The Weekend Sun 12 August 2016

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The Bay boys from The Block NZ have successfully charmed their way into the hearts of Bay residents with their wit, humour, and boyish antics. But when the renovation and DIY television show on TV3 wraps up this weekend, what’s next for Dyls and Dylz?

D&B Construction builders Dylan Cossey and Dylan Guitink

assured The Weekend Sun on page 5 they intend to return to their roots, whether or not they come out on top of the competition.

It doesn’t stop there for D&B Construction. The Bay company won Supreme House of the Year this week. Read more on page 12.

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Danger, Will Robinson!

In case you hadn’t noticed, the Olympics have kicked off in Brazil with some great results, even a few medals, for Kiwi athletes.

There are a few prospects ahead for our team, with some progressing in fine style through their respective pools.

Not doing so well in pool play this week was ‘Bob’ the Orca. Also known as ‘Tama’. But now referred to as ‘dead’.

With all the best intentions, well-meaning folk decided to try to help the whale calf out of an impossible situation.

We wonder if it would be better to have let nature take its course.

Sad, but inevitable. When people start attaching cutsie names to wild animals and applying human emotions to the situation, it’s only going to end in tears.

There was a reason the calf was abandoned or separated from its parent and pod that we can only guess.

Taking the orca from the harbour and putting it into a Para Pool was always going to be a long shot at survival.

One of the better suggestions I heard during the week was for the young orca’s “adopted” harbour buoy to be detached from its mooring and towed out to sea, hopefully with the orca following.

That might have been its best chance of survival or re-uniting with the group…back in the open ocean where it would either re-connect or nature would do its thing.

However there are as many theories abounding as onlookers, and who are we to pass judgement? Good on the volunteers who did their best and DOC staff trying to make the right call, with every armchair critic from Maketu to ’Merica offering them “advice” whether invited or not.

One thing is for sure, some of the soppy and misinformed commentators would be better putting their efforts into worthwhile causes, donating and helping at the SPCA or lobbying for stricter controls of set nets to protect endangered species that we can still help, such as Hector’s dolphins.

Local Olympic talent

As a watersports region, it’s great to see the homegrown Bay talent right at the top of the world, excelling on the water with yachties, rowers and kayakers leading the way. The likes of the Saunders, Burling and Meech gang are fine examples of local kids reaching the

pinnacle of achievement and we salute them, their ever-supportive families and friends.

It makes sense that the Bay of Plenty produces world champion water sportspeople; our upbringing in the outdoors, on the coast and alongside rivers a perfect match for many of those codes.

But we’re not represented in some of the oddball sports you rarely see in NZ, such as handball. Although a teacher friend informs me it is starting to catch on in local schools.

There are changes afoot with some Olympic sports, and we’ve some helpful suggestions, of course.

It’s time ‘fencing’ was properly named ‘sword fighting’ to avoid confusion with the Young Farmer competitions and better describe the activity. Besides, ‘sword fighting’ sounds way cooler.

It seems pretty silly having two volleyball events. One is enough. Either the beach version or the standard game. Wear skimpy togs if you must, but decide finally about whether you want sand in them.

Oddball sports

It’s been revealed a bunch of new oddball sports are likely to be added to the Olympics, including skateboarding, rock climbing and surfing…

We have to wonder where this is going to end. Surely some of those sports – and several already in the Olympics – are really on the fringes of ‘athletic’ endeavour.

At the risk of upsetting all you avid rock climbers out there, I’d rather see you slow down and be careful, rather than racing against each other. Same with surfing. Best enjoyed at a leisurely pace, dude.

Some pastimes just shouldn’t be turned into a race or a competition. Isn’t the idea of climbing a mountain to do it safely and enjoy the view?

The world has gone a bit mad, making a competition or race out of recreation and hobbies that were never intended to be judged one against the other.

Where will the creativity end?

How long before we will see Underwater Synchronised Domino Stacking, Stand-Up Paddleboard Cat Painting, or JetSki Chainsaw Juggling.

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And if you don’t believe machines already have superior artificial intelligence and evil intent, remember the VCR? So few humans ever mastered control over these; we had to annihilate them from the planet before they took over. Fortunately, they were replaced with the more benign and user-friendly DVD and remote controls. But it was close call, back in the eighties and nineties. Must go now. The iPad is demanding attention and a finger massage. brian@thesun.co.nz Like on Facebook, ‘Rogers Rabbits’ blogger.

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Who knows what the future Olympics hold in store for us. Some predict that in coming decades there will be a great dilemma over genetic editing, when athletes may be customdesigned, specifically to excel in certain fields.

Breeding for height, strength, endurance or flexibility could make the Russian drug cheating scandal pale in significance. It’s likely bionic and prosthetic body parts will push Paralympic athletes beyond the performance capabilities of able-bodied competitors.

We’ve already had a glimpse of this, the most high profile example being bladerunner and part-time murderer Oscar Pistorius, whose carbon fibre limbs gave him a leg up, over mere mortal sprinters.

This year Switzerland hosts the first ever World Cyborg Olympics, called the ‘Cybathlon’ in which competitors are pitted against each other using prosthetic gear, powered exo-skeletons and even braincomputer interfaces.

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Offering a choice Nevermind about a stadium, what about the roads?

Steve Morris is campaigning to four-lane 15th Ave and Turret Rd if he’s elected Mayor. Photo: Bruce Barnard.

If Tauranga City councillor Steve Morris wins the mayoralty in October, he’s promising to use the mayoral prerogative to present a long-term budget to council to four-lane Turret Rd and 15th Ave. “This project is the key to unlocking congestion in our city,” says Steve.

“Not only will it relieve delays commuters face from Welcome Bay, Maungatapu and points east, but the knock-on effects will also ease pressure on both State Highway 29 and Hewletts Rd.” The city council has to pay $28 million towards the $60 million project. “That’s a lot of money and to fund it we need to rethink our priorities in this city.

“Reducing the specifications of a new council building from $65m

to $45m is a start. “However, if it turns out a better option, repairing the existing buildings could reduce that bill by a further $25m,” says Steve.

“We can continue to talk for another 15 years about fourlaning, but what I propose is doing it now instead.”

His budget includes a second Hairini bridge and four-laning all the way to Cameron Rd. The pressure growth is putting on the city’s infrastructure could result in disaster if not managed well, warns Steve.

“The next council shouldn’t be distracted by nice-to-have projects, as the city is forecast to start losing water pressure in 2021.

“As Mayor, my budget will include completion of the Waiari water treatment plant by 2021 so we can continue to enjoy what is among the best drinking water in the country, at the pressure a modern city deserves.”

And according to Steve it’s not just the city’s roading network and water supply that is under pressure.

“Many people don’t realise that raw sewage still ends up in the harbour during periods of heavy rain.

“Our residents don’t expect much from their council, but what they do expect is reasonable roads, good water and a sewage system that works.

“There’s a lot of talk about council needing to provide various amenities but with the rapid growth we are experiencing if you don’t focus on doing the basics right, we’re all in trouble.”

Absent from Steve’s proposed council budget is a $25millionplus grandstand for the Tauranga Domain. “It’s a nice-to-have but certainly not essential at this time.

“Drivers down 15th Ave shouldn’t be forced to sit in traffic every day for another 15 years just so the city can get one extra rugby game a year. It’s about priorities.”

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Sailor rescued from Bay seas A leap of faith has saved a man whose yacht encountered some steering problems in rough seas in the Bay of Plenty. A distress signal was set off at 8.15pm on Tuesday night sparking a major overnight rescue operation 41 nautical miles from Tauranga. The vessel was found battling 35-knot winds and big seas about 20 nautical miles northeast of Mayor Island. Paul Christenson was forced to leap from his boat into the arms of Tauranga Coastguard members.

Trust fund to support families Post-harvest company Aongatete has set up a trust to help support the families of five Tongan men killed in a traffic accident on State Highway 2 last week.

The deaths of father Uloupini (Stephen) Vaipulu, 44, and son Koli Vaipulu, 21, and friends Sione Teulaka, 21, Samuela Taukatelata, 28 and Halani Fine, 28, have left the Tongan community and Katikati residents in shock.

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Meth drives family out of town The removals van, which brought the hopes and dreams of the Pond family to Tauranga just eight weeks ago, will be reloaded, turned around and driven south again.

“Deep down we’re disappointed,” says Craig Pond of his family’s Tauranga experience. “It would have been nice had it turned out happy families.”

The Ponds had moved to Tauranga to join a church. But their plans for a new life in the Bay of Plenty were undone by a methamphetamine-contaminated house, exorbitant rentals and general disillusionment. “It seems it just wasn’t meant to be.”

Craig, his wife Lauren and their four kids featured in The Weekend Sun last week.

On advice from a policeman they had their $500-a-week rental home in Bellevue tested for P. Two tests came back positive.

The landlords denied knowing about the contamination.

Craig and Lauren had found an alternative rental. But despite the reassurances of the property manager the family was warned off by the current tenants, who had been continuously sick – they suspect through meth contamination.

“Then we found another house we could have had in a week. But $600-a-week rent?

Most of our money would have been going on the rent. That’s just not sustainable.” So last weekend Craig and Lauren sat down

Craig and Lauren Pond with children Liberty, 3, Kayla, 7, Haven, 5, and Grace, 1. and weighed their options. They decided to go home – to the Tasman area, the Upper Moutere/Richmond district around Nelson.

“We couldn’t find a reason not to go home,” says Craig. They’ll get a four-bedroom rental there for $350 per week.

“The other pros for going home are a very low crime rate and a great environment to raise a family.” And the self-employed electrician still has all his business contacts down there. “So we will be able to plug straight back into the life we had.”

It was their brush with methamphetamine that really swung it for them.

“We knew P was an issue everywhere in the country, perhaps worse up north.

“But we never connected the problem with people’s homes.”

Craig says normally when you’re thinking of moving towns you take into consideration job opportunities, money, schools; lifestyle.

“P contamination shouldn’t be one of those considerations. It’s too weird.”

The Pond family loves Tauranga.

“A beautiful place.” But after a weekend of some deep reflective thinking they have decided going home is a wiser decision for Hunter Wells their family.

Sharing behind-the-scenes images from the conventions If the Republican convention in Cleveland was typified by delegates who were white, older, angry and genuinely afraid for their country, the Democratic convention was where the rest of America turned up.

It was everything the Republican convention wasn’t – chaotic, diverse, reflecting the many other shades of America

coming together to celebrate the first woman presidential nominee from a major party.

From breastfeeding Mums to black civil rights leaders, to transgender speakers, to parents of the fallen who happened to be Muslim, to retired generals arguing Trump shouldn’t be anywhere near the nuclear codes. The only similarity to

the Republican convention was high levels of internal division – in their case it was the large Bernie Sanders contingent – and palpable dislike of the opposition candidate.

I would love to share some of my private, behind-the-scenes videos and photographs from both conventions so I’m hosting a public meeting this Monday,

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The boys from ‘The Block’ will stay in the Bay! That’s right, the charming and comedic Dyls and Dylz will return to the Bay for good once their time on ‘The Block NZ’ is up.

Mount Maunganui pair Dylan Cossey and Dylan Guitink found fame on the New Zealand home renovation and DIY show ‘The Block NZ’ on TV3.

And they’re now characteristically known nationwide for their good nature, their bromance and their stubbies.

The boys have the chance to win ‘The Block NZ’, with the finals coming up this Sunday.

And despite their success on the show, the pair say there was never any thought of living anywhere else.

“Nah, we’re Bay boys through and through man,” says Dylan Cossey, aka ‘Dyls’.

“We love being home aye bro,” adds Dylan Guitink, or ‘Dylz’.

The Bay boys had a short production break last week, where they visited the Bay and had some time to chill out. “It was so refreshing when we came home,” says Dyls.

“We felt the sand between our toes, y’know, and we went down and had a coffee at our local.”

“And good weather,” says Dylz.

“Yeah and the beautiful weather, and beautiful people. There’s so much friendliness going on in the Bay, so we’re attached to the Bay and we’re staying there and staying put,” says Dyls.

And Dyls says he’ll have to decide where to live after the show concludes – depending on if they finish on top.

“If we win any money out of this it’s a bit of a conundrum – do I build new or do I go and buy a house in Maungatapu where it’s a little bit more affordable? I’d love to buy in the Mount just because I love that beach life – we’re both beach boys – but the price is just a little bit ridiculous.”

But no matter what, both of the boys are game for a cuddle or a high-five.

“Thank you for all the support that everyone’s given us, y’know,” says Dyls.

“Orange team fans, we absolutely love you!”

“Yeah hard,” says Dylz.

“Please don’t hesitate to stop,” says Dyls.

“Even if we’re having breakfast or something, with friends, holla.” Dylz sums it up perfectly.

“We’re not gonna [sic] bite; just come and say ‘Hi’. Yeah come for a cuddle, you know you guys want one.”

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For more information, or to nominate a representative of your company to the board, visit: www.tauranga.org.nz Nomination forms must be returned to the chamber no later than 5pm on Friday, August 19.

Candidates wishing to stand for the Board of the Bay of Plenty District Health Board have until midday today to register their interest.

Nominations for seven elected positions on the board close at noon on Friday, August 12.

Board chair Sally Webb says people with a passion for health and disabilities and want to make a difference for their local community are encouraged to consider standing for the board.

“The BOPDHB welcomes a range of candidates of different ages, ethnicities

and backgrounds, to reflect the diversity of the district we serve.

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Last day to put names forward for council Anyone interested in representing their community by standing for Western Bay of Plenty District Council in this year’s local body elections has until midday to get their nomination in.

Nominations for council and community board candidates for the 2016-2019 term close at 12pm on Friday, August 12.

WBOPDC’s customer and community services group manager Kevin Jefferies says running as a candidate is an

opportunity for hopeful representatives to put forward their ideas for the Western Bay of Plenty and make their voice heard.

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To view current nominations and find out more about standing, visit: www.westernbay.govt.nz/elections

Have your say on Tauranga City’s reserves

Tauranga residents have until today to have their say on the best way to manage the city’s reserves.

Tauranga City Council is keen to learn more about how the community uses the city’s reserves by seeking public feedback before it reviews its reserves management plans, which set out how it intends to develop, maintain and protect the more than 250 reserves it manages.

Tauranga City Council is seeking initial feedback until August 12.

The draft Tauranga Reserves Management Plan will then be written and published for further public feedback.

Have your say at: www.tauranga.govt.nz

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Shoppers kick up fuss

‘A nightmare to get out’ – George Phillips is not happy with the Bethlehem Town Centre carpark.

“A terrible layout and very dangerous.” And: “I will avoid it like the plague.”

Plus: “Stupid” and “Crazy”.

The shoppers have spoken, loudly, on social media. But George Phillips didn’t fluff about. He went and delivered an ultimatum straight to the manager of Bethlehem Town Centre itself.

“If nothing changes very soon, we will be going elsewhere to do our shopping.”

What’s got George, and everyone else, in a tizz is the reconfiguration of the carpark at the town centre.

Peggy Thornton is boycotting the place.

“I was going to drop into Countdown for a couple of things as I normally do on my way home

from golf the other day. But I couldn’t be bothered negotiating the carpark.

“It’s complex, confusing and unnecessary. So I went straight to Fraser Cove.”

What’s happened is Bethlehem Town Centre has turned the eastern most entry/exit on Bethlehem Rd into just an entry.

So now there are six entrances but just two exits. Easy to get in, at times a nightmare to get out.

“Our customers are telling us the exits are their biggest concern and we are taking that seriously,” says centre manager Andrew Wadsworth. However, the current configuration is part of a resource consent and it’s not something they can put a bulldozer through and change immediately.

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town centre from the supermarket now requires a circuitous trip to the western end of the complex and through a roundabout outside Kmart. “My point is that a simple shop’s been made difficult.

“Some of these changes suggest it was designed by amateurs,” says George in his email of complaint to BTC management.

And separately he told The Weekend Sun the roundabout just wasn’t coping.

“It can’t handle the volume of traffic. And it doesn’t matter from which of the four directions you arrive at the roundabout from, there are pedestrian crossings.

“People and cars everywhere.

“Come Christmas it will be a nightmare.”

Read the full story at www.theweekendsun.co.nz

First Steps helping Skyla A Tauranga early child care centre is raising funds for Skyla Keating who has a rare brain cancer.

