The Weekend Sun 8 June 2018

8 June 2018, Issue 911

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Jacinderella was about to climb into her magical limo to go to the Working Party when the driver, looking flustered and depressed, said he couldn’t go any further because he hadn’t paid his regional fuel tax bill.

“No worries,” said Jacinderella, because I have a Fairy Godmother who can wave a magic wand which is just like a PayWave except we don’t pay, the peasant taxpayers get the bill!”

So with the fuel tax bill picked up by the hard-working, tax-paying plebs, Jacinderella was off to the Working Party Ball.

But wait, I need some footmen!

No problem, said the Fairy Godmother. The fairy godmother waved her magic wand at Grantella Robertson and “poof!”

She waved it again at Tamatella Coffey and “poof!”

Chrisella Finlayson sashayed by, and “poof!”

“My word, there are a lot of poofs going on here,” exclaimed the Fairy Godmother.

Just at that moment, Israel Folau appeared on scene, shocked. “I’m out of here, before there are any more poofs.”

Grantella said he was more of a legman than a footman, but he’d fit in somewhere.

Tamatella said he’d happily be a footman but was feeling a cold front approaching so they’d better take a coat.

The cold front turned out to be Chrisella, who mumbled he would rather ride up the rear, so off went the carriage.

There was a sudden bump along the way.

Winstonella had fallen off the wagon again.

“Carry on,” cried Jacinderella. “We’ll leave the medical professionals to deal with it.

“Might as well get some value from all those nurses with pay rises.”

Arriving at the party, she was introduced to her husband, the prime minister of Canada.

He was not impressed with the venue.

He was told it was the Land of Plenty but said he’d rather be in Dunedin, which apparently has more culture than the Bay of Plenty and therefore a better place. (to be continued…)

And speaking of culture and class, there have been many occasions during the past few weeks when we’ve felt particularly proud of Tauranga.

Particularly its lifestyle culture, which is unmatched anywhere in the country.

Class and culture

A stroll downtown along the waterfront on a beautiful chilly winter evening, the harbour glistening in the sunset and families enjoying the lights on the boardwalk and playing on the Hairy Maclary statues.

Oh, but apparently Tauranga lacks culture.

The TV series ‘Coast’ featured some of our fabulous yachting heroes and their achievements over the years and our magnificent shoreline. The cool Blokarts, land yachts re-invented in the Bay by the Becketts, taking the world by storm. Plus the incredible human effort to scrape up after the Rena catastrophe. Eight thousand volunteers made it the largest human volunteer environmental clean-up in the world at the time.

What an incredible pride, spirit and community culture. Oh, but apparently Tauranga is a cultural desert?

Strolling the city and soaking up the buzz and the visual delights of the massive murals.

Enjoying live music and street atmosphere in downtown The Mount. Pity, apparently no culture to speak of.

Looking back at The Sun’s coverage of the fantastic National Jazz Festival Tauranga.

The best jazz festival in the country and possibly the Southern Hemisphere.

So it has been, for decades.

But remember, Tauranga is apparently culturally bereft.

Chatting with a fellow muso about the

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Some delusional critics have claimed Dunedin a better place because it supposedly is oozing culture. Well, here’s a recent story from the Otago Daily Times… is this an example of a city’s prowess of cultural excellence and family values?

‘Father injured son playing staple gun Russian roulette’ Michael George Herzog admitted a charge of injuring with reckless regard and was convicted in the Dunedin District Court, after shooting his son in the leg and arm with a staple gun. The conviction was Herzog’s first for violence but the judge highlighted an “appallingly bad” driving history. Classy, Dunners!

Parting thoughts

The government’s ambitious One Billion Trees goal suffered a significant blow this week when my dad cut one down.

Ostrich was on the menu at a local restaurant. The waitress asked me how I liked it. I said traditional, with its head in sand. I was immediately ostracised.

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But hey, we’re cultural morons, right?

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The word ‘Cinderella’ has, by analogy, come to mean one whose attributes were unrecognised, or one who unexpectedly achieves recognition or success after a period of obscurity and neglect.

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Tauranga rubbish collection to change Tauranga City Council is to take over residential kerbside rubbish collections and recycling services from 2021.

The decision is supported in the Long Term Plan submissions process and aligns with council’s strategic goal of minimising the rubbish trucked from Tauranga to the Waikato landfill, says the report by resource recovery and waste manager Rebecca Maiden.

The new collection will separate rubbish, recyclables and compostables, but the number of bins required is not yet decided.

The funding allows for $3.5m in the 2020/21 financial year, $16.3m in the 2021/22 financial year and $14m in the 2022/23 financial year onwards.

Because details are unlikely to be addressed before the LTP is adopted, a project plan will be presented to the council’s Environment Committee in September 2018.

“Staff and consultants have developed a detailed model of the implications of such a service for Tauranga,” says Rebecca.

“That model shows, at a city-wide level, increased diversion of waste from landfill and reduced costs to households as a result of introducing a full ratesfunded service.”

The council-funded collection is estimated to cost $250 per household per annum, compared with the current average of $330 per household per annum, according to council figures.

Surveys undertaken in 2017 show that about 70 per cent of what is currently going to landfill could be recycled or composted.

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a territorial authority to promote effective and efficient waste management and minimisation within its district.

The rubbish survey in 2017, which involved physical inspection of rubbish bag and bin contents from different parts of the city over different seasons, found most of the divertible waste going to landfill is food waste.

Households using the 240 litre bins throw out more recyclables than the bag and small bin users, the survey found.

The government-funded survey establishes an accurate base line for the community’s waste habits, which will be used to measure the effectiveness of any changes.

“It’s a sobering report,” said Environment Committee chair Steve Morris at the time.

“It’s my view that our current waste system is untenable and we will need to make a change.

“We are letting the environment down and we’re slipping behind the rest of the country too.”

Ratepayers’ attention was focussed on the recycling issue when private contractor Waste Management ceased glass collection from March 1, asking customers to do their own glass recycling.

It spurred the council to investigate and undertake a ratepayer-funded glass recycling service, which was approved in last week’s LTP deliberations. It is expected to begin in October.

The glass issue highlighted that a TCC-managed kerbside collection service will make it easier for all households to recycle. It will also enable the council to have greater influence over the range of materials that can be recycled, which is not possible with privately managed services.

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Tauranga City Council have voted in principle to purchase the 21 Bella Vista Homes properties which were part of the failed subdivision at The Lakes in Tauranga.

Mayor Greg Brownless and council staff met with homeowners on Wednesday evening to deliver the decision, which Elected Members say they felt was the right way forward for all.

“The homeowners have, in their words, been ‘to hell and back’,” says Greg.

“Based on the advice we received, we believe this is the appropriate way forward.”

Salvinia eradication

Work has started on a salvinia eradication project in Papamoa.

Salvinia is an unwanted organism and notifiable organism under the Biosecurity Act, meaning that it is illegal to grow or share plants.

MPI, Tauranga City Council and the Bay of Plenty Regional Council have worked together to develop treatment options.

The preferred eradication treatment is to use mechanical removal rather than the usual method of spraying, with the herbicide diquat.

This will mean using suction trucks and diggers to remove the weed from the surface of the water.

‘Premium’ properties in demand

Tauranga home values rose 2.6 per cent year on year, although they dropped 0.9 per cent over the past three months, according to figures released by QV. The average value in the city is $700,744.

Meanwhile, the Western Bay of Plenty market rose 5.2 per cent year on year and 1.8 per cent over the past three months.

The average value in the district is now $633,569. Tauranga property consultant Steven Dunn says the market is starting to slow down, although ‘premium’ properties still remain in high demand as out of town buyers from Auckland seek a change in lifestyle.

After the crash Chickens, geese, cats, dogs, goats, horses and a one-year-old pig named Pickles… all manner of animals can be found at the home of Chris Welch and Lisa Charman.

“Most of them are rescue animals,” says Chris, before rattling off a list of bios for some of them – the goat that was stuck in a tree for two weeks while its owners were away, the goat that was starved so badly it weighed only 14 kilograms when it was finally saved, or the horses left to starve in a paddock that was too small.

When The Weekend Sun visits, Chris is sitting in the small living room of the Aongatete homestead she and partner Lisa moved into more than five years ago.

Next to her is Pickles, snoozing quietly on her own little bed.

Chris gives her an affectionate scratch

and looks out the window, at what would normally be an idyllic pastoral scene.

But her expression is tinged with sadness.

She’s still thinking about the crash that, almost two years ago, changed her life forever.

One fatal mistake

Chris, a motorcycle instructor, was coming home from work on September 24, 2016 when the accident occurred – a date she’s not likely to forget.

“It was the day before daylight savings,” she says, “so it was still dark at around 6pm when it happened.”

She was travelling north on the notorious ‘Apata bends’ – an area of curving highway known to locals for its high crash rate – when a vehicle coming the other way crossed the centre line and collided with her van at around 120km/h.

“The driver was a 69-year-old man, coming back from Auckland, after

Pickle the pig on her bed. getting off a 48-hour flight from Scotland,” says Chris.

“He fell asleep at the wheel.”

While the driver received some injuries, it was Chris who bore the brunt of the crash.

She suffered multiple fractures including a broken nose, concussion, fractured sternum, ribs, right femur fracture, a compound fracture of the right ankle, tears in her right hip joint, and fractured vertebrae.

Due to the extent of the damage to her body, five months after the accident she had her right leg amputated below the knee. Her remaining leg will also have to be amputated in the same way at some point in the future, due to the severity of the damage to her left foot.

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No apology

On the day Chris went into surgery to have her right leg amputated, the man responsible was entering his plea in court.

He was convicted, losing his licence, and was ordered to pay reparations to Chris, some of which has been used to pay for materials to build a deck around her home so she can be more mobile in her wheelchair. But there has never been an apology.

“I said to Lisa ‘we can’t fill ourselves with hate’, and that’s what we said to friends and family too.

“It was just a horrible human error,” says Chris.

“His son came and saw me in hospital – he’s a local police officer, and a lovely, caring man.

“We told him we didn’t hate his dad.”

Eventually, the man’s wife also came and saw Chris in hospital.

“She’d been having a hard time with it, so I bought her a card as well,” says Lisa.

But the man responsible never made any similar effort – even when he was staying in the same ward as Chris.

“We met him later at a restorative justice meeting, and there he admitted he hadn’t thought about Chris much at all,” says Lisa.

It’s something that still bothers Chris.

“He gets to go on as normal, but we’re 19 months down the track and our life is still in turmoil.

Beautifying the Bay’s cabinets

Four cabinets have been splashed with a bit of colour as part of a project to beautify the Bay of Plenty.

Creative Bay of Plenty, in partnership with Keep New Zealand Beautiful and Chorus, selected winning artists Shane Walker, Shannon Wright, Jimmy Robertson and Juanita-Louise Karora to bring their murals to life on four local Chorus cabinets.

A chemical toilet is all the couple “The aim of the project is to beautify have to use now their bathroom cabinets that often have been the target of vandals and graffiti,” says renovation is in limbo.

Chorus stakeholder communications “I’m still going to surgeries, and we haven’t had a advisor Holly Cushen. bathroom for 15 weeks.”

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Skirting around the school skirt issue It wasn’t going to be a protest. “More a demonstration of support for a cause,” says Galadriel Forrest. “A visual petition.”

A visual petition, she says, about skirts versus pants, of human rights, the right to choose and cold knees.

Fifteen-year-old Galadriel is a student at Tauranga Girls’ College - an all-girls school of 1349 pupils and in the dead of winter, potentially 2698 cold knees.

Because TGC’s tradition is steeped in skirts – has been since 1958 when it was founded. That’s 60 years of skirts; 60 years of no pants.

Galadriel and a friend Shae Northfield have become champions for change at TGC. Not champions for one or other, not pants or skirts, but having the

option. And they have been lobbying, emailing, petitioning and campaigning.

Shae took one bold step further. “I wore pants to school the other day because I was cold. When a teacher asked me why, I asked her why she was wearing pants” The girls decided to ramp things up – they organised ‘an event’, a protest by another name.

“An event to show the depth of feeling,” says Shae.

“We wanted lots and lots of girls to come to school today wearing the kind of pants they want to wear to school, that they want to be part of the uniform.”

Not a protest, they insist, but a demonstration of feeling. That depth of feeling was evident recently.

“At mufti day,” says Galadriel. “I only saw about three girls in skirts all day. About 1400 girls at school and just three girls in skirts because that’s not what girls want to wear these days.”

Galadriel’s mother, Kazel Cass, says she first raised the issue with the

TGC students Imogen Logan, Shae Northfield, Galadriel Forrest and Amélie Logan.

college early this year, then again last week. “I asked the school specifically if Galadriel could wear trousers.

