The Weekend Sun - 21 June 2019 by Sun Media

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Chris Glazewski is challenging complete strangers to get together over a cup of coffee. He’s a recent arrival in Mount Maunganui, but not one to muck around when it comes to making new friends. So he’s brewed up a group called Cuppa Time.

It is an initiative that he hopes will bring the community closer together, encouraging strangers to catch up over a hot drink. The idea was initially promoted via a community Facebook page and the response was immediate

and overwhelming with just under 1,000 likes, 85 comments and about 50 direct messages. “We just wanted to see if a couple of people were interested in meeting for a coffee, it was a lot more than I thought.” Full story on page 5. Photo: Daniel Hines.

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A guide to The Cricket World Cup The Weekend Sun editor Daniel Hutchinson has stumbled across the disturbing fact that many people don’t like cricket and, to them, the Cricket World Cup is a bafﬂing event that looks a lot like watching grass grow.

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But, it’s a bit like the Bible. Even if you don’t believe the underlying premise of the whole thing, there are lots of little tips in there for how to handle everyday life. Having spent many hours contemplating the meaning of life in front of a TV full of tiny men in white suits, I feel obliged to share some of this knowledge with you. Let’s call them The Parables of Cricket.

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Cricket teaches us that if you wait long enough, eventually something will happen. If you look deeply enough at just about anything, you will ﬁnd merit in it.

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You can be minding your own business, and doing a good job when suddenly, someone throws a hard object right at you. This could be physical, like a stone from a logging truck, but often it is psychological, like a rude comment or a gesture from a passing hooligan. If we were to seek out advice from the Book of Cricket it would be to duck, in the ﬁrst instance. In the second example, you should hit right back at the offender with enough witty intelligence that it goes over their head and they are left looking confused and outraged. If you’re feeling particularly adventurous, you could tickle them around the corner and hope they roll over the boundary.

Silly mid-off

This is actually a very accurate name for this fielding position because it is a really stupid place to be. Basically the fielder stands as close to the batter as they can and puts a helmet on. They are trying to intimidate the batter and force them to play a shot they later regret. If the batter hits the ball really hard in silly mid-off ’s direction, the fielder’s only chance of avoiding serious injury is to curl up into a

Googly

This is when you are expecting something tricky to happen but it doesn’t and so you end up making a dork of yourself. Always be prepared for the unexpected simplicity of life – the opportunities - because life isn’t always out to get you all of the time.

face, sending the reading glasses tumbling into the fl ﬂax bush. You are left completely bamboozled, in a sea of feathers, with a stunned kereru in your lap. There is nothing you can do about it, other than shake yourself off. Maybe you need to extract the bird from your midregion. If you are injured, take some time out, get some treatment. Have a glass of water, ignore the laughter around you and then just get on with life again.

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The Ten Commandments

ball. The life lesson from this is not to hit the ball really hard all the time until the bully is forced to move away, covered in bruises. You should forgive them and just get on with living life your own way. If the cricketing Gods are smiling, they will be badly injured.

This isn’t as bad as it sounds. Basically if the bowler bowls six balls (an over), without conceding any runs (that’s points for the absurdly cricket challenged), then this is a maiden. This is a good thing for the bowler but very frustrating for the batter. This happens a lot in life too. We try our very best but don’t seem to make any progress. If this happens over and over again, you may need to take a risk. You might fail but, if you don’t, you will never get to where you want to be.

The Jaffa

Don’t worry Aucklanders, this has got nothing to do with you. It is actually a term for a delivery that is completely unplayable. It’s the out-of-left-ﬁeld thing, like when a wood pigeon ﬂies into your

1. Thou shalt not sandpaper the ball. 2. Thou shalt not weep before the cricketing world when you are caught out ball tampering. 3. Thou shalt not bowl underarm. 4. Thou shalt not sledge. 5. Players shalt not enter into sin with a bookie. 6. Thou shalt not pray for rain lest the heavens open and there is no play today. 7. Thou shall not be an emotional and tearful like Kim Hughes after losing a test series. 8. Thou shalt not throw your wicket in a ﬁt of petulance. 9. Thou shalt not walk until given out. 10. A drinks break is the eucharist – take wine and pray for victory.

IMPORTANT STUFF: All material is copyright and may not be reproduced without the written permission of the publisher. Sun Media makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all information and accepts no liability for errors or omissions or the subsequent use of information published. The highest number of runs scored in an over is not 36 but 77. This is how RH Vance’s one over for Wellington against Canterbury went - 0 4 4 4 6 6 4 6 1 4 1 0 6 6 6 6 6 0 0 4 0 1.

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Liquor in the firing line

Part of the committee outside the local liquor shop. Photo: Daniel Hines.

It was reported to be an alcohol fuelled and scary episode – and one the Merivale Community Residents Committee doesn’t want happening at their backdoor. The committee was told that about 3pm last Friday, just as school was coming out, drunken people were insulting traders in the Merivale shopping centre. And it’s understood at least one trader pulled passing schoolkids into their shop and barricaded it for their safety. “That should not be happening,” according to a statement from the committee. Merivale, it says, should be a safe suburb. It’s not known if the booze that triggered the incident was bought from the local liquor outlet, but the committee says, regardless, the behaviour was typical of the problems caused by alcohol in the shopping centre. So the Merivale Community Residents Committee intends to survey each of the 850 households in Merivale to consider three options. Do they want the liquor store gone when its licence expires midDecember? Are they all good with the liquor store and want it to stay? Or do they want to change its operating hours so there’s less exposure to children? It will be an anonymous survey with just the street and gender of the respondent recorded. This all comes as a complete surprise to Simranjit

Singh, whose company runs the Merivale Liquor Centre. “If there are issues then we didn’t know about them. And if the community centre has problems with our shop, I would like the opportunity to discuss those problems with them. “We want to ﬁx any problems. We want be a part of the community, not destroy it.” He feels it’s unfair because there has been no consultation and the liquor shop has been a responsible part of the community for 20 years. “We’ve had many, many ongoing complaints,” says Sybille Steppart, chair of the local residents subcommittee. “But we want the community to decide what is good for it. If it wants the shop gone we will ﬁght renewal of the licence in December, and if they want to keep it, we will walk away. The liquor shop will stay. The issue is in the community’s hands.” Simranjit says the company has already demonstrated some social responsibility by voluntarily changing its operating hours – it opens later, well after the kids have gone to school. Children, says the sub-committee, walk past the liquor store to school. It says their unnecessary exposure to the liquor trade “increases their vulnerability to adopted associated behaviours and addictions”. The committee also says the Merivale liquor store is in an alcohol-free zone and there have been many complaints of bottles being opened by clients leaving the premises. Read the rest of the story at :www.sunlive.co.nz

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Black Hawk arrives

A Black Hawk from the United States has settled into its new home in the Bay of Plenty. The military helicopter has been spotted ﬂying across the BOP as it headed to Whakatane, ready to haul logs and pylons. “After a few good years we now have our own Black Hawk (N160PA) resident and operating in New Zealand,” says a post on Kahu NZ’s Facebook page. “This aircraft is like no other. It’s immensely impressive and going to have an amazing future here in NZ and our neighbouring regions.”

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The Historic Village has been recognised with a TripAdvisor 2019 Certificate of Excellence based on the consistently positive reviews it has received on the world’s largest travel site. The certificate is affirmation of the notable transformation the village has undergone over the past few years, including the restoration of a number of buildings and the introduction of legacy gardens. Team leader: The Historic Village, Blair Graham says it’s rewarding to know that visitors to the village are enjoying the experience and wanting to share it with others.

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Bay of Plenty Regional Council, in partnership with multi award-winning charity, Sustainable Coastlines, is putting the call out for local schools, businesses and volunteers to join together to create cleaner waterways and coastlines. Working together, they will be out and about planting salt marsh and coastal shrubs in the Lower Kaituna area on the weekend of 22 and 23 June. The council has more than 50,000 plants to restore salt marsh in the upper estuary this winter on land that was in rough pasture until recently.

SunLive Comment of the Week ‘Why the focus on the helmet’ posted by TgaRider on the story ‘Angry driver knocks down cyclist’. “Firstly I won’t disagree that the helmet probably prevented a serious head injury, but that should not be the focus of the article. This needs to be about the reckless endangerment of life. The police need to get serious about getting drivers like this off the roads. Even if caught the driver will likely get less than a 12 month ban, which is far short of a sufﬁcient deterrent for behaviour like this. Hope the bikes OK and glad to see your positive on the situation.”

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Support to deal with the devil Tupu Daniel has tried and failed before. Eight times he has tried to break free of the insidious grip of nicotine. Each time the fags have won. Every smoker, every lapsed smoker would know that feeling. This time, Tupu’s being pragmatic when he suggests he is “refraining from smoking” rather than quitting. But it is coming up a month since he stubbed out his last cigarette. So he is on the brink of becoming another positive statistic. “Once a smoker, always a smoker, so no rash promises,” says the 55-year-old Arataki Virgin Airline cabin crew. But he’s munching nicotine lozenges like they’re the new wonder food. The kids - Jackson and Emily - are proud of him. They didn’t want to lose their dad. They didn’t want Tupu to be one of the 5000 New Zealanders who die each year from smoking-related illnesses like lung cancer or emphysema. Tupu says he had a responsibility to his family to stop but he needed help and when he heard the radio ad for the Hapainga Stop Smoking Service, he reached out. “And it was free – I am very frugal, cheap is good, free is best.” Although more than 500,000 Kiwis still smoke, the numbers have dropped from 25 per cent in 1996/97 to 13 per cent. “For the last couple of years, we have consistently had a minimum 75 per cent successful quit smoking rate at four weeks,” says Hapainga team leader, Lizzie Spence. And that ranks the Bay of Plenty service one of the top three services in NZ. Tupu recalls when he began smoking, when he was on the road as a ﬁeld ofﬁcer for the Department of Social Welfare. He spotted a commercial traveller sitting in his car at the lights taking a deep drag on a cigarette. “It was 30 years ago. It looked cool and obviously the cigarettes were this man’s companions on the road.” He rues the decision to this day. But he went and

$1.50 well sacriﬁced. Tupu Daniel breaking a habit. Photo: Daniel Hines.

bought a pack of Rothmans. His cabin crew job made smoking affordable for the family man. “I ﬂy internationally every fortnight and could buy cigarettes duty free – a Chinese brand ‘Double Happiness’, $3.60 for 20. I think, here, a pack of Winﬁeld Select Blue extra mild, a popular brand, is about $26.” Tupu has shown mettle previously. He gave up for ten years. “Dad was very ill, Heather had come back to New Zealand to work while I stayed in Australian for 18 months to complete my long service. “Smoking was my vice to help me through a very stressful time and there was no pressure on me not to smoke. The option at the end of the day was gym or cigarette… mmm, let me think about that? “You feel like a leper smoking – you have to hide your habit.” Even when the family was out in the car Tupu would take time out for a fag. They didn’t like it. “And the kids’ friends would say: ‘I didn’t know your Dad smoked?’” But along with the lozenges and patches is someone called Candy Blackwell – a

cessation practitioner who cares and understands. She has survived the smoking thing and now helps people like Tupu. “I am lucky to have that support.” And the detector – there can be no cheating, no deception, no sly fags. A bit like a breathalyser, it’ll verify at four weeks whether a person is smoke-free. But Tupu still has to deal with the ‘triggers’ – the beer, the socialising, being around other smokers, the call of the designated smoking area, relaxing, driving the need to do something with your hands. All activities dealt with by his old Chinese friends, ‘Double Happiness’. But for now the kids, Jackson and Emily are proud of Dad. And Heather pinches her husband’s cheek. “Good boy,” she says affectionately. Tupi continues to “refrain”. Next week Alana Ibbetson’s story – a hardcore smoker since 14 or 15. Now, 20 years later, she is confronting her addiction with the help of Hapainga Stop Smoking Service – call 0800 Hapainga or 0800 427246.

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“It shows that people in the area want to get out a little bit more and meet strangers. New people move here all the time.” “There’s been a wide range of responses from people who have just moved here from different countries and cities, people who don’t know people outside of their workspace and others who just haven’t had the chance to meet new people because life has taken over.” Chris says the idea started when he was chatting with a mate, out in the surf, about how valuable it is catching up in person, and how it tends to happen less these days. He felt motivated to reach out to the Mount Maunganui and Tauranga community after the Christchurch terror attacks. “The tragedy got me thinking about how little I know about the people in my own community, especially outside of my immediate circle. “Having only moved to the Mount recently, I thought: ‘why not do something practical and get to know people in here better?’ I decided to throw a post up on Facebook and see if anyone was keen to grab a coffee, my shout.” Chris has recently created a separate

Facebook group for Cuppa Time, which has about 200 members. He has met up with four different strangers so far, ﬁnding it uplifting ‘hearing stories about people’s different backgrounds’. Cuppa Time is based on the ‘pay it forward’ model. Those who meet up with Chris are encouraged to meet up with two other members of the group and shout them a coffee. “Hopefully this will link everyone up eventually. “It’s a way for people to connect within the area, get ofﬂine, get outside and shout a coffee.” Chris points out that group members are not obliged to pay it forward, ‘only if they feel comfortable and have the time’. “We want people to feel secure, so that’s why all meetings are organised in a public place at a local café. Safety is pretty important even if it’s just for a coffee.” The group is aiming to practise inclusivity, intertwining people of different ages, races and religions. He eventually wants to use the initiative to get in touch with the older generation. “It’s a town that is growing so quickly and I think a lot of people are just going to work and come home, and don’t know anything else.” “We want communities to get to know each other and through that connect people’s stories.” For more information about the initiative, visit: www.facebook.com/groups/ Emma Houpt cuppatimeforclosercommunities

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Salvation Army’s community ﬁnance worker Sean Perry.

The cash-strapped, low income loan seeker has a powerful and willing new advocate in town – a former London stockbroker with a pedigree in accountancy, derivatives, corporate liquidations and the like. He’s Sean Perry, the Salvation Army’s community finance worker of ten months, who’s helping steer the Army’s move into the low-income loan market. “They’re not desperate people, but they’re people who need, rather than just want, a lot of things they can’t afford and our loans are making things achievable for them.” The typical profile of a loan seeker is a beneficiary, in many cases a single parent. “There’s a certain amount of financial exclusion in this area,” says Sean. “If there’s a suggestion of bad credit or maybe a few missed payments, it doesn’t have to be much, it’s ‘no thank you, you are excluded’. “Even if a customer has an overdraft, however small, they’re not given a chance to get a loan, even with a bank they’ve been with for a long time.” The Salvation Army’s offering two community finance, low-income loans. One is a no interest loan of up to $1,000 for a maximum of 18 months,

which is funded by the Army. It could be for essential household goods and services such as dental work, white goods, furniture or glasses. The second is a low-interest loan of $1,000 to $5,000 at 6.99 percent for a maximum 36 months. “Cheaper by two thirds than a typical unsecured loan, and for higher cost assets like cars,” says Sean. Up to 80 percent of those loans through the BNZ are for cars, because buses aren’t an option for a lot of people. The loans can’t fund fines, bills or non-essentials like holidays, and they can’t be used for debt consolidation. They have to be for a new asset or service. Some of those seeking loans would have gone to other loan agencies, expensive credit people, and struggled to pay off loans. “And,” says Sean, “they have found a $4,000 car has suddenly become an $8,000 dollar car because of repayment problems and associated fees.” That does not happen with the Sallies’ loans according to the Army’s community ministries manager, Davina Plummer. “Because when there are issues with payments, we work it through with them and get them back into repayments. “This is not for profit, completely not for profit and one of the big benefits is there are no fees.” Read the full story at: www.sunlive.co.nz

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To scoot or not to scoot Pushing themselves to the limit Auckland’s got Lime. Wellington’s got Flamingo and Jump. New Plymouth has Blip and even Taupo’s got Glide, albeit on trial. But Tauranga? Zilch, nothing! Not yet. And so if you want to ride an e-scooter in the country’s fifth biggest city, you have to go buy one. Four companies have approached the Tauranga City Council seeking permission to start up a ride share e-scooter business in the city. One is the ubiquitous Lime. But Tauranga wants to learn from the experiences of other cities first, so no hire e-scooters anytime soon. “Currently council is not giving permission to operate such a service in Tauranga,” confirms the council’s acting infrastructure manager, Martin Parkes. It does see the potential of e-scooters. “However, there are a number of legal and safety issues that need to be resolved before we will give this matter further consideration.” Blip is an e-scooter company started up by Tima Al-saedy and her partner Ahmed Al-Jumaily in their home town of New Plymouth. Their scooters racked up 10,000 kilometers in the three months they’ve been operating. So successful in fact, they started looking further afield – to Tauranga which has nearly twice the population of New Plymouth and the quarter of a million cruise ship passengers looking to get around town. “We are currently in contact with the Tauranga council,” confirms Blip director Ahmed. “But we don’t have any progress to report on. We would be more than happy to give you more details after completing our initial discussions with the council.” Those initial discussions probably told them ‘nothing doing’ at the moment. “We are watching closely what is happening with e-scooter schemes in other cities in New Zealand, in particular Auckland,” says Martin Parkes. “The learnings from these cities will help us

A couple of visitors make use of the Lime Scooters in the Christchurch CBD earlier this year.

