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The French and New Zealand flags flew at half mast next to the Fred Graham sculpture in Lake Te Koo Utu Domain last week to mark 104 years since New Zealand soldiers liberated the northern French town of Le Quesnoy. During a memorial ceremony, organised by the Cambridge RSA and Community Board, the flags were raised and wreaths laid. Photos: Mary Anne Gill.

Cambridge RSA president Tony Hill, left, with Paul Murphy and Bob Peterson stand silently while the French flag is raised. Wolfe Hucke who was a member of the French Foreign Legion in front of the Le Quesnoy billboards. Bagpipe player Bryan Mitchell watches on as from left, Cambridge RSA president Tony Hill, community board chair Jo Davies-Colley and deputy mayor Liz Stolwyk reflect on the Le Quesnoy sister city relationship.

Family affair: Bob Peterson served as a medic in the New Zealand Navy and met his wife Marion in Auckland, where she was a member of the Women’s Royal New Zealand Navy Service (Wren).

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The speed limit has been cut to 80kph north of Hickey Rd, pictured, to south of Karāpiro Rd

The national transport agency has started making road safety changes it promised in a letter to Karāpiro School, reported by The News last week.

The highway through Karāpiro has been the scene of several fatal crashes this year and Taupō MP Louise Upston says while the work announced by Waka Kotahi is welcome, it should have been done earlier.

David Speirs, Waka Kotahi’s director of regional relationships for Waikato and Bay of Plenty, said the community had been “crying out for safety improvements on this stretch of highway, and we are delivering”.

“While our mahi on the longer term 16km expressway is progressing, and we have been working on more permanent safety improvements on the current SH1, there are things we can do right now to save lives. Probably the most influential will be the temporary reduction of the speed limit to 80kph from 100kph from north of Hickey Road to south of the Karāpiro Road-SH1 intersection.” That move in particular has been greeted by the school. Waka Kotahi will also erect ‘high crash area’ signs north of Hickey Road and south of Karāpiro Road, and electronic warning signs. It will add and improve rumble strips, hit sticks and edge marker posts and install wide painted median strips between the end of the expressway and Fergusson Gully Road. The temporary speed restriction will remain in place until permanent safety infrastructure - flexible median barriers – are added. More than 4km of flexible median barriers have already been installed between Cambridge and Piarere. Waka Kotahi says the barrier south of Fergusson Gully Road has been hit 40 times already, any of those incidents had the potential to be a head-on crash. An additional flexible median barrier will be installed just south of Maungatautari Road before Christmas, the road resurfaced, and a short southbound passing lane removed. By early next year there will 7.7km of flexible median barriers between Fergusson Gully Road to near the intersection with SH29 at Piarere.

Upston called it too little, too late.

“So far there have been three deaths and six serious injuries on this stretch of road this year. In the previous five years there were six deaths and 26 serious injuries,” she said.

“While it is pleasing to see some change coming, this work is urgent. Two years is not fast enough.”

National is still fuming over the government’s decision to stall the extension of the Waikato Expressway to Piarere.

Upston said the move was false economy and would have been completed in 2024.

“On average, well over 18,000 vehicles travel that section of road every day. This highway is a vital transport link for the region and the North Island. Upgrading it must be made a priority and it’s not funded this decade under Labour.”

Details of the latest Waka Kotahi work will be discussed at an information day at the Cambridge Town Hall on November 17.

Cemetery pair in court

Two men have been sentenced for their part in August’s vandalism at Hautapu cemetery.

A vehicle was used to tear up turf and splatter mud over headstones.

Three men have been charged – one has pleaded not guilty, the other two were in Hamilton District Court this week to be sentenced on charges of intentional damage and operating a vehicle with sustained loss of traction.

Monty Smith, 24, was disqualified from driving for nine months, ordered to pay $1000 reparation, given three months community detention and placed on supervision for a year. Haka Tutaki, 19, was discharged without conviction and ordered to pay $1000 reparation.

The court heard both men worked in the horse racing industry and had attended a funeral earlier in the day.

Last week The News reported Waipā District Council parks staff spent around 10 hours dealing with damage – and telling families of effected burial plots. Companies came to help. PGG Wrightson and Parklands Turf provided free grass seed and fertiliser and free levelling, seeding and fertilising of the area.

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Roto-o-Rangi School teacher Pam Furze is retiring – reluctantly.

After almost 50 years in the education sector, and 20 years at the school as a teacher and sports leader, Pam is working up to her retirement at the end of the term.

Originally from Hikutaia in the Hauraki Plains, Pam moved to the Waikato in 1975 to study at the Hamilton Training Institute, before beginning her teaching career at Cambridge East Primary School in 1977.

She hasn’t strayed far from Waipā, with Pukeatua School being Pam’s only role outside of Cambridge.

Staff at Roto-o-rangi School say Pam is an incredible woman, and highly respected by both pupils and staff.

Despite Pam’s eagerness to enjoy her retirement, she says she can’t just stop. She’s still teaching at the school two days a week, doing science and technology, and junior reading for the rest of the term.

“After 47 years of teaching, to just stop instantly, I would have found that quite hard.”

She says she loves the school, the community, and the kids, but she’s ready to retire.

“I love teaching, and I love the community. It’s just the way that teaching is going at the moment I don’t particularly like – it’s just so much paperwork and you don’t get as much time to spend with the kids as you’d like.

“I remember in my first years of teaching; I’d go out and play with the kids at interval and lunchtime. Now you just haven’t got the time or the energy, because of all the other paperwork you have to do.” A total of 47 years in any industry brings with it a huge expertise – Pam has seen enormous changes in the way children are taught in New Zealand, including the introduction of screens in the classroom from the mid-late 90’s.

She laments the loss of freedom to play for the kids, but has found an upside to the new tech.

“I’ve met a lot of my ex-pupils on Facebook and seem to have a good rapport with them all still, which is nice.”

As for how she’ll be spending her retirement, Pam says she’s looking forward to spending more time in her garden and travelling New Zealand with her husband.

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A community fun day at Leamington Domain on Saturday aims to garner support for a community youth centre.

The day is designed to support tamariki in Cambridge, connecting them and their families with groups and opportunities to help them thrive.

The idea was sparked by Raylene Martin, who has previously worked with youth through Oranga Tamariki, and has lived in Cambridge for 46 years.

“I’ve got a passion for the children, for the youth… I’ve always wanted to do a fun day for them, because there’s nothing here for our youth,” she said.

The fun day “is only the first step” to get the ball rolling.

“What I want is a sports hub for them to learn sports, a café for them to learn barista skills and life skills like cooking. Have a learning room there, for children who can’t go to school. Have job opportunities, have course opportunities – not everyone fits into the ‘school’ category”

“Every child has this value, I just want to get that value inside of them out and share it with everyone.”

The event will run from 10am to 3pm and is being supported by businesses and police.

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