“They didn’t say no, she can’t. We call it being fobbed off.”

Then earlier this week, a breakthrough. “I took the pants uniform option to the board and asked for it to be explored,” says principal, Tara Kanji. “Uniform is board policy and takes some time to change. But the board has given me that approval.”

So Galadriel and Shae were told there was no need to wear pants as a part

of a protest and that everyone should turn up to school in correct uniform.

And if Galadriel and Shae wanted to participate in change, they were invited to join the student board representative this week at the beginning of a student consultation process over uniform options.

However, for Galadriel and Shae, it was too little and not soon enough.

Why do some of the students hate skirts, why do they want action now and why’s that difficult for the school? Read the rest of the story at: www.theweekendsun.co.nz

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New rating regime decided The decision is in tandem with the introduction of a differential for commercial rates, which will also be phased in over three years.

Councillors decided against introducing the third part of the rates changes - the city centre targeted rates - which was floated in the draft Long Term Plan.

The lower UAG for most ratepayers will be phased in over three years; 25 per cent on July 1, 2018, 20 per cent on July 1, 2019 and 15 per cent on July 1, 2020.

Councillors also resolved that if council introduces any new targeted rates set on a uniform basis, the total Uniform Annual General Charge plus other uniform rates (except wastewater) will remain at 15 per cent of total rates revenue (or 25 per cent on July 1, 2018 and 20 per cent on July 1, 2019).

The commercial differential will be phased in over the next three years.

Councillors directed staff to explore alternative targeted rate options for complementing or replacing this differential, and report back to council in the next Annual Plan process.

Tauranga City Council is also following Auckland in looking at rating Airbnb providers. Staff are directed to explore targeted rate options for online short-term accommodation providers, and report back to council in the next Annual Plan process.

In another rating decision, councillors last week backed down from the proposed 9.6 per cent rates increase, stepping back to the previous rates cap of the CPI plus two per cent.

Some councillors say the rates decision had a direct bearing on the decision to flag council’s $15m contribution towards a museum.

The decision on a $20m contribution towards a new library had not been made when The Weekend Sun went to press.

In other decisions, council has voted to increase and accelerate the investment in safer cycling across the city, and has agreed to pay $1.8 million for tsunami sirens in tsunami evacuation zones.

On rubbish, the ratepayers will pay for a dedicated glass collection service beginning in October this year, and council will organise and pay for kerbside rubbish collection, beginning in 2021.

Reduce the number of victims, not prisoners Recently, the government announced their goal of reducing prison numbers by a third.

Like many New Zealanders, I am not explicitly pro-incarceration – in fact, in many cases, I fall at the rehabilitation end of the spectrum if and when the circumstances are appropriate.

But I do have serious concerns about this announcement.

The government’s headline target to reduce the prison population by 30 per cent doesn’t stack up without new initiatives or targets to reduce crime.

The previous National government took public safety

concerns seriously, and tightened up our bail laws in 2013 to make it harder for serious offenders to be granted bail.

We also implemented the Three Strikes Law, which provides judges with the ability to put the worst offenders away for the maximum sentence without parole on their third conviction.

This law is reserved for the most serious and recidivist offenders.

Labour wants to reverse these changes, as they blame them for the increase in our prison population.

The rise is the prison population is not because of tougher bail laws or Three Strikes – it’s because of the

The Bay of Plenty will benefit from a new, multi-million dollar research institute set to open its doors in July.

PlantTech aims to leverage the Bay of Plenty’s strengths in horticulture to accelerate and commercialise research and innovation for the benefit of the region and New Zealand.

“We aim to grow technology exports and knowledge-intensive jobs in technology for horticulture, by

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It’s worrying that the government seems to think making it easier for offenders to get out of prison or harder to get put there in the first place is the answer to achieving its goal.

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Tauranga’s rating system is set to change, with councillors deciding to reduce the uniform annual general charge from the current maximum of 30 per cent to 15 per cent. The reduction will be phased in over three years.

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Schoolboy’s kiwifruit peeler on show The 12-year-old’s father, David Tauranga Intermediate pupil Christian Stark is hoping to take home a prize in the Stark, had been peeling the fruit the Innovation Awards with his invention which takes the messy work out of peeling kiwifruit. traditional way for his kiwifruit-loving

son when Christian decided to come up with a better solution.

In true Kiwi fashion, the first prototype of the Kiwipeel was made with a beer can and Sellotape.

But there have been several design refinements since then, says Christian.

“We couldn’t have a tube with sharp edges. It had to be smooth and easy to push down.” The final design, produced by local engineering firm Tig Art, is simple and effective: a tube made of foodgrade stainless steel with a rolled top edge. There is no plastic in the design and it is fully recyclable.

“Just top and tail the kiwifruit and then press the Kiwipeel down, and the skin is gone,” says Christian.

He’s led development of the Kiwipeel supported by father David. Christian is also overseeing marketing – choosing the font and taking the photographs for the product board, which is attached to each Kiwipeel.

Tauranga schoolboy Christian Stark has entered his invention, the Kiwipeel, in Fieldays’ Innovation Awards.

Christian will also be manning the Kiwipeel stand at Fieldays alongside his father. He isn’t the first Stark to showcase an invention at Fieldays – father David won his first award for an invention at the event around 20 years ago in 1999. Read the rest of the story at: www.theweekendsun.co.nz Josephine Reader

Change has come to Tauranga City Council The past few weeks have seen council hear submissions and make decisions on the $5 billion, ten-year budget.

The recent by-election of Cr Robson has had an immediate impact, with enough votes now around the council table to bring down next year’s forecast rate rise from a whopping 9.7 per cent plus a new glass collection down to 3.8 per cent plus the glass. There’s been an increase in spending on transport infrastructure, with the cycleway budget going from $12m to $20m over the next

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While I’m unlikely to take up cycling to work any time soon, each person we can get out of their car and onto a bike on one of the new routes makes peak-hour traffic better for everyone else.

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High powered meeting on poverty Closing the Gap - the movement fighting for greater income equality - claims it is on the same page as the government after a meeting with local politicians.

CTG met with three local MPs and a Green Party representative, and chairman Peter Malcolm says the meeting found consensus on many local issues concerning inequality.

The MPs - Labour’s Jan Tinetti and Angie Warren-Clark, New Zealand First’s Clayton Mitchell and Greens representative Emma-Leigh Hodge - indicated they were willing to work with CTG on a regular basis in the future.

The politicians agreed with CTG’s submission to the Tax Working Party, which calls for an increased progressive tax system to reduce top incomes and increase those at the bottom. CTG also calls for significant increases in benefits and

government spending in areas that impact poor people, particularly health and education.

Peter Malcolm says the meeting with MPs also canvassed local issues, such as the availability of affordable, social housing.

“It was agreed this was a problem,” says Peter. “It couldn’t be left to developers. Local and national governments had to be involved. And 13 weeks to find accommodation for people was too long.”

There was also very strong support for the introduction of a “living wage”, while it was agreed that there is a problem with the wealthy kiwifruit industry and stories regarding workers not even being paid the minimum wage, let alone the living wage The meeting also agreed that poverty was certainly a local problem, and low wages and an insufficient welfare system contributed to it.

Opposition MPs were also invited to the meeting. Todd Muller expressed interest but, like Simon Bridges, apologised for being unable to attend.

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Busy recess and our sustainable future Every three-to-four weeks, Parliament breaks for “recess”, which means that Parliament is not sitting.

Despite what the name suggests, recess doesn’t mean we’re spending time with our feet up and a Pina Colada in hand!

This recess I've kept busy with select committee

duties and constituent meetings, along with meeting businesses and community groups across the electorate.

One such visit was Pukekauri Farm in Katikati. Here I learnt all about the incredible sustainable farm management practises Rick and Jan have

introduced, where they have done riparian planting on marginal land, retired former grazing land and boosted dry matter production on the remaining land by two tonnes per hectare, resulting in liveweight gains and profitability increases.

Whilst walking across the paddock at Pukekauri, I was reminded of the many environmentally friendly and sustainable initiatives in this year’s budget. One such initiative is an extra $15 million over the next four years for the sustainable farming fund to help more farms follow in Pukekauri’s footsteps.

Another initiative is the establishment of the $100 million Green Investment Fund, which will encourage private-sector investment in high-value, lowcarbon industries, clean tech and new jobs.

Funds like this have been hugely successful internationally.

Smart business see the value in shifting to climate-aligned investments, and we're going to make sure Kiwi organisations are a part of that shift.

Making our carbon neutral future possible took a huge step forward with this budget, and I can't wait.

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A twinkle in his eye He tore out his eyes in anger and threw them into the sky, creating seven stars. And from just a twinkle in Tawhirimatea’s eyes, Matariki was born.

Matariki, meaning ‘little eyes’, is a special time in the Maori calendar with a focus on festivity – a time for singing, dancing and feasting.

In early June the clustered stars to the north-east horizon shine brighter than ever to signify a time of harvesting, celebration and remembrance.

“Matariki is the Maori New Year, but it’s also a time of celebration by coming together as a community,” says Awhina August from Te Puna i Rangiriri Trust.

“For Tauranga, this year’s theme is waiti waita waipuna ora. Waiti is one of the stars in the Matariki cluster and represents fresh water, so

we have a very strong water and energy theme.”

Te Puna i Rangiriri Trust have many events to celebrate Matariki, such as workshops – some of which will be delivered in Te Reo Maori – an evening lecture series, a market day and navigated tours with star navigator Jack Thatcher.

Awhina says they generally see more than 800 people taking part in events throughout the week, with schools all the way from Waihi to Whakatane attending.

All events will be based at the Mauao Camp Ground, which is where the essence of Matariki began.

“What we believe is that the celebration of the observance of Matariki actually started in Tauranga back in 1996, so we’re quite proud of that. It’s been great that there has been an avalanche of celebrations across the country.”

For more information, go to the Te Puna i Rangiriri Trust Facebook Page.

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New Women in Tech scholarships up for grabs Enspiral Dev Academy have partnered with workplace training provider Skills.org to announce the launch of eight new Women in Tech scholarships, worth $9000 each.

Technology is one of the fastest growing sectors, both globally and in New Zealand.

“It’s time to shake up the industry, and allow the opportunities in tech to be extended to people from all demographics,” notes Dev Academy CEO Rohan Wakefield.

Rohan says Dev Academy is passionate about enabling more diversity to enter tech, so are thrilled that these scholarships will remove barriers for people who identify as women.

“We’re looking for people with a passion for technology,” says Project Manager Gina Stevens-Rembe, “specifically for working in web development, and who have the tenacity and drive to thrive in our programme.”

Upon acceptance to the programme, applicants must complete Phase Zero - a 9-to-16 week homebased preparation module, before beginning the in-class web development bootcamp on August 6 or October 15, 2018.

Enspiral Dev Academy is a software and web development school based in Auckland and Wellington. Students learn job-ready skills from industry professionals, and graduate ready to become junior web developers in just 18 weeks.

Any woman who is passionate about getting into web development can apply for this scholarship by filling out an application form on the Dev Academy website.

Dev Academy’s campuses are in Eden Terrace, Auckland and Cuba Street, Wellington.

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Bay looking good in HP48Hour Film Fest finals Tickets have sold out for the HP48Hours Furious Film Festival Bay of Plenty Finals on Sunday, June 10.

The red carpet event at Rialto Tauranga will premiere 15 local films made during the HP48Hours film competition held in May. Following the screening, awards will be presented to the winners in each of the categories – best director, outstanding female filmmaker, school team, performer, script, cinematography, production design, animation/VFX, editing, sound design, original score/song, audience favourite, best use of Team Poleland Productions – Amber Rodgers, Cameron Macintosh, Kylie Bertelsen and Stephanie Sidebottom from Otumoetai College – have been nominated in three categories.

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Time to visit unforgettable, gorgeous Japan

While the Japanese celebrate every season, autumn (aki) holds a special place in many hearts for the beauty of changing leaves. As the weather cools, red maples, Japanese maples and other deciduous trees are ablaze with shades of reds, oranges and yellows.

By November, autumn is in full swing and throughout Japan you can begin to witness the fall foliage. In areas like Tokyo and Kyoto, the best viewing times for the autumn leaves typically range from late October through to early December.

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tour for women, departing late November 2018, arrives in time for the autumn colours, and explores Japanese history, culture and food in its most iconic cities.

Beginning in Tokyo, visit unforgettable sites such as the Meiji Shrine and the colourful shopping streets of Harajuku.

Travel on bullet trains and take in Kanazawa, Takayama, Kyoto and Osaka. Meet Geishas, visit the famous Tsukiji Fish Market, attend a Tea Ceremony and enjoy sake tasting.

