The Weekend Sun - 30 August 2019

30 August 2019, Issue 975

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Lunchtime p8-9

Recharging Ritchie

A hidden sport p12-13

This OE includes brains p14

Tauranga toddler Ritchie Haden is only one year old and has already had 20 blood transfusions.

Ritchie is the only person in New Zealand diagnosed with his particular condition. It affects the body’s ability to make red blood cells and

Ritchie will require regular transfusions for the rest of his life.

Ritchie’s mother Claire Haden says she has a real appreciation for people who give blood, because those donations keep her precious boy alive.

“If people weren’t donating blood, we wouldn’t have our son here today. We wouldn’t have a blood match for him and he would eventually get so low his organs would shut down.”

Story continues on page 5. Photo: John Borren.

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Getting over the underpass I’ve only just come back to this neck of the woods. Last time I lived here was in the 80s and Tauranga and The Mount were two quite separate places.

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I was a self-made 16-year-old who had enough money from stacking vegetables at Woolworths to buy a Mark III Cortina and a Commodore 64 computer.

Despite these obvious symbols of success I still struggled to find girls wh shared the same values as me.

My parents were big on attending church so I knew that God loves a trier and on one occasion this divine confidence ha me following a lead all the way to Tauranga.

For some reason I didn’t drive the car. My wealth didn’t always stretch to petrol and the toll on the brand new Harbour Bridge was offensive.

Or it may have been around that time I broke the drive shaft and the repair my friend’s Dad made was not quite right.

Every time I went over 50km/h, it would rattle so hard the fillings threatened to fall out o my head.

So, dressed in my most seductive attire - Levis and a green Billabong sweatshirt - I cycled out of The Mount and across the Matapihi Rail Bridge on an 18-speed Mountain Yak. The trip was quite pleasant and quick and I remember thinking how silly it was I hadn’t done it earlier. But it was a hot day and by the time I got there I was not cool

like The Fonz. Even the liberal spray of Insignia before I left wasn’t coping with it.

She was fairly disappointed and expecting someone older or more mature, with a car. So before long I was consoling myself with a quarter chicken and chips back at Bayfair.

This was one of life’s great learning experiences.

Now I drive everywhere.

Which is great, because I’d be fresh out of luck if I wanted to cycle over there now.

I wouldn’t be sweaty, I’d be dead.

I’m not sure who made the decision at NZTA to rip out the underpass and replace it with a four-stage crossing across a two-lane roundabout. It’s not a 40-something woman with brown hair and a puzzled look on her face is it?

NZTA has almost completed it.

Once the Bayfair Pedestrian Underpass is removed, the only way to get out of Papamoa or Mount Maunganui will be by car. Which is fine if you have a car an you like waiting in line with other cars.

Now, I’m a motorist so I totally agree with NZTA on this. We shouldn’t be allowing non-motorist Mounties and Papamexicans to cross the border and steal our jobs. The last thing we need to see after grinding our way to work through the traffic is a healthy, smug, middle-ag cyclist eating gluten-free porridge in our favourite shared working space.

If they are not paying for petrol, they are not paying their share of tax.

No doubt a few people will get across in the wee small hours of the morning when traffic has die away and the city is dozing.

But it will stem the tide of cheap transport.

In the most perverse and cynical of acts – and this will appeal to sadists – NZTA has another little surprise in store for pedestrians.

It’s the big button.

The big button

Maunganui Rd was a dangerous crossing 30 years ago. Now it’s an epic adventure.

People get to the other side, beaming, with arms raised in the air pronouncing: ‘we knocked that bastard off’.

What they have done to this neighbourhood is right up there with other great barriers - that wall in China and the wall they used to have in Berlin.

The only difference between this one and the one that Trump’s building is that

Press this big button and all the traffic will stop so yo can skip across the big empty roundabout like a little kid chasing a butterfly Don’t look up though - a thousand angry eyes will burn you to a smouldering pile of ash. A stare might be the worst thing that happens but some motorists won’t stop at all. They simply won’t believe that their Government has gone to all that trouble and expense ($120 million) to make the trip to Tauranga great again, only to make them stop and wait for button pushing bi-peds trying to get across the road. daniel@thesun.co.nz

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Why did the turtle cross the road? They don’t have to in Wisconsin where they built an underpass beneath Highway 66 to cut down on high turtle mortality rates. Dozens of little lives have been saved.

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Battle lines drawn

Protesters make their views known at Bayfair on Sunday. Photo: Daniel Hines.

“Why did the chicken cross the road?

Because there’s no underpass.”

One wag’s placard at the Bayfair underpass protest last weekend – an issue which has been absorbing Tauranga all week and promises to fester on.

The heavily graffitied Bayfair underpass is a crucial piece of pedestrian and cycling infrastructure that NZTA plans to rip out next month as the Bayfair flyover takes shape. The cost of replacing the underpass, linking Matapihi and Bayfair has blown out from $13 million to $33 million.

That cost is unacceptable to NZTA. Having no replacement is unacceptable to the hundreds of cyclists, pedestrians, young and old who turned out to protest the closure at the underpass last weekend.

“Don’t take our tunnel,” demanded one protestor, “too young to die” said another, and “hands off”.

Emotions ran high.

Mayor Greg Brownless says NZTA’s reluctance to engage on the issue is “arrogant and uncaring”.

“It is extremely disappointing that congestion on the two lane fly over is expected to become a significant issue in just 8.5 years.” Given the $120 plus million price tag of the B2B, he believed a better, longer term solution should be achievable.

“The NZTA should be aware there is a groundswell of community concern about the decision not to

proceed with the planned underpass link.”

He says the NZTA decision is at odds with the NZTA’s obligations under the Government Policy Statement for Transport – especially the key priorities of safety and access.

Then midweek Phil Twyford had a word in the ear of the NZTA asking it to meet with local community representatives and to consult on other options.

The NZTA says it is committed to finding an appropriate, safe solution for pedestrians and cyclists negotiating SH2 at Bayfair. “The current link project will provide a safe, signalised crossing for pedestrians and cyclists through a new Bayfair roundabout,” says NZTA’s Ross l’Anson.

SH2 traffic, especially trucks, would be diverted from the roundabout over the flyover so the roads and crossings below would be safer for cyclists and pedestrians. And, in line with Phil Twyford’s request, he promised to keep the conversation open, and to consider other options including an over bridge north of Concord.

Tauranga’s underpass uproar resonated all around Wellington too. “I will be meeting next week with the NZTA next week to discuss this project,” says the Government’s Tauranga MP, Jan Tinetti.

And while the NZTA made decisions at arm’s length from the Government, Jan vowed to continue advocating for the best options for Tauranga.

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Amanda and Gemma Lowry take a coffee break at the first wheelchair friendly picnic table in Tauranga.

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A trucking company has been sentenced after a truck’s brakes failed as it travelled down the Kaimai Range.

In October 2016, a driver for Sorenson Transport Limited was travelling down the Kaimai Ranges, when the truck’s brakes stopped working correctly.

The driver lost control of the truck, which then struck another vehicle, crashed through a barrier and fell on its side trapping the driver in the cab.

The driver bruised their legs, arm and shoulder and suffered whiplash.

WorkSafe says the recent prosecution has highlighted the need for all companies to ensure their fleets are properly maintained

Mauao walking track

Repairs to Tauranga’s iconic Mauao walking track are predicted to cost $5.2 million but locals say $60,000 and some shovels is all they need to fix it Tauranga City Council received submissions from the public, at a full council meeting on Tuesday. Those submissions included community-led ideas on how to repair the track. The track was damaged in April 2017 after Cyclone Debbie hit the Bay of Plenty.

Council received quotations from Tonkin and Taylor for remedial options to fix the damag which were estimated to cost $2.2 million. This was approved in principle but two years later the cost estimate was revised and is now $3 million more than first thought

Picnic table for everyone Papamoa Domain has a new picnic table. And this isn’t any ordinary picnic table – it’s specificall designed for people in wheelchairs.

Tauranga woman Amanda Lowry has been in a wheelchair for six years and she says the new table is going to change the game for her and the family.

“When you’re in a wheelchair, you have to take what you can get, and you are always kind of jammed in places.

“This table changes things, it’s incredibly inclusive. I get to roll up and have my partner on one side and my kid on the other.”

The design enables a wheelchair user to sit in the middle of the table, not just at the end.

“A simple design like that just means I am not the odd one out, I am not stuck on the end of a table. I am included, it just makes your heart happy.”

Tauranga Disability Advisory Group co-chair Paul Curry agrees, saying that this picnic table allows everyone to be

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The Anchor AIMS Games attracts more than 11,500 intermediate students from 369 schools across New Zealand and the Pacific, to Tauranga, for a week of sporting competition.

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seated together as equal participants.

“Inclusion is about having a feeling of belonging; this picnic table provides precisely that feeling.”

Tauranga City Council collaborated with the Disability Advisory Group to come up with a suitable design for a table.

The idea was born after Amanda made a passing comment to a TCC staff member about how difficult it is for people i wheelchairs to use the picnic tables around Tauranga.

The council will be installing 12 accessible picnic tables around the Bay this year, however, specific locations ar yet to be confirmed About 28 per cent of people living in Tauranga have some form of disability.

Paul says the adapted table design invites the disability community to participate like ordinary people, “so we too can have our fish and chips with th rest of our family”.

Amanda is most stoked about being able to share kai with her daughters after surf lifesaving practise in Papamoa.

“Knowing that I am going to be able

to rock down to Papamoa while Lola is doing surf lifesaving and actually sit there and have some kai together afterwards.

“That’s magic.”

She reiterates the importance of continuing the conversation around accessibility for disabled people across New Zealand.

“The accessibility conversation is ongoing, and there are so many of us pushing to make little changes where we can because it has a massive impact on the disabled population.

“If you can access your community, then you are free to live in the world.

“But if you can’t access your community then you are isolated.”

Amanda would like to see more public spaces in Tauranga made accessible for people who use wheelchairs. Currently, she enjoys spending time with her whanau at Fergusson Park and the Waterfront.

“At the moment I am quite limited with where I can go. The more work that is done around things like picnic tables, and level entry off pathways and roads, the Emma Houpt more places I can go.”

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An injection of life Continued from page 1.

“It means the absolute world to us that people donate, and they do it as much as they can.”

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She says within a few hours of Ritchie having a blood transfusion, he is like a completely different boy.

“It’s such a big difference within just a couple of hours – colour comes back into his face and he doesn’t need to stop and rest as much.

“The day is always really long and hard for him, but you can see he feels so much better afterwards.”

Fewer than four people out of every 100 donate blood in New Zealand. There are 4319 active donors in Tauranga.

New Zealand Blood Service is teaming up with Sir Graham Henry in calling for 100,000 new blood donors across the country.

NZBS CEO Sam Cliffe says since 2016 the need for plasma has increased by 38 per cent and is forecast to grow.

“This year alone we need to collect over 70 tonnes of plasma. Relying on just four per cent of our population to ensure lifesaving blood and blood products are available for all, is no longer feasible.”

Ritchie’s condition is called severe transfusiondependent congenital dyserythropoietic anaemia type two, also known as CDA. He is the only person in New Zealand with the condition although there is a man in Wellington who has the Type 1 version.

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“He has had 20 transfusions over the past year. He had his 20th one just before his first birthday and is due for another one on Monday.”

Ritchie was given 55ml of packed red blood within the first two hours of being born. He was then immediately flown to Waikato Neonatal Intensive Care Unit where he received multiple platelet and blood transfusions.

At eight days old, Ritchie was helicoptered from Waikato to Starship Hospital in Auckland for further treatment.

He now gets blood transfusions every four or so weeks at Tauranga Hospital.

Claire says Ritchie is doing amazingly well considering everything he has been through over the past year.

“We thought for a while that we may not be able to bring him home, so we are thrilled with how far he has come and how well he is doing.”

“Earlier on he couldn’t hold his head properly, he was lethargic and always quite cold.

“Now he doesn’t get as symptomatic - but he gets tired quite quickly, sleeps a bit more and still gets a bit

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Sick in the Bay

Winter is finally coming to an end and hopefully this means colds and flus will start to disappear too.

It might seem like everyone in your life has been sick a half dozen times this season - sore throat, runny nose, throbbing headache and coughing.

Toi Te Ora Public Health medical officer of health Dr Phil Shoemack says it hasn’t actually been a bad winter for influenza, but there is some anecdotal evidence it has been a pretty bad year for coughs and colds and viral infections.

“From what schools say about the number of students that have been away and the DHB about the impact of winter illnesses on our staffing, suggests it has been a significant problem.

“We have had a number of staff report in sick because of respiratory illness, and that’s not surprising because there is an awful lot of different viruses that can cause these chest infections.”

Phil says the cold weather impacts the body’s ability to cope with viruses we are exposed to on a daily basis.

People are also inside more and in closer contact with other people.

CentralMed Pharmacy pharmacist Emma Hartnett says she lots of people have come in this winter for relief from coughing, sore throats and headaches.

They haven’t had too many people coming in with the “full-blown flu”.

Institute of Environmental Science and Research public health physician Sarah Jefferies says this year’s influenza season in New Zealand was early and appeared to decline earlier as well.

While the figures indicate an early end to the flu season Dr Jefferies cautions it is still possible there might be a resurgence late in the flu season Phil advises getting immunised against influenza and pay particular attention to hand hygiene.

He says if you are at work and have symptoms suggestive of an infectious illness then go home.

“Isolate yourself from other people so you are less likely to spread it. As much as you might feel a duty to stay at work to get your work done, your work colleagues won’t thank you if you stay there and spread your germs.”

He recommends getting your house prepared for winter in the summer months, remedying any leaks or drafts before the cold weather hits.

Taggers paying for their crimes At least two local taggers or bombers nabbed for what Mayor Greg Brownless regards as “trashing the place” are now paying for their sins to be put right.

“So far this financial year, two offenders have been arrested, charged and put through the court system,” says Meagan Holmes, the Tauranga City Council’s manager of community development. “And both these offenders are currently repaying the removal fees.”

Last week The Weekend Sun reported a perceived increase in the amount of graffiti around Tauranga recently Meagan says there has been an increase in the reported graffiti compared to last

year. When this happens, they work with police to monitor and resolve it.

Mayor Greg Brownless told the Sun that graffiti was a “terrible blight” on the city and lamented the small penalties.

The Tauranga City Council graffiti squad uses a national database called ‘stop tag’ where reported graffiti or tagging is recorded for the purpose of identification.

“Unfortunately, it is difficult to be proactive in managing graffiti,” says Meagan. “We are looking at opportunities to provide legal walls as an alternative outlet for budding street artists to display their work.”

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Work begins at 15th Ave

“A host of golden daffodils…”

Bunched amongst the bunches - Christine Phillips, Meryl Beets and Alison Waugh.

Daffodils – fascinating flowers They’re a harbinger of spring, they’re the national flower of Wales, dogs hate them, there are 25 varieties and a gift of just one daffodil is a precursor to misfortune.

Not for the Cancer Society though – the annual Daffodil Day Appeal aims to raise more than $4 million for life-saving cancer research, support services and prevention programs. This year’s theme is “For Someone I Know” – and by showing support for someone you know, you can help beat cancer and create a better future for one in three New Zealanders affected by cancer.

Daffodil Day has been an iconic event since 1990.

“And the Harbour City Lions have been involved in some way or another for 20 years,” says Lion Christine Currie. This week the troops moved into the hall at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Cameron Road.

“There were 35,000 daffodils in bunches of 10 from a supplier in Gordonton in the Waikato,” says Christine. “And all to be re-bunched in bundles of 30 and tied with string and a thank you card attached.”

Bunched amongst the bunches - Christine Phillips, Meryl Beets and Alison Waugh.

On Monday, September 2, Tauranga City Council is commencing with the first stage of works on 15th Avenue The aim of Stage 1 is to free up capacity at the Fraser Street/15th Avenue intersection so that it operates safely and efficiently, particularly durin the afternoon peak travel time. This, along with restricting traffic from sid roads, will see some benefit to journe time reliability along 15th Avenue towards the Hairini causeway. Work is expected to be complete by mid-2020.

The first couple of weeks of th project mainly revolve around setting the site up and beginning

preliminary works.

Martin Parkes, manager transportation says the council was looking forward to getting the project underway and are working to minimise any issues for road users and people living and working in this area.

“To ensure that the affected community is kept up to date, we will be issuing regular e-newsletters and media releases.”

The road will stay open for the duration of the project, so commuters can continue to use this main route.

However, delays are expected during the works.

Collectors for the annual Daffodil day Appeal are on the street today.

All this after the 16 Lions had spent the morning sorting contributions to their annual Harbour City Lions Book Fair at Tauranga race Course on the weekend beginning Friday, November 22.

Then after the Lions and other individuals had finished bunching the daffodils, groups like the Tauranga Vintage Car Club dropped by to pick up the flowers and deliver them to pre-orders at various businesses around Tauranga. A pre-order for daffodils means crucial funds for the cancer Society’s annual Daffoldil Day Appeal and a step towards its dream for a cancer-free New Zealand.

Meanwhile the Lions are accepting books for their book fair and these can be dropped off at Mitre 10 in Cameron Road Gate Pa, Gilmours at Tauranga Crossing, Golf Warehouse in Chapel Street and Smith City at Bethlehem Town Centre. They would appreciate contributions of good quality, clean, readable books.

For more information on Daffodil Day see the feature on pages 41-43.

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Best little foodie Enough chipati dough for two and a half hours production. Sukhdev Kaur readies dough for rolling.

The roller door has been hoisted, and the mid-morning sun is fingering its way towards a huge cauldron simmering on a gas trivet in the kitchen at the back of the Sikh Temple.

There’s the fragrance of a yellow chickpea and paneer curry on the air and it’s winning over the light industrial smells of the neighbouring workplaces at the bottom of 15th Avenue.

Business is open at the Gurudwara Sikh Sangat Tauranga – a warehouse or factory by design, but one it has been consecrated and is a place of worship and community and food. Free food. From chai, sweets and biscuits before the sun comes up until the last vegetarian dahl curry well after the sun has gone.

“Everyone is welcome,” says Anoop Singh with his blazing blue turban and black beard with a mind of its own. All visitors, everyone, regardless of religion, caste, gender, economic status or ethnicity.

But what say The Weekend Sun story creates unprecedented demand? The young Sikh is unflustered. “Not a big deal. There is food available and if we have more people that is fine.”

In the kitchen, there’s a production-line chapati operation. Sukhdev Kaur is up to her elbows blending wholemeal flour, salt and water. Surinder Kaur rolls the dough into fine sheets before spreading them on a ghee greased griddle. Then the priest, Malkit Singh, who was up at 5am offering prayers to his God, is flipping chapatis. The drill goes on for two and a half hours. And if hankering demands, the production line cranks up again. Chapatis for all.

The free food is called Langar - the term used for the community kitchen in a Gurdwara, a Sikh place of gathering and worship where a free meal is served to all, without distinction or prejudice. Accordingly, everyone at Langar will sit cross legged on a mat on the ground. “When our religion began there was a caste system with poor people called untouchables.

“So it’s not going to happen where some privileged

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secret in town Balwinder Singh offers up more rice to international students Jagraj Singh (left) and Pirtpal Singh. person can sit in a chair and eat and someone from backward class sits on the floor.”

Langar is rooted in the midfifteenth century. Sikhism founder Guru Nanak railed against empty ritual, saying one only needed to follow a path of honesty and hard work to obey God. Lots of international students – from India, Bangla Desh, Sri Lanka and other parts come.