The Tauranga six-year-old has DIPG – Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma – a rare “and incurable” terminal brain cancer which controls part of the brain stem that controls balance, vision, heart, eating and breathing.

First Steps Aongatete is helping raise funds by completing the Mount Maunganui Half Marathon on August 27. They are also holding an open day at First Steps Aongatete, 2257 State Highway 2, Katikati, on Saturday, August 13 to help fundraise. From 10am-12pm, there will be a variety truck on-site, a bouncy castle, raffles, bake sale and sausage sizzle.

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Kids to show off their strength Children will be proving their strength and stamina at the first CrossFit competition run for kids in Tauranga, Papamoa and the Mount area this weekend.

“During the last few years the kids side of CrossFit has been growing quite a bit.

“So the whole idea of this competition is to show the kids another side of CrossFit, but to make it as fun and enjoyable as possible,” says Luke McGruer from Mount CrossFit. The children will take part in a number of different activities, inducing some from their regular weekly workouts.

From 8am-1pm on Saturday, August 13, at Mount CrossFit on Newton

St, children aged four to 10 will be competing in the semi-competitive event.

The event is mostly for fun, but Luke says there will be some kids taking the competition seriously.

Some workouts are judged on time, others weight, and competitors are scored on each workout to get a total.

“The big thing we’re trying to get across is the myth that children lifting heavy ruins their bodies.

“We’re slowly educating parents that kids can lift heavy and exercise and run around and stuff and it’s actually good for them. That’s what this competition is about,” says Luke.

For more, visit: www.bopstrength.com

Georgia Cox, Soomin Kim, Bayley Coster, Aimee Tomlinson, Yazzmine Woodhouse, Bianca Ruegg and Brooke Taylor all had a hand in developing the ‘Wooly Gripz’ crutch cover. Photo: Chris Callinan.

Your ‘helping hand’ Sick of the pain and discomfort from using crutches? Well suffer no more because Tauranga Girls’ College’s ProtechT has the solution you’ve been waiting for.

The group’s new product called Wooly Gripz is a padded crutch handle made from both neoprene foam that absorbs ground shock and a natural New Zealand sheepskin top layer – never before used in a crutch handle cover – which prevents abrasion and blistering.

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Georgia, who is managing director of Wooly Gripz, says the team hit upon the idea after herself, Aimee and Bayley experienced the pain and discomfort the product is designed to remedy.

“With three of us experiencing the pain you get from using crutches, we saw it as a problem and it’s something we all wanted to create a solution for.”

Georgia says during the holidays the group has worked to get Wooly Gripz ready for sale and is currently working with resthomes, retirement villages, physiotherapists and chemists to bring the product to market.

Along with the crutch industry, the versatility of their product also allows ProtechT to expand into areas such as bike handles or even golf club handles, says Georgia.

To get your own pair of Wooly Gripz head along to the Young Enterprise Scheme Trade Fair at Bayfair on Sunday, August 21, or online at: protecht.yesmarket.co.nz.

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Learn the story of Omokoroa Interested in your local history? A history of Omokoroa, presented by Colin Pettigrew, will show videos of early Omokoroa, farming in 1950s Omokoroa, and the Gellibrand carving.

The gathering will also have a display of pictures to see how the area has changed.

The event, at Omokoroa Settlers’ Hall on September 7 from 7pm, could be a trip down memory lane or a great way to learn more about the local story of the peninsula.

Entry is a gold coin donation and hot drinks will be available after the presentation.

Planning peninsula’s pavilion Omokoroa Sports & Recreation Society chair Tim Maurice with plans for the new pavilion, standing on the site where it will go. Photo: Chris Callinan.

This winter hundreds of children and adults are thrashing around the Western Ave Sportsground in Omokoroa playing their respective sport codes.

But there’s nowhere to get changed, cook a shared hot lunch or host an after-function in the Omokoroa Sports & Recreation Society’s hall on-site.

“The existing building has no toilets, no changing facilities and just a sink in the corner in a big open area,” says Omokoroa Sports & Recreation Society chair Tim Maurice.

“It has worked for the last 15 years or so but now, as Omokoroa has got bigger, we need a bigger and better space with changing rooms, toilets and a proper

kitchen area where people can cater for functions.”

As result, Tim and the society are planning a new pavilion for the sportsground – for those who play games outside and indoors.

Tim says 18 groups under the society’s umbrella use the current building in one way or another.

Mahjong, bridge, table tennis, boxing are indoors – so a new plan needs to cater for these groups and their equipment.

Outside, on Western Ave Sportsground, a raft of sport codes use the grass – they need changing rooms and toilets for their games, practices and functions.

“We have athletics, soccer – junior and adult – rippa rugby, cricket, volleyball and more.

“This is to be the only building on-site – we’ll remove this old hall – so the new pavilion will need

to cater to all of these different groups. Tim says every Saturday morning during winter Western Ave is filled to the brim with sport-players – without changing rooms or an area to grab a hot drink. “I play social soccer there on a Sunday – and the lack of changing rooms makes it quite hard to develop sport there.

“Retirees right through to young children use the hall – and yes, we do have settlers’ hall nearby on Omokoroa Rd but that’s booked a lot of them time and we have a letter of support from them saying we need more meeting space on the peninsula.”

Concept plans have been drawn – the new pavilion will be twostoreys.

Read the full story at www.theweekendsun.co.nz Merle Foster

A Korean ‘Joh-eun achim’ to Tauranga They are good business. Almost 5000 international students injected $21.6 million into the Bay of Plenty economy in tuition fees alone last year. That’s before accommodation, food, transport and discretionary spending.

The International Education Snapshot report shows an extra 891 international students studied at our schools, tertiary institutions and private training establishments.

That’s an impressive 22 per cent jump on the previous year.

Korean students were the most common in the primary schools, with most hosting between 12 and 16 Korean students. Incidentally ‘Joh-eun achim’ in

the story heading is ‘Good morning’ in Korean.

But the biggest growth has been in private training, which attracted large numbers from India and Southern Asia. Bay of Plenty also recorded the third-largest growth in this sector at 31 per cent or 558 students.

Apart from the cultural benefits, the most recent estimate of the financial advantage from students based at 39 institutions from Waihi to Whakatane was $40 million.

International education is the country’s fifth largest export industry, supporting 30,000 jobs and spinning $3.1 billion. Education New Zealand aims grow the industry to $5 billion by 2025.

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Bookarama and more More than 50 art prints turned up when Julia Palmer-Hofland and her mother Frances Palmer cleaned out their old house.

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“He passed away five years ago, and when mum moved out of the house and we were cleaning up there was this big bundle of prints.”

She found art prints of old Wellington, old Tauranga, prints of all the seasons in Holland and some Maori prints of old Maori chiefs.

Oh, and the occasional Van Gogh print tossed in for good measure.

So what did Julia, Otumoetai College PTA chairperson, decide to do with the double-ups?

She’s donated about 50 prints to the Otumoetai College Bookarama, and she’s kept her favourite 10.

The Bookarama is on weekend, and Julia’s prints will be amongst the goodies to buy.

Julia never got around to getting the prints valued, so she has no idea if she’s losing any money from the donation.

“I could be giving away things worth thousands of dollars or things worth a dollar – I have no idea.

“No idea at all,” she laughs.

This year’s Bookarama will raise money for sport and fitness equipment for Otumoetai College’s new gym.

With lots of different books, knitting patterns, art prints, vinyl records, song sheet music and more, and food, for sale, there’s bound to be something for everyone.

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Julia Palmer-Hofland has donated a large collection of prints, photos and vinyl records to be sold at the Bookarama.

Lilah Joe, Levi Jennings and fellow pupils celebrate the Olympics.

Hollinshead. Children will be split into 25 teams and will spend two days learning about their countries and competing in the games.

On day one, students will be assigned their team and meet their teammates, learn about their country, and make a banner to support their country.

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pupils will compete in ball skills, gymnastics, running races and more. “And then they rotate around,” says Luke.

“This is the first time we’ve done something with the whole school.

“Normally, we’d split it up but it will be good to get the older kids hanging out with the younger kids,” says Luke.

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Kokako finding a new home In an effort to help save the species, the first of 10 kokako being translocated in Otanewainuku Forest were released in Oropi this week.

A female kokako was caught early Tuesday morning in nearby Kaharoa as part of an Otanewainuku Kiwi Trust kokako restoration project.

The kokako is an endangered New Zealand native forest bird, and those involved in the kokako recovery programme say the release ran like clockwork.

There was time for a few pecks at a banana before the female bird was let loose in her new territory.

Otanewainuku Trust chairman Hans Pendergrast says the kokako restoration project is of great significance.

“Before the forest was overrun by rats, possums and stoats, kokako were extremely abundant. Every area of forest would have been occupied by a pair of kokako.

“By the 1990s, however, there were none left in Otanewainuku.”

Hans says it’s a sad story, repeated all over the North Island.

“Now kokako are extinct in all forests where no pest and predator control management is in place.”

Greg Brownless of the Legacy Trust, was also present for this week’s event. Legacy Trust, which owns legacy Funerals, distributes all its profits to causes in the Tauranga community, now including the kokako.

Greg says much of his working life has involved being on call, but waiting to attend the release of an endangered bird was “a novel and very special” experience.

“It’s not every day you get to see conservation history in the making. I felt honoured to be part of it.”

Greg says Legacy Trust is committed to financially supporting the Otanewainuku Kiwi Trust in its endeavours to restore kokako.

“Sometimes we don’t realise the true value of someone or something until it is too late and this kokako recovery programme is ensuring that is not the case with the kokako in our district.”

Otanewainuku Kiwi Trust is a community, voluntary, conservation charitable trust that aims to protect and restore the Otanewainuku Forest.

To learn more, or donate, visit: www.kiwitrust.org or phone Hans Greg Brownless of Legacy Trust with the kokako having a Pendergrast on 0754321147. munch before being released. Photo: Suzanne Williams.

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Best homes in the Bay The Bay’s finest homes have been inspected, judged, and ranked, with D&B Construction Limited headed home on top with the Supreme House of the Year award.

Judges called the winning house simply amazing, from its exceptional design through to the amazing craftsmanship executed by the builders.

“This is a stunning home built on a very tight site. It sits closely between two other houses all accessing the same driveway,” the judging panel say.

“This was a complicated project executed with upmost precision. The key challenge was building the multi-level home with only a 4.5 metre-wide accessway. This, with the need to share the space with neighbours and no parking space for trade vehicles, made the project management very difficult.

“The home oozed personality with its edgy interior, which unfolded with intrigue from level to level.

“This was a clever design that adapted to the nature of the site. There were five levels in total, each one being modest in size, and flowing seamlessly from space to space.”

For more information about the competition, visit: www.houseoftheyear.co.nz

Their Mount Maunganui home was one of the best houses in the recent Bay of Plenty Central Plateau Registered Master Builders 2016 House of the Year competition, and ended the night with multiple awards and accolades.

D&B Construction Limited won seven regional awards with their Mount Maunganui home, including the Bay of Plenty Central Plateau Registered Master Builders 2016 Supreme House of the Year, a Gold Award and category win for the Carters New Home $1 million-$2 million award.

The company also won the Craftsmanship Award, the Plumbing World Bathroom Excellence Award, the Outdoor Living Award, and the Gerrand Flooring Interior Style and Design Award – all for the same property.

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Bringing business dreams to life From daring to dream to bringing dreams to life – the topics covered by some inspiring innovators and entrepreneurs at this year’s Western Bay at Work Careers and Business Expo aim to encourage budding businesspeople to explore their ideal career paths.

Hosted by Priority One and Tauranga Rotary, the annual Western Bay at Work Careers and Business Expo is on Friday, August 12, and Saturday, August 13, at ASB Arena.

More than 80 exhibitors will showcase career and training opportunities in the region under the theme ‘Your place to shine’. New this year is the Innovators and Entrepreneurs

stage, where local entrepreneurs and innovators will be conducting quick-fire talks on the hour and half-hour each day of the expo from 9am-2pm.

Speakers in the series include co-founder of InVenture and one of the creators of Dirty Dog Eyewear Sally Cox, award-winning film director Anton Steel, Venture Centre co-founder Pascale Hyboud-Peron, Professor Chris Battershill from the Coastal Marine Field Station, Pat Mohi from Hawaiki Rising Voyaging Trust, Plus Group CEO Tina Jennen, InVenture co-founder Erika Harvey

and actress Tanya Horo.

Tauranga Rotary’s Sue Boyne says the expo also features a Recruitment Zone for the first time. “We have some recruitment firms which will be there showcasing current job opportunities and future prospects.

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or full-time can come along and talk to the businesses in the recruitment zone and get some good tips and advice while they are there.”

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Mary Elizabeth Killen certainly wouldn’t have taken two days to put on her velvettrimmed silk gown. But more than 140 years on that’s how long it took conservators to fit the dress to a mannequin at Western Bay Museum.

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He can remember seeing the gown and other family memorabilia shown to his father and uncle by his great grandmother in Auckland. “It was in an old box but I didn’t take too much notice as it was in the 1940s and I was just a boy.”

Colin says he’s impressed with how the The Katikati pioneer’s 1870s silk gown was handled and will be displayed gown was carefully fitted to the and the soon-to-open Western modified mannequin by Te Bay Museum Bay in the former Papa conservator of fabrics Katikati Fire Station on Main St. and textiles Sam Gatley.

Western Bay Museum curator Paula She spent two days last Gaelic says the gown has stayed in month at the museum storage until the right conditions for creating undergarments displaying it were available. for the mannequin before They are now – in a glass case made finally fitting the twoby Designcraft Australia, mounted piece gown, assisted by on a plinth manufactured by Gateway Irene Sandler, of the Sir Kitchens of Katikati.

James Fletcher Kawerau The gown will be part of the museum’s Museum, who is training as opening exhibition later this month called a conservator.

‘Fun and Games’ which will focus on The historic dress will games children and grown-ups enjoyed in be publicly displayed for the early pioneers days. the first time at Western Paula says the workshop Sam conducted Bay Museum, which is to demonstrate how to conserve, handle officially opening on and display fabrics and clothing such as Saturday, August 27. the Killen gown drew participants from Mary Killen (nee the Waikato, Tauranga and the wider Bay Smith) was among of Plenty. Among them were members of Katikati’s Ulster Irish the Tauranga Historical Society, and pioneers, renowned for The Elms. her musical talent and “When Sam examined the grown she singing voice. discovered it was from the 1870s, not She wore the gown the 1860s as had been thought. at social events in the “Then she and Irene set about town and decades making linings, petticoats, and later her family padding and shaping the mannequin, donated it to the to create the right foundation to Te Papa conservator of fabrics and textiles give the bustle gown the life, museum. Among those Sam Gatley fitting Mary Killen’s 1870s fullness and shape it would have watching the conservators gown to a mannequin at the Western had when Mary wore it.” at work was Mary’s Elaine Fisher greatgrandson Colin Bay Museum in Katikati.

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Life according to Puck van der Beek “I was kid running and someone said: ‘Look at that little Puck go’.”

And that was the day Johanna Cornelia van der Beek, a rich and exotic moniker, became just Puck.

Puck van der Beek. “Puck is what everyone knows me as so don’t worry about the other name.”

Apologies Puck, but to appreciate Puck you have to know the other bit, which is Johanna Cornelia.

It could also just as easily hark back to Puck from the Bard’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ –that clever, mischievous elf, sprite or jester that personifies the wise knave.

Because this 90-yearold fireball is delightfully all of those things.

And that’s why she is treasured at Papamoa Patchers – a club of quilters. “Papamoa Patchers, now that is a good name. A no nonsense name,” says a no nonsense Puck.

That’s a privilege of this job – assigned to scribe a few lines about an upcoming event – the Papamoa Patchers’ Quilt Show 2016 at Mount Maunganui College from September 30-October 2.

Entry is a gold coin donation. Then tucked away under a corner of one of

those quilts is pure gold – a seam of gold in this case – a larger than life personality like Puck.

It’s not so much that Puck is a patcher – it’s why and when.

She was 80 years old and looking for a hobby when she joined Papamoa Patchers.

But 80-year-olds use quilts, they don’t make them. She saw a newspaper advertisement for a club. “As long as it wasn’t a ‘knit one, purl one’ club. I love knitting but I already know enough about

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knitting. “Don’t need to join a knitting club.”