Stay in a traditional ryokan (Japanese Inn), dine on worldrenowned kaiseki cuisine and

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Great craic to be found in Ireland In Ireland, I fast came to learn that not everything is as it seems. Such as the guesthouse in Fethard-on-Sea that wasn’t. They had simply never taken the sign down when it closed. Or the pub that doubled as an undertaker in Wexford Town.

The Giant’s Causeway in The other thing I came away with is Country Antrim, Northern that the Irish love good craic. Not to Ireland, with its 40,000 be mistaken with the drug of the same interlocking basalt columns, name, but the Irish word for general is known to the Irish as the Kissing the Blarney Stone in County Cork is meant banter and good times had by all. eighth Wonder of the World. to give you the gift of eloquence.

Much of this craic can be found in the numerous colourful pubs that dot Oh, and plenty of an impressive shipwreck on the headland. the countryside, where you can get the best Guinness Cork is very much a tourist town, and here we visited Guinness. you’ll ever taste in your life and listen to traditional the old gaol and kissed the Blarney stone at Blarney Read the rest of the story at: Celtic music that dates back hundreds of years.

Castle, believed to give you the gift of eloquence. www.theweekendsun.co.nz My husband and I started and finished our monthFrom Killarney we took a bus tour of the Ring of long Irish adventure in the capital city, Dublin.

Kerry. On a good day the scenery is meant to be Our first discovery was that Guinness really stunning, but we didn’t see a thing through the heavy does taste better there. You can visit the Guinness mist of a wet day.

Storehouse, or if whiskey is your preferred drop, the We had to settle for a bike ride around the smaller Jameson Distillery. And, of course, it doesn’t all involve Dingle Peninsula with a couple of fair dinkum Aussie alcohol. The Book of Kells, a richly decorated copy of blokes from Tasmania. The ride can be done in a day, the four Gospels of the life of Jesus Christ, is housed at but we chose to ride half way and stay overnight in the Dublin’s Trinity College. small village of Ballyferriter where we partook of more I love a bit of history, so our first stop was Guinness and traditional Irish music.

Glendalough in County Wicklow, which is renowned Staying with friends in Ennis, County Clare we for its early medieval monastic settlement founded visited The Burren (meaning ‘great rock’) - a landscape in the sixth century. It was beautiful, and we spent a of bedrock incorporating a vast cracked pavement of lovely evening staying at the local inn in Laragh. glacial-era limestone, with cliffs and caves, fossils, rock The only problem was we had caught a public bus formations and archaeological sites. there and it didn’t return for another three days.

From there we took a hairy ferry ride across to the We stuck out our thumbs and hitched a ride out to smallest of the Aran Islands, Inisheer, taking in the the main highway on the local school bus, and our views of Galway’s famous Cliffs of Moher. Inisheer hitchhiking journey began. I highly recommend hiring was stunning in its isolation and tiny enough that we a car to travel around Ireland, but we were broke at walked its entire circumference in just one day. the time and the Irish just made it so easy, taking us We spent a memorable night in Sligo, where we were to out-of-the-way places and recommending spots we invited to an after-hours lock-in at a local pub. There never would have visited otherwise. was a dozen of us knee-to-knee on wooden benches in One of those out-of-the-way places was Fethard-onthe back room with some of the best Irish music I’ve Sea, the nearest village to the world’s oldest operational ever heard played on the traditional bodhran (drum), luxury airport lighthouse, Hook Lighthouse. fiddle and tin whistle.

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Manufacturing industry steps up to world stage New Zealand’s manufacturing industry is on the rise quality-wise, with businesses looking towards highly developed examples in other parts of the world and working to implement best practice standards, says Michael Page Recruitment.

Manager of procurement and supply chain recruitment Matt Walker says the driver for this change centres around demand for our products overseas, thanks in large part to the enormous success of the long-running ‘100% Pure New Zealand’ campaign cementing our

reputation as a clean, green producer.

He says across manufacturing in general, businesses are becoming interested in process improvement, so they can compete and offer their products internationally.

“Predominant trends at the moment show businesses in New Zealand have grown from being small, privately-owned companies,” says Matt.

“All of a sudden these businesses are on the cusp of trying to compete with the big boys globally, trying to sell into China, Australia and other areas.”

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Financial infidelity and what to do about it Honesty and openness are key to a healthy relationship – especially when it comes to money. But some couples are suffering from what’s called “financial infidelity”.

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It is possible to break such bad financial habits. First, you and your partner need to admit that there is room for improvement. Then you need to come clean and be honest about your finances with each other.

It is important to devise a plan that gets everyone working together to achieve the same goal of financial fidelity – and all without compromising your lifestyle.

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Helping to make balancing your books easier Crunching numbers to achieve accurate results is how Balanced Ledgers Tauranga can help keep your books in check.

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Sheaff Vehicles general manager Mike Sheaff next to the electric Nissan Leaf.

Misconceptions about electric vehicles They’re expensive! They’ve got no power! There’s nowhere to charge them!

These are just a few of the misconceptions Mike Sheaff has encountered when talking about electric vehicles.

But the general manager of Sheaff Vehicles in Mount Maunganui says these days there’s an electric vehicle for everyone.

“Many people don’t realise you can actually charge them at your house,” says Mike.

He says an EV like the Nissan Leaf will take around six-to-eight hours to charge to full from empty,

plugged into the wall socket in your own home.

“With a caravan plug, though, you can cut that time in half.

“And if you take it to one of the fast charge stations around town, it will only take around half an hour.”

While they take longer to ‘fill up’, they’re far cheaper to run – five-toeight dollars to fully charge, says Mike.

Since there’s no engine, there is also less to go wrong.

“A normal car might have around 2000 moving parts, while there are only around 200 in an electric,” he says.

Despite this, when you hit the road they accelerate quickly and

quietly and maintain speed just as well as any petrol equivalent. And it tells you how much further you can travel on the current battery life, with the estimated distance dropping when you switch on the air conditioner, or increasing when you apply eco mode.

At the moment, most used EVs can travel around 120km – but newer models can reach up to 300km on a single charge, and Mike says when they enter the second-hand market they’ll be quite affordable.

“As a commuter who travels mostly around town, though, these vehicles are the best option,” says Mike.

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Worldwide shortage of HPV vaccine A global shortage of the HPV vaccine, Gardasil 9, is affecting New Zealand’s supply.

Family Planning says they are aware of the shortage and are following Pharmac advice in managing the shortage.

“This means if you have already started the vaccine, we are postponing your second and third doses until supplies are available again,” says a Family Planning spokesperson.

“There is no problem with delaying the second and third dose as long as you have both of them within a year

of the first.

“Don’t worry, we’ll keep track and will contact you when we have the vaccine available again.”

If you haven’t started the immunisation programme yet, Family Planning will delay your first dose until new supplies arrive.

If you are 26 and have to wait until you are 27 as a result of this shortage, you will still be eligible to have your vaccine free of charge (funded).

New supplies of the vaccine are expected in New Zealand in September.

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What causes osteoarthritis? (Part 1) Osteoarthritis is the most common cause of joint pain. The real driver behind cartilage loss is the health of specialised cells called chondrocytes. These amazing cells secrete and repair cartilage matrix.

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Mechanical force (injury) can trigger an increase in free radicals, which can cause the death of chondrocytes. In some cases, it is as much about a failure of cell antioxidants defences.

The problem is that chondrocytes cannot replicate.

Once a chondrocyte dies, the tiny patch of cartilage it maintained will eventually disintegrate.

The body tries to fix the problem through the process of inflammation, which is ineffective and ends up making the problem worse.

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This quote was a particular favourite of James Donovan, who came to be known as a great negotiator in the 1950s and 60s.

He saw negotiation as a win-win situation.

In 1962 he was asked to support negotiations to free 1113 prisoners of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion. Donovan managed to create confidence with Fidel Castro, who was pleased Donovan had brought his teenaged son with him to Cuba.

Donovan had the idea to exchange the prisoners for medicine after he had found out that Cuban medicine didn't help him with his own bursitis.

On December 21, 1962, Castro and Donovan signed an agreement to exchange the prisoners for $53 million in food and medicine, sourced from private donations, and by July 3, 1963, he had secured the release of 9703 men, women and children from Cuban detention - 8590 more than had originally been negotiated.

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A bar for everyone with any taste It’s the perfect place for an after-work pint, a business lunch, date night or a catch up with friends. It’s a bar with no real target audience – because everyone is welcome.

It’s sophisticated and warm, unique and comforting.

I was enticed by the word on the street – quiet boasts about The Barrel Room have been swirling around Tauranga and I decided it was time I checked it out for myself.

It was the atmosphere I noticed first – people in suits mixed with young couples having a late afternoon lunch.

At a time where most other eateries and bars are empty, The Barrel Room was still serving and still thrumming.

Second was the texture. The walls are a combination of brick and wood, metal and mesh and natural fibres.

Everything is textile, from the lights worked into pipe work to the clever placement of barrels on the back wall (see if you can figure out what they are shaped like when you visit).

I ordered, then was asked if I wanted a drink. As a standard beer drinker, I had no idea which of the craft beers to order, but the bar staff reassured me they could help, and asked what I would buy from the supermarket. By answering just one question, I was paired with the perfect beer for my palette.

I sat down and waited for my pizza to arrive.

Now, I am something of a pizza fiend – and I can comfortably say that The Barrel Room did not disappoint.

Thin crusted pizza was spread right to the edges with their in-house pizza sauce, topped with fresh cherry tomatoes, cheese and prosciutto.

Perfect in its simplicity.

Pizza is at it’s prime when you have a choice of craft beers to wash it down with.

Can I tell if my honey is spoiled?

We’ve all experienced it - even Pooh Bear.

You reach into the cupboard for your pot of honey and it has crystallised.

It’s gone all lumpy and funny-looking, but has it gone bad?

The answer is no. Pure, raw and untreated honey has a natural tendency to crystallise over time, with no effect on the honey.

The crystallisation of honey actually preserves the flavour and quality characteristics, and some find it easier

to spread in this state.

Some honey crystallises uniformly, and others will be partially crystallised and form two layers, with the crystallised layer on the bottom of the jar and liquid on top.

Honey is more than 70 per cent sugars and less than 20 per cent water, so the water in honey holds more sugar than it should naturally hold.

The overabundance of sugar makes honey unstable, thus it is natural for honey to crystallise since it is an oversaturated sugar solution.

And though I loved every bite of my pizza, food envy took over as I watched steak sandwiches, chicken burgers, steaks topped with fried eggs and sides of chips, and other wonderful dishes file out of the kitchen.

But the best part is you don’t have to break the bank for great quality. The Barrel Room is wonderfully affordable, and what’s even better are their weekly specials, from two-for-one meals to their famous $15 steak dinner, or burger and beer night.

And there’s always a reason to come back, with more than 75 of the best wines from right here in Tauranga and abroad, an ever-changing craft beer selection and a range of premium spirits on offer.

And if you like what you taste, The Barrel Room has an off-license, meaning you can take some home with you.

So whether you want an affordable and fun night out, or want to do a corporate wine, beer or whiskey tasting, you really have to check out The Barrel Room for yourself.

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Rogers picks his Under-19 squad The Bay of Plenty Under-19 rugby representative squad has been announced.

The squad is: Angus Baker, Jack McIntosh Miracle Lolofie, Peter Seeling, Rylen Waugh (Greerton Marist), Apitone Toia, Bartje Wierenga, Leander Du Plessis, Taniela Filimone, Tanira Tamanui-Nepia, Brodie Toia, Tevita Sole (Rangataua), Ariki Hood, Dennon Robinson (Whakarewarewa), Coby Miln, Dylan Williams, Mafi Fifita, Kohan Herbert, Jonas Pomare (Mount Maunganui), Cole Forbes Lalomilo Lalomilo (Te

Puke), Damel Taui, Semisi Paea (Ngongotaha), Emoni Narawa, Leroy Carter, Jeriah Mua (Tauranga Sports), Etonia Waqa, Gordie Lloyd, Harry O'Dea, Jayjay Suemai, Keita Yamamoto (Te Puna) Iosefa Maloney (Opotiki), Kaipo Brown (Rotoiti), Liam Preston (Kahukura), Riini Hapi (Waikite), The squad will train for the Jock Hobbs Memorial Tournament in Taupo in September and then be reduced to 25 to compete at the national tournament. The first training sessionis on Monday, June 11.

Ski season underway at Mount Ruapehu

Opening day at Whakapapa last Saturday. Photo: Mt Ruapehu, Whakapapa & Turoa Ski Areas/Facebook.

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The ski season officially opened last weekend on the Whakapapa ski area of Mount Ruapehu, with a record-breaking 3400 people taking to the lower slopes by Sunday afternoon.

