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Came a hot summer...

We’re all going to melt into a steaming pile of global warming guano, according to some alarmists this week.

Just because there’s a drought, television will have us believe that we’ll be surviving on coconuts and mangoes while wearing tea towels on our heads and riding our camels around the dusty, barren tropical wastelands… in just a decade or so.

And because the rain has been a bit scarce this summer, panic-merchants are busy predicting the end of dairy farming; the rise of tropical fruit production; Dengue fever; Saturday Night Fever and a whole raft of other disaster and pestilence.

What bulldust.

Funny, that they weren’t trotting out these fantasies last summer, which was one of the wettest on record.

We did not see a bunch of wannabe Noahs running amuck in the media telling us to get ready for the monsoons or the flooding.

Just because we’ve had a hot and dry summer this year does not mean the impending onslaught of rampantly rising sea levels and the demise of traditional crops and farming – nor the arrival of tropical pests.

It’s just been a dry summer. Yes, the temperatures fluctuate. They have been doing so for millennia.

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We had dry summers when RR was a freckly brat riding his bike up and down Paine Street with a bad haircut. The summers haven’t changed that much.

Neither have the haircuts.

RR research shows that the general populace, well, the thinking portion of it at least, (both of you) are thoroughly sick and tired of this constant brow beating about climate change. Just get used to it. It will

... and it’s all doom and gloom!

change back another day.

Here is a personal guarantee from me: You will not be trading your family cat for a camel in 2023. (Unless you really want to upset the neighbour’s dog).

The constant hype is irritating and irresponsible. Natural fluctuations and trends in temperature and rainfall are normal, some of the patterns over thousands of years.

And yes there may be a tiny component of human induced influence – but so infinitesimal compared to nature’s own belchings of volcanoes and farting dinosaurs.

It’s pretty arrogant to think anything mere humans do could make a meaningful change. Sure there are changes. Changes are constant. There’s not much new here. The real issue is clouded: that is the limited supply of fossil fuels.

It will run out. We should be conserving and looking for alternatives not for fear of supposed man made climate influences, but because they are filthy fuels and a finite resource.

Our advice here: Keep calm and carry on.

Fickle resources

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Free up the RMA and other red tape so farmers and horticulturalists, the lifeblood of our economy and food supplies, have a smoother path to creating storage and irrigation facilities for sensible, sustainable production.

Discourage intensive, purely profitdriven operations that rely too heavily on fickle sources of water and resources and encourage the budgeting of water and feed reserves for the times of drought and other weather extremes.

Stop the townies wasting so much water, so there’s more for essential supplies and industry.

Encourage more home collection systems, so when the rain does fall, it’s

not wasted.

Phew, glad we finally sorted that one.

So is the camel.

In other news, RR researchers have come up with a cunning plan to Sundayise Tuesdays. Since Anzac and Waitangi are now Mondayised, it’s only logical to extend the plan to Tuesdays.

Just like racking up the percentage of GST we pay; or cranking up employer contributions to Kiwisaver; businesses can be screwed little by little without even realising it’s happening.

Sundayising Tuesdays will mean that when a public holiday falls on a weekday, workers can have Monday and Tuesday off, meaning a four-day weekend.

To make it really work for the people, we will Saturdayise Friday. (Unfortunately Friday ran screaming from the room when we mentioned this, he thought we said circumcise).

Ostracised

That only leaves Wednesday and Thursday. They are both left feeling ostracised.

After that we’re going to honkyise the Harawiras so they don’t need to run around with racial chips on their shoulders. And then Maori-ise Don Brash, so there’s some balance.

Then we are going to gayise straight people, so anyone can marry anyone, anywhere, anytime, including all you single heterosexual males out there whose dream it is to marry two lesbians.

Then it will be possible to take a four day honeymoon, provided it falls on one of the Sunday mondayised weekends. And don’t even think you’ll be capable of returning to work for the following two-day week.

Parting thought

Therefore, by 2023, under the promise of global warming and everything-ised, you’ll also be able to marry the camel. Now that should be a hump to remember.

Afterwards, you can smoke camel.

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Drought days Andrew McLeod on his family farm runs dry dust between his fingers. Photo by Bruce Barnard.

For Andrew and Robyn McLeod, hosting Tauranga’s annual Farm Days event will be very different this year.

The absence of lush green fields visited by 1500 people last year will be duly noted – the dry, brown farm a reminder that the Bay of Plenty is in drought.

Andrew says things have never been this bad on their 127 hectare family farm.

“It’s unknown territory, that’s for sure,” he says.

He says the drought is having devastating effects on the farm and its 400 cows, with friends in the region experiencing the same problems.

“We’re down to once a day milking now, which we have never been down to at this time of year

before. We don’t normally do that until April or May. “They haven’t got the volume of milk to warrant milking them twice. It looks after the cows better because they’re not having to do the walk (to the milking shed) twice a day. Hopefully they will keep their condition and not lose too much weight.”

This means the farm is at a production loss and the season will wind up five or six weeks earlier than normal.

“We’re buying a lot more feed in, we’re already starting to use our winter feed. There’s going to be a feed deficit somewhere there in winter.

“When you’ve got that many animals, you want to know where they’re next feed is coming from.”

Despite their struggles, Andrew and Robyn are looking forward to

opening their farm to the public next weekend for the fourth time.

The annual Federated Farmers’ Farm Days (in Wellington, Rotorua and Tauranga) are free to the public, and this year will show how farmers and farms cope with drought.

“We enjoy the day, it’s a really neat day. A lot of people who don’t get to see farms up close get to come and see what goes on.

“1500 people came through last year. It was certainly bursting at the seams for us.”

While milking cows might be off the event’s list, sheep shearing and a display from Fonterra are among items set to make for a fun family day out.

Tauranga’s Farm Day is Sunday, March 24 from 10am-2pm at 1189 Welcome Bay Road.

By Corrie Taylor

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Strapping the young ones in

A selection of local breaking stories featured this week on...

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Christmas crash: shock guilty plea

Tauranga Police and Plunket will be joining forces next week to make sure young children are restrained in car seats appropriately.

Bay of Plenty Plunket manager Sandy Waugh says the campaign starts on Monday and will run right through until Saturday in various parts of the Tauranga region, Te Puke and Katikati.

“We’ve got one in Katikati, two in Papamoa, one in Te Puke and one in Tauranga.

“We will be checking to make sure the children are restrained in a restraint, we will be making sure that restraint is appropriate for the child, that the child is fitted correctly in the restraint and the restraint is correctly fitted into the car.”

People who have children who aren’t in a car restraint will receive a $150 instant fine for any child unrestrained in a car.

Those who are incorrectly restrained or the restraint is incorrectly fitted it will be mostly educated on what they should do.

“However, having said that, if we find a child in an inappropriate restraint, for instance if we found a two-year-old in a baby capsule that it is far too big for, then they will get a ticket.”

As part of its campaign, Plunket will also be running an educational seminar on how to install a car seat and strap a child in properly.

Sandy says this will be run on Saturday, March 23, when Welcome Bay Plunket will be having its open day (see story page 22 for details).

“Also during our normal Plunket hours we are happy for anyone to call in and we will show them how to fit their seats.” By Letitia Atkinson

Charges to increase The driver of the car that crashed on Christmas Day in 2011 killing two Tauranga sisters has entered a last minute guilty plea as his trial comes to a close.

Hetaraka Hikurangi Reihana pleaded guilty to two charges of manslaughter in the High Court in Hamilton on Thursday.

Reihana was driving the car Merepeka, 14, and Brooklyn Morehu-Clark, 13, were in when it crashed on Welcome Bay Road.

The girls, who were in the back seat and not wearing seatbelts, died at the scene.

The change in plea was entered as defence counsel and the Crown were about to give their closing statements in the trial that began nine days ago.

Reihana will be sentenced in the High Court in Hamilton on May 31.

Screaming boot camps slammed

Screaming fitness trainers and loud thumping music blasting from outdoor ‘boot camp’ fitness programmes has driven one builder to complain.

Grace Avenue resident Mike Taka complained to Tauranga City Council this week of being woken before 6am by yelling trainers and disco music coming from the boot camps at Mount Drury.

He says it’s getting to the stage where there are numerous operators on different days, sometimes more than one or two at a time.

Councillors found there is nothing the council can do at present. Chairman David Stewart says Mike’s complaint will be considered later this month when the council reviews its policy on commercial activity on council reserves.

City excluded from Rena talks

Tauranga City Mayor Stuart Crosby is demanding more details about the future of the Rena wreck after telling council the city is being excluded from private talks.

The Mayor told Monday’s city council projects and monitoring committee meeting the council is being excluded from negotiations about the future of the wreck and should be formally updated on its future.

“We have been basically excluded from the negotiations and discussions that are happening and they do impact on our community,” says Stuart.

St John Ambulance Service patient part-charges will increase from April 1.

Patient part-charges vary across the country and an additional amount of $4 or $10 will see charges increase to either $75 or $84 (from two rates of $65 and $80 (GST inclusive)).

A further increase to patient partcharges is planned next year, resulting in a standard part-charge for St John ambulance services of $88 from April 1, 2014.

In a statement released by the St John Ambulance Service it says the last increase was 12 months ago.

“The part-charge applies to ambulance attendance and/or transport for medical emergencies, as well as accident related injuries that occurred more than 24 hours previously,” the statement reads.

“We are increasing our part-charges as we are facing an increase in demand for our services. In the year ending 30

June 2012 the number of incidents we attended increased by over 14,000 compared to the previous year, a 4.2 per cent increase.

“Contracts with the Ministry of Health, ACC and District Health Boards fund nearly 80 per cent of our ambulance service direct operating costs.

The shortfall is made up from community donations, fundraising, revenue from our commercial activities, the contribution of our volunteers, as well as contributions from part-charges.”

The St John Ambulance Service is a charity organisation and relies on financial and voluntary support from the community to help fund all the services it provides to New Zealanders.

Nearly 5000 St John members are involved in emergency ambulance, patient transfer services and events – nearly 63 per cent of whom are volunteers.

They care for and save the lives of thousands of New Zealanders and visitors to the country every year.

Facebook imposter Happy

Tauranga woman Joady Cameron and her friend are warning others of a Facebook scam where a man named Kelvin Gully is creating a replica profile page of existing profiles and asking people to be his friend to win $150,000.

Joady sent a Facebook friend request to her friend Jasmin Murray. The only problem was – it wasn’t her who sent it.

“It’s got the same cover photo and all the information is hers. And this person’s gone on and been adding her friends,” says Jasmin. She private messaged the imposter to find out what they wanted. She says she told the person she knew it wasn’t Joady. The person then blocked Jasmin from the page.

She then logged on under her mother’s name and private messaged the person again.

This time Jasmin tried a casual approach pretending she didn’t know the page was false. Jasmin asked the person how she was doing and if she still lives in Tauranga. After answering Jasmin’s questions, the person then told her they have good news.

The person asked Jasmin if she had heard of the $150,000 cash prize she received from Facebook Freedom Lottery in collaboration with IBC. By Zoe Hunter

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Going the distance Along the byways and highways, Mount Maunganui road cyclist Theo Wright has been putting in the distance to train for the cycle tour season.

Photo by Tracy Hardy.

The next two months will be a major test for Mount Maunganui cyclist Theo Wright.

After competing in his first road race aged seven, beating cyclists almost twice his age, Theo has been pushing himself one pedal in front of the other to be the best he can.

Inspired by the experience of his brother Louis, who last year returned from cycling in a top French amateur cycling team, Theo, 13, is determined to follow in his tracks.

“He’s played a big part in cycling and helping me and his success has been very motivating.

“I want to do the Tour de France and the pro-tours, my aim is to get there and compete at the top level,” says the Tauranga Boys’ College Year 7 student, who also wants to ride for his country.

Among Theo’s series of successes last year was winning the AIMS Games multisports event, a sport he has since foregone to focus exclusively on road cycling.

He also won the North Island Intermediate School Cycling Championships, while in the New Zealand Nationals Schools Road Championships he was second in the road race and third in the points race in the under 14 age group, and finished in the top eight under 15 riders in four provincial North Island tours.

He believes success is critical this year and is determined to have top-three finishes in all his races. He got off to a good start last Sunday in the season’s first major event when he won the Waikato/Bay of Plenty time trail championships – 3.30minutes minutes ahead of the crowd.

To prepare for the season Theo trains six days a week and had just cycled 265km over the week when The Weekend Sun spoke to him.

“That’s about 10 hours of riding and then you’ve got your stretches and your whole routine after the ride as well. It is a bit of a juggle but it’s all about giving it my best and trying to win the tours and try to be like my brother, or Julian Dean or Hayden Roulston, or all those guys.”

Theo is getting help with coaching from Tauranga cyclist Richard Bates and sponsorship from Mount Maunganui cycle shop Red Bike.

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Bay of Plenty firefighters are hoping some inside surf knowledge will help them set the beach alight at the annual New Zealand Fire Service National Surfing Champs at Omanu Beach next week.

The championship, in it’s 10th year, sees the Tauranga fire station host 45 firefighters from around the country, from Monday-Thursday, as they battle it out for surfing supremacy and station bragging rights.

Tauranga senior firefighter Tim Pearce, competing in both the under 40 and open shortboard categories, says this is the first time the region has hosted the event, with all the competitors marking the date early in their calendars.

He says the event is all about having some fun.

“The boys get together, let their hair down and everyone has got time off for this.

“We’ve got guys coming from all over the country, so it’s been a matter of helping find them accommodation and a lot of them don’t

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The championship is loosely set up to be held at Omanu from Tuesday-Thursday, but weather conditions dictating, competitors will travel anywhere between Waihi and Newdicks Beach, Maketu.

Surfing of all forms and for all ages will be on display, including shortboard, longboard, boogie board, novice and an event called ‘can’t stand yet’ for competitors who have not surfed before, while the age groups are U40, 40-49 and 50-plus.

“Normally we have 60-plus as well but we have had a couple of guys retire who can’t quite get out there anymore.”

Tim says it is good competitive fun between the stations with

everyone vying for the overall team’s trophy, which continues to elude the Mount.

“The Mount hasn’t won it yet.

We have come close when we came second last year.”

Tim says the team are looking sharp ahead of next week’s championship, believing they can take out the title after sneaking away from the station to get some practice runs under their belts ahead of the first heat taking to the water at 8am on Tuesday.

“Yeah, we’ve got a couple of guys.

Chris Russell from the Mount who is defending the under 40 and open titles.

“I had a surf with him the other day and he’s blazing at the moment and hopefully carries it on.”

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Radical rescues A part of the job The Tauranga Flight Team. Photo by Tracy Hardy.

Transferring patients via helicopter has given the Tauranga Flight Team many exciting work stories.

Lead clinician Dr Troy Browne and clinical nurse coordinator Dianna Keys head the Tauranga Flight Team: made up of six nurses and a rotation of doctors, who transfer high-risk, time-critical patients between regional hospitals.

They also accompany local patients who became ill in another part of the country.

Troy leads the doctors in his capacity as an Intensive Care Specialist and is now entering his 11th year working with the flight team.

“My role involves me making sure the appropriate checks have

been made in order to manage the transfers safely.

“We have a rotation of passionate and enthusiastic doctors who donate their time to accompany a patient on the flight.”

TrustPower TECT Rescue Helicopter pilot and base manager Liam Brettkelly is in charge of the chopper and completes most of the flights. Dianna Keys has been with the flight team since its inception in 2000 and says the team never stops developing and bettering their flight rescue skills.

“Some of our nurses have just finished a week-long course focusing on a number of training techniques including helicopter underwater training and hypoxia chamber train-

ing at the Devonport Naval Base.”

On average, the flight team can make 50-60 inter-hospital flights each year, typically with cardiac, neurosurgical or burns patients.

In the past they have also transferred divers with decompression sickness (“the bends”) to Devonport Naval Base for treatment.

Dianna says her job is very rewarding but like every job there are components which make it difficult.

“It can be like working in a fish bowl. Extremes of heart and cold, and space inside the helicopter is so confined the team has to carry out as much of the treatment as possible on the ground before the patient is loaded into the helicopter.”

By Letitia Atkinson

Helicopter lifts off for open day Every year Tauranga’s TrustPower TECT Rescue Helicopter helps save the lives of dozens of Western Bay residents thanks to community funding.

As a thank-you to the community the Phillips Search and Rescue Trust, which runs the service, is opening its hangar door this Sunday to give the public a chance to see the helicopter in action.

Pilot and base manager Liam Brettkelly is encouraging everyone to come along for the fun community day and get ‘up close and personal’ with their rescue helicopter.

“Our community helps fund 50 per cent of the operating costs for this chopper so we see this as a great way to say thanks.”

Liam says the service could not operate without community donations and sponsorship of more than $500,000 annually.

The open day will include a series of demonstrations by emergency services that use the chopper,

including by police dog handlers, the armed offenders squad and the fire service, which will cut up a wrecked vehicle.

People can also experience being winched up on the Port of Tauranga winch trainer, have their face painted or drop in their colouring competition entry to win a ride to school in the rescue helicopter. The annual Ulysses Club Easter toy run will also add excitement when motorcyclists roar onto the helipad after lunch.

Rescue helicopter spokeswoman Jacqui GageBrown says the helicopter has been involved in more than 1300 missions since being based in Tauranga in 2000, with the vast majority medical emergencies.

“Over the years it would have definitely helped save hundreds of lives by helping people get urgent medical attention when needed. If you are out on a remote farm it can be the difference between whether you live or die. It’s as simple as that.”

The open day runs 10am-2pm on Sunday at the Ian Pain Memorial Hangar on Clarke Road behind

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I love you baby, but you still haven’t read about What the library’s new does this level of service mean for policy. me?

Tauranga City Council’s level of service for libraries has traditionally been based on population numbers.

There will be no new libraries built. And the Mobile Library is retained.

For every 1000 people…

…that focus on making the libraries as accessible as possible. New technology, online access and the mobile library are all part of moving the library service into the future.

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Dancer’s big acceptance

Last Saturday for info centre This Saturday is the last of the TEL Information Centre’s Saturday openings this season.

The Saturday openings at 65 Tara Road in Papamoa, displaying what the new State Highway 2 road from Te Maunga to Paengaroa will look like when it opens in 2016, have been popular with families, groups and

interested people. Displays include a model of the Domain Road interchange now taking shape, and a time lapse video of the Kaituna River bridge construction.

The information centre will maintain its normal opening hours during weekdays: Monday to Friday 8.30am to 4.30pm.

Tauranga teenager Alice Beedie has been accepted into the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s Mentoring Programme. Photo by Tracy Hardy.

Tauranga teenager Alice Beedie has been accepted into the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s Mentoring Programme where she will dance alongside some of New Zealand’s best ballet dancers.

Alice auditioned for the programme in December last year, sending the company a DVD of herself performing a series of exercises and a classical dance piece. After waiting a nervous two months for a reply, she was accepted.

Now, the Year 11 Otumoetai College student says she is about to embark on the biggest journey of her ballet career yet.

