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Boating expo berths Combining thrilling on-water displays and exhibitor stalls, the Tauranga Boat Expo and Water Festival is sailing into town this weekend. This pictured Sealegs boat â&#x20AC;&#x201C; an amphibious marine craft which can drive on the land and into the water â&#x20AC;&#x201C; is a limited edition All Blacks themed craft worth more than $180,000. It is one of the attractions and displays taking over The Strand during the expo on November 4-6. For more information about exhibitors and locations, see the centre-spread on pages 26-27. Pictured: Event organiser Tony Hawker, co-organiser and Tauranga Marine Industry Association chairman Brian Kent, Sealegs sales coordinator Carl Russell and former All Black Adrian Cashmore. Photo by Tracy Hardy.

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The news has been breaking all over the place this week. In fact, there’s been so much breaking news that you could say it’s broken beyond repair. The two largest pieces of news breaking were that: 1. Rena didn’t break (at time of writing). 2. Justin Bieber’s voice did. I know this second piece of news is really beyond the realms of breaking news and teeters on the cusp of earth shattering. The whole world let out a collective gasp on hearing that Bieber’s vocal chords had cracked through the puberty barrier and rasped their way into adulthood. The news was gleefully announced on television as if it was the most important thing to happen in show business since the invention of popcorn. Everyone seemed excited and will, in years to come, remember exactly where they were and what they were doing the moment they first heard the news breaking that Justin Bieber’s voice was breaking. Later of course, the conspiracy theorists will try to tell us that the voice breaking was faked by NASA. Except for Ken Ring, who will forecast that Bieber’s voice will break again – and it might be a good time to leave town just in case. Remember, this is the guy who insisted another big quake was going to hit Christchurch in September. Of course he was very close; a big ship hit Tauranga in October.

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In other breaking news, astute reader Tim has popped up on the RR radar with a daring suggestion regarding the museum proposal for Tauranga. This issue has been largely forgotten in the public’s mind in recent times, due to the large amount of more pressing breaking news happening around us.

Tim says that Cliff Road is a silly place for a museum; there isn’t enough parking there now, so what will happen if there’s a museum? Good point Tim, although, Ken Ring is probably forecasting a surprise amount of random parking will occur about the same time. Failing that, the museum committee working on the proposal may have some ideas and we hope to bring you these answers later in another breaking news column. Meanwhile, Tim has suggested that the museum be put into the former Foodtown building, up by 13th Ave, which is currently the base for the Rena crisis management team. Here at RR we think that is an excellent idea to consider and would be pleased to hear readers’ reactions.

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Nobody could predict Justin Bieber’s voice breaking… not even Ken Ring.

In other breaking news, the nation has deftly switched gear from rugby world cup fanaticism to election mode, with some rousing political debate happening. Although, by the look of the polls, it may be a case of not an election campaign, but a Re-election campaign, since Key and co seem so far ahead, the result is something that even Mr Ring has a 90 per cent chance of guessing right. brian@thesun.co.nz

A day in the life of a wildlife responder Wildlife responder Tim Short says it’s never a dull moment on wildlife patrol in the Bay – one day consisting fur seal sightings and the next netting an injured gannet. Tim has been patrolling the coastline since the grounding of the Rena for injured wildlife and says they have collected four birds along the coast

west of Whakatane and Ohope Beach for post mortem. “I netted an injured, but feisty, gannet. As we continued cruising along the coast, this captured gannet almost escaped from its box on the front of the quad bike. “In my haste to put the gannet back in its box and even with gloves on, it managed to snack on my thumb. “I see this as another badge of honour to add to, having my chest been pecked by a little blue penguin one night the previous week.” After returning the birds to the Wildlife Recovery Centre, Tim says they were sent back on the quad to Papamoa East, as three oiled shags were reported at the Kaituna Spit. “However, on the way we came

across a dead pigmy sperm whale that had just beached on the tide. “After getting further assistance from DOC, we used the quad to tow the whale out of the surf for post mortem and burial the next day. “The sun was now very low when called to Maketu, but the reported injured birds couldn’t be found and so ended a 12 hour day.” Tim spent most of the weekend looking for injured or dead wildlife and is thankful he didn’t come across any during his patrols. He says everyone is doing a great job in caring for the injured wildlife found on the region’s beaches. “All the people at the Wildlife Recovery Centre do such an amazing job. “There is great camaraderie.”

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Quick thinking pilot saves ship

A quick thinking Port of Tauranga pilot saved the freighter Schelde Trader from serious damage and the port from a possible disaster on its doorstep. The Schelde Trader’s engine stopped as it was leaving the harbour about midday last Friday. When the engine stopped, the hydraulics failed and the steering was also lost. As the ship began to swing across the current, the pilot gave the command for the man on the bow to let go the port anchor. The anchor slowed the ship enough so that when the Schelde Trader hit the rocks, it was a relatively gentle collision, compared to what could have happened. Without the pilot’s quick actions, the 8000 tonne container ship could have struck the rocks at a much higher speed, causing serious damage to the ship. As it was, she was able to be pulled free on the outgoing tide, only a few minutes after grounding. Harbour pilots are Master Mariners employed by the Port of Tauranga to pilot ships in and

out of the port of Tauranga. It is a centuries old convention that uses local knowledge to ensure the safety of ships as they enter and leave ports around the world. Port of Tauranga pilots train on simulators to practise emergency procedures says port operations manager Nigel Drake. The pilot boarded the Schelde Trader about 10.30am. “The pilot undertakes a passage plan with the master which is normal practice,” says Nigel. “He talks with the master of the vessel about the manoeuvre from the berth, the conditions – both weather and tide prevailing – and any swell that might be encountered in the seas outside the harbour.” A single tug helped clear the ship from the berth and stood by at the No 1 berth for its next job as the Schelde Trader entered the cutter channel. She rounded the turn and was on course to pass between B and C buoys when the engine stopped. The ship lost speed and began to turn to starboard (right) when the pilot onboard gave the command to let go the port anchor. It is normal practice to have a

crewman standing by on the foc’sle (end of the ship where the anchor winches are) until the ship is clear of the harbour. Only three or four minutes elapsed from the engine failure until she grounded, which shows how quickly it happens says Nigel. “The tug, which was waiting for its next job, was called as soon as the engine stopped and arrived shortly after the ship ran aground. “The pilot was able to use the tug to refloat the vessel some nine minutes after the grounding.” There was a minor hole in the ship’s forefoot which was able to be repaired and signed off on to enable the ship to sail for Noumea on Sunday evening. “The port were very quick off the mark,” says Maersk NZ country manager Julian Beavis. “These things do happen very infrequently, but they do and it’s the responsibility of everybody to be trained to deal with incidents when they happen. “Everybody who was involved acted with great despatch and I’m very grateful to the port and everybody down there for what they did.” By Andrew Campbell

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Mowing grass or racing lawn For motorsport enthusiast Adam Pendred, it was a natural progression to start racing lawnmowers – after all, he sells them. Next weekend the Bay of Plenty Lawnmower Racing Club president is joining about 30 others at Omokoroa No 1 School’s annual ride-on mower race day. The competition, which is a drawcard for the school gala day, also doubles as the annual nationals for the quirky motorsport with racers coming from as far as Wellington. From a fun event contesting regular ride-on lawnmowers against each other, school principal Chris Broadhurst has seen the competition grow during the last nine years to become a key event on the calendar. Chris says the day was inspired by parents who had seen ride-on mowers racing overseas and believed it would be a great addition to the annual school gala day. Ride-on enthusiast Adam says the event has

quickly grown into four category classes, to become a more serious challenge that is as much a test of engineering prowess and driving. “You do have to modify them quite a bit – building them up to take the speed that we put them through and putting better brakes on them.” For safety, the modified mowers limit racing speed to 50km/h – but can actually travel at up to 80km/h. Adam says he is always pleased to get to the end of the race track in one piece, saying there are usually a few that breakdown along the way. He has been there many times himself, but with lots of tinkering and modifications he has not had this problem for some time. “It’s just getting out there doing it and having fun. We all say that we are not competitive, but it all changes when that green flag drops.” The ride-on mower day is at Omokoroa No 1 School, Emeny Road, Plummers Point, on Sunday, November 13 from 9.30am-3.30pm. By Hamish Carter

Lawnmower racers Adam Pendred and Barry Dawe tear up the grass. Photo by Bruce Barnard.

Solving problems Tauranga’s future is in good hands if the success at a school problem solving competition is any indication. Students from the Western Bay of Plenty took first (Greenpark School) and third place (Tauranga Primary School) in the national primary teams competition, while Otumoetai Intermediate School’s Kate Lowe won the individual junior division. Greenpark School teacher and team coach Lynne Mossop says it was great to see the local students do so well in the programme, which encourages creative and critical thinking skills to come up with positive solutions to future problem scenarios. Competitors in the Future Problem Solving event are given a subject – in this case genetic testing – to research ahead. At the competition they are given a detailed scenario to grapple with, identify underlying problems and create solutions in a written report within two hours and then present their findings. She says her students were excited to win and it was great to see Tauranga schools doing well. By Hamish Carter

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Class made for video

Maungatapu School video stars from left, teacher Kate Rhodes, Kylen James, Oceana Wikarau, Mikaia Pene, Rylee Gaskill-Magee and Ben Barrett on the camera in front of the special effects green screen. Photo by Bruce Barnard.

Movie-making is helping bring education to life in primary and intermediate school classes as part of a national competition organised by a group of teachers from a Tauranga school. The annual Noel Leeming (Movie And Digital Excellence) Awards are encouraging teachers and students to celebrate their learning throughout the year with a wider audience. Next week, classes from across the country will compete with almost 500 entries, vying for the awards that include iPads among

the prizes. Awards committee member and teacher Rachel McLaughlan got involved in the organisation of the event after her Selwyn Ridge class took part in the first MADE Awards. “It’s really about engaging with the kids and making learning fun. You ask them to do a written report or a video on the subject and the difference in their interest is huge.” Maungatapu School teacher first-year Kate Rhodes says her Year 2 pupils, who are in the running for five awards, have loved making the videos as part of their English and music curriculum. The video was shot against a green screen to allow special effects editing.

“It definitely engages the student’s interest a lot more. “As soon as I started teaching this year I thought what a cool way to engage the students and motivate them and make it fun and involve literacy, with a bit of drama, a bit of music and ICT all rolled into one.” The awards – which feature a number of Bay of Plenty schools – are being supported by Weta Workshop which is judging the supreme award. The MADE Awards Ceremony will be held at Baycourt Theatre on Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 7pm with actor Kimberley Crossman event MC. Tickets $9 from TicketDirect. By Hamish Carter

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Waterfront watered down Elected members considered some interesting issues at full council last week. The proposed Waterfront Project Proposal of $20 million has been watered down to a more palatable $625,000. This will see most of the parking removed from the downtown reclamation in favour of a people friendly environment with a water edge boardwalk. Council has fiddled with this area for over 20 years and it’s never really gelled has it? It could be that the railway is an unnatural barrier, or perhaps with the prevailing wind, those sou’westers, just make the area too exposed. Or maybe you couldn’t see the water for the cars.

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After five attempts, council, by majority vote, finally closed the accessway between Sapphire Drive and Harrisfield Drive at Ohauiti. Originally intended to provide pedestrian access to a planned school that will now not eventuate, this accessway was seen by some residents as a centre point and escape route for local ne’er do wells. It has been closed for six months as a trial and during that time reported crime has stopped. Name Address Phone Email

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Another long delayed project, the replacement of the 600 ton slip at Sulphur Point is back on the drawing board with elected members conceding that the sale of some of the Harbour Central waterfront land is necessary to provide capital for a boat haling facility to cater for larger vessels. It won’t be 600 tons. The 600 ton slipway was removed to make way for the new harbour bridge and should have been replaced way before this.

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Sydenham Botanic Park at Brookfield will have another try at a community charitable trust to run it. Council’s role in this is to facilitate the project and ratepayers will continue to pay about $20,000 a year to help maintain it. A rundown building at Cliff Road got another stay of execution. It’s the old pavilion on the old netball courts and is used by user groups; it leaks and is in disrepair. Costs to do a basic upgrade: $20-30,000 and $16,000 to demolish it. The inevitable was delayed again?

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has eventuated without a proper business plan was irresponsible. Even with a business plan it would be outrageous given the carnivorous appetite for money that motor racing generates.

Tauranga V8s appeared good

When Auckland gave up on its plans to stage the V8s in 2006 Mayor Stuart Crosby and I discussed the possibility of offering Tauranga as a venue. It looked good at first view. Ship pools up at Wharf, V8s unloaded, cars race around Takitimu Drive/Cameron Road/Dive Crescent. Pits on waterfront. Great. So we rang Tony Cochrane in Australia who was running the V8 supercar business. Fine, he was interested and if we would just pop a cheque in the mail for $7 million we could commence business. Yeah right! I thought we were doing the V8s the favour! Subsequently I was surprised when Hamilton went into it and thought I may have missed something. As it turned out all we missed out on is a huge financial debacle that Hamilton ratepayers now have to pay for. Reports of the amount are unclear but seem to be over $37 million. Wow! The reason I mention this is that it’s easy for elected members and staff to get carried away with over enthusiasm on other people’s money. The ‘opium’ syndrome I call it. There are plenty of examples that have been experienced locally, but not to the extent of this example, at least not for one single event.

Too much meddling

Another travesty of democracy raised its head in Auckland this week. For years now I have railed against aspects of town planning and urban design including the increasingly petty and subjective rules invented by professional planners and endorsed by compliant and agreeable elected members. Urban design has the potential to totally control where you live and how you live. All in your best interests – of course. As if you can’t decide for yourself! Fences not allowed in certain situations – for CIPTED reasons (Crime Prevention). Euphemistically I have stated that next they will be prescribing what door knobs you will have. Well, in Auckland Council they prescribe in the West Coast Area Policy what colour your house will be. Green, black or brown is okay, but not white. Julie Cotton has had an ongoing battle, now resolved, if she repaints her 100 year old white house in cream. The house had been shifted from Epsom where white was okay. The pointy headed bureaucracy got the last laugh though. She has to repaint it within one month. Take warning – Tauranga and Western Bay may not be that far away from this communist state police like activity. In my view this sort of rule is outrageous and evidence of New Zealand descending further into Nanny State. Dumbing down the population and forced compliance of ‘the greater good’ nonsense rules belong with Stalin, Hitler and Mao.

This week’s mindbender from Steve Jobs, Apple Computer founder on attempts to get Atari and HP interested in his personal computer. “So we went to Atari and said ‘hey we’ve got this amazing thing, even built with your parts and what do you think about funding us? Or we’ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary we’ll come work for you. And they said No! So we went to Hewlett Packard and they said ‘hey we don’t need you. You haven’t got through college yet.’” From which you could learn you are never beaten until you give up!

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Dress-ups for every occasion With hundreds of top quality items, the 16th Avenue Theatre is selling off more than just costumes for a fancy dress party says coordinator Vera Prince.

Zumba + halloween = fun Hiria Te Amo’s Zumba groups leap about three times a week in the Te Puke Memorial Hall. Zumba is a great physical workout, good company and lots of laughs. When you also add Halloween into the mix, it’s nothing short of hilarious.

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Wardrobe assistant Vera Prince and wardrobe manager Barbara Webb. Photo by Tracy Hardy. two hand prints painted on the and making more than $2000 bum of the pants,” says Vera. each year for the theatre. There will also be a selection of With everything reasonwigs, handbags, books and fabric ably priced, there are a range of costumes with many made specifi- on sale also. The garage sale is from 9amcally for productions. noon in the Green Room at the “One year we had a jacket with theatre. two paint stripes down it for a By Laura Weaser particular scene and another had

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Police operation has kids on the case School students are set to get a fresh look at Operation SNAP as Constable Bryan and his friend Bobby tour schools in Tauranga talking about how children can keep themselves safe. The pair delivers safety messages through a fun and interactive show and has even appeared on TV3 and TV4. Tauranga South Police Senior Constable Leanne Fairbairn says Bryan and Bobby, introduced to New Zealand children in 2005, work in association with the community policing initiative Bluelight. The goal of Bluelight is to reduce youth crime and to build positive police, youth and community partnerships. “This is done by providing young people with a range of well organised and well supervised cultural, sporting, educational, social and entertainment programmes free from alcohol, drugs and violence,” says Leanne. “Bryan and Bobby will be visiting a number of local schools throughout the Western Bay of Plenty and will also be at Bayfair shopping centre on Monday, November 7 at 4pm outside Farmers, where they will explain the SNAP programme and be available for photos and autographs.” Operation SNAP encourages children to look for and record serial numbers on electronic items. Leanne says Bryan explains to kids why this is important and how they can help themselves and the police stop crime by getting their parents and caregivers on board.

