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Wheely good time Adrenalin will be pumping, wheels will be spinning and there’s bound to be a few thrills and spills at Coast Kids Annual Family Trolley Derby next Sunday. This weekend families are encouraged to delve into their garage for bits and bobs and build a trolley with the children to race in the derby on June 28 at The Lakes Boulevard. There’s even a chance for the young at heart to channel their inner youth, with a parents/grandparents race at the end. Pictured are Flynn Riddell and Cole Blockley, hoping they won’t be outdone after entering last year. To catch all the action at The Lakes on June 28, racing starts 10am. To read the full story, go to page 32. Photo by Tracy Hardy.
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The wacky walk downtown Beautiful, crisp winter days in the wonderful city of Tauranga.
Cool, but sunny, perfect for a walk downtown, catch a coffee and a bite of lunch or a glass of something. Don’t be concerned about recent scaremongering from health professionals, that even small amounts of alcohol will give you cancer. You are more likely to die from an unlicensed Counties Manukau Maori driver, who has been let off with a warning. A bizarre piece of apartheid that Maori haven’t even asked for! So enjoy the downtown fresh air, smiling faces and best of all – the free roadside entertainment. What? I hear you exclaim, is there free roadside entertainment? Well yes, I answer. It’s The Strand Footpath Obstacle Course. It’s our quaint local version of extreme parkour. Every time there are more than four people trying to walk along The Strand at any given time, the city puts on, for the viewing pleasure of spectators and diners, our unique Confidence Course. John Cleese would be proud to see our Silly Walks as we try to dodge furniture, fittings, foliage and other folk. It has been created by the real footpath being invaded by the outdoor seating areas of The Strand restaurants and cafes. It means the surrogate footpath is actually the pavement outside of the verandah areas, ie the gaps between the trees, useless concrete seats, signboards, drunks and homeless vagrants, parked motorcycles, mobility scooters and the twisted carcasses of pedestrians who failed the Obstacle Course.
Quirky hazards
Pedestrians are put through a range of hazards. Some of our favourites are: The Duck and Weave. The “footpath”, if you can call it that, is punctuated with concrete seats that no-one ever sits on, sign boards and trees. When there’s a couple walking in opposite directions on the “footpath”, they always meet at the chicane bottleneck feature, requiring at least one member of each couple
A town planner or engineer in stocks, for public ridicule. And to throw things at. Okay, maybe a bit of torture. An abseiling section. Comedy area. Some council staff and councillors rostered to stand at a soapbox to tell us there’s nothing wrong with the footpath as it is. A small orchestra playing appropriate slapstick tunes to match the pantomime antics on the sidewalk as ordinary people just try to walk along the street sensibly. But can’t. Any ideas you have for more obstacle course fun downtown, send to Rogers and we’ll share with the many disgruntled pedestrians who walk our downtown streets.
to drop back to single file to allow the other couple to pass (this feature is sponsored by local chiropractors). The Eye Splice. This obstacle is a favourite of local eye surgeons, who thrive on the business of treating hapless pedestrians with eyeballs skewered by overhanging palm trees. The Seat Hurdles. Some pedestrians find it necessary to climb over the useless concrete seats (sponsored by haemorrhoid surgeons), while others take a packed lunch to hike around the outside of them. No-one who values the integrity of their nether regions is ever going to sit on them, especially in this temperature. Sandwich Board Gin Traps. Designed to snag your undercarriage and hosiery while you foxtrot around the blockades. This why I never wear my best stockings downtown. Old pantyhose, maybe.
Full throttle reverse gear
Meanwhile, back in apartheid South Auckland, the police PR machine was spinning tyres in full throttle reverse gear this week, feverishly trying to back out of the dead-end street, known as Racist Policing Lane. It’s one of those dark avenues that once you’ve gone down it, there’s no way out. TV news broke the story this week, with leaked documents spelling out that all Maori drivers caught without a licence or in breach of their conditions are to be referred for training and not given a ticket. We’ve awarded the Counties Manukau cops one out of 10 for the handling of this case: the one point in their favour is at least they fronted up and tried to explain. They’ve won no points, however, for the racist policy in the first place, nor any subsequently in trying to convince the public that “let Maori off” really means “consider letting everyone off”.
Obstacle course
Here at RR we are not denying the businesses the right to use the pavement outside their premises. They’ve done a damned fine job of setting out their stuff, and made it groovy and inviting. Well, as best you can do with a converted footpath. But the downside is the loss for pedestrians of shelter from the rain, so as long as they’re all happy not to expect many customers on wet days, everyone is fine. Dining alfresco adds to the ambience and makes the dining experience vibrant and interesting. But the only alternative for pedestrians is to take obstacle course.
Ped X factor
Here at RR we have some suggestions to make the Strand obstacle course more interesting, possibly even a tourist attraction. The Water Jump. A small lake outside The Crown & Badger would be fun. Waiter races. Including hurdles over the Useless Concrete Seats. Apes in the trees throwing rotten fruit down on passers-by. Slip Slide. Grease H A and ZAR D ID E N Tup I Fsome I C Aof T Ithe ON paving stones at random.
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The last straw came when beleaguered policeman John Tims, squirmed around the questions with a lot of PR gobbledegook and talk of “partners” and “compliance” before finally trying to blame a reporter for getting the story wrong. Sorry John, but the public are not that stupid. If it looks like a turd and smells like a turd, it is a turd.
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Successful smoking cessation group snubbed out Kicking the habit – Lorraine Putze, reformed after 59 years of cigarettes and her quit smoking colleagues.
Graham Hare had become something of a messiah to smokers trying to kick their nicotine habit. With a success rate of more than 60 per cent in his quit smoking group therapy sessions – a figure which is three times the national average – the smoking cessation coordinator’s approach was adored and respected by his participants. “Yes, Graham’s brilliant,” says 73-year-old former smoker Lorraine Putze and graduate of Graham’s Papamoa cessation group. “The 60 per cent was good news for everyone because it took a load off our health system,” says Graham. “And it also significantly changed the lives of individuals and families.” It was that transformation, the positive impact of his work that the crusader found the most enjoyable and rewarding. But “was” is the operative word. Graham has lost his job and his “quit” group, which threw a lifeline to smokers like Lorraine. That’s what worries Lorraine and why she contacted The Weekend
Sun. She and other reformed smokers fear they’ve lost a trusted friend and advocate, who quietly put a dent in smoking statistics, while the tobacco conglomerates have lost a foe. “Graham’s wonderful way will be lost for future nicotine addicts wanting to kick their habit,” she says. “There has been change and yes, my contract has been terminated,” Graham confirms. Why? That’s exactly the question Lorraine asks. She has been a selfconfessed “heavy smoker” since age 14. She decided she wanted to quit her 50g, $70-a-week tobacco habit. “Plus papers, plus filters,” she adds. “I just couldn’t afford it anymore.” She made the decision to quit, “but it was Graham who made it happen” through his group therapy.
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This decision, it seems, is not about efficacy; it’s about policy. From July 1, the Government health dollars, which paid for Graham’s good work, will be re-directed to primary medical care – the GP’s and their medical practices. The aim is to be
preventative, rather than take the “ambulance at the bottom of the cliff ” approach. The Western Bay of Plenty Public Health Organisation chief executive officer Roger Taylor has his own concerns. “I heard you would be calling,” he says, gruffly. “And the last thing we need is an article in The Weekend Sun supporting a misunderstanding. “What you have is poorly informed people jumping up and down for no good reason.” The misunderstanding is that smokers wanting to quit are being abandoned. “That is wrong,” affirms Roger. His message is clear and unequivocal: there is, and will be, a service for smokers wanting to reform. However, it will come from the medical practice, the socalled “patient’s health care home”, and not Graham. Regardless of the politics and a change in direction for health care, there’s a feeling Graham should not be disregarded. To read the full story, go to SunLive.co.nz and search ‘Reformed smokers lose a champion’. By Hunter Wells
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The teenage driver left critically injured after crashing his car into a tree in Mount Maunganui has died. Western Bay of Plenty road policing manager Senior Sergeant Ian Campion says Liam Cole Simonson, 19, died in Waikato Hospital on Tuesday afternoon following the crash on Ocean Beach Rd in the early hours of June 7. Emergency services were called to the scene, between Golf Rd and Concord Ave, at about 4am, where the vehicle Liam was driving collided with a parked car and smashed into a tree, causing him to become trapped inside.
Troublesome tree faces axe
Owners of a tree they say was slipped onto the Tauranga City Council’s list of protected trees without their knowledge have resumed their efforts to have the tree felled this week. The tree is one of three London Plane trees retained as part of the original subdivision at Wakefield Drive. The owners and developers have been struggling with the council since 2013 to have the tree removed from the ‘notable’ list so they can have it felled. They say it’s preventing the sale of 7 Edwin Grove.
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Jean offered that only because I asked. “She’s immaculate. And she likes to keep in touch.â€? And Nancy Kerrisk, nĂŠe McDonald. “She’s absolutely lovely and the quietest one.â€? I suspect they’re all a lovely, comely bunch. Then there’s the youngest, Jean, 89 years and 361 days. “Shoot, I can’t believe I am nearly 90.â€? The others are already in their 10th decade. What would the rest of the Hawera quadrumvirate say about you Jean? Another huff and hoot. “I don’t want to know.â€? Let me try. I suspect from the school photos she is the second shortest, but that’s arguable. I also suspect she was the cheeky one, the naughtiest but the funniest. Perhaps.
Now, Jean Barker’s ready for the real thing – chucking herself out of a plane at 12,000 feet and tumbling back to Earth at terminal velocity. That should make every day of her 90 years flash before her eyes. The tandem parachute jump will be the only present she wants next week. “Nuh,� she huffs. “I am getting rid of stuff, not collecting it.� That’s why the invite to the birthday afternoon tea for 70 and later the dinner for 50 is explicit: “Your presence, not presents, is required.� Jean is an occasion girl, not a gift girl, but on reflection, a card might be nice. Why does Jean, why do women per se, insist on birthday cards? Anyhow, we’re working up to a tale about enduring friendships. Because the ladies will be coming to Jean’s birthday bash this weekend and three in particular have been friends with Jean for 85 years. It was 1930 – the year Bonnie Parker met Clyde Barrow, Mickey Mouse was born, “Happy Days Are Here Again� became a hit and four little girls walked up to the main gates of thencalled Hawera Main School, South Taranaki, for their first day of school. Hawera Main School’s Standard 6 class of 1938.
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“We just got on,� says Jean, bursting into another bout of laughter. Jean likes a good hoot. “We� being Betty Adams, the eldest. She is also the shortest and likes to talk. “Perhaps you shouldn’t say that.� Too late Jean, it’s been said. However, I am sure a friendship that’s endured 85 years of tribulations will survive an information leak. “We� also includes Lorna Kirby, the tallest. There’s a pre-occupation with the vertex here – some-thing to do with the pecking order perhaps? Lorna’s also the best looking.
Did they ever get out on the “ran-tan�? “Oooh yes!� There’s a punctuation of naughty laughter. “We loved a good time, the Saturday night dances.� Did they ever take a tipple? No! A fag perhaps? No! – although her older brothers made her smoke a dried dock stalk in their tree hut once. Now Betty, Lorna, Nancy and Jean have been bosom buddies longer than your average life expectancy. Don’t friendships falter and fade? Aren’t there arguments and
Jean barker will celebrate her 90th birthday with friends she’s had since primer one. Photo by Bruce Barnard
jealousies, factions and fallings out, politics and poison, stolen boyfriends and the like? “Not us. Don’t think we’ve ever had a disagreement or an argument. Just laughs. Good eh?� Jean chuckles to enforce the point. Jean, Betty, Nancy and Lorna have got a day of it tomorrow. Good mates, yapping, laughing and perhaps Jean’s favourite roast pork and apple sauce. To read the full story, go to SunLive.co.nz and search ‘Jean’s friends of a lifetime’. By Hunter Wells
Oil clean-up costs climb
The Bay of Plenty Regional Council has sent Mobil Oil a $691,766 clean-up bill for the efforts so far, following the oil spill in Tauranga Harbour on April 27. Clean-up operations re-focused on the Tauranga Bridge Marina this week, says BOPRC on-scene commander Adrian Heays. “A minor amount of oil remobilised at Bridge Marina last week, so we have reactivated clean-up efforts with prop washing and booms, recovering oil from the water, waterline scraping and solvent cleaning of dry marina structures. Pile cleaning continues at the port, with a final washing off to contain and remove any oil that may be trapped in pockets in rocks under the wharf.
Phone scam doing the rounds
A Bay of Plenty resident has been in contact with Police over a scam involving their computer. Bay of Plenty Police posted on their Facebook page that one of their followers from Tauranga received a call asking questions about the computer package she was using. “The caller had a strong accent and was very difficult to hear. She became suspicious and hung up,� say Police.
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Old skills, new students Sometimes, the oldest trick in the book is the most effective. Instead of complicated metal tools, Maori weaver Rawinia Gray, 58, demonstrates how to strip a sword-shaped flax leaf of its green using a well-worn muscle shell. Beneath the surface, a soft white fibre is revealed. “It’s always interesting to see how it’s done,” she says. “You don’t get a good result using a knife – the muscle shell seems to take off the top layer perfectly reveal the fibres.” For some other tasks, such as scoring the leaf or splitting into strips, “modern technology” comes into play. “That’s a shearer’s comb,” says Rawinia, as she drives the comb through the leaf, splitting it into multiple strips. Rawinia is one of a few traditional weavers in Tauranga and enjoys passing their knowledge on to future generations, which she will be doing during this year’s Matariki Festival. She hopes to teach even more children – and adults – about the traditional artform she loves. “For me, Matariki is about the little people making something and giving it away as a gift. It’s quite handy if you can show them something – even if it is a flax clapper. Any little child can make that. It’s the experience of sharing the knowledge.”
Rawinia Gray shows students traditional weaving methods. Photos by Bruce Barnard The traditional Maori art of weaving, or raranga, has been passed down to Rawinia through her family, primarily her grandmother and her uncle. “My grandmother made a lot of mats, and my uncle did lots of baskets, so you could say our family has been doing it for years. “I have a six-year-old granddaughter and she’s already picked it up. She can extract the fibre from the leaf and make a flower out of flax – just little things. For details on events and workshops this Matariki, visit http://library.tauranga.govt.nz
Hipara August plays the koauau, a flutelike instrument carved from bone.
By Laura Weaser
Get your notepads out and enter the Te Puke highway’s song contest An international song contest launched in Te Puke aims to acknowledge the recent naming of the town’s highway and celebrate the area as a unique part of New Zealand. Promoted by Te Puke Eco-
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tional trip to the USA including Route 66 Tour, return airfare and accommodation. Entry forms can be downloaded from www.tepuke.co.nz or call 07 573 6772. Entries close August 7, 2015.
chorus or in several verses. The winner will be announced August 28, with their winning song to be performed at 6pm that day at the Te Puke Amphitheatre in Jubilee Park. The winner will receive a sensa-
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Steamers close to coach’s heart
With just six wins in three years it’s fair to say Bay of Plenty Steamers have had a horror run of late. But if there is anyone who can right the ship it could be one of its own, a former Steamers captain and centurion. Less than two months out from the side’s first ITM cup fixture, The Weekend Sun spoke with Steamers coach Clayton McMillan on how he’s fitting into the role and the Bay rugby landscape. And after five years away, McMillan, a proud Bay man, will have his eyes on reinvigorating the struggling side in this year’s ITM Cup campaign, taking over the reins from Kevin Schuler. A disastrous 2013 campaign left the side registering a single win – consigning them to the Championship Division in 2014, where they won two matches. “There is some big challenges
ahead but that’s what makes it exciting. “I might have been away for the last four or five years but I’ve always kept a pretty good handle on what’s been happening here. Home is always home and it’s good to be back,” says McMillan A resilient No 8 in his time, McMillan played 113 games for the Steamers, scoring 22 tries, after making his debut in 1995. He’s since carved out an impressive early coaching career, leading Wellington club Marist St Pats to a Jubilee Cup win in 2012 and the Wellington Under-19s to the 2014 National Under-19 title. He’s also been the BOP development
coach and a New Zealand Under20 selector. And despite this being his first foray into the ITM Cup coaching cauldron, it’s McMillan’s hardnosed approach that won’t go a miss in the playbook after slim pickings for fans in recent seasons. While the rugby union is trying to lure crowds back by hosting Waikato at the Tauranga Domain – its first match since 2009 – McMillan is wary of what a lopsided Bayfair Baywide Club Competition thus far could present less than two months out from the side’s first ITM Cup fixture. Seven weeks in and six of the top eight spots are occupied by Western Bay of Plenty sides, while Eastern Bay’s Rotoiti and Whakarewarewa sit in third and sixth. Table-toppers
Tauranga Sports and Te Puke Sports are yet to taste defeat, with recent clashes seeing Tauranga dispatch Rangataua 62-19 and Te Puke win 65-12 over Paroa. “Obviously there’s been some fairly big blowouts, which isn’t good for anybody. And certainly it’s probably not ideal in getting players battle-hardened for ITM cup, but the flipside is we might get players that are a little bit
fresher heading into our campaign.” Next Wednesday the BOP Wasps play the Cavaliers in the first preseason match at Katikati’s Moore Park ahead of two ITM Cup preseason matches against Auckland and Manawatu for the finalised squad. The Steamers first match of the 2015 ITM Cup season is versus North Harbour at ASB Baypark on August 14.
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Bay of Plenty Steamers coach Clayton McMillan. Photo by Bruce Barnard.