“I guess it’s just another step towards my goal and just learning more about what’s out there.”

Having danced for 11 years at the Dance Education Centre in Tauranga the 15-year-old says she never gets tired of ballet.

“I love the challenge of it. I just really enjoy it.”

As part of the programme Alice will travel to Auckland and Wellington at least five times this year.

Assigned with RNZB mentor and senior dancer Adi Harper, Alice will partake in some of the master classes tutored by a RNZB master, watch the RNZB dancers

train and see them in action on stage as the company performs their on tour show – Made to Move – to the country.

The RNZB will be coming to Tauranga later in the year for its Tutus on Tour show and Alice will get to meet with some of the show’s lead dancers.

After the programme Alice hopes to one day dance with a professional ballet company such as the Royal New Zealand Ballet but knows she will have to work hard.

“You have to be very passionate to be able to do it, and dedicated and also very determined.”

By Zoe Hunter

Billy’s hard-hitting message As a young boy motivational speaker Billy Graham was always in trouble at school. But all it took was a pat on the back and a little encouragement to get him back on track.

From a troubled town called Naenae in Wellington, the ex-heavy weight champion has become one of the best-loved motivators and fitness advisors in the country, providing hundreds of ‘at risk’ youths a facility to get fit and work together.

In 2006 Billy opened the Naenae Boxing academy where he trains up to 80 troubled young men, aged 11-15 years old, about three days a week, helping to get them off the street.

“Our gym is the x factor. We turn young boys into men,” says Billy.

As part of his Character Education programme, and with the help of his sponsor Fuji Xerox, Billy is visiting Bay of Plenty schools in the hope of encouraging troubled young men to stay off the streets.

He wants to open a facility like his gym in every Bay of Plenty town.

Billy was awarded

New Zealander of the Year’s Local Hero in 2011 and has since been a hero to troubled young men in schools all around the world, promoting his encouraging messages, such as “Look at what you can do, not what you can’t”.

“It’s a light-hearted, ‘get off your bum and do it’ sort of talk. It’s an encouraging pat on the back message to everyone. I’m 65 years of age and I’ve never been asked once in my life what I can’t do.”

Billy says he was always in trouble at school – but the boxing club turned his life around.

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Road safety leadership Brendan Horan, Independent MP for Tauranga, called for stronger regional leadership and collaboration to achieve road safety in the Bay of Plenty, in his Weekend Sun article last week. In this I agree with him, but he is a little behind the play.

I am chair of the Bay of Plenty Regional Transport Committee which developed the Regional Land Transport Strategy, which was signed off by the Bay of Plenty Regional Council. As Mr Horan mentions, road safety is a core outcome of the strategy, with targets for reduction of deaths and serious injuries on our roads. The strategy identifies that road safety in the region is primarily managed through

Road Safety Action Plans developed by three sub-regional Road Safety Committees. These committees are comprised of representatives from local councils, the regional council, police, NZTA and ACC and they target local priorities.

Last year the Regional Transport Committee started a conversation about the need for a stronger regional leadership and more collaboration in the road safety arena. This culminated recently with a resolution reconfirming its governance role in achieving the safe use of the Bay of Plenty transport network, expressing a desire to work more collabora-

tively across agencies and regions to improve road safety outcomes, and asking that the options for better collaboration be investigated and reported back. The regional council is leading this work and talking to Joint Road Safety Committees and the Waikato Regional Council about their views.

We also have transport, RMA and local government legislative change occurring which we are watching carefully.

If you have any views on this or any other issue, please email me: neesj@xtra.co.nz or phone: 07 579 5150. Or you can check out my website: www.janenees.co.nz

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Buses are a part of the safety net our community creates to support the disadvantaged, disabled and deprived.

The notion of a “bus service” is exactly that. If it is not available to all, it is not doing its job.

So, we subsidize the buses. We keep uneconomic buses running.

By Ian McLean, We give way to buses to help them spokesperson for the Green Party run on time. And, we help people who are struggling to get on or off.

It is unacceptable people with disabilities in our community report being refused entry onto our buses.

GoBus, which operates urban passenger services in Hamilton, Napier and Christchurch in addition to Tauranga, has lost touch with one of its key roles.

Buses are there to support all members of our community, including and perhaps even especially those situations where providing that support is mildly inconvenient.

Ian McLean is a spokesperson for the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand.

Contact: Ian G. McLean, 021 547556, 07 5794670, ian.mclean@greens.org.nz

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Finding the correct balance Beneath all the populist rhetoric associated with government, changes to the RMA and water management such as reducing compliance costs, de-cluttering planning frameworks and commercial mechanisms for allocating water lies perhaps the greatest challenge of our times: finding the right balance between economic development and environmental protection and enhancement.

In my opinion the balance needs to be found using all the tools we have available, like cost benefit analysis, science and community values. Are we as a community here in Tauranga clear about the values we would want to see added to the mix of decision making? What are we prepared to see happen to our environment to benefit economic development? Do we care?

Last week I was fortunate enough to attend the Tauranga Harbour Seminar and a Rangitaiki River Forum. I can’t imagine many people living in Tauranga who don’t feel a deep connection with the Harbour, whether as the backdrop to their day and or for recreational purposes. For iwi it is simply part of who they are.

The Tauranga Harbour Seminar was an example of science working hard with community values. It’s hard to argue the wider community wouldn’t get in behind the effort of more than 40 community volunteer organisations who work tirelessly to protect and enhance the Harbour and its margins, and who are supported by the exemplar work of the marine science professionals and students.

It seems to me to be a good example of where it would be relatively easy to understand community held values.

Can the same be said for the rest of the environment? If it’s not so central to our lives, do we care?

The Rangitaiki is the longest river in the Bay of Plenty. It begins near the

centre of the North Island and flows out to sea at Thornton Beach in Whakatane.

It is a hugely important resource used by many key industries including hydroelectricity, agriculture and forestry but it is also hugely important for recreational users and an important treasure for iwi and hapu that live alongside it.

For many years there has been increasing concern about the health of the river.

A good presentation by Fish and Game demonstrated the actual degradation in water quality, plant and fish life over time. The changes are serious and will not be easy to resolve.

A co-governance forum representing iwi and Regional Council is in place to manage the river going forward. It is a model likely to be replicated across the Bay in line with the water management changes.

The degradation in the Rangitaiki hasn’t happened overnight – it has been a long process due to a number of matters. These processes have effected all the Bay’s waterways –be it the Rotorua Lakes, the fresh water rivers, streams and the salt water harbours and estuaries. Most people will be aware of the huge work and resources that have gone and are continuing to go in to the clean-up of the Rotorua Lakes.

The cleanup of the Lakes is a fundamental value held by Rotorua communities and to the wider Bay. We are facing needing to apply significant resources to the two harbours in the Bay and the seven rivers.

In endeavouring to manage the waterways of the Bay, a balance will need to be found between environmental and economic interests. It won’t necessarily be easy but the real challenge is working out how local communities, both present and future, want that balance to be. I would expect any person interested in being an elected representative to have a good understanding of the challenges.

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Chasing the sun Katikati development beginning Lovers of art will soon have the opportunity to see Kristian Lomath paintings in a groundbreaking exhibition of new works at Tauranga’s Gallery 59.

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by Pete Morris

Kristian at work preparing for his exhibition.

The controversial Katikati Town Centre Plan is in the news again.

If the amended project plan goes ahead we will see more than $8m of work underway by 2015. The total project will be just under $13m but council is moving with urgency.

The plan is of course a limited plan for just the centre of town around Talisman Drive and is intended to prepare the town for when the new bypass is built. Details of planned work and budget are available on Western Bay of Plenty District Council’s website in the agenda for the Operation Services Committee. By 2016 you should be able to have the benefit of a new library and council offices, with some parking changes in the Talisman Drive, for $6.8m and a parking area with

Kotahi Lane improvements by the Uretara for $1.8m. Main Road, fire station and Memorial Hall developments will come later.

Paying for this project in the current climate might seem to be a problem but the council is expecting to use the district-wide town centre development funding for the project.

This money has previously been allocated to Te Puke and now it is Katikati’s turn for the next three years. Unfortunately it will probably generate just under $1m and will have to be used to pay back the $650,000 loan the council has already borrowed to buy the library site.

Last week the council approved a request to the regional council asking for an infrastructure fund grant of $8m to get the project

under way. Nice work if you can get it but this leaves us with two possible questions. What happens if the regional council says no, and what might happen if the regional council says yes? If the answer is no, does the council intend to go ahead and demand more targeted rates. If it says yes and the plan goes ahead, what have they committed ratepayers to?

At the meeting councillor Norm Mayo was concerned that the project appeared to be going ahead and stated that in this climate council would be committing political suicide.

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Most of the new paintings in this exhibition are smaller than his earlier works on extra large loose canvases.

Over the past six years, Kristian’s work has evolved from landscape to mindscape.

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Murray captured the 1600km journey, travelled in 24 days, in his book Bums on Bikes.

The book reveals many useful tips for the growing population of budding cyclists in the region – including a novel use for lip balm and the advantages of wing mirrors.

“There are some lovely cycle journeys in New Zealand. But Britain is the stage ahead.”

Murray is selling 100 copies of Bums on Bikes for $30 and donating the proceeds to Waipuna Hospice.

He says anyone who has seen the amazing work undertaken by hospice staff would be more than happy to contribute to the charity in whatever way they can. This is Murray’s way.

“I’ve had my enjoyment out of writing and making it.”

Though Bums on Bikes begins as a tale of personal challenge, he says it engagingly integrates

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You see things in a completely different perspective.”

A self-confessed recreational cyclist, Murray wrote the book in the hope is would encourage people to give the cycle track a go.

“You don’t need to be brilliantly fit to do a journey like this. Each day you get better.”

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Exploits high up Sally Ridge

Ready made pets A surplus of adult cats needing to be re-homed has prompted the ARRC Wildlife Trust to offer a special deal this week.

Trust coordinator Sue Mackey says they have 20 house-trained adult cats that would make “fantastic pets”, so they’re offering the fully-checked cats for $10 for the next week.

“You wouldn’t believe it, but most of these cats have simply been left behind when their owners shifted,

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So they are obviously going to make great pets in a new home.”

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It’s taken me a couple of years, but finally I’ve figured out this whole possum business.

As a young pup I’ve listened with wide eyes and ears alert, to the legends around the campfire of old Diesel, the chocolate crusader and champion possum tracker of all time. Ady’s tales from her younger years of seeing the master in action were eye-watering. And his antics on the mountain.

“Just beware of the Nasty Crevice,” she keeps telling me. I have no idea what she is talking about.

So it was with great pride that I tried my first wild marsupial on Saturday night. It finally all clicked in my doggy brain, that if I sniffed around and followed the scent, then barked up the right tree, the boss would show up with my friend Ruger and blam – lights out for Mr Tree Muncher.

The boss was so pleased that I’d shown initiative and tracked the blighter down. Or up, in the case of these high altitude aliens.

The next night, just to show it wasn’t a fluke, I found another tree with another invader. I was walking with the boss at the time. We’d traversed the Grassy Knoll, skirted Captain Cook’s Outcrop and were coming up Sally Ridge.

I looked at him quizzically about the name of the spur, he just said that a few brave souls had been up Sally Ridge and then wished they hadn’t.

About half way up, I got the whiff. I didn’t need to do the barking thing as the boss was right there.

Just a cool sort of death stare, a look only a finelytuned huntress as myself can convey.

There, staring back high in the rewarewa, were two evil yellow eyes and a fluffy tail, in a lofty perch up our mountain.

The boss picked up on the point, and before you

could say “pass the magazine of Winchester high velocity hollow points”, Ruger spoke from his muzzle again and I ran to intercept the ball of fluff crashing ungainly to Earth through the tree branches.

Carrying the quarry back to the camp to show Mrs Boss, she was less than enthusiastic to hear about my tales of hunting prowess this close to midnight. Never mind, the boss was ecstatic that I finally had found my marsupial mojo; and that his efforts to protect the native bush from these leaf munching marauders was a step closer to success. I swear I could feel the approving spirit of the old master whose ashes still waft the slopes and glades of his favourite mountain.

The stately native trees on the Legendary: Diesel finds a taniwha; and stuck again in The Nasty Crevice.

mountain can rest easy again, knowing they are safer, this time under the protection of bitch and bullet.

Al I need now is a cape, a cool mask and someone to publish a comic book about my exploits.

Meanwhile, keep sending in your summer exploits, we have a heap more for you next week.

Finally this week, best wishes to my distant cousie Holly (right) recovering from your surgery. Box on, girlfriend! - Flo.

Dolphin creates bow wave patterns Last Sunday was a stunningly beautiful day out on the briny and thanks to Mark, I was able to enjoy dolphins around the Orca boat near Mayor Island.

This dolphin has not quite broken the water’s surface tension and his bow wave has created abstract water patterns.

He is already exhaling and bubbles stream along his back. Taken with a Nikon 70-200mm F2.8 lens.

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‘Out of sight, out of mind’ true for Rena wreck

Concerns the wreck of the Rena was going to be a matter of ‘out of sight out of mind’ once the bow section had been removed from the top of Astrolabe reef were expressed by Mayor Stuart Crosby at the Projects and Monitoring Committee this week.

He is right. Astrolabe is about 20kms off the Mount and about 7kms off Motiti. So it’s only the boating, diving and fishing fraternity who would be directly aware if the wreck is allowed to stay there. There are about 300 containers still there., 300 tonnes of oil fuel, plus nasties from the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter production, diabolical small plastic beads used in plastics production and a raft of smaller contaminants and pollutants. Astrolabe Reef gets a real pounding in windy conditions because it’s quite a steep gradient to the ocean floor. It will never be an attractive safe dive site for tourists. Unless there is a public uproar the possibility is that the wreck will remain a festering sore, a blot on the Bay of Plenty for generations to come.

The almighty dollar

Mayor Crosby noted there was a little information being released here and there about the situation but it was no longer prominent news. He requested staff collate all available information and present it on a regular monthly basis to the monitoring committee. As usual, it’s the almighty dollar that’s at the bottom of this (pun intended). It will cost huge dollars to get rid of the Rena wreck and associated pollution. Tough! The ship owners and insurers should have thought of this when pursuing their business with ruthless efficiencies and cost cutting that appears to have been involved in the background to the disaster.

The Public Liability Insurance and other cover is, presumably, to cover exactly this event. But little ol’ NZ may be being viewed as naïve, a soft touch, understanding and accepting. Contrast this with the Americans and the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico: The sharks are out there to get the dollars and that’s how we should be too.

I note that the Bay Times are on about elected member meeting attendances again. As I note each time they ‘reveal’ this, it’s not a mechanism to measure elected member worth or quality of contribution.

Historically some elected members made a great contribution by being absent. And attendance records don’t include task force or associated Council representation on community committees. But inexplicably the informal forum on the Tangata Whenua committee is recorded, (the one meeting I’m recorded as missing!)

Above is the list as supplied under the Official Information Act request.

At the Projects and Monitoring Committee elected members received six monthly reports from its contracted agencies – Priority One, City Centre Strategy, Mount Mainstreet, Greerton Village Community Association, Creative Tauranga and Downtown Tauranga Mainstreet.

Mount Mainstreet reported a $13 surplus and Creative a loss of $43,522.07 – which they say was funded out of accumulated surplus. Hairy Maclary sculpture projects had $400,000 of the $850,000 needed to be raised by Creative to fund the project.

Ratepayers will not be contributing via rates to this.

Elected members met with nominees for the positions of directors on the about to be created new CCO (Council Controlled Organisation) to run ASB Baypark arena and ASB Stadium and Councils aquatic operations. Selection was done by an independent panel with no elected members on it. About 75 applicants, we were told and most were of a very high calibre. Council, of course, has the final say and appointments will be confirmed or denied next week.

for scaffolding and Rick Curach said around $5000 for double glazing.

Someone should talk to building supply manufacturers about how house materials are reputedly some 25-30 per cent dearer here than in Australia (excluding exchange rate). Our first section cost $2100 in Otumoetai with no services.

We sold our car to pay for it (a Ford Zephyr). Today, it would need to be an upmarket BMW or suchlike. Then

there’s GST at 15 per cent to Central Government coffers. So in my book unless Central Government addresses these real issues housing affordability is going to remain as difficult as it’s always been There’s not much Council can do that will make much difference.

This week’s mindbender – Speak in anger and you’ll give the greatest speech you’ll ever regret. From anonymous.

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It is an important delegation for elected members to make and we have learned from the past. As I’ve noted in the past, Council, by its very nature and public scrutiny is not an appropriate way of operating competitive commercial operations. These CCOs must have the capacity to make sound commercial decisions not based on feel good motives. I hasten to add that monopoly operations like water and wastewater must remain in Council’s direct control on a cost only basis.

There is high expectation this single entity will make these trading operations much more into the real business world and away from ratepayers’ breasts. There is likely to be a re-capitalisation to provide a sound financial base to start from. Certainly there are some big reputations that will depend on successful outcomes.

At Strategy and Policy committee there was discussion as to whether or not Council would continue the seemingly never-ending talkfest on housing affordability being conducted through Smartgrowth. On a 6-5 vote you will continue to fund the discussion. Terry Molloy hit the nail on the head when he said the raw cost of land was around $30,000 per section before development expenses. Give or take that number there’s another $150,000 or more added by the time you get to own it.

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Students show their love for Shakespeare Love is in the air at Bethlehem College this month as students prepare to bring to life one of Shakespeare’s most memorable romantic comedies for the first time in five years.

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Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ will be the first Shakespeare production the school has performed since 2008.

Directed by Bethlehem College teachers Kate Kelway, Elizabeth Price, Jan Dean and Teri Culpepper, the play will also be the first to take place in the college’s new Performing Arts Centre.

Previous shows have been performed outdoors.

Year 13 Bethlehem College student Erin Dallas, who plays Dogberry, says she enjoys Shakespeare.

Bethlehem College students Rebekah Koumakis, Keli de Wild and Erin Dalls are ready “There are aspects to it which don’t really to perform in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. make sense. Then once you read it you Kali de Wild, who plays Borachio, says than era. The students say the humorous begin to understand it. I think that’s the learning Shakespeare is a lot of fun. relationship between Beatrice and Benbeauty of Shakespeare.

“It’s kind of like learning a new language.” edick, who are oblivious of the love they “There are so many underlying messages.”

The play tells the story of two very differ- have for each other, is the height of the Erin says Shakespearean language is a big ent pairs of lovers: Beatrice and Benedick, play. part of life. and Claudio and Hero.

Performances begin Tuesday March 19 “Doing Shakespeare will help with eveThe couples are challenged by what is at 7pm. Tickets are available at Baycourt rything. Especially if you want to go on to

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Travelling remote routes and exploring off the beaten track As a specialist tour operator, the ‘Active Travel Company’ offers a range of small group escorted journeys that provide a perfect balance between conventional tourism and off the beaten track travel.

