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➤➤Darren and Louise Clark, of Botany Downs went to Nashville, USA, in the hopes that they would return to New Zealand with the beginnings of a family. They left on January 10, having found a proven donor aged 28 who would provide 12 embryos from her first cycle of which the Clarks would share half with another childless couple.

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➤➤Shona Maiden of Howick, who told media she was bashed for speaking Maori outside a bar in the early hours of New Year’s Day, pleaded guilty to assault in the Manukau District Court.

The incident occurred outside the 123 Karaoke bar in Meadowlands, Howick on January 1 and a decision was made to prosecute the 46-year-old female and a 43-year-old male.

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➤➤Bird carer, Mandy Robertson of Wild Bird Care Charitable trust said the Whitford’s Wild Bird Care Centre was shutting its doors. The rescued birds were moved to the Green Bay Rescue Centre.

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➤➤Diners and a bride-to-be were left in the lurch when the popular Beach house waterfront restaurant in the Parade, Bucklands Beach closed unexpectedly. It had been void of activity for about a month but a faded chalk board advertising Christmas events remained.

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The historic Gillard farm house, one of the last farm houses left in the Flat BushEast Tamaki area was set to make way for a 21st century subdivision. Auckland Council approved consent for bulk earthworks on the privately-owned site where Gillard House sat at 39 Flat Bush School Road.

Removal of the house was a permitted activity and subdivision consent was lodged with the council.

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Bucklands Beach Domain, a request from former Pakuranga Community Board chairman Ross Warren and his wife Shirley, a former Community and Howick Local Board elected member.

They had resource consent for a three-lot subdivision at their property in Devon Road, Bucklands Beach and wanted approval to install a public storm water pipe through the park land from their Devon Road property to connect the site with existing lines in Bucklands Beach Domain. ➤➤Plans got underway to raise $3 million for construction of a climatecontrolled facility to house the Howick Historical Village’s textile collection and other artefacts. The delicate garments were stored in boxes on the second floor of the Puhunui

Homestead and 15,000 other items were in cupboards and drawers in buildings around the village. As well as providing more appropriate storage, the facility would allow many of the items to go on public display.

February

➤➤Counties Manukau East crime prevention manager, inspector Jared Pirrett, said vehicle crime had dropped significantly. Police officers and partners all worked together smartly and did a lot of work around public reassurance and crime prevention, he said. The partners include volunteer groups such as patrols, volunteers from the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Temple and Asian Council on Reducing Crime

(ACRC). Monthly statistics showed that the number of vehicles stolen in the Counties Manukau district in December 2015 were 304, down from 391 during the same period in 2014. ➤➤An arsonist was believed to have started a fire that consumed a Flat Bush School Road house earmarked for demolition. The vacant property was illegally used as a rubbish dumping site. ➤➤The Tamaki River Festival had loads of activities for children to do on the water, in the water and by the water.

They had a go at sailing, kayaking, learnt more about the river and native skinks and geckos. There was also a raft race that had some adults having more fun than their kids!

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A university student who spent his childhood years using the London Underground rail system campaigned for a new South-East Auckland light rail line, catching the ear of Auckland Mayor Len Brown and his transport advisers. Nick Meyer, 18, of Botany Downs, was to meet with Mr Brown, having already run his ideas past Rory Palmer, the council’s senior adviser for mayoral initiatives.

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➤➤Jeremy Hamish Kerr, of Mellons Bay appeared in the High Court at Auckland before Justice Geoffrey Venning facing two charges of blackmail. The 60-year-old Mellons Bay man who admitted blackmailing Fonterra and Federated Farmers with 1080-laced infant milk formula wrote a retraction letter and apologised, but disputed some of the facts presented by the Crown. ➤➤Arrival of bulldozers on a prime Point View Drive site in Howick signified the end of the fight by a group of concerned residents to have a shift in the proposed rural urban boundary (RUB) to the edge of the unique ridge line overturned. Tenders for sites in the 20 lot subdivision, called Point View Estate, were advertised. The Point View Heritage Society said it was extremely disappointed and felt let down by the elected councillors. “It looks as if our efforts will have been to no avail.” ➤➤Howick & Eastern bus drivers went on strike. A 24-hour demonstration outside the depot on Ti Rakau Drive coincided with city-wide industrial action of bus drivers against NZ Bus which served central and west Auckland and the North Shore. The Howick & Eastern bus company, serving the eastern suburbs, came under the In Motion Group owned by Scottish billionaire Sir Brian Souter and protests were directed towards him. ➤➤After a 12-month hiatus, a Citizens Advice Bureau was re-installed at the Botany Town Centre. Its new premises next to the Botany Crime Watch Patrol offices at the back of the Foodcourt were officially opened. ➤➤Numbers of residential dwellings sold in the year to January were down by a third in Eastern Beaches following the Auckland regionwide trend, according to Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ) figures. Dwelling numbers sold dropped to 85 in January compared with 127 at the same time last year. However the median price was up 13 per cent in January to $928,000 from $822,000 the same time the year before. It also took 46 days to sell a property in Eastern Beaches compared with 29 days the previous January.

March

➤➤The bomb scares plaguing schools around the country were

real for locals when police were called to Howick Primary School in Willoughby Avenue after a sinister call was received similar in nature to threats made around the country the day before. Inspector Jared Pirrett of Counties Manukau East Police said the situation was defused and “everyone was safe and sound”. ➤➤Howick RSA poppy day coordinator Jan Lawrence was the recipient of the 2016 Times Veterans’ Community Service Award. ➤➤Luke MacKenzie was on his way to work when he was killed in a head-on collision caused by 27-year-old drink-driver Xingyu Shang in the early morning of February 24, 2014. Shang was subsequently sentenced in the Manukau District Court to nine months’ home detention after pleading guilty to his charges.

He would then be deported back to China. Luke’s father Martin and mother Tania said there would never be any forgiveness towards him and the punishment he got would never be enough for them. ➤➤The former wife of an imprisoned Chinese drug lord, Haiyan Luo (Sherley), the former owner of Kanda Sushi in Burswood, was being prosecuted by the IRD for tax evasion amounting up to $1.2 million. Luo was married to high profile drug dealer Xianghua Zeng who had multiple identities and was also known as Guoming Chen. ➤➤Wero, the Vector Wero Whitewater Park at the Vodafone Events Centre in Manukau, was officially opened by Kiwi Olympic kayaking champion and general manager of Wero, Ian Ferguson; Vector group chief executive, Simon Mackenzie; and the centre’s chief executive, Richard Jeffery. ➤➤An important new and popular event for all ages and cultures was established with the inaugural Auckland Brit & Euro Classic Car Show. Chairman of the event’s organizing committee, Reverend Dr Richard Waugh said while the show was an Auckland regional event, many people commented on the ideal location at Lloyd Elsmore Park, with three entrances, and the nearby ambiance of the Howick Historical Village. An estimated 5000 people attended the show and close to 500 cars and motorcycles were attracted.