“They go to school three or four days and work 20 hours, don’t have time to cook, or know how.”

Thirteen thousand kilometres from attentive mothers, so they come to the temple for prayer, then food and comfort.

“This is my family for now,” says 29-year-old Punjabi Jagraj

Singh. He’s studying horticultural production – avocado and kiwifruit. He came to pray for his future which he hopes lies in New Zealand.

And the food, he suggests, is as good as his mother would make back home.

When The Weekend Sun visited there were just a handful a students at the temple. But by day’s end more than 100 people would have passed through the temple. “Not many homeless know about Langar,” says Anoop.

“But they would be welcome.”

What about the drugged and the drunk. ”You can’t come to the temple after taking drugs or alcohol. No alcohol, no drugs.

“But if they come back later

when they are in order, of course they will be welcome.”

One night when a group of people were evicted, they rang the number on the hoarding on the Burrows Street temple. “They needed food and somewhere to stay,” says Anoop. So at 11pm, when everyone else was asleep, Anoop’s Dad was out of bed whipping up a curry and chapatis and organising beds in the temple because they had nowhere to go.

“People don’t know much about us,” says the proud young Sikh Anoop.

Who pays? Offerings mainly when people can and want to give.

“People will come and ask Dad to pray for them and give him $20. It doesn’t go into his pocket.”

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The art of a super sized chipati – Surinder Kaur drops the rolled dough onto the griddle with her husband and priest Malkit Singh also pictured. Photos: Daniel Hines.

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Was it a case of religious intolerance and insensitivity or a vigilant security officer on top of his game?

Either way it triggered claim and counter-claim by the Russian Orthodox Christian who was praying at the airport,and Tauranga Airport on behalf of the security officer she says was “heavy-handed” and harassing her.

Ten days ago Reguina – who only wants to be known by her given name – arrived at Tauranga Airport on a flight from Wellington. While Russian Orthodox, Reguina regularly travels to Greek Orthodox churches in the capital, Levin and Auckland to worship.

“I am Orthodox Christian who engages in worldwide, shared prayer, twice a day and it happened that it was time to pray.” She found a secluded corner, nobody close by, and was reading her prayer at what she maintains was the level of a quiet conversation.

“I was interrupted by a security person who asked me what I was doing. When I communicated very calmly and respectfully that I was praying, he told me to stop as it was disruptive and disturbing others.”

The officer allegedly told Reguina to pray in a taxi.

“He asked how long I would be praying and I said 20 minutes. He said he would be back in 30 minutes and I better be gone.”

The Tauranga City Council has a different take of events. “At no stage was it obvious the woman was praying,” says the TCC’s corporate services manager, Paul Davidson. “Security approached her after window cleaners raised concerns about her unusual

behaviour. It was only once they asked her if she was okay that she said she was praying.”

The council also claims security noticed the woman’s “erratic behaviour on CCTV” after she got off her flight. ”She was seen loitering, making phone calls and repeatedly crouching behind a promotional vehicle in the terminal,” says Paul.

Reguina sees it all quite differently. “There were people all around talking loudly on cellphones, much louder than me. I question why the security officer felt the need to harass me.”

A woman working at a nearby car rental counter had not been disturbed by Reguina’s prayer.

“She couldn’t hear anything and wondered why the security officer was bothering me.

“It just seemed unnecessary and was more about the fact he didn’t like me praying, rather than me creating a disturbance.”

Regardless, Tauranga Airport takes passenger and staff safety seriously and the corporate services manager is happy with the manner and speed this incident was dealt with.

“And the investigation team is satisfied the security member acted appropriately given the information on hand and observations made.”

Reguina is not over her experience. “I have prayed in this manner throughout Europe, Asia and even in Dubai (an Islamic country) and have never received a complaint or comment. It’s upsetting the only negative experience I have had is in my own country.” Reguina, a 19-year New Zealander, has been left “shocked” by her experience.

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“Underwater hockey?” asked The Weekend Sun. “We spend thousands of dollars on artificial hockey pitches and you want to play on the bottom of a swimming pool. Why?” Seventeen-year-old Adriana Lipinsky is primed for that sort of ill-considered scrutiny of her chosen sport, her love. “Go look it up, go Google it,” shoots back the no-nonsense Adriana.

But apparently a lot of people, just about everyone at the sausage sizzle – no onions of course – asked the same question. “It made me feel a bit stink,” says the Otumoetai College girls’ underwater hockey squad member. “But at the same time I appreciated the opportunity to educate people about underwater hockey, and show them how passionate we are.”

And for its sins and on the strength of being put in our place by a teenager, a sheepish Weekend

Sun reporter and photographer found themselves at training night – an open air pool at Toi Ohomai at Windermere - the air temperature is 11 or 12 degrees, the water temperature a mildly more agreeable 28.

“Perfect, I made you feel guilty,” says Adriana.

She has scored some exposure for her sport.

The coach is in a puffer jacket. The girls are in togs.

They’re hardy and committed these water babies.

One and a half hour training sessions twice a week.

They play in Rotorua on Wednesday nights, club night is Sunday and land based training first thing Monday. And next week they’re off to the nationals at Kilbirnie in Wellington. That’s why The Weekend Sun flicked them a couple of dollars at the sizzle.

Underwater hockey started with a sub-aqua club in Portsmouth, England 65 years ago. The British navy invented it to keep divers fit and improve their mobility and efficiency under water.

It morphed into ‘a fast, dynamic sport’ played in more than 20 countries.

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Adriana fell in love

The team is just as comfortable below the surface as they are above it.

– two teams of up to ten players, six players at any one time in the pool. The remaining four players are rolling subs.

The puck is placed in the centre of the pool, and the players wait against the wall above the goal they are defending. At the buzzer, players are free to swim anywhere to manoeuvre the puck into the opponents’ goal. When a goal is scored, players return to their wall to start a new point.

And take a breath.

The Otumoetai girls can apparently hold their breath for up to two minutes when they’re stationary and 30 seconds or more when they’re playing, when their bodies are under stress. That’s a long time when someone doesn’t have the lung capacity.

But it’s what the girls train for.

Seventeen-year-old Sarah Dixon has always loved the water,

loved swimming. But she and competitive swimming didn’t agree. So she submerged. “Went to a club night at intermediate and underwater hockey and I fell in love.” It was more of a natural progression for Adriana Lipinsky. “I played field hockey and also loved swimming and so when Have-A-Go was advertised at intermediate school I was like” ‘ooohh!’ So tried it and fell in love.” What’s with all the love, why does holding your breath on the bottom of a swimming pool induce such deep-seated emotion?

Apparently it comes with the inability to communicate during a game. “You kind of connect to each other outside the pool, because we can’t communicate inside it,” explains Adriana.

Sarah suggests the team is almost telepathic - conveying thoughts and ideas without using the

The underwater hockey squad is eight strong but could do with 10 or 11 players. Why aren’t kids buying into underwater hockey?

“Probably because it doesn’t get the same exposure in the media as mainstream sports,” Kelly says.

It’s a minority sport and people just don’t know about it. And perhaps because it’s played on the bottom of a swimming pool, it’s not a spectator sport. At some tournaments they have underwater cameras and the action is replayed on a big screen. Team manager Lynda Dixon says at smaller tournament the emotion still runs.

Everyone will be right at the edge of the pool shouting and screaming.

“The crowds do go mad – most of them parents.”

And Lynda appeals to people to give underwater hockey a go. “You don’t have to have been playing it since you were five. You can pick it up at any stage and do well because it’s a minority sport. You aren’t competing with thousands of others.”

If you would like to join the Otumoetai College girls’ underwater hockey squad or help pay their way to the nationals next week message Lynda at: jonandlyndixon@gmail.com

known senses.

“We can just look at one another and know exactly what’s going on. That happens underwater and when we get out of the pool.

“We can look at each other across the school yard and know what’s going down.”

It’s what helps to make the underwater hockey team family rather than just a team. This family has grown together over five or six years. It’s really close.

Kelly Saunders is mother to the family – she’s coach. She fell in love too – loved the water, loved water polo and then fell in love with underwater hockey.

“It’s just an extra community you can belong to, friends I suspect I will have forever.”

But it’s an odd sport and coach Kelly appreciates it’s an odd sport.

“But it’s infectious – you keep coming back.”

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Georgia Jones, Issie Dekker and Jessica Thomas were lucky enough to attend the London Youth Science Forum earlier this month.

Aquinas College students have recently returned from an overseas trip of a lifetime, dissecting human brains and discovering how the universe was made.

Year 13 students Jessica Thomas, Issie Dekker, Georgia Jones and Amy Bewsher were lucky enough to travel to London, Paris and Switzerland earlier this month for the London International Youth Science Forum. LIYSF is a two-week-long prestigious science forum, hosting 500 young scientists from 75 different countries. The forum consists of visits to different off-site laboratories and academic research centres and demonstrations from leading scientists.

After their time in London, the students went on a sightseeing excursion to Paris and spent three days at The European Organisation for Nuclear Research – commonly known as CERN – in Geneva.

Georgia reflects on her London experience saying that dissection of a human brain was a definite highlight “We went to the Neurology Department at Birmingham University, and I go to dissect an obviously dead human brain.

“We cut a piece out, put it under a microscope and you could see the different cells. This person had Alzheimer’s, and you could see which neurons were

damaged and which weren’t. The damaged neurons indicated the disease – it was incredible.”

Issie says that the anti-matter factor at CERN was mind-blowing but difficult to comprehend In this factory, they carry out experiments understanding where the universe comes from with the Large Hadron Collider and the Higgs Boson.

“I still don’t really understand it but just seeing all the equipment that they had was really cool.

It’s a lot to take in,” says Issie.

All three students agree that LIYSF solidified thei love for science, and helped them figure out what the want to study next year at university.

“It’s just opened up so many more options for us, and helped us decide we really do want to get into science,” says Georgia.

“I would like to do something in science that would help make a difference in the world, like some of the lecturers were doing at LIYSF.” “It’s about giving your work back to everyone,” Jess adds.

Issie recommends the trip to students in the Bay who have a love for science and meeting people from across the world.

“We made friends with people from Brazil, India, America, Cyprus, Turkey, Switzerland, England and Spain.”

“I think we can all agree – the highlight of our lives so far.”

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Diwali Festival takes over Historic Village Light, colour, music and delicious food will fill the streets of the Historic Village this October with an inaugural Tauranga Diwali Festival.

Directly translated from Sanskrit, Diwali means ‘abundant lights’ and is thus known as the Festival of Lights. The festival celebrates light

and wisdom overcoming dark oppression, violence and wickedness.

This October, the streets of the Historic Village will be lit with lights and little lamps and activated with the vibrant dance and music of the Indian culture.

Honouring divine triumphs, most notably the victory of King Ramacandra over the evil King Ravana, Diwali celebrates the

victory of good over evil.

“People of all ages and races will celebrate this festival of love and light with song, dance, drama, colour, sumptuous culinary offerings and the exchange of delicious traditional sweets,” says a spokesperson from the Historic Village.

This free entry event is at the Historic Village on Friday October 25, from 4pm-10pm.

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A 13-year-old attacked in broad daylight in Greerton used Brazilian Ju Jitsu to foil the crime.

The student was attacked on Monday afternoon, near the Greerton RSA. The girl is a Brazilian Ju Jitsu practitioner and self-defence coach, so when a knife was presented in the attack, she knew how to defend herself.

She was able to retrieve her school bag that the offenders had tried to take and came away physically unharmed.

A post by the SABER Fightgear Facebook page says it may have taken another tack had she not been put into Ju Jitsu at six years old.

Her parents are urging other parents to put their children into some form of self-defence and for adults too.

“There are kids’ Ju Jitsu training gyms in most towns in New Zealand.

“Find one and give it a go, if it doesn’t suit then find another. Keep our kids protected.” A police spokesperson says they received a report that a person had been approached by two others in a Gate Pa location and had property taken. “We attended and searched the area but were unable to locate the offenders. Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call 105 or Crimestoppers on: 0800 555 111.”

Graeme Hoete, also known as Mr G, with his new art piece.

Mr G reckons people need to start pronouncing Tauranga correctly.

Tauranga artist Graham Hoete is encouraging residents to start using the right pronunciation in his new tongue-in-cheek art piece.

“It’s just putting the challenge out there to the people of Tauranga, to the ones who call this place home, to pronounce it correctly,” says Graham.

“It’s a bit of a no brainer – if you are proud of your hometown, at least say it correctly.”

Graham says it’s essential to deliver the message in a positive light to get engagement from the community.

“I can use my art as a change agent to apply some positive pressure.

“It’s about doing it in a way where it’s not having a go at anyone, but representing the idea in a clear but tongue-incheek style which a lot of people will engage with.

“It’s about approach when it comes to this kind of topic. Art enables you to represent ideas through a diffe ent frame, where people can actually end up supporting it.”

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99 per cent positive.

Facebook posts of the new art piece have been receiving hundreds of likes and comments from enthusiastic users.

Graham hopes the effects of his a twork will roll out across Aotearoa, encouraging people from all over the country to pronounce Māori place names correctly.

“I am hoping Tauranga can become an example for other cities to do the same. If we can do that it will be an awesome thing for New Zealand.”

The a twork ties in with the upcoming Māori Language Week which runs from September 9 till September 15 nationwide.

Next month Graham will be providing helpful advice on te reo Māori pronunciation on Facebook.

“I’ll be bringing some highly practical posts interviewing te reo experts on providing helpful tips and solutions everyone can apply to their te reo Māori journey.”

He will also be hiding two smaller versions of this sign throughout Tauranga for the public to find For more information about Graham’s work, visit: www.mrghoeteart.com or search ‘Mr G Hoete Art’ on Facebook.

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Measles warning for Auckland bound travellers A serious measles outbreak in Auckland has prompted the local Medical Officer of Health for th Bay of Plenty and Lakes districts to urge local residents to check that they are up to date with their MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) immunisation before travelling to Auckland, particularly South Auckland.

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Bay of Plenty Volcanix opens its 2019 Farah Palmer Cup Premiership season against Counties Manukau at Tauranga Domain on Saturday.

Volcanix have flankers Les lder and Christine Yule as co-captains this year plus a new coaching group of Rodney Gibbs, Tanerau Latimer and Matt Wallis.

Head coach Rodney has been assistant at the Steamers for six seasons, with former All Black Tanerau and former Steamers prop Matt joining him.

“I think it is working pretty well. Obviously there are some slight changes as to how we operate from the men’s game but fundamentally the game is still played the same way,” says Rodney.

“It takes some time as always with a new coaching group. The b ys have come out of coaching their respective club teams and have done a really good job.

“They bring a ealth of experience which brings with it some respect as well. The pla ers certainly respect what they say and the knowledge they share which has been really great.

“We are heading in the right direction.”

Rodney is delighted to have leaders of the calibre of Christine and Black Ferns captain Les. He says they are both critical for the Volcanix in

what is now a hugely competitive competition.

“They a e both great ladies in their own right and they bring slightly diffe ent things to the table. Thei values are both very strong.

“They a e articulate in the way they deliver, they demand excellence and they are worldly people.

“Les brings knowledge she has gained from the Black ferns and Christie has been in the environment for a number of years. First and foremost they are both great people so for us to have them to lead the way is a huge bonus.”

Counties Manukau will bring a physical approach to Saturday’s season opener which the Volcanix are well aware of.

On August 10 the sides met with Counties Manukau sneaking home 28-27.

Rodney says they will be tough and like to come down the middle of the park hard.

“We will need to be at our best to compete and on our game. It is a great challenge and one that the girls are really looking forward to.”

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Bay of Plenty rugby fans have plenty of reasons to feel confident that 2019 might be the year this underperforming union finally gets back in the big time.

After wallowing in the secondtier Mitre 10 Cup Championship since being relegated from the Premiership in 2013 there has not been much to cheer about.

But the opening three rounds of the 2019 campaign have been hugely positive for the Steamers.

The opening match at Tauranga Domain against Ranfurly Shield holders Otago was a sign of things to come. A combination of a fired up Steamers side and woefully inattentive Otago side meant the perfect start for the home side.

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powerful Waikato side took on the Steamers in Rotorua a week later. The Mooloos were expecting to win after beating top class Canterbury in Hamilton in round one and knowing the dominance they have enjoyed over their little Chiefs’ brothers.

The Steamers put together one of the best 80 minutes of rugby they have played in years to outmuscle Waikato up front and then cash in out wide to run up an impressive 40-14 victory.

That win made neutral fans and rugby pundits take notice but could the Steamers back it up at Eden Park against the defending Premiership champions last weekend?

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Auckland looked like they would run all over the Steamers after

the opening 40 minutes but the second half was pretty much all the Bay. Perhaps more variations attacking Auckland’s line and a bit of luck would have seen a different result. Certainly after so many pastings at the famous ground it was a delight to see a Bay of Plenty team dictating terms to Auckland.

So to Round Four’s game against Premiership side North Harbour in Albany at 2.05pm on Sunday.

Harbour have a win, loss and draw from their opening three games but have not shown anything the Steamers need to worry about.

They have a reasonable forward pack and excellent halfback in Bryn Hall but if the Steamers can get the same quality front-foot ball they have enjoyed so far this season then they should return home to the Bay with the points Peter White in the bag.

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A fired up Steamers side take on Otago earlier this month.

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Pinged for speeding through road works A total of 26 drivers have been fined for speeding through a roadworks area in the Western Bay of Plenty.

On Tuesday morning, the Western Bay of Plenty Road Policing Unit set up a checkpoint at the roadworks on Te Puke Highway between Bell Road and Poplar Lane where a temporary 30km/h speed limit was in force.

During a 90 minute period, 26 vehicles were stopped and infringements issued for speeds over 50km/h.

Four of those were heavy vehicles.

Sergeant Craig Madden is disappointed with the results.

“It’s the road workers who are at risk of injury and potential death if hit by a vehicle travelling at that speed,” he says.

“Police will continue to monitor and enforce speeds in road work areas.”

Speeding and travelling too fast for the conditions is a contributing factor in around one third of all fatal crashes and 15 per cent of all injury crashes.

Between the lines - A skiing movie based on the steep slopes of Mont-Blanc.

The Mountain Film Festival is making its way to the Bay of Plenty again this year, making it the fifth year running.

Tauranga Mountain Film Festival organiser Richard Watson says the festival travels all around New Zealand after a week-long festival of films and speakers in Wanaka.

“We’ve got a good group of people that like coming along and watching. Some of the movies are three-four minutes long and some of them are 15 minutes long.

So there is a package of movies on the course of that night that goes for about two hours.”

He says people who attend the night can expect some awesome adventure stories. The four main themes that the movies will show is mountaineering, skiing, packrafting and surviving the outback.

“The context is based around that but it’s the story that comes out through the movies, which is the awesome part.”

He says he likes being able to sit back and watch a great story unfold. He says it’s just a real entertaining night out for people who like adventure and excitement.

“There is one movie about a person who re-creates a story of survival in the Australian Outback and he puts himself in the same situation of people that got stranded in a plane crash, to see if he could survive the same length of time in the same area in the outback.”

He says it’s interesting to watch how he could put himself through it with no food, surviving off the land, as well as the temperature and all of the ‘nasties’ that are associated with Australia.

The Mountain Film Festival will screen in Tauranga on Saturday September 7, at Tauranga Boys College.

