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Tauranga Zinefest

Tauranga Boxing Academy

Seeds of Success

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You are the inspiration Building bespoke living spaces

Winter is the perfect time to cosy up inside and enjoy your living spaces.

As the weather draws us back inside, the team at The Design Depot can help you get your home ready for the cooler months.

The Design Depot showroom on Totara St is beautifully presented with more than 400sqm of hand-picked furniture pieces and accessories that showcase a range of styles with something to suit everyone. And they’ve got a team of designers and stylists on hand to help you put it all together.

“With the cooler months approaching, we are seeing a shift in interior trends to warmer tones and textured layering,” says The Design Depot’s Kylie Keene.

“Earthy autumnal tones are on trend at the moment, with deep velvets and soft natural organic linens that showcase alongside rich leathers and natural woods. There are plenty of olivey-greens, and spices such as paprika, cinnamon and ginger colourings in store to reflect the coming seasons.”

The team at The Design Depot specialise in helping people create beautiful spaces within their home, offering truly personalised products, services and results. They will happily go the extra mile to find the latest in furniture pieces and accessories that reflect the unique personality of each customer, ultimately to create a home that’s truly as unique as they are.

“It’s all about enjoying your surroundings and knowing that your taste and personality can be shared through your furniture and living spaces,” says Kylie. The team are experts in helping to put it all together. “We really try to get a good understanding of the customers’ needs and how they like to live in their own home environment,” says Kylie.

“By understanding our customers, we can make the best recommendation of the type of products to best suit their space and their lifestyle. We take pride in getting it right for people by going the extra mile with in-home visits and instore consultations - all something that we offer as a free service.”

It’s not just about selling furniture either, says Kylie. The Design Depot’s consultants are there to build a personal connection with their clients to better understand their unique style and help bring that style to their home.

“Through our in-home furniture and design consultations our staff members really get to know some of our customers well and get a really good understanding of how they like to live in their homes.

“This helps to build a great rapport between the customer and our design experts, therefore being able to be in tune with helping create their dream space,” says Kylie. “We also absolutely love it when our customers come into our store and show us photos of our products in their homes.”

With their interior design service, you can be sure that The Design Depot is giving you above and beyond what you would get elsewhere - it’s what sets them apart in the furniture industry. Their wonderful service carries right through to what they offer with custom curtains, blinds and shutters.

With cooler weather ahead it’s worth thinking about the window dressing in your home. The correct window treatments are essential for keeping the warmth in.

The Design Depot team have curtain and window treatment specialists in store to help you complete your look with custom made drapes.

Whether you are looking to furnish a new home, refresh a space, keep the warmth in, or cozy up your sofa with a beautiful fur throw, the experienced team at The Design Depot can help you create a look that is as unique as you are.

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Tauranga Zinefest I remember as a young child on our farm in Waiuku, smelling the ink from the rollers as my parents typed up a small publication on a stencil.

They would then make copies using a Gestetner duplicator. These were regularly distributed around the neighbourhood and enjoyed by many.

Despite our world of digital media, it’s refreshing to find that for anyone who loves to doodle and write poetry, or generally express their visual creativity, there’s an opportunity to get a little ‘ziney’.

It’s like a magazine but without the ‘maga’.

“A zine is a loose term for anyone and everyone to create and publish their work,” says Tauranga Zinefest organiser Hannah Wynn.

“A zine is a small self-published magazine. It can be illustrations, poetry, and photography.

Just any outlet where a creative, writer, designer can send the message that they want to get out there.”

A lot of people coming together for a day to make zines is called a zinefest.

Zinefests have been held in Auckland, Wellington and Hamilton, and this is the third year it’s being held in Tauranga. From 10am to 3pm on Saturday, May 25, Tauranga Art Gallery will be full of people making and looking at zines.

“We have at least 70 different zines to look through, with about 20-30 exhibitors set up for the day,” says Hannah.

“People can come along and buy the zines, make their own, or talk to the exhibitors.

There will also be art prints and badges that can be purchased as well as the zines.”

A large table will be set up for people to start making their own zine, with all the materials provided. And a workshop delivered

by Craig McClure that will help with ideas and learning how to make them.

With high profile exhibitors coming like Craig, Ross Murray, Dylan Horrocks and others at the Zinefest, and the current AntiHeroes exhibition, the link between zines and comics is an enjoyable one.

“Often people do a zine series with one each year,” says Hannah. “We have everything from a young child doing some illustration and photocopying them to high-end publications being sold.”

