The Weekend Sun - 16 November 2018

16 November 2018, Issue 934

USA in the Bay Photo: Nikki South

American cars of all shapes, sizes and ages will be on display at Classic Flyers in Mount Maunganui this weekend – and if Ford Mustangs are your thing, then you’re in luck. Members of the Bay of Plenty Mustang Owners Club will be out in force on Sunday as All USA Day returns to the Jean Batten Drive museum.

And they will roll out the classics, including John Hepburn’s 1967 Notchback and David and Vanessa Thomson’s eyecatching 1971 Mach 1 (pictured).

The iconic Mustang has gained legendary status among enthusiasts over the years, and in the case of 80-year-old club

member John, the Ford favourite represents an emotional attachment that goes back over 50 years.

To read more about the club’s big day out, and for information on the array of other vehicles scheduled to make an appearance this weekend, turn to page 42.

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These days of weird world wonders These days, many things are not what they seem and things have changed.

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What once would have been considered very odd, is now commonplace.

Even compared to 18 years ago, when I started writing this column, the world has become a more complex place.

I guess every generation thinks that, from cavemen onwards. And the moment you catch yourself musing that, or saying it out loud, you are immediately identified as An Old Person.

For starters, it’s inappropriate to actually talk of cavemen - they are more correctly referred to as gender-irrelevant persons with subterranean dwelling preferences.

And rightly so.

Even the pictures on the wall of the cave illustrate this. You can clearly see there’s male cave people and female cave people and some indeterminate characters.

There are some stick figures depicting gender re-assignment and others that look like the result of a nasty accident at the mammoth riding rodeo.

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The song about a Boy Called Sue is no longer politically correct. By the time you read this, a Girl called Sue will probably be too specific to mention and it could all end up in court. Sue will sue.

Meat isn’t necessarily from animals, and just because the Americans have pictures of men (persons) on the moon doesn’t mean they actually walked on it.

And speaking of dastardly meat, I heard a story this week that the volunteers at an SPCA fundraiser sizzle served vegetarian sausages, because some PC do-good customers whinged that real meat was perceived to be cruel to animals and therefore against the principles of the organisation.

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Now the latest weird world wonder: fillets that don’t contain any fish.

An observant reader in Countdown Papamoa forwarded these revealing photos recently… Fishless Filets, tender and flaky in

a light golden batter. The photo was taken with a telephone. Even that was unheard of a couple of decades ago, yet oddly enough, no-one has invented a camera with a telephone in it.

That I know of.

Once it was a big deal to own a scooter. Now, they’re lying around the streets for anyone to use. Prospective riders simply wave their phones (or was that a camera?) over them, they bounce into life and voila, as they say in Remuera, you have an instant scooter.

Better than that, you don’t risk ripping the strap out of your jandal, because they have magic motors inside. Gone are the days when you’d have to stand still on one leg and run like hell with the other leg to make the contraptions go.

that drive themselves. Ironically, this was not a problem for horsedrawn carts, because the horses knew their way home.

In fact every horse I have ever ridden has taken it upon itself to decide our course. My relatives all had these autonomous horses.

I’d give it instructions and it would go wherever it damn well pleased (if I’d been a cowboy, I would have ended up in the Wild, Wild East).

But the point here is that it’s taken car manufacturers about 100 years to catch up with technology that was naturally built in to the family nag.

Electric blue

Dates and mates

These days, everything is reliant on a screen, including these fancy new scooters.

Even people are reliant on screens.

In fact, the average person spends so much time staring at these artificial light sources that science people believe it is damaging our health.

Particularly nasty, they say, is the blue light emitted from artificial light sources, and as well as affecting the persons on the earth, it’s upsetting wildlife and the night sky. Heavens above, that will include the Person on the Moon.

Back in the day, the only blue light a person needed to watch out for was the local constable.

Apparently, the problem is that lights don’t have bulbs any more. They have lightemitting diodes, and these LED- gizmos emit a higher proportion of light energy at the blue end of the spectrum than other lamp devices.

Blurring the coastline

Boats used to be boats, and only drove in the water. Now, thanks to Sealegs, we have boats that drive on land.

I’m looking forward to the version that can also fly. That can’t be too far away.

Very soon, apparently, we will have cars

Finding a partner in the old days was quite a process – with the exception of the cavepersons, who simply knocked one on the head and dragged it home by the hair (which, I should point out, is not acceptable these days on several levels).

Some marriages, of course, were arranged by the parents to suit their political or economic aspirations.

Those who actually got to choose a spouse had to go through a romantic but sometimes exasperating ritual known as ‘courtship’.

It involved dance cards, church picnics, copious flowers and generally a lot of politeness.

These days, love is merely a click away on Tinder; or for the adventurous, the Animals Lost and Found website. You can organise a new partner on your telephone/camera, while riding a scooter to your lunch date of fishless fish and meatless sausages.

The wonders of the world!

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There are more men on Tinder than women, but women spend more time scrolling through the dating app. Users spend an average of 35 minutes on the app per session, and there are now more than 50 million users on Tinder.

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Katikati bypass

At least 10 years away

Not today, not tomorrow and not even next week. Not next month or even next year.

In fact the Katikati bypass, which townsfolk believed could be started as early as this year, has been mothballed for at least a decade.

The NZTA has told The Weekend Sun that a bypass is not considered an investment priority for the 2018-21 National Land Transport Programme, and construction, if required, will begin after 2028.

The agency will retain the land designated for the bypass, “which protects the route for future use.”

Their timeframe for the bypass has caught Coromandel National MP Scott Simpson unawares.

“It’s outrageous!” he says. “Katikati has good cause to feel really hurt by this news.” The MP says the decision will almost certainly have come as a result of a political direction from the new government.

Scott says he worked long and hard with the local community to get a firm commitment from the last National government that a bypass would be built, and built quickly. “For the new government to renege on that is shameful and speaks volumes about where they see their priorities.”

And in his opinion, those “pet priorities” are in Auckland. “The trams along Dominion Road and the train set from the CBD to Auckland airport they have put those priorities ahead of Western Bay of Plenty road users.”

The NZTA statement to The Weekend Sun was prompted by talk of ‘civil disobedience’ in Katikati, and a possible protest blocking traffic on SH2 at peak holiday time after it was learned the bypass

was on hold.

“If you spend decades trying to be heard, and you don’t ever appear to be heard, then you just may need to protest,” warned Jenny Hobbs, chair of the Katikati Community Board. And she questioned whether the NZTA board even got to consider the business case for the bypass.

The agency says the SH2 programme business case, including the Katikati Bypass, was considered as part of its re-evaluation process. As a result, the board “endorsed the direction to focus on prioritising safety”. For Katikati, that means it’ll pursue options other than the bypass to “improve livability and manage traffic through the township”.

“Balancing local traffic with state highway through-put remains the focus for Katikati,’ says the statement. “NZTA will work with partners and the community to develop an operational plan and undertake smaller improvements to manage seasonal peaks.” Scott Simpson, however, is disbelieving.

“Frankly, that’s an insult to Katikati and the Western Bay of Plenty,” he says. “These people (NZTA) are famous for driving desks and having shiny bottoms on their suit trousers – they have spent no time in the district.”

He invited NZTA and the Minister of Transport, Phil Twyford, to stand on the footpath down the main street of Katikati for ten or fifteen minutes during the summer peak to get a sense of the real physical problem that exists.

“And also to have the spine to come and get a sense of the utter frustration of local citizens to their delaying tactics.” Read more on this story at: www.theweekendsun.co.nz

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Greased Lightning in supermarket Laura Boucher cuts her own cloth – the newbie musical theatre director is not constrained by what has gone before her.

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More Air NZ flights for Tauranga Air New Zealand is set to increase capacity into and out of Tauranga, with extra flights between both Auckland and Wellington.

The airline will operate 10 additional one-way services a week between Tauranga and Auckland from April next year.

The additional flights will depart Auckland at 9.15am and return from Tauranga at 10.25am, Monday to Friday. A further 10 one-way services will also operate each week between Wellington and Tauranga from April 2019.

The Sunday to Thursday service will depart Wellington at 5pm and return to the capital from Tauranga at 6.45pm.

Bay of Plenty contractors fined Waiotahi Contractors have been fined $88,200 for allowing sediment contaminated stormwater to enter the Kaitemako Stream in Ohauiti.

The offending happened during a late summer rain event in February last year when, despite being warned about the oncoming downpour, an earthworks site they were managing near Ohauiti was overwhelmed and their sediment controls couldn’t cope.As a result, the disturbed soil was washed into waterways. Samples taken at the point it entered the stream were more than 60 times over the permitted level.

Rudd’s mansion up for grabs Former AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd is selling his waterfront mansion in Tauranga.

The house, which is technically two apartments, has been owned and occupied by Rudd for the past nine years, but now he’s “ready for something different”. The 64-year-old says he will stay in the region, but is looking to downsize.

In 2014 it was reported that property records suggested Rudd’s New Zealand portfolio and fleet of luxury vehicles alone are worth at least $8-10 million.The property in Bureta, Tauranga, is listed on Trademe with a rateable value of $4,050,000.

New codes for AIMS Games Anchor AIMS Games organisers have announced an exciting line-up for next year’s intermediate-aged tournament in Tauranga.

The 2019 event will feature a number of new events, taking the total number of sporting disciplines to 25. Among the new codes is mountain biking and the traditional Maori ball game ki-o-rahi, while basketball and rugby have mixed divisions added, in the form of 3x3 basketball and Rippa Rugby. A new canoe sports code has also been introduced.

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“I knew definitively that I wanted to use the song Greased Lightning in the show – it’s a classic,” says Laura.

In the enormously popular 1971 musical Grease, it’s John Travolta and his guys with slicked back hair and varicose vein-inducing tight trousers fawning over a beast of a car.

“Why, this is automatic,” the song goes. “It’s systematic, it’s hydromatic, why it’s greased lightning.”

For Tauranga Musical Theatre’s new production, Now That’s What I Call TMT, Boucher has lifted that song and transported it into a modern-day setting.

“We’re setting it in a supermarket,” she explains. “The boys are mucking about and talking to their supermarket trolleys in the same adoring way, as if they are the most amazing cars in the world – stroking and polishing, imagining it’s the car of their dreams.

“It’s hilarious, and one of my favourites from the show.”

If that doesn’t make Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, the original playwrights, a bit sniffy, it might rankle with some purists - the diehards who like their songs from musicals treated respectfully and in a traditional context.

“But one of the great things about musical theatre is the themes are universal,” says Laura. “They don’t need to be in their traditional show setting to mean something to people.

“The songs are eminently transportable.”

And Boucher - the former journalist who trained in the snake pit that is the Auckland women’s magazine industry before bringing her own distinctive entrepreneurial style to The Weekend Sun when she edited the newspaper - didn’t stop there.

She lifted Hey Big Spender, a song about

nightclub girls taunting the customers from the 1966 hit musical Sweet Charity, and dropped it into a modern day office setting.

But the man who walked in the joint, the man of distinction, the big spender, is now the CEO when he walks into the office.

“It’s totally tongue in cheek, of course, particularly in the current climate.

A hotrod becomes supermarket trolley for director Laura Boucher and musical director Callum Thorburn. Photo: Sharnae Hope.

“There’s no intent to offend.”

And of course Food, Glorious Food, from the show Oliver, now has a restaurant setting. Laura takes the gruel and creates drool.

“Diners in a restaurant are waiting for their food, and getting really impatient and dreaming about all the amazing things they are going to eat. It’s very funny.”

But what about the show? It’s a jukebox

musical - a stage compilation of songs from popular musicals.

“Musical director Callum Thorburn and I have selected some of the classics - Grease, Les Misérables, South Pacific, Oliver, Annie - and then some newer ones including Waitress, Hamilton and Be More Chill.”

In all, 22 songs are parachuted into six different ‘now’ settings – the office, restaurant, home, supermarket, school and, in the end, the show brings it all back home to the theatre greenroom.

Because Now That’s What I Call TMT is a celebration of more than 70 years’ of musicals at Tauranga Musical Theatre. The name is also a take on the Now CDs – the best-selling compilations of the latest chart hits, ‘Now That’s What I Call Music’.

It’s a theatre constantly evolving and pushing boundaries.

“We pride ourselves on that,” says the debut director. She may be edgy, but she also feels a mite vulnerable.

“The production is a cool, exciting but scary process. It’s so different to being on stage – it is scarier because my vision is on the line.”

All of the songs in the show with a very long name are upbeat and celebratory – “there’s no sad songs allowed” – and some really big, wellknown ensemble dance numbers, choreographed by Zoe Hunter, because those numbers showcase musical theatre.

Laura invites you to leave tired old perceptions and expectations at home.

“The heart of the music is still there, in an exciting and fun way,” she says.

She just wants people, at a busy time of year, to come along, know the songs, sing along and have a really enjoyable time.

Don’t think too hard about it.

Now That’s What I Call TMT is on at the Westside Theatre, 141 17th Avenue, for one week only from November 23 to December 1. Tickets are available via: www.iTicket.co.nz or: www.tmt.org.nz

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Oops! When is full too full?

In town hall parlance, it’s an “OOPS”.

And there are ten good reasons why you, as a ratepayer, will be “OOPS’d” and your blue recycling bin will be left, unemptied, on the kerbside.

Take the neighbour who sneaked a bin brimming with evidence of his excesses out to the road early on collection day, only to find it still there, unemptied, at the end of the day. “It’s embarrassing and annoying,” he said. “It doesn’t encourage recycling.”

He had been “OOPS’d” for an overfilled crate. Just four empty Krombacher 660s turned him from a responsible recycler to an abuser of the system.

“Thank you for your effort to recycle your glass,” said the yellow ‘OOPS!’ sticker left attached to the crate, “we could not empty your crate or had to leave some items behind due to overfilled crate. Please do not fill the crate past the top edge.”

operators, they are doing a good job,” he says. And he has plaudits for the council. “It’s done a good job of rolling the scheme out.”

Anecdotally, any complaints about the new service mainly concern non-collection. And the collection records tell us just one per cent of crates have been rejected due to overfilling or contamination from unclean glass receptacles.

“This indicates that the majority of residents are using the service well,” says the waste team.

“And we are collecting almost 100 per cent of glass presented for recycling.”

What is considered too full?

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But when is a filled bin too full? When it’s a few bottles beyond the top edge. Even just a few bottles in an over-filled crate can fall out and smash as the bin is being lifted for emptying in the truck.