“SNAP stands for Serial Number Action Partnership which is an initiative created by police many years ago and re-launched in the Waikato area in 2010,” says Leanne. “Operation SNAP has created a website www.snap. org.nz. This is an easy to use site into which people can record their serial numbers and upload photos of their goods. This assists police in three ways; it enables quick and easy retrieval of serial numbers by owners when reporting lost or stolen property to police, it enhances the police National Intelligence Application (NIA) and it assists in the recovery of stolen goods and the identifying of offenders.” By Letitia Atkinson

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Catering to pet dietary needs Overnight success has been a long time coming for Mount Maunganui global pet food manufacturer ZiwiPeak.

“Fifteen years experience in the pet food industry had taught them the type of food cats and dogs should be eating was not being sold by the other brands,” says Nigel. With other pet foods bulked up with rice and grains – which cannot be digested by cats and has no nutritional value for dogs – there was an opportunity to focus on quality meat they would have lived off in the wild. “We are manufacturing what their digestive system is designed for – it’s as simple as that. They thrive on it.” Keeping a laser focus on the business point of difference has propelled ZiwiPeak on a rapid growth path, with sales growing 55 per cent every year. The sales growth, which now sees 97 per cent of product exported, has required two factory expansions. In retrospect, their success may seem simple, but the biggest challenge was getting from a smart idea ZiwiPeak director Nigel Woodd says focusing on creating pet to reality. “It took two to three years of trial food from top local ingredients, tailored to the nutritional and error, lots of time and money requirements of cats and dogs like and lots of grey hair,” says Nigel. Cruise (the big dog) has been a “There was self-doubt and frustrations, but we kept focussed on the successful formula for the Mount global market.” Maunganui company.

After 15 years trading commodity ingredients to global pet food manufacturers, the founders of ZiwiPeak Peter and Kimberly Mitchell realised they would always struggle to build a longterm business unless they added value. About eight years ago they began thinking how they could leverage off their pet food industry insights to create a high end product tailored to pet dietary requirements from New Zealand’s quality ingredients. Knowing nutrients are lost when pet food is processed, Peter and Kimberly looked to the Italian tradition of air-drying salamis to find a way to dry fresh meat at a low temperature to retain the goodness. Nobody had done it before with pet food, but that made them even more determined to find a way. Business partner Nigel Woodd invested in the business five years ago after Peter and Kimberly laid the foundations for a successful global premium pet food brand.

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The ravelling vines of disaster Pressure is on banks as the depth of the disaster facing the kiwifruit industry is becoming clearer. Formerly considered a good investment for banks, kiwifruit is now high risk with more than 500 orchards confirmed with Psa-V. Sales have stalled and Psa-affected orchardists are looking at severely reduced incomes next year. A Gold kiwifruit orchard that would have valued at $450,000 per canopy hectare last season is now worth about $60,000 to $80,000 per canopy hectare. The expectation is the first bank to foreclose on a Psa-V infected orchard will set off an avalanche. But the banks can’t afford to behave like they did in the early 1990s kiwifruit crisis because some of the banks are also exposed.

If the banks start foreclosing on defaulting orchardists they could trigger a general walkout, leaving the banks holding huge liabilities; orchards that won’t grow a crop, on parcels of land too small and uneconomic to convert to other use without considerable financial assistance. The ripples are spreading through the post harvest sector as packhouse operators reassess requirements. In September, Seeka Kiwifruit Industries made a voluntary redundancy offer to staff. The Te Puke based packhouse handles 20 per cent of the national kiwifruit crop. Katikati-based packhouse Apata is also looking at its structure to meet the expected reduced demands from the kiwifruit industry “Like growers, we are all bound up in dealing with the issue of Psa and we are trying to get an

understanding of what the impact on growers crops are because that has a direct impact on our businesses,” says Apata chief executive Steve Low. Apata is currently processing a record avocado crop, which Steve says “keeps all our key staff together”. “But we remain extremely concerned about the continued impact of Psa and its wider impacts on the community. It’s not just growers, it’s everyone that supports the industry – and that’s all the ancillary businesses. It’s pretty devastating. “I’m just not seeing that our community leaders have really picked up on all that yet. To be fair, as spring’s happening, we are seeing the extent or some of the effects of Psa and there is going to be a material affect on the economy.” By Andrew Campbell

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Youngest on the whistle Former Bay of Plenty referee Nic van der Salm made his A-League debut when the Wellington Phoenix played Melbourne Victory at Westpac Stadium. Nic grew up in the Bay of Plenty, played football for Papamoa FC and cut his teeth as a referee on the pitches throughout the region before moving to Auckland for work. In 2010, at the age of 24 he became a FIFA assistant referee – the youngest ever New Zealand official to reach the highest level of the game.

Set for roller derby action: Joyce Mahe ‘Pegasus’, Mandy Burrell ‘Mad Assassin’, Beth Henderson ‘Blaze a Haze’ and Roni Diamond ‘Crash Candy Boot’. Photo by Bruce Barnard.

Almost 18 months on since roller derby began in Tauranga, the city is hosting its first competitive bout in the national league on Saturday. After months of intensive training and practise, Mount Militia Club had its first team ‘Dangerous Curves’ approved to compete in the national league in mid-year, playing its first away game in August. Club chairwoman Roni Diamond – who goes by the player name ‘Crash Candy Boot’ – says they have had a good start in the league, winning all three of its away games to date. She is excited about hosting their first home game on Saturday when they play ‘Hell’s Wives’ from Whangarei. “They have been playing about a year longer than we have – they’ve played a lot of games, so it’s going to be a tough game – but we are feeling pretty confident in ourselves.” Roni believes the club has a strong future, with a

core crew of 45 players training twice a week and regularly watching American derby games on the Internet for inspiration. “We discuss what we’ve seen and whether we can use their plays.” The club recently held another training programme to introduce new players to the game and have just had another 12 pass their skills test which enables the club to have a new team competing in the league from January. Roni says they have had “awesome support” in Tauranga and the Mount and is hoping for lots of supporters at the game. The club aims to start another five month intensive training course for new players in February. “You always start coming and thinking I will just come and have a roller skate thinking it will be just a leisure thing. Then you get sucked right into it because you love it.” The derby game is at Tauranga’s Queen Elizabeth Youth Centre on Saturday, November 5 from 7pm.

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It is as an assistant referee Nic is specialising as and this is the role he will be fulfilling in Wellington, in what he hopes will be his first of many A-League appearances. Nic referees in the Northern Regional Football League during the winter and recently ran the line in the first round ASB Premiership match between Waikato FC and Auckland City. The experience gained from his international debut in the All Whites versus Honduras match will also stand the talented young assistant referee in good stead.

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Calls for return to Crown ownership

Coastal Coalition supporter June Kidd collecting signatures outside The Warehouse Fraser Cove.

A group of Tauranga residents are trying to get the government to reverse its decision on ownership of the foreshore and seabed. Tony Fellingham, along with other members of the Coastal Coalition group, is gathering signatures in a bid to get the policy reversed and ownership returned to the Crown. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Coastal Coalition was formed around a year ago and is preparing a Citizens Initiative Referendum,â&#x20AC;? says Tony. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is preparatory to the changes that National was proposing to the foreshore and seabed act.â&#x20AC;? Tony says with the changes to the policy, the foreshore and seabed is really

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Tauranga gets sustainable source Karen Summerhays has been working tirelessly for three years, all for a good glass of water.

Not for profit, The Hydrohub will be immediately deployed into the community, with just a gold or silver coin asked as a donation for water. A portion of these donations will go back to the Tauranga Environment Horrified to see how much waste was Centre, but The Hydrohub can also be being created used by other at events with charitable the public organisations consuming to raise funds water from at events. plastic bottles, The unit is Karen had solar powered, a vision of with a carrya multi-use, ing capacity portable, susof 750 litres tainable water and can be dispensing connected to unit. most water Her brainsystems. It child, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The can deliver Hydrohubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, 20 litres of was unveiled filtered water on Friday Rob Egan, Karen Summerhays and Mike Dorset. per minute last week and water is dispensed into reusable during the Real Tauranga Festival to a bottles or compostable cups. gathering of all those who have been It is designed to encourage people involved with the project. to be more responsible in their use of Bringing Karenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vision to life hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t water and raise awareness about waste. been easy â&#x20AC;&#x201C; with the project almost â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m so proud that the community stopping in its tracks several times due came together to see this vision come to a lack of funding. to fruition and into service,â&#x20AC;? says The Christchurch earthquakes, how- Karen. ever, hit home the need for a unit like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now a community asset and I The Hydrohub in disaster relief and hope other districts can take advantage Civil Defence came to the rescue with of the design.â&#x20AC;? a sizeable sponsorship cheque. The Hydrohub already has a number Karen, with her fellow trustees of the of bookings and any interested parties Sustainable Endeavours Charitable are encouraged to get in touch with Trust, Rob Egan and Mike Dorset, has the Tauranga Environment Centre, now handed over the unit for manage- phone 07 578 6664. ment by the Tauranga Environment By Hannah Keys Centre.

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School business winners to nationals A crowd of more than 70 students, business mentors, teachers and family supporters felt the tension on Wednesday night at the closelycontested Bay of Plenty Coromandel Young Enterprise Scheme (YES) Financial Independence Regional Awards. The evening was the business highlight of the year for many of the students, as three of the local colleges learned they would be sending students to the black-tie National Awards dinner in Wellington, in front of YES Patron and Governor General Jerry Matehaere. The three winners were NZ spirit from Tauranga Boys’ College; Wrap-it‘s Drisana Sheely, from Tauranga Girls’ College; and Grant’s Grindz from Otumoetai College.

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Regional YES coordinator Ewan McLeod of McLeod Careers says he is excited for the three teams.

fun that you’ve had and your experiences in dealing with the challenges that you have faced. I wish I had been involved in a programme like this when I was at secondary school.” The Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme has been operating for 30 years as a year-long secondary school national business competition and has an estimated 50,000 NZ alumni scattered throughout the world.

The Tauranga City Council has cancelled the display planned for Saturday’s speedway races to protect the 403 birds being cared for at the neighbouring Wildlife Response Centre from the impact of the fireworks noise. Oiled Wildlife Response team manager Kerri Morgan says the sharp bangs let off from fireworks can make the birds frightened and cause them to injure themselves. The centre has been set up in Te Maunga less than 500m from the

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Team Grant’s Grindz from Otumoetai College. “I’m so proud of these three local YES teams who have produced some outstanding work. “This is the first year, I believe, that three teams and their YES teachers will be representing our region at the December 1 blue ribbon event, with thousands of dollars in prizes at stake, along with national recognition.” Premier sponsor Phil Holland from Financial Independence says it is a great event for Financial Independence to be associated with. “I congratulate the teams, YES teachers, mentors and family supporters for all the hard work that you have put into your businesses in 2011. “This evening celebrates your efforts – the

Team Juice Co from Te Puke High School. For more information about the Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme’s alumni programme visit www.yetrust.co.nz or phone Ewan 07 578 8147 if you have a good story to tell or you want to offer your business experience as a YES mentor. Authorised by Simon Bridges MP, 184 Devonport Rd, Tauranga

Baypark fireworks display a fizzer The cancellation of Tauranga’s biggest public fireworks displays at Baypark leaves limited options for those wanting to enjoy a major Guy Fawkes event.

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speedway to handle oiled wildlife harmed or at-risk from the oil leak from Rena. While the racing will go ahead at Baypark on Saturday, those wanting to enjoy a major fireworks display have been left with few options because of a clampdown by community event organisers to limit attendants. Bethlehem College’s annual fireworks display, which is expected to attract 3000, is only open to family and friends of the school, with no gate sales on the night. St Mary’s School fireworks organiser Lee-Ann Taylor is expecting 5000 to attend the annual gala fundraiser event, but says young people aged under 18 years will only be admitted as part of a family group.

Lee-Ann says the school’s display, which is being put on by those who did the display over Auckland harbour for the Rugby World Cup opening, will include special Kiwi and Pohutakawa flower fireworks. “We have put the family-focus back into the gala event,” says Lee-Ann. “We have got rid of all the big rides and have brought back a lot of affordable family fun with activities organised by our Year 5s.” The Year 5 pupils have all organised their own fundraising stalls – such as rugby kicking competitions, cup cake decorating or target shooting. Money raised from the St Mary’s event is going to a new playground and shade sails. By Hamish Carter

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Here we go again – same situation, more questions Another boat on our rocks and more of the same prevarication from our government.

hit this time. She came to Tauranga from Auckland to take on bunker oil before heading for Noumea. Curious, as most of us wouldn’t go to Rotorua for fuel when on the way to Auckland. But apparently ships do that quite regularly. At least the mayor had the grace to wonder if there was something wrong with our coastal shipping management and to ‘demand

The Schelde Trader, an 8000 tonne general cargo vessel, hit the North rocks off Mauao last week. Why, given that the pilot was actually aboard this time? Answer: loss of power and therefore loss of steerage. At least it was a gentle

answers’. Those answers were along the lines of: “This sort of thing happens quite regularly.” “It’s no big deal. There was no mess, so why the fuss.” “This was different, because... (you fill in the gaps here).” Just when will those in charge of coastal shipping actually address the causes of these accidents?

The solution to changing times in communities The bastardisation of the word ‘community’ in local government politics could be the reason for the current dislocation of our communities from our nominal leaders. After my reporting on recession in the last two weeks, my promise of a suggestion for a way forward for our communities doesn’t need any great explanation or complex theory. Our next move as

a community is quite simple. Societies evolved from family groups to nomadic tribes on to settled communities. The basic rules of any settled community, town or village does not change and doesn’t need to be taught. No matter what calamity threatens a community, the people gather round for mutual support and protection.

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A first-hand perspective from inside the Rena ICC For the last couple of weeks I have been privileged to be working inside the Incident Command Centre for the Rena.

I say privileged because it really is amazing to see so many people, from so many different walks of life (and counties) working in a focused, yet collaborative way to try to restore and minimise the damage that this grounding is causing to our

environment. The salvors really are the heros. They are working aboard this stricken ship risking their lives every minute as she continually bellows out her death groans, as she slowly, but surely tears her self apart. This ship will break in half. It is just a

question of when and not if and as I write this we are all now on high alert as the weather turns bad and the swell rises.

Paperless pilot targets productivity of the councillors Many trees are felled to generate the agendas and reports that are produced by the Bay of Plenty Regional Council and sent out to councillors.

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Correcting war memorials Local historian and genealogist/ family historian Christine Clement and RSA historian Ernie Dix have been working for a number of years on Te Puke and District’s First World War memorial on the Memorial Hall doorway. “We were working independently from each other at first, but a chance conversation with Alan Cotter found us working on the same project,” says Christine. “We quickly got together and swapped our findings.” Christine’s interest began when she

noticed the Te Puke war memorial must be the only town in New Zealand where the Second World War memorial has more names than the First. By matching names from the other Te Puke memorials at Pongakawa School gates, Te Puke School gates, Te Matai School gates and St John’s Anglican Church with the district memorial at the War Memorial Hall, it was soon found that there were names missing. Christine says the district roll for the First World War was not erected until the early 1960s, by which time many of the names of the fallen had been forgotten and families had died or moved on. Using records available, Ernie and Christine have uncovered 49 names miss-

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ing from the memorial, making a total of 68 local men who died from various causes. The current memorial has 22 names, but includes three men who had survived the war and were possibly at the unveiling. A new war memorial would include five sets of brothers; Boucher, Dickey, Foster, Hughes and Nicholls and three known sets of cousin’s; Tapsell, TeMoni and Vercoe/Boucher. It would also include Jocelyn BoormanTrigg who was born onboard the Lady Jocelyn shortly before arriving in Tauranga. Prices have been received for a new memorial and plans are being made to have it unveiled during the ANZAC Day service at the hall on April 25, 2012. The granite plaque is to be fastened to the Te Puke War Memorial Hall. If you wish to make a donation please contact Christine Clement or post them to the Te Puke Memorial Hall office at 130 Jellicoe Street.