Two-month delay for Warrior Run event Organisers of Random Act of Kindness Warrior Run have postponed the second annual event after they were unable to secure a first-aid response unit, meaning they’re not viable for public liability insurance. The Warrior Run at TECT All Terrain Park, co-ordinated by Tauranga fitness centre The Gym, was originally scheduled for this Saturday, but organisers have pushed the event back to late August or early September. Spanning 4km of TECT All Terrain Park, the Warrior Run tests teams of four mentally and physically as they jump, climb and crawl their way through more than 20 stations in a charity challenge to raise funds for quadriplegic teenager Elliott Keys. The Gym team administrator Christine Rudden says the postponement of the event means more time for people
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Tauranga’s WWI Rolls of Honour The centenary of the Gallipoli landings at Anzac Cove has now come and gone, marked with appropriate ceremonies locally, nationally and internationally. However, it should be remembered that great as the loss of life there was, the Gallipoli campaign was almost a sideshow in the context of World War I and New Zealand made a far greater contribution in manpower and casualties on the Western Front. Fighting continued there for a further three-and-a-half years with appalling loss of lives taking place, including the great majority of those local men who died. One century on and it’s extremely difficult to determine the exact nature of casualties suffered by troops from the Tauranga District in the Gallipoli campaign. It’s recorded the Hauraki Company of the Auckland Battalion lost 70 men, killed or wounded on the opening day of the campaign. However, the company included troops from as far afield as Opotiki, Waihi and Paeroa and it’s unclear how many casualties involved Tauranga men. Tauranga Heritage Collection curator Fiona Kean has carried out detailed
Doug Bullick points to the place on the War Memorial gate list where his uncle’s name, Thomas Bullock, should be. Photo by Bruce Barnard. investigations into the deaths of troops with names on Tauranga’s WWI Rolls of Honour and included the information in her excellent book ‘From Tauranga to the Trenches’. Based on this research, it would seem just four local men died in the opening days of the Gallipoli campaign, while Taurangaborn Lt Ronald Matheson died in action on April 27 serving with the South African military in South West Africa. The men: Private Raymond John Baker, 24, mill hand, missing believed dead, Gallipoli,
Six-week winter festival in city A six-week winter festival is being planned to launch the new city centre dining precinct in Wharf St from Saturday, July 25. The unique dual-use dining precinct will have outdoor furniture, overhead lighting, lanterns, signage and daily activities and entertainment. Mainstreet Tauranga has devel-
oped the concept with business and property owners. The area will operate as a shared space, where pedestrians and traffic use a central area which will be one-way to The Strand. The Wharf St Winter Festival is to ensure a variety of food, art and entertainment will attract people to the area. The project will roll out in a number of stages.
April 25, 1915. 2nd Lieutenant Frederick Hugh Dodson, 23, auctioneer, killed in action, Gallipoli, April 25, 1915. Sgt Kenneth Wrigley Commons, 20, university student born in Tauranga, missing believed dead, Gallipoli, May 8, 1915. Sgt Edgar Francis Sheppard, 22, clerk, killed in action, Gallipoli, May 8, 1915. Lieutenant Ronald Tracey Matheson, 38, mining agent, killed in action South West Africa with South African Union Force, By Dave Blanchard April 27, 1915.
New Bethlehem sports fields Tauranga City Council has confirmed it will invest $12 million into development of the Parau Farms sports fields at Bethlehem. In council’s Long Term Plan deliberations this month councillors agreed to the budgeted amount, plus additional funding of $619,612 in the 2015-2025 Long Term Plan for land purchase and development of a new active reserve for sportsfields at Parau Farms, Bethlehem. The $12 million development will enable construction of seven sports fields at the top of the park. From the council’s view, that’s an additional 105 field hours per week for the city’s outdoor sports network.
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Artists Doreen McNeill, Rob McGregor, Timo Rannali, Nick Eggleston, Susan Harrison-Tustain, and Sue Dent with their creations. Photo by Tracy Hardy.
They’re six artists, with six different painting styles and one common interest – art. They’re identified by the name on their paintings – but who are they? Why do they paint? And how do they do it? Art-lovers will get a sneak peek into the minds and studios of six Bay of Plenty artists thanks to an Australian television series created by master artist Graeme Stevenson. Graeme will profile Susan Harrison-Tustain, Doreen McNeill, Timo Rannali, Nick Eggleston, Rob McGregor and Sue Dent on his show – ‘Put Some Colour in Your Life’ – which aims to build a library of the minds of artists, and preserve a digital record of creative spirit, culture and techniques for future generations. “It’s bringing a casual but very genuine look at what an artist is doing and that sneak preview into an artist’s studio,” says artist Susan.
“They’re able to see what you’re doing and how you’re doing it. Quite often we don’t see what’s happening in studios – it’s great to have the opportunity to see behind the scenes.” Susan says ‘Put Some Colour in Your Life’ is viewed on more than 115 channels worldwide. So for Graeme to choose to film in Tauranga means ‘massive exposure’ for the six artists. “There’s no way we could ever reach those markets otherwise,” says Susan. The episodes filmed in Tauranga will screen on Sky Television’s Sky Arts later this year. At the start of the 24-minute episodes – Graeme rides his ‘trademark’ Harley Davidson down the street of the town he’s filming in. “What we’re hoping to do is get some footage of Graeme coming along Marine Parade with the Mount and sea behind him,” says Susan. “It’s a perfect opportunity to show how fabulous our Bay of Plenty region is to viewers in many countries By Zoe Hunter around the world.”
The popular annual Seriously Good Food Show is back at ASB Arena Baypark this weekend with a chance for visitors to taste their way around more than 130 exhibits. See some of the region’s top restaurant chefs live in action in the fabulous new 300 seat Pak’n Save Tri-Theatre. MC’d by international chef and author Peter Blakeway, the Tri-Theatre will host some of the city’s top chefs side-by-side and face-to-face, so you can get to see the individual choices each chef makes to accompany the protein foundation for each dish.
At the conclusion of each session, selected audience members will be invited to taste their creations and give their thoughts to the assembled. First up on the Pakn’ Save Tri-Theatre Main Stage programme is The Smokey’s Salmon Challenge with Elizabeth Café’s Andrew Targett up against Mills Reef Head Chef Atilla Kovacs. This will be followed by the Chicken Challenge with local restaurant heavyweights Simon Green from Trinity Wharf alongside Mount Bistro’s Head Chef and owner Stephen Barry. The afternoon sessions feature the MasterChef birds Karena and Kasey going head-to-headin the Beef Challenge. The Venison Challenge will feature the talented top chef of Osteria di Gina’s Marko Zora going
head-to-head with Coromandel’s finest cook Ian Kerry from Whitianga’s Motu Kitchen. Later in the afternoon there’s the C-Corp Chocolate Challenge showcasing Love Rosie’s owner and head baker Brent Beamish and Danielle Cubis from the popular Mount Maunganui café and cakery Spongedrop. This is your chance to taste what’s cooking at the Seriously Good Food Show on this Saturday and Sunday at ASB Arena, Baypark. See The Weekend Sun wrap for all show details.
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Western Bay libraries get new digital system Western Bay of Plenty libraries will turn a new digital page this month with the launch of their new library system, called Kotui. The Western Bay Libraries group is joining more than 60 libraries nationwide using Kotui – a shared library system offering benefits to customers. When the system changeover takes place next week, online catalogues will be unavailable to library users from Monday, June 22 to Wednesday, June 24. Library and customer services team
leader for Te Puke, Christine Busby, says people will need to see staff to check the catalogue or renew books during this time. “We want to thank our customers for their patience as we adapt to the new system.” Kotui will be available at Western Bay libraries – at Waihi Beach, Katikati, Omokoroa and Te Puke – from June 25. Christine says Kotui will be easier and more interesting for customers to use online, and will increase the number of books and resources available. Kotui is a shared library system, which allows libraries to increase their buying
power and get more value for money. “The catalogue will search across our electronic databases, our e-books and the usual catalogue – so our customers will easily have access to a wider range of information and resources. “[And] because it’s a database that is nationwide, we’ll have better information about our resources available to the customers. “It’s about libraries working together to provide all of their customers with easy, fast and effective access to the local, national and international resources they need to live, learn and earn.”
Which sport venues have the greatest needs? During the next few weeks I’ll outline key decisions in Tauranga City Council’s Long Term Plan. This week I’m outlining the growing demand for sport venues. Our LTP focuses on ‘weekend warriors’ and grassroots sports. We’re investing in new local sport fields in Bethlehem and Papamoa East during the next 10 years to meet the growing demand. We’re also installing lights at existing grounds to maximise their use. Despite the city’s aging population, there is increasing demand for sport venues. We’re also aware of people gradually shifting away from formal club membership to informal social competitions. Sport Bay of Plenty has helped us to project demand for grassroots sport during next decade. The difficult decisions lie with specialised and high performance sport venues. We’ve been asked to help develop business cases to build new or improve venues for athletics, cricket, hockey, swimming, potentially another ASB (formerly TECT) Arena in the future, along with the ongoing rugby stadium debate. Many sports are competing for limited funds. We can raise money from TECT, NZ Lotteries, and City Amenities Group to build the infrastructure, but council – or ratepayers – will likely be asked to cover the operational costs. We will work with Sport BOP and others to build an unbiased framework for investing in the city’s premiere venues.
CEO salary packages have become excessive… Reading this week’s news I was shocked to see Mark Cairns at the Port of Tauranga gets paid $1,464,000, and Vince Hawksworth at TrustPower gets $1,359,999. In my opinion these levels are obscene, and reflect poorly on the governance by the board of directors concerned. Don’t get me wrong, because I greatly respect the leadership both Mark and Vince have shown for their respective companies. The board of directors approve the chief executive’s salary, but a salary – albeit it including performance bonuses – that’s more than $1 million in New Zealand is excessive. I’m not against competitive salary rewards, but directors will argue that you have to pay these amounts if you want to get top CEOs. This just isn’t true. We are a small country, filled with innovative and talented leaders, and there is plenty of competitive tension for these top jobs. Unfortunately, we have bred a culture of corporate greed that the average Kiwi just can’t relate to. Let’s look at Port of Tauranga. This is truly a great company. It has a great strategic vision, and appears incredibly well run. It has grown huge shareholder wealth consistently during the last 20 years, and because of its location is likely to become one of no more than two major hubs for NZ Inc’s future export trade. This is likely to see Port of Tauranga’s net income rise substantially – probably double digit growth annually during the next 10 years. The question is how much of this growth can be attributed to the leadership of the CEO? Certainly it won’t happen if the strategy isn’t executed effectively, but the strategy to get the Port positioned to take advantage of future port reform has had a long gestation period and shouldn’t just be credited to the 2015 Management team. This has been a long-term strategy that appears to be playing out nicely. So the question is, why should the CEO’s salary package be overly linked to this growth?
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Sew hot right now The adage goes, “One person’s trash is another person’s treasure” – and at FASH, the saying couldn’t be more appropriate.
But this is no ordinary secondhand store; more a marketplace where lovers of Fabric, Abandoned Stitchery and Haberdashery (as the acronym suggest) can not only find a bargain and give new life to old materials. “I’m really starting to see how the FASH can build as a social movement,” organiser Beth Bowden. “It’s using existing resources and giving them another go around in life, and that’s a nice feeling to have.” “Sustainable fashion is, in my view at least, the next new thing.” While the FASH is about unmade-up textiles and works in progress, its underlying philosophy is aligned to projects such as Kate Fletcher’s Local Wisdom, which links likeminded people together worldwide to challenge the sustainability of the fashion industry. Upcycling and recycling is a trend that’s become increasingly popular in recent years, and as a result has seen the annual FASH event reach maximum capacity this year with more than 25 stalls. In fact, the popularity inspired organisers to introduce a new event within the fair, now in its
Hannah Sadd, 13, helped her quilter mum with an excess of “fat quarters” – quilters’ jargon for quarter-yard cuts of fabric cut wide at last year’s event. Photo by Lynne Avery. eighth year, called What I Got at FASH. “We’ve now got people offering to show, and in some cases wear, the garments or things that they accomplished after attending a FASH event. “One woman already shared on our Facebook page a skirt she’d made using some 1970s print and denim she picked up at FASH. She says she’s going to wear it to
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Wheelchair basketball shoots into city
Don’t be fooled by the rumble of wheels and clash of metal accompanying the distinctive basketball swish – wheelchair basketball holds just as much physical intensity as its able-bodied counterpart.
Just ask BayTrust Coachforce Parafed development officer Zane Jensen ahead of Tauranga hosting round two of the Northern League Wheelchair Basketball tournament at the Queen Elizabeth Youth Centre. Eight teams, split into two divisions, from as far as Northland and Taranaki will take to the
courts tomorrow as part of the four-round competition. Zane says the sport is similar to able-bodied basketball where the size of the court, hoops and balls are all the same. The only difference is a player must dribble the ball every two pushes of their wheelchair; otherwise that player will be called for travelling. “It’s identical to mainstream basketball, apart from the fact players are sitting in wheelchairs. The physicality is still there.” To play wheelchair basketball, a player must have an objective and measurable disability in their lower limbs, preventing them from running, jumping and pivoting. By classification, players are
opening round in Taranaki. assigned a point value from one, “They’re sort of on the way the most limited ability, up and definitely develthrough to 4.5, those oping as a team, with the highest which is good.” level of funcAdding to tional ability, the hype is a according to mixed team their level exhibition, of physical scattered with movement. NZ WheelEach chair basketball team of five representatives, is allowed a at 1.45pm. maximum of 14 “If people want to points on the court at any one Tauranga Wheelchair Basketball come down and watch a time. members competing at ASB Arena. match, that’s Zane says probably going to be the one I’d Tauranga is pooled with two Auckland teams in Division One say.” Round two of the Northern League Wheelchair Basketball and looking to secure its first Tournament starts 9am tomorwin of the season after a fruitless
Join Tauranga in a global dog-walk This Sunday Tauranga is joining San Francisco, Toronto and Auckland in hosting the Great British Greyhound Walk – an annual dogwalking event to bring together greyhounds, lurchers, other sighthounds and their owners to raise awareness of the breeds.’’ The walk aims to raise the profile of rescued and retired ex-racing greyhounds and other sighthounds, showing the public and the world what beautiful companions and wonderful pets these dogs make. The dog-walk went ‘global’ last year and the response was impressive –
23 extra walks worldwide with 529 sighthounds joining in. Now, the far-flung antipodean colonials are giving it a nudge with a view to gently remind the Northern Hemisphere forefathers who the winners of this year’s rugby world cup will be. Registered charity Greyhounds As Pets is hosting the Tauranga event this Sunday, June 21, at I’Anson Reserve, Loop Rd, off State Highway 2 just north of Te Puna from 10.30am. For more information, call walk leader Anne Betham on 027 263 4543.
Explore Papamoa’s hidden treasure Te Puke Forest & Bird is asking the public to join them in exploring the Papamoa dunes tomorrow in a field trip to learn about preserving the area. Te Puke Forest & Bird committee member and Papamoa resident Carole Long says the plants and wildlife living in the dunes are not well known or respected. “And we have a challenge ahead to get the message through to the wider community that our dunes are a special environment.” People can meet at the Taylor Rd carpark tomorrow at 9.30am. After an introductory talk, the group will do planting with the local Coastcare team then walk three kilometres to the Papamoa Domain, learning about the values of dune plants and observing challenges and opportunities in managing the special landscape. For more information, visit www.dunestrust.org.nz and www.forestandbird.org.nz
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Pyjamas to warm foster children’s hearts Tauranga residents are being called upon to warm the hearts of children in care by donating new pairs of pyjamas to them this winter. Foster Hope no longer has a Tauranga branch but this isn’t stopping the charity from running it’s fourth annual pyjama drive in the city, thanks to a collection point at kitchen retailer Mastercraft. Foster Hope chairperson Louise Allnutt says the annual pyjama drive is run via its branches “and this is the first time we’re doing the drive without having a branch in the region”. “But it will be fine because we’ve still got the contacts with the agencies that we had when we had a Tauranga branch – and they’re still keen to receive the pyjamas.” Plus, Louise says having kitchen retailer Mastercraft Tauranga – open from 8.30am-5pm on weekdays – is handy for people to drop in donations. All pyjamas donated in Tauranga will be gifted to children in foster homes or in care within the Western Bay of Plenty.
Louise says receiving a pair of new pyjamas is something special for many young recipients. “So often they have never had anything that’s brand new before,” says Louise. “When we first started we’d take second-hand pyjamas, but we got such a huge response that we narrowed it to new pyjamas because the children just get such a buzz from getting something that no one else has climbed into. “It’s a turning point for these children. Some have never received anything new or something that’s come from somebody that’s not paid to care about them. “So it’s a complete stranger reaching out to them – and down the track you just don’t know what impact that will have on any decisions they make.” Louise says Foster Hope collects pyjamas of all sizes, colours and shapes of pyjamas for new-borns to 16-year-olds. “Predominantly, everyone picks the cute little kids’ pyjamas, but if Tauranga’s demand is anything like that of Auckland we need pyjamas for boys from age seven to 14, as well as older teenager girls.
“But agencies will be grateful for any they get.” For the fourth annual drive, the target is 2000 pairs of pyjamas. Louise estimates about 8000 children live in foster homes or are in care at any one time in New Zealand, and many children who need a family have experienced some degree of physical, emotional or sexual abuse and neglect. “The ones that get our packs are generally the ones who arrive with nothing,” she says. “This could be because
sometimes children get pulled out of a home with no warning and carers can get very little notice of their arrival. “It could also be that they are from a P [methamphetamine-contaminated] house, so they arrive with nothing because all their clothes have been contaminated. “So pyjamas can be really useful for the caregiver, who often don’t know if they will get a baby or a 10-year-old.” To donate pyjamas, drop them into Mastercraft Tauranga, 30 Glasgow St, from 8.30am5pm weekdays. You can also visit www.fosterhope.co.nz for more information. By Merle Foster
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Caravans, motorhomes and much more A continued growth of the leisure industry, especially the RV market, means Country Caravans & Motorhomes on Hewletts Rd is well placed to serve the large number of Bay of Plenty owners and prospective buyers.