So rejecting bins because of a few bottles is not being Full bin walk of shame petty or pedantic. The waste team says “it protects While neighbours recovered their upturned, empty collectors, pedestrians, cyclists and residents using bins, the “OOPS’d” one had to slink out and recover kerbsides, footpaths and roads from broken glass.” his still full bin of shame.

What about bigger crates collected more often?

The yellow sticker also A once-a-week collection suggested that if he had too would probably make the much glass to fit in the crate, scheme twice as expensive for he could take it to one of the ratepayer.

Tauranga’s transfer stations, And the bin size has been or save it for the next selected to maximise the scheduled glass collection day. amount of glass that can be Across town, another collected, yet still be easy disgruntled recycler had given enough for the average person up. His blue bin was full after to lift when it’s full. just one week. He decided It is also the optimum size his glass was going into his for the glass collectors to lift wheelie bin and over the and they have to do it many Kaimai Range to a landfill. times every day. The size is Not exactly in the spirit the New Zealand standard Bins deemed ‘too full’ have been left of recycling and exactly size for residential properties on the kerbside. not what the city’s waste and has worked well for other team advocates. “We urge residents not to resort to councils. Some say it’s too big, other’s too small. putting their glass in their rubbish bin as it won’t be But it seems it meets the needs of the majority of recycled,” they say. residents.There’s also the option of a second crate, And it seems the city is listening. The new glass which comes in at $26 for the year. recycling service is in just its second month, is well Marty Hoffart has yet another option - a deposit utilised by the community according to the city scheme.

“If we had a 10 cent or 20 cent deposit on waste team, and is working well operationally. beverage containers like most of Australia, most of There’s even some independent endorsement. these issues would not be issues as people would take Waste minimisation consultant, Marty Hoffart, is them back to a bottle return depot to be redeemed.” upbeat. “Smart (the recycling contractors) are good

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Showcasing young musical talent It’s a show that teaches children all about different cultures and musical genres within New Zealand.

The Greenpark Cultural Concert will showcase performances from a range of different cultures, such as Maori, Pasifika and Indian.

The performances will include Years 3-6 choirs, an orchestra, and ukulele and recorder groups, as well as a Year 3 cheerleading team, Year 4 and Year 6 hip hop and Jump Jam teams.

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More than 20 years of school holiday fun is one of the many things that will be celebrated at the Katikati Community Centre’s anniversary celebrations on November 24.

If only the walls could talk.

There’s been a lot of laughs and a lot of learning at Katikati Community Centre over the past 25 years, and the community will come together later this month to celebrate.

The centre opened in 1993 and was initially staffed by volunteers, providing rooms for visiting health professionals, social service providers and voluntary support groups.

Chris Ridder took on the manager’s role in 1995 and added a vast array of services and programmes, including an information service, school holiday programmes, an afterschool programme, adult and community education and

pregnancy and parenting classes.

“It was always about community and the people,” says Chris, “and what we as a team could bring to our isolated community that would make a difference.”

Special events over the years have included health and wellbeing expos and parenting seminars.

A visit from social justice advocate Celia Lashlie, author of ‘He’ll be OK: Growing Gorgeous Boys into Good Men’, attracted 400 people to Katikati College hall in 2007. “Celia seemed to take Katikati under her wing and was always willing to come back and share her wisdom with us,” says Chris. The centre has won numerous awards over the years,

including the 2006 Trustpower Community Awards Supreme Award for the Western Bay of Plenty and the Joan Kehely Community Trophy, as well as awards for its school holiday and adult education programmes.

The 25th anniversary community celebration will be held at Katikati Community Centre on Beach Road from 9am-12pm on Saturday, November 24.

Festivities will include live music, games and activities and a sausage sizzle. The former St John Ambulance bay will be officially opened as a new space at the centre, and the public will have the chance to vote on new names for the three spaces at the centre.

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Oodles of cuteness and cake

Charming to a T - wait staff Drake and Haley looked after The Weekend Sun patrons. Photo: Kerry Mitchell.

The mayor turned up, and so did three of the All Blacks Sevens team.

Fletch, Vaughan and Megan – three breakfast radio jocks – also made an appearance, as did a couple of Weekend Sun reporters along with mums, dads, uncles, aunts and assorted hangers-on.

The Greenpark School pop-up restaurant, Ngaru, also attracted national television exposure, with Seven Sharp’s Tim Wilson dropping in from Auckland to check out the food.

That night he was able to tell several hundred thousand viewers that Greenpark School’s week-long restaurant was very good. Very, very good.

“They were probably expecting beans on toast,” says Ben Brock, the teacher in charge of the kids’ beach excursion fundraiser, “but it was much more sophisticated than beans.”

What the punters go was an entrée of either pulled pork sliders with homemade slaw or rustic vegetable soup with freshly baked bread.

A main of either Moroccan vegetable tagine with couscous or chorizo and broccoli pasta in a cheese sauce followed, and dessert was a decadent chocolate brownie with yoghurt or a zesty lemon curd cake with cream cheese icing.

“They were awestruck by the food,” says Ben. “They were shocked by the quality.”

“It was tasty and beautifully presented,” says Weekend Sun staffer Kerry Mitchell.

“There were some nice touches, like the edible flower on the dessert.”

Ngaru could have charged a premium for cuteness.

That is the kids staffing Ngaru. From Sienna – “that’s Italian you know” – who greeted, smiled and charmed with her big clipboard, to waiting staff Drake and Haley, who brought ‘adorable’ to the menu. The national profile and publicity created by the kids’ restaurant has gone down extremely well schoolwide.

“With the teachers’ strike, there’s a lot of negative publicity about the education system and teaching,” says Ben. “So it’s nice to have something positive out there about our school, so that it’s not all doom and gloom in the education sector and that some things are working well and we are doing it right.”

Not all right, all of the time though. “The pasta dish was a bit suspect on Monday and Tuesday,” he says. “Wednesday pretty good and Thursday and Friday – perfect!” Read the rest of this story, including the future of Ngaru, at: www.theweekendsun.co.nz

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Work underway on fare-free school buses Fare-free school buses are on track for Welcome Bay students in 2019.

Work has begun on plans to offer fare-free buses for students living in Welcome Bay during a one-year trial in 2019.

The Bay of Plenty Regional Council’s public transport committee received a progress update on the trial at a meeting in Tauranga last week.

There are around 730 students registered as living in the Welcome Bay area, with 34 per cent using SchoolHopper services in the morning and 43 per cent in the afternoon.

The council anticipates these numbers will increase when the services become fare-free.

Working on the basis of a 20 per cent increase, this will require about 10 or 11 buses.

There are eight buses contracted through NZ Bus as part of the new contract.

A further three vehicles have been requested from NZ Bus to meet the anticipated increase in demand.

In the event that NZ Bus is unable to meet this request, a separate one-year contract may be offered to the three existing operators in a closed tender process.

Until this process is complete, the council is unsure how much the trial will cost. However, in May this year public transport committee chair Lyall Thurston said the cost of foregone fare revenue would be about $1.2 million a year.

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A man of many strengths You don’t need to twist Aron Innes’ arm to pin someone else’s to the table.

The 26-year-old physiotherapist has a firm grip on the world of arm wrestling, and has no plans to loosen it any time soon.

He recently won second place on his right arm and third on his left at the New Zealand Fitness Expo in Auckland – his second competition – and he’s now in training for his next tournament in March next year.

Aron says: “Every time you tell someone you’re into arm wrestling, they say ‘oh yeah, I’m pretty strong, wanna give me an arm wrestle?’

“But they’re not even going to come close, because they don’t know the techniques.”

Arm wrestling is a sport that is reliant on tactics as much as strength.

During his training, Aron will lift weights in the gym six days a week, as well as practising on an arm wrestling table at the Bay of Plenty Arm Wrestling Club.

“A couple of the guys at the club have arm wrestling tables, which are a standard measurement,” he says.

“You put your elbows on the pad, and with your other arm you hold a bar.” The competition has three categories: under 100 kilograms, under 85 kilograms and Aron’s grade - the over 100 kilogram division.

Referees start both athletes in a neutral position, and as long as their elbows stay on the pad and their other hands are holding the bar, they can twist their bodies and fingers in any way to gain further movement.

“It’s all about leverage,” says Aron.

“It’s like judo, but with your hands.

“You practice finger movements and wrist movements to get leverage and gain an advantage.”

Despite having an immense drive to be the strongest guy on the block, Aron says it wasn’t always easy.

When he was four-years-old he was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia, making him what he calls the “scrawny one of the bunch”.

After fighting off cancer he started playing football to improve his fitness, and by 16 he had started body building after entering a competition at Tauranga Boys’ High School.

“They have a competition called

At 105 kilograms, Aron Innes is already carving up the competition with only two arm wrestling competitions under his belt. Photo: Nikki South.

Bench for Life, which is a bench press competition that takes place every year amongst the students. I won that, and that’s what kind of started it.”

After throwing in the towel with soccer he started going to the gym regularly, and in his first year gained 25kgs. He then decided to begin competing, and joined various body building competitions before eventually wining Mr Bay at the age of 18.

“From there I changed into strongman, which involves truck pulling and tier lifting,” says Aron.

“I won the Northshore strongest man in the lightweight division, which is anyone under 105kgs.

“I then moved into a bit of powerlifting and bench pressing, but the strongman stuff and deadlifting wasn’t too hot on my back, so I had to throw that all in.”

After he stopped competing, he lost motivation at the gym, and once again looked for something he could work towards.

“One of my mates joked that my arms were the only thing left on me not broken yet, so I should give arm wrestling a nudge.”

Aron didn’t even realise it was a sport, but after doing his research he found the Bay of Plenty Arm

Wrestling Club. “I like finding something that is difficult and chipping away at it, smashing it and then ticking it off the list.

“Arm wrestling is great. I’ve now got a place to channel my strength and I’m learning more and more, because there’s a lot more to it than it looks.”

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Air monitoring at Aerodrome Road ramps up Three new air monitoring stations are about to go live around Aerodrome Road in Mount Maunganui.

They are in response to community concerns about environmental effects from dusty activities in the area.

Bay of Plenty Regional Council regulatory compliance manager Stephen Mellor says since June 2017, their Pollution Hotline has fielded more than 50 calls regarding dust-related issues in the area, and they’re working to address them.

“We’ve invested considerable resource and commissioned two separate rounds of independent air quality monitoring to better understand the issues at Aerodrome Road,” says Stephen, “but to date, no breach of our rules has been recorded.”

Council is hopeful that the new equipment, which can pick up previously undetectable tiny inhalable dust particles, will help them better understand the issue.

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The Wright Family Foundation has come “2DRESQ” of St John Katikati after donating a new ambulance to the area.

The ambulance will be on the roads, servicing Katikati and the surrounding community, after it is dedicated on Friday.

The Wright Family Foundation has funded the full $216,000 cost of the ambulance, and has also supplied a personalised plate for it: “2DRESQ” (to the rescue).

The ambulance is called “Benny”, after Hibiscus Coast boy Benny McSweeney whose life was saved

by St John after he fell into a freezing pond when he was 20 months-old at Auckland Domain.

Benny is now a happy and healthy 12-year-old.

Wright Family Foundation CEO Chloe Wright, who lives in Omokoroa, was inspired to donate an ambulance after reading Benny’s story in a letter from St John.

“I see Benny as everyone’s child,” says Chloe.

“We are all vulnerable - everyone at some time has a connection to someone who needs an ambulance, and we are so fortunate to have this service available to us.

“St John does an incredible job and we are so grateful for their service, saving the lives of people just like Benny every day.”

Benny’s mother, Lydia McSweeney, says the family is forever grateful to St John for saving Benny’s life, and is honoured to have an ambulance named after their son.

St John territory manager Ross Clarke says the ambulance has an improved interior design based on feedback from ambulance officers, allowing staff to

remain seated while treating patients.

The ambulance comes with a PowerLoad Stryker Stretcher, making lifting and transporting patients easier and improving safety for patients and ambulance officers alike.

“Donations like this are essential to St John meeting the growing demand on ambulance services as we constantly strive to improve the quality and equity of our services,” says Ross.

“As a charity, St John needs support from the community, and this generous donation from the Wright Family Foundation means both Katikati and the surrounding communities will have the best possible care available to them.”

As an Omokoroa resident, Chloe is concerned about the road between Tauranga and Katikati, backing calls for it to be widened to four lanes and have a median barrier installed to curb its mounting death toll. In the last eight years, 24 people have died on this road.

“St John is quite literally the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff,” says Chloe, “and unfortunately we need them even more due to the state of this road.

“Every time I see or hear an ambulance, I call all my family members who live in the area to make sure they are okay.

“St John does a wonderful job and we believe the service should be fully funded by the government.”

The Wright Family Foundation is a not-for-profit, registered charitable trust that is dedicated to making a positive difference by ‘growing the good’ in New Zealand communities by supporting education and health initiatives.

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Putting the blame on our drinking culture Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder is a term used to describe the range of conditions that can occur from alcohol exposure during pregnancy.

In a culture that often encourages people to drink their body weight in booze, it’s more important than ever to remember that alcohol and pregnancy don’t mix.

Drinking alcohol while pregnant, even in small doses, increases the risk of miscarriage, stillbirth or Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, which is a term used to describe the range of conditions that can affect newborn babies due to alcohol exposure during pregnancy.

People living with FASD can experience complex physical, behavioural, learning and intellectual difficulties that will last a lifetime.

A seminar run by neuropsychologist and clinical director of the FASD Centre Aotearoa, Dr Valerie McGinn, will look to lead judgement away from women and address the role played by New Zealand’s drinking culture.

“As a practice, we don’t blame women at all, we blame our society,” says Valerie.

“Alcohol is life, and it’s not like women are doing anything different to anyone else.”

Valerie has more than 20 years’ experience in working with children and adolescents with brain injuries and neurodisabilities.

She says around 60 per cent of pregnancies are unplanned and 80 per cent of women drink, so most women are drinking during pregnancy and not

realising they’re pregnant.

“We just need to acknowledge that there isn’t as much knowledge and resources about the effects of drinking alcohol while pregnant.

“We can’t do anything about what has happened, but we can do a lot about what’s going to happen.”

The seminar will discuss what FASD is, how alcohol damages development, how children are diagnosed and what can be done to help.