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The start of fireworks sales this year for Guy Fawkes on November 5 is partnered with a safety message from Environment and ACC Minister Nick Smith. “I want people to enjoy Guy Fawkes and fireworks but to do so responsibly to avoid injury, damage to property and harm to animals,” says Nick. “I particularly want to encourage people to attend professional public displays that carry the least risk. “If people are using fireworks at home I

urge them to follow instructions carefully, always have a bucket of water close at hand, make sure children are supervised and keep

‘Penguin Hilton’ in business

Life’s just fine for the 320 residents of the ‘Penguin Hilton’ over at Te Maunga. Oiled Wildlife Centre manager Brett Gartrell says the penguins are being cared for as if they were staying at a Hilton. After going through the oil removal process the little blue penguins are settling in and getting used to their accommodation. The newbies, who are still in recovery, get to swim in a pool every day, but the birds whose feathers have largely regained their waterproofing get to live in the enclosures. They hang out by the pool all day, they get fed, and the staff bring in upturned fish bins for the birds to roost under at night. Brett says when leaving at night, centre staff hear the penguins talking and they are still talking when they arrive back in the morning. The centre has collected 1300 dead birds, stored in a reefer container awaiting post mortems. They have 320 live penguins, and 10 died after arriving at the centre.

Conditions ease around Rena Sea conditions around the stricken cargo ship Rena on Astrolabe Reef have eased on Thursday with salvors expected to re-board the ship this morning. Salvage teams were removed from the ship overnight after spending yesterday inspecting the safety of the vessel following a period of

Comment of the Week: By user tracybjammet about the cancellation of the Guy Fawkes fireworks display at Baypark: “The cancelling of one or two fireworks shows to help out the birds is no big deal. “Yes ban the sale of fireworks and it’s time for Guy Fawkes to go, but then like other places we can have controlled shows for the public family evenings around the waterfront maybe. Let’s have a community and just get out in the real world and have fun fireworks – controlled, people out and about and spending money.” Not the News of the Week: “After a dreadful year of earthquakes, recession and shipwrecks, public spirits have been lifted by a combination of the All Blacks victory and the start of election campaigning. In hard times, nothing lifts the collective heartbeat of the nation more than seeing our esteemed leaders debating the issues of the day for several weeks.” Read this Not the News in full at www.sunlive.co.nz

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pets inside. “Four years ago the government tightened the laws for fireworks in response to concerns from the police, Fire Service and the SPCA. “The sales period was limited to the four days before 5 November, the legal purchase age was raised to 18 and noise was limited to 90 decibels. “These tighter rules have resulted in ACC injury claims from fireworks dropping 40 per cent from 461 to 27 – that is welcomed, but 275 injuries are still too many.

high seas and rough weather on Monday and Tuesday. Conditions around the reef located 25 kilometres from Tauranga have improved, with sea swells of between 15 to 20 knots and up to two metre swells. Maritime New Zealand says an observation flight has confirmed there is no change in the ship’s condition overnight. The forecast today is for moderate to strong winds, with some further bad weather due to come through on Friday. MNZ salvage unit manager Bruce Anderson says the salvage team will continue to take advantage of the relatively calm weather.

Surgeries volume increase in Bay

The Bay of Plenty District Health Board is boasting an improvement in access to elective surgery by conducting more surgeries than planned in the last year. Bay of Plenty District Health Board chairperson Sally Webb says the performance was lifted to 104 per cent of target achieving 357 more surgeries than planned. “This attributed to our total of 8714 people provided with elective surgery. “During the fourth quarter, we also lifted our ranking Health Target from 14th to ninth place in the country.” She says part of the increase is attributable to improved access to surgery provided through more patients going to Whakatane for their operations. “We have increased operations performed in the Eastern Bay of Plenty from 404 operations per year in June 2008 to 585 in June 2011.”

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Understand your website audience Invariably a successful website starts with the end in mind. That means two things. Firstly, you should know your primary objective and make sure your website stays true to that objective. For most businesses the end goal will be to either generate sales or generate enquiries and a successful website will feature various ‘calls to action’ to help it achieve the desired objective. The second ‘end in mind’ refers to the end user and the experience you want to give them. In other words, who is the target audience and what’s going to get them to stay on the website and take the

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following the same criteria, but worth $1000. Applications are sought from tertiary students who have completed at least one year’s study in subjects of their choice, at the institution of their choice and who intend to continue their studies in their chosen ﬁeld. Students must have been residents of the Omokoroa area comprising the Omokoroa Peninsula, Plummers Point, Whakamarama, Pahoia and Esdaile Road (up to and including Tim Road, but not Wainui South Road) for three years and attended a local secondary school for at least three years. A selection committee will review the applications, interview selected candidates on Saturday 28 January 2012, determine the recipients, and notify the winners. If a large ﬁeld applies then a smaller group will be selected for interview. Requests for application forms must be made by December 1 2011 with completed applications required by 8th December 2011. Contact Marc Ulyatt on 548-2474 or preferably email marc.ulyatt@ihug.co.nz

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Becoming an office professional Ivy Ormsby thought she knew her way around a computer, until she studied business administration.

Graduating from Bay of Plenty Polytechnic with a National Certificate in Business Administration and Computing Level 3 in 2010, Ivy is now working as an administrative internship for the Polytechnic. The 17 week programme gave her the skills to prepare her for this administrative role.

Ivy now has the confidence and skills to prepare business letters, formal business writing, use Microsoft applications, computerising accounting, designing Power-Point presentations and completing other administrative duties. Ivy says the programme gave her a real boost to her confidence and set her up with skills to become a valuable employee.

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Starting your own business Q: I am looking at starting up a business. Do I need to register before I start? A: Yes it is wise to register your intention to begin business rather than find out after having traded for a year that you have missed claiming certain advantages just because you never registered. If you form a company, there are a number of formal steps required. But even if you start as a sole trader, you should contact the Inland Revenue Department so that they can record you as being self-employed. The reasons for this are as follows: To register for accident cover. Inland Revenue will in turn notify ACC to provide you with the appropriate cover. Otherwise, if you have an accident, you may not have your claim accepted from the date you say you went into business. To help you with your claims for business expenses.

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Spring activities Spring has always been my favourite season even as a young child. There is something magical about the blooming of spring bulbs, the blossom of fruit trees, the increasingly warmer temperatures and the feeling of increased euphoria as it becomes easier to spend more time outdoors.

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Spring is a great time to introduce or reinforce life skill activities with children that will (hopefully) engage their interests. Spring cleaning is one of these important life skill activities which introduce self care for both yourself and the environment you are living in. Working on them together as a family also develops a child’s sense of belonging and self worth when tasks are completed that they have helped with. Spring cleaning doesn’t have to be a chore – there are lots of ways to make it a fun and healthy activity. Spring is an opportunity to go through all of the toys and give them a jolly good scrub – setting up a tub in the backyard with lots (and lots) of soap suds and a scrubbing brush brings hours of fun getting everything clean again. If plastic toys are particularly stained, try putting them through the dishwasher, it’s amazing how much it can restore them like

new. White vinegar and baking soda are also great cleaners that don’t cost the earth. Beating the rugs with rolled up newspaper bats is another fun activity and it’s amazing just how much pent up energy it gets rid of. If you aren’t too worried about smear marks children also love to help wash windows – especially if they get to use the hose afterwards to rinse them off – making sure it’s a sunny day and lots of spare clothes on hand is also useful.

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Cleaning out the pantry and wiping down the shelves is an opportunity to explore maths and physics through talking about colour, shape, size, forming sets, associating and exploring the purpose of the ingredients or objects stored in the pantry. This can lead on to shopping expeditions, cooking activities or as one educator found recently, an exploration into how plastic is made which then lead on

to a recycling project. Children can take you on amazing journeys once you tap into their interests. Spring is a great time to undertake decluttering after a winter spent indoors. This is the time to really look at the toys, art supplies, games etc to find all the broken and missing parts, decide which supplies need stocking up and replacing. Store or give away games/toys that the children have outgrown. It may be a time to reorganise the workspace the children use for their play, perhaps getting some storage boxes for the smaller items that up till now have lived on the floor or (if they are anything like my own children when younger) kicked under the bed. If you’re lucky, that black hole that the “one” sock disappears into might even be found. Next Week: Spring Benjamin enjoys a day outside gardening with children. lending a hand with planting.

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Stories wanted for audio books Hyundai are looking for the best children’s tales to make for easy listening, audio books to keep the kids entertained.

The children’s stories will be recorded by their voice talent and downloaded from their website to be played in cars on long journeys. The theme is entirely up to you. It’s important to make it as lively as possible, something that will really capture a bored child’s imagination – so keep descriptions to a minimum and explore characters that really come to life. Think fun, humour and attention-grabbing – something that’ll stop a child from saying ‘are we there yet?’ You should write whatever suits the story, so first-person, third are all are options, but treat it as prose and not a script format. Hyundai want to offer stories of different

The main thing is to make sure every word deserves its place. Send your story/stories as separate word documents to talltalesandshortstories@hotmail.com with your name on each, to have the chance to get your story recorded in November.

Got a child friendly story for travel? Share your story and have it played in the car. on the page. lengths, so length-wise is at your discretion. The age range is two to eight years old, but they are also looking for stories from The main thing to do is time yourself a few hundred words to longer for the reading the story out loud – get a feel for older end of the age range. rhythm and story in audio form, not just

Gate Pa community day out this Saturday Meet your neighbours and experience the cultural and services available in the Tauranga community at the annual Gate Pa community day. Free to attend, this event is designed to showcase the community and the people in it.

There are performances including a kung fu display, recycling teenagers and a Capoeira display. Service such as Argos gym, Sport BOP and Rocket bikes are on site, as well as the Tauranga police to talk about

neighbourhood safety. Organised by a couple of keen mothers from Gate Pa school Maxine and Gail, there is scheduled to be up to 30 stalls, as well as food available for purchase. All proceeds go to Gate Pa School.

Simon Bridges is opening the day and councillor Bill Grainger is putting himself up for a good dunking on the dunking machine. Head down to Gate Pa School on Cameron Road on Saturday, November 5 from 10am until 2pm.

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Students building support platforms A ski lodge and a prostate cancer charity as part of a learning environment?

It sounds unlikely, but Bay of Plenty Polytechnic’s Certificate in Carpentry programme includes all of this and more – continuing to provide value for students by giving them real-life industry related experience. In February, three carpentry classes of 18 students started building a house each. One of the buildings is to be used as a new lodge for the Tauranga Ski Club and will soon be transported to National Park. Another building is being auctioned this weekend with some of the proceeds going to support prostate cancer charity, Blue September. All of the Polytechnic’s carpentry programmes are well recognised and supported by local industry. This is evidenced by the Polytechnic’s strong relationship with local building supplier Placemakers who is working with the Polytechnic team on the Blue September project. “The students have really benefited from our industry links,” says Polytechnic group leader Brian Dillon. “They’ve received so much support and experience over the last 12 months making their chances of employment all the greater. “It’s the perfect lead-in for them into our apprenticeship training programme.” The apprenticeship programme allows students to

Bay of Plenty Polytechnic students have worked on many hands-on community projects, including the Blue September Charity House.

be employed by a builder and, while under careful guidance from experienced tutors, they work towards national qualifications while getting the benefits of being a student while working. The Blue September Charity House auction takes place this Saturday, November 5 at 1pm on-site at the Polytechnic’s Windermere Campus. For more information, please visit www.boppoly.ac.nz

Detailed picture of Rena oil emerging Scientists at the University of Waikato are working to understanding the chemical composition of the fuel oil aboard the stricken container ship Rena. Professor Alistair Wilkins from the university’s chemistry department has examined oil from the ship’s tanks, from surface slicks and from ‘tar balls’ found on the Mount Maunganui beach.

“Oil from the Rena grounding contains polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon compounds (PAHs), which are known to be harmful to humans and wildlife,” says Professor Wilkins. The levels of these compounds will likely determine when it is safe to eat shellfish and other marine species again. “These hydrocarbon compounds are the same as those found in fuel oils from around the world, but we have yet to determine how much

of each compound is present in the Rena oil.” All of the samples collected contain similar substances to those found in diesel fuel bought from the pump, but the proportions of different sized compounds in the mixture is different with Rena oil containing a greater proportion of larger compounds than diesel fuel. It is these large compounds that cause the fuel oil to have the consistency of Vegemite at room temperature.

When the oil from the ship enters the water, the smaller, lighter compounds begin to evaporate rather like paint drying and the end result is a tarry solid such as that seen deposited on the beach. Once on the beach, weathering and bacterial action will slowly degrade these deposits, but it’s not easy to predict how long this will take. Compounds have also been seen in the oil which may make it possible to distinguish Rena oil from local sources of oil using hydrocarbon ‘fingerprinting’ techniques. University of Waikato scientists will continue detailed analysis of the oil and it is expected this information will assist researchers that are already studying the effects of the spill on the coastal environment. The University of Waikato has been heavily involved since the Rena ran aground on the Astrolabe Reef earlier this month. The chair in Coastal Science Professor Chris Battershill, other University of Waikato scientists, PhD students and student volunteers have all been involved from the outset.

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Students Francis Puha, Dawn Morris, Shontal James, Jasmine Coote, Ariana Campbell-Edgar, and Darlena Stewart. Photo by Bruce Barnard. the other providers,” says Donna. They receive The National Cer“We love it when our students tificate in Salon Support Level 3 on refer other students to us. We care completion of their study at Hair to for our students and have created a Train in Mount Maunganui. real family culture. The Certificate in Elementary Hairdressing Level 3 and The Cer“If our students graduate from tificate in Intermediate Hairdressing Hair to Train and go into employLevel 4 are delivered at the Anson St ment this puts us in good standing Academy in Tauranga. within the hairdressing industry. “We want to stand out and we Our students then become valuable want to have a point of difference to members of our community.”

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Kiwis own the most cats The New Zealand Companion Animal Council has released a nationwide survey on our pets.

Here are a few of their results, for a full list visit www.nzcac.org.nz There are approximately five million companion animals in New Zealand, outnumbering humans. Sixty eight per cent of New Zealand households own a companion animal, a higher percentage than in any comparable country. We are the world’s greatest cat owners, with a total feline population of 1.419 million – 28 per cent of NZ households own one cat and a further 20 per cent of households own two or more. This is compared to 33 per cent in the US, 23 per cent in Australia and 19 per cent in the UK. Our canine population is approximately 700,000 – 29 per cent of NZ households

own a dog, compared with 39 per cent in the US, 36 per cent in Australia and 23 per cent in the UK. Of cats, 31 per cent are acquired from friends or neighbours, 27 per cent from an SPCA or shelter and 19 per cent are found as strays. Forty three per cent of dogs are acquired from breeders, 24 per cent from friends or neighbours and 13 per cent from an SPCA or shelter. Some 83 per cent of cat owners, 77 per cent of dog owners and 53 per cent of rabbit owners consider their pets as members of the family. More cats – 86 per cent – have been desexed than dogs – 63 per cent. One unspayed female cat and her unspayed female kittens are considered capable of

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Guy Fawkes checklist for your pets

Below is a checklist of some things you can do for your pet to keep them safe and distress-free for the night. Find a reliable person who will stay with your pets and look after them in their familiar surroundings. Take your pets to the home of someone whom you know for cer-

tain will look after them and will be there to reassure them when the fireworks start. Make sure that your pets are indoors throughout the evenings and that they can’t see or hear the fireworks. Exterior doors and windows should be secured to prevent your pets escaping and running away in terror. Interior doors and curtains should be closed as this will help muffle the sound of the fireworks and prevent your pets being startled by the sight.

It’s a good idea to switch on the television, radio or stereo to distract your pets from the sound of the fireworks. If there’s no human present to look after the animals, it’s even more important to leave the radio or television on for them. Make sure your dog or cat has a collar on, just in case they get out and are panicked by the fireworks. Dog collars should have a registration disk firmly attached and cat collars should have a contact telephone number and an elastic insert to prevent strangling if the cat gets hooked up.

