The Weekend Sun 11 August 2017

11 August 2017, Issue 868

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No waste p4-5

Teachers’ time-out Now it’s the turn of the teachers.

The people who coach the kids, who organise and run the school sports groups, who are always on the sidelines, are about to have some fun of their own.

It’s the first ever New Zealand Teachers’ Games – a

chance to compete with colleagues, either competitively or socially – and it’s coming to Tauranga in October.

And it will be the kids turn to watch.

From basketball, squash, bowls and badminton to beach volleyball, waka ama, trivia nights and something

called ‘The Great Race’. Only a third of teachers are active in school sport and it’s hoped the event re-connects teachers with the joy of sport and the value of being part of a team.

Read the full story on page 7. Photo: Bruce Barnard.

Talking gender p13

A mop chopped p16

Indonesian culture p44

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What a week in the news. There's scandal, accusations, admissions, sadness and drama.

Metiria’s fallen on the sword. Jacinda’s riding high in the saddle. Glenn Campbell’s fallen from his.

Winston must be enjoying the sideshow and meanwhile, there are still a few actually getting on with running the country.

While the Green circus has been performing, Todd Muller has been on Parliament TV speaking about the massive investment the National government is making in the Bay’s education infrastructure. There’s some great news buried there, overshadowed by the antics on the Jacinda & Metiria Show. So just to remind us of what really matters: there’s a new school for Pyes Pa, a new school for Papamoa and new classrooms for several other Bay schools.

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Many commentators are concerned that Jacinda Ardern may be distracted from her role as leader of the Labour Party and other potentially influential positions by possible family commitments, including speculation that she could become a mother and that could interfere with whatever role she lands in parliament.

But child-bearing may not be the real distraction to her career. Why single out mothering as a potential obstacle?

What if there was another supposed ‘handicap’ to her ability?

Many MPs have still functioned while being rampant alcoholics. I’d rather see a doting mother running the country than some of the whiskey-sozzled old goons we’ve had in the past. There are worse things to distract our politicians from their task.

Addictive thirst

What if Jacinda became obsessed with stamp collecting?

I've seen some very committed people succumb to the addictive thirst for postage stamps that has driven them to the brink.

Normally responsible and reliable folk are rendered incapable of coherent behaviour unless it involves a Full Face Queen Victoria Perforated.

My wife points out that Jacinda may not be excusing herself from the chamber to change a diaper or apply a sprog to her bosom; but sneaking away from crucial

government deliberations to lick the back of the Queen's head. That could be a lot more disruptive than contemplating motherhood and contributing to the left wing gene pool.

Milk this for all it's worth

What if Jacinda's weakness was not breastfeeding or stamp collecting?

Consider the furore if a potential future Prime Minister was addicted to Tamagotchi…. You know, those handheld digital pets that were all the rage 20 years ago.

We could feasibly see our PM furtively feeding the thing while ignoring instructions from the Speaker of the House. But here's the real worry. What if Jacinda was a stamp-collecting, new mother and closet

Tamagotchi parent all at once? While pretending to be running the country or leading the opposition?

The message here is: Does it matter about anyone’s commitments or leanings or elected pastimes? Surely the measure of a person is their suitability and performance in office.

Nothing more, nothing less.

We really don't care if they save stamps or whales or Pokemon.

If a person can perform a public duty, it doesn't matter that they pray to wolves, believe the earth is flat, breed the occasional Kiwi or insist the moon landings were faked.

The measure of a person is how good they are at their job and we are about to find out.

Water tax

Meanwhile, the most absurd concept I’ve ever heard is a water tax.

What next? Air penalties? Oxygen demerits? Tax on sunlight?

Water falls out of the sky in quantities that we can’t even handle. This week being a

prime example. The regional council tells us this is one of the wettest winters in a decade.

Chris Ingle at the RC says that while there was little council could do about the wet, having the data was helpful for council and for the wider community to help planning.

“It has been an incredibly wet winter. The groundwater experts in council are telling me that the groundwater aquifers are fully charged, to the point that new springs are popping up in completely new locations or in places that we haven’t seen for decades.”

Hardly a crisis, or needing a tax!

In fact, New Zealand has so much water, there’s now a new sport emerging, underwater rugby. It’s an actual thing in Glen Innes. It’s taken off among underwater hockey players, spear fishers and other people who like holding their breath. Next thing there will be an underwater tax.

You won’t be allowed up till you’ve paid.

Jacinda will be waiting on top with a cork in your snork.

Here at RR we reckon the clean-up of waterways is essential, but a tax is a stupid way to hope to achieve it. We can keep working on cleaning up rivers and lakes and our harbours without slamming the primary industries that are the lifeblood of our community and economy. The Taxpayers’ Union reckons a cent per litre charge on irrigators equates to a $56 increase per week for households in the cost of food.

“The policy will hit low-income families struggling to afford fruit and vegetables the most... You can’t on the one hand say you want to help the poor, while at the same time piling on a tax that will be felt by every family at the checkout.”

Water tax is a joke. Here are some more jokes; with as much credibility as that nonsense.

More jokes

Two men meet on opposite sides of a river. One shouts to the other "I need you to help me get to the other side."

The other guy replies "You are on the other side."

A guy walks into a bar and orders a fruit punch. The bartender says "Pal, if you want a punch you'll have to stand in line."

The guy looks around, but there is no punch line. brian@thesun.co.nz

IMPORTANT STUFF: All material is copyright and may not be reproduced without the written permission of the publisher. Sun Media makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all information and accepts no liability for errors or omissions or the subsequent use of information published. In 1705, Russian emperor Peter the Great imposed beard tax to replicate western-Europe’s clean-shaven culture. According to Reuters, ‘Beard tokens’ were minted and given to bearded men as proof that the tax had been paid. Those who were not willing to pay the tax were were forcibly shaved. The tax was abolished in 1772.

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The gap between city rules and wishes

The decision on this Farm St development will not go unchallenged says the developer.

The recent decision by hearings commissioner David Meade refusing a three-storey commercial/residential development in Farm St, Mount Maunganui signals a lack of communication between the Tauranga City Council and the community says the developer, Sue McArthur.

Farm St Developments Ltd presented a plan which was approved by council planning staff on the basis of the ‘aspirational documents’ of the Compact City Project and the Bay of Plenty Regional Plan, all of which talk about Tauranga intensifying development within existing boundaries.

“We felt this development would fit very nicely with what they want to achieve,” says Sue. “We’ve done research into what constitutes good place-making, and felt what we proposed was going to fit very well.”

Neighbours objected to the size and scale of the building, with the objections upheld by hearings commissioner David Meade, who refused consent following a hearing.

It places the city council between a rock and a hard place says City Transformation Committee chair Larry Baldock. Since December 2016 the government requires the city council to produce and plan for a certain number of sites for development, whether by

re-developing housing within the city or by spreading out into the surrounding countryside.

The city’s neighbours – the Western Bay of Plenty District Council and the Bay of Plenty Regional Council – and SmartGrowth want the city to intensify so it doesn’t spread out.

While the city council agrees in theory, Larry says that without a change to the city plan it is very difficult for developers to get the Farm St style of development, which the city wants, the city’s neighbours’ want but the city’s residents do not.

Sue says the conversation in the community about how the city is going to grow has to be ramped up.

“Because if you don’t know what is important in a city and how to go about making it a really great place to live, then we are not going to go down the right track.

“It can’t just be the city planners and the councillors and the bureaucrats that understand these things.

“They have got to have this conversation with the community in a really open and transparent way so that everybody is on the same page.

“I think there’s increasing understanding of the need for that to happen. We don’t need to reinvent the wheel. The solutions are already out there being activated in cities all over the world. Auckland just up the road is a good example of that.

“They are starting to understand what they need to do and they are starting to do it, so we will get there.”

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Cup coming to Tauranga The America's Cup will be on display in Tauranga, accompanied by Emirates Team New Zealand helmsman Peter Burling, in just over two weeks' time on Sunday, August 27.

The date has been confirmed by the Cup's custodians, The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, whose diary places the Auld Mug in Tauranga on that date.

“We had a number of dates floating around,” says RNZYS general manager Hayden Porter.

“The 27th is the date that's been settled on and it will be heading down on that date from here.”

He's unsure if the cup is in Tauranga from morning until evening or if it will remain overnight.

Report looks to the future City councillors have called for an investigation into how Tauranga's pensioner housing will best work in the future.

Councillors have been presented with two options; either sell off the city's pensioner flats or lease them to an organisation that can operate them. “Our decision was heavily based on the desire to improve tenant wellbeing,” says chair of the Community and Culture Committee, Terry Molloy.

“One of council's key priorities is to provide a higher standard of living for all its residents, and that includes affordable, fit-for-purpose housing for our ageing population.”

Fire in port crane An electrical fire in the machinery house of one of the Port of Tauranga's container cranes presented a bit of a climb for Tauranga firefighters on Monday, as the machinery houses are about 48m off the ground at the top of the crane's rear legs.

Access is by steps attached to the crane leg.

Port of Tauranga commercial manager Leonard Sampson says the firefighters climbed 48 metres and extinguished a small electrical fire in the crane's circuit housing with a fire extinguisher.

The impact of the electrical fault on the crane is being assessed.

New cinema part of development Tauranga will soon get a new boutique cinema as part of a major new development in the rapidly-growing suburban area of Golden Sands.

Construction has begun on the second stage of the Excelsa Centre, located on the corner of Golden Sands Drive and Papamoa Beach Rd. The developers, Bluehaven Management, say the two-storied complex will open next year with a highly contemporary design and modern facilities, aimed at serving the area's booming catchment.

SunLive Comment of the Week ‘Dying activities – library’ posted by Miss Adventure on the story: New $28m library call made.

“They are disappearing fast as the internet use increases. The bill of $10m to fix the Admin building and library etc all looks a lot better as every day goes by.”

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Life without a rubbish bin It sounds like heresy coming from a couple of zero waste champions – they’re preaching that recycling is not the be-all and end-all solution to the world’s rubbish woes.

“It’s amazing how often recycling is thrown out there as the answer,” says Hannah Blumhardt, one half of the ‘No-Waste Nomads’ who are bringing their message to Tauranga – reducing household rubbish, the zero waste approach.

There’s minimisation on the crusade too – Hannah and partner nomad Liam Prince are travelling New Zealand for six months on $10 a day, each. Drive into town, cycle around and bunk down with likeminded souls. It’s an easy, cheap, no-waste

campaign.

“We aren’t anti-recycling,” says Hannah.

“Because we do believe if you are choosing between throwing away to a landfill or a recycling station, then obviously it’s better to recycle.” But they are advocating getting past recycling onto higher planes. They want people to rise up the waste hierarchy to something called ‘the six Rs.’ To understand the six Rs it helps to understand the Nomads. They have been ‘zero waste’ for two and a half years, creating just 4.6 kilograms of rubbish, enough to fill a supermarket bag, between them. ”Essentially we sent nothing to landfill,” says Liam.

And to put that in context the average individual in Wellington, hometown to the Nomads, puts out 200 kilograms of kerbside rubbish every 12 months.

“So,” says Liam, “if we had been doing the

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average we would have produced the literal tonne of rubbish in two and a half years.”

A lot of people are overwhelmed by statistics like that. “They wonder what can I do, what’s the point of doing anything, it won’t make a difference. When in fact it does make a difference.”

The letter ‘R’ for...

And that’s why the Nomads are bringing their six Rs to Tauranga – a city being swamped by a tsunami of its own domestic waste problems.

“If you can’t do one R, move to the next,” says Hannah. The first R stands for refuse.

“Refuse as in saying no to what you don’t need.” And if you can’t refuse, try R for replace. “Replace the supermarket bag with a reusable one, replace a plastic toothbrush with a bamboo one.”

Then R for reduce. “There are some things you really need and you can’t refuse or replace them.” For example you can zero waste fancy cheese by taking your own container to a deli. “But with bulk standard cheese you don’t want to refuse or replace but you can reduce.”

R for re-use.

Re-use things that can otherwise be waste like glass jars.

Fill them up at the bulk bins.

R for recycle.

“Glass is infinitely recyclable,” says Liam. “But glass is also so useful, why would you send it off for recycling in the first place.”

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And the final R is for rot. “It is telling us that once you have done all the other Rs, what you should be left with is something that could be composted in the home compost,” says Liam.

But what about all the essentials – at the supermarket shampoos, detergents, toothpaste, body products, cleaning products are all in plastic containers. Liam uses rye flour and lemon juice on his long blond dreadlocks.

They make their own toothpaste with coconut oil, baking soda and peppermint essential oil. And they make their own Marmite with roasted and ground black sesame seeds, yeast flakes and tamari soya sauce.

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It may be easy for Liam and Hannah who have embraced zero waste with religious zeal, but isn’t it all just too bloody hard for the average Joe Disposable to be zero waste? “A common response,” says Liam.

“Some say we are encouraging people to live as it was in the great depression. But we feel the lifestyle changes we have made have enriched our lives in so many ways we couldn’t even imagine.”

And many say even if they had the inclination, they just don’t have the time to zero waste.

“The transition to zero waste can be timeconsuming but once we were in the swing of it, it seems we have gained time. We would never revert.”

The nomadic zero waste vegans were cycling around Te Puke this week, taking their message to a kiwifruit packing company. “Between 30 and 100 people will turn up to each of our workshops,” says Liam.

And while they are often preaching to the converted, the like-minded bring cynical mates. And epiphanies can happen.

The word is spreading.

The guinea pigs

“We don’t have to reach everyone. There can be a critical mass of people applying pressure to people and companies to change their game.”

Living zero waste means doing whacky things like washing hair with molasses or black treacle. “We are guinea pigs and I can tell you with hand on heart

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Tawa that washing your hair in molasses does not work,” says the nomad with a shock of lustrous brown hair.

Could be the rye flour mixed with coffee that does the trick – a formula that seems to have eluded the product chemists at TREsemme and Pantene.

The ‘No-Waste Nomads’, Liam Prince and Hannah Blumhardt are holding a free 90-minute workshop at the Scout Hall, 13 May Avenue, Mount Maunganui on Saturday, August 19 from 3.30pm until dinnertime. It goes under the banner ‘Reducing our Household Rubbish - the Zero Waste Approach.’

It’s a prelude to the Little Yoga festival at the same venue in the middle of September.

The rubbish trip will also have a stop off in Whakatane this Sunday. Hannah and Liam will be talking zero waste at Pou Whakaaro, 40 Te Taho Street in Whakatane at 5:30pm. There will be a shared meal and they’re down to business at 6pm.

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No Korean mud for festival

Rotorua’s inaugural Mudtopia Festival will be going ahead in December without the five tonnes of Korean mud that was to be imported for the festival.

The dried mud was to be imported at a cost of $95,000 as part of an information exchange with the Korean city of Boryeong, which has a worldrenowned mud festival that is being drawn upon by the Rotorua Lakes Council for intellectual property, advice and support.

Prior to the decision not to use the mud, the council’s group manager operations Henry Weston said the mud wasn’t going to be used all at once and wasn’t intended for any mud ‘bath’ or arena type activity.

“It will be used in a hands-on therapeutic experience and can be used for people’s hands, faces and bodies.

“The South Korean mud will undergo heat and irradiation treatment in South Korea and will

need to meet MPI importation requirements. Council has been working with MPI for over a year to ensure all importation requirements are met and the importation will be subject to those requirements being met. “Council has also been working with BOP Regional Council to ensure any of its requirements are met. No discharge consent is required.

“Mud from the festival will be captured, contained and taken away to be disposed of by a contracted waste management company.”

The council announced it will no longer be importing the mud after Kiwifruit Claim chairman John Cameron warned the Korean mud could also bring foot and mouth disease into New Zealand.

His announcement came as the Kiwifruit Claim case against the government opened in the High Court in Wellington. John represents 212 growers who are suing the government for MPI’s alleged negligence in letting the kiwifruit disease PSA into the country seven years ago.

Being cack-handed and proud Smudging important documents and looking like an idiot while trying to figure out a can opener are just two of the many things left-handed people deal with on a daily basis.

With only about 10 per cent of the world population being left-handed, it can be hard to adapt into a world designed for righties.

International Left-Handers Day on August 13 is one of those days where left-handed people can come out of the woodwork and be acknowledged for their quirks.

As a left-hander myself, I often found activities challenging such as sport, music and crafts.

I noticed that other lefthanded people adapted to their environment by copying the people around them, who presumably were right-handed.

Unfortunately, I wasn’t like that, and to this day I still have my own left-handed scissors at work, nonsmudgeable pens that never seem to work and strum a guitar upside down.

If you think I’m exaggerating there is

scientific proof that lefties have it rough.

According to Flinders University's School of Psychology professor Mike Nicholls, as a group, left-handers do slightly worse overall.

In a study he found that left-handed people aren’t any more gifted than right-handed people.

“The evidence, based on our analyses of very large databases of handedness and other attributes in people across Australia, the UK and the USA, doesn’t bear out that myth,” says Mike.

“Our study of members of the same family confirms that left-handed children will do worse than their right-handed siblings.”

This covers a wide range of skills in things like vocabulary, mathematics and teachers' ratings of children's performance at school.

This could have something to do with the lack of left-handed friendly items or just something built into our genes, but Mike says he is surprised there isn’t more options.

"I'm amazed there isn't more being done to better design the built environment for lefthanders," he says.

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Teachers’ Games coming to town

Mount Maunganui College PE teachers (from left) Mikaere October, Katie Steenson, Paul Tietjens and Tuahu Waretini-Thomas will be competing at the New Zealand Teachers’ Games in October. Photo: Bruce Barnard.

We’ve got the AIMS games – now Tauranga will also play host to the inaugural New Zealand Teachers’ Games in October.

The teachers’ games are an opportunity for teachers and other school staff to have fun with their colleagues and compete either seriously or socially on the sports field.

The New Zealand Secondary Schools Sports Council has teamed up with Sport Bay of Plenty to deliver the event which will include traditional sports such as badminton, basketball, squash, bowls, touch rugby, golf and netball as well as some ‘not so traditional’ sports such as beach volleyball, dodgeball, futsal and King/Queen of the Mount.

There will also be chances to try sports such as stand up paddle boarding and waka ama, and take part in social team trivia nights and a ‘Great Race’.

The sports will be held at various venues in Tauranga and Mount Maunganui from October 1-3.

The event will also include professional

development for teachers to help them develop confidence in leading sporting opportunities for students.

NZSSSC chief executive Garry Carnachan says the event is aimed at reaching and re-engaging teachers in the joy of sport and the value of being in a team.

“Hopefully that transfers to their understanding of the importance of sport in young people’s lives and they go back to school re-energised and maybe get involved in leading sport in their schools.”

A recent NZSSSC census on participation in sport found that only 33 per cent of teachers were involved in school sport in 2016 compared to 56 per cent in 2000.

“We’ve got an aging teacher workforce and a lot of people lead busy lives and have dropped out of sport.

“Perhaps they’ve forgotten the social and physical benefits of being involved in sport and being part of a team. It’s about re-engaging people in those kinds of values.”

Registrations for the games close on September 1 and Garry says there has been a lot of interest generated on social media so far.

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Tui’s gift to the kids of Papamoa the surf can pull something they might like to play with in the sand – buckets, spades, balls and the like.

It’s a very popular concept.

Tui would be quite happy to give over her 1.2 by 1.4 metre kennel for the greater cause because she has a second kennel.