There will also be a chance to gather in groups and share each other’s personal stories.

“When you have a child with FASD, you feel very alone because you may not know other people raising children with FASD,” says Valerie. “But there’s actually a lot. This is why it’s important to have open discussions and seminars like this.

“The seminar is for people who have perhaps Googled and looked up resources and think FASD might describe their child or the child they’re teaching.”

The FASD in our Neighbourhood seminar will be held on Friday, December 7 from 9.30am-3.30pm at Greerton Hall, 1247 Cameron Road.

Numbers are limited. Confirm your attendance by sending your name, contact details and whether you are a caregiver or other, before November 20, to Milli Lovell on: milli.lovell@gmail.com or call: 021 527 604.

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To market, to market Summer is on its way, and so too are the multitude of markets the Western Bay has to offer.

Art, craft, bric-a-brac, food, produce and plants are all on offer, and with only six weekends until Christmas, now is a perfect time to start gift shopping.

If you’re looking for handmade, Tauranga’s Zee Night Market returns

on Saturday, November 17 at the Elizabeth Street Community Hall from 4-9pm. The boutique market features the work of various artisans and craftspeople and is largely indoors.

The regular Zee Market can be found in the hall every second Saturday of the

The local farmers’ markets are an ideal place to pick up fresh produce. month, from 10am-2pm.

Also returning for a fourth season is the Te Puke Community Market in Jubilee Park, with the second market from 9am-1pm on Saturday, November 17.

The market provides a platform for community groups to fundraise and raise awareness Handmade is a great of their organisations, option for Christmas and is held on the third presents.

Saturday of each month until April 2019.

The Little Big Markets On Friday, November always a crowd-pleaser at any 23, a new market is time of the year - are on the coming to Katikati’s first Saturday of each month Uretara Domain in the at Coronation Park and the form of the Katikati third Saturday of each month Xmas Makers Market. at Papamoa Pony Club, from A highlight of the 9am -2pm. market, from 4-8pm, The Black Sheep Bar and will be a special marquee Grill is home to the monthly where children can rent a Affordable Art and Artisan table for $5 and sell their Fair on the last Sunday of The Gourmet Night Markets at Coronation handmade gifts for sale. each month, from 11am-3pm.

Park are back on November 30.

It will run alongside Presented by ARTbop, all the regular plant and products sold are handmade produce market next door in the A&P Showgrounds. in New Zealand.

Dinner in the Domain is on offer once again The region’s Lions clubs hold a number of regular from Thursday, November 29, and continues every markets throughout the year, including the Historic Thursday night until the end of March 2019.

Village Market in Tauranga every first and third From 5.30-9.30pm, you can head along to Sunday, from 8am-noon.

Papamoa Domain and sample the culinary delights The Papamoa Lions Club Market, every second of Tauranga’s best food trucks. Fully licensed, you and fourth Sunday at Gordon Spratt Reserve, and can also wash it down with a locally brewed craft the Omokoroa Lions Market, every second Sunday beer and enjoy some live music. of the month in the Western Ave carpark, run from If Thursday night doesn’t work for you, Mount 9am-noon.

Maunganui’s Gourmet Night Market returns to If it’s fantastic food you’re after, you can’t go Coronation Park on Friday nights from November wrong with the Tauranga Farmers’ Market, held 30, until March 2019. It’s a great place to put down every Saturday from 8.45am-noon at Tauranga a picnic blanket, grab a bite to eat and listen to some Primary School, and the Mount Farmers’ Market in live music against the backdrop of Mauao.

Coronation Park, every Sunday from 9am-1pm.

The market gets under way at 5pm ‘til dark.

Other markets in the area include the Oropi As well as the summer markets, there are plenty of Sunday Market at Oropi Memorial Hall on the regular markets breaking out the Christmas goodies last Sunday of the month (9am-1pm), the Maketu as well, including the monthly Night Out Markets Market on the Village Green overlooking the held at Bethlehem Hall on the first Friday of the Maketu Estuary on the third and fifth Sunday of month, from 6.30-9.30pm. each month (7am-noon), and the Lizard Market at A special Christmas market will be held on the Omokoroa Settlers Hall on the third Saturday of December 21 for those last-minute shoppers. each month (9am-12pm).

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Recycling buzz at sewing bees If you’re keen to tackle plastic pollution at a grassroots level, Boomerang Bags Tauranga is holding a community sewing bee next week and is looking for volunteers.

Participants will help with cutting material, pinning, ironing, stamping and sewing fabric bags in a bid to reduce the use of use plastic bags in the city.

Boomerang Bags Tauranga was started by Charlotte Manville in October 2016, and has so far made around 4500 fabric bags.

These include ‘borrow and reuse’ bags

located in share bins at the Waipuna Hospice shop in Greerton, Plum Organics in Papamoa and Rip Curl in Mount Maunganui.

The ‘bought to support’ bags are sold for $5 each and can be purchased at the Little Big Markets and Habitat for Humanity ReStore shops.

The community sewing bee is at Our Place, 91 Willow Street, Tauranga on Tuesday, November 20 from 5-8pm.

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The TNL as we know it is cancelled Is that the sound of bulldozers I hear on the horizon?

No, it’s the sound of bull dust!

Construction of the four-lane Tauranga Northern Link was due to start last month under the previous government.

The Labour/NZ First government (under pressure to confirm whether they had cancelled the project) made an announcement in October regarding the future of the new road.

They said it was needed one day, but that it would depend on growth (already here) and other funding priorities (free university fees?) and it would be only two lanes because apparently you don’t need four.

The media dutifully reported this as a ‘green light’ for the TNL project.

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“Kids, I know I said we were going to Disneyland last month. We’re still going to Disneyland, if I think you need to, depending on how much beer money I have left, and when I say Disneyland I mean Fantasyland in Hastings.”

Due to the money and long timeframes involved, transport planning is no joke.

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New rules for Tuapiro horse riders A new bylaw is now in effect at Tuapiro Point, near Katikati, restricting horse riders to a permitted area along the foreshore that will ensure shellfish beds are not disturbed.

A compromise was reached between the horse riding community and the Ngati te Wai hapu after the Western Bay of Plenty District Council tried to ban horse riding at Tuapiro Point earlier this year in a review of its Reserves and Facilities Bylaw.

Of the 597 submissions to the draft bylaw, 96 per cent were against the proposed ban. There was also a petition containing more than 1500 signatures delivered on horseback to the council.

The new bylaw came into effect on November 9, and will see riders restricted to a permitted area along the foreshore within a 20m corridor to ensure shellfish beds are not damaged – a key concern for Ngati te Wai. Horse riders will also have to remove horse waste and abide by a code of conduct.

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Fifty years of storytelling

The Weekend Sun Tauranga author Phyllis Johnston with her five books in the May series.

Photo: Bruce Barnard.

Phyllis Johnston grew up in a family where stories were as valuable as money.

As a young girl she would sit down with her parents while they took turns retelling vivid memories from their past.

The Tauranga author, who was one of nine children, says she was often mesmerised by their stories of hardship, fun and adventure as New Zealand pioneers, and felt like every child should hear them.

“My father would quote 19th century poetry and my parents, no matter how busy they were working, scrubbing or milking cows, would always tell us a little story,” says Phyllis.

“I realised I was hearing something valuable, but I didn’t have any idea that I would do anything about it.”

She also found she had a love of reading, which evolved from storytelling. She remembers a big wicker hamper coming into her country school full to the brim with children’s books.

“I had never seen a library,” she says, “so I feasted on them and read and read and read.

There was one particular book, however, titled Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink, which stood out from the rest. It was about a girl growing up in America during the civil war.

“I was living through the Second World War, so this struck a chord with me. It was about dealing with rations and the depression as well as similar

family dynamics.” In her 30s, Phyllis started writing what would become the May series, based on her mother May and their family.

Now 83-years-old, Phyllis has released her last book of the May series, The Fortunate Ones, after No One Went to Town, Black Boots and Buttonhooks, A Comet in the Sky and No Lily-livered Girl.

With it comes an end of a lifetime of family stories - something Phyllis felt might never come when her eyesight started to fail. “I have fulfilled a task I hadn’t originally known about,” she says. “I tried to write one book but, 50 years later, I’ve written a whole series. I feel completely satisfied and fulfilled.”

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Earthquake potential sees Cargo Shed scrapped Tauranga City Council this week decided that upgrades won’t continue because of the results of a geotechnical assessment.

The assessment shows the premises “would be susceptible” in the event of seismic activity, or an earthquake, and would require extensive foundation improvements to stabilise the property and reduce risk during such an event.

In addition, significant structural improvement would be required to

The future of the Cargo Shed is now more uncertain than ever.

Six months ago, the inside of the Cargo Shed - the iconic building and prime waterfront real estate on Dive Crescent - was set to be upgraded in time for the upcoming summer season.

The fire alarm system and electrics, as well as the kitchen and bathroom areas, were earmarked for

improvements, supported by general maintenance and repairs.

This week, however, those plans were scrapped, and all talk of artists and crafts people returning to the Cargo Shed after Tauranga City Council shut them out two years ago, has been silenced.

Talk of theatre groups and wedding parties using the venue has also gone quiet, and the future of the cargo shed is now more uncertain than ever.

Tauranga pharmacist in winning team Developing a care plan to a tight deadline, alongside three teammates with English as their second language, was one of the challenges a young Tauranga pharmacist overcame to triumph at an international event.

Elliot Harris put his clinical skills to the test, along with student pharmacists from Denmark, Holland and Portugal, to win the team title at the International Pharmacy Students Federation 2018 World Congress in Mendoza, Argentina.

Elliot started working at Tauranga Hospital this year after a successful one-year internship with the Bay of Plenty District Health Board Tauranga Pharmacy team.

Approached by the Dutch

This year’s conference was the fourth for Elliot but the first time he’s been part of a competing te m.

“Teams were either put forward by countries that had won competitions previously, or a mixture of nationalities who wanted to give it a go,” says Elliot.

He was approached by the Dutch delegate and asked to join the team.

The team was then given a briefing, covering the clinical case (patient with acute lithium poisoning),

history and relevant bloodwork.

They had 10 minutes to do a mock interview with an actor filling the role of both clinician and patient.

From there, the team had to develop a care plan.

“It was tricky, as I only speak English,” says Elliot. “We had to make a list of medicinal recommendations and further investigations based on our findings.

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With one computer, the nominated team member then formatted the plan and it was handed in the following morning.

The entire exercise completed in 24 hours.

“We are all so thrilled and proud of Elliot’s achievement,” says Tauranga Pharmacy team manager Cindy Mortimer.

“We have seen Elliot grow from completing his internship under the guidance of the clinical pharmacy team to practicing as a qualified pharmacist.” IPSF is the leading international advocacy organisation for pharmacy and pharmaceutical science students.

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bring the Cargo Shed up to today’s standards. Because of the cost of upgrading the shed to meet those standards, the council will not continue with the upgrades and will take no more bookings.

The future of the whole of the Dive Crescent area remains unclear, and any development would require the council and the Otamataha Trust to obtain legal title for the land from the Crown.

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Her recipe for Boil up Croquettes took top honours in the challenge, and she walked away with a prize of $5000.

“There was one day left to enter the competition,” explains Letitia, “so I stayed up all night thinking about the classic Kiwi recipes I’d made in the past using mayonnaise.

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The Trustpower Christmas Parade returns to downtown Tauranga on Saturday, December 1, with a host of new floats, big bands, entertainment, cartoon and movie characters and Santa himself.

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Post-parade entertainment will also be available on the waterfront.

The Seeka Te Puke Float Parade will also be getting under way at 11am on Saturday, December 1, with a sports star theme for 2018.

Following last year’s successful parade celebrating motor racing legend Denny Hulme, sports clubs will have a chance to show off their ‘stars in the making’ and compete for prizes in a range of categories.

The parade starts outside the Te Puke Service Centre and travels east along Jellicoe Street to the Oxford Street roundabout, before returning along Jellicoe Street to turn at RD1 to make a second circuit.

Also on December 1 is the Katikati Christmas Float Parade and Santa in the Park.

The Lions Club float parade leaves from Earl Drive at 3pm and travels along Main Road and Talisman Drive before returning to Main Road, Fairview Road and Middlebrook Drive, to finish in Moore Park.

Prizes are up for grabs for the best float and there will be food, games, raffles and a community concert to follow at Moore Park.

While Papamoa is not having a Christmas parade this year, there will be a carnival called ‘A Christmas Thing’ ¬next to Papamoa Plaza on Sunday, Santa is December 16, from coming 4-10pm where Santa soon to a will make a special town near appearance. you.

Cooking from scratch with celebrity chef If you want to know what’s in your food and how to cook it, New Zealand celebrity chef Michael Van de Elzen is in town this week to help out.

Well-known on New Zealand television screens for his show The Food Truck, Michael has just released a new kids’ cookbook titled Good From Scratch, in a bid to help tackle soaring obesity rates.

He is visiting Papamoa Library Community Centre and the Salvation Army in Tauranga as part of an eight-week

promotional tour, and will be demonstrating some of the recipes as well as signing copies for sale.

Michael will be at the library on Sunday, November 18 from 2-3.30pm. This a free family event but spaces are limited and both adults and children need to register.

The Tauranga Salvation Army are selling tickets to their event on Tuesday, November 20 from 6-8pm at 51 Fifth Avenue, as a fundraiser for its work in the community. Both events can be booked at: www.eventbrite.co.nz

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Marine patrols out and about Bay of Plenty Regional Council has started its region-wide maritime patrols to reinforce safety on the water.

Last year nine people died in Bay of Plenty waters.

Harbourmaster Peter Buell says most of those deaths could have been prevented if a proper-fitting lifejacket had been worn.

The first patrols for 2018 went out over Labour Weekend and issued a large number of bylaw breaches.

“This year’s 100 per cent increase in

breaches compared with 2017 Labour Weekend is disappointing,” says Peter.

“Patrols issued eight breaches of the bylaw for exceeding five knots, 10 for failing to carry enough personal floatation devices, four for unnamed boats or unregistered personal water craft, including jetskis, and three for towing with no observer.”

The volume of breaches should be a reminder for people to be prepared, know the rules and stay safe when heading out on the water, says Peter.

A blooming success in our gardens Our family has recently moved, and we’re enjoying getting out in our new garden.

Our region is so well known for its creative and diverse gardens, and it is being celebrated this week during the Bay of Plenty Garden and Art Festival.

