The Weekend Sun - 8 February 2019

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The 3475 known species of Bromeliad are native to the tropical Americas, with a few species in the American subtropics and a whole swag of them in Ralph Starck’s backyard at Papamoa Beach. There’s more than 700 of them, right around his garden, right around his house and even on the berm outside his property.

A lemon tree and a mandarin tree are like little citrus islands in this colourful, and sometime spiky sea of bromeliads. “I love them,” says Ralph, who will be showing, selling and advising at the Bromeliad Club open day at Tauranga Yacht Club, Sulphur Point, on Wednesday, February 13. The unabashed bromeliad

obsessive has 25 years of accumulated wisdom to impart.

Bromeliads are tough, interesting and don’t need a whole lot fussing, especially in a climate where gardening is a year round activity - not like those azaleas and begonias and the like. Meet Ralph and find out about the show on page 7. Photo: John Borren.

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Every man’s nightmare There comes a crisis time in every man’s life that he dreads more than a prostate exam, the mother-in-law’s 90th birthday party or farewelling a faithful pooch.

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For some men, it can occur several times in their lifetime.

It’s traumatic, emotional and usually involves a mini skip … it’s cleaning out the shed.

There are few places quite as sacred as a man’s shed, and at the risk of trotting out sexist and ageist clichés, there’s some deep underlying primal instincts driving a man inside his shed.

There’s a reason it’s called a man cave.

And when we say man, we really mean any human with attachment to their shed.

This is not just men - it could include women (you notice shed starts with “she”), those in the hazy middle and those who have changed, because we live in a modern age when shed ownership and occupation is not the exclusive domain of men.

We need to include trannies because even those who dabble in transmission transplant projects deserve our respect, although they do tend to have a lot of odd gears and greasy parts.

Inner sanctum

Clearing out a shed could be likened to a religious experience. It threatens the inner sanctums of a man’s privacy.

Some shed clean outs are completely voluntary. Some anally-retentive and OCD shed owners actually clean out their sheds as they go, in some sort of regular pattern.

These people - and we all know one or two - are close to nervous breakdowns and should be treated with equal amounts of compassion and suspicion, because there is nothing natural about a habitual shed cleaner.

These organised busy bodies have everything in its place, with labels and traced outlines of every tool and implement with peg boards.

Some even have a little log book of who’s loaned which tool and when the due date of return was expected. They are the deranged garage version of the crazy librarian. But to be fair, they never lose a tool.

Random filing

But most of us are in the category of random shed arranging. ‘Organising’ would be too strong a word here. Our sheds are ordered according to what falls on top of what. A thing will stand in the corner or against the wall, only ‘til some things of greater weight and imbalance cause the whole Jenga pile to collapse spectacularly onto the next pile of crap.

In really exceptional cases,

Essential things that every shed should have and retain: Broken stuff that might be glued up and used again one day. Charging cords for unknown electrical gadgets, circa 197098. Dog collars of dead dogs. Fair Isle Jumper knitted by grandma. Bullock team.

the chain reaction can carry on right around the shed, with the finale being the step ladder toppling onto the wife’s car, causing it to buckle in the middle like an English politician attempting to Brexit.

Forced clean out

Other shed clean outs are not voluntary or progressive. They are events forced upon the Shedee, due to unfortunate circumstances, such as moving house.

Shed collapse due to excessive contents, wall pressure, borer, or unauthorised f**king with foundations/structure/overloaded beams/undermining/vehicle strike.

These are traumatic and serious events in a man’s life, so if you know anyone going through this, give them all your support and refer to our #shed victims’ support groups.

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Recently I was forced into a Shed Re-location Process. I am still in counselling.

And here’s a word of warning for anyone

facing this crisis.

Do not allow your wife or significant other to “advise” you on what to throw out, because in their eyes, everything must go.

They cannot find a skip big enough or a Salvation Army hungry enough to devour all the prized contents of your shed things fastidiously collected and salvaged over the decades and some stuff handed down from generations.

Yes, that scythe is ancient and the hay baler is old. Yes, great grandfather did pull it behind bullocks. And yes, their yokes are hanging in the shed in case a bullock team wanders in… and we need to harness it all up again. And no, we don’t have any hay paddocks but we might, one day.

And when we do, one of the bullocks will be called Sandra.

Non-qualified

Anyway, the way to get around this dilemma is: do it all yourself; have your mates help; or set some clear guidelines for ‘Non-Qualified Shed Persons’ to follow.

I found the best way was to label each shelf, hook and cranny of the new shed with designated subjects, such as fishing, vehicle, cleaning products, fishing, garden, hunting, diving, electrical, fishing, lube, ropes/chains/ whips, fishing and painting.