Travel through remote trade routes, roads less travelled and sparsely populated jungle villages and actively engage with the cultures and countries you are travelling in.

The Trans-Siberian Railway is a train journey travelling across the world’s greatest land masses from Beijing and Mongolia to Moscow and St Petersburg.

Visit the Forbidden City and the Great Wall of China, experience the culture and traditions of Mongolia, Lake Baikal in the heart of Siberia and all the sights of Moscow and St Petersburg.

At the heart of the journey are the trains and the undeniable feeling of being on a journey of discovery.

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From scattered valley farms in the Highlands, to seminomadic jungle people and man’s closet relative, the orang-utan.

Stay in jungle shelters and simple longhouses with transport by the likes of a longboat.

Few other places will reward your adventurous spirit with such vigour or tear at your heart strings with such stunning passion.

On the North Vietnam and China Walking tour you journey through mountains and valleys that are home to colourful hill tribe people before crossing the border into China on foot.

Explore Kunming and walk the beautiful Tiger Leaping Gorge.

This journey culminates with a visit to Shangri-La near the Tibetan border and a visit to the Songzanlin Monastery, the “Little Potala Palace”.

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Ireland has always been in my blood.

Growing up, I remember hearing stories about my Celtic Irish heritage, but the tales seemed like another world away.

It wasn’t until I embarked on a lifechanging trip to the land of my ancestors that I truly understood what it meant to be Irish.

Ireland changed my life – it’s where I learned to be free. After the death of my so-called ‘perfect marriage,’ I set out on a journey to rediscover myself. I realised that I knew very little about who I really was, and Ireland seemed like the perfect destination to find out. It was during this trip that I took my first steps to becom-

ing the independent, confident and passionate woman that I am today.

The lessons learned along the way have been numerous, but here are a few of the most important ones that I carry with me every day: 1. Don’t be afraid to take risks.

Embrace freedom, individual ity and self-expression. Learn how to empower yourself, and don’t expect others to do it for you.

2. Live life with passion.

3. The past never dies. History truly makes up the tapestry of the country, and whispers of the past are everywhere. I learned that sometimes, all I needed to do was to listen.

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Private company offers flight flexibility New Zealand’s largest piston engine and air transport operator started with humble beginnings – operating small flights to Motiti Island and running an aircraft engineering workshop.

But dedication and passion from skilled staff has seen Sunair grow into a respected company offering daily flights throughout the North Island.

Sunair is a privately owned company operating out of Tauranga Airport for 25 years. The company specialises in offering direct flights, eliminating long waits and flight transfers common with other airlines’ domestic flights.

With a fleet of 14 aircraft, passengers can fly to Auckland, Great Barrier and Whitianga seven days a week, as well as Gisborne, Hamilton, Napier, New Plymouth and Rotorua daily Monday to Friday.

Sunair administrator Bev Power says their professional and fast service has made the company popular with businesspeople who don’t have time to wait for hours on the ground between flights.

“We work in a niche market where we can offer the travelling customer more direct flights, so they’re not going through Auckland and Wellington. That’s what sells the flights often.”

Sunair is intricately involved with Tauranga Airport, conducting ground handling and baggage processing for Air NZ as well as Rescue Fire Service and security.

They also offer professional flight training for anyone who wishes to learn to fly and they operate their own aircraft engineering workshop.

But what have really become popular for the airline are the daily flights to Great Barrier Island.

“That’s become very busy this summer and we will continue that throughout the winter,” says Bev. “It’s an hour’s flight, a beautiful scenic flight up the coast and across the channel to the Barrier.

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Flights to the Great Barrier are flexible with times and island destinations – something Bev says the airline prides itself on.

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Charitable talent runs rife through family Greerton father Steve DaviesJones and his children Georgia and Hunter have been rebuilding skateboards for about two years.

This time the trio are trying out some new wheels.

Knowing top-of-the-line skateboards can be expensive, the family rebuild worn skateboards, making them affordable for children who can’t afford a new one.

This year the trio are working on a skateboard featuring a pink ribbon design to be auctioned on Trade Me to raise money for the Breast Cancer Foundation.

Around Christmas last year a joke Steve played on his son sparked the idea.

“We were mucking around with a board one day and as a joke I’d painted it pink for him and he said ‘yuck, I’m not riding that’.”

It was then Steve’s son suggested painting a pink ribbon on a skateboard and auctioning it to raise money for breast cancer.

Hunter, Georgia and Trilay with their father Steve Davies-Jones and the skateboard they made for charity. Photo by Daniel Hines.

“I thought that was quite sweet coming from a 14-year-old boy.”

Steve says he and Hunter plan to put the breast cancer board on Trade Me within a week. They are just waiting on final parts to arrive.

“I had to go and order pink wheels.”

Once the board is finished, the trio are making another one, this time painted with a yellow ribbon, in support of youth suicide.

The finished board, among donated goods from Nevada in Tauranga, will be displayed in the shop’s window to be raffled to raise money for youth suicide.

“It’s just putting a little bit back into the community, aye.

“If we could put one hour a week of our working week towards doing something for somebody that needs our profession, what a better society we would have to live in.”

Steve charges $150 for his skateboards but prices can be negotiated depending on the cost of the repair work and parts.

For more information, phone Steve,

By Zoe Hunter 07 570 0534.

Liquor bans likely for Greerton and Papamoa A plea from Greerton businesses has prompted Tauranga City Council to begin working on liquor bans for both Greerton and Papamoa before the opportunity is lost by law changes in the Alcohol Reform Bill.

Greerton Mainstreet manager Victoria Thomas raised concerns about drunken and anti-social behaviour in Greerton at the Projects and Monitoring Committee meeting on Monday.

Her concerns were taken up by Cr Terry Molloy at Tuesday’s Strategy and Policy Committee.

Letters accompanying a 140 signature petition detailed daytime urinating and vomiting in public in several areas around the village. The Greerton Village School complained of drunk people sleeping in

school grounds, having sex in the cloak bays, vomiting in school grounds and throwing rubbish around.

A letter from Greerton Police also confirms an increase in alcohol related offending.

“Greerton Village does need urgent attention,” says Terry. “I believe it is a special case.”

Councillors agreed with him, and decided to include Papamoa, where owners of businesses surrounding Palm Beach Plaza and Fashion Island are also complaining about alcohol related behaviour.

The two business communities are being bundled together because council has to undertake the required public consultation and get the bylaw passed before the Alcohol Reform Act comes into effect at the end of the year.

Staff advice is to consult immediately with both communities to learn the extent and nature of the liquor ban required for

A liquor ban is likely for Greerton. each precinct, as that will smooth the public consultation exercise.

The bans will last for five years before they will have to be re-examined under the new law.

By Andrew Campbell

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Winter woollies wrap-up The call is going out for people to help Greerton’s cherry blossom trees bloom into a feast of colour early this year.

While the cherry tree blossoms will come out as usual in September, Greerton Lotto Shop owner Belinda Sands is encouraging people do get their knitting needles clacking to dress the trees up in June in a ‘yarn bomb’.

“I’ve always loved the pictures I’ve seen of yarn bombing, so I thought it

munity art project will add colour to the precinct and attract more people to the Cameron Rd and Chadwick St shops.

“It will be colourful and something different which will get people talking.”

The area’s 30 cherry trees will be decorated in woollen knitting, crocheting or panels from recycled jumpers.

Victoria wants more people to get involved, whether they want to adopt any of the 20 cherry trees still available or simply contribute by knitting a few squares.

Victoria, who describes herself as a poor knitter, will be wrapping her adopted tree in panels from recycled jumpers.

The trees will be decorated for up to a month. People involved in the project meet at Villaggio Café from 6pm on the last Tuesday each month Belinda Sands hopes (next meeting Tauranga’s knitters March 26). For will join in the more details, Greerton yarn bomb. phone Victoria, Photo Bruce Barnard 07 571 6347.

would be great to do it here.”

Belinda, a keen knitter herself, is looking forward to brightening up the area with the street art display which involves stitching woollen creations around the trunks and branches of trees.

Greerton Village Mainstreet manager Victoria Thomas thinks the com-

By Hamish Carter

Changes to village board Two of the four new members voted onto the Greerton Village Association committee in November have since resigned, says manager Victoria Thomas.

Four new members were voted on to the eightstrong committee in November, bringing numbers up to a dozen, as the eight existing members restood. The new committee members were Lee Scott, David Wellington, Ruth Mansford and Mike Warr.

Ruth and Mike have since resigned, says Victoria.

The Greerton Mainstreet board is now Ray Dean, chair; Robert Gordon, deputy chair; Lloyd Davies, treasurer; Carol Garden, secretary; and Ian Dale, Sharyn Ludwig, Belinda Sands, Jan Asher, Lee Scott, Glenis Lafaiki, and David Wellington.

The new committee gives a good mix of retail hospitality, services and landlords, says Victoria.

Figures presented to Tauranga City Council this week show the Greerton Village Association ended the 2012 financial year on June 30 with a surplus of $9054.

The association’s main income is a $102,446 grant from Tauranga City Council, and the main expense is $27,000 spent on seasonal promotions; the IlluminArt winter light show, the Cherry Blossom Festival and the Christmas Variety Show. The village community also connected to the Garden and Arts festival, with the combined Greerton Schools plant boot sale and scarecrow competition. Gate Pa Primary, Merivale Primary, Green Park Primary and Greerton

By Andrew Campbell Village schools took part.

Steering your community’s ship A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

HENRIK IBSEN We all belong to community – and there will be different communities in our lives, some which blend together and some which don’t. They can be our business community, church community and social community, to name a few.

And to belong means to own the responsibility that is ours in our contribution to our community.

Some take responsibility that doesn’t belong to them and others abnegate even what is theirs to own.

The way to take the helm is to own what is ours, e.g. our thoughts, actions, words, omissions, etc. and recognise what belongs to others. In this way there is no blame because we own what we have chosen (as adults).

Is there an area in your community where you are choosing not to take the helm of your life?

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Shave almost anywhere for a cure If shaving your head doesn’t appeal, what about your legs, back or beard?

Arataki Community Centre is challenging residents to get sponsored by their friends and families to shave any ‘non x-rated’ part of their body to raise money for Child Cancer next weekend.

Shaving will go ahead on Sunday, March 24 at the Mount Kids Market at 11.30am, where organiser Matthew Strange will also shave his golden locks.

Matthew says the amount of money raised will determine how short his

hair is cut, with a target of more than $1500 for a complete shave.

Tauranga Leisure has also donated a $50 dinner voucher to be drawn out of the hat for those who shave on the day.

“Please remember hair grows back but what these kids go through stays with them forever, so if we can make the experience easier for them by raising money, I’m sure it is worth a cold head,” says Matthew.

See www.fundraiseonline.co.nz/ AratakiCommunityCentre/ for more information or visit Arataki Community Centre’s Facebook page.

Blake Waller, 23 months, Cameron de Jong, 5, Flynn Waller, 5, and Megan Salmons, 13 months.

Ensuring safety at open day Welcome Bay Plunket staff members are making sure every child travelling in a car is safely strapped in their car seat by offering professional advice at their open day next weekend.

On Saturday, March 23 Welcome Bay Plunket are hosting their open day where Tauranga Plunket car seat clinic staff will be on hand to

offer free specialist advice to anyone with an existing car seat or who are looking to hire or buy a new one.

There will also be mechanics on hand to fit safety bolts and ensure car seats are installed correctly.

Welcome Bay mum Lynne Symons says it is important for children to be fitted correctly in their car seats.

“As the littlies grow up they need their car seats adjusted quite often.

“It’s a legal requirement to be in

your car seat. You invest a lot of money into these car seats, they’re not cheap.

“You want them to basically do their job but if anything ever happens and you are in a collision that you’re little ones are as safe as possible really.”

A bouncy castle, sausage sizzle, face painting and stalls will also be available as part of the open day and anyone is invited to attend.

Doors open 9am. By Zoe Hunter

Exploring differences with childcare options What is the difference between an early childhood centre and a kindergarten?

Kindergartens are teacher-led and your child generally attends either a morning or an afternoon session. Some kindergartens now provide ‘all day’ sessions – usually weekdays from 9am-3pm.

Many families today are caught up in a busy lifestyle as more and more parents opt to go back to work in order to keep up with the financial obligations.

Early childhood centres have come to the foreground with a formula that is flexible and meets the needs of most families. Instead of being confined to fixed sessions, at Kidiwise we offer flexible hours where parents decide a time for the children that best suit their family.

Another point of difference between early childhood centres and kindergartens is the early morning and late finish availability that appeals to those parents who do not work a 9am-5pm job.

We believe learning should be fun and meaningful and we provide a beautiful space in which children can flourish: exploring our beautiful environment set within native bush, along with vegetable gardens, and friendly animals including chickens, guinea pigs, rabbits and fish.

As an early childhood centre with a philosophy centred on sustainability, healthy eating, and respect for Papatuuanuku, we work alongside our children to encourage them to learn about their environment, making good use of our beautiful native bush to take walks and explore our surroundings – all this within city limits.

There is no doubt that for some, kindergartens will appeal but for the modern day family, flexibility is key. We believe providing a flexible, caring and nurturing place for children is the answer to a working parent’s dream.

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Worm farms and picnic lunches sustain school ability by feeding the worms, making jams, and having picnic lunches almost every day since 2012.

Wickham Preschool teacher Cheryl Loveday says at first the children were learning about bees and from there the ideas about sustainability just grew.

“We were looking at the value of what bees did for the plants and from there we made the link with sustainability.

“Our programmes start because of a child’s interest. Once we get Wickham Preschool volunteer Noel Peterson and the preschool an interest we just grow on it. children celebrating sustainability. Photo by Zoe Hunter.

It’s lots of inquiry learning.” The children have also been planting vegetables and herbs Feeding the worms and having picnic in the preschool gardens. lunches are only two ways the children Cheryl says parents have been donating plants to the preschool and children have been taking care of them. at Wickham Preschool are helping the “They (the children) love it. There’s so much respect environment to contribute to the annual for sustainability. It’s a treasure for them.”

Sustainable Backyards event.

On March 25, a “Montessori Beginners Nest” in conjunction with Little Sweethearts Montessori is Tauranga Environment Centre has launched a being launched at Wickham Preschool for children month-long event celebrating sustainability and the aged 12-30months. The new venture, with morning children at Wickham Preschool are well ahead of the and afternoon sessions, is expected to fill up quickly. event, having been partaking in sustainable activities

By Zoe Hunter Contact Wickham Preschool. since last year. They have been learning about sustain-

Heroes wanted for Purple Day Dress in the colour purple on Saturday and become a Purple Day hero to raise awareness for epilepsy.

With more than 90,000 New Zealanders living with epilepsy, it is the most common neurological disorder and can affect any age, gender, social standing or intellect.

On the week of Saturday March 26 Bay of Plenty residents are encouraged to organise an event to help raise awareness for epilepsy in their area. The awareness event can be anything from a purple mufti day, face painting at school, or morning tea at work.

Epilepsy New Zealand Western Bay of Plenty field officer Christine Sligo says people need to be made more aware of epilepsy.

“There’s a lot of misinformation out there and I think the more educated people are about epilepsy, the easier it is for them to deal with it when they come across someone having a seizure.”

By Zoe Hunter UrbanKids staff and children dressed in purple for Purple Cupcake Day. Photo by Bruce Barnard.

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This recipe is too easy but it’s a great idea for those Friday night drinks with friends. It’s nice to catch up with family and friends, but let’s face it – we don’t want to spend all night in the kitchen!

Method Spread the cream cheese over each Bellini and then place a small amount of salmon on each one, topping with a few capers for colour.

Season with cracked black pepper and before service sprinkle with the zest of a lemon and chives for colour.

Community groups getting fruity together the project, which has been running for four years, they are reorganising the structure so it can be driven by area coordinators on the ground. The project coordinates the picking and collection of excess home-grown fruit from Western Bay of Plenty residents and donates the fruit, or preserves made from it, to food banks and charity organisations.

She says the focus is all on making full use of nature’s bounty by redistributing fruit which goes to waste because residents simply

With feijoa and kiwifruit seasons fast approaching Tauranga’s two community fruit groups have decided to join forces to expand collection services.

The merged group is holding a pot luck picnic meeting at the Otumoetai Community Gardens on Sunday to discuss plans for the upcoming season and encourage anyone interested to come along.

Community Fruit Project Tauranga co-coordinator Ailie Rundle wants to hear from anyone who can help, particularly those who can be area coordinators for their suburb.

“We are looking for someone at the Mount and in pretty much any area from Katikati to Te Puke who can take charge of collections and give out fliers around where they live.”

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can’t get through it all, or are unable to manage the picking.

The group is joining up with Community Fruit Tauranga, which was formed in January

by Otumoetai man Martin Stewart and has already attracted strong support from generous gardeners.

Martin started his group after seeing a similar organisation operating in Auckland and realising how much fruit is wasted each year from people’s trees.

The picnic, by the Otumoetai Railway Reserve, from 12-2pm on Sunday, is a chance to learn more about the project, meet other volunteers and discuss ideas.

For more details, email pickfruittauranga@gmail. com or go to www.facebook.com/FruitTauranga

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Applying the siesta initiative to your day VEGETARIAN

Summer Harvest Ratatouille Ingredients 3 capsicums, any colour 1 large eggplant 4 zucchini, any colour 200-300g cherry tomatoes 8-10 basil leaves Pinch of dried oregano ¼C of olive oil Sea salt Cracked black pepper Method Dice the eggplant evenly. Spread out on a tray lined with baking paper, drizzle with a little olive oil and salt and some oregano and place in the middle rack of oven and cook at 80 degrees Celsius for two hours.

Do the same thing with the tomatoes, except use shredded basil leaves instead of oregano.

After two hours the eggplant should have lost a lot of its juices but still have some moisture, which makes it ideal for panfrying.

Heat some olive oil in a pan and sauté diced capsicum and zucchini in batches so it is evenly browned. Add the pre-dried eggplant, season well with salt and pepper, then carefully add the tomatoes. Pile onto a serving dish to have beside barbecued food, grilled chicken, or just have it with some crumbled feta.

Left to go cold it makes a wonderful sandwich filling with the addition of pesto or mayonnaise – a true taste of summer.

In this country when you’re as old as I feel, you would call it an afternoon nap.

In a lot of hot countries – Spain, Greece, the Philippines, and many Spanish-speaking south American countries – you would call it a siesta.

Factors that explain the geographical spread of the modern siesta are mainly high temperatures and a heavy intake of food at the midday meal.

Combined, these mostly contribute to a feeling of post-lunch drowsiness.

Well, it’s certainly hot enough these days right here in our own country, so it’s time for a new initiative by organising your life around a mid-afternoon rest.

Unless you work for yourself, you will of course have to convince your boss!

So send them off to Greece around May and that will convince them. Next make sure all your friends know not to disturb you, turn off your cell phone (yes, it’s possible) and rest, doze, sleep for two to three hours after consuming a substantial midday meal.