One of the features on this year’s itinerary is ‘The Long Lunch’ hosted by National’s very own MP and gardening guru, the Hon Maggie Barry.

She has many interesting stories to share on her broadcasting career, the years presenting her popular gardening programme and her passion for horticulture.

The four day festival is a highlight on New Zealand’s gardening calendar and a fantastic way to showcase the talents

of our people and our beautiful region.

This year there are 71 gardens to visit and more than 100 artists on display.

This popular event would not be possible without the generosity and time of the artists, designers, musicians and gardeners who open their gates and inspire people with their creations.

As an aside, if you have a question you would like me to answer as the MP for Tauranga, I will be holding a public meeting this Monday, November 19 at the RSA on Cameron Road (6.30pm). All are welcome and it would be great to see you there.

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Tauranga’s Chris Duggan has been awarded a prestigious Winston Churchill Fellowship to research innovative practices and engage children in science learning.

She will travel to Europe and the UK in 2019 to observe and experience proven science education models.

“I will be investigating innovative practices to engage five-to-12-year-old children in science learning to inform the development of what would be appropriate for New Zealand children’s needs,” says Chris.

The former chemistry teacher is the founder and CEO of House of Science - an organisation she set up in Tauranga in 2013 to help primary teachers teach better science.

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The airline has said they are committed to supporting tourism in Tauranga and the Bay of Plenty region, and the decision to renovate

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Joe Carter relishing his ND recall It’s certainly proved to be just that for Tauranga’s Joe Carter. The stylish top order batsman, who debuted

in cricket’s professional ranks with Northern Districts in 2013, has just earned himself a recall to the team for the Ford Trophy one day competition after dropping out of favour 18 months ago.

And he’s appreciating being back with the lads and living in the now.

“I’m just trying to enjoy playing cricket and hopefully help the guys win games,” says Joe. “That’s what it’s all about for me, and that’s where the enjoyment comes from.”

The call-up came out of the blue, Joe says, even though he’d been playing with the ND A team and put his hand firmly up with a century in a one day match against Auckland.

“I was really happy to be back involved,” he says.

“I’d still been training and playing and trying to get the best out of myself, so I was happy I could get that opportunity again.

“It was good to come back into a really cool environment. The lads have all worked really hard but it is fun and enjoyable to be part of.”

That relaxed attitude is paying big dividends for Joe. Three games back into the fold, he not only produced an unbeaten hundred – his first in the 50-over format - to put his team into an ultimately winning position against Central Districts, he put his name, along with his good Tauranga mate Brett Hampton’s, into the annals of cricket history with a world-record 43 runs off one over.

As laid back as he is, he admits that after the lean times he’s been through, that innings was special.

“Yeah it did feel good,” says Joe. “I was pretty frustrated for a couple of seasons, not being able to do it as much as I could, so it was nice to help the lads get over the line.”

And as the icing on the cake, helping set a world record is about as good as it gets.

“It was good to be part of, and good to do it with a really good mate of mine. That is special.”

That innings, and a 45 not-out which also helped steer ND to a win in the following match against Canterbury, won’t have done his position in the

team any harm - though that’s not the be-all and end-all, he says.

“It’s not really much of a focus of mine being secure, as I’m pretty happy with how things are going. So I’m just taking things game by game and trying to get as close to finals as we can.”

Putting too much pressure on himself is an everpresent danger, Joe says, but it’s a trap having a day job away from the game, fabricating and installing benchtops, helps him avoid.

“I think there’s always that. A lot of guys go through those times when they do put pressure on themselves, but I guess having a break gives you good perspective.

“It’s done that for me.”

There’s still room for ambition in his make-up, though. It’s about putting himself in a position to earn more game time this season, perhaps a full contract with ND next, and then maybe even elevation beyond that level.

“For me, I just want to be able to get the best out of myself,” says Joe, “so if those things come along, then that’s great.”

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Fergus benefits from Indian adventure The usual pre-season preparation for club cricketers is a few outdoor nets and a warm-up game or two in wintry conditions on a teambonding weekend away.

But 17-year-old Fergus Lellman had the opportunity of a lifetime to play cricket in India for two weeks with the Hutt Hawks team.

The Year 12 Aquinas College student and Otumoetai Cadets opening batsman made the most of his chance to claim the title of best allrounder for his team at tournaments played in Bangalore and Anantapur.

Fergus scored more than 350 runs in 10 innings while up against challenging bowlers on surfaces a world away from his home pitch at Tauranga Domain.

“It was really great to get the volume of cricket and time in the middle,” says Fergus.

“I had 15 matches under the belt before the season started here, which is pretty nice.”

He attracted the attention of the Hutt Hawks through former Wellington and New Zealand rep Evan Gray, who is a Tauranga resident.

He arranged a place for Fergus on the eighth trip to India by the Hutt Hawks.

Facing Indian spinners in their own unique conditions was a huge learning curve, Fergus says.

“They bowled a lot quicker and flatter through the air, but it still spun. Their control was harder to deal with and you got a lot less bad balls.

“Our spinners had to adapt quickly because if they floated it up they got smoked.

“Their pace bowlers seemed to have this uncanny ability to get one to skid and then the next ball to pop and there was a lot of variable bounce.”

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Fergus Lellman on his debut for Bay of Plenty. Photo: Chris James.

Hutt Hawks opening 22 small houses as part of the Rural Development Trust in Anantapur.

Fergus says it was great to be able to see the joy on the faces of the people when they saw their new homes.

Describing it as an “eye-opening” place to visit, Fergus and his young team mates saw plenty of unforgettable sights while travelling between games, which is all part of the experience of being in India.

On his return to Tauranga he was delighted to gain his senior debut

for the Bay of Plenty over Labour Weekend against Hawke’s Bay. He has started his second Baywide Premier season for Otumoetai Cadets with some encouraging innings with the bat.

“I was pretty happy with that debut for the Bay,” he says.

“I didn’t get a bat but it was great to be around the team and it is a goal of mine to grab a spot in the team.

“I want to go well with Bay Development this year and see how far I can get.”

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The Omokoroa and Districts Lions Club is calling for applications for two tertiary scholarships to be awarded in 2019.

The first award is the Beryl Scott Tertiary Memorial Scholarship, which amounts to $2000 for the year.

The second award, the Precious Family Memorial Scholarship, will be granted following the same criteria but for $1500.

Omokoroa and Districts Lions Club member Christina Robertson says when selecting a scholarship, they look at not only at academic records, but also work done in the community.

“The standard of the students is so high that our job is massive, and it’s just really sad we don’t have thousands of scholarships we can give away,” says Christina.

“We look for people who are good all-rounders. They’re not just students with a brain. Last year, for instance, both scholarship winners were heavily involved in surf lifesaving, so they spent most of their holidays at the beach volunteering.”

Applications are sought from tertiary students who have completed at least one year’s study in the subjects of their choice, at the institution of their choice, and who intend to continue their studies in their chosen field.

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to the youth of Omokoroa who have been residents of the area comprising the Omokoroa Peninsula, Plummers Point, Whakamarama, Pahoia and Esdaile Road (up to and including Tim Road, but not Wainui South Road) for three years and have attended a local secondary school for at least three years.

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If you know of a student eligible for these awards, please let them know about this scholarship opportunity. Contact Christine Robertson on: 021 658 444 or email: robertsoncs@xtra.co.nz

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Right: The 2018 Precious Family Memorial Scholarship winner, Molly Alton.

Higher spending seen despite petrol prices Despite higher petrol prices throughout the country, spending across the regions has risen.

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Excluding petrol stations, the ex-fuel annual growth rate was also 5.1 per cent and up on previous months, suggesting the region is coping well with the sharp rise in fuel prices in recent months.

Spending at housing-related merchants, up 9.8 per cent, is a key driving force. A countering force remains lower spending (-9.8 per cent) amongst Auckland/Northland accommodation merchants.

Bay of Plenty also recorded doubt-digit annual growth over Labour Weekend, but this was surpassed by an 11.1 per cent annual non-fuel growth rate on Wednesday, October 31 - the day of the royal visit to Rotorua.

Ambulances set to strike Around 1000 ambulance professionals employed by St John have voted to implement a sophisticated series of strike action to ensure patient safety is not put at risk.

Ambulance crews across the country will refuse to attend non-emergency event work in their fight to include shift recognition payments to reflect their unsociable and physically challenging sevendays-a-week, rotating shift pattern.

St John is contracted to provide emergency ambulance services on behalf of the Ministry of Health and ACC. “Our members, who are frontline emergency crews and whose pay packets are government funded, are reporting concerns that their services are being offered up to cover private hire for sporting and other commercial events run by private business,” says transport, logistics and manufacturing secretary Jared Abbott.

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The second-to-last Living in Harmony event this year, by Multicultural Tauranga, will take you on a journey to New Zealand’s tropical door step, where you will feel like one of the family.

This month’s feature is our Pacific Islands, where the second generation - children born here in Tauranga - will showcase their talents and dreams through a range of performances.

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Titled ‘Pasifika Faces of the Future in Tauranga Moana’, the event will be organised by AvaNiu Pasifika, who create opportunities for Pasifika wellness and prosperity in the Bay of Plenty.

The free Living in Harmony Pasifika event will be held on Tuesday, November 20 from 7-9pm at the Citizens Hall at 14 Norris Street, Tauranga.

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Two Eastern Bay of Plenty schools are receiving a Tauranga-made gift along with fruit funding to help fight a major health issue in their community.

Children from Te Kura o Te Whanau-a-Apanui at Omaio, 53 kilometres east of Opotiki, and Te Kura Mana Maori o Whangaparaoa at the foot of Mt Tihirau, will spend a day learning how to tackle type 2 diabetes.

The education programme, developed and funded by kiwifruit marketers Zespri, is happening on the back of a pilot project delivered to Arataki Primary School in Mount Maunganui late last year.

Zespri’s Amy Porter says the Arataki project was such a success, her team will head along the coast to deliver a similar programme including a free healthy breakfast, community games and free blood sugar testing.

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and some good health It was prompted by statistics that showed Maori and Pacific Islanders have a highly-elevated risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

Maori are 50 per cent more likely than non-Maori to get this preventable form of the disease, and the discussion moved on to things they could do to educate and help.

With kiwifruit particularly good at regulating blood sugar levels, the conversation, which sprang from Juliet’s health science research, quickly spread beyond Zespri.

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Health researcher Dr Anna Rolleston, who is director of the Tauranga-based Centre For Health, became involved as an advisor. Her staff are also involved in next week’s events.

Amy says the classroom sets of books will help Te Kaha children understand type 2 diabetes, and whanau will also be invited to

participate and be tested.

“One of the lovely things about this project is the goodwill we’ve seen from local volunteers who have stepped in to help with cooking or running the community day,” she says.

“When we approached other companies for support with the breakfast, they were genuine and willing. Harroways donated oats, Fonterra gave milk and Dole has supplied bananas.”

The activity week encompasses World Diabetes Day on November 14.

New underpass for link project The New Zealand Transport Agency have announced that the Baypark to Bayfair link project will now include a separated pedestrian and cycle underpass at the Bayfair roundabout.

The current underpass was originally due to be closed permanently as part of the Bay Link project, but will continue to stay open until a brand new underpass is built.

Transport Agency Project Team manager John McCarthy says they have listened to the community feedback about losing the existing underpass function, and are excited about delivering an underpass that will be used daily by shoppers, commuters, cyclists, residents and school children.

“A detailed design process needs to be completed before construction of the new underpass can begin, but we intend to integrate the new underpass with the current project,” says John.

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Public housing numbers growing There are 1300 more households in public housing than this time last year, says Housing and Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford.

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The latest Public Housing Quarterly Report figures suggest the government is “pulling out all the stops” to house and support people in the face of the housing crisis, says Phil.

“In the September quarter, we increased the number of public housing tenancies by 451,” he says. “We also made 244 more transitional housing places available and housed 1721 households from the public housing waiting list.

“There are also 413 homeless people or families now in stable housing through the Housing First programme in Auckland, Christchurch and Tauranga.

“At the same time, we’re seeing more people coming forward for help, which is particularly telling, considering we made 1742 additional public housing, transitional housing and Housing First places available for people in

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The number of people or families seeking Emergency Housing Special Needs Grants rose to 3840 in the September quarter - 33 per cent more than the previous quarter.

The number of transitional housing places tenanted or available is now 2585.

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The international, online review platform allows people to share their experience and rate it out of five stars, with Mount Hot Pools receiving 134

‘very good’ and 184 ‘Excellent’ ratings over the past five years.

“We are honoured to receive this accolade,” says Mount Hot Pools manager Matthew Strange. “It’s a testament to the staff who are here at 5am preparing the pools until 10.30pm cleaning up, 364 days a year “The Mount Hot Pools is a premier facility that our city is proud of, and residents like to show off to their visitors.”

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New owners Janett and Lionel Ehinger have taken on La Brioche Patisserie with the aim of turning the store into an authentically French bakery.

Lionel says they bought the bakery one month ago and went along with what the previous owners were

doing to learn the ropes.

This week they are relaunching, with plenty of treats on offer including croissants, chocolate, French bread and pastries as well as some Kiwi classics and coffee to go.

“We are really enthusiastic and excited to open the store and bring quality French food to the Bay of Plenty,” says Janett.

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Local businesses win Tauranga Chamber of Commerce CEO Stan Gregec announced the winners of the Westpac Tauranga Business Awards 2018 earlier this week.

This year saw a high standard in entrants, with a strong focus on technology and, in particular, the Kiwifruit sector.

Head Judge Andrew Hitchfield said that this year judges continued to see “local businesses embracing technology as the cornerstone for carefully considered and well-structured strategy”.

“Regardless of the original motivation for entering the Awards, the process which combines rigorous internal review and external assessment makes the process beneficial for all,” he says.

This year’s Westpac Business of the Year is Jenkins Freshpac Systems Ltd, who also won the Vodafone Embracing Digital Technology award.

The culture of Jenkins Freshpac has been shaped by its long, private ownership.

They enjoy a leading position in the market for labelling and packaging of

horticultural products.

The judges remarked that they have been able to keep out larger competitors that are more resourced by focusing on its expertise and superior service offering.

This year saw the introduction of a new award, sponsored by Air New Zealand, for corporate sponsorship, There was a big turnout to the Westpac which is a way of recognising and thereby Tauranga Business awards earlier this week. encouraging sponsorship.