A team of 35 athletes from the Special Olympics Tauranga club walked or ran to the summit of Mauao on Sunday, June 16 as part of a club fundraiser. Special Olympics Tauranga swimming team coordinator Pat Wakelin says it was a great day to be part of, with many athletes pushing through physical and mental barriers to achieve one or multiple climbs to the summit. “They were all buzzing about it. “It was major, we had the easy ones, Te Huia ran up and down four times, and the group of marathon runners that were running with him supporting him, he had left them behind. “They’d get to the top to have a rest and he had already gone.” Not only did Te Huia push himself to achieve the climbs, Pat says three other athletes ran to the top twice each. Te Huia Apaapa ran to the summit four

times. Although some athletes made it seem easy, Pat says a female athlete with pins and screws in her ankles achieved a climb, which is an incredible feat. “She was determined that she was not going to stop. “She was in excruciating pain sometimes, but she was just determined to get there. “By the time she got to the top she was crying, it was amazing she didn’t give in.” The club hasn’t totaled how much they have raised, however Pat says the athletes have done very well with their fundraising efforts. “We have athletes that have raised $500 each and I know that between three of my swimmers we’ve got around $800 to $900, so it’s been a good fundraiser for the club, and it’s been a major for these guys achieving something.

determine a way forward for Tauranga.” The Blip directors say they just want people to get out of their cars and start exploring the city. All was going very well with the company - 4,000 customers scooting 10,352 kilometers in four months. Blip reports “minimal” bad feedback and was aware of only one crash caused by human error. The Taupo District Council is punting on e-scooters and a local enterprise. Glide Scooters will be on trial in the tourist town from next month. Glide e-scooters were different to Lime and other scooters in that technology could be used to control their speeds in certain locations, determine places they could and could not go and where scooters had to be returned to. The speed limit in the Taupo town centre would be limited to ensure safety for other footpath users. The trial runs through to March 2020. The scooters are expected to be a hit with holiday makers over the summer period.

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Oompah! Alex Garrett is celebrating his 70th year as a brass band player and he hasn’t taken a break in that entire time. “I might have missed one contest when we built our new house in Hawera but other than that I have been continuous the whole way through.” And he isn’t planning to stop anytime soon. “I really enjoy playing in the brass band, right to this day, I suppose, it’s pretty special. I’ll be playing it as long as I can.” Alex grew up in Eltham, Taranaki and joined the local brass band when he was nine years old, in 1949. He started off playing the cornet, a ‘small, more technical piece’. Throughout his journey, Alex has alternated between the cornet and the E-ﬂat bass. Alex currently plays the E-ﬂat bass for the Tauranga City Brass Brand. He has previously been both a bandsman and conductor for different brass bands in Taranaki and BOP. His parents weren’t always keen on brass.

“My mother wanted me to play the bagpipes, and I didn’t want to play the bagpipes. A boy down the road was on a brass instrument, so he took me along to brass band instead. “My parents weren’t that supportive but they went along with it, let’s put it that way. But I’ve always loved playing and I still do.” Alex returned to Taranaki in 2003 to teach music at Hawera High School and tutor and conduct the school’s brass band. He has won multiple contests over the years and conducted a sell-out Malvina Major concert. Another joy for Alex is seeing young students he taught back in the day pursue a career in music. “I see them at the very start of their journey, and now I see them doing what I was doing in my younger days. It’s quite nice that.” Alex doesn’t plan on doing too much celebrating for his 70-year achievement, aside from putting on a bit of supper at band practice. He says he doesn’t want any fuss. Emma Houpt

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Multicultural committee members (from left to right) Martha Grace, Nesi Tusa, Mary Delos Trinos, Umu McLean and Thonglor Peck.

There’s a mussel processing factory in Tauranga that has so many different ethnicities amongst its staff that it has set up its own multicultural committee. This is Kalesi Warren’s ninth season working at North Island Mussels and she’s now involved in company’s multicultural committee. She says the committee helps establish cultural respect and understanding, with staff members coming from 24 different ethnicities. “We are just helping make sure everyone is happy. “Different countries have different cultures, so we have to learn to respect them all. It’s very important.” Human resources advisor Norelle Cadman says members of the multicultural committee have not been selected by management - they are the ones that have become leaders. “When someone has a problem, they have always been the ones that have been grabbed.” Committee members act as interpreters for staff that are not conﬁdent in English and have an issue they want to share with management. “If other people’s English isn’t good, they can come to us and we will help them explain their problems,” says committee member Martha Grace, who has

worked at the company for 12 seasons. “There are 220 staff on site when two shifts are happening, so we need to keep our communication clear, open and possible for everybody,” says HR business partner Marion Troon. Another crucial role of the multicultural committee is to bring cultural knowledge and events. “They love immersing people into different cultures,” says Norelle. The committee recognises cultural celebrations such as Chinese New Year, Diwali and Pasifika Day. “On Pasifika Day the ladies worked in the kitchen, put their music on and covered the walls with tapa clothes and flags from all the different islands. They wore their traditional dress and when everyone else came up to eat, they really had a feel for the culture.” The company has free English classes for staff members through Employ NZ but workers are also encouraged to speak their own language at work. “So many of our workers have been with us season after season. They come back to us, and say ‘okay we are home’,” says Norelle. “It definitely has more of that family vibe to it and that comes with the sharing of the cultures.” Norelle believes there has been a drastic change within the company since the committee has been Emma Houpt established.

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Christie Cramer shows her excitement at being named runner-up in the Tauranga Society of Artists Supreme Awards on Wednesday. Photos: Dan Hutchinson.

It was up to local artist Graham Crow to decide who would take home the winning prizes. Tauranga Society of Artists president Debbie Clarke won the Trustpower/ TSA Supreme Award, with her close-up watercolour painting of dying roses. “I didn’t know that Debbie was the president,” says Graham. “I just kept returning to this piece. “I couldn’t go past it. It is such a great composition and I like the detailing of the subject matter. Debbie Clarke wins the Supreme Award. “It’s an organic subject matter but it becomes abstract. It ticks all the boxes just lit a fire in me.” of balance, symmetry and harmony so that’s why it Debbie encourages artists of all levels to join won.” Debbie told The Weekend Sun she loves getting up the TSA. “It’s a really vibrant bunch of fantastic artists, and we encourage anyone to come along.” close and personal with nature, and in her painting, Recipients of the Merit Certificates were Robin she tried to represent the beauty of the latter stages of Purllant, Bob Benge, Brendan O’Farrell, Leanne a flower’s life. Adams and Marilyn Muirhead. Christie Cramer won She feels humbled by the win, “because there are the Runner Up Supreme Award. so many other wonderful artworks in such an The Art Expo includes 249 other works, not in the incredible range”. Supreme Award Section, which are also for sale. Debbie has been painting for just over three years The event is being held at the Elizabeth St and has learnt the majority of her skills through Community Centre and runs until Sunday, June 23. online courses and workshops. For more information, visit: “I am quite new to the world of art. I went to www. taurangasocietyofartists.org.nz a watercolour demonstration a while back and it

Tauranga street naming policy under review Tauranga City Council’s Policy Committee agreed to explore a series of recommended changes to the 2009 Naming of Streets, Reserves and Community Facilities Policy. Changes to the policy will be presented back to the committee for review prior to community consultation later this year. A review of the current policy

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The saga of the Bureta bus shelter that isn’t, but should be, according to one “annoyed” ratepayer, continued to fester this week… from a small Roderick Street home unit all the way to the inner sanctum of city hall. “We are aware of Mrs Fathers’ request for a bus shelter,” said the latest Tauranga City Council email response to last week’s The Weekend Sun story. “She has approached us a number of times asking for a bus shelter.” A number of approaches over a number of years – more than ten years in fact. Kathy Fathers, who lives in Roderick Street, claims council promised her a bus shelter so she could travel to town without getting a “wet hide”. And now she’s calling in that promise… again. “I have been banging on about it, with absolutely no joy.” Kathy wants a shelter at any one of three bus stops in her neighbourhood – Goods or Milton Road or outside Countdown in Bureta Road. After 32 years in the ‘hood’, the 76-year-old is fed up waiting in the rain for a bus. Not that easy apparently. Because due to the Local Government

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Out in the cold Insulation installers, Alessio Mastrapasqua, Teray Gonzalez and Facundo Gonzalez, hard at work retroﬁtting a Papamoa property with underﬂoor insulation this week. Photo: John Borren.

Many landlords will be left out in the cold and facing big fines after leaving it too late to meet new insulation standards. Insulation companies in the Bay of Plenty are under massive pressure to get all rentals up to standard by the end of the month. They say, they simply won’t be able to meet demand and many have left it too late. A landlord who has not installed ceiling and floor insulation “where reasonably practicable” will be in breach of the Residential Tenancies Act from July 1. Landlords who fail to comply with the regulations may be liable for a penalty of up to $4000. Smart Energy Solutions director Paul Thomson says there is no way the company will be able to insulate all its clients’ rental homes before the upcoming deadline. “The whole of the country has gone ballistic, there has been a date in the future that everyone forgot about, sat on their hands and suddenly it’s upon us,” says Paul. The Insulation Company BOP operations manager Carl Dickens says if someone was to come for a building assessment now, there is no way they could have their insulation put in before the deadline. “This month it’s just gone absolutely bonkers and people expect it to be done overnight.” Paul thinks property management companies have been more organised than private landlords. “Property managers live and breathe it day-to-day, they have been a lot more proactive. We are finding there are a lot of self-managed landlords that are only coming on board now.” “These landlords have been slower because it’s at the back of their minds and they don’t realise you have to get this done or it’s going to cost a lot more than the insulation.” Carl points out that some landlords also aren’t aware of the current demand for insulation

installation prior to the deadline. “The landlords are the ones that are being a little bit more demanding, expecting things done quickly, but they have had three years to comply with these new standards. “They don’t realise that we are not just catering for them, we are catering to all the new builds out their too.” Insultech Insulation Waikato/BOP regional customer services manager Loxley Evans says landlords contacted her at the end of last month wanting to book in rental assessments for their multiple properties. “I just work all the time, I can’t keep up. “My phone’s always going, I’m always emailing and working till midnight. “Most of these people are landlords calling to book in an assessment, so they are just getting on board.” Loxely says the company “won’t be turning anyone away” and will work with landlords to get them compliant as soon as possible. Smart Energy Solutions will be issuing notes to landlords who won’t have their houses insulated on time to the reduce risk of penalisation. These notes will confirm that the landlords have paid a deposit to the company and have committed to having their house insulated by a specific date. Paul thinks the proof of financial commitment will decrease the likelihood of landlords being fined by the Tenancy Tribunal. Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment acting national manager of the tenancy compliance investigations team Peter Hackshaw says the Residential Tenacies Act doesn’t allow for extensions and failing to comply exposes tenants to harm. “To allow an extension would be unfair to those landlords who have acted in time. “Landlords have had ample time and information to get the required work done.” Emma Houpt

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Tauranga M˜ori elders to perform in Wellington A group of M˜ori elders from the three iwi of Tauranga Moana – Ng˜ti Ranginui, Ng˜i Te Rangi and Ng˜ti P°kenga – is o˛ to Wellington this week to take part in a kapa haka event to celebrate Matariki.

˝ e Nga Taipakeke o Tauranga Moana kapa haka roopu range in age from their early 60s to their late 80s and have been meeting on local marae twice a week since March to practise for Taikura Kapa Haka 2019 which will take place on June 22-23.

Nga Taipakeke o Tauranga Moana performed at the event for the ÿ rst time last year and is taking a larger group of 47 this year, boosted by sponsorship from the Western Bay of Plenty Primary Health Organisation. WBOP PHO Mõri health manager Kiri Peita says the performers are becoming ÿ tter and building strength and resilience. “And the joy it brings to them is going to permeate to lots of Mõri. “Whñau will enjoy watching the livestream of the performance and recognising the waiata.” Roopu member Whetukioterangi Te Arihi (Ngai Tamawhariua) says

the group will perform on stage for 20 minutes, including haka and poi. ˝ ey have chosen to perform waiata from their era, composed by their own wh˜nau, hapu and iwi. “˝ ey are celebration waiata that give us a lot of our history from our mothers and grandmothers and connects us back to them.” ˝ e practise sessions usually run for two hours, which is a long time for them to be on their feet, but Whetukioterangi has seen great improvement in their health over the past few months. “In the beginning we’d race to sit down for a break but now we get by with just a two-minute break. “In terms of hauora, the scales and breathing exercises expand our lung capacity, and all parts of the body are moving, including our eyes, which have to follow our hands. You have to listen to get the tunes right and memorise the words and actions because some of us

The Nga Taipakeke o Tauranga Moana kapa haka roopu is off to Wellington this weekend to compete in Taikura Kapa Haka 2019 as part of Matariki celebrations.

don’t know the waiata or have to re-learn them. It sharpens you up; it’s brain gym.” ˝ e social aspect of belonging to the group is important. “I enjoy being with my mates in a world we know,” says

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new task. Her time however is not over in terms of creations, she has bigger prospects in the back of her mind. “I investigated the WOW Wearable Arts competition, however the cost, standard and pressure at a worldwide level proved a little too Cherie has entered nearly every Arty Bra much at this stage. show since the show came into existence “I am so proud of what I have accomplished more than ten years ago, and she has won here in my community and where we are numerous times in various categories, heading. It is still in my future plans sometimes entering two creations. to enter at WOW.” The Visual Arts teacher at Paeroa Waihi Beach Wearable College resides in Waihi Beach Arts event coordinator with her two daughters. Kelly Moselen says this Cherie encourages secondary year’s show is bound to be school students to enter the entertaining, with Crystal show this year as there Chandelier being the MC. are NCEA level two “We are really trying credits that can be to lift the bar for this acquired through event and give the their school. artists a chance to “I have thoroughly shine with their enjoyed the many creative skills, experiences of creating so we would new and exciting entries encourage anyone to for the show. Every year it give it a shot.” has evolved and grown, and Kelly is you wonder how you can encouraging possibly do better than the members of the time before. Waihi community to “There is a lot of talented give it a go, with the entry and creative people out there.” fee being only $20. The process is what Cherie The winner of each enjoys most. She says seeing a category will receive $250 creation transform from your and the supreme winner vision board and research to will be awarded $500. planning, experimenting, “It should be quite a sourcing resources, high level, high energy construction, and and funny night. There feeling the end product is always a lot of hilarity come to life on stage in the night because of is incredible. Crystal and the Arty “I really recommend Bras are modelled by anyone having a go, men, so the comedy either on your own or levels are quite high.” as a team. As well as the Arty Bras, “Get involved, be other categories include inspired, and most of all steampunk, ‘Kiwi as’ be creative! Aotearoa and recycled. “Winter is a great time to Funds raised from the show There were plenty of wild creations in the are going to CanSurf, which start a new project.” Waihi Beach Wearable Arts show. After winning multiple is a summer camp experience Photo: Ian Purden Photography. awards over the years, for CanTeen, the peer support Cherie says the pressure network for young people starts to build each year, and people in the living with cancer. community ask if she is entering again. “The charity provides a respite weekend full of This year, Cherie will not be entering the show, as adventure for children living with cancer,” says she instead has accepted an invitation to be on the Kelly. “The CanSurf events have been happening judging panel. for years, so we are really happy to be able to “This is an exciting opportunity for me to play a support them, because it’s such an amazing different role in the show, I absolutely cannot wait weekend for these kids.” to see what this year’s entries bring.” The Waihi Beach Wearable Arts show is Despite sitting on the other side of the stage this on Saturday, August 31, at the Waihi Beach year, Cherie sympathises with the contestants as she Community Centre. says she understands the enormous time and effort Tickets are $35 per person and will be on sale being put into the creations. However Cherie says later this month. judging will be a difﬁcult and challenging For more information, visit their Facebook page.

Kiwibuild homes snapped up quickly The second round of Kiwibuild homes has been released at Kaimai Views. The next 10 homes are up for sale only a month after selling the first eight. All homes have three bedrooms and are priced at $500,000. Classic Builders head of marketing and brand Kathryn Scholes says the first round of Kaimai Views Kiwibuild homes was very successful. “We have sold six out of the eight homes we released five weeks ago, with a lot of people waiting for the second release. “With the first release generating such

strong interest, we wanted to make the second release available for the people who missed out.” Kathryn says the affordability of the homes is drawing residents to buy. “Kaimai Views is a joint venture with the Western Bay of Plenty District Council and was designed under the Special Housing Accord to bring quality affordable homes to the Bay market. “Kiwibuild ﬁts perfectly into Kaimai Views because the land has been thoughtfully developed in this mind.” Kathryn hopes more Kiwibuild homes are built in the Bay of Plenty in the future.

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Bones found during Durham St works Tauranga City Council has conﬁrmed human bones have been found during the current construction taking place along Durham Street. Acting general manager infrastructure Martin Parkes says the bones were found in March 2019. “The koiwi was analysed by Sian Keith Archaeology who determined that the remains were only fragmentary and no comment can be made of this person’s sex, height, or other bodily characteristics. “There was no evidence of illness or injury visible.” Rumours have been ﬂoating around

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the CBD saying this is why the works has taken so long. “Archaeological ﬁndings, ground conditions and the need to relocate aged underground services have caused hurdles on the Durham Street upgrade project,” says Martin. “Many of the pipelines were coming to the end of their useful life, some were more than 100 years old and in some places, there were up to 13 pipes where council’s plans only showed two pipes. “It takes time to ﬁnd out who owns the services and then how we deal with them,” says Martin.

Award for toxic work Tauranga’s Jodie Bruning is being recognised for her work exploring the impact of environmental chemical toxicity on children and fresh water. Jodie is this year’s recipient of the Robert Anderson Memorial Award, established by Amnesty International Tauranga Moana in 2010. “This award is really, really special because it has given me a voice,” she says. “What I am talking about is not commonly heard, it’s really important to let people understand that we have a situation here. This is an increasing risk; mixtures of chemicals in our body, in our children and in our fresh water is a really big concern.” Jodie emphasises the importance of understanding the political, cultural and intergenerational beneﬁts of protecting freshwater from environmental chemicals. She says it is an invisible threat, and is substantially under-resourced in New Zealand. “We are not having good conversations about it.”