When you wake refreshed and rearing to go, add two or more hours to your usual bed-time and in the cool of the evening you will get a lot more achieved.

The siesta habit has recently been associated with a 37 per cent reduction in coronary mortality, possibly due to reduced cardiovascular stress mediated by daytime sleep.

While sleeping, you can be preparing part of the evening meal by slowly baking part of this week’s recipe for ratatouille.

This recipe is gluten free and don’t forget to book for my foodie evening featuring gluten free goodies you can make at home, on Wednesday March 20 at the Lavish Foods kitchen in 15th Avenue.

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New land campaign launched Bay of Plenty Regional Council last week announced the launch of a new campaign, called ‘Futureproof Your Land’, which is aimed at rural land owners in the Tauranga Harbour Catchment. The campaign, which was launched at the Tauranga Harbour Symposium on Thursday, March 7, provides information toolkits to help land owners future proof their land to ensure it remains productive and profitable, while ensuring water quality and biodiversity are protected or improved and

Minister for Primary Industries Nathan Guy is impressed with the G3 gold kiwifruit at a Te Puke orchard.

erosion is controlled.

Land Management manager Robyn Skelton says landowners face a range of challenges that, if left unmanaged, could undermine future production and the value of their land.

She says doing nothing could threaten the quality of soil, crops, livestock, lifestyle and landowner’s income.

“We are looking forward to engaging with local land owners and working together to ensure a better future for the Bay,” she says.

Company backing new gold The new gold kiwifruit known as G3 will become the industry’s main stream, profitable fruit which is why Direct Management Services is prepared to spend its own money helping growers convert their orchard to the variety, says DMS director Paul Jones.

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The Western Bay of Plenty kiwifruit management and post-harvest operator says G3 delivers on productivity, profits and Psa-tolerance.

“DMS is so confident in the future potential of this variety, we are going to spend our own money to help growers convert their orchards to G3,” says Paul.

It already grows G3 and is hosting an information evening for growers on April 10 to explain the conversion programme, and its own results growing the variety.

“The G3 variety is relatively easy to grow compared with green kiwifruit, it has a much higher

productivity rate and can be up to six times more profitable than the green variety.”

G3, the variety developed by Plant and Food Research, was commercially released after three years of pre-trials and testing in 2010 – the same year Psa struck the original gold variety, 16A. The variety was bred for specific attributes, including size, productivity and taste, but has also turned out to be more Psa tolerant than other varieties.

Paul says he firmly believes G3 offers significant future potential for the industry.

A kiwifruit grower and manager for more than 20 years, Paul converted some of his family orchard into G3 in 2010 with a successful and profitable first harvest in 2012.

He converted more in 2011 and 2012 and has been impressed with the results.

He says Psa will never be fully eradicated and while green kiwifruit will continue to be profitable for productive growers, the 16A kiwifruit gold variety has no future in a Psa environment.

“G3 will become the mainstream New Zealand Gold variety in the future and we already know it is profitable to grow.

“We’re aware that many growers have been hesitant to convert to the new variety. Given the impact Psa has had on the industry, we understand their uncertainty and would encourage them to attend our information evening to find out more.

“We will be outlining our plans at that time and providing information about the huge potential we believe G3 offers.”

The DMS grower information evening will be held on April 10 at the TECT Arena, Baypark, at Mount Maunganui. For further information and to register, growers should go to ww.DMS4kiwi.co.nz.

DMS operates across the Western Bay of Plenty, with growers located from Katikati in the north to Edgecumbe in the east. It has two large packhouse facilities in Te Puke and Te Puna, and is one of the largest independent, privately owned kiwifruit management companies in New Zealand. By Elaine Fisher

Ministers seeking public’s input Bay of Plenty residents will have a chance to voice their opinions on the Government’s latest proposals for the Resource Management Act and freshwater reforms early next week.

In two separate meetings on Monday, Environment Minister Amy Adams and Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy will sit down with Bay of Plenty residents after the Government announced proposals aimed at strengthening the Resource Management Act, and improving water quality and the way freshwater is managed.

The meetings, a public meeting at Classic Flyers, Mount Maunganui from 11-1pm and a hui at Maungatapu Marae from 2-4pm, are part of a nationwide series giving Amy and Nathan the opportunity to discuss the proposed changes to the resource manage-

ment system with councils, iwi, environment groups, businesses and the public.

“The meetings are a good opportunity for people to hear the reforms explained in more detail, and to ask any questions they might have,” says Amy. “I want to stress that these are proposals, and it is important to know what each community thinks about the Government’s reforms.

The feedback received will help shape the reforms.”

Proposed changes to the RMA aim to make the system easier to use, increase certainty and predictability, attract investment, reduce unnecessary duplication and cost, while continuing to protect the environment.

The freshwater proposals outline a plan of action for the most comprehensive and positive reform of New Zealand’s freshwater management system for a generation and are consistent with and based on the Land and Water Forum’s recommended approach giving effect to their core recommendations.

‘Freshwater reforms 2013 and beyond’ proposes a series of reforms to support communities to make better decisions, plan, set objectives and limits for their water bodies, and managing land and water use within those limits.

It is believed the reform is needed to create more transparent, better targeted and better informed decisions on fresh water, with business and water users needing certainty so they can plan and invest, helping create a standardised way of making decisions at every level.

Meetings will also be held in Greymouth, Wellington, Gisborne, Rotorua, Invercargill, Whangarei, Tauranga, Hawke’s Bay, Queenstown, Taupo, Palmerston North, Whanganui, Hamilton, Christchurch, New Plymouth, Auckland and Nelson throughout March.

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Community walking and talking up a storm Get out, get active, and get walking – Sport Bay of Plenty’s Walk Month continues next week with plenty of opportunities to take to the Western Bay’s paths and trails.

they walk for about an hour each week, following a range of trails depending on what they feel like.

(Details, phone Sheryl, 07 576 2689).

“As well as the exercise it’s very social. You’ve Events range from a walk over farm got good company so land from Summerhill Recreational there is always a bit of Farm, a stroll with a City on Its talking with the walkFeet group through to a guided hising.” It is one of about torical walk in Tauranga or following a 30 walking groups fun-filled trail in Yatton Park for prethroughout Tauranga as schoolers. part of Sport Bop’s City On Monday an hour-long guided on Its Feet programme. moderate walk will offer people a Recreation advisor breath-taking view from the Papamoa Walkers in the Matua-Otumoetai ‘City on its Feet’ Nicki Scott says there are Hill’s at Summerhill Recreational Farm. walking group enjoy the weekly outings for the social groups in all areas, walkParticipants are to meet in the carpark at contact and the exercise. Photo by Bruce Barnard. ing at different times and 9am. There is a morning tea (gold coin paces. For details go to www. donation) in a Mongolian Ger after the to join the City on its Feet Matuacityonitsfeet.org.nz walk, while the private park’s owner will talk about Otumoetai group on its weekly walk “One of the great things about being what they are doing. from the corner of Beach and Otumoeinvolved in a group is it helps keep (Details, phone Lynda, 029 230 0162) tai Rds at 9am. everyone motivated.”

One of the many activities on Tuesday is a chance Member Dorothy Worthington says

Pick up the month’s calendar from a library or download from www.sportbop.co.nz/playinthebay For more details, phone Nicki, 07 578 0016 ext 829

By Hamish Carter or email nickis@sportbop.co.nz

Golfing excellence tees off at Omanu in latest pro round Trans-Tasman rivalry will swing into action on Omanu Golf Club’s rolling fairways in the latest round of the Senior Pro Am on Monday.

The IBM/A1 Homes Omanu Senior Pro Am, in its second year, will involve 62 ex-tour professionals and ex-club professionals teeing off as part of the New Zealand PGA Senior Pro Am tour.

Split into two parts running between January – May and September – December, the Omanu leg of the tour continues a busy month of golf with the golfers arriving fresh from the Pegasus Senior Pro-Am, Terrace Downs Senior Pro-Am and the New Zealand PGA Senior Championship at Wairakei.

Omanu Golf Club head professional Brent McKay says Omanu has yet again attracted the biggest field on the tour circuit in what is a very competitive and fun day’s action.

“There is a good mix of Australians and New Zealanders as a lot of players travel around and play the circuit.

“Obviously, the venue being a nice, comfortable and challenging layout without being too difficult means everybody can have a good time.”

The tour, designed for players over 50 years old, will see competitors battle it out over 18 holes alongside the amateur

team tournament, with a $10,000 prize purse to be distributed between the top 30 players at the end of play.

Brent says of special interest are Australians Peter Fowler and Roger Davis, and Kiwi Simon Owen, who have all placed in the top 20 of the recent Pro Am tournaments.

“Rodger has been a professional since 1974, playing in the Australasia PGA Tour as well as a little bit on the European Tour.

“He won the Order of Merit in Australia and Australasia in 1990-91 and has made the top 10 in the European Order of Merit four times in the ’80s and ’90s.”

He says Peter Fowler boasts just an impressive golfing resume after winning the 1983 Australian Open and 1993 BMW International Open in Germany, along with playing most of his career on the European Tour, where he made the top 100 on the Order of Merit every year from 1983 to 1993.

However, Simon holds the ability to spring an upset next week after winning the 1974 German Open and the 1976 Double Diamond Individual Championship while recording his best finish in a major at the 1978 British Open, when he finished tied for second behind one

of the most accomplished professional golfers of all time, Jack Nicklaus.

By Luke Balvert

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After a full analysis we constructed a diet that was anti-inflammatory, especially trying to remove inflammatory fats and add those like omega 3 and olive oil that turn down inflammation. We made sure his diet was nutrient dense and especially targeted potent dietary antioxidants in foods like dark berries.

His typical lunch is now a large mixed salad with avocado, canned salmon or sardines with an olive oil dressing. We actively reduced refined carbohydrates and sugars as these all push the body towards inflammation. Additionally these foods are essentially ‘empty calories’ in that while they provide energy, they do not provide the vitamins and minerals needed to make energy.

We then started an intensive three months of supplements where we added high doses of omega 3 fish oil, a broad spectrum multi vitamin/mineral/ antioxidant. To this we added a complex formula designed to restore his energy processes. He had been taking cholesterol medications for some time and these are known to cause muscle pain and low energy, mostly because they prevent the liver from making sufficient ubiquinone, also known as co enzyme Q10 (CoQ10). This complex included CoQ10, a B vitamin complex then a combination of anti-inflammatory agents including turmeric extract, resveratrol and OPC. He started to notice a change within a few months.

The muscle pain has almost completely gone, his joints less stiff and painful and he has had a return of his energy. A real bonus has been a reduction in tinnitus and improvements in a cataract. There was no magic in what we did. This was just a combination of personal commitment on his part and for mine making sure his nutrient intake allowed his damaged body systems to heal resulting in a substantial improvement in his health.

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Course offers a safe place to improve literacy skills Literacy manager for Literacy and Language BOP, Annamaria Grafas, is pleased to be able to offer the successful free Key Skills Course in 2013.

Run during school terms, the success of the 100-hour course is attributed to the informal and comfortable environment, the group dynamics and the variety of activities.

This course provides a safe place for people to ‘give it a go’.

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Learner’s goals, needs and learning styles determine what aspects of the material they learn and how they learn it.

Course facilitator Kath McDonald is keen to assist learners and has confirmed that this course is for adults. “We acknowledge that our learners bring their own life experience and this course is aimed at increasing the participants’ confidence”. On completion of 100 hours students receive a certificate.

Literacy manager Annamaria Grafas and key skills course manager Kath McDonald. Photo by Tracy Hardy.

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Bay of Plenty Police are joining the ranks in having all police staff achieving the police physical competency test, or PCT as it is commonly known.

Deputy commissioner Mike Bush says it is compulsory for all constabulary employees (constables, sergeants and senior sergeants) to hold a current PCT in order to be operationally deployed.

In the Bay of Plenty there are 644 constabulary staff, with 634 holding a current PCT. Non-constabulary staff, such as inspectors and district commanders, also hold a current PCT in the Bay of Plenty.

Mike says within each of the 12 police districts around the country, an impres-

sive 95.3 per cent of constabulary staff have a current PCT. “Those staff that are unable to complete their PCT due to injury or illness are all on rehabilitation plans, designed to help them to get their PCT. “These staff are not in frontline roles whilst on a remedial programme.”

Mike says in 2009 police commissioned a review of the PCT programme, which was completed in 2011 by the University of Otago.

“The study made recommendations on the modification, administration and overall context of the PCT. The research found that the PCT is a very good tool that has stood the test of time extremely well.” Completion times for the PCT course are determined according to the officer’s age and gender.

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Looking back on 20 years of health care in the Bay It’s been 20 years to the day when Roger and Claire Gilbert opened the doors of Accident and HealthCare – treating just nine patients on day one.

By Corrie Taylor

Accident and Heathcare owners Claire and Roger Gilbert and manager Dave Gilbert. Photo by Tracy Hardy.

Learn more about building careers The Building and Construction Industry Training Organisation is holding an afternoon information session in Mount Maunganui this weekend for people interested in joining the building industry.

On Saturday, March 16 school leavers, parents, teachers and anyone interested are invited to come along and speak to professional BCITO training advisors about the industry and the lucrative career opportunities on the horizon.

The session will be held at 40 Tawa Street in Mount Maunganui from 1-4pm.

BCITO chief executive Ruma Karaitiana says the construction industry needs as many people as it can get right now. “Building work in Christchurch and Auckland is really kicking off and we expect this demand will stay for quite some time.”

New BCITO apprentices will be given a chance to take advantage of Government subsidies: $2000 for priority construction trades, to be used on tools and other training related expenses. Their employers will receive the same amount.

There will also be opportunities for all building trades, including building, masonry, brick-laying, concreting, plastering and tiling, to name a few.

BCITO offers qualifications in these sectors, including the National Certificate in Carpentry, which can be completed direct from school through an apprenticeship programme.

The careers event will enable those looking at career options to get detailed information on apprenticeship programmes, how they work, and the steps to get started.

Help for families coping with autism While people living with loved ones on the autism spectrum wish to help them live and learn in the best way possible, they often don’t know how.

But a specifically designed programme for anyone involved with a child or adult on the spectrum is coming to Tauranga this month, helping teach practical strategies to enhance the lives and maximise the learning opportunities of those individuals.

The two-day programme Framework for Autism in New Zealand, put on by Autism in New Zealand, will run on March 25 and 26. It is designed as an introductory programme enabling participants to create a framework for understanding and supporting a person on the autism spectrum.

National programme manager Pat Gluck says participants will leave the course with a better understanding of autism spectrum conditions and how they impact on the person, practical strategies to apply immediately including the use of visual supports, a framework to support the person in a variety of settings and a better understanding of challenging behaviour – including how to manage behaviour when it does happen.

The course is delivered by experts through presentations, video examples, parent interviews, and practical

role play exercises. Pat says they have received a lot of positive feedback from the programme in the past, including comments such as: “Presented well with delicate humour and balanced with a mother with the capacity to know.” “Thank you – Great work, very clear, very practical examples.” “Would totally recommend it. The storytelling discussion really helped.

Loved hearing from a parent helps my understanding.”

The programme runs 9.30am-3.30pm both days at the Historic Village. To register, see the advertisement on this page.

Initially within the Accident and HealthCare complex (now 2nd Avenue Health Centre) there were two businesses operating. The complex now houses a general medical practice, skin cancer surgery, radiology facilities, pharmacy, dentist, physiotherapy, and chiropractor too. Roger’s son Dave Gilbert who manages the business says the company has continued to evolve.

“The whole place has really changed.

My father saw a need for a walk in service with extended hours in Tauranga, but, as with many businesses, it took some time to get off the ground. I think on that first week we averaged 25 patients per day, as opposed to the 100 per day we see now.

“The clinic has an integral place in the Bay of Plenty community with people

who suddenly fall ill and aren’t able to get an appointment, or perhaps have an injury that does not need to be treated in hospital. I think there is a realisation now that we have the facilities and staff who can diagnose and treat injuries and they can avoid the long waits at the hospital. “I am very proud of our clinic and the service we provide to the Bay. “I believe one of the main reasons we are here to enjoy our 20th birthday is in large part due to our loyal and passionate staff.” Accident and HealthCare are choosing to celebrate their 20th anniversary by donating $20 for every patient treated today, to the Life Education Trust. Dave says the directors and owners have always had a strong connection with the trust and they are excited to be helping out again.

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Business school brainstorming Are shoes making your gym bag smelly?

Plaza under new ownership Changes are ahead for Palm Beach Plaza as new owners prepare to take over the complex next month.

A group of 80 senior secondary business students have been getting a taste for setting up and running their own company as part of the New Zealand BP Business Challenge.

Innovative work

Tauranga Girls’ College head of business studies Jude Maurice says there was strong demand from girls’ and boys’ college students to take part and was impressed with the innovative ideas and the work students put into it.

From ideas for a marshmallow chocolate, a device that flips your music sheets when Gabrielle Prentis, 16, Lauryn Hill, 16, Caleb Simmons, 17, Maui Ahu, 17, Hannah Rose, 15, Stella Kim, 19, Sheila Liu, 16, and Max Turnbull, 16, pitching their sports bag deodoriser as the answer to smelly gym gear. you play the last note on the page, or a test to ensure drinks have not been spiked, she says the mixed teams came up with some smart concepts.

Magnetic peg

The winning team was ‘Peg-natic’ which developed a special magnetic peg to make hanging laundry easier for those with arthritis.

“Already they are telling me they learnt a lot from the challenge and it has made business studies a lot more interesting.”

The colleges have been involved in the programme every year since 2006, except last year when Western Bay of Plenty schools missed out due to limited funding.

The teams were set a challenge to develop a business plan for a company selling a hypothetical product developed within two and a half days. They presented their ideas to a panel of judges drawn from the region’s business community.

By Hamish Carter

Nelson-based specialist shopping centre investor Tinline Properties purchased the complex for a confidential price and Tauranga-raised businessman David Hill arrives on April 2 to begin overseeing what he calls “significant expansion plans”.

David has been managing Tinline’s Richmond Mall in Nelson and is thrilled to be returning home.

“I’m fired up and excited about taking it to where it should be. Everything we’re going to do will be positive.”

David says the first few months will con- David Hill is returning to sist of seeking public his hometown to manage Palm Beach Plaza. opinion and finding out what the community wants from the plaza.

“We need to try and understand more about the community. It would be arrogant to come here and think we know everything.”

He says this feedback, as well as the plaza’s main tenants (The Warehouse, Countdown and Oceanblue) will be the driving force behind the changes to the plaza.

There are also plans for extending the plaza – and even the name is up in the air.

“Everything is on the table,” says David.

“The place is in need of a good cut and polish.”

Palm Beach Plaza was built in 1997 and was developed, owned and managed by Bay of Plenty development company Hawridge. Plaza director Greg Clarke put the plaza on the market late

By Corrie Taylor last year.

Bought life insurance through a bank lately?

Make sure you check the fine print when purchasing insurance from banks.