Organisers say the corporate sectors and it was not an easy category to judge.” contribution comes directly off their bottom The seven finalists were Holland line, and so it is important to acknowledge Beckett Law, Craigs Investment, Farmer this contribution.

Motor Group, Lysaght, Realty Group and “The corporate sector is already extremely Metro Marketing, with the winner being generous, without which a huge amount Carrus Corp. number of events, both sporting, and culture “The Westpac Tauranga Business Awards and amenity within the city simply would have always been about taking time out not happen. to acknowledge business excellence – “While the dollars of contribution is this is about recognising the smartest, extremely important, this award was not strongest and most sustainable businesses just about that - it was also the support, in the community,” says Clare Basire, area the voluntary hours and the understanding commercial manager of how important it is to give back that “Congratulations to the 2018 Westpac factored into this award.

Tauranga Business Awards winners – we’re “The finalists were nominated, all of whom sure this is a stepping stone to even greater have been extremely generous over the years, business success.”

The winners and finalists of the Westpac Tauranga Business Awards 2018: ACC Workplace Safety Award Winner: Waikato & BOP Suspended Ceiling Services Ltd Commended: Vertical Horizonz NZ Ltd Finalist: Road Safe Traffic Management Finalist: Jenkins Freshpac Systems Ltd

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Inspiring children to create a better future It’s an awe-inspiring childcare centre with sustainability sitting at the forefront.

Fern Garden Preschool recently won the Sustainable Business award at the Westpac Tauranga Business Awards, and co-founder Darius Singh says it’s an honour to have been recognised for

something that has been years in the making.

“It’s been over eight years since we formed our Chrysalis Group of early learning centres,” says Darius, “and it was really nice to acknowledge how far we’ve come by bringing it all back to Fern Garden in Otumoetai, where we all started.”

Darius and his wife Nikeeta own

four childcare centres in Tauranga and Auckland, and collectively have more than 40 years’ worth of experience in ECE teaching in NZ and engineering and technology management. There’s also three generations of teaching history in

both of their respective families.

Fern Garden, located at 408 Otumoetai Road, has significant features such as an ‘infinity forest’ projected on the backyard fence, a giant indoor fern tree to read, play or sleep inside, generously Fern Garden Preschool.

spacious play areas and a large, rain or shine, covered outdoor playground.

All areas have focus on the environment, with the aim to inspire and empower children while they grow, such as rainwater harvesting and a vegetable garden.

They were also among the first schools in Tauranga to adopt the council’s worm farm project.

“Our core philosophy has always been sustainability,” says Darius, “and it runs right through the heart of all the projects, teaching and learning outcomes we’ve done from day one and continue to do.

“Sustainability is something you have to work at, and we lead by example in the hope that we can inspire our kids to make changes in the future.”

For more information, visit: www.chrysaliscare.co.nz

Emerging traffic management wins big Put your traffic control in the hands of one of the leading traffic management companies in the Bay of Plenty.

This year, Road Safe Traffic Management was named as the winner of Emerging Business by Toi Ohomai at the Westpac Tauranga Business Awards.

Owner and operator, Logan Dawson, says it’s amazing to have been recognised among a category with many other excellent businesses.

“To come out and win Emerging Business and be a finalist in the ACC Workplace Safety Award is really awesome and just proves all our hard work is paying off,” says Logan.

Road Safe Traffic Management is a two-and-a-half year old business that assists with expert road traffic management and event traffic management for small businesses through to large construction companies.

Logan adds: “I would like to say a massive thank you to all the staff for their commitment to the job and everyone who has supported us - the Tauranga Chamber of Commerce, Westpac and the award sponsors.”

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Strong technology focus in the kiwifruit sector A Tauranga business is embracing technology to create a service that runs like clockwork.

Jenkins Freshpac Systems was named supreme winner of this year's Westpac Tauranga Business Awards. They also picked up the Vodafone Embracing Digital Technology award and the YOU Travel Service Excellence award.

General manager Jamie Lunam says it they are honoured to have won the “big kahuna” in what was the first year they’d entered the awards.

“We were entering the awards with a view of being able to take the judges critique and then come back next year to slay it,” says Jamie.

“But we seem to have done it this year instead, which is very humbling.

“The awards are an awesome validation of the fact that they are important parts to our systems, and validation of the hard work that has gone into our company.”

The 135-year-old business has been shaped by its long and proud private ownership using leading technology and innovation to create a superior

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Friendly faces for your furry friends A welcoming vet for you and your best friend on four legs, and now the winner of a top award - Tauranga Vets has won the Customer Experience award, sponsored

by Trustpower, at this year’s Westpac Tauranga Business Awards.

Managing director David McDonnell says: “It’s great to receive acknowledgment for the work we do in delivering compassionate and quality care.

“It came as a great surprise, but I know our team

works really hard and always tries to do the best by their customer and their pets.

“Last year we entered the professional service category, which we won and we were a finalist for customer experience, so we knew we were in for the hunt.”

service in the market of labelling and packaging of horticultural products.

Jamie says Jenkins takes great pride in the work they do, and next year hopes to take out the innovation and

customer experience award.

“When we get our feedback from the judges, we will come together to see how we can improve moving forward,” he says.

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Letitia O’Dwyer, chief executive at ARFNZ, says the joint approach means asthma and COPD can be looked at in a more holistic way, bringing communities and societies from both organisations together to share knowledge and resources.

“By working together, we hope to make an even bigger impact,” says Letitia, “with a key focus on addressing the disproportionately high asthma and COPD rates among Maori and Pacific populations.”

Robert Muir, chair of ANZ, says asthma alone costs New Zealand more than $858 million a year.

“Working in partnership with ARFNZ, we aim to half this,” he says, “allowing more money for education and research to improve health outcomes for all.

“The benefits of our collaboration will be farreaching and will allow us to have an impact in more communities across New Zealand.”

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More Kiwis taking out health insurance The number of New Zealanders with health insurance has risen to more than 1.4 million for the first time in more than two decades.

Latest industry data reveals a record 26,530 additional lives were covered in the year to September 30, bringing the overall total past the previous high of 1.392 million in December 2009.

Health Funds Association chief executive Roger Styles says the bulk of the increase is in the working age group, reflecting the continued growth in employment and workers opting for health insurance packages partly funded by employers.

“These latest figures take us back to levels higher than before the 2008

There’s a new pharmacy in town, with a focus on feeling good both inside and out.

Maunganui Road Pharmacy, located at 436 Maunganui Road, recently opened its doors with a whole range of summer specials on offer.

With 28 years’ of experience combined, owners Chanelle McLennan and Priya Singh offer exceptional customer service and a wide range of knowledge in pharmaceutical products.

Chanelle says that as well as the stock standard products, they also specialise in gut health products that may help people with inflammatory bowel conditions.

“We have a range of probiotics and other products on offer and can give first-hand support for patients with inflammatory bowel diseases,” says Chanelle.

“Visit us instore and check out our summer specials on now.”

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global financial crisis, and hark back to 20 years ago when close to half the population had health insurance,” says Roger. “Back then, most policies were comprehensive cover and offered reimbursements for things like GP and dental visits. Now, around 70 per cent of policies are for major medical or surgical and specialist cover, with insurers funding an increasing range of treatments.” Claims paid for the September quarter totalled $342 million, up 6.7 per cent on the September 2017 quarter, and brought the total for the 12 months to the end of September to $1.263 billion, up $89 million, or 7.6 per cent, on the September 2017 year.

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Benefit from passing on the blessings “If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.”

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I have found the meaning behind this quote to be a wonderful tool, particularly in difficult circumstances.

I remember making a simple request to someone that was literally shot down in flames – the tone and words the person used seemed rude and unnecessary.

At the time I chose to say nothing rather than fan the

flames, but inside I was really annoyed. Then I made the decision to let it go and, instead, send an internal blessing to this person.

The annoyance I felt disappeared and I experienced a calm, relaxed and more objective reaction. What was even more remarkable was that this person did a complete reversal and suggested we do the very thing they had initially refused.

I find blessings always help me become more objective and positive and they often have a great impact on the

other person as well.

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Christmas with the Topp Twins “Yay, my favourites! Wow I just can’t wait. I can’t believe the Topp Twins are going to do a show in Greerton!”

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These are just some of the comments received since we revealed that the Topp Twins are coming to Greerton for one night only.

It’s very exciting for us to have such an iconic Kiwi act for our Christmas in Greerton with The Topp Twins, on Friday, December 7.

It’s something that I have been trying to do for three years, and this year, the stars aligned, the Dames were available and the date was set.

Although I am sure this will be a night to remember, the evening show is the culmination of what we hope will be an awesome afternoon

and evening.

From noon there will be entertainers performing on the platform stage in front of the library, and there’ll also be a couple of buskers around town. Many retailers will be offering sales tables and specials to create a market day feel, and the streets will be decorated with colourful balloons.

When you have enjoyed lunch or coffee at one of our many cafes and done a spot of Christmas shopping, you can head over to Greerton School for the evening show.

It’s a family show, and as such there will be several attractions to keep the kids amused, from face painting and balloon twisting to a visit with Santa, who will have lollies for the kids.

During the Topp Twins break, children from Greenpark School will be performing and we are hoping for an opening act too.

To keep you topped up in the food department, a sausage sizzle, Mr Whippy, Candy Floss, Lil Ortbit donuts, chop suey, pork buns and a coffee cart will be on site, or you can bring along your own picnic.

Gates will open at 5pm – see the advert on this page for ticket sales and terms and conditions.

If you are a busker or performer who would like to perform in the afternoon, please contact me.

This is sure to be a crowd pleaser, so don’t delay - purchase your tickets today!

Large groups are welcome, and tickets would make a great early Christmas present. Get a group together and join us in Greerton Village.

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As soon as the cherry pink blossoms of October are over, Greerton village bursts into a brilliant display of tequila sunrise.

This award-winning hybrid tea rose, also known as the Dicobey, is dense and bushy.

Growing to about one-metre high, the deep, rich golden yellow blooms are tipped with

orange-red.

Creating a beautiful view from the Greerton Village Mainstreet office window, the roses also provide a refreshing graceful entrance for groups using Greerton Hall.

The rose flowers for approximately ten months, with many people, including tourists, stopping to photograph and

admire them.

As Sally Allison’s book Shrub Roses says: “As fiery as its cocktail namesake and as dazzling as a sunrise.”

The tequila sunrise was originally developed as a new rose in 1985. Winner of England’s Royal National Rose Society Gold Medal in 1988, the striking breed has dark green

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leaves, providing the perfect foliage for its four-inch flower, with up to 40 petals.

Terry Molloy, city councillor and past chairman for eight years of the committee that drove the Greerton village redevelopment, donated some of the cherry trees that now grace the roads.

Unique to Greerton village, they are much enjoyed by many.

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Giving thanks for the good things One of the better known accounts in the gospels is the ‘feeding of the 5000 men’ (plus women and children).

It is found in John, chapter six.

The crowd is hungry, and Jesus’ friends find a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish. It says: “Jesus had the people sit down.” And he took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed, as much as they wanted, to those who were seated.

He did the same with the fish, and when they had all had enough to eat, he said to his disciples: “Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted.”

Jesus did not plead with God to multiply the fish and bread, he did not pray fervently over the food, he just gave thanks.

In John 6:23-24, when the people were talking about the events of the previous day it says some boats from Tiberias landed near the place where the people had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

The key to this miracle was that Jesus gave thanks, and it teaches us about the ability of God to provide for our needs but also the value of being thankful to God and even to each other.

Stephen Tyrrell - Matua Community Baptist Church

No foundation for the theory of evolution The theory of evolution cannot explain how life began. Why? Because Charles Darwin’s theory totally relies on natural selection and mutation - two processes requiring an existing life form that can reproduce.

Unless there is an existing life form, evolution cannot begin.

If such a life form, which scientists speculate happened as a result of chemicals coming together in a ‘warm soup’, was to have benefited anyone, it would have needed to be able to reproduce or replicate itself before dying.

If it couldn’t survive long enough to reproduce itself, then its death would be the end of the process.

It sounds like the first hypothesised simple life form couldn’t have been all that ‘simple’ after all.

In fact, the greatest scientists in the world are unable to bring chemicals together to form life that

can reproduce itself, or even life for that matter. That’s because there is no such thing as a ‘simple’ life form.

Even if scientists could make life, it would only prove great intelligence was required to do so.

Where does this leave us in trying to explain the origins of life? Hopefully, given the great complexity of life, we will not be so gullible to believe life happened by chance without a designer God. Perhaps we can reason, as the famous scientist Louis Pasteur proved, that life only comes from life. If life only comes from life, then doesn’t it stand to reason that a life form has always existed and that that lifeform is super-intelligent – God, in fact?

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Have a say on harmful gambling

The social cost to children, families and the community from harmful gambling far outweighs any benefit gained from community funding.

Gambling problems can lead to poor mental health, family violence, poverty, crime and child neglect.

Yes, it’s time to look at the other side of gaming. We urge people to have their say about pokies in Tauranga district.

P Snowden, Problem Gambling Foundation of NZ (Abridged).

Re ‘GMA urges public to look at other side of gaming’ (SunLive, November 8).

The Gaming Machine Association says $14 million a year is received by clubs and community groups in the Tauranga district. In fact, from January 2017 to September 2018, approximately $8.5 million in pokie grants was distributed to the Tauranga district.

While many worthwhile organisations receive this funding, we too are urging the public to look at ‘the other side of gaming’ and consider where the money is coming from rather than where it is going to.

Pokies in pubs and clubs are the most harmful form of gambling, with nearly 50 per cent of people presenting for help with a gambling problem citing pokies as the reason why. And they are mainly in our more deprived communities.

There is no evidence to suggest people will migrate from pokie machines to online gambling if pokie numbers decrease.

Fix Belk Road

To all those people who wonder what the fuss is regarding the Belk Road intersection with State Highway 29, there is no turning bay coming from McLaren Falls to turn right into Belk Road. Your car comes around a blind corner on SH29 and you have two seconds to decide ‘do I stop in the middle of the road with the blinker on?’ or ‘do I pull up hard left with one wheel up on the kerb and wait?’ or ‘do I proceed to Redwood Lane, turn in, do a U-turn, cross SH29 and drive back to the Belk Road corner for a free left turn?’

A truck and trailer coming from McLaren Falls cannot stop in time for a vehicle stopped in the middle of the road waiting to turn right into Belk Road.

