The day was much quieter for retailers than it would have been otherwise, due to an obvious boycott of the CBD by people opposing the parade (clearly the more mature, who are our core customers). While there were reasonable crowds, the spectators all left town at the end of the parade - Devonport Rd was backed up all the way down by people wanting to get out.

The crowds this event drew are not our regular customers, at least not on weekdays during working hours, and I would strongly oppose any future event of this type.

Not to mention the direction these small steps are taking us, and the example we are setting our kids by allowing the boundary to be stretched.

Chris Jenkins, Ohauiti.

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Parrots and plagues Dean Maisey’s reply to my letter (5/8) accused me of rambling diatribes and name calling. That was in reply to his letter (22/7) calling me a “fool and an idiot” for supporting the recent 1080 report. He also accuses me of parroting BS statements from “1080 for dummies” after parroting his own from the “Anti-1080 for dummies” alliance. So 1080 kills everything but causes rat plagues? How strange!

Mast-seeding causes rat plagues and this event has sometimes coincided with 1080 drops. Deer, pigs, goats and stock are trampling flora and fauna, collapsing edges, defecating and dying of natural causes all through our waterways every day yet 1080 is made a scapegoat through the media by the very people who depend on invasive mammals for their livelihoods.

The monetary figure you passionately quoted would be 100’s of millions higher if NZ was treated through trapping only with the present amount of rodents, stoats and possums.

I have worked for years with aquatic flora and fauna, and have spent the last 3 years doing environmental surveying of flora, fauna and invertebrates around the country. My opinion is my own, from experience and knowledge and I have not been fooled into believing anything. Unlike other poisons, 1080 is rapidly expelled from the system within a few days.

The amounts of 1080 being found in Puha are less than that of the hot cup of tea people like to drink.

Your data is out-dated and photos of dead koura do not prove they died of 1080, only scientific tests can.

As a member of the Deerstalkers Association and a gunsmith, you stand behind your letter and Google, and I’ll be standing in the bush with the pellets and the wetas.

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The suggestion that hunters’ love of the bush is questionable continues to be bandied around by the one eyed 1080 supporters continually trying to justify their foolishness in believing that scattering toxic poison over our bush and streams is a great idea. Yes it would be nice to have our endangered creatures doing well, but to suggest that the sound of a rare bird at dawn is far more important than families living on natural healthy unfarmed food, [that many could not otherwise afford] is a matter of opinion.

Julie Graham needs to be reminded that the majority of hunters have a huge love and respect for our bush and outdoors and it is an insult to many of us for her to try to use the 1080 debate to discredit us and distort the facts. I carried two hinds out of the Kaimai ranges last week which I got in a very beautiful area of bush I’ve only recently discovered. Julie and her friends should be patting me on the back instead of insulting me as I probably do more for the preservation of the bush than they do. For her information I took very little pleasure in the killing of these two beautiful animals, however I got a great deal of pleasure in being in the bush for a couple of days and carrying home good quality, chemical-free meat for my family.

It seems likely that Julie’s lust for the indiscriminate and cruel killing of animals is far greater than most hunters!

M Kirkham, Whakamarama.

Good luck with can collection Re: Cahan Waterson’s can collection, The Weekend Sun 29 July.

Congratulations Cahan. Hope all goes well. But don’t forget, go out there yourself and always carry a bag.

Over the years my husband must have collected millions of cans for our young relatives. The local park is checked every few days and we’re always on the lookout when we are walking the streets.

The tear-tabs are taken off and donated to the Lions’ club. Good luck.

H Payne, Katikati.

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Waterfront confiscation When Tauranga City Council’s recent City Plan was unveiled, many freeholders learnt for the first time that back in 1997 Council had taken away their unencumbered freehold over that part of their property lying within 15 metres of Mean High Water Springs.

The idea that something legally owned could be taken away by Council without affected parties knowing anything about it seems unreasonable and undemocratic. I and my community therefore submitted at the Ten Year Plan hearings that this 1997 confiscation of freehold rights without effective consultation and notification was invalid.

Unfortunately this concern appears to have fallen on deaf ears.

Since then both Mayor Crosby and senior

planners have indicated that they too are not prepared to discuss this issue. Consequently I have been forced to lodge an appeal to the Environment Court and in this I have strong support from similarly disaffected members of the Welcome Bay and Waimapu estuaryside communities. In contrast to Council’s position, a government Minister has opined that the quality of consultation is a vital component of local body democracy and has suggested we refer this issue to the Ombudsman. If you have owned property lying within 15 metres of water from before 1997 and would like to comment on your experience of the 1997 “consultation”, feel free to contact me at r.rimmer@xtra.co.nz Robin Rimmer, Tauranga.

Seminar leads to concerns on copper

After attending a 3 day Environmental Protection Authority seminar in Wellington this is what I now know about the copper based sprays being applied to kiwifruit orchards every 4 weeks to combat the PSa virus.

The studies were undertaken by Cornell University College of Agriculture and Sciences. Copper Sulphate does not degrade in soil and there are serious concerns about the cumulative effect on soil and waterways.

Copper accumulation is practically irreversible. They have been banned completely in many countries. Copper sulphate is highly toxic to fish even at recommended rates of application.

Vineyard sprayers experienced liver disease after 3 years of exposure to copper sulphate solution in Bordeaux. Residual copper is an essential trace element that is strongly bio-

accumulated. It is stored primarily in the liver, brain, heart, kidney, and muscles.

It is readily absorbed through the skin and can produce a burning pain, as well as the other symptoms of poisoning resulting from ingestion. Skin contact may result in itching or eczema.

In summary what is the cost of this PSa copper based spray campaign? We know what it will cost the Kiwifruit industry if they don’t spray, we have heard that argument all before with HiCane. But what is it costing the whenua and those who have to live on it for the next thousand years?

The most sobering of these science- based statistics is we are leaving this legacy of pointless poisoning for tomorrow’s tamariki and for Maori that is not tikanga or kaitiakitanga.

So why do it?

T.Kapai, Te Puna.

Ironic parade success

All Blacks on bikes?

It is with great sadness that I keep reading articles with show such antagonism towards cyclists, and I am not a cyclist myself!

Yes, if the group of senior cyclists did do what was stated then that was silly and dangerous. But why was there a need to bring in the old “abusing the privilege to ride tax and toll free” adage which seems to be bandied about a lot by car users recently?

Car drivers do lots of their own silly and dangerous things, and cyclists do pay their car tax.

They just choose not to use their car sometimes, thereby lowering carbon emissions and increasing the overall fitness of the population with resulting reduction in health costs blah blah…..I could go on but then I would not be practising what I am about to preach!

I just don’t understand why there has become such an “us and them” culture with regards car users and cyclists. Can’t we just all live together on the roads? Is it impossible for NZ ers to be a caring and sharing society?

“Posers in tight lycra” or similar seems to be another favourite description of road cyclists!

Athletic bodies, skin tight shirts. Hmmm that reminds me of someone else, oh yes …the All Blacks! They seem to get a lot of respect. Maybe if we put All Blacks on road bikes ..what about a parade “Beef on Bikes” to Rival Boobs on Bikes.

Maybe then all this antagonism could stop; or would that just open up another subject to argue about!

Jackie Mahon, Pyes Pa.

Congratulations Councillors Guy and Grainger.

The Boobs and Bikes was a success thanks largely to you two by deciding to use it for political gain by taking the moral high ground and keeping your voters happy.

I’m sure you would have been aware that the constant media attention generated by you could only work in favour of Steve Crow. You should have told your voters the best way to combat this man is to ignore him.

Personally I couldn’t care less about the parade, I was just happy to see that bars and cafes full for a change.

I find it somewhat ironic that for a Council that does nothing in the way of events for the CBD, you actually made one successful by trying to stop it. Why don’t you spend the same amount of time and energy creating an event for the CBD, perhaps a Christmas parade for the kids of Tauranga or are they too young to vote?

John Harvey, Amphora on The Strand.

City sounds dangerous Tauranga is the most Dangerous place in the world to live, if the number of emergency sirens could be used as an accurate indicator of real, and emerging emergencies. Just this morning there have been at least 15, and it is not yet noon.

This fine city of ours must, either be full to overflowing with grief stricken families, relations and friends, or the drivers of these vehicles must be candidates for all sorts of awards for valour, public service awards and knighthoods. Hah, maybe they be hoods of a different kind, filling the city with noise pollution - to which there be a sound solution. Leave the siren off, unless it is needed for a genuine emergency.