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New responsible lending rules New responsible lending rules which come into effect this month need to be actively enforced to rein-in lenders who target vulnerable consumers. Consumer NZ chief executive Sue Chetwin says changes to lending laws are needed to clamp down on traders like mobile truck operators selling goods on credit at inflated prices, often to people who can least afford to pay for them. “Customers of these traders may not be told the total amount they had to pay and could end up with substantial debts,” says Sue. “A packet of cereal bought from a mobile
truck operator could cost $40 and a packet of milk powder $35. Credit fees charged on top could add significantly to the price.” Changes to the main law governing lending to consumers, the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act, came into effect on June 6. Sue says the law reforms are designed to prevent consumers being locked into loans they can’t afford and have little hope of repaying. Key changes include introducing responsible lending principles and a code. All lenders – from major banks to mobile truck operators – are covered by the changes and have to ensure their practices are responsible. Lenders are required to publicly disclose their fees and contract terms. Customers
must be given this information before they enter into a credit contract. Sue says consumers should also expect to see a clamp down on ads for easy credit. “We expect to see ads touting ‘no credit checks’ or ‘instant approval’ to be stamped out and companies prosecuted by the Commerce Commission if they continue to make these claims.” But enforcement is crucial if the Act’s consumer protection objectives are to be achieved, says Sue. Other key changes to the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act are consumers now have a cooling-off period of five, instead of three, working days to cancel a credit contract; repossession rules have been brought into the Act and essential consumer goods such as beds, stoves and washing machines couldn’t be repossessed; and maximum penalties have been aligned with the Fair Trading Act. The maximum fine for a company is now $600,000.
Going into franchising - do or don’t? The current economic optimism in Tauranga – and most of urban North Island – has brought on a spurt of franchise enthusiasm. This is affecting business people who wish to systematise their company and franchise to obtain maximum and fast market penetration. There has also been a marked upswing of businesses looking to “update” their processes for maximum efficiencies and profitability for both their franchisees and themselves. There are some excellent resources available to those wanting to get into franchising. One of the best for those looking to buy is
the free online pre-entry training course, established by the Franchise Association of New Zealand with Massey University. Visit franchiseassociation.org.nz for more information. Your trading bank is likely to have a specialist division with access to specific knowledge about the franchise system you are looking into. Specialist legal and accounting advice is critical and this information is available locally – do not ask your “general” lawyer or bookkeeper for such aid. Industry specific knowledge is worth its weight in gold and can mean the difference between buying into a
successful system or losing the shirt off your back. Similarly, if you are looking to create a franchise system based on your own business, expert advice is critical – legal, system and financial. Generally, you will only get one chance to franchise your business and quite likely if you don’t do it properly it will at worst fail or at best underperform and give you many headaches along the way. This article is written by David Foster, Director of Harris Tate Lawyers, past Chairman of the Franchise Association of New Zealand and Regional Coordinator for the association’s events.
Finalists heading to the Bay’s export awards The finalists of the 2015 Bay of Plenty Export NZ Awards will earn their fate their next Friday, June 26, when winners are announced at a g ala dinner at the Stadium Lounge, ASB Baypark. Finalists have been announced in four categories – the United Travel Business ‘Emerging Exporter of the
Year’ Award, the Page Macrae Engineering ‘Innovation in Export’ Award, the Beca ‘Export Achievement’ Award, Sharp Tudhope Lawyers ‘Exporter of the Year’ Award. And winners of the Trade & Enterprise ‘Service to Export’ Award will remain secret until the awards night. To attend, see www.bopexportnzawards.org.nz
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Asia gives avocados the green light New Zealand Free Trade Agreement media event in Korea attended this year by Prime Minister John Key, Minister of Trade Tim Groser and NZTE Seoul Trade Commissioner Ryan Freer. Changing diets in Asia is driving consumer demand for New Zealand-grown avocados, according to the country’s export leader AVOCO. As eating habits in countries, such as Korea, become increasingly westernised, more Asian consumers
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are developing a taste for avocados, especially among the younger, healthconscious generation. Recent reports from Korea show diets have already changed so much that ingredients used in salads, including avocados, are outselling the vegetables used in the county’s staple dish, kimchi. Bay of Plenty orchardists supplying AVOCO are capitalising on this increasing consumer demand by having access to key Asian markets through AVANZA, the marketing body responsible for avocado exports outside of Australia. In 2014-2015, avocado sales in Korea increased by 55 per cent with AVANZA fruit representing 90 per cent of total New Zealand exports. Korea and its Asian neighbours, including Japan, Singapore and Thailand, will remain important markets next season, with exporters aiming to
build on the progress they’ve made in converting consumer interest into sales through further in-store promotions. AVOCO director John Carroll says its 700-plus growers – the bulk of whom live in the Bay – understand how important it is to develop markets outside Australia for the industry’s future and for their own endof-season financial result. “AVOCO’s involvement in the emerging Asian markets and beyond helped to hold up values in Australia this season and this will always be the case. Smaller exporters don’t support these markets but that’s shortterm thinking. “Grower-led and working collaboratively, we can use these markets to maximise returns to growers each and every season. That’s the AVOCO advantage.”
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Explore your new outdoors at Big Four Get your mates together and get exploring the great outdoors in the Western Bay of Plenty next week, by entering the Polaris 2015 Big Four Hunting and Fishing Competition.
It’s the ultimate hunting week in your boots and camo gear, with teams of four targeting a wild stag, wild boar, cock ring-neck pheasant and a trout from June 23-26 for Te Puna Hunting and Fishing Club’s largest annual competition. Organiser Shane Paterson says the competition is a great way for friends and family to spend time together in the great outdoors, with teams from NZ and Australia prepping for the big event. “A lot of the guys will take the whole week off as part of their annual holidays and get together with their mates, hanging out and trying to bag the four species. It’s also a good way for the district’s new rural residents to explore the lay of the land, make new friends and bag some fresh wild game. “Although there are great prizes on offer, most teams are stoked to just get all four species.” Individuals receive prizes for first, second, and third for the heaviest stag,
heaviest boar, best pheasant and heaviest trout. Teams which bag all four species are eligible for major team prizes, and could win a share of the $95,000 prize pool. The first major team prize is $32,000 worth of Polaris 2014 4x4 quad bikes and second prize is more than $2500 worth of hunting gear for each team member from the suppliers of Tauranga Hunting and Fishing. The briefing afternoon is tomorrow, June 20 at Top Shot Bar in Te Puna from 3pm. Hunting starts 6am on Tuesday, June 23 and runs to Friday, June 26, with weigh-in at Top Shot Bar on Saturday, June 27 from 11am-3pm followed by prizegiving. The competition’s base at the Top Shot Bar will have activities on June 27 for the whole family, plus spot prizes and raffles. “So head down and make a day of it,” says Shane. To enter, see www.tepunahuntingfishingclub.co.nz
Wildboy has a country story He’s circumnavigated 8430km of living off the land. I was the happiest New Zealand’s coastline on foot, but I’ve ever been in my whole life.” for ‘Wildboy’ Brando Yelavich, writing During his trek Brando raised more a book was more challenging. than $32,000 for Ronald McDonald House. To celebrate the release of his The 21-year-old finished his 600-day trek on August 28, 2014. book ‘Wildboy’ on June 26, Brando is skydiving in Tauranga this Sunday. Now, he’s releasing an inspirational adventure story of his spiritual, mental and physical journey – the good, the bad and the outright scary times. But Brando says the hardest part was recalling the experience. “From the time I finished walking to the moment the book was published was much harder than the walk itself because I’ve had to adjust to society and slot into this world again. “Before I was predominantly on my own, Brando Yelavich has written a book about walking around the coastline, his 600-day trek along NZ’s coastline.
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Online op shops bring community closer Have you ever seen an op shop pop up on your Facebook news feed? You will now. Two Greerton ladies are bringing their suburb’s op shops into the modern era by essentially creating a collective online shop window for them on Facebook. The Greerton Village Op Shop Capital of the World Facebook page is the creation of Colleen Spiro and Sheryll Fougere.
“We thought having a Facebook page which encompassed all the op shops in Greerton Village was a great idea, so we did just that,” say the Waipuna Hospice Shop volunteers. Colleen and Sheryll now visit Greerton’s nine op shops regularly and take photos to post online the items of interest. “We take photos of weird, wacky, wonderful, beautiful bargains and place them on our site.” “It’s just quirky things – one of our posts, we put up a pair of Nomads shoes and it reached 234,000 people. “And there’s other things we put up too – such as retro things – to see if it jogs people’s childhood memories.” And there’s no smell of the usual heightened retail rivalry. “We’ve done the opposite – we’ve brought the op shops together – and because we’re not concentrating just on Waipuna, we’ve been able to form relationships with every op shop in Greerton.” Colleen says the Facebook page – which has gained more than 750 likes since February – has also brought the community together by being somewhere they can go online to communicate or gain
information about happenings, ideas, events, items of interest in Greerton or further afar. “We add other interesting stories and photographs to the site, which generates conversation and huge amounts of views and shares. “And we often get comments from people like, ‘This is why we love our community’.” Colleen also hopes to take the history of the op shops – like the one in St James Church, which has been going for about 35 years – and showcase it. “The page has added value to our community,” says Colleen. “It’s been rewarding as not only do we have a relationship supporting all our charitable organisations, but we have our community involved. “It’s a site where people are encouraged to contribute.” Plus, people are coming from Matamata, Cambridge, Katikati, Waihi and Paeroa for daytrips to op shop in Greerton. “It becomes a fun thing to do with friends, spending a day at the shops, maybe not breaking the bank in their spending, in the knowledge their money has been donated to charities.” By Merle Foster
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What’s happening around Greerton? Browse through the retail shops, sit down for a bite in one of the many eateries, or grab a bargain from a car boot – there is plenty to see and do in Greerton. Why not join the Greerton Gold Leisure Marching Team? Whether you’ve got the rhythm or two left feet, ladies of all ages and abilities are invited to join their friendly marching group. They meet at Moreland Fox Park every Wednesday. Feeling fit at 50? Body & Soul Fun Fitness classes are designed for people aged 50-plus to exercise in a fun environment at Greerton Hall on Cameron Rd every Monday and Friday.
Keep the toes tapping with the Greerton Village Community Music Morning for seniors. Join them for a morning of music on the first Tuesday of every month at Greerton Hall from 10-11.30am. Entry is $4, which includes morning tea. Get in touch with your creative side by learning arts and crafts with talented tutors at Greerton Bible Church Hall on the corner of Oropi Rd and Chadwick Rd, held from 9.30-11.30am. The saying goes: “One man’s rubbish is another man’s treasure.” This could be the case at Greerton Village School’s Car Boot Sale from 7.30am-12pm every second Saturday.
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Maioro Barton is sharing his life-long experience of wheelchair use to help upskill new and existing users.
From navigating stairs, to wheelies and 360 degree manoeuvres, wheelchair training groups are giving new and long-time users the techniques to make life a little bit easier. Wheelchair Skills Training groups, organised by specialist wheelchair and seating assessment service Seating to Go, are designed to teach wheelchair users how to confidently and independently operate their manual or powered chair. Maioro Barton is one of the experienced mentors, and has been taking the Tauranga workshops in Greerton. Born with spina bifida, Maioro had two vertebrae sticking out of his back and was paralysed from the waist down. At age eight, he underwent an operation to fix his spine, preventing the development of scoliosis. However, Maioro has been in a wheelchair for nearly all of his life. The inspirational figure has never let his disability hold him back and is a double Waikato and New Zealand representative for athletics in shotput, discus, javelin, as well as a wheelchair basketball player for the Waikato. “It’s a really rewarding job,” the Cambridge resident
tells of the three-day programme, the last of which is being held in Greerton this Wednesday, June 24. The final day focuses on using the skills participants have learnt and applying them to real-life situations. “Everyone is at a different level of ability with their chair and with various disabilities,” says Maioro. “Some people only need a day to update their skills, but if they’re new to a wheelchair, we recommend they come for all three sessions. “These focus on being able to manoeuvre your wheelchair in small spaces, 360s, pulling wheelies, being able to stay up in a wheelie, and also some life skills, such as opening up doors, picking stuff off the ground and going up ramps.” Maioro has been a mentor for two years, taking workshops in the Waikato, Bay of Plenty and Lakes regions. He says the skills are life-changing for some participants and it’s an amazing feeling to be able to use his experience to help them. “I met a lady couple years ago who’d been in a wheelchair for 36 years and had never tried a wheelie. In another session I met a girl who wanted to know how to get down the steps so she didn’t have to go so far to cross the road to get to the park.” To sign up for workshops, see www.seatingtogo. co.nz, and click on News and Vacancies. By Laura Weaser
Lights, camera, action - it’s time for illuminART It’s beginning to look a lot like winter out there, and for most people that’s a realisation of dark and cold mornings before work, dark and cold evenings, and short days in between. However, in Greerton Village, this what we live for. It’s our time to shine – literally. Matariki is here, and illuminART – the Greerton Village mid-winter light festival – has been announced for Friday, July 10. IlluminART has laser-filled, fire-fueled, light-based extravaganza written all over it, and it’s all free to all light lovers in these chillier, sun-rationed times. It’s worth noting that while the big night is on the first Friday of the school holidays, the fun starts earlier that week, with free lantern making
workshops held in Greerton Hall on Tuesday to Thursday, July 7-9. So send the kids, grandparents and even yourself down to Greerton Hall, create your one-of-a-kind lantern and take part in the Lantern Parade that opens illuminART 2015 at 5.30pm. Visit www.facebook.com/greertonvillage for details and workshop times. We have also received reliable information that those shadowy decorators of trees, the Greerton Guerillas, will be hitting the Village again in July. The things they can do with yarn will blow your mind, as they cover Greerton with the country’s most colourful and textured outdoor “Art Attack”. Come down to marvel at what a beautiful team some yarn and a tree can make. But don’t stand in one place for too long... yarnbombing happens quickly around here!
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A seasonal recipe to boost vitamin C All of those yummy, sweet and sour citrus fruits are loaded on our trees in the backyard, making them look as if they’re groaning under the weight.
And with winter underway, all those nasty bugs and colds are coming out of the woodwork too. So what’s the solution? According to 5+ A Day, seasonal fruits you eat can seriously boost your vitamin
C intake to ward of the nasties. And there’s heaps of recipes and ways to use them up and get that shot of vitamin C we need – just look at the opposite page for some ideas from 5+ A Day. Or try this simple fruit salsa to get you motivated! Then read page 27 to find out all of the nutritious elements you’ve just digested. Mandarin and kiwifruit salsa Serves: 8 to 10 Preparation: 15 minutes Ingredients 10 mandarins, peeled, segmented and halved
4 kiwifruit, peeled and chopped 2 sweet peppers, diced 1/2 red onion, chopped 1 to 3 small chillies (1 for mild and 3 for hot) Juice of 1 lime Juice of 1 lemon Fresh coriander, torn Method Place all ingredients in a bowl and gently mix them together. For more tips and recipes go to www.5aday.co.nz or find them on Facebook.
Serving up a relaxed atmosphere Whether it’s a social catch-up with friends or an important business meeting – café-goers can talk among themselves in a relaxed, sociable atmosphere while dining at Sierra Café in Tauranga. Sierra Café at 525 Cameron Rd opened its doors about six years ago and was purchased by new owners Laszlo and Kate Kotan in January. Since taking ownership of the café, Laszlo has made some changes by introducing a brand new team of experienced baristas and chefs, menu and indoor/outdoor layout to suit the customers’ much more than before. “As well as welcoming new customers, we would like to invite all of the original customers back to our new relaxing, elegant and modern environment,” says Laszlo.
Sierra’s co-owner Laszlo Kotan, chef Dazz Switalla and barista Dylan Fletcher. He says the new café is the perfect place to hold business meetings or social catch-ups. “You can have a private conversation or socialise with friends in our new spacious environment.” The new winter menu features breakfast favourites including eggs benedict, French toast, pancakes and the big breakfast – as well as delicious meals on the lunch and dinner menu to tempt the taste buds. Customers can also take their pick from the delicious range of cabinet food. Laszlo’s favourite is the freshly-roasted quality Arabica Sierra coffee. “It’s quite a characteristic, strong flavoured coffee. It’s brilliant.” Sierra Café is open seven days a week. By Zoe Hunter
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Stay well with the fruits of winter Seasonal produce rich in antioxidants and immune-boosting vitamin C can keep you fighting fit, and able to ward off winter infections, says 5+ A Day. Eating well and exercising regularly are two of the best ways to fortify your immune system and keep sickness at bay. 5+ A Day nutritionist Bronwen Anderson says eating at least five servings of fresh fruit and vegetables each day is one simple thing people can do to help prevent infection. Fruit and vegetables contain a variety of vitamins and minerals, but when it comes to vitamin C some winter produce tops the list. “Citrus fruit have long been recognised as being high in vitamin C, which plays an important role in boosting the body’s immune defences,” says Bronwen. “By taking a proactive approach to nutrition during winter, you may help to strengthen your immune system to ward off seasonal colds.” Here are quick, easy tips on how to enjoy seasonal winter fruit.
Kiwifruit
One kiwifruit provides 191 per cent of the recommended daily intake of vitamin C as well as dietary fibre, folate and potassium. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and is the perfect time to include fruit. Kick the morning off with a chopped kiwifruit as a topping on cereal. Or for a treat, fold chopped kiwifruit into pancake mix before cooking. Mash or blend one peeled kiwifruit into your favourite vinaigrette or salad dressing for a fruity twist. Add sliced kiwifruit to mixed fruit or green salads, pasta and chicken salads. Or dice kiwifruit with capsicum and coriander for a fruity salsa to serve with grilled chicken or fish.
Mandarins
One mandarin provides you with 90 per cent of your vitamin C requirements for the day. For a healthy workday lunch, gently toss together cooked shredded chicken, salad greens, chopped cucumber, mandarin segments, snow peas, thinly sliced spring onion and sliced capsicum. Squeeze over the juice of half a lemon and a drizzle of olive oil. Freshly made salsas are a great way to add a sweet and tangy flavour burst to winter meals. Peel and dice mandarin segments and mix with finely chopped red onion, a squeeze of fresh lemon juice, olive oil and chopped coriander. For an extra kick, add some chilli. Mix gently and serve with grilled chicken breast or with tacos.
Tamarillos
This red, egg-shaped fruit is a relative of the potato, tomato and eggplant. Tamarillos are a good source of vitamin C and also contain vitamins A and E for healthy skin and protection from free radical damage. Use tamarillos in the same way as tomatoes to make sauces or chutney. However, avoid using the skin as it can be bitter. For a winter warming dessert, sprinkle halved tamarillos with caster sugar and red wine and place into a hot oven. Roast until hot and syrupy. Serve with low-fat Greek
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yoghurt. For a new twist on a classic winter favourite, the apple crumble, add sliced tamarillos with the sliced apple. For extra pep, add the juice and zest of an orange as well. Or for a quick and easy vitamin C boost to your day, scoop out the flesh of a tamarillo and add to a smoothie. Lemons: Lemon juice prevents cut apples, pears and avocados from turning brown. Freshen up a winter slaw with a lemon juice, red wine vinegar and olive oil dressing. Finely sliced fennel and chopped walnuts are a great addition for extra crunch. When roasting root vegetables, squeeze over the juice of one to two lemons and tuck the halves in around the vegetables. Once cooked, squeeze over the juice of another half a lemon and sprinkle with plenty of chopped flat-leafed parsley. Knock up an Italian gremolata – finely grated lemon zest mixed with finely chopped parsley and garlic – and sprinkle over any number of savoury dishes minutes before serving.