The NZTA draws up plans, consults, aborts those plans, draws more plans, and in four years has achieved nothing. Fix the bloody road.

V Brazier, Tauriko.

Sport, not war

On viewing the All Blacks v England game at Twickenham, I listened to the British rugby fans singing their hearts out to drown the All Blacks haka but was astonished to hear a New Zealand commentator question whether that was ‘respectful’.

In my opinion, and I accept that I may be a minority in my thinking, I thought their song was rousing and a reciprocal challenge to the haka.

It is an anathema to me that any international team opposing the All Blacks has to remain mute and respectful in the face of what in my opinion is a violent, intimidating war dance.

I lived for sport in my youth, and was always encouraged to try to win, but to understand that I was involved in a sporting game, not war.

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Put an end to apologies The letters (The Weekend Sun, November 9) critical of our book are most welcome as they open debate.

M Maunder is correct in pointing out that the account in our new book is not new. We tell the full story, based on the accounts of the time, to counter imaginative new versions.

He points to the humane attitude of the Maori warriors, with reference to a Biblical quote found on Taratoa’s body. We agree, and quote historian James Cowan in a report of the “humanity and chivalry” of the rebels. This chivalrous behaviour had an influence on the peace that followed.

It was not always so: this resulted from decades of perseverance by missionaries. In 1833, Williams and Chapman risked their lives trying to put an end to the slaughter around Maketu between Arawa and Ngaiterangi, but did not succeed. In 1836, the call of Wilson and Wade that Waharoa spare the lives of captives was ignored.

The Anglican Church should cease its denigration of the early missionaries in its efforts to manufacture fault. The Church, and all of us, should put an end to these apologies, and act with pride to recognise and celebrate the great good done by these brave and dedicated men.

J Robinson, Wellington (Abridged).

Maundering over book M Maunder of Otumoetai is certainly ‘maundering’ (talking in a rambling, foolish or meaningless way) when, in a recent letter to The Weekend Sun (November 9), he describes the British and colonial military as “invaders and conquerors” when, as early as November 1831, the Northern Tribes had requested King William to provide assistance in establishing ‘law and order’ in the land.

This led to the Treaty and subsequently the arrival of British troops to support the government, colonists and Maori, and implement the Treaty. How can anyone invade one’s own country?

It is more likely that the local tribes sold the land to the CMS to prevent it being invaded by other tribes.

That he makes his judgment of ‘Gate Pa and Te Ranga’ after “skimming the ‘new’ book for 20 minutes” shows an unscholarly regard for research and invalidates subsequent comment. Somewhat ‘maundering’.

B Johnson, Omokoroa.

Pathetic pandering to pedal pushers Someone will suffer, some may lose their home and someone may die! I raise these points because a serious mistake has been made by Tauranga City Council.

For example, while driving on Cameron Road this week I was stopped at Greerton. The ambulance came, lights flashing, siren blaring, on a mission of mercy. It could not get through!

The strangulation of Cameron Road by TCC and NZTA is to blame.

The pathetic pandering to pedal pushers has led to traffic jammed from Gate Pa shops to Barkes Corner and emergency services stopped dead.

The answer – double lane Cameron Road on both sides from Tauranga Hospital to Barkes Corner. Get rid of everything that is blocking our city’s main artery. Do it now before a tragedy happens.

K Evans, Tauranga.

Church should pay Last week’s letters (The Weekend Sun, November 9) suggest we upset the Anglican and tribal elites by our earlier statement that, as the fee simple owner of the Tauranga land that it sold to the government in 1867, the Anglican Church did not need to get the approval of the local sub-tribes for its sale.

P Dey wrote “the original purchase came with an agreement that the land would be used for Church purposes”. I would like to see this ‘agreement’ – in writing please, as oral history is notoriously unreliable.

If the Anglican Church persists in saying it was holding the land “in trust” for the sub-tribes, and that trust was violated by its 1867 sale to the government, then that would be the fault of the Church, not the Crown, and any compensation should come from the Church, not the taxpayer.

Instead the Church is supporting an application to the Waitangi Tribunal by Nga Tamarawaho and Ngati Tapu to sting the taxpayer for several million dollars. Let the Church put its money where its mouth is. A good start would be to hand over its $6 million Holy Trinity convention centre to the two sub-tribes that it is so keen to enrich.

J McLean, Wellington (Abridged).

Ripped off in so many ways A Bourne’s letter stating that we are being ripped off over petrol prices (The Weekend Sun, November 9) is indeed mumbo jumbo. But if any of you feel the same way then you surely would have noticed that you have been ripped off in so many other ways in the way your money is spent. So, to target petrol prices and to compare them to prices overseas draws me to one comment – move overseas to where you will be happy with the price. You live in a Western society where prices will continuously rise, even in a red hot economy, simply because we are a wanting, needy society. The choice is yours on how you wish to spend your hard-earned cash – like it or lump it.

R Stewart, Te Puke.

Ph 0508 KIWIFRESH (0508 549 437)

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Refreshing some of the old favourites The Andrew London Trio have been fairly frequent visitors to the Bay since their emergence from previous band, Hot Club Sandwich, in 2012.

In that time they’ve also recorded five albums, primarily focusing on Andrew’s humorous satirical songs immortalising foibles and quirks of the Kiwi psyche and lifestyle.

From the very start, their live shows have included a bunch of songs from what we now call ‘The Great American Songbook’ and their sixth album, which recently received an unofficial launch at the Omokoroa Boat Club, embraces that with a collection of snappy jazz tunes from the past 100 years - the oldest being 1919’s I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate.

The most recent is Australian Billy Field’s Bad Habits from 1981, and in between you get standards such as Sunny Side of The Street and Don't Fence Me In as well as 40s swing – Beyond The Sea, It's a Good Day – a little blues, some Western Swing and the odd delightful curio like I'll Be Your Friend With Pleasure, which I think has something to do with Bix Beiderbecke.

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That last one is sung by sax and clarinet maestro Nils Olsen, who really excels throughout, proving himself an agile vocal stylist on several songs while digging into his deep knowledge of early jazz for a masterclass of horn and woodwind.

Also good to hear is a little more from bass player Kirsten London, who sings Why Don’t You Do Right and three others with a Peggy Lee purity that gladdens the heart.

Andrew, of course, is right on point too, singing, playing slinky lead guitar, adding harmonies and anchoring everything. He has enlisted sympathetic support from drummer Lance Philip, while old mate Wayne Mason drops in for some very effective piano.

With a generous 16 songs on offer, this should please all mainstream jazz lovers. You can buy the CD from www.andrewlondon.co.nz and there are links there to Bandcamp, where it can be downloaded. Moving to the international stage, I’ve loved Paul Simon’s music for more decades than I care to remember, but he must be a frustration for the accountants at his label.

I thought his last couple of albums were actually vaguely commercial, even if the singles never really landed, but the few before that – Songs From The Capeman, You’re The One and Surprise – seemed to almost perversely avoid anything that might work as a single or get played on the radio.

Favourites

So it’s hard not to smile at the carefully-worded sticker on the sleeve of his new album, In The Blue Light, which proclaims: “Fresh perspectives on 10 of the artist’s favourite songs.” Whose favourites?

The ten songs may indeed be Paul Simon’s favourites, but with four from You’re The One, and one each – not the well-known ones either – from six other solo albums, you should definitely file this under Labours Of Love.

But what a labour! With a seemingly limitless budget, Simon has enlisted modern chamber ensemble yMusic, guitarist Bill Frisell, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and the National’s Bryce Dessner, along with the likes of Steve Gadd (drums), John Patitucci (bass) and the Brazilian guitar-playing brothers Sergio and Odair Assad.

The result is dazzling - a subtle, wonderfully complex mixture of jazz and chamber music with frequent nods to world sounds.

Some songs have reworked lyrics, but many stay true to the original arrangements while swapping instruments and genres. Frantic strings replace percussion on Rhythm Of The Saints and Can't Run But, while Pigs Sheep and Wolves comes into sharper relief with the funk of Marsalis’ New Orleans horns. There is beauty and delicacy in the music, while lyrical themes show the more philosophical Simon of Love and Questions For The Angels, as well as the wry humourist of Darling Lorraine.

In The Blue Light is an epic in ten songs - a grand, extravagant folly that puts art before commerce in every way and could only have been made by someone with the track record and status of Paul Simon. No one else would have been given the resources. Thanks Paul – it was worth it.

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Husband and wife create magical mischief As the old saying goes, “time flies when you’re having fun”, and Baycourt Community and Arts Centre had an absolute blast delivering the inaugural Baycourt Presents Arts on Tour NZ in Tauranga show series this year.

But it’s the end of the line for the seven-show series with the final two performances – The Messy Magic Adventure and Seven Deadly Stunts – taking place at The Historic Village Hall on Friday, November 23 at 3.30pm and 7.30pm.

Baycourt marketing coordinator David Tauranga says the two shows are the creation of Christchurch husband and wife duo Lizzie Tollemache and David Ladderman, of Rollicking Entertainment.

“Children will absolutely love The Messy Magic Adventure because it combines the best of circus, slapstick and magic in such a fantastically mesmerising and hilarious way,” says David.

“While grown-up kids, aka adults, will have a terrifyingly terrific time at Seven Deadly Stunts, which as the name suggests, features seven of the most notorious and seriously dangerous stunts in all of carnie history.”

The Messy Magic Adventure follows Spray and Wipe; two cleaners who've been hired to do housework at a magician’s house.

But when they accidentally let the magic out of its box, they turn to the audience for help to get it back in the box before the magician comes home.

Rollicking Entertainment will then turn up the heat with Seven Deadly Stunts - a nail-biting and risqué experience offering audiences the freakiest side of circus, magic and sideshow.

Chainsaw juggling, walking on broken glass and other famous feats are performed along with the stories of how they came to be.

“It’s fantastic to have Rollicking Entertainment deliver the final two shows of the Baycourt Presents Arts on Tour NZ in Tauranga show series,” says David, “because Lizzie and Dave are both super talented performers who command the stage masterfully and are extremely engaging to watch.”

Tickets for The Messy Magic Adventure cost $15 per person, while tickets for Seven Deadly Stunts cost $24.90 for an adult, $15 for a child (18 and under), and $22 for seniors (65plus) and Friends of Baycourt.

Husband and wife duo Tickets are available online from Lizzie Tollemache and Ticketek at: www.ticketek.co.nz, by David Ladderman from phone on: 0800 TICKETEK or over the Rollicking Entertainment. Baycourt Box Office counter. Ticketing service fees apply.

Photo: Rachel Pugh.

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Music standing the test of time Handel’s Messiah has stood the test of time, act’, his motorbike. fills my cup! It is so amazing, and my wife Ella and and is still being sung throughout the world I “It are both so in love with music.” since the first performance in 1742.

And what does Jeandre want from his Kiwi Messiah

Handel turned to composing oratorio (opera without experience? “I want a big outcome,” he says with a smile.

This performance, with NZbAROK Orchestra, will the expense of sets, props and costumes) to engage an feature another stunning line-up of New Zealand audience which swelled to a record 700, with ladies soloists, including Jayne Tankersley (soprano), Stephen discarding their skirt hoops to make room.

Diaz (countertenor), Lachlan Craig The composer’s work makes a (tenor) and Tavis Gravatt (bass) reappearance in Tauranga this month Handel’s Messiah will be performed via Scholars Pro Musica chamber choir, at St Mary Immaculate Church from who boast members that originate 7.30pm on November 24. from across the globe.

Tickets are available online via Jeandre le Roux recently arrived Ticketek, or at Baycourt for a TECT from Pretoria, joining scholars to meet card discount. people outside of his profession.

Door sales are cash only from 7pm He had been singing with the oldest on the night, and tickets cost $35 for choir in South Africa, Stellenbosch adults including one child ticket, and Jeandre le Roux.

University Choir, which was founded $20 for children and students. in 1936 and established as one of the best in the world.

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All USA Day celebrates motoring icon Ford Mustangs have lit up the silver screen since Steve McQueen’s Bullitt in 1968, and this weekend enthusiasts can get up close to some of the most admired models in New Zealand.

The Bay of Plenty Mustang Owners Club, which was established in 2002 and boasts more than 100 members, will be out in force for Sunday’s All USA Day. And among the array of classic cars, John Hepburn’s 1967 Notchback and David and Vanessa Thomson’s eye-catching grabber lime 1971 Mach 1 are bound to attract some admirers.

Bay of Plenty Mustang Owners Club president David Thomson, his wife and club secretary Vanessa, granddaughter Ayla and club member John Hepburn.

Dogs not permitted.

Club president David, who has been involved for around seven years, says: “As a mechanic, I got to a point where I wanted a hobby car. I found a Mustang that was quite affordable and it grew from there. I now own four of them.

“You don’t realise how much of a Mustang culture there is until you buy one.

“There will be a lot of Mustangs on Sunday, but you’ll also see everything from classic Chevrolet Impalas to some unusual Pontiacs. The Corvette Club from Auckland normally comes down as well.”

John is lauded as the club’s oldest member at 80 years old, and he also enjoys a unique history with the much-loved brand.

“I got my first Mustang – a white convertible – in 1966,” he says, “and drove 18,000 miles in three months all across North America.

“It’s an iconic vehicle. The lines and the proportions are so classic and I don’t think they can be beaten. I have a great emotional attachment that goes back more than 50 years.”

Sunday’s event takes place between 10am-2pm at Classic Flyers, Jean Batten Drive, Mount Maunganui. Show cars are $5 including all occupants, while gate entry is $5 per person or $10 per family.

Prizegiving is from 2pm and there’s a gate-entry prize of a scenic flight worth $355.

The Bay of Plenty Mustang Owners Club is proud to support Tauranga Habitat for Humanity as this year’s charity.

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Spotlight on Denise Hyde Although born in Waiouru, and having grown up with an army family, Denise did her schooling in Taupo.

She had a very encouraging music teacher at her intermediate school, and it wasn’t long before she started to sing.

Denise joined a country music club at 20, and remembers loving the songs by Linda Ronstadt and the wider country/rock genre. Taking a leap of faith, she advertised in the local ‘Rock Shop’ classifieds, looking for like-minded people who wanted to form a cover band.

Shabang was formed in 2010, and Denise says she’s felt privileged to perform alongside many talented local musicians.