Jodie’s interest in this ﬁeld of research was sparked when she discovered grass seeds she was going to plant on her lawn contained insecticides. “I thought it was ridiculous, we should know what chemicals are on the seeds.” Wife of the late Robert Anderson, Jean Anderson says Jodie deserves the award because of the huge amount she does for humanity, focusing on something that must be attended to immediately. “She stood out to me, I saw her enthusiasm and her passion. “It’s good that there is someone still going forward with the kind of work that Bob did.” The University of Auckland Master’s student has written several academic papers in her ﬁeld of study. She has also presented to Auckland City Council, Western Bay, Tauranga City Council, the Bay of Plenty Regional Council, and has submitted to the various select committee on the subject of environmental chemicals, health and risk. For more information about Jodie’s work, visit: www.rite-demands.org Emma Houpt

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“I’m proud of Budget 2019’s unprecedented amount of new targeted spending for Māori. “From $32m for Kōhanga Reo and a record $1.9B into mental health (including kaupapa Māori services), to papakāinga and more job opportunities for our rangatahi, our Māori Members of Parliament are doing the mahi you elected us to do.”

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New Zealand singer-songwriter Jenny Mitchell is playing at Tauranga’s Jam Factory on July 5 as part of The Troubadour Tour. The Gore born and raised country folk singer says she is excited to start the second part of her tour, which brings her from Christchurch to Tauranga and back. “Troubadour is like a word for a travelling musician I guess,” she says. “It’s also the current single from the album I released last year. “It’s my first time doing a national tour, so it’s pretty exciting.” Growing up in the deep south with her musical family, Jenny was bound to be involved in music, however her first big break came in 2013 when she made the final of New Zealand’s Got Talent. “I was always surrounded by country music down here, it was a really big part of my growing up. “A turning point was New Zealand’s Got Talent when I was 14, that was my first chance to to play on a big fancy stage. “That’s been a real platform for

Gore country singer-songwriter Jenny Mitchell is performing in Tauranga on July 5. atmosphere by bringing along rugs and lamps, so it’s all about bringing this whole intimate feel into venues around New Zealand. “That’s my favourite way of performing, having a home vibe so everyone feels they are engaging and they are part of it.” Around two weeks ago Jenny received the Tui for New Zealand Country Artist of the Year, an accolade she is ecstatic about winning. “It was huge, a massive honour.” Jenny plays at The Jam Factory on Friday, July 5. Tickets cost $15.

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Long-term protection for dolphins With Matariki near (and baby due any day), time is ﬂying at the moment. It seems like a year ago, I was proudly leading a protest in Tauranga, calling for the protection of M˜ui’s Dolphin. ° is was due to then Energy and Resources Minister, Simon Bridges allowing oil exploration in one of their marine sanctuaries. ° at was 2014. Now, I’m in a Government where Ministers Stuart Nash and Eugenie Sage have

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me to do lots of work around New Zealand and further abroad as well, we just took every opportunity and then I started releasing my own music and crowdfunding.” While juggling life as a country singer-songwriter, Jenny is studying a communication degree at the University of Otago to help with logistics within music. “My theory is that it’s very useful to learn the business side of things at uni and how to do the media stuff, because I am still independent and I have to wear about 100 hats.” Jenny says country is a hard nut to crack in New Zealand as people have their own preconceived ideas about the genre. “I kind of ﬁt into the singersongwriter, folk end of the spectrum,” she says. “I guess I am really enjoying doing this tour for the reason that people are coming along who might not go to country events and there is so much within the country banner. “I’m really excited to take my live shows based on a house concert

announced more than $17 million to protect these critically endangered dolphins from commercial ÿ shing vessels. Like you, I don’t want our kids having just 63 adult M˜ui dolphins estimated in their waters, as there are today. ° is Government’s new options to protect M˜ui and Hector’s dolphins long-term will ÿ nally secure a sustainable future for our marine species. Have your say on these proposals at: www.doc.govt.nz/dolphintmp - together, we can save these taonga for future generations. Speaking of making a di˝ erence, Aotearoa’s ÿ rst Wellbeing Budget delivered record investment in mental health, family and sexual violence, and over half a billion dollars of new funding into targeted Mõri initiatives. From $33 million for Te Reo Mõri’s future to $40 million for papak˜inga, this level of investment in the potential of Mõri is unprecedented. ° e $32 million for K˙hanga R eo was long overdue. Lifting wages and acknowledging the crucial role K˙hanga plays in the r evitalisation of Te Reo Mõri. By tackling the core issues, like housing and education, this Government is proudly getting on with doing the mahi you elected us to do.

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Rising stars in the Bay Once again Bay of Plenty Symphonia presents its Rising Stars ﬁnals concert featuring talented secondary level musicians. Six ﬁnalists from around the Bay of Plenty have been selected to perform a movement from their chosen concerto accompanied by the orchestra and conducted by Justus Rozemond. The accomplished youngsters who will compete for the title of Rising Star 2019 are: Rosa Hook from Rotorua Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, Hayden Butt from Tauranga - Weber Clarinet Concerto No 2, Huang Yu Li from Tauranga - Mozart Piano Concerto No 9, James Robinson from Tauranga - Arutiunian Trumpet Concerto, Leo Read from Taneatua - David Trombone Concertino and Sumin Sarah Lee from Tauranga - Mozart Violin Concerto No 3.

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Local elections 2019: All you need to know With the local body elections coming up, there are many new voters who may not be familiar with how the voting system works. This year the Tauranga City Council elections will use the singletransferable vote or STV system, which is a preferential voting system where voters rank some or all candidates in order of preference. Voters will rank their favourite candidate using numbers, for example, your most favoured candidate will be ranked as number one, and second favourite will be a two, and so on. In order to receive a voting paper, residents will need to be enrolled. In order to enrol, to check if you are enrolled, or to update your details, visit: www.elections.org.nz On July 19, candidate nominations

open, and electoral rolls open for inspection at council offices. If residents wish to vote, they must be enrolled by August 16, and candidate nominations close at noon. The voting process begins between on September 20. Over the course of five days, voting papers will be delivered to the homes of those enrolled to vote, and the papers will need to be returned by noon on October 12. The voting papers can be returned in the post, in person to a council library, or alternatively to the Willow Street service centre. If for any reason you don’t receive voting papers by September 25, please contact the Tauranga City Council. The official results will be declared between October 17 and 23. For more information on the Tauranga local body election, visit: www.tauranga.govt.nz/council/aboutyour-council/elections

Their performances will be judged by a panel of prestigious adjudicators, led by well-known conductor and Emeritus Professor of Music, Peter Walls ONZM. Joining him will be one of New Zealand’s leading pianists, Katherine Austin, Head of Piano Studies at Waikato University, and John Ure MNZM, ex principal French Horn with APO. While the panel deliberates, Bay of Plenty Symphonia will entertain the audience with Janá˜ek’s lovely Adagio for Orchestra. The winner will be announced and prizes presented by Mayor of Tauranga Greg Brownless. Rising Stars will be held at Baycourt Addison Theatre on June 30. Tickets cost $24 for adults, $22 for consession and just $2 for people aged 18 and under. Tickets are available at the Baycourt Box Ofﬁce, by phoning 0800 842 538 or at: www.ticketek.co.nz Left: James Robinson.

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Rural people helping rural people Moving house and changing jobs are acknowledged as two of life’s most stressful events and in the thick of it at the moment are dairy farmers who are moving to new employment.

Rural Support Trust Waikato chairperson Neil Bateup on his Waikato dairy farm.

Supporting the rural community through stressful times like these is the Rural Support Trust. In the Waikato, the trust typically deals with 300-350 calls a year – almost one per day – conﬁrms Waikato branch chair Neil Bateup. Calls are spread pretty evenly throughout the year, but can

spike during adverse weather events, calving and other high pressure times of the year, says Neil. The issues people call about are varied: ﬁnancial problems, employment issues, relationship difﬁculties, mental health concerns and farm management problems. Working through the impact of adverse weather events also generates many calls to the trust, says Neil. One-on-one support is part of the service provided by the trust. In Waikato, one of 25 volunteers will visit the caller and have a chat to discuss the problem. “Our people have a rural background and are often

farmers themselves, so they understand and relate to the issues people are calling about. “Our trust is about rural people helping rural people during difﬁcult times – no matter what or when. “We lend a listening ear, and help people separate out the issues and work alongside them to develop a way forward. “Sometimes it’s as simple as needing someone to talk to. Other times a more comprehensive response is needed.”

Kiwis are notoriously staunch – and, the biggest barrier to accessing the trust’s services is often an unwillingness to ask for help, says Neil. “We’re always there if people need us. They just pick up the phone.” The trust’s conﬁdential support is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week – and with 14 branches nationwide. Contact the Rural Support Trust through its website, Facebook or on: 0800 787 254. Josephine Reader

All aboard a train bound for economic success One of the hallmarks of a first world country is a first-rate transport system. Sadly, for some time, New Zealand has been found wanting on this score. Both our freight and passenger transport have suffered from chronic under-investment for years and the cracks in the system have become chasms. Add to that the imperative to move towards cleaner and more fuel efficient transportation, to reduce our carbon emissions, and to ensure better connectivity in the

regions and it is clear there is work to do. The Government is stepping up with a “big picture” plan and record investment in transport across the board. At the heart of New Zealand First policy is the revitalisation of rail.

In Budget 2019 we secured a massive $1.042 billion infrastructure investment in our national rail provider, $300 million of which came from the Provincial Growth Fund and is earmarked speciﬁcally for regional rail initiatives. Only last week, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones reopened the Napier-Wairoa rail line, fulﬁlling one of the earliest promises of the Provincial Growth Fund. The line will see logging trains travel directly to Napier Port once again.

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Families fighting Lincoln Woodmass. Photo: Daniel Hines.

Lincoln Woodmass suffers with spinal muscular atrophy. Like others with SMA, it can be difﬁcult and tiring to run around, dance and play, which is all the fouryear-old wants to do. Lincoln’s diagnosis came two years ago, shortly after his second birthday. The condition is a genetic disease affecting part of the nervous system which controls the ability to move muscles voluntary. After many discussions, submissions and a petition to parliament, Lincoln’s parents Tania and Regan believe it is Pharmac’s duty to fund the drug Spinraza, giving SMA patients more mobility and strength.

The Woodmass family are not in the ﬁght alone, Tania says they are part of a tight-knit SMA community with many other families. Fiona Tolich is someone who the Woodmass family admire greatly, not only because she is a mother who deals with SMA herself, but because she is leading the ﬁght for Spinraza to be made available in New Zealand. The severity of Fiona’s SMA is much less compared to Lincoln and others affected, however when she was growing up playing soccer and cricket, she experienced many knee dislocations, eventually forcing her out of the sports. “I wasn’t as fast and when playing cricket, I always wore wicketkeeper pads because they were lighter, and I just found them easier to run in. ...continued

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“At the time I hadn’t been diagnosed, and they thought the weakness in my legs was actually due to my knees.” After having her first child at 30, Fiona says she struggled to walk while holding her son with her knees often giving way. “I’d be carrying him like a newborn and my legs would give way and I’d have to catch myself. “I was at the point where I went to an orthopedic surgeon and said: ‘look, I actually think my knees need re-looking at’, and he actually picked up that it was neurological and then it went from there, but had Fiona Tolich at parliament. I not been carrying my son, I would have just ignored it “It’s just horrendous, watching because, you know, you don’t Lincoln as just one example where he do things for yourself, but if used to run through my house. Now, you think it might impact it’s like: ‘Lincoln, slow down just walk’.” you or your child.” As for Fiona, her fight for Pharmac to A year ago, Fiona attended fund Spinraza continues. the Cure SMA conference in At the end of June she is submitting Paula Bennett with the petition the United States and saw the and presenting her petition to the at parliament. positive effects Spinraza has Health Select Committee. on people living with SMA. “Someone has to speak up and I don’t think it’s fair “I’ve looked at videos of what children were like that parents of sick children should be fighting so before Spinraza and the mobility that they now have, hard at the expense of spending time with their kids.” or the strength they’ve got back but that’s the thing, When asked directly why Spinraza isn’t funded in in some it’s a little bit of a lottery so you might make New Zealand, Pharmac director of operations Lisa some huge gains, or it will hold you where you’re at. Williams says they take their responsibility to fund “With SMA, you know early as the muscles have the right medicines for New Zealanders very seriously. atrophied, because what happens is the nerves die and “We have a fixed budget, which means we must the signals no longer go through the muscle.” make careful and considered decisions about spending Since Fiona’s diagnosis, she continually devotes any available money on medicines to deliver the best her time to pushing the petition to Pharmac to fund health outcomes for New Zealand. Spinraza. The drug, which is developed by American “We understand that patients, their families and biotechnology company Biogen, is available in 50 whanau and clinicians want the newest medicines in countries around the world. the hope they will provide the best possible health Fiona says Pharmac’s reasoning to not fund the drug result. We too want to invest in new medicines to is because they don’t know the long term success, improve the range and effectiveness of medicines however she and many others in the SMA community available for all New Zealanders. believe it ultimately comes down to cost. “Many new medicines are launched without clear “Pharmac said in one article that it costs a million evidence that they work as the pharmaceutical dollars per year per patient. That was a direct companies claim. These treatments can look quote from them, and that is incorrect. As far as promising, but we need to be absolutely sure they I’m concerned, all they’re doing is trying to get this will deliver the benefits claimed and that we spend perception out that Pharmac only have so much public money wisely. money to spend, and there is not enough evidence for “If we fund a treatment with high uncertainty them to spend that much money. about its results, the reality is that it would take away “They pride themselves on financials and that funding from other more proven treatments.” doesn’t have the people at the heart of it. You hear all In regard to Spinraza specifically, Lisa says Pharmac the conversations around the well-being budget and expert clinical advisors recommend that the funding what of that? I can tell you now. I don’t know a single application be deferred until longer term follow up SMA family that doesn’t have some sort of stress on analyses are published from two clinical trials. their mental health.” “We are in regular contact with the supplier and Fiona says caring for an individual with SMA is like expect to receive updated data by the end of 2019. having a permanent newborn. “Recommendations from our expert clinical advisors “You have to get up and roll them over in the night are a key input into Pharmac’s assessment of any because they don’t have the strength. Lincoln’s type funding application. We generally do not make 3 so he’s much stronger, but he will get to the point funding decisions until we have a recommendation where he won’t have the muscle strength to roll over. from our experts and we have completed our own “So his parents will have to wake up and move him assessment of the medicine.” Kate Wells so that he doesn’t get bedsores or anything like that.

Car smoking ban moves closer The Government’s plan to prohibit smoking in cars with children is a step closer with the Smoke-free Environments (Prohibiting Smoking in Motor Vehicles Carrying Children) Amendment Bill due to be introduced to Parliament this week. “These measures will protect children and young people and build healthier communities,” says Associate Minister of Health Jenny Salesa. “The primary enforcement efforts will be focussed on public education

and changing social norms. “We have seen over the years behavioural and attitudes change about smoking in New Zealand mainly as a result of the Smokefree Environments Act 1990. “While past public education and social marketing campaigns about the danger of second-hand smoke exposure in vehicles have had some impact, the rate of reduction of children exposed to smoking in vehicles has slowed. It is time to do more by legislating.”

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The best little Lions Club The Lions Club of Tauranga City Sunrise think they are the best lions club in Tauranga and they’re looking for others to join them.

“I raise this idea as we know there are many capable people out there in Tauranga who would get so much satisfaction being a member of our Lions Club,” says Tauranga City Sunrise Lions member Ken Evans. “All of the things we do are designed to make Tauranga a better place for us all.” The Tauranga City Sunrise Lions Club works hard to produce and sell ﬁrewood as their main money-

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raising activity. “We get physical and mental stimulation in doing the work and warm satisfaction from seeing the results of giving a ‘hand up’ to other groups,” says Ken. They help support Riding for the Disabled, Wish 4 Fish, Homes of Hope, Rescue Helicopter, St John, Coastguard, Mercy Ships, young athletes, local colleges and more. “Now are we not as young as we used to be so we feel recently retired or retired community-minded people would be the ones who would feel at home in our Lions Club,” says Ken. “Come and join the best little Lions Club and get the beneﬁts we get of

comradeship and the satisfaction of helping others. “‘Do good and have fun’ is our motto.” For more information visit: www.sunriselions.co.nz or phone Ken on: 027 733 9686.

Doing good and having fun.

Funding challenges for roading Last week, Tauranga City Council voted to start widening 15th Avenue, continue the upgrade of Domain Rd in Papamoa, and improvements in Arataki; all without guaranteed Government funding. Local road construction (excluding State Highways) is funded 50-50 by council and Government. I shouldn’t say Government funding because you’re paying for it every time you ﬁll up at the pump or pay road-user charges; likewise, with council rates. Up until last year, there wasn’t much trouble getting Government’s contribution but as their focus and budget has shifted away from roads, councils around the country are facing shortfalls in transport projects. To bridge the gap in the interim, TCC has agreed to ﬁnance these projects through a rates-funded loan.