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Get the garden blooming this season The power of the flower is pretty hard to match.

ferent places and environments. But given the right home, food and amount of water they flourish and willingly reward you with bloom after bloom after bloom. Only choose healthy plants. Bargain bin flowers are usually there for a reason, walk away unless you can deal with them not surviving if they are past the point of no return. In cases where you are planting in large drifts, maybe along a driveway, choose a range of plants that are already in flower and some that are still yet to flower. This will prolong the flowering period to provide a longer colour display. The trick to keeping your flowers blooming is food and water and a little dead heading where required. When planting in the ground or in pots and containers use Flower Power potting mix, this is packed full of all the goodies flowers need to bloom and keep blooming.

Whether it be the joy of giving or receiving a freshly hand picked posy or bunch of flowers or watching as something special starts to bloom for the first time. Its official, gardening experts are delighted to see the end of the ‘stone age’ where all garden designers wanted to plant was flaxes, grasses and stones. Flowers are back and are appearing in drifts, gardens, pots, baskets and containers everywhere. With hundreds of exciting old, new and interesting types being available, there is certainly a flower for every spot. Regardless of what flowers want to grow, you will only be successful if you choose flowers that will grow in the area you provide for them. Like people, flowers can and do adapt to dif-

If flowering plants have been in pots and containers for a year or two, apply Novatec fertiliser to give them a prolonged boost of flowering energy. Keep the soil moist, not wet or dry.

The Weekend Sun has a ‘flower power’ prize pack worth $45 to give away to the lucky readers who can tell us what is the trick to keep flowers blooming? Enter online at www.sunlive.co.nz under the Competitions section. Entries must be received by November 8. By Rachel Vogan

Welcome Bay garden open day delayed An open day about the proposed Welcome Bay community garden is being held next weekend after rain forced the event’s cancellation last Saturday. Community garden project coordinator Anna Larsen apologised to everyone involved, but says the rescheduled event will give residents a chance to learn about proposals for the gardens for Selwyn Park or Waitaha

Reserve. The open day includes entertainment and activities with music, a free bouncy castle, various stalls and a sausage sizzle. It is now at Selwyn Park (Osprey Drive) on Saturday, November 12 between 11am and 2pm. Tauranga City Council recently endorsed work to explore suitable sites for community gardens in Welcome Bay and Mount Maunganui, including looking further into two

preferred sites in both areas. Anna says if there is strong community support for Selwyn Park – the Welcome Bay garden group’s preferred site – the project should progress quickly and have work beginning on the site as soon as autumn. The event will be held Selwyn Ridge Primary School hall if it rains. For more details email annaclarsen@gmail.com or phone Delwyn 07 544 9772. By Hamish Carter

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som, admiring the Bougainvillea. We come across some potted colour. He goes on to say they are also moving into the business of selling pots. It turns out that Grower Direct is importing a veritable monster sized order of pots from leading manufacturers in China, Malaysia and Vie tnam. Although still a week or so away from being ready to sell, buy any of Grower Directs’ pots and a plant and they will pot it for free – that includes the potting mix. As we pull out of the nursery back into the country lanes, I look in my rear mirror and see their signs, ‘From the grower to you’, I look at the chilli plants again and think “Yes, Paul did grow those.” By Bruno Schlatter

Opening buds of season This weekend heralds the Bay of Plenty Rose Society annual display at Palmers, Bethlehem. Members have been busy waiting for the first buds of the season to open and although the flowering is a little late this year there should have a great display of varieties in full bloom. This is a great chance to come and see what the flowers look and smell like and select the varieties that suit. Visitors are also able to talk to members of the society and take advantage of their skills and knowledge. So far this year, the rose foliage is looking good and clean, but you need to keep them sprayed regularly with fungicide and insecticide to keep them looking good all season. Most things in the garden are growing well at the moment; the temperatures are up and plenty of moisture leads to abundant growth, so keep a good eye out for pests as they will soon be abundant as well.

One pest that has been getting worse year by year is the tomato and potato Psyllid. This damaging pest arrived in New Zealand a few years ago, how it got here, no one knows, but it can devastate your crops. It can also affect peppers, chillies and other plants in the solanaceae family. The damage comes mainly from bacteria that it transmits and can totally reduce the yields to marble sized potatoes or with tomatoes the plants can totally collapse. It is still not been agreed as to the best method of control. The pests, that look like a miniature cicada, live on the underside of the leaves where it is difficult to spray with a contact insecticide. I believe that the best method of control is good husbandry to look after the beneficial bugs in the garden that will help to control the Psyllids and grow your crops in small blocks. I have found that the early crops seam to evade the pest, but later crops succumb to larger numbers of pets as the summer progresses, so avoid later crops.

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James Denyer surveys his property ‘Valley Gardens’ before it opens to the public for Katikati Rotary Club’s garden trail. Photo by Bruce Barnard.

Chooks, a vast vegetable garden, family orchard and intriguing sculptures dotting the lifestyle property – it sounds like a self-sufficient paradise. Owner and chief gardener James Denyer laughs saying the 12m x 20m vegetable garden would be plenty to feed his family if he was a better gardener. “I’m still getting used to it, how long things take and the seasons – but I’m getting there.” James took over the Katikati property two years ago after emigrating from England. Now, potatoes, lettuce, onions, carrots, silver beet, herbs, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries – “and lots more” – are grown from the organic garden. Next weekend the 5ha rural property is among 13 open to the public for the

Rotary club of Katikati’s annual garden trail fundraiser. Last week the Denyer’s opened their home to The Weekend Sun to give a hint of what will be on offer next weekend. Concerned by the amount of pesticide people use to control weeds, James decided to go organic and has fenced off his vegetable garden to keep out rabbit and possum pests. “With small children I didn’t want to do that (use pesticides). It does mean extra weeding, but with sensible planting it’s not too bad.” James works fulltime on the garden and instead of using chemical sprays feeds the soil with chicken fertiliser and compost. Along with the food crops the sprawling landscape at James’ ‘Valley Gardens’ also incorporates rhododendrons, azaleas, water lily ponds, native bush

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Boat expo set to take to the water Despite Rena putting eight months of plans into panic mode, the Tauranga Boat Expo and Water Festival has come out on top and looks set for this weekend’s festivities. Tauranga Marine Industry Association chairman Brian Kent says community support, as well as from council and local businesses has meant everything is all go. “We got together shortly after Rena and looked at contingency plans which fortunately we didn’t have to resort to. “I think this expo is a good chance for the industry to put their hands up and say here we are and we are open for business in amongst all this fear. “All the collective business are in it for the long haul and the reality is Kiwi’s love their water and boats.” Despite running the expo for two years, this is the first year the water festival side has been run,

showcasing water sports and business physically on the water. “We quickly recognised from feedback that we had outgrown the original marina site and we wanted to incorporate the city front as part of the expo – so The Strand waterfront was the logical choice,” says Brian. “It gives exhibitors a chance to really show what they have and take people out on the water to see it first hand. “It gives people a chance to see a whole raft of things in use, talk to the people using them, the local clubs that people can join and trying out these sports. “The objective is of course to get people more interested in the water by trying them out.” Activities include jet ski rides, bath tub races and displays from the Tauranga yacht club, kayakers and canoe slalom teams – as well as a few surprises. The Tauranga Boat Expo and Water Festival is on this weekend, November 4 to 6 at The Strand waterfront. Open from 10am daily. Adults are $5 and school age children are free.

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Dressing for your body shape

Welcome to the November edition and the unpredictable spring weather. The spring/summer collection is showing a wonderful array of bright colourful shades which include coral, hot pink, lime and turquoise, which is available in plain fabrics or blended together in floral and abstract patterns. Add soft flowing 100 per cent cotton and silk blends, these will surely brighten your day and make you feel a million dollars. We so often read about fashion trends, where advice and hints are offered, these include a thing called ‘body shapes’. As the years roll on, so do our ‘body shapes’, however, we must be realistic and recognise our own personal body shape as this will definitely help when selecting garments. BANANAS you have no waist, no hips and not much bust either. Big or small bananas are lacking curves. Frills, cowl necks and hip belts can add shape and curves. APPLES are top heavy, round at the top with a fantastic bum and really hot legs, your waist will be

missing in action. Use V necks to break up your torso. Show off your legs with stylish narrow leg or cropped pants. PEARS are bottom heavy, your widest point will be somewhere in your pants. Highlight your upper body by wearing interesting tops. Create balance with jackets and wide neck tops. HOURGLASS is curvy and balanced your hips and bust about the same width. Your waist maybe past its best, but you definitely have a gap. Wear fitted things to show off your figure. PLUS just because your body is bigger, it doesn’t mean you can’t look fantastic. Dress to your shape and always highlight your best bits. Use accessories to draw attention to where you want it. Until next month, keep smiling, Frank summer is coming. Lyman.

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Beauty treatment that’s all about you I don’t do things half-hearted, so when I decided to get my first ever facial, I got the limousine of facial treatments.

beginning to feel relaxed. My favourite part was the bio-direction connective tissue massage. Designed to stimulate blood and lymph circulation, the roller feels like a gentle pinch as it moves Totally You Face and Body Boutique is a newly opened up the neck and across the face. It was like getting a face massage across my decolletage and all over my face. This clinic in Bethlehem, with the capacity to treat one is where the real work is, lifting the skin and client at a time – giving you ultimate privacy making the skin appear youthful, firmer and making the service all about you. and glowing. Totally You is also the only beauty A mask was then applied, coverclinic to offer Oxyendodermia, a ing my whole face including my popular facial and body treatment eyes (which is optional, but felt so for the celebrities for its powergood). While the mask sets, I get ful results. Oxyendodermia is a to experience oxygen inhalation process delivered using a machine combined with aromatherapy oils imported from Italy, designed to – designed to relax the senses and firm facial tissue; smooth wrinkles provide a holistic experience of and mood lines and leave your the whole facial. It really did take skin looking bright and supple. me away to another world. Looks good on paper, but how A few words cannot describe good is it? The 60 minute facial how wonderful my first facial was an incredibly relaxing experiwas. Totally relaxing, a full ence. Step one is a gentle cleanser, sensory experience and something followed by a gentle oxygen microthat has become totally addictive dermabrasion. This is something I after seeing the results. My skin is had heard of before, but never truly glowing, firmer and feels so much experienced. Initially I was nervous as smoother. the tiny crystals buffered away the dead Totally You really is about looking after skin, but Totally You’s wonderful staff put number one – and Glenys and her expert me at ease and even without touching my Totally You Face and team go out of their way to make you feel face, I knew my skin felt totally cleansed. Body Boutique owner this way. The boutique experience is private Next was the oxygen infusion channelling Glenys Cowling treating and secluded, providing an escape from the the special Italy serums past the surface day to day stresses of life. Totally You not a client. layer of the skin, deep into the pores to only do facial treatments, but body too, Photo by Tracy Hardy. reach the vital layers. This combined with focusing on anti cellulite and lifting treatments. lymphatic drainage to stimulate the lymph nodes; I was

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I have recently returned from nearly a month in Europe which included a Mediterranean cruise to celebrate our 35th wedding anniversary. We had a wonderful time once we got over a couple of initial shocks at the huge buffet restaurant. The first shock was the amount of food which could have fed 10,000 people. The second shock was to see the obvious poor general health of the guests. I have not seen a more unhealthy looking lot of 50-plus people in my life. Many were predictably overweight, but the real surprise was that most just looked so unhealthy. Poor skin, tired looking, an inability to walk and move freely and as we found on the shore excursions, ridiculously unfit. You would not see better example of a lifetime of eating calorie-rich, yet nutritionally poor foods, combined with low levels of activity. I moan about the state of health of the average 50-plus Kiwi, but by comparison with this lot, we have found the fountain of youth. My fellow passengers were starving in a land or at least buffet, of plenty. Their typical plate was filled with low grade fat-filled carbohydrates and meats with a bit of lettuce for decoration despite having a huge selection of really healthy food. Of course I ate too much and put on a couple of kilos. You don’t go on a cruise as a health retreat. Our diets supply more calories (energy) than we need. What is missing are the trace minerals, the vitamins and cell protecting antioxidants that govern and protect cell function. I would bet my house that if I gave each of my fellow cruise passengers a good comprehensive micro nutritional supplement they would have a noticeable improvement in their general health and energy. If you have low energy and generally feel below par I will give you a challenge. Make sure you have at least five servings of different vegetables and two of fruit daily, plus take a balanced comprehensive micro nutritional supplement and some good fish oil for three months and see what happens. Make sure the supplement has all the major and trace minerals, all main antioxidant groups and is a full multi-vitamin. To contact John phone 0800 423559 or 07 578 0951 or visit www.abundant.co.nz. To read more visit www.sunlive.co.nz

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Being suspicious of ourselves We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. Henry David Thoreau

I once knew someone who struggled greatly with rejection – unfortunately they would set themselves up to expect rejection and then when their perception was that this was occurring, they would say they knew this would happen.

What they were doing was shaping an environment that created discomfort for those around them through trying so hard. Their strong need for acceptance was so great that they tried to get this need met in unhelpful ways and it ruled them to the extent that it affected all their relationships. What suspicions do you have about yourself that are being confirmed for you? If you changed your assumptions would that reality still exist? If you would like to find out more about coaching, phone Mary Parker for a complimentary session 07 577 1200, email info@coachingtheattitude.co.nz or visit www.coachingtheattitude.co.nz

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A must for the fridge This is one of my favourite new products in store and a fridge essential heading into summer – so many uses and so versatile. This Dollop product is perfect to ‘dollop’ over your morning cereal or fresh fruit Dollop’s new addition – Gourmet Fruit Compotes.

for breakfast. Mix it in with thick natural yoghurt to start your day. Alternatively, add to summer smoothies for a great healthy mid-morning snack for the kids. If you have a sweet tooth for desserts, serve with pancakes and yoghurt, make a sensational fruit crumble with it, serve as a side on chocolate cake with cream or just have

on its own for a healthy treat. A must have in your fridge with so many everyday guilt-free uses and it is all handmade in New Zealand. This delicious new range from Dollop heading into summer has three sensational flavours: Peach and Passionfruit – contains ripe juicy peaches and tangy passionfruit poached with a hint of Rewa

Lighten up summer barbecues With the weather getting warmer and the evenings getting longer, many of us are starting to pull the barbecues out again. Barbecuing can be a great way to cook healthy, light and tasty food – or it can be a fat-trap loaded with calories, fat and bad carbs. So how can we make our barbecues healthier this summer? • Watch your sausages: Many commercial sausages are packed with preservatives, fat and other nasties. Go for organic sausages made from real meat or better yet, stick to lean steaks, skinless chicken breasts or seafood. • Lighten up your salads: Many traditional salads tend to be full of fat and starchy carbs – delicious yes, but not so good for your waist line. Swap the usual pasta and potato salads for delish greek salads, steamed broccoli and asparagus or roast vege salads made from low-starch courgettes, capsicum, mushroom and onion. Dress your coleslaw with a light vinaigrette or asian-style dressing rather than the traditional creamy dressing. • Rethink your drinks: Alcohol really adds calories so think about how limiting. Swap normal beer and wine for low-alcohol versions and alternate every drink with water. Stick to a max of 3-4 drinks or ideally volunteer to sober drive – you’ll be popular with your friends and you’ll feel better the next morning. • Make dessert healthier: As delicious as a fruity

pavlova or creamy cheesecake are, they aren’t ideal when you’re watching your weight. Go for lighter summer desserts like fresh berries topped with low-fat

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Food for body and soul Feed the body as well as the soul, with Mount Maunganui cafe Volantis’ new art and craft classes.