Ruapehu Alpine Lifts CEO Ross Copland says it's already shaping up to be a great season.

“With our snowmaking technology, and a big boost

from Mother Nature which has blanketed Whakapapa ski area with snow, it should make for fantastic early season skiing,” says Ross.

“We’re not ruling out an early opening of Turoa as well if this weather keeps delivering snow and cold temperatures.”

The early start means skiers and snowboarders can polish their skills before moving on to other parts of the mountain as the season progresses.

The next ski area on Mount Ruapehu scheduled to open is Whakapapa’s lower mountain on June 16, with Whakapapa

upper mountain following on June 30 and Turoa ski area on June 29.

The early season opening is thanks to Mount Ruapehu's new snow-making technology, offering skiers and snowboarders the longest scheduled winter season in New Zealand, operating through until Labour Weekend in late October.

RAL installed the Snow Factory at the beginning of the 2017 ski season and it’s New Zealand’s first all-weather snow making machine, capable of making snow in temperatures of up to 25 degrees Celsius.

The Papamoa Hills Night Walk returns If you’re looking to get off the couch and have an evening adventure this winter, the annual Papamoa Hills Night Walk is coming your way.

The event is in its ninth year, raising funds to support Breast Cancer Support Service Tauranga Trust. The walk starts at the Poplar Lane car park, where walkers head up the hill and across the park, finishing in the Ger (Mongolian tent) at Summerhill Recreation Park.

It’s a well-marked route with Youth Search and Rescue marshals along the way to make sure everyone stays on the track.

Breast Cancer Support Service Tauranga Trust manager Helen Alice says the walk is traditionally held in the winter months and is a great chance to get off the couch, away from your devices and have an evening adventure.

“Part of the fun of the walk is coming out under the moon and stars and doing something that the public are not normally allowed to do – walk in the Papamoa Hills Reserve after dark.”

This year the walk will be held on Friday and Saturday, June 29-30. The walk is about 5km, with a decent amount uphill and brilliant views over the city and coastline, all under the full moon.

Walkers are rewarded with cake and a hot drink at the top and are then taken back to their vehicles by minibus. Walkers must be over 13 and must pre-register.

Tickets are $28 and can be purchased online via: www.breastcancerbop.org.nz/page/events

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Be warm this winter It just needs the mercury to dip to a wintry four degrees like it has recently to have us cranking up the heat pump, heaving another log on the fire and rugging up.

But ask the guys at BOP Curtains and Blinds why you should invest in all of that heat if you are going to let it fly out the window, and they’ll tell you that heat should be retained and maximised by installing insulating curtains or blinds.

Here are the facts: 42-to-45 per cent of heat in houses insulated to pre-2007 building requirements is lost through the windows, and even houses insulated to the 2007 code, including double glazing, see 21-to-31 percent of heat lost via the same openings.

Tony Baker, of BOP Curtains and Blinds, has a diploma in interior design and 30 years’ worth of industry experience and wisdom.

“The good news is that insulating curtains and blinds can significantly reduce heat loss,” says Tony.

“Research shows that well-fitted curtains and blinds, when closed, can reduce heat loss through single glazed windows by 60 per cent and doubleglazed windows by up to 50 per cent.”

This is where BOP Curtains and Blinds’ expertise kicks in, to help warm your home this winter with special insulating fabrics and blinds.

“Our friendly team will come to you with thousands of samples to ensure you get the right look for your home,” says Tony.

“We provide a free measure, quote and interior design service so you can stick within your budget and get the perfect installation service you need.”

New EECA strategy captures carbon Helping New Zealanders to lower the emissions from their energy use is a key focus of The Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority’s new strategic direction.

ECCA’s 2018–22 Statement of Intent outlines its ambitious purpose to “mobilise New Zealanders to be world leaders in clean and clever energy use”.

Some 40 per cent of New

Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions come from energy use in transport, factories, heating and electricity supply.

EECA’s increasing focus is on the use of renewable energy and energy efficiency to lower carbon emissions across the energy sector.

EECA’s analysis suggests that efficient lighting, electric vehicles, industrial heat pumps and other new tech are some of the best opportunities for New Zealand to reduce its emissions.

BOP Curtains and Blinds’ Tony Baker shows off a blinds sample.

To achieve good insulation, curtains should have quality lining, fit well against the wall or window frame, be wider than the window frame and go from floor-to-ceiling or have pelmets above them.

The quality workmanship of BOP Curtains and Blinds will ensure all of those boxes are ticked.

BOP Curtains and Blinds’ range of products includes curtain fabrics, roller, venetian and roman blinds, curtain tracks and rods, lampshades and cushions.

BOP Curtains and Blinds is a mobile curtain and blind service, and their quality workmanship is available by messaging: bopcurtains@gmail.com or calling: 021 725 721. Keep warm this winter.

Meth report should bring comfort New Zealanders can feel more confident about buying homes following a new government report that dismisses the health risks of passive methamphetamine exposure, says the Real Estate Authority.

A report released by the prime minister’s chief science advisor, Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, found there was no evidence that third-hand exposure to methamphetamine smoke residue on household surfaces had adverse health effects.

REA chief executive Kevin LampenSmith says the report should help reduce the stress involved in buying property.

“The report said that there was little reason to test a property for methamphetamine contamination unless there was a strong suspicion that it had been used to house

methamphetamine production or there had been very heavy drug use there,” says Kevin.

“This has been reinforced by Professor Gluckman’s subsequent comments that testing is not recommended unless the police suspect it has been a place of meth manufacturing.

“This removes many concerns that people have for their loved ones when buying property.”

Kevin says prospective buyers who remain worried about methamphetamine contamination should read the report and seek legal advice before signing a sale and purchase agreement. “We strongly encourage buyers to ask lots of questions when looking at purchasing a property,” he says. “If you are concerned about the potential for methamphetamine contamination because you suspect the property was used as a meth lab, ask your lawyer to include a satisfactory meth test as a condition of your offer.”

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Get in the zone with local landscapers Whether you’re a builder, a developer or a homeowner building a new home or renovating an existing one, you will want Zones to be your first port of call when it comes to landscaping.

Zones believes that great projects start with design, and offers a comprehensive design package as part of its service.

Zones has design professionals that will work with you to turn your home landscape dreams into a reality.

Internationally experienced landscape architect Nichola Vague is excited to be living and working in the Bay of Plenty and brings with her 25 years in the landscape industry.

“The earlier you can involve us in your project, the more benefit you will see,” says Nichola.

“We are experienced in working closely with homebuilders and other design professionals to ensure you end up with a cohesive landscape project.”

In Tauranga, Zones landscaping

specialists Jacob Matchitt, Nigel Ramsden and Nichola are here to help you design and build a landscape to suit your lifestyle, delivering a hasslefree project on time and to budget.

“Our aim is to provide personalised landscape design, build and maintenance solutions that inspire and exceed clients’ expectations,” says Nichola.

“We start with an on-site consultation and provide a concept design to fit your budget. Once complete, Zones will then organise and project-manage the entire landscaping process, from turning the first sod to hosing down the driveway.”

Call Zones Landscaping today to get your project underway on: 0800 30 10 20, or visit www.zones.co.nz

Maximise your outdoor living As outdoor living specialists, Zones aim to enhance the things you love to do outside. Whether it’s cooking or dining outside with friends and family, playing backyard cricket with the kids, reading a book in the sun, or pottering around the garden, we can design and build a landscape to suit.

Commercial and industrial flooring Upstairs from The Flooring Room is a room not many people know about. It’s a place where the air-con blasts all day, high-vis jackets hang from chairs, carpet samples line the floors and project plans take centre stage on the high table – big projects plans.

This is the home of the commercial team, whose job is to plan and deliver quality flooring to large building projects throughout the Bay of Plenty.

Think hospitals, business centres and whole retirement villages. There’s a lot at stake in getting it right and on time.

The Flooring Room commercial team recently finished the new offices for Tauranga City Council.

The development required 4500 m2 of carpet – weighing in at a whopping

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11 tonnes – and it all had to be transported in the lifts by hand.

Because The Flooring Room caters for such large commercial jobs, they have the largest flooring warehouse in the Bay, located off-site.

This means that they can provide competitive pricing and have a huge selection to choose from.

The commercial and domestic projects they undertake complement each other nicely, and is what takes the company from strength-to-strength.

Chances are, you’ve walked over floors from The Flooring Room at some stage, and they would have been completed with lots of dedication and laughs.

The Flooring Room offers a free measure and quote service for both commercial and residential projects.

For more information, visit: www.theflooringroom.co.nz or get in touch with the owner Steve Ferris via: steve@theflooringroom.co.nz

You have probably walked on carpets that the team at The Flooring Room have laid.

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Modern motorised blinds for a stylish home You spend a fair amount of time looking at your blinds, so you’ll want to make sure you get something that you like.

Bay Blinds manufacture blinds that are stylish, versatile and proudly made by a local team.

Motorised roller blinds are their speciality, and are perfect for those who want to open and close their blinds with the simple touch of a button.

They are easily operated with a handheld remote or by linking the blinds into your home automation system and smart phone apps.

“Quality checking our product is really important to the team so we can be proud of

the blinds which are going into your homes,” says production supervisor Elaine Hohaia. “Our team go above and beyond for our customers.”

Don’t think you can’t have blinds operating at the touch of button in an existing home? The modern battery-operated motors can now be fitted into blinds installed in any home.

For those with families, the child safe feature of having motors and no cords or chains is an absolute must.

Motorised blinds are no longer only for exclusive homes - today they are affordable and able to be fitted into any home, be it a new build or renovation. Give Bay Blinds a call today on: 07 578 7794 to make a time for Michelle or Vinnie, their local experts, to show you their amazing roller and venetian

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blind options and discuss how they can help you create the right look for your home.

Make sure you look at their patterned and textured fabrics, as blinds are no longer the plain option they once were.

Top tradies step up to the challenge Entries for the Registered Master Builders Carters 2018 Apprentice of the Year have now closed, with more than 130 apprentices entering from across the country. They will go head-to-head for the sought-after title and a share of more than $100,000 worth of prizes.

With New Zealand currently facing its biggest ever building boom, this competition comes at the perfect time to highlight the urgent need for more apprentices. Registered Master Builders chief executive David Kelly says that the Apprentice of the Year showcases the attractiveness of a career in the trades.

“Apprenticeships offer the chance to earn as you learn and be a part of an industry with strong job prospects and opportunities for growth,” says David.

“With the construction skills shortage currently facing the building and construction industry, the value of an apprenticeship has never been higher.”

This year, Registered Master Builders have introduced an award for employers

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who have had an apprentice win three regional titles. This celebrates employers who are investing in apprentices and investing in the future work force.

“Training and developing our workforce is vital for New Zealand’s economic growth and development in this period of unprecedented demand,” adds David. “It is fantastic to see many prominent building companies continuing to enter their apprentices in the competition each year.

“By investing in apprentices, these employers are not only providing them with career opportunities, but are future-proofing their businesses and the construction industry.

“It is great to see so many talented apprentices stepping up to make their mark on the industry through this competition.

“They will go on to become the future leaders of the industry and we wish them all the best as the regional competitions get underway.”

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Opera House attracts talent

Stephen King from Arapuni.

Hundreds of motorcycles and cars left from Mount Club and drove along Maunganui Road on May 26 for the SOS Edgecumbe Charity Ride.

Funds raised by the event went towards providing assistance to the victims of last year’s flood in Edgecumbe.

Peter Robson with his dog Maxie.

Franklin Tuporo from the Tu Meke Motorcycle Car Club (MCCC) in Moerewa north of Whangarei, and Charlie Langdon, one of the SOS Edgecumbe Charity Ride organisers.

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Our ‘national treasures’

Followers of the recent exchange about (the lack of?) culture in Tauranga may be interested in the fact that over 100 years ago there were international artists performing in the Tauranga Opera House.

Taken from the Bay of Plenty Times, 28 July 1915: “The Cherniavskys Those who desire to hear these talented musicians at the Opera House tomorrow night, or on Thursday, should book their seats now at Woolams. It is not saying too much to state that never before has Tauranga had the opportunity of hearing such talented musicians. Leo, the eldest of this famous trio, is still only twenty-five years of age, and judging by the enthusiasm they have aroused in other parts of the Dominion they should be met with a flattering reception in Tauranga.”

They had rave reviews.

D Christie, Omokoroa.

Why do I feel distinctly uncomfortable about the muted response to the Queen’s Birthday honours bestowed on Jools and Linda Topp?

Because this red-blooded, heterosexual, rugbywatching, beer-drinking Kiwi male holds them up as national treasures. Where else in the world has a couple of down-on-the-farm, activist, lesbian, folk singing comedy duo sisters as easily the most recognisable entertainers in the country?