Ed Santi, Gate Pa.

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GUIDE The ever popular guide to ‘What’s On’ in the Bay.

Friday 12 August

Artsfest 2011 Presented by Tauranga Girls College. Senior girls exhibition through to Aug 16 at Creative Tauranga Gallery, 112 Willow St, Tauranga.

Friendship Dining Group Males/females 30’s/40’s. 022 012 0376 Otumoetai College 25th Annual Bookarama Baycourt Exhibition Hall, Durham St Tauranga Aug 12 8am - 8pm, Aug 13 8am 4pm, Aug 14 9am - 12pm. Sorry no eftpos.

Q&A 4 Generation Y Tauranga Art & Craft Centre, 177 Elizabeth St 7pm. Public discussion for International Youth Day. Q&A for youth events, students, jobs. www.taurangayouth.webs.com

Saturday 13 August

12 Step Recovery Group for Women Every Sat 10am at Hanmer Clinic meeting rooms, 1235 Cameron Rd, Greerton (behind Tyre Master) Ph/txt 021 022 05550 email: recoveringwomen@gmail.com Arataki Market St Mary’s Church carpark, opp Baywave, Girven Rd, Bayfair 9am 12pm. Eftpos on site. Craft stalls, plants, fresh seasonal produce etc. Sausage sizzle & Devonshire teas available. New stallholders welcome. Clare 575 3238 Arms & Militaria Show Aug 20-21 at Greerton Hall. Displays & sales table of all kinds of sporting & military firearms, edged weapons & accessories; military collectibles, books, medals, uniforms etc. Popular social event for collectors from all over the North Island. Adults $5, children free.

Balmoral’s Marching Team Ladies interested in joining this new team aged 20-50yrs welcome. Experience preferred but not necessary. Anita 571 4096 Beauty for Ashes Ministry Day at Otumoetai Baptist Church 9.45am - 3pm.

Door donation $15. No childcare.

Cactus & Succulent Society NZ Craft building, Elizabeth St West, Tauranga 1.30pm. Speaker: John Strong - Australian conference. Sheila 544 4043 Charity Auction Presented by Cool Bananas Youthwork Trust at Carmel Country Estate Community Centre, Hollister Lane, Ohauiti 7-10pm. Cost $15pp ($50 table of four).

Amazing items, silent auction. 576 7330 or email: office@coolbananas.org.nz Coast Care Papamoa East Aug 13 & 14 from 9.30am – 12pm. Look for the Coast Care sign on Taylors Rds & walk down the beach access to join us. Morning or afternoon teas available to all participants.

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Enid 575 6146 Friends of the Libraries Monthly meeting at Mount Library 2pm. Guest speaker: Paul Bennett – Sharing experiences of his works with children & teenagers who are needing support & guidance as they grow up.

Refreshments provided. $3 donation.

Use rear door. All welcome.

Genealogy Informal Group Why did you start researching the family tree? Meet at Moya’s house, 15 Beachlands Place, Papamoa 1.30pm. Visitors welcome. 572 5296 Global Connexions Junior matinee at Baycourt. See the creative outfits by yrs 9, 10 students from around the Bay. Senior evening showing 7pm. See the creative outfits by yr 11, 12, 13 students around the Bay. Tickets $15 per show from Baycourt.

Historic Village Bazaar & Market 17th Ave 9am - 2pm. Crafts, car boot sales etc.

All shops open.

Moggies Market Memorial Hall, Katikati 8am – 12pm. Spray-free produce, unique local crafts, home baking, recyclables, knick knacks. Come & find a bargain.

John 0274 534 050 Mount Country & Western Sequence Dance Old time & modern sequence dance with a country & western theme. Dancing 8-11.30pm at Mount Sports Centre, cnr Hull & Maunganui Rds. Live band, good supper. Entrance $8, members $7.

All welcome. Organised by Mount Scottish Society. Elizabeth 544 5633 Mount Music Club Every 2nd Saturday of the month at Mount Senior Citizens Hall, 345 Maunganui Rd 1-4.30pm. All genres, backing band provided. $2. Plate for afternoon tea appreciated. Practice night Thurs prior 7pm, same venue. $2. Peter 572 3853 Otanewainuku Bird Walk 2-3 hours guided walk with ornithologist Dr Ian McLean.

Meet at shelter, Otanewainuku Forest, from Oropi Rd turn left at Mountain Rd. 9am start. All welcome. www.kiwitrust.org or Ian 021 547 556 Samba Dance Fitness Add some carnival to your life. Learn all the basics & more. Great Brazilian music to get your body moving. Every Sat Elizabeth Community Centre 11.30am - 12.30pm. $5pp. Maya 021 995 065 Skating Disco Mount Action Centre 6-8pm. $5 entry includes skate hire.

Taoist Tai Chi ‘Have a Go’ open day at 15 Koromiko St, Judea 10.30am – 2.30pm.

Come & observe, try it out, challenge your mind. 578 9116

Tauranga Accordion Piano Club Concert

5.30-7pm at Wesley Church Hall, 13th Ave. Small door charge $5. 574 2175 Tauranga Farmers Market Tauranga Primary School cnr 5th Ave & Cameron Rd every Sat 7.45am - 12pm. Trixie 552 5278 or www.taurangafarmersmarket.co.nz Tauranga Woodcrafters Club Meet 3rd Sat of every month at clubrooms, Yatton St, Greerton 1pm. Visitors or interested folk welcome. Geoff 579 3637 Village on 17th Bazaar Market Every second Sat of month 9am – 3pm. Set up from 8am (no earlier access than this).

All kinds of stalls welcome, craft, art, produce. $10 per stall. Graeme 543 9282 or 027 4496 960

Sunday 14 August

Auditions - Brief Encounter “Still Life”

Te Puke Repertory Society, at Litt Park Theatre (off Cameron Rd, Te Puke) 2pm.

For copy of scripts or discussion on roles ph Michael 573 9790 Bay Blokart Club Land sailing at Baypark track every Sun & race days on second Sun of month. Use construction entrance 400m down Truman Lane. All welcome. 027 391 8300 or Peter 0274 721 322. www.baypark.co.nz Bethlehem Lions Market Now incorporating Arts & Crafts indoors at Bethlehem Town Centre carpark (second entrance to town centre off Bethlehem Rd) 8am - 12pm. Stallholders $10 per site.

On wet or fine. 548 2977 Bible Seminars Sunday at Greerton Senior Citizen’s Hall, Maitland St, Greerton 1.45pm. Title: “The Acts of the Apostles Paul’s 1st missionary journey.” Interactive, Q&A. Refreshments provided. All welcome.

Vic 543 0504 BOP Tree Crops Assn Meet at 202 Thompsons Track, Katikati 1pm. Focus - pruning, maintenance, restorative & young tree training. Elizabeth 549 2795

Holistic & Spiritual Community Centre

Speaker: Karina Williams-Tairei, from Wanaganui River, clairvoyant/medium.

“The I Am” at Legion of Frontiersmen’s Hall, Elizabeth St West 7-9pm. $5pp.

All welcome. Leigh 218 0330 Katikati Tramping Club To Otanewainuku Walks. Easy tramp, 8.30am start.

Ian 07 863 7927 Kids Flying Fiesta Mount Toy Library fundraiser at Tauranga Aero Club, Aerodrome Rd, Mount 11am - 3pm. Gold coin entry for adults, kids free. Bring extra gold coins

DVD MOVIES Reviews of DVDs, old and new, as well as other bits and bobs. as donations for activities. Face painting, lottery wheel, sausage sizzle, fire truck rides, fairground games & more. Rain date Aug 20.

Madness & Mayhem at the Opera

Tauranga Civic Choir with conductor Jeremy Whimster, Anna Cors, John Murray, Chalium Poppy & the Waikato Brass Quintet at Bethlehem Performing Arts Centre 3pm. Tickets from Baycourt or at the door.

Mount Mainstreet Farmers Market Every Sun 9am - 1pm in Phoenix car park, rain or shine. Fresh fruit, breads, cheese, plants, veges & more. Downtown the Mount open 7 days. 575 9911 Ngai Tahu ki Tauranga Moana Bimonthly Hui at Tauranga Boys College Wharenui 1pm. Please bring a plate. 572 2447 Omokoroa Lions Market Western Ave car park, Omokoroa 9am – 12pm. All staff holders & car boot sales welcome. Produce, crafts, anything. Only $5/5m space.