And besides, she’s knitting husband Henk a jumper at the moment. “He’s turning 91 soon, so I have to be quick so he can wear it.” This Puck is pure mischief.

They say idle hands make fretful minds. Well not Puck.

She’s made furniture – cabinets for her girls and a sawhorse for Henk’s Christmas present.

Her woodwork teacher told her she did a fantastic job.

She’s done metal work – made eight chairs for the family’s big dining table. She went to The School of Fine Art in Auckland and learned pottery from the late Barry Brickell – one of the country’s most celebrated ceramic artists.

“I have lived a long time and I know a lot of things. I have actually done a helluva lot.”

Puck went to leather classes.

“I learned to make beautiful bags, I say beautiful and they were beautiful.” And belts, which were hung in husband Henk’s menswear shop in Putaruru.

“They sold better than the ones from the manufacturer.

“I also knitted Henk a jacket, which he wore to the shop one day.” It was style popular in Putaruru. “And when Henk asked a customer what he wanted, he pointed to Henk’s jacket.”

Henk sold it to him on the spot.

A quick $80 thank you. A sale is a sale. So from the old country to Putaruru. What’s the connection with Putaruru? Puck and Henk joined the exodus out of the “lower

countries” in the 1950s. “We had family farming around Putaruru but Henk hated cows.”

Puck has never painted, never put brush to canvas even though she wished she had. “However, I did paint the family home.”

As she raised a family and dabbled in all her other hobbies. As they say idle hands make for fretful minds. Oh yes – and she cooked, of course.

“Always – my family never had fish and chips.” There’s the thick Dutch

accent, even after 60 years of dilution.

And some of the information is lost in the telling or the listening.

But this is a story about a bunch of women who enjoy quilting.

“They’re fantastic,” says Puck.

“Nothing bad is said, no criticism, no gossip.” And everyone is very happy to share their knowledge.

“I love the whole lot of them. And I think they love me too. Isn’t that nice?”

We know they do for certain Puck.

And yes, it is nice.

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Major think tank on men’s issues It’s something called IPV or Intimate Partner Violence.

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One of the key speakers at the ‘Working with Men’ conference will be Alison Burke.

She’ll talk about her PhD research into the experiences of male victims of IPV. “We have pulled together an impressive forum of professionals working with men for the conference,” says Kidz Need Dadz Charitable Trust manager Pam Bassett. And so far they’re expecting between 60 and 80 professionals from around the country.

Celebrity clinical psychologist Nigel Latta will be the keynote speaker. He’ll talk on “engaging men and keeping them engaged”.

Robert Jenkins is a counsellor in private practice

in Hamilton. He’ll advise the conference on some “survival skills for dads in step parenting”.

Madeleine Flannagan is a family court barrister, who recently contacted Kidz Need Dadz in the hope of finding support for a father whom she had just helped obtain a protection order against his wife. She’ll speak on her experience in the family court.

Another keynote speaker will be Ken Clearwater, who is manager of the Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse Trust. And Pam will also address the conference on why KND works to keep good fathers involved with their children and the effects of absent dads on children.

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Love and family Under the Same Moon The Weekend Sun has three double passes to give away to three lucky readers who can tell us how many characters Hweiling Ow plays in ‘Under the Same Moon’?

Enter online at www.sunlive.co.nz under the competition section. Entries must be received by Wednesday, August 17.

Kiwi actress Hweiling Ow plays all nine characters in Renee Liang’s ‘Under the Same Moon’ on stage at Baycourt, September 7.

Cultural misunderstandings, confused backpackers, an estranged family and a wayward Hong Kong matriarch who arrives in New Zealand uninvited for her granddaughter’s wedding.

There’ll be lots of laughs, some tears and a lot of love when award-winning play ‘Under the Same Moon’ takes to the stage at Baycourt Community and Arts Centre’s X Space on September 7.

Drawing on her own family’s stories and the memories of both her grandmothers, playwright Renee Liang describes the show as a “love letter” that is suitable for everyone – young and old.

“Nearly all of the crazy things in the play happened either happened

to me, my grandmothers who are big colourful personalities, or to people I know.

“Nearly everything has some real life basis, but centred on one character,” says Renee.

“The central character is the grandmother Porpor and the feedback I get is everybody has that kind of grandmother; a mischievous old lady who won’t do as she’s told, has her own opinions about everything, but is also very wise and has lived in a wonderfully unconventional way.”

‘Under the Same Moon’ is a “one-hander” play, which stars Kiwi actress Hweiling Ow – who has starred in ‘Filthy Rich’, ‘My Wedding’ and ‘Other Secrets’, who plays all of the show’s nine characters.

Renee wrote the show specifically for Hweiling, who she describes as an immensely talented actress and

a good friend. “Hweiling doesn’t use masks or costume changes, she portrays the different characters through changing her voice, walk and posture.

“She’s so good people forget they’ve been watching the same actress all night.

“Her daughter watched the show when it debuted last year and got so caught up in the play she cried when the grandmother Porpor gets on the plane to leave; she forgot that she was watching her own mum on-stage,” says Renee.

Arts on Tour New Zealand’s ‘Under the Same Moon’ by Renee Lianga is at Baycourt’s X Space on Wednesday, September 7. Tickets cost $10-$25 from the Baycourt Box Office or at: www.ticketek.co.nz For more information, see: www.samemoon.co.nz David Tauranga

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Warm winter afternoon show - Kokomo promises something old and new

After a nearly five-month break away from the stage, Kokomo is chomping at the bit and raring to get back to business this month.

The band’s six stalwarts of Tauranga’s music scene are promising something old and something new when they take to the stage at the Omokoroa Boat Club on Sunday, August 21.

The band’s last performance was their sold-out Easter concert at Baycourt Community and Arts Centre, where Kokomo launched their two-CD collection ‘Batten Down the Hatches’.

“We have a bunch of new exciting things we want to share and a pile of old favourites that need dusting off,” says frontman Derek Jacombs.

“The Omokoroa Boat Club seems the perfect place to do that; friendly people and a nice intimate venue, the ideal place to air out some old Delta blues and to launch a couple of absolutely-new-fresh-off-the-block-asyet-unheard-by-anyone-except-the-band songs.”

If you love Kokomo and want to see and hear them when they hit Omokoroa later this month then make sure you get your ticket quick smart as the boat club

Tauranga six-piece band Kokomo.

Photo: Colin Lunt.

only holds about 140 people.

Kokomo play the Omokoroa Boat Club on Sunday, August 21. Doors open 1.30pm.

Tickets cost $22.50 or $20 for club members, and are available online from Eventfinda or call Omokoroa Boat Club on 07 548 0960.

The Weekend Sun has two double passes and two copies of Kokomo’s latest album ‘Batten Down the Hatches’ to give away to two lucky reader who can tell us when Kokomo last performed?

Enter online at www.sunlive.co.nz under the competition section. Entries must be received by Wednesday, August 17.

IT help at your backdoor AcrePC’s Brad Heath, Ben Kent-Fiebig, Matthew Brauchli, Nigel and Sarah Rice, with ‘Rocket’ the company desk dog, and Derrick Ryan. technicians can remotely access clients’ The need for reliable from their Te Puna base, computing equipment makes computers and often solve any technical issues good IT support as important online. “This is a big saving in time and expense for anyone who needs as a good mechanic. to have their computer back up-andAnd the Omokoroa district has running as soon as possible. Many of enjoyed an established IT company on our clients rely upon their computers its backdoor for more than a decade. more than their cars for their business’ AcrePC owner and director Sarah success,” says Sarah.

Rice says one of AcrePC’s strengths is Local businesses benefit from its location in the heart of Te Puna.

AcrePC’s many technical solutions for Its Lochhead Rd headquarters puts every aspect of computer operation it close to its customers, staffed by a and networking, from bespoke website team of passionate, committed local design and CRM systems to VOIP technicians who bring the latest in phone systems. global IT knowledge to the district.

The company has a wealth of “We have always aimed to cater for experience dealing with local both households and businesses in the businesses and organisations including district, who often have quite different Omokoroa Number One School, IT needs,” says Sarah.

Omokoroa Golf Club and residents at “Our home users, for example, Omokoroa Country Estate. benefit from our Home Plus PC care The AcrePC staff look forward package, developed to ensure their to hearing from locals seeking IT machines are regularly serviced, and solutions, either by dropping into their kept in tip top operation.” offices at 84 Lochhead Rd, or visiting Smart technology means AcrePC their website: www.acrepc.co.nz

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Tauranga SPCA’s Anna Porteous and Hannah Cobb with pooches Poppy and Pepper.

Frosting to raise furry funds The Tauranga SPCA is pulling on heart and apron strings for this year’s SPCA Cupcake Day, encouraging New Zealanders to arm themselves with a mixing bowl and wooden spoon in the fight against animal cruelty.

SPCA Cupcake Day on Monday, August 15, is the charity’s fun, community-driven annual fundraiser where cupcakes and other treats are baked and sold to raise funds for the SPCA’s ongoing protection and care of animals.

Now in its eighth year, SPCA Cupcake Day 2016 is aiming to be the biggest yet. Last year more than 1600 participants took to their kitchens, raising more than $390,000.

People are encouraged to register for the event and bake for friends, family, colleagues and classmates.

All funds raised go directly towards helping animals in your local area.

Tauranga SPCA Cupcake Day coordinator Hannah Cobb says Tauranga bakers who registered on the national website last year raised a little more than $7000.

“The difference a donation makes in an animal’s life that we take in can be lifesaving – and we couldn’t do it without the help from supporters of our Cupcake Day. “With just over 50 registrations last year in Tauranga alone raising that $7000, imagine if you took part as well?

“Whether you are an individual, school, business or café owner, imagine the incredibly positive impact that could have for the Tauranga SPCA’s animals?”

Tauranga SPCA has had its eggs for their Cupcake Day baking generously donated by Higgins Family Free Range, which are SPCA Blue Tick-approved farming to SPCA’s stringent high animal welfare standards.

All proceeds from the baking will be donated to the SPCA. SPCA CEO Ric Odom urges everyone to join in to help the country’s most vulnerable animals.

“SPCA Cupcake Day is a fun and delicious way to support the 48,000 animals that come through SPCA shelter doors every year,” he says.

“In our 46 SPCA centres across the country there are animals in need of food, shelter, vet treatment and the chance to find their loving forever home.

We’re very grateful to everyone who bakes or buys a cupcake as it helps us to provide this vital care to New Zealand’s abandoned, neglected and abused animals.”

To take part in the national initiative, register to bake and sell as an individual, team or school at: www.spcacupcakeday.co.nz Share photos of your sweet creations on the SPCA’s Facebook page at SPCACupcakeDayNZ and on Instagram and Twitter using the #SPCACupcakeDay

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Makeover for important ‘old lady’ She’s elegant and she’s a classic. At 114 she still has good Kauri bones, is doing good work and should survive well into her third century.

No borer, no rot, no rats and dry as a bone – even after all this time. Although it was looking a little vulnerable today. The doors and windows were agape, winter was flowing through the gutted interior and the foundations are exposed.

“Today is probably the last day we will see her in her ‘She’ is the large gable and verandah-fronted villa original state,” says Barbara. tucked away from the cars Because the restoration starts and commerce just off 1930. in s wa it right here. as e ns ma The Cameron Rd in Tauranga.

A local bloke called John She presides over a corner Conway, a builder and site bounded by Spring and elected member of the first Selwyn streets. And has done Tauranga Borough Council, since 1902. built the house for just £497 in She is testament to another 1902. His name’s still scrawled time. “And there aren’t too in builder’s pencil on the back many historic buildings left of skirting boards. in downtown Tauranga,” says The inflation calculator Barbara Johnson of tells us £497 relates to about St Peters House $91,363.08 in real money or restoration committee. today’s terms. And now, “That’s why we have four times that sum, elected not to pull it down $360,000-plus, will be or remove it but restore spent restoring the house. and renovate it.” And TECT and Internal Affairs it’s homely – just what are major contributors. the St Peters Care and It’s run by the St Peters Counselling Charitable Care and Counselling Trust needs to do its Charitable Trust – a social The rest work. People in need oration services outreach programme. s u nd and Ca like being here.

They conduct counselling th Page erway – Barba o The villa started classes for men and women. architec f St Peters Hou ra Johnson t Ken R life as a manse, a big They feed the homeless. ichards. se with manse serving St Peters Alcoholics Anonymous meets Presbyterian Church in Tauranga. Records there, as do family counselling show it had as many as 10 rooms. And every one of and reconciliation groups. them was needed.

“A lot of people will be very aware about Because its first occupant, a Scottish man of the the work done here,” says Barbara. And that work cloth called Reverend Williams Gillies, was a father continues throughout the restoration. of 10. The records tell us the reverend was an “enemy The first job is to raise the house and replace the of hypocrisy and duplicity but ardent advocate of foundations. At the moment it’s sitting on ceramic temperance”. And procreation it would seem. piles. “Quite unusual, but that’s the way it was done,” He died suddenly on the platform of Te Awamutu says Barbara. The integrity of the house won’t be Railway Station when his train stopped for compromised. But inside it will be modernised to refreshments. The man is gone but the house remains. accommodate St Peters House’s good works.

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Solving gutter problems easily Guttersolutionz has recently Whether you’re sick of leaves appointed an area clogging your gutter, rodents causing manager for the Bay of havoc, or birds nesting producing a Plenty, Rachael Patterson. problem, give Guttersolutionz a call.

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“Rachael had a problem with birds in the roof. Now Rachael is an area manager for the Bay of Plenty,” says director Reece Chippendale.

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Untangling granny flat legacy issues What happens after granny moves on from her self-contained flat on the children’s property is vexing Tauranga City council staff to the point where they’ve asked for a plan change to unravel rules that are sending them round the twist.

TCC’s planning staff complained to the Strategy and Policy Committee this week that untangling conflicting rules is taking up staff time every week to the point there is an internal working group discussing the rules, which differ in interpretation from department to department.

The City Plan currently defines an independent

dwelling unit as: “A building or part of a building intended to be used as an independent residence…”

The phrase ‘intended to be used’ within the independent dwelling unit definition has created difficulties and inconsistencies in assessing both independent dwellings and Secondary Independent Dwelling Unit’s because a SIDU and a Separately Used Part of a dwelling pay different rates. An SUP pays an additional $1180 for rates and sewer connection.

The staff will continue working on the issues and bring results back to the committee before the public is consulted on changes.

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Demand drives age-friendly home needs The Bay of Plenty needs to look at how it’s designing houses – and whether they suit the region’s ageing population – but ultimately market demand is dictated by the owners of new homes.

These thoughts from one Bay building industry representative come after a charity that certifies age-friendly housing signalling last week the BOP’s housing stock is largely poorly equipped to deal with its alreadyageing population.

The charity called Lifemark predicts the Bay needs to build at least 1900 age-friendly homes each year for the next 10 years to meet needs of an ageing population in the region.

New Zealand Certified Builders past Western Bay of Plenty president Jason McClintock says the problem lies in the “very short-sighted” design life expectancy for home-builds in NZ. “So whether it’s building a home which is fully compatible for disability or aged care, or whether it’s a home that can be easily adapted – there’s some very safe principles we could design into our homes that builders could then consider during construction that really are cost-effective.”

Jason says the age-friendly design features are not difficult to construct – and incorporated into house designs “if the home in future needs to be modified for mobility that can be done so very effectively”.

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it goes much bigger than that to be effective. Like they might have to remove a wall between a toilet and bathroom, therefore no services are to go in that wall.

“So really to be effective it does need to happen at the design stage.”

Lifemark general manager Geoff Penrose says just three per cent of Tauranga City’s new housing stock is likely to be designed to cater for NZ Certified Builders past people with mobility or WBOP president Jason disability issues.

McClintock says effective And the issue is set to building begins with design. intensify as one in seven have safe, level access and incorporate features people will be aged 65-plus such as wider doorways, increased spaces, by 2026 – with more than 50 per cent reachable power points and easy-to-use taps, of them with some form of disability, window latches and light switches. says Geoff. “The number of builders and Jason used some of Lifemark’s design developers creating homes that better serve principals for his own home “and it was our population is increasing, but it is still far just like constructing a normal home with a too small.” couple of other considerations”.

In the BOP, Lifemark certified 54 homes in “Now I guess the problem we’ve got is the the last year out 1901 consented – totalling designer designs, the builder builds, the home about three per cent. owner gets the end product.”