Polish heritage was to the fore when Mount Roskill MP and Auckland mayoralty candidate Phil Goff and his sisterin-law Janina Goff met John and Ellen Wojciechowski Roy at Howick’s Polish Heritage Trust Museum. The link was Ms Goff ’s mother who, along with Mr Roy, was one of 1.7 million Polish people forced from their homes in Eastern Poland to labour camps throughout Siberia at the start of World War II. Times photo Wayne Martin

➤➤Katrina Bungard, Howick Local Board elected member and head of department of Arts at Elim Christian College was awarded the prestigious TeachNZ Area School Teachers’ Study Award scholarship.

The full-time study leave award enabled her to complete a Master’s degree in Educational Leadership through the University of Auckland. ➤➤Business owners with registered trademarks were warned to be on the lookout for a bogus invoice doing the rounds. It asked for payment to list the trademark on an online database. Jeff Allen of Appliance Outlet contacted

the Times after he nearly paid the account thinking it was an extension of the trademark registration. ➤➤Murray Burton, principal of Elim Christian College paid tribute to a much loved teacher and head of department, English Lynn Tito, who died the previous week. The teacher instilled a love for the English language and a fascination for history in students at Elim Christian College where she taught for 16 years. ➤➤The vice-president of the NZ Secondary Principals’ Council, Mike

Benita Semati, of Dannemora left to spend 12 weeks in New York after winning a 12-week internship at the American Museum of Natural History in New York -the largest natural history museum in the world with a mission commensurately monumental in scope.

The PhD Student from Auckland University of Technology (AUT) was the first recipient of the American scholarship offered by the AUT InterNZ programme.

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➤➤Clara Browne celebrated her 100th birthday at the Summerset Retirement Village in Flat Bush where she was known as “the lady who walks”. She said she had always walked and, in her 100-year lifetime, never learned to drive a car. “I never really wanted to,” she said.

➤➤Judith Collins, Minister of Corrections and Minister of Police, MPs Kanwaljeet Singh Bakshi and Melissa Lee, Race Relations Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy, academics from Massey University and Sergeant Kin Charles, district responsiveness advisor from Wellington District Headquarters, were present to mark the first anniversary of Gandhi Nivas in Otahuhu, a unique early intervention facility providing free counselling and temporary accommodation to men involved in family violence. Counties Manukau Police District Commander John Tims awarded a special Challenge Coin to founder of East Tamaki Healthcare, Ranjna Patel for having spearheaded the ground-breaking project that would be replicated in Wellington and Hamilton. ➤➤Fisher & Paykel Appliances announced the closure of its East Tamaki factory and the loss of 186 jobs. The iconic Kiwi company - which manufactures a range of small refrigeration products – attributed the closure to lack of scale and cost-competitiveness. ➤➤The new Botany Crime Watch patrol base, at the rear of the food court in Botany Town Centre, was officially opened by Wendy Spiller, Counties Manukau East Police area commander; Auckland Council Howick Ward councillor, Dick Quax; and chairman of the Botany Crime Watch Patrol, Dick Marshall. ➤➤ Armed Offender’s Squads were used as a precautionary measure to gain entry into property in Botany as part of a massive national police operation targeting an alleged meth ring. Properties in East Tamaki and Botany were among numerous suburbs and towns raided. Eighteen people were arrested. ➤➤While members of the Pakuranga Chinese Association were used to visiting places of cultural interest in Auckland to know a little more about the place they now called home, they were thrilled to get a visit from a local marae. In a show of mutual respect, Te Aukaha Roopu from Nga Hau E Wha O Pukekohe Marae visited the Pakuranga Leisure Centre where the members of the Chinese association regularly meet.

➤➤Religious and community leaders, members of parliament, the Mayor, New Zealand Police, Race Relations Commissioner, and over 6000 people spent the day at the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Temple at the grand Buddha’s Day Multicultural Festival. ➤➤Mayor Len Brown, along with David Collings, chair of Howick Local Board and Hamish Anderson, general manager residential Todd Property, met at the Ormiston Town Centre to mark the completion of the first houses completed at the centre which was a Todd Property development in partnership with Auckland Council.

Mission Heights Primary School students Jasper Carpenter, Olivia McSaveney, Hannah Gillespie and Hannah Grant won the national Community Problem Solving competition (CmPS) enabling them to spend nine days competing at the Future Problem Solving Program International Conference (Fpspi) at Michigan University in the US.

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➤➤Police seized large amounts of methamphetamine and nearly $400,000 of cash in a major operation into organised crime in Auckland City including East Tamaki. Operation Disruption targeted organised crime and related offending with 11 people arrested.

➤➤In the lead up to Anzac day, more than 2000 poppies, crafted by local school students, were planted by Bellyful East Auckland and Howick RSA at the Botany Town Centre as part of The Peace Poppy Project.

Botany Town Centre installed the remembrance gardens at the centre as part of their 100-year Anzac tribute and displayed it again because they believed that 101 years was just as significant.

➤➤Botany Town Centre won a silver award in the restoration category at the NZ Commercial Projects Awards. It was for a remediation (reclad) project of the existing shopping centre undertaken while still remaining fully functional during the replacement of all the claddings, canopies, gutters and roofing. ➤➤A car lost control and hit a power pole on the last corner of the windy semirural Point View Drive before reaching the straight leading to Chapel Road. Police and fire crews were called to remove the pole which fell on the car. However the female driver escaped unhurt. Anne Sutcliffe, who lived just down the road from the corner, said she had seen it all too many times before. ➤➤The “Green Gang” – a group of youths hiding behinds bandanas and allegedly intimidating people in the area – disbanded after the Times revealed police were looking into an incident in which drunk teens had allegedly terrorised a family in Northpark. ➤➤A vast block of Whitford forest went on sale. The land was presented as a current foreign investment opportunity in a city that had been rated as the ninth most desirable country in the world to live in by the United Nations.

Situated in one of the major growing areas of Auckland the 1683 ha land holding was in two blocks with 20 separate titles.

May

➤➤The Salvation Army started an environmental and needsassessment scan of Flat Bush as they planned for services to the community there. Lieutenant Jessica Londhe and her husband Lieutenant Ameet Londhe were appointed as the new Salvation Army leaders for the Flat Bush Community. Their role included extending the tent pegs of East City Corps Howick to Flat Bush.

➤➤Byron Elrick and his wife started to raise money for their threeyear-old son Cruze who was born with a condition called grade 3 Microtia and Atresia on his right ear, a congenital deformity affecting the outer ear (pinna) where the ear does not fully develop. They had found Dr John Reinisch a specialist in the US who could create an ear for their son.

June

Howick and Botany residents, Mary Ann France and Kim Callard harnessed the energies of women prisoners and retirees to help them make comfort blankets and pikau bags for traumatised kids. They formed Comfort Kidz, an organisation dedicated to helping traumatised children, and gave the products to the Multi-Agency Centre, a Middlemore Hospital facility dealing with traumatised children, bringing together health, welfare and police.