The cafe doubles as a craft shop with a large range of product. There are classes in card making, scrapbooking and altered art on Mondays and Tuesdays run in store while the cafe is closed. Passionate artist and cafe owner Dianne Wagener has previously run the classes from her home, as well as free tutorials online at her web store www.artofcraft.co.nz “It was getting too difficult to run the classes from home, with up to 20 people wanting to attend each class,” says Dianne. “The cafe simply puts together great food and beautiful crafts to provide the body and mind with great ‘food’.” Dianne says the great cabinet food, all day breakfasts and specialty seafood chowder is still on the menu. The new chef Nathan West is constantly cooking up delicious meals for early morning breakfast from 8am, lunch and even an early dinner – including gluten-free and vegetarian options available. “We have kept our favourite dishes,

Owners Jason and Dianne Wagener. Photo by Tracy Hardy. including our tasty homemade cakes and also getting a face lift, with a fresh look and beautiful Miles Gordon art work adorning cheesecakes, fresh fish and juicy steaks.” the walls. Open for 13 years in Mount Maunganui, By Laura Weaser this new development sees the premises

Market fever at Mount Maunganui Self-confessed ‘market junkie’ Claire Beard is set to launch a regular indoor market, complete with her “yummy coffee bagels and freshly squeeze vegetable juices”. Frustrations from rain cancelling summer markets have prompted Claire to start up a regular Mount Maunganui market. “I absolutely love the markets – I’m from Melbourne and there are lots of indoor markets that do well,” says Claire.

“We’ve already had a lot of interest, so we are confident it will be a success.” The Mount Flea Market – which is launched this Sunday – offers stalls for anyone interested, has a cafe area, a stage for local music groups to perform, along with free children’s activities including table tennis and face painting. Claire “We have people selling anything and everything. From old shoes, clothes, furniture, bits and bobs, to hand made things such as baby slings, crocheted bikinis and knitted cardigans,” she says.

Claire says the market will have a ‘Co-op’ corner where anyone can sell anything organic, raw, natural, reused, recycled or sustainable, while fundraising groups can have stalls for free. The market is the first and third Sunday of every month throughout the year between 8am-noon at the Mount Maunganui Senior Citizen’s Association, 345 Maunganui Road. To book a stall, phone 021 066 7823 or email themountflea@gmail.com By Hamish Carter

Silly season party food It’s that time of the year again: Melbourne Cup, Guy Fawkes, office parties, leading us all into the silly season. Asparagus is in season now about the same time as the party season (October till December) and the question of what to do with this wonderful vegetable springs to mind. One savoury that always goes down well as a party nibble is

asparagus custard tarts, they require a bit of effort, but are well worth it. Asparagus grown in the warmer areas of New Zealand tends to be a lot thinner than the ones from further south. Because

Asparagus custard tarts Ingredients 2 bunches fresh asparagus spears (about 350g) 1 can evaporated milk 1/2 fresh nutmeg 1 small onion Salt and pepper 4 egg yokes and 1 whole egg 1 pkt of savoury short pastry 100 grams parmesan powder Juice from lemon 30g of butter Method After snapping asparagus, chop usable pieces up and reserve the tips for decoration. Start cooking

the colder climate slows the shoots, south island asparagus is reputed to have more flavour and from past experience I would agree. Wherever you get your asparagus from, remember to snap then rather than cut them where the woody stem meets the green. This snapping technique ensures you get tender asparagus. Some people prefer to eat the tips rather than the rest of the stalk. With this recipe you can enjoy the whole of the asparagus.

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the rest of the pieces in a pot with the butter, saute well till they start to break down. Stirring occasionally, add can of evaporated milk, grated nutmeg, salt and pepper. Simmer until tender, being careful not to burn on bottom of pot. Transfer to a blender and blitz adding egg yoke and whole egg. Cut circles from pastry sheets and press into parmesan then powder both sides and place into a well greased muffin tin to form tart cases. Blanch remaining garnish tips in boiling water then squeeze lemon juice over them, place in place in tart cases, then pour on green asparagus custard mix. Bake at 230-250 degrees for 20 minutes until they have browned. Remove from muffin pan while still warm, serve while still warm or you can eat them cold – great as a snack food or even a entree for a dinner party. Makes approximately a dozen.

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Courting local volleyball attention International level volleyball takes centre court in Tauranga this evening when the New Zealand women’s team goes up against a visiting Chinese club team.

In the heart of the action is rising Tauranga volleyball star Lisa Claassen. International competition is nothing new to the Bay of Plenty Polytechnic Sport and Recreation student, who has regularly competed in international events.

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When playing for the New Zealand U19 team she competed at the Asian championships in Taiwan, where she was inspired to see the top teams in action. “Just watching them and their skill was unbelievable.” After an intensive year of juggling her volleyball with completing her degree, Lisa says she has barely had time to think about the game with the Tianjin Club team. “It’s quite daunting, but also very exciting. “They have actually won three Asian club titles and eight China women’s titles – I’m not sure what exactly that means, but they are clearly a very successful team.” The visiting team includes mem-

bers of the Chinese Olympic squad and Lisa says she will be studying the player warm-up and playing routines in the hope of getting some tips. After matches in Tauranga then in Auckland on Saturday, Lisa will focus on more training during summer. “This year it’s been quite difficult. I’ve found that some of my training has really slipped off compared to my first two years of study because the workload has been so high, but I kept telling myself it was just a short sacrifice.” After learning volleyball at intermediate school, Lisa’s path in volleyball took off when a relieving PE teacher at Tauranga Girls’

Top Tauranga women’s volleyball player Lisa Claassen. Photo by Tracy Hardy.

College spotted her talented and encouraged her to join the Year 9 team. From there she was soon playing in rep teams, before making the national U17 team. The game is at QEYC tonight, starting from 7pm. Tickets at the door. By Hamish Carter

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New Zealand’s rafting team held a tough race at the recent World Rafting Championship in Costa Rica, taking on some strong teams and making it the closest worlds to date according to Tauranga rafter Paul Roozendaal. “In the sprint, the team finished fourth, which was a mere second behind first and a second in front of eight – an indicator of how close the races were.” In the head to head, New Zealand was matched against a passionate Dutch team, who were strong to

start and kept it that way for the duration of the race, leaving New Zealand in 17th. “In the slalom, we got to the course and it looked impossible to complete,” says Paul. “We get one hour to view the course and plan a strategy. We thought about missing gates it was so hard. But we had to give everything a go. “We had an amazing first run, making it through every gate and only touching three gates. After the first run, we were in third place. Other teams commented on how we looked the best out there.” Paul says in the second run the water level was dropping rapidly and the water speed slowed.

“We made one mistake at the start, but finished with no penalties. It’s the first time I have done a slalom course clean at World Championship. “With the water dropping, the hardest section became easier and the teams that struggled in the first run got better.” In the overall points, the team placed 10th, with Paul saying the 17th place in the H2H “didn’t help”. New Zealand has made a bid to run the next World Championship in 2013. It’s between New Zealand, Serbia and Japan. New Zealand is a clear favourite amongst racers according to Paul.

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Summer Style for Less! Service and savings with a smile Planning kitchen or bathroom renovations or a new building project? Plumbing Plus will help save hundreds of dollars on top brands with a major promotion this weekend. After a six year absence, Plumbing Plus returned to Tauranga last month and is already developing a great reputation for the service and products offered from its Koromiko Street showroom. Tauranga Plumbing Plus owner Brian McKeown, who has 28 years experience in the bathroom plumbing industry, says a marquee outside the showroom this weekend will offer a wide range of

products “at extremely sharp prices”. “Sales reps for all the brands will be onsite all weekend to talk to the customers and will be able to give them technical advice on what will work for them.” Brian says the day will offer the best possible deals on all big name brands and he encourages everyone to take advantage of the specials. He says great feedback to Plumbing Plus’ amazing bathroom sales in Auckland and Wellington encouraged them to bring the great deals to Tauranga. Great customer service is a top focus of the family-owned Tauranga operation, which Brian runs with wife Delwyn and daughter Rachel Read. Along with Mike McLean as trade counter sales, the team offers more than 40 years combined experience in the field.

“We always go the extra mile to look after our customers, including going onsite to help them come up with the best design and solution.” Brian says by being part of the Plumbing Plus network, the business can provide the best New Zealand and imported bathroom fittings at very affordable prices – direct to the customer and trade. Some of the top brands offered at this weekend’s sale include Grohe, Englefield, St Michel, Methven, Newline, Ideal Standard, Villeroy & Boch.

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Ownership no price guarantee Let the rort begin! Labour’s “No Asset Sales” slogan implies that National’s assets sales via the “mixed ownership model” of our energy companies will be detrimental to consumers.

Labour’s slogan infers that Kiwis will lose control of these assets and that electricity prices will rise. The Labour Party’s mantra also implies that keeping 100% ownership of these SOE’s within the state’s assets will ensure stable electricity pricing. The facts are, that under the Helen Clark Govt, retail electricity prices rose by 72% over 9 years. Labour’s Minister of Energy at the time was David Parker, a current member of Goff ’s front bench. Why did electricity prices rise so rapidly under Parker’s watch? Struggling consumers and pensioners complained loudly to both the power companies and the Minister but the Govt were coining massive profits so chose to ignore their community’s hardship pleas. So much for Goff ’s insinuation that a Labour Govt can be trusted to keep electricity prices down. Max Lewis, Mt Maunganui.

Vote out these bruisers If black was Act’s colour plus blue for National and red for Labour, you would have deep purple, the colour of a bruise. They have been bruising us long enough. In fact I think they all are run by the One World people and not us. A coalition of the smaller parties with MMP would be more democratic and really give the people what they voted for. As the saying goes ‘When the intelligent observer detects deceit he is inclined to be sceptical about everything.’ Enough is enough, please get out there and vote and throw these turkeys out. It’s really time for a big change and not the one they have planned for us. Fifth generation New Zealander. Jeanette Pawson, Oropi.

I would love to take credit for the following 2 paragraphs, however I must admit that I didn’t write it. The sentiments contained in it however sum up my view of the system quite nicely: I am beginning to think that the oftquoted reference to New Zealanders being ‘sheeple’ is a gross insult to our woolly animal friends. After all, sheep don’t vote every three years to expand the capacity of the

local freezing works, do they? The options on offer: Please vote for one of the following: Party A who offer A punch on the nose Party B: who offer A poke in the eye oooh let’s see - I think I’ll vote for the punch on the nose please! The typical voters response upon voting for party A and getting what they gave their permission for is to vote for party “B” the next time round. Labour (baaa), National (baaa) Greens (b. . .!) An immoral, unprincipled advance auction of stolen goods - let the rort begin. Graham Clark, Lower Kaimai.

Same-sex adoption going ‘too far’ I am astounded that there has been little debate over Labour’s proposal to allow homosexual couples to adopt children. Ideally, every child should have a Mum and a Dad. Those who do not have that soon realise that they have missed something. This is the way we were created, or evolved, whichever one chooses to believe. Adoption is a very formal process. How many of us would like to have two same sex names on our Birth Certificates which are there forever? Whatever your answer, the key point is that our society should not expose any child to the potential downside of being so different.

For the State to formally allow a young child to be brought up in a homosexual relationship is to deny that child its basic human expections. In addition, our litigious society will expose the Government to a scenario akin to the stolen generations of Australia, or the British orphans. The argument that a single person can adopt, so why not homosexual couples is fallacious. A “missing” parent is part of a very natural process in life. However, that scenario is obviously less than ideal. Labour’s proposal takes social engineering too far. Bill Capamagian, Tauranga. ECF0056_0800

At this year’s General Election, there’s a referendum on our voting system. So when you go to vote, along with your orange ballot paper for the General Election, you’ll get a purple Referendum one too.

On the Referendum paper, there are two questions to answer. The first is whether you think New Zealand should keep MMP, or change to another voting system.

The second question asks which of four other voting systems you would choose if New Zealand decides to change from MMP. You’ll find out more about them at www.elections.org.nz

If we vote to keep MMP, there will be an independent review to assess if there should be any changes to the way it works.

If we vote for a change of system, Parliament will decide if there is another referendum in 2014 to choose between MMP and the most popular alternative.

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Rena: Why didn’t we call an armchair expert? Kibitzer is a wonderful Yiddish word for which there is no precise equivalent in English. It means someone who stands around giving unwanted advice. Kibitzers, usually men of a certain age, have had the time of their lives since the Rena hit the rocks. Tune into any radio talkback show and you’ll hear them expounding on all the things the authorities have done wrong and how, with a pair of tin snips, a garden hose and a roll of duct tape, they could have had the containers offloaded, the oil pumped out and the ship safely refloated within 24 hours. If only someone had asked them.

Listening to talkback radio, I am agog at the depth of engineering knowledge and salvage expertise acquired by Kiwi blokes who have spent a lifetime changing the oil in Mark II Cortinas, sharpening the blades of a lawn mower and clearing blockages under the kitchen sink. I mean, who would have thought? Speaking of the Rena, I worry for Britain, because it seems we’ve

pinched all its experts on maritime safety and salvage operations. As was also noticeable in the aftermath of the Christchurch earthquakes, a striking number of the officials who appear on the television news each night to update us on developments speak with British accents. There was a time in New Zealand when almost every union spokesman had an accent that identified them as English or Scottish. Nothing puzzling about that: they were simply carrying on the class war. But can anyone explain why so many British immigrants end up working for regulatory authorities?

Thanks, Weekend Sun team On behalf of the local community and the leadership of Central Baptist Church I would like to say thank you (to The Weekend Sun) for the way in which you have publicised our community service seminars. These seminars have been designed to meet the needs of our aging community and have been found a great help to all who have attended. At all times we have been delighted

with the efficiency and co-operations of your representative Suzy King and the creative members of your staff. May I also say, as an old newspaper man myself, your paper exceeds in quality all other local publications. With renewed thanks and appreciation. Tom Frew, Senior Pastor, Tauranga Central Baptist Church.

Tony Fellingham, Tauranga.

Omokoroa answers needed Truth about launch turn-out Re: Brian Anderson’s column. With the WBOP District Council having the fourth highest debt per capita in New Zealand there has never been a more crucial time for transparency. The fact this council has reduced its number of public meetings speaks volumes of their attitude towards the same people that put them in the positions they currently hold. I wouldn’t mind betting a huge chunk of this debt comes from within the Omokoroa area. It is time this council made public its property portfolio held in Omokoroa. What was this property purchased for and what it has and is it costing ratepayers. On our last rates demand we are asked to pay a $10.00 town centre development fee, why? When there is privately owned commercial zoned property that could have a shopping centre built on at no cost to the community. P Cooney, Omokoroa.

With regard to NZ First’s launch in Auckland last Sunday both TV1 and Radio National NZ reported a turnout of 300 people. I would like to assure the readers of your paper that whoever reported this figure is regrettably visually impaired or would prefer to support another party. 600 chairs were put out then a further 150 and even then people were left standing. NZ First fully realises that some are against us and that is their choice. But to have such twisted information coming from outlets that people rely on for the truth, is not a fair go. Voters are entitled to the truth and quite simply, from us that is what they get. W Painter, Tauranga. The Weekend Sun welcomes letters from readers. Preference will be given to letters that are short (200 words) and supplied with full name and contact details.

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from 5.30pm. Jeff 544 4403. Non members welcome. $5.

Monster Garage Sale At 94 Bureta Road Community Centre from 8am. Bargains & Christmas gifts galore.

Tauranga Harbour City Lions Book Sale

Saturday 5 November Art in the Park

Coronation Park, Mt Maunganui 7.30am – 5pm. Tauranga Society of Artists offer for sale a variety of art to suit all tastes. Sunday if wet.

Balmoral’s Marching Team

Ladies interested in joining this new team aged 20-50yrs welcome. Experience preferred but not necessary. Anita 571 4096

BCITO - Building Careers Day

Information session at 40 Tawa St, Mt Maunganui 1-4pm. All students, parents, teachers & career-seekers welcome. No RSVP required.

Beauty for Ashes Women’s Event

Nov 12 Otumoetai Baptist 9.45am - 3pm. Door donation. www.beautyforashesministriesnz.org

BOP Christian Singles

Over 40’s group meeting for a barbeque at Pilot Bay Nov 5 5.30pm. truthseeker8@xtra.co.nz

Brazilian Drumming

Absolute beginners every Sat at Elizabeth St Community Centre 9.30-11am. Gold coin. www.taurangasamba.org or Phil 021 075 4300

Come Dancing Tonight

Sequence & old time dancing. Friendly atmosphere, good music & supper. Greerton Hall 8-11.30pm. Run by Tauranga Social Dance. Bev 543 0204

Creative Tauranga Gallery Rachel Denny Sol Exhibition showing through 7 Nov 2011.