“She is still a guard dog by night and sleeps out,” says Andy.

But she is on the beach most days.

“The council wants to have a chinwag about the project,” says Andy. “Just to make sure everything’s okay – that it’s in the right place and safe. That’s fine, we want to do everything properly.”

The kennel toy box should be in place within a couple of weeks, well in time for summer.

A not so humble pie It almost got lost in all the brouhaha about the winning ways of a certain bacon and egg pie here in Tauranga.

It’s a maximum 300 gram offering – filled with slow-roasted prime beef, caramelised onion and one other crucial quality ingredient which we will come back to.

And it rated well enough for ‘highly commended’ in the cafe boutique category of the 2017 Bakels New Zealand Supreme Pie Awards. “A huge accolade for us,” says Lesley Lambert, owner of the wee food boutique, Kitchen Republic in Bureta Rd. “It is nice to be recognised.”

A huge accolade for a small local business.

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“It’s big enough to hold a labrador,” says Papamoa’s Andy Weenink – a labrador like 9-year-old black lab Tui. And ‘it’ is Tui’s old kennel which has been requisitioned as a beach toy box to replace the one that was turned into a bonfire by vandals.

“Idiots,” says Andy Weenink, Tui’s owner.

Andy’s transformed Tui’s second kennel into a toy box which he hopes will be installed by a bench seat on the Papamoa beach entrance off Pacific Way. “It would sit very nicely there,” says Andy. And it will be away from the ravages of the seas.

The idea is the kennel cum toy box would be filled with beach toys so kids headed down the track to

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Lesley Lambert and her pies.

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And to give that ‘highly commended’ some perspective, the pie was basically fourth out of 180 entries.

Lesley backed herself – entering just one pie, her piece de resistance, a special pie, in just one of the 12 categories. “We knew it was one of our best sellers and would go quite well,” says Lesley. “So we concentrated on that one pie and doing it well.”

And because of the huge following for that pie, she wasn’t surprised when it succeeded, when it was honoured. The gourmet beef and caramelised onion pie is the ‘Kitchen’s’ own creation – “Quality ingredients, slow-roasted and built it from that.”

Think pie awards and you think Patrick Lam, you think Gold Star Bakery in Bethlehem and you think bacon and egg pies.

Because Patrick has made the Bakel bacon and egg pie award his own. But down on Bureta Rd there’s another pie on the block.

“And on the back of this success, we may put in a few extra entries next year,” says Lesley.

And there’s more to making a pie that cramming something interesting into a pastry casing.

“Everything we do is home-baked on site and we do a small range of pies, including steak and mushroom, gourmet steak and mince and cheese.

“So it’s about home-baked goodness and doing it from scratch.” Now mix in the crucial ingredient that can’t be measured by the teaspoon.

It’s love. “Made with love is our ethos,” says Lesley. “That’s what drives this business.

“We make everything with love.”

“Toni and Lisa are two beautiful girls who work in the kitchen.”

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Local beach volleyball superstar Ella Akkerman.

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Ella’s spiking it to the top Aquinas College student Ella Akkerman returned to school recently with a silver medal around her neck following her beach volleyball efforts at the Youth Commonwealth Games.

The Year 13 student and her beach volleyball partner Jasmine Milton from Rangitoto College have recently returned from the games, held in the Bahamas.

There they played and won all three pool games 2-0 against Saint Lucia, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago.

In the quarter finals they were up against

the second seeds, England, winning 2-1, 21-16, 11-21, 15-11. In the semi-finals they played Scotland winning 2-0, 21-12, 22-20. The final was an Australasian battle, with Ella and Jasmine facing top seeds Australia, losing 2-0.

Ella may well concede her gene pool has a part to play in her success. Both Ella’s parents have experience playing volleyball at a high level.

Mike Akkerman – a Tauranga Boys’ College teacher and dean – played 114 tests for New Zealand, was captain for five years, competed at the World Series and travelled overseas playing four-aside for New Zealand. Megan Akkerman –

Adding permanent colour to the city The project aimed at turning Tauranga streets and playgrounds into an artistic canvas for kids is ready to lift to an exciting new level.

It’s called ‘Colouring Book C.I.T.Y’ which helps kids connect with Tauranga by encouraging them to make their mark on the city’s public spaces through chalk art.

There have been three successful pop-up events in the CBD with kids and adults alike colouring in temporary outlines on CBD streets.

“Now we are ready to start our long term project,” says Colouring Book C.I.T.Y organiser, Lillybeth Melmoth. “We want to create

permanent outlines for chalk art on our city streets and playgrounds to create a colouring book city trail.” The chalk art is inspired by locally written or illustrated children’s books.

However Lillybeth’s long-term plans involve a crowd-funding campaign, getting the Tauranga City Council on side and more exciting challenges.

Can you draw outlines of characters or scenes from books? Do you have computer graphic skills? Do you love kids and art? Do you know people on council or someone who can film for a crowdfunding video?

Lillybeth is also looking for volunteers for Colouring Book City events and needs “heaps of expertise and advice across many areas”.

Call Lillybeth on 07 578 4226/021 150 1605 or email lillybethmelmoth@me.com

Colouring Book City organiser Lillybeth Melmoth is ready to take the chalk art project to the next level.

a St Mary’s School teacher – enjoyed club volleyball at university, played at provincial level, and was part of a New Zealand development squad.

Ella was brought up with her dad coaching first a TBC team, and then her Aquinas team.

Furthermore, Ella’s younger sister, Rose, plays in the Junior A team at Otumoetai College and has recently been to camp with the New Zealand Youth Performance Squad for her age group.

As for the future, Ella plans to keep volleyball a central part of her life.

Playing in the United States is a possibility, she says.

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Enjoying the fruits of their labour Gate Pa Primary School students will taste the fruits of their labour soon.And by soon, we mean in a few years probably.

The primary school was recently visited by Donor’s Choice Charitable Trust; originally a US organisation that was transplanted in Tauranga, and in New Zealand, by local Trade Education employment specialist Ken Knott.

Ken and others at Donor’s Choice, along with mayor Greg Brownless, visited Gate Pa Primary School and donated $400 worth of fruit trees.

The kids were involved in the whole process, says Ken, and quite happily got their hands dirty.

“It went really well. The kids had their spades and they were filling in the holes, with each class coming out and planting a tree. It wasn’t a case of we bring the trees and the school’s caretaker chucks them in the holes. The school was getting each class to pick a tree and plant it.” Gate Pa Primary School principal Richard Inder says the trees are a great learning tool for pupils. “It’s going to be a great little resource in our school, and

Pupils at Gate Pa Primary School help shift earth to plant their trees. for our community. It’s a resource that is going to be useful as far as teaching; how you look after fruit trees, how to prune them, what they crop, and where these things come from. So often many of the children don’t know the process from growing to actual fruit.

“They asked us what sort of trees we wanted. We picked a selection of fruit trees – apple, persimmon, peach, plum, a variety, and they’re all planted in the ground by the kids. Each class has a tree that

they will be ‘guardians’ for.”

Ken says he loves the attitude at Gate Pa Primary School. “They’ve already got their vegetable garden, and they’ve got mountain bikes and a mountain bike trail that they’ve put in, so they’ve got healthy exercise, healthy nutrition and the whole thing from growing the tree to food on the table. It was just awesome to see.”

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Drill-through in harbour crossing complete The drill-through of the Southern Pipeline Harbour Crossing was completed last week after two weeks of drilling from Matapihi to Memorial Park.

The drill had to be accurately directed under the harbour bed at a depth of up to 35 metres, following a curved path and aiming for a target 76cm wide, from 1.6km away. The next phase of the project is to enlarge the hole to 1.4m in diameter. Once this is complete, the 92cm diameter steel casing pipe, which has been welded

together in 450m long strings at Memorial Park, will be pulled through the hole to Matapihi.

The 80cm diameter polyethylene pipe, which is the pipe that will eventually carry the wastewater, will then be fed through the steel casing pipe from Memorial Park to Matapihi. The $21 million harbour crossing is the final stage of the $99 million Southern Pipeline project, one of several key infrastructure projects being built to cater for rapid growth in Tauranga.

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Film Fest comes to town Tauranga will host the New Zealand International Film Festival at Rialto Cinemas from August 24 to September 17.

More than 40 films are on offer, including foreign language films, documentaries and New Zealand short films.

Among the documentaries is ‘Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web’ about the battle between Kim Dotcom and the US government and entertainment industry.

‘20th Century Women’ is the opening night film on August 24.

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Directed by Mike Mills, the film is a memoir of his upbringing in late 1970s southern California and stars Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, and Greta Gerwig.

The festival closes on September 17 with ‘The Square’, a Swedish film that won the Palme d’Or (Best Film) at the Cannes Film Festival 2017.

All screenings will be held at Rialto Tauranga Cinemas, Level 1, Goddard Centre, 21 Devonport Rd, Tauranga. Copies of the full programme are available from Rialto Cinemas and local libraries or online www.nziff.co.nz/2017/tauranga/ schedule

Registrations open for Clean Up Week Thousands of 'beautiful Kiwis' are set to do the right thing and take part in New Zealand’s largest clean up event this September.

Registrations are officially open and with more than 5000 individuals already signed up it is expected that more than 50,000 individuals will join a community clean-up as part of Keep

New Zealand Beautiful Clean Up Week from September 11-17.

In 2016 more than 40,000 volunteers took part in more than 625 individual events nationwide – with clean ups at beaches, alongside highways, in parks, and everywhere in between.For more information,visit www.knzb.org.nz/ calendar/clean-up-week-2017

P UB LIC M EETING Greta Gerwig and Elle Fanning star in ‘20th Century Women’, the opening night film at the International Film Festival in Tauranga on August 24.

Viewing habits lean towards Hollywood fare New Zealanders are sticking to a steady diet of Hollywood fare despite living in an age of online film distribution with its unlimited choice of international movies.

Massey University media researcher Dr Ian Huffer says you might think viewing habits would be more diverse and adventurous but that does not appear to be so.

In a nationwide survey of film consumption habits Ian found that younger New Zealanders are watching mostly American content online, while baby-boomers still flock to foreign film festivals and boutique cinemas for the latest Judi Dench, French farce or Met Opera offering in the off-line environment.

His survey of 816 participants sought to find out how groups, defined by age, ethnicity and income, are using the different methods of film distribution that are available, and what kinds of films they are watching via these methods.

Within New Zealand, audiences have access to streaming services specialising in New Zealand film, international art cinema, and non-US content for ethnically diverse, migrant audiences, he says.

"But US content dominates the catalogues of the majority of the legal view-on-demand sites operating in the country and is privileged through the navigational tools provided by a number of these

sites." Ian’s findings are good news for film festival organisers, with such events providing the most likely option for people to discover a range of foreign, independent (often non-English language) and New Zealand-made films.

"One of the main findings is that cinemas, and particularly film societies and the festivals, still play a vital role in introducing audiences to a diversity of films from around the world.

In contrast, online methods of distribution are correlated with the consumption of a more limited range of films from around the world.

Ian’s research shows international movies traditionally tend to appeal more to middle-aged, middle-class audiences.

He says other studies have also shown that, while such tastes may continue among older audiences, younger generations are "less invested" in the element of cultural snobbery sometimes associated with watching foreign films “This means that such audiences are potentially missing out on a host of entertaining and enriching stories from around the globe.

“The challenge is to connect younger audiences to a range of international cinema in as inclusive a way as possible."

Ian’s research paper ‘Social inclusivity, cultural diversity and online film consumption’ was recently published in the journal ‘Cultural Trends’.

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Sick of meaningless Sundays – laundry, mowing lawns, and Sunday drives?

Try something different that will improve your overall fitness and add to your appreciation of Tauranga’s beautiful harbour.

The Tauranga Rowing Club’s holding a ‘Give Rowing a Go Day’.

Doesn’t matter if you are at school, polytech or even a little more mature, the club’s open day offers a chance to discover the joys of rowing.

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proud record – one of its members Jordan Parry has just won a gold medal at the World Rowing Under 23 Championships.

It has established facilities on the waterfront at Memorial Park and offers a wonderful playground that is Tauranga Harbour.

You’re invited to join the Tauranga Rowing Club at its ‘Give Rowing a Go Day’ on Sunday, August 13 between 9:30am and 1pm.

There’s coaching, prizes, a barbeque and coffee.

A soak and a show Soaking under the stars in hot, natural ocean water is about to become an even greater sensory delight at Mount Hot Pools.

Thanks to the return of the popular music concerts series, the public will be able to enjoy concerts on the big screen while relaxing and unwinding at the end of the day.

The More FM Mount Hot Pools Concert Series will kick off later this month on Thursday nights at 7pm.

The big screen will feature ‘Ed Sheeran, Live at Wembley’ on the concert series’ opening night on August 24, followed

by Amy Winehouse, Bruno

Mars, Beyonce and Adele respectively on the following Thursday evenings.

On the final night, September 28, it will be viewers’ choice, so follow the Hot Pools Facebook page for updates or phone 577 8551 to place your vote.

Mount Hot Pools venues manager Matthew Strange says the music concert has been a big hit over the past two years, with some groups of friends using it as an opportunity for a catch-up, and others just making the most of the relaxing opportunity.

“One gentleman thanked staff after the Fleetwood Mac night, saying he ‘hadn’t felt this relaxed in a long, long time’.”

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Sexual orientation - should it even matter to us?

The deputy principal taught Pana Hema-Taylor at Aranui High School in Christchurch – sensed a talent and steered the young man away from the fringes of the Mongrel Mob towards an acting career.

That showed foresight and conviction.

never an issue for me.

“And it never occurred to me that she was anything other than how she presented.”

There was another personality in the deputy principal’s life.

“He was a friend, a mentor, a role model – then later in life he told me he was now woman.”

Robert called his thesis ‘Theatre of Acceptance’ – as opposed to theatre of ridicule.

And by that he means Widow Twankey in Aladdin, the pantomime dame portrayed by a man; the broad, coarse, cross-dressing comedians like Mrs Brown and those in ‘It Ain’t Half Hot Mum’.

“All these things are quite comedic, yet through my study and talking to people quite close to me I know transgender folk are belittled and ridiculed.”

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Robert Gilbert.

Now framed images of Pana – star of feature films ‘Boy’ and ‘Kawa’ and television’s ‘Spartacus’, ‘The Brokenwood Mysteries’ and ‘Westside’ – line the deputy principal’s office wall at Tauranga Boys’ College. Each image testament to the faith and energy invested by Robert Gilbert in a former pupil.

Knowing Liz as Liz

“Did you see him last night in ‘Resolve’?” asks Robert. In the recent TV docudrama, a story of courage, Pana played New Plymouth man Murray Crean, gunned down when he stood up to the Black Power. “I thought he carried it off very well,” says teacher of the pupil with just a hint of self-satisfaction and reflected glory.

It’s also a short, considered and educated critique from an education administrator who, outside the deputy principal’s office at Tauranga Boys’ College, is also an actor, theatre director and playwright.

His office at the college is a stage – and this interview is a performance. Robert gesticulates, he articulates and he projects. He can’t turn off the thespian in him.

The deputy principal wrote his master’s thesis on the theatre – transgenderism in the New Zealand theatre to be precise. “I wanted to do something meaningful; that addressed something in society.”

A dear, close friend is transgender. “She is well read, very funny, very sharp with an acerbic wit.” Her name is Liz. She was a costume designer when the deputy principal was a theatre director.

“I only ever knew Liz as Liz – only ever as a woman, never in her previous incarnation. Her gender was

He believed the time was right for a solid New Zealand play to address some of that.

And so, as part of the thesis, he wrote a play underscoring some transgender issues – suicide, homelessness, and abnormally high rates of unemployment.

The seed was sown when Robert heard a gossipy, behind-the-hands comment about the size of Liz’s feet – or something like that. “It was definitely in a hurtful, gossipy way that made me feel really uncomfortable.

“I mean, what does it matter? I just thought that in these enlightened times, surely people can just be people. Can we not accept people for who they are? Whatever one’s sexuality or gender representation, people just want to be comfortable in their own skin.

“I feel comfortable in mine, but it’s ok for me because I am a Pakeha heterosexual male, over 50, in a reasonably successful career. But that’s not the story for everyone. I worry that some of it harks back to freakshow, morbid curiosity.

“People want to know what’s below the waist line, or what’s in someone’s knickers. My attitude is it’s no-one’s business except for the individual concerned.

“It just shouldn’t matter to people.”

So Robert wrote Liz into his thesis, to help put things right. “That’s a rather grand notion – but if there’s one thing the arts can do is address what’s going on in society, whatever the art form.”

And to drive his point home, he decided to weave a play in his thesis. So he wrote ‘Trans Tasmin’. Tasmin is a transgender Maori woman putting herself through university by working in a bar.

The captain of the local rugby club falls in love with her and two worlds collide with Hadron proportions.

It’s a little more complex – but in the end only one person has it all together and that’s Tasmin.

Everyone else has issues.The play has had a professional reading in Christchurch.

How does all this sit with the august office of an education administrator, a deputy principal? “Well, it doesn’t – some other deputy principals might collect stamps, some might do Tae Kwando, I write plays.

“And no, I am not gay, I am none of those things, but I don’t think it matters anyhow.” And the deputy

principal has gone on to write more scripts – one called ‘DTU’ about the drug treatment unit at Christchurch prison. And another about the circumstances of his great-grandmother in New Zealand.

But it’s gender that’s very visible at the moment – gender-neutral school uniforms, gender-neutral toilets and changing rooms, and even parents deciding their children will be gender-neutral.

“Before we denounce I think we should allow people the simple decency of being who they want to be.

“I know there are parents who struggle with this issue, I know the difficulties it causes families, but we are all faced with difficulties of one kind or another through life and transgender is one of them.”

Some experience and wisdom imparted and very worthy of consideration.

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The future of council flats There were a few headlines bandied about in the media last week that may have caused concern among residents of Tauranga’s elder housing.

So, let’s be clear. Tauranga City Council has no intention whatsoever of raising rents for council flats to a ‘marketlevel’ or leaving residents homeless.

What is proposed is an investigation about working with a community housing provider to improve the quality of life for our residents while keeping rents low or less.

None of the units are under 25 years old and a third of them are 50 years old. While residents take pride in their homes, I believe we can do better for them at no cost to the ratepayer. Size is one thing.

Many residents have to park their mobility scooters in their lounge as there is nowhere else to put them.

The Pitau Rd flats were built in a different era and have no space for a washing machine. There is a communal laundry which is okay for a backpackers but not our seniors living there full-time.

TCC elder housing is set up to be self-funding but we must keep rents low to make them affordable.

What gives? Quality. By allowing the right community housing provider to manage or own the flats instead of council, the villages will receive a cash top-up from government to a ‘market-rent’ level to be reinvested in the units and build more. Whatever happens, covenants will be in place to protect existing residents. If you have concerns, please call me on 07 542 1602.

Working together for learning Collaboratively. It’s a hard word to get your tongue around when you’re only five. Heck, it’s hard to get your tongue around when you’re 45.

But it’s a word that students at Papamoa Primary School will hear a lot from now on as their teachers embark on a two-year research inquiry looking at whether teachers working together more closely – collaboratively – improves student learning.

A team of six teachers at the school, led by deputy principal Gen Fuller, has been given $71,500 from the government’s Teacher-Led Innovation Fund and will work with researchers from the University of Melbourne and local iwi Nga Potiki.