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➤➤Dyann Calverley who chaired Manukau East Council of Social Services (Mecoss), an umbrella organisation that hosts the Howick and Pakuranga as well as Botany, Flatbush and Ormiston Safety Network group bi-monthly meetings, resigned from the post.

She brought the organisation up to speed by introducing the concept of Community Safety Networking Breakfasts at the Howick Club and inviting high profile speakers to share their experiences. ➤➤Pak’nSave Ormiston supermarket, which only opened its doors the previous November, sold two big-winning tickets over two weeks. Lotto players from Wakatipu New World, Queenstown and the Ormiston supermarket shared the $1 million jackpot winning $500,000 each with Lotto First Division in the Wednesday live Lotto draw.

Planning was underway by a group of community representatives for more walking, cycling and horse riding trails in the Beachlands/Maraetai area. Following community feedback, the Franklin Local Board made it a priority to plan a network of trails across the local board area and Beachlands/Maraetai was selected first for the project.

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➤➤Steady as she goes was the way Mayor Len Brown described the 2016/2017 annual plan adopted by Auckland Council. He told the Times he was “unusually” going for the status quo and “quite liking it.” After a three-year transition period he said the final rating system needed a chance to settle in.

➤➤Hekia Parata, Minister of Education and Nikki Kaye, Associate Minister of Education, along with Andrew Bayly MP for Hunua visited Ormiston Primary School where Ms Parata said $7.3 million would be injected into the school for expansion. ➤➤The Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run, covering over 3500 kilometres of New Zealand’s roads and highways and involving some 60,000 school children nationwide, called at Howick College. Head of outdoor education at Howick College Dave Mason and his students ran with the Peace Torch from Mellons Bay Reserve to Howick College before a special ceremony. ➤➤Howick local Mary Ann France was honoured by the Auckland Region Women’s Correction Facility for her selfless work engaging women prisoners and teaching them a new skill over the previous eight years. ➤➤Three members of the leadership team of the new Ormiston Junior College worked on a progress report for the Board of Trustees off the ground, with suggestions for the new junior college which would cater for Year 7-10 and accommodate 1050 students. ➤➤The Paul Harris Fellowship was conferred on two Somerville Rotarians, assistant governor Philip Wilson and club president nominee Andrew Harvey, recognised for their outstanding commitment to the community.

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➤➤Ormiston and Pakuranga residents attended a community Iftaar where 150 women in hijabs prayed together before breaking their fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. ➤➤A fisherman, believed to be in his late 40s, who fell off a cliff near Kawakawa Bay was is in a stable condition. He had to be winched to safety after falling down a 15 metre cliff from the walking track at Sugar Loaf Point, Waiti Bay. ➤➤The Spice Boys at Ormiston College won first place in the East Auckland Dragons’ Den competition along with a $1000 cheque that would help as capital investment for their business. Macleans College team Life Ed won the second place.

July

➤➤Botany resident Albert Ng’s photograph was one of the top images in the 24 hour day-in-the-life competition at the Nikon Auckland Photo Day. He was among four local photographers, including Aaron Whyte of Pakuranga, Xueweihe Xueweihe of East Tamaki, and Hongcan Chen of Pakuranga, whose pictures were selected amongst the top 30 images in the competition. ➤➤Three students just starting their careers and a police officer with more than 20 years’ contribution to the community received Howick Rotary Club annual recognition awards. In consultation with Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT), three top apprentices, Cameron Palmer, Liam Pitiroi and Hayden Johnston, were chosen for the Ken McIntosh Memorial Apprentice of the Year award.

The Police Officer of the Year award was made to local officer Sergeant Keith Olsen for his work with youth at risk.

➤➤Graham Pilgrim, chairman of the Eastpark Residents’ Association in Golflands, was delighted to see a new bus stop and shelter go up on Ti Rakau Drive in front of their estate. However, his delight was short-lived when he got ready to alight from the bus outside his home, but it kept driving past toward the Botany Town Centre bus depot. Auckland Transport said it had encountered some unforeseen issues with the safe operation of the bus stop at all times of the day, leading Mr Pilgrim to retort that the ‘unforeseen’ issues should have been foreseen well before thousands of ratepayers’ dollars were wasted on the construction of the bus stop. ➤➤A static speed camera in Murphys Road, which pinged one Times reader three times, lead him to query why it was placed at the bottom of a steep hill where cars gather speed going down the hill in readiness to push up the other side. But a police statement provided to the Times said there shouldn’t be any reason for motorists to be ‘surprised’ if ticketed for speeding past the camera or to have any excuse for missing its presence. ➤➤The coastal community of Beachlands and Maraetai rejoiced as building activity on an ecologically friendly outdoor education centre, established by the Marion Ross Memorial Trust,

began on its Maraetai Coast Road site. The educational centre on a 214 hectare working farm would have eco-sustainable buildings highlighting the importance of sustainable living for young people. ➤➤Local body candidate Peter Young, organiser of a public meeting at the Pakuranga Golf Club, said he wanted to reach out to his community. Settled in Botany for the previous 26 years, Mr Young, a long-term supporter of the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Temple since its inception, spoke about finding ways of making people feel welcome and involved in their communities.

The community leader was standing for the Vision & Voice ticket in the Howick Local Board election contesting the Botany subdivision seat. ➤➤Somerville Intermediate School student Saraya McLean was taken unawares when her name was announced as the recipient of the prestigious Sir Peter Blake Leadership Award. ➤➤A group of Botany Downs Secondary College students worked through their holiday break to drum up support for Kiwi kids in need. Morganne Meredith, Rayner Clarke, Harmit Grewal and TJ Lemafa aimed to target child poverty in South Auckland by providing students with some of the basic tools necessary for a New Zealand education. The project was called GiveBack.

A vision to see an orchard in every school ground throughout the Howick Ward was well advanced with a second presentation of fruit trees to schools. The ‘fruit trees in schools’ initiative was driven by Howick Local Board member Katrina Bungard who led the board’s community development portfolio. The number of schools involved was boosted from 20 to 24 and a major development was the inclusion of three secondary schools.

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➤➤Venerable Abbess Manshin, Liang-Min Chang, chief secretary of Overseas Community Affairs Council Republic of China, Botany MP Jami-Lee Ross and director general of Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Auckland ChungHsing Chou met at the Fo Guang Yuan art gallery .They came to view the One Stroke Calligraphy International Touring Exhibition commemorating 50 years of the Buddhist temple and 90th birthday of founder Venerable Master Hsing Yun at the Fo Guang Yuan art gallery. ➤➤While June was generally a quieter month for the real estate market, the Eastern Beaches median price held at $1.1million, up 19 per cent on the same time the previous year, according to Real Estate Institute of New Zealand figures (REINZ). Dwelling numbers sold were down 12 per cent to 163 in June compared with 186 the same time the year.

Median days to sell were static at 30.