For more information, visit: www.mountainfilmfestival-tauranga.nz The Weekend Sun has two double passes to the screening of the Mountain Film Festival for two lucky readers who can tell us where the screening will be held.

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

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Tauranga athlete changing direction It has been another challenging year for world class mountain bike rider Tristan Haycock.

Then came what could well be a defining moment in Tristan’s career.

He entered his first off road stage race, the BC Bike Race, a seven-day stage race on some of the toughest single track trails The 21-year-old from on the planet around the Tauranga made his name Vancouver, Squamish, internationally in the Whistler and Vancouver gruelling 24-hour endurance Island area. racing, winning the World Out of 600 riders from 38 Under-23 title aged just 17. countries competing Tristan But he has set his sights on finished 13th in the elite a more long-term discipline men category. of off-road mountain biking.

“I learnt a lot more about After placing second at myself and about the process WEMBO 2017 (World and the journey that racing Endurance Mountainbike takes you on rather than just Championships) held in the result. I was thoroughly, Italy he says he went back to thoroughly proud of myself the drawing board. and also created networks “The past 18 months have Tristan Haycock in form in Canada. with people around the world. been spent on progressing Photo: BC Bike Race.

“It has certainly changed my through my Bachelor of direction. This is more of a tactical type of endurance Sport and Recreation degree and developing a racing, at a higher intensity for the same distance, but pathway for junior development within instead of 24 hours you are racing for a week.

Mountainbike Tauranga.

“That’s my calling. I recovered from it really well and “I have established new goals and a new direction was ready to go the next week, while after racing in with my riding career and it is exciting. Being such Italy in the 24-hour it took me two or three months a young rider I’ve learnt the hard way that it isn’t to recover.” sustainable to compete in such a discipline as 24-hour Tristan finished his trip with an Olympic format race racing year-on-year.” at the California State Championships where he came Tristan is back home in Tauranga after two months third in the pro-men category. away competing in North America – a trip that has Next up is the tough Whaka100 MTB marathon clarified his future direction as an elite athlete before riding in The Pioneer in December, a brutal sixIn June he competed in the four-hour event at the day mountain bike stage race in teams of two through prestigious Okanagan 24 in Canada.

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Smalls brings smiles for those struggling down under Tauranga lingerie company Hotmilk Lingerie has donated thousands of pairs of men’s underwear to charities across New Zealand.

Local and overseas communities are always something Hotmilk Lingerie aims to support and after considering many different charities, it was decided to donate 3000 pairs of men’s underwear to Movember Foundation NZ, Orange Sky New Zealand and The

Auckland City Mission.

“In the past we have donated 1000s of bras and knickers to many female charities in need, however realised that men also need support and underwear is what we specialise in, so it made sense to donate men’s underwear to those who need it” says Michelle Radley of Hotmilk Lingerie.

Hotmilk Lingerie is based in Tauranga and is extremely grateful to Mainfreight which generously delivered the underwear to each of the charities free of charge.

“The Foundation was stoked to receive more than 1000 pairs of men’s underwear from Hotmilk Lingerie to utilise throughout our upcoming Movember campaign,” says Harry Miller of the Movember Foundation.

“As a men’s health charity that encourages men to not only check up on themselves but reveal some of their vulnerabilities, underwear is something that resonates as something we all have in common and is often the bud of men’s jokes that lead to the significant conversations all men should be having.

“This year’s campaign, Movember Mo Bro’s will be well equipped to tackle their health and for those that go to significant lengths in support of a charity helping men to live happier, healthier and longer lives, may just find they receive a large prize pack that will take jocks off the Christmas list this year.”

Orange Sky New Zealand is helping to positively connect people experiencing homelessness through free laundry, showers and conversation. Manager of service operations Eddie Uini from Orange Sky New Zealand was extremely appreciative of the donation and delivered the underwear to people living on the streets.

“We can’t thank Hotmilk Lingerie enough for the incredibly kind donation,” says Eddie. “Our friends on the street were amazed, especially during winter to get brand new underwear” Auckland City Mission were extremely grateful to receive ore than 1000 pairs of men’s underwear.

The garments will be distributed via several of their programs, including their Crisis Care program for Families and Individuals, Homeless Outreach Support program, Housing First support services and some are set aside to give out in the upcoming World Homeless Day on October 10.

Now it’s time to sort through all the boxes of donated underwear.

“Thanks to Hotmilk Lingerie’s generosity, men who the Auckland City Mission supports will enjoy the dignity of wearing new underwear,” says Chris Farrelly, CEO and city missioner from the Auckland City Mission. “The Mission is always grateful for gifts of clothing to help Aucklanders who need our support, and we really appreciate Hotmilk Lingerie’s thoughtful gift.”

Hotmilk Lingerie understand that basic everyday essentials like underwear can often be a luxury for people, so are always willing to help charities through the donation of bras and underwear when they can.

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Papamoa College 1st XV rugby team at last year’s Rugby by the Beach tournament.

“For many years we have looked at Twelve secondary school teams from across how boy’s schools can compete in a the North Island will be competing in Rugby whole lot of special tournaments and by the Beach held at Papamoa College. playoff against other schools from other Co-founder of Rugby by the Beach Nick Leask says the event started to give boys from co-ed schools the opportunity to compete in school-wide tournaments.

parts of the country.

“But the thing with co-ed schools is that this doesn’t happen, we designed the tournament to give co-ed boys the chance to play rugby against other boys from around New Zealand.”

The tournament has been running for four years and Nick says since it has been growing in popularity.

Teams from Auckland, Waikato, Taupo and the Bay of Plenty will be competing next week.

Papamoa College teacher Rochelle Bishop says the atmosphere at the

tournament is second to none.

“All the teams get together with their supporters and coaches.

“Everyone is just really happy, I have never seen it anywhere else, not even at an All Blacks game.

“It’s infectious.”

Papamoa College is keen to see the community come down to the tournament and get behind their 1st XV rugby team.

“It’s a big thing with the community – you see people who don’t even have kids who come to the school watching and supporting our boys,” says Rochelle.

The event runs from September 4-6.

For more information, visit: www.facebook.com/rugbybythebeach/

How do I make a complaint about my power company?

If you have a complaint about an electricity or gas company, you should contact the company directly, preferably in writing.

Be sure to use the word ‘complaint’ so that it’s clear that you are beginning a complaints process.

CAB Tauranga can get help with your letter of complaint.

Alternatively, you can tell Utilities Disputes about your complaint and ask them to refer your complaint to the power company.

Generally, you should give the power company 20 working days in which to resolve your complaint. If it is still unresolved after this time you can escalate it to Utilities Disputes.

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Utilities Disputes is a free and independent service for resolving complaints about energy companies, and all distributors and retailers of electricity and gas must be members of the Utilities Disputes scheme. They can look into complaints about electricity, piped gas, LPG in bottles 15kg and over, as well as complaints relating to access to, or use of, land where there is electricity or gas equipment.

What Utilities Complaints can and can’t investigate is on their website: www.utilitiesdisputes.co.nz

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Corrections site still undecided 36 Burrows Street, where the proposed new Community Corrections site will be. application, but acknowledge their The new Community says Barbara.

Corrections site in Tauranga is concerns,” Mark says they currently have around still being decided on as no final 100 staff operating across three existing Community Corrections sites in the decision has been made.

Tauranga community.

“Our proposal for a new site in a Corrections district manager commercially-zoned area sees these three Mark Nijessn says once community sites merged into one, with space for engagement is complete, a decision 120 staff to take into account future will be made regarding an application population growth in the Tauranga to Tauranga City Council for its area. Our existing sites are located near consideration and approval of schools, early learning centres, residential the proposal. properties and other community facilities.

“Community engagement started on “Public safety is our top priority and July 29 and has been extended to allow we have processes and strategies in place sufficient time for local residents to full to ensure the safety and wellbeing of engage with the proposal, discuss any the community, staff and any visitors to concerns and seek further information our sites. before providing their feedback.

“Our experience is that offenders “No final date for ending th attending scheduled appointments at engagement period has been decided. our sites will attend for their “This will occur after all meetings have appointment and then leave, rather been completed. At present, engagement than remain in the area. Any impact is ongoing with local residents and on parking will be assessed through the organisations via phone, email and face resource consent process.” to face meetings.”

On any given day, there are around The current site that is proposed for the 30,000 people serving community new corrections site is 36 Burrows Street.

Tauranga City Council general manager sentences and orders in New Zealand, including about 650 people in Tauranga, for regulatory and compliance, Barbara Mark says.

Dempsey says Burrows Street is within “These sentences or orders are imposed the Commercial Zone of the City Plan.

“This zone permits a range of activities. by the Court or New Zealand Parole Board and include home detention, “The suitability of the site will be parole, intensive supervision and determined by corrections operational community work. needs. There has been strong interest “Every sentence or order is made up of from the community regarding the conditions that an offender must comply proposed development. with. Conditions can include reporting “Most of which have been registrations to a probation officer, not movin of interest and opposition to the address without consent, not consuming proposed facility. alcohol or drugs and participation in a “The concerns raised have been around rehabilitation programme. the proposed facility’s proximity to a “Probation officers monitor offenders residential area and a school, as well as compliance with these conditions, hold general safety concerns, the potential them to account for any breaches and increase in traffic and demand fo deliver rehabilitation programmes and car parking. interventions that help them to live “We have let them know that we crime free.” have not received a resource consent

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Communication leads to more good lunches Montessori Otumoetai are the proud recipients of the Gold Pa Harakeke Healthy Heart Award presented to them by Hearty and the Heart Foundation.

The Healthy Heart Award provides guidance and structure to create an environment that promotes healthy eating and physical activity.

The award has three different levels and works with a bronze, silver and gold system.

Centre manager Shamima Khanikar says receiving this award means a lot to the centre.

“This has actually made us feel stronger, and the fact that when we are talking to the parents about the changes we are making it gives us a strong foundation, we’ve got this award, we are at that level and we want to continue what we are doing.

“It has happened a number of times that parents try to say: ‘oh it’s just a cake for their birthday, it’s just this’, but now I think I feel stronger in saying that this is our policy and that’s what we’re going to

that for lunchtime here we give more importance to what kind of lunch they’re having. They used to bring snacks and stuff, so we would talk to them about bringing something else in the lunchboxes like something healthy and they would ask what kind of food.

“We told them that you can even bring leftover dinner,” says Shamina.

“So I think there might have been a little bit of a communication gap as well earlier but as we have strived to achieve this, it has opened a lot more communication between us.

“We see that is has really filtered on to the children and they know what is good and what’s good for them,” says Shamima.

Hearty with some of the kids from the centre. follow now.”

Some of the changes the centre has made to get this award is changes to their policies, with their food policy and also made changes to their routine.

“Our focus was lunch boxes and we found that lots of people from different cultures were not aware

Sky’s the limit for Otumoetai Girl’s football Next week the Otumoetai College Girls Football First Eleven is in Christchurch for the Premier NZ Secondary Schools tournament.

They are looking to build on two top 10 finishes. Over five years the have emerged as one of the most dangerous sides in the country.

The team has gone from about 50th to two top 10s in five years.

Coach Shayne DonovanGrammer explains the transformation. “We had players of ability but it needed some structure, vision and accountability.”

The Otumoetai College Girls’ First Eleven.

He said a major catalyst for success was bringing in Stu Rendall as coach and motivator.

“This year we have one of the best young coaches in the country in Danny Hart; he’s brought a fresh perspective. The team has always had great management, firstly with Julia Banks and now with Nicola Clayden and Phil Ozanne”.

This year the team played in the premier junior boys league in order to challenge themselves after two years undefeated in the BOP premier girl’s division (28-0). Stand out achievements include Tiana Hill making the NZ U20’s team to France last year and Lisa Evans going to China for the NZ U16’s.

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New improved natural hazard maps will help plan for eventualities like this.

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New improved maps to help plan for natural hazards like coastal inundation and flooding are being prepared The latest maps available are for coastal flooding along the Tauranga Harbour, and flooding from extreme rainfall at Omokoroa and Katikati.

The Western Bay of Plenty District Council has sent letters to about 3500 properties within those areas that are potentially susceptible. The information improves understanding of how the expected effects of climate change - including sea rise and heavier rainfall – may influence coastal inundation and flooding in the future.

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Steampunk art exhibition With steampunk as the theme, and inspiration taken from Jules Verne’s ‘Around the World in 80 Days’, an unusually interesting exhibition is taking place at Whakamarama’s Atrium Gallery.

Kal Roberts is the picture of steampunk perfection.

The members of Steampunk Tauranga are going blue this September, as it is prostate cancer awareness month. As well as their Steamtember Artorama collaboration with the Atrium Gallery they are running ‘The Blue Tache Bash’ at the Black Sheep Restaurant to help raise funds for the New Zealand Prostate Cancer Foundation.

In the exhibition itself, a wide range of art has been welcomed from the group’s members, with suggested themes of dieselpunk, cyberpunk, Punkypunk or ‘straight’ Victorian craftywork.

“The theme is loosely Steampunk, which means quaint, curios, quirky with a side-serve of wit,” says Steampunk Tauranga member Andria Goodliffe.

Another Steampunk Tauranga member Lindsey Morgan says every year the group holds an event in September, but this year they wanted to do something for a charity and came up with the blue moustache idea.

“The Blue September theme for this year is to go blue for the boys, and we thought that as women, we should support them by going blue.

“Knowing that the prostate foundation of New Zealand do ‘blue do’s’ in September, we just thought: ‘why don’t we do a blue moustache’, and then we came up with ‘Blue Tache Bash’ as a party where essentially you can come splendid in steampunk, or in blue, or in a blue moustache.”

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Something other than fish’n’chips Is it art, is it food, is it theatre?

It’s called Well Sensered Food.

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It’s quite simple. And only Well Sensered Food could manage it.

They’re a bit of a mystery but billed as a subversive ensemble of artistic visionaries which “curate and create some of the most extraordinary

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There are multiple courses of culinary delights coupled with unimaginable cocktails – all drawing threads of inspiration from the emotional journeys of the local and international artists on display in the Art Gallery.

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The fight to keep the Bayfair underpass Just like everyone else in Tauranga, I was frustrated last month when the NZ Transport Agency announced it would no longer build a new Maunganui Rd underpass as part of the Baypark to Bayfair project. The existing underpass is set to be demolished in October.

The current underpass is used every day as a route for cyclists, children heading to school, and pedestrians visiting the Bayfair Shopping Centre. There is also

a retirement village in close proximity to the underpass. With many older New Zealanders not able to drive and with limited mobility, crossing this road without an underpass will be a nightmare! Connectivity around the city is an absolute must and for this project to be fit-for purpose it needs an underpass.

I am also outraged that this decision jeopardises public safety.

The NZTA has flippantly put cost cutting ahead of the welfare of

pedestrians. This is a treacherous road and the removal of the underpass is a huge risk with potentially fatal consequences.

This is an accident waiting to happen, an underpass is essential to this busy stretch of road.

Sunday’s protest for the Bayfair underpass had a spectacular turn out filled with concerned residents with completely valid concerns. I applaud the hundreds of people who got involved and made their voice heard. I will be doing my part in Parliament to fight for the bypass and ensure this issue is addressed. NZTA must reconsider this decision and work to find a solution for Tauranga.

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Seal attacks may be a result of roaming dogs Dog owners are being warned to keep an eye on their dogs after a number of dead seals have been found on Pukehina Beach this week.

In a post on Facebook, the Western Bay of Plenty District Council is urging Pukehina Beach residents to keep an eye on the whereabouts of their dogs - and to keep them off the beach or on a lead when on the beach.

“Seal pups are in the area and five dead pups were found on the beach yesterday.

“This morning a dog was seen attacking a pup on the southern end of the beach.

“Please let us know if you see anything untoward - and please take photos if any dogs are seen to be around

pups. Contact us on: customer.service@westernbay.govt.nz - and spread the word to your community please.”

A video sent to SunLive shows a dead seal on the beach with dog prints leading to and from the seal carcass.

A resident who has seen the video says the seals may have just died from lack of food source.

He says from the video, even though it looks like a dog has seized it, it may have already died.

“I think the combination of more seals around and the same amount of food, or even less food, is creating these circumstances.”

He urges people to call 0800DOCHOT if you find a seal View the video on: www.sunlive.co.nz

Giving the people the choice to do what’s best A robust and healthy society depends on strong support for our people and communities.

The hundreds that turned out to support the removal of the Bayfair underpass last weekend proved just how strong the thread can be.

It takes a lot to get our community really fired up and the angry crowd made it known what they thought of NZTA’s ineptitude and short-sightedness to remove the underpass.

In October it will be demolished completely.

I am putting as much pressure as possible on NZTA to ensure it is built and the overpass itself expanded to four lanes because the current proposal is unsafe and

will be clogged with traffic on the day it is opened.

To ensure children get the best start new mums and babies need the right care.

New mums can be pressured into leaving hospital early even when they need support to get them through the first few days, often an overwhelming and frightening experience.

As the dad to three children one consistent thing that I hear from new mums in the Bay of Plenty is that they wish they had the option of a longer stay in hospital.

Most people don’t know that new mums are entitled to 48 hours of care in a postnatal facility which means they leave early and miss out on having the level of postnatal care they might want.

National believes new mums should be supported and have more choices in their postnatal care. My colleague, Louise Upston, has proposed a solution that would help to alleviate some of the problems new mums face.

Her Bill would guarantee every new mother a minimum of 72 hours in a postnatal facility.

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OUR BUYERS ARE IN THE BAY OF PLENTY WAR MEDALS

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New Zealand (Maori) Wars (Virtutis Honor) – paying from $300 CASH IN NOW Boer War (South Africa) to NZMR – paying from $200 Unwanted Jewellery, Gold Racing & Trophy Cups, WWI Trio to NZEF – paying from $150 Broken Rings, Gold Chains, Gold Watch Cases, WWI Pair to NZEF – paying from $70 Alluvial (river) Gold, Dental Gold, Gold Coins, etc.

WWI Single Medals to NZEF – paying $30 each Also Scrap Silver (but no EPNS please).