Then, for the purposes of entertainment, a few other categories such as instruments of torture, fortune-making ideas, bones of enemies, planet-saving inventions and a portal to other dimensions.

Include torture

One of my beloved family members helped for an entire afternoon and either didn’t notice those labels or politely refrained from commenting. Sad to say, none of those compartments contained any items except the ‘instruments of torture’ shelf, which has the 2019 Barenbrug Agriseeds Pasture and Forage Manual, 25th Edition.

I had problems ploughing through those chapters. Very factual but a terrible plot.

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Red-eared slider is snapped There have been reported sightings and doubters, but now there’s the indisputable evidence.

The Weekend Sun has the pictures of the slippery slider – trachemys scripta elegans – the red-eared terrapin, regarded internationally by conservationists as one of the world’s most invasive species, living in Tauranga’s Carmichael Reserve.

Daniel Partridge, who delivers The Weekend Sun, was drawn to the story headlined ‘When pet becomes pest’. In that story, local conservationist and author Ann Graeme expressed her outrage at the suggestion that a colony of turtles had settled in Carmichael Reserve. “Gobsmacked,” she said. “Another pest.

“Don’t we have enough introduced pests?”

Daniel Partridge was able to confirm her worst fears. He had the proof. He had been walking his grandmother’s dogs in the reserve just before Christmas. “I got a real surprise,” he says.

“There was a turtle sunning itself on the bank at the back of the reserve.”

It was the red-eared slider.

He didn’t think people would believe him either, so he got the evidence and bagged some photos.

“It was obviously an adult,” says Daniel. “It was big - nearly as big as a dinner plate.”

Red-eared sliders are so-named because at the slightest hint of danger, any movement or sound, they will slide off their rocks or logs and back into the water. People buy them when they’re small and cute.

“But they don’t realise they live for 50 years and grow larger than a dinner plate,” says Donna Watchman, biosecurity officer for the Bay of Plenty Regional Council. “Once they reach adult size and

outgrow both their aquarium and their appeal, owners may think it’s better or easier to release them to the wild.”

The worry is that red-eared sliders are omnivores.

They could adversely impact aquatic plants, insects, eels, small fish species and ground nesting birds.

There’s also a risk they will spread disease or parasites to native animals and plants.

So could the red-eared slider get a foothold in the reserve, or is it just one rogue operator?

Wally Potts, of Tauranga City Council’s drainage services, says he’s aware of one turtle in Carmichael Reserve and another in the Papamoa waterways but he’s unsure if they can breed in our stormwater ponds.

Donna Watchman says it is believed our climate is too cold for the turtles to reproduce in the wild, and that any turtle found would have either escaped or been released or abandoned.

However, when Ann Graeme visited Carmichael Reserve and the spot where her friend sighted the turtle wandering out of the water and up a bank, they discovered turtle eggs buried in the earth.

Eggs may start hatching after about 50 days.

Higher temperatures, like those being experienced in Tauranga, could cause short incubation periods, and the site is being monitored.

The Bay of Plenty Regional Council gets two or three reported sightings of turtles every year. “We will inform those responsible for the waterway,” says Donna. “They will attempt to capture the turtle and rehome it, or the turtle will be euthanised.”

The advice to pet owners is if they are no longer able to care for their red-eared slider, do not release it into the wild.

Contact a local pet shop or animal rescue facility, as they might be abler to help rehome the reptile.

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Man wounded by stingray

An Italian tourist had an unwelcome Waitangi Day encounter with what it believed to be a stingray at Mount Main Beach.

The man suffered a large laceration to his lower leg while body surfing.

Surfer Colin McGonagle says he assisted him to the beach, where holiday goers attended to him until Mount Lifeguard Service and ambulance staff arrived.

“He was in shock and kept saying how painful the laceration was,” says Colin.

“I understand that the barb has toxins that, if not treated quickly, can progress into the blood system.”

New alcohol ban in place

A new alcohol-free area has been put in place and will remain until April 7.

Tauranga City Council says the ban will be enforced between 9pm and 7am, seven days a week.

A statement on the TCC’s website says the ban covers all beaches, reserves and public places on the seaward side of Marine Parade (from its intersection of Grove Avenue), Oceanbeach Road, Maranui Road and Surf Road.

“Alcohol cannot be carried or consumed in this area while the ban is in place.”

The alcohol ban was discussed at Tauranga City Council’s meeting back in December 2018.

A 50/50 chance Rowan Boyle, Dianne Boyle and Jamie Boyle. Photo: Sharnae Hope.