But do Bay homeowners want age-friendly So is it the home-owner’s responsibility features in their new homes? to request their house is designed to “Again, we are short-sighted in our design,” encompass their future retirement living and says Jason. age-related needs?

“They’re [the homeowners] thinking about Jason says: “Yes, because the builder’s the here and now – not about tomorrow’s responsibility is to build as per plan”. family and when they age and even how this “There is some very low level stuff they can thing [house] will be deconstructed one day do but really it will not make a great impact. or maintained in its lifetime.”

“What I mean is the builder can put nogs Geoff believes ultimately the market will Merle Foster in behind the walls for rails and fixing but respond “and correct itself ”.

But how clean are we? A new survey reveals 84 per cent of Kiwis are vacuuming at least once a week. And on a region level, Bay of Plenty residents are the most likely to have vacuumed up something important – for example jewellery – with 21 per cent of survey respondents saying it’s happened to them.

The Canstar Blue survey results from 1133 Kiwis who’ve bought a vacuum cleaner in the last three years also reveals for 28 per cent of us, vacuuming is the least favourite of household chores.

Baby Boomers are the most likely to not enjoy pushing around a vacuum cleaner, totalling 38 per cent; they’re also the most likely to have a cleaner who vacuums the house for them with 11 per cent.

Canstar NZ general manager Jose George for the 84 per cent of people who are vacuuming at least once a week, you can see why this could become one of their more boring chores.

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Moreover, Jose says lose to one-fifth of Kiwi women, about 19 per cent, are often disappointed in their vacuum cleaner’s performance, compared to 11 per cent of Kiwi men. There are many reasons that a vacuum cleaner might not be up to scratch – whether the vacuuming is left too long, the cleaner itself is too old, or the bag is full or the cleaner needs emptying, says Jose.

“There are plenty of ways to make your vacuum cleaner suck – in a good way – including unclogging it, checking the brush, checking the drive belt, or maybe even needing to replace the filters.”

And with Kiwis being well known for their DIY attitude, this too is well-reflected in their cleaning habits with less than 10 per cent opting to hire someone else to clean their home, says Jose.

“A small percentage of Baby Boomers are electing to pay a cleaner to do their dirty work for them, numbering 11 per cent, while Gen X and Gen Y are more likely to take matters into their own hands.”

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Dumb, dumb and dumber Stupid and dangerous. That’s the immediate reaction of Tauranga Rentals business manager Dan Lusby to tenants who disconnect or decommission smoke alarms in rental properties.

“Unbelievably stupid, but unfortunately it does happen,” says Dan. Dan’s responding to a Tenancy Tribunal warning aimed at tenants. The Tribunal has just ordered a Hamilton tenant to pay $1850 exemplary damages for tampering with a smoke alarm.

It’s reported the tenant regularly removed batteries from a smoke alarm, despite repeated warnings and being served a 14-day notice that he was in breach of his residential tenancies agreement.

So why would a tenant neutralise an alarm and put themselves at risk? For a couple of reasons, says Dan. Smoke detectors start beeping as the batteries wear down. “So tenants will take batteries out to stop the noise nuisance. But they don’t replace them.”

Dan’s also had cases of TV remotes going flat so tenants replace the batteries with those from the smoke alarms. “Or a child’s toy needs a new battery; and, again, batteries are taken from an alarm.”

So lives which smoke detectors are supposed to protect are being placed at risk for the sake of convenience. “It’s a bit of a joke, quite tragic really,” says Dan. “The Tenancy Tribunal is our only legal recourse if we inspect a house and the smoke detector is not working.

The tribunal can order the work be done. “The sad thing is it’s for the tenants own protection.”

Dan says here have been deaths in Tauranga from people tampering with smoke alarms. “And I remember in Otumoetai someone died in a house fire – there were smoke alarms but they weren’t working.”

It was compulsory from the beginning of July 1 for every residential rental dwelling to have smoke alarms.

They must be within three metres of every bedroom and one on each level. “Under the Tenancy Act the owner or landlord is supposed to provide the tenant with information on how old the alarms are and ensure they are working. Because after that they are the tenant’s responsibility,” says Dan. There are two types of alarms – photoelectric and ionisation. Ionisation alarms are okay if they were installed before July 1.

But if they need replacing, now they have to be swapped for the photoelectric variety.

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No problem, as they offer a free in-home consultation service. Their highly-qualified consultants have a full range of samples for you to view with your colour scheme and furnishings, and they’re Harvey Furnishings sales staff Donna, happy to provide Marie, Chris and Judy. design advice.

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Take advantage of low interest rates GOLD PARTNER

It’s important to increase the equity in your property as soon as you can to safeguard against any future decrease in house prices.

Interest rates are so low at present but so many people are not taking advantage of using these times to pay off their debt sooner.

You need to ‘futureproof ’ your repayments now.

For example, making higher repayments now will lessen the impact when interest rates eventually rise.

At that time, you may be able to retain the same level of payments, which will have a lesser impact on your cashflow. In the meantime, you have paid off your debt faster and given yourself a bit more flexibility.

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If you have surplus funds, it’s important to use them to repay your other debt.

Always pay off your most expensive debt first – for example, credit cards, hire purchases etc.

It will help if you can refinance your debt to a lower interest rate with your bank. That way you’re only making payments to one entity rather than several and saving money on the lesser rates will enable you to feel in better control of your finances.

At enableMe we think you should have

a strategy to reduce your debt by 30 per cent during the next five years. You need to reduce your debt to position yourself to be prepared for an economic downturn. It’s never been a better time to make the best of your financial position than now.

Tauranga’s entrepreneurs making ideas fly It’s a wonderful opportunity to turn half a business idea into a commercial reality. And how will you ever know if you don’t put it to the test?

It’s Priority One’s ‘Startup Weekend’ where would-be entrepreneurs spend a weekend learning what it takes to get a business off the ground. Perhaps you have a business idea simmering away or you are a manager looking for staff development ideas to drive innovative thinking within the team.

Startup Weekend starts Friday evening on September 23 and runs for 54 solid hours. It begins with open mic 60-second pitches. Then teams form around the

best and most viable concepts and spend the rest of the weekend focusing on customer development, validating ideas and building prototypes under the gaze of experienced mentors.

The weekend will bring together creatives, designers, developers, marketers, product managers, business managers, start-up enthusiasts and the general public.

On Sunday night, September 25, the teams attend pitch night to demonstrate their products, get

feedback from a panel of judges and win one of the start-up prizes.

‘Startup Weekend’ is a global initiative and follow the same format wherever they are run.

You don’t have to have an idea to take part. You can attend, learn and help with someone else’s concept.

The ‘Tauranga Startup Weekend’ is at Basestation, 148 Durham St, from September 23-25.

For further information, see: www.tauranga. startupweekend.nz

Push pause and get down to business Are you ready for a mega-dose of business smarts from some of New Zealand’s most successful entrepreneurs?

Small Business Tauranga is pleased to offer an opportunity for the city’s business owners to push the pause button, get

away from the day-to-day and to shift their business minds into a completely new gear.

Partnering with Tauranga Chamber of Commerce, the Precision Business Summit event is at ASB Baypark Arena from 9am-6pm on

Saturday, August 27. NZ’s top entrepreneurs will share their stories, advice and practical lessons on achieving business success to inspire others.

For more information and tickets, visit: www. precisionbusinesssummit.co.nz

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Spick and span award-winning advice One look at Paramount Services’ brimming trophy cabinet will tell you the company is no stranger to offering not only an exceptional service but also quality franchise opportunities, says Harris Tate Lawyers director and franchise law expert David Foster.

So when Paramount Services’ general manager and director Paul Brown Paul imparts his wisdom at the next meeting of the Franchise Association of New Zealand, all prospective and current franchisors and franchisees should take note.

Founded in 1979, Paramount Services is now a nationwide commercial cleaning services provider with 167 franchise business owners, serving more than 2000 clients.

The company, led by a team of four directors including Paul, has also clinched a swathe of franchise awards – most recently the Westpac Franchise System of the Year accolade at the 2015-2016 Westpac New Zealand Franchise Awards.

“At the upcoming meeting, Paul will dissect the national franchise network’s strategy for success, built upon locallydeveloped resource planning software for financials, customer service and quality assurance,” says David.

The meeting on August 18 is organised for the Franchise Association of New Zealand by Harris Tate Lawyers, the Bay of Plenty’s franchise lawyers, in association with ANZ. David, the franchise association’s regional coordinator, will lead the meeting, designed to assist those looking at entering the world of franchising on expanding their current franchise systems This presents a rare opportunity to hear from someone at the heart of one of New Zealand’s leading franchise systems.

“Paramount Services’ successful national franchise network highlights how ditching a hierarchical approach allows exceptional care for both franchisees and clients,” says David.

“If you are interested in purchasing a franchise, or creating your own franchise system, mark this meeting down on your calendar.”

No geek speak, just easy PC help No matter what your computer problem, from struggling to keep it up-to-date or not knowing how to remove a virus, the team at Keeping it Ezi-Pc can help!

Offering phone support, virus removal, data transfers servicing, upgrades and custom builds, set ups, back-up solutions and more, Keeping it Ezi-PC make having and using a computer simple.

The family-run computer business has been servicing Tauranga Paul McILwee and for 12 years, and both Charlene Spence can help Paul and Charlene you over the phone or they Paul McILwee and are qualified computer can come to you, saving you Charlene Spence. technicians. the hassle of unplugging Paul, and Charlene are your computer and packing it experienced in helping senior into the car. citizens with easy service and They also offer in-store advice if you are straightforward advice. unsure what computer to buy or how much They have also kept their fees fixed and proudly to spend. haven’t raised their prices in more than six years.

“We give customers answers they can understand.

“Answers you can understand. No geek speak, no We use plain English with no geek speak,” says Paul. tech talk, plain English,” says Paul.

With free callouts all over Tauranga – from For more information, visit: www.ezi-pc.co.nz or Omokoroa through to Papamoa East – Keeping it call 07 543 1000.

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Logging on before take off The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade says increasing numbers of Kiwi travellers are heeding advice about registering with SafeTravel before they head overseas.

“We can’t stress enough the importance of checking SafeTravel information. We strongly urge Kiwis to seek out travel advice before they depart,” says MFAT consular divisional manager Lyndal Walker.

“It is reassuring that more people are registering with us.

During the 2015/2016 year we had an average of nearly 4500 new SafeTravel registrations per month.”

Lyndal says that in the event of a major incident overseas, it is usually registered travellers who are contacted first by MFAT to confirm their safety and wellbeing.

“Seeking information about unregistered New Zealanders can prove very time-consuming.

It can also subject family and friends to an anxious wait, which is why we urge travellers to ‘phone home’ if they find themselves caught up in a major event.”

MFAT responded to six major crises offshore affecting New Zealanders during the 2015/2016 year – terrorism-related attacks in Bangkok, Paris, Jakarta, Brussels and Istanbul, as well as Tropical Cyclone Winston in Fiji.

In all cases, the safety and wellbeing of a number of New Zealanders in these

locations were quickly confirmed.

A consular team also provided support to New Zealanders attending the Anzac Day centenary commemorations in Gallipoli.

Already in 2016/2017, MFAT’s consular services have provided assistance to New Zealanders affected by armed conflict in South Sudan, the terrorist attack in Nice, an attempted coup in Turkey and a series of incidents in Germany.

In the last year, MFAT helped more than 2751 New Zealanders in distress offshore.

“These were individual consular cases, rather than straightforward enquiries.

MFAT recorded nearly 48,000 general enquires across its overseas posts during the year,” says Lyndal. In terms of assistance provided to New Zealanders in the last year, MFAT spent most time on cases involving south and southeast destinations, followed by North Asia and Europe.

The top two cities for time spent on consular work were Bangkok and Jakarta.

“As for what goes wrong, our time is largely spent on New Zealanders who break overseas laws.

Deceased holidaymakers come in second,

followed by Kiwis losing property, local immigration difficulties or victims of crime,” says Lyndal.

“It’s really important that New Zealanders overseas obey local laws and respect local customs. If they don’t, the consequences can be much more severe than they expect.

“People should also remain sceptical about promises from people they meet online.

If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is,” says Lyndal.

“Don’t part with your money and don’t arrange that once-in-a-lifetime overseas trip to meet the person of your dreams – especially if they ask you to pick up or carry something on their behalf.”

Lyndal says buying travel insurance should be another common sense action for travellers.

“It can cost thousands of dollars a day to stay in hospital in another country.

“If you don’t have travel insurance, your health emergency can also become a financial emergency for you and your family.”

Register with SafeTravel before you head overseas at: www.SafeTravel.govt.nz or see: www.facebook.com/SafeTravel.govt.nz

Capturing greatness easily Whether you’re travelling across the ditch for a weekend, or over to Rome for a month, you probably don’t want to bog yourself down with heavy equipment.

That being said, you definitely don’t want to scrimp on getting great travel photos. Just because you want good photos doesn’t necessarily mean you have to run out and buy an expensive and heavy DSLR. Great quality photos can be achieved using your iPhone with a few simple tips. Lighting is one of the most important aspects of capturing a great snap. Typically you can get a well-lit photo when the sun is high in the sky.

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perform fairly well in low-light as long as you are focusing on the point with the most light available.

Don’t be afraid of getting on your knees to get a great photo. Angles are an important part of getting a unique photo – if you’re not hurting you’re not doing it right!

Take hundreds of photos. One of the best features of the iPhone is that you can take literally hundreds of photos and choose from your favourites.

The first photo is unlikely to be your best so be ready to get snap-happy and try lots of different things.

Got a great photo you took on your phone, or a phone photo tip? Share it on The Weekend Sun Facebook page!

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Following the heart and head home Kiwi expats are increasingly realising the benefits of returning home far outweigh the opportunities presented by their overseas location, according to Priority One. The Western Bay of Plenty region’s economic development organisation puts forward this is exacerbated by the uncertainty in the United Kingdom and Europe, the declining Australian economy and the political insecurity in the United States of America.

Priority One set up a campaign to attract talent back to New Zealand by connecting those expats with local job opportunities and networks. It also started profiling people who have successfully made the move home as a

further incentive to the expats.

One couple is Tim and Kate Vaughan, who left Australia and moved home to Tauranga, New Zealand last year.

Their hunt for the idyllic family-friendly city, which combines an amazing lifestyle, affordable cost of living and career opportunities, took them to Sydney, Brisbane and then Tauranga.

“Tauranga represented the ultimate lifestyle to us, really good weather, beautiful beaches, an all-year-round holiday sort of culture – and a great career,” says Tim. The couple was earning well in Australia but the cost of living was really high too. So they didn’t feel any better off in Australia. “The benefits of being in Tauranga far outweigh the cons.”

Other stories of returning expats are on: www.wishyouwereworkinghere.co.nz

Bringing a bit of Wales to the Bay of Plenty Wales and New Zealand – miles apart, but they share some common ground.

Welshwoman Sally Valois will be hosting a Wales-type evening to share the wonders of Wales with Kiwis.

“Wales is a country known for its sheep family and a fanatical obsession with rugby, sound familiar?” The evening will be

held in the Village Hall at Historic Village on August 17 “to soak in the Welsh culture and history”.

Sally will present a PowerPoint with Welsh history and modern pop culture, and plans to have full audio-visual to capture the musical aspect of the Welsh.

Welsh cakes, a type of griddle cake which are synonymous with Wales – and leek cawl, a warming rustic soup which can be easily adapted into a meaty stew, will

both be available for sampling.

“It is typical peasant-style food which has remained a national favourite,” says Sally.

Sally is expecting about 100 people. Entry is a gold coin donation and everyone is encouraged to bring a plate for the pot luck dinner from 7pm.

“The evening is to bring people together to foster a greater understanding of other cultures and their ways of life,” says Sally.

Collecting memories using the hashtag If you’re a tech-savvy traveller, you’re probably using Instagram to document photos of your adventures.

But are you collecting them all in one place?

Unless you have a special Instagram account dedicated to your travels, your trip snaps will be scattered throughout your other photos.

A great way to collate all of your social media travel memories is to come up with

and use a custom hashtag.

Hashtags are on most social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, and can be used to create collections of memories.

For example, #JohnTravels2016 or #Sallys2016Trip is an easy way to search for everything you’ve been posting and see it all in one place. It also makes it easy for friends and family to follow your trips. The only thing is – make sure your hashtag is unique!