Hannah has been buying zines, and now owns about 200.

“It’s a simple entry way for artists to conveying a message to the masses without spending oodles of money.”

“You can get tiny zines wrapped up in matchboxes or A3 size. Some stack the sheets and put them in an envelope, some fold them and put a staple through it. There’s no rhyme or reason with how you want to create a zine.”

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Creating and publishing your own zine

Hannah Wynn, organiser of Tauranga Zinefest.

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A pivotal moment File: Tauranga Boxing Academy L+S DPS RC+ updated Sunday 19 May 2019 Photo: Caption: Some photos by John Borren, some by Bruce Barnard Title: A pivotal moment Subtitle: Craig Nees and the idea for a Tauranga Boxing Academy Byline: Rosalie Liddle Crawford

Craig Nees, Lindsey ‘Cowboy’ Maclean, Henry Fa’afili and Paora Howe.

I’ve met a lot of people around Tauranga who one day just have a pivotal moment. They step back from their lives a moment, take a look at what they’re doing, what their skill set is, and realise they can do something more. Something beyond themselves that makes a massive difference for others.

Craig Nees is one of those people. I was walking by when he and others came out of the back of the Moana Trust hall with paint buckets and rubbish. I said ‘hello’, we chatted and I found myself going in to see why he was so enthusiastic.

Looking around at the paint buckets and plastic coverings, he smiled.

His vision of establishing the Tauranga Boxing Academy was coming to fruition very fast.

“We had nothing 18 months ago,” says Craig. “Back then it was just an idea. I wanted to help youth at risk and young boys in some way.

“In Tauranga there’s a lot of youth growing up in fairly challenging circumstances.

They’re bright and survivors, and if we can get them refocused they’ll be our future leaders.”

He recounted his own pivotal moment.

“It’s funny. I was down in Wellington on business,” says Craig. “I woke up, it was a Tuesday and I still remember it as clear as day. I didn’t have a meeting in the morning so had a bit of spare time.”

The night before he’d seen some information about Billy Graham’s Naenae Boxing Academy that helps troubled youth.

“It all came together. I thought - I’ll go and see if Billy Graham can help me get a programme like his started in Tauranga.

“So I went and knocked on his door. He opened it and said ‘Who are you?’

“I said ‘I’m Craig Nees, and I hope to be your friend’. It started a fantastic relationship.”

Craig’s business background provided a major part of the skill set required to establish an academy that not only was about boxing, but also instils life values. He has a business called International Merchants which imports and distributes home improvement products.

He put together a strong, financially well-structured board, and a team of people who have the same heart about helping disadvantaged youth. People like ex-Warriors player Henry Fa’afili, manager Paora Howe, and assistant coach Lindsey ‘Cowboy’ Maclean.

Adapting Billy’s programme, the newly formed Bay of Plenty Youth Foundation Trust started the Tauranga Boxing Academy at the FitCo gym, working initially with

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Craig Nees and the idea for a Tauranga Boxing Academy 12-15 boys.

“Some of them have been referred by outside organisations who ring us up asking if we can help their boys. Some of them have brought their mates.

“We have up to five coaches and a manager.

Boxing is part of the programme, it gets them through the door and enables us to encourage them to get fit.

“We also teach them about life values; respect, responsibility, compassion, consideration, kindness, duty, obedience, honesty, truthfulness, and work ethics. Already we’ve seen a big turnaround in some of the boys.

“And now we’re going to be moving in here to the new gym.”

With completion date the end of May, the new gym will mean increasing programme capacity to 80 boys, providing a huge opportunity to engage with them at a more intensive level and offer mentoring and work experience.

“We’re already working with one boy in getting him construction employment opportunity. The exciting thing is we’ve got significant companies in the Bay of Plenty who want to work with us and offer these young people work experience and apprenticeships when they’re ready to work. That’s gold for us because that’s really why we’re putting this together.”

The refurbishment of the building, which started about March, includes a new kitchen

complete with ovens, dishwasher, fridge, freezer and breakfast bar. A 2.4m table with 14 chairs will provide space for meeting with the boys to talk.

“In terms of the building, iLine Construction, JT Plumbing, Mastercraft, Resene and Aotea Electric and many others have been very generous in their support,” says Craig.

“Otherwise we couldn’t do this.”

NZCT, TECT, the NZ Lottery Grants Board, and the Legacy Trust have provided significant funding, and Craig pauses to consider the large group of people who have also supported it.