Keith 548 2117 Palm Beach Plaza Lions Market 7.30am 12.30pm. Stalls must be set up by 7.30am.

Great range of goods for sale including fruit & vege, arts & crafts. $10 per car space.

0272 593 120. Next market Aug 28 Papamoa Patches Papamoa Surf Club 10.30am - 3.30pm. Bring yourself & your sewing. New members welcome.

Margaret 572 5403 Petanque Every Sun, Tues & Thurs at Cliff Rd 12.45pm. Boules available, tuition given.

1st 3 visits free. Neita 572 3768 Singles Mix & Mingle 40+ Coffee afternoon 2.30pm at Zaggers Cafe, Chapel St. Are you looking for friendship or companionship? Join like-minded individuals who want to meet new singles in a relaxed atmosphere. Gayle 027 439 3267 Sunday Bible Study Every Sunday 10am.

Fellowship tea 10.45am, Sunday worship 11am. 1st & 3rd Sunday evening singing 6pm. Tauranga Church of Christ, Greerton, 1400 Cameron Rd. 541 0388 Tauranga BMX Club Gates Sunday afternoons at Sulphur Pt track 1.30pm start.

First 3 nights free, members $2. Volunteers needed to help run this. All welcome.

Email: taurangabmx@gmail.com

Tauranga City Sunrise Lions Car Fair

Every Sunday 8am - 12pm 11th Ave carpark (opp Mad Butcher). Buy & sell cars/vans/ utes/4x4/camper/boats. Ken 027 733 9686 or www.taurangacarfair.co.nz Tauranga Jazz Club RSA Tauranga 5-8pm.

Featuring: “Bay Dixie” and Auckland Trio “NikNak”. Members $10, non members $15, students $5.

“What’s On” in the Weekend Sun is a free service for non-profit clubs and organisations. email julie@thesun.co.nz or fax 571 1116 or post to PO Box 240, Tauranga.

Deadline 3pm Tuesday. Contributions should be less than 20 words.

Tauranga Theatre Organ Society Baycourt Theatre 1.30pm. Hear & play the Mighty Wurlitzer. All welcome. 552 0243 Tea Dance Reddy & Rays tea dance at Bethlehem Hall 6-9pm. 578 2636 Theosophical Society Peter Calvert on: “Spiritual Teaching, 1993 – Present” at Tauranga Yoga Centre, Elizabeth St West 2pm. Entry by donation to cover expenses.

All welcome. June 576 6106 Vauxhall Owners Club August run to Cambridge Market & Karapiro hydro museum departing Tauranga 9am. 543 2528

Monday 15 August

Bethlehem Bowls Bethlehem Hall every Mon 7.15pm. First 2 nights free. All ages & new players welcome. Wendy 578 2585 Body & Soul Fun Fitness For over 50’s, social events & occasional guest speakers Mon & Fri, Greerton Hall, Cameron Rd. Tues Wesley Church, 13th Ave. Weds City Church Otumoetai Rd. All classes 9.1510.15am. First class free. Men & women welcome. Dianne 576 5031 Ceroc Dance Classes at Dance Fusion

Beginners classes every Mon at Baypark Function Centre 7pm & Weds at Elizabeth St Community Centre opp Yoga Centre 7.30pm. No partner or experience required. All welcome. 0274 391 997 or move@dancefusion.co.nz Fire Brigade Indoor Bowls Club Club night box drawn tournament 7.30pm at Greerton Hall, Cameron Rd. Colin 543 0326 Fitness League Tone & align your body, increase flexibility & stamina. First class free. Mon at Omokoroa Settlers Hall, Omokoroa Rd & Tues at St Johns Anglican Hall, Seddon St, Waihi. Both 9.30am.

Dorothy 549 3378

Golden Kiwis Leisure Marching Team Meet weekly for exercise, fun & fellowship. No experience required for ladies 50+. Dorothy 579 5232

Harmony a Plenty Barbershop Chorus

Every Mon at Bethlehem Community Church, Moffat Rd 7pm.

New members welcome. 542 4191 or www.harmonyaplenty.co.nz Leisure Marching For exercise, fun & fellowship. Ladies 50+ required. No experience needed. Dorothy 579 3232 Meditation Free classes. Find the real meaning & purpose of your life. Bring out the peace & joy that exists inside you.

Mon 10am & 7.30pm. David 576 9764

For the first time at Tauranga Art Gallery . . .

Friday 19 August 8pm Strictly limited tickets $30 each Call 07-578-7933 to book or call in to the Gallery

www.manutere.co.nz

www.manutere.co.nz Open daily 10am - 4.30pm

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Tuesday 16 August

Bayfair Petanque Club Every Tues

& Thurs at Bayfair Reserve, Russley Drive 1pm. Tuition & boules for beginners & visitors. Margaret 572 3173 Excel Toastmasters Club Learn to be a competent communicator & get your message across. Meet 6.15pm on 2nd, 4th & 5th Tues of month at Mount Senior Citizens Centre, 345 Maunganui Rd. New members welcome. Tess 575 6610 Genesis - Women’s Group Every Tues during school term. 10am morning tea at Papamoa Surf Club, Papamoa Domain.

This week: card making or table games.

New members welcome. Jennifer, Salvation Army 578 4264

Junior Badminton Club Otumoetai Col-

lege Gym, all grades 5.30 - 7pm.

Racquets available. Sue 543 0035 Mount Morning Badminton Every Tues 9am - 12pm at Mount Sports Centre, Blake Park. Social, competitive, all ages, beginners welcome. Racquets available.

Visitors $5 per session, students $2.

First day free. Margaret 575 9792 Quiz Night Aug 23 at Bureta Park 6.30pm. Spot prizes, entry fee $60 for team of 6 - includes light supper. Entries direct to Bureta Park. Fundraising for Girl Guide Jamboree 2012.

South City Indoor Bowls Club Inc Greerton Hall 7.30pm. Mens & Ladies Singles (Ryder Cup & Ryder Plate) – Markers please. Ph Mary 541 0687 Stitching Servants Every Tues at Tauranga Church of Christ, Greerton 10am. Card, quilt, bear making, knitting etc. 541 0388 Table Tennis Tauranga Matua Community Hall, Levers Rd Tues 12.30-3.30pm & 7.30-9.30pm. Thurs 9-11.30am, Fri 9-11.30am & 7.30-9.30pm. QEYC Weds 12.30-3pm. Caroline 543 0702

Tauranga Breast Cancer Support Service

Patient lunch at St Paul’s Church, Dickson Rd, Papamoa 12pm. Speaker: Nicola Mayos, from Breast Care products- breast prosthesis products following breast cancer surgery. All welcome. Julie 571 3346 or email: bcsstga@clear.net.nz

Tauranga Central Ladies Probus Club

Friendly social club meet 3rd Tues of month at Daniels, Memorial Park 9.45am. All welcome. Jean 544 6516 Tauranga Continuing Education Group (50+) Historic Village, 17th Ave every Third Tues of month 10am start. $3 to cover expenses. Speaker: Dale Williams, Mayor of Otorohanga – Youth initiatives in Otorohanga.

Tauranga Indoor Bowling Club Mens vs Ladies (Thomas Trophy) 7pm. Senior Citizens Hall, Norris St. New bowlers welcome. Ron 570 1570 Tauranga Orchid Society Monthly meeting at Wesley Church Hall, 13th Ave 7.30pm. ‘Looking for Orchids in South America’ with local Ron Maunder.

Visitors welcome. Natalie 543 0847 Tauranga Toastmasters Tga Lyceum Club, 1st Ave Tues 7.15-8.45pm. Exterminate the butterflies, confidence building, improving public speaking & leadership skills. Alan 544 5989 Te Puke Support Group Coffee & chat for people with an experience of mental illness at Te Puke Memorial Hall (Settlers Lounge Boardroom) 10am – 12pm.

579 9890 Wing Chun Kung Fu Free first lesson Tues & Thurs at QE Youth Centre cnr 11th Ave & Devonport Rd 6.30-8.30pm. Te Puke classes also available. 027 236 0908 or www.baywingchun.school.nz Zouk Lambada Dancing For beginners every Tues at Tauranga Baptist Church Hall cnr 13th Ave & Cameron Rd 6.30pm. No partner necessary.

