Life + Style 7 July 2017

21 August, 2015

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THE WEEKEND

Polyphonix

Peter Barney

Ora King Salmon

Float

Andrea Meredith

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A little something for yourself Restoring your natural beauty It’s time to think about you, to do something that will make you feel more confident and put an added bounce to your step.

Photos: Tracy Hardy

Although it’s a privilege to age, some of the less desirable effects of facial ageing prevent us from looking as well as we feel.

Whether it’s a few frown lines glaring back at you in the mirror, or sad, downturned corners of your mouth, Sharon Melrose from her clinic Rejuvenation Cosmetic Medicine, offers an honest, down-to-earth appraisal and safe, time-proven cosmetic medicine treatments to refresh or maintain your looks.

“Each person has particular facial characteristics that distinguish them from millions of other people,” says Sharon, “their personal ‘logo’.

“Clients generally want to maintain that uniqueness for as long as is reasonable. Most of my clients are reluctant to accept not so much the inevitability of ageing, but the speed with which their face changes.”

Cosmetic medicine falls somewhere between the relatively short term benefits of beauty therapy treatments and the more invasive, permanent plastic surgical procedures.

Cosmetic medicine treatments are designed to accommodate and complement an ever-changing and ageing face. The aim is to look refreshed and revitalised.

Sharon Melrose is a registered nurse with more than 20 years in the field of cosmetic medicine. Sharon specialises in treatments using dermal fillers and facial muscle relaxants. Either one, or both procedures work in harmony to re-freshen faces in a natural-looking way.

“There is an increasing demand for these popular treatments by clients with a quest to look and feel their best,” says Sharon.

An established and experienced cosmetic medicine practitioner is more likely to offer continuity of care and a higher level of skill, resulting in better outcomes, less complications and more realistic and natural-looking results.

Tailor-made treatments using the best possible products are fine-tuned to each person with safety and comfort in mind.

“Having ‘an eye’ for knowing what is going to suit or enhance each client is where experience counts,” says Sharon.

“Trends that place emphasis on particular facial features are always changing and the ‘trend of the moment’ may not necessarily suit everybody or look flattering at every age.”

Sharon offers a complimentary and confidential consultation to discuss what options may be suitable for each person which are realistic, achievable and within

their budget or time frame. People are quite surprised at how relatively inexpensive some of her treatments are.

A treatment for frown lines costs approximately $220 and lasts around three-four months.

Dermal fillers costs from as little as $599 per ml and can last up to one-two years.

Although cost is an important factor, “good value for money is also about the quality and safety of the products used and the skill with which they are administered,” says Sharon. “Saving a dollar or two at the expense of quality and skill can be counter-productive.”

Treatments are quick to administer and can be effective immediately with little or no down time.

They last from around three months to two years and include re-freshening lips, softening frown lines, adding volume to sunken cheeks, minimising facial wrinkles or deep folds, firming up jaw lines and reducing ‘marionette’ lines.

Photographs are taken prior to treatments and a complimentary follow-up appointment booked for a later date.

Taking a sense of pride in our appearance and keeping a healthy balance between looking and feeling good is just one of a number of many things that we can do to improve our confidence and self-esteem at any age.

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Polyphonix Discovering Te Puke’s singing sensations

Entered into the competition in late 2016 by choir director and singing teacher Cathy Harris, the group was initially unnamed.

“They brought the cameras here,” says choir member Wiremu Winiata. “That was actually when we were all together for the first time. We tossed around ideas for our name, and came up with Polyphonix.”

Wiremu is the bass in the group, arranging the music and organising practice times. He plays piano, sax, drums, and guitar, and is also the lead in the school show. His brother Maniah sings lead, bass and beat boxing. And he plays piano and guitar. Their father helped create some of their songs.

“It started off with just five of us,” says soprano Reese Nathan.

“We sung ‘You Gotta do Right’ by the Heritage Singers at the 2016 senior prizegiving. That was actually our audition

song for the Naked Choir.”

The auditions were held at Te Puke High School, with The Warner Brothers film crew visiting several times to interview and film the choir.

Reese and Jaeden Nathan are cousins of brothers Wiremu and Maniah. They also have a musical father, who is a sound engineer and helped arrange their music.

Jaeden sings some lead and baritone, and plays guitar and piano.

Further relationships within the group are explained.

“Us two are brother and sister,” says Reese. “Those two are brothers, and we’re cousins, and they’re neighbours. And he’s a cousin too. And these ones are all best friends.”

“Coming from musical families, they find it easy to sing together in harmony,” says Cathy.

Jayden Kennedy, who created the group logo, sings tenor and leads music at his church. Seeta Tangiora sings alto and Keanau Latimer sings lead and beat boxing.

The Naked Choir features choirs that sing without instrumental accompaniment.

This a cappella singing is a musical style that developed out of barbershop. Great skill and discipline is required to achieve

Photos: Tracy Hardy

A group of seven Te Puke High School students found themselves thrust into the national limelight when they were selected as one of the eight groups to appear on TVNZ’s ‘The Naked Choir’.

the right harmonies.

“Straight after we found out we got through to the show, we started practising together,” says Reese. “We’d get together, jam, work on some technique and try and find ourselves.”

“They did a whole bunch of filming down here of us. Eventually we went up to Auckland to perform. And then we stayed up there another week for mentoring.

“We were given per diems for each day we were away.”

The first screening of the Naked Choir was celebrated by Polyphonix with around 60 family and friends on May 30, with a shared barbecue dinner.

Hosted by Jeff Hunkin, the eventual winner of The Naked Choir was Voices Co Rosalie Liddle Crawford from Christchurch.

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Peter Barney Is Santa wintering at the Mount?

Some of our readers have asked: “Have you seen Santa at the Mount?

He must be on holiday.”

Intrigued, I went to find out. Sitting in Pilot Bay, I waited. Within minutes an orange Santa on an orange bicycle flew past me.

I caught up with him at the Big Wave Cafe. I later learned he stops there for coffee on his daily ride.

We sat in the sun and chatted.

The orange Mount Santa Claus is actually Peter Barney, a Mount local who grew up in Pitau Rd. His grandparents moved from Te Puke to Tauranga in 1922, and his mother Elizabeth Barney, now 101, moved to the Mount from Hamilton when she married father George in 1948.