Recent research has shown that insurance offerings provided through some banks are inferior compared to the more comprehensive cover offered by almost every major insurer.

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traumas. One bank’s policy only covered a limited number of these conditions and didn’t even cover you for things like diabetes or meningitis and the cover stopped at age 65.

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By Peter Griffin from policy would have few exclusions in it Planwise Financial Services a claim they have been declined due to not disclosing their full past health conditions at right? Think again; one bank’s life cover application time, as this wasn’t explained clearly policy had more than 30 exclusions. When enough when they applied. you’re dead your dead, right? Not necessarily, it may So if you want to make sure that you are getting it come down to the way you died as to whether this right, talk to me and the team at Planwise. bank will pay out your claim.

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Funding cut, woolly Sedimentation: Why has it taken so long? nightshade rampant Regional Council sedimentation: So we hear there has been an “information sharing Symposium” on the state of the Tauranga Harbour, and the Regional Council Have you noticed more Woolly Nightshade around staff have prepared an action plan to deal with than what there used to be? Only five years ago this the sedimentation in the harbour and waterwas a number one priority weed pest and huge sums ways in the Tauranga catchment area. were spent on control.

The Regional Council was legally Unfortunately, a lot of that worthy initiative has been squandered as this weed returns to high levels through constituted in 1989, and has had the same Chairman since its budget cuts on its control. inception…so what may I ask, This is a curse of a weed as it invades roadsides, productive pasture and ecological areas. Horticulturists has taken them so long? Formulating a plan is a step in the right and farmers have a hard enough time as it is withdirection, but implementing it is out poor council weed management adding to their the most important factor. woes. It would appear the maintenance policy which How many well intentioned planused to be proactive is now only reactive. If you are ning documents lie gathering dust in frustrated by this in your area, then flood the Western Council archives throughout New Zealand, Bay of Plenty District Council phone lines with your never to see the light of day again? complaints. This is, after all, our year with it being The Council plan correctly identifies soil local elections in six months, our one year when more erosion arising from deforestation as the main action is likely. cause of sedimentation in our waterways, but Tim Short, Ohauiti. then attributes this to poor land management

Media bias and karma

on the part of landowners, due to their lack of understanding.

Well, that is a bit rich! This country is a world leader in agriculture, horticulture, and viticulture, all of which require land good management practices, and that position was not achieved through ignorance.

The blindingly obvious solution is to persuade landowners to plant trees that stabilize soils.

The Council’s plan is to “work hard with appropriate landowners”…whatever that means.

So far nobody has mentioned money. The Tauranga Regional Council is one of the most richly endowed councils in New Zealand.

It sets the rates levies on land in their catchment area. It is in a position to give financial incentives to landowners who carry out approved soil stabilization work on their land, by way of rate rebates. Or is that just too difficult?

Bruce Cambie, Tauranga.

Gambling machines Re the problems that gaming machines cause: I am appalled at the number of noncompliance sites in and around Tauranga, after being involved in the industry for 20 years and retired to Tauranga.

I read all the fuss that people against gambling protest about. But in fact all they have to do is to get the D.I.A. to police the most important rule i.e. predominant income to be other than gaming. 70% of sites in Tauranga do not comply, some even do not have a commercial kitchen or bar.

After speaking to head of D.I.A. they said it was council policy, but then said they would need to close down half the country.

So what!

A lot of sites are straight gambling dens, example in fact Tauranga bar turnover $90,000 gross P.A., gambling site rental $150,000. So all you people worried about gambling I suggest you approach the D.I.A. and get them to evoke the law, it is so easy.

Frank Snow, Mt Maunganui.

I had to laugh, albeit wryly, when I read Maureen Anderson’s letter in The Weekend Sun, 1 March bemoaning the bias of the BOP Times.

When I was a Councillor, elected under the R.U.A. banner, I and the other R.U.A. Councillors would often prepare an article, only to have it given immediately to Mrs Anderson, who was Mayor at the time.

This invariably resulted in the article appearing in the paper with about three-quarters of the content given over to Mrs Anderson’s contrary view. The headline above the article was usually similarly skewed in the Mayor’s favour and certainly minimised our efforts to expose what was going on in the W.B.O.P. Council at the time.

In the ensuing years I have found myself mostly agreeing with Mrs Anderson’s letters (and I certainly agree with this particular one) but I couldn’t let this bit of Karma pass by.

Marilyn Wills, Welcome Bay.

Why are wetsuits black?

Re Brian’s article on wetsuits looking like seals: Why do they always make these in black?

Years ago I saw a programme where they made wetsuits in black and white. Apparently this was because there is a sea snake sharks avoid. Anyway the tests undertaken seemed to indicate that sharks did indeed avoid. I cannot remember anything else about this.

Are you aware of any research concerning colour suits?

A recent report stated there are tons of pure aluminium ingots littering the Rena site and its good for divers to pick up. What effect will pure aluminium have on the seafood and us? Get the stuff up now!

I hope your paper will strongly support, removal of everything from the sea bed.

Pat Dillon, Tauranga.

Certainty of style.

Luxury of space.

Editor’s note: Most spearfishers these days wear camo wetsuits. I do in winter. However in summer and the February encounter, I was wearing a very fetching olive green 2mm hot top with 3/2 black long john.

Modern research including a study in 2011 by the University of Western Australia found sharks are colourblind and rely on contrasts to see shapes. So stripes would probably be easier for them to see. The researchers found yellow was the most obvious colour to sharks, probably due to contrast. (This was also the finding of the US Navy, when trying to find the safest lifejacket colour for downed pilots.) The Australian study suggested colours and patterns that merged well with the ocean and surroundings. Camo sounds like the best option!

Our wetsuit suppliers, Seventh Wave, confirm Pat’s suspicions, of more attacks worldwide of black wetsuits and suggest my olive green may have saved me. Most shark victims are surfers; who generally prefer black because it absorbs heat from the sun. - Brian.

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Your website article about Waaka usurping the Maori Trustees should ring warning bells across the country.

I wonder how many supposedly claimants actually represent their community and how many Trusts etc. have been bullied into silence. I applaud absolutely Irene Ruka standing up and telling this guy where to go. Wish there more of them and more power to their elbow.

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Those sirens and Water

meters issues

whistle blowers This week the TCC City Services manager Ian McDonald reported to Councillors that the proposed Meerkat Sirens had “difficulties.”

The rest of the city seemed to realise that well prior to Christmas and in fact the point was made abundantly clear when Steve Morris and others provided a “Soundoff ” challenge that TCC and Meerkat failed to appear for, that spoke volumes for the public about the effectiveness of the Meerkat installation early in the piece.

It is also apparent that TCC noted the costs of the Tactical Sirens proposal were higher than actually the case apparently in part so as to remove them from consideration early in the TCC staff managed tendering process.

Bigger questions arise about the TCC tendering process, it seems that the process is flawed fatally that the obvious becomes obscure and the obscure becomes reality.

TCC ratepayers should be very concerned about these flaws, in large contracts the discrepancies could amount to millions of excess spending apparently on genuine needs but the price is high and the recipient gets less than that really needed.

The TCC process for reviewing tenders called “Weighted attributes” places to much importance on which boxes TCC staff chooses to tick or not, an overhaul is needed of this urgently to avoid further financial hemorrhaging and more debt at TCC. Ian Stevenson, Tauranga.

Charity begins at home

I refer to Faulkner’s Column in last week’s Sun. Bill Faulkner banged on about water meters and the “Boot the Buggers Out” campaign which resulted in a number of Councillors losing their seats.

It gives opportunity to remind Bill that the campaign was never about whether water meters should have been installed. Rather, it was the dirty way in which Council went about over riding a Public Referendum organised by Council in the first place. I further remind Bill that 87% of ratepayers voted no!

While Council adhered to the result for a period, they then voted to install water meters in the face of considerable opposition. It should be no surprise to Bill that Council stupidity in going ahead with the original referendum in the first place, compounded by an antidemocratic decision to ignore the result, ended with a number of lost seats.

I venture to suggest the same result would take place today under similar circumstances.

Have you learned anything Bill?

Mike Giles, Avenues.

The Weekend Sun welcomes letters from readers. Preference will be given to letters that are short (200 words) and supplied with full name and contact details.

We agree totally with Maureen J Anderson (Weekend Sun 1 March) relating to Council’s incestuous relationship with BOP Times. We would go further however.

We sent the letter below to both the editors of the BOP Times and NZ Herald in relationship to Maori Trusts being claimed as “charitable trusts” and therefore not paying any taxes, while only distributing less than 4% of their profit as sponsorship etc. It appears that our hard earned taxes are being given to these tribes who then invest all the monies and pay little out to their iwi and re-invest the remainder, while paying no tax. Little wonder their investments are now worth hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions.

Neither paper printed the letters. Now we know both papers are owned by the same owners but this cannot be coincidence.

Jan Hill, Tauranga.

Original letter: About two years ago I was told by a shop owner in a Hamilton Mall that Tainui paid no tax at the Base Shopping Mall. I believed it but did not know the details.

National Business Review (1 Feb 2013) column claimed (quote) “does Ngai Tahu enjoy an unfair tax advantage over companies it competes against? Ngai Tahu Property and Ngai Tahu Holdings Corporation are part of Ngai Tahu Charitable Group, a registered charity which has 38 limited liability companies, three trusts and a scholarship fund as part of the group.

Their 2012 annual report claims the group is not liable to pay NZ tax.

The 2012 financial statements also

reveal Ngai Tahu Charitable Trust earned income of approximately $152 million, yet only $6.2 million, or less than 4% of its income, was used to fund tribal, Runanga and whanau activities.

The Charitable Commission has been reviewing charitable trusts but Ngai Tahu seems to have escaped the net” (Along with all other Maori “charitable trusts”?)

It is our hard earned tax which pays these tribal treaty claims, yet they can invest their money without paying tax and unfairly compete against other tax paying NZ companies. What will it take to get New Zealanders off their seats and protest against this sick behaviour?

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S.O.Es or State Owned Enterprises are the topic of the month. The Solid Energy fiasco is an S.O.E. We hear at length of the refusal of the invisible ex-CEO but still on salary, to appear before the Parliamentary Committee.

What does the Minister of State Owned Enterprises do in the exercise of his responsibility in this area? Who appoints the Board of these enterprises?

Who appoints the CEO? It would appear that once these Enterprises are established, they are autonomous bodies under the direction of the CEO and a nominated Board.

Why is it that of the owner, the State as represented by the Minister, of this Enterprise seems to have no ability to provide the balance and checks that is supposed to be the essence of a democracy? In this case of Solid Energy it will be the taxpayer who will foot the bill for this classic case of mismanagement.

It would seem that neither the Minister

nor the Parliamentary Committee is willing to do what they are charged to do.

It is worth giving a thought to the case of Mighty River Power. Here is another S.O.E. When the majority member of the Government decided to sell 49% of it they claimed “they had a mandate to do it because it was in their electioneering platform.” The fact that the Party did not win even 50% of the votes cast, means nothing. It does indicate though that John Key and his Minister of State Owned Enterprises can and do take initiative action on an S.O.E. when the circumstances suit them. Oh that they had done so with Solid Energy.

We are witnessing a slow but continual erosion of the rights of the ordinary taxpaying citizen in this country of New Zealand. The tragedy is, it is being led by our own elected and unelected leaders.

John Mathews, Mt Maunganui.

TCC and CCO spending mysteries Nearly $500,000 spent on outside consultants relating to Council staff review and CCO restructuring.

This will be the tip of the iceberg and the final cost by all accounts will be way, way more than that.

Dealing with the staff review this was a ‘Clayton’s’ effort that achieved no meaningful savings or reduction in bloated staff levels and didn’t address systems at all. A complete waste of time and money without benefit to TCC ratepayers!

CCO merger costs put at $225,000 – Directors fees increased to $220,000 per annum which has added $570,000 to the total cost already over 3 years with no TCVL/TCAL staff reductions.

Savings are said to be $1.8m per annum over 3 years so to make these savings, extra costs incurred mean $2m per annum is now required.

It simply won’t happen! Morrison Low has reported the merger will provide significant benefits but they have not by all accounts even prepared a business plan, budget, objectives and so on.

How on earth then can anyone come up with the figures they do – operations stay the same, no staff reductions, no loss of facilities, so what is changing to save in excess of $2 m per annum.

TCC wouldn’t take CCO’s back because Council can’t massage the terrible financial figures.

R Paterson, Matapihi.

What Treaty actually said:

2. All Maoris (tangata Maori; katoa o Nu Tirani) were granted the full rights and privileges of British subjects (Article three) 3. All the people of New Zealand (tangata katoa o Nu Tirani) received the right to own property - real estate and personal. (Article two). (With a provision for the sale of land) That is absolutely all.

Bruce Moon, Nelson.

If the Treaty of Waitangi is to be cast in concrete in a written constitution which may be thrust upon us, we had better understand just exactly what it said, not any of the many distortions which are current today.

1. The chiefs gave up sovereignty completely and for ever to the British Crown (Article one)

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What is it going to take?

How long and what is it going to take? Another World War? In World War 2 Pakeha and Maori were called upon to help protect our Commonwealth against the uprising of Hitler and all the bad things he represented.

As far as numbers were concerned we were “minor” but oh boy did we get “a name” as fighters. When we rose out of the trenches the enemy ran! What’s this got to do with anything?

Then we were one people, with one country. Not so now eh! All the murders, assaults, burglaries. Back in those days it was not an item. Now it makes up 60 – 80% of the news each night.

It is time for us to stand up and protect what is ours.

I have a wife, 3 children and 6 grandies and I’ll say it plainly.

You hurt one of mine and I will go to jail but whoever does it will think very hard before he or she does it again, and my 3 kids have the same attitude as their father. You hurt one of us look out!

Causes? Lack of discipline, drugs, TV’s, computers. The pissy little sentences handed out for major crimes.

Just think about it? How many games that kids play on computers that are all fighting and killing, let’s face it most of them are more astute on these machines than us oldies.

If they felt the “pain” of being shot, losing an arm or leg and smelt the blood and stink of gunpowder – bet you the computer game playing would cease within a week. I don’t agree with America’s liberal gun laws but I do feel strongly that a “man’s home is his castle” and he has the right to look after his wife and kids. Unfortunately our cops and “law enforcers” are somewhat “hogtied” by the do-gooders.

“You can’t do that he has human rights.” Bull, you have beaten up that little old lady – you lost your human rights when you did that.

Enough for now, I welcome your comments – for or against.

Ross Fuller, Tauranga.

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Park open summer and winter?

The notice board at Waipuna Park Welcome Bay informs us that opening hours for the park are: Daylight Saving, 7.00 am to 10.00 pm and Winter, 7.00 am to 10.00 pm (See photo).

The bureaucrats from City Hall have decided that this park shall be open for only two periods each year, daylight saving and winter.

There is no mention of what the hours are for the unaccounted months when daylight saving finishes and winter

Harbour growth of sea lettuce

begins and vice versa? Or is the park staff under the impression that these two periods coincide, and there are no other intervening periods.

Perhaps I am being a little forward here, to suggest the sign be changed to read “open daily 7.00 am to 10.00 pm”. And of course what appears to be standard practice, the council will need to engage a consultant to report on this matter.

Brian Porter, Welcome Bay.

On 7 March I and two other members of Tauranga Harbourwatch Inc. paid our cash and attended the Regional Council, Waikato University and Priority One’s sponsored Tauranga Harbour Symposium at the Sulphur Point Yacht Club.

I asked a question as to why a large fertiliser factory on the edge of the harbour is still allowed to discharge into the harbour suspended solids, dissolved reactive

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But one all pervasive component of our environment, has been completely ignored even although it affects us in a very destructive way. The audible environment; to the continual noise that now assails all city dwellers.

Yesterday in the local mall the “background music” was going full blast with loud, meaningless percussion instruments and a woman screeching some incomprehensible sounds. I asked a gentleman aged about 40 who was opening his shop if he had to put up with this noise all day. He gave me a puzzled look and said “What noise?” His answer tells us a lot about how we have been manipulated to accept noise pollution without complaint.

As I walk past a pre-school centre I hear young people screaming at each other, all trying to get attention, all bent on selfish drives to be “on top”; and their carers, supposedly trained in child care, screaming almost as loud as the children. This “pollution” of our precious auditory environment , all by man’s activities, surely demands the full attention of the environment lobbyists. (abridged) John Mills, Mount Maunganui.

phosphorus, ammoniacal nitrogen, fluoride, wastewater and an antifouling agent, octadecylamine?

What effect is this discharge having upon the harbour and sea lettuce growth, if any?

The various answers were not satisfactory. I also quoted the resource consent numbers and the dates they had been re-issued in 2004, and their expiry dates in 2019.

Why on earth did the Regional Council roll over these two

resource consents in 2004?

Tauranga Harbourwatch at that time did written and oral submissions against the re-issue of these resource consents but to no avail.

Apparently all is OK as these discharges “are monitored”, whatever that means. Tauranga Harbourwatch would like these discharges stopped until such time as research shows them to be benign.

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Trial for accused attacker

A Mount Maunganui man accused of beating and robbing two French tourists is heading to trial on December 2.

Che Bridger, 24, has denied two charges of aggravated robbery in relation to the beating of two tourists behind the abandoned Shell Station in Papamoa in July last year.

Bridger was excused from appearing in Tauranga District Court on Wednesday where a trial date of December 2 was set down by Judge Louis Bidois.

Bridger is accused of being one of two men who picked up the two French tourists.

He will remain in custody until December 2.

Mount man denies stabbing

A Mount Maunganui man accused of stabbing a man in Central Parade will go to trial for the offence.

Phillip Hunter, 29, is accused of stabbing Regan Hunter, 24, during an altercation in Central Parade on March 27, 2012.

Regan was taken to hospital with stab wounds to his chest and released later in the day.

Phillip was arrested a short time after the stabbing and charged with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.

Hunter is going to trial on April 3 and a trial date for the assault of the two women is yet to be set.

Attempted abduction case delay

A Tauranga man accused of attempted to abduct an 11-year-old girl in Ohauiti has had his case adjourned until May 10.

Aden Kingi is charged with attempted abduction and possession of cannabis and a raft of sexual charges.

The abduction charge relates to an incident on February 11 when Kingi is accused of attempted to abduct an 11-year-old girl while she was out riding her bike on Ohauiti Road.

Armed robbery accused callover

A teenager accused of two armed robberies in Waihi and Katikati has pleaded guilty to one of the two robberies.

Jeremiah Reti, 17, is facing two counts of aggravated robbery and has his presence from Tauranga District Court excused on Wednesday.

The charges stem from the armed robberies of the Mobil Service Station on Waihi and the Park Road Dairy in Katikati, which were both robbed within half an hour of each other on June 18, 2012.

Reti has been remanded on electronically monitored bail.

Ironman rage accused in court

A Bay of Plenty man accused of intentionally injuring an Ironman cyclist during a “road rage” incident in Taupo is yet to enter a plea on his charge. Joseph Arthur Frederick Roberts, 21, is charged with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.