WWI Memorial Plaque to NZ’er – paying from $80 ($150 with named medals) ANY QUANTITY - ANY CONDITION *Please note WWI medals to British Units are bought at lower prices.* COINS WWII SINGLE MEDALS AND STARS ESPECIALLY WANTED 1939-45 Star – paying $15 New Zealand silver coins up to 1946 Africa Star – paying $25 Australian silver coins up to 1963 Italy Star – paying $25 English silver coins up to 1946 Pacific Star – paying $50 We will pay (for the above silver coins) at least: Burma Star – paying $25 $2.50 for a halfcrown, $2 for a florin (two shillings), $1.00 for a shilling, Atlantic Star – paying $50 50 cents for a sixpence, 25 cents for a threepence France & Germany Star – paying $30 Air Crew Europe Star – paying $150 Higher prices paid for larger quantities New Zealand War Service Medal – paying $50 New Zealand coins from 1947 onwards also purchased British War Medal – paying $10 but only at 50% of face value Defence Medal – paying $20 (No pennies or halfpennies, please) ANY CONDITION – ANY QUANTITY Military Medal (MM) (for Bravery in the Field) WWI Single named to a NZ’er – minimum $700 New Zealand 1935 “Waitangi” Crown – paying from $4,000 (in a named group – from $1,000) New Zealand 1949 Crown – paying from $10 WWII Single named to a NZ’er – minimum $1,000 New Zealand 1953 Crown – paying from $3 (in a group with paperwork – from $1,500) New Zealand 1940 “ Centennial” Halfcrown – paying from $8 New Zealand 1935 threepence – paying from $80 Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) Gold Sovereigns – paying from $380 WWI Single named to a NZ’er – minimum $1,000 Gold Half Sovereigns – paying from $190 (in a named group – from $1,500) (but note: prices are for un-damaged and un-cleaned coins) WWII Single named to a NZ’er minimum $1,500 WORLD COIN ACCUMULATIONS – ANY ERA, ANY QUANTITY. (in a group with paperwork – from $2,000) WHOLE COLLECTIONS, ESTATES AND ACCUMULATIONS OUR Military Cross (MC) SPECIALITY. Singles – paying from $500 1 to 10,000 items (In a group to a NZ’er with paperwork – paying from $1,000) BANKNOTES Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) New Zealand Individual “Trading Banks” – Notes dated 1932 or before: Singles – paying from $1,000 Ten Shillings – minimum $300 (WWII to a NZ’er with paperwork – minimum $1,500) One Pound – minimum $300 *Please note all prices are for un-damaged and complete Five Pounds – minimum $800 full sized medals, with un-altered original naming* Ten Pounds – minimum $2,000 OTHER WORLD MEDALS NEEDED INCLUDING BRITISH, Twenty Pounds – minimum $4,000 AUSTRALIAN AND ALL FOREIGN COUNTRIES. MILITARY BADGES Fifty Pounds – minimum $10,000 ALL COUNTRIES, ALL ERAS, ALL NEEDED—ANY QUANTITY One Hundred Pounds – minimum $15,000 New Zealand “Reserve Bank” – Notes dated 1st August 1934 (1933): VINTAGE POCKET & WRIST WATCHES Ten Shillings – minimum $60 Collectable Brands Gents Wrist and Pocket Watches – Rolex, Omega, IWC, One Pound – minimum $50 Patek Philippe, Breitling, Tudor, Jaeger Le Coultre.

Five Pounds – minimum $120 All wanted, in any condition, going or not.

Fifty Pounds – minimum $2,000 Gold & Silver Pocket Watches New Zealand “Reserve Bank” – Notes undated: Chiming or Moon Phase Pocket Watches Ten Shillings – paying from $4 Novelty Pocket Watches One Pound – paying from $4 MOST OTHER NON-COLLECTABLE BRAND MECHANICAL Five Pounds – paying from $15 WATCHES ACCEPTED, BUT FOR PARTS VALUE ONLY Ten Pounds – paying from $40 (no quartz or battery operated watches, please) Fifty Pounds – paying from $800 *Please be aware that all prices are for un-damaged notes without tears, holes PRE 1950’s PICTURE POSTCARDS or rust spots. Damaged notes will be purchased at a discount* WHOLE COLLECTIONS, IN ALBUMS OR ACCUMULATIONS WANTED ALL WORLD BANKNOTES WANTED COLLECTIONS AND ACCUMULATIONS

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• New Zealand and World Medals, Medallions and Badges – including Agricultural, Horticultural, Exhibitions, Royal Humane Society, Jubilees, School, Military, Exploration, Scientific, Political, Public Service • Police and Fire Brigade Medals • Polar Medals • Military Badges • Gold Fob Medals to WWI Returning Soldiers • Tokens • Old Fountain Pens • Old Postcards • Old Postal Notes and Money Orders • Maori & Pacific Artefacts • Vintage Film Cameras

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Recycling toothbrushes for the greater good be given a second life and made into a New Zealand school students have the chance to win a recycled product such as a garden bed. community garden set by diverting all their oral care products from new Two recycled community garden sets landfill, thanks to a recycling competition. will be awarded to two schools, with Between August 22-November 15, 2019, the Colgate Community Garden Challenge invites all preschools, primary, intermediate, special and secondary schools nationwide to register, collect and ship all their oral care waste to TerraCycle who will turn it into new products. The competition encourages schools to learn about sustainability by seeing how waste that would normally be sent to landfill can

each set including a garden bed and custom-made bench made with recycled oral care waste and a $300 Mitre 10 voucher that can be used to buy seeds and plants (RRP $3116.44). Besides showing how recycled materials can be used as a sustainable alternative to virgin plastic, Colgate and TerraCycle hope the sets will promote gardening and healthy eating among schools.

Colgate vice president and general manager of South Pacific, Julie Dillon, and general manager of TerraCycle Australia and New Zealand, Jean Bailliard, have expressed their excitement.

“With the success of the program in 2018, Colgate is thrilled to be giving kids the opportunity to win a recycled community garden set for the second time. Hearing about the extraordinary Colgate Community Garden Challenge Launch at efforts of the kids to recycle all their oral Solway Primary School in Masterton. care waste and promote sustainability in “Open to all young New Zealand students, this their communities is something we expect exciting initiative helps to educate kids about the to see a lot more of this year,” says Julie. importance of recycling and keeping as much waste “For the second year running, TerraCycle is out of landfill as possible. honoured to team up with Colgate to once again Last years’ challenge saw more than 50,000 pieces of support the Colgate Community Garden challenge in oral care waste diverted from landfill 2019,” says Jean.

Durham St considered for council Tauranga City Council, development partners and advisers have taken an important step along the pathway to defining what the future civic centre of the CBD might look like.

At a public workshop on August 23, councillors heard a number of presentations exploring options for the development of a possible new civic administration building on Durham Street, opposite the Baycourt Theatre complex. The proposed development will be considered as a potential solution to the ongoing cost and efficiency issues the council faces due to the need to operate out of three separate CBD buildings.

Council’s community-based Technical Advisory Group also expressed excitement about the concept, with chairperson David Hermann indicating that the location of the civic administration

building away from the current Willow Street site would “provide an opportunity to free-up the area and create a true community heart, which would contribute substantially to Tauranga’s identity, wellbeing and vibrancy”.

Property advisers TwentyTwo director David Lambie said the council’s 2018 partnership agreement with Willis Bond & Co. for the comprehensive redevelopment of the CBD civic spaces offered important advantages. These included having the support of “operators who are the best in the game” in developing and testing the feasibility and cost of the administration building concept, while allowing the council to retain full control over the project.

The proposal will now move on to the next step, which will see the council receive a further report and presentations in early September.

Councillors will then consider whether to approve a feasibility assessment of the building

concept covering a preliminary design, potential commercial arrangements, costs and a proposed development programme.

The study would include the option of a ground level bus facility, carpark and a multi-storey administration structure.

The design brief would consider a suitable level of earthquake resilience and environmental and sustainability elements which would enhance its efficiency, and demonstrate leadership in public building standards.

As part of the feasibility assessment, which would be reported back to the newly-elected council early in 2020, a range of finance, funding and ownership models would be provided for consideration.

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Cambodia comes to the city Traditional Cambodian dancing was on display at the Bethlehem Community Hall on Saturday night, as part of a fundraiser for the Cambodian Charitable Trust.

About 100 people turned out to participate in an authentic Cambodian experience, with a sumptuous three-course Cambodian dinner and dance performances.

The dinner paid homage to Cambodia’s vibrant street-food culture; all made from scratch

by Lin Evans.

Lin was abandoned as a child by parents who couldn’t afford to keep her. She lived on the streets of Phnom Penh in Cambodia until she was taken into an orphanage at the age of five, and adopted at the age of eight by an American family living in Cambodia.

She moved to New Zealand ten years ago and, after escaping an abusive relationship, made a home for herself and her ten-year-old son in Tauranga.

Lin considers herself one of the lucky ones and wants to give children in the same position a better chance at life.

“I didn’t go to school until the age of nine,” says Lin. “Everyone in Cambodia is poor – paying for shoes or even a pencil and paper is so far out of reach for families there.”

Lin’s cooking skills came to the fore on Sunday night as she helped co-host the celebration of Cambodian culture with the Khmer Community of Tauranga to raise funds for the Cambodia Charitable Trust, a Tauranga-based organisation that works with the Cambodian government to offer accessible education for children in Cambodia’s most impoverished rural areas.

Denise Arnold, Don Pilbrow, and Steve Chitty established the

Cambodia Charitable Trust in 2008 after Denise was compelled to take action.

“Cambodia gripped my heart in 2007 and has not let go,” writes Denise on their trust website. “After reading about young children being rented out for sex by the week, I was compelled to act. Crushing poverty and the threat of human trafficking are everyday realities for vulnerable children.”

Denise recognised that education interrupts injustice, protects children and sets them up for a brighter future. By engaging the help of the wider community, Denise has been able to focus on making it possible for vulnerable children to get an education.

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A strike for all ages Tauranga students will be striking for climate change next month, and they are encouraging people of all ages to get involved.

School Strike 4 Climate Tauranga is organising a strike for Friday, September 27, on the waterfront.

The group is especially keen to see older generations join in on the strike.

Strike convener Zoe de Malmanche says it’s extremely important for older generations to get on board to send a strong message to local councils.

“If we can encourage people that are A group of climate change protesters outside the Tauranga City working to come join, then they can potentially close their workplaces down Council stand in solidarity with Wellingtonian Ollie Langdridge. if there is a lack of employees on that She is absolutely rapt about the rising of students day. It creates more incentive, particularly with around the world to address climate change. local council.”

“I have come here to be supportive. Good on you, Zoe reiterates that students are still very much at and may you be heard.” the forefront of the movement, however, they need Within the financial year of 2015-2016, Tauranga additional support from adults. produced about 760,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent.

“It’s still led by students. They are going to be the Sixty-one per cent of these emissions relate to most affected by the impacts of climate change. transport.

The location of Tauranga makes it more “However, we acknowledge the importance of including all those who understand the cause to protest vulnerable to the impacts of sea-level rise with a projection of a rise of over 1.3 meters by 2120 - only alongside us.”

Zoe says older people who join the strike are standing 100 years away.

Zoe reckons people in Tauranga need to stop using up for their children, grandchildren and youth around their cars on a daily basis.

New Zealand.

“We need to focus on carpooling, biking and taking “A lot of the older generation do acknowledge climate the bus. By doing that you are encouraging the council change but for them, it’s not quite as important. to take further action and invest in those sectors more “It’s more confronting for us, but with education if they know people are actually going to use them.” and conversation it’s something they can all get on “We also need to have these conversations about board with.” where our carbon footprint is and what we can do to Tauranga resident Mary Rose joined School 4 Strike stop that.”

Tauranga last Friday at a ‘sit-out’ outside Tauranga For more information about the upcoming protest, City Council Chambers. She is planning to join the school strike next month too. visit: www.facebook.com/schoolstrike4climate

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How to avoid a building contract surprise Building or renovating your own home is almost a Kiwi rite of passage, but it can become stressful and expensive if you haven’t done your research.

To avoid budget blow-outs and costly lastminute changes make sure you do your due diligence on your chosen builder and the terms of the contract. Knowing what your builder’s quote includes, and what it doesn’t, will help ensure the building process runs smoothly, without nasty surprises.

For building projects over $30,000 your builder is required by law to provide a contract and other documents pertaining to the build. These documents include a Ministry of Business Innovation and Enterprise consumer protection checklist, an MBIE disclosure document, and at the end of the job, any documents relating to guarantees, insurance, warranties and maintenance.

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Kiwis have keen appetite for renovating and adding value New Zealand is a nation of home improvers, with nearly half of renovators saying it’s important to do up their home to increase its value and sell, according to new research.

The online survey of more than 800 homeowners found that 37 per cent of property owners have undertaken renovations in the past two years, 20 per cent are currently renovating, and 28 per cent are considering renovating in the next 12 months.

When asked why they’re choosing to renovate rather than move house, 18 per cent say it’s impractical or too much effort to move, 17 per cent say they can’t afford to move, and 17 per cent say there are too few homes on the market

they’d want to buy.

Westpac NZ chief experience officer Shane Howell says with the right advice, improvements can be a great way to enhance a home’s characteristics and add value.

“Kiwis have always loved a renovation job, but what we could be seeing right now is more people taking advantage of low interest rates to fund home improvement rather than selling and entering a challenging housing market,” says Shane.

“A range of funding options may be available for renovators, including topping up their existing mortgage, or redrawing on a revolving home loan.”

When asked why it’s important to

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Within the Greenhill Plan, you’ll find plenty of room to enjoy family life.

Open plan living downstairs with a generous kitchen and a good sized study perfect for work or play at the top of the staircase. Cleverly designed with bedrooms zoned upstairs, this is smart living for a young family.

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This fantastic single-storey home has been designed to accommodate the needs of your family for years to come.

The master bedroom has been cleverly tucked down the rear of the home for peaceful retreat, with the other three bedrooms located throughout the home.

The large open plan living area provides plenty of living space.

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Pricing correct at time of printing but subject to change.

O/C is over cladding. Artist impressions only.

Refer to architectural plans for exact measurements.

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A new location with the same Classic brand Classic Builders will be throwing open its doors to more of the Bay of Plenty come early September.

Classic Builders regional manager Nathan Watkins says their new office in Papamoa will open up more of the Bay to the building company.

“We’re aiming to grow the Classic brand out in Papamoa and start owning areas like Papamoa, Te Puke, even down

towards Rotorua, Paengaroa, Whakatane, those sorts of areas,” says Nathan.

“We want to start getting a bit more exposure down there and really start growing Classic Builders in those areas.”

The Classic Group of companies has undergone significant change over the past 24 months as the organisation has grown.

Classic Builders has a

goal to be the largest residential builder in the country, and Nathan says they need to ensure all of their regions are strategically aligned with this vision.

“The flagship Bay of Plenty branch is our largest in the country and is integral in achieving this vision,” he says. “It is critical that we’re set up to run efficiently and effectively, as well as ensuring our future growth is sustainable.”

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Builders Bay of Plenty team will now be split across our current Tauranga office on 15th Ave, and a new office i Papamoa on Domain Road.

“It’ll be 100 per cent the same service,” says Nathan.

“Nothing operationally will change

for our contractors and suppliers.

“All of our resources will cover the Bay of Plenty (same as now) aside from you potentially having a new point of contact,” he says.

“It’s an exciting opportunity that’s come up.”

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The science of a warm home We’ve all heard that a warm, dry home is a healthy home, but how warm does it need to be?

Earlier this year, the World Health Organisation released a report that highlights the increasing impact of housing conditions on human health.

The section of the report that looks at low indoor temperatures and insulation highlights the health implications of cold air, noting it inflames lungs and inhibits circulation. This increases the risk of respiratory conditions and infection.

It also causes stress to the circulatory system, which can affect cardiovascular health.

Being cold stresses the immune system too, making it harder to fight off those winter viruses.

A recent New Zealand study found that preventable injuries

and hospitalisations due solely to poor housing conditions could be costing more than $145 million a year in ACC claims and hospitalisation costs.

It found that homes that were damp or mouldy caused more than 35,000 nights in hospital with an associated cost of around $35 million.

Ministry of Health statistics show 6000 children are admitted each year for ‘housingsensitive hospitalisations’ and are nearly four times more likely to be re-hospitalised and 10 times more likely to die in the following 10 years.

The report found that warming cold homes will have significant health benefits It said that a minimum of 18°C is widely accepted.

As part of its Healthy Homes Standards, from July 2021, the Government will require rental homes to have a heater that can heat a main living area to 18°C.

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Demand for rental properties in Bay of Plenty surges Bay of Plenty has had a huge surge in demand for rental properties with the number of enquiries rising 55 per cent on last year, according to the latest Trade Me Rental Price Index.

Every region in New Zealand saw an annual increase in rent in July as rental properties across the country continue to attract a lot of interest from potential tenants.

Trade Me Property’s Aaron

Clancy says many regions experienced strong double-digit growth in July with four regions reaching new records.

“Demand for rental properties continues to rise and we saw a 20 per cent jump in the number of enquiries nationwide,” says Aaron.

“Supply isn’t keeping up, with the number of rentals dipping five per cent nationwide on the year prior. As a result, tenants are having to dig deep into their wallets to secure their new home.

“With rents remaining high, demand increasing and supply

slipping, all the signs are pointing to record breaking rents this summer.”

Aaron says the national median weekly rent rose 5.3 per cent on the year prior to $500.

“Taking a closer look at the regions, Gisborne, Manawatu/ Whanganui, Otago and the West Coast hit new highs in July.

“Apartments, townhouses and units are in hot demand and in July we saw a 24 per cent annual increase in the number of enquiries.”

Make your kitchen dreams a reality These days, a great kitchen typically features an open plan outlook with a walk-in pantry and an island bench top.

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“Because our fully managed kitchen This creates an attractive, functional facelifts cost thousands of dollars less than cooking and entertaining space to share an all new kitchen, more of that kitchen with family and friends. budget is freed up to spend on an overdue No matter what you desire for your family getaway, more for a professional kitchen’s finish and function, Dream paint job or to include higher spec Doors Kitchens will make it a reality. appliances and finishes such as Dream Doors Kitchens provides custom splash backs and Caesarstone totally new kitchens and everything in Quartz bench tops.” between. Their skilled staff are the experts Dream Doors Kitchens Bay of Plenty at replacing tired cupboard doors, as well as works throughout the Bay, with local the kitchen panels, along with installing soft businesses and qualified local trades people, closing hardware and stunning bench tops to to produce great kitchen solutions that dramatically change the look and feel of a drab homeowners adore. They offer excellent or dated kitchen - usually within two days. guarantees on their workmanship and “When we consult about renovating an products as well as free consultations. existing kitchen, we look to optimise To find out more, call Dream Doors Dream Doors Kitchens’ functionality and performance,” says Kitchens on: 0800 229 373 or visit: Bay of Plenty managing Dream Doors Kitchens’ Bay of Plenty director, Dan Sheridan. www.dreamdoors.co.nz managing director, Dan Sheridan.

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Secure the builders that stand out from the rest If you’re wanting the full build experience where you’re involved in every step, Signature Homes can help.

Take Chris and Ange Harris’ new eco-home build in May 2019. Ange says Signature was fantastic at keeping the family involved throughout the build process.

“They kept telling us that we are part of the team; we really enjoyed working with them.

“This is our fourth home we’ve built and by far this one has had the best process. Signature Homes has really good processes in place and really good people on board.”

The Harris’ four bedroom, office and two living spaces eco home is completely off-grid – and Ange says Signature Homes was great to work with to make their quirky dream a reality.

“The thing with Signature was they were really up front about what they can and can’t do – they were really open and honest about that,” she says.

“They put in time to understand our set up and figure out the

best possible way for everything in the house to work together.”

Ange says that despite the complexity of the build, Signature Homes held up their end of the bargain and had the home finished by their guaranteed completion date – one of the many guarantees that are standard

The Harris family inside their new Signature home.

when you build with Signature Homes.

“Signature Homes have really high levels of integrity – they don’t try and compromise, they don’t cut corners,” she says.

“They would go the extra mile to make sure they were delivering what you were asking for and they generally deliver more than you’re hoping for.

“They exceed expectation.”

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Tick the box when installing a solid fuel heater A building consent is required by Tauranga City Council to install, move or replace a solid fuel heater, wood burner or freestanding or inbuilt fireplace Applications for a building consent can be made through Council’s online system.

Whether you are installing a solid fuel heater as part of a new dwelling, alteration or renovation, you will need to supply Council with floor plans showing position of the heater and alarm locations, the roof type, details of the chimney flashings, details of flu clearances where it penetrates floors and roofs and details of seismic restraint.