Garage Sale 16th Ave Theatre, Tauranga. Don’t miss the bumper garage sale of costumes & props 9am - 12pm.

Gate Pa Tennis Club Saturday, great social tennis from 1.30pm. Jean 543 9198. Weds, friendly social tennis 9am - 12pm. Graeme 543 9282. New - evening social tennis

Nov 26 & 27 Bethlehem Town Centre, Bethlehem Rd 8am - 4pm. Wanted - books, games, jigsaws, DVD’s, CD’s, videos. For collection, Shirley 576 6825

Tauranga Radio Sailing Club Sailing

Model yacht sailing every Sat 11am - 4pm & Weds 1.30-7pm at Lake Taurikura, Scoria Close, The Lakes, Tauriko.

Tauranga Synchronised Swimming Club

Beginners training at Baywave every Sat 9-10.30am. If you’re a good swimmer but getting bored with swimming lengths, come for a free trial lesson at Synchro. Pool entry fee applies. Angela 552 5416

The Cargo Shed - Premiere Indoor Art

5 Dive Crescent. Creative Weekends on the waterfront. Sat & Sun 10am - 4pm. Also open cruise ship days through to April 2012.

The Sociables

Males/Females 30’s/40’s. 022 012 0376

Welcome Bay Community Gardens Project

Let’s Get Growing, open day community gardens information & display Nov 12 11am – 2pm at Selwyn Park, Osprey Drive, Welcome Bay. Music, Kapahaka, free bouncy castle, sausage sizzle, plant stall. Email: annaclarsen@gmail.com

Sunday 6 November Bay Blokart Club

Friendly club sailing at Baypark track every Sun & race days on second sun of month. Thurs twilight meeting. Use construction entrance 400m down Truman Lane. All welcome. 027 391 8300 or Peter 0274 721 322

Bethlehem Lions Market

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Incorporating arts & crafts indoors, at Bethlehem Town Centre car park. (Second entrance to town centre off Bethlehem Rd) 8am – 12pm. Stallholders $10 per site. On wet or fine. 576 0106

Bible Seminars

Sunday at Greerton Senior Citizen’s Hall, Maitland St, Greerton 1.45pm. Title: “The Apostle Paul in Corinth”. Interactive. Q&A. Refreshments provided. All welcome. Vic 543 0504

Cafe Style Family Service

With breakfast at St Columba Church Hall, Cherrywood 8.15-9.15am. All welcome. Romy 578 6299

Coastal Country Music Club Inc

RSA Cameron Road, Greerton 1pm start. Surprise guest artist. All welcome. June 579 5445

Mount Maunganui Farmers Market

Every Sun 9am - 1pm in Phoenix car park, rain or shine. Home grown, home made, organic or spray free fresh fruit & veges, breads, cheese, oils, plants & more. Downtown the Mount open 7 days. 575 9911

MV Rena Rally

Meet at Mount Ocean Sports Club, The Mall, Pilot Bay Mt Maunganui 1pm then on to Mount Drury. Walk together, talk together, find the best ways to help each other get past the situation without much more damage. All welcome.

Petanque

Every Sun, Tues & Thurs at Cliff Rd 12.45pm. Boules available, tuition given. 1st 3 visits free. Neita 572 3768

Radio Controlled Model Yachts

Every Sun 1.30pm & Thurs 5.30pm at pond behind 24 Montego Drive, Papamoa to race electron class yachts. Graham 572 5419

Quarryfest

Te Puna Quarry Park 10am – 4pm. Quality craft & produce stalls. All day entertainment & the big Quarry Garage Sale. Fun activities for the whole family. Entry: Gold coin donation. Dulcie 544 2014

Tauranga Spiritual Society

Senior Citizens Hall, Norris St. Doors open 7pm for 7.30pm start. Guest: Sharon McAuliffe - medium. Door charge, members $2, non members $3. All welcome.

Te Puke Lions Market

Farmlands car park (opp Countdown Supermarket). Summer hours 8am – 12pm. Something for everyone. Suzane 573 3389 or 027 290 1168

Reviews of DVDs, old and new, as well as other bits and bobs.

Monday 7 November Badminton Summer Club

Every Mon at Bethlehem College Gym 7.90-9.30pm. Racquets available. Sue 543 0035 or 021 194 4335

Bay Salsa

Beginners salsa 6.45pm. Improvers salsa 7.45pm. Cuban Rueda 8.45pm at Otumoetai Action Centre, Tga. Fun, social, no partner required. All welcome. 021 045 4235 or www.baysalsa.co.nz

Body & Soul Fun Fitness

For over 50’s, social events & occasional guest speakers Mon & Fri Greerton Hall, Cameron Rd. Tues Wesley Church, 13th Ave. Weds City Church Otumoetai Rd. All classes 9.15-10.15am. First class free. Men & women welcome. Dianne 576 5031

Friends of the Libraries

Monthly meeting at Tauranga City Library 7.30pm. Speaker: Judy Sail, customer services manager, Tauranga libraries. Supper provided. $2 donation. Use side door. All welcome.

Meditation

Free classes. Find the real meaning & purpose of your life. Bring out the peace & joy that exists inside you. Mon 10am & 7.30pm. David 576 9764

Meditation with Horses

In support of Breast Cancer Awareness month & Riding for the Disabled at 44 Ngapeke Rd 10am. Bookings essential. Kerry 575 2063

Nam Wah Pai Kung Fu

Papamoa club training at Tahatai Coast School, Evans Rd Mon & Thurs 6.15-7.45pm. Tauranga, training in Kung Fu & Tai Chi at Tauranga Boys Gym Tues & Thurs 6-7.30pm. Brian 579 4358 or www.nwpkungfu.co.cc

Papamoa Patchers

At new home, Arataki Community Centre, behind ambulance station, Bayfair 10am - 3pm. Bring your machine & join us. Cherry 575 0018

Papamoa Mumz

A great place to make friends. Coffee group for mothers with babies, toddlers & pre-schoolers. Papamoa Support Centre, 95 Hartford Ave 9.30-11am. 574 7170

Relationship Services

Mon - Parenting Through Separation, free course for separating parents 10am - 12pm. Positively Me 4 Women

OUT THERE Stories, snippets, strangeness, and general entertainment. - self esteem course for women 12.302.30pm. Blended Families, course for parents in combined household 7-9pm. ManMade, self esteem course for men 7-9pm. Tues - Parenting Through Separation 7-9pm. Weds - Sex, Drugs & Homework, course for parents of teenagers 7-9pm. Parenting for Success, course for parents of 2-12yr olds 7-9pm. Thurs - Parenting Through Separation Papamoa 10am - 12pm. Positively Me 4 women 7-9pm. Weekend Course - relationship secrets, for couples. 576 8392

Sequence Dance Class

Modern sequence dance tuition & revision every Mon 1-3pm St Johns Church Hall, 94 Bureta Rd, Otumoetai. $3pp. Gordon 573 4333

Sit and Be Fit Class

Seated down class. Focused on balance, stability, aerobic, flexibility & strength. Tues 11.30-12.30pm at Papamoa Community Centre, Gravatt Rd. Weds 11am-12pm at Greenwood Park Village, Welcome Bay. 578 9272

St Columba Indoor Bowling Club

Club night 7.30pm, St Columba Hall, 502 Otumoetai Rd. New bowlers welcome. Ron 570 1570

Tauranga Theatre Organ Society

Baycourt Theatre. AGM at 1pm followed by usual afternoon programme. Hear & play the mighty wurlitzer. All welcome. 552 0243

Tauranga UFO & Paranormal Soc

Monthly meeting in hall behind Historic House cnr Cameron Rd/Elizabeth St 7.30pm. UFO video (Italian contactee case) & discussion. Door $3. All welcome. Stephen 571 3488

YMCA - ALFS

(Active lifestyle for seniors). Smooth Movers class Mon 8.45-9.45am & 10-11am at Matua Community Hall, Levers Rd. Also 9.15-10.15 at Arataki Hall, Zambuk Way (off Grenada St). Tues 9.15-10.15am & 10.30-11.30am at Papamoa Community Centre, Gravatt Rd. Weds 9.15-10.15am Welcome Bay Hall, Welcome Bay Rd. Thurs 8.45-9.45am at Otumoetai Action Centre, Windsor Rd. Also 10.30-11.30am at Bethlehem Hall, Bethlehem Rd. Fri 9.15-10.15am at Papamoa Community Centre, Gravatt Rd. 578 9272

40 Tuesday 8 November Altrusa Tauranga

Join the lovely group of women at dinner meeting for fun, fellowship & service. Denise 570 3134

Excel Toastmasters Club

Learn to be a competent communicator & get your message across. Meet 2nd, 4th & 5th Tues of month at Senior Citizen’s Hall, 345 Maunganui Rd, Mt Maunganui 6.15pm. New members welcome. George 573 3943

Genesis - Women’s Group

Every Tues during school term 10am morning tea. This week: Spring/summer fashion parade by Lynettes Te Puke at Vision Papamoa, Te Okuroa Drive, Papamoa. $5. New members welcome. Jennifer, Salvation Army 578 4264

Mount Morning Badminton

Every Tues 9am - 12pm at Mount Sports Centre, Blake Park. Social, competitive, all ages, beginners welcome. Racquets available. Visitors $5 per session, students $2. First day free. Margaret 575 9792

Muay Thai

Arataki Community Centre Tues & Thurs 7.30-9pm. Cost: 14-18yrs $3 per session. 18 years + $5 per session. Ray 022 103 7471 or email: MTmuaythai@hotmail. co.nz

Positively Me for Women

(6 week course). Give yourself the gift of healthy self-esteem this Christmas. Papamoa Support Centre, 95 Hartford Ave 12.30-2.30pm. $40. 574 7170

Tauranga Acoustic Music Club

Trust Bar, Bureta Park Motor Inn 7.30pm. Friendly jam session. Sing, play or just listen. Sheryl 552 5906 or www. taurangaacousticmusic.com

Tauranga Astronomical Society

Observatory at Fergusson Park open to public 7.30pm. Talk: “Introduction to Astronomy” or similar given with telescope viewing if weather permits. Come & see Jupiter & its moons. 576 5389

Tauranga Toastmasters

Tga Lyceum Club, 1st Ave Tues 7.158.45pm. Exterminate the butterflies, confidence building, improving public speaking & leadership skills. Alan 544 5989

Wednesday 9 November

Assn of Administrative Professionals NZ

(AAPNZ) Tauranga monthly meeting at NZ Historic Places Trust, 28 Wharf St 5.30pm. All welcome. Email Janet tauranga@aapnz.org.nz

City Early Start Toastmasters

Zaggers Cafe every Weds 6.50-8.15am. Join the motivated, vibrant, supportive, encouraging bunch for personal development, career boosting opportunities. Rewards & benefits - priceless. Lani 571 1545

Global Hearts Exercise Group

Weds 2pm & Fri 11am. Provides group activities combined with health education that encourages members to live a healthy & active lifestyle. Classes run by qualified instructor. Vikki 575 0470 or 0272 800 388

Greerton Care & Craft

Meet every Weds Greerton Bible Church Hall, cnr Oropi & Chadwick Rds 9.30am 1pm. Helen 541 0537

Katikati Herb Society

St Pauls Presbyterian Church Lounge, cnr SH2 & Mulgan St, Katikati 7pm. Seville Oranges, Neroli. All welcome. www.herbs.org.nz/katikati/ or Jenny 552 0697

Living in Harmony Evening

Presented by Tauranga Regional Multicultural council. “Musical Notes from Poland” in the Village Hall, Historic Village, 17th Ave 7pm. Entry is free. Bring plate of food for shared pot luck dinner. Children will play piano, flute, sing & recite poems. Ewa 577 1644

ME/CFS Support Group

Chadwick House, 250 Chadwick Rd, Greerton 10.30am. Topic: Helpful strategies. All welcome. 578 7804

Mount Badminton Club

Summer social club night Weds 7-9.30pm at Mount Sports Centre, Maunganui Rd. Cost $8 per night. All past & new players welcome. Janice 575 2438 or 027 201 0529

Orange City Square & Round Dance Club

Weds plus, Thurs club night, Frontiersmen’s Hall, 7.30pm. 543 1063

Otumoetai Lions Information Evening

Hotel Armitage 7.30pm. Find out why over 1.3 million people belong to Lions. All community minded people welcome. To register your attendance, Dave 576 2098

Otumoetai Toy Box Toy Library

94 Bureta Rd. Opening Hours: Weds 6.30-8.30pm. Thurs 9.3011.30am. Fri 9.30-11.30am. A number of membership options available. All welcome. 576 9923 or 027 857 7452

Salvation Army Meeting

For all women every Weds 10am morning tea, 10.30am meeting at Salvation Army, cnr Cameron Rd & 5th Ave, Tauranga. Guest speaker: Margo McCool from The Acorn Foundation. New members welcome. Jennifer 578 4264

Scottish Country Dancing

Every Weds at Senior Citizens Hall, Maunganui Rd 7.30pm. 544 0839

Taoist Tai Chi

Beginners class Nov 9 at 15 Koromiko St 9.30am. Increase your strength/flexibility. Carlene 544 5403

Tauranga Floral Art Group

Baptist Hall cnr Cameron Rd & 13th Ave 1pm. Guest demonstration Pauline Luxton, Morrinsville. Visitors welcome. Door entry $10. At 7pm, special members workshop with Pauline Luxton. Cecille 579 3029

Te Puke Spiritual & Healing Centre

Palmer Court, Te Puke. Doors open 7pm for 7.30pm start. Guest: Gavin Knight. Sarai 573 7933

Toastmasters Tauranga South Area

Leadership skills, speaking skills. Weds at St George’s Church Hall, cnr Cameron Rd & Church St 7.15pm. All welcome. Alan 544 5989

Walking Group

Age Concern Walking Group meet

The Weekend Sun at Burger King, Fraser Cove Shopping Centre 10am. All welcome. 578 2631

required. $2 entry (members free). All welcome. www.baysalsa.co.nz

Wine & Cheese Evening

Samba Dance at Armazem

Presented by Tauranga Pakeke Lions at Sports Centre, Fergusson Park Nov 9. $15. Jenny 544 7215

Thursday 10 November Community Bible Study International

Join us at 14th Ave Gospel Centre 10am - 12pm for an interdenominational in depth study of Colossians. Joan 576 9065

Fitness League

Safe, effective, low impact exercise to music using the Bagot Stack technique, designed for females. All ages & abilities, first class free. Thurs 9.30am Central Baptist Church Hall, cnr 13th Ave & Cameron Rd. Weds 10am at Katikati Memorial Hall. Pam 549 4799 or 021 117 7170

Forest & Bird (Tauranga Branch)

Talk by Julian Fitter - “Clean Green”, how much value do we place on our natural environment. St John’s Church Hall, Bureta Rd 7pm. All welcome. David 571 0974

Happiness & Our Mind

Drop in meditation classes at Otumoetai Plunket, 59 Otumoetai Rd 7-8.30pm. Classes self contained, start any date. $12 per class. Next class Nov 24. www.meditateintauranga.org Keynotes 4 Part Harmony Womens Chorus Meet Thurs at Wesley Church Hall, 13th Ave 6.45pm. Sing for fun & health. Pam 578 3757

Mount Garden Club

Methodist Church Hall, Puriri St, Mount 1.30pm. Remember something for Christmas raffle & money for December mystery bus trip. Lois 575 5867

More Than Craft

Every Thurs at Greerton Bible Church, cnr Chadwick Rd 11.30am. Many crafts, creche. Great atmosphere. $3 per morning. All welcome. Ruth 576 0955

Free Samba de Gafieria dance class, Thurs at Armazem Restaurante & Bar, 305 Maunganui Rd 9pm. Follow this up with social dancing to a live Brazilian Band. 022 091 5970 or www.latindancetauranga.co.nz

Tauranga Heart Support Group

Fun, rehab exercise, social events & occasional guest speakers for those with or at risk of heart disease. Thurs 9.30-10.45am City Church, Otumoetai Rd. Men & women welcome. Cardiac Care leader Dianne 576 5031

The Power of Women’s Voice

Presented by National Council of Women NZ & United Nations Assn Tauranga. Speaker: Elizabeth Bang, president of National Council of Women NZ. At Bongard Centre, BOP Polytechnic, 200 Cameron Rd, Tga 5.30-7pm. Gold coin donation. Gray 578 7119 or email: gray@ southon.net

Friday 11 November Arize Youth Night - Arataki

Arataki Community Centre 7-8.30pm for ages year 8-13. Music, games, free desert, guest speaker. Smoke/alcohol free event. Kirsty 021 0260 61911

Gay/Bi Mens Support Group

Do you need a trusting person to talk to? Discretion assured. For meetings & locations ph/txt Alex 027 358 5934

Pasifika Playgroup

Every Fri at Pacific Island Trust, 7 Kauri St, Gate Pa 9.30am - 12pm. Need a ride? Let us know! 577 1270 Te Puke Anglican Church Garden Ramble Nov 11-13 10am - 5pm daily. Tickets available Mitre 10 & Ross’s Garden Centre Te Puke, Pacifica, Palmers Garden Centres.