I reluctantly went to their movie and walked out converted. Thanks girls, and congratulations. True New Zealand is proud of you.

I Goldsmith, Bureta.

Support our people

Not a good look over the past few weeks for BOP councils – the Tauranga City Council CEO contract ended; general manager CEO’s department resigned (scrap this position, it’s antiratepayer anyway), CEO Bay of Plenty Regional Council resigned; Western Bay elected ninnies whacked 80/20 in Maori wards referendum; TCC $55 million museum referendum voted 60/40 against council’s dreamers, then canned by councillors 7-4 along with councillors voting 6-5 to terminate the grandiose $43 million city library.

So no Cliff Road or Willow Street, both Geotech challenged sites. Museumites are still distraught but who in their right mind would even contemplate these extravagances?

Remember right is might. Now the silent, irrelevant majority have been roused from their apathy, just get on the front foot and deal to the fiscal fools once and for all. Comeuppance is long overdue as their inane actions have threatened Tauranga’s general wellbeing, financial and social outlook on life just like a rampant creeping cancer.

The four TCC councillors responsible for the misspent millions may be ensconced until the 2019 elections, but they all need shackling now, then booting out next elections. The cleanout is just starting. Keep up the momentum, identify the TCC bureaucrats responsible plus museum/library zealots and hold them to account.

R Paterson, Matapihi.

New Zealand First has contributed to its own demise by giving $1 billion to boost Pacific aid. Charity begins at home, and any political party that does not understand that should, and will disappear. John Campbell some time ago asked the Samoan Prime Minister where $30 million went. He is still waiting for an answer.

Labour needs to keep Winston from doing what he usually does, which is put the cat amongst the pigeons when life gets boring. Remember his Super problem which put Labour into office.

St John is but one organisation that we all rely on that cannot even get the money to operate. Perhaps they could borrow $70 million from the people getting $1 billion.

The political party that supports the people deserves your vote. The problem is, winning Lotto might be easier to obtain.

R Chamberlain, Otumoetai (Abridged).

Clear the decks

Colin Denize from Tauranga with his teardrop caravan, housing a queen-sized bed, barbecue and kitchen sink.

A unique venue for a unique day

Kevin England and Meryl Langdon.

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Greenies are active

M Hills asks (The Weekend Sun, June 1) why local “greenies” have been silent on “this issue”. The issue referred to is unclear, but is one or all of the museum, traffic congestion, emissions, and cycling.

The museum is not a green issue and greenies likely have the same array of views on it as the general population.

However, Green action on traffic congestion and cycling is loud, long and robust. Greenies are constantly advocating to council on both, supporting initiatives that will improve both, writing letters and submissions to all levels of government, standing in elections with no hope of success, and more.

The work they do is hard, frustrating, and time-demanding. One local greenie,

who also represents the Sustainable Business Network, spends much of his time advocating on transportation issues and is making a genuine difference.

M Hills, you seem to care, so why not get involved in advocacy or action on local green issues? I can assure you that any involvement will be welcomed by any of the small and overworked local groups that aim to improve and protect the Tauranga environment.

If you prefer to avoid politics or governance, try the Envirohub.

I McLean, Tauranga.

Do the honourable thing As the lead petitioner in the recent Western Bay of Plenty District Council petition against the council’s decision to have separate Maori wards I would also like to add my voice to the growing number who are calling for the Mayor and councillors who voted for separatism in our council to do the honourable thing.

By the actions prior to and after the referendum that you have taken you have shown a complete and utter disregard for the ratepayers of the

Western Bay of Plenty and I call upon you all to be prepared to stand by what you believe in and fall on your swords like men.

My father and thousands of others like him risked their lives fighting for democracy and one man, one vote and it will be interesting to see if any of the current councillors are prepared to show the same courage and intestinal fortitude that these men did.

R McNair, Te Puke.

Lack of democratic principles

I am writing in support of letters from C Humphreys and R Paterson (The Weekend Sun, June 1).Thank goodness we have people like this in our community with such wisdom and clarity of vision and the courage to express their thoughts so well.

The Western Bay council support of a minority view from someone in Local Government NZ begs a serious question: why? Western Bay support of that minority, only two days before the majority view in the poll was known was, in my opinion, pathetic. It treated the people who voted them in with contempt and disrespect and showed a total lack of democratic principles. Let’s deal with them next election.

Congestion continues For some time I have wondered about the point of NZTA spending $50 million-plus on the Welcome Bay tunnel when the same volumes of traffic still have to merge to cross the causeway. It all appears completely pointless. Nothing more than a morning carpark for Welcome Bay residents!

Until such time as TCC takes on and completes the other half – the four-laning of the causeway/15th Avenue to Cameron Road – then the tunnel spend may as well not have happened at all!

Equally strange is that TCC traffic department’s management seem to have deliberately planned the arterial route traffic light changes so as most traffic must stop at each set of lights. The apparent justification appears to be to ensure traffic flows are congested so vehicle users will use anything but a car?

That level of planning is bewildering.

The solution looks to be public bus services to eliminate congestion, however it’s planned to make that congestion as bad as can be managed to try to ensure the transformation.

Regrettably the availability of public transport on a timely and efficient basis, even for school kids, fails to meet the needs of most, hence a lack of en masse use by the public... meanwhile the congestion continues. Why? I Stevenson, Tauranga.

Separatism and apartheid, as trotted out by some, is repulsive to any fair-thinking Kiwi from all races, ethnic backgrounds or skin colour.

I sometimes question the freedom and balance of reporting in some parts of the press, with good reason. I take my hat off to The Weekend Sun for their impartiality, and chance for people of various opinions to express their view.

Congratulations! Letters to the editor are the first things I read and need to provide the opportunity for free expression. Keep up the good work!

N Mayo, Katikati.

The Weekend Sun welcomes letters and photographs from readers.

Preference will be given to short letters (200 words maximum), supplied with full name and contact details. Photos are best in high resolution, jpeg format. Email: letters@thesun.co.nz

Ph 0508 KIWIFRESH (0508 549 437)

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Messianic Family

ALL WELCOME SHALOM SABBATH 10AM OTUMOETAI PRIMARY Joel & Sharon van Ameringen

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When I was young, New Zealand was criticised by overseas tourists for closing down at the weekend. Most shops were closed over the weekend, except for dairies, while sport was mostly played on Saturdays and Sundays were relatively quiet affairs.

Many parents were happy to send their children to Sunday School on Sunday mornings, even though they didn’t attend church themselves. They were happy for their children to be taught some good Christian values and to have their children out of the house on Sunday mornings.

Today, New Zealand is open every weekend, all day.

A few shops do still close on Sundays, but many do not. Parents who don’t go to church don’t send their

children to Sunday School.

Today, in New Zealand, every day of the week is much the same except that some people do not work both days of the weekend.

Have we lost something, as a country, through removing the distinctiveness of Sundays and our weekends?

One of the Ten Commandments in the Bible states that we must “remember the Sabbath by keeping it holy.

“Six days you shall labour and do your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. “On it you shall not do any work - the Lord blessed the Sabbath Day and made it holy,” (Exodus 20: 8-10a, 11b).

Our creator created us to have one day, out of seven, as a Sabbath. So, what is the cost of us ignoring this?

Dale Williamson - Holy Trinity Tauranga

The ‘crazy’ prophet www.citychurchtauranga.org.nz

Who would prophesy a virgin would have a son? Strange, to say the least.

Who would prophesy a wonderful Messiah would heal many in his nation, do great public miracles there and then be rejected by his own?

We certainly don’t reject our heroes.

We parade them through the streets.

Why would anyone dare predict a great orator and powerful miracle worker would silently and meekly go, as a lamb to the slaughter, to the painful death of the cross in the face of false accusations?

What madness does it seem for this same prophet to also predict a Saviour would be raised from the dead? And who would stretch their credibility so far as to say it would be God in human flesh paying the great price of the cross.

The answer is, the prophet Isaiah (see Isaiah 9 & 53) who lived about 700 BC. Interestingly, a copy of his writings, which have long been in our Bibles, was found in the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947. The copy was very close to the book we have in the Bible and was dated before 100 BC. The greatest thing though about this ‘crazy’ prophet was he was not crazy. Jesus Christ amazingly fulfilled all of Isaiah’s seemingly absurd predictions. This is just one of many reasons why millions have trusted the Bible and put their faith wholeheartedly in Jesus.

How about you?

David Kidd - Church of God’s Love (7th day)

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Say goodbye to Brilleaux Next Saturday, June 16, there’s a gig to say goodbye to Brilleaux. Again.

Dave, a stalwart of the English rock scene for decades, was the guitarist here on the summer Rock Steady tour and was most impressed at hearing Brilleaux's Kiwi take on British rhythm 'n' blues. I had a chat with drummer Ian “Beano” Gilpin about this.

“Dave actually personally helped to organise a couple of the UK shows - London at the Troubadour and also Cambridge at the Rock Festival,” says Beano, “and he'll be joining us for both of them, which is a real thrill.”

Many people suspected that when Brilleaux frontman Graham Clark moved to Hawke’s Bay 18 months ago, it would signal the band’s demise.

Quite the opposite has been true.

Over the summer they toured New Zealand, playing support for various famous English musicians in the Rock Steady Supergroup. Now the band are off to the UK - their fourth tour in five years and the most ambitious yet.

In July, Brilleaux play ten shows in Britain, including no fewer than four festivals. It's a fantastic achievement and almost impossible for an independent band from li’l ol' Tauranga. It seems almost surreal that they should now regard playing in Bedford as a “home gig”.

They play twice in Bedford on this tour - an opening “unplugged” show and then a full-on bash a couple of weeks later.

Brilleaux Photo: Scott Wray.

“We've played there four times now, and have lots of fans who travel from all around the UK to see us there,” says Graham.

They have already heard that a number of UK fans have booked their holidays to coincide with the tour and are following it to all the gigs. That's pretty cool.

Elsewhere, there are small gigs and some very prestigious ones. They play pubs in Northampton and Leicester and also the famous Troubadour in London, where original R&B band The Wilbur Project is playing support and current Dr Feelgood guitarist Steve Walwyn will be a special guest with Brilleaux.

Festival time

Then there are the festivals: the Upton Blues Festival in Worcester, the Cambridge Rock Festival, the North Wales Blues Festival - where they are the headline act on the first night - and the Vicar's Picnic in Kent, sharing the bill with Fun Lovin' Criminals, Nine Below Zero (who happen to be one of Graham's favourite bands) and the wonderfully named The Sex Pissed Dolls - an all-female punk band.

That's a great line-up of gigs, but this Brilleaux venture is also a reminder of the respect they have earned through previous tours.

Not only do they have Dr Feelgood's guitarist guesting with them, but Dave “Bucket” Colwell, guitarist for Bad Company and Free, is also on board.

Celebrate YOUR WAY

Staying in shape

Along with bass player Brian Franks and guitarist Bruce Rolands, Beano has been staying in shape while Graham lives down the line: “The three Bs are gathering on a fortnightly basis to jam and keep the Brilleaux

arrangements alive,” he says Like the others, he is aware of what a huge undertaking it is to get over to the UK, organisationally, physically, financially, promotionally and logistically. He is quick to acknowledge the many supporters here who have helped make it possible.

After we spoke I got an email from Beano: “On behalf of the band I would also like you to please convey our appreciation to anybody and everybody who has seen us play or purchased our CDs and merchandise over the last 19 years. It really is an awesome feeling that we go with the best wishes from so many people of different backgrounds and ages from the family, friends, acquaintances, peers and supporters that we have.”

And they certainly do go with all best wishes. Kudos to the boys – they deserve it!

Next weekend's gig is at Driver's Bar on 11th Ave. It kicks off at 9pm and costs $20 on the door. As far as I'm aware there are only door sales.

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Fatal house fire in Omokoroa The cause of a fatal house fire in Omokoroa on Tuesday remains under investigation.

A police media spokesperson says police were requested by fire crews to attend the blaze on Bramley Drive just after 4.30am.

“It was later confirmed that one person was found dead. The gender and age is unable to be released until family have been informed.

“Police are in the early stages of their inquiries and cannot speculate on the cause of the fire.”

The fire was described as “ferocious” by witnesses.

Car trapped in Papamoa flood Flood waters in Papamoa on Sunday night forced a couple to abandon their car.

Marie Mackay and her husband Brent went to their local Four Square at 6.40pm with no troubles, but encountered kneedeep flooding on their return.

Heavy rain pummelled Tauranga and the wider Western Bay of Plenty on Sunday, causing flooding and slips in Papamoa Beach, Te Puke, Mount Maunganui, Otumoetai and Katikati.