Oranges
Look out for NZ oranges from late July to early August. One orange provides more than 100 per cent of your daily vitamin C requirement and also contains folate. Oranges can be used in both sweet and savoury dishes. For a colourful weeknight salad, peel and thinly slice oranges and toss with sliced red onion, feta cheese, olives and a homemade vinaigrette.
Sprinkle over finely chopped fresh mint or coriander before serving. For a delicious toe-warming soup, try orange and carrot. In a large pot lightly sauté chopped onion and garlic before adding sliced carrot. Add some orange rind with enough
vegetable stock to cover the vegetables. Simmer until the carrot has softened. Remove rind and use a stick blender to puree until smooth. For an extra hit of citrus, add the juice of a fresh orange to the soup puree. Top with chopped parsley.
Te Puna community Market We are keen to hear from local growers, producers, food trucks and foodies who are interested in snapping up a spot within the upcoming weekly Sunday morning “foodies” market. The market will be held indoors during the cold months and extend outdoors as the weather warms up. Indoor spaces are limited however, there will be plenty of room for new stall holders as the year progresses. Please contact Rowena on (07) 552 4558 or rowena@tastebayofplenty.co.nz
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Visitors to the show this Saturday and Sunday get the chance to taste their way around more than 130 exhibitors showcasing all sorts of yummy products. They’ll also get the opportunity to see some of the region’s top chefs live in action in the new 300-seat Pak’n Save Tri-Theatre, to be MC’d by international chef and author Peter Blakeway. Organiser Dana Martin says the huge triple theatre features a main stage, taste stage and beverage stage, and is one of the highlights of the show. “The Pak’n Save Tri-Theatre is a must-see this year and is worth the door charge alone,” she says. Not only will show visitors get to see
what each chef dishes up – selected audience members will get to taste the chef ’s creations and critique each dish. The Taste and Beverage stages give you an opportunity to learn directly from the wine makers and food producers which wine is best to accompany each meal with handy tips and techniques. It’s all about quality cuisine made by top NZ suppliers at this year’s event, with show favourites Te Mata Figs, Culley’s Hot Sauces and Desserts by Teresa Valentine joining the parade. Also new to the show are Te Horo Foods, Durello Cheese Bread and Doug Jarvis Butchers. They’re all proudly NZ owned and operated businesses, and pride themselves on quality products. So see how good NZ cuisine really is at the Seriously Good Food Show this Saturday and Sunday. Show hours are 10am-5pm daily, with AllDay tickets $12, and a special $10 price for afternoon 1pm-5pm sessions daily.
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Simon says it’s seriously good at food show He’s perhaps the country’s pre-eminent celebrity chef. He’s Simon Gault. The face of ‘MasterChef New Zealand’, he has his name all over cooking utensils in the aisles of Briscoes and even has his own line of chicken, beef and vegetable stock. In his spare time, Simon also runs Auckland’s famous Euro restaurant on the waterfront, the Jervois Steak House in Ponsonby, Pravda Café and Shed 5, both in Wellington. Among all this, Simon has found some time to be a famous face at Tauranga’s Seriously Good Food Show at ASB Arena, Baypark, this Saturday. He’s in hot demand for his live cooking demonstrations and there’s a reason: he’s very good at it. Simon will be running two seminars on the taste stage in the fabulous Pak’n Save Tri-Theatre at 1pm and 3pm on Saturday. This is a great opportunity to come and meet Simon, the man who brought celebrity cooking into the living rooms of the nation.
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Keeping small feet warm in the classroom More than 70 children at Gate Pa Primary will have toasty feet in the classroom all day long this winter thanks to a local handcraft group warming up their needles and churning out slippers. Tauranga Creative Fibre president Joan HansfordJensen says her group has been wielding needles for two months to make slippers for five and six-years-olds at the school. “We’ve got about 95 pairs of slippers we are donating to the school as part of a New Zealand Crea-tive Fibre national campaign,� says Joan. “We’ve got 70 members and probably 40 have made one pair each at least.
“Whatever wool we’ve got in the stash we use – and the result is a lot of woolly, colourful slippers for feet of different sizes.� Joan says Tauranga Creative Fibre supports various groups from time to time by gifting knitted and crocheted items, and their national organisation’s campaign was no different. “We thought this was a good idea, that the kids have some slippers at school so when they’re in the classroom they have warm feet in winter.� Joan says they rang a few schools to find out which wanted the slippers “and Gate Pa said: ‘Yes, thank you very much’ – they wanted 70 pairs and we’re gifting them 95�. The group hands the slippers over to By Merle Foster the school today.
Tauranga Creative Fibre members Sue Oldman, Pam Porter, Beverly Wing and Joan Hansford-Jensen with slippers they’re donating to Gate Pa School. Photo by Tracy Hardy.
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ferent perspective and how decisions are made differently when peers are involved. It will also cover why teenagers’ sleep patterns change, the impact of technology on teens – as well as understanding how alcohol and drugs affect the adolescent brain. The event is a fundraiser for St Thomas More Catholic School. ‘Unravelling the Adolescent Brain’ is at Papamoa College on Tuesday, June 23, from 7pm9.30pm. Tickets cost $25 each at www.eventfinder.co.nz/2015/ brainwave/mt-maunganui
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Children helping children The devastating effects of the Nepal disaster has touched the hearts of a group of Mount Maunganui Primary School Year 5 and 6 pupils, who have been raising funds for the thousands of Nepalese affect-ed by the 7.8 magnitude earthquake.
For four weeks, Isabella Reardon-Pollett, Leah Collins, Beatriz and Ana Voight, and Antonia Gutierrez, with help from Paris Harding, Olivia Davidson and Imogen Coffey, have been selling ice creams after school at a stall they call the Friday Café to raise funds.
With New Zealand thousands of miles away, the eight girls can only imagine what it would be like to experience an earthquake tear through their homes, but they felt compelled to help. The girls’ compassionate request to raise money for the children in Nepal is something their deputy principal Hadleigh Benson feels privileged to be a part of. “The kids came to me and said: ‘Can we raise some money for the people in Nepal?’. And I said: ‘Okay, come to me with a plan.’ So they did and they’ve come up with the idea themselves.” The girls have so far raised about $500 for the Nepalese people. The kind-hearted gesture caught on pretty quick,
with another group of pupils choosing to run a stall of baked goods alongside the Friday Café. “They’ve raised about $200 for Starship Children’s Health hospital,” says Hadleigh. By Zoe Hunter
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Mount Maunganui Primary School pupil Charlie Milgate, 5, buys an ice-block from Paris Harding, 10, Immy Coffey, 9, Issy Reardon-Pollett, 9, and Antonia Gutierrez, 9, at the Friday Café. Photo by Tracy Hardy.
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Don’t let the kids get stuck at home under your feet these school holidays – instead, how about enrolling them in a school programme? Unlike the old days – when there was nothing to do but kick stones around the yard – today the Western Bay of Plenty has a myriad of interesting programmes on offer. And hey – signing them up for these programmes will see your youngsters make new friends, learn new skills, experience different activities and gain confidence to take on life’s challenges. And your home will not become a halfway house for bored teens or languishing littlies while other parents can get on with duties child-free. So check out these pages and see what’s on offer.
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The school holidays are never boring at Coast Kids, with a trio of exciting events planned to keep the children and teenagers entertained during the two-week break. Coast Kids’ Winter Holiday Programme is back again with many exciting activities scheduled for children aged five to 13 from July 6-17. Returning to the holiday programme is The Wicked White Out Camp on July 14-17, when nine to 13-year-olds can join the Coast Kids’ crew as they tear up the slopes during a four-day stay at Ohakune. There’s also many other exciting community activities on offer during
the coming months. First up is the Coast Kids Annual Family Trolley Derby race on Sunday, June 28. All families from the community are encouraged to build a trolley with the children to race at The Lakes Boulevard. Racing starts at 10am and there’s a free sausage sizzle for all racers, with lots of great prizes and trophies up for grabs. There’s even a parents/grandparents race at the end. “The trolley derby
is a great way to have fun and make some family memories along the way,” says Coast Kids owner Carla Blockley. While families are encouraged to build their own trolleys from scratch, Coast Kids has some spare trolleys available for people to borrow if they need. Coast Kids is also introducing the Papamoa Community Youth Group for children and teens aged 11-21, starting at 6.30pm on Thursday, July 23, at Coast Kids in Papamoa. “It’s a way for getting the young people together to create friendships, support and for them to plan their own fun outings,” says Carla. To register for the trolley derby or the Youth Group, contact the centre office on 07 542 3454. By Zoe Hunter
Flynn Riddell pushes Cole Blockley on the trolley they made for last year’s event.
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Schooling the city’s future footballers The next generation of footballing greats might be gracing New Zealand’s sporting arenas, but for one of Tauranga’s top footballing clubs it’s the even younger talent that will have a close eye on them.
This includes passing, dribbling, and tackling. Vital skills in helping the next generation of footballer coming through, says Sam. “This is a crucial time for children to learn the basics of the game, especially if they want to pursue further on. “Each day will be jam-packed with funfilled activities and different games, so if you’re looking for a week full of excitement, then this is for you.” It’s hoped a key difference for the programme is its flexibility where children
don’t have to lock in for the whole fortnight, instead picking and choosing what days they want to attend and have a run around. Sam and Jerahl will also touch on the aura and hype around NZ hosting the the FIFA Under 20 World Cup, something that shouldn’t be lost on anyone. In its 20th edition, this
This school holidays, from July 4-19, Tauranga City United is helping keep school children on their toes and off the couch with a skills-based soccer academy, part of Tauranga YMCA’s Winter Holiday Programme. Tauranga City United left back Sam Nahna and winger Jerahl Hughes are leading the charge, with children aged five-13 encouraged to enrol for the twoweek programme – running Monday to Friday. Tauranga City United is the biggest footballing club in the Bay of Plenty and currently locked in a tough battle for premier status in the Northern League Division One competition. Each day, from 9am-3pm, Sam and Jerahl will take what is hoped to be about 20 children through the basic drills before finishing with a match in the afternoon – sure to have the children heading Tauranga City United left back Sam Nahna and winger Jerahl Hughes help Parae Maxwell, 12, home with empty energy tanks. perfect the art of passing. Photo by Tracy Hardy
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Those musically inclined – and perhaps those who aren’t – are being invited to write a song to celebrate Katikati’s murals ahead of the biennial New Zealand Mural Contest from September 29 to October 4. Hosted by Katikati Folk Club, the Songs of the Murals competition is asking for entries, which are then performed at Katikati Open-Air Art’s NZ Mural Contest Festival Finale on October 4. The Best Song will win $150 while Runner Up gets $50. Entry forms are available at www.nzmuralcontest.co.nz
The Art of the Lens Competition – celebrating the NZ Mural Contest in Katikati from September 29 to October 4 – is now open for entries. Open to students and amateur photographers, the Mural Contest’s theme is ‘The Natural Treasures of New Zealand – Nga Taonga o Aotearoa’ and participants can interpret this in any way they choose. First prize is $250 and entries must be received by September 4. For more information, call 07 549 5250 or see www.nzmuralcontest.co.nz
is the first time NZ plays hosts global tournament and the third time it’s on Oceania soil after Australia staged the 1981 and 1993 editions. A total of 52 matches will be played in seven host cities. “I think it’s good they understand it’s in New Zealand and the benefits of it being here.” For more information on the two-week programme, call Sam Nahna on 022 050 1494. By Luke Balvert
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Tai chi - the ideal exercise for all people Taoist Tai Chi New Zealand is celebrating its 25th anniversary, with three opportunities to experience the wide ranging benefits of this traditional exercise with Taoist Tai Chi Tau-ranga.
also benefit from the calming practice of Taoist tai The International Taoist Tai Chi Society was founded by the late Master Moy Lin-shin in Canada chi. A whole body meditation, Taoist tai chi quietens your thoughts and reduces stress.” in 1970. Learn the 108-move set in a weekend from July Master Moy was a tai chi master and Taoist monk, 3-5, which includes an additional four-month memwho devoted his life to studying the heal-ing princibership for the price of three. ples of the Taoist and martial arts. One of his aims Sign up to a six-week introduction starting July was to make Taoist tai chi arts of health available to 11 for half price at just $15, or join their weekly all who wish to experience them. beginner classes, a five-month membership for To date, there are branches in 27 countries around the world. There are now more than 20 locations the price of four. within New Zealand, with Tauranga being the first branch established in NZ 25 years ago. Taoist Tai Chi Tauranga members say Taoist tai chi is the ideal exercise for all ages. “With spinal stretching and increased movement in the hips, mums find it helps return the body to its pre-pregnancy flexibility and mobility. “Others find it a helpful way to relax and increase the range of movement of those stiff Tai chi is a helpful way to relax and increase the range of movement of joints after a hard day at work. those stiff joints after a hard day at work. “Young people and the elderly
Dylan’s school of hard knocks He’s been nicknamed ‘The Villain’, but mixed martial artist and Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight Dylan Andrews is anything but his moniker. The Martial Arts Academy’s new MMA head coach and father-of-two is soft spoken, extremely humble, and incredibly passionate about his chosen profession. “When I first saw the sport, I thought it was unbeliev-
able,” says the 35-year-old. “I looked at it and I didn’t see what other people saw – blood, violence. I saw two highly competitive athletes who could fight anywhere and show a level of skill unseen in any other sport.” Knowing Dylan’s past, it’s easy to understand why MMA is more than just a sport for him – it’s also provided an outlet The Martial Arts Academy’s new MMA head for dealing with his turbulent coach Dylan ‘The Villain’ Andrews opens up upbringing. His father was an alcoholic, his about his path to becoming a UFC fighter. mother a drug addict – and both MMA, boxing and fitness. At the were never in the right frame of mind. Dylan recalls how he spent most of his academy for a couple of weeks, he’s got big plans for students, who are thrilled childhood in Lower Hutt “leaving the to be training with someone of Dylan’s house first thing in the morning and I calibre. “It’s nice to come to NZ and wouldn’t come back until dark”. give something back.” Dylan’s dedication and sacrifice is one To read the full story, go to SunLive.co.nz of the reasons The Martial Arts Acadand search ‘Dylan’s journey to emy owner Scott Coburn approached UFC fighting’. him to be the gym’s head coach for By Laura Weaser
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Find the super hero in you The professional, friendly and experienced team at Fitco in Tauranga believe exercise should be an integral part of a person’s life – no matter what type of exercise it may be.
Fitco team members Mike Rickard, Tipene Ririnui, Ben McGillivray, John Richardson, Kiri Grant and Gemma Ainsworth in the PPA room. Photo by Tracy Hardy.
The 13th Ave gym offers a facility for people to exercise with like-minded people in a comfortable environment, where Fitco owner John Richardson says fitness goals and dreams are achieved. Their motto is: ‘Real people, real life, real fitness centre’. “Weights aren’t the only thing lifted here,” says John. “It’s not just about the body, but the mind and stress release benefits of exercise.” Fitco offers a huge array of weight training and cardio equipment that John says may seem daunting at first – but it means there’s enough equipment so members aren’t waiting around at peak times when the gym is busy. As well as Les Mills classes, Fitco has a functional training room called the Peak Performance Arena, where members can get the perfect workout blend of athletic and traditional fitness training. John has owned Fitco for 17 years and has a great team of professional, friendly and experienced trainers to help motivate members to reach their fitness goals. All trainers are qualified under the New Zealand Register of Exercise Professionals.
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Celebrating its 19th birthday, Fitco is offering a simple no join-up fee, no payments during June – and the chance to win one of two $1000 travel vouchers as well as sauna packages, supplement giveaways and Fitco T-shirts. Contact the team at Fitco in Tauranga today to take advantage of the birthday offer. By Zoe Hunter
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Monitoring tool to speed up Maori health A new web-based monitoring tool seeking to speed up Maori health gains by increasing access to health performance information is the brainchild of a Bay doctor. Bay of Plenty District Health Board’s Doctor George Gray created the Maori Health Plan Monitoring Tool, which was launched this month. “All DHBs must now have a mandatory Maori Health Plan,” says George. “Those plans indicate what each DHB is going to do to progress performance against a set of 16 health indicators relating to Maori.
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George says until now DHBs had a number of mechanisms, of varying quality, which checked ongoing performance against those indicators – and standardising the DHBs’ approach to monitoring is a gap that this tool fits. “There are multiple examples of Maori having poorer health system experiences and that flows on to poorer outcomes and poorer life expectancy. “To change that requires ongoing performance improvement.” The monitoring tool works on a similar basis to the Ministry of Health’s quarterly Health Targets, which gives greater visibility and accountability to how a DHB is performing. Similarly, Maori health informa-
tion on all 20 DHBs will include performance trends, rankings against other DHBs, disparities between Maori and non-Maori, as well as links to seminars on ‘best practice’ by the nation’s top performers.
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inefficient for our society to have a high proportion of people who are unwell for whatever reason, be it education, income, poor living conditions. “That’s a huge drain on our society. If we can improve that it’s a winwin for everyone. “None of these are intractable problems; they are all responsive to changes in service delivery models, along with the social determinants of health.” Access to the Maori Health Plan Monitoring Tool is at www.trendly.co.nz
Graphs are colour-coded to show how a DHB is performing against each of the 16 health indicators. The tool is updated every 24 hours with the latest MOH data. “We’ve tried to keep it as simple and visual as possible,” says George. “Anyone can access this information Transparency at any time and it’s a “This tool will give transparency user-friendly, intuitive to performance. “DHBs can see whether the interface. “The aim is to initiatives they are using against a encourage certain indicator are working change and and if not they can try improved others,” says George. performance by increasing the availability of health information.” “There is the human aspect to this of course but you can also make the economic argument. Bay of Plenty District Health Board’s Dr George It’s very Gray launches the web-based monitoring tool.