Like slow falling dominoes, Rowan Boyle’s family have felt the continuous effects of Huntington’s disease their whole lives.

Rowan is the only one of her two siblings that hasn’t been diagnosed with the inherited disease that causes the progressive breakdown of functions, such as movement and thinking.

She has a 50/50 chance of testing positive, but she has been preparing her whole life for this ‘what if?’

Her mum Dianne Boyle says Rowan’s dad, Jacky, contracted Huntington’s disease passed down by his mother.

That’s where it all started.

At the time, Dianne and Jacky’s doctor wasn’t as knowledgeable about the disease and didn’t understand how genetics worked.

“He said it had obviously been wiped

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out in our family because my husband and his brothers hadn’t shown any symptoms,” says Dianne. “The doctor didn’t understand the genetics of it all and said Jacky was all clear.

“So I had three children and when my youngest Rowan was two-and-a-half, I got a letter from my husband’s eldest brother, to say he’d been diagnosed with Huntington’s.

“At that stage they hadn’t discovered the gene, so there was no test.

“Instead, you had to wait until the physical signs had become apparent.”

As time went by, they discovered that Jacky had it too, but the majority of his symptoms were mainly mental, not physical.

Rowan says it was sad to watch, but helped her better understand what people with Huntington’s disease go through.

“It was shocking for me as a young person,” says Rowan, “but I think it’s

really equipped me well for now, as I’m about to go get tested.

“Growing up in that environment has prepared me well if I have it.”

The test involves two counselling sessions, followed by another to get their results, where the gene in found through a blood test.

“With the gene there’s a specific repetition of gene sequence,” explains Rowan, “so normal people have up to a certain number and then there’s a grey area where you will have the gene, but won’t show symptoms. Over that number is where you have Huntington’s symptoms.

“Everyone has the gene for Huntington’s disease - it’s just the amount of repetition of that specific code that directs your body to producing the protein that causes Huntington’s.”

Most people with Huntington's disease develop signs and symptoms in their 30s or 40s, but the disease may emerge earlier

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Police are appealing for the public’s help following an arson attack that caused considerable damage to several buildings at Waihi College.

The arson attack took place between 3.30-4pm on Saturday, February 2.

Police say four fires were lit at Waihi College and an adjoining agricultural business.

“Luckily, the fires were discovered before they could completely take hold,” says a police spokesperson, “but they still caused considerable damage to the buildings targeted.

“These fires happened during the early afternoon when people would have been around the area.”

Information can be given to Detective Simon Everson at Waihi Police station on: 07 8633711.

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A police spokesperson confirmed they were called to the sudden death following reports of a large police presence in the area.

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Rowan’s older brother, Jamie Boyle, says he started noticing little signs of Huntington’s disease, but wanted confirmation. He was diagnosed with Huntington’s last year.

“I had an inkling before I had the genetic test that I had Huntington’s,” says Jamie.

“My memories and my ability to talk decreased and I started getting frustrated at work, because I couldn’t say what I wanted to say.”

He also found ways to deal with the twitching of his body which has gradually appeared over time.

“You find ways to deal with it.

“For me, I always have my legs tucked behind me when I sit down, so that they don’t fling out and I need more space,” says Jamie.

At the age of 38, Rowan says she has decided to get the test now, because she wants to prepare her family for what may happen.

“I’ve got a partner now, and we are planning a life together,” she says. “I just want to know for sure where it’s going to go and how it’s going to end up.

It’s not necessarily for me, it’s more for him.

“I want him to be able to prepare because he only really knows about Huntington’s from the TV show House, and a few things that mum might have mentioned in the past. I don’t think he really has an idea about what could be in store for him.

“It’s also about mum as well. I can’t imagine what it would feel like for her to see her whole family taken by this disease.

“That’s what breaks my heart the most.”

Rowan admits she has had many moments over the years where she thought she was starting to develop signs of Huntington’s.

“I’m a nurse,” she says, “and Tauranga Hospital has these really grippy floors that I’m constantly tripping up on. Other people say that they do it too, but I’m thinking maybe that’s a sign I have Huntington’s.

“Things will sometimes slip out of my hands and I’ll think ‘oh my god it’s starting’.”

“I think the results will put my mind at ease with things like that. I have two visions of the future, and I’d rather be focusing on just one of them.”

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for more migrant workers by Ritchies Transport Holdings last year,” says Emir.

“We suspect NZ Bus is moving to make a similar request.

“Both attempts are lazy, shortsighted attempts to solve what are systemic issues.”