All welcome. 022 091 5970 or www.latindancetauranga.co.nz

Wednesday 17 August

Arabian Spice Belly Dance Club Every Weds at Te Puna Community Centre, above the Tennis Courts, Maramatanga Park 6.30pm. Learn to shimmy in style & have fun. Available for community performances. Ph/text 021 105 4204

Baywide Community Law Service

Drop-in clinic every Weds at 63 Willow St, Tauranga 5-6.30pm. No appointment necessary. Free legal assistance.

City Early Start Toastmasters

Join the motivated, vibrant & encouraging bunch at Zaggers Café 7-8.15am for personal development, career boosting opportunities. Lani 571 1545 or www.cityearlystart.freetoasthost.org Faith Bible College Public meetings every 2nd & 4th Weds of month at 749 Welcome Bay Rd 7.15pm start. Variety of speakers. Supper to follow. All welcome.

544 2463

Fernlands Spa Water Exercise Class At 250 Cambridge Rd 10.45-11.45am. Suitable for arthritics, joint replacements, fall prevention & injury or illness rehabilitation. Held rain or shine.

Jennifer 571 1411 Free Community Service Seminar

Speaker: Professor Shaun Holt - Depression - natural remedies that really work at Central Baptist Church, cnr 13th Ave & Cameron Rd 2pm.

Gate Pa Indoor Bowls Greerton Hall.

Club night 7.30pm. Super Liquor Ladder 7pm. Kevin 543 4044 Genealogy Get-together at home of Heather, 8 Cornwall St, Greerton 1.30pm. Newcomers welcome. 578 1689 Global Hearts Exercise Group Weds 2pm & Fri 11am. Provides group activities combined with health education that encourages members to live a healthy & active lifestyle. Classes run by qualified instructor. Vikki 575 0470 or 0272 800 388 Ladies Bible Study/Tea Every Weds 10am. Singing/Bible class 7pm. Tauranga Church of Christ, Greerton, 1400 Cameron Rd. 541 0388

Library Book Club

Third Weds of month in Tauranga Library 10.30-11.30am & 5.30pm.

Opportunity to discuss books enjoyed (or not) & see a selection of new books before they hit the shelves. This month: American Writing.

Lyceum Club Ladies Club luncheon 12pm at clubrooms 68 1st Ave. Joan 578 1162. Garden circle Thurs 2pm.

Margaret 576 4524 Mount Healing & Spiritual Centre Fellowship at Omanu Bowling Club, Golf Rd, Mount 7.30pm. Guest speaker: Karen Ainsworth-Kopa - psychometry/ mediumship. Door charge $3.

All welcome. Jules 578 0777 Mount Junior Badminton Club Club night 6-7.30pm at Mount Sports Centre, Maunganui Rd for all keen players aged 8-15yrs. A night of fun & learn the game.

Janice 575 2438 or 027 201 0529 Mumz Coffee Group @ Grindz New to the area? Want to get out of the house.

Meet other mums with Sue and the Nappy Lady. All welcome, bring your toddlers as there is a play room available.

Upstairs at Grindz Café, 1st Ave.

Orange City Square & Round Dance Club

Weds advanced, Thurs club night & new dancers. Frontiersmen’s Hall, 7.30pm.

543 1063 Papamoa Library Book Group Papamoa Library 10am for cuppa & biscuits.

Theme: Books whose titles begin with ‘R”. All welcome.

Salvation Army Meeting For all women every Weds 10am morning tea, 10.30am meeting at Salvation Army, cnr Cameron Rd & 5th Ave Tauranga. Speaker: Piki Russell - Poverty in Tauranga. New members welcome. Jennifer 578 4264 Scottish Country Dancing Weds Senior Citizens Hall, Maunganui Rd. Fri Papamoa Primary School Hall, Dickson Rd. Both 7.30pm. 573 5055 Taoist Tai Chi Classes Every Weds 5.30-7pm at 15 Koromiko St, Judea. Find balance & improve it at the same time.

For health, wellbeing, mobility, suppleness, stamina & memory. 578 9116

Thursday 18 August

Ascension Healing & Crystal Centre

Group meditations every Thurs 7-9pm at Ascension Healing & Crystal Centre, 207 Peers Rd, Omanawa. $10pp, tea & coffee provided. 543 3132 extn 1.

Community Bible Study International

Come join us at 14th Ave Gospel Centre 10am - 12pm for an interdenominational in-depth study of the book of Daniel.

Joan 576 9065

Hall, cnr 13th Ave & Cameron Rd. Weds 10am at Katikati Memorial Hall. Pam 549 4799 or 021 117 7170 Happiness & Our Mind Drop in meditation classes, beginners welcome. Classes are self-contained so start any date. Cost $12 per class. Otumoetai Plunket, 59 Otumoetai Rd. Monthly classes, next class Aug 18 7-8.30pm. www.meditateintauranga.org Keynotes 4 Part Harmony Women’s Chorus Every Thurs at Wesley Church Hall, 13th Ave 6.45pm. Sing for fun & health. Pam 578 3757 Tauranga Heart Support Group Fun, rehab exercise, social events & occasional guest speakers for those with or at risk of heart disease.

Thurs 9.30-10.45am City Church, Otumoetai Rd. Men & women welcome. Cardiac Care leader Dianne 576 5031 Tauranga Porcelain Artists Every Thurs at Arts & Crafts Centre, Elizabeth St West 9am 12pm. All welcome. Lynne 549 0847 Tennis Seniors WBOP Every Thurs at Tauranga Lawn Tennis Club 9am.

Thursday Evening Cricket Club Champions Bar, Papamoa for informal meeting to look at forming the Papamoa Cricket Club. Players & supporters welcome. Don 574 5646 to register your interest.

Wanna Dance Rock n Roll Social rock & roll dancing to authentic music. Senior Citizens Hall, end of Maitland St, Greerton. Every Thurs 7.30-9.30pm. $2.50 entry Maria 576 7326 Wearable CreationNZ Celebrating 10 years Art Exhibition daily 9am - 4pm, 3 Shows 11am Aug 18 matinee, 7.15pm Aug 19 & 20. At Rotorua Energy Events Centre. Tickets available from ticketmaster. www.wearablecreationz.co.nz

Friday 19 August

Addicted Exposure 2011 Group photography exhibition Aug 19 - 29. Brought to you by

Aries

Capture-It NZ school of photography. At Creative Tauranga Gallery, 112 Willow st, Tauranga.

Brazilian Partner Dancing For beginners every Fri at Mount Senior Citizens Hall, 345 Maunganui Rd 7pm. Brazilians are social, fun living people who enjoy their music & dance.

Come & find out why! 022 091 5970 or www.latindancetauranga.co.nz Friday Evening Pyes Pa Badminton Aquinas College Action Centre 6-8pm. All skill levels welcome. Scoring new rules badminton. $5pp. All ages. Colin 021 139 2598

Friday Friends 10 Pin Bowling League

Friendly league playing each Fri (3 games) at 13th Ave 10 pin 1pm. New members wanted.

Barry/Loris 543 3523 Fundraising Event for Plunket “What a Woman Wants” - what to wear & how to wear it. At Otumoetai Baptist Church, 241 Otumoetai Rd Aug 26 7.30pm. Tickets from BNZ & Brookfield Pharmacy.

Gay/Bi Mens Support Group Do you need a trusting person to talk to? Discretion assured.

For meetings & locations Alex 027358 5934 a/hs Housie Tauranga RSA, Greerton. Starts 1pm sharp. Please come early. All welcome. 544 1944 Kids Fun Friday Free Bible crafts, stories, puzzles, puppets, plays, skits, snacks & singing.

Tauranga Church of Christ, Greerton, 1400 Cameron Rd 3.30-5pm. 541 0388 Rural Women’s Support Day Rising through the challenge of PSA. At The Orchard Church, 20 MacLoughlin Drive, Te Puke 10am - 3pm. RSVP

by Aug 15, Tania 574 7588 or email: tania.swain@kvh.org.nz U3A Tauranga Special groups celebration event. Convenors updates, displays & groups participation. Wesley Church, 13th Ave 10am. $3. All welcome.

Libra

You would love to hop on a plane and fly away. You feel like an adventure – you have itchy feet and are restless. If you cannot get away, maybe you need to host an event and make it a theme and have a big rave up – this will lift your spirits and settle those itchy feet for a while.

You will have to be patient this week.