How shoulders can be a real pain At the moment I’m helping a number of people with various shoulder problems. In all cases these have been medically assessed and often treated with physiotherapy and anti-inflammatory medications. My role is more about adding nutrients to improve joint function and to reduce inflammation. The shoulder joint is inherently unstable because it allows such a wide range of movement and is vulnerable to damage and subsequent inflammation. Bursitis and tendonitis are the most common causes of shoulder pain. A bursar is a fluid filled sac that reduces joint friction. The shoulder subacromial bursar is a very common site of inflammation. This can then irritate and inflame the rotator cuff tendons, resulting in a mass of inflammation and pain. Typically, cortisone injections are given to reduce inflammation. In some cases this allows the
joint to settle but often the problem returns once the cortisone wears off and can lead to debilitating chronic inflammation. While every case is different, the first thing we do is modify the person’s diet to reduce inflammatory foods such as some fats and refined carbohydrates and load up on anti-inflammatory nutrients – especially good fats and spices like turmeric and ginger. We then add the nutrients that have a direct impact on the immune system especially vitamin D, many minerals and some antioxidants. We now know there is a direct relationship between over-production of inflammatory chemicals and low vitamin D. Invariably, we add extra vitamin D and a broad-spectrum multi-mineral/antioxidant formula. Depending on circumstances we then add higher levels of various anti-inflammatory compounds including the active compounds in grapes – OPC and resveratrol – and turmeric (curcumin), alpha lipoic acid, acai extract and many more. In most cases people respond well to this intensive programme before reducing to a controlled maintenance programme. Give me a call if you need more information. To join my full weekly newsletter go to www.abundant.co.nz John Arts is a qualified nutritional medicine practitioner and founder of Abundant Health. Contact John on 0800 423 559. To read more go to www.sunlive.co.nz
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City doctors volunteer in Fiji Islands A group of Tauranga medical staff has landed in the Fiji Islands to spend 10 days voluntary work performing medical and surgical procedures on locals and training hospital staff. Led by Tauranga surgeon Avi Kumar, the group of two surgeons, an anaesthetist, anaesthetic tech, two theatre nurses, two general practitioners, a recovery nurse and endoscopic nurse will spend their time at Labasa Hospital. This month’s expedition is the fourth annual trip Avi has organised, with this year focusing on helping patients in his home town of Labasa. “Previously, we’ve been to Lautoka Hospital, which is on the main island [of Fiji]; then we found Labasa Hospital was being neglected,” says Avi.
“Basically, on Labasa they have a great hospital but they don’t do any elective work – it’s mostly for emergencies because they are short of staff and resources.” Avi’s team – of people he’s worked with for the last 25 years – arrived in Fiji yesterday and will perform about 30 operations in a week, treating patients from new-borns to the elderly.
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“They heard about this and volunteered to go. They take their annual leave for this trip – they don’t get paid to work. Funding is gifted by Friends of Fiji organisation for travel and accommodation,” says Avi. “And we take everything with us – gloves, caps, gowns, sutures, instruments and machines. We sent that over two weeks ago.” Avi says the equipment is donated by generous medical supply companies and NZ hospi-
tals, which gifted medical machines that have been refurbished before being sent. “Grace Hospital has made generous donations and the New Plymouth Hospital has donated two laparoscopic towers for keyhole surgery.” Avi says lots of medical equipment used in NZ and thrown away can be re-used. Asked if he’s constantly collecting goods for the trip, he says: “All the time”. Medical treatments include thyroid glands, and keyhole surgeries for gall bladder and bowels. “We do some endoscopy, looking inside the guts, so this time we’re taking a specialist nurse for that purpose – and whatever else is thrown in.” Patient feedback is “great”. “We see all their smiling faces – a lot of them just wait for us to turn up. “But the work is very challenging while quite satisfying. The bonus is to see the happy faces, but it’s also sad to leave some unsolved problems for another visit.”
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Most of the team go annually, but this time a Palmerston North surgeon – one of Avi’s fellow countrymen – has joined them. “It all depends on who is available.” “Most of the time most of team is together so we know each other pretty well, and know what to expect – which is quite important on a mission like this.” The last three trips Avi’s team has also taught procedures to local medical GP Amrita Kumar, surgeon Avi Kumar, anaesthetic technician Jim Cairns-Nelson, staff. anaesthetist Dave Dinney, theatre nurse Jo Dunstan, and endoscopy nurse “We put a lot of emphasis on Sarah Harcus are in Fiji volunteering medical services. Photo by Tracy Hardy.
Motor neurone disease in the spotlight this Sunday This Sunday, June 21, is Motor Neurone Disease Global Awareness Day which recognises the fatal neurological disease – also known as ALS – that affects more than 350,000 of the world’s population. In New Zealand, sports stars and personalities are putting their best foot forward for the 300-odd Kiwis affected by motor neurone disease. The MND Association of New Zealand is proud to launch Walk 2 D’Feet MND, which takes place in six cities nationwide – including Tauranga – this Septem-
ber 20 as part of global awareness day. “MND Global Awareness Day is about recognising people’s determination and spirit in the face of this cruel disease,” says MND NZ president Beth Watson. “We’re launching Walk 2 D’Feet MND to help raise further awareness of this terminal neurological condition for which there is no effective treatment. Half the funds raised will go to research.” For more information, see www.walk2dfeetmnd.co.nz or www.mnda.org.nz
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“Our aim is to make the local colleagues self-sufficient – not to take over the management.” Avi says he feels he’s making a difference in Fiji, while being a Tauranga surgeon. “We always make trips back home and catch up with people and see what their problems are; and they always ask can we go back and help them. “We’re just fortunate we have the facilities to
use openly because often in foreign places there are restrictions. “We do go through a process but we’ve got an understanding with the Ministry of Health in Fiji. “And we’re thankful to organisations which have donated to gear make this possible.” The group returns home June 30. By Merle Foster
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Saying thanks for helping Pacific Hope Marine Reach vessel Pacific Hope is hosting an open day tomorrow ahead of its first mission for to Fiji, Vanuatu and The Solomon Islands, to thank the public and volunteers who’ve made it happen. The open day at the Port of Tauranga No 1 berth, which allows for better public access than the city’s former slip jetty where the Pacific Hope has become a fixture during the last two years. But she’s still a work in progress, says ship director Mike Mears. Pacific Hope sets out on the first voyage this month with the refit about 80 per cent complete. But they’re hoping to continue repairs en-route. “We’re hoping to do some work as
well while we are sailing, so we’ll have a few extra crew on-board who are contractors and builders, so we will carry on with some of that while we are sailing, assuming that the seas are favourable.” Pacific Hope is a former Japanese Government-owned fisheries training vessel, which came with a big galley, mess hall and lecture spaces, says Mike. Pacific Hope was originally a training ship for fishermen and deck officers. “So it did have a fish hold and refrigeration system. So we skipped all refrigeration stuff out, and we use the hold for building materials, tools, books – and all that kind of stuff for schools.” They’re also approaching businesses for galvanised nails and roofing iron – that kind of donation as well. Much of the work converting the ship, providing labour for sanding and painting has been provided by volunteers,
optometrists, healthcare nurses and projects and sanitation to help with like the Aquinas College students rebuilding projects in Vanuatu. community development people who’ve painted their way through Marine Reach added an addion-board. much of the ship during the last tional block of outreaches in The first trip will focus on water two years – some have been there Vanuatu specifically more than once as to help with cyclone part of their commurecovery. “As well we nity classes. have a land-based As this month’s operation in Vanuatu, departure looms there so we’ve been sending are still former offices teams up since the on-board undergoing cyclone hit,” says conversion to more Mike. accommodation. “Certainly being able Mike says the Pacific to get out to remote Hope will voyage islands is a huge with a crew of 25, need. Vanuatu has 10 plus about another dentists in the whole 40 medical people, nation, and about doctors, dentists, seven of them are surgeons. Eventually, they Students Keegan Wiltshier, Grace Thomson, Caleb Perry located in Port Vila.” also expect to have By Andrew Campbell and Eloise Braithwaite helping to restore Pacific Hope.
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Ship director Mike Mears says Pacific Hope will head to the islands this month.
Tauranga’s Department of Conservation is introducing Volunteer Wednesdays, giving residents the opportunity to help rangers and community groups to enhance the Bay of Plenty’s local gems. On the fourth Wednesday of every month DOC is calling for volunteers to help out with different task at varying locations – offering it as a great opportunity
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National Volunteer Week
21-27 JUNE
NVW2015 21 27 June We’re all busy, rushed off our feet – time-poor. But guess what – the feeling that comes from using one inch of your time to help another or others is priceless! June 21-27 is National volunteer Week, with the theme ‘There is a place for you to volunteer’– highlighting the diversity of volunteer opportunities, volunteers themselves
and the impacts of volunteering. NVW encourages those who haven’t yet found their place in the volunteer community to seek it out and be aware contributions can be both big and small. Regardless of how much or how little skills, time and experience one has to offer, there will always be a place to volunteer. So take look at this page to see who could benefit from your help.
Foster healthy communities with employee volunteers Community wellbeing is widely recognised as an important part of a healthy and sustainable society.
Tauranga ANZ staff involved in a successful Employee Volunteer Programme at Historic Village.
Volunteer Western Bay of Plenty is a firm believer in the positive effects of community engagement and is launching the Employee Volunteer Programme to help promote the idea. Volunteer WBOP employee volunteer coordinator Sarah Errico says the programme provides opportunities for employers to encourage and support their employees in carrying out voluntary work. “Corporate bodies are recognising that community engagement is not only good for their local communities but also has a positive effect on their business. “Being recognised as a socially
responsible business is a crucial part of maintaining a healthy company profile.” As part of National Volunteer Week, which runs from June 21-27, the programme launches on Tuesday, June 23, and is aimed at local and national Tauranga-based companies. Sarah says the launch is an opportunity to meet with corporate groups and business representatives interested in being part of the programme and forge mutually beneficial relationships. “We can offer environmental projects such as dune planting or bush regeneration; administrative tasks and fundraising opportunities; events participation with various roles at festivals and events; or working alongside people in a supporting role.” The EVP launch is at Ignition on the ground floor of Rydal House at 29
There’s a place to volunteer everywhere Volunteer Western Bay of Plenty is hosting a Volunteer Market at the Historic Village this Sunday to mark the beginning of National Volunteer Week from June 21-17. The goal of the market is to provide information to the public about not-for-profit organisations in Western Bay and to highlight volunteer opportunities they have in the wider community. The Volunteer Market also aims to celebrate the good work volunteers do in our communities and encourage more people to undertake voluntary work. The theme for National Volunteer Week is ‘There is a place for you to volunteer’. The Volunteer
Market will run alongside the Bethlehem Lions Market at Historic Village, with the opportunity for people to enjoy both markets. On Sunday, Volunteer WBOP is running a Facebook competition where visitors are encouraged to take a photo with the ‘Community Hero’ who will be walking in the village. The first 50 to post their photo on their Facebook page – Volunteer Western Bay of Plenty –could win chocolate reward. You must tag Volunteer Western Bay of Plenty in the photo, add the hashtag #communityhero and visit the Volunteer Market to collect your prize. The Volunteer Market runs from 9am-12pm on Sunday, June 21, in the Balcony Room above the Sugar Plum Tree Café at Historic Village on 17th Ave. For more information, contact Volunteer Western Bay of Plenty on 07 571 3714.
Grey St, Tauranga. For more information regarding the Employee Volunteer Programme, contact Sarah Errico on 07 571 3714 or via email evp@volunteerwbop.com
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Democracy dead in Western BOP?
Goodwill for TEL opening?
I’m watching with keen interest, should an enterprising service club like the Lions or Rotary enter negotiation with New Zealand Transport Agency with some sort of loose rights to an agreeable day prior to the opening of the Tauranga Eastern Link say from the toll gantry to the Paengaroa end. I understand it would be a bureaucratic and red tape minefield, but I’m sure with a bit of goodwill on behalf of NZTA this could be overcome. This would be a wonderful opportunity for people to cycle/walk the short distance for a suitable large gold coin - or paper - donation with the proceeds going to the Te Puke Fire Brigade or local ambulance service.It would be a great public relations undertaking all round. M Twist, Katikati.
Is democracy dead in the Western Bay of Plenty? Do council spin doctors or their bosses think the ratepayers are a pack of mugs, or just a financial turkey to be plucked, because there is not many feathers left to pluck! Please Mayor Ross Paterson and councillors - resurrect your credibility before it is too late, and certainly before the next election or you will be history! Space does not permit all the controversial items to be discussed, so let’s use one example of your approach to the public. Your publication asking for input gives only three options for the library. 1. Spend $1.2 million. 2. Spend $2.3 million or 3. Spend $4 million. I pointed out in my submission any honest system should have given a fourth option, which was do nothing.You didn’t give this as a choice, and in my opinion this screwed the result. I also said in my verbal submission the book section of the library was less than 1/4 or 25 per cent of total floor space of
the current building - yeah right! Any sensible analyst could improve this substantially without crippling our longsuffering ratepayers, resulting in 1. A win for ratepayers. 2. A win for library users and 3. And a win for - dare I say it - good old common sense. The Mayor says of 1000 submissions, 600 were for and 400 against a new bigger library. I sat in the street at the public coalface a lot longer than he did to get the feelings of people and more than 2000 said stop spending on nice-to-haves until you can afford them.
Most, but not all, were from Katikati. That means let’s live within our means. New Zealand inflation is currently only one per cent and we have an extra line on our rate notices now because we cannot even pay our interest bill - and our district is one of the highest rated and most indebted councils in the country. Only three people I surveyed out of more thanr2000 said they wanted a new library this makes you think, does it not? All of us, me included, want good things for our lovely town. But we want to be able to afford to live here! Is it true that three of the main things we submitted on had already been decided? If so, this is offensive. We’d love to think you respect the public opinion, and we’d like to work with you, but the opposition is substantial,and building. We want to help. Norm Mayo, Katikati.
Editor’s Note: Western Bay of Plenty District Council declined reply to this letter.
Free panacea is education The story about Destiney is particularly sad because she has wasted so much of her precious life, when it appears to me there was a free panacea already in place. And I’ll bet a dollar to a knob of you know what would have prevented her from falling into the black hole of gangs, alcohol and drug abuse. That free panacea is education, and with it comes the ability to make informed decisions, not impetuous ones, the path to gain qualifications to lift oneself above the minimum wage. And most importantly, it acts as a contraceptive, resulting in many less children brought up in the same circumstances. Guessing she’s come from Winston’s new constituency, how much more benefit would the Northlanders have gained if he had campaigned on the band-wagon of lifting the values of education and formulated plans for greater involvement by Northland youngster? Rather than dishing out baubles which are worthless in today’s fast-paced society. A Jones, Bellevue.
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Make headlight use mandatory I’ve done it! I believe you’ve done it. All of us who drive have done it. You arrive at a corner, look right, nothing coming and look left, nothing coming. Re-check right as you start to move forward. Hell! Where did that car come from? I thought it was clear. Eighty per cent of crashes are caused by lack of sighting according to the insurance industry. I raise this as we look set to kill another 300 people and put thousands into our overloaded hospitals this year! Our rate of highway deaths and injuries is double and triple that of overseas countries on a population basis. It can be radically improved with two effective measures. The Government must make it
mandatory for all vehicles to have headlights on when the engine starts and turn off when it stops. In Scandinavia this is law - the road toll is under half of ours - despite a wild climate and strong drinking culture. Drinking brings me to the second point. The Government must make confiscation of all vehicles, caught in the hands of anyone found over the alcohol limit, mandatory. Regardless of who owns it, the vehicle is taken and sold. The murder weapon - the vehicle - is removed from the potential murderer - the driver - permanently. This would halve the road carnage immediately. K Evans, Tauranga City.
NZ’s one-man Govt
Referendum infuriates
John Key must go down as New Zealand’s only one-man Government. He will not listen to public opinion. Examples are John says the Government will not bring the euthanasia debate before Parliament. He will not listen to voices of 70 per cent of voters who said we do not want a flag change. He has taken away workers rights to morning, afternoon and lunch breaks. Just look at governments record for action on the ponytail saga, selling of state houses, selling of power company shares, selling of properties to overseas interests. Can you find anytime he has listened to public opinion? Once again a budget deficit promise has been broken. As mothers are having to seek employment when a child is only three years old instead of five, what is to become of our future generation with out parent support in their infancy? Senior citizens were not even in the budget equation. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer because John does not want to rock the boat by attending to matters of importance for NZ citizens or the country. His main concern appears to be getting a fourth term in government and getting a knighthood. K Allen, Katikati.
I’m not a fan of changing our flag, but who cares what Kiwis think about this polarising issue. Our Government certainly doesn’t. Let’s face it $26 million for a referendum on this issue beggars belief. This country can’t be struggling financially if we can afford that amount of money on something that doesn’t warrant $100 being spent on it. This is more of an issue than the flag debate itself. It has made a lot of people very angry. Going by the response to meetings held around the country on changing our flag, many Kiwis don’t give a big rat’s buttocks. There are more important issues we should be dealing with. As we celebrated - or not - the Queen’s Birthday, how many of us raised a celebratory glass to her majesty? None I’m guessing. I’m wondering when New Zealand becomes a republic - and we will - will we continue to celebrate the Queen’s birthday if we are no longer in the Commonwealth? Just a thought! It will be a long time between Easter and Labour weekends and we love our long weekends. How many Kiwis have thought about that? S Gussey, Omokoroa.
Stupid idea: A capital gains tax to sort Auckland house pricing problems is a stupid and unfair idea. Such a tax would affect the whole of NZ unfairly. Quite simply, any house bought as an investment would be recorded as a second or third home on the deeds or whatever. And on a completed sale of such a house the profits would be taxed by the lawyers and paid into Government before the owner was paid - somewhat like PAYE, simple, clean and fair. A Bourne, Bethlehem.