The model of fire being installed needs to be included in the description of the work and if you are applying for a building consent to install a pre-owned fire, it must be accompanied by a report from a member of the Home Heating Association stating that it is suitable to install and meets the emissions regulations. You need to declare whether the heater is new or second-hand.

You may also need to install extra smoke alarms.

Solid fuel heaters, whether freestanding or inbuilt, can create a fire hazard if incorrectly installed.

Many insurance companies will not pay out after a fire if the heater was incorrectly installed, or put in place without a building consent.

Only approved wood burners are allowed to be installed under regulations which came into effect on September 1, 2005, for residential properties.

A list of compliant wood burners is available on the Ministry for the Environment website.

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All smiles at the Mount Laughing and yoga – two words you tend to not see in the same sentence – is a regular occurrence every Saturday morning in Mount Maunganui.

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LOL Laughter Wellness runs classes that combine laughter exercises with yoga breathing at the Arataki Community Centre.

Facilitator Trish Baars says laughing yoga is not a comedy show.

“We are not there to make you laugh, we are there to provide you with the opportunity to give yourself permission to laugh.

“It’s very difficult to describe the activity and what it does for you, but it is phenomenally good for you.”

Laughter yoga was initially developed by an Indian doctor Dr Madan Kataria, the practise is said to enhance energy levels by bringing an increased amount of oxygen to the body and brain.

Laughter Yoga University states the practise is based on a scientific fact that the body cannot differentiate between fake and real laughter – you get the same physiological and psychological benefits.

Some of the reported benefits are the reduction of stress hormones and blood pressure, release of endorphins, getting rid of stale oxygen in the lungs and a positive impact on one’s emotional state.

Trish says this class provides people with the opportunity to laugh without stimulus.

“Very few adults remember to laugh because life is full of stresses and all the rest.

“At laughter yoga, we laugh because we choose to laugh. Not because there is humour involved.

“We do a couple of exercises to prompt the laughter, but generally it’s just training ourselves to be able to laugh because we choose to.”

She says if she the laughter doesn’t come to you naturally, not to worry, you can just fake it till you make it.

“A lot of people who come to the class say they have noticed a distinct increase in the rest of their laughs – they find it coming into their lives much more easily.

“The joy of it is, it’s a safe environment, and it makes happiness a choice rather than a consequence.”

LOL Laughter Wellness has been running for about three years and Trish encourages anyone interested to come down and give it a go.

“There is no charge, I put a dish at the door, and if anyone wants to put money into it they can to help me cover the cost of the hall.”

The class runs from 11 till 11.45am in the Penguin Room at Arataki Community Centre.

For more information contact Trish on: 022 036 6768 or email: lollaughterwellness@gmail.com

Yoga for the people You can help yourself and others by showing up to the community yoga class at The Light Room studio in Mount Maunganui.

Entry for the class is koha – you pay what you can give. Each month the proceeds from the classes are gifted to a local community organisation.

The Light Room wants to give residents the chance to experience ‘the power and transformation of yoga and meditation’.

Bring your friends to enjoy a cup of chai after class and meet your local community of likeminded individuals.

Different teachers offer to run the class each week and the style of yoga will vary each session.

Their experience may be vast or they may have just finished their teacher training and gaining their first experience teaching in a yoga studio Either way, participants will find great depth of connection gathering as a community to celebrate the healing qualities of yoga practice, meeting others that share the same passion or curiosity.

For more information about the community yoga class, visit: www.thelightroom.studio

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The Undercover team: Mitch McDivitt, Ezra Watkins, Shannon Burns and Gavyn Burns.

Undercover Industries is a local fabrication engineering company that specialises in the design, manufacture and installation of aluminium pergolas, creating the perfect extension to your home, especially during the hot entertaining spring and summer months.

Their fabrication engineers create top quality, locally manufactured, aluminium pergolas that are designed to be stylish, modern, low maintenance and extremely durable.

“We are proud to have more than 50 five-star reviews and love working alongside customers to exceed their expectations, after

all your home is your biggest asset,” says Undercover Industries director Gavyn Burns.

To celebrate the arrival of spring and Daffodil Day, Undercover Industries decided once again to take the opportunity to utilise the month of September and the power of business to give back, to their local community.

“With our Undercover Aluminium Pergola Systems being a sun smart solution providing 99.9 per cent UV protection, it was only sensible to choose to give back to the Waikato/Bay of Plenty Cancer Society, as our non-profit organisation to support,” says Gavyn.

“We decided that we will donate $100 to the Waikato/Bay of Plenty Cancer Society for every Undercover Aluminium Pergola booked in the month

of September.”

The Cancer Society is an independent non-profit organisation which relies on donations, so they can provide services free of charge to support people in our community affected by cancer.

“An organisation that is all too close to our hearts and an organisation we are proud to throw our support behind,” says Gavyn.

So if you are looking at creating the perfect outdoor area for your home, to add value, keep protected over the coming summer months, while helping Undercover proudly support the Cancer Society, get in touch with team today.

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NZ ranks lowly on modern medicines list The 2019 IQVIA ‘International Comparisons of Modern Medicines’ (ICoMM) Report, which compares the public funding of modern medicines in 20 OECD countries, paints a bleak picture for New Zealanders who desperately need access to medicines.

Despite its strong economic indicators New Zealand comes last, with the worst access to modern medicines and the lowest pharmaceutical investment level overall.

“It’s a bitter pill to swallow,” says Patient Voice Aotearoa chair Malcolm Mulholland. “Of the 304

modern medicines included, only 17 were funded

by Pharmac. No modern medicines were funded for conditions including arthritis, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, rare diseases and mental health.

“For cancer, only 6 modern medicines were funded – leaving 28 cancer medicines and more than 120 medicines in total sitting on Pharmac’s waiting list.”

The average time taken for Pharmac to fund medicines (512 days) was also twice as slow as the OECD average (233 days).

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Daffodil Day

Daffodil Day brings hope Communities across the region will look brighter on Friday, August 30, when 1400 volunteers take to the streets with the Cancer Society’s iconic yellow daffodil for Daffodil Day. Daffodil ay is the Cancer Society’s biggest annual fundraising appeal.

Every dollar dropped into collection buckets or donated online will help make hard times a little better for the one in three Kiwis affected y cancer, their whānau and friends.

“Come rain or shine, our team of volunteers will be out in force at more than 250

collection sites across our region on Daffodil ay, asking Kiwis to make a donation that will make a positive impact in the life of someone facing a cancer diagnosis,” says fundraising campaigns coordinator for the Waikato/Bay of Plenty Cancer Society Lauren Payne.

The Cancer ociety is a community-funded charity which relies on fundraising, donations and sponsorship to provide free services and programmes.

Last year, Cancer Society supportive care nurses in Waikato/Bay of Plenty reached out to people needing support

or assistance on 8795 occasions, and their volunteer drivers made 3567 trips to assist people to and from treatment, driving 119,245 kilometres in total.

“From providing practical and emotional support to helping Kiwis reduce their risk, every dollar goes a long way to make a diffe ence in our communities,” says Lauren.

Support the Cancer Society this Daffodil ay.

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Daffodil Day Importance of support services highlighted this Daffodil Day Cancer Society puts importance of support services in spotlight this Daffodil Day The Cancer Society is asking people to dig deep to help Kiwis facing cancer when they donate on Daffodil Day, Friday, August 30.

As the Cancer Society’s biggest annual appeal, Daffodil Day donations are vital to providing a wide range of supportive care services for people with cancer and their loved ones all around the country.

“Every day the Cancer Society helps thousands of New Zealanders through the emotional, physical and practical challenges a cancer diagnosis brings,” says Cancer Society chief executive Mike Kernaghan.

In the last year alone, the Cancer Society took more than 7000 calls to its 0800 CANCER information line, had more than 105,000 meetings, calls or messages with Kiwis dealing with cancer, provided nearly 48,000 nights of accommodation near a hospital and

drove almost 1,005,000 kilometres to help people to and from treatment.

“Our services are open to anyone facing any type of cancer. And we are available every step of the way – from answering that first question, to offering really practical tools and assistance,” says Mike.

“Providing meaningful support and resources comes at a cost though, and we want to show people who may not have engaged with us personally just how far their generous donations can go.”

Mike says that is why the Cancer Society’s supportive care services are at the heart of this year’s Daffodil Day campaign, which is also fronted by some of the very staff and volunteers that provide these

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“We are featuring just a few of the people who work and volunteer all around New Zealand – and whose efforts are bolstered by the more than 12,000 volunteers who will be out collecting on Daffodil Day.” He highlights that donations can also help build a better future for the increasing numbers of New Zealanders predicted to be diagnosed with cancer in the coming years.

“Cancer is the number one cause of death in New Zealand and is predicted to increase by 50 per cent in the next 15 years.”

“By supporting the Cancer Society, you are also helping us be a strong and independent voice for change in our communities, and at a national level, where we continue to push for improvements in cancer prevention, diagnosis

and care for all New Zealanders,” he says.

“With one in three of us affected by cancer, Daffodil Day is an important day for New Zealanders to come together. For some of us it is a day of remembrance, for others a day of hope. But most importantly, it is an opportunity for us all to contribute to making things better for people facing cancer in our community – now and in the future.”

ANZ has been a major sponsor of the Cancer Society since 1990 and the principal sponsor of Daffodil Day. Since then ANZ staff have organised bake sales, quiz nights, and raffles and together have fundraised almost $20million to support Daffodil Day. This year Kiwis can purchase an ANZ Smart Daffodil from any ANZ branch and donate using a special QR code. Each year ANZ staff get involved in fundraising activities that fund services and support for Kiwis with cancer.

Donations can be made at www.daffodilday.org.nz, at any ANZ branch during August or during the street appeal on Friday August 30.

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Passionate about natural health Bethlehem Health Shop has been undergoing a few changes. The baton has now been passed from previous owner Jude Randell on to new owner Jo Douglas who is also passionate about natural health.

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“I decided to take advantage of this opportunity as Jo is energetic, knowledgeable and most of all, will keep the special character of the shop,” says Jude.

Jo says she bought the shop as she has always thrived on supporting people with their health naturally and this is something The Bethlehem Health Shop has done to a high standard for many years. “With a retail health background and 10 years of seeing clients in clinic I knew that owning the shop would mean I would be able to share knowledge with more people on a daily basis.”

From Monday, September 16, The Bethlehem Health Shop will have practitioners available for consultations in our newly renovated clinic space.

This includes Jacqui Snodgrass offering specialised kinesiology, Karen Box offering homeopathy for the whole family including animals and Jo plans to offer homeopathy for children and

Past owner Jude Randell and new owner Jo Douglas. pregnancy as well as acupressure foot massage. Jude will also offer consultations with her Pulsed Electro-Magnetic Frequency machine.

“I’ll be using my PEMF machine in the shop as well as a

mobile service,” says Jude.

“This machine is designed to increase circulation, decrease inflammation and accelerate healing.”

And as the transition from Jude to Jo finishes up, Jude says

she is grateful for the people she has met through the shop.

“I would like to thank all of my customers over the past 15 years. It’s been a wonderful experience and I have met some amazing, inspirational people.”

Injury prevention at the heart of generous grants Five organisations are being awarded grants for innovative projects that help reduce injuries in the workplace.

The grants are part of ACC’s new $22 million injury prevention incentive programme for businesses over the next five years The successful applicants are the Food and Grocery Council, Forestry Industry Safety Council, Construction Health and Safety New Zealand (CHASNZ), Beca and a collective made up of the

Auckland, Hawke’s Bay and Hutt Valley District Health Boards.

“Kiwis are well-known around the world for being innovative and hard working. That’s great, but the sad truth is that we also have an unacceptably high rate of workplace accidents compared to international standards,” says Iain Lees-Galloway.

“These grants we’re announcing today are about supporting business innovation and strengthening leadership on health and safety in our high-risk sectors.

“The projects include virtual reality, smartphone apps, and intervention training.

“These injury prevention grants will help ensure New Zealanders return home to their friends and whanau safe and healthy after work.

“They align with

the Health and Safety at Work Strategy I announced late last year to drive sustainable, system-wide improvements.

“It is particularly encouraging to see two successful applicants, CHASNZ and Beca, working together to find modern safety solutions for the construction sector that is experiencing its worst fatality rate in a decade, with 11 deaths already this year,” says Iain In 2018 there were around 37,000 construction injury claims received

by ACC. T he injury prevention grants will help Beca and CHASNZ tackle this problem with an immersive virtual reality health and safety induction for the vertical construction industry, that is supported by advanced analytic techniques and better data collection.

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Improving local diabetes services Improving local services for people living with diabetes will be the theme at the upcoming AGM of Diabetes Help Tauranga.

Type 2 diabetes is a growing concern for our older population, while children and youth continue to be diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.

It is possible for a person living with type 2 diabetes to live a normal life with changes to their diet and lifestyle. Learning that a child has been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes can be stressful for families. Diabetes Help

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Tauranga provides practical advice and support to those living with diabetes through network groups, diabetes clinics and youth events.

Diabetes Help Tauranga welcomes everybody to its AGM. “We are wanting to increase efforts in direct support of people living with diabetes,” says Diabetes Help’s Lena Fendley.

“That could be through volunteering or contributing your skills to the running of the organisation.”

The AGM will be held on September 8 from 2pm at Tauranga Volunteer Coastguard.

For more information, phone INFOline on: 07 571 3422.

Beauty is there to see for those who look “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy” Anne Frank.

Beauty is all around us.

Unfortunately, it remains hidden from many of us when we get so tied up in the busyness of life that we fail to notice it. I was an exhibitor at the Women’s Lifestyle Expo last weekend and met many people over these two days… what I noticed was the openness and the beauty of connection many of the people I met conveyed through the conversations we

had. Beauty has so many facets in our lives and when I am open to seeing it surrounding me I also experience a deeper feeling of gratitude.

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Sleep right, slim down and rest easy Kiwis’ expanding waistlines and higher BMIs are forcing us to adopt new sleep positions to help them breathe - according to new research.

Around half of adult New Zealanders sleep on their side - a position which researchers say increases in preference as we age and our Body Mass Index – BMI- rises.

The sleep position preference study which collected data from more than

730 Kiwis from around the country found that around a sixth of us prefer to sleep on our backs, a tenth sleep on our stomachs and a further quarter are freestyle sleepers.

“The New Zealand study results are in line with international data which showed one in every two adults prefer to sleep on their side,” says Ecosa CEO Ringo Chan.

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Local brewers are bringing home the brews August in Tauranga is the month we celebrate all things tasty from around the region.

The Taste Tauranga Festival is a chance to showcase local producers and we’re lucky to have such a great

range of local breweries right here on our doorstep.

The Barrel Room has been holding a series of Meet the Brewer events throughout August with these locals.

There are breweries out there with bigger names and marketing budgets,

but these locals deserve our support. We had to limit the events to just five breweries, s we chose Funk Estate, Rocky Knob, Fitzpatrick’s, Lumberjack and Slab Brewing and I’ve listed my favourites from each.

Funk Estate’s cleverly named Afrogato Imperial Milk Stout is deliciously smooth and creamy with hints of coffee and vanilla. Rocky Knob’s Snapperhead Imperial IPA is a big 7.4 per cent with plenty of bitterness and flavour fro generous doses of American and New Zealand hops. Fitzpatrick’s Kaffalime Witbier is a light refreshing Belgian style

wheat beer infused with kaffi lime and coriander. Lumberjack BARREL have some amazing stouts NEWS quietly ageing in barrels that will With Stewart Gebbie be pure nectar of the gods when from The Barrel Room they release them.

Until then, their Log Splitter Imperial IPA is a big, beautifully hoppy crowd pleaser of a beer. Slab Brewing are small but have big dreams.

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Believe, because it’s true The Bible does what no other book can do.

(see especially Psalm 22 and Isaiah 53). There would be a trial and rulers involved, mocking, public humiliation and death by a mob mentality.

It would be an extremely bloody death where the blood would be splattered on wooden posts and the victim would die thirsty. There would be wounds, bruises and whipping. The victim would have their bones out of joint and their heart placed under pressure.

Their hands and feet would be pierced. Their bones would be seen (probably the rib cage). They would die naked, experiencing a very shameful death.

Jesus indeed died in this terrible manner.

The reason He would so die is also predicted. He died in our place, for our sins.

You can fully trust the Bible because it has fully proved itself to be inspired by God.

I particularly marvel at how the manner of death of the Messiah, Jesus Christ, was predicted in detail. From Moses, King David, Isaiah (1500 BC, 1000BC and 700 BC approx.) all the predictions were pointing toward crucifixion, a form of death not even invented until well after the prophecies were made.

There are millions of ways a person can die, so to predict one specific way, a way not yet known, is just incredible to me.

Obviously, the word ‘crucifixion’ was not used, as this form of death was not yet practised.

However, here are the details of Jesus’ death by crucifixion recorded by Moses, David and Isaiah

David Kidd, Church of God’s Love (7th Day)

Make sure you have your say We are fast approaching the 2019 Local Body Elections with around 60 candidates seeking the positions of mayor, councillor and community board member. Nominations are now closed and we are tasked with choosing from a plethora of names.

But does local government matter? Do we care? Isn’t it just about streets, parks and garbage collection? How could our faith guide us in this process?

As Quakers, like most people of faith, we are impelled to let our lives speak as an active witness and to seek positive social change. We feel related to all of humanity and seek

‘that of God in everyone’. So local elections matter because people matter.

Local government influences where we live and how w engage with our neighbours. It has the capacity to pay attention to the needs of people, including the young, old and disabled and to design our communities enabling economic growth, well-being and to create a realistic prospect for the future.

As Quakers we feel that there ‘is no part of ourselves and our relationships where God is not present’.

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Who is fleecing who?

To quote our Prime Minster: “Our instinct was certainly that New Zealanders were being fleeced at the pump and the Commerce Commission has onfirmed that is true,” Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Tuesday, August 20.

It’s this current Government that is fleecing us. One of the fi t things Ms Ardern did when she took office, was increase the tax on petrol each S ptember by 3.5 cents per litre until 2020.

The Government benefits most when prices of petrol increase, as this means more GST is collected.

From each litre of petrol, the Government’s take is 44.1 per cent, the supplier/ retailer is 18.2 per cent, and the petrol itself is 37.7 per cent. The Government take is greater than the actual cost of the petrol, and twice as much as the companies’ share, so who is fleecing who.

Brian P Porter, Welcome Bay.

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Taking responsibility I don’t know if John Rudd is another of our old pale, stale males, but his rhetoric certainly is.

Once again, a man dictating and laying the blame and responsibility at the feet of women. Shame on you.

Only a man can get a woman pregnant. A woman cannot get a woman pregnant. A woman can only get pregnant once in a nine month period. Men have the ability to cause pregnancies several times a day. So where should the responsibility for contraception lie? Change your rhetoric John.

Bring some accountability to the male of the species.

The consequence generally becomes the woman’s responsibility by default. Your account of abortion is so sanitized it’s almost beyond belief that you can state such passive, bland reasons for abortion such as “a woman knows how to use contraception” pfft!

I’m pro-choice, not pro-abortion and as an adopted person I wished over the majority of my life that I had been aborted, because I was always searching for a sense of connection and belonging, and a face that I could see myself in.

I never got a voice either – it was always assumed by others – the child’s voice is never heard and you cannot assume John that you know what the child would want to say.

Your sanitized account also doesn’t take into account the women who were brutally gang raped and became pregnant as a result. No idea who the father was – are you blaming them too?