The inquiry will look at collaboration between students, between teachers, between students and teachers, and between teachers and Papamoa Primary School teacher the school community.

Frances Pitts and her students will be The project gets underway in the learning how to work together next few weeks with a visit from to improve learning. an expert from the University of

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“It’s quite different to what our parents have experienced as learners themselves and sometimes that’s a little concerning because it’s change,” says Gen. Papamoa Primary received “an extremely positive” review from the Education Review Office last year and didn’t want to lose any momentum – hence the desire to go a step further.

“Schools often reach a plateau and end up skipping down. While we’re at the top we want to create that upward momentum so we’re developing further,” says Gen. “We know what we are doing is working for our kids but now we want to focus on this idea of collaboration and preparing our kids for a world of adulthood where their challenges are going to be significantly different to ours.”

Gen says while technology and collaborative teaching spaces are important – and the school has new teaching spaces currently being built – the quality of teaching is always going to make the most difference to student learning.

“Our role is to build the capacity of our learners to learn. Our focus has to be on what it means to be a learner, what is learning and what are the strategies and tools I need to be a successful learner.”

One of the conditions of the TLIF is that the results are shared with other teachers, which Gen says the team is looking forward to.

“That excites us too because we’ve been fortunate enough to draw on the experience of other environments and other leaders. An important aspect of this is that we’re contributing to learning for many communities across New Zealand.”

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Lock-in at the library Individual If you’ve ever family history wanted to get research yourself assistance is locked inside a also available at public library at Tauranga City night, now’s your Library from chance.

10am-12.30pm Papamoa Library and 1.30-4pm on is locking people Fridays during in the library after August and at the dark on Thursday, Papamoa Library August 17 from on Friday, 5.25-9.30pm in August 25 from the name of family Papamoa Library will be locking visitors in on August 17.

10am-12noon. history research.

All events are free however registration is essential.

August is family history month and Tauranga City Call 07 577 7177 or email Libraries have a number of events on to help people library@tauranga.govt.nz to register. dig out the skeletons in their family closets.

Those wanting to attend the Papamoa Library The lock-in at Papamoa Library will be a chance lock-in need to arrive before the library is locked to do your research after hours with experienced at 5.30pm and bring a plate of finger food for the genealogists on hand to offer advice, workshops and shared supper. presentations, as well as a shared supper.

Westpac awards celebrate contributions Nominations have opened for the 2017 Westpac Tauranga Business Awards.

The awards celebrate the businesses and individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the Tauranga business community.

There are 12 award categories this year providing plenty of scope to businesses of all sizes and different sectors. Tauranga Chamber of Commerce chief executive Stan Gregec says the benefits of entering are far greater than the honour of winning a category.

New night market for Bethlehem Tauranga's newest night market is on at Bethlehem Hall tonight.

Browse and shop a range of brand new products and services, while kids can stay entertained in designated areas with colouring competitions and chances to win prizes.

The event is free and family-friendly, with all stalls cash only. There are no facilities to get cash out so please bring it with you.

The market is on from 6.30-9pm and will return for the first Friday of every month.

“A lot of entrants get a huge additional boost just by going through the process and having the opportunity to be benchmarked with their peers, as well as to get valuable feedback from the judges.”

This year’s Westpac Tauranga Business Award winners will be announced at a gala dinner at ASB Baypark on November 10. Any business can be nominated by their professional service provider – accountant, lawyer, bank, consultant or by another businessperson.

For further information and to access the online registration form visit www.businessawards.org.nz

Normal service resumes – hopefully With a little luck and the blessing of the weather gods, Papamoa Lions market day should be back at its traditional site at Gordon Spratt Reserve at 8am this Sunday morning.

Winter and heavy rain recently forced the Lions and the market to retreat to firmer ground behind the tennis courts. It even forced cancellation of the market on a couple of occasions.

But the weather and state of the reserve has improved and the Lions were hoping to be back at the more prominent and more easily accessible site at the reserve this Sunday.

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Turei resigns from Greens Metiria Turei has resigned as co-leader of the Green Party and says it is “highly unlikely” she will return to Parliament after the election.

Metiria told RNZ she has resigned as co-leader, saying the “scrutiny on my family has become unbearable”.

The Green Party co-leader announced last month that she committed benefit fraud over a period of three years in the early 1990s because she and her young daughter depended on the Domestic Purposes Benefit to survive.

She said last week she also committed vote fraud.

Wettest winter in a decade The Bay of Plenty is currently enduring one of the wettest winters in a decade according to data from the region’s weather stations.

A network of around 130 automated monitoring stations collect environmental data, including rainfall, which is well above what is considered normal for the calendar year.

Some readings are close to double the expected rainfall.

In the Western Bay of Plenty, the Kaituna rain gauge at Te Matai is 196 per cent off normal, while similar numbers can be found in the Rotorua area via the gauge at Whakarewarewa and Lake Rotoiti at Okawa Bay.

Poll sees leap in Labour support The first major poll since Jacinda Ardern took over as Labour leader has the party up nine points to 33 per cent.

The Newshub Reid Research poll was taken during the week after she replaced Andrew Little as leader.

It had National down slightly to 44 per cent the lowest it’s registered in this poll in the past 10 years.

The rise of Labour came at the expense of New Zealand First and the Greens.

In the preferred Prime Minister stakes, Bill English was up slightly to 27.7 per cent, but Jacinda was up more than 17 per cent to 26.3 per cent.

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Mop chop for community good A Mount Maunganui early childhood teacher has chopped off her “messy mum bun” to donate to a good cause and give her young charges a lesson in the importance of giving back to your community.

This is the second time Anita has cut off her hair for a cause. As a student at Te Puke High School 20 years ago she cut off her hair for Leukaemia & Blood Cancer New Zealand's ‘Shave for a Cure’ fundraiser.

Anita is donating her hair to Freedom Wigs, a Dunedin-based company that

Anita Smith with her new pixie haircut after chopping off her long blonde locks for a cause.

Anita Smith, an early childhood teacher at ABC Bayfair, has been growing her hair to donate it to be made into a wig.

Hairdresser Sara Carswell from Dime Friday responded to a Facebook post calling for a volunteer to carry out the mop chop and visited the early childhood centre earlier this week to cut the required 14 inches off the natural blonde’s head. in the form of a ponytail, to “I thought it would be good to Freedom Wigs who will pay the get the kids involved because it’s recipient cash or donate going to be a huge change. the proceeds to a charity of “It was way down my back. I their choice. have to donate 14 inches so I left Anita will decide together with about two inches because I didn’t the children at ABC Bayfair how want to do a shave – I’m not that the money will be spent – either game!” says Anita. helping a local family in need or The children at ABC Bayfair Anita Smith cut off her hair to give her young charges at ABC a deserving organisation in their have been learning about being Bayfair a lesson in the importance of ‘giving back’. community. a part of the community and the “A huge part of our centre makes wigs for people with long-term importance of giving back. hair loss, including medical conditions such philosophy is whanaunatanga, which is Anita’s four-year-old son Liam, who also keeping children and families at the heart as alopecia. attends the childcare centre, was thrilled of what we do. We’re really trying to drill The hair must be healthy, undyed and that his Mum was going to have a haircut at least 14 inches long. It is then posted, those dispositions into our kids.” like his.

Katikati’s $4.5m library approved Katikati’s $4.5 million double-storied library and service centre building and single-storey community hub has been approved by the Western Bay of Plenty District Council.

District councillors voted to award the construction contract to Watts and Hughes for the amount of $3.8 million.

The total budget for the project is $4.5 million and includes construction costs, fees and contingencies.

Approving construction and confirming the project funding costs at $4.5 million are significant steps in a project that has been well-researched and planned over many years, says Mayor Garry Webber.

Decisions on any changes to elements needed to keep it within budget will take place during construction.

“It’s very pleasing that we’ve now got to the stage where we are within reach of building much needed facilities in Katikati that will add real value to the community for years to come and become part of the fabric of what makes this area a great place to live,’’ says Garry.

The Katikati Library has been planned for in the council’s Long Term Plan (LTP) since 2012 and the project was consulted on with the community through the council’s 2015 LTP and Annual Plan processes.

Trump threatens ‘fire and fury’ US President Donald Trump says North Korea “will be met with fire and fury” if it threatens the US. His comments came after a Washington Post report, citing US intelligence officials, said Pyongyang had produced a nuclear warhead small enough to fit inside its missiles.

This would mean the North is developing nuclear weapons capable of striking the US at a much faster rate than expected.

The UN recently approved further economic sanctions against the country.

The Security Council unanimously agreed to ban North Korean exports and limit investments, prompting fury from North Korea and a vow to make the “US pay a price”.

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CrossFitters take on the Aussies Three Tauranga gym enthusiasts will be sweating up a storm to beat Australia in a Masters CrossFit competition.

Kim Hawke, Brodie Lawrence and Tim Paton-Tapsell all ranked high in the regional CrossFit competition and will represent New Zealand in the Australasian Master CrossFit competition in October.

sporting achievement and he was stoked to have his mates alongside him.

“We entered the competition just to do something different, hoping to increase our fitness a little.

“As it went on and we qualified for our region and then New Zealand we were all blown away,” says Tim. Brodie says he initially didn’t want to travel to the Gold Coast, but his competitive juices kicked in.

“I really only wanted to do this for fun with a bunch of good mates that have something in common, and that’s keeping fit and healthy with a touch of competitive madness.

“Representing New Zealand will be an honour with my mates.”

A range of movements

Coach Hale Lawrence with CrossFitters Kim Hawke, Brodie Lawence The competitions are a full day and Tim Paton-Tapsell at the Regional Master CrossFit competition. and usually include four different workouts that range around What started out as a friendly online challenge to get different movements, such as pull-ups, push-ups, body them through winter resulted in a top five finish in weight movement and kettlebell raises.

New Zealand and top 10 finish in Australia.

The judges look at their speed and technique in each Kim says entering the regional competition was a workout to give them an overall score. spur-of-the-moment thing and an ambitious goal.

The Australasian Master CrossFit competition “Tim said one day that it would be good to have will test them even further, with new elements like a goal over the winter to maintain our fitness and swimming and running, which they didn’t do in the Hale (their coach) noticed an Australasian master regional competition. competition online and we thought we would give All the members of the team say they love CrossFit it a go.” After they signed up, they were given a new because it keeps them fit, but also because it pushes online workout and the team would have a week to them to the absolute limits. master the exercise before they would post their results Each morning they write on the white board an up on the Friday. ambitious workout that they have to complete and by the end of it Kim says they will be sweating profusely.

Gaining in intensity “All of the boys have said you go into a real dark place Kim says each week the workouts got more intense, when you exercise. It’s just a place of total focus and but they found their fitness improved significantly. you’re in such a high level of movement and breathing “We were always sort of up there in the top three that your focus is super sharp and accurate. or four, and lo and behold, after the fourth week we “Even though you’re absolutely fatigued, you still just found that we were all one or two in our age group battle through,” says Kim. divisions and we were then invited to the regional The competition will be held at the Runway Bay competition.”

Sports Stadium on the Gold Coast on October 13-14.

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Winter is out and summer is in The Ebony Fashions summer collection is filled with colour, beautiful floral prints and easy chiffon tops to pair with your denim essentials. The team has taken great care to source lots of natural fabrics for the warmer months and is happy to announce they have a great new selection of labels joining them this summer.

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The Luminous Collection is inspired by the long New Zealand summer. T his range uses natural fabrics to create stunning statement pieces. Designed to fit the New Zealand figure, the range has pieces to flatter all body shapes, while adding a splash of colour to your wardrobe.

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Chefs and farmers boost NZ food story Chefs passionate about working with New Zealand beef and lamb are playing their part in showcasing New Zealand’s unique food story through the nation’s longest running culinary award programme.

2018 marks 22 years of the Beef and Lamb Excellence Awards which have been integral in fostering innovation and creativity among chefs with New Zealand beef and lamb.

In 2017, 158 restaurants were named award holders and with entries open this month there is hope to further grow that number this year.

If restaurants meet the standard once accessed, they are awarded a gold plate which symbolises a high level of cookery, creativity and execution of their beef and lamb cuisine.

In addition to the award itself, each year five chefs who excel during the assessment period are selected as Ambassador Chefs by Beef + Lamb New Zealand, joining the ranks of eight lifetime Platinum Ambassador Chefs who together will work to pass on their skills

to the wider industry. The awards have provided opportunities to strengthen the relationships between the primary producers and restaurants at the coal face, both with the common goal of showcasing top quality New Zealand beef and lamb.

Shaun Clouston, head chef at Logan Brown in Wellington and Beef and Lamb Ambassador Chef, says being involved with the awards has helped him in telling the pastureto-plate story.

"As well as wanting to constantly raise the bar in terms of the innovation and creativity of the beef and lamb dishes we’re cooking, being involved with the awards has given me a deeper understanding of the product and where it comes from.

"At Logan Brown we’re very passionate about championing our producers, so much so that we have their faces on the wall in the restaurant.

“I think passing this story on to our customers is so important and is something they are wanting to hear about now more than ever.”

Applications for the 2018 Beef and Lamb Excellence Awards close on August 31 and recipients will be announced in early December.

Food is a huge factor in the future of retail as we know it Our love of eating out is a big factor in the future of retail.

The future of retail will be driven by the need for increased social connections and unique experiences, particularly those offered by food and beverage, according to international retail experts.

Speaking to the 400-strong audience at the New Zealand Council of Shopping Centres 2017 Retail Conference recently, Australian-based retail expert Suzee Brain, director of Brain and Poulter, discussed how food and beverage trends are changing the way we shop.

“Food, along with international fashion, is one of the glimmers continuing to build growth in the retail sector.”

Creating niche food experiences,

anytime-anywhere dining and how technology is changing the way food is served, delivered, and consumed offers huge opportunities for retailers, she says.

New York-based retail futurist Howard Saunders from Twenty Second & Fifth agrees.

“What will kick-start your centres is food and beverage. There has been an absolute revolution.

“Social spaces and premium food halls are on the rise; so are brand playgrounds selling more than just the product. Big data is going to help, as it will curate and augment our experience. It will bring us back humanity. We are an innately social species; that will never change, we will always seek out community.

“Retailers need to work out how they bring customers back and make them centre-stage.”

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Search on for NZ's tastiest snarler Judgement time is drawing nearer for butchers as the hunt is on for the nation’s best tasting sausage.

Sausage makers from all around New Zealand are perfecting their recipes and preparing to send entries into this year’s Great New Zealand Sausage Competition in the hopes of being announced the supreme winner.

The judging panel will be made up of a mixture of New Zealand’s favourite foodies, butchers and industry heavyweights.

Over a two-day period the judges will sample and examine all competition entries to determine the top 12 sausages which then go on to the final taste test.

Sausages are judged prior to cooking on their inner and outer visual appearance then once cooked, on appearance, aroma, texture, composition and taste.

Having judged the competition for the past four years, past president of Food

Writers New Zealand, Kathy Paterson, knows exactly what it's all about and what goes into an award-winning sausage.

"This competition celebrates a Kiwi classic. There aren’t many New Zealanders out there that would go through the summer season without indulging in at least one sizzling sausage, whether that be at the local hardware store, at the beach or on their dinner plate.

"As judges, we are looking for a good meat-to-fat ratio along with the appropriate mix of herbs or spices.”

The winning sausage will be announced at an awards event on October 19, in time to celebrate National Sausage Day on the following day, October 20.

In addition, members of the public will be called

Pinot Noir or Sauvignon Blanc For the first time since the New World Wine Awards competition began 15 years ago, the number of entries of Pinot Noir has surpassed that of Sauvignon Blanc.

The number of entries in the Sauvignon Blanc class is consistent with previous years, but there has been a 47 per cent increase in the number of Pinot Noir entries this year.

A 16-stong panel of independent expert wine judges tasted and judged a record 1400 different wines this week at Wellington’s Westpac Stadium.

Chair of the New World Wine Awards judging panel, Jim Harre, says the awards have become an important fixture on the wine calendar.

"The year-on-year increase in entries reflects winemakers’ confidence in the integrity of this wine show and the benefits that winning a New World Wine Awards medal brings. The calibre of our judging panel is another strong indicator of the strength of the competition.”

The panel tasted and judged wines using the same internationally-recognised

100 points system as other leading wine shows. They awarded gold, silver, and bronze medals, re-tasted top scoring wines to rank them for inclusion in the New World Top 50 and re-tasted the best wines again to determine the champions of each main varietal and an overall Champion Red and Champion White.

The results of the awards will be announced later in the year, and the Top 50 winning wines will be available in New World stores.

The results are eagerly anticipated by wine lovers, with some of the medalwinners typically selling out after they are announced.

In order to be eligible for entry to the New World Wine Awards, wines must retail for $25 or less and there must be at least 5000 bottles (or 3500 for niche varietals) available for sale through New World supermarkets nationwide.

This ensures the awardwinning wines are more accessible for wine lovers than is often the case for other wine awards.

"The high level of public interest in the New World Wine Awards results shows that it has an important place in the industry, given its unique focus on affordability and availability of wines," says Jim.

upon to have their say in naming the winner of this year’s People’s Choice Award, with a public tasting being held on Friday, October 13 at Smales Farm Business Park in Auckland’s Takapuna.

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Making a difference Erina Wehi-Barton Kaitiaki (Support person) Study from home Erina Wehi-Barton is a woman on a mission to make a difference, to change lives, to give back.

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Erina is one of 45 kaitiaki at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa that supports New Zealanders throughout the country with programmes they can study from home.

She provides support to around 100 tauira studying at levels 1-3 and living in an area stretching from Āwhitu to Whakapapa.

Over the course of the year, she’ll visit them every eight weeks, “or for those that are struggling or need extra support, every four weeks,” she says.

Tauira range from school leavers looking to build foundation skills to whānau learning how to budget.

“Everyone from school leavers to doctors, nurses, principals, teachers, kuia, kaumatua, the whole spectrum.”

There are four programmes available to tauira: He Huarahi Ako, Papa Reo, Papa Whairawa and He Papa Tikanga, and Erina says she gets the most satisfaction seeing how tauira progress throughout their learning.

“One young mum studied Papa Whairawa and after that she was able to buy a fridge without using a finance company because she’d learned how to budget. I feel like I’m making a difference.”

Seeing those changes is why Erina loves her mahi.

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It also comes with its share of challenges, including unsociable hours, long distances and living out of her car.

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Child safety features lacking Families living in private rental homes have fewer household safety features that prevent injuries to their children than families who own their own home. These include working smoke alarms, fenced driveways and fenced play areas.

Evidence from the University of Auckland’s Growing Up in New Zealand study of child development links rental housing to a reduced number of safety features in the homes of young children.

The research, published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, is based on data collected from more than 6000 families.

In face-to-face interviews conducted when the children were two years old (2011-2012), mothers were asked about features of their homes that prevent injuries to their children.

These included storing poisonous substances safely, knowing what to do if a child accidentally ate or drank something harmful, storing matches and cigarette lighters out of reach, having working smoke alarms, having locked doors or gates at stairs, having hot water set at a temperature safe for children, having fully fenced driveways and play areas, and covering electrical outlets located within the children’s reach.

Lead researcher Dr Sarah Berry says New Zealand

has a poor record for children being injured from falls, scalds and poisonings.

"These injuries often have long-lasting impacts for the children and their families. The burden is greatest among children living in more deprived households and so injuries contribute to the inequitable outcomes these children experience.