Pruning and Plant Growth Certificate in Horticulture Industry Practice (Level 3) Starts 1 July in Tauranga
New speed limit is not the answer The statement of a law enforcement officer, highlighted by the media, to lower the speed limit shows a degree of irrationality bordering on hysteria. Eight people were killed in four separate accidents in a recent weekend. Logic would suggest that these accidents were caused by four people making errors of judgment. It has not yet been established that speed was the cause and yet the cry is to lower the speed limit, a limit conservative by many international standards. At the time of the four mistakes there were probably at least 200,000 motorists (4.5 per cent of the population) on the country’s roads, of whom 199.996 per cent did not, at that time, make fatal errors. Should all motorists in the country be limited for these four errors? Bryan Johnson, Omokoroa. .
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E N T E R T A I N M E N T G U I D E The Weekend Sun’s ever popular guide to ‘What’s On’ in the Bay.
Friday 19 June
Big Bucket Deals Fragrance & Cosmetic Sale June 19-21 at ASB Stadium, 81 Truman Lane, Mt Maunganui 9am - 5pm. Massive range of fragrance & cosmetics, nail care, hair care, supermarket items & more at great prices.
Tauranga Chamber of Commerce
City leaders lunch at ASB Arena, 81 Truman Lane, Mt Maunganui 11.45an - 2pm. An opportunity to hear from our city leaders. Member registration $60, non-member $75. Tauranga Society of Artists Art Expo; sale of original art. Elizabeth St Community Centre June 19 & 20 9.30am - 5pm. June 21 9.30am - 4pm. Cash & carry.
Te Puke KiwiCoast Lions 20th Book Fair Te Puke Memorial Hall June 19 8am
- 6pm. June 20 9am - 3pm.
Saturday 20 June
Alcoholics Anonymous Women’s
meeting at St Andrews, Dee St 10-11am, children welcome. 0800 229 6757 Bayfair Night Market Arts, crafts, jewellery, fresh produce, food stalls & more. Bayfair Shopping Centre, cnr Maunganui Rd & Girven Rd, Mt Maunganui 6-11pm. Free entry. 022 588 2282 or email: tauranganightmarket@hotmail.com Car Boot Sale Evan’s Road Community Church 8-11am. Fresh veges, sausage sizzle, coffee, car wash. $5 a space. Arthur 574 1822 Car Boot Sale Greerton Village School 7.30am - 12pm. Come along & join the fun, there’s something for everyone. Shirley 577 1116. FASH 2015 The market fair for lovers of fabric, abandoned stitchery, & haberdashery, at Bethlehem Community Hall 9am – 2pm. Easy parking, proceeds to the Te Puna Quarry Summer Trust.
Ha Derech/The Way Messianic Kehilat
Now at Hillier Centre, Bayfair Shabbat/ Saturday 10am. A one new man community & welcome all seekers of the truth. 544 7424 or 021 0226 3515 Healing Expo Multi cultural healing group, Welcome Bay Community Centre, 242 Welcome Bay Rd June 27 10am 3pm. $20 entry with access to energy healing, reiki, mirimiri massage, traditional Thai massage, readers etc. Bernie 544 5557
Let’s Dance Ballroom & Latin Dance Club Second Sat of month at Bethlehem
Hall 7-10.30pm. Live dance tempo music. Bruce 576 5598 Music Concert Featuring Sarah Spicer, Zuhana & other guests. Katikati College Hall 7pm. Doors open 6.30pm. Tickets $10 from school office. Fundraising concert. Nonviolent & Mindful Connection Weekend workshop June 27 & 28. Learn the art of peaceful conflict & connecting communication. Register: toni@restorativerelationships.co.nz ph 07 788 0045
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News, reviews and opinionated raving on the music scene. Pg48
Community events and occasions across the Bay. Pg46
Papamoa Group Dogwalking Fortnightly
Weekend Activities for the Over 60’s
group dog walk around waterways & beaches. Meet at Papamoa Plaza 9am. Tennille 021 030 6835 Planting Day Mid-winter/arbour day celebration at 6 Millers Rd, Brookfield 2pm, held by Sydenham Botanic Park Advisory Group. Approx 596 daffodil bulbs for people to plant to increase the number in front of the site – please bring a trowel. Sailing (IOM) International One Meter Radio Controlled Yachts - The fastest growing sailing class of today. Come for a sail & get hooked. Every Sat & Weds at Landing Drive, The Lakes 1-4pm. Pat 0274 731 765 Speakeasy Silent Cinema Be entertained by the 1928 comedy classic Steamboat Bill Jr, starring Buster Keaton & accompanied by Ron Clark on the amazing Wurlitzer organ. Dress to the nines, for an evening of 1920’s frivolity. Presented by Night Owl Cinema. Held at Baycourt Theatre 8pm. 577 7189 or baycourtboxoffice@ tauranga.govt.nz Taichi Qigong Every Sat in Memorial Park between mini golf & playground 10am. Free to join in. Tauranga Farmers Market Fresh & artisian produced food. Tauranga Primary School cnr 5th Ave & Cameron Rd every Sat 7.45am - 12pm. Trixie 552 5278 or www.taurangafarmersmarket.co.nz
Tauranga Indoor Radio Control Car Club
Race day, Greerton Hall from 1.30pm. Track set up from 10am. Newcomers welcome. Te Puke Forest & Bird Trip Papamoa Coastal Dunes 3km walk. 575 2662 Te Puke Scottish Soc Theme: Country & Western. Old time & sequence dancing with good company & great supper. Te Puke Memorial Hall, Jellicoe St 7.30pm. Entrance $7. Subs due. Valerie 573 7093
The Seriously Good Food Show June 20 & 21 at
ASB Arena, 81 Truman Lane 10am – 5pm daily. Make sure you’re part of the biggest food event in the Bay of Plenty. Tickets $12 per person (10am – 5pm) or $10 (1-5pm), children 13 years & under $5. Tauranga Women’s Refuge 35th Birthday celebrations at No. 1 The Strand. Fun celebration recognising 35 years of supporting women & children to live free of violence in your community. Tickets $40 by paying online to account 03-03450462837-01 with “Initial. Surname” & 35 Bday as reference. Or email: manager@ taurangawomensrefuge.co.nz or 541 1912 for ticket number & confirmation. Tauranga Woodcrafters Guild Every third Sat at club rooms, 3 Cherokee Place, Mt Maunganui 1pm. Visitors & interested people welcome. Geoff 579 3637 Village Radio Community radio broadcasting from Tauranga Historic Village 1368 kHz AM. Music of 1920’s - 80’s weekends 9am - 5pm, weekdays 10am - 5pm. Specialty programmes. www. villageradio.co.nz or 571 3710
Walks, dinners, day trips & good times. Richard 578 3894
Sunday 21 June
Bay Bible Fellowship/Lord’s Day
Worship service, Welcome Bay Primary School Hall, 309 Welcome Bay Rd 10am. “Unforgettable forgiveness” part 3. www. bbf.net.nz Bethlehem Lions Market 1st & 3rd Sun of month at Historic Village on 17th Ave 8am - 12pm. Bible Seminars Greerton Senior Citizen’s Hall, Maitland St, Greerton 1.45pm. Title: “Important people of the New Testament.” A DVD presentation. Interactive, Q&A. Refreshments provided. Vic 543 0504 BOP Rose Society Meet at 39 Montego Drive, Papamoa 1.30pm. Bring along the name of a rose & talk about the history of the name. Share rose books. Fern 575 2857 Czech & Slovak Club Tauranga School & kindy classes for children with Czech/ Slovak background every Sunday at Arataki Community Centre 10am-12pm except school holidays. New members welcome. www.facebook.com/csclubtauranga, email info@csclubtauranga.nz Maketu Rotary Club Market 3rd & 5th Sunday at Village Green, Park Rd, Maketu. Stalls $10. Maureen 533 2340 Petanque Tga/BOP Club Every Sun & Thurs at Cliff Rd 12.45pm. Boules available, tuition given. 578 3606 Quakers in Tauranga Mainly silent worship, hour long meeting followed by tea & talk. Every Sunday in hall behind Brain Watkins Historic House 10am. 544 0448 Radio Controlled Model Yachts Meet Sun & Thurs 1.30pm at pond behind 24 Montego Drive, Papamoa, to sail electron & similar 3ft long yachts for fun. Beginners welcome. Graham 572 5419 Smith’s Sport Shoes Winter Duathlon Series Kids, Short & Long course options at Hotuhotu St, The Lakes, Tauriko from 9am. Paul 027 270 5300 email: info@ triathlontauranga.org.nz or visit www. triathlontauranga.org.nz
Tauranga Friendship & Social Club
Walks, dinners & outings for over 50’s. Barbara 544 7461 Tauranga Spiritual Society Inc Guest speaker: Terry Keillor, healer & hypnotherapist at Senior Citizens Hall, 14 Norris St. Doors open 6.30pm for 7pm. Members $3, non $5. (2016 membership: $10). 0220 670 467 Tauranga Theatre Organ Society Meet at Baycourt 1.30pm. Hear & play the mighty wurlitzer. Please come to the stage door on Wharf St if the main door is closed. All welcome. 552 0243 Te Puke Country Music Club Day, St Pats Hall 1pm. All welcome. The Perfect Pitch For writers at Alzheimer’s Society House, 116 13th Ave, Tauranga 2-4pm. Beginners & published writers of all genres invited to workshop
OUT THERE Stories, snippets, strangeness, and general entertainment. Pg47 on presenting yourself & your book to others. Free to members, $5 to others. Jenny 578 9212 or email: taurangawritersnz@gmail.com Underwater Hockey Every Sunday at Baywave. Gear & coaching available for beginners. New members welcome. Juniors (under 15) 5-6.15pm. Seniors (over 15) 6-7.40pm. Lance 027 287 4731 or lancepotaka@orcon.net.nz
Monday 22 June
Achieve Toastmasters Making it on
Mondays. 1st, 3rd & 5th Mon at St Stephen’s Church Hall, Brookfield, Tga 7.30pm. Chrissy 543 9493 Badminton Tauranga Badminton Club every Mon & Weds at Bethlehem College Events Centre 7.30-9.30pm. All players welcome. Sue 021 194 4335 Badminton Junior Club Bethlehem College Events Centre every Mon 6-7.30pm. Racquets available. Sue 021 194 435 www.taurangabadmintonclub.co.nz Bay of Plenty Pipes & Drums Army Hall, cnr 11th Ave & Devonport Rd 6.45pm. Annette 577 9272 Bay Salsa Presents beginner salsa lessons at Otumoetai Action Centre 6.45pm new intake every 4 weeks. $12 per class. www.baysalsa.co.nz Bethlehem Bowls Every Mon at Bethlehem Hall, Main highway 7.15pm. First 3 nights free. Young or old welcome. Wendy 578 2585 Body & Soul Fun Fitness For over 50’s, social events & guest speakers. Mon & Fri Greerton Hall Cameron Rd. Tues Wesley Church Hall, 13th Ave. Weds City Church cnr Otumoetai Rd/Sherwood St. Thurs at Tauranga Senior Citizens Hall, Norris St behind Pak n Save. All classes 9.15-10.15am. First class free. For men & women. Dianne 576 5031 Qualified Instructor/Cardiac Care leader. Chess Mt Maunganui Mount RSA Chess Club every Mon at Mount RSA, 544 Maunganui Rd. Juniors 6.15-7.15pm during school term. Open club 6pm & 7.30pm onwards. Noel 579 5412 Citizens Advice Bureau Free, confidential info & advice about anything call in Mon - Fri at 38 Hamilton St, Tauranga 9am - 5pm or free-phone 0800 367 222 or 578 1592. Justice of Peace service every Mon 1-4pm, Weds & Thurs 9-11.30am & Weds CAB Service at Welcome Bay Community Centre 9.30am - 12.30pm. Migrant clinics Tues - Fri 1-4pm. No appointment necessary. Civic Choir Tauranga Every Monday at Wesley Church, 13th Ave, Tauranga 7.30pm. New members welcome. Heather 575 9092 Fitness League Safe effective, low impact fun exercise set to music using the Bagot Stack technique, designed for women of all ages & abilities. First class free. Every Mon at Settlers Hall Omokoroa 9.30am & Tues St Johns Anglican Church Waihi 9.30am. Dorothy 549 3378
GUIDE The Weekend Sun’s guide to who’s playing and where.
Free Antenatal Classes Te Ha Ora. Day & night classes. Kaupapa Maori - but open to all cultures. TeRina 552 4573 xt 706 or t.joseph@pirirakauhauora.org.nz Genealogy Friendly Group Meet in the Mako Room, Papamoa Community Centre 1pm. Assistance offered to anyone with an interest in researching their family history. Daphne 575 4674 Junction Mental Health Peer Support
And advocacy: coffee & chat 10am – 12pm. 543 3010 Leisure Marching For exercise, fun & fellowship. Ladies 50+ required. No experience needed. Coreen 570 0172 Meditation Group Free classes Mon 10am & Weds 7.30pm. Find peace, spiritual awareness & the meaning of your life. David 576 9764 NZTE Roadshow How to win international government business. At ASB Arena, 81 Truman Lane, Mt Maunganui 9am - 1pm. Free seminar event. Otumoetai Indoor Bowls Champion Pairs 7pm & club night Matua Primary School Hall, Clivedene St, 7.15pm. New members welcome. Karen 576 0443
Pacific Probus Club - Mt Maunganui Meet 3rd Mon of month at St Mary’s Anglican Church Hall, cnr Girven Rd & Marlin St 9.30am. New members welcome. Gillian 575 5684
Special Visit to Bethlehem College
Invitation to hear Cookie, Director of unique Jewish Messianic school in Jerusalem & hear their exciting story June 29 at 7.30pm. Supper & freewill offering. Israeli dancing included. All welcome.
Soroptimist International of Tauranga
Global voice for women. Dinner meeting monthly 4th Mon. Judith 552 4372 Tauranga Creative Fibre Every Mon at Arts Centre, Elizabeth St from 9.30am. Spinning, weaving, felting, knitting, crochet & more. Learn & share in a mutually supportive club. Also on Thurs evening twice a month. Joan 577 6781 Tauranga Senior Citizens Club Cards, 500 & Bridge Mon & Thurs. Indoor Bowls Tues, Weds & Sat at 14 Norris St, behind Pak n Save 1-4pm. Register by 12.45pm. $2 includes afternoon tea. New members welcome. Welcome Bay Art Group Meet every Mon at Lighthouse Church 9.30am - 12pm. Bob 544 4499 YMCA - ALFS Active Lifestyles For Seniors. First class free. Open to both men & women. Mon: Matua Community Hall, Levers Rd 9am & 10.15am. Arataki Hall, Zambuk Way (off Grenada St) 9am. Tues: Papamoa Community Centre, Gravatt Rd 9am & 10.30am. Sit & Be Fit at Papamoa Community Centre 11.30am. Smooth Movers Weds Welcome Bay Hall, Welcome Bay Rd 9.15am. Sit & Be Fit Greenwood Park Village, Welcome Bay 11am. Thurs: Otumoetai Action Centre, Windsor Rd 9am. Bethlehem Hall, Bethlehem Rd 10.30am. Fri: Papamoa Community Centre, Gravatt Rd 9am & 10.15am. 578 9272 www.ymcatauranga.org.nz
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@ The Clothesline Pre-loved qual-
ity clothing every Tues 10am - 2pm. Children’s $1, adults $2. Also prayer for healing on request. Face2Face Church, 36d MacDonald St, Mt Maunganui. ABC - Avenues Badminton Club Every Tues at Tauranga Intermediate School Sports Centre. Juniors 6-7.30pm (term time). Seniors (Adults) 7.30-9.30pm. Club racquets & coaching available. Delwyn 027 212 4720
Alcoholics Anonymous Mt Maunganui
Open meeting every Tues 11 Victoria Road St Peters Hall 7.30pm. 0800 229 6757 for more meetings or assistance. Altrusa Club of Tauranga Women’s community service group. Dinner & business meeting 2nd Tues. Social programme 4th Tues, monthly. Interested? Denise 570 3134 Badminton (Social) Every Tues at Otumoetai Baptist Hall 9.30am - 12pm. Racquets available. All welcome. Lorraine 579 3229 Bayfair Petanque Club Tuition & boules available for learners & visitors. Every Tues & Thurs at Bayfair Reserve, Russley Drive 1pm. Margaret 572 3173 Bethlehem Pottery Club Open Tues, Weds & Thurs 10am - 3pm, or when the flag is flying. Call in & meet the members & find out how to join. Email: bethlehempottery@gmail.com or Jane 552 0046 after 6pm. Bureta Garden Circle Club Monthly meeting at St John’s Church Hall, 94 Bureta Rd, Otumoetai 1.30pm. Visitors welcome. Colleen 576 7610 Cards 500 Every Tues & Thurs at Mt Maunganui Senior Citizens, 345 Maunganui Rd 1pm. 575 4650 DadzKare A support group for separated fathers. Meet every Tues at 538 Fraser St 7.30pm. 928 4323 Darts At Club Mt Maunganui, Kaiwaka St 7pm. Everyone from 12-112 yrs welcome. Faye 0274 748 061 Drawing/Painting Varied art programmes every Tues at 171a Elizabeth St West 7-9pm. Interested? 576 9592 Excel Toastmasters Meet every 2nd, 4th & 5th Tues of the month at Arataki Community Centre, Zambuk Way, Bayfair 6.15-8.30pm. Learn leadership & public speaking skills. Kaaren 572 5988 Fibromyalgia Support Group Meet at Hillier Centre, Gloucester Rd, Mt Maunganui 1.30pm. Fitness League Ladies 50 plus exercise with dance to music. Improve posture, energy, toned body, increased strength. Every Tues at St Columba Church, 502 Otumoetai Rd, Cherrywood 9.3010.30am. Gloria 573 4429 Friends of the Library Mt Maunganui Library Book group meet 10am. Topic this month: Author’s name beginning with ‘C’. Gail 574 3376
Golden Kiwis Leisure Marching Team
Meet every Tues at Blake Park netball courts, Mt Maunganui 10am. Fun, fellowship, exercise for ladies 55+. Coreen 570 0172 Greerton Village Community Music Morning For seniors – come along & join us in a morning of music. 1st Tues of month at Greerton Hall 10-11.30am. Guest artist. Entry $4, includes morning tea. Di/Charley 027 626 2496 Inachord Chorus Womens 4 Part Harmony Every Tues at Bethlehem Community Church, 183 Moffat Rd 6.55pm. Enjoy the challenge of singing & performing varied repertoire. Cathy 579 2040 email: inachordchorus@gmail.com Israeli Dancing Beginners class every Tues at Gate Pa Primary School, Cameron Rd 7-8pm. All ages welcome, no partner required. Maria 544 1680 or 022 165 2114 Leisure Marching Team Seeking new members aged 30-50+ for friendly leisure marching. Practice Tues 6-8pm. Ph/txt Ardell 027 937 4248 Merge Social Connections New residents recently moved to Tauranga welcome. 1st & 3rd Tues of month at Comida Tapas Bar, 59 The Strand, Tauranga 5-7pm for social get together & meet new friends. Email merge. tauranga@gmail.com Mount Aglow All ladies invited to meeting at Salvation Army, 57 Eversham Rd, Mount 9.45am. Guest speaker: Sara Brown. Join us if you need a new direction to your life. Shared lunch to follow. Raewyn 574 6967
Mount Morning Badminton Social, competitive, all ages, beginners welcome. Racquets available. Visitors $5 per session. Every Tues at Mount Sports Centre, Blake Park 9am - 12pm. Maxeen 575 0162 Neighbourhood Run Running all year round. Cheyne Rd 6am start. Free. Every Tues/Thurs/Fri. Svetlana 027 616 2124 Oriana Singers Community choir meet every Tues at St Andrew’s Church Hall, Dee St, Mount 7-9pm. New members welcome. Terry 578 5937 Otumoetai Toastmasters Leadership skills, speaking skills. At Lyceum Club rooms, 68 1st Ave 7.15-9.30pm. Alan 544 5989 Petanque - Tga/BOP Club All welcome to try a new sport. Equip available, all coaching given. Club Mt Maunganui 12.45pm start. Neita 572 3768 Sequence Dancing Tauranga Social & Leisure Club. St John’s Anglican Church Hall, 94 Bureta Rd, Otumoetai. Every Tues 7-9.30pm except second Tues of month 3.30-6pm. Visitors welcome. Murray 576 3294 South City Bowling Club Club night at Greerton Hall 7.30pm. New members welcome. Mary 541 0687 Spiritual Guidance & Bowen Therapy
Room 2 behind Wild Herbs Natural Health, 775 Cameron Rd, Tauranga. For appointment, Kerry 552 6768 or 021 607 797 Tauranga Acoustic Music Club Jam sessions. Sing, play or just listen & enjoy. Greerton RSA 7.30-10pm. Sheryl 552 5906 Tauranga Astronomical Society The ancient Maya: a civilisation so fixated on the heavens it dominated their lives. The solar system - questions & answers. Fergusson Park Observatory complex 7.30pm.