State Highway 2 north and south of Katikati was flooded with part of the road being closed by NZTA for a time.

Queen’s Birthday honours Eight people were named Knights or Dames Companion to the New Zealand Order of Merit in this year's Queen’s Birthday honours.

Rabble-rousers the Topp Twins and long-time sex worker advocate Catherine Healey are among the newest dames. Kawerau crooner John Rowles is the third entertainer on the list, becoming Sir John.

New Zealand also has its first Samoan dame in former Labour MP Luamanavao Winnie Laban.

Master waka builder and carver Hekenukumai ‘Hek’ Busby, who helped revitalise traditional Maori seafaring, became a knight for services to Maori.

Emeritus professor Charmian O'Connor, who worked to get more women into science, is recognised for her contributions to chemistry and education.

Companies tackle plastic waste Looking for a unique venue for your next Function?

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Twelve local and international companies have made the commitment to change their packaging as part of World Environment Day earlier this week.

New Zealand-based businesses that signed the NZ Plastic Packaging Declaration are Foodstuffs, Countdown, New Zealand Post and Frucor Suntory along with multinationals the Coca-Cola Company, Unilever, L'oreal, Amcor, Danone, Mars, PepsiCo, and Nestle.

Countdown also announced it will phase out plastic straws this year.

Associate Environment Minister Eugenie Sage said the commitment is a significant step towards helping end plastic pollution.

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Getting glitzy for a local grateful gala Glitz and glamour - the roaring 20s are in town and, in a nutshell, it’s all about letting loose and having fun.

The Grateful Gatsby Gala event at Mills Reef Winery will see hordes of people dressed up in their best flappers and tux in support of the Bay of Plenty Red Cross.

Shake, Rattle & Roll

The The The Show Show Show will will will be bebe aa‘slick ‘slick a ‘slick production, production, production, full full full of ofof costumes, costumes, costumes, wigs, shoes, hilarity, wigs, wigs, shoes, shoes, hilarity, hilarity, talented talented talented cast cast cast and and and memories, memories, memories, performing the greatest performing performing all allall the the greatest greatest hits hits hits from from from the the the 50’s 50’s 50’s and and and 60’s.

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TAURANGA: TAURANGA: TAURANGA: 11am, 11am, 11am, Friday Friday Friday 22nd 22nd 22nd June, June, June, Holy Holy Holy Trinity Trinity Trinity Church Church Church Bookings: Bookings: Bookings: 0508 0508 0508 266 266 266 237 237 237 www.operatunity.co.nz www.operatunity.co.nz www.operatunity.co.nz

Fit for Life

The night will include an à la carte dinner and matching wine, guest speaker Bob Parker, and live entertainment by The Shy and Retiring band.

People can also bid on some great prizes in the Gatsby auction, such as a weekend on Waiheke at a private estate.

“Sir Bob Parker will be talking about all the work he has done for the Red Cross in Christchurch after the earthquake and why Red Cross is integral to the community,” says community fundraising coordinator Maree Boyes.

She says Red Cross relies heavily on donations and sponsorship, as it is a non-for-profit organisation.

“I am learning that our awareness is not high enough in the community to support us as readily as other organisations,” adds Maree.

“It’s not like the Cancer Society and Hospice, where one in three people are aware of their services through personal experience.

“Unless there is a natural disaster, which Red Cross are well known for, people are just not aware we work in the local community daily.”

Red Cross have several local programmes, such as Meals on Wheels, Community Transport and Hospital Support, as well as youth and refugee programmes. Maree says last year the Red Cross Disaster Welfare team were deployed eight times, and this year they have been deployed 13 times already and it is only June.

Res Cross would like to thank the business who supplied them with the 1920s fashion, Embellish Boutique, for the lovely dresses and Events Tauranga and Bella Bridesmades.

The Grateful Gatsby Gala will be held on Friday, July 13, from 6pm-12am at Mills Reef Winery at 143 Moffat Road, Bethlehem.

Tickets are $125 per person with multiple tables

Get your Gatsby on for the Bay of Plenty Red Cross’ Grateful Gatsby Gala. available. For more information and tickets go to the Grateful Gatsby Gala EventFinder Page.

Sharnae Hope

Shake, Rattle and Roll in town Ebony and Ivory? Salt and Pepper?

The Black and White Minstrels?

It doesn’t matter what you call them, the chemistry between Operatunity’s Bonaventure Allan-Moetaua and Karl Perigo is undeniable.

They appear on stage together again for Operatunity’s latest offering, Shake, Rattle and Roll, touring New Zealand throughout June and July.

Both men were raised around music.

For Bonnie, it was the Beatles that inspired him.

Karl’s inspiration to sing came from home. His grandparents exposed him to rock ‘n’ roll music, but his need to perform came from the greats like Howard Morrison, Dame Edna and Michael Barrymore - all of whom he has met or worked with.

Operatunity’s upcoming tour hits Tauranga on June 22 from 11am at Holy Trinity Church, 215 Devonport Road. All tickets include lunch and groups of five can receive a group discount.

Book online at: www.operatunity.co.nz or call: 0508 266 237 (toll free).

Karl Perigo and Bonaventure Allan-Moetaua.

The Weekend Sun has two double passes to Shake, Rattle and Roll for two lucky readers who can tell us which band inspired Bonnie.

Enter online at: www.sunlive.co.nz under the competition section. Entries must be received by Tuesday, June 12.

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An array of great local Local artists will show off their strokes of genius at the 2018 Art Expo and Trustpower Supreme Awards.

The biannual expo, run by the Tauranga Society of Arts, is an event that showcases local and original art to the community.

Berys Suridge, from Tauranga Society of Artists, says around 280 paintings will be displayed.

The works will be made from a range of mediums, such as oils, water colour, acrylics, pastel and mixed media.

“We are the largest expo in the Bay of Plenty of local,

original art,” says Berys, “and these exhibitions have become something that people look forward to.”

The Tauranga Society of Artists has around 200 members and relies on sponsorships to help keep the Art Expo running.

“We are very grateful to our sponsors, who allow the Art Expo to continue,” says Berys.

The gold coin donation 2018 Art Expo will be held on June 13, from 2pm-5pm, and June 15-17, from 9.30am-5pm, at the Community Centre on Elizabeth Street.

All paintings are on sale cash and carry. EFTPOS is also available.

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Determined to get Charles to herself forever, the ghostly Elvira arranges several ‘accidents’, one of which culminates in Ruth joining Elvira.

THE INCUBATOR (Tauranga Historic Village, 17th Avenue) Sat 9th This Way North – Indie rock alt pop duo from Melbourne. Local support act – Airs & Disgraces. Doors Sales $15

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Wednesday 13th June 2.00pm - 5.00pm Thursday 14th June 9.30am - 5.00pm Friday 15th June 9.30am - 5.00pm Saturday 16th June 9.30am - 5.00pm Sunday 17th June 9.30am - 4.00pm

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Cameron Rd.

CASH & CARRY Local artwork at reasonable prices.

The Weekend Sun has two double passes to see Blithe Spirit on June 20 for two lucky readers who can tell us who what Charles’ first wife’s name was.

Enter online at: www.sunlive.co.nz under the competition section.

Entries must be received by Tuesday, June 12.

PROUDLY SPONSORED BY :

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Blithe Spirit is Noel Coward’s brilliant smash hit supernatural comedy. Charles Condomine, whose first wife Elvira has been dead for seven years, is now happily married to Ruth and is writing a sceptical novel about the supernatural.

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Saturday 9 June

LOL Laughter Wellness

Antony Warnes/The Incubator

Short Story competition.

Artist Antony Warnes short story of how people may have engaged or been part of an Incubator experience. Win an original Warnes painting. Everyday until 1 Aug.

At Zee Market we...

Always have something different from the last, come along and find out what it is today, 169 Elizabeth Street 10am-2pm, DON`T MISS OUT!

Beth-El Messianic Family

Celebrate Family life with believers who meet and worship as Yeshua (Jesus) & all the early believers did. 10am Otumoetai Primary. www.BethEl.org. nz, Joel 021 768 043

Bowl Felting Workshop

Learn to hand felt your own unique bowl from wool & silk fibres. Sat 23 June, 11am-3pm, Tauranga. www.carolineburton.co.nz to book

Cards

500. Interested? Flexible evenings to suit. Ideal for central Tauranga & Mount residents. Ph Chris 572 3834

Dragon Boating

Give It A Go paddling sessions held weekly.

Sat 8am, Sulphur Point.

RSVP by Text to Brooke 022 078 2308 for an info pack.

Family Fun Magic Show

Magic Show Fundraiser, 2x shows today 2pm & Sun 2pm, Otumoetai College, Tauranga. Tickets purchased Eves Offices & Eventfinder.

Refreshments available.

Genealogy Informal Group

Just the weather for family research.

1:30pm, 92 Haukore St, Hairini. $2 incl cuppa. Sue 544 1751

Glaucoma NZ Tauranga

Support group meeting for those living with glaucoma, held on the 1st Saturday of every month. For more info. taurangaglaucoma@gmail.com 07 549 5776

Incubator Jam Factory

This Way North, music gig Indie Rock alternative pop duo touring from Melbourne, Australia. $15 door sales 3pm 9 June. Local support act -Airs & Disgraces

Katikati Bowling Club

8 Park Road. 12:45-3pm. Ph Phil Green 549 5344

Katikati Lions Moggies Market

Katikati Memorial Hall, Main Road 8am-Noon. Enquiries 549 3589

Keynotes Inc.

Keynotes 4-part harmony Women’s Chorus Meet Thursday 7pm @ Wesley Church 13th Ave. Singing for fun & health. Ph Nora 544 2714

Knit With Us!

World Knit in Public day/Learn to knit - introduction to knitting with the Papamoa Sunset Women’s Institute Driftwood Room, Gordon Spratt Reserve Clubrooms, Papamoa 10am-noon.

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Blast away the winter chills with laughter. Arataki Community Ctr, Zambuk Way, Mt Maunganui 11-11:45am. Koha. Ph Trish 022 036 6768 or lollaughterwellness@ gmail.com

Mount Maunganui Sequence Dance

Dance. Tonight 7:30pm-10:30pm, Sheldons Dance band. Lovely supper.

Arataki Community Centre, Bayfair.

Entrance $7, Organiser Mount Maunganui Scottish Society, Ph Erica 576 0578

Neighbourhood Support

Start a Neighbourhood Support group in your street. Neighbourhood Support will help you to do it. Ph 0800 463 444 or for local contacts: www.wbopns.org.nz

Otumoetai Tennis Club

Adult tennis. Start time 1pm. Bellevue Park, Windsor Road (next to swimming pool complex.) New players & visitors welcome. Coaching available. Ph Fred 544 5088

Petanque

At Club Mt Maunganui, Blake Park, Kawaka St. Tuesdays and Saturdays 1pm. All very welcome to try us out.

Learn a new sport. Ph Jo Ann 578 3606

Sunshine Sequence Dance Group

Come and enjoy tea/dance. Sat June 30. Baptist Church Hall, 13th Avenue.

5-9pm. $5pp. BYO food, plates, cutlery, non alcoholic drinks. Jan 544 4379

Synchronised Swimming

Tauranga Synchro is a friendly synchronised swimming club based at Baywave. Beginners train Sat mornings.

First lesson free. Ph Jo 027 543 1697, info@taurangasynchro.co.nz, www.taurangasynchro.co.nz

Tauranga Floral Art Group

Monthly meetings today & Wed 13th, Baptist Church Hall. Ph Ruth 543 2157

Tauranga Senior Citizens’ Club

CARDS 500 Mon & Thurs.

INDOOR BOWLS Tues/Wed/Sat. 14 Norris St.(behind PaknSave)12:45pm for 1pm start. Entry $2 includes afternoon tea. New members welcome.

The Edge Sculpture Exhibition

The People’s Gallery, Toi ka rere. Art Exhibition, free. Sculptural work from 16 western Bay of Plenty artists. An extraordinary event! Everyday until 12 June

The Sociables

Females and males 30’s/40’s & 50’s age group, meeting once a week to socialise by dining out or participating in local activities. Ph 022 012 0376

Village Radio Museum

Community Radio broadcasting nostalgic music & Community Notices seven days on 1368 KHz AM Band. Radio Museum open from 10am. Request line 571 3710

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Sunday 10 June Bible Seminar

1:45pm Greerton Senior Citizen’s Hall, Maitland St, Greerton. Title: Prophecies of Jesus - lessons for us. Interactive, Q&A. All welcome. Vic 543 0504

BOP Oodle Club

Socialise your dog and meet other dog lovers! Meets first Sunday of each month from 2-3pm at Fergusson Park (Beach Road end). All breeds welcome.