You don’t want to be searching for your photos and find someone else’s holiday snaps!

“It’s a casual and pleasant way to introduce people to one another and to hopefully encourage a ‘living in harmony’ ethos.”

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Get ready for ‘business time’ Yay! You’re pregnant! And one way or another you will be bringing a beautiful little human being into this world.

But before you strip the department stores of booties and bonnets – spend a bit of time getting ready for the birth – before it’s ‘business time’.

There’s a few tasks you can do to make things go smoothly. Firstly, have a bag packed for both mama and baby – early. You never know when you will go into labour, so best to be safe than sorry.

Baby’s bag needs nappies, wipes, wraps, a few changes of clothes for bub – include some booties, hats and mittens because little ones are not used to colder temperatures of the outside world.

Mama’s bag needs nipple cream, maternity bras, black underwear, sanitary pads, baggy nighties and trackpants, lip balm, chewing gum and some healthy snacks.

Next – keep the car filled with petrol. I kid you not, it happens. You don’t want Mum and

dad-to-be to get in the wagon on route to hospital and it’s on ‘e’. Or organise transport.

And have childcare organised for other children.

Plus, having support people for your labour lined up and at the ready will also make the journey so much easier.

Something which is often easy to forget – have a baby car seat already installed in the car. Hospitals and birthing centres will not allow you to leave unless they have seen your car seat or capsule.

If you’re having a home or water birth, think about what you need.

Talk about your plans and what you need to prepare with your midwife.

For the home – stock up!

On everything! Basics such as toilet paper, sanitary pads, nappies and Napisan won’t go amiss. If you have a freezer, cook some meals in advance and freeze them.

Lastly, have a safe place for baby to sleep at your home ready to go.

There’s no fun in building cots or bassinets after the fact.

Normalising breastfeeding in the community Making places more mother-friendly, one space at a time, is the aim. Now every Beststart Education and Care Centre throughout the Tauranga area is an accredited breastfeeding space, awarded by Toi Te Ora public health.

Tauranga Beststart professional services manager Sheree Bos says the organisation has worked closely with Plunket to try and support young mums in the community.

“We met with Plunket earlier this year to discuss how we could support them more closely with their priorities and saw the opportunity to get on-board with promoting breastfeeding to support and promote positive health messages here in the Bay,” says Sheree.

Last week a group of the Beststart centre managers were presented with the breastfeeding accreditation

by Kathy King and Julia Coates from Toi Te Ora, meaning all week.

Beststart centres awarded last e managers tr en C here in the Tauranga area are breastfeeding-friendly and their whanau as this is quite accredited spaces.

A breastfeeding accredited space is complimentary to the Big Latch On, which are happening to raise a space that aims to help normalise awareness across the country too,” breastfeeding in the community, says Sheree. usually with comfortable places for The centres awarded included mothers to breastfeed, and facilities TopKids Welcome Bay, such as refrigerators and hot water.

Community Kindy Welcome The awards were well-timed Bay, ABC Tauranga, ABC with World Breastfeeding Week Tauranga Central, ABC Katikati, last week.

Community Kindy Parton Rd, “We wanted to acknowledge ABC Papamoa West, and the work within the community, which is helping to benefit children TopKids Pyes Pa.

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Stimulate and rejuvenate the skin The most recent addition to the skin rejuvenation treatments at the Skin Centre, Dermastamp, is a stamping device that takes standard skin needling to a new level.

individually tailored treatments.

The inflammatory reaction of the skin following a Dermastamp is extremely short and fades significantly within hours from redness to pinkish that may last from 12 to 24 hours on average. In order to reduce visible redness, the Skin Centre recommends topical Engineered in Germany, healing minerals and hyaluronic Dermastamp is a needling device acid to help hydrate the skin. with ‘infuse and go’ technology.

Zinc sun protection is also Dermastamp uses very fine recommended.

Leanne Cashmore of the Skin Centre. needles to stimulate and “Following a Dermastamp rejuvenate the skin by creating infusion channels treatment, you will notice a fresher skin within to instantly create hydration with hyaluronic acid six weeks,” says Leanne Cashmore from Skin Centre. and skin-stimulating ingredients. Because there is “However, your skin will continue to improve no heat being created, side effects are dramatically during six to 12 months and even after the first week reduced and the risk is almost zero. Dermastamp is you will notice smoother, clearer skin.” a vibrational stamping device and unlike a manual Call the Skin Centre today for your free handheld roller, creates more precise targeted and consultation on 075785788.

Put the cigarettes down and save baby It reduced a young expectant mum to a flood of tears.

Instead of sucking on a cigarette she had just huffed into a carbon monoxide monitor at the Bay of Plenty District Health Board’s maternity department at Tauranga Hospital.

The reading is a calculation of her CO2 levels and the damage her smoking could be doing to her unborn child.

“The reading wasn’t exceptionally high, but it was enough to make her stop and think,” says BOPDHB midwife Natasha Rawiri.

And it also made her cry.

“A lot of the comments we get are that having the data staring you in the face, physically seeing the figures and knowing what that means, really makes it sink in.”

And that data, those figures, can be directly linked to growth restriction in unborn babies, hypoxia or a shortage of oxygen reaching the tissues, foetal death, foetal brain damage, sudden unexpected death in infancy – known as SUDI – and pre-term births.

“Smoking lowers the level of oxygen in your blood and for pregnant women that means their babies aren’t getting the oxygen they need.” That can have a range of impacts.

Marewa Paki is not quite two weeks old. She now has a nonsmoking mum.

“The experience of pregnancy and motherhood has been life-changing,” says mum Amy Paki. “I just look at Marewa and think why

would I want to smoke?”

The 32-year-old first-time mum had been a smoker since 18 but stopped after using one of the six carbon monoxide monitors bought by the BOPDHB. “It just put things in perspective.”

The handheld carbon monoxide monitor works like a breathalyser. The pregnant woman breathes long and slowly into the monitor. Then the reading is used to analyse the woman’s smoking dependence and plan a treatment programme for her.

That can mean NRT or Nicotine Replacement Therapy.

It’s often recommended for mothers-to-be who can’t stop smoking on their own.

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Spot a spot? Go get it checked!

The importance of dermoscopy in the diagnosis of skin cancers has clearly been recognised in the medical world, says Skinspots Skin Cancer Clinic Mount Maunganui owner and medical director Dr Franz Strydom.

This is a non-invasive process performed with a handheld instrument called a dermatoscope. “This instrument illuminates and enlarges one’s view of the skin. The cross polarisation of light enables the user to see structures in the epidermis

and deeper layers of the skin that are usually not visible to the naked eye. “The dermoscopic view can be easily photographed and digitally stored for sequential monitoring.�

In the hands of a person trained and experienced in the use of dermoscopy, diagnosis of skin cancer can be improved by 20-30 per cent, says Franz.

He says experience and training of the examiner affects the diagnostic performance. “Dermoscopy requires formal training to be effectively practised. Typically, this would be a certificate or diploma from a medical college. “Individuals with limited training and experience using dermoscopy have been shown

Dermascopic view of a melanoma

to have a poorer diagnostic accuracy than untrained clinicians using naked-eye examination, emphasising the need for formal training. “It is beneficial to examine as many spots as possible during skin checks.� Franz says spots with reported history of change, any spots that are a concern for

Naked eye view of melanoma

the patient, skin spots that are different from other spots, and spots that appear suspicious for melanoma or other skin cancers, should preferably be targeted for dermoscopic exam.

All practitioners at Skinspots hold a minimum of a diploma in dermoscopy before qualifying to undertake a skin check.

Putting the focus on glucosamine Glucosamine and chondroitin are often familiar words for those with osteoarthritis. But what are they?

What do they do? Can they help? Is there research to suggest how these could be used? Today, we did a little deeper at glucosamine. Next time we’ll look at chondroitin.

Glucosamine sulphate is a specialised form of sugar used to make hard shells in crustaceans; and in humans the building blocks of cartilage. Adding glucosamine seems to help cartilage function and perhaps cartilage renewal. Some suggest it may have an anti-inflammatory function.

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I always prefer to give individualised advice but in general terms, combining this formula with 4000-6000mg of fish oil can really help. I generally like to start with higher initial dose; often one-two months at doses of 1500mg of glucosamine, 1500mg of high grade chondroitin sulphate plus 200mg of 95 per cent curcumin. Give me a call or email john@abundant.co.nz if you need more information. Join my full weekly newsletter at www.abundant.co.nz John Arts is a qualified nutritional medicine practitioner and founder of Abundant Health. Contact John on 0800 423 559. To read more go to: www.sunlive.co.nz

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Looking after our breasts Are your breasts healthy?

Clinical Thermography manager Truly Godfrey says thermal imaging of breasts offers safe, non-contact, no-radiation breast health monitoring and breast cancer detection for all ages.

“Mammograms are recommended at 45 years of age, but breast density doesn’t affect the effectiveness of thermography so there’s no need to wait till women are older.”

Truly says the process is more like having a photograph taken.

Women sit in a temperature-controlled room about one metre from the camera, there is no squeezing or x-ray radiation. An infrared camera connected to a computer with specialised software is operated by a female technician in a 45-minute appointment. Images are analysed and

reported on by international expert in breast thermography Dr Mike Godfrey, who introduced thermography to New Zealand in 2002.

His Tauranga-based clinic and trained technicians travelling nationwide have provided the service to more than 5000 women.

Truly says thermography measures the metabolic activity, while other breast tests measure the anatomy, or if there’s a lump or area of density.

“Thermography is unique in that it also provides a picture of the blood vessel pattern specific to each woman and like a mole map, can be monitored to detect any changes.”

Truly notes men can use thermography too.

“Although only one per cent of breast cancers occur in men, this is an ideal procedure for men to check their breast

Truly Godfrey discussing thermography with a patient. cancer risk.” Paige Service heard about the partly subsidised pilot study for women under 35 and thought it was a great chance to get a better understanding about her breast health.

“I didn’t have any lumps or tenderness to lead me to think I needed screening but am so glad I did it as a preventative step to ensure my breast health was optimal.”

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New hearing device easy on the brain and the ears First Hearing Centre is offering people in Tauranga the opportunity people easier.” First Hearing Centre is an independent hearing care clinic offering experienced, expert care from audiologist Carey to experience what they’re calling a new concept in hearing devices.

Wright, who completed her Master of Audiology in 1994 and Audiologist Carey Wright says the device is based on a completely has worked in Tauranga for many years. new hearing paradigm; it’s faster and more powerful than anything A member of the New Zealand Audiological Society, previously on offer in the hearing industry.

Carey offers a wide range of hearing products and honest, “It uses new advanced technology, which delivers better unbiased advice to find the solution that will work best understanding in noise and reduced listening effort. It for you. is also very exciting that the device can connect to the The clinic also supplies accessories such as cleaning internet, which means it can be used with a number materials, batteries, remote controls and customof internet-enabled products.” made devices including ear plugs and moulds.

Carey understands the impact hearing loss can The clinic is conveniently located at the Pyes Pa have on everyday life and conversation.

Centre and there’s plenty of parking.

“Many people are confused and During August, First Hearing Centre invites overwhelmed by the vast choice of hearing you to try the revolutionary new hearing device instruments. It is exciting to have a new Carey Wright checks local pharmacist at no obligation. hearing aid on the market that is designed Jason Chooi’s hearing.

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Do you want to know about the first hearing device that revolves around you?

Shopping streets, restaurants, meetings, and family gettogethers. These situations can all be hard to navigate when you have a hearing loss. But they don’t have to be anymore.

We call it a complex listening environment.

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Finally there’s a hearing device that lets you hear what you want to hear, even in the most complex listening environments. With it, you can participate in multiple conversations, not just the one in front of you. Just like you used to do. We’d like to tell you about it.

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Best of both worlds a balancing act Hitting the books versus hitting the football field: Did you know the latter can actually improve your child’s academic studies?

You may feel lunchtime sports, Physical Education classes or after-school activities equal time wasted away from working on literacy and numeracy skills – particularly around test time.

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delivers 80 minutes of PE per week, students generally participate in lunchtime basketball or football, regular winter sports training and games, With ACG Tauranga Principal and some enjoy swimming two to three times per Shawn Hutchinson week as well.

However, ACG Tauranga is also highly committed to academic excellence in the classroom.

We work with our students to ensure they achieve top results in their studies too.

You can help foster this balance at home too, by recognising when you son or daughter might be agonising over their studies, and encourage them to take a five-minute break outside to regroup.

Balance is crucial for their mental and physical wellbeing, and you will no doubt see better results across all aspects of their lives.

Exercise certainly isn’t an excuse to skip out on valuable study time when it is needed. But it is another component to the learning experience, to develop well-rounded individuals.

ACG Tauranga is holding a series of information evenings in the Bay of Plenty during August.

They will be in Tauranga on August 15, Papamoa on August 16 and Katikati on August 23.

For more information, visit: www.acgedu.com/nz/ tauranga/visit-us/information-evenings

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to make smart choices. That’s why I started working with students to help them clarify what they want to achieve in life, and how they can make clear career choices.”

For the last five years Ciska has been working with Bay of Plenty teenagers. Using the proven Clarifying Careers card sort system, Ciska helps teens match motivation to real career paths and what they want to achieve in their professional lives.

Ciska has a background in counselling and has a Masters degree in organisational psychology. As well as working with teenagers, Ciska also helps adults wanting to change or develop their careers.

Ciska Vogelzang discussing career options with one of her clients.

In-home help making a huge difference The Ngatai whanau’s world turned upside when Enoka Ngatai had a stroke late last year, leaving him unable to walk, speak or swallow. The closeknit Matapihi family was told Enoka needed 24-hour care

in a nursing home. So Nurse Practitioner Theresa Ngamoki, of the Te Whanau-a-Apanui iwi, came to the rescue.

Theresa’s higher level of skillbase means she’s able to prescribe medications and order diagnostic

tests, meaning the Ngatai family can care for Enoka at home.

Theresa qualified as a NP last year after more than 25 years working as a registered nurse.

For the last six months she’s visiting the Ngatai home weekly.

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No need for new stadium

All of the criticism about a new rugby stadium is spot on while the big-spenders’ brigade diatribe is simply bleating without merit with someone using the muppets as the fiddle to play the tune.

Tauranga has ASB Baypark Stadium for better or worse with a horrific $30 million debt tag.

Just erect low-level wooden stands over the Baypark track, then relocate the non-complying speedway loss-maker to the TECT All Terrain Park.

Worldwide stadiums are huge loss-making money-suckers and we need facilities people use all the

time, not rarely if ever.

The Bay of Plenty Rugby Union in is in fact currently spurning Baypark by using the Tauranga Domain - presumably because attendances are so poor - for only two second tier ITM home games catering for a few thousand people.

It is ridiculous pushing for a purpose-built rugby stadium – and if this is how an ungrateful BOPRU uneconomic subsidised outfit behave cut it loose to fend for itself.

It’s in the same category as the Bay Oval cricket troughers.

Tauranga is never going to be

an international rugby venue, nor even get Super 16 games in the foreseeable future.

Frankly, isn’t it about time Tauranga ratepayers were kept in the loop by elected members – not fed spin doctoring by the Civic Amenities Group, the Mayor, or council bureaucrats.

It is called transparency, I believe, and TCC citizens need an unequivocal statement from current councillors and prospective candidates that no new rugby stadium will be entertained now or in the future.

R Paterson, Matapihi.

Wire ropes – why?

Thou shalt not take…

I do enjoy receiving my SunLive daily and want to thank you for it.

Thank you also for the story of the brave policeman Senior Constable Deane O’Connor, who leapt from Maungatapu Bridge, at nightfall, into the dark waters to rescue crash survivor Ashley Donkersley in August 2013.

As a Christian believer I do however feel that even if Sergeant Wayne Hunter, used the Lord’s name in vain, you did not have to print it. What a pity that you did.

It truly is unacceptable and unnecessary and offensive and hurtful to the Christian believer to have the Lord’s name used in vain.

Not to mention that it is one of the 10 Commandments and a sin. Just because many people do not seem to care about it, does not make it right.

And just because we do not burn flags and break down buildings to show how we feel, does not mean that we do not care. We do care - a lot!

Please would you think twice before doing that again?

T Cook, Tauranga City.