Someone is just not getting it – you are going to have to really spell it out and have a huge amount of patience to actually get through to this person. Maybe someone else could explain in a different way – and the combination just may hit the mark.

Now is the time to get stuck in around your garden – prepare for spring. If you don’t have much space for veges, put in pots and troughs, they look good and you will love picking fresh. You have worked hard this year and are in a bit of a panic now it’s only five months to the end of it! Take it slow and methodically and you will achieve.

With spring in the air there is a spring in your step and it’s time for a change – where exactly, you have to decide, but have it make an impact that will have the wow factor. You are creative and colourful so exercise the mind and give yourself a real challenge, the trickier the better.

You are bright eyed and bushy tailed – ready for just about anything. You are enjoying life at present, even the hard bits. You are dealing with your stress and worry much better now, and looking back can see where you let yourself down, and that’s really good. So now you will move forward with much anticipation and excitement.

If you were any more organised – you’d be perfect. Say it and think it, it’s good to tell yourself these things, it keeps you in the mood to achieve more. Also this week, you are going to have to bite the bullet more than once, so the work is going to start piling up and you will feel a little daunted, only for a while though.

You are feeling light hearted, but still have concerns over finances and stretching the budget even further, but you will sort it, as you are going to make it your mission. If you really budget, and are not tempted with all the sales you will succeed. By doing this you will end up feeling even better and very proud of yourself.

It’s unsettling to have your faith shaken, whether it be religion or people, or in yourself. It somehow seems as though a huge part of you is missing, and actually that’s what it is.

So this week spend some ‘self’ time to sort out your feelings – this you have to achieve without consulting anyone else.

Taurus

Gemini

Cancer

Leo

Don’t let the concerns of a friend take you away from issues you need to address within your own family circle – they must come first. You will struggle because you care very deeply about friends, but you also know your priorities. Don’t beat yourself up over not being able to share your time.

Virgo

You have people around you that are very argumentative. They knock your opinions and hurt your feelings and always hold the floor, spouting their views. You cannot actually tell them to get lost, so the best thing to do is go off into your own little world and tune them out – when they realise you are not listening they may back off for a while.

Scorpio

Sagittarius

Capricorn

Aquarius

You watch the birds and envy their freedom, you are at present feeling very hemmed in, almost claustrophobic, and there is a certain amount of panic that goes with this. You have to sort this. The clear nights with all the stars out are wonderful to just sit contemplating, looking at the heavens – give it a shot.

Pisces

You have wasted a lot of valuable time of late, just making excuses why you cannot do anything, and then when you decide to start something, you leave it before you finish it. Dig deep and gather some incentive from within, this frame of mind is not good, it over spills, not only into your work time, but leisure time and keeps you awake at nights.

Fitness League

Safe, effective, low impact exercise to music using the Bagot Stack technique, designed for females. All ages & abilities.

Thurs 9.30am Central Baptist Church

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Mount Badminton Club Club night Mon 7-9pm & social club night Weds 7.30 - 9.30pm at Mount Sports Centre, Maunganui Rd. All past & new players welcome.

Janice 575 2438 or 027 201 0529 Nam Wah Pai Kung Fu Papamoa club training at Tahatai Coast school, Evans Rd Mon & Thurs 6.15-7.45pm.

Brian 579 4358 or www.nwpkungfu.co.cc Otumoetai Indoor Bowls Aggregate night, Matua Primary School Hall, Clivedene St 7.15pm. Fred 576 4607 Recycled Teenagers Gentle exercise for 50’s forwards, & injury or illness rehabilitation. Mon & Weds, 14 Norris St, Tauranga, Senior Citizens Club, behind Pak n Save. Tues, St Mary’s Church Hall, cnr Girven Rd & Marlin St. All 9am 10.30am. Taken by Heart Foundation phase 3 cardiac instructor. First class free.

Jennifer 571 1411 Relationship Services Mon - Parenting Through Separation 10am - 12pm.

Positively Me 4 Women 12.30-2.30pm.

Blended Families 7-9pm. ManMade 7-9pm. Tues - Parenting Through Separation 7-9pm. Weds - Sex, Drugs & Homework 7-9pm. Parenting for Success 7-9pm. Thurs - Parenting Through Separation Papamoa 10am - 12pm. Positively Me 4 women 7-9pm. 576 8392 Sequence Dance Class Modern sequence dance tuition & revision every Mon 1-3pm St Johns Church Hall, 94 Bureta Rd, Otumoetai. $3pp. Gordon 573 4333 Sit and Be Fit Class Seated down class.

Focused on balance, stability, aerobic, flexibility & strength. Tues 11.30-12.30pm at Papamoa Community Centre, Gravatt Rd. Weds 11am-12pm at Greenwood Park Village, Welcome Bay. 578 9272 St Columba Indoor Bowling Club Club night (entries leads & twos) 7.30pm, St Columba Hall, 502 Otumoetai Rd. New bowlers welcome. Ron 570 1570 Tauranga Badminton Club Bethlehem College every Mon & Weds from 7.30pm. All players welcome. Friendly club. Racquets available. Sue 543 0035 or 021 194 4335 Tauranga Ladies Probus Club Every third Mon of month at Citizens Club 10am. Visitors welcome. Claire 576 5973 Tauranga Plunket Older Mums & Bubs Playgroup. Are you an older mum or dad, aunt/uncle or grandparent caring for young babies & preschool children?

Every Mon during term time at Tauranga Plunket Rooms, Devonport Rd 10am.

Kath 557 8109 or katherine.lawrence@plunket.org.nz YMCA - ALFS (Active lifestyle for seniors).

Smooth Movers class Mon 8.45-9.45am & 10-11am at Matua Community Hall, Levers Rd. Also 9.15-10.15 at Salvation Army Community Hall, Eversham Rd. Tues 9.15-10.15am & 10.30-11.30am at Papamoa Community Centre, Gravatt Rd. Weds 9.15-10.15am Welcome Bay Hall, Welcome Bay Rd. Thurs 8.459.45am at Otumoetai Action Centre, Windsor Rd. Also 10.30-11.30am at Bethlehem Hall, Bethlehem Rd. Fri 9.1510.15am at Papamoa Community Centre, Gravatt Rd. 578 9272 Zumba for All Mon 9.30am, Thurs 9.15am Bethlehem Hall, Waihi Rd. $5 casual, $4 with a concession card.

Ruth 027 415 6819 or just turn up!

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By Winston Watusi

Festival rip, a right royal rip A lot of New Zealanders are feeling ripped off at the moment and it’s not hard to understand why.

In these hard economic times it just adds insult to injury when it seems we’re paying unnecessarily inflated prices for things like milk and All Black jerseys. Why, if we export milk to half the world, does it cost twice as much here as in Australia? Why, if a company sponsors our rugby team, do their promotional jerseys cost twice as much here as, well, almost everywhere else?

Recently, in Singapore, I found my favourite Heinz Baked Beans in a dairy next to our apartment. Made in New Zealand.

Same labelling, everything. They cost less than half of what I pay in my local New World.

New Zealanders are, in general, gentle passive people. There seems little chance that rioting in the streets will break out as it has in England. But, with London burning, you do have to wonder about such things.

The last time riots took place on this scale in Britain was 1981, back in the days of Margaret Thatcher’s infamous proclamation that there is no such things as society, just people.

That may, in a reductive libertarian sense, be true. But, as the gap between rich and poor continues to widen in New Zealand (like Britain), it’s hard not to wonder whether there are consequences down the track.

As you see from the riots, when there is no such thing as society, it doesn’t take much for people to start turning on each other.

I wonder if there’s an element of that in recent attacks on the National Jazz Festival. Times being hard and getting harder

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maybe some folk just need a target for their frustrations. Despite suspecting that the outpouring of negativity (look at some of the comments about jazz-related stories on the SunLive website) is confined to a few of the usual suspects who feel the need to rush into print as soon as they find any excuse to whine and therefore are not representative of any wider community angst – it’s still a worry.

A lot of inaccurate stuff has been put out there by people who have really made a dog’s breakfast of the facts, and who have strung together mangled attempts to diss every aspect of the festival. I think it a worry because, as this stuff gets unthinkingly repeated, some people might actually believe it.

Without wishing to inflame the easily-inflammable even further, let me at least set the record straight on a couple of things.

The Jazz Society books are in good shape. They have not asked the council for a loan to pay-off debt from this year’s loss. The society had built up a surplus over the previous years which covered the debt. Less than two thirds of the surplus was needed to pay off the debt. Any money asked for from council is nothing to do with this year’s losses.