Now based in Tauranga, Denise performs lead vocals for Shabang and is joined by Adam

Learn about our community Are you a newcomer to the Bay of Plenty looking for more information to help you settle well and learn about the range of services and opportunities in our region?

Are you a local resident and keen to connect with everything our region has to offer?

Come along to the Tauranga Bay of Plenty Migrant Expo 2018 on November 25 at Tauranga Boys’ College, from 10am-3pm.

There will be more than 40 information stands, offering advice and information to help you in your day-to-day life here in the Bay of Plenty.

Food stalls and interactive activities will be happening on the day as well.

This is a free event, and we encourage you to come along and enjoy all that’s on offer. For more information, visit: www.facebook.com/TaurangaBayofPlentyMigrantExpo and ‘like’ and ‘share’ with your friends and colleagues and promote to your own communities and networks.

Pendred (bass/vocals), Brendon Moratti (guitar/ vocals) and John Hawley (drums).

They have played classic rock covers at many gigs and Denise loves performing at functions for birthdays, weddings and other milestone events.

She especially enjoyed a recent gig that saw the band flown to Waimate to perform at one of New Zealand’s longest-running street racing events, Waimate 50.

Denise has also done some work in recording studios, providing backing vocals for other songwriters.

She will be performing with Shabang at Mills Reef for their ‘Dinner and Dance' Christmas functions on December 7-8, and also December 14-15, from 9pm. Be sure to get your tickets.

Denise Hyde performing for Shabang.

GIGGUIDE & ENTERTAINMENT MT RSA Fri 16th Tony Wellington 7pm – 10:30pm Sat 17th Back Porch 7pm – 10:30pm Sun 18th Stagetalk 4:30pm – 7:30pm

Sun 18th Super Social Sunday 10pm Thurs 22nd Social Jam Night from 9pm THE BARREL ROOM Sat 17th Take 2 Jazz 7pm Mon 19th Quiz night 7pm

MOUNT SOCIAL CLUB Fri 16th Camila & Santiago 6pm – 9pm, then DJ Cam JACK DUSTY’S ALE HOUSE (Bureta) 10pm Sat 17th Regan Perry 6pm – Sun 18th The Self Righteous Brothers 3pm – 6pm 9pm, then DJ Zeca 10pm

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Saturday 17 November Bay Network Singles Club

50 Plus. Great people & awesome outings. Must have a sense of humor.

Ph Jonathan 572 2091 or Maureen 021 112 3307

Baypark Family Speedway

Demolition Derby from 6:30pm. For more info go to www.baypark.co.nz

Beth-El Messianic Family

Celebrate Family Life with believers who meet & worship as Yeshua (Jesus) & all the early believers did.

Shalom.10am Otumoetai Primary. www.BethEl.org.nz. Joel 021 768 043

Bloom In The Bay

Today & tomorrow. Live music, art displays, concept gardens, tasty food & beverages at Mills Reef Bar, free speakers series & fun for the family! More info www.gardenandartfestival.co.nz

Bumper Jumble Sale

8:30am-1pm to support Tauranga Boys College Argentina Football Trip 2019. Books, magazines, clothes, CDs, cupcakes, coffee cart, sausage sizzle, something for the whole family! Cash only.

Car Boot Sale

Tauranga South Community Patrol Carboot Sale. Greerton Village School, Greerton & Chadwick Rds. Setup 7am.

Sites Single $5, Double $10. Ph Shirley 577 1116

Gate Pa Junior Tennis

Club days/times: Sat 9am: 5-7 yrs, 10am: 8-10 yrs Thurs- 4.30pm: Intermediate ages, 6pm: College ages. New members welcome. Racquets are available. Enquiries: Turu 022 031 7568

Garden & Art Festival

Katikati Lions Moggies Market

So many gift ideas to be found, something to do & yummy food too, come along & join us 169 Elizabeth St, 4-9pm

LOL Laughter Wellness

Sunday 18 November

We don’t laugh because we’re happy, we’re happy because we laugh. Arataki Community Centre, Zambuk Way, Mt Maunganui, 11-11:45am. Koha. Trish 022 036 6768 lollaughterwellness@gmail.com

Lynette Fisher, Art Exhibition

“I Am What I Play” by Tauranga Artist Lynette Fisher. Running until 27th Nov at The Incubator Gallery, Historic Village, 17th Ave. www.theincubator.co.nz

Mount Maunganui Toy Library

Rent toys, keep your kids entertained.

Find us on Facebook. 22 MacDonald St Wed 9:30-12, Fri 11:30-2, Sat 9:30-12

Mount Music Club

2nd Sat in month. Mostly country.

Good backing band. Mount Old Folks Hall, Midway, Mount

Otumoetai Tennis Club

Adult tennis. Start time 1:30pm.

Bellevue Park, Windsor Road (next to Swimming Pool Complex). New players & visitors welcome. Ph Fred 544 5088

St Stephens invites you to join their library. Open 10-12 at Highmore Pl. Over 150 puzzles to choose from. Children’s to 1000 pieces.

Katikati Bowling Club

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

Original Art for sale. The Strand, Tauranga. Weather permitting. 9am-5pm.

Tauranga Society of Artists

Bible Seminar

1:45pm Greerton Senior Citizen’s Hall, Maitland St, Greerton. Title: The birth of Jesus - God’s Saviour. Interactive, Q&A. All welcome. Vic 543 0504

Corkers Toastmasters

Wow your audience Corkers Toastmasters meets 3rd Sunday of month at The Zone Cafe, Owens Place, Mt Maunganui at 2pm. Ph Chrissy 027 296 7939

Croquet

Te Puke Community Market

9am-1pm Art, Craft, Food, Coffee, Bric-a-brac & new products. Ph 027 356 9545 register online. Check out facebook Te Puke Community Market. #goodnessgrowshere

Te Puke Scottish Society

Males & Females in their 30s, 40s & 50s, that meet up to participate in bushwalks, dining out & local activities & events. Ph 022 012 0376

Jigsaw Puzzle Library

Art On The Strand

Oriana Singers present the music of NZ composer David Hamilton, Dec 2nd 2:30pm St Peters, cnr Cameron Rd/Spring St. Tickets at door, $15 adults & children free.

Tga/BOP Club at Club Mt Maunganui 12:50pm start.

All welcome to try a new sport. Equip available. All coaching given. Ph Maryan 022 070 8800

Handel’s Messiah

Open day on 17th Nov 10am-1pm at 1/100 Grey St, Tauranga. Competitions, face painting, science experiments, robotic displays. Dress as your favourite scientist!

Oldtime Music-makers at Welcome Bay hall 3rd Sunday every month 1-4pm.

All welcome. $3 entry & Ladies a plate please. Ph Ces or Joy 544 3849

Petanque Tauranga

Today & tomorrow. Celebrate the beauty & diversity of stunning gardens & the creativity of talented artists in BOP. Ph 0800 842 538 or www.gardenandartfestival. co.nz for more info & tickets

House Of Science Tauranga

Accordion-Keyboard

Tauranga Domain, Cameron Rd, 12:45 for 1pm start. Beginners welcome. Ph Peter 571 0633

Hawaiian Dance, Te Puke War Memorial Hall 7:30-11pm. Live band, excellent supper, great company, $7/ person. Prize for best dressed male/ female. Ph Valerie 573 7093

Stunning performance of Handel’s “Messiah” by Tauranga’s Scholars Pro Musica Chamber Choir & NZBarok professional baroque orchestra. St Mary Immaculate 24th Nov 7:30pm. Tickets from Ticketek+Baycourt.

Zee’s Night Market

2nd Sat of month Katikati Memorial Hall, Main Road 8am-Noon. Enquiries 549 3589

The Sociables

Village Market/Garage Sale

9am, Victoria Hall, SH2, Waikino. Bric-a-brac, clothing, old china, tools, crockery plus lots more. Fund raiser for the community hall.

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

Welcome Bay Healing Day

Te Waka Wairua Spiritual Healing Day, Welcome Bay Community Ctr 9am-2pm. Massages, spiritual healing & readings. Everyone welcome. $20 entry the everything free.

David Hamilton, Composer/Conductor

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

Free Diabetes Education Program

Join DESMOND & the team from Diabetes Help Tauranga 9-4pm. Take control of your type two diabetes. 027 883 0158

Historic Village Market

Great market every 1st & 3rd Sunday from 8am-12 pm at 17th Ave. Fruit & veg, crafts, tools, food, plants, clothes & paintings.

International Travel, Home Hosting

Go to the friendshipforce.org & attend one of our Sunday or Thursday monthly meetings to learn more. Ph Barbara 574 5711, Jonathan 572 2091

Maketu Market

Maketu Market is held on 3rd & 5th Sundays of each month from 6am at Maketu Village Green. Ph Pat 021 447 420 or Carolyn 027 251 0388

Messy Church Holy Trinity

Cnr 3rd Ave & Devonport Rd 4-6pm Christmas theme.

Activities, creative, games, lots of fun, short Interactive Christian story. Simple meal with GF & vegetarian options. All free.

Ph 578 7718

NZDA BOP Range Day

Chess at Mount Maunganui

NZDA BOP branch run public open days last Sunday each month at their 300m range in TECT All Terrain Park. 9am-3pm $20 bring firearm licence

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

Omokoroa Lions Market

The Mount Chess Club, 1pm-4pm. Hillier Centre, 31 Gloucester Rd Mt Maunganui. $3. Sets, boards, clocks, refreshments provided.

Bob or Viv 575 5845 or 0274 786 282

2nd Sunday monthly. Western Ave Car Park, Omokoroa. 9am-noon. Bookings not required. Ph Keith 548 2117

Papamoa Lions Club Market

2nd & 4th Sunday 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 7158 or 573 8497 www.quaker.org.nz

Radio Controlled Model Yachts

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

Tauranga Fuchsia Show

Annual Competition & Show at Art & Craft Centre Elizabeth St West 9am-3pm. Admission $3. Fuchsia sales table. Ph Noeleen 578 4643

TePuke Country Music Club

1pm at Te Puke Citizens & RSA Club.

All welcome. Ph Gayle 573 8255

Tibetan Buddhist Teachings

Teachings by Geshela Jamyang Sherab held at the Papamoa Community Centre, alternate Sundays, 10am-12pm.

Teachings Free, Dana appreciated. For dates Ph Jaki on 021 216 1102

Monday 19 November Achieve Toastmasters

Find your voice Achieve Toastmasters meets 1st 3rd & 5th Monday at St Stephens Church Hall Brookfield Te race at 7:30pm. Ph Frank/ Chrissy 543 9493

Chess During The Day

Citizens Advice Bureau Tauranga

Free confidential impartial information advice. Don’t know? Ask us! Ph or visit us at 38 Hamilton St Tauranga Mon-Fri 9am5pm 07 578 1592 or 0800 367 222

Dutch Friendly Support Network

Coffee morning (1st Monday of month) 10am-12noon. $3 entry. Vintage Car Club Rooms, Cliff Road, Tauranga.

Ph Bernadette 572 3968

Friends Of The Library

Greerton Library Book Group meets at 10:30am. Theme this month, Sophisticated Picture Books. Tea & coffee.

Visitors & new members welcome. Jenny 543 4760

Genealogy Friendly Group

Mako Room, Papamoa Community Centre 1:30-3:30pm. We offer assistance to anyone with an interest in researching their family history. Ph 544 4182

Genies Unbottled Dance Class

Mon, Wed & Thurs, Belly dance classes for beginners at Te Puna Studio 1pm & 7pm.

Small class sizes make booking essential. Ph Linley 552 4352 or 027 286 3452

Menz Shed

86B No.3 Rd Te Puke. Come & join us at our shed Mon, Wed, Fri at 9am. Ph 573 8655 or 573 5971

Recycled Teenagers Exercise Class

50+, & illness/injury rehabilitation.

Mon & Wed 9:15-10:45 Snr Citz Club 14 Norris St Tga. St Mary’s Church Hall Girven Rd Tues 9-10.30am. Jennifer 571 1411

Tauranga City Brass

Alcoholics Anonymous

Band practise is 7-9pm at 10 Yatton St Greerton. All brass players & percussionists very welcome. Instruments available.

Ph Jeremy 021 132 3341

Badminton Club, Aquinas College

Tauranga Creative Fibre

Open meeting 10am. Tauranga Central Baptist Church,13 ave/Cameron Rd. All welcome. Ph 0800 229 6757 Tauranga Badminton Club, 7:309:30pm. Aquinas College Events Centre.

Seniors & Year 11 upwards. Casual players welcome. $8pp. Club racquets available. Ph/text Sue: 021 194 4335 www. sporty/taurangabadmintonclub.co.nz

Every Mon 9:30am, also 2nd & 4th Thur 7pm. Learn/share spinning, weaving, knitting, felting, crochet, all things fibre. 177 Elizabeth St. Margaret 571 3483

Body+Soul Fitness

At Tauranga Citizens Club 7:15pm.

New members welcome all ages. Ph Andrew 021 0298 5047

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

Ph Dianne 027 431 4326 or 576 5031

Cards 500

Social, competitive & fun. Flexible evenings to suit. No cost. Ph Chris 572 3834

Tauranga Indoor Bowls

Tauranga Rocknroll Club

Lessons 6:45pm & social dancing 7:30pm at Legion of Frontiersmen Hall, 165 Elizabeth Street. Ph Rana 027 699 5571 or www.taurangarocknrollclub.org.nz

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Otumoetai Walking Group

CARDS 500 Mon& Turs. INDOOR BOWLS Tues, Wed & Sat, 14 Norris St (behind PaknSave) 12:45pm for 1pm start. Entry $2 includes afternoon tea.

New members welcome.

Zonta Tauranga Womens’ Organisation Leading global organisation empowering women worldwide thru service & advocacy warmly welcomes professional women. Make a difference. Monthly meeting. Ph Suzy 021 266 5044

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

Tuesday 20 November

What do you call six women stranded on a mountain in the rain?

Ridiculous! Theatre presented by Ben McDonald. 7:30pm. See www. baycourt.co.nz tickets & info.

Alcoholics Anonymous

Open Meeting every Tuesday night, 7:30pm St Peters Anglican Church, 11 Victoria Rd, Mt Maunganui. All welcome. Ph 0800 229 6757

Altrusa Ladies Group

Leading to a Better Community. Interested? email Denise dkbean@ kinect.co.nz. ph/txt 027 284 6828. Meet 2nd Tues business & social 4th Tues.