Emir says the immediate solution is simple - pay needs to be lifted and more training implemented to attract more drivers.

“Firstly, we desperately need more training in this sector.

“Public transport is the future and we are going to need these skills more than ever, yet despite ongoing difficulty attracting staff, training is not undertaken to the level it needs to be.”

The Bay of Plenty Regional Council announced a regional shortage of 166 drivers at NZ Bus. NZ Bus chief operating officer, Claire Neville, says the company isn’t receiving the number of applicants it needs.

However, First Union transport organiser Emir Hodzic says complaints of a driver shortage alone will not achieve the results that the industry desperately needs.

“The complaints of a driver shortage in Tauranga by NZ Bus and its regional council follow an application

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Transport is a hot topic I have had a number of meetings with concerned people about transport. One group discussed the Belk Road and State Highway 29 intersection.

They urgently want safety improvements for this piece of road and they are concerned the planned upgrade appears to have been cancelled.

They believe the upgrade could have been completed with the money that has been spent on the investigation process. They also detailed the toing and froing between councils and the New Zealand Transport Agency.

Following the meeting I wrote to the NZTA. They replied that they are developing a programme that will include a review of speed limits along SH29. The expected timeframe is 6-12 months.

They also stated that Tauriko Business Estate has to make a connection onto SH29 in the Belk Road area, to enable the development to continue. This will provide an

opportunity to enhance safety and is likely to be in two or three years.

To me, this response really means they are going around in circles and wasting money on bureaucratic planning processes instead of making a decision and upgrading the intersection.

Improvements were planned under the National government, but last year under the Labour-led government they were re-evaluated and it was decided not to proceed.

The NZTA’s reply provides no certainty for the community.

Local people need solutions now.

My view is simple - stop mucking about. How many accidents will it take before this government prioritises projects like this that stack up over Auckland trams?

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Low maintenance love 700 plus specimens – Ralph Starck and his bromeliads. yacht Club, Sulphur Point on Wednesday, February Ralph Starck is in counting mode.

13, between 12.30-2.30pm.

“478, 479, 480.”

There will be displays and sales, including rare Then the phone rang, so Ralph gave up counting plants, as well as advice. the forest of bromeliads that surround his Papamoa But why bromeliads, Ralph? Why not some of the home. “I knew that would be the first question you beautiful classical flowers like roses, lilies, daisies, asked,” says the bromeliad enthusiast and borderline orchids or carnations. It’s simple, he says. obsessive or fanatic.

“I don’t like flowers.”

He cheerfully accepts any of those labels.

He likes long spiny leaves, showy bracts and rich He reckons he was about two-thirds of the tropical hues. In other words, he likes bromeliads way through the count, so let’s say Ralph has, “You can’t grab a rose by the scruff of the neck, conservatively, around 700 startlingly beautiful haul it out of the ground and transplant it. It won’t bromeliads in his garden, on all sides of his house. work.” But it seems you can with a bromeliad.

Look around his Tuihana Drive home and all you “They’re rugged and very forgiving.They’re also ideal can see are exotic bromeliads, effusing a sense of the bloke’s plants. tropics and sun-kissed climates of the Americas and “They’re long lasting and low maintenance,” says American subtropics where the 3475 known species Ralph. “Just add a bit of water, a bit of fertilizer of bromeliads hail from. and then leave them to do their thing.” That’s how But hang on - Ralph is not all-consumed. “I also he will pitch bromeliads to the uninitiated at the have a lemon tree, a mandarin tree and a tomato Bromeliad Club open day next week. plant,” he reveals. His obsession with, or rather his “Easy care,” says Ralph. And men like easy care. attachment to, bromeliads started 25 years ago.

His wife doesn’t share his passion. “But she’s a He wasn’t even a keen gardener when he went to a weeder and a very understanding woman,” says bromeliad society sale. “I bought one or two, liked Ralph. So festoons of family bromeliaceae at number them and just kept buying, growing and collecting.” nine are no cause for conflict? “No, no. As long as Ralph will be imparting some of that quarter-ofI am using my own money for bromeliads, it’s all a-century’s worth of accumulated knowledge and good.” Read the rest of the story at: wisdom at the Bromeliad Club open day at Tauranga www.theweekendsun.co.nz

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Writer, illustrator and budding entrepreneur Sherakin Walker.

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He’s a young creative and a budding entrepreneur. He’s also self-published and soon to be on the shelves.

Did we mention that he’s also nine-years-old?

Young Sherakin Walker has authored, drawn and started processing 28 of his very own comic book creations, and they’ll soon be on sale at Four Square The Lakes. Dad Shannon says it all started when his son Sherakin spent his time drawing characters from the Captain Underpants franchise.