"In New Zealand, the home is the most common location for child injuries in the preschool years, so measures focusing on improving household safety are an important place to start if we are to reduce the rate of these injuries."

The study showed that, on average, six of the nine measured safety features were present in each child’s household. Fewer than five per cent reported having all nine safety features.

Overall, families living in private rental homes reported fewer household safety features than families who owned their own home. Families living in a state-owned rental home reported more household safety features.

"Private rental homes were significantly associated with fewer safety features," says Sarah. "In particular, fewer of these homes had working smoke alarms, fenced driveways or fenced play areas.

"This suggests that there is an opportunity to protect vulnerable young children by developing new policies aimed at improvements to safety features present in private rental accommodation.

Such opportunities might include legislative reform, standardised assessment of houses, landlord education and tenant advocacy.”

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New acupuncture clinic opens in the Bay A new Acupuncture Right for Life clinic is now open at 52 Girven Rd, Bayfair, Mount Maunganui.

The acupuncturist’s name is Fan Jiang who has 20 years of acupuncture experience. He graduated from Beijing Union University/College of Traditional Chinese Medicine and from his second year in university he started to treat patients.

Fan worked in Beijing Electric Power hospital for 18 years where he treated about 40 patients per day. He also worked in the orthopaedics department

for one year and in the emergency department for half a year.

He is a very experienced doctor in China; before he came to New Zealand he was the vice-chief of acupuncture.

“I usually treat a variety of problems including pain relief, sports injuries, accident injuries, weight loss, smoking addictions, stress, anxiety, sinus problems, body balance, sleep problems, poststroke problems, and more,” says Fan. If you bring The Weekend Sun advert to the new clinic you will receive a $30 discount on a treatment of your choice.

For an appointment please call 021 060 1912.

Consciously choosing to be happy “Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.” – Mildred Barthel.

The most important part of being happy is choice. Some of our decisions may not have the desired outcome, however, when you focus only on the difficult results you give permission for those external results to control you and negatively influence your moods, to the point where you can become a slave to them.

This doesn’t mean you put your head in the sand and pretend to be happy in the midst of intense worry or fear; it does mean you look at your happiness options – those things you know make you happy. When you apply this approach you realise you can have

control of your emotions regardless of the circumstances. To do this step back from the immediate issue, explore other more positive options that will influence those external events, and your internal response, and that will provide you with more clarity and objectivity. What can you change so your happiness options become more habitual?

If you would like to know more about coaching or supervision phone Mary Parker, The Fast Track Coach, on 07 577 1200/021 258 2145, or visit www.thefasttrackcoach.co.nz

It’s time to un-harden up, Kiwi blokes Why do men buy into the notion that manly aftershave products that make your face burn and sting are the best?

Let’s blame television for perpetuating the myth because shows depict men using aftershaves and other products that produce a good burn. So wrong and so bad. Because a stinging sensation from a skin care product

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Best practice tells us not to use any product that causes sting or tingle because they could damage your skin and make it look older.

Instead, use products that minimise skin inflammation and soothe freshly shaved skin.

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How is your skin lifestyle looking?

Our friends at Bestow Beauty often say that what you put on your skin is only half the story. We couldn’t agree more.

We offer four professional skincare ranges at Jamele Skincare because we know that topical skincare is very important. However, unless your skin receives the key skin nutrients which are the building blocks for healthy skin, your skin will never look as good as it could. This is the reason that, when women book in for our one-hour holistic skincare consultation, one of the first things we do is to look at their typical weekday and weekend diet.

Many people don’t realise that there are particular skin nutrients required to produce good quality collagen and elastin and that even people who eat a basically healthy diet are often deficient in them. There are also particular foods that people who struggle with acne and rosacea should avoid.

It is remarkable how quickly skin changes once people are educated about these factors and take a more holistic approach to caring for their skin.

The type of exercise you do can also have a surprising impact on your skin.

If you struggle with acne, high-impact exercise, especially in competitive environments which raise testosterone, can make acne a lot worse.

Gentle exercise like walking, pilates or yoga is better when you are treating acne from a holistic perspective.

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Do I need extra magnesium? (Part 1) Magnesium is one of the most commonly prescribed supplements by natural health practitioners. The nutritional medicine textbook ‘Integrative Medicine’ (Rakel 2012) is a well-respected reference text for clinical nutrition.

It is co-written by more than 100 medical doctors and nutritional medicine specialists.

These experts recommend supplemental magnesium for heart arrhythmia, asthma, PMS, fibromyalgia, hypertension, diabetes, migraines, muscle problems (especially cramp) and many more.

Magnesium is classified as an essential major mineral. About half of body magnesium is stored in bones; the rest in tissue, especially muscles.

Like all nutrients, there is an optimum range for magnesium levels.

A diet rich in green vegetables, nuts and seeds will potentially provide the magnesium we need.

However it is prudent to take a good multi-mineral to ensure magnesium stays at optimum levels.

There are some health problems that respond to higher levels of magnesium. I generally include extra

supplemental magnesium for muscle cramps, muscle weakness, restless legs, arrhythmias, especially atrial fibrillation, hypertension, nerve problems, energy issues, anxiety and sleeping problems. The reason that extra magnesium is so effective is that it is responsible for numerous body processes. Higher doses of magnesium can dilate blood vessels, making it excellent for hypertension and circulatory issues. Magnesium is often used in medicine for atrial fibrillation. Taking it as a dietary supplement can help support normal heart rhythm.

It does this by helping correct the heart’s electrical signals. Magnesium supplements use many different forms of magnesium from low-grade magnesium oxide to high-grade chelated forms.

My preference is to combine several forms. I use two different chelated forms plus magnesium citrate.

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The Prostate Cancer Foundation believes Kiwi men are being short-changed when it comes to the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer.

Every year, 3000 men in New Zealand are diagnosed with prostate cancer and 600 die.

More men are diagnosed with prostate cancer than women diagnosed with breast cancer.

"We applaud any party or organisation striving to improve funding and access to testing and treatment services for New Zealanders facing cancer,” says Prostate Cancer Foundation CEO Graeme Woodside. "Given that prostate cancer is the most common cancer amongst our men, we need to ask why there is no free, structured testing programme and a number of innovative treatments and medications are not available.

“Hold ups with current initiatives, including the Prostate Cancer AQIP Programme are having a significant impact. The programme promised big changes such as better access to good primary care, easier access to treatment, better post-treatment care, and more effective palliative care, but is yet to have lift-off so we need to hold the government, Ministry of Health and GPs accountable,” says Graeme.

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Helping the children in hospital When Te Ariki was a young boy, he endured hundreds of doctors’ visits for his ongoing cough.

His frustrated parents were constantly told it was just a viral infection and given some medication to help.

Ten years later, Te Ariki finally got some answers.

He was diagnosed with bronchiectasis – a lung condition where the breathing tubes in the lungs have been damaged, enlarged and scarred – primarily due to infection.

Years of suffering undiagnosed has led to several holes in Te Ariki’s lungs. Due to his illness, it’s important Te Ariki keeps his lungs pumping by staying active.

He manages this through his love for Jiu-Jitsu and was recently selected to represent New Zealand at the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Pan Pacific World Championships in Melbourne in October.

Despite dedication to fitness and Jiu-Jitsu, Te Ariki still relies on life-saving breathing equipment and monitors to keep him well.

Much of this equipment has

been donated to Tauranga Hospital thanks to the Countdown Kids Hospital Appeal. The Countdown Kids Hospital Appeal runs from August 7-October 29 and aims to raise more than $1 million to help get sick Kiwi kids home from hospital faster. Between 2008 and 2016 Countdown Kids Hospital Appeal has donated $781,607 to Tauranga Hospital. Some of the equipment purchased with the donated funds has helped Te Araki while he has been in hospital, including RAD 5 Masimo

monitors, which monitor oxygen saturations and heart rate; Rad 8 Masimo monitors which monitor overnight oximetry (oxygen saturations); a Welch Allyn LT Propac monitor which monitors ECG, heart rate, respiratory rate, oxygen saturation, and blood pressure; and a Abbotts TAT machine for blood gas and chemistry testing.

For more information and to find out how you can help visit www.countdown.co.nz/ community-environment/ countdown-kids-hospital-appeal

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Here in Tauranga the Cobb & Co restaurant on The Strand is a fantastic haunt, especially for those wishing to take children for a relatively informal but quality meal.

The Strand restaurant is an award winner four times in a row in the Downtown Tauranga Best Place Top 10 for 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016.

Cobb is now under the guidance of one of the most experienced hospitality franchise managers in New Zealand, Nathan Bonny, who along with the Gower family is bringing Cobb & Co back to the nation. There are plans to open some 20 new restaurants over the next five years.

Currently there are eight, which includes the most recently opened one in the legendary Dunedin railway station.

Nathan Bonny was franchise manager at Columbus

Coffee for some 17 years and more recently at Mexicali Fresh and Burger Wisconsin.

He brings a wealth of knowledge to this locally-based but nationallyoperating franchise system. He will speak at the next Franchise Association of New Zealand meeting on August 17, 2017. If you wish to attend the meeting to learn about franchising your business or purchasing a franchise please contact jo@harristate. co.nz or see the advertisement on this page for further details.

If you have an interest in franchising your business or purchasing a franchise yourself, please contact David Foster at Harris Tate, Tauranga’s franchise lawyers.

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Look after the pennies to look after the pounds There’s an old saying ‘Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves’.

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In other words, if you concentrate on saving small amounts of money you will find that this quickly grows into large amounts.

Start using cash for more of your regular spending e.g. lunches.

Set yourself a reasonable budget, say, $10 per day and draw out the cash of $50 at the beginning of the week. When the money runs out you have used up your allocation and yet you will find you are still happy that you got what you needed.

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cards each day you become disconnected to your spend and tend to buy extra things that you don’t really need.

Generally you are no better off or any happier for doing so.

You may find you spend $60 on your lunches just by being less conscious of your spend. That’s $10 a week

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Over a year that is $520 and over five years that’s $2600.

If you find could three areas of spending that you could save $10 each per week that would give you $7800 in five years, which could be used to pay off debt or saved for something special like an overseas holiday.

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Shareholders Association supports Money Week "Record low interest rates mean that leaving money sitting in bank accounts will simply not grow the nest egg you need in retirement,” says New Zealand Shareholders Association chairman John Hawkins.

The secret, he says, is to have a diverse range of investments.

“Selecting the correct portfolio has always been important, but is even more so in the current environment.”

The NZSA is again facilitating seminars during Money Week to help people gain the knowledge and confidence necessary to address their financial future.

Each form of saving or investing has its advantages and disadvantages. Many people are very exposed to housing, but this is a cyclical market which has slumps

from time to time, just like any other, says John.

“However, there are other ways to gain exposure to the property market and a diverse range of different sectors. By investing in stocks and bonds instead of just sticking to very conservative fixed interest products, you spread the risk and grow wealth or enjoy passive income.”

The NZSA Money Week seminars will empower people to make appropriate choices.

"It is also important to realise you are not alone," says John.

"NZSA is an independent, nationwide organisation set up to help retail investors.

“The association is known for its advocacy and public lobbying, but this is only the tip of the iceberg.

“We are very active at company, regulatory and government levels, encouraging best practice and providing input which has steadily

programme to complement broader offerings available from the national organisation. For many, a key attraction

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“Our purpose is to give our members the information, tools and environment to be successful,” says John.

As one of six branches across the country, Bay of Plenty offers a local

Money Week focused on attitudes towards debt The Commission for Financial Capability will start Money Week 2017, August 14-18, by releasing the findings of a survey into debt and New Zealanders’ attitudes towards borrowing.

"We're building on our understanding of the social norms around debt and have heard from more than 1000 people who shared their attitudes and experiences,” says retirement commissioner Diane Maxwell.

"We also asked whether they would be willing to lend to, or borrow from, a friend or family member. Some of the results on that one were surprising.

"Debt is part of life, it's how we buy cars and houses; we need it to build businesses. But there's a point where we get too comfortable with being loaded up on debt, we forget the old-fashioned notion of saving up for something, waiting and buying it when we have the money for it.”

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annual series of events across New Zealand that focus on financial capability.

For the first time the commission has joined with the Reserve Bank to produce a series of videos featuring well-known New Zealanders talking debt, connected to the bank notes.

Major banks have also joined up on a video campaign called ‘Birds of a Feather’.

There will be scores of other free money-related events run by businesses, schools, government and community organisations and people up and down the country. All are designed to help you think about the role debt plays in your life.

The new-look Money Week website www.moneyweek.org.nz has information and resources. You can ask questions or share your experiences and tips about debt on the Sorted Community Forum.

Keep an eye on #MoneyWeekNZ and Facebook/sorted.org.nz for regular updates on Money Week.

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Time to see that you can be anything The Canvas Careers Showcase is taking place at the ASB Baypark Arena from Friday, August 11 to Saturday, August 12. The showcase will give students and job seekers the chance to speak face-to-face with real people from businesses and tertiary institutions across Tauranga and the Western Bay of Plenty.

A key feature of this year’s event is the ‘I Can Be…’ Inspiration Stage.

Through bi-hourly talks, speakers will give their first-hand accounts of what skills are required for a career in their field in addition to sharing tips on getting your foot in the door.

One such speaker is Page Macrae Engineering representative, Logan Taylor, who will discuss his mechanical engineering apprenticeship. "Over time Page Macrae Engineering have produced some of the highest achievers

in the trade,” says apprentice training coordinator Grant Holland. “At Canvas we’re excited to show you what we do, how we do it and let you get hands-on with some displays and challenges.”

Bay of Plenty Film’s general manager, Anton Steel, will also speak on the Inspiration Stage to share his story of establishing BOP Film and his vision to turn the region into a film maker’s haven.

He will give tips on what it takes to get involved in Tauranga’s growing film production industry.

“Creating pathways for Bay of Plenty youth into this lucrative industry is a large part of our vision,” says Anton. “This is a boom time worldwide in terms of digital content creation, and the

youth of today are more digitally connected than anyone, so we want to see the Bay become one of the world leaders in this space.”

To further engage with students, visitors to Canvas Careers Showcase are invited to download the event app, which allows them to connect with exhibitors, navigate the event with ease and access a schedule of what is on when. Anyone who downloads the app goes in the draw to win a Samsung Galaxy tablet.

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Hairdressing superstars It was a clean sweep for the Hair to Train team with four first places, three seconds, four thirds and four fourth place wins in the New Zealand Association of Registered Hairdressers’ regional hairdressing competitions held recently at the Tauranga Yacht Club.

Jess Jordan, award winning hairdresser. Photo: Bruce Barnard.

Jessica Jordan is Hair to Train’s creative director who led the team to victory and was also placed first in the NZARH cut presentation, second in the ‘hair by night’ category and won the colour presentation trophy.

Hair to Train general manager Donna Waterson says she couldn’t have been more proud of Jessica and the academy’s amazing students who entered the competitions.

“Students not only from the Hair to Train academy, but also the stylists from Ivy Hair and Havana Barbers, the commercial division of the company, were also placed.

“To enter competitions at this level really takes a lot of guts and those students that did enter will go far in this industry,” says Donna.

“To put yourself out there when you have not been studying for a long time, some as little as 20 weeks, shows great courage and those students will be sought-after by local hairdressing salons.

“It is a great platform to be recognised for excellent work and events such as these make our students stand out.”

There is still time to enroll for Hair to Train’s next course for barbering and hairdressing starting on September 7. These are Level 3 NZQA qualifications. Students aged 16-19 may qualify for a Youth Guarantee Fees Free course. Visit www.hairtotrain.co.nz for more information.

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Talent shines at the 2017 Media Design School Bright Awards Brought to you by Media Design School, New Zealand’s most awarded digital design tertiary institute, the Bright Awards celebrate secondary school students across Aotearoa in Years 11-13 who are bringing their creative craft to life.

The Bright Awards recognise New Zealand’s up-and-coming emerging creative talents.

Each winner will be awarded two major cash prizes: one for themselves and one for their school.

Need another reason to enter? Your school could be in the running to win the Bright School of the Year Award, demonstrating the school’s ability to produce talented students in the fields of digital and traditional design.

Media Design School is New Zealand’s most awarded tertiary institute for digital and creative technology qualifications. The school is currently ranked the #1 Graphic Design and Photography school

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Valuing what’s important in life Although she’s already had a long and successful career as a health professional, Adrienne Arthur is still learning new skills.

Adrienne, a registered nurse working in Hamilton schools and employed by Pinnacle Health Network, is a tauira at Te Wananga o Aotearoa studying towards a Postgraduate Diploma of Bicultural Professional Supervision.

“I work at two high schools - Nga Taiatea and Tai Wananga – and I have been in this job for seven years,” she says.

“I thought it would be good to become a bicultural professional supervisor so that I could support my work colleagues better and hopefully improve my own

practice.” The programme allows tauira to develop their own kaitiakitanga (guardianship) model of professional supervision to implement into their professional practice. Adrienne says her work in schools uses a mainstream model of health care delivery to a mainly Maori clientele and she sees benefits of using a more culturallyfocused approach.

“I’ve had to adapt my practice. I give them more time, and work with the client to come up with their own solutions. I thought I could make a difference and upskill myself

so that, hopefully, I can help upskill other nurses and make my own practice more culturally appropriate.”

Although it can be a challenge juggling full-time work with study, it’s something Adrienne is committed to.

“It’s been a struggle for me as an older student but I enjoy it.

“For me, what I enjoy most is being in a Maori learning environment which appreciates my moral values and beliefs by validating what we know and why we do what we do.”

Adrienne Arthur is a tauira at Te Wananga o Aotearoa.

Toi Ohomai on hand to help students aim high If you’ve been thinking about what’s next, a step up, or you’ve got a teenager who’s contemplating their future, make sure you head down to the Canvas Tauranga Careers Showcase this Friday and Saturday.

Industry experts from the Bay’s largest tertiary provider, Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology (formerly Bay of Plenty Polytechnic and Waiariki Institute of Technology) will be on hand from across a range of areas to discuss careers in automotive, business, forestry, health, marine studies, sport and recreation, and loads more.

Whether you’re looking for part-time, full-time, flexi-learn, certificate, diploma or degree and post-graduate study,

Toi Ohomai has an option to suit everyone.

Get interactive with free manicures and massage from the beauty students, test your fitness with the sport and recreation team, have a go at chopping down a tree on the forestry simulator and enjoy live music from the music students.

Toi Ohomai event coordinator, Nikki Hansen, says the Canvas Careers Showcase is the region’s largest career showcase and is a great way to meet industry and tertiary leaders from around the country before you take that next stage in your learning journey.

“Getting one-on-one time with tertiary providers is so important in helping people make the right choice.

“Our staff are here to help answer questions, provide information, but also to inspire and get people excited about their next step.” Entry is free so make sure you pop into the Canvas Careers Showcase at ASB Arena – it’s the perfect opportunity to explore career options.

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A world-class degree in the Bay of Plenty Living 100km away from the University of Waikato needn’t be an obstacle to university study. Otumoetai mum-offour Melanie Tregurtha is proof of this. Mel graduated this year with a Bachelor of Social Work with First Class Honours and is now studying towards her Masters Degree.

Mel’s BSW from Waikato, ranked among the top 1.1 per cent universities in the world (QS World University Rankings), will enable her to follow her passion of helping disadvantaged children.

All this for a student who once considered university as simply “not an option”.