Graham Falla’s conservation work done over many years at Howick’s Mangemangeroa Reserve in Somerville Road, along with similar efforts on other projects, such as Totara Park Manurewa and Olive Davis Reserve Alfriston, was rewarded with the Golden Spade Award. Presented by the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand, it was regarded as one of the most prestigious in conservation circles.

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by David Liem, took silver in the chicken and vegetable category and also in the bacon and egg category. The bakery won the supreme award in 2013 for its mince and cheese pie and had won 40 awards in 10 years.

transparency left by the current members of the Howick Local Board. ➤➤Fiscal responsibility featured high on the priority list of Auckland Mayoral candidates who took up an invitation by the Howick Residents and Ratepayers Association invitation to put forward their cases.

Howick’s Fencible Lounge was packed with people listening to the line-up, which included Victoria Crone, Phil Goff, David Hay, John Palino, Mark Thomas and Chloe Swarbrick. ➤➤Bronze memorial plaques were stolen from the columbarium wall at Paparoa Howick Cemetery in what Auckland Council staff dubbed a brazen act of vandalism.

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Guests enjoyed doing the bhangra and turban tying at the Diwali celebration hosted by Counties Manukau Police. Participants included police officers sporting Indian outfits and turbans with some of the officers draped in a sari worn over their uniform.

Members of the Corrections department also turned up in Indian regalia.

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➤➤The Howick Local Board allocated $47,000 towards the eradication of invasive plant species as it attempted to ramp up a public awareness campaign to control the pests. The two main threats in the area were Rhamnus and moth plant.

➤➤A 28-year-old Flat Bush man was arrested and charged with multiple dishonesty offences after a search of a property.

Counties Manukau Police recovered a stolen, almost new dirt bike and in excess of $25,000 worth of power tools.

➤➤Watching two deaf women having an animated conversation in their own special language was an inspiration to Gwen Rameka who organised a unique quiz fundraiser evening, a ‘Seriously Funny Silent Quiz’ at the Prospect of Howick. Funds raised from the function entry, raffles and auction of two art canvasses were donated to the Auckland Deaf Society.

➤➤Rekindling old connections, sharing stories and honouring its heritage was how Howick Intermediate, one of Howick’s oldest schools, planned to mark its 50th jubilee year. Principal Yolande Franke was keen to give the students a sense of belonging as it connected with its history and tradition.

➤➤About 147 projects and 16 schools in east and south Auckland participated in the NIWA Manukau Region Science and Technology Fair hosted at Mission Heights Junior College.

➤➤Keeha Riley and Clarissa Gouw, Year 12 students at Botany Downs Secondary College (BDSC), won the nationwide secondary school students What’s your Flavour – Burger Battle with cultural fusion.

➤➤Baljit Kaur, Mark Johnson and Gyanandra Kumar were Labour Party candidates standing for the Howick Local Board’s Botany subdivision. They said they were excited to do the hard yards and to fill in the gaps of accountability, accessibility and

➤➤Students of Elim Christian College raised a whopping $40,400 in the World Vision 40 Hour Famine to help children in conflict-ridden Jordan heal from the trauma of war. The goal was originally about $33,333 and when they touched $35,000 they were very happy, least expecting to reach a “cool” $40,383.

➤➤ Adele Krantz made Howick’s Val Lott proud by winning the Miss Regal International title on the Caribbean island of Antigua.

The success made it likely that Mrs Lott would relaunch the Miss Howick contest in 2017. ➤➤Mike Turinsky, the youth worker and chief executive of the Young Life NZ Trust, took a second tilt at representing the Botany subdivision on the Howick Local Board.

Botany MP and Parliament’s junior whip JamiLee Ross drafted a Bill to stop window washing on roads and give police the power to fine window washers. He also launched a petition asking for public support for the law change.

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Streets, noticed the aggressive behaviour of the magpies. But when William moved onto the grassed area one magpie swooped in resulting in lacerations close to his eye.

➤➤The country’s 28th Lone Star restaurant opened in Botany.

Builders worked throughout winter building and renovating the premises at Botany Town Centre, located on level one next to Hoyts cinema with huge glass windows overlooking the centre’s fountain and main courtyard. The restaurant, one of Lone Star’s biggest at around 600 sqm, seats up to 185 diners, has around 60 staff and opens from noon until 10pm seven days a week.

➤➤Locally-owned business Online Carpet was desperate to clear up a mistaken identity when the popular consumer affairs television show Fair Go ran a story about a business named Carpet Online. The episode led to people thinking Online Carpet, located at The Hub in Botany, was the one allegedly at fault. The producer of Fair Go apologised to the Online Carpet team and supplied them with a letter to show people.

➤➤Local nurse Emily Rushton was named runner-up for the New Zealand Nurses Organisation’s Young Nurse of the Year award.

Ms Rushton, who grew up in Beachlands and went to Howick College, was nominated for her voluntary work, including extensive presentations for OraTaiao: New Zealand’s Climate and Health Council, educating on the benefits of lowering red meat and animal products in diets for health and the environment. ➤➤The annual interschool robotics competition between Howick College and Pakuranga College resulted in the winning robot, designed and made by Aiyush Jani from Pakuranga College, who took home a Raspberry Pi mini-computer as the prize. ➤➤Local school leaders expressed outrage after Education Minister Hekia Parata introduced the Community of Online Learning (COOL). Michael Williams, deputy chair of the NZ Secondary Principals’ Council and principal of Pakuranga College said while using technology was important, his main objection was that it trivialised education as mere content acquisition, ignoring the important part of the curriculum. David Ellery, principal of Somerville Intermediate, said schools played a vital role in educating the child intellectually, physically, socially and emotionally to help them become well rounded citizens. ➤➤One of Howick Local Board Pakuranga subdivision candidate Rosa Chow’s billboards was defaced by a racist vandal in Pakuranga.

Someone wrote “Kiwi?” across her election sign on Pakuranga Road in spray paint. It wasn’t the first or last billboard of hers to be vandalised

➤➤While Xiaoming An didn’t speak much English, his artworks articulated a strong creative sensibility. The Pakuranga resident, an award-winning Asian artist who was born in Zhejiang Province of China, showcased his work at the Auckland Museum.

With a smorgasbord of events, Taiwan Day at the Aotea Square was graced with an array of multi-cultural performances both by local groups and indigenous Taiwanese who were flown in for the event. The event was organised by the Taiwanese Hwa Hsia Society, Taiwanese Women’s Association of New Zealand and Taiwanese in New Zealand Association, which had many members from Howick, Pakuranga, Botany and Ormiston.

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during the campaign. Others were stolen from Gills and Reeves Roads and Waller Avenue. ➤➤Rehabilitation work started on the crash-prone roundabout on the corner of Aviemore Dr and Cascades Rd in Botany to the delight of nearby residents.