Photos: Bruce Barnard

Peter’s grandparents opened Barney’s Supermarket, a general store, in Victoria Rd with George and his two sisters. Peter remembers the Mount Primary School being moved from Totara St to its current site in Orkney Rd about 1969.

The township’s buildings were mostly baches.

“My dad was one of the foundation members of the Mount Golf Club, and a founding member and chief of the Mount Volunteer Fire Brigade.”

Peter remembers his dad owning a few sections, and being offered a couple more near where Marine Parade meets Ocean Beach Rd. “He said ‘who would want to buy sand?’”

In 1968 when the Wahine went down Peter recalls the surf being very high on the Mount Main beach.

Moturiki Island had been used as a quarry, then turned into Marineland, then Leisure Island.

“It was a great place to grow up. Go out surfing, fishing and diving. Out around Rabbit Island.

“Climb the Mount. Anyone could drive onto the wharf and chuck their rods out.”

He remembers the first soundshell at the southern end of Coronation Park, and the royal visit that followed.

His family moved the general store from Victoria Rd to the corner of Pacific Ave and Maunganui Rd, building Barney’s Building there in 1957.

Downstairs was the main store and grocery shop for the township. They also owned a general carrying business, transporting rock for sumps and septic tanks, coal and firewood. Eventually they sold the trucking business licence to Bob Owens.

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“It was a great place to grow up. Go out surfing, fishing and diving.

Out around Rabbit Island. Climb the Mount. Anyone could drive onto the wharf and chuck their rods out.”

“Whenever the old sirens went, Dad just dropped everything and took off to put out the fire. Back then they didn’t have modern hoses for scrub fires, it was spades and sacks.”

Across the road from the Barney Building was the old post office, with the small recessed archway for posting letters still evident today. Peter recalls the Mount New Year’s Eve parties of the 1960s.

“I was about eight or nine. On New Year’s Eve, they used to have dances in the old Peter Pan, where Backdoor is now. At midnight, they’d all pile out into the street, throw bottles and smash windows.

This happened for three or four years.

“Mum and Dad would come down and board up the shop windows.”

The business was sold when George developed health problems. After he died in 1973, the building was also sold.

Peter has lived much of his adult life in Rotorua, working in the Waipa Mill for more than 20 years before being laid off in 1998.

“I was 47, fighting depression and things just got a bit out of control.”

When his mother had a fall in March 2016, she stayed in hospital for about two weeks. Peter was 178kg, and found it difficult walking from the hospital carpark to her ward. He realised caring for her, which he wanted to do, was going to be a challenge, so he set out to get fitter. He downloaded a step app for his phone, donned good walking shoes, and set off each day determined to walk 8000-10,000 steps per day.

“I just went out every day around the block and then tried to do more and more.”

After walking most of the streets of Papamoa and Mount Maunganui from March to August, his feet were hurting, so he bought a bicycle. He now prepares his mother’s breakfast, sets off to cycle for the morning, returns at noon to make her lunch and then cycles again in the afternoon. He also recently bought an orange electric Pedego cycle.

Between both bikes he’s averaging 200km per week. Over the past year Peter has lost 30kg and is enjoying the fresh air and outdoors.

Locals find it delightful that there may actually be a Santa holidaying here over winter, and along the way we all get to hear a little snippet of Mount Maunganui history.

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Floating in hammocks Three-dimensional fitness Floating above earth in slings that can carry baby elephants. The idea of this conjured up thoughts of hammocks, floating, Dumbo the movie and storks delivering babies so I set off to check it out.

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I found Float Fitness owner Louise Kirkham’s husband Chris at the end of a paintbrush. Above him, five huge beams.

“They’re 100-year-old wharf poles,” says Louise.

“They were sitting in a sawmill in Waihi and our friend who is an engineer saw them. That was a labour of love for my husband Chris.”

Louise had been in the local library studying for an exam to become the NZ AntiGravity® Fitness (AGY) instructor trainer when she saw a photo of elephants lifting wharf poles at the Mount Maunganui wharves. She thought it quite amazing as the poles in the photo were sent to Waihi. Maybe they were the same poles that Chris was making her studio beams from?

While this may be difficult to verify, certainly the slings hanging from the poles can take the weight of a baby elephant, being made from fabric tested and approved by safety engineers for 450kg.

Louise has been preparing the Float Fitness studio for opening to the public, making sure all the health and safety compliance requirements are in place, accessibility for wheelchairs completed and signage

up. All that’s left is the front desk and a chandelier feature.

Why Float?

“I have a background in rhythmic gymnastics with balls, hoops and ribbons,” says Louise. “A girlfriend of mine went to Hawaii and did this anti-gravity technique there, came home, found no one was doing it here and she said ‘you should do antigravity, it’s amazing!’

“She kept on about it so I had a look into it. The technique has only been in Australia since 2011, so I flew over to check it out. I’d never touched a hammock before that, but went and did my training in Sydney three years ago,” says Louise.

“I realised I’d have to build my own studio because I wanted to be able to offer it to everyone. It’s such an amazing technique.

“It’s got so many benefits, especially our celebrated zero compression inversion. We hang upside down which lengthens the spine realigning the vertebrate and creating space to hydrate the spinal discs.”

Releasing happy hormones, bringing fresh blood to the head, helping lengthen the lower back – it certainly seems a youthful, fun experience.

Hanging upside-down, new Float Fitness convert Leah Rogers readily agrees.

“This is my thing,” says Leah. “I’m so passionate about it.” She flips over mid-air into a batwing formation, her core abdominals tensing as she hangs suspended over the floor. It has a push in it. Made from cushioned vinyl on top of a soft underlay, it’s a

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“I was looking to do something that combined my love of exercise and movement. This is just perfect for me. I get to work and do what I love”

new technology from Japan called Ecofloor.

Louise’s early years also included dancing, competitive swimming, netball and athletics, so this is a natural progression for her. She is now a level four AGY trainer.

There are six studios in NZ affiliated to AntiGravity® Fitness, a trademarked technique in the USA. AntiGravity® Fitness is a form of lowimpact exercise, inspired by both yoga and acrobatic movements.