Mel was surprised to learn just how many options

she had to study at Waikato while living in the Bay of Plenty. Waikato has a strong presence in the Bay, and its flexible study options enable students to balance life’s many obstacles while working towards a qualification with real career opportunities.

No university entrance? No problem! Waikato has a partnership with Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology to offer students pathway programmes that enable them to study towards the qualification they dream of.

In 2019, the University of Waikato-led tertiary campus in the heart of Tauranga city will open its doors, providing greater study options for students in the region.

The new campus, led by Waikato on behalf of the Bay of Plenty Tertiary Partnership, will enhance Waikato’s current range of qualifications and study options available to students in the Bay of Plenty.

Talking sport innovation at forum Four leading professionals walked their audience through the ‘Head to Toe’ of sport innovation on Wednesday morning as part of Tauranga’s Groundswell Festival’s Sports Performance Innovation Forum.

The expert panel included a physiotherapist-turned-business manager at a Dunedin tech start-up; a former cricketer; a nutritional scientist and exercise physiologist; and a Nike innovation developer. Over the course of the morning, the four speakers discussed their area of expertise.

Siliconcoach’s Steve Stanley kicked things off by describing how his

software company uses high quality videos to advance athletic improvement.

Next up, former cricketer and world-record holder for the most catches in a cricket match, Peter McGlashan, delved into the role the hands play in sport performance.

Stacy Sims, who works with some of New Zealand’s leading athletes, discussed the effect nutrition has on elite sport performance.

Finally, Tauranga-native, Wade Flanagan, shared his expertise on athletic footwear as an innovator working at the prestigious Nike innovation kitchen.

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Funding system divides opinion

Looking ƒorOpinion theon a replacement for the school decile system has been divided, with the job that suits you? primary teachers’ union calling it “merely Improve your job-seeking skills for the deckchairs Kiwi workplace shifting on the Titanic”

unless schools get more funding.

The government has announced the decile system is to be replaced with a ‘risk index’. Rather Join our intensive, than allocating four-week course funding to schools on the basis of neighbourhood characteristics, funding will now be (12 hours per week) targeted at children most at risk of not achieving due to disadvantage. The risk index will also be applied to early childhood education.

Education minister Nikki Kaye says schools have been stigmatised and wrongly judged by their decile number for too long.

“Children and young people deserve to take pride in their school and we need to better target funding to where the need is greatest to support all children • For people with English as a Second Language • Learn how to approach employers to achieve.”

• Learn to tailor your CV for specific job applications The minister has assured schools that no one will • Prepare and practise for job interviewssee a reduction in funding as a result of the change, • Develop your professional networkingwhich skills is expected to take effect from 2019 or 2020.

• English level: Intermediate and above (confident users of English) But the primary teachers’ union, NZEI, says the announcement is short on detail.

"Unless schools and early childhood services get a major and immediate funding jolt, any new way to divvy up funding will be a bit like rearranging theindeckchairs on nearest the Titanic," Get touch with your centre president Lynda Stuart says.Road, Tauranga 120 Devonport Phone 571 4181 "We'll be glad to see the end of the stigmatising Email bayofplenty@englishlanguage.org.nz aspects of the decile funding scheme, but the main Web www.englishlanguage.org.nz issue facing schools and early childhood services is a dire lack of funding.

"Though the minister has promised no school or service will be worse off under the new scheme, we don't know what that means in practice.

"It's time for the government to stop scrimping on children's education and provide what's needed for every child to have the best education in the world.”

The proposed new system has been welcomed by New Zealand Kindergartens and the New Zealand School Trustees Association.

"Shifting away from the current decile and equity funding system is a welcome move," says NZK chief executive Clare Wells.

"Funding through a new system has the potential to better support each child who needs it by reducing disparities and improving learning outcomes.”

NZSTA president Lorraine Kerr says the move to target equity funding to students instead of schools is “really exciting stuff”.

"Parents and communities will need to start looking at the actual educational progress students are making when they try to assess school quality, instead of the hoary old decile labels, which have been really misleading.

"It is going to take everyone a while to really get their heads around it, because the real significance of this change is that we’re recognising that funding belongs with the students, and that schools are kaitiaki – caretakers of that funding," she says.

"It’s not ours as of right, it’s ours to use in the service of our students.

"Real change is hard work, and we all have some hard work ahead of us to ensure that the new system does not replicate the problems of labelling and superficial reporting that has dogged the decile system.”

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Working together to reach full potential Senior students wanting help with exams would be wise to book in now with Kip McGrath, the specialists in making the most of schooling opportunities.

Saskia Leslie and Stephanie McMillan operate four centres within the Tauranga region and each have more than 15 years of teaching and specialist tutoring experience.

Every parent wants what is best for their child and Kip McGrath offers that.

“Using the time left before external exams to boost your confidence and activate optimum learning strategies could aid in improving your grades,” says Stephanie.

For parents of Year 6 and 8 students,

now would be a good time to start building confidence in learning techniques and consolidating skills ready for the next part of their educational journey.

The Year 6 transition to intermediate and Year 8 transition to high school is a significant change in your child’s life. Kip McGrath can help build confidence, get students ready for a new school environment and target what is needed for the next stage of their schooling. This will help your son or daughter make the absolute most of their opportunities in 2018.

Kip McGrath education centres have trained teachers who are professional, knowledgeable, and passionate about changing students’ lives.

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Accounting work experience on offer for students Tertiary students interested in pursuing a career in accounting are invited to apply for the 2017 Achiever Programme – a work experience opportunity offered by Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand.

The opportunity is open to students currently studying business, commerce or accounting in any stage of their tertiary studies.

About 3000 students are expected to apply for 12-week work experience placements beginning November 2017 in more than 150 employer organisations across Australia and New Zealand.

In 2016, several student participants were offered either full-time graduate employment or continuing part-time employment while studying within their host organisation.

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“The programme offers students hands-on work experience, as well as insights into which accounting services line best suits them, and an opportunity to develop important industry contacts.

“It shows the value these students bring to businesses, and their contribution to thriving communities and prosperous economies.”

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Te Puke High girls bring home squash bronze The Te Puke High School girls’ squash team returned from the national secondary school squash championships at the weekend with a bronze medal.

Team members Iyra Stewart and Amy Horscroft were also selected to represent New Zealand at an upcoming Trans-Tasman series with Australia.

Success on the squash court is not unusual for the school, which has

a strong affiliation with the Te Puke Squash Club.

Club communications officer Jenny Wotten says the club has always had well-seeded junior girls, thanks to talented club coaches, a strong junior training programme and club stalwart Norma Brown's continued involvement identifying juniors at intermediate level and training them up to participate in AIMS games where they get a taste for competitive squash.

The Squash Bay of Plenty schools programme also nurtures and develops young talent, says Jenny.

Five of the six successful team members will be leaving school at the end

of the year but Jenny says there are younger players coming through who will be able to step up to replace them.

Iyra, Amy, Chanel Wotten and Ashley Taylor will be joining the Te Puke Squash Club’s women’s B grade team this weekend for regional eliminations at the Geyser City Squash Club in Rotorua.

If successful the team will travel to Cromwell for the New Zealand SuperChamps in September.

The bronze medal-winning Te Puke High Amy and Chanel have School girls squash team (from left) Deane also been named in the Reynolds, Deeanna Shaw, Iyra Stewart, Bay of Plenty under Chanel Wotten, Ashley Taylor, and Amy 19 team travelling to Horscroft with coach Chris Brewer at the Christchurch to play in New Zealand Secondary Schools’ Squash the New Zealand Junior Nationals in Palmerston North.

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“The club is currently looking for new members and is offering two months of free golf if you join today. With full-playing, age-

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Brighten up your winter There’s nothing better than a home makeover to brighten up the drab winter months.

New curtains and blinds can transform any space and help keep your home warm and cosy, saving money on your power bills.

Chris and the team at Harvey Furnishings have a huge range of curtain solutions for you.

To get the most insulation out of curtains and Roman blinds you should choose thick, quality fabric and lining. They also need to be installed correctly so they fit snugly against the wall or frame around your window.

Having searched the world for the latest fabric trends, and with thousands of fabrics to choose from, the team at Harvey’s will custom-make your curtains in any style to suit your home’s decor.

Take a moment to look at the stylish Tru Living, Q Designs and

Style your home with Q Designs fabrics exclusively from Harvey Furnishings Montgomery fabric collections provide design advice.

With almost 60 years as New which are exclusive to Harvey Furnishings. These, along with Zealand’s largest manufacturer other exclusive designs, will give and retailer of curtains and blinds, Harvey Furnishings is here your home a point of difference.

Don’t know what to choose? to help you.

Visit Chris and the team at No problem, as Harvey Furnishings offers a free in-home the Tauranga showroom, 387 consultation service. HighlyCameron Rd, or contact them to book a free in-home consultation qualified consultants have a full range of samples for you to view on 0800 00 88 80. For more with your colour scheme and information visit furnishings and they’re happy to www.harveyfurnishings.co.nz

Money-saving tips for cleaning the ceiling Why are fly spots so hard to clean from the ceiling? And why do shiny rub marks appear after the ceiling’s been cleaned? Colin Dale from Spot Free Ceilings has the answer.

nail heads, gib joins and uneven finish.

“But if you rub this surface to remove fly poo, even gently with baby wipes, you will make a shiny rub-mark in the paint.

“The reason is you have worn away the non-reflective outer surface to reach down to where the fly poo has burned through, Colin says the problem stems leaving unsightly rub marks.” from the way houseflies eat.

The only fix to these is “A housefly lands on food an expensive re-paint, says and vomits a very acidic Colin. “The smart thing to substance, which breaks down do is contact a professional the food. It then sucks up the ceiling cleaning company that vomit and broken down food, guarantees to clean flat ceilings so when it poos this is even without creating rub-marks in more acidic.” the finish.

When the acidic poo sits on “Your local ceiling cleaning ceiling paint for a while it burns professionals with more than 9800 the paint, says Colin. ceilings under their belt is Spot “When you try to wipe the fly poo Free Ceilings.” off the surface, unless it is very recent, it Contact Spot Free Ceilings on will not budge.”

A common house fly. 07 579 2643 or visit www.spotfree.co.nz Colin says ceilings in most homes now today and receive 30 per cent off when have a non-reflective flat matte finish because it effectively hides a multitude of sins such as mentioning The Weekend Sun.

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Eight golds for local companies Todd Grey Builders won a Gold Award and was Category winner for this entry in the New Home $700,000-$1 million category.

A number of building companies in the Western Bay of Plenty have been recognised this month for their entries in the Bay of Plenty/Central Plateau Registered Master Builders 2017 House of the Year competition.

This year’s Supreme Award went to Rotorua builders Urbo Homes for a luxury home on the shores of Lake Tarawera, but there were eight Gold Award winners, eight Silver Award winners and

one Category winner in the Western Bay. Calley Homes in Katikati won three Gold Awards, one in the New Home $1-2 million category for a Katikati home inspired by California’s mid-century modern architecture movement; one in the New Home $700,000-$1 million category with a classic weatherboard Tauranga home featuring three lounges; and one in the New Home $450,000-550,000 category for a semi-rural Tauranga home with an elegant country theme.

Belco Homes won two Gold Awards, one in the New Home $1-2 million category for a cedar

and clay brick home with oak floors and custom copper wall linings overlooking the harbour; and another in the New Home $550,000-750,000 category for an Omokoroa home featuring a sound-proofed media room.

Todd Grey Builders won a Gold Award and was Category winner for its entry in the New Home $700,000-$1 million category.

National category winners and the Registered Master Builders Supreme Awards for House of the Year and Renovation of the Year will be announced at a gala dinner on November 25 at SKYCITY in Auckland. Read the rest of the story at www.theweekendsun.co.nz

Interior boutique store winter sale The doors to Kowhai Interiors have been open for just over three months and owners Dana and Ness say that the response to this gorgeous boutique store has been just amazing.

“We have people coming by on a regular basis to say ‘hi’ and to find that something special, either for themselves or for gifts.”

From deliciously scented New Zealand-made soy candles, to stunning reupholstered furniture pieces, to original art by local artists, Kowhai has something unique and beautiful to offer everyone. ‘’We try hard to ensure our product ranges are not on offer anywhere else in Tauranga and typically carry only one or two of each item.

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The girls are happy to offer advice on colours and decor to enhance your home and their personal styles shine through in the layout and selection of products in the store.

Call in today at Shop 11/11th Ave Plaza to take advantage of their ‘say Kowhai Interiors goodbye to winter sale’ with offers exclusive 20-50 per cent off all stock* furniture, home (*excluding art sold on commission) or visit their online decor, gifts and artwork. store www.kowhaiinteriors.co.nz

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Landscaping experts in the Bay Zones Landscaping has expanded its successful business to Tauranga. The team are experts at designing, building and landscaping outdoor living spaces, and can offer solutions across all trades to deliver a hassle-free project on time and to your budget.

As landscaping specialists, Zones’ aim is to help you get the most out of your outdoor spaces. Whether it’s cooking or eating outside with friends and family, playing backyard cricket with the kids, reading a book in the sun, or pottering around the garden, the team can design and build a landscape to suit.

Jacob Matchitt is the new franchise owner and is excited to be bringing Zones Landscaping to the Bay. “I’m meeting up with families from outside the region – even outside the country – who have bought an established home

and have funds left over that they’re using to improve and add their own personal touch to their landscaping and outdoor areas,” says Jacob.

Zones’ services start with a no-obligation, on-site consultation. If both parties agree, a design will be provided to fit your budget and when the design is complete Zones will organise and project-manage the entire landscape process from start to finish.

Zones also offers several different types of fixed-price design solutions. Most landscape designers and architects offer designs on a charge-up basis where the more time they take, the more it costs, but Zones offers different types of concept designs and working drawings to match the scale and scope of any project to make your dream come to life.

If you’re thinking of giving your backyard space a makeover call Zones Landscaping on 0800 30 10 20 to arrange a free consultation or for more information visit New franchise owner www.zones.co.nz Jacob Matchitt.

Curtains and blinds to keep the warmth in When it comes to building and renovating, one of the decisions homeowners face is choosing which curtains and blinds best match the look they’re going for.

Tony Baker of BOP Curtains and Blinds helps homeowners become inspired by the beautiful new-season range of fabrics, perfect for the cooler winter months.

The company motto is: ‘We come to you’ with thousands of samples to show all the latest curtain and blind ideas.

“We’ve got window furnishings for winter including thermal fabrics and blinds to help keep your interior space warm,” says Tony.

BOP Curtains and Blinds offers top quality brands including James Dunlop Textiles, Charles Parsons Interiors, Resene fabrics, Warwick fabrics and Ken Bimler. Clients interested in bespoke options will love working with Tony.

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With 30 years’ experience, his knowledge of trends, colour and coordination will help clients achieve that stunning, unique look for their home.

A free measure and quote and interior design advice will help customers get the best look that will be practical and within budget, or book a personal in-home consultation to get the right look for your home.

“Our wholehome packages offer unbeatable value. We have a Starter pack, Builders pack and an Elite pack.” The company’s mobile service has also been tailored for customer convenience. Contact BOP Curtains and Blinds on 07 571 2345 to schedule a personal consultation.

Their range of fabrics are perfect for winter

Interest rates, electronics and alcohol Homeowners aren’t worried about their ability to cope with mortgage rate rises according to a new survey.

And they continue to struggle to curb spending on consumer items.

Nearly 2000 homeowners were questioned by New Zealand Home Loans and 57.6 per cent weren’t concerned about future interest rate increases.

The survey result comes on the back of the official cash rate being held at 1.75 per cent and predictions that rates

will remain unchanged for some time yet. But 47 per cent of respondents were worried about their ability to cut back spending on household electronics, tools and sports goods.

And 46 per cent had difficulty controlling spending on services like household maintenance.Entertainment such as concerts and movies, and habits like cigarettes and alcohol are two other areas where people struggle to manage their spending.

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New consultant joins Classic Builders This is Mark Silvester, Classic Builders’ newest Tauranga consultant and a man on a mission to solve problems.

Mark joins the team armed with experience in engineering, management and sales and has spent the past eight years fine-tuning his skills as a building consultant. Passionate about the industry, Mark is excited to be joining a company that is at the forefront, continuously striving for impovement and excellence in residential building.

With multiple projects currently on the go in Tauranga, Classic Builders has a range of home building solutions on offer and this is where Mark will be most valuable. Whether it be a first home, an investment, or an architecturally-designed forever home, Mark will find a solution to suit you.

Understanding the significance of your potential purchase, your first encouter

with Mark will involve him listening to you and asking questions to help establish a clear picture of your requirements and expectations.

“To Classic Builders, the purchase of a home deserves a lot of attention and care - and that’s how I feel too. I want to find out what is important to you and the little things that will make your home life easier. It is my job to help you realise your wishlist and tick every box,” says Mark.

And when he is off the working clock, you will find Mark spending time with his wife and young family, and ‘trying’ to keep fit’… though he is first to admit that playgrounds and bouncy castles have been his main source of fitness over the past couple of years.

Come and have a chat with Mark to see how the team at Classic Builders can help you realise your next home.

Mark Silvester, Classic Builder’s new consultant.

A experienced plumber that you can trust If your home has leaky pipes, your bathroom is in need of repair, or you want to change your shower pressure, Kev’s Plumbing is an expert you can call on in the Bay. Owner-operator Colin Fine – who is nicknamed ‘Kev’ – has been a plumber all his life. “I have 35 years’ experience,” says Colin, who will show up at any time to fix plumbing problems and make the water flow again.

“I specialise in re-piping houses that have leaky water pipes in walls,” says Colin, who is on-call for emergencies. “People don’t

realise that usually when this kind of thing starts happening it doesn’t stop – it starts happening in other areas – so all pipes should be inspected and replaced.”

Colin can also take care of all bathroom plumbing, hot water cylinder replacements and general maintenance.

“A lot of people like their shower pressure increased – that is something I do a lot.” And when you call Colin about a job, he’s the man who shows up. “I will travel Bay of Plentywide for work.”

Colin Fine aka ‘Kev’.

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Inspirational interior design ideas for your home Florence & Co. is an interior design and homewares store located at 55 Ninth Ave opposite Love Rosie Bakery in Tauranga. It is a luxurious and spacious showroom filled with beautiful things, where customers come to enjoy a relaxing browse, find inspiration for their home projects, and select the perfect gifts for those who have everything.

The friendly team at Florence & Co are always approachable, very knowledgeable and have a wealth of experience in the interior design industry to draw from when

helping you make your selections.

“We have an extensive fabric and wallpaper library to choose from as well as a beautiful range of furniture, lighting, custom-made cushions, and home accessories. We also offer in-home consultations and are happy to assist you with as much or as little as you need to create the perfect look for your home,” says owner Kerry Cook.

Whether selecting everything for a new build – paint colours, flooring choices, wall coverings, window treatments, lighting, custom furniture and the perfect accessories – or simply helping you transform a single room, recover an old favourite piece of furniture,

or style and accessorise your space, the team at Florence & Co. are passionate about helping their customers achieve unique and personally tailored results.

Florence & Co stocks fabrics for both drapery and upholstery purposes that you may not see elsewhere and aims to provide that small point of difference for your home or business.

In addition to what you’ll find in-store the team is more than happy to assist you in sourcing other fabric, wallpaper or furniture to suit your requirements if you can’t quite find the perfect choice.

Pop in and see Kerry and Holly – they

look forward to seeing you soon. Follow them on Facebook and Instagram for new arrivals and design inspiration.