Next: in anticipation of a harsh economy the festival did reduce its budget this year, by something close to $200,000. Good responsible financial planning. The organis-

ers are professionals – they’re not stupid.

Next: the $30,000 that the council has given the festival for the past six years is not a loan. It was a Flagship Events Grant. Look upon it as sponsorship. An economic impact survey of the festival in 2004 concluded that it brought $5 million to Tauranga. Since then the festival has grown considerably. Consider that the survey may have been wrong and exaggerated. Let’s be conservative: halve it, then knock off another million. Say the festival brings $2 million to Tauranga.

Isn’t $30,000 a reasonable investment to bring $2 million into the local economy? Isn’t the council meant to try and help our economy? Less than a dollar from each ratepayer doesn’t seem unreasonable to me.

This is not an event where money goes to overseas shareholders or to benefit a few. This is not a group looking to line their own pockets. This is a festival run for the benefit and enjoyment of the people of Tauranga.

And there is moaning that tickets for the ‘main event’ this year were too expensive.

Get over it. Top class international acts cost that. There is so much music supplied for free at the festival that anyone bitching about this can only be doing so to hear the sound of their own voice.

The Jazz Festival is one of the crown jewels of Tauranga society – a little respect people, please.

M O V I E S With Rialto

Incendies (R16) contains violence

and content that may disturb French-Canadian drama adapted from Wajdi Mouawad’s acclaimed play and nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2011 Academy Awards.

After the death of their mother (Lubna Azabal), Jeanne and Simon (Melissa Desormeaux Poulin and Maxim Gaudette) receive a pair of envelopes in the will – one for the father they thought was dead and another for a brother Friday Aug 12 - Wed Aug 17 131 Jellicoe Street, Te Puke.

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Violence. James Franco, Andy Serkis, John Lithgow. Origin story/prequel to the 1968 Planet of the Apes.

Fri 1:20, 3:45, 6:05, 8:20pm. Sat 11:20, 1:45, 6:10, 8:35. Sun 1:35, 3:55, 6:15, 8:35. Mon 1:30, 3:50, 6:15, 8:35pm. Tue 1:30, 3:50, 6:15, 8:35. Wed 1:30, 3:55, 6:15, 8:35.

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(M) Offensive Language.

Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts. After losing his job, a middle-aged man goes back to college.

Fri 1:10. Sat 6:20pm. Sun 3:25. Mon 1:15, 6:10.

Tue 1:15, 8:30pm. Wed 1:10, 6:15pm.

Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde.

1873, Arizona, Old West.

A stranger, with no memory of his past, stumbles into the desert town of Absolution.

Fri 3:40, 6:05, 8:35pm.

Sat 3:55, 8:30pm. Sun 1:00, 5:35, 8:05. Mon 3:30, 8:20.

Tue 1:00, 6:05, 8:35pm.

Wed 3:50, 8:20pm.

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Contains Violence, Domestic Violence & Offensive Language.

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (3D)

(PG) Coarse Language.

1970’s set Swedish drama. Based on the novel.

Fri 8:35pm. Sat 3:55. Sun 7:45pm. Wed 8:30pm. Documentary about Karen Carey, the Music Director at a Sydney Girl’s High School, who puts on MEGASCREEN. FINAL DAYS. on a concert every two years at the Sydney Opera TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (2D) House. Fri 1:30. Sat 11:30, 5:50pm. Sun 1:30pm.

(M) Violence & Offensive Language. Sun 10:35am.

Mon 3:40. Tue 1:30, 6:10pm. Wed 3:40pm.

BAD TEACHER

(R16) COMEDY

Offensive Language, Drug Use & Sexual Content That May Offend.

Cameron Diaz, Justin Timberlake. Sat 4:05pm.

FINAL WEEK!

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BRIDESMAIDS (R16) “BRIDESMAIDS is hilarious” Off Language, Sexual Material & Other Content That May Offend.

Fri 6. Sat 3:10. Sun 5:55. Mon 1. Tue 6. Wed 3:15.

HARRY POTTER: DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 THE COMPANY MEN (2D) (M) Supernatural Themes & Violence Fri

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Violence. Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving, Hayley Atwell, Tommy Lee Jones.

Steve Rogers volunteers for a top secret research project, which turns him into Captain America...

Fri 3:20pm. Sat 5:45pm. Sun 8:30.

Mon 6:00pm. Tue 3:25. Wed 8:30.

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PLAYING NEW THIS THIS WEEK WEEK ININ 3D3D

French-Canadian drama that was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2011 Oscars.

Fri 3:20, 6:10. Sat 1:20, 7:45. Sun 11:00, 5:20pm.

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they didn’t know existed. Jeanne decides to go to the Middle East to dig into her mysterious family history.

Simon is unmoved by their mother’s posthumous mind games, but joins his sister in combing their ancestral homeland. The twins piece together the story of the woman who brought them into the world, discovering a very different person from the mother they knew.

(M) Offensive Language.

1:00. Tue 3:20 Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones. Sun 3:20. Mon 8pm

HARRY POTTER & THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 (3D) (M) Supernatural Themes & Violence Fri 8:30pm. Sat 12:30, 8:20pm. Sun 10:30, 3:10pm.

Mon 3:20, 8:30pm. Wed 5:50pm.

KUNG FU PANDA 2 (3D)

(PG) Low Level Violence.

Jack Black, Angelina Jolie. Sat 10:30am. Sun 1:10pm.

CARS 2 (3D)

(PG) Coarse Language. Adventure, Comedy.

Animation. Sat 10:30am. Sun 10:35am.

IN 3D. FINAL DAYS!

TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (3D) (M) Violence & Offensive Language.

Sat 12:50pm. Wed 1:00pm.

NEW THURSDAY AUGUST 18 BILLY T: TE MOVIE Documentary celebrating the life of legendary New Zealand comedian, Billy T James.

Incendies is screening at Rialto Tauranga.

The Weekend Sun has two double passes to give away to the lucky readers who can tell us what award this film was nominated for?

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CARLOS THE JACKAL Dir: Oliver Assayas. Starring: Edgar Ramirez, Fadi Abi Samra, Ahmad Kaabour Carlos is a magnificent achievement and a reminder that terrorism used to be very different 40 years ago.

The film is presented here in two separate versions. There is the feature length movie, which was condensed from a trilogy originally made for television.

Both are present and the way to go is, without a doubt, the threeparter. From the production values and style there is no hint of its small screen origins.

The story follows the man who was – for well over a decade – the most recognisable and feared terrorist in the world, taking him from early days as a budding acolyte to his glory years of killing and bombings and the eventual slow decline as he was gradually abandoned by the countries and

organisations who had used his services.

It’s not an easy film. The entire story is told from within the terrorists’ world, one of paranoia and betrayal, and it is extraordinary stuff, showing up a vast range of dodgy double dealing and reminding us how different the world was before the 9/11 attacks on America pushed everyone towards security obsession.

Edgar Ramirez is simply superb as Carlos, a fascinating mixture of ruthless charm, ego and daring, the physical transformation over two decades consummately handled. Ultimately, it is the elusive enigma of his character, at the centre of the film throughout that fascinates and will drag you back for repeat viewings.

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Illuminati Thursday 18 – The Feelers.

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After director Zack Snyder’s pumped-up 300 came the Legends of the Guardians owl movie and Watchmen, both adaptations and visual extravaganzas. With Sucker he has also taken Punch it upon himself to write the story and screenplay. All I can say is ‘Don’t Do It Again’. Please. Sucker

word ‘based’ has been used fairly loosely. It follows a young doubting trainee priest attending the Vatican to be taught the secrets of exorcism. He is passed on to Anthony Hopkins’ grizzled old practitioner and discovers that – yes! – it is real after all. Well made though it is basically complete

has a classy cast, including Carla Gugino, Timothy Olyphant, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, music from the elusively brilliant Robyn Hitchcock, and an eccentrically funny story about life after porn.

And Julianne Moore makes an unbilled appearance as the Virgin Mary.