Movements are performed in the ceilingmounted hammocks, which provide support and resistance. The idea is that by performing all techniques above ground, the body utilises more muscle groups to balance, providing an all-body workout.

The goal is to see increased strength, drop weight, increase tone, have a full-body workout, de-stress, raise endorphin levels, complement current training to improve balance and stability, and provide an entry workout for beginners.

The hammocks utilise the same equipment used in rock climbing and provide for three-dimensional movement.

“Most people are really tight in their hips,” says Louise. “Especially if they sit or drive a lot. You’re lengthening with your inversions and releasing into your hip flexes in our wonderful front belt wrap. We work

Leah Rogers and Louise Kirkham

the core too by constantly realigning through the three-dimensional movement.”

The hammocks can be lowered for younger people and for restorative work.

A chiropractor will be working at Float Fitness with people who have lower back issues, teaching restorative classes.

After leaving school Louise lived and worked in Queenstown, working for a modelling agency as a spa and beauty therapist, specialising in make-up on feature films and high-end commercials. She then moved to

Edinburgh to work as a senior spa therapist for a holistic Zen lifestyle spa. During her time there this holistic Ayurveda-influenced day spa was awarded the prestigious title of ‘UK’s top Day Spa’.

“I had always wanted to do something postbabies,” says Louise, who is a mother of two.

“I’d been travelling a lot with Chris for about eight years and was looking to do something that combined my love of exercise and movement. This is just perfect for me. I get to work and do what I love.” Rosalie Liddle Crawford

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Best of the best The Ora King Salmon Awards

Life + Style has a $100 voucher for an Ora King-inspired dinner at Trinity Wharf and at Rye to give away to lucky readers, simply enter online at www.SunLive.co.nz Competitions subject line Ora King.

Entries must be received before Wednesday, July 26.

I was honoured to be asked to write the reviews again this year for the Ora King Salmon Awards. The Ora’s were established in 2013 to recognise outstanding contributions from chefs working with Ora King. ˜ is year the awards are celebrating their ÿ ve year anniversary by doing something extra special, taking the Ora King Awards to Japan.

Unesco recently added Japanese cuisine – known in Japan as washoku – to its Intangible Cultural Heritage list. ˜ is puts it equal to French cuisine, the only other national culinary tradition to be so honoured.

To win a place in the Japanese ÿ nals of the 2017 Ora King Awards, chefs are required to create an innovative Ora King dish with a Japanese twist, a chance for chefs to showcase their creativity, craftsmanship and expertise. ˜ ere are three local restaurants in the awards this year. Rye Kitchen, Trinity Wharf and the Rabbit Hole. ˜ is week we take a look at the entries from Trinity Wharf and Rye. Next week I am looking forward to bringing you the review on the Rabbit Hole dish, I have had a sneak preview and it looks pretty impressive.

What makes Ora King different?

New Zealand’s own Ora King Salmon is revered around the world by discerning chefs. ˜ e product has gained wide acclaim.

Ora King Salmon are grown sustainably in the deep, cool waters of the Marlborough Sounds.

With worldwide demand for seafood increasing,

aquaculture is a highly e˛ cient use of the marine environment. It takes the pressure away from ocean ÿ shing and is a means of providing the world with valuable and nutritious protein.

Ora King is to salmon as wagyu is to beef. ˜ e highly prized Ora King salmon is itself a rare luxury, which makes up less than one per cent of the world’s salmon species, giving it a luscious, elegant texture and rich taste – you can deÿ nitely tell the di˝ erence.

Each salmon is reviewed by master graders and if it doesn’t meet the highest level then it doesn’t go on to become Ora King salmon.

Ora King has the highest natural oil content of all salmon – a naturally rich source of omega 3s. A 150g portion of this ÿ sh provides the complete daily requirement of omega 3 (I cannot think of a nicer way to get your daily intake).

Added to the health beneÿ ts, Ora King salmon looks stunningly distinctive. Its fantastic texture is buttery and soft, without excessive fat. It cuts easily due to its unique muscular structure, is light in the mouth and coats the palate delicately making it a real pleasure to eat. It is easy to pair with other ingredients.

Trinity Wharf ˜ is is how Trinity Wharf Executive Chef Stuart Perry describes his entry: “A dish which showcases balance and harmony with an essence of ‘complex simplicity’ with a Japanese blush is the inspiration for my 2017 entry in the Ora King competition. I envisage the diner experiencing a sense of calm on receiving my dish,with the visual elements drawing them in, as the textures and ˙ avours escalate the experience to one of enrichment.

“An a˛ nity with umami and a keen interest in the ˙ avours, techniques and style of both Japanese and

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“New Zealand’s own Ora King Salmon is revered around the world by discerning chefs.

The product has gained wide acclaim”

South East Asian cuisine have in˙ uenced me both in my formative years as a chef in Australia and now in New Zealand.

“Within this dish, I have combined a Japanese feel, with products associated with ˜ e Bay of Plenty such as Grove avocado oil and Zespri kiwifruit, both of which Japanese visitors appreciate and utilize in Japan.

“A variety of techniques have been employed in developing this dish. Some are of Japanese origin, others incorporating the Japanese method – “Power of 5” - Five Senses – Five Colours – Five Tastes.

“Similar to gravlax, the Japanese dish ‘Shimi Saba’ is based on the utilization of salt and rice vinegar in the curing of Mackerel. Within this dish, I have incorporated miso and kiwifruit with mirin and salt. I found that the kiwifruit reacted as a tenderiser and added to the feel of the salmon on the palate. “˜ e dashi (shiitake and crayÿ sh), was created by cooking shiitake mushrooms and reserving the liquid and then simmering it over the cray bodies and other aromats. ˜ is created a liquid, which is used to glaze the clams and mushrooms. “˜ e clams were cooked o˝ in shallots, butter and mirin “A light emulsion of wasabi and svocado oil, was made to complement both portions of the dish.

“I kept the soft-shell crab clean and simple, whilst adding to the experience with a crisp coating of nori.

“With the garnishes I added lightly pickled spring onion and the crisp skin to add a texture and ˙ avour dimension to the salmon portion of the dish.