Cliff Road Petanque

Join us for social games on Sunday & Thursdays at 1pm. Beginners welcome.

No joining fees. Need new players. Fresh air guaranteed!

Croquet

Croquet at Tauranga Domain, Cameron Rd, Sun, Tues, Fri 12.45 for 1pm start. Beginners welcome. Peter 571 0633

Farmers Market - Mount Mainstreet

Held every Sunday 9-1pm rain or shine! Right in the middle of Mount Mainstreet at Coronation Park, Maunganui. www.mountmainstreet.nz

Golden Oldies Rugby

Golden Oldies rugby needs you.

Tauranga Old Stars needs new players.

For fun games, post match celebrations & social activities email taurangaoldstars@gmail.com for more info

Home Hosting & Travel

Go to thefriendshipforce.org or attend one of our meetings or coffee mornings to learn more about Friendship Forces home hosting program. Ph 022 011 4776

NZDA BOP Range Day

NZDA BOP branch run public open days last Sunday each month at their 300m range in TECT All Terrain Park.

9am-3pm $20 bring firearms licence

Omokoroa Lions Market

Western Ave Car Park, Omokoroa.

9am-noon. Bookings not required. Ph Keith 548 2117

Papamoa Lions Club Market

Gordon Spratt Reserve, Parton Rd, Papamoa. Gates open 7am for stall holder entry. Wayne 027 974 5699

Quakers in Tauranga

In hall behind Brain Watkins House, cnr Elizabeth/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

varies each week. Ph Sue 021 925 971 or see facebook.

Tauranga Organ Keyboard Society

Meets 1:30pm at Carmel Country Estate Social Centre, 11 Hollister Lane, Ohauiti. Play or listen. Organ EL900 or Clavinova 405. Ph June 574 2204

Monday 11 June Age Concern Cards 500

Every Monday except Public Holidays 9:30-11:30am at Age Concern Office, 177a Fraser Street. $2 donation.

Ph 578 2631

Aglow Mt Maunganui

Our President Sharron, has a powerful & relevant word for us. Come & be encouraged.

Tonight, 7pm, St Andrews Church, Mt Maunganui.

Alcoholics Anonymous

Open Meeting 10am Tauranga Central Bapist Church . 13th Ave/Cameron Rd. All welcome. Ph 0800 229 6757

Badminton Club, Aquinas College

Tauranga Badminton Mondays 7:309:30pm. Aquinas College Events Centre.

Seniors & Year 9 upwards. Casual players welcome. $8 pp. Club racquets available.

Ph/text Sue 021 194 4335 www.sporty/ taurangabadmintonclub.co.nz

Bethlehem Indoor Bowls

Meets in Bethlehem Hall every Monday night. 7:30pm start. Names in by 7:15pm. New members of all ages welcome. Ph John 027 654 1298

Recycled Teenagers Gentle Exercise

Mon & Wed 14 Norris St. 9:15am10.45am. Tues. St. Marys Hall Cnr. Girven Rd & Marlin St. 9am-10:30am.

Ph Jennifer 571 1411

Scottish Country Dancing

For Fun Fitness & Friendship. Monday 1-3pm. St Peters Church Beach Road Katikati. Ph Douglas 07 548 1997

Sequence Dancing To Enjoy

Come with a partner to the Norris St Hall Monday & Wednesday 7-10pm & enjoy dancing & making friends.

Learners & rusty ones welcome. www.sequencedancing.org.nz

Silver Singers

Require soprano & bass voices for their choir.

Practices are on Mondays at St Stephens Church, Brookfield Tce. Pat 579 1036

Tauranga Civic Choir

Choir practice 7:30pm Wesley Church, 13th Ave, Ta uranga. Enquiries welcome. Ph Heather 575 9092. For info visit taurangacivicchoir.org.nz

Tauranga Creative Fibre

Chess at Mount Maunganui

Tauranga Gem & Mineral Club

Mount RSA Chess Club every Mon, 544 Maunganui Rd. 6-7:30pm during school term. Late program 7:30pm onwards. Standard rules. Incl casual games. Noel 579 5412

Greerton Garden Club

Meets 2nd Monday of each month at St. James Church, Cnr Pooles Road & Devon Road, Greerton at 1 pm. Visitors welcome. Ph 5779749

Indoor Bowling

St Columba Indoor Bowling Club, 502 Otumoetai Rd, Cherrywood. All playing levels are welcome. 7:30pm start, names in by 7:15pm. Ph Paul 576 6324

Meditation

2pm at Brain Watkins Cottage Hall.

Speaker Beth Bowden, Te Puna Quarry Park

Are you interested in taking back control of your type two diabetes?

Meet DESMOND. Free. INFOLine 07 571 3422

Walk around Mount Maunganui. Meet outside Coffee Club front of Bayfair shops 8am. 18km walk. Starting point

Papamoa Genealogy Branch

2.0 2.1 2.1 2.1 2.1

Papamoa Residents Ratepayers Meeting 7:30 pm. NOTE DIFFERENT VENUE! Legacy Gardens, Te Okuroa Drive. Speaker Jordan Williams, Taxpayers Union, & TCC.

Every Monday 9:30am. Also 2nd & 4th Thursday 7pm. Learn & share spinning, weaving, knitting, felting, crochet & more. 177 Elizabeth St. Ph Margaret 571 3483

For over 50s. Mon & Fri Greerton Hall, Tues Tauranga Senior Citizens Norris St, Wed Bethlehem hall. 9:15am.

Dianne 027 431 4326 or 576 5031

Free classes,10am Monday in Bellevue.

Stop those thoughts, find the joy of life.

Awaken your ‘spirit’. For info Ph David or Trisha on 570 1204

Tauranga Long Walks Group

Papamoa Residents Ratepayers

Body+Soul Fitness

Sundays & Thursdays 1:30pm, in pond behind 24 Montego Drive Papamoa, sailing Electron Yachts for fun. Adult beginners welcome. Graham 572 5419

Tauranga Historical Society

$10 door charge. Coffee & tea provided.

Please bring your own lunch. Contact Betty 027 447 5448

Meet Desmond

Meet in the Tohora Room, Papamoa Community Centre 9.30am-2.00pm.

Second Monday of every month. Juniors 6pm, Seniors 7:30pm, Clubrooms, Historic Village, 17th Ave West.

Come & check it out. Ph Bryce 027 695 0606 or www.tgmclub.com

Tauranga Rocknroll Club

Lessons and Social Evening of dancing Mondays at Legion of Frontiersman Hall 165 Elizabeth Street. For enquires, phone Malcolm 0275927240 or view www.taurangarocknrollclub.org.nz

Tauranga Senior Citizens Club

CARDS 500 Mon & Thurs.

INDOOR BOWLS Tues, Wed & Sat. 14 Norris St. (behind PaknSave) 12:45pm for 1pm start.Entry $2 includes afternoon tea. New members welcome.

Theosophical Society Study Group

This Tauranga group meets every second Monday. Phone Colleen 5760165 or Joan 021 465 626

Walk For Wellness

Free walking group for people with cancer & their supporters.

Departs 9:30am from the green toilets halfway along Pilot Bay. Cancer Society 07 571 2035

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THE WEEKEND SUN Zonta Tauranga Womens’ Organisation

Warmly welcomes other like minded women, meet new friends championing rights of women & girls in our community.

Get togethers, dinners/speakers.

Suzy 021 266 5044

Tuesday 12 June

ABC - Avenues Badminton Club

Every Tues at Tauranga Boys College Gym. Juniors 6-7:30pm (term time).

Seniors (Adults) 7:30-9:30pm.

Club racquets available. Delwyn 027 212 4720

Alcoholics Anonymous

Open meeting 7:30-8:30pm, St Peters Anglican Church. 11 Victoria Rd Mt. All Welcome. Ph 0800 229 6757

Beginner Social Dance Class

Tues 6pm, Tauranga Primary School Hall, 5th Ave, or Thursday 8pm, Greerton Hall, 1247 Cameron Rd (opp Caltex). Ph 027 322 1786 Sonia

Cards

500. Interested? Flexible evenings to suit. Ideal for central Tauranga & Mount residents. Ph Chris 572 3834

Cards 500

Mount Senior Citizens Hall, 345 Maunganui Rd. Tues & Thurs 12:30pm. Ph Jack 575 7719

Crafty Craft Group

Every Tuesday term time 9am -11am.

Saint Peters Church Spring street.

Bring own craft or learn a new one.

Shelly 022 3415 082

Falun Dafa Free Classes

Manage stress & anxiety with easy exercises & meditation. 7pm Hillier Centre, 31 Gloucester Rd, Bayfair. Ph/ text Judy 021 0425 398

Fitness League

Ladies exercise with weights, floor work, stretching, dance. Make friends & enjoy. St Columba Church, 502 Otumoetai Rd, Cherrywood. 9:3010:30am. Ph Gloria 021 139 2448

Freshmoves 2018 “Because”

Dance show

by BOP Dance.

Tonight & Wed 7pm. Addison Theatre. For more info go to www. baycourt.co.nz

Inachord Women’s Chorus

We welcome new members. Multi genre music. 3 weeks free trial. Lots of fun. Bethlehem Community Church 183 Moffat Rd. 7-9pm. Ph Sabine 021 111 8659

Meet DESMOND

Would you like to better manage your type two diabetes? Meet DESMOND. www.diabeteshelp.org.nz

Morning Prayer

Tuesday-Friday every week 8:30-9am, at 53 Te Okuroa Drive Papamoa. Julie 0274 205 375 or visit: http://www.com-

munityofstaidan.com/

Mount Morning Badminton

9-11:30am. Mt Sports Centre, Blake Park. Social, all ages, racquets available, beginners welcome. $5 per day. Ph Margaret 575 9792

Mt Runners & Walkers

Our running & walking groups meet at the Scout Hall on May St every Tuesday & Friday. Leaving at 9:30am & back by 10:30am. www.mtrunnersandwalkers. co.nz

Otumoetai Lions Club

Otumoetai Lions Club meet every first & third Tuesday of the month at Daniels in the Park, Memorial Park.

All welcome. Please ph 579 3839

Otumoetai Tennis Club

Midweek Tennis Tues & Thurs. Start time 9am. Bellevue Park, Windsor Road (next to Swimming Pool Complex). New players & visitors welcome. Ph Pam 570 0302

Otumoetai Walking Group

Meet at 9am at Kulim Park. Ph Jim 576 7339

Scrabble

Free Diabetes Support

Meet at Tauranga Bridge Club, Otumoetai Rd, 8:50am. All very welcome. Ph 544 8372

Speak to our Registered Diabetes Nurse about your diabetes INFOline Mon-Thurs 07 571 3422

Sequence Dancing

Gate Pa Indoor Bowls

Tauranga Social & Leisure Club, St John Anglican Church Hall, 94 Bureta Road Otumoetai. Tues 7pm-9:30pm except 2nd Tues each month 3:30pm6pm. Faye 543 3280

South City Indoor Bowls

12th June 7:30pm Club Night

Tauranga Acoustic Music Club

Greerton RSA 7pm.

Friendly get-together, all instruments, all levels of ability. Come in & enjoy some live music. Grant 578 6448

Tauranga Astronomical Society

Jupiter, destroyer or saviour. A presentation tonight discusses many details about this fascinating planet.

Telescope viewing weather dependent.

Fergusson Park Observatory 7:30

Tauranga Morning Badminton

Every Tues & Thurs 9-11:30am at QE2 Centre. Racquets available, all welcome. Ph Rachael 0274 462 959

Tauranga Samba Brazilian Drumming

Percussion band. 7:15-9:15pm.

Mount Sports Centre, cnr Hull & Maunganui Rds. No experience reqd.

Ph Rob 021 232 7185

Tauranga Target Rifle Club

Shooting Tue night 7pm.

Range 165 Elizabeth St West. All enquires 07 578 0098

Tauranga UFO & Paranormal

Monthly meeting 7:30pm in Tga Senior Citizens Hall, 14 Norris St (use rear entry). All welcome. Door $4 incl light supper. Ph Ian 544 2811

Welcome Bay Lions Club

Meet every 2nd Tues monthly, Greenwood Park Village, Welcome Bay Rd. Dinner meeting 2nd Tuesday of month. Business meeting 4th Tuesday of month. Graham 544 8625

Yoga For All

Welcome Bay Community Centre, 6:30-8pm. Traditional, relaxing Yoga class. Beginners welcome. $12 one or $90 nine classes. Bring a mat. Info: Bhajan 07 929 7484

Wednesday 13 June Age Concern Walking Group

13th 10am Bus to Palm Springs, Papamoa

Bowls Indoor

Mount Senior Citizens Hall, 345 Maunganui Rd. Names in 12:45pm.