We shouldn’t have to do this because you’ve already paid Government’s share, but we can’t let our city grind to a halt. However, we can’t fund all the city’s transport needs through your rates invoice either; no council has the capacity to do that. We need a willing partner in Government. My greatest frustration is how reliant we are on NZTA, not just because our city is ringed by State Highways that are inadequate but for local roads too. That’s why we can’t widen Turret Road with a new bridge yet as the cost will be a lot more than $60m and we don’t have Government’s support. I can’t be too critical of the current Government because I recognise the previous one promised four lanes from Welcome Bay to Cameron Rd but didn’t deliver that either.

Winter wonderland family fun day The Tauranga Parents Centre open day welcomes the local community to come and learn more about the organization run by volunteers who are all passionate about supporting families on June 22 from 11am. There will be rock painting, free sausage sizzle, free face painting, rafﬂes, prizes and

much more. The Tauranga Parent Centre will be running their AGM at 1pm following the event. Anyone is welcome to attend to learn more about how you might be able to get involved. The event will take place in the Tauranga Parent Centre building inside the Historic Village – building 29, from 11am on Saturday, June 22.

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Baypark to Bayfair Link New Baypark roundabout and road layout taking shape

A place of pathways – rail noise wall murals

Bay Link through the lens

The Bay Link project will include a number of carvings, pou, waharoa and other cultural representations, the designs of which will reflect the cultural values and historical significance of the area. These are being developed in partnership with the Bay Link Tangata Whenua Advisory Group – the hapū of Nga Potiki, Ngāi Tukairangi and Ngāti Tapu.

The Bay Link project has reached a further milestone with the new Baypark roundabout and the new SH29A road layout starting to take shape (A). Kerb and channelling works are underway now that the earthworks and ground improvements in this area have been finished, and the centre of the roundabout is visible. Project Manager John McCarthy says after months of service relocations, earthworks and ground improvement works in this area, it’s great to see the new SH29A road layout emerging. “With major construction projects like the Bay Link project, there is so much technical and prep work that needs to happen before the physical, aboveground construction can start, so to see this new road layout starting to take shape is rewarding.” Stone column ground improvements in this area will be finished next month (B) and the section of new road that will be the off ramp for SH2 traffic (near the house removal company), is nearing completion.

Meanwhile, stone column work is starting soon in area C with 144 stone columns being installed as part of stage one in this area. Several hundred more stone columns will be installed in area D to support construction of the new embankment ramps.

The concrete wall behind HomeZone, near Russley Drive in Matapihi, was installed to reduce the noise to nearby residential properties from the relocated railway line. It has also provided a canvas for local hapū to tell their unique story.

Later this month, we will be looking to move eastbound traffic on Maunganui Road onto the new lanes (E), to allow for ground improvements works to get underway in the central zone. We are also working towards having an alternative route for cyclists and pedestrians via Eversham Road.

Designed by Ngāi Tukairangi and Ngāti Tapu, alongside local artist Stu MacDonald, the mural represents the significant historic places, people and resources of the hapū from Matapihi, and highlights their tribal uniqueness.

The construction zones and our workers are working very close to traffic, and we want them to get home safe. Please slow down and adhere to the temporary speed restrictions in place throughout the project site.

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The new Baypark roundabout and road layout is taking shape

The painted panels on the rail noise wall centre around the three life principles of tangata whenua: Mana Whenua (harmonious integration with the environment), Mana Tangata (realisation of human potential) and Mana Motuhake (self-determination through absolute uniqueness). The triangle niho taniwha pattern references the challenges and dangers we come up against along life’s path, and the circular awhiowhio pattern references the people that surround us and help us through. The people surrounding us outnumber the challenges and dangers we face – just as the number of circular panels outnumber the triangle patterns. At a metaphorical level, this travel on life’s path relates to the path travelled by iwi in history in this area.

The experienced Downer team on their specialised asphalting machine lay the first layer of asphalt on Maunganui Road near Exeter Street.

Historically, this area was part of a corridor that iwi used to travel for trade, battle, seasonal harvesting and visiting whānau. The nearby historic freshwater spring and Horopia Stream (meaning: the washing of spears) that ran towards the sea from Matapihi were a place to rest from these travels.

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Eversham Road

D B Truman Lane

Construction of the new lanes on Maunganui Road between Bayfair and Te Maunga continues.

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An artist’s impression of what the Bay Link project near Baypark will look like. Current work in this area is focusing on the new Baypark roundabout (A) and stone column ground improvement works (B, C and D). The rail noise wall mural behind HomeZone, near Russley Drive in Matapihi, represents the significant historic places, people and resources of the hapū from Matapihi.

Stone column work continues Stone column ground improvement work is continuing in several locations throughout the site. Work will start this month to install 144 stone columns near Eversham Road and Exeter Street, as part of stage one of the stone columns in this area.

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If you put the 144 stone columns end to end, they would nearly be the same length as the Tauranga Nearby residents can expect some vibration during stone column Airport runway (1825 metres). works. We will make every effort to minimise the impact of noise and

vibration during this work. Regular vibration monitoring ensures work is carried out within our consent conditions. One hundred and thirty-one stone columns were recently installed on Maunganui Road near Girven Road, and stone column work is continuing near Te Maunga and Baypark. In total, 3,400 stone columns will be installed throughout the site.

Matapihi Road widening near Golf 360 is continuing. A diversion is in place for pedestrians and cyclists using the underpass. HomeZone and Owens Place are open for business as usual.

Preliminary ground improvement work is continuing on Maunganui Road between Concord Avenue and Jackson Street with replacement fill being trucked in. Drainage works will start shortly. This work area is compact and close to the traffic lanes, so please take care through this area.

Stone column work is continuing near Te Maunga and Baypark.

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The triangle niho taniwha pattern references the challenges and dangers we come up against along life’s path, and the circular awhiowhio pattern references the people that surround us and help us through.

To see our weekly traffic notices, project overview, and to sign up to our regular newsletters go to www.nzta.govt.nz/baylink

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Baypark to Bayfair Link New Baypark roundabout and road layout taking shape

A place of pathways – rail noise wall murals

Bay Link through the lens

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The new Baypark roundabout and road layout is taking shape

The experienced Downer team on their specialised asphalting machine lay the first layer of asphalt on Maunganui Road near Exeter Street.

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Eversham Road

D B Truman Lane

Construction of the new lanes on Maunganui Road between Bayfair and Te Maunga continues.

BAYPARK

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Matapihi Road widening near Golf 360 is continuing. A diversion is in place for pedestrians and cyclists using the underpass. HomeZone and Owens Place are open for business as usual.

Stone column work is continuing near Te Maunga and Baypark.

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0508 222 4636

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To see our weekly traffic notices, project overview, and to sign up to our regular newsletters go to www.nzta.govt.nz/baylink

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When George and the Bishop dropped in Classic Flyers aviation museum archivist Peter Layne at the scene of Tauranga’s first aeroplane landing. Photo: Daniel Hines. These were momentous and dizzying times. It’s a story that starts with a “It was one of the very first two planes built by bespectacled timber salesman and a Bill [William E.] Boeing,” says Peter Layne. dashing Naval lieutenant having a drink at “Fascinating but true.” Bill Boeing was the timber salesman having a tipple the salubrious University Club in with the Naval lieutenant Conrad Westervelt in Seattle. Seattle. Then the story comes to a very They shared a passion for aviation and jumped at graceful landing on Tauranga Harbour every opportunity for a ride in the sky. And after one such flight, in a Curtiss floatplane, at the foot of Wharf Street. Boeing remarked that “there isn’t much to that It was 1:08pm on Sunday, March 14, 1920 - almost machine… I think we could build a better one”. So 100 years ago. they did – the Boeing Model 1 B&W Seaplane – two “And it was significant because it was the very of them, described by one aviation writer as the first first time an aeroplane had visited Tauranga,” in a line of innovative, pioneering vehicles that have explains Classic Flyers aviation museum archivist, defined aerospace and helped change the world. Peter Layne. “Most Tauranga people hadn’t seen an And there was one of the Model 1s, on that day in aeroplane before.” March 1920, bobbing about on the tide opposite the There was wide-eyed excitement along the Strand, old Commercial Hotel at the bottom of Wharf Street. hakas, speeches, dinners, toasts and the presentation of The pillars of the new rail bridge were the backdrop. a handsome pair of ebony hairbrushes to the skipper “I am not sure whether Boeing had simply moved of the “big bird” or “machine” as reports of the time on to bigger and better projects or the seaplanes had described the B&W seaplane. This was March 1920. become surplus, or how it was discovered they were for

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The first ever Boeing plane flies into Tauranga. It was also the first plane to ever visit the city. Photo: Daniel Hines.

sale, but they were shipped out to the New Zealand Flying School at Kohimarama Beach in Auckland for training WW1 pilots.” It’s interesting to see how far aeronautics, and Boeing, have come in 100 years. For example, the unit price for a new Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner (Air NZ has just bought eight of these) is US$248 million, has a wingspan of 60 metres, and a range of 13,000 kilometres. Its predecessor, the B&W seaplane was sold to New Zealand 100 years ago for US$3,750, had a wingspan of 16 metres and ran out of gas after 500 kilometres. When the Model 1 dropped “dexterously” into Tauranga, as a report of the time said, the man at the controls was a George Bolt – a pioneer pilot and brilliant aircraft engineer. “He was an instructor with the flying school. He was also the experimental airmail flight pilot and transported homing pigeons.” The main access to Auckland International Airport carries his name. “Auckland’s Bishop Henry Cleary saw the opportunity to get around the country to see his flock,”

says Peter. “He would help with the mail and he didn’t mind getting his feet wet. George obviously considered him an adventurer and pioneer in his own right.” The Bishop also thought ﬂying was good for the soul. He’s quoted in E.F.Harvie’s book on Bolt – “Travelling at 60 miles an hour or more through the clean and dustless upper air provides a tonic effect.” Anyhow, Tauranga was so happy to see the man of faith, cum mailman, cum adventurer, they gave him a gold watch. And at 6.47am, on Monday, March 15 Bolt and the Bishop skipped across the harbour in their seaplane and out of Tauranga, passing Tairua and Kuaotunu and Cabbage Bay, now Colville Bay, arriving in Auckland at 8.43am. What happened to those aircraft is the stuff of legends. Some stories have it the aircraft are still stored in blocked off tunnels in Auckland’s North Head coastal defence systems, amongst stores of live ammunition. The other version is they were taken to a nearby beach in 1924 and burned with surplus military equipment.

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Have your say on the future of 11 Mission Street

The agreement in-principle to gift 11 Mission Street would be Tauranga City Councillors agreed in-principle to gift on the basis of a perpetual or ongoing lease agreement with the property at 11 Mission Street to the Otamataha the Elms Foundation to enable the development of 11 Mission Trust (www.otamataha.maori.nz), which represents the Street as a reception and education centre. The long term combined interests of local hapū. This is to recognise lease would be with a ‘peppercorn rental’ meaning the Elms TAURANGA CITY COUNCIL their historic and cultural connection to this area. SmartZoom A4 Print - 13-March-2019Foundation would pay a minimal payment.

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Date

Event / Action

Nov 2006

Council purchased 11 Mission St from Mission Accomplished Holdings Ltd.

Jan 2007 – Nov 2009

11 Mission St rented on open market.

Sept 2007

Elms Foundation are offered a future lease of the property.

Nov 2009 – June 2010

Council granted licence to occupy to The Elms Foundation.

Feb 2011

Council transfer its share in 7 Mission St to Elms Foundation and grant long-term lease of 11 Mission St.

October 2011

Lease to Elms Foundation commenced with peppercorn rental, and Foundation responsible for maintenance and outgoings.

June 2016

Foundation asked Council to consider gifting 11 Mission St and worked with Council to satisfy lease conditions.

June 2017

Council advised that mana whenua need to be notified of the proposal in accordance with Council policy.

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Community drop-in sessions Location

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Red Square, Spring St, Tauranga

Friday, 21 June 2019, 11am – 1pm

Tauranga Farmers Market, 26 Arundel St

Saturday, 29 June 2019, 8am – 12pm

Red Square, Spring St, Tauranga

Wednesday, 3 July 2019, 12.30pm – 2.30pm

What do you think?

Share your feedback by Monday, 8 July 2019 Fill out an online form at www.tauranga.govt.nz/11missionstreet

Otamataha Trust notified of Foundation’s request Otamataha Trust advised Council of its desire to be gifted 11 Mission Street

Aug 2017 – March 2018

Meetings between Otamataha Trust, Elms Foundation and Council to discuss ownership and future development. Foundation confirm their development could proceed if 11 Mission Street was gifted to Otamataha Trust

June 2018

Resource consent granted for construction on 7 Mission Street, and to use the Elms site (including 11 Mission Street) as a community facility.

Dec 2018

Council agree in-principle to transfer property to Otamataha Trust at no cost.

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Shop till you drop this winter If you’re dreaming of a shopping spree, now might be the time to head to Bethlehem Shopping Centre. Anyone that spends $40 or more at the centre until July 25 will go in the draw to win one of three shopping spree prizes to be spent at stores in the Bethlehem Shopping Centre.

The team at Kaimai Law Bethlehem are ready to help with your legal needs.

For all of your legal advice, the team at Kaimai Law Bethlehem is ready to help. Kaimai Law Bethlehem has been serving the Bethlehem and wider Tauranga community for more than a decade. The professional team at Kaimai Law Bethlehem have years of experience in their respective ﬁelds, which means they have the knowledge required to give you the legal advice you can trust. Kaimai Law Bethlehem

specialises in all property matters, including buying and selling of property, subdivisions, as well as family law, commercial law, estate administration, trusts, wills, enduring powers of attorney and relationship property, making them your one-stop-shop for law in Bethlehem. Kaimai Law Bethlehem is proud to serve the community and has a history of supporting local charities, including Waipuna Hospice. On April 1, 2019, Gemma Keystone joined Tina McLennan

as a director of Kaimai Law Bethlehem. Gemma specialises in family law litigation but also has a wide range of experience in trusts, wills and estates, conveyancing and general practice matters. Kaimai Law Bethlehem is located on State Highway 2, opposite Bethlehem Countdown and there is plenty of free parking available both out the front and behind their building. For more information, phone: 07 579 2350 or visit their website: www.klb.co.nz

Waste not want not in Bethlehem hair salon Everyone is trying to reduce the amount of waste they create, but what does that mean for a hair salon? For Rodney Wayne in Bethlehem, it means being able to recycle up to 95 per cent of their salon’s total waste.

If you thought your hair clippings went straight in the landﬁll, it’s time to think again. Thanks to Rodney Wayne’s sustainable salon initiative, hair clippings are now collected up and stuffed into stockings to make what they call ‘hair blooms’ – a tool use to help soak up coastal oil spills.

There are three major prizes to be won which are drawn fortnightly. Shopping sprees of $1000 and $2000 are up for grabs, as well as a grand prize of a $5000 shopping spree. Terms and conditions apply. For more information, visit: www.facebook.com/shopbethlehem

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Celebrating books and yarn On Sunday, June 23, Greerton trees will once again be decorated with spectacular, artistic yarn bombing by yarn bombers, ranging in age from ﬁve to 90 years. The theme this year is children’s books with lots of fabulous books being yarn bombed from Hairy Maclary to Kapai’s New Mates, The Three Billy Goats Gruff to Where the Wild Things Are. To celebrate this wonderful display in Greerton Village on Saturday June 29 from 10.30am-12.30pm there is a reading day of some of the books being yarn bombed. The book reading will be outside the Greerton library or in the library if it’s wet. Special guest author Angie Belcher from Rotorua will read her book The Farm Yard Idol and Heather Haylock from Auckland will read her book Granny McFlitter The Champion Knitter. Both Angie and Heather are seasoned writers of children’s books. Other books published by Angie are: To Our Shores and The Girls in the Kapahaka. Heather has been a writer of

NZ educational level reading books such as: Tom the School Cat, Nutty Knitting and How Much Rain? Heather has also written two Granny McFlitter story books with the most recent published story book called Granny McFlitter: A Country Yarn. Some of the yarn bombers will also be reading the stories of the trees they have yarn bombed. Come along with your children, grandchildren or friend’s children to listen to these fabulous stories. To keep the kids amused whilst story telling is going on, ‘The Cat in the Hat’ will be on site as well as ‘The Lions’ with lollies and Greerton Village balloons You can also vote for your favourite tree by completing a paper vote in shops with the Yarn bombing poster displayed in their window or voting on Facebook – search for ‘Greerton Village Community Yarn Bombing’. The Greerton Village Community Association thanks all the yarn bombers for their hard work. They also offer a huge thank you to Crockford Real Estate for sponsoring the $2000 prize pool which will go to the winning tree charity and the knitters

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It’s all on at Greerton Library There are a number of great events to take your fancy happening at Greerton Libraries this month and next month. If you ﬁnd peace in staying within the lines, the adult colouring club might be a great stress reliever for you. They meet at Greerton Library at 10.30am on July 9. If you or your child are looking for a group of people to read with, the book groups held at Greerton Library might be for you. The Friends of the Library Book Group meets at 10.30am on July 15, and the Children’s After School Book Club meets on July 4 from 3.30-4.30pm. Or if getting technological is more your speed, there is a code club being held at Greerton Library on Wednesdays from 3.30-4.30pm during term time. Registrations are required for this

one, so get in touch with the library. There’s also a Lego club held on Wednesdays from 3.30-5pm during term time. This one also requires registration. There is a CV writing clinic being held for those who are looking for new job opportunities and want to make sure their CV is polished. They’ll be meeting at Greerton Library from 9.30am and 10.15am on Tuesdays. Employ NZ meets at Greerton Library on July 18 from 2.303.30pm. There will also be a Friends of the Library meet at Greerton Library on June 27 and July 25, both from 10am. If you’re digging into your past and you’ve hit a hard spot, there’s genealogy support available from 10-11.30am on July 12. There is also a Justice of the

Crowds gather in the new Greerton Library at its opening in 2016. Peace at Greerton Library from 2-4pm every Friday. If stitching is your thing, maybe joining the Knit and Knatter group held on Tuesdays from 1pm would be of interest. For more information and other events, visit: www.library.tauranga.govt.nz

Unravelling yarn bombing in Greerton It might be six or so month so of wool spinning, but it’s also money spinning. Because every year during Yarn Bombing in that small suburban artistic enclave of Greerton the charter buses start rolling in. “Yarn bombing’s not just for Greerton people,” says Sally Benning, manager for Greerton Village Mainstreet, the business lobby group. “They come from afar – from Matamata, Katikati and Whakatane – to see the yarn bombing. People know and like the concept. And when they’re here, they will buy coffee, they will buy lunch and they will nosey around the op shops. So everyone wins. It’s great for Greerton.” Yarn bombing is an imported concept - started in Greerton when a local businessman spotted it online. And if we want to bat some superlatives around, like biggest and best, then we will. “It might be safe to say yarn bombing in Greerton village is perhaps the largest yarn bombing event in a shopping centre, let’s say, village or whatever. And Greerton must be the only place in New Zealand that yarn bombs all the trees in one village.” And it feels right. Because the celebrated cherry trees are sadly naked and bare at this time of the year. “It certainly brightens things,” says Sally. Yarn bombing is not just a women’s thing – men have contributed but it is certainly more women than

men. They start just after Christmas and knit for six months, whether in groups or alone in front of the TV at home in front. Much of the wool is donated. “As soon as we start discussing the next year’s yarn bombing theme at a high tea in August, the wool starts to roll in.” And when it’s over, and depending on the weather, the wool is recovered, carefully dried and packed away for next year. Sometimes it can be used again with embellishments for another theme and another year. “Yarn bombing in Greerton certainly gets a lot of positive feedback, It brings a lot of joy to a lot of people,” says Sally.