“An added garnish to the crab component of the dish I infused duck fat with wasabi and dehydrated it with malto to create a rich and punchy surprise.”

A big thanks to Stuart and the team at Trinity Wharf for a great experience, the dish was superb! I particularly liked the way Stuart brought in the Bay to his dish by using kiwifruit.

Rye Executive Chef Ian Harrison.

Rye On to Rye, to experience the take executive Chef Ian Harrison has put on his entry: Ian cured the Ora King Salmon overnight in kombu. ˜ e salmon was then carefully sous-vide for 4 minutes at 64 degrees. ˜ e dish was beautifully balanced with a number of diverse elements. ˜ e elements consisting of white rice crema, pickled ginger puree, fermented battered smoked eel, lemon pith and dashi, were all carefully constructed and plated together, resulting in not only a visually appealing dish, but a clever use of textures and ˙ avours that all worked so well together! ˜ e fermented battered smoked eel worked so well in this dish, really added that point of di˝ erence. ˜ ese dishes are currently on the menu at Trinity Wharf and Rye, so be sure to Claire Rogers try them.

Trinity Wharf Executive Chef Stuart Perry.

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Mobile health Reaching youth with free healthcare

‘HBU?’ In text speak it means ‘how about you?’ and for young people in the Western Bay of Plenty who can’t afford to see a doctor, it’s proving to be a life-saver.

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Dr Murray Hay, and nurse Annette Exon.

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The Western Bay of Plenty’s Mobile Youth Health Unit ‘HBU’ visits local communities three nights a week, providing much-needed free medical services for young people.

The service, funded through the Western Bay of Plenty Public Health Organisation, has seen more than 8000 people treated by a doctor, nurse and youth worker during the past eight years and is celebrating a renewal and increase of its funding from July 1.

“We’re really happy with that,” says Ngai Te Rangi CEO Paora Stanley.

Run by Te Runanga O Ngai Te Rangi Iwi Trust, the HBU operates three nights a week in Katikati, Welcome Bay, Arataki, Merivale and Papamoa.

“The key difference is that it’s primarily for young people,” says Paora, “and it’s aimed at those who can’t afford to pay for healthcare.

“Many aren’t enrolled with a PHO because they can’t afford to, or they’re working during the day, or their bills are too high at other GPs so they can’t go back until they pay their bill.

“It’s not a 15-minute consultation like you get with your own doctor,” says Paora. “When you walk out is when it finishes.”

Why do people call it HBU?

“When we first started, the doctor would greet everybody coming in and they’d say to him ‘Hey doc, how are you?’ The doctor would reply ‘Fine, how about you?’ In text language ‘how about you’ is ‘HBU’,” says Paora.

People line up in the cold wind and dark waiting to see Dr Murray Hay who has been the HBU doctor for the past eight years. Over that time the unit has rushed people to hospital and called ambulances in.

There was once a gang fight outside, with the team racing across the road to pick up the bodies and bring them in to treat.

“In my mind, in terms of reaching at-risk people, this project is reaching a sector of the population that nobody else is reaching,” says Murray.

“There was some research done that shows there may be as many as 500,000 people in New Zealand who are unable to afford to go to the doctor and access the medical services that they need.

“We aim to reach young people, particularly aged 10-24. They are more vulnerable because they may not have support or homes, and are in transition between childhood and adulthood. They may be just lost and don’t have the resources to be able to make it in life and need extra support.

“Some are struggling with depression and anxiety and are especially vulnerable.”

Paora says Murray’s efforts are “stunning”.

“He doesn’t need to be there. He owns two doctors’ practices anyway. He’s there because he believes in it and because he wants to do something.”

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Safety co-ordinator Rocky Rahipere.

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“I love watching

Andrea Meredith Building children through music

“I found an article written about me when I was 16,” says Selwyn Ridge Primary School music teacher Andrea Meredith.

do things outside of their comfort zone”

choir is divided into Side A or B. “Some schools will learn Side A harmony and some Side B.” Early in term two, Carol and Andrea run a workshop for the choir trainers, teaching them conducting and familiarising them with the songs.

“We have the first choir rehearsal about the seventh week of term two.

“That’s five rehearsals over two and a half days, where all the schools come in, grouped according to the nights that they will be performing. We do “One passion of mine is that twice before we go to Baycourt.”

As well as about 10 or 11 mass choir watching children perform songs, each school performs their own and seeing them go from being nervous to ‘out there’. song around the theme.

Photos: Bruce Barnard

“I’d just won a trophy playing piano.

“In the article it said ‘Andrea would like to become a teacher of music’.”

She smiles a moment and reflects on how she left college to pursue medical science.

These days her life has come full circle back to music.

“Music teaching is what I’m doing now, so that’s pretty cool.”

Her three eldest children attended Selwyn Ridge Primary School when it opened in 1997.

Andrea came to school assemblies with her pre-schooler, played for her daughter’s class musical then started playing for Friday assemblies.

This grew to setting up the school’s itinerant music programme, giving keyboard lessons, assisting teachers with their music teaching until finally she stepped into a paid permanent role.

Not all primary schools have music teachers. Andrea says Craig Price, principal of Selwyn Ridge, believes

that music and the arts help a child’s learning. “Music is part of the national curriculum but I think many teachers don’t find it easy to teach.

“Anything I want to do, Craig is so supportive. One of his questions is are the children learning? Yes they are, so go for it.”

Tauranga Music Festival has been running for over 60 years.

“I’ve been involved since 2002, playing the piano for it,” says Andrea.

“It wasn’t until Carol Storey and I took it over that we decided to have a theme each year.

“This year’s theme is ‘All Creatures Great and Small’ and involves students from 35 primary and intermediate schools from Papamoa to Katikati.”

For a week in September, more than 1300 school children will fill Baycourt with singing.

That’s 280 children from five or six schools per night over five nights.

Andrea, with co-musical director and conductor Carol Storey, recorded a CD of the piano and vocal tracks in April.

Books of the music and lyrics are printed for every school.

“There is a maximum of two-part harmony for the songs, so each mass

kids perform and encourage them to

“I love watching kids perform and encourage them to do things outside of their comfort zone.”