There is more at stake than murder here, so please stop minimising, denying and blaming – become part of a movement to get men to step up and be good men. If criminalisation is continued, it should lie with the men for not checking whether the woman wants a baby before they get her pregnant.

Sue Brooke, Otumoetai.

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Mission St John Robson’s opinion piece (private advertisement in The Weekend Sun, August 23) is a timely rebuttal of some of the misleading misinformation floating around in etherland [sic] about The Elms and particularly 11 Mission Street, Tauranga.

Robson gives a good, brief, factual summary of the historical background and the current issues.

Mr Mikaere on the other hand does nothing to enhance his self-proclaimed standing as a local historian with his inaccuracies and emotive spiels on the topic.

The position since 2006 is crystal clear – [Tauranga City Council] purchased 11 Mission Street, Tauranga, using ratepayer money with the express and stated intention of gifting this property to The Elms in due course and Council has reiterated that promise and intention over the intervening years.

Just stop the twaddle and get on with what is the right thing to do and immediately transfer 11 Mission Street to The Elms Foundation not to Otamataha Trust nor any other outfit Take it from me, TCC ratepayers and citizens have had enough of this council and its antics and hopefully their votes will show this come the October elections.

Rob Paterson (Chairman Citizens Advocacy Tauranga).

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Ice core temperatures Margaret responds Last week Ken Jones wrote a letter about English wine. In actual fact, there were two periods when wine was produced successfully by England and Scotland.

The period that Ken refers to was known as the Roman Warm Period (about 2500 years ago). That was preceded by the Minoan Warm Period (about 3100 years ago).

In both those periods, human civilisation flourished.

The next warm period was the Medieval Warm Period (aka the Medieval Optimum – about 700 to 1300 AD [give or take]). During this time there was a Mediterranean climate in England and Scotland. English and Scottish wines were of such high quality – and in such high demand by the French – that French vintners petitioned their provincial governors to have any wine from Scotland or England banned. These petitions are still in French archives to this day.

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John Robson has issues of trust. He does not trust the wisdom of Council’s proposal to gift 11 Mission street to local iwi, and he does not trust iwi to share the benefits of this gift.

He does not trust Buddy Mikaere’s scholarship that justifies this gift, claiming a whole page of The Sun to counter his views.

He especially singles out the word “trust” in Buddy’s writing, implying that unless trust constitutes a formalised, scribal document, then no moral obligation is attached.

“Trust” acknowledges a reciprocal honour/ mana between parties, an exchange of understanding. It involves negotiating the reality and difference of others.

Council’s proposal to gift 11 Mission street to Otamataha Trust signifies two things, 1; recognition of Otamataha Trust’s ancestral mana whenua status and 2; confidence that Otamataha Trust will honour their intention to support cultural development with the Elms Foundation. It is an honourable arrangement.

Distrust impedes generosity.

If John Robson adopted a more bicultural/ inclusive definition of “us” and “ours”, he might dispel his mistrust.

Nau te rourou, naku te rourou ka ora ai e iwi. We mutually prosper through sharing Debbi Thyne.

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This week we saw our PM off to the Pacific Leaders Forum a Tuvalu, but it would seem she didn’t get the memo, that the study by the University of Auckland regarding Tuvalu in December 2018, confirming that far fro sinking, six of the seven atolls had in fact grown by a staggering 78 hectares from satellite data.

And yet Niwa still insists that their models show drastic sea level rise. The pseudoscience of modelling has never worked and has failed 100 per cent of the time.

Climate Emergency, Not. Rob Colmore, Oropi.

What a dreadful letter from R Bell. How on earth can it be racist to want all men and women to have equal political rights, irrespective of when they or their ancestors came to New Zealand?

If he wants different political rights for people based on their ethnicity, then it is he who is the racist, not me. I want a society where every citizen has the same political rights, and that is what I will fight for whether elected as mayor or not.

He refers to my “disturbing association” with Don Brash and Hobson’s Pledge, for which he is one of the spokesmen. I agree with Hobson’s Pledge’s commitment to equal citizenship, and all New Zealanders should surely agree with that too. Article III of the Treaty of Waitangi quite explicitly guaranteed equal rights to all citizens.

But I am not a spokesperson for either Don Brash or Hobson’s Pledge. I am my own person.

R Bell asserts, condescendingly, that :“Maori are unable to elect their own representatives”.

But the strong representation of Maori in Parliament demonstrates conclusively that Maori are absolutely as able to get elected as anybody else.

And to suggest that Maori need “their own representatives” in local government implies that what people with a Maori ancestor need in regard to roads, water supply and libraries is somehow qualitatively different from what other New Zealanders need.

And that is arrant nonsense.

Margaret Murray-Benge (Mayoral candidate Western Bay of Plenty District Council).

On a bandwagon Once again Robin Bell is ‘on the bandwagon’ regarding race relations (The Weekend Sun, August 23).

He lambastes both Don Brash and Margaret Murray-Benge when he states that the Hobson’s Pledge Organisation is ‘distinctly anti-Maori’.

He states Maori have not been ‘assisted in reasserting their fundamental rights’. In fact Maori have no more’ rights’ than any other New Zealander. The Treaty clearly states that fact. All New Zealanders are equal and under the same Sovereign and flag. We are one Over the past few decades Maori have had ample assistance in all areas of modern society. Most have taken advantage of what’s on offer, a small radical minority have not, and probably never will.

It’s very clear that R Bell has never read the Waitangi Treaty, and if he has then he’s confused and has a distorted view as to what it says.

P Kelly, Te Puna.

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Some weeks this column wanders. And why not? It’s called Music Plus and there’s a lot of ‘Plus’ out there to add onto the Music.

Last Legs

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I am, however, acutely aware from the friendly, if often entertainingly abusive, feedback pouring through various digital portals of the Watusi Country Club that some readers would prefer I stick to local music.

Fair enough, it needs every column inch.

In my defence, I would point out that there are – I assume – also people reading who have little interest in local music but enjoy the ‘Plus’.

It’s just a matter of slapping a cheerful psychic.

This week it’s all local. I’ve got three gigs of interest and in a coincidental bit of continuity they’re all at the Historic Village’s The Jam Factory.

Mainly I want to look ahead to next weekend when the blues is coming to town, but first a quick mention of this Saturday (August 31): Brendan McCarthy is playing his first show with a newly-reconstituted acoustic Apollo SteamTrain. The band has been around for a couple of years now, playing as an electric four-piece; they released a couple of singles, but Brendan decided it was time for a change.

As he explains: “The current market for the music that I have been writing and delivering for AST is very limited in our tiny paradise”.

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So after Brendan toured the North Island at the end of last year with James Reid of The Feelers, playing a solo support set and then second guitar for James’ set, and after a period of uncertainty with the band line-up, Brendan has decided to continue as a solo artist using the Apollo SteamTrain name and play smaller acousticallyfocused shows with session musicians as required.

Saturday sees the debut of this new approach and finds him accompanied by guitarist Mike Kirk and drummer Ali Edwards with a support set from The Sweetleaf Trio, who comprise legendary bass player Patrick Hawkins,

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Then on Saturday it’s the turn of the brilliant Nick Charles, one of the real stars of Aussie acoustic blues guitar. Rosalie Liddle Crawford wrote a really good piece about him for SunLive that’s worth checking out and I would highly recommend you seeing him if you fancy a little guitar magic.

He plays very fine six sting, 12 string and slide, and has an endless supply of great songs and stories.

So far Nick has released 16 albums on major Australian and US roots music labels and is signed to Solid Air Records USA (“Home of the World’s Finest Guitarists”).

The only other Australian to be found on that label is Tommy Emmanuel.

He has toured with and supported artists including John Hammond Jr, Guy Clark, Ralph McTell, Robben Ford, Junior Wells, Taj Mahal and BB King and toured the US ten times in recent years. Then there are the awards, including The AGE Blues Album of the Year in 2016 and twice winning Song Of The Year at the Australian Blues Awards. There are many more.

All of which is to say – yes, he is that good, you gotta see him! Expect a mix of acoustic roots music, including blues, folk, country and early ragtime jazz, and a support set from bluesman Mike Garner.

I suspect jamming may also occur.

Once again the doors open at 6.30pm and tickets are $20.

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Doors open at 6.30pm for a 7pm show; tickets are $20 from the Jam Factory website or on the door.

Moving right along, next weekend is getting bluesy at The jam Factory as two Aussies come to town.

On Friday (September 6) Shaun Kirk - a thirty-ish blues player from Melbourne - is touring to support a new EP with the single Save My Soul which is out now. Shaun has been to Tauranga before three or four years back and is well worth seeing. He has a great tenor voice and is a spirited guitar player who impressively dials up those driving vintage guitar tones. And he delivers a dynamic fun live show. Doors open 6.30pm; tickets are $20 on-line from The Incubator, $25 on the door.

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English Language Partners has moved its centre from the CBD down to Greerton.

“This move to a more village, community environment is a better fit for us and suits our values better, says manager Philippa Cairns.

They are a free English language service for new migrants and refugees with more than 7000 helped each year around New Zealand, making them the largest settlement agency in NZ. Here in the Bay they offer a variety of classes, including a home tutor service for those isolated by language barriers.

A team of trained volunteer tutors visit their learners once a week to help them with the confidence they need to move into the community/employment. There is also a group class to suit everyone who walks in the door.

The move to Greerton was celebrated by a grand opening on September 9. MP Angie Warren Clarke cut the ribbon and the Tauranga Mayor Greg Brownless spoke of the importance of welcoming migrants to our community. Seventy tutors and learners attended, some in colourful national costumes making it a lively occasion.

“The new, much larger centre is buzzing with several classes being held each day and even in the evenings for

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“We can now offer more opportunities to learn English and to gain the confidence they need to be truly a part of life in New Zealand.”

The next new class is a Level 2 programme designed to provide a step up to further tertiary study at Toi Ohomai.

The home tutor service trains volunteers and anyone is welcome to get in contact for details.

Trapping pests reaps valuable rewards The Friends of The Blade volunteer crew have been making good progress with reducing pest numbers to minimal levels in the 300 hectare area region of the Kaimai ranges at the top end of Whakamarama Road – commonly known as The Blade.

With 23 trap lines covering the area, it’s a big task made much easier if volunteer numbers remain high.

“We would love to have some more volunteers come and join us – we’ve recently expanded the number of lines and ideally will have two volunteers on each,” says team leader Colin Hewens.

“It’s a great way to keep fit, enjoy our beautifu Kaimai bush and birds and preserve this taonga for future generations.”

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Blackmail, forbidden love and secrets Murder on the Links, Detour Theatre’s latest show, is a classic murder mystery from the Queen of Crime herself, Agatha Christie.

An urgent cry for help interrupts Hercule Poirot holiday in France.

Arriving too late to save his client, whose brutally stabbed body now lies face down in a shallow grave on a golf course, Poirot is faced with perplexing questions. Why is the dead man wearing an overcoat that is too big for him? And for whom was the impassioned love-letter in the pocket? Before Poirot can investigate, the case is turned upside down by the discovery of a second, identically murdered corpse. Poirot must engage his famous ‘little grey cells’ to cut Accusations fly as Poirot, centre, investigates the murder through the confusion and untangle a story of blackmail, forbidden love, and a long-buried cements Detour Theatre’s reputation as Tauranga’s home of the Queen of Crime. secret. This is murder mystery at its intriguing best.

Murder on the Links runs from September 5-21.

Having previously directed productions of Agatha Bookings are available online at: www.iticket.co.nz Christie classics including Death On The Nile, An over the phone on: 0508 iTICKET and over the Appointment With Death, A Murder Is Announced and The Mousetrap, director Kim Williamson brings a counter at the Tauranga i-SITE on Willow Street.

Information on the Detour Theatre Trust can be wealth of experience and skill essential to the crafting found at their website: www.detour.co.nz of this new production. Murder on the Links further

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Formerly The Rhododendron Festival, this ‘Spring celebration of glorious gardens and events’ will be travelled to

by Tauranga Tasting Tours and Charters on November 1-4.

There’s something for everyone’s tastes and for them to aspire to for their own patch of paradise with cottage, native plant, highly-structured and rambling gardens.

From a multiplicity of beautiful gardens from which to choose, 15 have been selected to visit on this tour: Winlea Acre, Hollard Gardens, Cairnhill Garden, The Nice Garden, Te Henui Cemetery - which might seem an odd choice, but has won a TripAdvisor award, Te Popo, Stanleigh Garden, Sanderson Garden, Oakley Garden, Tairoa Lodge, Mary’s Place, Puketarata,

Tupare, The Bublitz Garden and Sequoia Steps.

“In 2018, we visited gardens within or in close proximity to New Plymouth,” say tour operators Lyn and Paul Marston.

“This year, as well as some city gardens, we will visit gardens in more outlying areas Waitara, Kaponga, Stratford, Inglewood, Opunake, Manaia and Hawera. Many of these are more substantial gardens.

“While visiting the Nice Garden, we will have refreshments; your choice of Pimms and cucumber sandwiches or a Rose and canapés.

“Our visit to the Oakley Garden will coincide with a hanging basket demonstration and on our last day, when we visit Tupare, The Taranaki Symphony Orchestra and Ensemble will be performing on the tennis court.”

Be quick to ensure your seat – email: tgatastingtours@xtra.co.nz visit: www.tastingtours.co.nz or phone: 07 544 1383.

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Topp Twins host New Zealand’s biggest night of country October 5 marks the 40th anniversary of New Zealand’s largest amateur performing arts awards.

Hosted by the New Zealand Country Music Association, the Entertainer of the Year awards have been running annually since 1979.

The 2019 awards are set to be bigger and better than ever with 23 top artists from all over New Zealand ready to sing and entertain their way to the most prestigious title in New Zealand Country Music ‘Entertainer of the Year’. Entrants from as young as six-years-old right through to the veteran entrants 55-plus will have the chance to put their two best songs forward to the panel of judges which include household name and New Zealand legend Brendan Dugan, recording artist and New Zealand Idol top five finalist Jessie O’Brien and past Entertainer of the Year winner Tracey-Maree Houia.

New Zealand’s highest selling recording artist Dennis Marsh will headline the matinee show kicking off at 1pm with hit songs including Hangi Tonight. National icons Dame Lynda and Dame Jools Topp ‘the Topp Twins’ will not only entertain during the 7pm evening concert but will keep you on the edge of your seat as hosts of the show which will also feature winners from the past four decades. The Entertainer of the Year awards are coming to Baycourt on October 5.

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National icons the Topp Twins will entertain and delight at the Entertainer of the Year awards.

Test cricket tickets now on sale Tickets went on sales this week for the much anticipated first test match between the Black Caps and England at Bay Oval.

The November 21 test will not only be the first international test match for Bay Oval, but it is also only one of two test matches between the Black Caps and England.

After years of hard work and investment, Bay Oval will now become New Zealand’s ninth test venue, recognising it as one of the best cricket

grounds in the country.

Tauranga is in for an exciting summer of cricket, with three other international games set to be played at the Mount ground over that period.

This includes an ODI (One Day International) and a T20 match against India, as well as a T20 between the White Ferns and South Africa.

New Zealand Cricket fixtures at Bay Oval: England 1st Test, November 21-25, India 5th T20, February 2, White Ferns vs South Africa 1st T20, February 2 and Black Caps vs India in the third ODI on February 11.

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Evening show 7pm with NZ Icons The Topp Twins Both shows will star over 30 entrants competing for the NZMCA Entertainer of the Year title

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Free events for adult learners Let’s Learn is running a month’s worth of free adult learning activities around the Bay for adults of all ages to try out classes, clubs, workshops and crafts.

September is the month to celebrate the Festival of Adult Learning in New Zealand and Let’s Learn will begin the month long celebration with a launch at the Historic Village in co-ordination with The Incubator and The Artery.

There will be art and crafts to try out from 10am1pm on Sunday, September 1. Check out the full calendar of events at: www.letslearn.co.nz The month will culminate with the Annual Festival of Adult Learning Awards Evening on Friday, September 27, where exceptional tutors, innovative providers, outstanding adult learners and life-long learners will be honoured and rewarded for their efforts.

This year it will be held in the new University of Waikato campus in Durham Street and the guest speakers are The Mayor Greg Brownless and MP Jan Tinetti.

Have a go at some arty activities at the Artery.

A change of name but not of heart They’re still good people, doing good things in the Bay of Plenty, but the friendly folk at Habitat for Humanity BOP are changing their name.

An artists impression of the new-look stores.

Habitat for Humanity BOP will now be known as the Doing Good Foundation.

The Doing Good Foundation will retain the same dedicated staff and strategic focus on building homes for families in genuine need in the Bay of Plenty region and will now operate as an independent entity from Habitat for Humanity NZ. And to celebrate, the Doing Good Foundation will be holding re-brand celebrations at its charity stores on Saturday, August 31, with in-store promotions on the day including special pricing on collectables, winter clothes and shoes and more.

“We want to take this opportunity to acknowledge and thank them for their long service and significant contribution,” says Habitat for Humanity NZ CEO Claire Szabo.

“Our local affiliate has operated in Bay of Plenty since 1994. Over that time, their team of volunteers and staff has built 75 homes, housing around 500 people in the local community.”

Chair of Doing Good Foundation Max Mason says the transition to the new name will be seamless as Habitat BOP company ownership, directors and staff will simply operate under their new name.

All current home recipients will continue to be served and supported under the new, local organisation.

With the help of dedicated volunteers and generous donations each year, Doing Good Foundation build new homes to house families in genuine need. The Doing Good Foundation is focused solely on the Bay of Plenty region. For more information on the Doing Good Foundation, visit: www.dgf.org.nz

MT RSA Fri 30th Gerry Lee 7pm – 10:30pm Sat 31st Coopers Run 7pm – 10:30pm Sun 1st Back Porch 4:30pm – 7:30pm

Sun 1st Mike Garner & Warren Houston from 1pm Wed 4th Quiz Night Thur 5th Amazon Rainforest Fundraiser from 7pm

MOUNT SOCIAL CLUB Fri 30th Take Two 6pm – 9pm followed by DJ Lucozade from 10pm Sat 31st Kam Kafai 6pm – 9pm, followed by Human Behaviour from 9:30pm

Sun 1st The Blarneys 3pm – 6pm

JACK DUSTY’S ALE HOUSE (Bureta)

THE JAM FACTORY Sat 31st Apollo Steam Train.

Doors open 6:30pm for 7pm start. $20

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Laugh, sing, dance, clap The Harmonic Resonators are back to play a full concert at The Entertainers Club.

Since their one set debut last December, The Harmonic Resonators have achieved internet stardom through their old-school, jam-session style videos of classic New Zealand singalong tunes, waiata Maori and heartfelt originals.

With lush harmonies, soaring yodels, and beaming personalities, they play a blend of acoustic country/ roots music and put on a show enjoyed by young and old alike. Laugh, sing, dance, clap, and resonate!

The Resonators will be supported by Ryan and Hayley Monaghan; young promising country artists, and a short set from Renny and Jenny Hantler; the songbirds who inspired the resonators.

The Harmonic Resonators are the creative energy of

Frontman Jeremy Hantler.

frontman Jeremy Hantler and the timeless country feel of father Renny Hantler.

This combined with the energy and talents of local country musicians Sharon McIntyre (Reidy Sisters, Echo ‘n’ Harmony) on Bass, and Ryan Monaghan (Ryan and Hayley Monaghan, Nimbus) on electric guitar.