The charges relate to an incident on February 21, when Roberts is accused of pushing Rangipo prison officer Alasdair Slade from his bike while he was training for an Ironman New Zealand event.

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E N T E R T A I N M E N T G U I D E MUSIC The ever popular guide to ‘What’s On’ in the Bay.

Saturday 16 March

2013 Christian Singles Born again

friendship group meet monthly socially.

Plus 1st & 3rd Tues of month at McCafe Mt Maunganui 10am. Email: janfos@ gmail.com or 021 182 7972 Car Boot Sale At Greerton School 7 – 11.30am. Cost $5 per single site or $10 for double site. Weather permitting. Something for everyone. All welcome. Shirley 577 1116 or 0274 146 040 Church Fair At St Enoch’s, 16th Ave 9am.

Cakes, books, produce.

Fishing Competition Hosted by Te Puna Tavern Social club March 16 & 17 for adults & children. Entry $20 adults, $10 under 16 years. For enquiries & entries ph 552 6025 Let’s Dance Tonight With Te Puke Scottish Soc. Memorial Hall, Jellicoe St, Te Puke 7-11pm. Modern & sequence dance. Light supper, live music, great company. $7 members, $8 non members.

Gordon 572 0060 Messianic Weekly Meetings The Way meet in the Kingfisher Room, Arataki Community Centre, Zambuk Way, Mt Maunganui 10am. All welcome. 570 1438 Mount Music Club Date change - March 16 at Mount Senior Citizens Hall, 345 Maunganui Rd 1-4.30pm. Regulars a plate is appreciated. All genres, all ages. All welcome. $2. Grant 576 0434 Multicultural Festival At Historic Village, 17th Ave Tauranga 10am – 4pm. Food, arts & crafts, entertainment throughout the day. Entry: Adults $6, under 12 free.

Ngati Kahu Hauora Community Whanau Day, 69 Carmichael Rd, Bethlehem 10am - 2pm. Fun for all ages. Some hangi tickets available on the day. 576 0160 extn 2.

Omokoroa Point School Twilight Gala

Hamurana Rd, Omokoroa 4-7pm. Great stalls & fabulous food. Fun for the whole family. Featuring the Omokoroa Volunteer Fire Brigade. Come & race a firefighter in the Great Firefighters Challenge - can you beat the record time?

Paengaroa Community Breakfast/

Market At Paengaroa Community Hall (wet or fine) 7.30-10.30am. Breakfast starts from $1.50. Market $5 per car boot, $10 for car & trailer or small truck. Sal 533 1043 Roller Derby Mount Militia Intra-league Bout 1 “TerminateHer”. Call of Booty vs Nuclear Knockouts March 23 at QE2 Memorial Park, Tauranga.

Doors open 4pm, bout starts 5pm.

Tickets at door – cash/Eftpos. $10 adults, under 12’s $5, under 5’s free. www. mountmilitia.co.nz

News, reviews and opinionated raving on the music scene.

Secondhand Clothing Sale Young children’s & babies quality clothing at St Josephs Community Centre, 10 Pitua Rd, Te Puna 9am. Nothing over $2. Proceeds to Majella. 548 2730 Taoist Tai Chi Beginners class starts today (6 week into) at Tauranga Club rooms, 15 Koromiko St 9.30am. $40. Ann 577 9145 Tauranga Farmers Market Tauranga Primary School cnr 5th Ave & Cameron Rd every Sat 7.45am - 12pm. Fresh & artisian produced food. Trixie 552 5278 or www.taurangafarmersmarket.co.nz The Sociables Males/Females 30’s/40’s.

022 012 0376 Waihi Scouts Mud Slide From 9.30am 3pm. SH2 towards Tauranga & look for the signs about 1km past the Waihi Beach turn-off. The mud slides are behind the Waihi Gun Club on the right hand side of SH2.

Entry $5.

Welcome Bay Plunket Open Day

March 23 9am – 1pm. Bouncy castle, sausage sizzle, craft table & more. Come down & meet the faces of your local Plunket, find out what Plunket has to offer like playgroups & our free carseat clinic. If interested in having a stall, contact welcomebay@plunket.org.nz spaces limited.

Sunday 17 March

23rd Easter Egg & Toy Run By Tauranga Branch of Ulysses Club NZ. Start arriving from 9.30am. Leave Nikau Cres, Downtown Mt Maunganui by 11.30am. You can support the ride by: joining in the ride, buying a badge, bringing Easter eggs, bringing a soft toy or other toy items, or donating cash. In support of: TrustPower TECT Rescue Helicopter, Tauranga Hospital Children’s Ward.

Bay Association of Sea Kayakers Lake Rotoehu paddle. Bevan 576 8885 Bay Bible Fellowship Welcome Bay Primary School, Welcome Bay Rd 10am. Ps Lincoln Forlong teaching from Ephesians Ch4. All welcome. Gerald 021 938 618 Bethlehem Te Puna Lions Market Every first & third Sunday of the month at Bethlehem Town Centre 8am – 12pm.

Bible Seminars Sundays at Greerton Senior Citizen’s Hall, Maitland St, Greerton 1.45pm. Title: “The Origin of Jesus.” Interactive, Q&A. Refreshments provided.

All welcome. Vic 543 0504

Junior Youth Empowerment Programme Group for 11-13yr olds,

fortnightly Sundays 10am - 12pm.

Empowers young people to work to better the community & develop their own intellectual & spiritual qualities (kindness,

DVD MOVIES

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Reviews of DVDs, old and new, as well as other bits and bobs.

Stories, snippets, strangeness, and general entertainment.

The Weekend Sun’s guide to who’s playing and where.

Wharf St door if main door is closed. All welcome. 552 0243

Harmony a Plenty Barbershop Chorus

justice etc). Religiously inspired but not religious instruction. Email: shirinwhite@ windowslive.com Kaimai Pistol Club Open Day At range on Hot Springs Rd, Katikati (5.5kms towards the Kaimais from SH2) 10am - 4pm. Experience sport pistol shooting in a safe environment. All welcome, no age limits). Jim 021 638 085 Learning Spiritual Laws Sunday’s at Plunket Rooms, 59 Otumoetai Rd, Tauranga 10-11am. $5 donation, children free. Remember & celebrate who you are!

Maketu Market This Sunday & Easter Sunday. 8am start & lots of variety in the stalls. Maureen 533 2340 Mount Kids Market March 24. Stalls run by kids. Featuring a Child Cancer Fundraising shave, come down to support our clever kids & Child Cancer Appeal Month at Arataki Community Centre 9.30am – 12pm. 575 2048 or email: arataki@clmnz.co.nz

Mount Mainstreet Farmers Market

Every Sun in Phoenix car park 9am - 1pm.

Fresh fruit & veges, breads, cheese, oils, plants & more. All home grown & home made. Downtown the Mount open 7 days. 575 9911 mountmaunganui.org.nz Omokoroa Boat Club Annual open day.

Boat races from 10am, duck races at 12pm. Colouring comp, junior sailors display. Music from 12.30pm. All welcome.

Otumoetai Hockey Club Pre season muster at Tauranga Hockey Centre 4.30-6pm for new & existing players. Social & competitive players welcome.

Caroline 576 5178 or 027 283 2153 Petanque Every Sun, Tues & Thurs at Cliff Rd 12.45pm. Boules available, tuition given. 1st 3 visits free. Neita 572 3768 Public Meeting Hear Scott Brown, NZ Leader of “Celebrate Messiah” at Holy Trinity 2-5pm. Freewill offering. All welcome.

Radio Controlled Model Yachts Meet Sun 1.30pm & Thurs 5.30pm at pond behind 24 Montego Drive, Papamoa to race electron class yachts. Graham 572 5419 Tauranga Rainbow Social Network For lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender. Meet monthly. Kay 07 218 1411 or 021 239 7142

Tauranga Spiritual Society

Senior Citizens Hall, 14 Norris St. Mini expo - 6 great guest speakers.

Early 6.30pm start. Doors open 6pm.

Entry $5, members $3 or free if you sign up for 2013/14 membership.

Tauranga Theatre Organ Society Meet at Baycourt Theatre 1.30pm. Hear & play the mighty wurlitzer. Please use the

Trustpower TECT Rescue Helicopter

Open Day, Ian Pain Memorial Hangar, Clarke St, Tauranga Hospital 10am – 2pm. Meet your local emergency service crews including: NZ Fire Service, Armed Offenders Squad, Police Dogs, Surf Lifesaving, St John Ambulance. Live demonstrations & other activities.

Young Classical Musicians Society

Concert at St Enoch’s Church, 16th Ave 2.30pm. Entry adults $3, children $1, family $6 2 + 2. Come & enjoy our young talent. Jocelyn 575 5975

Monday 18 March

Babies Moves & Grooves Every

Mon at Arataki Community Centre 11am - 12pm. Movement to music for 0-18 months with a range of music, instruments & equipment.

Matt 575 2048 Bethlehem Bowls Every Mon at 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. All classes 9.15-10.15am. First class free.

Men & women welcome. Dianne 576 5031 Qualified Instructor/Cardiac Care leader.

CAP Course Money management made simple. Want to get on top of your finances? At Holy Trinity Church cnr 3rd Ave & Devonport Rd, Tauranga 7pm.

For bookings, Wendy 543 3315 or cap@ holytrinitytauranga.com Concert Mount Senior Citizens Hall, 345 Maunganui Rd 1.30pm. Entertainers: Harlequins, followed by afternoon tea. $3 door cover.

Rest Homes bring your people for an outing. All welcome.

Fire Brigade Bowling Club Club night at Greerton Hall, Cameron Rd 7.30pm.

Sharon 543 3929 Fitness League Safe effective, low impact fun exercise set to music using the Bagot Stack technique, designed for women of all ages & abilities. First class free. Every Mon at Settlers Hall Omokoroa 9.30am & Tues St Johns Anglican Church Waihi 9.30am. Dorothy 549 3378 Free Antenatal Classes Pirirakau Hauora, classes available each month in 2013. Venues throughout the Bay. For dates & venues ph 552 4573 or email: tamarikiora@ pirirakauhauora.org.nz

GUIDE

Every Mon at Bethlehem Community Church, Moffat Rd 7pm. New members welcome. 572 3345 or www. harmonyaplenty.co.nz Junior Badminton Club Every Mon at Bethlehem College 6-7.30pm. Tues at Otumoetai College 5.15-6.45pm.

Tauranga Intermediate 6-7.30pm.

Coaching & racquets available. Sue 021 194 4335. www.taurangabadminton.co.nz Meditation Free classes Mon 10am & Weds 7.30pm. Find peace, spiritual awareness & the meaning of your life.

David 576 9764 Mount Badminton Club Club night tonight at Mount Sports Centre, Maunganui Rd 7-9pm. All past & new players welcome. Janice 575 2438 or 027 201 0529

Otumoetai Indoor Bowls

Graded Pairs (Tilby Trophy), Matua Primary School Hall, Clivedene St 7.15pm. New members welcome. Karen 576 0443

Puppy & Home Training Classes 5 week courses only $50 starts April 8. http:// www.taurangadogtraining.com/ or Pam 578 4370 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. Taken by Heart Foundation phase 3 cardiac instructor. First class free.

Jennifer 571 1411 Relationships Aotearoa Mon ManMade - a course specifically designed for men 6.30-8.30pm. Tues Parenting Through Separation.

Free course for separating parents 6.30-8.30pm. Weds - Parenting for Success, parenting your 2-12yr olds 7-9pm. Parenting through Separation, Papamoa 10am - 12pm. Thurs Positively Me 4 women 6.30-8.30pm.

Parenting through separation 10am 12pm. 576 8392 Scottish Country Dancing Every Mon at St John’s Church Hall, Bureta Rd, Tauranga 7.30-10pm. New members with experience welcome. Sarah 579 0123 Tauranga Badminton Club Every Mon & Weds at Bethlehem College 7.309.30pm. Sue 021 194 4335. www. taurangabadmintonclub.co.nz Tauranga Creative Fibre Every Mon at Arts Centre, Elizabeth St 9.30am.

Spinning, weaving, felting, knitting, crochet, beading & more. Learn & share in a mutually supportive club.

Also on Thurs evenings twice a month.

Joan 577 6781

Tide times have been corrected for daylight saving time. Tauranga tide heights in metres.

The full month’s tide information is available on www.sunlive.co.nz. Every effort has been made to ensure that these times and tides are correct, no responsibility will be accepted for any inaccuracies, omissions, or misuse or misinterpretation of the values for tides and times published.

www.manutere.co.nz Email your catch (High Resolution Jpeg ) to photos@thesun.co.nz, subject line ‘Catch of the Week’, name, age, contact details & description of fish and location & be in to WIN!

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The Weekend Sun Tauranga Ladies Probus Club Meet 3rd Mon of month at Tauranga Citizens Club 10am. Interesting speakers, visitors welcome. Meet new friends. Claire 576 5973 Tauranga Rock n Roll Club

Club nights Mondays at Tauranga RSA, Cameron Rd 7pm. Lessons 6.30pm.

Te Puna Indoor Bowling Club Every Mon at Te Puna Memorial Hall 7.15pm. Ian 579 3024

Welcome Bay Bowling Club Morris

Cup Singles at Welcome Bay Hall 7pm. Jill 544 1941 YMCA - ALFS (Active lifestyle for seniors). Smooth Movers class Mon 8.45-9.45am & 10-11am at Matua Community Hall, Levers Rd. Also 9-9.55am & 10-10.55am at Arataki Hall, Zambuk Way (off Grenada St).

Tues 9.15-10.15am & 10.30-11.30am at Papamoa Community Centre, Gravatt Rd. Weds 9.15-10.15am Welcome Bay Hall, Welcome Bay Rd. Also Te Puke Senior Citizen’s Club, Jocelyn St, Te Puke 9.15-10.15am. All welcome. First class free. Thurs 8.459.45am at Otumoetai Action Centre, Windsor Rd. Also 10.30-11.30am at Bethlehem Hall, Bethlehem Rd. Fri 9.15-10.15am at Papamoa Community Centre, Gravatt Rd. 578 9272

Tuesday 19 March

ABC - Avenues Badminton Club

Every Tues at Tauranga Intermediate School TECT Stadium.

Juniors 6-7.30pm. Seniors 7.30-7.30pm. Club racquets & coaching available. Sue 021 194 4335 Badminton (Social) Every Tues at Otumoetai Baptist Hall 9.30am - 12pm. Racquets available. All welcome. Lorraine 579 3229

BOP Shirley Club Walking Group

Every Tues meet outside Mount Surf Club 9.20am. Easy walking. Great group. Cafe jaunt after. See you there.

Genesis - Women’s Group Every Tues during school term. 10am morning tea at Papamoa Surf Club, Papamoa domain. Speaker: William Dinwoodie - observer on our coastal ships. New members welcome. Jennifer, Salvation Army 578 4264 Inachord Chorus Ladies 4 part harmony every Tues at Bethlehem Community Church, 183 Moffat Rd 6.45pm. Enjoy singing & meet new friends. Shona 0272 801 004 or Sabine 577 0455 (day).

Israeli Dancing

Beginners classes every Tues at Gate Pa School Hall 7-8pm. No partners required. All ages welcome. Maria 544 1680

Mount Morning Badminton Every

Tues at Mount Sports Centre, Blake Park 9am - 12pm. Social, competitive, all ages, beginners welcome. Racquets available. Visitors $5 per session, first day free. Students $2. Margaret 575 9792 Mount Social Table Tennis Every Tues at Arataki Community Centre 7.30-9.30pm. Social, fun group, paddles available. $4. Matt 575 2048 Sequence Dancing St Johns Anglican Church Hall, 94 Bureta Rd, Otumoetai. Tues 7-9.30pm, second Tues of month 3-5.30pm. Visitors welcome. John 578 9716

South City Indoor Bowls Club (Inc)

Box Drawn Pairs (Black Cup) at Greerton Hall 7.30pm. Mary 541 0687 Tai Chi-Chi Gong Every Tues at 9am.

A set of 18 movements concentrating on breathing. Easy & enjoyable. No charge. Interested? For details, Marlene 575 5803 or text 0274 979 304 Tauranga Acoustic Music Club Cedar Lounge, Bureta Park, Vale St 7.30pm. Friendly jam sessions or open concert 4th Tues & 2nd Sun, 1pm. Sing, play or just listen. Paul 579 2346 or www.tamc.org.nz

Tauranga Continuing Education (50+) Group At Historic Village, 17th Ave, Tauranga on third Tues of month.

Lectures start 10am & a charge of $3 is made to cover expenses. Speaker: Liam Bretkelly, Base Manager/Pilot.

Topic: Air rescue using the Trust Power TECT rescue helicopter. 573 8851

Tauranga Morning Badminton Club

Every Tues & Thurs at QEII Youth Centre, cnr Devonport Rd & 11th Ave 9-11.30am. New members welcome.

Wendy 552 5293 Tauranga Orchid Society Monthly meeting at Wesley Church Hall, 13th Ave 7.30pm.

Speaker: Laurie Jeyes, Bethlehem Palmers ‘sprays etc available for the orchid grower.’ Visitors welcome.

Natalie 543 0847 Tauranga Society of Artists Evening group meet every Tues at Clubrooms, 171a Glasgow St 7-9pm. 576 9592 Tauranga Toastmasters Tga Lyceum Club 1st Tues 7.15-8.45pm.

Exterminate the butterflies, confidence building, improving public speaking & leadership skills. Alan 544 5989 Toastmasters Excel Club Learn to be a competent speaker & get your message across. Meetings held on 2nd, 4th & 5th Tues of the month at Arataki Community Centre, Zambuk Way (off Grenada St) Mt Maunganui 6.15pm. New members welcome. Tess 575 6610 YMCA Sit n Fit Class Tues at Papamoa Community Centre, Gravatt Rd, Papamoa 11.30am - 12.30pm.

Weds at Greenwood Park Village, Welcome Bay Rd 11am - 12pm. Social exercise seated to music. All welcome.

578 9272

Wednesday 20 March Alcoholics Anonymous St

Mary’s School staff room, 13th Ave East, Tauranga 7.30pm.

Balmorals Leisure Marching Team

Welcome ladies to join this awesome sport for fun, friendship & travel.

30-60 age group. Anita 571 4096 a/hs or 0210 257 6094

Baywide Community Law Service

Drop in clinic every Weds at 63 Willow St 5-6.30pm. No appointment necessary. Free legal assistance. 571 6812. Every Tues morning at Te Puke Clinic. For appointment 573 5614.

Every Thurs morning at Katikati Clinic. For appointment 549 0399 BOP at Heart AGM at Durham Street Business Centre 7.30pm. 0800 126 745

Fernlands Spa Water Exercise Class

Weds 10.45-11.45am. Held rain or shine, but not during school holidays.