Beginner Social Dance Class

6pm, Tauranga Primary School Hall, 5th Ave or Wed at 8pm, Welcome Bay School Hall, Welcome Bay Rd. Ph 544 2337

BOP Linux Users Group

7-9pm first Tues of the month L.J.Hooker, cnr Cameron Rd & 8th Ave Smarter, safer, faster & free. Learn more to take charge of your computer.

578 6024 http://boplug.co.nz/eventcalendar/

Children Of The Pacific

Living in Harmony: Pacifika faces of the future-our children. All welcome.Potluck dinner.

Donation. 7pm Senior Citizens Hall, Tauranga. Ph Multicultural Tauranga 027 670 0700

Citizens Advice Bureau Papamoa

Free confidential impartial information & advice. Don’t know? Ask us! Ph or visit us at Community Centre 15 Gravatt Road Papamoa Tues-Thurs 10am-1pm 07 5749862 or 0800 367 222

Falun Dafa (Free)

Replace chaos with calm leading up to Christmas using this mind/body practice. 7pm, Hillier Centre, 31 Gloucester Rd, Bayfair. Ph/txt Judy 021 0425 398

Scrabble

Tauranga Scrabble Club 8:50am12pm. 3 games Tauranga Bridge Club Ngatai Rd. New players very welcome Ph 578 3606

Sequence Dancing

Tauranga Social & Leisure Club, St John Anglican Church Hall, 94 Bureta Road Otumoetai, Tues 7pm-9:30pm except 2nd Tues month 3:30pm-6pm Faye 543 3280

Social Climbers

Tauranga Acoustic Music Club

Greerton RSA 7pm. Friendly gettogether, all instruments, all levels of ability. Come in & enjoy some live music. Grant 578 6448

Tauranga Morning Badminton

9-11:30am Tues & Thurs, QE2 Centre. All ages. Racquets available, beginners welcome. $5 per day. Ph Rachael 07 548 2216

Tauranga Samba Brazilian Drumming

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

Mount Sports Hall, Cnr Hull & Mt Maunganui Rds. No experience reqd.

Ph/txt Rob 021 232 7185 for info

Tauranga Toastmasters

Improve your speaking & leadership skills in a supportive & social environment. Every Tuesday 7:309:30pm, Lyceum Club, 1st Ave. Guests welcome!

Te Puke Toy Library

Tues-Thurs 9-1pm, Fri/Sat 10-12pm Borrow Toys, have a play, Playgroup on Friday as well as Brick Kids during term 3:30pm. 7 Stock Rd. Ph 027 263 9309

Try Lawn Bowls

Tauranga South Bowling Club. All welcome, especially beginners. Must be over 13 years. Bowls supplied. Smooth flat shoes or bare feet. 5:45-8:15pm approx. $5 each

Twilight Petanque Tauranga

Free Meditation

7:30pm-8:30pm. Bring peace & joy into your life.

Youth Engagement Building (behind main stadium) Tauranga Domain Cameron Rd. Entrance opp Monmouth St. Ph Ian 027 884 2238

Friends Of The Library

Papamoa Library Book Group meets at 10am. Theme this month, Asian Authors. Visitors & new members welcome. Tea & coffee. Patti 572 0201

Healing Rooms 1-3pm

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

Katikati Bowling Club

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

Kiwi Toasters

Build Confidence Kiwi Toasters meets 1st 3rd & 5th Wednesday at 5:30pm at 3 Palm Springs Boulevard (beside Pharmacy) Papamoa. Ph Chrissy 027 296 7939

Mount Spiritual &Healing Centre

Guest speaker Caitlin Ellis, a brilliant young clairvoyant/medium. 7:30 at Bowling club, Golf Rd. Entry $5.

Ph Sue Buckland 0210 223 2052

Papamoa Palms Friendship Club

11am Gordon Spratt Reserve, Parton Rd. am & pm speakers. Bring own lunch. All welcome. Initial visit free. Ph Sue 574 3280

Scottish Country Dancing

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

Singles Coffee Club 60+

Meet every Wed 10am. Looking to meet like minded people. Ph Gayle 0274 393 267 or email mixandmingle@xtra.co.nz

Steady As You Go

Exercises at St Johns Church Hall Bureta, 2-3pm except 1st Wednesdays each month. Improve balance & overall wellbeing. Ph Alison 07 576 4536 Tauranga MidWeek Tramping Group Karangahape to summit & return via Dubbo and Pipeline track. Grade moderate. Garry 07 578 3083

Hecksplorer - The Exilers

Tga/BOP Club at Club Mt Maunganui 4pm start. All welcome to try a new sport. Equip available. All coaching given. Ph Maryan 022 070 8800

Inachord Women’s Chorus

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

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 & FB

Wednesday 21 November

Twilight Corporate Disc Golf

Love reading? Young or young at heart? The Exilers is for you. New chapter posted every Monday. Read it online at hecksplorer.com/exilers or search Hecksplorer.

If you like to sing, dance ,make friends & have fun, join us! Great musical director! 7-9pm Bethlehem Community church, 183 Moffat Road.

Ph Sabine 021 111 8659

Yoga for All

Age Concern Walking Group

10am Mt Maunganui Hot Pools.

Israeli Dancing

Beginners group 6:307:30pm circle & line dances. All ages welcome.

Gate Pa Primary School hall, Cameron Rd. Ph Maria 544 1680 or 022 165 2114

Lions Club Welcome Bay

Lions Club of Welcome Bay + Age Concern. Coffee & Conversation.

Welcome Bay Community Centre every 3rd Tuesday 10:30am-11:30am.

All welcome Register Ph 571 8940

Mount Morning Badminton

9-11:30am. Mt Sports Centre, Blake Park. Social, racquets available. Closing day 20th Nov. $5 per day. Ph Margaret 575 9792

Ocean Running

5k Fun Run & Walk around Mauao base track. Every Tuesday, $6 entry Mt Ocean Sports Club from 5:15pm.

Walkers start 5:30 runners 6pm. Ph Phil 021 383 354

Otumoetai Tennis Club

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

Alcoholics Anonymous

Open meeting 10am, Every 1st/3rd Wednesday of month. Tauranga Central Bapist Church. 13th Ave/Cameron Rd. All Welcome. Ph 0800 229 6757

Arabian Spice Belly Dance

Come & dance with us . No partner required. St Columba Church Hall, 502 Otumoetai Rd, 6:30-8.30pm. Ph 021 124 5982

Cards

Do you play crib or would like to learn? At Greerton RSA 1pm sharp.

Michael Ph 562 0517

Cards - Five Hundred

1pm St Thomas More Church, 17 Gloucester Rd Mt Maunganui. $3.

Weekly prizes, door prize, refreshments, aggregate. Barbara 572 4962 or Bob 0274 786 282

Fernland Spa Water Exercise

11am-noon. For accident/illness rehabilitation, arthritics & joint replacements. Qualified instructor & lifeguard. Held rain or shine, not school holidays. New participants ph Jennifer 571 1411

Toastmasters City Early Start

A workplace get together like no other.At pin oak flat in the beautiful Mclaren Falls park 5:30pm. Full details tauranga disc golf on facebook. com

WANTED Books/CDs/DVDs/Puzzles

For Mount Lions Lioness Clubs Annual Bookfair.

Drop-off 31 Maitland Rd Greerton, 24 Twickenham Ct Bethlehem,126 Santa Monica Dr, Papamoa. For collection ph 575 2725

Thursday 22 November Bay City Rockers

Social RocknRoll Dancing, with Neon Moon, RocknRoll Waltz.

At Senior Citizens Hall, Norris St. 7-9:30pm. $3 entry includes supper. Ph Gavin 027 643 6222

Forest & Bird Walk

End of year walk, around Mount plus Moturiki Island, plus coffee.

Meet Kulim Park 8:45am. Leader: Eddie

Friends Of The Library

Please note there is NO General Meeting at Greerton Library this month. Betty 542 4322

Katikati Bowling Club

8 Park Rd Rummikub 1-4pm, $3 entry.

Phil Green 549 5344

Katikati Toastmasters

Find Your Voice Katikati Toastmasters meets 1st 3rd & 5th Thursday at 7:30pm at Katikati Community Centre Beach Road Katikati. Ph Chrissy 027 296 7939

Death Cafe

Come & discuss death. A monthly facilitated meeting gathering with no agenda but the attendees. 10-12pm at Papamoa Community Centre. Julie 0274 205 375 https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhCzN75xSKA &feature=youtu.be

Learning About Tauranga Faith-Groups

Keynotes Inc.

Exploring the diverse religious traditions contributing to NZ society. 6-8:15pm St Georges Church, 1 Church Street. Full description & enrolments at www.rdc.org. nz/classes/

Mount Art Group

Mah Jong Club

Keynotes 4-part harmony Women’s chorus meet 7pm at Wesley Church 13th Ave, singing for fun & health. Ph Bernice 576 4848 Facebook Keynotes Inc. Interested in painting or drawing, any medium & all levels? 9-1pm St Peters Hall, Victoria St, Mt Maunganui. New members welcome. Ph Rita 542 2070

Opera Forum, Merry Widow

Join us to enjoy this great Lehar opera, a DVD Screening. Tickets $20 incl complimentary wine & canapes. 5:30 at Tauranga Boys’ College. Ph 577 0583

Sign Bomb@Highlands Coffee House

Talk with/about NZSL (NZ Sign Language)! Cafe at 801 Cameron Rd. 11-12:30.

Email Yuko hunyako3@gmail.com or FB Visual Voices

Sunshine Sequence Dance Group

Celebrate our end of year - Social Dance, Thurs 29 Nov, Baptist Church Hall, 13th Ave. 7-10:30pm. Ladies plate or $5, Men $5.

Tauranga Citizens Indoor Bowls

Starts 1:15pm. New members welcome.

All ages. Ph Andrew 021 0298 5047

Te Puke Art Society

9:30am open for viewing art & doing art.

Friendly helpful group. All levels & new members welcome. Ph 027 660 6213

Friday 23 November

Every Friday at St Andews Church Hall, Dee St, Mt Maunganui. 12:45-4pm. Come join our friendly club. Joy 578 7310

Messy Magic Adventure

Spray & Wipe, two cleaners hired for their most exciting job ever, cleaning a magician’s house! At Historic Village 3:30pm. www.baycourt. co.nz for info & tickets

Omanu Bowling Club

50th Anniversary Weekend 30th Nov-2nd Dec. Open to all past & present members.

Red Cross Volunteers

Looking for something professional & to support your community while gaining retail skills for 4hrs? Enquire today at Red Cross Shop Cameron Rd, ph 578 2683

Seven Deadly Stunts

Nail-biting & naughty experience bringing the freakiest side of circus, magic & sideshow. Chainsaw juggling, walking on broken glass & other famous feats! 7:30pm Historic Village, 17th Ave. www.baycourt. co.nz

Tauranga Woodcrafters Guild Show

& Exhibition. 10-4pm. Mount Sports Centre. $5 adults. Under 15 free. Woodturners, carvers, marquetry enthusiasts, toymakers & more demonstrate their skills alongside Tauranga Creative Fibre members.

Alcoholics Anonymous

Open meeting 10am every Friday.

Tauranga Central Baptist Church, 13 Ave/ Cameron Rd. All welcome. Ph 0800 229 6757

Chess Tauranga

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

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APPLIANCE REPAIRS For service of all Fisher & Paykel, Haier and Elba appliances, Ph 0800 372 273 for your local technician.

BOAT BUILDING repairs and

maintenance. Timber & fibreglass trade qualified, boat builder. Ph Shaun 021 992 491 or 07 552 0277 ELECTRICIAN, 18+ years experience, NZ registered.

Residential & commercial, maintenance & service, new builds, renovations. Fast, friendly service. Ph Andrew 022 354 1960 HANDYMAN BUILDING, section maintenance, decks, fencing, pergolas, painting, water blasting, odd jobs. Free quotes. Ph Rossco 027 270 3313 or 544 5911 MASON PAINTERS, interior/ exterior, residential/small commercial, repaints. Quality workmanship, 25 years experience. Taking bookings for 2019. Ph Dave 027 204 1254 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 PAINTERS, INTERIOR/ EXTERIOR painting. Ova the Hedge Painters 022 031 0701 or 0800 682 843

PICTURE FRAMERS, 63 Lemon Grove, Otumoetai. Pensioner rates. Special now on for Diploma framing! Ph 07 576 0657 or 021 862 523 PLASTERER A1 TRADESMAN with 30 yrs experience. Quality finish with friendly, reliable service. I specialise in interior walls & ceilings with no job too small. Strip your own wallpaper and I will skim your walls ready for a modern paint finish. Repair cracked walls & ceilings using proven carbon-fibre technology.

Call Murray now for an obligation free quote 027 266 5657 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 TREE, SHRUB and hedges trimming, topping, rubbish, palm pruning or removal, satisfaction guaranteed free quote. Ph Steve Hockly 571 5958 or 027 498 1857

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NO 8 TOURS NEW ZEALAND’S SENIOR TRAVEL CLUB. Don’t be alone and come join us for some Christmas Cheer. (1) 12th

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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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07 543 3151 www.hopefunerals.co.nz

4 Keenan Road, Pyes Pa, Tauranga

CONNECT WITH YOUR ELECTORATE MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT

Todd Muller

and

Hon Simon Bridges

Todd Muller and HonMP Simon Bridges MP for Bay of Plenty for Tauranga MP for Bay of Plenty MP forin Tauranga represent their constituents Parliament. constituents in Parliament.

To represent schedule their a meeting with your local MP, To schedule a meeting with your local MP,

Contact Todd Contact Simon

07 542 0505 Contact Todd todd.mullerMP@parliament.govt.nz 07 542 0505 todd.mullerMP@parliament.govt.nz

07 577 0923

Contact Simon taurangaMP@parliament.govt.nz 07 577 0923 taurangaMP@parliament.govt.nz

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The Weekend Sun

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deceased

Simon Collett and Rana Collett.

Helen and Max Mason.

The Sunrise Tauranga Rotary club held their Treasured Art Auction at a mystery location on Saturday.

The auctioneer was Frank Vosper and funds were raised for charitable trusts.

Mayor Greg Brownless and Li-Jong Liao.

Auctioneer Frank Vosper.

John Towers and Wayne Shadbolt.

WIN

Cole Sean, aged 12, from Katikati College.

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