“One thing I’ve learned from this, is the other people that are in this environment helping youth or other people – they’re so selfless and humble. Working with them is a real privilege.

“I’ve done a lot of things in my life in business, some successful some not, like everyone else, but I’ve never done anything that I’ve been so pleased to be part of and yet there’s no financial reward.

“The reward is in helping other people.”

Along the way Craig’s discovered so many other people in our Tauranga community also ‘doing their bit’, which is a common catchphrase I’ve heard.

“We’re only here for a short space of time and you get to the stage in your life where you want to start giving because you realise, honestly, that you’ve been selfish in your life. And you know that you can be a part of making a difference.”

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Seeds of success The stories of NZ’s kiwifruit pioneers I couldn’t wait to read Elaine Fisher’s new book ‘Seeds of Success the Stories of New Zealand’s Kiwifruit Pioneers’.

Doug Brown, Chair of NZKGI and Elaine Fisher

Commissioned by NZ Kiwifruit Growers (NZKGI) to mark its 25th anniversary in 2019, I knew it would trigger a flood of childhood memories for not only me, but many others.

Growing up on a kiwifruit orchard in Bethlehem, I’d lived the excitement around kiwifruit harvests, witnessing first-hand the hard work my parents put in. Coming home from college I’d head straight down to the packing shed where family friends, some from the South Island, had come to work through kiwifruit season, picking and packing. Shoulder massages, laughter, and my father’s humour all combines into one happy memory.

But there was also the scary night when we heard that his tractor had overturned with a full harvest of kiwifruit spilling out across Moffat Rd. A whole year’s income lying there.

That was a time when many orchardists took their whole crop to a neighbour’s to be graded and boxed.

We’d arrived on a 3.5 hectares (8.5 acres) orchard growing oranges, lemons, grapefruit and mandarins that sold mostly through mail-order around NZ. It wasn’t long before

my father started looking into kiwifruit, pulling out much of the citrus, replacing them with railway sleeper posts and planting our first vines. As a nine-year-old, I was elated to earn two cents a box grading oranges, but within a decade we were hearing the rumours of the ’50 kiwifruit millionaires in Te Puke’ and started to reap some of the reward of all the hard work ourselves.

As kiwifruit plants started being sold overseas, and anxious that the market could drop, my father added in avocados, later selling up after we’d all left home. It was fascinating growing up aware that it was not only important to watch the seasons and the weather but also the changing market as kiwifruit exporting opened up.

Elaine’s book traces the fascinating stories of growers who helped shape today’s NZ kiwifruit industry which employs thousands of people and benefits regional and national economies.

Twelve months in the making, the book required many hours researching and interviewing.

“It’s been a bit of a road trip from the top of the North Island to Nelson,” says Elaine, “visiting all the growing regions of kiwifruit in NZ and talking to some absolutely amazing people who have brought their strengths and talents to make the industry the success that it is today.”

There is the Chinese gentleman in his

“Elaine’s book traces the fascinating stories of growers who helped shape today’s NZ kiwifruit industry which employs thousands of people and benefits regional and national economies”

80s in Northland who escaped China as a 12-year-old. There’s the story of Te Puke grower Jim MacLoughlin who exported 40 boxes to England in 1953, making the first steps towards today’s $2.3 billion export industry.

And there’s the marvellous story of the woman who started it all - a Wanganui school principal Isabel Fraser, who in 1904, visited her sister in China, returning with a handful of seeds. An incredible stroke of luck meant she brought back seeds that gave rise to female and male plants, whereas seeds sent around the same time to the USA and Britain only produced male plants. Why is this important for all NZ? That’s why you need to read the book and be as gobsmacked as I was.

Elaine has an extensive knowledge of the kiwifruit industry, having edited The New Zealand Kiwifruit Journal from 1993 to 1998, and worked as a chief reporter and rural editor. She has won several national awards for her writing, particularly about the horticultural industry. There really is no one better qualified to write this book.

“NZKGI wanted the focus of the book to be on the stories of people who pioneered the kiwifruit industry,” says Elaine.

“For me the evidence of how the kiwifruit industry has transformed lives and landscapes was clearly illustrated when I visited Te Kaha and saw what has happened to the community down there.

“Finding something that brings a community together and gives them a sense of pride is brilliant.”

The kiwifruit industry has had its share of ups and downs, surviving the downturn in the 1990s and the challenges of Psa-V; and forging ahead with the establishment of a single-desk marketing structure and a popular and globally recognised brand that is as much about New Zealand as it is about fruit.