Tauranga Morning Badminton Club Every Tues & Thurs at Queen
Elizabeth Youth Centre, Memorial Park cnr 11th Ave & Devonport Rd 9-11.30am. Heather 574 0976
Tauranga Patchwork & Quilters Group Meet every 1st & 3rd Tues 7pm
& 2nd & 4th Fri 10am at Tauranga Art Centre, 177 Elizabeth St, Tauranga. Helen 0274 177 581 Tauranga Scrabble Club Every Tues at Tauranga Bridge Club, Ngatai Rd 9am. 3 games $3. New players welcome. 544 8372 Tauranga Toastmasters Tga Lyceum Club 7.15-9.30pm. Confidence building, speaking skills, leadership skills. Alan 544 5989 Te Puke Lyceum Club Social afternoon – Kay Graham, Federation president 1.30pm. 8 Palmer Place, Te Puke. Margaret 573 5355
Te Puke Senior Citizen’s Club
Players & beginners invited to play indoor bowls, cards, 500 every Tues & Fri 12.45pm. $3 includes afternoon tea. Weds, bolivia cards 1pm. Jocelyn St, Te Puke. 573 7887
Cards Do you play cribbage or would
like to learn the game? Every Weds at Tauranga RSA 1pm. New members welcome. Rona 578 7939 Freemasons Gate Pa Lodge meet at Hairini Freemasons Masonic Centre 7.30pm. Ph/txt Glen 027 918 9096 Gate Pa Indoor Bowls Champion Triples (Wallace Cup), Greerton Hall 7pm. Names in book. Kevin 543 4044 Gate Pa Tennis Club Social tennis for all levels. Make new friends while getting some exercise. No commitment or fee for first 3 attendances. Every Weds 9am - 12pm. Geoff 570 1168 or 021 474 807
Greerton Gold Leisure Marching Team
Seeking ladies of all ages. Every Weds meet at Moreland Fox Park 8-9.30am. No experience required. Marion 578 1108 Healing Rooms Experience God’s healing touch at Bethlehem Town Centre cnr shop behind PO/Bookstore every Weds 1-3pm. 021 110 0878 or at Papamoa Fashion Island, 42 Gravatt Rd, next to Esquires ever Weds 3-4pm. 022 120 5406. No appointment necessary, no charge. All ages welcome. www.healingrooms.co.nz Health & Wellbeing Dr Ted Walford leads discussion on current health issues. Wesley Centre, 100 13th Ave 7.15pm. All welcome. Maureen 027 270 2792 Indoor Bowls at Ohauiti Every Weds at Ohauiti Settlers Hall 7.15-9.30pm. No experience necessary. All ages welcome. Glennis 544 4022 Papamoa Palms Probus Club Meet first Weds of month at Papamoa Sports & Recreation Centre 11.15am. All welcome. Sue 574 3280 Scottish Country Dancing Every Weds at Senior Citizens Hall, Maunganui Rd, Mt Maunganui. Beginners class 6pm, regular class 7.30pm. Lynne 573 5055 Single Coffee Club 60+ Mixed company of singles 60+ that meet up once a week of coffee, enjoy socialising & meeting new friends. Email: mixandmingle@ xtra.co.nz or 027 439 3267 Table Tennis Tauranga At Memorial Hall, QEYC every Weds 1-3pm & 7-9pm & every Fri 7-9pm. Bill 578 1662 www.sportsground.co.nz/ tabletennistauranga Tauranga Embroider’s Guild Every Weds at Tauranga Rowing Club rooms, Memorial Park 10am - 2.30pm & 7-9pm. Juniors 4-5.30pm. Beginners & experienced stitchers welcome. Nancy 544 4778
Tauranga Mid-Week Tramping Group Tarawera Landing to
hot pools & return. Grade easy, approx. 5.5hrs. Garry 578 3083 Tauranga RSA Texas Hold-em Poker Club New members welcome, will teach you how to play. Buy in $10. Every Weds 7.30pm. PJ 543 2279
Te Puke Spiritual & Healing Centre
Information evening at ASB Arena, 81 Truman Lane, Mt Maunganui 6-8.30pm. Undergraduate information evening. Widow & Widowers Club People living alone invited to Arts & Crafts Centre, Elizabeth St 2pm. Margaret 576 5292 Wine Tasting Education Jellicoe Room, Te Puke 7.30pm. A representative from a French wine merchant has interesting French wine to be tasted. Ph Shirley, Te Puke Super Liquor 573 7570
Constables Gallery, Te Puke. Guest speaker: Robyn Teague, face reader. Doors open 6.45pm for 7.15pm. $5 includes raffle, tea & coffee. Kerry 552 6768 Toastmasters City Early Start The 6 F’s Club - Fast, focused, flexible, feedback, friendly & fun. Confidence & leadership building. Every Weds at Avgas Cafe, Classic Flyers 6.50-8.15am. 021 044 5654 LaniDTM@gmail.com or http://cityearlystart.toastmastersclubs.org Wasps vs Cavaliers Moore Park, Katikati 3pm. Curtain raiser: Katikati 1st XV v Rotorua Boys 3rd XV at 12.45pm. Come & see the action live. Adults $10, students $5, U5’s free.
Wednesday 24 June
Thursday 25 June
Victoria University of Wellington
Age Concern Walking Group Meet
at Pacific Rd carpark, Mt Maunganui 10am. Catch a bus. All welcome. 578 2631 Badminton @ Mount Indoor Sports Centre Give badminton a go. Trial it for free & if you like to come every Weds 7-9pm. $8pp. Racquets available. Eve 021 906 481
Baywide Community Law Service
Drop in clinic every Weds at 63 Willow St 5-6.30pm. No appointment necessary. Free legal assistance. 571 6812. Every Tues morning at Te Puke Clinic. For appointment 573 5614. Every 2nd Thurs morning at Katikati Clinic. For appointment 549 0399 Bipolar Support Group Support for people with bipolar 1-2pm. Junction 543 3010 for info or if you need a ride.
Awesome Clothing Sale Good quality, all sizes & styles - men’s, women’s, children’s, shoes, sheets, duvets etc. Only $3 a bag. You pick. Historic Village, 17th Ave 9.30-10.30am. Organised by Turning Point Trust. 578 6934 Bay Salsa Presents Salsa on the Strand Intro class at La Mexica
8pm followed by social dancing. Really social, no partner required. $2 entry free (members free). www.baysalsa.co.nz Club Mt Maunganui Social games club. Play indoor bowls, 500 & Bolivia every Thurs 12.45pm. John 575 2422
Community Bible Study International At 14th Ave Gospel Centre 10am 12pm for a non denominational Bible Study on the Book of Mark. Jack/Betty 544 3809
Fitness League Safe, effective, low impact exercise to music using the Bagot Stack technique, designed to help with posture, balance & stamina, combination of exercise, movement & dance. All ages & abilities. Complementary 1st class. Thurs: Central Baptist Church Hall, cnr 13th Ave/Cameron Rd 9.30am. Weds: Katikati Memorial Hall 10am. Pam 549 4799 or 021 117 7170 Friends of the Library Greerton Library Chat Group meet at Tauranga RSA, 1237 Cameron Rd 10am. Speakers: - The Greerton Guerrilla’s (The Yarn Bombers). Visitors & new members welcome. Pam 571 2566 More Than Craft Every Thurs at Greerton Bible Church Hall cnr Oropi/Chadwick Rds 9.30-11.30am. 10 crafts with talented tutors. Welcome to view. June 544 0823 Mount Maunganui Creative Fibre Every Thurs at Arataki Community Centre 9am - 1pm where we share, learn & enjoy spinning, weaving, crochet, knitting, felting & other creative crafts. New members welcome. Kris 579 9994 Orange City Square & Round Dance Club
Weds Plus, Thurs club night & new dancers 7.30pm. Frontiersmen’s Hall. 543 1063 Papamoa Table Tennis Every Thurs at Papamoa College Gym 7-9pm. New members welcome. John 572 0129 Senior Tennis At Tauranga Lawn Tennis Club, Wharepai Domain, for ages 35+ from 9-11.30am. $3 ball fee. New members welcome. Simplee Cre8tive Ladies craft group every Thurs at Arataki Community Centre, Bayfair 9am - 2.30pm. Bring your favourite craft or do a new one. Great company, casual, fun environment! Jenny 572 5396 Social Tai Chi Practice Group Meet every Thurs at Methodist Church Hall, 13th Ave 9.30am. Lee 578 2342 Sunshine Dance Group Learn sequence dancing at a friendly club. Meet every Thurs at Baptist Church Hall, cnr 13th Ave & Cameron Rd 7-8.30pm, followed by dancing till 10pm. $2pp, entrance includes supper. Jan 544 4379 Tai Chi Qigong Every Thurs at Ohauiti Settlers Hall 11am. Class takes approx 1hr. $1pp. Eric 577 1988 Taoist Tai Chi Exercise your body. Challenge your mind. New beginners class starts today, 15 Koromiko St, Judea 12.30pm. Ann 577 9145 Tauranga Heart Support Group Low impact group exercise for those with or at risk of heart disease. Every Thurs at City Church,
“What’s On” is a FREE service for non-profit clubs & organisations.
Otumoetai, & every Monday at St Enoch’s Church Hall, 16th Ave, both 9.30-10.30am. $4pp includes light refreshment. Hannah (Clinical Exercise Physiologist) 0508 227 342 Tauranga Model Railway Club Every Thurs 7.30pm. Ed 543 1108 www.taurangamodelrailwayclub.co.nz Tauranga Rock n Roll Social Dancers Have fun dancing to authentic rock & roll music every Thurs at Senior Citizens Hall, 14 Norris St (behind Pak n Save) 7.30-9.30pm. $3pp. Check out FB. Maria 576 7326 Tennis Seniors WBOP Players 35+, Tauranga Lawn Tennis Club, Wharepai Domain 9am - 12pm. $3 ball fee. New members welcome. Lynda tswbop@gmail.com The Mount Art Group Meet every Thurs at St Peters Church Hall, Victoria Rd, Mount 9am - 1pm. Merilynn 575 6777
Toastmasters - Kickstart Breakfast Club
Speak confidently in a fun environment. Alimento Cafe 7am, guests welcome. Helen 571 6181 Young Parents Group (For ages 20 & under) every Thurs at Plunket, 471 Devonport Rd, Tauranga 12pm. Lunch provided. Text Rozi 027 924 6526
Friday 26 June
Alcoholics Anonymous Open meeting every Fri at Hamner Clinic, 1235 Cameron Rd, Greerton (behind Bridgestone) 7.30pm. 0800 229 6757 for more meetings or assistance.
Bay of Plenty Export NZ Awards 2015
Held June 26. www.bayvenues.co.nz Chess Tauranga Every Fri at Tauranga RSA, Greerton 6pm & 7pm onwards for the whole family. Werner 548 1111 http:// www.westernbopchess.weebly.com/ Free Immigration Clinic Every Fri - legal advice & information on immigration issues. For appointment, Baywide Community Law 571 6812 Katikati Folk Club Camille & Stuie French from Sydney. Katikati Bowling Club, Park Rd, doors open 7pm for 7.30pm. Be early for a good seat. Adults $20, members $15. www. katikatifolkclub.co.nz The Cake & Craft Show June 26-28 10am – 4pm at ASB Stadium arena. www.bayvenues. co.nz The Sociables 30’s/40’s age group of males & females that meet up once a week to socialise by dining out or participating in local activities & event. Email sociables@ outlook.co.nz
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Collecting art for the home Art-collectors and enthusiasts have the opportunity to buy original art at realistic prices this weekend, as more than 300 works of art go on sale in the Tauranga Society of Artists’ Art Expo. More than 60 artists are selling their paintings in water colour, oil and acrylics at the Community Centre at Elizabeth St West from June 18-21. The art society says the Art Expo is an opportunity to experience some beautiful art that art-lovers may take home for personal or emotional satisfaction. Prior to the official opening of the expo, the art society announced the TrustPower and TSA Supreme Art Award on Wednesday. Kim Artus was announced the supreme winner for the third time. Miriam Ruberl was named runner-up. Well-known artist Graham Crowe judged the award. “He had to choose from an amazing selection of fabulous art,” says the art society. Tauranga Society of Artists are sponsored and supported by TrustPower, Ultimate Motor Group,
Cooney Lees & Morgan, Macau Restaurant, Pak ‘n’ Save Tauranga, Brookfield New World and the Creative Communities Scheme. The Art Expo opens from 9.30am-5pm today and tomorrow, with the final day on Sunday opening from 9.30am-4pm.
Miriam Ruberl was named runner-up.
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Darren says Matt’s voice and his connection with the audience are really something to see and hear live. “When he’s playing without the band you get an even better sense of how powerful and well-crafted his songs are.” Then it’ll be blues veteran Darren Watson’s turn to showcase songs from his new album ‘Introducing Darren Watson’ plus his other audience favourites and a few classic early blues songs. “Darren’s performances are a mighty force of nature,” says Matt. “The raw energy and soul he plays with has actually really shocked people the first time they’ve seen him play live. “He takes an old, beat-up 1950s Gibson acoustic and somehow magics it into a whole band. “Then he sings like his life depends on it.” Disclaimer: Watson and Langley do not recommend or encourage the use of firearms indoors. They also ask any redundant electronic goods are disposed of in an environmentally-kind manner. ‘Shoot Your Television Winter Tour’ is at Mauao Performing Arts centre on July 3. Tickets cost $20 from www.eventfinder.co.nz By David Tauranga
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See a warm and witty tribute “Oh, honey. Time marches on – and eventually you realise it’s marching across your face.” That might not be the way your beautician would respond to your newly discovered crow’s feet, but it’s typical of what you’d expect in Truvy’s Beauty Salon in Detour Theatre’s production of ‘Steel Magnolias’. Lacking none of the humour, charm and drama of the popular 1989 US comedy-drama movie, this smash-hit comedy at Detour Theatre is a warm and witty tribute to the power of friendship. In a quaint Louisiana town, the local beauty parlour serves as the gathering spot for a group of eccentric women to gossip, giggle and survive the hardships and splendours of life. Director Kim Williamson loves the play because “it has everything”. “It’s funny, it’s dramatic – there’s a little of the ridiculous, but at the same
time it is so real that we all identify with what the characters are experiencing. It’s one of those plays that are as rewarding for the actors as it is for the audience. We can’t wait to share it with you.” Detour’s production boasts a quality cast of local actors including Sarah Oemeke playing beauty shop owner Truvy, Susi Jansen as her stoic neighbour M’Lynn, Geraldine Broderick as the smart-alecky Clairee, Maggie Kelly as the feisty Ouiser, Mikayla Williamson as the adorable lost soul Annelle – and rounding out the cast is new-comer Mikayla Morgan as the irrepressible Shelby.
Gossip in the salon. ‘Steel Magnolias’ runs from June 17 to July 4. Tickets available at Tauranga Baycourt Community and Arts Centre or see www.ticketdirect.co.nz
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Taoist Tai Chi can help people to feel relaxed, rejuvenated and vitalised.