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New ‘normal’ for baby movements during pregnancy You hear it all the time: just as pregnant women are settling down for the evening, their babies kick into party mode. A University of Auckland-led study shows it is entirely normal in late pregnancy for babies to be more active in the evening and bedtime, and that babies’ movements tend to keep getting

stronger even as they near term. It also shows that - contrary to advice given to some women - neither a cold drink nor sweet food will prod babies into action. The study of pregnant women’s own observations, published in scientiﬁc journal PLOS One, debunks some myths about babies’ movements during pregnancy and gives much-needed, clear guidance to women and their health

professionals about what is normal. “Pregnant women are often advised to keep an eye on their baby’s movement pattern and report any decrease in movements,” says lead author, Billie Bradford, a PhD student in the University’s Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences and a practicing midwife. “But, even though there is a link between decreased movements and stillbirth, most women who report a drop in activity will go on to have a healthy baby. “The problem is, there is limited evidence about what normal patterns of movement look like, and around the world women are getting mixed advice. “We thought this would be useful information, particularly for first-time mothers who are getting to know what a normal pattern is for them.” The research team interviewed pregnant women in their third trimester (after 28 weeks of pregnancy) about the nature and frequency of their babies’ movements, and analysed the responses of those who gave birth to a live, well-grown baby after 37 weeks. The women were from seven regions of Aotearoa New Zealand and ethnically representative. The main findings were: 59 per cent of women reported feeling movements getting stronger in the previous two weeks Strong movements were felt by 73 per cent women in the evening and at nighttime including bedtime. Women were more likely to perceive moderate or strong movements when sitting quietly compared with other activities, such as having a cold drink or eating Almost all women reported feeling their babies hiccup “Probably the most surprising finding was just how profound an influence time of day was - only 3.7 per cent of women did not feel strong or moderate movements in the

evening, says Billie. “Pregnant women have always reported more baby movements in the evening. This is often put down to distraction and being busy during the day, but that may not be the whole story. “A number of ultrasound and animal studies have shown that the fetus has a circadian pattern that involves increased movement in the evening, and this is likely to reﬂect normal development.” There is a growing appreciation of how circadian patterns may be important in health, and researchers are investigating how timing of assessments and therapies can improve outcomes across many areas of healthcare, she says. Senior author, Professor Lesley McCowan, says, “It’s clear that the pattern of movement is more consistent across pregnant women than the number of kicks which varies widely between women, from four to 100 an hour.” Read the rest of the story at: www.theweekendsun.co.nz

Connecting childcare and whanau together Active Kids Early Childcare Centre is locally owned and whanau focused. “We aspire to grow our tamariki’s (children’s) conﬁdence as capable, conﬁdent and competent learners and leaders,” says Active Kids’ Lisa Chan. “Creating a safe stimulating environment that provides experiences and opportunities that invite tamariki to actively explore, discover and risk-take.” Indoor spaces are light, warm, tamariki-friendly environments with high quality resources. Outdoor spaces provide challenging, year-round

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useable areas. “Connection with our community is important, so the centre’s adventure van is used for weekly swimming lessons, frequent family farm visits and rest home visits,” says Lisa. “As well as other spontaneous trips that extend our tamairki interest like the Omokoroa Bike Park. “Strong meaningful relationships with whanau allows us to bridge home/centre life helping tamariki to feel a sense of belonging,” says Lisa. “Through our holistic approach to care of tamariki, high standards and quality practices, we set our tamairki to have success throughout their lives.”

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Watery eyes? Ironically you may have dry eye disease As we head into winter it is not unusual to notice some extra ocular moisture when outside on a crisp morning. However if your peepers are welling up throughout the day, even when not watching ‘The Notebook’, then you may have an eye problem to blame. Tears drain out of the eye through two holes at the inside corner of our eyes. These channels can block up due to a build-up of debris, infection, or age-related narrowing. Just like plugging a bath and ﬁlling it up, eventually your tears will spill out onto your cheeks. If the drainage holes ﬂop away from the eye when your lids become loose with age this can also lead to bothersome watering. Your optometrist can perform a treatment called lacrimal lavage to

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flush out any blockage. Hayfever sufferers will be well aware how watery their eyes can become when their allergies flare up. Many people are not aware they have ocular allergies and can help their symptoms with appropriate antihistamine eye drops. However the most common cause of a watery eye is in fact dry eye disease, which can affect about 20 per cent of Kiwis. When the corneal nerves get irritated from dryness, the lacrimal gland can overcompensate and flood the eyes with unstable tears, blurring vision. In some people this can occur without the

classic dry eye symptoms of red, gritty and sore eyes. Dry eye disease has a range of causes and requires a thorough examination to determine the best management. If symptoms are bothering you visit your local therapeutic optometrist and take control of those troublesome tears in your eyes!

Build your summer body in winter Don’t exercise because you don’t like your body, exercise because you love your body. “The health, physical and mental beneﬁts of exercise have been well proven,” says The Gym’s Lisa Chan. Right now, it’s easy to wrap up at home, however it’s the best time to start your exercise journey. To help, your sessions need to be planned into your week, just like any other appointment – and not changed And if you need motivation the team at The Gym have it in abundance. “Group ﬁtness classes are a fantastic way to exercise,” says Lisa.

“You know exactly what time you must be here and one of our experienced team will take you through your session. “Awesome music, new moves help you achieve your results. With almost 70 classes per week there is a type and time to suit everyone.” If you’d rather do your own thing, The Gym’s qualiﬁed gym trainers or personal trainers are here to help. Their knowledge covers any results you want to achieve. “Their program design paired with our equipment range will keep things interesting,” says Lisa. “Don’t wait, start today.”

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Botanical winter wonderland for mature skin As we age, our skin loses a certain energy or life-force. The hormonal changes that occur, as we mature are a key factor in this, but dehydration also has a huge part to play.

Without sufﬁcient moisture in the upper layers of the skin, enzyme action that keeps the skin metabolically alive, basically grinds to a halt. Skin goes to sleep and appears dull and lack-lustre. Unfortunately, dehydration will accelerate ageing, pure and simple. Fortunately, we can do something about it. Mature skin needs to have hydration sealed into the skin. It needs to be energised, hydrated and protected. In the heart of winter, your skin needs extra support to retain moisture, so it’s important to incorporate a night cream or rich day cream into your winter skincare routine. But hydration is only half the story. I have a great deal of respect for Jan Sarre-Smith, the founder of Janesce Skincare, who continues to

at the height of her powers – a true example of what it can mean to age beautifully. Read more at www.jamele.co.nz/ janesce-reenergise-renew-cream

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Kiwis to celebrate International Yoga Day Hundreds of thousands of Kiwis will celebrate international yoga day on June 21, Yoga NZ chair Heather Robinson says. Yoga is practised by more than 400,000 Kiwis at more than 500 yoga studios and classes around New Zealand, making it one of the fastest growing physical activities in the country. ExerciseNZ continues to support yoga through Yoga NZ, and the annual national hauora yoga conference. Yoga teacher education featured in Exercise NZ’s annual roadshow which was held in Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Napier, Palmerston North, Wellington, Dunedin and Christchurch over the past week. International Yoga Day has been celebrated on June 21 every year, since 2015, after it was declared by the United Nations General Assembly. The ﬁrst Yoga Day was marked with 35,985 people, along with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and

dignitaries from 84 countries performing 21 yoga activities in New Delhi. Understanding of the beneﬁts of yoga continue to grow. Heather says yoga can decrease stress, anxiety and help with depression. “Yoga is known for its ability to ease stress and promote relaxation. Studies have proved the effect of yoga on stress. “Studies show that yoga may help improve heart health, which is an essential component of overall health reduce several risk factors for heart disease and improve heart conditions alone or in combination with a healthy lifestyle. “It also improves quality of life. Yoga is becoming increasingly common as an adjunct therapy to improve quality of life for many individuals. “Yoga NZ supports all teachers, practitioners and studios who involve themselves with the special event on June 21,” Heather says.

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How are your joints? (Part 2) Before starting a new Joint Health Programme you should think about the level of both pain/comfort and how this affects mobility and score that out of 10. Each month you can then review and rate your progress. This is particularly helpful when more than one joint is affected by arthritis. Joint pain and subsequent loss of mobility can come from several sources. Firstly there is the damage caused by some trauma or injury. Secondly are the arthritic changes to joints resulting in cartilage loss. The third source of pain is inflammation. The main function of cartilage is to allow for smooth movement of the bones in the joint. Cartilage acts like a shock absorber, especially in weight bearing joints and also helps to protects bones. As cartilage is lost this exposes the ends of bones. While cartilage has no nerves, bone certainly does and can contribute to the pain we feel. In my experience the benefits people feel in the first 3-6

months are more likely to be from reducing inﬂammation than any structural changes in the joint. By way of example I have been helping someone with osteoarthritis in a knee and a thumb. I created a personalised joint health programme that included high doses of Omega 3 ﬁsh oil and a double dose of my joint formula. These higher doses delivered 1600mg of both high grade chondroitin sulphate and glucosamine sulphate and 400mg of a 95 per cent pure curcumin extract from turmeric. After

just three months her knee had improved to becoming largely pain free and her thumb which caused 7/10 discomfort now 4/10 and continuing to improve. For more information give me a call or email j ohn@abundant.co.nz. You can read my all new newsletter at www.abundant.co.nz John Arts is a qualiﬁed nutritional medicine practitioner and founder of Abundant Health. Contact John on 0800 423 559. To read more go to www.sunlive.co.nz

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Making it through winter Winter tends to mean higher electricity bills, but if you are struggling to keep up with them, Work and Income may be able to help you through the colder months. If you are on the main beneﬁt and there is something you need and you can’t afford to pay for it right now, like an overdue power bill or a heater for your home, you may be able to get

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some of your beneﬁt paid ahead of time. A Special Needs Grant can help with urgent things that you really don’t have any other way to pay for, like emergency medical care, bedding, or food bills. You won’t usually have to pay this back but there are conditions. For more information and additional ways Work and Income can help, visit their website.

Controlling household mold Mould is a common household problem caused by the presence of moisture in poorly ventilated areas. Everything from breathing to washing to cooking causes moisture to build up, and if it is not controlled, mould will start to grow. A dry, well-aired house or ﬂat is easier to heat and healthier for you and your family. To keep mould at bay open windows and doors when you’re home, open windows so steam can escape from cooking or bathing, open curtains early in the morning and close them when the sun goes down and keep lids on pots when cooking. Remember to wipe condensation off walls and windows when it happens, hang washing outside to dry, open windows when using a clothes drier so moisture can escape, and dry clothes and shoes before putting them away. Leave wardrobes slightly open for ventilation, keep the shower curtain hanging inside the shower or bath so water doesn’t drip on the ﬂoor and wash the curtains every few weeks. Use an electric heater rather than gas, which creates a damp heat, pull beds and furniture away from the

walls so they can breathe, and keep only a few plants inside. To remove any mould, wash with diluted household bleach as soon as it appears, as it’s harder to remove once it has been there a while. Use a clean sponge or cloth when washing off mould and rinse it often to reduce the risk of it spreading.

Staying dry indoors even if it’s chilly outside Staying warm and dry over winter is a top priority. It’s also important to remember to stay safe. Remember the one-metreheater rule. All clothing, bedding, furniture and curtains must be at least one metre away from fireplaces and heaters. Are your children fascinated with the fireplace? Keep the little fire-starting tools, like matches and lighters, away from the reach of little fire-starting children.

Have you checked your smoke alarms? It’s a good idea to have a smoke alarm installed in every living area and bedroom, not just a couple of places throughout the house. Make sure they are properly alarmed, and test them all, replacing dead batteries. How old is your electric blanket? If it’s more than ﬁve years old, it’s time to replace it.

Make sure, after cooking meals on the stovetop, that you give it a good clean. Removing fats and grease will minimise the risk of starting a flash fire. Are you using your clothes drier frequently? Remember to make sure the filter is clear of lint. When using the dryer refrain from overloading it so that the warm air can circulate freely. Keep warm and keep safe at the same time.

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Keeping your house warm and dry Simple activities like cooking, showering and hanging washing inside can cause a build-up of unhealthy moisture. The good news is that it’s easy to get rid of. Housing NZ report that eight litres of moisture builds up in Kiwi homes each day. For a dry and healthy home this winter make sure to wipe any moisture or drips off windows and walls, open windows in the mornings, while showering or cooking, and hang washing outside to dry, if possible, or in a room with a door closed and windows open. A dry home is easier to heat. The more moisture there is in the air, the harder and more expensive it is to heat. To make it easier and cheaper to

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heat a home, open curtains during the day to let warmth in and close them just before dark to keep the warmth in. Stop cold air getting into your home by stopping draughts around doors and windows, and heat your home using thermostats and timers so your heaters only come on when you need them. To help keep a home warm and dry, while cooking, keep lids on pots, and make sure the pot fits the element and the lid fits the pot. In the bedrooms keep beds and furniture away from walls, leaving a gap so air can circulate freely. Trapped air can cause condensation to form between the two, and mould will be in among your shoes and clothes before you know it. Keep wardrobe doors slightly open, and avoid putting mattresses directly on the floor.

Make sure your pets are warm too It’s ofﬁcially winter and SPCA is urging animal owners to take special care of their pets during the colder days. With temperatures dropping below zero in some parts of New Zealand this winter, it’s important to make sure your animals are safe from the cold, rainy and harsh elements. Over winter, about one-ﬁfth of the total number of animal welfare complaints reported to SPCA involve shelter related issues, like no shelter or inadequate shelter being provided to animals. The most commonly reported animal involved in shelter complaints are dogs (66 per cent) followed by goats (10 per cent) and horses (8 per cent).

“Make sure that your pet has somewhere warm to curl up, don’t leave your animals out in the cold, and have some rainy day enrichment activities ready to go,” says SPCA CEO Andrea Midgen. “Pay special attention to your older pets as they can find the cold weather more of a challenge, especially those with arthritis. “Remember they may find it difficult to walk on slippery surfaces, and make sure they have plenty of surface padding when sitting on their arthritic joints,” she says. SPCA reminds pet owners to keep informed

about the weather and during heavy wind and rain, bring your pet inside. A cosy bed is a must to ensure your pet has somewhere warm to curl up during the cold months. Cats love the security of a closedoff bed ‘igloo’, horses can really beneﬁt from a winter coat and don’t forget extra bedding for your small animals. Heat pads are another great way to keep your pets warm over winter. Never leave electric pads on when you are not there and always make sure your pet can move away from the heat pad if they want to.

Keeping your home dry in winter Winter brings about cold snaps, but it also bring moisture. It’s important to try and keep your home dry during winter. A dehumidiﬁer costs around $156 a year to run but if you want alternatives, the below tips are cheaper and can be just as effective. If you use a un-ﬂued gas heater, make sure that you use it safely. Research has shown that they can release gases which can be particularly dangerous for anyone with heart disease or asthma, pregnant women, young

children and older people. If you have to use one, open a window and keep all internal doors open too. Use it only for short periods and never in bedrooms. Try not to dry clothes indoors as this creates moisture in the air. Drying on the outside is free and the sunlight kills bacteria, making your clothes healthier for you and your family. Use a shed or garage if it is raining. If you must use a clothes dryer, make sure your clothes are properly spun ﬁrst and leave windows open while you are using it - or even better, vent it outside. For more tips, visit: www.msd.govt.nz

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After reading Lizzie Marvelly’s article in Saturday’s Herald, it has crossed my mind that legalising cannabis is undoing all the expensive effort that has been put in to making New Zealand smoke free by 2025, or whatever the date was going to be. Are we going to use cannabis to extract another hefty tax from smokers of this stuff or are we going to give cigarette smokers a break and cease taxing them so severely? Either way it is going to mean that there will be butts and rubbish thrown around. It will be impossible to walk down the street without being enveloped in a foul smelling cloud caused by those who smoke in public places, more young people thinking they are “cool” smoking a dangerous substance, more health problems causing added expense on already stretched DHB’s, more children of smoking parents being subjected to a poisonous and dangerous drug, the list goes on. And then, as a non-smoker, there is the lack of freedom to choose not to smoke anything ourselves.