The recent accident on State Highway 29A near Maungatapu highlights the lack of space to stop on a motorway. My concern is the wire ropes that keep motorists hemmed in near the Ngamuwahine Bridge.

The road is fenced on both sides with wire ropes, which are too close to the road.

If you need to stop for a puncture, a sick child or answer your phone, you don’t have enough room to pull over.

There is about two metres from the white line to the fence, making it very dangerous to open your car door.

Could the barrier be moved back another metre?

Why is the road fenced on both sides? Sure there is a creek on one side but why is the inside of the road fenced off?

V Brazier, Tauranga City.

Second best ain’t bad Re: New Zealand’s women’s rugby sevens team wins

silver.

No Portia Woodman – you did not let the country down.

You are a brilliant athlete who had just won a silver medal for your country. We are inordinately proud of you.

However, you may have let yourself down with all the blubbing. We shared your disappointment but please – defeat with dignity, graciousness in both winning and losing please. And second best in the world ain’t bad.

S Medal, Otumoetai.

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Large mortgages spell risk...

Does anyone doubt who is to blame for the ‘mad hatter’ prices of Auckland homes.

Homegrown investors and overseas buyers have had a field day; but then, why wouldn’t they?

Caring Aucklanders with family will now feel obligated to help their

sons and daughters purchase a home. Large mortgages spell risk!

Higher prices have eroded the value of money. What should cost $1, now costs $3. The often quoted rate of inflation or CPI is a convenient joke! It takes in some items; but not the spiralling cost of a roof over one’s head.

If included in full: where would the rate of inflation be?

Building more houses will help, as would a reduced and more selective immigration policy.

Ours is a land of natural build assets. Timber, steel roofing, metal, cement and

Money grubbing at Mount?

We recently attempted to find accommodation in Mount Maunganui using internet and other publications, Jason, AA etc.

We also live in an area popular with tourists. Waikawa Bay is near the tip of the South Island, northeast of Picton. Its large marina acts as gateway to the Marlborough Sounds and famous treks such as the Queen Charlotte Track.

However, I believe there are major differences in our hospitality.

While attempting to make bookings at the Mount the following have eventuated, so that the quoted price becomes inflated.

1. Extra charge for linen, yeah right!

2. Additional cleaning charges, yeah right!

3. A bond requirement, yeah right!

4. Extra charges for those outside the required age group, yeah right!

5. Owners who do not ever meet their guests, yeah right!

I think that we might stay in the New Zealand as it was before money grubbing became more important than making guests feel welcome. B Henstock, Waikawa Bay.

a few bricks. It is also a country where land banking and housing speculation is rife.

New home builds for overseas buyers and a five-year retention period for others would have helped for sure. Instead the stable doors have been left wide open!

National’s Home Start Scheme that started on April 1, 2015, provides grants up to $10,000 for existing and $20,000 for new builds. On August 1, 2016, income caps increased from $80,000 to $85,000 for singles and from $120,000 to $130,000 for couples. Mostly reactive – nothing proactive. Savers devastated.

Dolly was the first sheep to be cloned. Do any senior cabinet ministers remind you of Dolly?

J Trounson, Pyes Pa.

Depressing black out at Rio opening Congratulations to Rio on a spectacular and colourful opening ceremony for Olympics 2016.

The parade of contestants entering the stadium was equally colourful until the New Zealand team came into view. Happy faces but dressed in black from head to toe with the only thing absent being the coffin.

Is it any wonder that Kiwis suffer from what is known as the ‘black dog’ form of depression when our clothing shops appear to only stock black or dark grey clothes, and even our houses which used to have red, green or orange roofs are now dark grey with even darker grey roofs.

Let’s keep our black jerseys and singlets for the sports fields and use some of our sea, sky and pohutukawa flower colours for a ceremonial uniform.

Henry Ford must have had some Kiwi blood in him when he said: “You can have any colour you like so long as it’s black’’.

G Sproull, Matua.

We built this city…on a swampy hole I think Tauranga City Council got more information than they wanted when they engaged top inspectors to assess the central city complex for weathertight and seismic reports.

A councillor supplied the following information, from the report, to me.

Quote: there is significant risk of liquefaction which may cause foundation end bearing failure.

Buildings will enable occupants to safely exit, the buildings are unlikely to be usable after a major earthquake” unquote.

Think Christchurch!

I believe, it has long been known

that the central city is built on a swamp and will not support heavy high-rise buildings.

The short-term answer is to fix up the existing buildings and the longterm answer is to join Western Bay of Plenty District Council, on their site, at Greerton.

K Evans, Tauranga City.

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The Weekend Sun’s ever popular guide to ‘What’s On’ in the Bay. Pg38

Reasons to be cheerful – Part 37 We continue the occasional series wherein Winston expounds on things that currently make him happy.

Last time it was three gigs; this time it’s three albums.

One from right here in Tauranga, one from around here – New Zealand – and one from out there – America. They’re all very different but have one thing in common: they make Winston happy. Very happy.

Across No. 1487 7. She was a child- 6. Complimentary (4) ren’s author (6,6) 11. Demented (8) 8. Pass (6) 13. Beach (8) 9. Collect (6) 14. Farm vehicle (7) 10. Illness (7) 17. Enthusiastic (5) 12. Township (SI) (5) 19. Unattractive (4) 15. Pain (5) 21. Loosen (4) C O N S E O T T I T A V H 16. Arms depot (7) H A T U M 18. Racecourse (SI) (6) AS ET UU RT UE RC LI WI M X T L S 20. River (SI) (6) A N N A E H A S T I N G S E O D I D I G T X E M A T 22. Tenants (12) F R I G I D G S Q U A R E Down Y E L H OWG T O P A T O D E P T H S G J U D G E S 1. Home (8) A N T A I WG O T A I N K 2. Cut (4) F I R E WO R K I T I N Y 3. Extravaganza (7) Z G P C E O I E I I O U K A M A H I N E R A N G I M 4. Move (5) F A T O E S E S O G T E R 5. Begin (8) Solution 1486

186) Paul Simon – Stranger To Stranger.

Paul Simon is a restless musician always searching for new sounds and approaches. That has, I suspect, led to consternation at his record label as some of the catchiest work on recent albums has had its commercial potential completely knackered by Simon’s quest for experimental quirks. It’s a thing of delight for lovers of the curious but studiously alienates the mainstream.

His last album ‘So Beautiful So What’ was more approachable as is this latest offering, which finds him in peak lyrical form whether riffing on club admission and class divides on ‘Wristband’, pondering mortality and societal collapse on ‘The Werewolf ’, or singing a touching elegy to the mother of a dead soldier on ‘The Riverbank’.

Some who are annoyed with his more cutesy stylings might find the opening a little grating but there is great depth here in the album’s short, concentrated running time.

Musically, there’s a flamenco undercurrent, with a small group of clappers, a dancer and cahon player. It’s a type of drum, which you sit on and play between your legs, used across several tracks. There is also a special ambience gained from the integration of unusual ‘microtone’ instruments designed by 20th Century American composer Harry Partch. Bottom line though – any good? Yes, yes and yes. ‘Stranger To Stranger’ manages to continually surprise while being instantly accessible. And it grooves.

By turns funny and touching it is Paul Simon at his best.

The ‘duluxe’ edition adds four extra songs and an instrumental, including a duet with the legendary Dion.

187) Dave Dobbyn – Harmony House.

Has it really been eight years since Dave Dobbyn’s last album? It seems like he’s never been away. On this latest collection – like Paul Simon’s, a concentrated blast clocking in at just over half an hour – he is accompanied

and produced by Sam Scott and Luke Buda of The Phoenix Foundation, adding interesting musical layers (a pedal steel guitar keeps cropping up), while retaining a toughness that harks back to ‘Available Light’ and even ‘Hopetown’. Perhaps Dobbyn has been around so long now and is so ingrained in the Kiwi consciousness that it’s hard not to hear echoes of previous work.

Certainly the four tropes of Dobbyn’s expert songwriting are present and correct, often all at once. Landscape, weather, religion and love are the areas that he has long explored and to which he returns here frequently. Oh, and he can still nail an effortlessly catchy chorus in that patented anthemic manner.

‘Harmony House’ grows upon repeated listening as these hooks take hold, and there are plenty of them.

But it is perhaps the quieter moments that dig deepest, the likes of ‘Burning Love’, possibly the finest love song he has yet penned. Classic Dobbyn, just give it a chance to sink in.

188) Brilleaux – Brillcream.

Subtitled ‘The Cream of Brilleaux’, this 16-track compilation was assembled for the band’s recent United Kingdom tour. It is twice as long as Simon and Dobbyn’s efforts. It must have been no easy task picking favourites from the Brilleaux catalogue but this is a good selection, from the early likes of ‘Beer Goggles’ through the unusual dancefloor experiment of ‘POD’ (featuring the outstanding singing of local chanteuse Jessie Matthews) to a couple of tracks from last year’s ‘Pictures of the Queen’.

Fans will be particularly pleased by the inclusion of six previously unreleased songs: two live tracks recorded at last year’s Jazz Festival, two classic covers, and two brand new songs, notable the striking ‘Two To Tango’ which, with the addition of Sonia Bullot’s trumpet, genuinely charts that most unusual of places, where R&B meets tango. Also a high point is the band’s new take on ‘Tobacco Road’ potentially slightly hoary territory but here played with such freshness and power that it just about tears up your speakers.

Perfect for a summer barbecue, get it thought the Brilleaux website. watusi@thesun.co.nz Great cover design too.

GIGGUIDE & ENTERTAINMENT Greer’s Gastro Bar Sunday 14 – Blaze 5-8pm. Classic hits duo.

Mount RSA Saturday 13 – Dennis Marsh & the very talented band of Lex Greaves “Midnite Special” 8-11.30pm. Dress up country style.

The Crown and Badger Friday 12 – One One One 9pm – late.

Saturday 13 – Piston Broke 9pm – late.

Sunday 14 – Chris Gunn (Gunshy) 2-5pm.

The Entertainers Club Sunday 14 – Hypnotist Stage Show 5-8pm. A slick, highly entertaining show that will have you in stitches.

Upstairs at Tauranga Citz Club.

The Hop House Friday 13 – Australian folk musicians Olly Friend and Long Distance Swimmer (free entry).

Thursday 18 – Quiz Night from 7pm.

The Matua Wednesday 17– “A Taste of Your Music”. Come along with chord sheets and sing with the band.

7.30pm start.

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Bust out your brains for annual charity quiz Alzheimer’s Tauranga’s Annual Brain Buster’s Charity Quiz on next Friday promises to live up to its reputation as one of the best charity quiz nights out.

Bust out your brains, bring your best, and support families in the Western Bay of Plenty at the annual quiz at Matua Bowling Club on August 19.

Aimed to be a great team building event, Brain Buster’s quiz allows corporate teams to take the opportunity to promote their business by dressing up their table and dressing up themselves.

Some of us know, or have known, someone with dementia.

And Annette Walmsley, one of only four part-time field officers at Alzheimer’s Tauranga, sees the need for support on a daily basis.

It can be an emotionally tough job, but for Annette seeing the incredibly positive impact the society makes means it is all worthwhile.

“We have people come to us at their wit’s end.

“They simply don’t

know where to turn, but we help with a complex range of support needs,” says Annette.

“But demand is growing for our services and to continue to be there when people need us, we need more support.”

Help ensure Alzheimer’s Tauranga can keep providing much-needed help, when people need it, by registering now for Brain Buster’s quiz.

To register your team, visit brainbusters.co.nz and see: facebook.com/ The Krusty brainbustersnz to keep Krabs dress up for last year’s event.

Support called for big game Tauranga City United is calling on supporters to help them win an essential at home game at Links Avenue Reserve this Sunday.

The must-win match against current premier league leaders Auckland Central kicks off at 2.45pm on August 14.

Tauranga City United is facing relegation back to second division if they don’t win.

New Zealand Football has made an error and this year the bottom three premier league teams face relegation back to second division, instead of the bottom two. Tauranga is top of the bottom three.

“It’s like a must-win game. We have only got four games left. I reckon we have probably got to win three out of the four,” says coach Andy Birchenough.

“We could definitely do with a good crowd to get behind us on that one.

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They [Auckland Central] are the top of the league so they are going to be hard to knock over.

“But we got a really good win last week against one of the teams we are competing against at the bottom.

“We beat Western Springs four-nil so; we are also coming off a good result as well.” Last time the Tauranga City United played Auckland Central, Tauranga lost.

“They banged in three goals in the last 15 minutes and up until then it had been one-all. We had a couple of good chances to go in front.

“At the end of the day, even though they are a good side, if we turn up I reckon we can make a fist of it.

“It’s a good league that why it would be nice to stay in it.

“It’s definitely winnable, without a doubt. We have got a lot of good players and on the day we will give anybody a go.”

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There is a cash bar. Doors open at 6.30pm, the quiz starts 7.30pm at Matua Bowling Club on August 19.

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JULIE’S

Friday 12 August

Friday Rio Olympics Fun Night At Baywave 6-8pm. Games, prizes, hydroslide, waves & music. Tickets: Only $6 to get in.

Tauranga Careers & Business Expo Aug 12 & 13 at ASB Arena, Baypark 9am - 3pm daily.

Explore your career options. Free entry. www.westernbayatwork.org.nz Te Puna Talks At Te Puna Memorial Hall 3-7pm.

A range of speakers tell their local stories about what it means to them to be in or from Te Puna. $5 entry fee, proceeds to the Memorial Hall.

Saturday 13 August

Annual Book Sale Books wanted for Tauranga Harbour Lions November book sale. Drop off points are Living Quarters, Bethlehem Town Centre; Payless Plastics, 414 Cameron Rd; Liquor King, 140 Otumoetai Rd, Brookfield.

No magazines or encyclopedias please. 576 7105 Bay Network Singles Club Weekly social activities for those 55-70+. Dining, barbecues, games, concerts, outings. Jean 576 9988 BOP Caravan Club Rallies are held throughout the year for motorhomes & caravans. If interested in joining like minded people, Neal 576 9031 Dance Party Greerton Hall, 1263 Cameron Rd 7.30pm. BYO drinks & nibbles. Just turn up on the night. Entertainment by Helen Riley. Supreme Dance Centre 544 2337 or 027 322 1786 Genealogy Informal Group Highs & lows of family research. 849 SH 29, Tauriko 1.30pm. $2 per head to cover afternoon tea. Visitors welcome. Cathy 541 3335 a/hs Lions Club of Katikati Moggies Market Memorial Hall 8am - 12pm.

LOL Laughter Wellness Laugh away the winter blues with us. Sandpiper Room, Arataki Community Centre, Mount 11-11.45am.

$3 door charge. Trish 022 036 6768 email: lollaughterwellness@gmail.com Narcotics Anonymous Open meeting, Hanmer Clinic (behind Super Liquor) 1235 Cameron Rd, Greerton 7.30-8.30pm. If using drugs is causing you problems, maybe we can help.

0800 NA TODAY Operanesia from Puccini to Presley At Holy Trinity, 215 Devonport Rd, Tga 7.30pm. The outstanding quartet Operanesia, & special guest Imogen Thirwell perform a diverse programme of classics, medleys & contemporary songs. Adults $45, student $25. Tickets available from Hospice Shops, Holy Trinity and www.waipunahospice.co.nz Otumoetai College Bookarama Aug 13 9am - 6pm & Aug 14 9am - 5pm at Otumoetai College, 105 Windsor Rd, Bellevue. Fundraising bookfair with a large selection of fiction & non fiction books, magazines, puzzles, games, music & sheet music. Free admission.

Papamoa Community Park Join in the fun growing soil, food & community. Fun for all ages, dawn till dusk. Gardening bees 2nd & 4th Sat 9am - 3pm. Between 51 & 53 Hartford Ave, Papamoa. Chris 021 0241 5454 or therockpapamoa@gmail.com Sequence Dance Theme: Red. Good company, live band, great supper. At Mount Sports Centre cnr Hull & Maunganui Rds 7.30pm.

Entrance $7. Organised by Mount Scottish Soc. Elizabeth 544 5633 Steven Adams Basketball Camps 2016 Aug 27 at Tauranga Training Camp, ASB Bay Park Arena 8.30am - 2pm. Ages 7-17. Tickets $65 limited to 300 spaces available. Book your place on the court at www.stevenadamscamps.co.nz Tauranga Careers & Business Expo At ASB Arena, Baypark 9am - 3pm daily. Explore your career options. Free entry. www.westernbayatwork.org.nz Tauranga Indoor Radio Control Car Race day at

Greerton Hall, Cameron Rd. Track set up from 8am, practice starts 10am approx.