Regular events see www.sunlive.co.nz under the What’s On section.

Parenting Through Separation

2 week programmes at Papamoa Support Centre, Hartford Ave (opp Playground) Nov 10 - 17. Free. Relationship Services 576 8392

Pirates of the Pacific Dinner Show

Nov 10, 17 & 19 & Dec 1, 22 & 23 at Daniels in the Park & the Mount Surf Club. For details, 574 1672

Salsa on the Strand

Presented by Bay Salsa. Intro class 8pm followed by social dancing every Thurs at Buddha Lounge. Great for fitness, social, no partner

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By Winston Watusi

Plea for sanity in musical void Dear Simon Bridges, I realize you have an election going on and are probably a little busy at the moment, but can I please take a little of your time to draw your attention towards an issue that many people think is hugely important for the future of Tauranga. I realize that this may not seem as vital as your party’s plans to change benefits and sell assets and rebalance the budget and rebuild Christchurch and sort out the Pike River Mine and all those other important things. Many people may not regard it as imperative as sorting out the roading and those other niggling little issues the city faces, but – for the future growth of Tauranga as a vibrant cultural centre that can foot it with other cities of our size – this is essential. What I’m talking about is radio and the future of Tauranga’s music scene. Tauranga now has, and can be proud of, its fantastic art gallery. It’s the sort of facility one expects in New Zealand’s fourth or fifth largest city. One day we might even have a museum. But the area we are currently all but flat-lining in is music. And the reason we are in that state is that there is no alternative music station in Tauranga. Now “alternative” might sound like a scary anti-establishment word, but it isn’t. It simply means a radio station that independently chooses what music it will play rather than being programmed by a computer from Central Services that totally ignores the local area. An independent station can actually play local music from its local community. The importance of this cannot be understated. Auckland, Hamilton, Christchurch,

Wellington, Dunedin, all of these places and more have stations that plays music from their areas, be they student radio or others. This gives bands profile. It brings people to gigs. Venues benefit. It makes bands want to record more. It fosters original music, our stories about our places. It allows a genuinely creative music scene to exist with all the many benefits – economic and cultural – that come from that. We had the radio station we needed until

last week: it was called KissFM. It played New Zealand music but, more importantly, it played a swathe of Bay of Plenty music, music you could otherwise only hear, very occasionally, on RNZ National. But Kiss-FM only had the ability to broadcast a low frequency signal, meaning they could basically only be heard at the Mount. There is no future in that. The owner, Max Christoffersen, had to expand or die. New non-commercial community radio licenses were on offer for the Bay in September and Kiss-FM desperately needed one. The 106.2FM frequency was up for grabs and lengthy applications had been lodged. Then last week came the news: “Mount Maunganui radio station Kiss-

FM has thrown in the musical towel and conceded defeat to The Ministry for Culture and Heritage. “Station founder Max Christoffersen says the station has given up the chase for a new FM License that would allow it to broadcast its community format across the Bay. “We applied for the new non-commercial community radio license on 106.2FM in September and were turned down last week without explanation by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage. “It brings to an end almost three years of local broadcasting, which has been welcomed by the Bay of Plenty’s creative and musical communities.” Why did Kiss-FM lose out? Because the Ministry wants to encourage Access Radio. That’s community radio where different cultural and ethnic groups each get their hour a week and chat about their community’s issues. Which is all very well, except that the Bay doesn’t need Access Radio, it needs music radio. Here’s the crowning irony: no licenses were granted for the Bay, so today the 106.2FM frequency remains empty and silent. It has been for eight years. So Simon, can you help? Tauranga’s music lovers and musicians will salute you in the streets and the future of this city’s cultural development will move to a different better track. And, best of all, it won’t cost anything. You’re the last call Simon – if you can’t help, all we are left with is this question from Max: “I’d like the Ministry charged with encouraging culture and heritage and broadcast diversity in New Zealand to explain to my community how silence on 106.2FM encourages local identity. Surely it’s better to have Brilleaux, Jaime Fitzgerald, Grant Haua, Enercia and Kokomo on air than silence.”

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BARNEY’S VERSION Starring: Paul Giamatti, Minnie Driver, Rosamund Pike. Dir: Richard J Lewis Barney’s Version netted lead Paul Giamatti a Golden Globe win, but passed largely unnoticed at the box office. Which is a shame because this is a terrific film – funny, intelligent and touching. The film explores the life of the titular TV producer (whose company is called ‘Unnecessary Films’), slowly peeling back layers from the harddrinking cigar-smoking cynic – who might just be a murderer – and digging into the highs and lows of three marriages over 30 years. It’s a long film, rich, detailed, and ambitious in its storytelling, drifting between time periods with assurance and revisiting events so that they emerge in different lights. Giamatti is superb, heartrendingly

human, with Minnie Driver fearlessly unsympathetic as his second wife and Rosamund Pike wonderful as his third, aging and growing with beautiful subtlety as years pass. Dustin Hoffman also pops up and is delightful (and, for a change, not overplaying) as Barney’s ex-cop father. It really is a joy to watch such a skilful script being worked on by such a cast. This is a film that manages to make even its smallest characters into fully formed people and, in examining Barney through the years, shows that under what seems like an ordinary life lurks a wealth of truly extraordinary moments. It’s a film that is rich in humanity and reminds us what it really means to be human in all its imperfect glory.

Bridesmaids made quite a splash at cinemas, embraced as the first mainstream ‘gross-out’ comedy for women, or a female equivalent of The Hangover. In fact, it’s a curious mixture, managing to weld together strains of the Farrelly brothers’ excesses (a mass vomiting scene) with the sort of ‘adult’ observationist comedy found in Judd Apatow’s Funny People. Intermittently very funny, it takes a while to warm to Kirsten Wiig’s neurotic heroine who is jilted as head bridesmaid when a new BFF arrives on the scene. Fortunately eccentric support characters carry the slack admirably. Burning Palms comes with a tagline: ‘Five stories that will f*** you up for life’. If only. It did,

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Chopper comes to town As seen on TV, Heath Franklin brings his awardwinning comedy alter-ego ‘Chopper’ back to the stage, in a show that promises to pack more wallop than a swinging sock full of $2 coins. Presenting his new show ‘A Hard Bastard’s Guide to Life’, Mark ‘Chopper’ Read delivers a comprehensive hit-list on how not to just survive, but thrive in a modern world that thinks it’s better than it is – with an easy step-by-step guide. Heath, who has been playing the character of Chopper since 2009, says his brand new show is expected to get a lot of laughs and has tested the comedy on audiences in Western Australia and Queensland. And despite Kiwi’s having a different sense of humour – in his opinion – reception from New Zealand audiences has always been great. “When you come to New Zealand, you just have to tread a bit more carefully and react to the vibe, instead of barrelling through it.” The show also features a guest appearance from Bear Grylls of ‘Man versus Wild’ fame, someone Heath says embodies the idea of a ‘hard bastard’.

While the character is based on Chopper, who was famous as an ex-criminal and gathered a cult following with the self-titled film, Heath says the show would “become quite a depressing night” if it was staying true to the hard facts. “The moustache isn’t real, I take that one off at the end of the night and it feels good being able to reclaim my own life back after playing Chopper.” A Hard Bastard’s Guide to Life is on at Baycourt Theatre on Tuesday, November 8. By Laura Weaser

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Thanks to the success of their previous murder mystery shows, The Prime Suspects new show ‘Pirates of the Pacific’ is proving to be a massive hit with Christmas functions. Originally set to debut to the public in December, availability at ‘Pirates’ was soon snapped up by business parties. Writer and director of the show Tom Kay says ‘Pirates’ has attracted bookings from businesses around the

Bay of Plenty and Waikato, as well as high-profile corporate from all over New Zealand. “We now have a total of 19 shows booked over November and December with most sold out already and over 3000 guests set to ‘Party like a Pirate’.” The interactive dinner show is modelled on Sydney’s popular ‘Dracula’s’ attraction and is a hilarious spoof of the Pirates of the Caribbean series. Public shows now run from January to March on Friday and Saturday nights. “This is something really different for group parties and summer nights out in Tauranga,” says Tom.

“It’s the first show of its kind in New Zealand using animatronics and alternative endings, so audiences can come back again and again and see a different conclusion to the story…it will keep them guessing. “We now have three major sponsors on board – House of Travel, Mills Reef and Bay Costume Hire – who contribute $500 worth of prizes each show in three prize categories, so our audiences have a great incentive to pay attention to the plot and solve the mystery.” As well as a fantastic show, exclusive to the Bay this is a unique dining experience with an inclusive four course dinner featuring a specially created Caribbean inspired menu. There are still a few spaces left for November and December shows, but bookings are very limited. For more information phone Prime Productions 07 574 1672.

Classic Christie comes to Tauranga Detour Theatre has obtained the exclusive rights to perform Agatha Christie’s murder mystery masterpiece ‘The Mousetrap’ in Tauranga. A group of people stranded in a remote country lodge discover, to their horror, that there is a murderer in their midst. Who can it be? One by one the suspicious characters reveal their sordid pasts until at the last, nerve-shredding moment when the identity and the motive are finally revealed. A cracking yarn and an irresistible treat for amateur sleuths everywhere. Having kept London audiences guessing for 60 years, this Agatha Christie classic hits the Tauranga stage for the very first time. “To celebrate the 60 years of performances in London’s West End, The Mousetrap has been released for an exclusive period to theatre’s worldwide,” says director Kim Williamson. “We leapt at the opportunity to stage this iconic whodunit here at Detour Theatre.” Describing what makes The Mousetrap so special, The mysterious Kim says it’s a show that is bursting with eccentric and mysterious characters, quirky comedy, nail biting Mr Paravicini, played by Marty Budd. drama and of course juicy murder. The show has gone from strength to strength as generations of theatre-goers are tricked and teased by this Agatha Christie classic. The Mousetrap has a talented local cast including: Bernard Setz as Sargent Trotter, Glenda Beere as Mrs Boyle, Lydia Bennett as Molly Ralston, Quentin Pidduck as Giles Ralston, Liam Herlihy as Christopher Wren, Marty Bubb as Mr Paravicini, Vince Shaw as Major Metcalf and Philippa Abel as Miss Casewell. Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap at Detour Theatre, Historic Village, Tauranga starts on November 16 until December 3. For bookings and information phone Baycourt Ticketdirect 07 577 7188. For more information on the Detour Theatre Trust visit www.detour.co.nz

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GARDENER AVAILABLE Pruning, spraying, weeding, rubbish removal. Ph Tracey on 578 9779 for a free quote GARDEN MAINTENENCE and light landscaping qualiﬁed professionals, reasonable rates. Phone Carolyn or Alan 579 4984 & 022 0697 033 WATER LILIES, soon ﬂowering, best time to establish. $10 each! ($35 in most nurserys) Phone 544 3418

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DIABETIC CHRISTMAS GIFT trays – delicious selection nuts and carob. Non diabetic also available. Hardys Bayfair, Hardys Organic Papamoa. 0800 833 333 GUARD YOUR PROSTATE Microgenics Protech – supports health of your prostate gland. Save $10. Hardys Bayfair, Hardys Organic Papamoa. 0800 833 333 HEALTH STARTS IN THE GUT! Primadophillus Reuteri provides Lactobaccillus Reuteri a strain of probiotic with extra power. Save on 30’s & 90’s. Hardys Bayfair, Hardys Organic Papamoa. 0800 833 333 LOSE WEIGHT FEEL GREAT! Join a ‘New Look’ clinic in your area. Healthy eating with real food. Ph Bernice NOW 576 4848 NATURAL NEW ZEALAND Health Products. Something for everyone. NZ Chartered Natural Therapies and Natural Medicine Practitioners. Opposite BP Te Puke. Ph 573 5533 www.naturaltherapiesltd.co.nz and www.kiwikitz.com SHUZI – THE HI-TECH solution for arthritis, insomnia, peripheral neuropathy and much more. From sports bands to high fashion jewellery. Hardys Bayfair, Hardys Organic Papamoa. 0800 833 333 SMOOTH WRINKLES, rejuvenate skin, repair elasticity - Pro-Col Collagen a pure, hydrolysed triple matrix bovine collagen. Buy one get one half price. Hardys Bayfair, Hardys Organic Papamoa. 0800 833 333 SVETOL the decaffeinated green coffee bean extract for weight loss. Support metabolism and weight management – save $10 off 2 mth pack. Hardys Bayfair, Hardys Organic Papamoa. 0800 833 333 TIRED OF YOYO DIETING. Celebrity Slim – the amazing diet system. Value pack – normal value over $100. 14 shakes, 2 breakfast bars, 2 replacement bars, 5 snack bars. Now $79.90. Hardys Bayfair, Hardys Organic Papamoa. 0800 833 333

house for sale

A PERFECT 3 bedroom home, warm and dry for winter with fireplace and full insulation. Absolutely gorgeous outlook and cool breezes for Summer! Fantastic family home or for first home buyers - ideal location in Brookfield. Fully fenced on a 716m2 section situated within easy walking distance to Brookfield shops, Schools, PreSchools & parks. Separate single garage with power. Located in a quiet cul-de sac in a great neighbourhood, this home is a must see to see the potential. View some photos on TradeMe #405 700 583 or phone Daphne 027 552 6283 today! Price Slashed to Sell was $330 now only $295,000

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trades & services

FANTASTIC LIFESTYLE BLOCK AT PIKOWAI Within easy commuting to Tauranga, Te Puke and Whakatane this 4 bedroom brick home is in paradise! Beautiful sea and rural views 6 acres grazing land, horse pens, heaps of shedding, butchery and chiller for own use single garage with sleepout/ ofﬁce big games room or can be converted to extra double garage, chook house, drenching race for the cattle. 11.5 x 4.5 metre in ground swimming pool which is fully decked and fenced. This is a beautiful home and comes with a share in the community woolshed, tennis courts and cattle yards. Own water scheme. Fantastic community to belong to - be in quick! Price of house has been slashed! to $550,000 - urgent sale. Ph 027 281 7427 today.