People living on the corner were desperate for action after a string of near-misses. Cars were regularly losing control negotiating the roundabout, with some vehicles crashing into and through fences, parked cars and even houses. ➤➤Fisher & Paykel Appliances – the iconic fridge maker – was just weeks away from letting go the last of its staff and shutting the gates on its East Tamaki factory for the final time. The previous April the company briefed staff on plans for the closure of the factory which manufactured a range of small refrigeration products. The factory at that stage was operating four days a week and employed 186 staff.

➤➤A trio of Macleans College students came up with an app designed to help students manage their classes and assignments.

Developed as part of the Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme by Year 13 students Kerman Kohli (18), Andreas Knapp (18) and Keerthana Ananth (17), the Ed.life app made it impossible for students to lose track of assignment deadlines. ➤➤Tania Mahoney said fresh faces and fresh ideas were needed on the Howick Local Board which meant a changing of the guard. Her Labour Party running-mate Allan Hawea, also standing for the board’s Pakuranga subdivision, said there was complacency on the board. ➤➤Wayne Huang was running for a seat on the Pakuranga subdivision of the Howick Local Board. His key focuses were on community safety and accessible government. ➤➤Paul Young, standing in the Auckland Council election as a councillor in the Howick Ward, was

Andrew Beatson, the 32-year-old owner of the Aussie Butcher franchise in Ti Rakau Drive, Botany was fed up with a tidal wave of theft plaguing the store where he had been for 10 years, and the apparent lack of police interest or adequate response.

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taking another tryst with politics.

In the Botany 2011 by-election to replace Pansy Wong, Mr Young formed the New Citizen Party and scored third highest after Jami-Lee Ross and Labour’s Michael Wood.

However, this time he was standing as an independent and was not putting up any signage. ➤➤As part of the Fencibles United Association Football Club’s 20th anniversary celebrations, a special exhibition match was planned.

The Pakuranga Town AFC old boys would take on the Howick AFC old boys for the inaugural Danna Mandry Trophy. The trophy was named after the current club secretary who had been with Fencibles United since the amalgamation of the two local clubs established in the 1960s.

➤➤Botany MP Jami-Lee Ross and Howick Local Board member Adele White braved icy cold winds to attend the Dussehra festival event organised by the Maa Shakti Charitable Trust at the Barry Curtis Park. ➤➤Sai Rup Reddy, who worked at Pakuranga Pizza, was one of the students who got a deportation notice from Immigration NZ as part of an immigration scam .He admitted his biggest mistake was believing a bogus immigration agent. ➤➤A well-attended Fijian combined service, organised by East City Wesleyan Church, Botany, welcomed the Prime Minister of Fiji, Frank Bainimarama, to worship during the Prime Minister’s first state visit to New Zealand. ➤➤As Elim Christian College Junior campus awaits ministry nod for school expansion, irked neighbours in Golflands are objecting to piles of construction debris lying around in the school property. Principal Murray Burton gives a clear picture of what’s stopping them from continuing with the building activity to accommodate more students on the waiting list.

➤➤The Cockle Bay Residents and Ratepayers Association chairman Laurie Slee and secretary Graeme Lane were alarmed to find height limits and regulations for the ‘business mixed use’ zone surrounding the Howick Town Centre had changed in the Auckland Unitary Plan, adopted

by Auckland Council, to allow buildings as high as 27m or eight storeys. The adopted document was radically changed from the submissions which preserved the appearance of the main views immediately adjacent to Picton Street by imposing height controls.

➤➤Over 40 years Dr John Malcomson tended to thousands of patients over four decades, delivered babies who became patients and was general practitioner to four generations in a handful of Howick families.

However he left his Howick practice for the last time, estimating he had seen more than 10,000 different people over the years.

➤➤Julie Zhu, 23, was frustrated that young peoples’ voices were not represented well in local government. But rather than complaining about it, she decided to show that representation was possible by standing as a councillor for the Howick Ward and as an elected member of the Botany subdivision of the Howick Local Board in the Auckland Council elections.

➤➤Edgewater College English teacher, Desire Truter was awarded the NEXT Foundation Expert Teacher Award for her studies at the Unitec Mind Lab. She completed her post-graduate certificate in applied practice (digital and collaborative learning). The award recognised her commitment to up-skilling herself in order to best equip her students with skills needed for 21st century careers.

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➤➤The spring nesting season habit of magpie swooping hit Howick Domain with four-year-old William Gray showing the lacerations to prove it. William and his mother Gemma, regulars at the playground on the corner of Moore and Howe

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➤➤Seven Pumpkin Patch stores around the country closed their doors with the loss of 57 jobs. The business with its head office in East Tamaki and a store in Botany Town Centre was placed in receivership after increasing debt. ➤➤Three men and a 16-year-old youth were charged in relation to a dramatic police chase that ended with the males fleeing on foot in Dannemora. The pursuit started after the car they were travelling in passed a police ANPR (automatic number plate recognition) van in East Tamaki Heights. The silver Mazda Demio (a 1998 station wagon), allegedly stolen from Mt Eden and allegedly seen leaving the scene of a burglary, was travelling northbound when it passed the van, failed to stop for police and the occupants fled. ➤➤Kaitlin Maher, a Year 13 student at Botany Downs Secondary College won a place in the Young Shakespeare Company (YSC) to perform at the prestigious Globe Theatre in London in 2017. She was one of 5500 students to participate at the Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand (SGCNZ) University of Otago Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival. ➤➤The receivers of Pumpkin Patch, with its headquarters in East Tamaki and a store in Botany, advised that the sale process had not attracted a potential buyer and, therefore, it was no longer viable to trade the business in its current form.

➤➤Clevedon resident Dr Ros Vallings, who ran a practice in Howick, received the prestigious international Nelson Gantz Clinicians Award at the IACFS Conference in Florida, USA. The award was given in recognition to a physician who emulated

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➤➤Industry reports said that at least 40 per cent of New Zealand homes tested returned a positive result for methamphetamine. Environmental scientist Stephanie Brookes, director of MethWise, said that while statistics suggested a slightly lower detection rate for Howick and Pakuranga homes, the full scale of the issue was not yet known. ➤➤A meeting hosted by National MP Jami-Lee Ross was attended

by Transport Minister Simon Bridges and around 150 business people from the Greater East

Tamaki Business Association (GETBA). Mr Bridges confirmed the Government’s investment into Auckland’s transport situation would not be affected by funds being poured into quake-stricken Kaikoura.

➤➤Police said they could not rule out a link between four service station burglaries in Pakuranga.

Three stolen cars used in the aggravated burglaries were taken from and dumped at similar locations in close proximity to each other and all the offences occurred in the early hours of the morning at 24 hour service stations – three of them on Pakuranga Road and one on Reeves Road. The vehicles used in the burglaries – which occurred within four days of each other – were stolen from Howick and Half Moon Bay and were later dumped in Bucklands Beach and Mellons Bay.