The Florence & Co showroom is filled with stunning pieces for your home.

Getting the cleanest blinds in town If you want your blinds really clean, then Tony Baker from BOP Ultrasonic Blind Cleaning is the man for you.

Tony says ultrasonic technology is the most hygienic way to clean your blinds, and the method is suitable for places that must be germ-free.

“Ultrasonic technology is used in all hospitals, dental surgeries and optometrists as part of the sterilisation process. It is also used in many other industries that require a precision clean to remove dirt, dust, grime, mould and bacteria,” says Tony.

It works by placing the blinds in an ultrasonic tank of hot water. The tank then emits sound waves that travel through the water, creating millions of microscopic bubbles that implode “and literally suck the surface clean,” says Tony.

“Ultrasonic cleaning will not scratch, pit or damage items the way that conventional cleaning methods do.”

Ultrasonic blind cleaning removes dust, dirt, bacteria, bug stains, grease and grime as well as odours from cooking, pets and cigarettes, and is a safe and gentle blind cleaning technique.

“Nobody likes cleaning blinds, but with the ultrasonic blind cleaning method, everybody likes the results.”

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Another white elephant New Zealand has become a country of imbalances; a country that bows to the whims and desires of the few. If a small circle of people in Tauranga want a museum then let them pay for it or raise the money and fund maintenance.

Tauranga is too small to fund a museum and I am sure most ratepayers would resent having to pay for another white elephant.

I have been to the Auckland Museum many times and quite often my wife and I have been the only people in that huge museum. One wonders would a museum in Tauranga be the same?

Ratepayers should only be expected to pay for the needs of the ratepayers, not the whims and desires of small pressure groups.

Our great grandchildren and further on than that will be paying for such a white elephant as the cost to run and maintain the place escalates year by year and at the same time live in fear of the day the debt bubble is going to burst.

A Bourne, Bethlehem.

A euphoric extravaganza

Last week it surfaced that the City Transformation Committee now wants to totally demolish the existing library and all attached; the replacement cost said to be a massive $28 million of more debt for TCC ratepayers.

The existing CBD library building, at most 10-20 years old with significant monies spent on it since, now heading for total demolition and replacement.

Why? Buildings are meant to have a life span of 50 years. This can only be a euphoric extravaganza!

Anything meant to last that has TCC’s ‘Midas Touch’ soon crumbles to fool’s gold. It appears to me that TCC ratepayers have had about enough of this ‘spendaholic’ council/councillors. Clearly, the need to spend is more important than being prudent, wise and considered as elected representatives of a community – the upper cranial cavities are now vacated!

Even the former libraries CEO at TCC acknowledged that library attendees are dropping.

The obvious worldwide trend is in full swing so TCC compulsively must do the opposite? There’s likely no reason to exist in 10 years or less.

Sadly none actually needs changing. A binding referendum allows all TCC ratepayers a say.

I Stevenson, Tauranga.

Defining courage ‘Dear Ms Fitzsimons. By your apparent defining of courage, in support of Metiria Turei’s admission, there are many of the population who would win the Victoria Cross were they to declare publicly the number of times they had driven drunk.’

B Johnson, Omokoroa.

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Rotting from the head down Over the past couple of weeks we have had to endure the Greens co-leader’s WINZ circus, the Labour leader throwing in the towel, the Auditor General quitting, plus recently we had the National Party MP employment dispute mess with police becoming involved, not to mention the latest Greens infighting hullabaloo. The Auckland daily traffic gridlocks and infrastructure failures with massive financial implications are unbelievable political idiocy. Yes, and we still have Treaty Minister Finlayson spewing out gravy train settlements and abject fawning apologies willy-nilly while now being ridiculed along with ex PM Key for maintaining and stating there would be very few Marine & Coastal Area Act claims. Well, sorry to say these MACA claims are coming out his ears with over 550 claims to date for the whole New Zealand coastline. Costs will be horrendous.

Then there are the continuing and increasing departmental-type money frauds, regular school funding rip offs – never of course ever overlooking the countless secret squirrel meetings to blindside the public on anything remotely contentious to cover up the balls-ups and mistruths.

What is wrong with this damn country because it looks to be rotting from the head down!

R. Paterson, Mount Maunganui.

Random rubbish dumping shocks Lately there has been significant media news regarding random rubbish dumping by locals and visitors. So imagine our shock when we called into our favourite rest area, southbound on SH33 approximately 20 minutes north of Rotorua.

This was a beautiful rural lay-by, complete with semi-pet roosters, and there were always other travellers using it. But on Sunday, July 16 we could not help but notice the concrete rubble that had been dumped in the lay-by. By my calculations, in excess of 50 truckloads, with a minimum of 5m3 per truck load, with reinforcing steel jutting out of some concrete. Over 50 per cent of the lay-by was covered with this concrete. This had only been put there in the last six weeks. If I was building a house and left the exposed ends of concrete unprotected, I probably would have health and safety chasing me. But obviously different rules apply to different people. The sheer volume of this concrete (over 400 tonnes), means that it had to be dumped there with the consent of the local authority. What an eyesore, plainly visible from the highway, in an area of the country that is supposedly proud of its green and clean image.

D Taylor, Katikati.

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Greens should be renamed Fraud Party With Metiria Turei defiantly refusing to stand down as co-leader of the Green Party for benefit and electoral fraud and James Shaw and his candidates firmly endorsing her to remain in the position the party now

Just stop it!

She was at the checkout – a niggly child on the hip, a trundler with $218.60 worth of groceries, a seriously tested checkout operator trying to process her purchase… and all the time she was on her mobile. The call obviously wasn’t urgent – she was laughing and offering opinions on this and that.

And the world watched and waited. How damned rude and inconsiderate.

Her time at the checkout could have been halved with a little common decency.

But no – to hell with everyone waiting. Heads nodded in disbelief behind her.

Why do people think its ok to talk longly and loudly on phones in public? We are actually not interested in what you have to say about anything to anyone. It’s a kind of people pollution As for those people who walk down the street with an ear wig and look as though they are talking to themselves. Just stop it!

I Goldsmith, Bureta.

should be renamed the ‘Fraud Party’ rather than the Green Party. That is what the party seems to stand for now. For many the party has lost its way and completely lost the respect of many people.

M Hills, Hairini.

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The Weekend Sun’s ever popular guide to ‘What’s On’ in the Bay. Pg46 THE WEEKEND SUN

Plans for next weekend?

Let me tell you my plans for next weekend.

As it happens, I'm off to Wellington for four days, and looking forward to it immensely since ‘Wellington On a Plate’ is happening along with all sorts of exciting things. However... as always seems to occur when you decide to go away, all sorts of exciting things are also happening here.

In fact, had I not been out of town I would have had a completely full weekend. In case anyone else wants to do the things I won't be able to, here's a musical schedule (with a little cinematic diversion added in).

Let's start on Friday night (August 18). I'll be braving the landing at Wellington airport and probably eating a burger. As part of WOAP, 120 restaurants are offering burgers – everything from falafel on beetroot buns to prime beef with foie gras and shaved truffles – matched with Garage Project beers. Can I suggest this would be a great thing to do in Tauranga?

But if I were in the Bay I'd head straight to Katikati where The Nukes are playing for The Katikati Folk Club at the Bowling Club.

Because The Nukes are fantastic! So fantastic that they really deserve another exclamation mark!

The Nukes

Never heard of them? Well, The Nukes are a ukulele trio, something inclined to delight and alarm in equal measures. People often have mixed feelings about ukuleles. On the one hand they are a great entry point into music for many; on the other hand, they sound like ukuleles and do burn so easily...

However, to call them just ‘a ukulele trio’ does The Nukes little justice. They describe themselves as “part vaudeville, part rat-pack, part musical car crash” and the combination of solid songwriting, excellent musicianship and cool three-part harmonies, added to engaging humorous presentation, has made them festival favourites all around the country.

They're currently promoting their Nukes III album and are possibly the only band who might convert inveterate ukulele-haters into uke-fans. The show starts at 7.30pm, tickets are $20 (KKFC members $15).

So on to Saturday (August 19). I'll be eating more burgers in Wellington so I'll miss hanging out at Brew Bar on The Strand at 4pm when Mike Garner plays the blues (no charge). I'd have to leave there a bit early though: 7pm at the Historic Village the Tauranga Film Society is having a special event.

They're screening ‘A Flickering Truth’, a documentary telling the story of Afghan cinephiles trying to retrieve more than 8000 hours of film footage which they

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risked their lives to conceal during the Taliban era. The film will be preceded by a talk from society member Julie Young about her experiences working in Afghanistan under the Taliban

The Nukes. regime. It promises to be a fascinating evening and is open to everyone. Tickets are $10.

Torch Songs

Then onto Sunday (August 20) and another trip north, this time to Waihi where, after a seven-year hiatus, the Torch Songs Band is reforming with its original line-up.

The band stopped performing when keyboardist Liam Ryan left Tauranga to work at the ARA Jazz School in Christchurch. Liam came back to live in Waihi in 2016 and has since been revitalising the Youth Band Competition at the Jazz Festival and focusing on his studio where he is collaborating with various singers and songwriters. More of that in a future column.

Torch Songs were once regulars at the National Jazz Festival and had a big following throughout the Bay. They reformed to contribute four songs at the Waikato Head Hands & Feet concert earlier this year with the original line-up of Liam on keyboards, singer Carol Storey, guitarist Dave Maybe, trumpeter Grant Mason and the rhythm section of Wayne Melville (bass) and Neil Reynolds (drums).

The band's reunion gig at the Waihi Beach Hotel is free and starts at 4pm.

If anyone gets to these events and you want to share the experience, please drop me an email. And I'll tell you about the burgers. watusi@thesun.co.nz

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The Weekend Sun has one double pass and one CD from The Nukes for one lucky reader who can tell us how The Nukes describe themselves.

Enter online at www.sunlive.co.nz under the competition section. Entries must be received by Wednesday, August 16.

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Experiencing Indonesia in the Bay If you’ve ever wanted to experience the wonders of Indonesia, now is the time to get a taste with Multicultural Tauranga’s first ‘Living in Harmony’ event for 2017 on Tuesday, August 15.

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Multicultural Tauranga has been running Living in Harmony evenings for more than 10 years.

This month’s feature country is Indonesia and Lisda Auggraeni has organised a wonderful evening to both introduce locals to the colourful culture, and help local Indonesians experience a taste of home and celebrate their Independence Day. Lisda will talk about her country and her culture, as well as presenting a taste of Indonesian cuisine.

This is a great opportunity for locals to mix and mingle with Tauranga’s diverse cultural community.

The idea behind the evening is that people from different countries have a chance to meet each other and get to know each other’s culture, and food is always a great way to break down any barriers.

This month Living in Harmony will take place on Tuesday, August 15 at 7pm at the Village Hall, Historic Village, 17th Avenue, Tauranga.

For more information contact Lisda 021 222 3883.

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Hope Street has spent the past five years transforming and healing broken lives in the third world countries and shining hope on the darkest situations.

The fundraiser will include canapes and dessert, free giveaways, and a live Skype session with children in Uganda. There will also be live music by talented Kiwi duo ‘Aro’ featuring Emily Rice and Charles Looker.

Hope Street will be at the Holy Trinity Church, 215 Devonport Rd, Tauranga on Saturday August 19 from 6.30pm. Tickets cost $17.

Lisda Anggraeni holding the Indonesian flag. Photo: Bruce Barnard.

Mirage at Baycourt

Inzpire Dance Company presents ‘Mirage’ at Baycourt Addison Theatre this Saturday.

The show features all of the company’s dancers from teeny tots, right through to company dancers and veterans.

The theme this year is ‘Mirage’ – and it’s all about illusion. This is explored through both visual and metaphorical illusion and is sure to be entertaining, moving and thoughtprovoking for all ages.

Styles include jazz, ballet, contemporary, hip hop, acro and tap.

There will be two shows at 3pm and 7.30pm. For more information and to purchase tickets visit www. eventfinda.co.nz

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What’s On is having a makeover, and we want to explain how things will change.

Bookings have become simpler to submit with our new online booking system. To make a booking visit www.sunlive.co.nz and click the ‘What’s On’ tab.

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For the less tech-savvy, SunMedia will still be accepting phone listings through Debbie on 07 578 0300, email office@thesun.co.nz We are excited to offer this new, revamped What’s On system, helping to keep The Bay’s activities easy for you to find.

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Sunday 23 July

Time for Steamers to deliver Monday 24 July

Bay of Plenty Steamers Squad at their 2017 Launch at Te Puia.

Sports’ prospect Ajay Lafaele-Mua and Greerton A strong, keen group of men, dotted with TuesdSimonsson.

Marist fullback Bailey Both the Chiefs’ ay 25 Ju experience and driven to perform for ly Mitchel Karpik and Manu Samoa’s Jordan Lay could their province. debut after being side-lined last year with injuries.

Within the 33-man squad 10 club sides from across That’s the Bay of Plenty Steamers squad named by the Bay of Plenty are represented. head coach Clayton McMillan for the 2017 Mitre 10 “We have continued to build over the past two Cup season. seasons, but it’s now time to deliver to our supporters A 33-man squad with seven debutants and 24 and stakeholders and I believe we have the team to capped players, including 11 Super Rugby players. do that,” says McMillan.

“It will give us an exciting blend of youth and Bay of Plenty Rugby Union CEO Mike Rogers experience,” says McMillan. Centurion Culum says the Mitre 10 Cup campaign offers some exciting Retallick is back. And former All Black Mike Delany match ups against traditional rivals like Hawke’s Bay who has played 61 matches for the Steamers and last and Waikato. “I know I can’t wait to see what our appeared for the side in 2010.

Expected debutants include Canadian forward Tyler team can do.”

Ardron, Opotiki and Highlanders lock Tom Franklin, The first match of the Steamers’ 2017 Mitre 10 Mount Maunganui Sport’s Richard Judd and Liam Cup campaign is against Northland in Whangarei on Steel, Whakarewarewa’s James Lay, exciting Tauranga Sunday, August 20. as

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We are excited to be able to offer you a new ONLINE booking system to submit your What’s On Listings. We will be having a spring clean starting from scratch in TWO WEEKS (August 25, 2017). Please re-submit your REGULAR listings and any upcoming events at www.sunlive.co.nz/whats-on.html If you notice your listing isn’t featured anymore, please contact us at office@thesun.co.nz or phone Debbie 07 578 0030, otherwise use the online booking to be sure your event is added back in. We look forward to continuing this FREE service to you and our readers.

Saturday 12 August

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Hall, Tauranga. 19-20 Aug. All kinds of firearms, edged weapons, accessories, military collectibles, etc. A popular event for collectors where everyone is welcome Baycourt Pin’d Creative Showcase 6.30pm – Global Connexions 6.30pm Addison Theatre (Fashion Show) 0800 TICKETEK Bay Network Singles Social Club 55+ who wish to make new friends & enjoy club activities, dining, shows, trips, bbq’s etc. Mary-Anne 027 207 1690 or 576 9988

Fundraiser to support non-profit group for young families in Oropi. Tickets at www.oropiplaygroup.co.nz Petanque @ Club Mt Maunganui Sat 1pm. Equip available, all levels welcome.

Arnold 544 5598

Arms and Militaria Show Greerton

Canvas Careers Showcase at ASB

Today 9am - 3pm; talk face-to-face with real people from a wide range of industries at the Canvas Careers Showcase at ASB Arena at Baypark, Mt Maunganui.

City Market 169 Elizabeth Street comes alive with ZEE Market this Sat, #Arts #Crafts #Small Business #Familyfun #Food #Plants 10am-2pm Computer Lessons Learn in your own time, at your own pace. Tauranga Library has a free course online to meet your needs. Visit one of our libraries to register

Discover Your Life’s True Purpose

Why am I here? How can I have a more meaningful Life? Create an action plan that works for you. Starting soon. Info and register interest at www.eventspronto.co.nz/meaningfullife Friendship Force International Friendship & Home Hosting exchanges with other clubs worldwide. Barbara 574 5711 or email: regclothier@gmail.com www.thefriendshipforce.org Labour Pop-up Office Open Tauranga Labour Party office open on Mondays, Tuesdays and Saturdays from 10am 4pm at 933, Cameron Rd,Greerton. labour.tauranga@mail.com Leisure Marching Fun, fitness & friendship. Teams made up of adult members practice this non-competitive activity on various days & times throughout the week. Frances 544 1318 or 021 297 3407 LOL Laughter Wellness Laughter IS the best medicine. 11.00-11.45am Arataki Community Centre, Mt Maunganui.

Koha. Call Trish 022 036 6768 email lollaughterwellness@gmail.com Messianic Meetings Every Sat at Hillier Centre, 31 Gloucester Rd, Mt Maunganui 10am. Seek to unite together in our walk to put truth into action on a daily basis. 544 7424 or 0210 226 3515 Moggies Market Katikati Memorial Hall, Main Road 8amNoon. Enquiries 549 3589 Mount Sequence Dance Come and enjoy, good company, a live band, and quality supper. Arataki Community Centre, Mt Maunganui. Arataki Centre.

7.30pm-10.30pm $7. Organized by the Mount Maunganui Scottish Society. Ph Erica 576 0578

Narcotics Anonymous Open Meetings Sat 7.30-8.30pm & every Sun 7-8pm, Hanmer Clinic, 1235 Cameron Rd, Greerton. Mon 7-8pm & Fri 7.308.30pm, Hillier Centre. 31 Gloucester

Oropi Playgroup Annual Quiz Night

Reducing Household Waste Workshop Free workshop with Wellington couple No-Waste Nomads. 3.30pm-5pm Sat 19 Aug. Scout Hall, 13 May St, Mt Maunganui www.facebook.com/littleyogafestival/

Revealing The Positive

Stunning new art by Christie Cramer. Macandmor Gallery, Goddards Centre Tauranga. 9:00 to 2:30 Mon-Sat. Opening August 11 5:30pm. Continues until the 27 August Taoist Tai Chi New Beginner classes 8.30am. 15 Koromiko St Judea. Come and have a go, contact Dianne 021 146 6890 or 578 9116 Tauranga Floral Art Group At Baptist Church Hall, Tauranga every 2nd Saturday of the month 9.30am. Ph Fay 543 5176 Tauranga Meditation Group Intro to meditation classes 1st Tues of month 7-8.30pm. General classes every 2nd & 4th Saturdays of the month. $5 koha. Blind Foundation, 160 17th Ave, Tauranga Village Radio Community radio broadcasting from Tauranga Historic Village 1368 kHz AM. Music of 1940’s 90’s weekends 9am-5pm, weekdays 10am-5pm. www.villageradio.co.nz or 571 3710

Sunday 13 August

A Healing with OEFT Heal your illness

at the emotional level. Grindz, 50 First Ave 12:30 Coffee. 1 - 2:30: Tuition + Practice Optimal EFT. Koha. Info at www.eventspronto.co.nz/meaningfullife Bay Bible Fellowship/Lord’s Day Join us for our Worship service at Welcome Bay Primary School Hall, 309 Welcome Bay road. 10.00am. 1 Peter 5:1-4.

Preacher: Richard Roodt. All welcome.

Visit us at www.bbf.net.nz Baycourt Rhys Darby Mystic Time Bird 8pm Addison Theatre (Comedy Show) 0800 TICKETEK Bible Seminars 1:45pm at Greerton Senior Citizen’s Hall, Maitland St, Greerton. Title: “Hard Saying of Jesus”.