Peter Dey (The Weekend Sun, June 14) is wrong on so many counts it’s hard to know where to start. Mr Dey should provide evidence that Parliament has formally decided that the Treaty of Waitangi is a “legally binding partnership agreement” between Maori and the Crown because I most certainly cannot recall such a vote. Justice Cooke did suggest that the Treaty did create a relationship in the nature of a partnership, but he did not suggest that that was a partnership of equals, as Peter Dey implies. Political leaders as different as David Lange and Winston Peters have dismissed as absurd the notion that Queen Victoria, head of the greatest empire the world had seen to that date, would have entered into a partnership of equals with 500 We do not have that freedom and have not had since chiefs on the far side of the world, almost none time immemorial. At least with our other legal and of whom she had ever met and most of whom equally dangerous drug, alcohol, one has to actually were illiterate. choose to imbibe it, if one is foolish enough to do Article II of the Treaty guaranteed Maori ownership so, although one could be permanently damaged by of their property, which they were entitled to sell to someone else who has imbibed alcohol or cannabis and an agent of the Queen if they so wished. decided to drive a vehicle. Of course, most of that property was sold decades Gail Webster, Greerton ago. There is not, in the Maori language version of the Treaty, any mention of forests or ﬁsheries. Mr Dey argues that the equality which Hobson’s Pledge argues for is “based on the belief that Pakeha culture is superior”. Well, it certainly was vastly Peter Dey (The Weekend Sun, June 21) clearly isn’t superior to Maori culture in 1840, with Maori keen on Article 3 of the Treaty of Waitangi which culture having no written language, no knowledge of grants equality of citizenship to all New Zealanders the wheel, and no knowledge of any metals. and he is even less keen on Don Brash mentioning it. But our argument today is not based on which It’s a funny old world where someone can be called culture was or is superior but on the simple notion divisive for advocating for democracy, equally of that there can be no racial harmony in New Zealand citizenship and supporting free speech. unless all citizens have equal political rights, and it Dey claims Article 2 gives special rights to Maori. was exactly that equality of political rights that Article A reading of the Treaty would show him that the III of the Treaty guaranteed to us all. protection of property rights under Article 2 applies Don Brash, Auckland to all of the people of New Zealand - Tangata kotoa o Nu Tirani. We need to be a country where we celebrate our The Weekend Sun welcomes letters differences, where our diversity enriches us, where from readers. Preference will be given ethnicity matters but does not bestow privilege, where to short letters (200 words maximum) supplied all citizens are united equally under the law. with full name and contact details. If we continue down the path of separatism and Email: letters@thesun.co.nz don’t unite as New Zealanders we will fail as country. For more letters go to www.sunlive.co.nz Richard Prince, Welcome Bay

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Raising the retirement issue Quite often it people of the Dame Maxwell age that want to raise the age of pension entitlement. The pension is not a right it is paid for. A portion of our tax bill is put aside to pay us the pension when we reach a pensionable age. If Muldoon hadn’t bribed the electorate all those years ago following Labours

This disgruntled mob strike at the drop of a hat when even their Labour/Socialist bosom buddies don’t want a bar of them and won’t support teachers’ demands, so seems little justification for all the media hoo-hah! Salaries range from about $48,000 to $72,000. Department heads, deputy principals and principals get considerably more, as do higher qualifications. Government looks to raise bases to $53,000 and $83,000 progressively by April 2021 which seems reasonable. Striking mid-week (I trust without pay) causes unnecessary disruption to everyone, particularly the kids. Normally five-day weeks, 8am - 4pm, no weekends, no compulsory after school activities, 12 weeks holiday, statutory holidays, plus teacher-only days, free periods and so forth with class sizes between 23 and 30 should be a breeze. Why not march at weekends? Teachers seem to apply more energy toward strikes pastime than to teaching. Old adage “those who can do those who can’t teach” (Shaw) has a ring to it. Teachers PC 2017 Code of Ethics, approved by teachers causes dissatisfaction, so it is teachers’ fault for endorsing this nonsense, cannot discipline kids, address drugs or parental control and current crop of kids could be labelled the ‘druggies decadents’ - teachers stress arises from this. Rob Paterson The Weekend Sun welcomes letters from readers. Preference will be given to short letters (200 words maximum) supplied with full name and contact details. Email: letters@thesun.co.nz For more letters go to www.sunlive.co.nz

introduction of a fully and speciﬁcally paid up retirement scheme where employees paid 5 per cent and the employer paid a further 5 per cent into the fund. A Govt with certain appendages could re-introduce such a scheme and there would be no more concerns about a pension entitlement or a need to raise the age of entitlement. Further with the higher

wages these days and the larger number of contributors the percentages of contribution could be lower. The Cullen fund would be a lot richer too if Key hadn’t stopped payments into the fund. Alastair Bourne

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Regarding your article entitled ‘Drugs sold outside mayor’s window’ [The Weekend Sun, June 7]. It is surprising that the Mayor and our Member of Parliament seem confused between criminal law and council bylaw. The reference by Bridges to the New York ‘Broken Windows’ zero tolerance policy is absolute nonsense. It has been discredited for many years. It simply placed people in jail for minor offences and moved the criminality elsewhere. Our representatives should be aware of the difference between what is criminal behaviour and what is non-compliance with council bylaws. Begging is not a criminal behaviour. Selling drugs is criminal behaviour and should be reported to the police. The council introduced the clause ‘The begging and rough sleeping bylaw’ under the Nuisance, Public Safety and Damage to Public Places Bylaw’ clause 20 (20.2 -20.3) which bans begging and rough sleeping within 5 metres of public entrances and other deﬁned areas. Enforcement of the Tauranga City bylaws are the responsibility of the council. The council cannot unilaterally decide what is criminal behaviour by passing a bylaw. Our city council has spent an enormous amount of money to make our vulnerable citizens go away. Our money - on laws that can’t be enforced effectively instead of investing in providing resources. Easier to make our homeless pariahs of our society. Carol Heena, Pyes Pa

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Get up again and Jesus will help you carry on We Catholics have a traditional devotion we call ‘The Stations of the Cross’. In this prayer, we walk with Jesus from the time he was condemned to death by Pilate, to his cruciﬁxion, through to the moment when his body is laid in the tomb. All Catholic churches have images of ‘The Stations’ around the walls. Parts of the prayer are based more on tradition than on Scripture, such as the ‘three falls’ of Jesus.

It doesn’t actually state in the Gospel accounts that Jesus fell, and yet it’s reasonable to suppose that he did, after carrying a cross (or crossbeam) from the Praetorium all the way to Calvary. It is reassuring to know that Jesus fell – for we too fall, not necessarily from the burden of the cross (although it can be), but our failings, our weaknesses, our shortcomings, our sin. Three times Jesus fell, and three times he picked himself up again. The theme of stumbling recurs in other parts of the Bible also: in Psalm 114, the psalmist is assured that God has kept “my eyes from tears and my feet from stumbling”; and in Psalm 120, we pray, “may he never allow you to stumble!” As we stumble through life, may we ﬁnd strength in these prayers, and from knowing that, when Jesus fell, he got up again and carried on… and he helps us get up again also.

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The Bible uses the picture of treasure in a jar of clay to speak about the Gospel as that treasure (if we possess it) which transforms our lives, despite the fact that we are weak and brittle like vessels or jars of clay. 2 Corinthians 4:7 reads, “But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us”. The Gospel is Good News, it is precious, it is of inestimable value, it is priceless. Why? Because it shines like a bright light in a completely dark room, bringing light, truth, knowledge & understanding – priceless treasure - where once there was only darkness, confusion, and ignorance about God. It is God who places His treasure, this Good News of Jesus Christ, into our lives by His Holy Spirit upon conversion. It is all His doing, a pure and holy work of Grace. Dear reader, be reminded that it is in the midst of our human weakness and frailty that God triumphs in our lives. This was made possible because the Son of God was crushed and pierced on our behalf. See Isaiah 53:3-7. Come to Jesus Christ and receive in Him the priceless treasure of a new life and peace with God. Richard Roodt

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Reggae fever and three narcs I write this just as the first line-up announcement for next year’s One Love Festival has been made. And very impressive it is too. You’ve probably come across the initial list of bands by now: Sean Paul of Jamaican dancehall fame; Common Saints; Etana; Third World; Katchafire; Sons Of Zion; L.A.B.; Ardijah; Nesian Mystic; Ria Hall and of course many many more. It makes me wonder... For years, decades even, Tauranga was associated with jazz. Twenty years ago usually the first question Tauranga musicians were asked around the country would be about the jazz festival. But that was before there were quite so many festivals. Even the smallest town seems to have one of some sort these days so the National Jazz Festival – going from strength to strength though it is – doesn’t stand out quite as much. Auckland and Wellington both now have bigger jazz events. But the One Love Festival is certainly the biggest reggae festival in the country, looking likely to sell out for a fifth year in a row, and it’s here in Lil ol’ Tauranga where the living is easy, the fish are jumping and the traffic is highly congested. Perhaps Tauranga will soon be known as New Zealand’s Home of Reggae...?

New single

Coincidentally next week sees the launch of a new single by excellent local reggae band Direct Descendants. You’ll find the five-piece Mount Maunganui band at the Mount Social Club on Saturday, June 29, from 9.30pm onwards, though you might want to secure tickets in advance ($10 from the Social Club or www.eventfinda.co.nz) as it seems probable the event will sell out before the $15 ones go on sale on the door. But the big midwinter reggae event isn’t until the end of next month when the The Good Vibes Festival arrives at the Baypark Arena on July 27. The Good Vibes Festival was the “warm-up party” for the One Love Festival in Tauranga this year and rather than waiting ‘till 2020 they’re putting the show on the road. The Good Vibes Winter Tour will feature some of Aotearoa’s most-loved acts, including Katchafire, L.A.B, Tomorrow People and 1814, alongside international acts

lives in Waihi these days where he has a recording studio, doing some interesting work there with singer Sarah Spicer and more recently legendary singer/songwriter Shona Laing. Tickets for The Narcs are $30 on www.eventﬁnda.co.nz watusi@thesun.co.nz

The Narcs playing Saturday 28, at the HistoricVillage. Josh Wawa and LaTasha Lee. Tickets are already on sale. Now, leaving aside reggae, let’s get back to next week... Back in town at the Historic Village, The Jam Factory is also likely to sell out as a very special intimate show hits town. Eighties legends The Narcs have been up and active again for the past couple of years and, following a string of summer gigs along with Aussie band Pseudo Echo, have decided to pull back the veil, strip things down and rediscover a bunch of lesserknown moments from the bands’ back catalogue and side projects over the last 39 years. As well as the hits of course.

Unplugged

Thus, on Saturday 28 June, at the Village, you have The Narcs’ ‘unplugged, acoustic-based, with no drums.’ Over the past four decades The Narcs have cemented their place in New Zealand music history with their classic Kiwi-rock sound, sort of a fusion of South Island chops and Sydneyinspired rock. They played their ﬁrst gig in Christchurch way back in 1980, and throughout that decade had a string of hits, including “Heart and Soul”, “Lazy Susan” and “Diamonds on China”, as well as a couple of classic Kiwi albums, The Great Divide (1984) and its selftitled follow-up in 1986. But the band hasn’t just been wallowing in nostalgia and last year started recording again, releasing two new singles, “Summerhill Stone” and “Not Over”, both of which take one straight back to the Narcs’ sound of old. For the show next week there will be just the three Narcs: singer/guitarist Andy Dickson, bass player Tony Waine, and local man Liam Ryan on the keys (and presumably some singing). Liam – who is the current brain behind the Youth Jazz Band Competition at Easter’s Jazz Festival –

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Witty, insightful and entertaining Also featuring music by Franck, Duruﬂé, Gounod and Fauré

Directed by

Nigel Williams Featuring Douglas Mews, organist Angus Simmons, baritone Anna Simmons, soprano

Saturday 29 June 7:30pm St Peter’s in the City, 130 Spring Street, Tauranga Order tickets from www.taurangacivicchoir.org.nz/tickets $30 per adult

The wry comedy ‘After Dinner’, written by Andrew Bovell and directed by Geraldine Broderick, criss-crosses the hearts of ﬁve individuals caught in their own tragic states of loneliness and upheaval.

as she fusses and complains. She risks increasingly isolating herself by being a miserable shrew, but instead of disliking her, we are drawn in by Paula’s desire to see her happy. Paula’s sweetness is a counterbalance to Stephen’s sleaze. This is Courtney Smith’s first outing as an actor in a 16th Ave Theatre production, after working front of house It’s an insightful, unhinged mess of for many previous shows. insecurity set in 1980s Australia and serves She brings a superbly nuanced, dewyup some savage wit. eyed and unpretentious portrayal as her Work colleagues Dympie (Shelley Francis), character asserts herself and is the only one Paula (Courtney Smith) and Monika (Sarah to come out with a sense of independent Bate) are out at a suburban pub bistro on a self. She acts selflessly towards Dympie Friday night for dinner and to listen to the despite her friend’s destructive and toxic band. At a nearby table, Gordon (David behaviour, whereas the others show the Guy) and Stephen (Alan Williscroft) are effects of loneliness and the need for a Paula, Monika and Dympie. doing the same. significant other. Gordon’s wife has just left him and he wants to engage in Alan slides into Stephen’s surprisingly complex character with a emotionally raw conversation with the seemingly cocky Stephen, who subtlety of timing, striking the balance between tragedy and comedy. he is meeting for the first time through a mutual friend Brendan. His accomplished smooth delivery as he interacts with each of the Brendan never shows up for this night of male bonding. other very different characters is an essential ingredient to the play’s Gordon and Stephen couldn’t be more different, both in pace. We love Gordon until the very end when he delivers a brutal temperament and background, providing great fodder for comedic line to Stephen’s departing figure. It’s funny but tragically sad and confusion as they misinterpret each other. The gag extends further the moment brings an outburst of laughter from the audience, only with the girls’ misunderstanding. to stay in the after-show’s reflective thoughts as we realise Gordon’s David’s facial expressions as he overhears the girls’ conversation and emotional self is still trapped by a damaging childhood experience. fumbles with the condiments, nearly steals the show at the start, with The insightful characters, who have been immersed in their own the delightful slightly ‘Mr Bean’ quality he brings to his performance. emotional pain, are well-written, with such compassion that, as an Monika’s husband recently died and she is venturing out for the audience, we want every one of them to succeed. first time in years, as her husband preferred nights in. She’s a massive Hats off to the theatre’s production team with a well-designed set bubble of suppressed turmoil and resentment ready to burst, and capturing that 80s feel. burst she does, going from being nervous, to devastated, to boisterous Costuming too has been well thought out and enhances each and highly unrestrained. character’s insecurities and desire to belong. When the band finally plays, She raises eyebrows, not only with her companions but also with we are given a treat, with music from Rick Jensen’s ‘Spring Harvest’. the audience. Becoming more inebriated, we catch glimpses of Joanna Great job by a great cast, director and crew. Lumley from ‘Absolutely Fabulous’, thanks to Sarah’s glorious portrayal. ‘After Dinner’ runs from June 14-29 at 16th Ave Theatre. Dympie’s controlling streak barely hides her brittle need to belong, Rosalie Liddle Crawford

An all-French affair in the Bay The Tauranga Civic Choir is delighted to present their second concert for 2019, an all-French affair with the wellknown Requiem by Gabriel Fauré as the main work on the programme. The choir will be accompanied on the organ by one of New Zealand’s ﬁnest organists, Douglas Mews. The Tauranga Civic Choir prides itself on promoting new and emerging vocal talent and for this performance the choir will be joined by the new husband-and-wife team of Anna and Angus Simmons. Anna and Angus are both completing postgraduate musical studies in Auckland and they hope to continue their studies overseas in the future. Tauranga Civic Choir is delighted to offer Anna and Angus this performance opportunity, especially as they have family connections to Tauranga.

Also in the programme are a few shorter pieces by Fauré and his fellow countrymen Charles Gounod, César Franck and Maurice Duruflé. Douglas Mews will get the opportunity to show the versatile St Peter’s Church pipe organ to good effect when he performs the majestic organ Chorale Number 1 in E major by César Franck, after which the choir will sing his very well-known Panis Angelicus. Gounod’s fine anthem O Divine Redeemer completes the first half of the concert. The second half of the programme is given over to one of the most revered and respected choral works, Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem. Tauranga Civic Choir present Requiem at St Peter’s Church, corner of Cameron Rd and Spring St, on June 29 from 7.30pm. Tickets cost $30 and are available by cash or Eftpos at the door.

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Gearing up for Country Music Awards There is also a song writing section The 34th annual Te Puke Country with some great compositions entered. Music Club Music Awards are being Two top bands will be backing the held on Saturday, June 29 at Te Puke contestants at Te Puke Baptist Church and six judges will be observing Baptist Church on Station Road. With some 160 entries, these awards continue to be one of the premier events on the country music scene in New Zealand. The auditions start at 8am and continue through to 4pm, and the ﬁnals concert will commence at 7pm. There are 18 different sections ranging from western junior, intermediates, seniors, gospel, country rock, traditional groups and golden oldies, plus a special dazzling diamonds section for over 75s which is proving very popular.

and picking the ﬁnalists, who will go on to the evening show. Public admission to the auditions is

$5, while the ﬁnal concert is just $20. This will be an awesome array of country music artists and everyone is very welcome to attend. Food and drink will be available all day. For more information, contact Geoff on: 573 7917 or: 027 278 0502.