Have a look & maybe try a car in the newcomers class.

Tauranga Leisure Marching Display day at QEYC Stadium, Memorial Park, 11th Ave 10am - 3pm. Come along & support local & visiting marching teams displays.

Te Puke Scottish Soc Birthday dance Aug 20, celebrating 83 years. Formal dress. Te Puke Memorial Hall, Jellicoe St, Te Puke 7.30pm. Old time & sequence dancing with live band. Entrance fee $7. Subs due.

Valerie 573 7093 TEDx Tauranga 13 live speakers on stage, live entertainment, 3 official TED videos.

Join 1000 people for a day of inspirational talks & great food. Aug 20 at ASB Baypark Arena 10am - 6pm. Tickets at Eventfinda or www.tedxtauranga.com The Rusty Mannequin Sale Historic Village 9am – 12pm. Top fashion high quality preloved women’s clothing sizes 8-22.

Everything $5-$10. Cash only.

U15 Girl Hockey Fundraiser Quiz & auction fun night Aug 13 at Hockey Centre, Kawaka St, Mt Maunganui 6.30pm for 7pm start. $15 entry includes supper & spot prizes. Cash bar. Teams of up to 8.

Tickets/enquiries Kair 027 512 0077 Village Radio Community radio broadcasting from Tauranga Historic Village 1368 kHz AM. Music of 1940’s - 90’s weekends 9am - 5pm, weekdays 10am - 5pm. Specialty programmes. www.villageradio.co.nz or 571 3710

Sunday 14 August

Andre Rieu Friendship Group BOP For lovers of this music. Monthly weekend gatherings at each other’s homes, garden party, group booking for cinema concert screening & hear the latest info. Jennifer 574 4238 E: poppet312@gmail.com Bay Bible Fellowship/Lord’s Day Worship & communion service at Welcome Bay Primary School Hall, 309 Welcome Bay Rd 10am. Brotherly wisdom from the book of James. “The horror of partiality.”

Ps Lincoln Forlong. www.bbf.net.nz Bible Seminars Every Sunday at Greerton Senior Citizen’s Hall, Maitland St 1.45pm. Title: “God gives people a 2nd chance - what does the Bible say.” Interactive, Q&A. Refreshments provided. Vic 543 0504 Bingo At Club Mt Maunganui every 1st & 3rd Sun 1-3pm.

Croquet Every Sun, Tues & Fri at Tauranga Domain, Cameron Rd 12.45pm. Peter 571 0633 End-of-Life Choice Vintage Car clubrooms, 29 Cliff Rd 2.30pm. Presentation by Maryan Street & AGM. Sue 543 3101 Give-Rowing-A-Go Day Bethlehem College Aug 21 at Bay Coast Rowing Club, end of Wairoa Rd off Tauranga West Rd 1pm.

Open to any Bethlehem College students Y8 & up who would like to try this sport.

Indoor Ultimate Frisbee Open to men & women of all ages & abilities. 4vs4, non contact team sport. Mount Sports Centre 12-2pm. Search Facebook Groups “Mount Ultimate” or MountUltimate@gmail.com Jaguar Enthusiasts’ (BOP) Club Calling all Jaguar owners. Meet like minded drivers for outings, tours & socialising. Graham 543 4933 Narcotics Anonymous Open meeting every Sunday, Hanmer Clinic (behind Super Liquor) 1235 Cameron Rd, Greerton 7-8pm. If using drugs is causing you problems, maybe we can help.

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Otumoetai Indoor Bowls Champion of Champion Triples, Mount Sports Centre 9am start. Karen 576 0443 Papamoa Lions Club Market Gordon Spratt Reserve, Parton Rd, Papamoa. Gates open 7am for stall holder entry.

Radio Controlled Model Yachts Meet Sun & Thurs at pond behind 24 Montego Drive, Papamoa 1.30pm to sail Electron & similar 3ft long yachts, for fun. Adult beginners welcome. Graham 572 5419 Sunday Cyclists Meet outside Paengaroa Hall 9am. All levels catered for. Jenny 0274 353 669 or 578 8937 Tauranga Friendship & Social Club Walks, dinners & outings for over 50’s.

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Alanon Family Group Meet every Mon at St George’s Anglican Church, Gate pa & Cameron Rd 7-8pm. 0508 425 266 Badminton Club: Seniors & Juniors Juniors: Mon 6-7.30pm. Seniors: Mon & Weds 7.30-9.30pm. Bethlehem College Events Centre, Elder Lane. All levels of players welcome. Sue 021 194 4335 or www.taurangabadmintonclub.co.nz Ballroom Dancing for Beginners Free dance lessons at Club Mount 7pm. Just come along, easy & fun. Udance2 - The Dance Centre. Dean/Miki 542 1295 www. udance2.co.nz email: udance2@xtra.co.nz Bay Garden Club New members invited to join this friendly group every 3rd Monday afternoon. Jennifer 544 2090 Bethlehem Bowls Every Monday at Bethlehem Hall 7.15pm. First 3 nights free.

Wendy 578 2585 Body & Soul Fun Fitness For over 50’s, social events & guest speakers. Mon & Fri Greerton Hall Cameron Rd. Tues Wesley Church Hall, 13th Ave. Weds City Church cnr Otumoetai Rd/ Sherwood St. Thurs at Tauranga Senior Citizens Hall, Norris St behind Pak n Save. All classes 9.15-10.15am. Dianne 576 5031 ‘Qualified Sport & Physical recreation instructor’.

BOP Pipes & Drums Practice Monday’s at Hauraki Reg Hall, 11th Ave, Tauranga 7pm. Experienced players & leaners welcome. An-drew 021 669 027 Chess Mt Maunganui Mount RSA Chess Club every Mon at Mount RSA, 544 Maunganui Rd. Early program 6-7.30pm during school term.

Late program 7.30pm onwards.

Incl casual games. Noel 579 5412 Chess, The Mount Club Every Mon at St Thomas More Church, 17 Gloucester Rd 1-4pm. The only place you play standard chess in Tga. $3 a session. Sets, boards, clocks & refreshments provided. Bob/Viv 575 5845 or 0274 786 282 Citizens Advice Bureau For free, confidential information and advice about anything call in Monday-Friday 9am-5pm 38 Hamilton Street, Tauranga or Freephone 0800 367 222 or 578 1592. JP Service every Mon 1-4pm, Weds & Thurs 9am11.30am & Fri 2-4pm & Migrant Clinics Tues - Fri 1-4pm. Employments Disputes Clinic fortnightly Tues.

Civic Choir Tauranga Every Mon at Wesley Church, 13th Ave, Tauranga 7.30pm. www.civicchoir.net.nz Heather 575 9092 Concert Mt Maunganui Senior Citizen’s, 345 Maunganui Rd 1.30pm.

Entertainers Robin & Chris, followed by afternoon tea. $3 door charge.

Dancefit Get fit, while having fun. At Bethlehem Hall, Waihi Rd. Mondays

9.30am & Thurs 9.15am. $5 a class, first class free. Ruth 0274 156 819 Fitness League Ladies exercise with dance to music. Improve posture, energy, toned body, increase strength & fun. Every Mon at Greerton Senior Citizens Hall, 39 Maitland St 9.30-10.30am. Gloria 548 0377 Fitness League Safe effective, low impact fun exercise set to music using the Bagot Stack technique, designed for women of all ages & abilities.

Every Mon at Settlers Hall Omokoroa 9.30am & Tues St Johns Anglican Church Waihi 9.30am. Dorothy 549 3378 Free Meditation Classes Mon 10am & Weds 7.30pm in Bellevue, Tauranga. Gain a new awareness. David/Trisha 570 1204 Genealogy Friendly Group Meet in Mako Room, Papamoa Community Centre 1-3pm. Assistance offered to anyone with an interest in re-searching their family history. Daphne 575 4674 Harmony a Plenty Barbershop Chorus Every Mon at Bethlehem Community Church, 183 Moffat Rd 7pm. New members welcome. Wilf 571 5576 or www.harmonyaplenty.co.nz Hip Hop Dance Classes At Welcome Bay Community Centre, Monday’s during school term. Juniors (up to 8 years) 6-7pm. Seniors (9 years & over) 7-8pm. $5 per class. Ronnie 021 101 0597 Meditation & See What Unfolds Meditation & discussion group every Mon 7-9pm with coffee after. $5 fee. Kevin 578 7205 Nam Wah Pai Kung Fu Chinese martial art training at Tauranga Boys’ College Tues & Thurs 6-7.30pm. At Tahatai Coast School Mon & Thurs 6.15-7.45pm. New members welcome. Brian 021 241 7059 NZ First Coffee Morning Papamoa Library 9.30am for a cuppa before the talk at 10am. Speaker: Larry Baldock, past MP & local councillor.

Omokoroa Indoor Bowling Club Meet at Settler’s Hall, Omokoroa Rd every Mon 1.30pm & Tues 7.30pm. $3 mat fee. New players free first 3 weeks. Anne 548 1636 Otumoetai Indoor Bowls Aggregate Night, Matua Primary School Hall, Clivedene St 7.15pm. New members welcome. Karen 576 0443 Otumoetai Mens Rebus Inc (Ex Probus) meet 3rd Mon of month at St John’s Hall, Bureta Rd 9.45am. Guest speakers & companionship. New members welcome.

David 544 0291 Pilonga Classes A fusion of Pilates & Yoga exercises. Consists of 30 mins Pilates, 30 of Yoga & 10 mins relaxation. Experienced teachers. Mon & Fri at Arataki Community Centre 10.30-11.40am. $12 per class. Check F.B. Pilonga.

Recycled Teenagers Gentle exercise for 50’s forwards, & injury or illness rehabilitation.

Mon & Weds, 14 Norris St, Tauranga Senior Citizens Club, behind Pak n Save.

Tues at St Mary’s Church Hall, Girven Rd. All 9 - 10.30am. Jennifer 571 1411 Silver Singers Choir Practice every Mon at St Stephens Church, Brookfield Tce 1-3pm. Tenors, bases & contraltos needed for our 35 voice choir. Pat 579 1036 St Columba Indoor Bowling Club Otumoetai Rd, Cherrywood. Names in by 7.15pm, 7.30pm start. All playing levels welcome. Paul 576 6324 Taoist Tai Chi Beginners class every Mon 9.30am. Tues 12.30pm & 7pm. Weds 1pm & 5.30pm. Thurs 12.30pm & 5.30pm. Sun-day 10am. 15 Koromiko St, Judea. 578 9116 Tauranga Brass Practice every Mon at Community Hall, Elizabeth St West

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7-9pm. All players welcome. Alex 0274 920 185 or 571 8720 Tauranga Rock n Roll Club Inc Club night every Mon at Tauranga RSA, Cameron Rd, Greerton 8pm. A relaxed, social evening of dancing. Members $3, non-members $5. Check the Facebook pages. Trina 575 7461 a/hs Tauranga Senior Citizens Club Cards, 500 & Bridge Mon & Thurs. Indoor Bowls Tues, Weds & Sat at 14 Norris St, behind Pak n Save 1-4pm. Register by 12.45pm. $2 includes afternoon tea.

WBOPPHO Free public health outreach clinic every Mon at Tauranga Salvation Army Community Ministries (375 Cameron Rd, above family store) 9am -12pm.

Women’s Art Group Every Mon at Lyceum Club rooms, 68 1st Ave 9am - 12pm. New members welcome. Margaret 543 3244

Tuesday 16 August

ABC - Avenues Badminton Club Every Tues at Tauranga Intermediate School Sports Centre. Juniors 6-7.30pm (term time).

Seniors (Adults) 7.30-9.30pm. Club racquets & coaching available. Delwyn 027 212 4720 Alternative Book Club For people & books that are a bit different. No set book or theme, just chat at the pub about books.

3rd Tues of month 6pm. Kaye 022 034 0115 or kaye.mclaren@gmail.com Altrusa Community Service Club Business/ dinner meeting 2nd Tues. Social night 4th Tues, each month. Julie 544 0277 Anxiety Support Group Support for people with an experience of anxiety 1-2pm. For info or transport, Junction 543 3010 Argentine Tango Fun classes every Tues at Citizen’s Club 6.30pm. Discover ‘the metaphor for life.’ Denise 020 400 61340 Badminton (Social) Every Tues & Fri at Otumoetai Baptist Hall 9.30am - 12pm.

Racquets available. Lorraine 579 3229 Bayfair Petanque Club Tuition & boules available for learners & visitors. Every Tues & Thurs at Bayfair Reserve, Russley Drive 1pm. Margaret 572 3173 BOP Rose Society Sponsoring a rose pruning demonstration at Mitre 10 Te Puke 10.30-11.30am & again 1.302.30pm. Prize for holder of lucky number at each session. Fern 575 2857 Calendar Girls Aug 23 - Sept 3 at Litt Park Theatre 7.30pm. Based on the Miramax Motion Picture. Tickets at Paper Plus Te Puke. $22 admission, $20 concession.

Presented by Te Puke Repertory Theatre.

Cards 500 Every Tues & Thurs Mount Senior Citizens, 345 Maunganui Rd. Names in by 12.45pm. 575 4650 Citizens Advice Bureau Tauranga AGM at St Stephen’s Church, Brookfield Terrace, Otumoetai 10am.

CV Writing Clinics (Free Service) Need help? Complete the CV form, available at your local library & bring it to the CV writing clinics. Tauranga Library Tues 10am. Weds 10am. Papamoa Library Fri 12.30pm. Greerton Library Mon 12.30pm & Thurs 12.30pm.

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Hanmer Clinic Tauranga ‘Significant Other’ programme for spouses, partners etc of people who have an addiction, 7 weekly sessions starts Sept 13 - Nov 3 1-3pm at 1235 Cameron Rd, Greerton.

Free. 579 6470 or 0800 842 426 Excel Toastmasters Every 2nd, 4th & 5th Tues at Arataki Community Centre, Zambuk Way 6.15-8.30pm.

Learn public speaking & leadership skills. brooke_bop@hotmail.com Falun Dafa Free exercises & meditation classes. Every Tues at Hillier Centre, 31 Gloucester Rd, Mt Maunganui 7pm.

Judy 021 0425 398 Fitness League Ladies exercise with dance to music. Improve posture, energy, toned body, increased strength. Every Tues at St Columba Church, 502 Otumoetai Rd, Cherrywood 9.30-10.30am. Gloria 548 0377 Inachord Chorus Womens 4 Part Harmony every Tues at Bethlehem Community Church, 183 Moffat Rd 6.55pm. Enjoy singing & performing varied repertoire.

Cathy 579 2040 Junction Mental Health Peer Support And advocacy: coffee & chat at St James’ Hall, Greerton 10am – 12pm. For info or transport, Junction Mental Health Peer Support & Advocacy 543 3010 Mount Morning Badminton Every Tues at Mount Sports Centre, Blake Park 9am - 12pm. Social, all ages, beginners welcome. Racquets available. Daily fee $5pp. Margaret 575 9792

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Petanque - Tga/BOP Club Tues, Sat & Sun at Club Mt Maunganui 1pm start. Equip available, all coaching given. Try a new sport! Jo Ann 578 3606 Pilates Matwork Class Arataki Community Centre 12-12.50pm. $10 per class.

All levels welcome. Check on Facebook/ Clau Pilates NZ. Sequence Dancing Tauranga Social & Leisure Club. St John’s Anglican Church Hall, 94 Bureta Rd, Otumoetai. Tues 7-9.30pm except 2nd Tues of month 3.30-6pm. Murray 576 3294 Sewing Connexion Tauranga Meet 1st & 3rd Tues at Arts Centre, Elizabeth St 9.30am - 2pm. Sew, share ideas & improve techniques. Pam 021 276 5390 South City Indoor Bowls Club night at Greerton Hall 7.30pm. Keith 577 1116 Tauranga Continuing Education (50+) Group at Historic Village, 17th Ave, Tauranga, 3rd Tues of month. Lectures start 10am. $4 charge to cover expenses.

Speaker: Dr Wallace Bain, coroner. Topic: What coroners do. David 544 4179 www. taurangacontinuingeducation.weebly.com Tauranga Orchid Society Monthly meeting at Wesley Church Hall, 18th Ave 7.30pm.