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THE WEEKEND

Polyphonix

Peter Barney

Ora King Salmon

Float

Andrea Meredith

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A little something for yourself Restoring your natural beauty It’s time to think about you, to do something that will make you feel more confident and put an added bounce to your step.

Photos: Tracy Hardy

Although it’s a privilege to age, some of the less desirable effects of facial ageing prevent us from looking as well as we feel.

Whether it’s a few frown lines glaring back at you in the mirror, or sad, downturned corners of your mouth, Sharon Melrose from her clinic Rejuvenation Cosmetic Medicine, offers an honest, down-to-earth appraisal and safe, time-proven cosmetic medicine treatments to refresh or maintain your looks.

“Each person has particular facial characteristics that distinguish them from millions of other people,” says Sharon, “their personal ‘logo’.

“Clients generally want to maintain that uniqueness for as long as is reasonable. Most of my clients are reluctant to accept not so much the inevitability of ageing, but the speed with which their face changes.”

Cosmetic medicine falls somewhere between the relatively short term benefits of beauty therapy treatments and the more invasive, permanent plastic surgical procedures.

Cosmetic medicine treatments are designed to accommodate and complement an ever-changing and ageing face. The aim is to look refreshed and revitalised.

Sharon Melrose is a registered nurse with more than 20 years in the field of cosmetic medicine. Sharon specialises in treatments using dermal fillers and facial muscle relaxants. Either one, or both procedures work in harmony to re-freshen faces in a natural-looking way.

“There is an increasing demand for these popular treatments by clients with a quest to look and feel their best,” says Sharon.

An established and experienced cosmetic medicine practitioner is more likely to offer continuity of care and a higher level of skill, resulting in better outcomes, less complications and more realistic and natural-looking results.

Tailor-made treatments using the best possible products are fine-tuned to each person with safety and comfort in mind.

“Having ‘an eye’ for knowing what is going to suit or enhance each client is where experience counts,” says Sharon.

“Trends that place emphasis on particular facial features are always changing and the ‘trend of the moment’ may not necessarily suit everybody or look flattering at every age.”

Sharon offers a complimentary and confidential consultation to discuss what options may be suitable for each person which are realistic, achievable and within

their budget or time frame. People are quite surprised at how relatively inexpensive some of her treatments are.

A treatment for frown lines costs approximately $220 and lasts around three-four months.

Dermal fillers costs from as little as $599 per ml and can last up to one-two years.

Although cost is an important factor, “good value for money is also about the quality and safety of the products used and the skill with which they are administered,” says Sharon. “Saving a dollar or two at the expense of quality and skill can be counter-productive.”

Treatments are quick to administer and can be effective immediately with little or no down time.

They last from around three months to two years and include re-freshening lips, softening frown lines, adding volume to sunken cheeks, minimising facial wrinkles or deep folds, firming up jaw lines and reducing ‘marionette’ lines.

Photographs are taken prior to treatments and a complimentary follow-up appointment booked for a later date.

Taking a sense of pride in our appearance and keeping a healthy balance between looking and feeling good is just one of a number of many things that we can do to improve our confidence and self-esteem at any age.

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Polyphonix Discovering Te Puke’s singing sensations

Entered into the competition in late 2016 by choir director and singing teacher Cathy Harris, the group was initially unnamed.

“They brought the cameras here,” says choir member Wiremu Winiata. “That was actually when we were all together for the first time. We tossed around ideas for our name, and came up with Polyphonix.”

Wiremu is the bass in the group, arranging the music and organising practice times. He plays piano, sax, drums, and guitar, and is also the lead in the school show. His brother Maniah sings lead, bass and beat boxing. And he plays piano and guitar. Their father helped create some of their songs.

“It started off with just five of us,” says soprano Reese Nathan.

“We sung ‘You Gotta do Right’ by the Heritage Singers at the 2016 senior prizegiving. That was actually our audition

song for the Naked Choir.”

The auditions were held at Te Puke High School, with The Warner Brothers film crew visiting several times to interview and film the choir.

Reese and Jaeden Nathan are cousins of brothers Wiremu and Maniah. They also have a musical father, who is a sound engineer and helped arrange their music.

Jaeden sings some lead and baritone, and plays guitar and piano.

Further relationships within the group are explained.

“Us two are brother and sister,” says Reese. “Those two are brothers, and we’re cousins, and they’re neighbours. And he’s a cousin too. And these ones are all best friends.”

“Coming from musical families, they find it easy to sing together in harmony,” says Cathy.

Jayden Kennedy, who created the group logo, sings tenor and leads music at his church. Seeta Tangiora sings alto and Keanau Latimer sings lead and beat boxing.

The Naked Choir features choirs that sing without instrumental accompaniment.

This a cappella singing is a musical style that developed out of barbershop. Great skill and discipline is required to achieve

Photos: Tracy Hardy

A group of seven Te Puke High School students found themselves thrust into the national limelight when they were selected as one of the eight groups to appear on TVNZ’s ‘The Naked Choir’.

the right harmonies.

“Straight after we found out we got through to the show, we started practising together,” says Reese. “We’d get together, jam, work on some technique and try and find ourselves.”

“They did a whole bunch of filming down here of us. Eventually we went up to Auckland to perform. And then we stayed up there another week for mentoring.

“We were given per diems for each day we were away.”

The first screening of the Naked Choir was celebrated by Polyphonix with around 60 family and friends on May 30, with a shared barbecue dinner.

Hosted by Jeff Hunkin, the eventual winner of The Naked Choir was Voices Co Rosalie Liddle Crawford from Christchurch.

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Peter Barney Is Santa wintering at the Mount?

Some of our readers have asked: “Have you seen Santa at the Mount?

He must be on holiday.”

Intrigued, I went to find out. Sitting in Pilot Bay, I waited. Within minutes an orange Santa on an orange bicycle flew past me.

I caught up with him at the Big Wave Cafe. I later learned he stops there for coffee on his daily ride.

We sat in the sun and chatted.