ALLAN HOLMES FOR ALL your carpentry & Handyman jobs around the home. Big or Small. Free quotes. Reasonable rates. Call 021 992 678 or after hours on 07 576 3543

FREE HOUSE SITTERS available, 4th of March to 11th of May. Tauranga area, mature middle aged couple. 10 years experience. Ph 027 302 8328

BUILDER / PAINTER qualiﬁed carpenter. Labour only $30p/h. Ref available. Ph Mark 544 4177 or mark@wespeakhouse.co.nz

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lifestyle coaching

CAREER RESTRUCTURING? Creating opportunity from Change. Ph Chris at Balanced Success Coaching 027 548 2548 chris@balancedsuccess.co.nz www.balancedsuccess.co.nz

lost

JEWELLERY – GOLD CHAIN Lost in the cherrywood shopping area and matua suburb - a yellow gold oval curb link chain, 44cm. Huge senimental value. Please phone carol on 579 9416

mobility

JOYRIDE MOBILITY SCOOTER exc condition, hardly used from new, battery good. Paid 4k new. $2500. Ph 542 4485 or 021 708 210 MOBILITY SCOOTERS, wheelchairs, walkers, & more Visit our showroom, 29 Burrows St, Tauranga, ph 578 1213. Mobility Equipment Services, ‘Supporting your independence’

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HAVE A BOOMING CHRISTMAS – Pro- erex Booster Plus – buy one get one free – better sex naturally. Hardys Bayfair, Hardys Organic Papamoa. 0800 833 333

removal

FREE REMOVAL unwanted steel, ovens, dishwashers, washing machines, fridge/ freezers, car batteries, etc. Phone Breno 021 608 129 Or 544 6560

to let

CARAVANS, special Spring rates from $30pw. Free local delivery. BOP Caravan Rentals Ltd, 184 Waikite Rd, Welcome Bay. Phone 544 1509 or 027 533 9301 OFFICE SPACE for rent sharing with Community Organisations in Greerton. Ph. 543 3194 STUDIO SPACE TO LET 180m2, great location in Papamoa on the Beach Road includes kitchen and bathroom facilities and kids room. Ideal for dance classes, yoga or pilates, mirrors on all walls. Avail before 5pm Mon-Thur & all day Fri & Sun. Ph 021 267 5377

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ALL SUPER & PENSIONERS very welcome. Lawns - friendly operator. Any Otumoetai area. Ph Selwyn 578 9677 or 027 251 8779

ALTERATIONS & NEW HOMES qualiﬁed builders & joiners with references available. Proform Construction, 130 Newton Street, Mount. Ph 07 574 9135 info@proform.org.nz BUILDER 30 YEARS experience in BOP. Specialised in outdoor areas, decks, pergolas, retaining walls, fences etc. Reasonable rates. Free quotes. Ph Keith today on 578 6869 or 021 377 387 BUILDER AVAILABLE NOW New homes, renovations, bricklaying, quality rates, quality work. No job too big or small. Call me now for a quote. DK Builders - Dieter 021 474 299 or 574 2139 a/h

EARTHWORKS Truck / Digger hire, Tree removal, Farmwork. Opening special only $80+GST per hour. No job too big or small. Call Carl at Addison Civil today 0274 636 560 ELECTRICIAN A professional and affordable registered electrician. New builds, alterations, repairs. Ph Steve 5780555, 027 8486042 ELECTRICIAN Able to do all jobs. Alarms, New Houses and renovations. Registered. Quality service at great price. Phone Tomas, Check Electrical 07 544 6448 or 027 566 7872 ELECTRICIAN available for all services. Mitsubishi air conditioner supplied and installed for very competitive rates. Ph 027 5473 831 or a/h on 543 0062 EXCAVATION WORK, digger hire, auger drilling, buckets, truck, good rates now. Phone Dennis 021 570 658 GORSE SPRAYING do you have a gorse problem? Ph today for a FREE quote for all gorse control. Scott 0274 624 769 GUTTERING CLEAN and repairs, moss removal. Experienced Certiﬁed Roofer. Free quotes. Ph Peter now 542 4291 or 0274 367 740 HANDYMAN BUILDING and section maintenance, decks, fencing, pergolas, painting, water blasting, odd jobs. Free quotes Ph Rossco 027 270 3313 or 544 5911

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PAINTER / DECORATOR Interior & Exterior, quality workmanship, friendly services. Over 20 years specialising in residential and more. Quality paint at trade prices. For your best advice in all areas Ph Shane Mount/Tauranga Decorators 544 6495 or 021 575 307 PLUMBING WORKS no job too big or small, blocked drains, plumbing, spouting & roof repairs. Ph 571 5558 RESPOUT NOW! Call Ageless Continuous Spouting. Made to measure costs less than you think. For a prompt quote. Ph 574 0496 RETAINING WALL SPECIALIST Pole walls, crib walls, tilt slab concrete walls. Excavation and levelling. The best in the business. Ph Mike 0274 942 966 a/h 576 0941 ROOFING & SPOUTING Metal fascia, gutter and rainwater systems. Long run corrugate. Maintenance, repairs or replacement. Free no obligation quotes. PROFIX 0274 965 375 proﬁxltd@xtra.co.nz ROOFING New roofs, re-roofs, spouting & repairs. Free quotes. Ph Chris 027 276 6348 or 572 3237 ROOF REPAIRS metal or onduline, gutters & down pipes, clean or replacement, chimney repairs. Certiﬁed Roofer over 30yrs experience Free quote. Ph Peter 542 4291 or 0274 367 740 ROTARY HOEING Lawn preparation & sowing. Loader & blade work. Tractor mowing. Quality work & friendly service. Mini Tractor Service. Ph Murray 543 4538 or 027 200 7480 STUMPINATOR STUMP Grinding free quotes & prompt service. Narrow machine to access rear yards. Ph 576 4245 or 0220 764 245 TAURANGA TANDEM SKYDIVING Best Buzz in the Bay, Gift Vouchers. Ph 576 7990 TREE FELLING, PRUNING & Removal/chipping. No job to big or small. Phone Scott 0274 624 769

transport

DRIVING MISS DAISY, need to get to an appointment or want an outing? But don’t drive? Call us for safe friendly, and reliable service. Discount offered to Total Mobility card holders. Phone Jackie 552 6614

HANDYMAN QUALIFIED carpenter available for building, painting and rooﬁng work. Prompt service, reasonable rates. Phone 021 073 4696

NEED TO GET AROUND and About? Supported individual transport to anywhere you need to go. Appointments, shopping, coffee dates etc. Experienced caring staff. Door to door service. Visit www.aroundandabout. co.nz or phone 576-3997 or 027-505-4499 today

HOME WATER BORE For your Garden & Lawn irrigation. Guaranteed workmanship Phone Grant 07 575 9633 or 027 575 9633

A HOLIDAY OR DAY-OUT. Every week. Small Group Tours. Door to Door Hinterland Tours Ph: Kae & Rick 07 575 8118

INSECT SCREENS Measure. Make. Mend. Contact Rob at Magic Seal 543 4940 LAWN MOWING Otumoetai and surrounding areas. Prompt reliable service. Free quotes. Phone Richard 576 9964 or 027 621 9993 NEED HELP WITH ACCOUNTS? File system organization, GST, Wages. Plus sales generation project management. $45 per/hr. Call Julie 544 9176

travel & tours

CURTISY TOURS TRAVEL Club Coming up Day Trips: Matata/ Pongakawa, Wildlife Sanctuary Franklin, Whakatane Early Xmas lunch. Away Trip: 23-27th Dec Northland and more phone 543 9205 SCOTTSDALE SENIOR TOURS, fully escorted owner/operated since 1978. Ph free for colour brochure today 0800 664 414. Also see www.scottsdaletours. co.nz

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Destiny’s calling

Life was a beach I used to think as a teenager. Living for the next ‘big one’ – crashing surf upon the sand forever with the hope of conquering natures force.

Memories of horse riding on golden sand, beautiful native bush, rolling hills, building huts, lots of home baking along with feeding calves, getting in the cows and scrubbing down cowshed walls, difficult times along with an ‘open home’ open heart family. Lots of love and kindness was given from our family into the lives of people who had fallen on hard times. My dad’s handshake was his word and his heart was for the Maori people of Aotearoa. All these memories helped shape the person I am today. Your memories will have formed your heart as well. In love, God the Father predestined us

to be adopted as His sons and daughters through Jesus Christ, in accordance with His pleasure and will. God gives us redemption through His blood and the forgiveness of sins and lavishes rich grace upon our lives. He changes our perspective and hearts with gentle kindness to do His will. Ephesians 1 The Father’s love became very real to my heart when my husband and I lived in California for six months attending the Vineyard Ministry Leadership School. John Wimber of Anaheim Vineyard and Brent Rue of The Desert Vineyard both had a huge impact on our lives as they imparted the Fatherheart of God. Healing was lifestyle and outreaches to Mexico and San Francisco to the poor shaped our hearts forever birthing the compassion of Christ. During the years what was imparted into our lives has matured and developed and held us during times of severe testing.

A biblical sign of the times Jesus was asked by His disciples in Matthew 24:3: “What will be the sign of Your coming and of the close of the age?” In response, Jesus spoke of the “many” who would come in His name and who would lead “many” astray. Deception (including false signs, wonders and miracles) is the sign most mentioned in Scripture concerning the last days. Paul says in 1 Thessalonians 5:21: “Test everything, hold fast to what is good”. We need to ask these questions to evaluate ministry and ministries so as to avoid deception and error: 1. Do I recognise that in this hour, the counterfeit exists alongside the true? 2. Have I judged and tested this as I am commanded to do in Scripture?

3. Does this genuinely and clearly line up with the word of God? 4. Are signs following the preaching of God’s word or are signs being followed? 5. Is repentance being preached? Is the fruit of repentance being demonstrated? 6. Is Jesus alone being exalted? 7. Is there a genuine heart to reach the lost? 8. Is this demonstrating holiness and the fear of God? 9. Am I seeking first the rule and reign of God in my own walk with Jesus? Visit with us at Jesus First in Tauranga: www.jesusfirst.org.nz. By Peter Whitcombe

Inspiration from Christchurch Join the Tauranga Ministers Association event in expressing the unity of the church working together in Tauranga.

Church, Christchurch. Under his leadership, Spreydon Baptist grew from a struggling congregation to one of the largest and most dynamic congregation in New Zealand. Spreydon Baptist is Tauranga churches meet a church providing a together as an Expression beacon of hope through of Unity. On Sunday, extensive community November 7 at 7pm ministries touching the Tauranga Ministers the lives of thousands Association has organised in Christchurch in the a combined churches midst of the devastaevent at Bethlehem Baptist tion since the February Church. earthquakes. The special guest speaker Join us for an evening is Pastor Murray RobertRev Murray Robertson. of Worship and a messon from Christchurch. sage of inspiration. Rev Murray Robertson is the past Murray’s topic will be ‘God’s great senior Pastor of Spreydon Baptist Hope for Us’.

Holding onto intimacy of relationship with Christ has held us and kept us pursuing the vision he set in our hearts many years ago. A number of times we have traveled back to the USA either to visit revival outpourings or to minister at various places along with ministering the Father's love and pouring out new wine in the South Island off our nation. Gods love changes hearts and changes minds. I now think life is maybe not a ‘beach’ and the only ‘big one’ I am waiting for is a huge wave of the Father's Love to pour over our nation and heal all the broken hearts. This is my destiny and calling to our land. The Father also has a predestined calling of destiny for your life. That is to know the Father's love and give it away. Come and be awakened to destiny at the Father's House for the impartation of the Father's love.

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Exalt God • Worship Jesus MEETING IN THE TAURANGA PRIMARY SCHOOL HALL 10am: Worship & Communion Service Speaker: David Otway Phone: 579 2729 www.jesusfirst.org.nz

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Below: Monty Carter, 7, enjoys one of the many fun activities at Monday’s Halloween Light Party organised by Greerton Bible Church and Life Link Community Trust, while helper Mary Persson looks on. The community event attracted about 400 children.

Left: Louis Reed, 10, is the winner of the Tauranga Boat Expo and SunLive’s ‘Hook, Line and Snap!’ fishing photo competition. He wins tickets to the Tauranga Boat Expo and a great prize pack from Fishing 4 Less, including his brand new fishing rod.

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Right: Thousands turned out for the Tauranga Breast Cancer Support Service charity walk on Wednesday. Grace Zurcher, 8, and sisters Maddison and Paige Short.

Giving it up for hospice Hospices throughout New Zealand have embarked on a quirky new campaign to raise awareness of their hospice shops. Hospices rely heavily on the shops to help raise much needed funds to ensure the services they provide remain free to patients and their families. The ‘Give It Up’ campaign has two phases; the first involves encouraging people to clean out their wardrobe and donate designer and well-known labelled clothing for the 2011 Fashion Collection. Waipuna Hospice fundraising manager Trish Rae says businesses are being encouraged to motivate their staff to all bring in a piece of pre-loved designer or top label clothing, jewellery or an accessory.

“We can supply businesses with bags and posters to place in their staff room or alternatively individuals can drop off clothing to our depot at Unit G, 4 Brook Street, (just along from Fraser Cove) or one of our two hospice shops: 271 Fraser Street or 1292 Cameron Road, Tauranga. “It’s the perfect time to clean out your wardrobe, the sun is shining and summer is almost here,” says Trish. “Our hospice shops will be delighted to take your pre-loved designer or top label item off your hands.” Trish says it’s the perfect time to clear out those impulse buys that are the wrong colour or style, that languish at the back of your wardrobe. The campaign starts on November 7, with clothing being collected

for up to two weeks. Phase two begins on November 21; this is all about getting into hospice shops to see what they have on offer following the influx of designer and top label donations. The campaign is designed to be fun, while at the same time assisting a great cause. “Everyone knows women love clothes and getting them for a bargain is even better, but shopping knowing you are helping a charity is the ultimate for all females – guilt free shopping.” Recent New Zealand’s Next Top Model winner Brigette Thomas will be the face of the campaign which is also being supported by New Zealand singer songwriter Gin Wigmore, who is motivated to get involved through her own family experience using hospice services.

The many different types of collectors So here we are; the RWC is over and we collected a cup – very cool – the European invaders have stolen the Melbourne Cup again, the Rena is still out there and we have an election on the way. I thought as it has been a little quiet, I would give you my take on who is collecting what. As Flo has gone bush for an educational adventure, I am rounding up my bones and storing them in a safe place – mainly under the boss man’s shoes. He will not mind, well, maybe. Flo – champion bone stealer; so young, but being a Lab, what would I expect. Rena – reef collector, on and on it goes, one day we will have the Astrolabe back. John Key – vote collector, I hope he gets enough to try and get this place moving again.

Phil Goff – hope collector, as that is all he has. Winston – elderly collector, he is like a retirement village magnet, it’s over ‘Winnie’. Hone – mana collector, don’t come knocking at my door though as your ‘mana’ vanished long ago. Richie – knighthood collector extraordinaire , arise Sir Richie, “you da man”. Stephen Donald – beaver collector, dam, he at least did not choke and where is Waiuku anyway? And here are a few that could not collect anything, even if they tripped over it: Maritime NZ – kudos collectors, for getting Rena off the rocks – nope, never going to happen. The French – eye collectors, also makers of the world worst cars and collectors of ‘Green Peace’ Christ-

mas function invites. Tauranga City Council – collectors of so many glasses that are only half full, well no worries, something on the water front has to be better than what is there now? Now you can come up with a few, only send us the good ones though. It’s Flo time, direct from the jungle of the Coromandel and hooked up to the ‘bush telegraph’. Well, a quick note to say I have been having a grand old time here in the bush. There are so many new sights and sounds – including those dammed possums – I just don’t know what to do with myself. In fact, I have been enjoying the outdoors so much I haven’t had the time to note them all down yet. So readers, I shall leave you hanging and next week I will share the full, uncut details of my wild Coromandel adventure – including my travel on the high seas. Take it easy all.

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Organist of the year plays for Tauranga American organist Jelani Eddington has established himself as one of the most prominent and sought-after artists on the concert circuit and the Tauranga Theatre Organ Society has been lucky enough to secure him for a concert.

Jelani has performed at virtually all of the major concert venues throughout the United States, has toured extensively abroad and has received numerous awards and recognitions – including his selection as the 2001 Theatre Organist of the Year. Born in Muncie, Indiana, Jelani grew up in a very musical family. Between the interests of his mother, a professional music teacher of many years and those of his grandmother, Florence Arnold, a well-respected piano instructor, it was no surprise when Jelani demonstrated an inclination towards music at

Jelani is performing at the society’s next concert with the Wurlitzer and the Steinway on Sunday, November 20.

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a very early age. During the course of his concert career, Jelani has been featured at numerous national and regional conventions of the American Theatre Organ Society and has toured extensively throughout the world, including numerous concert appearances in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Europe. He has also accompanied numerous silent films and appears regularly at film series. Jelani has also produced and marketed numerous theatre organ albums on some of the best-known and most dynamic instru-

ments in the country. In August 2001, the American Theatre Organ Society honored Jelani’s extensive career as a concert and recording organist by naming him the 2001 Theatre Organist of the Year—the organisation’s most prestigious honor for theatre organists. The Weekend Sun has a double pass to give away to the lucky readers who can tell us where Jelani was born? Enter online at www.sunlive.co.nz under the Competitions section. Entries must be received by November 15.

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