Tauranga Citizens Club

Fill a bag for a good cause A fundraiser is taking place at the Arataki Community Centre this Sunday to help fight period poverty. The Good Fund have organised the Tauranga fill-a-bag event, where expectant mothers or people who need baby clothes can fill a bag with as many baby clothes as they wish and the only cost is a $10 entry fee. All funds raised will go towards The Good Fund, an organisation helping menstruating women in need all over New Zealand access reusable sanitary items. Period poverty affects women from all backgrounds and earning abilities without prejudice. Disposable products are not only unsustainable on an individual level, and a community level, they are also polluting our environment. The Good Fund aim to reimburse up to fifty per cent of the cost of reusable menstrual products to those struggling or unable to invest in the future of their period. Co-founder of The Good Fund Kimberli Schuitman says over the course of a lifetime of periods, a person can spend an average of $3000 on more than 9000 disposable menstrual products. “If they are not able to afford these products, they must ask for help, over and over, every single month. “This can be soul destroying for those who live on the poverty line. “These disposable period products can take 500800 years to break down in landfill when exposed to the right conditions, however modern-day landfills are fundamentally anaerobic meaning little air and no water gets in, so nothing breaks down.” Irrespective of a person’s financial situation, they all deserve choice in their menstrual product solution and they deserve to be able to make that choice for themselves. For those that want to use sustainable menstrual products, The Good Fund offers choices.

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Saturday 22 June

Ten

Papamoa Country Music Club

Join Inzpire Dance Company for something extraordinary, as they celebrate 10 years. 3:30pm & 7:30pm Addison Theatre. www.baycourt.co.nz for tickets.

Art on the Strand

Original Art for sale. Weather permitting. 9:30am-4pm. Tauranga Society of Artists Inc

At ZEE Market

Club day at Gordon Spratt Reserve at 1pm Music with afternoon tea. Ph Mike 0274 597 505

Papamoa Lions Club Market

2nd & 4th Sunday Gordon Spratt Reserve, Parton Rd, Papamoa. Gates open 7am for stall holder entry. Wayne 027 974 5699

The Sociables

Today we have an array of stalls lining the street of the Historic Village, handmade, handcrafted, home made, come along 10am-2pm

A group for females & males in their 30s/40s/50s age group that meet up for dining, bushwalks or local activities. Ph 022 012 0376

Bay Network Singles Club

Quakers in Tauranga

Village Radio Museum

Single, over 50? For weekend dinners, barbeques, outings. Ph Jonathan 572 2091, Maureen 021 112 3307

Community Radio broadcasting nostalgic music & Community Notices seven days on 1368 KHz AM Band. Radio Museum open from 10am. Request line 571 3710

Greerton Hall Market

Last Saturday of the month. 8am12pm. Stalls inside/outside. Discounts for charity groups. Refreshments available. Ph/txt for site. Tricia 543 1487 or 027 908 2952, www facebook.com/ greertonhallmarket

Sunday 23 June Bible Seminar

1:45pm Greerton Senior Citizen’s Hall, Maitland St, Greerton. Title: The story of Samuel-God’s prophet. Interactive, Q&A. All welcome. Mary 573 5537

Huge Book Fair

Today 9-5, Sun 9-3, Te Puke Memorial Hall. Another Te Puke Kiwicoast Lions Project.

Bible Society Family Concert

Entertainment for the whole family. Tauranga SDA Church 25 Moffat Rd Bethlehem. Showcasing local talent & Performances. July 28th 2pm-3:30pm

Katikati Bowling Club

8 Park Road. 12:45-3pm

Katikati Lions Moggies Market

2nd Sat of month Katikati Memorial Hall, Main Road 8am-Noon. Enquiries 549 3589

In hall behind Brain Watkins House, cnr Elizabeth/Cameron Rd 10am for an hour of mainly silent worship followed by tea/coffee & talk 544 7158 or 573 8497 www.quaker.org.nz

Radio Controlled Model Yachts

Sundays & Thursdays 1:30-4, in pond behind 24 Montego Drive Papamoa, sailing Electron Yachts for fun. Adult beginners welcome. Graham 572 5419

Sunday Stitch

Textile Workshop First Sunday of every Month. 10-12pm. $10. Create treasures from old fabric. Material supplied. The Artery, Tauranga Historic Village. More info: www.theincubator.co.nz

Tauranga Spiritual Growth Centre

Meet the mediums & energy healers. Citz Club, 14 Norris St. Every 2nd & 4th Sunday, 6:45pm. $5 door charge

BOP Oodle Club

Pups in Shorts: dogs wearing shorts & a playdate. Fergusson Park. 2-3pm. Special playdate raising funds for Waipuna Hospice. See Facebook page for more info.

LOL Laughter Wellness

We don’t laugh because we’re happy, we’re happy because we laugh! Come join us. Arataki Community Ctr, Zambuk Way, Mt Maunganui. 11-11:45am. Ph Trish 022 036 6768 lollaughterwellness@gmail. com

Brett’s Goalkeeping Clinic

Free goalkeeping skills & drills at Waipuna Park 9-11am. Keepers bring their own gloves & drink with them. Cancellations on Brett’s Facebook page.

Computer Club (Tga) Inc

TeWhanau O Matariki Exhibition

Group Exhibition celebrating Matariki. The People’s Gallery - Toi ka rere. Open daily until 23rd June

Oliver! The Musical

Chess In The Afternoon

Drop-In Clinic 10am-12pm, no appointment necessary. Advice or support for anyone living with diabetes & their families. 174 11th Ave, Tauranga. INFOline 571 3422 info@diabeteshelp.org.nz

1st & 3rd Sunday every month. 17th Ave Tauranga. 8-12 wet or ﬁne. Crafts, plants, health, merchandise, food. A Bethlehem Lions Project.

1pm Tuesday & Saturday 45 Kawaka St, Club Mt Maunganui. No Equipment needed, come & try this low-impact sport. Jo Ann 578 3606

Harmony-A-Plenty (Mens Barbershop)

We entertain locally, compete nationally yearly, & are afﬁliated to a worldwide organisation. Specialist coach singing lessons at 7pm 183 Moffatt Rd. Ph Alan 282 8435

Living Well Church

10am, Papamoa Community Centre. We are of different backgrounds & ages, joining together to celebrate the life we have in Jesus.

Sheep Themed Competition

Get your creative juices ﬂowing & create something sheepy! Public exhibition + voting. Great Prizes for young + old. Entries ﬁnish 30th June. Info: atriumgallerynz@gmail.com

Maketu Market

Let’s Learn Lifelong Learning

3rd & 5th Sundays 7am12pm, Maketu Village Green. Ph Carolyn 027 251 0388 or Pat 021 447 420

Sunshine Sequence Dance Group

Are you a lifelong learner? Check out the range of courses, workshops, classes, lectures, lessons & events on www. letslearn.co.nz or ph 544 9557

NZDA BOP Range Day

Come & enjoy tea dance, Sat June 29, Baptist Church Hall, 13th Ave. 5-9pm. $5pp. BYO food, plates, cutlery, non alcoholic drinks. Jan 544 4379

Tauranga Scottish Society Sequence

Dance, Wesley Church Hall, 100 13th Ave, 7-10pm, Entry $7 includes supper & rafﬂes, warm welcome. Ph Lucy 07 218 1318

Mount Chess Club, 1-4 pm, Hillier Centre, 31 Gloucester Rd Mt Maunganui. $4 a session. Equipment & refreshments provided. Bob 0274 786 282

Diabetes Help Tauranga

Historic Village Market

Petanque

Chess At Mount Maunganui

Croquet

Held every Sunday 9-1pm rain or shine! Right in the middle of Mount Mainstreet at Coronation Park, Maunganui. www.mountmainstreet.nz

Adult tennis. Start time 1pm. Bellevue Park Windsor Rd (adjacent to swimming pool complex). New players & visitors welcome. Ph Fred 544 5088

Open meeting 10am Mon & Fri. Tauranga Central Baptist Church. Cnr 13th Ave/Cameron Rd. All welcome. Ph 0800 229 6757

At Art & Craft Centre, Elizabeth St West on last Sunday of month 9:30-12:30. Ph 572 1230

Farmers Market - Mount Mainstreet

Otumoetai Tennis Club

Alcoholics Anonymous

Mount RSA Chess Club, 544 Maunganui Rd, 6-7pm during school term. Late program 7pm onwards. Incl casual games. Noel 579 5412

Tauranga Domain, Cameron Rd, 12:45 for 1pm start, Sun, Tues, Fri. Beginners welcome. Peter 571 0633

Tauranga Boys’ & Girls’ Colleges present their combined musical, Oliver! Graham Young Youth Theatre 25-29 June www.oliverthemusical.co.nz

Monday 24 June

Mah-Jong

NZDA BOP branch run public open days last Sunday each month at their 300m range in TECT All Terrain Park. 9am-3pm $20 bring ﬁrearms licence

12:30-4pm, visitors & beginners welcome. Free teaching available. Tauranga South Bowling Club, 11th Ave. Ph Shirley 576 0014

Omokoroa Lions Market

Maketu Market

2nd Sunday monthly. Western Ave Car Park, Omokoroa. 9am-noon. Bookings not required. Ph Keith 548 2117

3rd and 5th Sundays 7am-12pm, Maketu Village Green. Ph Carolyn 027 251 0388 or Pat 021 447 420

Marlin Friendship Club

Meets Omanu Golf Club on 2nd Mondays at 9:45am. Friendly mixed membership club with regular social activities. Take part & meet people.

Matariki Glow Show

A giant scale puppet show for 3-10 year olds with magical glow-in-the-dark characters from Maori myth & legend. Baycourt today & Tuesday 10am & 11:30am. www.baycourt.co.nz for tickets

Mount RSA Indoor Bowls

Monday & Thursday. Names in by 6:30 play starts at 7pm. All welcome come to our friendly club & enjoy yourself. Ph Mary 574 2873

Movie Fundraiser Salvation Army

6pm Tauranga Crossing. “The Least Of These” PG13. Proceeds to caring for people, transforming lives & reforming society. Supper provided, spot prizes.

Never 2 Old

Strength/balance classes & workouts for over 55s. Mon, Wed & Fri 7:30am9am. Ph Keith 557 8765

Omokoroa Beach Indoor Bowls

Omokoroa Settlers Hall, 1pm for 1:30pm start. $3 door fee, ﬁrst session free. All equipment provided. Ph 548 1636

Raranga - Weaving

Weekly get together 10-3pm. Raranga weavers, motivating each other. Bring own materials. $5 Koha. The Artery, Tauranga Historic Village. more info: www.theincubator.co.nz

Te Puke/Papamoa Floral Art

Meets 1pm Methodist Hall Oroua St, Te Puke. All welcome. Ph Val 573 7804

Te Roopu Raranga Weaving

Weekly get together for Raranga weavers. Plenty of space to work collectively , motivating & inspiring each other. The Artery, Historic Villiage, 10-3. $5 Koha

Vision Friendship Club (FNZI)

Meets 4th Monday each month at Citizens Club. 10-12. Varied activities. Interested? Ph Bryan 570 2483

Welcome Bay Art Group

9:30-12 at Lighthouse Church meeting room next to Welcome Bay Road Village Shops. Ph Denis 544 6451

Tuesday 25 June

ABC-Avenues Badminton Club

At Tauranga Boys College Gym. Juniors 6-7:30pm (term time). Seniors (Adults) 7:30-9:30pm. Club racquets available. Delwyn 027 212 4720

Alcoholics Anonymous

Open meeting, 7:30pm St Peters Anglican Church, 11 Victoria Rd, Mt Maunganui. All welcome. Ph 0800 229 6757

Arataki Coastal Club

At Arataki Community Centre 9:30am for retirees, 2nd Tuesday of the month for morning tea, guest speakers, outings & activities. Ph 572 2908

Art & Craft Workshops

ArtyCraft presents art & craft workshops Tues & Thur 4-6 at St Enoch’s Presbyterian Church. Ph Minette 021 995 875

Seido Karate Tauranga

Age 7 & up, all abilities. Keep ﬁt, learn self defense, meet friends, free trial period. Tauranga Primary Hall, Mon & Thurs 6pm. Ph/txt Cameron 027 518 8356

Silver Singers Choir

Conductor, soprano, alto, tenor, bass voices welcome. Practise at St Stephens Chapel 1pm. Ph Gaynor 579 2465

Taichi Internal Arts NZ

Tai Chi Beginner Class, Greerton Senior Citizens Hall, 33 Maitland St. 9:30-11am $5. All Welcome. Includes Qigong. In association with Sport BOP. David 552 4425

Taoist Tai Chi

Beginners Tai Chi classes Mon-Sat Tauranga, KatiKati, Mount, Papamoa & Te Puke. Great for stress, balance, ﬂexibility. Friendly group. For times & venues please ph 578 9116

Beginner Social Dance Class

7pm Tauranga Primary School Hall, 5th Ave or Wed 8pm, Welcome Bay School Hall, 309 Welcome Bay Rd. Ph 544 2337 or 027 322 1786

Bureta Garden Circle

Bureta Garden Circle’s monthly meeting at St John’s Church Hall, 94 Bureta Rd, Otumoetai at 1:30pm. Visitors welcome. Ph Jenny 576 3026

Dads’ Support Group

Support Group for Dads from 7:30pm at Kidz Need Dadz, 538 Fraser St Greerton. Support for separated Dads

Falun Dafa Free Classes

Physical improvement bound to accompany positive mind changes using this gentle qigong. 7pm Hillier Centre 31 Gloucester Rd Bayfair. Ph/text Judy 021 0425 398

Fitness League

Tauranga City Brass

Practise at 10 Yatton St Greerton at 7pm. All welcome. Brass & Percussionists. Ph Jeremy 021 132 3341

Cardio, weights, ﬂoor work, balance work, & a bit of dance. 9:30am at St Columba Church, 502 Otumoetai Rd, Cherrywood. Ph Gloria 021 139 2448

Tauranga RocknRoll Club

Friends Of The Library

Lessons 6:45pm & social dancing 7:30pm at Legion of Frontiersmen Hall, 165 Elizabeth St. Ph Rana 027 699 5571 or FBook: taurangarocknrollclub

Tauranga Senior Citizens Club

CARDS 500 Mon & Thurs. INDOOR BOWLS Tues, Wed & Sat.14 Norris St(behind Pak n Save) 12:45pm for 1pm start. Entry $2 includes afternoon tea. New members welcome.

Mt Maunganui Library Book Group meets at 10am. Topic this month is The Netherlands (ﬁction, non-ﬁction or Dutch author). Visitors, new members welcome. Gail 574 3376

Inachord Womens’ Chorus

If you like to sing dance & have fun, join us! Great Musical Director! 7-9pm Bethlehem Community Church, 183 Moffat Rd. Ph Sabine 021 111 8659

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Quite a busy week, with a fair variety of conditions encountered. Monday was good fishing and conditions. Tuesday was brilliant, flat calm all day, and good fishing for the 20+ from Otumoetai College. Wednesday was a bit sloppier than the forecast given, but still reasonable fishing. The SW was strong enough to keep us closer to Motiti on Saturday, but eased enough to get out to the deeper water, where the tarakihi were going well, along with a mix of red snapper, trevally and some snapper. Sunday was another very good day. Great to see!

G N I H S I F A I D E SUNM K C A P E Z I R P is coming your way!

Carter Montgomery, age 7, with a nice Snapper that he caught in the harbour out fishing with his Dad and Opa.

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Beginners class 6:307:30pm at Gate Pa Primary School hall, Cameron Rd. All ages welcome, no partners required. Ph Maria 022 165 2114

outings, numerous activities. All welcome. Ph Nancy 543 4468

Tauranga Model Railway Club

Keep On Your Feet

Club meets Tues mornings & Thurs evenings at clubrooms, cnr Mirrilees Rd & Cross Rd, Sulphur Pt. Ph Mike 021 939 233

Marching For Leisure

Keep ﬁt the fun way. Play badminton at the QE Youth Ctr Tues & Thurs 9-11:30am. Visitors $6. Some racquets available. Bob 0274 786 282

10:30-11:30am & 1-2pm at Katikati Catholic Church hall, 89 Beach Rd, Katikati. Strength & balance classes for older adults. Sharnie 021 111 8617 A non-competitive activity for mature ladies. Fun, Fitness & Friendship. For Tauranga teams’ details ph Frances 07 544 1318 or 021 297 3407

Meet The Catholics

Learn what Catholics believe compared to other Christian faiths. Includes a tour of the church. St Mary’s Catholic Church, 114 Elizabeth St @7pm. www.facebook.com/TaurangaMoanaInterfaith/

Mount Morning Badminton

9-11:30am. Mt Sports Centre, Blake Park. Social, all ages, racquets available, beginners welcome. $5 day. Ph Margaret 575 9792

Mt Runners & Walkers

Mt Maunganui Runners & Walkers Club meet every Tues & Fri 9:3010:30am, Scout Hall, 13 May St. All welcome. Babysitters available. www. mtrunnersandwalkers.co.nz

Omokoroa Beach Indoor Bowls

Omokoroa Settlers Hall 6:30pm for 7pm start. $3 door fee (ﬁrst session free). Equipment provided. All Welcome. Ph 548 1636

Otumoetai Tennis Club

Adult tennis. Start time 9am Tues & Thurs. Bellevue Park Windsor Road (adjacent to swimming pool complex). New players & visitors welcome. Ph Pam 570 0302

Otumoetai Walking Group

Meet at 9am at Kulim Park. Ph Jim 576 7339

Proactive 4 Health

Strength & balance classes at Proactive4Health Physio, Papamoa Plaza. 2-3pm. For those >65 or falls risks. Ph Proactive4Health for more info 0800 868 259

Read Between The Wines

Poetry Group meets last Tuesday of every month. 7-9pm $5 Koha. BYO poems & wine, relaxed vibe. The Incubator, Historic Village. More info: www.theincubator.co.nz

Scrabble

New venue is Tga Citz Club 13th Ave. New time 9:50am. All levels most welcome. Come & use that brain power! Ph Jo Ann 578 3606

Sequence Dancing

Tauranga Social & Leisure Club, St John Anglican Church Hall, 94 Bureta Rd Otumoetai, 7pm-9:30pm except 2nd Tues of month 3:30-6. Faye 543 3280

South City Indoor Bowls

7:30pm Battle of Sexes. Names in by 7:15pm.