The orange Mount Santa Claus is actually Peter Barney, a Mount local who grew up in Pitau Rd. His grandparents moved from Te Puke to Tauranga in 1922, and his mother Elizabeth Barney, now 101, moved to the Mount from Hamilton when she married father George in 1948.

Photos: Bruce Barnard

Peter’s grandparents opened Barney’s Supermarket, a general store, in Victoria Rd with George and his two sisters. Peter remembers the Mount Primary School being moved from Totara St to its current site in Orkney Rd about 1969.

The township’s buildings were mostly baches.

“My dad was one of the foundation members of the Mount Golf Club, and a founding member and chief of the Mount Volunteer Fire Brigade.”

Peter remembers his dad owning a few sections, and being offered a couple more near where Marine Parade meets Ocean Beach Rd. “He said ‘who would want to buy sand?’”

In 1968 when the Wahine went down Peter recalls the surf being very high on the Mount Main beach.

Moturiki Island had been used as a quarry, then turned into Marineland, then Leisure Island.

“It was a great place to grow up. Go out surfing, fishing and diving. Out around Rabbit Island.

“Climb the Mount. Anyone could drive onto the wharf and chuck their rods out.”

He remembers the first soundshell at the southern end of Coronation Park, and the royal visit that followed.

His family moved the general store from Victoria Rd to the corner of Pacific Ave and Maunganui Rd, building Barney’s Building there in 1957.

Downstairs was the main store and grocery shop for the township. They also owned a general carrying business, transporting rock for sumps and septic tanks, coal and firewood. Eventually they sold the trucking business licence to Bob Owens.

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“It was a great place to grow up. Go out surfing, fishing and diving.

Out around Rabbit Island. Climb the Mount. Anyone could drive onto the wharf and chuck their rods out.”

“Whenever the old sirens went, Dad just dropped everything and took off to put out the fire. Back then they didn’t have modern hoses for scrub fires, it was spades and sacks.”

Across the road from the Barney Building was the old post office, with the small recessed archway for posting letters still evident today. Peter recalls the Mount New Year’s Eve parties of the 1960s.

“I was about eight or nine. On New Year’s Eve, they used to have dances in the old Peter Pan, where Backdoor is now. At midnight, they’d all pile out into the street, throw bottles and smash windows.

This happened for three or four years.

“Mum and Dad would come down and board up the shop windows.”

The business was sold when George developed health problems. After he died in 1973, the building was also sold.

Peter has lived much of his adult life in Rotorua, working in the Waipa Mill for more than 20 years before being laid off in 1998.

“I was 47, fighting depression and things just got a bit out of control.”

When his mother had a fall in March 2016, she stayed in hospital for about two weeks. Peter was 178kg, and found it difficult walking from the hospital carpark to her ward. He realised caring for her, which he wanted to do, was going to be a challenge, so he set out to get fitter. He downloaded a step app for his phone, donned good walking shoes, and set off each day determined to walk 8000-10,000 steps per day.

“I just went out every day around the block and then tried to do more and more.”

After walking most of the streets of Papamoa and Mount Maunganui from March to August, his feet were hurting, so he bought a bicycle. He now prepares his mother’s breakfast, sets off to cycle for the morning, returns at noon to make her lunch and then cycles again in the afternoon. He also recently bought an orange electric Pedego cycle.

Between both bikes he’s averaging 200km per week. Over the past year Peter has lost 30kg and is enjoying the fresh air and outdoors.

Locals find it delightful that there may actually be a Santa holidaying here over winter, and along the way we all get to hear a little snippet of Mount Maunganui history.

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Floating in hammocks Three-dimensional fitness Floating above earth in slings that can carry baby elephants. The idea of this conjured up thoughts of hammocks, floating, Dumbo the movie and storks delivering babies so I set off to check it out.

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I found Float Fitness owner Louise Kirkham’s husband Chris at the end of a paintbrush. Above him, five huge beams.

“They’re 100-year-old wharf poles,” says Louise.

“They were sitting in a sawmill in Waihi and our friend who is an engineer saw them. That was a labour of love for my husband Chris.”

Louise had been in the local library studying for an exam to become the NZ AntiGravity® Fitness (AGY) instructor trainer when she saw a photo of elephants lifting wharf poles at the Mount Maunganui wharves. She thought it quite amazing as the poles in the photo were sent to Waihi. Maybe they were the same poles that Chris was making her studio beams from?

While this may be difficult to verify, certainly the slings hanging from the poles can take the weight of a baby elephant, being made from fabric tested and approved by safety engineers for 450kg.

Louise has been preparing the Float Fitness studio for opening to the public, making sure all the health and safety compliance requirements are in place, accessibility for wheelchairs completed and signage

up. All that’s left is the front desk and a chandelier feature.

Why Float?

“I have a background in rhythmic gymnastics with balls, hoops and ribbons,” says Louise. “A girlfriend of mine went to Hawaii and did this anti-gravity technique there, came home, found no one was doing it here and she said ‘you should do antigravity, it’s amazing!’

“She kept on about it so I had a look into it. The technique has only been in Australia since 2011, so I flew over to check it out. I’d never touched a hammock before that, but went and did my training in Sydney three years ago,” says Louise.

“I realised I’d have to build my own studio because I wanted to be able to offer it to everyone. It’s such an amazing technique.

“It’s got so many benefits, especially our celebrated zero compression inversion. We hang upside down which lengthens the spine realigning the vertebrate and creating space to hydrate the spinal discs.”

Releasing happy hormones, bringing fresh blood to the head, helping lengthen the lower back – it certainly seems a youthful, fun experience.

Hanging upside-down, new Float Fitness convert Leah Rogers readily agrees.

“This is my thing,” says Leah. “I’m so passionate about it.” She flips over mid-air into a batwing formation, her core abdominals tensing as she hangs suspended over the floor. It has a push in it. Made from cushioned vinyl on top of a soft underlay, it’s a

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“I was looking to do something that combined my love of exercise and movement. This is just perfect for me. I get to work and do what I love”

new technology from Japan called Ecofloor.

Louise’s early years also included dancing, competitive swimming, netball and athletics, so this is a natural progression for her. She is now a level four AGY trainer.