➤➤Waakaranga and Farm Cove Intermediate Schools sent messages to reassure parents following reports of students being approached and spoken to by strangers in Farm Cove. ➤➤ A 51-year-old man from Pakuranga was charged with one count of committing an indecent act at Howick Beach in November. ➤➤Local author Vicki Jeffels was delighted her book had risen to the number one spot on Amazon. com in the Free Kindle – General Humour section. She published From Pavlova to Pork Pies the previous October after eight years of crafting the true story into a 269page novel.

➤➤ Howick Local Board, Botany subdivision candidate Mike Turinsky filed his nomination papers for the February 2017 by-election seeing his popularity soar thanks to good, old-fashioned political turmoil. He was gaining good mileage out of the ugly crossfire between Howick Local Board chair David Collings and former local board member Lucy Schwaner, who surprised everyone with her resignation minutes after the official swearingin ceremony of the newly elected board. ➤➤Only two candidate nominations were received for the Botany by-election with both running in the Auckland Council elections the previous October. Labour’s Mark Johnson and Mike Turinsky, campaigning under the “Practical Not Political” banner, both decided to have another go at securing a Botany subdivision seat on the Howick Local Board. Mr Turinsky received the fourth highest number of votes in the October election (3912) and Mr Johnson was fifth (3144). ➤➤Botany Downs Secondary College students were left reeling with frustration at NZQA’s round of mistakes made across all levels of the year end’s examinations. Year 12 student Kimberley Jayapalen sat the Level Two calculus and Level Two probability papers, only to receive a text from her tuition centre later that day, asking whether she had

Cameron Carter-Chan, 15, won the New Zealand Association of Modern Dance (NZAMD) Hip Hop Championship in Wellington, dancing in the footsteps of his older brother Brandon, winner of the New Zealand Tap Dancing Championship 2014. Cameron was keen to carry on the legacy.

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➤➤Heritage-listed Smales cottage in Botany was sold and suggestions were made that it could become a childcare facility. It was the first time the ‘dairy manager’s cottage’ on the corner of Smales and Chapel roads had come up for sale in 40 years. The house was one of the few historic buildings left in the Flat Bush-East Tamaki area.

➤➤Botany man Boon Yang Kueh looked to take his smart surveillance software system to the rest of Auckland, the country and Australia. The licence plate recognition (SV LPR) solution was a system designed to prevent fuel thefts and drive-offs from petrol stations.

Two Cockle Bay residents, playing croquet since 1978, played for Howick Croquet Club before the Pakuranga Croquet Club opened and remained enthusiastic participants. At 91, Mr Hopkins was named the Auckland Singles Champion in his division.

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An agreement was signed between Gandhi Nivas, New Zealand Police and ACC at the Fo Guang Shan Temple in Flat Bush. ACC would invest $1.3 million over the following three years to assist with the provision of counselling expertise needed to help perpetrators of family violence examine their actions and help them to change their behaviour. Since December 2014, perpetrators of family violence in East and South Auckland were admitted to emergency housing at Gandhi Nivas on referral by police, following the issuing of a PSO. Photo supplied

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Botany and Ormiston Times, Thursday, January 5, 2017 — 15

Looking back on 2016

APRIL: Former Pakuranga College student Ata Hingano earned his place in the Warriors reserve grade to prepare him for the bruising physicality of the NRL. Photo supplied

➤➤From page 16 ➤➤Brooke Manak, of Bucklands Beach tamed her challenging horse in only a few months to win Level 1 Dressage Pony of the Year at the Horse of the Year competition in Hastings. ➤➤Howick Pakuranga’s (HPK) para-swimmer Tupou Neiufi took out first place in the women’s 50m backstroke at the New Zealand Open Swimming Championships in Auckland. ➤➤Howick Pakuranga Swim Club (HPK) sprinter Daniel Hunter came within a blink of reaching the Rio Olympic qualifying standard when he set a national record in the 50m freestyle heats on day two of the 2016 New Zealand Open Swimming Championships.

April

➤➤Pakuranga United Premier Rugby team won the 2016 Waka Nathan Challenge Cup defeating Waitemata 27-23. Premier Coach Pita Alatini was impressed with his team’s performance after what turned out to be a battle midmatch.

JULY: Plenty of local talent was on display at Paradice Ice Arena in Botany Downs as the Auckland Ice Figure Skating Club (AIFSC) held its 2016 Club Championships.

For many, it was their first competition of the year and their first chance to showcase new routines.

Times photo Wayne Martin

the Howick Hornets senior rugby league team, he later coached the seniors having done stints with the club’s junior sides.

Welch was in good form leading up to the World Taekwondo Junior Championships in Canada after winning gold in Australia.

➤➤Gymnast Samadiana Fariz of Bucklands Beach, Junior Black Sox player Harrison Valk, and Special Olympic swimmer Monique Irvine were among the award recipients at the 2016 Howick Sports Awards.

August

➤➤Howick College pupil Jordan Nathan-Welch was selected to represent his country at the 2016 World Taekwondo Junior Championship in Canada.

June

➤➤Twelve Pakuranga United Rugby Club players were named in the Auckland under 19 training squad to prepare for the 2016 NZRU National U19 tournament through September and October. ➤➤Six Howick College current students and three former students were selected for the U22 and U18 men’s and women’s underwater hockey teams to represent New Zealand in the Trans-Tasman underwater hockey competition.

➤➤Former Sancta Maria College students, 20-year-old Taylor and 19-year-old Robbie Shrimpton blitzed the competition at the BP Surf Rescue New Zealand Championships in Papamoa.

➤➤Sacha Earnest rode her way to victory in the 10-year girls’ category at the UCI 2016 BMX World Championships held in Medellin, Colombia.

➤➤Salem Notter was the national mounted games champion after winning the under-14 category at the New Zealand Mounted Games Individual Championships in Pukekohe.

➤➤Howick Intermediate finished a creditable third in the Auckland Inter Zone Rugby Competition. The team earlier won the South Eastern Zone competition to qualify for the Inter Zone.

➤➤Macleans College took out the first XV rugby competition, premier boys’ hockey competition, premier boys’ basketball, and 9A netball competition at a three-day preseason winter tournament hosted by the college.

➤➤Saint Kentigern student Sarina Wang was crowned the overall winner in the female category of the eighth National Sport Stacking Championships.

May

➤➤Saint Kentigern College stole the limelight in the New Zealand Secondary Schools water polo national championships. In the division 3 competition in Hamilton Saint Kentigern girls’ premier team pulled through with a narrow win against Hamilton Girls’ High in the final to take the title of national champions. ➤➤Howick lost one of its special characters with the sudden passing of Tony Moore, aged 69.

A former tireless second rower for

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september: The Howick Hornets Open Age Restricted (OAR) side suffered a devastatingly close loss at the weekend, falling one point short in what was a dramatic championship final. The U85kg side came up against Hibiscus Coast and limped away with an 18-19 defeat, despite a courageous comeback.