Interactive, Q & A. All welcome.

Refreshments provided. Vic 543 0504 Bible Society Tauranga Action Group event. What? Variety Concert. Where?

Seventh Day Adventist Church 25 Moffatt Road Bethlehem. When? at 2.00pm Croquet Every Sun, Tues & Fri at Tauranga Domain, Cameron Rd 12.45pm. Beginners welcome.

Peter 571 0633

Czech and Slovak Club Tauranga

Czech School and Playgroup 10am 12noon, Tauranga Boys College, Devenport Rd, guests welcome!

Farmers Market - Mount Mainstreet Farmers Market held every Sunday

9am – 1pm, rain or shine! Right in the middle of Mount Mainstreet at. Phoenix Car Park, Maunganui Rd. www.mountmainstreet.nz Introduction to Buddhism classes Join us for a ten week course based on the DVD “Discovering Buddhism”. Facility donation/Koha of $5 gratefully received.

Email buddhismbop@gmail.com for details Papamoa Lions Club Market Gordon Spratt Reserve, Parton Rd, Papamoa.

Gates open 7am for stall holder entry.

Wayne 027 974 5699 Quakers in Tauranga Hall behind Brain Watkins House, cnr Elizabeth St/Cameron Rd 10am for an hour of mainly silent worship followed by tea/coffee & talk. 544 0448 www.quaker.org.nz Radio Controlled Model Yachts Meet Sun 1.30pm & Thurs 1.30pm at pond behind 24 Montego Drive, Papamoa to sail Electron & similar 3ft long yachts, for fun. Adult beginners welcome.

Graham 572 5419 Sunday Funday Games & activities for the whole family at Greerton Aquatic & Leisure Centre 12-3pm. Parents & caregivers are welcome & encouraged to participate. BBQ hire $15

Tauranga Friendship & Social Club

alks, dinners & outings for over 60’s.

Barbara 544 7461 Toastmasters Corkers Club Meets once a month 3rd Sunday 2pm at Zone Café, Bayfair join our happy group Phone text 021 044 5 654 Tauranga Spiritual Society Inc Senior citizens hall, 14 Norris St, Meditation & Healing Circle Every 1st & 3rd Sunday of month. $7 Entry. 022 0670 467 Wellness Art Workshop With Mira Corbova/ Professional Artist & Inspirational Tutor: 13, 20 & 27 Aug, 11am-2pm @ The Art Lounge, 32 Devonport Rd, Tauranga Info/To Book: theartloungenz@gmail.com www.theartloungenz.com

Monday 14 August

Achieve Toastmasters Keep speaking,

keep helping, keep succeeding. 1st, 3rd & 5th Mon of month at St Stephen’s Church Hall, Brookfield, Tauranga 7.309.30pm. Frank or Chrissy 543 9493 Active Adults Fun Fitness Aerobic, weights, yoga. Every Mon at Arataki Community Centre 9-10am. $7. Lynda 574 0457 or 029 230 0162 Al Anon Support offered to those affected by someone’s addiction to alcohol. Every Mon at St George’s Church, Cameron Rd, Tauranga 7pm. Chrissy 281 0933 Badminton Club Every Mon, Aquinas College, Pyes Pa 7.309.30pm. Adults & year 12 & above. Racquets available. Sue 0211 944 335 www.taurangabadmintonclub.co.nz Baycourt DANCENZMADE Tauranga Interschool 6pm Addison Theatre (Dance) 0800 TICKETEK Beginner Ballroom & Latin Would you like to Dance? Free introductory

lesson every Monday. Just come along.

Udance2- The Dance Centre. Club Mount Maunganui 8pm. Dean & Miki 542-1295 www.udance2.co.nz Email: udance2@xtra.co.nz Body & Soul Fun Fitness For over 50’s.

Mon & Fri Greerton Hall Cameron Rd. Tues Wesley Church Hall, 13th Ave. Weds City Church cnr Otumoetai Rd/ Sherwood St. Thurs Tauranga Senior Citizens Hall, Norris St. 9.15-10.15am.

Dianne 576 5031/027 431 4326 Bowls Every Mon at Bethlehem Hall, Main Highway 7.15pm. First 3 nights free. Wendy 578 2585 Chess Mount Maunganui Mount RSA Chess Club every Mon at Mount RSA, 544 Maunganui Rd. Early programme 6-7.30pm during school term.

Late programme 7.30pm onwards. Standard chess rules.

Incl casual games. Noel 579 5412 Dance Along Learn to dance & new dances at a great spot. Rumbas, waltzes, new vogue sequence, tangos, Cha Cha & more. Te Puke Citizens & RSA club every Mon 6.30 - 8.30pm. No cover or entry charge. Gordon/Diane 572 0060 Fitness League Low impact exercise set to music using the Bagot Stack technique, for women of all ages & abilities. First class free. Mon at Settlers Hall Omokoroa 9.30am & Tues St Johns Anglican Church Waihi 9.30am.

Dorothy 549 3378

Free Meditation Classes in Bellevue

Every Mon 10am & Weds 7.30pm.

Find peace & the joy of life. Stop those thoughts. Enjoy good health & better quality of sleep. David/Trisha 570 1204 Harmony A Plenty Barber Shop Chorus. Mon nights. Bethlehem Community Church 183 Moffat Road. 543 5240 Indoor Bowls Citizen’s RSA Te Puke – held every Monday 1pm and Wednesday 7pm. All welcome. Alma 573 8773 Katikati Coffee & Chat 10-11am at Junction Mental Health Peer Support & Advocacy for further information Ph 543 3010 Mah Jong Every Mon at Arataki Community Centre 1-4pm. 576 3455 Mah Jong Every Mon at Tauranga South Bowling Club, 11th Ave 12.454pm. Visitors & beginners welcome free teaching available. Shirley 576 0014 Mt Maunganui Bridge Club Every Mon 12.45-4.15pm, with junior & novice sessions 7-9.15pm. Weds 7-10.15pm.

Thurs 10.45am - 2.15pm. Fri 12.454.15pm. 60 Golf Rd. $3 members $5 visitors. Anne 572 5522

Omokoroa Beach Indoor Bowling Club

Meet at Settlers Hall, Omokoroa Rd Mon 1.30pm & Tues 7.30pm. Cost $3.

Anne 548 1636 Otumoetai Indoor Bowls Aggregate, Matua Primary School Hall, Clivedene St 7.15pm. New members welcome.

Karen 576 0443 Papamoa Genealogy Tohora Room, Papamoa Community Centre 9.302pm. Small door charge. Coffee and tea provided. Bring your own lunch. Betty

0274475448 or Kate 079297884

Piloga Classes Fusion of Pilates & yoga

movements. Every Mon & Fri at Arataki Community Centre 10.05-11.20am. $15 per class. Mel 0221 871 295 or Claudia 0211 927 706 Plunket Car Seat Clinic Car seats checked & fitted by qualified Child Restraint Technicians. No appointment necessary. Every Mon & Thurs. Donation appreciated. 471 Devonport Road, Tauranga. 578 7813 Recycled Teenagers Gentle exercise for 50’s forwards. Mon & Weds, 14 Norris St, Tauranga Senior Citizens Club.

Tues at St Mary’s Church Hall, Girven Rd. All 9 - 10.30am. First class free. Jennifer 571 1411 Sequence Dancing At Norris St Senior Citizens rooms, 7-10pm. Come, look learn and enjoy. Ph 543 9125. www. sequencedancing.org.nz/plenty St Columba Indoor Bowling Club Otumoetai Rd, Cherrywood. Names in by 7.15pm, 7.30pm start. All playing levels welcome. Paul 576 6324 TaiChi QingGong 18 moves A good way to improve your energy. Every Monday at 169 Elizabeth Road (Community Hall). 6.15-7.00pm. All welcome. Gold coin donation. 571 5168 Tauranga Rock n Roll Club Inc Every Mon at Legion of Frontiersmen’s Hall, 165 Elizabeth St 7- 8pm. Lessons & Social Evening of Dancing. Members $3, non-members $5. Ph 576-7461 Tauranga Senior Citizens Club Cards, 500 & Bridge Mon & Thurs. Indoor Bowls Tues, Weds & Sat at 14 Norris St, behind Pak n Save 1-4pm. Register by 12.45pm. $2 incl afternoon tea.

Te Puke Floral Art Group Meets Methodist Church Hall, Oroua Street Te Puke. 11am. All welcome. Ph Val 07 573 7804 Three Day Challenge Starts every Monday. Healthy me, Healthy you project. Svetlana 0276162124 Walk for Wellness Free group for people with cancer & their supporters.

Departs 9.30am from the Mount on the 1st, 3rd & 5th Monday of the month & from Yatton Park in Greerton on the 2nd & 4th Monday of the month.

Women’s Art Group Every Mon at Lyceum Club Rooms, 68 1st Ave 9am 12pm. Margaret 543 3244 Zonta Tauranga Promoting & protecting the rights of women & girls in our community & internationally. Meet every 2nd Mon 5.30pm. Tauranga Club + Dinner. Suzy 021 266 5044

Tuesday 15 August

60+ Continuing Education Otumoetai Baptist Church, Otumoetai Rd at 10am. Associate Professor Wayne Rumbles - Dean Faculty of Law, University of Waikato. “Internet Safety - what the law can do” ABC - Avenues Badminton Club Every Tues at Tauranga Boys’ College Gym. Juniors 6-7.30pm (term time), seniors (adults) 7.30-9.30pm. Adults $7, student $5. Delwyn 027 212 4720

The Weekend Sun THE WEEKEND SUN Addiction Help Programme Hanmer Clinic Tauranga ‘Significant Other’ Programme for spouses, partners, family/whanau etc who have an addiction. 1pm-3pm, 1235 Cameron Rd, Greerton. Free.

579 6940 or 0800 842 426 Alcoholics Anonymous Meet every Tues at St Peter’s Church Hall, 11 Victoria Rd, Mount 7.30-8.30pm.

0800 229 6757 Altrusa Women’s Community Service-

Meet 2nd Tues evening for dinner/ business. 4th Tues for social evening monthly. Email: president.tauranga@ altrusa.org.nz Anxiety Support Group Support for people with an experience of Anxiety.

1pm-2pm. Please phone JUNCTION on 543 3010 for further information or if you need a ride.

BOP Linux Users Share and learn about the Linux computer operating system 1st Tuesday 7-9 pm L J Hooker, Cnr Cameron Rd, 8th Ave. Experts and beginners welcome. $2

BOP Plenty Shirley Club Walking

Meet outside Mount Surf Club every Tuesday 9.20am sharp. Walks about an hour and at Deckchair afterwards for refreshments and chat. Fran 574 9060 Cards 500 Every Tues & Thurs at Mount Senior Citizen’s, 345 Maunganui Rd 12.45pm. Garry 576 3033 Easy Dance Tuition Basic Ballroom, Waltz, Quickstep, Foxtrot.

Modern Sequence. Beginners welcome. $5 Otumoetai Primary School 7pm 576 2403 Euchre Have fun playing Euchre.

Tuesday at Greerton RSA 7-9pm. $2 per session. 543 3441 Falun Dafa Ancient wisdom applicable in 2017. Welcome to Free Exercise and Meditation Classes during school terms. Huia Rm, Hillier Centre, 31 Gloucester Rd, Bayfair @ 7pm. Ph/ text Judy on 021 0425 398 Fitness League Ladies exercise with dance, weights, floor work every Tues at St Columba Church, 502 Otumoetai Rd, Cherrywood 9.30-10.30am.

Gloria 021 139 2448 Free Community Fit Club Low impact, full muscle workout. Historic Village 9.15am. 576 3642 or jen@ nzhealthnow.com Greerton Lions Club 1st & 3rd Tues of month at Fairway Lounge, Tauranga Racecourse 6pm. Bill 543 4424 Inachord Chorus Womens singing group. New director, new direction Bethlehem Community Church Building. 183 Moffat Rd, Bethlehem 7.15. Debbie 021 1291 126 or 548 2483 Israeli Dancing Every Tues, Gate Pa Primary School, Cameron Rd 7-8pm.

All ages welcome, no partner required.

Maria 544 1680 / 022 165 2114 Junction Mental Health Peer Support & Advocacy. Coffee & chat at St James’ Hall, Greerton 10am-12pm.

543 3010 Katikati Bridge Club 2 sessions a week. Tues 1pm & Weds 7pm. Alison 549 0797 (Tues) or Lyn 552 0924 (Weds) Mount Morning Badminton From 9-11.30am. Mount Sports Centre, Blake Park. Social all ages. Beginners welcome. Racquets available. $5pp.

Margaret 575 9792 Multicultural Tauranga Presents “Beautiful Indonesia”, 7pm Historic Village Hall, 17th Ave. Entry with donation and plate of food for potluck dinner. Lisda 021 220 3883 or Ewa 027 670 0700

Orange City Square & Round Dance

Tues morning 10am. Weds Advanced, Thurs Club Night & New Learner Class, 7.30pm. Frontiersmen’s Hall.

Ph 543 1063

Otumoetai Matua Walking Group

Every Tues at Kulim Park 9am.

576 7339 Petanque Bayfair Petanque Club, every Tues & Thurs at Russley Drive 1pm. Equipment & coaching available. Margie 542 0084 or 021 0293 7459 Petanque - Tga/BOP Club Club Mt Maunganui 1pm start. Equip available, coaching given. Linda 544 2818 Pilates Classes Weekly11:15-12:15 at Arataki Community Centre. $12 per class. Claudia 0211 927 706

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Saintly Shakers Preschool Music

Every Tues during the School Term at St Peter’s Church, 15 Victoria Rd. $3 per family includes morning tea. Ph 575 9945 Sequence Dancing Tauranga Social & Leisure Club, every Tues in St John Anglican Church Hall, 94 Bureta Rd 7-9.30pm except 2nd Tues each month, afternoon dancing 3.30-6pm.

Visitors welcome. Murray 576 3294 Taoist Tai Chi New beginners class starting July 1pm, 15 Kiromiko St Judea, all welcome to come and give it a go Ph/Text Wade 021 606 133

Tauranga Gem and Mineral Club

Meets in the 17th Ave Historic Village.

2nd Monday of the month. 6pm for juniors & 7.30pm for seniors. For more info phone Bryce 027 695 0606 Tauranga Meditation Group Intro to meditation classes 1st Tues of month 7-8.30pm. General classes every 2nd & 4th Sats of the month. $5 koha.

Blind Foundation, 160 17th Ave, Tauranga.

Tauranga Orchid Society Visitors welcome to hear Sandra Simpson talk about her recent visit to Iran, Wesley Church Hall, 13th Ave, from 7pm.

Tauranga Samba Brazilian drumming/percussion at Mount Sports Centre cnr Hull & Maunganui Rds 7.15-9.15pm.

No experience needed.

Rob 021 232 7185 Tauranga Scrabble Club Tues at Tauranga Bridge Club, Ngatai Rd 8.50am. 3 games $3. New players welcome. 544 8372 Tauranga Target Rifle Club Shooting every Tues 7pm. Ellis 578 0098 Tauranga Toastmasters Weekly at Tauranga Lyceum Club 7.15 9.30pm. Learn public speaking & leadership skills. Alan 544 5989 Widows’ and Widowers’ Club The club invites people living alone to join us at the Arts & Crafts Centre, Elizabeth Street, at 2.00p.m. For more information ring Margaret on 576 5292

Wednesday 16 August Age Concern Walking Group The Strand Car Park Ph 578 2631

Alcoholics Anonymous Reflections at

Te Puke every Weds at Te Puke Baptist Church, Station Rd 7.30-8.30pm.

0800 229 6757 Baycourt The Night Is Young – Friends of Baycourt 7.30pm Addison Theatre (Variety Showcase) 0800 TICKETEK

Belly Dancing with Arabian Spice

Every Weds at St Columba Church Hall, 502 Otumoetai Rd, Tauranga 6.30-8.30pm. 0211 245 982 or 576 4112 arabianspicebd@gmail.com Bipolar Support Group Support for people with Bipolar. 6.30-7.30pm.

Junction 543 3010 for info or if you require transport Bolivia Every Wednesday 1-4pm Lyceum Club, 8 Palmer Court Te Puke. Entry $3 includes refreshments.

Beginners welcome. Ph Marie 573 9219 Bowls Indoor Every Weds & Fri at Mount Senior Citizen’s, 345 Maunganui Rd 12.45pm. Nancy/Ernie 575 4650

Community Bible Study Int

Every Weds at City Church, 252 Otumoetai Rd 7-9pm. Bible study on “The Book of Genesis.” Julie 552 4068 Community Tai Chi Class Bethlehem Hall 1-2pm. First lesson free. Term concession rate. Qualified tutor & instructor Trish member AATC. EmployNZ Offer Free Courses Welcome Bay Community Centre 9.30am to 10.30am, find out more about the free Retail, Hospitality, IT, Foundation Skills and Fitness Courses. Sally 027 652 1429

Fernlands Water Exercise Class

Every Weds 10.45-11.45am.

Suitable for accident or illness rehabilitation. Helpful in weight loss or arthritis. Classes held rain or shine. Jennifer 571 1411 Friends of the Library Greerton Library Book Group meets 10.30am.

Theme this month – Stories about Pets. All welcome. Jenny 543 4760

“What’s On” is a FREE service for non-profit clubs & organisations.

Email : office@thesun.co.nz or Fax : 571 1116 or post to PO Box 240, Tauranga.

DEADLINE 3PM TUESDAY. Contribution should be less than 20 words.

Gate Pa Indoor Bowls Championship Triples at Greerton Hall 7pm.

Names in book. Wallace Cup. Kevin 543 4044 Greerton Scout Group - Cub Pack

Open to boys/girls yrs 4-6. Meet Weds during school term at Greerton Scout Hal, Hynds Rd, Tauranga 5.30-7pm.

Email: greertonscouts@outlook.com Healing Rooms Experience God’s healing touch. 1-3pm Upstairs, Graced Opp Shop, cnr 11th Ave & Christopher St. Inquiries 0211100878. No charge, all ages welcome, www.healingrooms.co.nz Kiwi Toasters Building communication & leadership. 1st, 3rd & 5th Weds of the month 3 Palm Springs Boulevard (same building as Palm Springs Pharmacy) 5.30pm-7 pm. Chrissy 027 296 7939 Let’s Learn Courses, classes, workshops, activities - options galore. www.letslearn.co.nz Shelley 544 9557 Mah Jong Every Weds at Tauranga Citz Club cnr Cameron Rd/13th Ave 12.45-4pm. Wendy 579 2851

Metlifecare Papamoa Beach Village

Open day, 10am–2pm at 2 Te Okuroa Drive, Papamoa Papamoa Cruisers Mobility Scooters Meet Then ‘Cruise!” Today 10am, Papamoa Mc Donald’s. Chat followed by a ‘Cruise’ Papamoa Outdoor Bowls Roll Ups Weds & Sun, Gordon Spratt Reserve 12.45pm. Gail 574 0177 Sequence Dancing At Norris St Senior Citizens rooms, 7-10pm.

Come, look learn and enjoy. Ph 543 9125. www.sequencedancing. org.nz/plenty Scottish Country Dancing Every Weds at Senior Citizen’s Hall, Maunganui Rd 7pm. Lynne 573 5055 Singles Coffee Club 60+ Looking for something new to do or make new friends, this could be it. Meet Wed @ 10am. Gayle 0274393267 or 5781878 E:mixandmingle@xtra.co.nz Tauranga Embroiderers’ Guild Every Weds at Tauranga Rowing Club, Devonport Rd 10am - 2.30pm & 7.30-9.30pm. Beginners welcome.