With a set packed with old-school country hits and contemporary tracks played as country bangers, this internet sensation will leave listeners spellbound.

The Entertainer’s Club presents The Harmonic Resonators on September 8 from 5-8pm, held upstairs at the Tauranga Citizen’s Club.

Tickets available now at Tauranga Citizens Club reception or door sales from 4.30pm on Sunday September 8, unless sold out prior. Tickets cost $15 and there will be a full bar and fabulous $15 meals available, all public are welcome!

Go deeper with the Alpha film series

WIDEN YOUR HORIZONS...

Our society today is dismissing religious faith as out of touch with today’s realities.

These realities may give us a sense of freedom and autonomy, but they have not successfully delivered us from an inexpressible longing for a destiny for which we were created.

The Alpha Course is designed to help interested people embark on a journey to explore these issues in an intimate, friendly and confidential environment.

It is a place where people can ask questions, share ideas, laugh, eat and delve into issues that concern us all.

More than 16 million people worldwide have experienced the Alpha course and found that it can have a life-changing effect.

St Columba Church Centre at 502 Otumoetai Road, is hosting an Alpha Course beginning with dinner on Saturday, September 7 at 6pm, then on Tuesdays for nine weeks and everyone is welcome.

RSVP to: 07 576 6756 or: columba.tauranga@xtra.co.nz by September 2.

Explore the The Alpha course helps people explore their destiny.

questions of life...

And the answers Christianity offers.

Alpha begins: Saturday, 7th September at 6pm with dinner Then on Tuesdays at: St Columba, 502 Otumoetai Road RSVP 2nd September www.stcolumba.co.nz | columba.tauranga@xtra.co.nz | 576 6751 ext 1

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Saturday 31 August

Apollo Steam Train At The Jam Factory, Historic Village, 17th Ave. Doors open at 6:30pm for 7pm start. Acoustic showcase with special guests The Sweetleaf Trio. Tickets $20 www.theincubator. co.nz Bay Network Social Singles Single, over 50? For weekend dinners, barbecues, pot lucks etc. & an annual trip away, Ph Jonathan 572 2091, Maureen 021 112 3307 Coffee n Chat 60+ R u interested in meeting up with a friendly group for a coffee n chat 10am. Marlene 027 342 0698 or marlenehurle@xtra.co.nz Community Yoga Classes 9am.

Bring your friends. Enjoy community chai after class. $5 or free to LightRoom Members. 325 Maunganui Rd. Ph Rayna 027 464 0691 rayna@thelightroom.studio Croquet 45 Kawaka St, Mt Maunganui.

Mon, Wed, Sat. 9am for 9:15am start.

New players & visitors welcome. Ph Jacqui 574 9232 Eckankar Sound of Soul Experience the Sound of Soul spiritual HU chant.

Spiritual chat & light refreshments follow. 1:30-2:30pm Papamoa Community Ctr 15 Gravatt Rd Festival Of Adult Learning Free Adult Learner Events around the Bay during September. Check the event calendar at www.letslearn.co.nz for more information. Brought to you by Let’s Learn!

Free Beginner Dance Lesson 3pm upstairs Citizens Club cnr Cameron Rd & 13th Ave. Ph 027 497 8651 Greerton Hall Market Last Sat of the month. 8-12. Stalls inside/outside. Discounts for charity groups. Refreshments available. Ph/txt for site. Tricia 07 543 1487 or 027 908 2952, www facebook. com/greertonhallmarket Here I Am Exhibition By Froyle Davies. Until 19 Sept at The Art Lounge NZ 117 Willow St. theartloungenz.com Tue-Sat 11-4. Free entry 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 LOL Laughter Wellness Come & join us & laugh away your winter blues.

Arataki Community Ctr, Zambuk Way, Mt Maunganui 11-11:45am. Ph Trish 022 036 6768 Mount Music Club 2nd Sat monthly.

1-4pm Old Folks Hall, Midway, Mount.

Mostly country. Good backing band. Ph Dick 027 493 8458 Mt Maunganui Society Dance Come to our Spring Colour’s Sequence Dance, Sat 14th 7:30pm Arataki Community Ctr, Mt Maunganui. Sheldon’s Dance Band. Lovely supper. $7 entry. Ph 576 0578 Nick Charles Australia’s virtuoso of acoustic roots & blues, encompasses a delightful mix of acoustic roots including blues, folk, country & early ragtime

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Choral Evensong St Peter’s Anglican

jazz. Supported by local musician Mike Garner. Jam Factory 7 Sept 6:30pm $20 Omokoroa Artists Art Show Pick up a new painting! 28th & 29th Sept at Settlers Hall, Omokoroa 10am-4pm. Free entry. Eftpos available.

Church, Victoria Rd, Mt Maunganui.

Beautiful music by Purcell, Ayleward, Luther & Arnold led by St Peter’s Chancel Choir. 4pm.Free/koha Croquet Tauranga Domain, Cameron Rd, 12:45 for 1pm start, Sun, Tues, Fri. Beginners welcome. Peter 571 0633

Open Studios Coromandel Artstour

Farmers Market - Mount Mainstreet

Coromandel town 5th-6th & 12th13th October 10am-4pm. 34 local artists will welcome visitors to their studios.

View www.coromandelartstour.co.nz for more info. Free event.

Petanque Sat & Tues 12:50pm. No equipment needed. Nice low impact sport to enjoy outdooors. Ph Jo Ann 578 3606

Held every Sunday 9-1pm rain or shine!

Right in the middle of Mount Mainstreet at Coronation Park, Maunganui. www. mountmainstreet.nz Friendship Force Travel Club Enjoy international travel? Join our club. Be hosted by other clubs worldwide & host them. Ph Barbara 574 5711 or Jonathan 572 2091 Golf Croquet Croquet Mt Maunganui, 45 Kawaka St Tues, Thur & Sun 8:45am for 9am start. New players & visitors welcome. Nev 575 5121 Home Based Christian Church Join us for a one-hour sharing from the teachings of Jesus Christ. 7pm Papamoa Sports & Recreation Centre, 80 Alice Way. John 022 680 7705 Let’s Learn Month Launch Free workshops, demonstrations & displays about creative courses at The Incubator, The Historic Village 10-1pm. Have A Go! Maketu Market Every 3rd & 5th Sunday at Village Green. Set up for vendors from 7am. Ph Carlyn 027 251 0388 or Pat 021 447 420 NZDA BOP Range Day 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 licenc Omokoroa Lions Market 2nd Sunday monthly. Western Ave Car Park, Omokoroa. 9am-noon. Bookings not required. Ph Keith 548 2117 Papamoa Lions Club Market 2nd & 4th Sunday Gordon Spratt Reserve, Parton Rd, Papamoa.

Gates open 7am for stall holder entry. Wayne 027 974 5699 Psychic Cafe Spiritual Centre Experience the Bay’s largest spiritual gathering.

Greerton Community Ctr, Tauranga.

Doors open 6:45pm, starts 7pm. Entry $15, then everything free. Psychics, Healers, refreshments. www.psychiccafe.nz Quakers in Tauranga 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 Sun & Thurs 1:30-4pm, in pond behind 24 Montego Drive Papamoa, sailing Electron Yachts for fun. Adult beginners welcome. Graham 572 5419 Sunday Stitch Workshop Textile Art casual get together. Create treasures with Kristy Clegg.

First Sunday of the month, 10am-1pm. $10. The Artery, Historic Village. Info @ www.theincubator.co.nz. Ph 07 571 3232

Sunshine Sequence Dance Group

Come & enjoy tea dance, Baptist Church Hall, 13th Ave. 5-9pm. $5pp. BYO food, plates, cutlery, non alcoholic drinks. Jan 544 4379 Tauranga Farmers Market 7:45-12 Tauranga Primary School cnr Cameron Rd & 5th Ave. Fresh & artisan products direct from producers. Ph 0274 915 876 Tauranga Fuchsia Group Meet last Saturday of month 1:30pm Art/ Craft Centre Elizabeth St . Workshops on growing fuchsias. New members welcome. Ph Pat 579 1655 or Noeleen 578 4643 The Blue ‘Tache Bash Come help raise money for Prostate Foundation Charity. Live music from Shabang, 14th Sept at The Black Sheep Restaurant. Tickets $25 from Steampunk Tauranga, Facebook.

The Rusty Mannequin Women’s preloved clothing & accessories. at The Historic Village, 17th Ave. 9am-12pm. Cash only. Proceeds to Turning Point Trust Village Radio Museum Community Radio broadcasting nostalgic music & Community Notices seven days on 1368 KHz AM Band. Radio Museum open from 10am. Request line 571 3710 Welcome Bay Market 10-2 at hall.

Plentiful free parking, great food & coffee, relaxed family friendly shopping.

Support locals while grabbing bargains!

Ph 027 334 8301 or on Facebook Wild West Casino Night TePuke Toy Library’s Annual Casino Night Fundraiser. Tickets $25. Best dressed, silent auctions & more. TePuke Citz RSA, 7pm. Ph 027 263 9309 tepuketoylibrary@gmail.com or facebook for tickets Work Life Clarity Workshop Work towards a healthy work life balance with a small group of women. Led by life/career coach Holly. Limited spaces available! Visit www.hollydennison.com/ clarity-workshops

Sunday 1 September

Bible Seminar 2:30pm Greerton Senior

Citizen’s Hall, Maitland St, Greerton.

Title: God provides us an anchor for the soul. Interactive, Q&A. All welcome.

Mary 573 5537 BOP Oodle Club Playdates for dogs!

Meet up first Sunday of each month a Fergusson Park (Beach Rd end). 2-3pm.

Gold coin donation.

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Another 1-day ÿ shing week. There’s surely been a lot of weather in the last few weeks.

Saturday had the better looking forecast, so we headed out, and while windy, it would have been okay if it had just stayed SW. Unfortunately it swung to the South, and a chop coming from both directions made for a more uncomfortable trip. The ÿ shing was quite good, just made tougher by the conditions.

Sunday was worse, so we at least made the right call.

Tauranga Organ Keyboard Society

Meets 1:30pm at Carmel Country Estate Social Ctr, 11 Hollister Ln, Ohauiti. Play or listen. Organ EL900 or Clavinova 405. June 574 2204

Tibetan Buddhist Teachings

Teachings by Geshe Jamyang Sherab, held in Te Puna, 10am12pm. Teachings free, grateful for dana/koha. Venue & program email susan.bagley@xtra.co.nz

Monday 2 September Age Concern 500 Cards Friendly

group gets together 9:30-11:30am (except Public Holidays) held at Age Concern, 177a Fraser St, Tauranga. $2 Donation. All welcome Alcoholics Anonymous Open meeting 10am Mon & Fri. Tauranga Central Baptist Church. Cnr 13th Ave/Cameron Rd. All welcome. Ph 0800 229 6757 Argentine Tango In Tauranga Free introduction to authentically danced close embrace, highlighting your sensibility. Welcome to our warm, open, fun group. Ph Denise 020 4006 1340 or Facebook Tango in Tauranga Badminton Aquinas College in Pyes Pa 7-9pm. Casual players welcome. Club racquets available. Players aged from year 10 upwards. Ph Sue 021 194 4335 www. taurangabadmintonclub.co.nz Bethlehem Indoor Bowls Meets in Bethlehem Hall 7:30pm start. Names in by 7:15pm. New members of all ages welcome. John 027 654 1298 Cancer Society Walking Group Free walking group for people with cancer & their carers. Meet at Pilot Bay at 9:30am. angeliqueensor@cancersociety.org.nz Chess At Mount Maunganui Mount RSA Chess Club, 544 Maunganui Rd, 6-7pm. Late program 7pm onwards. Incl casual games. Noel 579 5412 Chess In The Afternoon Mount Chess Club, 1-4 pm, Hillier Centre, 31 Gloucester Rd Mt Maunganui. $4 a session. Equipment & refreshments provided. Bob 0274 786 282

Citizens Advice Bureau Tauranga

Free confidential impartial info & advice Don’t know? Ask Us! Ph or visit us at 38 Hamilton St Tauranga. Mon-Fri 9am5pm 07 578 1592 or 0800 367 222 Diabetes Help Tauranga Drop-in clinic. 10am-12pm, no appointment necessary.

Advice or support for anyone living with diabetes & their families. 174 11th Ave, Tauranga

Dutch Friendly Support Network

Coffee morning (1st Monday of month) 10am-12noon. $3 entry. Vintage Car Club Rooms, Cliff Rd, Tauranga. Ph Bernadette 07 572 3968

Harmony-A-Plenty Barbershop Chorus Men’s chorus affiliates to a N

& worldwide network. We teach singing with specialist coaching . Meets 7pm 183 Moffat Rd, Bethlehem.

Indoor Bowling St Columba Church Hall 7:15pm. $10 annual subs, $2 per

night. Everyone/all levels welcome. Ph Paul 576 6324 Let’s Learn Lifelong Learning 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 Mah-Jong 12:30-4pm, visitors & beginners welcome. Free teaching available.

Tauranga South Bowling Club, 11th Ave. Ph Shirley 576 0014 Maketu Market 3rd and 5th Sundays 7am-12pm, Maketu Village Green. Ph Carolyn 027 251 0388 or Pat 021 447 420 Oceanside Probus Club Meet 1st Mon of month 9:30am at Omanu Golf Club, Matipihi Rd Mt. All welcome. Ph Elaine 575 5044 or Myra-Lou 575 6595 Postnatal Support Group 9:30-11am Bethlehem Birthing Centre. All parents & caregivers of 0-2 yr olds welcome. Ph 07 549 4522

Recycled Teenagers Gentle Exercise

Mon & Wed Tga Senior Citz Club 14 Norris st. 9:15-10:45am. Tues St Marys Hall cnr Girven & Marlin 9-10:30am.

Jennifer 571 1411 or 027 206 0776 Silver Singers Choir Soprano, alto, tenor, bass voices required. Practice at St Stephens Chapel, Brookfield Tce fro 1-3pm. Ph Pat at 579 1036 St Vincent De Paul 50% off all winter clothing for one week only 2nd-8th Sept (excludes Vinnies Vogue & Vanguard) at all Vinnies Op shops.

Taichi Internal Arts NZ Greerton Senior Citizens Hall, beginner classes Mon 9:30am. Te Puke Memorial Hall, Tues 9:30am, Wed 5:30pm. LokHup Friday 11am. All incl Qigong. Ph 552 4425 Taoist Tai Chi New beginner classes. 15 Koromiko St, Judea 9:30-11am.

Memorial Hall Te Puke 9-10:30am. Great for stress, suitable for all. Start anytime. Ph 578 6193 or visit www.taoisttaichi.org Tauranga City Brass Band practice at Band hall, 10 Yatton St Greerton. All welcome. 7-9pm. Ph Jeremy 021 132 3341 Tauranga Creative Fibre Every Mon 9:30am & 2nd & 4th Thur 7pm. Learn knitting, crochet, spinning, weaving & felting. 177 Elizabeth St. Ph Margaret 07 571 3483 Tauranga RocknRoll Club 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 PaknSave)12:45pm, 1pm start. Entry $2 incl afternoon tea. New members welcome.

Vision Friendship Club (FNZI) Friendship Fun Fellowship mixed club for retirees. Meets 4th Mon of month at Citizens Club 10am. Guest speakers interest groups. Ph Bryan 570 2483

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!

Joleen Luck was pretty happy with her catch on her ÿ rst weekend ÿ shing trip with friends.

Be in to WIN! Email your fiÿ shing photo (high resolution Jpeg) to production3@thesun.co.nz Subject line ‘Photo of the Week’ with your Name and address to send prize to and description of photo and location.

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Tuesday 3 September

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 Altrusa Int’l Tauranga Club

Womens service group, literacy focused meet 2nd Tues for dinner business meeting & 4th Tues for programme evening. Pam 027 253 7562 or president.tauranga@altrusa.org.nz www. altrusa.org.nz 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 Bayfair Petanque Club Play Tues & Thur 12:45. Bayfair Reserve, Russley Dr. All levels of play welcome. Equipment & training available. Ph Alf 570 0480 Beginner Social Dance Class 7pm Tauranga Primary School Hall, 5th Ave, or Wed 8pm Welcome Bay School Hall, Welcome Bay Rd. Ph 544 2337 or 027 322 1786

BOP Linux Users Group

7-9pm at Tremains, Cameron Rd/8th Ave. Linux PC operating system. Smarter, safer, faster & free. Learn more to take charge of your computer. 578 6024 http://boplug.co.nz/event-calendar/

Citizens Advice Bureau Papamoa

Free confidential impartial info advice. Don’t know? Ask Us! Ph or visit us at Community Ctr 15 Gravatt Rd Papamoa. Tues & Thurs 10am-1pm.

0800 367 222

Contemporary Issues In Religion

Earth Diverse & Tauranga Moana Interfaith Council course on Religious Fundamentalism, Extremism & Terrorism. 6-8:30pm, 1 Church St. More info & to register http://www. earthdiverse.org.nz/registration Falun Dafa Free Classes Cultivating one’s character results in a return to true health. https://letslearn.co.nz/ falun-dafa/ 7pm, Hillier Ctr, 31 Gloucester Rd, Bayfair. Ph/txt Judy 021 0425 398 Fitness Fun Cardio, weights, floo work, balance & dance. 9:30am St Columba Church, 502 Otumoetai Rd, Cherrywood. Ph Gloria 021 139 2448 Israeli Dancing Beginners class 6:307:30pm at Gate Pa primary school hall, Cameron Rd. Circle & line dances, all ages welcome. Ph Maria 022 165 2114 Keep On Your Feet Strength & balance exercises for older adults, all levels of fitness welcome. 1-2pm at Katikat Catholic Church hall, 89 Beach Rd, Katikati. Sharnie 021 111 8617 Marching For Leisure A noncompetitive activity for mature ladies. Fun, Fitness & Friendship. For Tauranga teams’ details ph Frances 07 544 1318 or 021 297 3407

Merge: Social Connections

For new residents to Tauranga. Meet 1st & 3rd Tuesday of month at The Raft, Chapel Street 5-7pm. Email Karen merge.tauranga@gmail.com

Mount Morning Badminton

9-11:30am. Mt Sports Centre, Blake Park. Social, all ages, racquets available, beginners welcome. $5 per day. Ph Margaret 575 9792 Mt Runners & Walkers Mt Maunganui Runners & Walkers Club meet every Tues & Fri 9:30-10:30am, Scout Hall, 13 May St. All welcome. Babysitters available. www.mtrunnersandwalkers.co.nz

Oceanside Kiwanis Club Join a friendly group

& assist underprivileged children. Meetings 2nd & 4th Tues of each month @ The Club, 45 Kawaka St. Wayne 021 567 078

Oriana Singers Tauranga A mixedvoice (SATB) choir. We welcome new members both men & women. 7pm Dee St, St Andrew’s Hall. https://www. orianasingers.nz/ Otumoetai Walking Group Meet at 9am at Kulim Park. Ph Jim 576 7339 Papamoa Palms Friendship Club

Friendship is our motto. Everyone welcome. Free first meet.11am Gordo Spratt Reserve Parton Rd. Bring own lunch. AM/PM speakers, many activities. Ph Sue 574 3280 Scrabble 9:20am for 9:30 start. Tauranga Citz Club 13th Ave & Cameron Rd. All most welcome to exercise your brains! Ph Jo Ann 578 3606 Sequence Dancing Tauranga Social & Leisure Club, St John Anglican Church Hall 94 Bureta Rd, Otumoetai. 7pm-9:30 except 2nd Tues of month 3:30-6pm. Faye 543 3280

South City Indoor Bowls 7:30pm

Men’s & Ladies Singles. Ryder Cup & Ryder Plate. Markers please. Names in by 7:15pm.