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July

➤➤Two Botany brothers headed to the Under 15 Baseball World Cup in Japan. Tukuteihu and Huriwaka Repia, from the Howick Pakuranga Baseball Club, were part of the Kiwi side that would come up against Panama, Venezuela, the United States, Mexico and Chinese Taipei in Group B at the Under 15 Baseball World Cup in Iwaki, Japan. ➤➤The New Zealand Olympic Committee and New Zealand Golf named 29-year-old Beachlands star, Ryan Fox, in the New Zealand Olympic Team. ➤➤Howick College’s Jordan Nathan-

➤➤The Howick Hornets Fox Premiers beat top-of-the-table Papakura Sea Eagles winning the inaugural Lia Johnston Memorial Shield. ➤➤The Pakuranga United under21s won the Arthur Bayliss Cup at Eden Park coming away with a hard-fought 27-24 win over Grammar TEC. Meanwhile, the Pakuranga United under 85kg Rattlers won the U85kg plate final against Suburbs. ➤➤Arzan Todywalla was named player of the year by international sport travel company AM Sports Tours after a sizzling performance for New Zealand at the Super Cup NI 2016 in Northern Ireland.

Todywalla, 15, a striker for Fencibles United U15 Metro and the U16 Junior New Zealand team, was highest scorer. ➤➤Ryan Fox carded an incredible nine-under 62 to surge to victory in the European Challenge Tour’s Northern Ireland Open. Starting the day three shots off the lead, the 29-year-old Beachlands player quickly changed that with a birdie and an eagle in his opening two holes to wipe the deficit. He went on to complete a four-shot victory and claim his second European Challenge Tour title. ➤➤Local cyclist and Saint Kentigern College student, Connor Brown, won gold at the 2016 Junior Track Cycling World Championships in Switzerland, smashing a world record in the process. The 18-yearold was part of the four-person New Zealand team that competed in the U19 Men’s Team Pursuit at the World Champs. ➤➤Jacob Hollobon was named Auckland College Rugby League’s “Most Valuable Player” for the under 85kg division. The Pakuranga College student who lived in Bucklands Beach, played for Pakuranga College and the Howick Hornets Rugby League Club.

September

➤➤As part of the Fencibles United Association Football Club’s 20th anniversary celebrations, a special exhibition match was planned.

The Pakuranga Town AFC old boys

would take on the Howick AFC old boys for the inaugural Danna Mandry Trophy. ➤➤Local teenager Ryan Oliver struck gold at the AIMS Games in Tauranga. Competing for his school Farm Cove Intermediate, he backed up his 2015 success in the pool, winning eight gold medals including the overall best 13 year male for the swimming event. ➤➤The Fencibles United Conference Women won the AFF Women’s Knockout Cup playing Ellerslie in the final, scoring the winning goal in the last minute of extra time.

October

➤➤Local Brazilian Jiu Jitsu star Brandon Meyer, a 12-year-old, Year 7 student at Farm Cove Intermediate, won the Australasian Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) title for his division at he Pan Pacific Champs in Melbourne in 2015. ➤➤Saint Kentigern College won the New Zealand Secondary Schools Netball Champs in Lower Hutt. The premier netball side beat defending champions Mt Albert Grammar School 35-34 in the final to become the best high school netball team in the country. ➤➤Pakuranga’s Rose Zheng won her first event on the Jennian Homes Charles Tour. She carded a brilliant final round score of seven-underpar at the 2016 John Jones Steel Harewood Open in Christchurch finishing the event at 17-under-par. ➤➤Close to $14,000 was raised for Pakuranga United Rugby Club’s Under 15 and Under 18 junior academies at the 11th annual Bledisloe Luncheon and Fundraising Auction which attracted 220 participants. Guest speaker was All Black rugby legend Wayne ‘Buck’ Shelford. ➤➤Year 12 Pakuranga College student, Regan Mooney, notched up an incredible win in the recent North Island Secondary Schools Snowboard Competition beating entrants from 43 other schools to win the Boardercross event. Elim Christian College’s Baylin Kelin Ovink took overall top junior girl’s award. Elim Christian College won the girls’ combined team award while Macleans College was fourth in the boys’ combined team.

November

➤➤Howick College open girls

sevens team won the 2016 Auckland Secondary School Sevens competition qualifying for nationals. The final against Southern Cross Campus was a tight, hard-fought match decided in the last 20 seconds, with Howick coming out 21-17 ahead. ➤➤Inspirational Howickian Garry Donoghue, 71, finished the Auckland Marathon (42.195km) in 4 hours 40 minutes and was second out of 11 for his age group. ➤➤Pakuranga’s Rose Zheng won the women’s 2016 Cobra Puma New Zealand Amateur Championship at the Royal Wellington Golf Club.

The 14-year-old was the second youngest golfer in history to win the title behind world number one Lydia Ko. ➤➤Pakuranga College’s new 1600m2 multi-purpose, double gymnasium was officially opened by the school’s own Olympians, board sailor Bruce Kendall and swimmer Rebecca Linton. They were joined by Special Olympians, Edward Borkin and Monique Irvine (both swimmers), in cutting the ribbon on the $4 million building. ➤➤Eleven-year-old Finlay McKechnie, of Howick, scored a hole-in-one at the Whitford Golf Club’s junior club day competition.

➤➤Howick Pakuranga Cricket Club’s Colin ‘Dutchie’ de Grandhomme notched up a brilliant record on his debut for the Black Caps. He was also named Man of the Match as the Black Caps cruised to victory against Pakistan in Christchurch. The Auckland Aces all-rounder recorded a brilliant 1st innings 6/41. ➤➤Beachlands golfer Ryan Fox finished tied for fourth at the Australian Open in Sydney. Fox, the son of All Black great and selector Grant Fox, began the final round in a tie for second, two shots back from leader Geoff Ogilvy.

December

➤➤The Howick Softball Club premier women made history, winning the Bev Smith Memorial Tournament for the first time. ➤➤Pakuranga College finished 12th, Howick College ninth, Saint Kentigern College sixth and Macleans College fourth at the 2016 New Zealand Secondary Schools (NZSS) national touch rugby championships.

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Highlights of 2016 January

JANUARY: Howick boys Daniel Chapman and Cameron Meyer, both 18, helped Auckland become back-to-back champions of the Under 19 softball national championships. Keen softball players at Howick since the age of six, Chapman and Meyer joined Marist before making the Auckland U19 representative softball team at the end of 2015.

➤ Botany-born and bred motor racer Andre Heimgartner got ready to join the Australian GT Championship for the 2016 season. The young gun would drive an MY16 Audi R8 LMS, prepared and run by Australian Audi Sport Customer Racing agent Melbourne Performance Centre (MPC). ➤ The Blues were lined up to kick off their 2016 Super Rugby season with a free admission game at Pakuranga United Rugby Club in February. ➤ After an arsonist burnt the clubrooms to the ground in 1999, Howick Pakuranga Cricket Club was determined to rid itself of debt following the rebuild of the new $800,000 pavilion in 2001.