Jenny 07 219 7740 Tauranga Lyceum Club Women’s friendship club. Catered lunch first Fri of month & dinner 3rd Weds with interesting speakers. Other activities include painting, music & bridge. 68 1st Ave. Margaret 543 3244

Tauranga Mid-Week Tramping

Tuahu from Hot Springs Rd towards Motutapere Hut via Abseil Rock.

Grade mod/hard, approx. 6.0 hrs.

Bruce 543 1034 Tauranga Table Tennis All grades.

Singles & Doubles. Memorial Hall 12.45 - 3pm. Mixed Social Doubles 7.30 - 9.30pm. Roy 578 7800

Te Puke Spiritual & Healing Centre

Meeting 2nd & 4th Wednesdays.

Doors open 6.30 Entry $5 includes raffles & refreshments. Lyceum Club 8 Palmer Court. Kerry 021 607 797

Toastmasters - City Early Start

Build your confidence, find your voice & open doors of opportunity in 2017 Classic Flyers Avgas Cafe every Weds 7.00-8.15am. Lani 0210 445 654 www.cityearlystart.co.nz Yoga Body & Mind Every Weds 9.45am-11am at Greerton Hall 1263 Cameron Rd, Tauranga.

Ph Julia 021 0268 1046 email: juliathuy26@gmail.com

Thursday 17 August

A Night In History Research in the Papamoa Library after dark, 5.25pm – 9.30pm, expert genealogists available to help, interesting speakers, shared supper. Contact the library to book a place.

A Place to Bee Free craft session every Thurs at Lighthouse Church 11am 1pm. Learn a new skill, have coffee, meet new friends & have a chat Adult Adoptee’s Support Tauranga

Meet every 2nd Thursday 6pm Oyster Catcher room Arataki Community Center Zambuk Way Bayfair. Scott 027 565 6459 An Improved Memory Preserve and improve your memory. Documentary, discussion and practice. 2-4pm Arataki Community Centre. Booking essen-

tial. Koha entry. info www.eventspronto. co.nz/meaningfullife Text 0210 274 2502 Bay City Rockers Social Rock n Roll dancing as well as Neon Moon, Rock n Roll Waltz. Every Thurs at Senior Citizen’s Hall, Norris St 7-9.30pm. $3 entry. Gavin 027 643 6222 or Steve 027 277 9569 BOP Plenty Shirley Club Walking Meet in carpark outside ‘Maudes’ at the Lakes Shopping Centre every Thursday 9am sharp. Walks about an hour and at Maudes Cafe afterwards for refreshments and chat.

Shirl 543 1170

Community Bible Study International

Every Thurs at 14th Ave Gospel Centre 10am - 12pm for a Bible study on “The Book of Matthew.” Jack/Betty 544 3809 EmployNZ Free Course Tauranga Library 10 – 11am to find out more about the free Retail, Hospitality, IT, Foundation Skills & Fitness Courses. Sally 027 652 1429 Fitness League Safe, effective, low impact exercise Bagot Stack technique. Free 1st class. Thurs: Central Baptist Church Hall, cnr 13th Ave/Cameron Rd 9.30am. Weds: Katikati Memorial Hall 10am.

Pam 549 4799 or 021 117 7170 Free Guitar Lessons Every Thurs at Historic Village 10-11.30am. Limited to 3 people per day. Register with Joseph 020 408 97462 Free Meditation Classes Every Thurs at Meredith Hall, Fraser St, Merivale (near Yatton Park) 7.30pm. Enjoy good health & better quality of sleep. David 570 1204 Geneology A Night In History – Research in the Papamoa Library after dark, 5.25pm – 9.30pm, expert genealogists available to help, interesting speakers, shared supper.

Contact the library to book a place Happiness & Our Mind Drop-in meditation classes, beginners welcome.

Classes are self-contained so start any date. Every Thurs at Greerton Library, 139 Greerton Rd 7-8.30pm. Cost $15 per class. www.meditateintauranga.org Katikati Toastmasters Building communication & leadership1st, 3rd & 5th Thurs of the month. Katikati Community Resource Centre, 45 Beach Rd Katikati.

7.30pm-9.30pm. Chrissy 027 296 7939 Keynote’s Inc Keynotes 4 part harmony Women’s Chorus Meet Thursday 7.00 pm @ Wesley Church hall 13th Ave Sing for fun and health Phone Nora 5442714 More Than Crafts Greerton Bible Church cnr Oropi Rd and Chadwick Rd. 9.30am.

Crafts and a cuppa $3. Enquiries Ruth 543 4879

Mount/Papamoa Coffee & Chat Junction Mental Health Peer Support & Advocacy 1-2pm.

Transport available if required.

543 3010

Move Without Pain Workshop Learn to

free yourself from chronic muscular tension and all the pain issues that go with this.

Runs for 6 weeks www.somatics.co.nz Suds 027 227 4161 Narcotics Anonymous Closed men’s meeting every Thurs at Waipuna Park Hall, 25 Kaitemako Rd, Welcome Bay 7.30-8.30pm Petanque Bayfair Petanque Club, every Tues & Thurs at Russley Drive 1pm.

Equipment & coaching available.

Try a new sport. Margie 542 0084 or 021 0293 7459 Pilates Classes Weekly 11:00-12:00 at Omokoroa Settlers’ Hall. $12 per class.

Claudia 0211927706 Saintly Shakers Preschool Music Every Thurs at St Mary’s Church, Cnr Girven Rd & Marlin St. $3 per family includes morning tea. Ph 575 9945 Schizophrenia Support Group Support for people who have a diagnosis of Schizophrenia. 1pm-2pm. Please phone JUNCTION on 543 3010 for further information Simplee Cre8ive Every Thurs at Arataki Community Centre, Bayfair 9am 2.30pm. All crafts. Jenny 574 7401 Sunshine Dance Group Learn sequence dancing every Thurs at Baptist Church Hall, cnr 13th Ave/Cameron Rd 7-8.30pm followed by dancing until 10pm. $2pp entrance includes supper. Jan 544 4379 Taoist Tai Chi Exercise for body and mind. A new beginners class starts Thursday 6th July 5:30-7.00pm, 15 Koromiko Street. All welcome. Diane 021 343 324 Tauranga Heart Support Group Low impact group exercise class for those with or at risk of heart & associated diseases. Mon & Thurs at City Church, Otumoetai Rd 9.30-10.30am. $4pp.

Diana 021 0476 155 Tauranga Model Railway Club Meets every Thursday at 7.30 pm in the club rooms cnr of Cross Rd & Mirrielees Rd, Sulphur Point. Ph Alex 544 5230 Tennis Seniors WBOP Players 35 years plus. Tauranga Lawn Tennis Club, Wharepai Domain 9am - 12pm. $3 ball fee.

Lynda tswbop@gmail.com 021 057 6601 Women’s Singing Group Every Thurs at 68 1st Ave 11am. Beginners welcome.

Marie 576 1300

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What language was that?

Out on one of Tauranga’s beautiful walking and cycling tracks recently, we passed a family with two children. One boy was speaking with his Dad in English, and a little way behind, the other child and his Mum and friend were talking to each other in another language. That is not too surprising or unusual, as about 20 per cent of people in Tauranga were born overseas and for many of their families, as well as for some Maori, English is not their first or ‘heart’ language.

What it does mean, however, is that an

increasing number of children and young people are growing up with a strong influence from more than one culture.

Some see that as a distinct advantage for it gives them a deeper understanding of society and of the world and an ability to move between cultures. It has its challenges too, for some end up feeling at home in neither culture, with high expectations from elders and parents, alongside pressure to belong to a peer group with very different traditions and plans for life.

Sometimes the language and values of faith communities can seem like a culture very different from the surrounding culture. Certainly, the church no longer has a central place in society.

Has Christianity become a different culture? Do people of faith need to act as interpreters? What is the cultural base for our own values? As we consider the challenges brought by these questions for ourselves, let’s remember and support the young people in our communities who are forging lives between two (or more) cultures and languages.

Viv Whimster, Wesley, Tauranga Methodist Parish

www.citychurchtauranga.org.nz

David asked this question in Psalm 8: “What is Man?” Today the same question is asked by many. Why am I here? What is the purpose of life? Will I ever be happy and fulfilled? So devastating when so many people are committing suicide when we live in a society and time so full of promise. David saw before him, when he looked in the night sky, the awesomeness of God’s creation.

Man appears so small and insignificant compared to the earth and, furthermore, the vast galaxies. Psalm 8 continues with: “What is man that you are mindful of him?”

It is hard to find value if you believe you came from cosmic dust charged with electrons to form animals, then through evolution became man.

A well-known naturalist of the 19th century wrote all living creatures became alive by a reproduction process of heat and electricity.

Evolution, for some weird reason, has become the acceptable explanation of man’s appearance.

The belief we came from a lower form of life rather than a higher form of God’s creation would cause anyone to be depressed.

To come from a chaotic and by-chance process of selectivity is characterised by this simple test.

Take your wrist watch apart, put it into a bag and arrange for it to be shaken for a million years, or a billion if you need more time, then open it to find a grandfather clock.

You must realise your identity is in a higher form of being made in the image of God and not some monkey, ape or cockroach.

Pastor Rod Collins, Living Word Church.

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“We carry out pest control for domestic homes and rental properties, as well as hospitals and retirement villages, schools and childcare facilities, businesses, warehouses and cafes with seasonal insect treatments or tailor-made treatments specific to our client’s needs.”

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Become a School Bus Driver in Te Puke and Whakatane Be part of a business that is making a difference in your community and going places!

Genuinely enjoy interacting with people?

Want a stable, permanent, long term, part-time driving career?

Ongoing training and development

From

School bus drivers are needed in Te Puke and Whakatane. We have permanent part time roles available as well as casual on call. You will need to enjoy interacting with young people and have their safety and welfare at heart. You will have a caring and responsible approach to this important role.

$1799

Incl GST

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If you have had your class 1 license then we want to hear from you. If you have a Class 2 licence with a P endorsement, that's even better. We will provide relevant training to people who have what it takes but may not have the licences.

This is an ideal chance to make a change in your life and try something different with a great company.

If you want to know more please contact: Raewyn Anderson on 021 747 611. We are a Health and Safety conscious employer, our recruitment process includes a Drug and Alcohol test and Ministry of Justice check.

To apply for this job go to: www.gobuscareers.co.nz & enter ref code: 3665867.

Applications close 14 August 2017

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RUN ON LISTINGS www.sunlive.co.nz/classifieds.html livestock AC PETFOODS collect injured & unwanted cows & horses. Ph 0800 369 6269

lost & found Te Puke HUGE GARAGE SALE

Saturday 12th- 8am. 3 combined households plus shop fitments, clothing, bar fridge etc. 39b No3 Rd, Te Puke

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FOUND KITTENS VARIOUS places various colours Ph SPCA FOUND Adult Black/White Cat, Maungatapu Area, Ref: 100457, Ph SPCA 07 578 0245 FOUND Young Adult Black/White Female Cat, Pyes Pa area, Ref: 100375, Ph SPCA

HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION Romantic, separate, selfcontained accommodation with a touch of luxury. Rural location 5 minutes from Hobbiton. Sleeps up to four. Continental breakfast included. Ph 021 0595 185

FOUND Young Adult Grey/White Male Cat, Lower Kaimais Area, Ref: 100396, Ph SPCA

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FOUND Adult White/Brown Female Rabbit, Poike Area, Ref: 100355, Ph SPCA

AS THE FATHER has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. -John 15:9

cars for sale CAR FAIR – buy or sell any vehicle every Sunday at 11th Avenue car park opposite Mad Butcher 8am-noon. Ph for more information 027 733 9686 or www.taurangacarfair.co.nz

computers COMPUTER GETTING you down? Problems, viruses, upgrades, internet, new or refurb PC’s tuition, or advice. Ph Bruce for a no obligation chat or quote 576 7940 or 021 260 9183 COMPUTER REPAIRS and upgrades, virus removal, data recovery, internet connection and email problems. Local business, reasonable rates, mobile service 021-072-5002 FREE ON SITE DIAGNOSIS & quote. We come to you.

Pensioner discounts. Ph Kyle at Tech Solutions 027 828 7078

curriculum vitae NEED A C.V.? Don’t let your C.V. get lost amongst all the others. I can help you stand out on paper. A C.V. For You can provide you with a personal and professional touch. From scratch or updating existing ones. Check out samples on www.facebook.com/acvforyou or Ph/text on 021 27 27 912

entertainment TAURANGA TANDEM SKYDIVING best buzz in the Bay! Gift vouchers available. Ph 574 8533 today

gardening ABLE GARDENER, experienced, efficient, knowledgeable, highly qualified.

Maintenance, pruning, hedges, shrubs, roses; disease/pest control, lifestyle blocks, garden renovations; design & plant.

Ph Tita 027 654 8781 or a/h 542 0120 HANDYMAN HOME AND GARDEN SERVICES Tree pruning, weeding, hedges, waterblasting, home maintenance, rubbish removal, affordable rates. Ph Philip 027 655 4265 or 544 5591 MATURE GARDENER, all the gear, Brookfield-Matua Ph 570 0539

health & beauty NATURAL NEW ZEALAND Health Products & Clinic.

Something for everyone. NZ Registered Natural Therapies & Natural Medicine Practitioners.

Opposite BP Te Puke. Ph 573 5533 www.naturaltherapiesnz. com and www.kiwikitz.com

FOUND Adult Tabby/White Male Cat, Omanawa Area, Ref: 100254, Ph SPCA

FOUND Cross Breed Young Puppies, Various colours, Parkvale Area, Ref: 100522, Ph SPCA 07 578 0245

public notice ANNUAL BOOK SALE Books wanted for Tauranga Harbour City Lions November book sale. Drop off points are Living Quarters, Bethlehem Town Centre; Payless Plastics, 414 Cameron Rd; Mobil Service Station, Cameron Rd; Liquor King, 140 Otumoetai Rd, Brookfield. No magazines, videos or encyclopedias please. Ph 544 9929 NOMINATIONS WANTED for 2017 Adult Learners Week Awards - Nominate any Tutor/ Adult Student/Lifelong Learner/ Course Provider in adult education. Go to www. letslearnco.nz for more information or email info@ letslearn.co.nz

situations vacant DISTRIBUTOR WANTED. Be your own boss marketing. New to New Zealand - a breakthrough anti aging and rejuvenation product line that works. Ph Yvonne 021 499 038 or email: health.wealth64@gmail.com

trades & services “AAA DECORATORS” Interior/ exterior. Quality workmanship.

Best rates. Get a free quote.

AVAILABLE NOW. Ph 576 8507 APPLIANCE REPAIRS For service of all Fisher & Paykel, Haier and Elba appliances, Ph 0800 372 273 for your local technician.

BOAT BUILDING repairs and maintenance. Timber & fibreglass trade qualified, boat builder. Ph Shaun 021 992 491 or 07 552 0277 ELECTRICIAN, 18+ years experience, NZ registered.

Residential & commercial, maintenance & service, new builds, renovations. Fast, friendly service. Ph Andrew 022 354 1960 HANDYMAN BUILDING and 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. Ph Rob at Magic Seal 543 4940 NEED A BUILDER? Licensed, 20 years experience. Available for all types of projects and alterations.

Attention to detail and quality assured. Ph 021 209 0972

trades & services PAINTER/DECORATOR Interior and exterior. Quality workmanship, friendly service.

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 RETAINING WALLS Specialist in all timber retaining walls, new builds and repairs. All associated earthmoving, design and engineering. Ph Mike 0274 942 966 ROOF & GUTTERING repairs, maintenance & cleaning.

Combined 27yrs experience.

We’re not too big for small jobs.

Friendly professional team. Call 02041105730 for a free quote.

ROOF REPAIRS Free quotes for all maintenance of leaking roofs, gutter cleaning & repairs.

Chimney maintenance & repairs.

Registered roofer, 30yrs exp. Ph Peter 542 4291 or 027 436 7740 TILER AVAILABLE NOW. No job to small, 30yrs experience.

Tauranga, Omokoroa, Katikati.

Ph Brian 0274820262 or 5524918 TREE SHRUB and hedges trimming, topping removal, rubbish removal, palm pruning or removal, satisfaction guaranteed free quote. Ph Steve Hockly 571 5958 or 027 498 1857

travel & tours AAA (1) WAIHEKE ISLAND ESCAPE (2) Cirque du Soleil Premium Tickets (3) The World of Wearable Arts Tour Premium Tickets (4) The 3 Aussie Cities Tours (5) South Island Autumn Tour + many Highlights (6) Great Barrier Island Direct from Tauranga (7) Discover Chatham Islands. Door to Door Service. Ph. Hinterland Tours 07 575-8118 HINTERLAND TOURS (1) Waiheke Island Escape (2) Cirque du Soleil Premium Tickets (3) The World of Wearable Arts Tour Premium Tickets (4) The 3 Aussie Cities Tours (5) South Island Autumn Tour (6) Great Barrier Island (7) Discover Chatham Islands. Door to Door Service. Phone. Hinterland Tours 07 575-8118 ZEALANDIER TOURS 20th August. Last chance to join us on a Spectacular 3 day Winter Escape. Tongariro &

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Chateau. Historic Grandeur and timeless elegance with a hint of indulgence and romance. Call us for more details – just a few spaces still available. Zealandier Tours - Ph 5724 118 ZEALANDIER TOURS 10th Sept. Matilda the musical – due to cancellation I have 2 seats available. Call me today if you would like to come to this outstanding musical. Zealandier Tours Ph 5724 118 PIRONGIA CRAFT MARKET & Hamilton Gardens. Max 8 people. A fun day at the annual craft market, 200 stallholders and entertainment, then on to the amazing Hamilton Gardens.

Sun 1 /10/17, $89 pp, details Ph 5435435, Tauranga Scenic Tours NO 8 TOURS NEW ZEALAND’S SENIOR TRAVEL CLUB. Join our Club today for Free to receive all our VIP Members Benefits.

(1) Southern Scenic Mountain Circuit October 24th-November 1st 9 Days. (2) Northern Coromandel Secluded Secrets - November 11th-14th 4 Days. (3) McKenzie Country & Mt Cook National Park - November 18th-23rd 6 Days. (4) The Old West TownMellonsfolly Ranch- November 27th-December 1st 5 Days.

Complimentary Full colour catalogue, Free Door to Door service. No 8 Tours team on 579 3981 or Email info@no8tours.co.nz

venues FOR WEDDINGS, FUNCTIONS OR MEETINGS+ check out No.1 The Strand, a beautiful historic setting. Email: bookings@no1thestrand.co.nz or www.no1thestrand.co.nz WEDDINGS, PARTIES, MEETINGS etc - The perfect venue. With stunning Harbour views, fully licensed bar & kitchen onsite. Restaurant open every Friday from 5pm & Sunday from 4.30pm, kids under 12 years dine free with every paying adult.

Tauranga Fish & Dive Club, 60 Cross Rd, Sulphur Point.

Ph 571 8450

wanted to rent WANTED 3 BDRM house long term in Otumoetai, Judea, Brookfield, Avenues area for a family of 4 and a cat.

References available. Ph Jo 027 348 1706

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