There are six studios in NZ affiliated to AntiGravity® Fitness, a trademarked technique in the USA. AntiGravity® Fitness is a form of lowimpact exercise, inspired by both yoga and acrobatic movements.

Movements are performed in the ceilingmounted hammocks, which provide support and resistance. The idea is that by performing all techniques above ground, the body utilises more muscle groups to balance, providing an all-body workout.

The goal is to see increased strength, drop weight, increase tone, have a full-body workout, de-stress, raise endorphin levels, complement current training to improve balance and stability, and provide an entry workout for beginners.

The hammocks utilise the same equipment used in rock climbing and provide for three-dimensional movement.

“Most people are really tight in their hips,” says Louise. “Especially if they sit or drive a lot. You’re lengthening with your inversions and releasing into your hip flexes in our wonderful front belt wrap. We work

Leah Rogers and Louise Kirkham

the core too by constantly realigning through the three-dimensional movement.”

The hammocks can be lowered for younger people and for restorative work.

A chiropractor will be working at Float Fitness with people who have lower back issues, teaching restorative classes.

After leaving school Louise lived and worked in Queenstown, working for a modelling agency as a spa and beauty therapist, specialising in make-up on feature films and high-end commercials. She then moved to

Edinburgh to work as a senior spa therapist for a holistic Zen lifestyle spa. During her time there this holistic Ayurveda-influenced day spa was awarded the prestigious title of ‘UK’s top Day Spa’.

“I had always wanted to do something postbabies,” says Louise, who is a mother of two.

“I’d been travelling a lot with Chris for about eight years and was looking to do something that combined my love of exercise and movement. This is just perfect for me. I get to work and do what I love.” Rosalie Liddle Crawford

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Best of the best The Ora King Salmon Awards

Life + Style has a $100 voucher for an Ora King-inspired dinner at Trinity Wharf and at Rye to give away to lucky readers, simply enter online at www.SunLive.co.nz Competitions subject line Ora King.

Entries must be received before Wednesday, July 26.

I was honoured to be asked to write the reviews again this year for the Ora King Salmon Awards. The Ora’s were established in 2013 to recognise outstanding contributions from chefs working with Ora King. ˜ is year the awards are celebrating their ÿ ve year anniversary by doing something extra special, taking the Ora King Awards to Japan.

Unesco recently added Japanese cuisine – known in Japan as washoku – to its Intangible Cultural Heritage list. ˜ is puts it equal to French cuisine, the only other national culinary tradition to be so honoured.

To win a place in the Japanese ÿ nals of the 2017 Ora King Awards, chefs are required to create an innovative Ora King dish with a Japanese twist, a chance for chefs to showcase their creativity, craftsmanship and expertise. ˜ ere are three local restaurants in the awards this year. Rye Kitchen, Trinity Wharf and the Rabbit Hole. ˜ is week we take a look at the entries from Trinity Wharf and Rye. Next week I am looking forward to bringing you the review on the Rabbit Hole dish, I have had a sneak preview and it looks pretty impressive.

What makes Ora King different?

New Zealand’s own Ora King Salmon is revered around the world by discerning chefs. ˜ e product has gained wide acclaim.

Ora King Salmon are grown sustainably in the deep, cool waters of the Marlborough Sounds.

With worldwide demand for seafood increasing,

aquaculture is a highly e˛ cient use of the marine environment. It takes the pressure away from ocean ÿ shing and is a means of providing the world with valuable and nutritious protein.

Ora King is to salmon as wagyu is to beef. ˜ e highly prized Ora King salmon is itself a rare luxury, which makes up less than one per cent of the world’s salmon species, giving it a luscious, elegant texture and rich taste – you can deÿ nitely tell the di˝ erence.

Each salmon is reviewed by master graders and if it doesn’t meet the highest level then it doesn’t go on to become Ora King salmon.

Ora King has the highest natural oil content of all salmon – a naturally rich source of omega 3s. A 150g portion of this ÿ sh provides the complete daily requirement of omega 3 (I cannot think of a nicer way to get your daily intake).

Added to the health beneÿ ts, Ora King salmon looks stunningly distinctive. Its fantastic texture is buttery and soft, without excessive fat. It cuts easily due to its unique muscular structure, is light in the mouth and coats the palate delicately making it a real pleasure to eat. It is easy to pair with other ingredients.

Trinity Wharf ˜ is is how Trinity Wharf Executive Chef Stuart Perry describes his entry: “A dish which showcases balance and harmony with an essence of ‘complex simplicity’ with a Japanese blush is the inspiration for my 2017 entry in the Ora King competition. I envisage the diner experiencing a sense of calm on receiving my dish,with the visual elements drawing them in, as the textures and ˙ avours escalate the experience to one of enrichment.

“An a˛ nity with umami and a keen interest in the ˙ avours, techniques and style of both Japanese and

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“New Zealand’s own Ora King Salmon is revered around the world by discerning chefs.

The product has gained wide acclaim”

South East Asian cuisine have in˜ uenced me both in my formative years as a chef in Australia and now in New Zealand.

“Within this dish, I have combined a Japanese feel, with products associated with ° e Bay of Plenty such as Grove avocado oil and Zespri kiwifruit, both of which Japanese visitors appreciate and utilize in Japan.

“A variety of techniques have been employed in developing this dish. Some are of Japanese origin, others incorporating the Japanese method – “Power of 5” - Five Senses – Five Colours – Five Tastes.

“Similar to gravlax, the Japanese dish ‘Shimi Saba’ is based on the utilization of salt and rice vinegar in the curing of Mackerel. Within this dish, I have incorporated miso and kiwifruit with mirin and salt. I found that the kiwifruit reacted as a tenderiser and added to the feel of the salmon on the palate. “° e dashi (shiitake and crayÿ sh), was created by cooking shiitake mushrooms and reserving the liquid and then simmering it over the cray bodies and other aromats. ° is created a liquid, which is used to glaze the clams and mushrooms. “° e clams were cooked o˝ in shallots, butter and mirin “A light emulsion of wasabi and svocado oil, was made to complement both portions of the dish.

“I kept the soft-shell crab clean and simple, whilst adding to the experience with a crisp coating of nori.

“With the garnishes I added lightly pickled spring onion and the crisp skin to add a texture and ˜ avour dimension to the salmon portion of the dish.