Fundraising and marketing manager Ted Waters said getting out of debt was an important goal with the club’s 150th anniversary approaching. ➤ Beachlands engineer Clint Van der Mescht, 43, got ready to chalk up his 25th marathon in Taupo.

He and five other locals were part of the massive field taking part in the 32nd Kellogg’s NutriGrain IRONMAN New Zealand. ➤ Howick’s bowls star Selina Goddard started 2016 on a bright note after being named in the New Zealand Black Jacks squad for the Trans-Tasman and Six Nations events in Christchurch the following March.

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February

➤ Auckland MMA fighter Ev Ting took out Eric Kelly with a thirdround guillotine choke in the One Championship 38 Clash of Heroes headliner at Stadium Negara in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. ➤ Susan Mudford and Stuart Mudford, Peter Clark, and Chris Clark of Howick dared to take on a 100km walk in Whakatane to raise funds to fight poverty overseas. The team completed this challenge in 2008 in Taupo as ‘Muddie’s Mob’ in just under 25 hours. ➤ The Howick Pakuranga Premier Women’s Cricket team was given a surprise when its team photo was photobombed by Black Caps players.

ANZ Dream Big introduced the team to some of their heroes from the Black Caps including Henry Nicholls, Luke Ronchi, Kane Williamson and Colin Munro.

➤ Howick boys, Harrison Valk, 16, and Daniel Chapman, 18, were named to travel with theTemperzone Junior Black Sox to Michigan, USA in July to compete in the Under 19 Men’s World Championships. ➤ The Howick Premier Women’s team made history for the Howick Softball Club competing at Waitangi weekend in the Doreen Hutchings Annual Tournament, hosted by the Marist Softball Club at Simson Park and going through undefeated to make their first ever final. ➤ Howick’s promising golfer, Liv Cheng, 22, was awarded the 2016 KFC Golf Scholarship, worth $12,000, for the second year in a row. Cheng’s impressive efforts the previous year saw her secure full tour rights for the 2016 Symetra Tour. ➤ Botany Swarm’s goalie Grace Harrison was the first Kiwi ever to win

an NCAA scholarship to play top level college Ice Hockey for St Lawrence University (SLU) in upstate New York. .

March

➤ The Howick Hornets Rugby League Club welcomed back their “inspirational coach” Jason Tavita.

The former Howick Hornets premier player returned to the club to coach and mentor the under 18s after finishing his playing career at Richmond. ➤ The arrival of new centre manager and competitive coach, Tania Gavilan, was expected to see the Howick Gymnastics Club grow in size and talent. ➤ Howick Pakuranga (HPK) took out the honours as the leading swimming club at the New Zealand Junior Championships in Auckland. The club won the title for a second straight year.

➤ Pakuranga College Year 13 student, Dale Phillips took on some of the world’s top juniors in the ICC under 19 Cricket World Cup in Bangladesh. ➤ The incomparable Cameron Brown, from Dannemora, once again defied the sands of time as the 43-year-old bagged his 12th victory in the Kellogg’s NutriGrain Ironman New Zealand in Taupo. He extended his own world record as the oldest winner of any Ironman race and also became the first professional man to win the same Ironman race on 12 occasions. ➤ Howick Pakuranga Hockey Club’s Dominic Newman made the cut as the only debutant named in the 2016 New Zealand Black Sticks squad. ➤ Jacob Stroud, the eldest son of one of New Zealand’s greatest riders, Andrew Stroud, claimed his first national superbike title at the New Zealand Superbike Championships. . ➤ Howick Pakuranga Cricket Club’s (HPCC) Rowan Armour and Kerry Walmsley were honoured as they became Legends of the HPCC in a Legends Induction Evening.

Mr Armour, the current board chairperson, was recognised for his service, including cricket playing, to the club and the Auckland Cricket Association. Mr Walmsley was also recognised for his service, including cricket playing, to the club and for representing the Auckland Aces and ➤ Turn to page 15 Black Caps.

New kitchen on the menu for 2017?

The season of entertaining has finally arrived and with it, some much-needed rest and relaxation.

With long, balmy days ahead of us, now is the time to think about projects for the New Year. Here are some tips from local kitchen company Jag Kitchens to help cook up fresh inspiration.

But after the hustle and bustle of Christmas, it may be evident that certain areas of the house are in need of improvement – the kitchen especially.

A leader in the kitchen design industry for more than 12 years, Jag Kitchens finds many customers often spend their holidays doing research and planning a new kitchen.

What were some of the styles seen in 2016?

Gloss white kitchens with engineered stone tops were very popular, says Lesley. “In terms of functionality, we’re seeing lots of pantries with internal drawer systems that offer easy access to everything, including items tucked away at the back.”

Tricky areas have also been utilised with the use of corner mechanisms, she adds.

“Aesthetically, we have seen the use of more lighting in and under kitchen cabinetry.”

To see all this and more, check out the Jag Kitchens showroom which is open over the holidays in Botany’s Danske Mobler Home Centre.

The newly refurbished space features six diverse kitchens displaying trends from around the globe.

And with all the family back home for the holidays and summer wining and dining on the cards, it’s a good chance to talk about rejuvenation plans for the most hardworking space in the house.

Here are some trends to take note of, according to owner Lesley McLagan.

also growing, with a wealth of colours, formats, and effects to choose from.

Kitchen displays at the Jag Kitchens store at Botany Town Centre.

What about 2017?

Texture will become a focal point for many new and emerging designs, says Lesley.

These include textured woodgrain melamine cabinetry which look and feel like real timber.

“By combining these with plain colours you can create a very ‘European look’ at a realistic price,” says Lesley.

Engineered stone styles have also changed from predominantly speckled to a real marble or slate effect.

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“We’re also seeing the thinner benchtop trend that has been popular in Europe for some time now becoming a firm favourite here.”

In addition, more people are opting to make a statement with splashbacks.

“The number of options available for splashbacks are

on the rise – this can add a real point of difference,” explains Lesley. “With glass and mirror varieties as well as printed, antiqued and textured, we’re spoilt for choice. There are also large sheet porcelain products that look like stones and marbles, again going for that more natural look.”

The kitchen lighting arena is

Experienced designers will be available every day over the holidays to work with new clients wanting to explore what they can achieve with new kitchen. Jag Kitchens specialises in custom-designed kitchens and has its own manufacturing plant. The staff also use a stateof-the-art 3D computer design programme to show clients beforehand exactly how their new kitchen will look.

Jag Kitchens has an excellent reputation for designing and building for all budgets and for providing an outstanding design service with sound advice.

Visit www.jagkitchens.co.nz for more information on a wide range of materials and design options or to see more kitchen examples.

Whether you are thinking of a major renovation or simply planning to replace an existing kitchen do contact Jag Kitchens. All designers have years of experience and are happy to discuss your kitchen project free of cost and obligation.

Inside Danske Mobler, 501 Ti Rakau Dr, Botany Town Centre.

Open 7 Days. Ph 271 3131. www.jagkitchens.co.nz KC12115A