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 Diamond Friendship Club For active retirees, monthly meetings 1:30pm 1st Tues each month at Tauranga Citz Club, guest speakers, social outings, numerous activities, all welcome. Ph Nancy 543 4468

Tauranga Model Railway Club

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

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

Tauranga Samba Drumming Band

Learn our unique style of Brazilian batucada street drumming at our free workshops. Sept 17, Oct 29. 7:159:15pm. Mount Sports Ctr. Ph 027 206 4970 Tauranga Target Rifle Club Club meets 7pm at the range at the western end of Elizabeth St. Olympic style shooting with target rifles. Coachin provided Waihi Beach Tennis Club Adult social tennis, Tues & Fri 8:30am. All year. Casual & new players welcome.

Ph Barry 027 492 6475 Welcome Bay Lions Coffee group 3rd Tues monthly. Welcome Bay Community Centre 10:30-11:30. All welcome. Ph Sue 571 8940 Yoga For All Welcome Bay Community Ctr, 6:30-8pm. Traditional, relaxing yoga class. Beginners welcome. $12 for one or $90 for 9 classes. Bring a mat.

Bhajan 07 929 7484

Wednesday 4 September 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 Arabian Spice Bellydance Beginners & advance Bellydance Classes, 6:30pm St Columba Church Hall, Otumoetai Rd, Tauranga. Learn, dance, keep fit perform with us. Oriental Dance 021 124 5982, arabianspicebd@gmail.com Age Concern Coffee Group Chat over a relaxing cuppa at St Stephens Methodist Church Hall, 9 Brookfiel Tce. 10:30am-12pm $3pp Ph 578 2631. Open to the public Age Concern Walking Group 10am Welcome Bay Tavern 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

Cards, Cribbage (Crib) Join a friendly group who meet at Tauranga RSA Greerton 12:50pm. Ph Michael 562 0517

City Early Start Toastmasters To

improve public speaking & leadership skills, join friendly, motivated, enthusiastic City Early Start Toastmasters at Classic Flyers Cafe, 7am-8:15am. LaniDTM@gmail. com www.cityearlystart.co.nz or see Facebook.

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

Fernland Spa Water Exercise

Gentle exercise in the warm water.

Suitable for joint replacements, arthritics & recovery from injury or illness. Great for strength, coordination & balance. Jennifer 571 1411 Fitness League Exercise, movement & dance focusing on posture, stretching, strengthening & flexibilt suitable for all ages & abilities, 10am, Katikati Memorial Hall. Pam 549 4799 Gate Pa Indoor Bowls Carousel Triples 7:30pm. Names in book (Ecclesfield Trophy Gate Pa Midweek Tennis Wed & Fri 9am-12pm. Come & make new friends. Visitors at all levels especially welcome. Ph Geoff 021 474 807 Healing Rooms Come, experience God’s healing touch, whether physical, emotional, spiritual. Behind Graced Oppshop, cnr 11th Ave, Christopher St 1-3pm. No charge.

Ph 021 110 0878 www.healingrooms.org.nz

Home Based Christian Church Join us for a one-

hour sharing from the teachings of Jesus Christ. 7:30pm Papamoa Community Centre (at library) 15 Gravatt Rd. John 022 680 7705

Introduce Rotary, Tenby Powell

We invite those interested in Rotary.

Dinner & discovery with guest speaker Tenby Powell. 6pm, Daniels in the Park, 11th Ave. Email secretary.tauranga.rotary@gmail.com Katikati Bowling Club 8 Park Road.

Mixed Roll-ups 12:45-3pm.

Mah Jong Citz Club, 14th Ave/ Cameron Rd. 1230-1600. All welcome, teaching available. Ph Joy 578 7310 Mah Jong Weekly Club meets Hillier Centre, Gloucester Rd, Mt. 6:15-9pm. Ph Vicki 0274 955 995 Midweek Music 1st Tuesday monthly. 7-10pm Cliff Road Hall, Tauranga. Mostly country. Good backing band. Ph Dick 0274 938 458 Pickleball At The Mount 10am12pm Mt Sports Ctr, Blake Park.

Social, all ages, equipment supplied.

Beginners welcome. $5 session Ph Viv 575 5845 Reduce Falls Morning Tea Free morning tea in Otumoetai with St John and strength & balance experts about reducing falls risk. Register on 021 171 8831 or simoner@sportbop. co.nz.

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 Singles Coffee Club 60+ Looking 4 coffee & meeting new friends? Gayle 027 439 3267 or Email mixandmingle@xtra.co.nz 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

Tauranga Embroiderers’ Guild At Tauranga Rowing Club, Devonport Rd 10am-2:30pm & 7-9pm. Beginners very welcome. Ph Jenny 021 581 951 Tauranga MidWeek Tramping Group

Motutapere Hut via Mt Eliza from Thompsons Track. Grade moderate. Ian 577 1744 Tauranga South Garden Club Meeting at Central Baptist Church Hall cnr 13th Ave/ Cameron Rd 1:30-3pm. Visitors welcome.

Ph Margaret 578 1017 Yoga, Private Sessions Feel uncomfortable in a group setting or have special needs?

I can design a class to specifically suit you needs & capabilities. Asunta 021 061 4394

Thursday 5 September

Bay City Rockers Social RocknRoll danc-

ing, plus other popular dances at Senior Citizens Hall Norris St. 7-9:30pm. Includes supper. $3 entry. Ph Gavin 027 643 6222 Coffee & Chat Connecting people with children under 5. Drop in anytime between 10am-12pm. Abundant Life Ctr, 36 Sutherland Rd. Christina 021 173 0925 Community Bible Study Join us @ 14th Avenue Gospel Centre 10am-12pm for a Bible Study on the Book of Revelation. Ph Gay 021 225 5981 Fitness League Exercise, movement & dance focusing on posture, stretching, strengthening & flexibility suitable for al abilities.10am Baptist Church Hall,13th Ave. Pam 549 4799 Katikati Bowling Club 8 Park Rd Rummikub 1-4pm, $3 entry.

Katikati Concert Band Katikati Bowling Club, 8 Park Rd, 7pm. Come & join our friendly band. All ages & abilities welcome.

Ph Mick 021 217 1780

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 Kickstart Toastmasters Gain public speaking, presenting, leadership skills in fun environment.

7-8am. Alimento Cafe, 74 First Ave. Ph Brian 027 543 2777 or turn up!

Lighthouse Cafe Craft, coffee, cake, chit chat at Lighthouse Church Welcome Bay, 10am-12pm. All ages welcome. Gold coin donation. Ph Mel 027 576 3105

Mainly Music Music & dance for preschoolers, Mums & carers. $4 per family.

Morning tea provided. 9:30-10:30am. Holy trinity Church, 215 Devonport Rd Orange City Squares Rounds Club night 7:30pm, St Enoch’s Church Hall, 16th Ave Tauranga. Learners welcome. Ph 577 1100 or Facebook, Orange City Squares Rounds Rhythm, Foxtrot & Waltz Ballroom dancing at Mt RSA Thurs 10am12pm & Tga Citz Club on Sat afternoons. Ph 572 4272 Social Games Club Mt Play Indoor Bowls & Cards. Come along & have fun in the afternoon. Ph Dot 575 3780 Sunshine Sequence Dance Group Learn dancing at a friendly club. Baptist Church Hall, 13th Ave, 6:30pm Learners tuition/ revision. 7-9.30pm all dancers. $3 entry incl supper. Jan 544 4379 Zonta Tauranga Women’s Organisation

Leading Global Organisation, empowering women thru service & advocacy, warmly welcomes you! Meet others, fun informative meetings/guest speakers & more! Make a difference. Suzy 021 266 5044

Friday 6 September

Alcoholics Anonymous Open meeting 10am, Tauranga Central Baptist Church.

Cnr 13th Ave, & Cameron Rd. Ph 0800 229 6757 Chess Tauranga Tauranga RSA Chess Club, Greerton 5-7pm, Casual & Standard length games.

Standard Chess rules. Werner 548 1111 http:/www.westernbopchess.weebly. com/ Greerton Indoor Bowling Club Yatton St, Greerton. Names in by 7:15pm for 7:30pm start. Night Tournament. 2 plates per person Royal Aeronautical Society BOP Annual

Jean Batten Lecture will be delivered by Des Underwood on the Life of James Ward VC from RNZAF in WWII plus supper. 5pm at Classic Flyers.

Shaun Kirk Concert On his Australia & NZ tour to launch his forthcoming EP. Hailing from Melbourne, blues/soul troubadour, is at The Jam Factory at 6:30pm.

Tickets $20 The Sociables Females & Males in their 30s/40s/50s that meet to dine out & participate in bushwalks & local events & activities. Ph 022 012 0376

Horoscopes ARIES: This is a great week for working on a hobby, for meeting someone who shares an interest and for tackling miscellaneous responsibilities. Financial research is important at the present time.

LIBRA: This week shows off your knack for bringing together people from different walks of life. It is particularly important now to sort out priorities and schedule events.

TAURUS: Public speaking events are highlighted this week. An opportunity for earning extra cash requires more consideration. A renewed friendship is an important theme through the week.

SCORPIO: News from overseas is heartening, but close to home, your diplomatic skills work overtime.

Your inventive spirit soars as the week sees you involved in important creative activities.

GEMINI: The weekend stresses practical matters, especially those related to home surroundings. More adventure is in the air from Thursday on. Interesting travel may be on the horizon.

SAGITTARIUS: Your calendar gets a little crowded as the week finds you in great demand. Some of the invitations that seem least promising prove most interesting. Cultural activities are highlighted.

CANCER: You find yourself bringing together people from scattered corners of the globe. Gift ideas are bright, but don’t let your imagination wander too far. Loved ones have more free time for you this week.

CAPRICORN: A family matter requires an approach that combines creativity with practicality. Your creative abilities are impressive.

This is a handy week for do-ityourselfers.

LEO: Novel ideas may be more practical than you initially believe.

A small bonus may arrive your way. A stubborn relative is more co-operative and a lost item surfaces mysteriously.

AQUARIUS: A friend surprises you with generosity, but don’t feel obligated to respond in kind.

Discoveries around the house prove rewarding. Challenges at work appeal to you.

VIRGO: Taking on more projects than even you can handle can see you juggling deadlines by Friday, Saturday. The key is to delegate tasks.

Romance, meanwhile, is favourably spotlighted.

PISCES: On Thursday or Friday, include some time for finding lost items. The weekend’s agenda includes a rare chance for reconciliation. A career decision requires prompt thoughtful attention.

Your birthday You are the eternal student of the zodiac and typically several careers appeal to you. this week You make important strides in your current career while investigating some new interests.

Family related travel is highlighted.

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FURTHER NOTICE OF ELECTION Nominations have now closed for the 2019 triennial local authority elections. Listed below are details of the confirmed candidates for Tauranga City Council.

Where elections are required they will be conducted by postal voting using the Single Transferable Vote electoral system. Voting will open on Friday 20 September 2019 and will close at 12 noon on Saturday, 12 October 2019.

Mayor (1 required) BROWNLESS CLOUT GUY HOLLIS KINGI NAGELS POWELL ROBSON STOKES WALLEN

Greg Kelvin Murray Andrew RangiMarie Jos Tenby John Christopher Les

(Proven Leadership & Community Commitment) (Let’s Build a Better City. Together.)

(Your choice for your voice-Stop the waste) (Fix the Council, vote for positive change) (Independent) (Independent) (Tauranga Deserves Better Leadership) (For Tauranga) (Ocean City)

Mount Maunganui – Papamoa Ward (2 required) DELANEY Shona (It’s time, time to take the trash out) GREGSON Peter (Positive Change For The Future) JOHNSTON Deborah (I AM the RIGHT Choice) KIDDIE Dawn (Independent) MORRIS Steve (Financially responsible local leadership) STANLEY Peter (Time for New Leadership) STOKES Christopher (Ocean City) Otumoetai – Pyes Pa Ward (2 required) ABRIE Jako BALDOCK Larry BRIDGENS Dave GUY Murray HARVEY Erika PANKHURST Anne POLLETT Barry Te Papa – Welcome Bay Ward (2 required) DAVIDSON Alan GRAINGER Bill GRINDLEY David LARSEN Anna MOLLOY Terry POAD Rob SALISBURY Tina SHERLOCK Jim TUHORO A.J. WU Waitsu Councillors – Elected at Large (4 required) BROWN Geoffrey CANCIAN Danny CHRISTIANSEN Tony CLOUT Kelvin CRAIG Rhys CURACH Rick GILL Matthew GILLON Bernie HALL Caleb HOLLIS Andrew HUGHES Heidi MIKAERE Buddy MUNN Linda PAIGE Suzi ROBB Hugh E. ROBSON John TAIKATO Pare TE KANI Josh WILLIAMS Kim

(for Otumoetai, Pyes Pa & Bethlehem) (More Democracy Less Bureaucracy) (Wholeheartedly at your service) (Your choice for your voice-Stop the waste) (Principled. Fearless. Different.)

(A Councillor who listens, Give me your 1) (Representing You!) (Action Over Cliches) (Have your say for your city) (Independent) (Courage, compassion, connections) (Tauranga needs change) (Your community voice in action!)

(Tauranga is Great) (FamilyFirst - The Children’s Choice) (independent New Blood) (Positive Change & Integrity) (11mustGO) (Perseverance, Passion, Determination) (Let’s Build a Better City. Together.)

(Independent - Together Better) (PICK RICK - sensible and reasonable) (Community First - Your Voice In Council) (A Collaborative Future) (This council needs fixing; vote for change) (Proactive. Community. Integrity.)

(Independent) (Visionary Leadership For A Vibrant City) (Lower Rates Better Services Real Results) (For the Ratepayer) (Independent) (Our City, Our Future, Your Way)

Enrolment and Special Voting Arrangements Tauranga City Council residents who are not listed on the final electoral roll for these elections can enrol by calling 0800 36 76 56, visiting the Electoral Commission website (www.vote.nz) or obtaining enrolment forms at postshops or Tauranga City Council libraries or offices up to 4pm on Friday 11 October 2019.

Tauranga City Council ratepayers who are not listed on the final electoral roll for these elections can obtain enrolment forms at Tauranga City Council libraries or offices up to 4pm on Friday 11 October 2019.

Special voting facilities for the above elections will be available from the Tauranga City Council’s Customer Service Centre, 91 Willow Street, Tauranga during normal office hours between Friday 20 September and Friday 11 October 2019 and from 9am to 12 noon on Saturday 12 October 2019.

Warwick Lampp Electoral Officer PO Box 3138 Christchurch 8140 taurangacc@electionz.com 0800 300 149 www.tauranga.govt.nz

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RUN ON LISTINGS annual book sale

FREE ON SITE DIAGNOSIS & quote. We come to you.

Pensioner discounts. Ph Kyle at Tech Solutions 027 828 7078

BOOKS & JIGSAWS WANTED for Tauranga Harbour City Lions late November book sale. Drop off points are Smith City Bethlehem Town Centre, Mitre 10 Cameron Rd, Golf Warehouse Chapel St & Gilmours at The Crossing. No magazines, Reader’s Digest or encyclopaedias. Ph 576 7105

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HEADING PUPS, 8 weeks. Innoculated. 2 dogs, 1 bitch. Sheep or cattle. $330 each.

Ph 07 543 3422

RETIRED? BORED? JOIN US! Sunrise Lions Club exists to serve Tauranga and keep our members active and healthy.

For more information phone Ken 027 733 9686 or visit www.sunriselions.co.nz

2017 TNT ROMA SCOOTER, petrol, just 10,928km on the clock. Only one mature owner.

Rego expires March 2020. Brand new pistons, head gasket & tyres. Comes with a spare tyre & helmet. Runs very well. Only $1300 or near offer! Ph Colin today on 027 426 5257 Trade Me ref #2289229949

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

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Found Senior Black Female Cat, Whakamarama Area, Ref: 166420 Ph SPCA

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Found Senior Tabby Male Cat, Katikati Area, Ref: 166745 Ph SPCA

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AC PETFOODS collect injured & unwanted cows & horses. Ph 0800 369 6269

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FOUND KITTENS VARIOUS Colours, Various Sex, Various Areas, Ph SPCA 07 578 0245 Found Senior Ginger Male Cat, Maketu Area, Ref: 166688 Ph SPCA Found Adult White Male Cat, Brookfield Area, Ref: 166734 Ph SPCA

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

Found Senior Ginger Male Cat, Greerton Area, Ref: 166409 Ph SPCA

BRYCE DECORATING, interior & exterior painting, wallpapering.

Quality work. Ph Wayne 021 162 7052

APPLIANCE REPAIRS For service of all Fisher & Paykel, Haier and Elba appliances, Ph 0800 372 273 for your local technician.

ELECTRICIAN, 18+ years experience, NZ registered.

Residential & commercial, maintenance & service, new builds, renovations. Fast, friendly service. Ph Andrew 022 354 1960

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30 years experience. No job too small. Ph Wayne 578 3617 or 027 497 6463 PAINTER/DECORATOR Interior & exterior. Quality workmanship, friendly service. Over 25 years specialising in residential and more. Quality paint at trade prices. For your best advice in all areas. Ph Shane Mount/ Tauranga Decorators 07 544 6495 or 021 575 307 PICTURE FRAMERS, canvas stretching, tapestry, poster, Diploma framing also vanity mirror with lights. Large selection of frames. Ph 07 576 0657 or 021 862 523 PLASTERER A1 TRADESMAN with 30 yrs experience. Quality finish with friendly, reliable service. I specialise in interior walls & ceilings with no job too small. Strip your own wallpaper and I will skim your walls ready for a modern paint finish. Repair cracked walls & ceilings using proven carbon-fibre technology.

Call Murray now for an obligation free quote 027 266 5657 ROOF REPAIRS Free quotes for all maintenance of leaking roofs, gutter cleaning & repairs.

Chimney maintenance & repairs.

Registered roofer, 30yrs exp. Ph Peter 542 4291 or 027 436 7740

TREE, SHRUB and hedges trimming, topping, rubbish, palm pruning or removal, satisfaction guaranteed free quote. Ph Steve Hockly 027 498 1857

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#ZEALANDIERTOURS Spring has just about sprung & we are all itching to get out & about with beautiful sunny days ahead.

Join us & others like minded on one of our fabulous day trips this September. Last remaining seats for these day tours: *Sep 8th Creative Raglan & Bridal Veil Falls *Sep 11th Antiques & Collectables *Sep 20th Taupo’s amazing Glassblowing & Huka Cruise *Sep 24th Katikati Food Trail. Phone us today at Zealandier Tours 07 572 4118 NO 8 TOURS NEW ZEALAND’S SENIOR TRAVEL CLUB. Join our club today for free to receive all our VIP Members benefits exclusive to No 8 Tours. (1) Oct 14th-18th; 5 Days Hokianga & Bay of Islands. (2) Oct 22nd30th; 9 Days of South Island, Includes Queenstown, Wanaka, Haast, Fox Glacier. (3) Nov 4th7th; Great Barrier Island Direct from Tauranga. Free door-todoor service. Day Trips, Shows & free beautiful colour catalogue.

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