Bring a friend to see if you like it. Ph Nancy 575 4650

Bromeliad Club Meeting

12:30-2:30 Yacht Club, Sulphur Point. Speaker Diane Timmins, president BSNZ, on Andrew Maloy’s vrieseas. Sales plants available. Monthly plant large vrieseas. Visitors welcome Good sales table.

CAP Money Course

A revolutionary FREE money management course that teaches budgeting skills with a simple system that really works. Wed & Thurs. For info Carlene 021 241 3671

Cards

Do you play crib or would like to learn? Every Weds at Greerton RSA 1pm sharp. Ph Michael 562 0517

Community Bible Study

Join us @ City Church 252 Otumoetai Road, 7-9pm for a Study on the Book of Acts until 1st November. Ph Julie 552 4068

Fitness League

Exercise, Movement, Dance suitable for all ages, 10am, Katikati Memorial Hall, Main Rd. Complimentary first class. Ph Pam 549 4799 or 021 117 7170

Fernland Spa Water Exercise

Gentle exercise in the warm mineral water. 11am-noon. Suitable for arthritics, accident & illness rehabilitation.

New participants. Ph Jennifer 571 1411. Not school holidays.

13 June Club Night 7:30pm

Healing Rooms 1-3pm

Mainly Music

Music & dance for preschoolers, Mums & carers. $3 per family. Morning tea provided. 9:30-10am. Holy Trinity Church, 215 Devonport Rd.

Meditation

Ph Mike Oldfield 926 9198 for details

Tauranga Porcelain Artists

Meet 9am-12pm at Elizabeth Street West.

Beginners welcome. Ph Lynne 549 0847 027 222 3627

Toastmasters City Early Start

Improve communication leadership teamwork skills join motivated enthusiastic group Classic Flyers Avgas Cafe 6.50-8.15am email LaniDTM@gmail.com www.cityearlystart.co.nz and FB

Come & experience God’s healing touch, whether physical, emotional, spiritual. Above Graced Oppshop, cnr 11Ave, Christopher St. No charge. Ph 021 110 0878 www.healingrooms.co.nz

Free classes 7:30pm Thursdays in Bellevue. Stop those thoughts. Find the Joy of Life. Awaken your Spirit. Ph David or Trisha on 570 1204

Katikati Bowling Club

Would you like to better manage your type two diabetes? Meet DESMOND. Contact us for details

Friday 15 June

Meet The Missioner

Dirty Dusting to 30 June 7:30pm Three elderly cleaning ladies start a telephone sex line. Hilarious but some content may offend. Book iTicket or online.

8 Park Road. Mixed Roll-ups 12:453pm. Ph Phil Green 549 5344

Mt Spiritual & Healing Centre

Mt Spiritual&Healing Centre every 1st and 3rd Wednesday start 7.30 Bowling Club, Golf Road. See events coming on face book.

Ph Sue Buckland 572 4911

NPGHS Old Girl’s AGM

Today at 11am, Raft Cafe, Chapel Street, Tauranga Enquiries: Margaret 549 1124

Scottish Country Dancing

Mount Senior Citizens Hall, 345 Maunganui Rd. Beginners 6pm, general dancing 7:30pm. Ph Mary 574 8687 Lynne 021 140 7912

Table Tennis Tauranga

Memorial hall QEYC 11th Ave. Wed 12:45-3pm, social mixed doubles 7:309:30 club night. Roy 578 7800. Thur 1-3pm social singles, doubles 3:30-6:45 Juniors 7-9pm club night. New players welcome. Paul 021 884 021

Tauranga Embroiderers’ Guild

Meets every Wednesday at Tauranga Rowing Club, Devonport Road, Tauranga 10am-2:30pm, 7:30pm-9:30pm. Beginners very welcome. Ph Jenny Williams 07 219 7740

Tauranga MidWeek Tramping Group

Otanewainuku North Ridge to Reservior. Grade moderate.

Sheryl 5743743

Tauranga Lawn Tennis Club

Midweek ladies Wednesdays 9-11 Tauranga lawn, Tauranga Domain, Cameron Road. Players welcome to join organised doubles. All abilities, all ages. Followed by morning tea (first visit free)

Tauranga Long Walks Group

Walk around Papamoa. Meet outside McDonalds Papamoa shops 9am. 10km walk. Starting point varies each week. For details ph. Sue 021 925 971 or see facebook

Thursday 14 June Bay City Rockers

Social RocknRoll Dancing including Rnr Waltz, Neon Moon.Thursdays at Senior Citizens Hall, Norris St. 7-9:30pm. $3 entry includes supper.

Gavin 027 643 6222

CAP Money Course

A revolutionary FREE money management course that teaches budgeting skills with a simple system that really works. For info ph Carlene 021 241 3671

Community Bible Study

Join us @ 14th Avenue Gospel Centre 10-12pm, for Study on the Book of Acts until 8th November. Ph Gay 021 225 5981

Computer Lessons

At Papamoa Library.

Learn to use your computer, iPad, mobile phone & other devices Book an individual lesson with our Tutor. Ph 577 7177

Fitness League

Exercise, movement, dance. 10am, Central Baptist church, 13th Ave & Cameron Rd. Complimentary first class. Ph Pam 549 4799 or 021 117 7170

Katikati Bowling Club

8 Park Rd Rummikub 1-4pm, $3 entry. Phil Green 549 5344

Katikati Fairview Golf Club

Men’s Vets Nine Hole Golf Thurs 8:30am Tee off. New Players are welcome. Ph Stewart 021 978 650

Meet DESMOND

Discuss any topic that is important to you. First 4 receive a free coffee. 11-12pm at Gana Cafe Papamoa. Julie 0274 205 375 http://www.communityofstaidan.com/

Social Rock’n Roll Dancing

Including RnR Waltz, Neon Moon.

Thursdays at Senior Citizens Hall, Norris St. 7-9:30pm. $3 entry includes supper.

Gavin 027 643 6222

Spiritual Study Psychic Craft

Psychic Medium Kevin Reed runs Spiritual Development Meditation & Psychic Craft Open Group every Thurs evening. For details ph Kevin 578 7205 or email: kevinreednz@gmail.com

Square Dance Fun

New dancer class now, see Facebook Orange City Squares & Rounds. Enjoy music movement laughter, details 577 1100 or 578 6516. Frontiersmen’s Hall, Elizabeth St

Sunshine Sequence Dance Group

Learn dancing at a friendly club. Baptist Church Hall,13th Avenue, 7pm-9:30pm. $2pp includes supper. Jan 544 4379

Tai Chi in the Park

Memorial Park next to Mini Golf on 11th Ave. No charge. 9:30am

16th Avenue Theatre

Alcoholics Anonymous

Open meeting, 10am Tauranga Central Bapist Church, cnr 13th Ave & Cameron Rd. All welcome. Ph 0800 229 6757

Arataki Artists Group

Every Friday morning 9am-12pm at Arataki Community Centre. Occasional tuition with local artists. Paint with friends.

All levels welcome. Ph Chrissy 572 0818

Chess Tauranga

Tauranga RSA Chess Club, Greerton 5-7pm, Casual & Standard length games. Ph Werner 548 1111 http:/www. westernbopchess.weebly.com/

Greerton Indoor Bowling Club

Yatton St, Greerton. Names in by 7:15pm for 7:30pm start. 15th June Noel Johnson Box Drawn Fours

Taoist Tai Chi Relaxed-Balanced-Strong

Beginners classes today: Tauranga: 15 Koromiko Street, Judea, 9-10am.

Papamoa: 242 Dickson Road, 9-10:30am.

Memberships from $19 month. Great for stress, suitable for all. Ph 578 6193

Taoist Tai Chi Relaxed-Balanced-Strong

Beginners classes today: Tauranga: 15 Koromiko Street, Judea, 1-2:30pm. Mount Maunganui: 345 Maunganui Road, 6:157:45pm Katikati: Memorial Hall, 5:307pm. Memberships from $19 month. All welcome. Ph 578 6193

Tauranga Model Railway Club

Meets every Thurs at 7:30pm cnr Mirrielees Rd & Cross Rd.

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Roof painting – ‘it’s all in the preparation’ Anyone can paint a roof, but Shane from Impact Roof Maintenance has 20 years’ worth of roof painting experience and he knows just how important preparation is.

He cleans and carries out all of the necessary repairs before painting a roof. Why is preparation so important? That’s easy – the results last much longer!

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“I specialise in general roof repairs and maintenance,” says Shane, “including de-nailing and re-screwing, replacing damaged or rusted sheets and repairs to flashings, including chimney flashings and repointing.”

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book sale BOOKS WANTED FOR Tauranga Harbour City Lions.

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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 FREE ON SITE DIAGNOSIS & quote. We come to you.

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livestock AC PETFOODS collect injured & unwanted cows & horses. Ph 0800 369 6269

lost & found FOUND KITTENS & PUPPIES Various Colours, Various Sex, Various Areas, PH SPCA. Found Adult Torti/White Female Cat, Katikati Area, Ref: 127310, PH SPCA. Found Adult Black/White Female Cat, Mount Maunganui Area, Ref: 127197, PH SPCA 07 578 0245

trades & services 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 CLEANERS AVAILABLE Two mature ladies looking for regular weekly cleaning work.

Trustworthy, reliable, professional service. Ph Jacqui 021 0423 847 or Kath 021 0479 552 ELECTRICIAN, 18+ years experience, NZ registered.

Residential & commercial, maintenance & service, new builds, renovations. Fast, friendly service. Ph Andrew 022 354 1960 PAINTER/DECORATOR Interior & exterior. Quality workmanship, friendly service. Over 25 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

GARDENER 4U, hand weeding, reliable & experienced. Papamoa & the Mount. Phone Shiralee 021 043 8772

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HOME & GARDEN SERVICES Tree pruning, weeding, hedges, waterblasting, home maintenance, rubbish removal, affordable rates. Ph Philip 027 655 4265 or 544 5591

ROOF REPAIRS Free quotes for all maintenance of leaking roofs, gutter cleaning & repairs.

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Registered roofer, 30yrs exp. Ph Peter 542 4291 or 027 436 7740

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

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(Tour 3 – Two night’s stay at Stunning Chateau Tongariro... mid Christmas Dinner); (Tour 4 – Bay of Islands & Northland) (Tour 5 – WOW in Wellington, the best Premium Tickets…..almost booked out)….Plus much much more…. Door to Door service.

Email: info@hinterlandtours. co.nz Phone HINTERLAND TOURS TEAM 07 575 8118 NO 8 TOURS NEW ZEALAND’S SENIOR TRAVEL CLUB – Join our Club today for Free to receive all our VIP Members Benefits exclusive to No 8 Tours. (1) June 15th; Faulty Towers show & lunch (private function) (2) June 24th;Sister Act Show, Hamilton.

(3) September; 3rd- 6th Tranz Alpine – SOLD OUT (4) September 10th-13th Tranz Alpine-2nd Tour. (5) October 4th -7th Wearable Arts Show-Seats limited. Free Door to Door service. Day Trips, Shows & Free beautiful colour catalogue: BOOK NOW:Ph. No 8 Tours team on 579 3981 or Email info@no8tours.co.nz #Zealandiertours.com – Invites you to join us on 27th June – A days little outing with a difference – Come see, touch, smell & learn. Mohair is one of the oldest textile fibres in use! The Angora goat is thought to originate from the mountains of Tibet, and we are going to visit them here in the Bay. Book your seat today - Ph Jan 572 4118. #Zealandiertours.com – 3 spaces for World of WearableArts tour – Sept 29thth – includes train journey to Wellington – door to door service – sit back & relax contact Jan Zealandier Tours 572 4118 email: admin@ zealandiertours.com

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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

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Job hunting tips for 2018 The outlook for job seekers in Tauranga for 2018 is especially optimistic.

There is a real candidate-short market, with skills shortages across many industries. Although more white collar work is a little harder to come by, those in construction, engineering, transport, warehouse and logistics and food manufacturing are buoyant.

There are numerous ways to improve your chances of ďŹ nding a job.

1. Organised job hunting - When applying for multiple jobs, it is crucial that job seekers remain organised. To accomplish this, many job seekers turn to online applications and recruiting websites. These applications allow job seekers to store their job documents online, receive job alerts, and organise interviews.

2. Timing your job hunting - If considering a new job, it is vital that job seekers give themselves ample time on the market. Application and interview processes can take months, meaning job seekers should begin the process as soon as possible if looking for a job in the new year.

Jobseekers should also bear in mind their notice period, allowing four weeks from handing that in.

3. Think local - When searching for jobs, it is important for a job seeker to consider the location of a job. If the work is in Te Puke and you live in The Lakes are you able to get to work daily?

Find more tips at: www.goodwork.co.nz

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