Punch’s tale of five girls trapped in an evil asylum spends most of its time in the girl’s interior dreamworlds, which play like elaborate music videos from a 14 year old boy’s wet dream. WW1 dogfights, martial arts monsters, fighting dragons and robots and more are emotionlessly evoked within a framework of frustrating stupidity, proving that endless flash visuals can only stave off boredom for so long. is another The Rite exorcism film and takes itself very seriously. Claiming to be ‘based on true events’, one assumes the

nonsense and breaks little new ground. Main reason for viewing is the dazzling turn from Hopkins, moving effortlessly between kind twinkly mode and full-on scary scenery chewing.

In the world of cult movies it is possible for a film to be a bit of a mess and simultaneously rather wonderful. So it is with this tale of eponymous porn star Elektra Luxx (oh the puns that beckon if this weren’t a family newspaper). Much like an early Kevin Smith film this is shot clumsily, but has a script filled with sparkling dialogue. It also

John Malkovich is The Great Buck Howard , a seriously cheesy Carson-era mentalist in search of a comeback, and very good he is too, all oily charm and fragile ego. Colin Hanks is a young law school drop-out who gets a job as his assistant and road manager. Along with Emily Blunt’s publicist (and love interest) they attempt to break Buck back into the big time. It’s an unassuming, sweet, funny story, with Steve Zahn, Tom Hanks, Griffin Dunne and others providing solid support and a host of celebrity cameos.

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By Laura Weaser

It may be six years since The Feelers were last in the studio and a year since their last tour, but for Hamish Gee, time passing doesn’t necessarily mean the band is any less “fighting fit” for their upcoming tour.

“We are a little older and more mature, but that doesn’t stop us from playing longer.

“We did notice recently a lot of bottles don’t make their way backstage as they used to.”

After spending time in hospital twice for playing injuries – the band’s drummer lost feeling in his right arm and at one point his wrist “stopped working”.

The Feelers have all since shaped up, hit the gym and are fresh out of the studio on tour promoting their new album ‘Hope Nature Forgives’.

A mix of their new music and old classics, the controversial Rugby World Cup song ‘Right Here, Right Now’ also features at the request of fans – it was controversial for a Kiwi band covering British rock band Jesus Jones’ song.

“We weren’t planning on ever really playing the song (on tour) or putting it on the album, but now people yell out for it every night we play,” says Hamish.

“A year ago we got a bit of flak, now there is so much demand for it we play it every night.

“When we did that for Rugby World Cup, we did hope we might get free tickets, but I haven’t seen them – but think we are doing a lot of shows around that time.”

Jokes aside, Hamish still looks back on the time when people weren’t so happy to hear it.

“It wasn’t in our hands. We would have liked for them to use our song ‘Stand Up’.

The Rugby World Cup organisers wanted to use that song as lyrically it is really relevant to selling and promoting tickets to an international event.

“It is the lesser of two evils; at least it’s a local band doing the song. It was a shame there was a bit of backlash back home for not using a local song.”

Joining them on tour is fellow Christchurch band Dukes. Selecting the band they tour with is one of the many choices they

Young cad on stage Four ex-girlfriends, four hotel apartments and one man – sounds like a recipe for disastrous comedy of the sexes at 16th Avenue Theatre.

Merv Beets, director of Sexy Laundry, is back – with a cast he describes as both “strong and fabulous”.

Written by Neil LaBute, the play centres on Guy who is about to marry a nurse ten years his junior. Before his wedding, he decides to revisit some of the women he loved and left – ‘some girl(s)’ is an amusing portrait of the writer as a young cad and seducer and shines a light on a typical guy as he wanders through the heart of darkness that is himself.

Merv says he first saw this play performed in Chicago and wanted to bring it to life with a local cast.

Nicola Van Hout, who plays Sam, is

now have the luxury of making as they are not dictated to by a record company.

“For all intensive purposes, we are our own record company. This time round, we are calling all the shots.

“The unfortunate part is you have to pay for everything yourself, but the upshot being you own your album at the end of it – no one else’s finger in the pie.”

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making her debut across the boards of 16th Avenue Theatre. Coming from a background in theatre in Ireland and New York, Nicola says she loves being in New Zealand as it gives her the opportunity to work as a teacher and pursue her love of acting.

Despite not auditioning specifically for the role of Sam, Nicola has made the character her own and says it is a character many could relate to.

“She is definitely a bit bitter as to how their relationship ended. They were high school sweethearts and it has taken her a long time to get over it.”

The season for this production is August 17 – September 3, 2011. For more information visit www.taurangatheatre.co.nz Tickets are available through Ticket Direct at Baycourt.

Guy (Liam Herlihy)and Sam (Nicola Van Hout) and in ‘some girl(s)’.

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Financial assistance in time of loss A new subsidy initiative is helping make tough times for families a little bit easier.

Tony, Richard, Ricky and Dorothy Hope with their low cost coffin. Photo by Tracy Hardy.

Hope Family Funeral Services has announced it is introducing a new fully subsidised cremation scheme – the first in Tauranga – to help families who are unable to afford to get their loved one cremated.

Tony Hope says by having low overhead costs they are able to offer a fully subsidised cremation to those who qualify for the Work and Income New Zealand funeral grant.

It is surprising how many people qualify for this grant and Tony encourages families or individuals to phone them or WINZ to find out.

“Because we are a family business and own our own country funeral home, we are able to keep many of our overheads down and offer a caring, economical family-based funeral service.”

Tony says the special offer took some time to work through, including discussions with Tauranga Crematorium, WINZ and the low cost coffin supplier – Glenn Matassoni.

Tony says they feel “privileged to be able to offer struggling families some assistance at their time of loss”.

“They don’t need the added emotional and financial stress.”

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The top five things you should do now Do you have a bucket list? If so – fantastic! If not – I am sure you have some sort of ‘list’ hiding away in your brain of things you want to do.

My ‘bucket list’ is always growing. Having just ticked one major goal off – look out for me at Stockcars at Baypark this summer – it occurred to me most people’s ‘bucket lists’ are full of stuff they want to do, but are generally lacking in some of the more robust stuff that we should do.

So I thought I would come up with five things you should do now.

1. Review your estate planning – when was the last time you reviewed your will? Do you need a trust?

What would happen to your kids if you were to fall off your perch? The list goes on. This is almost 101 of life, yet so many people ‘forget’ to do it.

2. Start to save for your retirement – KiwiSaver is the best thing out there. By doing nothing you are simply making it harder for you in the long term. The reality is given the economic environment out there, we all need to take some responsibility to do it for ourselves.

3. Risk Management Plan – the sad thing is most people work hard for their income and wealth only to fall short of protecting it. New Zealanders are typically slack with protecting their assets with many viewing insurances as the last bill to pay. We are starting to learn from around the world and at home that insurance is no longer the ‘nice to have’ – it is now a ‘must have’. So do you have a plan in place and when did you review it last?

4. Debt – this has been such a big issue into the global financial meltdown. There is good debt and bad debt, but either way, make sure you review your debt arrangements today. It may be fixing your mortgage or restructuring how you repay your debt. But make sure you have a debt reduction plan in place.

5. Spread the word – I know this one is slightly out there, but make sure those people you care about have the above four things covered. The last thing you want to be doing is wishing you had talked to them about these things and seeing them suffer as a result.

So start your list of things to get done today.

Philip Holland is the managing director for the Financial Independence group.

A Disclosure Statement is available free of charge on request. The opinions stated in this article are those of the writer and should not be taken as specific advice.

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trades & services

AFFORDABLE MOBILITY HIRE Sales & service, battery replacement, mobility scooters, wheelchairs, bathroom aids and more.

Enquiries and booking, Mobility Solutions Ph 575 2033

BUILDER / HANDYMAN 45yrs experience, no job too small. Ph Bryan on 027 408 3905

MOBILITY SCOOTERS Wheelchairs, walkers & more.

Visit our showroom 29 Burrows Str, Tauranga. Ph 578 1213. MES ‘Supporting your independence’

CHIMNEY CLEANING For prompt service. B.O.P Chimney Sweep 07 543 2669 evenings.

0275 449 505 anytime

personal

A PSYCHIC READING clairvoyant counselling, vibrational healing. Ph Denise 574 2261 GET THE MALENESS ROARING! Natural libido stimulants Pro-Erex and Testo 19. GREAT results reported.

Hardy’s Health Bayfair, Hardy’s Organic Papamoa. 0800 833 333 MALES. NEED AN all natural herbal formula that may help boost your love life? From just $59 per 30 daily capsules. See perkyherbs.co.nz for special online pricing.

removal

FREE REMOVAL unwanted steel, ovens, dishwashers, washing machines, fridge/ freezers, car batteries, etc.