“Given the massive change that the industry is undergoing at the present time, NZKGI thought it would be a good opportunity to capture the stories of the original pioneers who are still with us and helped set up the industry,” says Doug Brown, chair of NZKGI. “We’ve put it into a book with the help of Elaine and we hope it will be a resource for people to enjoy for many years to come.”

With more than 30 inspiring stories, it’s a totally riveting read about plucky New Zealanders, full of courage and Kiwi ingenuity. Fascinating photos and an excellent design layout by SunCreative add to this vastly informative and excellent reference resource.

The book will be launched at the 25th NZKGI anniversary celebration dinner on 3 July.

Copies can be pre-ordered now via the NZKGI website: www.nzkgi.org.nz Rosalie Liddle Crawford

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Eightme Curbing food waste in Tauranga A group of five, including three with PhD’s, have developed a way of curbing food waste in Tauranga.

“We started a Facebook page and Instagram @eightmecom – which connects Tauranga and Mount Maunganui businesses with customers nearby,” says Dacey Zelman-Fahm, “offering them a discounted price for quality food, that might ordinarily be thrown away.

“Businesses can earn extra money and attract new customers, who care about the environment or who just love a good bargain.”

Dacey, a spatial analyst working for an environmental consulting firm cleaning up contaminated groundwater, moved to Tauranga three and a half years ago from Tucson, Arizona with her husband Aaron and two cats.

I met Dacey on Facebook when Jiri Otahai, another one of the Eightme team, linked me into a group chat.

Jiri is from Czech Republic where he graduated with a Masters in Information Technology, and currently lives in Mount Maunganui, working as a programmer for companies around the world.

“We decided we’re going to try to reduce food waste here in Tauranga,” says Jiri. “We also started to work on a mobile app that would help us to save more food every single day.”

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them on their café directory website, with positive responses being posted by readers.

For Eightme to work effectively, the food on offer from the Tauranga and Mount Maunganui businesses has to be of good quality and discounted between 30 and 100 per cent. When I met them they had already started partnering with local cafes and restaurants and had rescued food from Octopus Café.

There are three other members in this team.

Aaron Uthoff is a strength and conditioning coach who helps athletes perform at the top of their game. Originally from Arizona, he moved to Tauranga three and half years ago to pursue a PhD in sports science at Auckland University of Technology while coaching at Tauranga Boys’ College.

Ivana Hanzlikova is from the Czech Republic where she graduated with a Masters in Physiotherapy. Her love of research and physiotherapy led her to New Zealand where she is working towards her PhD. She is based at Adams Centre for High Performance in Mount Maunganui and concentrating on injury prevention.

Reta Hanson moved from Wellington three and a half years ago for a change of scenery and climate. An experienced graphic designer with over 15 years in the design industry she enjoys bringing her skills to this initiative.

All working for free on the app, the team is on a mission to help local businesses reduce Rosalie Liddle Crawford food waste.

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Homemade winter warmers Winter is coming and with it we need lovely homemade winter comfort food but let’s keep it simple and delicious. Our suggestion; pop down to Vetro and grab some of the super large cans of Italian tomatoes and make up your own delicious soups and pasta sauces and then throw them all in the freezer to use whenever you want an easy delicious meal. These bulk cans are incredibly good value, the tomatoes are like no others and there is so much you can do with them. Think bulk freezable; soup, pasta sauce, pizza base, slow cooker sauce bases etc. To get you started here’s a family sized tomato soup recipe that all will love.

Family sized tomato soup Makes about 3 litres, serves 6-8 Preparation: 5 minutes Cooking: 20 minutes

Ingredients: 6 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 3 onions, finely chopped 6 cloves garlic, finely chopped 1tsp salt

Recipe from

3 medium potatoes, peeled, diced 1 large tin chopped Italian tomatoes (2.5kg) 5 teaspoons fish sauce 300ml cream, optional

In a large saucepan heat the olive oil. Add the onion and sauté until just beginning to soften. Then add the garlic and salt. Continue cooking over medium heat, stirring occasionally until garlic is softening then add the potato. Cook for another 5 minutes, then add the tinned tomatoes. Swish a cup of water around the tin and add this “tomato water” to the saucepan. Bring to the boil, stirring occasionally then reduce to a simmer. Let simmer for 15 minutes.