Every now and then our stress levels build up and life gets in the way – but Taoist Tai Chi can help people to feel relaxed, rejuvenated and vitalised ready to cope with the rest of the day. Started by Scott Woolsey in 1995, Te Puke Taoist Tai Chi is celebrating 25 years of the traditional exercise in New Zealand. “The longer people stay at it, the more they realise the health benefits are not just physical but also
internal – and it can help us to balance,” says the club treasurer. “We don’t recover easily from imbalance as we age and tai chi helps you be aware of how to move and where you’re putting your weight.” People of all ages are invited to try Taoist Tai Chi at Te Puke Memorial Hall on Mondays and Tuesdays and Pukehina on Wednesday. Beginner and continuing classes available. Visit www.taoist.org.nz for more information or contact Colin Horn on 07 573 7345. By Zoe Hunter
Drivers Bar Coral 7.30pm. Wednesday 24 – Tauranga Rock Sunday 21 – Big John 4.30pm. Jam, singers & players welcome. The Crown and Badgerr Starts 8pm. Friday 19 – Cougar Alert. Greer’s Gastro Bar Saturday 20 – Planet of 3. Sunday 21 – U4RIA 5-8pm. Jazz, The Matua blues, soul, funk & samba. Sunday 21 – Graeme Hardaker Mount RSA and Neil Pepper 3-6pm. Friday 19 – Marilyn Kingi & Wednesday 24 – A Taste of friends 7.30pm. Country Night 7.30-10pm. Saturday 20 – Emmerline and
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By Winston Watusi
Throw the banjo and get crooning for Te Puke Frost is crackling underfoot on the lawns of the Watusi Country Club – time to throw another banjo on the fire.
Gee. Banjo jokes just aren’t the same without Doctor Jazz around. These days the only people using them play in folk bands where a banjo actually sounds rather good. But folk or jazz are equally welcome in this week’s column, along with any other musical style you care for. Because this week we’ve got a song competition. I realise this is slightly old news now, but I don’t think it’s been getting the publicity it warrants.
Song contest
You might not even have heard about it, a shame indeed because it would rob you of a chance to win the Te Puke Highway Song Contest. It’s such an obvious idea really, I don’t know why I’m surprised. Te Puke’s getting a new road so they want to immortalise it in song. It’s what every new road needs – a song. If Tauranga City Council had been a bit smarter out of the gate they could have solved all Route K’s problems right there. Where was its song? No wonder no one’s using the damned thing. But wait a minute... The new road doesn’t actually go to Te Puke. As we all know, the whole reason for spending billions and billions of taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars on the Tauranga Eastern Link was so we wouldn’t have to drive through Te Puke any more.
Old road
After years of public petitions, MPs finally gave in and said “Okay. We get it. You don’t want to have to go anywhere near Te Puke. We understand. Have a new highway.” So why a song competition? Well, this is a song competition to write a song for the old road. The one that still goes to Te Puke. Yep. Not content to spend up large so that we don’t have to go to Te Puke anymore, the Government clearly wanted a bob both ways, so to curry favour with the good folk of Te Puke –
whom no one will ever see again now that a shiny new highway means we can avoid them – they’ve allowed them to rename a stretch of soon-to-be-deserted State Highway 2.
Route 66
Beat the drums, unfurl the banners – that bit of road between Papamoa to Paengaroa is now to be called The Te Puke Highway. That’s what the song competition is about. Don’t blame the road. They reckon Route 66 has been a mess for decades: the song’s still pretty good. No doubt you’re busting a gut right now wanting dash along to www.tepuke.co.nz/news/157/24/ Te-Puke-Highway-SongContest/d,details and enter. (Just as an aside, yes, that URL does appear to have a stutter in it. ‘d,details’? I don’t know why either). But be warned. If you thought this was going to be easy, wait till you hear the conditions. There are some fish-hooks to jump...
Goodness grows
First of all the terms and conditions state: “Entrants acknowledge that the purpose of this competition is to search for a song that celebrates the Te Puke Highway, a place where goodness grows, and the uniqueness of Te Puke’s special place in New Zealand”. Leaving aside any consideration of “the uniqueness of Te Puke’s special place in New Zealand” (though I will happily print the best email suggestions in next week’s column). Does that strange sentence really propose that goodness grows on the actual highway? Hmmmm... But, ignoring grammatical mangling, a bigger challenge may be that: “The winning song must include the lyrics ‘Te Puke Highway’ and ‘Te Puke Goodness Grows Here’ as a chorus or in several verses”. Call me cynical, sceptical or anything you like, but I have some doubts as to whether ‘Te Puke Goodness Grows Here’ is really going to cut it alongside ‘Get your kicks on Route 66’.
Win a trip
Why do I keep mentioning Route 66? Because the winner will receive an expenses paid trip to the USA for a tour of Route 66. That’s a helluva good prize, irrespective of the two highways’ relative merits. So get writing. If you get as far as a single pithy couplet but don’t feel like completing the song – just send it to me and I’ll put it in the column. Watusi goodness grows here.
watusi@thesun.co.nz
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The Story - The Trials of a King
Love with all of your mind It weighs about 1.5kg, lighter than the average laptop. It consumes more than 20 per cent of the energy produced by our bodies.
It’s so precious it’s surrounded by bone and cushioned by hydrostatic fluid. What is it? This is the human brain. Within the brain’s estimated 86 billon neurons, 170,000km of nerve fibres and astounding mindboggling array of interconnected synapses is your mind. You may not realise this but your brain is the most complex organ in the known universe. Our mind matters to God. Jesus affirmed this by saying: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind”. The Apostle Paul said in Romans 12:2: “Don’t let the world squeeze you into
its mould but be transformed by the renewal of your mind”. There’s a saying garbage in – garbage out. Have you ever done an inventory of what you put into your mind? Do the websites, YouTube videos, music, movies, magazines, and TV programmes rate highly as ‘nutritional’ food? A young man was terrified of being alone at night. Guess what his favourite movie genre was? Horror movies! If we feed our mind with fear, discontent, and anxiety then we will think negative, fearful, depressive thoughts. As a wise old man, the Apostle Paul said: “Finally one last thing, fix your thoughts on what is true and honourable and right”. “Think about things that are pure and lovely and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. And God’s peace will be with you” (Philippians 4:8). Try it.
By Rev Jim Wallace St Enoch’s Presbyterian
Growing and living with purpose We all want to live and grow with purpose even in the latter years. A dear friend of ours will celebrate her 90th birthday soon. Believe it or not she’s still leading exercise classes and is compassionately involved in helping others. She’s certainly not all done and dusted. Many 60-plus are still switched on and wanting to be re-energised for service. Since its inception in 2009, Fresh Horizons has hosted conferences in Australia and New Zealand helping people “find their fit in life’s second half ”. Conferences have focused on our aging population and being intentional in how we live our lives. Fresh Horizons seeks to be part of the answer to unlocking and activating this hidden treasure in our church and communities. This year will be a personal challenge to examine what it means and what it takes to be “Growing and living with purpose” as a life-long disciple of Jesus and how that translates into disciplining others in the generations following. So why not experience Fresh Horizon’s conference this August and attend yourself. In its sixth year, Fresh Horizons is having a positive impact, revitalising and shaping new expressions
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of second half of life ministries. We’d love to see you your friends represented at the conference on August 12-13. For further information, see www. freshhorizons.org.au or email glp@kinect.co.nz By Donald Hegan, St Columba Presbyterian
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As well as customised ute covers, the owner of Creative Canvas specialises in all other types of canvas, including boat canvas, caravan awnings, roll-up blinds, shade sails, upholstery, spa pool covers – and more. “We can do it all,” says Baz. “No job is too small.” When it comes to canvas – Baz knows what he’s talking about. The best part is, customers can chose the colour, fabric, size and
Creative Canvas owner Baz Thomas with a Ziptrak roll-up blind. style of canvas for a personalised product to call their own. Baz has been in the industry for 20 years this year, since taking an interest in canvas at age 16. In 2012, Baz opened his business – Creative Canvas – on Birch Ave and has since been offering high quality workmanship and excellent customer service to Tauranga residents. Baz is happy to provide advice on any canvas job. Give him a call today or visit, www. bazcreativecanvas.co.nz By Zoe Hunter
Quality service top to toe Frogs Auto Valet is offering Bay of Plenty residents the joy of experiencing a sparkly clean vehicle, just like thousands of their satisfied customers Frogs Housewashing offers comprehensive auto valet services and packages to make every car look have enjoyed. new again. Whether you are selling a vehicle or trying to maintain it, they can help protect your vehicle from the sun and rain. Frogs Auto Valet are here not only to do the jobs you don’t have time for, their professional services will make a difference to your vehicle’s value. Originally a house washing busi-
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THIS WEEKS GARAGE SALES! bayfair 20a BALMACEWAN PLACE Saturday 20 from 7.30am. Household items.
bethlehem BETHLEHEM COLLEGE Saturday 20 9-11am. Car boot sale. Bouncy slide, sausage sizzle, crafts, something for everyone.
bethlehem GREENPARK PRIMARY School Hall, 13 Lumsdon St Saturday 20 11am - 2pm. Garage sale, sausage sizzle & bake sale. Fundraiser for people with physical disabilities.
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pyes pa 568 PYES PA ROAD 7.30am. Household, small furniture, desks, drawers, garden, farming items. Wire, standards, electric fence gear, Moving overseas.
arts & crafts SMALL WORKSHOPS Great for your own little group for a gettogether with friends, a birthday party or work social. Ceramic painting, fused glass jewellery, and mosaics. All enquiries welcome. Contact Lynn Ph 571.3726 Leadlight Expressions & Clay Art Studio. Historic Village, 17th Avenue.
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A NO DEPOSIT DEAL from $50 p/w. Cars, vans, & 4x4s. To find out more txt ‘NEWCAR’ and your name to 9090. Learner licence welcome, with good guarantor.
CHARACTER HOME on Napier Hill. Lovingly restored, 3 bedroom home with high quality fixtures and fittings (including brand new heat pump), stylish bathroom and separate toilet. Huge deck, fantastic ocean views. All day sun. Effortless, short walk to town. Come and enjoy the Hawke’s Bay. Phone 06 835 0836
SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE & counselling. Need some direction? Confused, not sure where you’re heading? Readings, Healings and Counselling by experienced therapist. Ph Kerry 021 607 797 or 07 552 6768
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“AA” Tour 1 = THE AUSTRALIAN OUTBACK TOUR: with so many exciting inclusions..... Tour 2 = Winter Escape to Waiheke Island. Tour 3 = The North Island Train Trip, Auckland to Wellington. Tour 4 = Wairarapa Country Tour. Tour 5 = South Island Tour (many highlights, see the snow). Door to Door Service. Free Newsletters. Contact The Hinterland Tours Team on 575 8118 or 027 235 7714
MATURE WORKING, house proud female urgently seeks small home suitable for 1x small outside dog and 1x cat. Long term. References available. Ph 022 633 0039
CAR FAIR – buy or sell any vehicle every Sunday at 11th Avenue Car park opposite Mad Butcher 8am-noon. Ph for more information 027 733 9686 or www.taurangacarfair.co.nz
computers COMPUTER GETTING you down? Problems, viruses, upgrades, internet, new or refurb PC’s tuition, or advice. Ph Bruce for a no obligation chat or quote 576 7940 or 021 260 9183 FREE ON SITE DIAGNOSIS & quote. We come to you & don’t charge extra for travel. Pensioner discounts. Ph Kyle at Tech Solutions 027 828 7078
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for sale FRIDGE FREEZER Fisher & Paykel Smart Drive. 1.7 high x 640 wide. Good working order $250. Ph 544 8595 or 027 451 5622
gardening LAWNMOWING HONEST reliable operator. Mulch or catch + edges done from only $15. Ph/txt Hayden 021 488 219 PEAVINE HAY in convectional bales suitable for garden mulch - a much cheaper option than buying in bags. Barley straw also available. Ph 533 1922 or www.billwebb.co.nz
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housesitter TRUSTED HOUSESITTERS available from 8 Aug - 22 Aug, 17 Oct - 11 Dec. 14 years housesitting experience in Tauranga, excellent references. Ph 027 302 8328 or evenings 543 3457
livestock AC PETFOODS collect injured & unwanted cows & horses. Ph 0800 369 6269
lost & found FOUND KITTENS, various colours & locations, please call SPCA if you have lost one 07 578 0245 Found tabby torti female cat Te Puke area Ref 21881 SPCA 07 578 0245 Found Tabby and white female cat Te Puke Area Ref 21882 SPCA 07 578 0245 Found Long haired grey/brown cat Greerton area Ref 21889 SPCA 07 578 0245 Found Black male cat Katikati area Ref 21890 SPCA 07 578 0245 Found Grey cat Matua area Ref 21893 SPCA 07 578 0245 Found young adult Tabby cat Ref 21894 SPCA 07 578 0245 Found Tan female dog Bethlehem/Te Puna area Ref 21895 SPCA 07 578 0245
mobility MOBILITY SCOOTERS & MORE. Visit our showroom, 29 Burrows St, Tauranga Ph 578 1213 Mobility Equipment & Services. ‘Supporting your independence’
trades & services AFFORDABLE BUILDING MAINTENANCE House repairs, spouting/roofing repairs, house painting, general maintenance. 20 years experience. Ph Andy 022 350 0600 APPLIANCE REPAIRS For service of all Fisher & Paykel, Haier and Elba appliances, Ph 0800 372 273 for your local technician. BOAT BUILDING repairs and maintenance. Timber & fibreglass trade qualified, boat builder. Ph Shaun 021 992 491 or 07 552 0277 BRYCE DECORATING Interior & exterior painting, wallpapering. Quality work. Ph Wayne 579 5588 or 021 162 7052 BUILDER, licensed, new works, renovations, decks, pergolas, roofing & more. Ph 022 121 3356 BUILDER - Small job specialist. Fences, decks, property maintenance. 26 yrs exp. Tauranga area. 0800 003 832 ELECTRICIAN, 18+ years experience, NZ registered. Residential & commercial, maintenance & service, new builds, renovations. Fast, friendly service. Ph Andrew 022 354 1960 HANDYMAN BUILDING and section maintenance, decks, fencing, pergolas, painting, water blasting, odd jobs. Free quotes Ph Rossco 027 270 3313 or 544 5911 HANDYMAN BUILDING MAINTENANCE complete bathroom renovations, decks etc. Ian - the Fix-it Man. 45 yrs tradesman. Free quotes. Ph 021 670 770
Breaking into the rental market I went to a viewing for a rental property in Tauranga last week. I was just being nosey. But there were a couple of dozen other people there who weren’t being nosey. They were desperate. They were all scrambling for somewhere to live. It was a humbling experience. And it’s obviously a tight market out there. One which is stacked in favour of the landlord. He can afford to be very choosey about who he wants living in his house and what returns he expects on his investment. But if you, as a potential renter, are also in a position to be choosey here’s a ready reckoner. There are some ‘dungers’ out there – cold, damp and miserable. So know what you want and where you want to be. Save yourself time and despair. Go for the new place or newly decorated. It might cost more but it’s an investment in comfort and peace of mind. You want somewhere where you don’t mind coming home. Start doing your homework at least five weeks before you need a new home. Remember there’s a lot of movement in rentals early in the New Year and demand is heavy. Sort the heating issues first. Most rentals specify the heating options. But three weeks into winter we all know a heat pump, log burner or a meaningful electric heater are a prerequisite. Other forms can be messy, expensive or ineffective. You may think your dog’s cute but the landlord probably won’t. A cat is a negotiable thing. A pack of cigarettes in your shirt pocket probably
won’t impress the landlord. Be up front about your vices. Put aside some cash because a new rental doesn’t come cheap. The letting fee could be one weeks rent plus GST, another three or four weeks bond, and one or two weeks in advance. We could be talking $1000$2000. And be prepared to talk through issues with the landlord. Most are reasonable people who want good reliable people looking after their investment.
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PAINTER/DECORATOR Interior and Exterior, quality workmanship friendly services. Over 20 years specialising in residential and more. Quality paint at trade prices. For your best advice in all areas. Ph Shane Mount/Tauranga Decorators 07 544 6495 or 021 575 307 PAINTERS AVAILABLE for immediate start. Interior/exterior. Guaranteed workmanship. For free quotes, Ph Graeme today 022 0466 776 or 07 544 5234 ROOF PAINTING and maintenance. Roofs rescrewed. Waterblasting, moss removal. Free quotes! Ph Mark 543 3670 or 021 0273 8840 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
STUMPINATOR STUMP Grinding free quotes & prompt service. Narrow machine to access rear yards. Ph 576 4245 or 022 076 4245 TREE SHRUB and hedges trimming, topping removal, rubbish removal, palm pruning or removal, satisfaction guaranteed free quote. Ph Steve Hockly 571 5958 or 027 498 18570
A DAY TRIP TO MATINEE shows of Lord of the Dance and also the Musical Cats. Another batch of “A” Reserve seats for the Edinburgh Tattoo. Seats still available for Taranaki Rhododendron Festival. WOW Tour is full. Phone John’s popular door to door Tours. 576 9305
NO.8 TOURS TRAVEL CLUB. Specialists in fully escorted day, extended tours and shows. Mamma Mia Matinee Saturday 27th June - Northland 11th -16th August- NZ’s 1st Land & Tropical Bay of Islands Lord of the Dance Matinee Saturday 22nd AugustArt Deco Napier fine dining & luxury lodges 24th-26th August. Book now tickets are limited and selling fast! Free pick-up, free colour brochure. Ph the No8 Tours team on 579 3981
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venues FOR WEDDINGS, FUNCTIONS OR MEETINGS+ check out No.1 The Strand, a beautiful historic setting. Email: bookings@no1thestrand.co.nz or www.no1thestrand.co.nz
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A DAYS OUTING in Auckland’s Victoria Street Markets , or maybe to Taupo, or Te Puke or Waiheke Island. Phone us for our Travel Guide – Zealandier Tours 575 6425. Email admin@zealandiertours.com
DRIVING MISS DAISY – more than a taxi service! We will attend doctor’s appointments with the client and transmit relevant information back to family, assist with shopping or ensure children safely attend sports practices or music lessons. Safe, friendly, reliable service. Ph Jackie from Driving Miss Daisy 552 6614 2015 CERTIFICATE OF EXCELLENCE Trip-Advisor Winner - Hinterland Tours - Your Local Tour Company. Ph 07 575 8118
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WEDDINGS, PARTIES, MEETINGS etc. With stunning Harbour views, fully licensed bar & kitchen onsite. Restaurant open every Friday from 5pm & Sunday from 4.30pm. Tauranga Fish & Dive Club, 60 Cross Rd, Sulphur Point. Ph 571 8450 or text 027 318 5760 www.tfdc.co.nz
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