Phone Breno 021 608 129 Or 544 6560

situations vacant

CHINESE CHEF WANTED An exciting opportunity awaits you! Must be able to work independently without supervision. Good in Chinese pastry-dim sum, dumpling and Shanghainese cuisine. At least five years working experience required. Be able to speak Mandarin, Cantonese. Preferably the applicants are able to sign at least two years contract, the position available in Eastern Ocean Chinese Restaurant, Tauranga. Please contact by phone: 021 157 6568. Benson.

PAPAMOA DOMAIN TAKEAWAYS needs an experienced Asain Chef, at least 3yrs experienced required.

Applicants for this rols should have a valid NZ Visa, permit or NZ residency. To apply please contact Zhou on 07 542 5168

to let

CARAVANS heated, special winter rates from $30pw. Free local delivery. BOP Caravan Rentals Ltd, 184 Waikite Rd, Welcome Bay. Phone 544 1509 or 027 533 9301

trades & services

ALTERATIONS & NEW HOMES qualified builders & joiners with references available. Proform Construction, 130 Newton Street, Mount. Ph 07 574 9135 info@proform.org.nz BUILDER 30 YEARS experience in BOP. Fences, decks & maintenance work.

For a reliable service and a free quote, Ph Keith today on 578 6869 or 021 377 387 BUILDER AVAILABLE NOW New homes, renovations, bricklaying, quality rates, quality work. No job too big or small. Call me now for a quote. DK Builders - Dieter 021 474 299 or 574 2139 a/h BUILDER EXPERIENCED New homes, repairs & alterations.

Bathrooms, decks, fences.

Trade qualified. Ph Warren 543 2040 or 021 021 98 196

BUILDER / PAINTER qualified carpenter. Labour only $30p/h.

Ref available. Ph Mark 544 4177 or mark@wespeakhouse.co.nz

ELECTRICIAN Able to do all jobs. Alarms, New Houses and renovations. Registered. Quality service at great price. Phone Tomas, Check Electrical 027 566 7872 ELECTRICIAN affordable and prompt electrical solutions.

Guaranteed friendly and professional service. Ph Steve today on 027 848 6042 or 578 0555 ELECTRICIAN available for all services. Mitsubishi air conditioner supplied and installed for very competitive rates. Ph 027 5473 831 or a/h on 543 0062 GORSE SPRAYING do you have a gorse problem?

Ph today for a FREE quote for all gorse control. Scott 0274 624 769 GUTTERING CLEAN and repairs, moss removal.

Experienced Certified Roofer.

Free quotes. Ph Peter now 542 4291 or 0274 367 740 HANDYMAN..............

Jack Handy Cuts........

Installs.......Repairs Paints....................Anything No Delay.................021 55 66 83 HANDYMAN BUILDING and section maintenance, decks, fencing, pergolas, painting, water blasting, odd jobs. Free quotes Ph Rossco 027 270 3313 or 544 5911 INSECT SCREENS Measure.

Make. Mend. Contact Rob at Magic Seal 543 4940 PAINTER AVAILABLE free quotes.

Experienced.

Reasonable rates.

Ph Warren 07 543 2040 or 021 021 98 196 PAINTER / A1 DECORATOR available. All interior and exterior work. Prompt, reliable, excellent references. Ph Paul 576 4793, 027 689 6252 PAINTER / DECORATOR Interior & Exterior, quality workmanship, friendly services.

Over 20 years specialising in residential and more. Quality paint at trade prices. For your best advice in all areas Ph Shane Mount/Tauranga Decorators 544 6495 or 021 575 307 PLUMBING WORKS no job too big or small, blocked drains, plumbing, spouting & roof repairs.

Ph 571 5558 RESPOUT NOW! Call Ageless Continuous Spouting. Made to measure costs less than you think. For a prompt quote.

Ph 574 0496 RETAINING WALL SPECIALIST Pole walls, crib walls, tilt slab concrete walls. Excavation and levelling. The best in the business. Ph Mike 0274 942 966 a/h 576 0941 ROOFING & SPOUTING Metal fascia, gutter and rainwater systems. Long run corrugate.

Maintenance, repairs or replacement. Free no obligation quotes. PROFIX 0274 965 375 profixltd@xtra.co.nz

trades & services

ROOFING New roofs, re-roofs, spouting & repairs. Free quotes.

Ph Chris 027 276 6348 or 572 3237 ROOF REPAIRS metal or onduline, gutters & down pipes, clean or replacement, chimney repairs. Certified Roofer over 30yrs experience Free quote. Ph Peter 542 4291 or 0274 367 740 ROTARY HOEING Lawn preparation & sowing. Loader & blade work. Tractor mowing.

Quality work & friendly service.

Mini Tractor Service. Ph Murray 543 4538 or 027 200 7480 SHAPAZ BUILDING for all your building needs, trade qualified, new homes, alterations, decks/ fences. Ph Tai for a no obligation quote. 577 1802 or 021 997 409 STUMPINATOR STUMP Grinding free quotes & prompt service.

Narrow machine to access rear yards. Ph 576 4245 or 0220 764 245 TAURANGA TANDEM SKYDIVING Best Buzz in the Bay, Gift Vouchers. Ph 576 7990 TREE FELLING, PRUNING & Removal/chipping. No job to big or small. Phone Scott 0274 624 769

transport

DRIVING MISS DAISY relief for busy families, let us take care of the transportation of your parents to appontments or outings. Safe, friendly, reliable service. Ph Jackie 552 6614

travel & tours

BOOK A SPRINGTIME TOUR Now. 1, Join our Wanganui & district 3-day tour and travel via Tongariro National Park, the old Wanganui River Road with a visit to Jerusalem. Many highlights in Wanganui. 2, Join our popular annual Taranaki Rhododendron Tour. 3, Take a day out to the popular classic, Wizard of Oz Matinee, 18 September.

Phone John’s Trips & Tours 576 9305 CHATHAM ISLANDS eight day tour direct from Tauranga departing 25 February 2012.

Limited space available. Ph Raewyn at Harvey World Travel Tauranga on 578 0936 CURTISY TOURS TRAVEL club Affordable, fun day and away trips. Coming up: Thames, Raglan and Katikati.

Catlins and Lower South 10 day. Wairarapa 5 days. Phone 543 9205 for Newsletter and info SCOTTSDALE SENIOR TOURS, fully escorted owner/operated since 1978. Ph free for colour brochure today 0800 664 414.

Also see www.scottsdaletours. co.nz SMALL GROUP TOURS. Door to door service/pick up. Day trips away or enjoyable short holidays.

Ph Kae & Rick 575 8118

wanted

WE BUY FURNITURE House lots, deceased estates, shed/ workshop clearouts. Large or small. Ph 577 99 20

work wanted

FENCING WORK, DECKS, pergolas, timber retaining etc.

More than 16 years exp. Quality work, immediate start and competitive rates. Phone Daneby 574 4259 or 027 615 0432 GIB STOPPING, PAINTING, Exterior & Interior Plastering.Full time, Part time. Labour only. Ph Joshua 022 031 0375

Animal Antics had a Fun Day competition on Sunday at the opening of its new shop on Owens Place.

Here are some of the bestdressed entries:

Austin Frear, 7, dressed up as an All Black with Buster the mini black poodle, 3.

Taylor NewtonPratt, 7, dressed up as Harry Potter with Luca, the bearded dragon, 3.

Churches Active In Our Community

Refuelling the mums Fuel Cafe has been set up as a place for mums to ‘refuel’ over a latte and a gourmet muffin.

We know that feeling; when the kids are driving you up the wall and you just want to get out of the house, go somewhere warm, comfortable and have a good cup of coffee.

Problem is, trying to keep your child to sit still at your favourite cafe is such an effort. Not to mention all the ‘daggers’ you feel you’re getting from other cafe-goers trying to have a quiet conversation when your child is screaming at the next table.

We know – we’ve all been there. Fuel Cafe is open on a Wednesday morning from 9.30am and invites all mums, with or without children, to come and enjoy a coffee and gourmet muffin for $5 – as long as you’re understanding to the mum with the grizzly child.

Our venue at Tauranga City Elim Church, behind McDonalds 11th Avenue, has a well-equipped large play room, which is overlooked from the cafe area so you can keep an eye on your child as they play. Bring a friend or come and join in the conversation around the tables – we’d love to get to know you.

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