“An added garnish to the crab component of the dish I infused duck fat with wasabi and dehydrated it with malto to create a rich and punchy surprise.”

A big thanks to Stuart and the team at Trinity Wharf for a great experience, the dish was superb! I particularly liked the way Stuart brought in the Bay to his dish by using kiwifruit.

Rye Executive Chef Ian Harrison.

Rye On to Rye, to experience the take executive Chef Ian Harrison has put on his entry: Ian cured the Ora King Salmon overnight in kombu. ° e salmon was then carefully sous-vide for 4 minutes at 64 degrees. ° e dish was beautifully balanced with a number of diverse elements. ° e elements consisting of white rice crema, pickled ginger puree, fermented battered smoked eel, lemon pith and dashi, were all carefully constructed and plated together, resulting in not only a visually appealing dish, but a clever use of textures and ˜ avours that all worked so well together! ° e fermented battered smoked eel worked so well in this dish, really added that point of di˝ erence. ° ese dishes are currently on the menu at Trinity Wharf and Rye, so be sure to Claire Rogers try them.

Trinity Wharf Executive Chef Stuart Perry.

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Mobile health Reaching youth with free healthcare

‘HBU?’ In text speak it means ‘how about you?’ and for young people in the Western Bay of Plenty who can’t afford to see a doctor, it’s proving to be a life-saver.

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Dr Murray Hay, and nurse Annette Exon.

Photos: Tracy Hardy

The Western Bay of Plenty’s Mobile Youth Health Unit ‘HBU’ visits local communities three nights a week, providing much-needed free medical services for young people.

The service, funded through the Western Bay of Plenty Public Health Organisation, has seen more than 8000 people treated by a doctor, nurse and youth worker during the past eight years and is celebrating a renewal and increase of its funding from July 1.

“We’re really happy with that,” says Ngai Te Rangi CEO Paora Stanley.

Run by Te Runanga O Ngai Te Rangi Iwi Trust, the HBU operates three nights a week in Katikati, Welcome Bay, Arataki, Merivale and Papamoa.

“The key difference is that it’s primarily for young people,” says Paora, “and it’s aimed at those who can’t afford to pay for healthcare.

“Many aren’t enrolled with a PHO because they can’t afford to, or they’re working during the day, or their bills are too high at other GPs so they can’t go back until they pay their bill.

“It’s not a 15-minute consultation like you get with your own doctor,” says Paora. “When you walk out is when it finishes.”

Why do people call it HBU?

“When we first started, the doctor would greet everybody coming in and they’d say to him ‘Hey doc, how are you?’ The doctor would reply ‘Fine, how about you?’ In text language ‘how about you’ is ‘HBU’,” says Paora.

People line up in the cold wind and dark waiting to see Dr Murray Hay who has been the HBU doctor for the past eight years. Over that time the unit has rushed people to hospital and called ambulances in.

There was once a gang fight outside, with the team racing across the road to pick up the bodies and bring them in to treat.

“In my mind, in terms of reaching at-risk people, this project is reaching a sector of the population that nobody else is reaching,” says Murray.

“There was some research done that shows there may be as many as 500,000 people in New Zealand who are unable to afford to go to the doctor and access the medical services that they need.

“We aim to reach young people, particularly aged 10-24. They are more vulnerable because they may not have support or homes, and are in transition between childhood and adulthood. They may be just lost and don’t have the resources to be able to make it in life and need extra support.

“Some are struggling with depression and anxiety and are especially vulnerable.”

Paora says Murray’s efforts are “stunning”.

“He doesn’t need to be there. He owns two doctors’ practices anyway. He’s there because he believes in it and because he wants to do something.”

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“I love watching

Andrea Meredith Building children through music

“I found an article written about me when I was 16,” says Selwyn Ridge Primary School music teacher Andrea Meredith.

do things outside of their comfort zone”

choir is divided into Side A or B. “Some schools will learn Side A harmony and some Side B.” Early in term two, Carol and Andrea run a workshop for the choir trainers, teaching them conducting and familiarising them with the songs.

“We have the first choir rehearsal about the seventh week of term two.

“That’s five rehearsals over two and a half days, where all the schools come in, grouped according to the nights that they will be performing. We do “One passion of mine is that twice before we go to Baycourt.”

As well as about 10 or 11 mass choir watching children perform songs, each school performs their own and seeing them go from being nervous to ‘out there’. song around the theme.

Photos: Bruce Barnard

“I’d just won a trophy playing piano.

“In the article it said ‘Andrea would like to become a teacher of music’.”

She smiles a moment and reflects on how she left college to pursue medical science.

These days her life has come full circle back to music.

“Music teaching is what I’m doing now, so that’s pretty cool.”

Her three eldest children attended Selwyn Ridge Primary School when it opened in 1997.

Andrea came to school assemblies with her pre-schooler, played for her daughter’s class musical then started playing for Friday assemblies.

This grew to setting up the school’s itinerant music programme, giving keyboard lessons, assisting teachers with their music teaching until finally she stepped into a paid permanent role.

Not all primary schools have music teachers. Andrea says Craig Price, principal of Selwyn Ridge, believes

that music and the arts help a child’s learning. “Music is part of the national curriculum but I think many teachers don’t find it easy to teach.

“Anything I want to do, Craig is so supportive. One of his questions is are the children learning? Yes they are, so go for it.”

Tauranga Music Festival has been running for over 60 years.

“I’ve been involved since 2002, playing the piano for it,” says Andrea.

“It wasn’t until Carol Storey and I took it over that we decided to have a theme each year.

“This year’s theme is ‘All Creatures Great and Small’ and involves students from 35 primary and intermediate schools from Papamoa to Katikati.”

For a week in September, more than 1300 school children will fill Baycourt with singing.

That’s 280 children from five or six schools per night over five nights.

Andrea, with co-musical director and conductor Carol Storey, recorded a CD of the piano and vocal tracks in April.

Books of the music and lyrics are printed for every school.

“There is a maximum of two-part harmony for the songs, so each mass

kids perform and encourage them to

“I love watching kids perform and encourage them to do things outside of their comfort zone.”

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