Strength & Balance

Exercise class for over 60s to improve strength, balance & prevent falls. 11am Welcome Bay hall. $6. Ph Raewyn for more info 027 607 7437

TaiChi Internal Arts NZ

Te Puke Memorial Hall. Beginner Class Settlers Room 9:30-11am. All welcome. $5 Regular Class Pioneer Room. 9:30-11:30am $5. Ph David 552 4425

Tauranga Acoustic Music Club

Greerton RSA 7pm. Friendly gettogether, all instruments, all levels of ability. Come in & enjoy some live music. Grant 578 6448

Tauranga Astronomical Society

Doubting Plonkers, ﬂat earthers, hide. We commence celebrating mankind’s extraordinary achievement: Landing men on the Moon 50 years ago. Fergusson Park Observatory 7:30

Tauranga Diamond Friendship Club

For active retirees, meetings 1:30pm 1st Tuesday each month at Tauranga Citizens Club. Guest speakers, social

Tauranga Morning Badminton Club

Tauranga Patchwork & Quilters

1st & 3rd Tuesday 7-9:30pm & 2nd & 4th Fridays 10-3. At Arts&Craft Centre, 177 Elizabeth St. Helen 027 475 3632

Tauranga Samba Drumming Band

Percussion Band! 7:15-9:15pm. Mount Sports Hall, Cnr Hull & Mt Maunganui Rds. Ph/txt Rob 021 232 7185. No experience necessary, we teach you everything!

Tauranga Target Rifle Club

Tauranga Target Riﬂe Club 7pm April-October. Everyone welcome. Ph Ellis 578 0098

Waihi Beach Tennis Club

Adult social tennis, Tues & Fri 8:30am. All year. Casual & new players welcome. Ph Barry 027 492 6475

Western Bay Ostomy

Coffee morning @ the Raft 10:30am all Ostomates & caregivers welcome. Lorraine from Omnigon is speaking on their products. Ph Richard 573 7443

Yoga For All

Welcome Bay Community Centre, 6:30-8pm. Traditional, relaxing yoga class. Beginners welcome. $12 one or $90 nine classes. Bring a mat. Bhajan 07 929 7484

Wednesday 26 June 500 Cards Club

Join our friendly 500 club 1-3:30pm St Thomas More Church, 17 Gloucester Rd. $3 a session. Prizes plus refreshments. Bob 0274 786 282 or Barbara 572 4962

Adults Ballet Class

2pm St Peter’s Anglican Church Katikati. Posture, balance, movement, musical appreciation, French terms & enjoyment. Ph 577 1753 www.christinaproductions.co.nz

Age Concern Walking Group

10am Meet at Mount Ocean Sports Club. Mid Christmas Lunch afterwards.

Aladdin Jr School Production

ACG Tauranga invites you to come along & watch the performance, which involves almost half the school! 7pm tonight & Thurs. ACG Tauranga Sports Complex. $10

Alcoholics Anonymous

Open meeting 1st & 3rd, Wed of every month. Tauranga Central Baptist church, cnr 13th Ave/Cameron Rd. All welcome. Ph 0800 229 6757

Arabian Spice Bellydance

Beginner classes. Learn the moves, keep ﬁt, dance with us. No partner required. St Columba Church Hall. 502 Otumoetai Rd. 6:30pm. Ph 021 124 5982 arabianspicebd@gmail.com

Cards Cribbage (Crib)

Join a friendly group who meet at Tauranga RSA, Greerton any Wednesday 12:50pm. Ph Michael 562 0517

Community Bible Study

Join us @ City Church 252 Otumoetai Rd 7-9 for Bible Study on the Book of Daniel. Ph Julie 552 4068

Friends Of The Library

Meet 10am at Greerton Library. Hear Chloe Wright of the Wright Family Foundation. It’s varied initiatives that beneﬁt families, especially women & children. Pam 571 2566

Gate Pa Indoor Bowls

Champion Triples 7pm. Names in book. (Wallace Trophy)

Gate Pa Midweek Tennis Keep ﬁt, make new friends, enjoy social tennis 9-12. Don’t let the winter blues get you down. Ph Geoff 021 474 807

Healing Rooms 1-3pm

Come, experience God’s healing touch, whether physical, emotional, spiritual. Behind Graced Oppshop, cnr 11th Ave/ Christopher St. No charge. Ph 021 110 0878. www.healingrooms.co.nz

Katikati Bowling Club

8 Park Road. Mixed Roll-ups 12:453pm.

Mah Jong

Tauranga Citz Club, 13th Ave & Cameron Rd. 12:45-4. All welcome, free teaching available for beginners. Tauranga Citz Club, 13th Ave & Cameron Rd. Ph Joy 578 7310

Mt Maunganui Women’s Section

Social Day starts at 1:30pm in the Clubrooms. Entertainers are the fantastic Back Porch. Ladies requiring transport, please ph the ofﬁce. Come & enjoy. Pickleball At The Mount 10am12pm Mt Sports Ctr, Blake Park. Social, all ages, equipment supplied. Beginners welcome. $5 session Ph Viv 575 5845 Sahaja Yoga Meditation Always Free. Experience inner peace & joy. Connect to your Spiritual Essence. Sport BOP (next to Squash Courts) 406 Devonport Rd Tauranga. Ph Ian 027 884 2238 Scottish Country Dancing Mount Senior Citizens Hall 345 Maunganui Rd. Beginners 6pm, General dancing 7:30pm. Mary 574 8687 Lynne 021 140 7912 Steady As You Go Exercises at St Johns Church Hall Bureta, 2-3pm except 1st Wed of month. Improve balance & overall wellbeing. Ph Alison 07 576 4536 Taichi Internal Arts Beginner Classes. All welcome. Te Puna Rugby Club rooms, Maramatanga Park. 6-7:30pm. Te Puke Memorial Hall, 5:30-7pm. Gold coin koha. David 552 4425

Tauranga Embroiderers’ Guild

Meets at the Tauranga Rowing Club, Devonport Rd 10-2:30 & 7-9. Beginners very welcome. Ph Jenny Williams 021 581 951

Tauranga MidWeek Tramping Group Ngamuwahine shelter via

off-track route. Grade Moderate. Sheryl 574 3743

Tauranga Rotary Would-Be Members Have time, want to help

in your community? Like fun, food, enlightening speakers? Join us from 6pm, Daniels In the Park. Ph Bev 027 285 4066 Toastmasters Early Start City Early Start club. Improve communication & leadership skills. Join motivated, enthusiastic group. Classic Flyers Avgas Cafe 7am-8:15am. LaniDTM@gmail. com, www.cityearlystart.co.nz and FB

Welcome Home Spiritual Community Crystal appreciation night

with Elaine Sollitt. Bring your crystals for a night of meditation, messages & sharing knowledge St Georges Church Gate-pa 7:15pm $5. 021 126 4790 Widows’ & Widowers Club Meets at 2pm at The Arts & Crafts Centre, Elizabeth Street. Ph Margaret 576 5292 Yoga, Private Sessions Feel uncomfortable in a group setting? Or have special needs? I can design a class to speciﬁcally suit your needs & capabilities. Asunta 021 061 4394

Thursday 27 June

Adult Conversational English Classes Using the Bible. All learners

welcome @ St Andrews Church, 3 Macville Rd, Mt Maunganui, 10-12. Ph 575 9347 Tues-Fri 9-3 Age Concern AGM Hinton Lounge, Tauranga RSA, 1237 Cameron Rd. 10:15am-12pm. Guest Speaker: Tauranga City Council Chief Executive Marty Grenfell. Everyone welcome. Bay City Rockers Social RocknRoll dancing, plus other popular dances at Senior Citizens Hall Norris St. 7-9:30pm. Includes supper. $3 entry. Ph Gavin 027 643 6222

Community Bible Study Join us @ 14th

Ave Gospel Centre 10am-12pm for Bible Study on the Book of Daniel. Ph Gay 021 225 5981 Diabetes Help Tauranga Coffee group for parent/caregivers who have a children/youth with type 1 diabetes. 10am @ Graced Opp shop & Espresso Bar. 174 11th Ave, Tauranga Fitness League Exercise, movement, dance focusing on posture, stretching, strengthening & ﬂexibility suitable for all ages & abilities, 10am Tauranga Central Baptist Church Hall. Pam 07 549 4799 Katikati Bowling Club 8 Park Rd Rummikub 1-4pm, $3 entry.

Keynotes Women’s Barbershop Chorus

Meet 7pm in Wesley Hall 100 13th Ave. New members welcome, age no barrier. Sing for health. Ph Bernice 576 4848 Facebook Keynotes Inc Lighthouse Cafe 10am-12pm at Lighthouse Church Welcome Bay. Come for a chat or bring your chosen craft & have a cuppa. Ph 027 576 3105

Mainly Music Music & dance for pre-

schoolers, Mums & carers. $4 per family. Morning tea provided. 9:30-10:30am. Holy trinity Church, 215 Devonport Rd.

Mount Underwater Club Club night 1st

Thursday of month. Guest speakers & other Club events. New members welcome. See website for details www.mmuc.co.nz

Retro & Mod Sale Vintage & retro clothing, fabrics, linen etc. 9:30-1 at Historic Village. Proceeds to Turning Point Trust. Cash only. Rhythm, Foxtrot & Waltz Ballroom danc-

ing at Mt RSA Thurs 10am-12pm & Tga Citz Club on Sat afternoons. Ph 572 4272 Showquest Performing arts platform for schools, enabling schools & students from year 1-13 to showcase music, drama & dance. Tonight 5:30pm & 8pm. www. baycourt.co.nz for tickets/info Social Games Club Mt Maunganui Indoor Bowls & Cards. Have an afternoon out. New members welcome. Ph Dot 575 3780 Sunshine Sequence Dance Group Learn dancing at a friendly club. Baptist Church Hall, 13th Avenue, 6:30pm Learners tuition/revision. 7-9:30pm all dancers. $3 entrance includes supper. Jan 544 4379

Friday 28 June

Alcoholics Anonymous Open meeting 7:30pm, Hamner Clinic 1235 Cameron Rd, Greerton (behind Bridgestone). Ph 0800 229 6757 Arataki Artists Paint with friends, 9am12pm at Arataki Community Centre. Occasional tuition with local artists. All levels welcome. Ph Fran 021 136 8173 Chess Tauranga Tauranga RSA Chess Club, Greerton 5-7pm, Casual & Standard length games. Standard Chess rules. Werner 548 1111 http:/www.westernbopchess. weebly.com/ Don’t Dine Alone 65+ Ex professional or semi professional? New to area? Like dining out? This group could be for you. Ladies & Gents welcome. Email Kathy pilotbay420@ gmail.com Greerton Indoor Bowling Club Yatton St, Greerton. Names in by 7:15pm for 7:30pm start. Club Night Skating Mt Sports Stadium Skates for hire or bring your own skates/roller blades. Great family fun. For more details email taurangarollerskating@gmail or checkout our facebook page. Taichi Internal Arts NZ Te Puke Memorial Hall. Regular Tai Chi Class. Yang form plus Qigong 18 move. 9:30-11am. $5 Lok Hup Ba Fa. 11am-12. $4. David 552 4425 The Narcs Unplugged Winter tour at The Jam Factory, Historic Village, 17th Ave. 7pm. R18. Buy tickets www.eventﬁnda.co.nz

GIGGUIDE & ENTERTAINMENT JACK DUSTY’S ALE HOUSE (Bureta) Sun 23rd Self Righteous Brothers 3pm – 6pm MT RSA Fri 21st Shy & Retiring 7pm – 10:30pm Sat 22nd Gerry Lee 7pm – 10:30pm Sun 23rd Debz 4:30pm – 7:30pm MOUNT SOCIAL CLUB Fri 21st Take Two 7pm – 10pm Sat 22nd Kam Kafai 7pm Sun 23rd Play Misty 3pm – 6pm Wed 26th Jazz Jam hosted by Tauranga Jazz Society 6:30pm Thur 27th Social Jam Night 8pm

Horoscopes ARIES: Financial undertakings still demand time and meticulous attention. You and your family’s health demands care too. An old daydream may turn into reality. TAURUS: Lucky in love - at home, away, married and single. This is a good time to discuss new opportunities. Family life may be less than harmonious - best to stay in the background. GEMINI: Don’t be so obvious in romance. In business, however, be uncommonly forthright. It is easy to get immersed in personal affairs of remote acquaintances. Thursday and Sunday are lucky days. CANCER: Friendship, the platonic variety is featured now. Career promises are not fulﬁlled, yet. Family life can be hectic throughout the weekend. Don’t ﬁght it, join in the fun.

LIBRA: A recent ﬁnancial setback is reversed and life is now on the up. Show business has its place in the week’s plan - be a ham! Older persons command more attention than usual. SCORPIO: Return anything that is overdue, write overdue letters return emails promptly, then sit back and enjoy what’s left of a relaxing week. Phone messages can get twisted, so verify matters before you jump to conclusions. SAGITTARIUS: Trust your judgement rather than experiment with your hunches. Enjoy relief from recent social pressures - but only for a while. Obligations soon come calling again. CAPRICORN: Your pride may be punctured around the weekend, but avoid the blues and take on the competition. Decorating and painting are favoured.

LEO: News from far away may get you making plans. People turn to you as a source of information - you are ﬂattered, but be sure you are right. Look for shopping bargains on the weekend.

AQUARIUS: House hunting and shopping around is favoured, but decisions on purchases require added caution. Don’t put off meetings, especially with family. Parent - child relationships become more important.

VIRGO: Keep informed, you have got to be up to the moment. Yours is a supporting role now, but it brings rewards. This is a good time to review miscellaneous papers.

PISCES: This is a preview week. You get a sneak look into future happenings. An inﬂuentual person may contact you. This is a good time to think thin, then do something to get yourself into magniﬁcent shape.

Your birthday Thrift, energy, good conversation, a tendency to leave things unﬁnished and this week restlessness are what you are known for. You can gain advancement as a manager, but ﬁrst curb that restless streak.

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ACCOUNTING PAYROLL SOLUTIONS. Require assistance with your accounts, payroll, GST? We are Xero Partners & IRD Tax Agents. Call Pete today at Waihi Beach 07 863 4438 or 0274 392737 email: aps.accounts@xtra.co.nz PS&R ACCOUNTING Contact us for a free quote to have your Annual Accounts & Tax Returns completed. Ph Peter 022 136 6005 email trefusis34@gmail.com

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TOYOTA RAV4, 2002, Black, Auto, $5000. Photos on Trademe listing 2165296111. Ph 0210 256 7896

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COMPUTER GETTING you down? Problems, viruses, upgrades, internet, new or refurb PC’s tuition, or advice. Ph Bruce for a no obligation chat or quote 576 7940 or 021 260 9183 FREE ON SITE DIAGNOSIS & quote. We come to you. Pensioner discounts. Ph Kyle at Tech Solutions 027 828 7078

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A1 HOME & GARDEN SERVICES Tree pruning, weeding, hedges, waterblasting, handyman, commercial, rubbish removal. Affordable rates. Ph Philip 027 655 4265 or 544 5591

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FOUND KITTENS VARIOUS places various colours Ph SPCA 07 578 0245 Found Adult Grey/White Male Cat, Papamoa Area, Ref: 162077 Ph SPCA 07 578 0245 Found Adult Seal Point Female Birman Cat, Lower Kaimais, Ref: 162300 Ph SPCA 07 578 0245

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BOAT BUILDING repairs and maintenance. Timber & ﬁbreglass trade qualiﬁed, boat builder. Ph Shaun 021 992 491 or 07 552 0277

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Last weekend more than 20 Bay of Plenty teams took part in the Vista Foundation 48Hours, New Zealand’s largest guerrilla film-making competition. Teams all over NZ competed to make the best short film in just 24 hours. On Friday night each team was given a film genre and a list of required elements they must include in their films. Their films had to be completed by Sunday night. The films will be screened at Rialto on Friday, June 21, and winners selected.

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Daniel Bechir Urrizaga, Sarah Lean and Jaine Kirtley from Bang Bang Films.

City manager for the Bay of Plenty 48Hours Film Annie Lawler with Ostara O Cinnseala from Nutty Mosquitos.

Team Candy Floss.

Prosthetic makeup artist Sandi Cutts offered her time and talents to the Nutty Mosquitos team.

Team Candyﬂoss Clouds Productions.

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