New participants planning to attend ph Jennifer 571 1411 Gate Pa Indoor Bowls Box drawn 9 bowl ripples (Pratt Trophy) at Greerton Hall 7.30pm. Marg 543 3394 Global Hearts Exercise Group Weds 2pm & Fri 11am. Provides group activities combined with health education that encourages members to live a healthy & active lifestyle.

Classes run by certified Phase 3 cardiac rehabilitator. Vikki 575 0470 or 0272 800 388 Merge Social Group For newcomers to Tauranga. Meet 1st & 3rd Tues at Nautilus Bar, Sulphur Pt 5pm. Sandra 021 565 459 Mount Badminton Club Social club night tonight at Mount Sports Centre, Maunganui Rd 7-9.30pm. All past & new players welcome. Janice 575 2438 or 027 201 0529

Mount Healing & Spiritual Centre Fellowship & celebration

at Omanu Bowling Club, Golf Rd, Mount 7.30pm. Guest speaker: Kerry Thompson – crystal bowls & interactive workshop. Door charge $3.

All welcome. Janet 027 264 0226

Mount Maunganui Sequence

Dance AGM April 10 at 211 Ngatai Rd 7.30pm.

All welcome. Elizabeth 544 5633

Orange City Square & Round Dance Club Weds advanced, Thurs club

night, Frontiersmen’s Hall 7.30pm.

Pauline 543 1063 Otumoetai Toy Box Toy Library 94 Bureta Rd. Open Weds 6.30-8.30pm, Thurs & Fri 9.30-11.30am. A number of membership options available. 576 9923 or 027 857 7452 Papamoa Book Group Papamoa Library 10am. Theme: Biographies & autobiographies of musicians. $3 donation. Morning tea provided. All welcome.

Papamoa Garden Circle Meet in Tohora Room, Papamoa Community Centre 1pm. Alison 572 3601 Salvation Army Meeting For all women every Weds 10am morning tea, 10.30am meeting at Salvation Army cnr Cameron Rd & 5th Ave Tauranga. Guest: Carol Parsons reflexologist. New members welcome.

Jennifer 578 4264 Scottish Country Dancing Weds at Senior Citizens Hall, Maunganui Rd. Fri at Papamoa Primary School Hall, Dickson Rd. Both 7.30pm. 573 5055

Tauranga Sequence Dance Club

Weds & Mon at Norris St, Tauranga 7-10pm. Lovely dances, tuition, fun, bring partner. Barbara 552 6227

Toastmasters - City Early Start

Improve communication, leadership & teamwork skills. Join the motivated & enthusiastic group every Weds at Classic Flyers Avgas Cafe 6.458.15am. Email: LaniDTM@ kol.co.nz or 571 1545.

Website: http://cityearlystart. toastmastersclubs.org

Toastmasters Tauranga South Area Leadership skills, speaking skills.

Weds at St George’s Church Hall cnr Cameron Rd & Church St 7.15pm.

All welcome. Alan 544 5989 TS Chatham (Sea Cadets) Every Weds at TYPBC, Keith Allan Drive, Sulphur Pt 6.30-9pm. Lee 542 5377 or 027 291 6151 or email: leew. lynnc@xtra.co.nz Walking Group Age Concern walking group met at 7th Ave, off Edgecumbe Road 10am. All welcome. 578 2631

Thursday 21 March Adult Art Jam Build

creative confidence while sharing resources/ideas with other arty people! $20 tea/coffee provided. Every Thurs 7-9pm. Janice 552 4162 www.theartyhouse.co.nz

Community Bible Study nternational Meet at 14th Ave Gospel Centre 10am - 12pm until March 21 for a non-denominational in depth study of Ephesians. Betty 544 3809 Fitness League Safe, effective, low impact exercise to music using the Bagot Stack technique, designed for females. All ages & abilities, first class free, every Thurs Central Baptist Church Hall, cnr 13th Ave & Cameron Rd 9.30am & Weds at Katikati Memorial Hall 10am. Pam 549 4799 or 021 117 170

Forest & Bird (Tauranga Branch) Mt Ngongotaha. Meet at Countdown, Bethlehem 9am. Grade medium/hard. $15. Cheryl 576 2689

Keynotes 4 Part Harmony

Women’s chorus meet every Thurs at Wesley Church Hall, 13th Ave 6.45pm,. Sing for fun & health. Nora 544 2714 Meditation Group Monthly group, next group March 28 7-8.30pm. Open to anyone interested in improving their understanding & practice of meditation & Buddhism. Gold coin donation welcome. Dianne email: dianeestellehowell@yahoo.co.nz or 577 1484 www.meditateintauranga.org Rock n Roll Social Dancing Authentic music. Every Thurs at Senior Citizen’s Hall, 14 Norris St, Tauranga 7.309.30pm. $3 entry pp. Maria 576 7326

Tauranga Central Ladies Probus Club Third Tues of each month at

Daniels, Memorial Park 9.45am. New

members welcome. Jean 544 6516 Tauranga Heart Support Group Phase 3 rehab exercise, social events & guest speakers for those with or at risk of heart disease. Every Thurs at City Church Hall, Otumoetai Rd/Sherwood St 9.30-10.45am.

Men & women welcome. Dianne 576 5031 Qualified instructor/Cardiac Care leader.

Tauranga Photographic Society Meet on first & third

Thurs of month at Art & Crafts Centre, 177 Elizabeth St West, Tauranga 7.30pm. info@ taurangaphoto.org.nz

Tauranga Storytellers’ Group Meet last Thurs of every month. Learn how to develop your storytelling skills. Claire 577 7220 Te Puna Rugby JMC Registration night March 21 at Te Puna Rugby Club 4-6pm.

Sarah 021 288 0508 Tennis Seniors 35+ Every Thurs at Tauranga Lawn TC opp Court House Cameron rd 9am. New members welcome.

Wing Chun Women Women’s only self defence club 6.30-8.30pm. 0800 FYT BAK or Nicky 021 148 6467

Alcoholics Anonymous Open meeting every Fri at Hamner Clinic, 1235 Cameron Rd, Greerton (behind Tyremaster) 7.30pm.

0800 229 6757 for more meetings or assistance.

Chess Tauranga Every Fri at Tauranga RSA, Greerton 6pm onwards for the whole family. Noel 579 5412 http://www. westernbopchess.weebly.com/ Free Immigration Clinic Every Fri - legal advice & information on immigration issues. For appointment, Baywide Community Law 571 6812 Gay/Bi Men’s Support Group Do you need a trusting person to talk to? Discretion assured. For meetings & locations ph/text Alex 027 358 5934 NZ Shareholders Assn BOP Branch

Meet monthly on last Fri of the month to share information, discuss topical subjects followed by social hour. New members & guests welcome. For venue & time of next event, Bruce 541 0688

Friday 22 March

26th Easter Book Sale Rotary Club of Tauranga need your books. Sale held March 30, 31 - 1 April 2013 at new venue, Countdown’s old Foodtown Building Cameron Rd, opp Tauranga Boys College.

Please deliver unwanted books, magazines, sheet music, records, cassette tapes, CD’s, videos, DVDs & jigsaw puzzles to Caltex Welcome Bay, Bayfair, Greerton, 14th Ave, Katikati or for collection Ross 544 0817

“What’s On” in the Weekend Sun is a free service for non-profit clubs and organisations.

Email julie@thesun.co.nz or fax 571 1116 or post to PO Box 240, Tauranga.

Deadline 3pm Tuesday. Contributions should be less than 20 words.

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By Winston Watusi

Never a quiet moment Party in the park, Paeroa style The Paeroa Wine and Food Festival is a celebration of wine, beer, food, crafts, music - including feature entertainment from internationally renowned jazz singer Diana Harris.

This year visitors to the festival will be able to enjoy and learn from one of New Zealand’s great winemakers, Steve Bird, as he joins the Golddiggers Paeroa team at their stand. Steve, a Thames lad, will be spending the day on-site offering insights and tastings of his three awardwinning varieties.

He’ll also be bringing a magnum (a massive 1.5 litre bottle) of the Big Barrel Pinot Noir to give away to one lucky person who purchases a bottle during the day. So come along and be in to win.

Diana, revelling in her love affair with New Zealand and having featured at the Waiheke Jazz Festival last year, is thrilled to be back in the country to perform.

The entertainment doesn’t stop there though. Catch Paeroa band Roadrunner, Coromandel’s finest classic blues rock band, and Waikato virtuoso Byron Vodane.

And MC for the day, nga iwi DJ Murdock.

Kids’ entertainment and a playground are central to the festival, so the event should be a great day for the whole family.

This fantastic day out offers everyone the opportunity to relax in the picturesque Paeroa Domain and enjoy what the region has to offer – fantastic people, great food and wines as well as beautiful arts and crafts.

Enjoy a day of laughter, culture, crafts, great wines, beer and music.

Gates open at 11am.

Adult tickets cost $15, which includes a complimentary wine glass, seniors and children tickets cost $10, children under 12 years receive free entry.

Once again there’s so much to mention, so little space. And that’s without the weather, the cats, the asset sales or my favourite cocktail this week.

What we do have is a Tauranga band heading off for a tour in England, a special offer from the Jazz Festival, and exciting news for film buffs. We’ll start with the music...

Brilleaux, purveyors of English rhythm ‘n’ blues are off to the UK in October for their Selling Coal To Newcastle tour. Though they’re not actually going to Newcastle.

Kick off

The tour started with an invite to play at the Isle Of Wight blues festival, one of a series of events put on as part of the Boogaloo Festivals.

These are blues shows that take place in the off-season at holiday camps around the country. The empty camps are the perfect venue, with accommodation, catering, bars and everything you need right there, and blues bands provide the entertainment.

From there, frontman Graham Clark, along with an English friend he met over there in 2010, has been putting together dates in Brighton, Portsmouth, Leicester, Bedford, eight or nine gigs over a two week period. Amazingly, tickets have already begun selling, along with the band’s CDs. And, even more exciting for the band, they have been offered a support gig while they’re there with none other than Nine Below Zero. In case you’re not versed in the intricacies of the UK R&B scene, here’s what Graham has to say: “If you’re talking about British rhythm ‘n’ blues bands, they’re pretty much the kingpins – they’re like R&B royalty for us, it’s like a rock band supporting Hendrix...”

But, despite confirmed gigs, such trips don’t come cheap, especially first time out. So Brilleaux are holding a couple of fund-raising gigs next weekend (March 23, 24) at Driver’s Bar in the 11 Avenue Plaza. And they’re taking a novel approach.

These will be concerts showcasing their last album, the all-acoustic set Brilleauxvator. They’ll be seated and, during the night the bar will serve a light threecourse meal. There’s also a support act in the shape of a rather stunning acoustic blues guitarist, Ian Goodsman, recently returned from playing in the

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UK himself. Tickets, which are selling fast, are $40, available from Driver’s Bar.

Moving on...

The organisers of Easter’s National Jazz Festival have a special offer running at the moment and it would be remiss of me not to mention it, as it involves an aspect of the event I haven’t so far written about.

For the past few years the festival has held a dance party, which they call the Hurricane Party. It’s a fun bash, recognising that a lot of the most interesting outgrowths of jazz in the last couple of decades have come from its use – either via samples or live instruments – in the context of dancefloor rhythms. Modern grooves meeting the classic sounds of Blue Note is an obvious example but it’s everywhere.

It’s the same sort of area that Nathan Haines has been working in until his recent return to more classical jazz territory.

Anyway, the Hurricane Party this year is taking place at 9.30pm (till late, natch) on the Saturday of Easter at Baycourt’s Jazz Café. There are two very good bands and it promises to be a blast.

And here’s the deal: if you answer one question correctly while booking tickets you’ll get to pay only $20 for your ticket rather than the regular $39. That’s a pretty good deal and makes for a very affordable night out.

And the question? Name one of the two bands playing. So, in the interests of saving readers money and helping them have a good time, I can reveal – not even vaguely exclusively – that the bands playing are Spiral and Hipstamatics. Call that box office now!

Last but not least

And, lastly, The Tauranga Film Society kicks off this year’s programme next week (Wednesday March 20) at the Rialto with Viva Maria! From French director Louis Malle.

Their full season’s programme is on-line at www. nzfilmsociety.org.nz/tauranga.htm and is the usual eclectic mix of hard-to-find films, early silents, classics, documentaries and modern gems.

I’ll come back to this in more depth after Easter as the society is well worth checking out.

To join, or for more information, contact Neale Blaymires at neale@eol.co.nz

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THE INTOUCHABLES Starring: Francois Cluzet, Omar Sy - Dir: Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano

Here’s a question: what’s the highestgrossing movie worldwide in a language other than English? The answer? This one. According to Wikipedia it has so far taken well over US$400 million and is still going strong.

And what a joy it is to watch! It confirms, along with Polisse (see below) that in the hands of those clever French even the most alarming sounding subject matter can be handled with

Bicycle couriers in New York city – they do it for the rush don’tcha know! That’s certainly how they roll in Premium Rush , which has a whole lot of biking goin’ on as Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s law student drop-out peddles around like an adrenalin-crazed loon while delivering packages. It’s all fun and games (and broken collar bones) until a nasty rogue cop (Michael Shannon) starts chasing him, wanting to get hold of a valuable delivery. It’s a slick good-looking ride, silly and lightweight but generally fun and generously stacked with action (most of it of a twowheeled variety).

warmth and humanity and turned into something really special.

It opens in Paris, with the aristocratic and intellectual Philippe, a quadriplegic millionaire, who is interviewing candidates for the position of his caretaker.

In comes Driss, a man who has no desire to get hired. He’s just there to get a signature showing he was interviewed and rejected in order to keep receiving his welfare benefits. But, after being kicked out of the tiny flat he shares with his extended family he returns and is surprised

but, I wasn’t expecting much from Victim given that it stars and was written and directed by Michael Biehn, I was vaguely curious. Biehn is Kyle, a loner living in the woods. One night a panicked woman knocks on his door, running away after her friend has been murdered by the cops they were dating. Then the two cops arrive and cat and mouse stuff ensues. It’s kinda like a low budget seventies exploitation flick, with arch dialogue and iffy acting.

Almost “So Bad It’s Good” but, sadly, there’s a restraint to proceedings that leaves it unmemorable.

Mysteria is a very low budget film. Presumably, what money they had went on the half-respectable cast (Danny Glover, Martin Landau, Michael Rooker, all wasted) because they’ve largely done away with sets, many scenes simply shot against walls in anonymous rooms. The story, about a screenwriter struggling to make deadline who becomes involved in some sort of conspiracy, is somewhat, er, random.

Perhaps it’s all a dream; perhaps he’s dead. There are strange clues and omens dropped with sledgehammer subtlety but so much is either inexplicable or illogical that the only result is frustration. I’d be surprised if viewers make it past the first half hour, let alone reach the anticlimactic ending.

has some grim subject Polisse matter. Which is what you’d expect from a film based on cases from the Paris Child Protection Unit. But the film, and its storytelling, is anything but grim. This is extraordinary stuff: tough, honest, warm and unflinchingly human, focusing on a dozen or so members of the unit and following their personal and professional lives.

They’re a diverse bunch – funny, bitter, dedicated – and the film is rich and vibrant, and totally engrossing as we follow the team through days and nights, the mundane and bizarre, successes and failures. Rather brilliant stuff.

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Liberal Arts M – Contains adult themes Newly single and uninspired by his job in college admissions, the introverted Jesse Fisher (Josh Radnor) lives with his head buried in a book.

His deep nostalgia for his own alma mater in Ohio - the dining halls and dorm rooms, the parties and poetry seminars – makes him wonder if his best days are behind him. So when his favorite professor (Richard Jenkins) invites him back to campus to speak at his retirement dinner, Jesse jumps at the chance. Meeting Zibby (Elizabeth Olsen) - a precocious classical music-loving sophomore - awakens in Jesse long-dormant feelings of possibility and connection.

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to be offered the job. It’s the start of a new life for both men and the film is a miracle of tone and pace, managing to never shy away from the overwhelming nature of Philippe’s condition while being both very funny and upliftingly lifeaffirming.

Had I not been recommended The Intouchables I would probably have skipped it as possibly too depressing (I’m a sensitive soul sometimes). But I’m so glad I saw it. Forget the subtitles, forget any reservations you might have, and grab this – your life will be richer for it.

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Company’s ‘deer’ effort for charity In celebrating 75 years of business in Tauranga, staff at Holland Beckett saw the milestone as an opportunity to give back to the community – and set Waipuna Hospice in their sights.

Mark says HOBEC staff simply wanted to acknowledge the part the Tauranga community has played in the business’ success throughout the years.

Separating into four teams, each taking part in a different community initiative, commercial partner Mark Tingey and his team sought to collect items for Waipuna Hospice’s three second-hand stores.

Mark is thrilled with the effort his team has put in and the public’s response, with an estimated $5000-$10,000 worth of furniture and household items collected and ready for sale in the coming weeks.

“I had my mind on 75 bits of furniture, but we’ve probably collected more like 750 pieces, from

books and crockery, paintings to carpets – even a trophy deer head.

“Once sold, all of that money then goes directly to the hospice, which reduces the pressure on them to fundraise all the time.”

Mark, who doubles as Waipuna Hospice’s deputy chair, hopes the collection will help promote the second-hand stores, which he says are a great way of raising funds and helping the community.

“It works really well, rather than people just throwing unwanted items out.”

Waipuna Hospice currently has three stores: in Greerton, Fraser Cove and most recently Mount Maunganui.

“We’re looking to expand the Mount store at the moment. Soon we’ll have much more room and hopefully it will become much easier for the public on that side of the harbour bridge to engage with the hospice and its new store.

“From our perspective, this was a win-win for the hospice – not only does this benefit the hospice from a fundraising perspective, but it also seeks to promote the second-hand shops.”

By Corrie Taylor

Holland Beckett staff collected items for Waipuna Hospice, including a deer head, to celebrate 75 years in business. Photo by Bruce Barnard.

Volunteer day and youth event Handy with a paintbrush? Want to help a good cause?

Join Envirohub BOP and the Master Painters Association to help repaint Tauranga YMCA using recycled exterior primer from The Decorating Company and paint donated by Dulux.

YMCA Tauranga CEO Ric Balfour says back in 2009 the organisation had its new home on Devonport Rd repainted in the YMCA colours.

“Now with our building next door upgraded inside, we need to repaint the outside. You can see it is starting to peel and needs attention before next winter.

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Forum participants are being encouraged to enter a photo competition as part of the build- up to the event to win prizes including an O’Neill RG8 wetsuit and Butler’s Swim with Dolphins tickets. To find out more and register for the forum, search ‘Envirohub Youth Forum’ on Facebook.

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Katikati’s Turkish Delight dance group was among the colourful performers at last year’s Tauranga Multicultural Festival.

Photo by Tracy Hardy.

Carnival of colour arrives in town The sounds, colours and flavours of carnival will fill the air at Tauranga’s Historic Village on Saturday with the Tauranga Multicultural Festival.

The festival, running for the 14th year, offers something for the whole family with entertainment, cultural performances and music throughout the day from many of the region’s diverse ethnic groups.