Remove from heat and puree with a stick blender (or use your blender) until smooth. Add the fish sauce and lots of freshly ground black pepper. Return to the heat. If using cream, stir in now. Check for seasoning. Reheat until very hot. Serve immediately in warmed bowls with lots of crunchy bread or rolls.

For some extra flavour try adding together with the potatoes any or all of the following: Two finely chopped celery sticks, two finely chopped carrots, one teaspoon of smoked paprika, half a teaspoon of chilli flakes.

Decorate with: grated parmesan, croutons, a swirl of sour cream and/or finely chopped parsley or some finely chopped fried chorizo sprinkled.

This soup can be frozen but leave out the cream and add once it is heated up.

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Helping bring treasured photos home Natasha Curd messaged me asking if The Weekend Sun could help with a family mission.

“My grandma’s late husband, who passed away nearly two years ago, owned a framing shop.

There are some family photos all framed that weren’t collected and we have been unable to track down the families.”

Many people in Tauranga will have known Trevor Garmonsway through his picture framing business Paramount Picture Framers on Cameron Road, Gate Pa. He died suddenly

Jean Garmonsway with one of the unclaimed images.

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at home on October 26, 2017. Following his death the paintings, pictures and embroidery work which had been taken to him for framing, were unfinished and left in the shop.

Some framing was completed by Trevor’s daughter and son-in-law, Judith and David Lunn, who are themselves picture framers.

Judith and her brothers contacted as many people as possible to come to the shop to collect either their finished work or to retrieve their unfinished work.

Unfortunately many items were left at the shop and never collected. Following the closure of the business these were taken to Trevor’s home where his wife, Jean, has stored them.

There are paintings, posters, embroidery work and family photographs, wedding, children and baby photos. One oval frame has a black and white photo which was probably taken more than 100 years ago. Also paintings and landscape photographs that people had brought in for framing. A tiger painting is signed ‘V.N. Chapman’, and there is a historic photo of the Mount area.

“We tried phoning people where we had phone numbers,” says Jean. “Or my husband had left a note on the back of the painting that it was being collected, but it never was.

“I’m so reluctant to take it all to the tip. I’d rather return them to who they belong to or their relatives.”

Losing Trevor was quite a shock to the family.

He’d been running his business in Gate Pa for 20 years and was 81 when he died.

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“Some of the photographs and paintings left in the shop had dates attached but Jean thinks some of them may have been left in the shop for a while before Trevor died. It’s hard to know”

“He was still working full time,” says Jean.

“Before that he was in the NZ Fire Service for 40 years.”

Trevor started as a volunteer fireman in Raetihi at age 15, later becoming a full-time fire officer and an Honoured Gold Star member of the NZ Fire Service.

“He bought the picture framing business when he retired from the fire service. He was amazing. Looking at him, you’d never think he was 81.”

She has a wonderful photo of Trevor, mug in hand, apron on, standing in his workshop, smiling at the photographer. Clearly very happy doing the work he loved.

Some of the photographs and paintings left in the shop had dates attached but Jean thinks some of them may have been left in the shop for a while before Trevor died. It’s hard to know.

“He kept good records,” says Jean, “and so that was one of the things that we searched through at the time to try and find people.

“We found phone numbers but when we rang them, we found a lot of the numbers weren’t working. Or if we left messages on their answerphone, they didn’t come back to us.”

The family left a notice in the shop window with a contact phone number for a period of time after Trevor’s death.

“Trevor didn’t have a Facebook page or website,” says Jean. “He worked in the old fashioned way with pieces of paper and

telephone numbers and talking with people.

“Most of his work came from people who had been going to him for a long time.

“Judith finished some of the work, and a few people came in and collected their photos.

“The shop was closed from the day that he died, and it took us a couple of months after the funeral to go in and clear it all out. These photos are the ones left over.

“It’s more the photographs that I’m concerned about,” says Jean. “Some of them are quite old, so it would be a shame if they don’t go back to the families.

“Trevor was a family man and his family was so important to him. It was important that family celebrations should be remembered.”

One of the eulogies at Trevor’s funeral summed him up very well: “Trevor was born and died a humble man; honest, caring, the epitome of integrity and decency; all supported and enlivened by his sharp sense of humour. A strong sense of duty and responsibility underpinned his dignity and sense of honour.”

Jean says Trevor would want the family photographs to be reunited with the relevant families.

If you recognise any of these photographs or the people in the photographs please contact Jean Garmonsway, phone: 07 579 1918 or email: pommyj123@xtra.co.nz Rosalie Liddle Crawford

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