Speaker: Helen McDonald - “Her involvement judging the cut flower section at the Bangkok Orchid Show.” Natalie 543 0847 Tauranga Patchwork & Quilters Meet 1st & 3rd Tues 7pm & 2nd & 4th Fri 10am. Tauranga Art & Craft Centre, 178 Elizabeth St, Tga. 0274 177 581 Tauranga Samba Every Tues meet at Mount Sports Centre 7-9pm. Brazilian drumming & percussion. No experience needed. Rob 021 232 7185 Tauranga Scrabble Club Every Tues at Tauranga Bridge Club, Ngatai Rd 8.50am. 3 games $2.50. New players welcome. 544 8372 Tauranga Toastmasters Every Tues at Tauranga Lyceum Club 7.15-9.30pm.

Learn public speaking & leadership skills.

Guests welcome. Alan 544 5989 Welcome Bay Wheelers Recreational cycle group meet every Tues at Palmers, Ohauiti Rd 9.30am. Pam/Andrew 544 3272

Wednesday 17 August

Age Concern Walking Group Meet at Carlton Reserve off Ngatai Rd 10am. 578 2631 Alcoholics Anonymous Reflections at Te Puke, Te Puke Baptist Church cnr Malyon St/Station Rd 7.30-8.30pm.

0800 229 6757 Bowls Indoor Every Weds & Fri at Mount Senior Citizens, 345 Maunganui Rd 12.45pm. Beginners welcome. 575 4650 Cards Do you play crib or would like to learn? Every Weds at Greerton RSA 1pm.

Rona 578 7939 Community Bible Study International Join us at City Church, 252 Otumoetai Rd 7-9pm for a Bible Study on the Book of James. Julie 552 4068 Creative Parenting New solutions for old problems. Aug 24 at Mosaic Church, 37 Newton St 7.30-9pm. Cost $5.

Email: bop@theparentingplace.com or 027 299 3492 Diabetes Help Tauranga St Andrews Church, Oxford St, Te Puke 2pm.

Speaker: Elly Crispin, YMCA (Active Lifestyles Fitness & Socialising). Debbie Cunliffe Diabetes Nurse in attendance.

571 3422 Fernland Spa Water Exercise Class Every Weds 10.45-11.45am. Held rain or shine but not during school holidays. Classes taken by qualified instructor & lifeguard.

Jennifer 571 1411 Five Hundred Cards Every Weds at St Thomas More Church, 17 Gloucester Rd, Mt Maunganui 1pm. $3 a session.

Includes weekly prizes, door prize, refreshments, aggregate. Barbara 572 4962 Friends of the Library Papamoa Library Book Group meet 10am. Theme this month: The Olympics. Gail 574 3376 Gate Pa Indoor Bowls Brookfield New World Open Fours Tournament at Greerton Hall 7.30pm. Names in book. Plate for supper please. Kevin 543 4044 Healing Rooms Experience God’s healing touch, at Bethlehem Town Centre cnr shop behind PO/ Bookstore, open Weds 1-3pm. No appointment necessary, no charge. www.healingrooms.co.nz or 021 110 0878 Healing Rooms Bay Coastal Healing Rooms, Hillier Centre, 31 Gloucester Rd (Bayfair), Mt Maunganui. Caring, trained Christians pray for your physical, emotional & spiritual health. First & thirds Weds (Aug 17) 2.30-3.30pm.

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Kiwi Toasters Building communication & confidence 1st, 3rd & 5th Weds at 3 Palm Springs Blvd (same building as Palm Springs Pharmacy) 5.30-7pm. Chrissy 027 296 7939 Living in Harmony Evening “Wales/Cymru” in the Village Hall, Historic Village, 17th Ave 7pm. Learn about history, culture & traditional food of Wales. Bring a plate of food for potluck dinner & a donation.

Presented by Multicultural Tauranga.

571 6419 enquiries@trmc.co.nz Make Life More Wonderful Learn to speak compassionately to yourself & others.

Learn nonviolent communication. Weds night, Historic Village. 021 0238 0340 RhondaLAPowers@gmail.com Narcotics Anonymous Working the steps. Closed meeting every Weds. Downstairs Hall (accessed from the building’s rear), Salvation Army Recover Church, 375 Cameron Rd 7.30-9pm. If using drugs is causing you problems, maybe we can help.

0800 NA TODAY Papamoa Garden Circle Meet in Dune Room, Papamoa Sport & Rec Centre, Gordon Spratt Reserve, off Parton Rd 1pm. Graeme 574 2392 Scottish Country Dancing Every Weds at Senior Citizens Hall, Maunganui Rd. Step practice & formation revision 7pm, regular class 7.30pm. Lynne 573 5055 Tauranga Mid-Week Tramping Group Toi’s Walk (Ohope from town steps). Grade mod, approx. 5.5hrs. John 579 3111 Toastmasters Build your confidence, find your voice & open doors of opportunity in 2016. Join the happy bunch at City Early Start. Every Weds at Avgas Cafe, Classic Flyers 7-8.15am. 021 044 5654 or www.cityearlystart.co.nz Weds Evening Mountain Bike Ride Meet at RideBikes, 393 Cameron Rd 6.15pm.

Jen 578 0016 Wednesday Recreational Cycle Group Meet at Sulphur Point, near Nautilus, off Cross Rd 9am. Cam 552 4513 Women’s Bridge Group Every Weds at Lyceum Club Rooms, 68 1st Ave 12.50pm. New members welcome. Helen 579 1947 Yoga with HanneHatha Mon & Weds 9.30am & 5.30pm. Gentle hatha yoga, small groups. Bethlehem studio. Hanne 027 244 6710

Thursday 18 August

Awesome Clothing Sale Good quality, all sizes & styles - men’s, women’s, children’s, shoes, sheets, duvets etc. Only $5 a bag. You pick.

Historic Village, 17th Ave, Tauranga 9.30-10.30am. Organised by Turning Point Trust 578 6934 Bay City Rockers Social rock n roll dancing every Thurs at Senior Citizen’s Hall, Norris St 7.30-9.30pm. Gavin 027 643 6222 Cap Money Budgeting Course Are your finances causing you stress? Take control.

Starts Aug 18 10am & 7.15pm at Lifezone Church. Free 4 session course.

Carlene 571 6525 or www.capmoney.org Club Mt Maunganui Social games club. Play indoor bowls, 500, bolivia & 5 crowns every Thurs 12.45pm. Prizes & visits to other clubs. Subsidised monthly dinners. John 575 2422 Community Bible Study International Join us at 14th Ave Gospel Centre every Thurs 10am - 12pm for Bible Study on “Return to Jerusalem”.

Jack/Betty 544 3809 Diabetes Help Tauranga Bongards Pharmacy Greerton Drop-In clinic. For appointment, 578 2008 Fitness League Safe, effective, low impact exercise to music using the Bagot Stack technique, designed to help with posture, balance & stamina, combination of exercise, movement & dance. Thurs: Central Baptist Church Hall, cnr 13th Ave/Cameron Rd 9.30am. Weds: Katikati Memorial Hall 10am. Pam 549 4799 or 021 117 7170 Forest & Bird Walk Tauranga Branch Tauranga inner harbour walk - Waipu Bay. Fertiliser works to railway bridge. Grade moderate. Meet Kulim Park 8.45am.

Leader: Dorothy. 576 2726 Free Mediation Classes Every Thurs at Papamoa Sports & Rec Centre, 80 Alice Way, off Parton Rd 7pm. Find peace, love & joy & make your life rewarding. Ian 576 2032 Free Skin Facial Pamper Trial Session Group session or one on one. Svetlana 027 616 2124 Keynotes 4 Part Harmony Women’s Chorus meet Thurs at Wesley Church Hall, 13th

Ave 6.45pm. Sing for fun & health. Nora 544 2614 More Than Craft Every Thurs at Greerton Bible Church, cnr Chadwick Rd & Fraser St 9.3011.30am. 10 crafts available. Talented tutors. $3 entry. June 544 0823 Mount/Papamoa Coffee & Chat From 1-2pm. For info or transport, Junction Mental Health Peer Support & Advocacy 543 3010 Orange City Square & Round Dance Tues, morning class 10am - 12pm. Weds Advanced, Thurs Club night & new dancers, 7.30pm. Frontiersmen’s Hall.

543 1063 Papamoa 500 Card Club Every Thurs at Gordon Spratt Reserve 12.45pm. Dave 575 5887 Petanque Every Thurs & Sun at Cliff Rd 1pm.

Tuition given to new players. No equip needed to start. Charles 570 1099 Schizophrenia Support Group Support for people who have a diagnosis of schizophrenia 1-2pm.

Junction 543 3010 Sunshine Dance Group Learn sequence dancing at a friendly club. Meet every Thurs at Baptist Church Hall, cnr 13th Ave & Cameron Rd 7-8.30pm, followed by dancing till 10pm. $2pp, entrance includes supper. Jan 544 4379 Tai Chi & Taoist Qigoing Every Thurs morning at Elizabeth St Community Centre. Warren 574 2464 or 0274 745 389 Tauranga Cake Decorators Guild Meet every 3rd Thurs at Wesley Church, 100 13th Ave 7.30pm.

Visitors welcome. 575 4383 Tauranga Heart Support Group Low impact group exercise class for those with or at risk of heart & associated diseases. Every Mon & Thurs at City Church, Otumoetai Rd 9.30-10.30am. $4pp. Diana 021 0476 155 Tennis Seniors WBOP Players 35yrs+, Tauranga lawn tennis club, Wharepai Domain 9am - 12pm. New players welcome, $3 ball fee. tsw-bop@gmail.com or 021 0576 601 Ukulele Lessons For primary age children. Every Thurs at Otumoetai Baptist Chapel 3.304.30pm. Enquires Linkt Community Trust email: learn@lead.co.nz

Friday 19 August

Alcoholics Anonymous Open meeting every Fri at Hamner Clinic, 1235 Cameron Rd, Greerton (behind Bridgestone) 7.30pm. For more meetings or assistance 0800 229 6757

Arataki Artists Group Meet every Fri at Arataki Community Centre, Zambuk Way 9am 12pm. Occasional tuition with local artists. All levels welcome. Chrissy 572 0818 Brain Busters Charity Quiz & Dinner Get your team together & help raise funds for Alzheimers Tauranga. At Matua Bowling Club, 108 Levers Rd, Tauranga. Venue open 6.30pm. quiz starts 7.30pm. Cost: $200 per team of up to 6 people, includes a platter of nibbles at half time. http://brainbusters.co.nz/ Chess Tauranga At Tauranga RSA, Greerton 5-7pm, for the whole family. Longer if necessary for longer games. Incl casual games. Werner 548 1111 http://www.westernbopchess.weebly.com/ Bi/Gay Men’s Support Group Do you need a trusting person to talk to? Discretion assured.

For meetings & locations ph/txt Alex 027 358 5934 Flowers of Praise A creative artwork through floral display. Co-hosted by St Enoch’s Presbyterian Church & the Afrikaans Christen Church at 134 16th Ave, Tauranga. Aug 19 & 20 10am – 4.30pm. Aug 21 11am – 4.30pm. Proceeds go to Habitat for Humanity. Poppie 552 4900 Greerton Indoor Bowling Club Night Tournament (2 plates per person please). Tauranga City Silver Band Hall, Yatton St. Names in by 7.15pm. Sally 571 8914 Ohauiti Market Every third Fri at Ohauiti Hall 5-6.30pm. Produce, craft, art.

Narcotics Anonymous Open meeting every Friday at Hillier Centre, 31 Gloucester Rd, Mt Maunganui 7.30-8.30pm. If using drugs is causing you problems, maybe we can help.

0800 NA TODAY Tauranga Lyceum Club Women’s friendship club.

Catered lunch first Fri of month & dinner 3rd Weds with varied & interesting speakers. Painting, mah jong, music appreciation, bridge & book club avail. 68 1st Ave. Margaret 543 3244 Te Puke Lawn Bowling Club Palmer Court.

Friday friendly roll up 12.30pm. New players welcome, bowls available. Mufti, flat soled shoes. Paul 573 8991 U3A Tauranga General meeting. Guest speaker: Max Mason - “Six months walking the Appalachian trail in the USA.” Held in Wesley Church Centre, 13th Ave Tauranga 10am.

Visitors welcome.

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One approach doesn’t fit all Finding your fit in life’s second half has its challenges.

Our culture tends to view ageing as a pattern of retirement, physical deterioration and death, which is to be avoided as long as possible. Yet this one dimensional view of ageing is changing.

This month’s Fresh Horizons Conference focuses on exploring ways of renewing a sense of purpose and fulfilment for those aged 50-plus, expanding ideas for community service and promoting creative leadership of this age group.

John and Jacque Coulombe from Fullerton, California, will

unpack this year’s theme supported by local speakers. They have been ministering at the Evangelical Free Church in Fullerton, John and Jacque including time working alongside Coulombe surrounded Christian pastor and radio preacher, with children at a Chuck Swindoll. You can register online Grandma Camp. at: freshhorizons.org.au The Psalmist said: “In old age they still produce fruit; they are always green and full of sap” (Psalm 92:14, NRSV).

Don’t you like that? Rev Donald Hegan, St Columba Presbyterian

A stunning act of transnational forgiveness In 1990 the world watched a drama of forgiveness enacted on the stage of world politics. After east Germany chose a parliament in its first free elections, the representatives took up the reins of government.

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The Communist bloc was changing daily, west Germany was proposing the radical step of reunification, and the new parliament had many weighty matters to consider.

But they decided their first official act was to vote on the following extraordinary statement.

“We, the first freely elected parliament of the GDR…on behalf of the citizens of this land, admit responsibility for the humiliation, expulsion and murder of Jewish men, women and children.

We feel sorrow and shame, and acknowledge this burden of German history. Immeasurable suffering was inflicted on the peoples of the world during the era of national socialism.

We ask all the Jews of the world to forgive us. We ask the people of Israel to forgive us for the hypocrisy and hostility of official east German policies toward Israel and for the persecution

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and humiliation of Jewish citizens in our country after 1945 as well.”

East Germany’s parliament passed the statement unanimously. According ‘What’s So Amazing About Grace’ by Philip Yancey, members rose to their feet for a long ovation, then paused for a moment of silence in memory of the Jews who died in the Holocaust.

What did this achieve? It didn’t change anything for the millions murdered, nor did it undo the monstrous deeds of Nazism. But it helped loosen the stranglehold of guilt that had been choking east Germans for nearly half a century – in which time their government steadfastly denied any need for forgiveness. West Germany had already repented officially.

The fact a relationship exists at all between Germany and Israel is a stunning demonstration of transnational forgiveness.

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Hon Simon Bridges MP Todd Muller MP A: 35A Third Avenue, Tauranga 3110 | P: 07 579 9016 A: 3/9 Domain Road, Papamoa | P: (07) 542 0505 E: taurangamp@parliament.govt.nz E: Todd.MullerMP@parliament.govt.nz Authorised by Hon Simon Bridges (35A Third Avenue, Tauranga) and Todd Muller (3/9 Domain Road, Papamoa)

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Bay Sunners got out and about to enjoy their weekend last Saturday.

Weekend activities included everything from exploring the Strand, Memorial Park and the Daisy Hardwick walkways, to celebrating Rangataua’s firstever Baywide championship.

Prue O’Connell with ‘Scout’ on the Daisy Hardwick walkway.

Geordie Attwood, 14, Carta Greenway, 15, and Luka Gonzalez, 15, on Memorial Park skate ramp.

Chloe, 6, and Aaliyah, 9, with mum Chloe Murphy, walking along the Tauranga’s waterfront.

Brothers Kees, 7, and Saul Smith, 10, cheering on Rangataua at the Baywide club rugby final at Blake Park on Saturday.

Darragh, 5, and Olivia Byrne, 3, with Humpty.

Ann and Alan Williams with ‘Molly’ on Tauranga’s waterfront.

David Baker pushing Laykyn Pickles, 3, at Memorial Park.

Rylee Rerit, 4, and Ayla Reriti, 6, at The Strand playground.

Jo and Steve Arnold with daughter Charlotte, 3, at The Strand playground.

Aneka Whitey holding son Vincent, 5, with cousin Kody Neels, 11, enjoying Memorial Park’s rocket slide.

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