Festival committee chairwoman Ewa Fenn says there will be many highlights with performances by more than 20 groups on the centre stage and throughout the village.

Along with short performances by most groups, the festival will conclude with a 45 minute show by the Caribbeanz Southern Cross Stars Steelpan Band which will perform the classic West Indian music with steel pan drums from about 3pm.

“We think it will be a great to have them playing in the background while people are relaxing and enjoying the atmosphere.”

It’s the Auckland-based Caribbeanz band’s first performance in Tauranga, while many previous popular acts are returning including Tauranga Samba and Rotorua’s Geyserland Dixie Band.

Ewa says another highlight will be the wide range of tasty everyday ethnic food offered including

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The festival will include a ‘parade of cultures’ with representatives from about 20 ethnic groups parading in their traditional costumes with national flags. Fire performers and stiltwalkers will add to the carnival atmosphere.

Children will be catered for with a slide and bouncy castle, pony rides and storytelling, while ethnic arts and crafts will also be for sale.

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Pilot Bay boardwalk a step closer Tauranga City Council gained valuable public feedback on the proposed Pilot Bay boardwalk following a public information session this week.

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About 200 people attended the information session on Wednesday afternoon showing the proposed final design for the $500,000 walkway along the Bay’s waterfront.

Everyone who attended was encouraged to write down their feedback which was collated and presented to elected council members yesterday.

Last year, council received 145 submissions on the boardwalk with 83 per cent in support of making improvements to the space by constructing a path or enhancing the turf, while 77 per cent of those in support preferred a hard surface.

The boardwalk will be constructed using timber from the Rena and has two proposed widths – 2.5metres and 3metres. Councillor Tony Christiansen says while the proposal is not yet finalised it will protect the grass areas and offer far better access to people who have not been able to access it.

“The next step should be making up some parts of the boardwalk to show the public what it will look like when it is installed.”

Mount resident Leigh Pettigrew opposes a full length boardwalk saying he has seen the proposal a thousand

Councillors and public meet to discuss the proposed Pilot Bay boardwalk on Wednesday. times and his viewpoint has not swayed. He believes it should instead be constructed as a walkway through the mid-section of the beach where maintenance of the grass has been neglected by council. “I’ve got no doubt in my mind that it should be used as a relaxation area for families. “They are just using emotive issues such as cruise ships and wheelchair users to promote the idea.”

A public protest against the boardwalk will go ahead at Pilot Bay this Sunday from 4-6pm.

The protest and an online petition have both been set up by public opposing council’s decision, with the aim to convince council to stop the proposal or at least reroute the boardwalk.

Construction for the boardwalk is expected to begin next month, following the collation of public feedback

By Luke Balvert and is to be completed by July.

Entering the wonderful world of Wearable Arts At The Village, our preschool room follows a aspects of fashion shows such as lighting, music, choreography, and photographing their creations. During project approach to children’s interests. this process children have learned to take on leaderRecently the children have become interested in dress ups, and we decided to extend this interest by designing and creating our own costumes with the goal of creating and participating in a fashion show. This was a wonderful opportunity to really deepen the children’s understanding of costume, drama and stage presentation, as well as giving them a sense of accomplishment and pride.

After many discussions between teachers and children, looking through books, magazines and design ideas for the costumes, the group set to work on their creations. The children gathered sea shells, sequins, buttons and materials of all kinds and used them to experiment with designing, creating, hand and machine sewing, as well as exploring other

ship roles and to think autonomously. They have also grown in confidence, experimented with new ideas and communicated with their peers and co-operated with one another to make the show a success.

The mermaid costume demonstrates what can be done.

Clara wanted to be a mermaid. She drew her own version of the costume and discussed the construction of the garment and the different colours she wanted to use. Fabric was found, scale shapes were cut out and then hand-dyed by the children using pigment dyes and a paint brush. The costume was stapled together and then decorated with shells, petals and glass beads.

Village preschool Our wonderful wearable arts student Clara will be on show at our Family shows off her Fun Day and Fashion Parade on mermaid outfit March 22 at 4pm. ahead of next Visitors are most welcome to Friday’s fashion come and view some of the chilparade. dren’s fabulous creations.

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New Zealand director of Celebrate Messiah in Tauranga Scott Brown, the New Zealand director of Celebrate Messiah is speaking at Jesus First, Tauranga this Sunday morning (http://www. celebratemessiah.co.nz).

Scott is a Jewish believer in Yeshua, who has been sharing the Good News of the Messiah with Jewish people for nearly 30 years, as well as teaching gentile believers about the Jewish roots of our faith.

Raised in a traditional Jewish home in the suburbs of Washington D.C., Scott began his spiritual journey by moving into the

woods and living a solitary life. It was there that a co-worker gave Scott a pocket New Testament. That little Bible launched a crisis of faith which eventuated in Scott’s salvation seven years later.

Scott entered full-time missionary service with Chosen People Ministries in 1988 and planted Son of David Congregation (SODC), which later birthed another messianic congregation - Sar Shalom Fellowship.

Both congregations continue to flourish, and have been used of God to make many disciples among Jewish people.

After 19 fruitful years of pastoral leadership at SODC, Scott, along with his wife Mar-

jorie and four of their seven children, moved to New Zealand where Scott is serving as director of Celebrate Messiah New Zealand. Scott is reaching out to the thousands of Israeli and other international tourists whose physical journeys are often attended with spiritual quests. Through seminars, conferences and church meetings, Scott is also equipping Christians throughout New Zealand with a broader understanding of Israel in prophecy, and the Jewish roots of Christianity.

You are most welcome to join with us at Jesus First this Sunday, or visit our website: www.jesusfirst.org.nz

Living with a down-to-Earth kind of faith is best way to live Some people are very down to Earth. You’d describe them as grounded or as having their feet on the ground. They are people of common sense, people who are realistic about life and how life works. They don’t necessarily lack ambition, but rather they’ve a keen sense of the hard work needed to make a difference in the world and to make one’s dreams a reality. Other people have their head in the clouds. You might describe them as day dreamers who drift from idea to idea with little understanding of the commitment required to make something a reality. They live for something off over there, in the future.

The Christian faith is intended to be very down to Earth. The overarching trajectory of the biblical story is just that: God always seeking to bring Heaven to Earth.

In the Garden of Eden, God walked with man, God dwelt with Israel in the tabernacle and the Temple, Jesus came from Heaven to Earth, Jesus’ prayer was that God’s will would be done on Earth as in Heaven. Jesus is coming back; Heaven and Earth will one day be reunited. The Christian faith isn’t about escaping from here to there, it’s about partnering in God’s great mission of bringing Heaven to Earth. It’s a sleeves rolled up, hands dirty, get stuck in, feet on the ground faith. A faith that lives out of restored relationship and seeks to

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The final destination is this Earth: renewed, restored, reconfigured and reunited with Heaven. Not a golden city in the clouds.

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Public Meeting with Guest Speaker, Rt Hon Winston Peters

You’re invited to hear New Zealand First leader Rt Hon Winston Peters speak. There will be the opportunity for a Q & A afterwards.

Saturday 16 March, 1pm Baycourt Exhibition Hall, Durham Street, Tauranga Enquiries: 07 578 7209 or nzfirsttauranga@xtra.co.nz nzfirst.org.nz

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dance partners

WANTED MALE ballroom dance partner, must be committed for practices and competitions. Aged between 9 & 10. No experience needed.

Ph 027 411 7652

firewood

DRY PINE/WILLOW MIX $80 metre cube if ordered before Easter. Cut for woodfire but can cut larger if required. Can deliver Tauranga District. Ph 544 1233 or 022 643 2494

flatmate wanted

FLATMATE WANTED URGENTLY to share two storey house with mid-twenties working couple in early Papamoa. 1 bedroom downstairs with own bathroom amenities. Across road from beach.

Must be dog friendly & working. $175pw + food (power inc).

Enquire after 5:30pm weekdays 027 216 4398

for sale

BOAT FOR SALE Fibreglass Boat 14ft on galvanised trailer, 40hp Tohansu motor, fish finder, canopy, reg & wof $2200.

Ph 544 8595 BROOKFIELD PRIMARY school uniform. Good condition & some in used condition. Bulk buy for only $50 (that’s about $1 each) 5yrs to 12yrs – Hats, Tshirts, Pants, Shorts, Skorts, Skirts, Vests, Sweatshirts. approx 40-50 items in the bag – text 027 211 9193 SMALL CONCRETE SLEEPERS everlasting and realistic from $9.00 each. Village Stone 53 Hull Rd Mt Maunganui Ph 575 4887

free

MOVING BOXES mostly banana boxes, but they are the best for packing! Used once to move house now just sitting there and seems a waste to just dump. Must collect Bethlehem area. Ph 027 758 5774

gardening

GARDENER AVAILABLE Pruning, spraying, weeding, rubbish removal. Ph Tracey on 578 9779 for a free quote

health & beauty

A GUARANTEED weight loss lose up to 15kg, 30 day Money Back Guarantee. Free trial Ph 09 374 2554 www.healthbuz.net LOSE WEIGHT feel great! Join a ‘New Look’ clinic in your area.

Healthy eating with real food.

Ph Bernice now 576 4848 MAT PILATES – Small Private Studio Reduce back/shoulder pain, improve your mobility and wellbeing Classes up to maximum

health & beauty contin

of 6, so lots of one-on-one attention! www.pilatespro.co.nz for timetable or Ph Sheryl 027 280 5028 for more details NATURAL NEW ZEALAND Health Products. Something for everyone. NZ Registered Natural Therapies & Natural Medicine Practitioners. Opposite BP Te Puke. Ph 573 5533 www.naturaltherapiesnz.com & www.kiwikitz.com SENSUAL THERAPEUTIC MASSAGE In a quiet peaceful setting in Papamoa Beach Ph Emily on 021 185 1624 SHAPE UP & improve your health with the Community Weight Loss Challenge. 12 weeks just $49. Ph 576 3636 jen@nzhealthnow.com

house sitter

PROFESSIONAL HOUSE minder available. Do you want peace of mind that your treasured home is in trustworthy hands while you are away on holiday. Excellent references. Available now.

Ph Cathie 022 162 8301

lifestyle coaching

CAREER RESTRUCTURING? Creating opportunity from Change. Ph Chris at Balanced Success Coaching 027 548 2548 chris@balancedsuccess.co.nz www.balancedsuccess.co.nz

livestock

AC PETFOODS collect injured & unwanted cows & horses.

Ph 0800 369 6269 WEANER PIGS 8 weeks old.

Berkshire Saddle Back x. Ready now $70. Ph 021 048 2833

mobility

MOBILITY SCOOTERS wheelchairs walkers & more.

Visit or showroom 29 Burrows St, Tauranga Ph 578 1213. MES ‘Supporting you independence’ STAIRLIFTS – Make life easy with a stairlift enjoy the home you love by installing an Acorn Stairlift. Call us now TOLL FREE 0800 782 475 or www.acornstairlifts.co.nz

pets

DOG TRAINING classes & courses for Adult & Juvenile( 5-12 months) dogs - next week’s course Wednesday 20th March 6pm & Sunday 24th March 2pm - Basic Obedience & toilet training. $25 per class or $80 for a course of 4 classes. At Absolutely Precious Paws Doggy Day Care, 35 b Glasgow St. Email headoffice@preciouspaws.co.nz or phone 0508 738 748 now to book.

DOG WALKER AVAILABLE in the Avenues/Grace Road area.

Responsible, caring & loves animals.$10 for half hour per dog.

Ph 578 7328 or 027 280 5028

situations vacant

AFTER SCHOOL CARE REQUIRED Responsible person to care for one child after school Thurs & Fridays 3-6pm. Drivers license req. Otumoetai area.

Would consider in home care.

Please ph 022 124 2988 evenings or leave a message.

to let

3 BEDROOM family home.

Single powered garage, garden shed, fully insulated within last 24 months, wood burning fireplace, easy walking distance to schools, Brookfield shops/supermarket & parks, fully fenced, wheelchair friendly, nice safe & quiet street in a cul-de-sac. Available 23 March Ph Maureen today on 578 1807 AT PAPAMOA EAST 2 bedroom flat below owner. Off street parking not suitable for kids or pets. $240 p/w inc power, water etc. Ph 542 0120 or 027 654 8781 BROOKFIELD AREA Ideal 3 Bedroom home. Great home for kids, fenced deck area, single powered garage, garden shed, heatpump, easy walking distance to schools, Brookfield shops/ supermarket & parks, fenced section in a quiet cul-de-sac with off street parking. Available 6 April Ph Maureen on 578 1807 today

trades & services

E L E C T R I C I A N A professional & affordable registered electrician. New builds alterations repairs. Ph Steve 578 0555 or 027 848 6042 EXTERIOR HOUSE WASHING bsp house washing. 30 years in the industry, high & low pressure cleaning. Competitive rates, free quotes. Ph mark 027 699 8356 a/hours 544 4541 GORSE SPRAYING Do you have a gorse problem? Ph today for a free quote for all gorse control.

Ph Scott 027 462 4769 GUTTERING CLEAN and repairs moss removal.

Experienced Certified Roofer.

Free quotes. Ph Peter now 542 4291 or 0274 367 740 HANDYMAN BUILDING & section maintenance, decks, fencing, pergolas, painting, water blasting, odd jobs. Free quotes Ph Rossco 027 270 3313 or 544 5911 INSECT SCREENS Measure.

Make. Mend. Contact Rob at Magic Seal 543 4940 LAWN MOWING garden tidy, etc.

Call me for a quote & let me keep your lawns tidy. Experienced operator. Ph Mark 021 220 3111 PAINTER / DECORATOR Interior & Exterior, quality workmanship friendly services.

Over 20 years specialising in residential and more. Quality paint at trade prices. For your best advice in all areas. Ph Shane Mount/Tauranga Decorators 07 544 6495 or 021 575 307

PAINTING / DECORATING Quality work by qualified tradesman, small job specialist, 30 yrs experience discount for pensioners.

Ph for a free quote 542 4665 or 027 305 2357 PAINTING small job specialist, guaranteed workmanship assured, semi retired tradesman.

Ph Mike a/h 576 5501 or 027 473 7482 PRESSURE CLEANING, environment friendly, of houses/ building exteriors, paths, fences etc. Including enviro spider

trades & services contin control. Competitive pricing. Ph Tim 027 912 5040 ROOFING & SPOUTING Metal fascia, gutter & rainwater systems. Long run corrugate.

Maintenance, repairs or replacement. Free no obligation quotes. PROFIX 027 496 5375 profixltd@xtra.co.nz ROOFING new roofs re-roofs spouting & repairs. Free quotes. Ph Chris 027 276 6348 or 572 3237 ROOF REPAIRS metal or onduline gutters & down pipes clean or replacement chimney repairs.

Certified Roofer Free over 30yrs experience quote. Ph Peter 542 4291 or 027 436 7740 SCAFFOLDING prompt free quotes, friendly service, DIY or full erect & dismantle services. Safe, certified, cost effective. Safeplank Scaffolding 021 680 555 STUMPINATOR STUMP Grinding free quotes & prompt service. Narrow machine to access rear yards. Ph 576 4245 or 022 076 4245 TAURANGA SKYDIVING in the Bay, Ph 576 7990

TANDEM Best Buzz Gift Vouchers.

TILER QUALIFIED TILER references available free quotes all types of work done from kitchen splashbacks to full tiled bathrooms. Contact Nelson 021 609 289

TIMBER RETAINING WALLS decks and all types of fencing.

Excellent work at a competitive price. Ph Clive 021 048 2833 or 552 6510 TREES TREES TREES Felling, Pruning, Maintenance, Chipping, & Removal. Ph Scott Today on 027 462 4769 TREE SHRUB and hedges trimming, topping removal, rubbish removal, satisfaction guaranteed free quote. Ph Steve Hockly 571 5958 or 027 498 1857

transport

DRIVING MISS DAISY relief for busy families let us take care of the transportation of your parents to appointments or outings. Safe, friendly, reliable service. Ph Jackie from Driving Miss Daisy 552 6614

travel & tours

A HOLIDAY or day-out. Every week. Small Group Tours.

Door to Door Hinterland Tours Ph Kae & Rick 07 575 8118 BAYLINE COACHES Day trips, away trips or sight seeing & tours! Call for a free quote today Ph 578 3113 SCOTTSDALE SENIOR TOURS fully escorted owner/operated since 1978. Ph free for colour brochure today 0800 664 414. Also see www.scottsdaletours.co.nz THE SUNDAY LUNCH CLUB Bracu April 14, Daltons Plantation 5 May, Vin Alto May 12. Newsletters available. Ph 544 1383 tgatastingtours@xtra.co.nz www.tastingtours.co.nz

tutoring

AVAILABLE FOR Year 0 – 8 students in Reading, Writing, Maths. Provide an extra boost for your child. Trained/ experienced teacher. $40/hr.

Ph 021 332 018 PRIMARY - SECONDARY tuition available in maths, english, science by experienced, registered teacher of both main-stream & gifted learners.

Ph Avon 572 4153

wanted

ANTIQUES, COINS, medals, china, glass, Kiwiana, Australiana, militaria, toys, anything old and interesting.

021 392913 or 07 549 0139 mark.holwerda@vodafone.co.nz

CORFLUTE

SIGNS for sustainable tree project. Can pick up. Email claire@thesun.co.nz

WANTED either donation or small cost carpet square for classroom mat email hoskinfam@xtra.co.nz

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GARAGE

SALE BROOKFIELD

David St, Sat 8am. Moving house! Loads of kids toys etc, kitchen & misc stuff… highchair, stroller, flyfishing rod, glass fruit bowls, photo frames, vases, Dora Scooter, deck chairs etc.

GREERTON

22 Bongard Street, Sat 8am.

General household items, t.v, kitchenware etc.

112B Mansels Rd, Sat 7am Junque & Disorderly furniture, china, kitchenware, clothing, linen, jewellery, toys, jars.

Double bed. Long overdue clear-out. Also, CD’s Christian/ Collectible

MOUNT MAUNGANUI

Valley Road (Golf Road end) Sat, signs out 7am. Moving overseas. Clothes, exercise equipment, garden pots, household items.

PAPAMOA

4 Belray Place, Sat 7am.

Clothing, furniture, kitchen ware, linen, arts & crafts, outdoor furniture, lawn mower, garden tools, framed aluminium window, etc.

18 Crisp Drive, Sunday 8am 12noon. Household items, brica-brac, cosmetics.

105 Domain Rd, Sat 16 March 9am – 2pm. Something for everyone! 3 households coming together to offer you loads of goodies.

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Booking Deadline : Thursdays 9am.

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Athletes from across the country competed at the Tauranga Regional Special Olympics at the Tauranga domain on Sunday.

R J Greer races to the finish line.

Justene Noyer in the lead.

It was a fun occasion for all involved.

Sprinting sensation Te-Huia Apaapa.

Samantha Ross competing at the event.

Russll Heslow and Dean Dudson rehydrating after the race.

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