“I said ‘you should really try to think of your own superhero instead of copying Captain Underpants,’” says Shannon. “I didn’t really think about it too much, and then two weeks later he started his own comic character, Electronic Kid.” The comics are based around five main characters that fight crime together.

“There’s a few potty jokes in them, but they’re mostly about empowering kids,” says Shannon.

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“He’s got five main characters that go through all the comics, and he wants to make something happen to them; they all get their own superpowers.

“They’ve got a very positive message behind them.”

Once the comics were written, illustrated and printed, Shannon organised a meeting at Four Square The Lakes to see if they would be willing to buy some copies of Electronic Kid. “Sherakin really didn’t want to sell them to his friends and family,” says Shannon. “He didn’t want to sell them to anyone he knew.”

“So he went and chose Four Square The Lakes – they back lots of little projects and the guy that runs it is a really cool dude.

“He went down there and had a bit of a meeting with the boss, then his comics got sold to the owner of a company, which is really cool.”

“I think it’s really cool and I said to him ‘we’d love to sell them in the shop’,” says Anthony Pedersen of Four Square The Lakes.

Sherakin knows he’s on to something special – he

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“We wanted to keep it as much his as we could; we didn’t want it to be something we did.

It’s all him and we like that.” really weird seeing him typing on the computer. He’s actually pretty fast - he does the one finger-type,” says Shannon. “The thing I like about it the most is he’s really creative with his story,” says Shannon. “We wanted to keep it as much his as we could; we didn’t want it to be something we did.

“You can learn to do things, but you can’t really learn attitude. It’s all him and we like that.”

To get a copy of Sherakin’s Electronic Kid comic book series, visit

Above: Four Square The Lakes owner ‘Ant’ Pedersen and Siobhan Hare are excited about the new comic books. Photo: Bruce Barnard. Right: Sherakin Walker with his comic. Photo: Nikki South.

Continued... says he “definitely” wants to do this as a full-time job when he grows up, and the kids at school think he’s pretty cool. “He said to me when he was seven that he wanted to be an illustrator of his own comics, so I told him we’d work on it,” says Shannon.

“When I was seven I would have said ‘ride motorbikes’ or ‘play army men’ or something.”

Sherakin has worked on around 28 comics so far.

Each comic is five-to-seven pages long, hand-drawn and edited by Shannon’s sister, Heidi.

“My sister is going to design them,” says Shannon, “so we send the rough pen copies down to her, and she does all the backgrounds, puts the words into comic-book style bubbles, all of his drawings and his story goes into it, and she sends them back in colour with all the right fonts and everything.

“Then we get Sherakin to check everything over.

“We give him some little pointers, but a lot of the pointers he doesn’t want to know about, but the important ones he does.”

“When my Mum says there’s a new Electronic Kid, I get excited and run straight to the computer and have a look at it,” says Sherakin. “I make some

changes, just in case some bits need fine tuning.”

But it’s not all fun and games. Shannon says he’s also trying to teach Sherakin a little bit about business. “He needs to realise at a young age that you don’t get all of the money you make.

“At the moment, out of the $5 per sale I give him $2 and I keep $3,” says Shannon.

“I told him ‘righto mate, you get $2 and $3 goes back into Electronic Kid, and we’ll save it’.

“It’s not a lot of money at the moment, but it’s making it self-sustainable.”

Sherakin might understand that the money has to be saved, but the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle toys are calling for the little bit of money he gets to spend.

“I’m saving it up and spending it,” says Sherakin.

“I’m spending it on Ninja Turtles. Leo’s my favourite.” And his dream has expanded from comics to possible big-screen movie magic.

Shannon says Sherakin was working on a movie script for Electronic Kid in his own time, during the school holidays on the family computer. “It was

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Big goals ahead for Tauranga City AFC Tauranga City AFC are aiming to take some big steps forward in 2019.

For the senior men’s side, promotion to the Northern Regional Football League Premiership is their major focus, while the women’s team are gunning for the Northern League after missing out

in the promotion playoff last year.

Development programmes are also marching on at youth and junior level.

For the Bay of Plenty’s most prominent football club, performances in recent years have plateaued, and club president Brendon McHugh is intent on seeing it move up a level.

He’s stoked the high-powered coaching

group, appointed last year to guide the club’s overall coaching strategy and support its lofty ambitions, have hit the ground running.

It includes Barry Gardiner as director of football, Maia Ririnui (head of youth development), Nic Millichip (senior development officer) and Cameron Grieve (head of junior development).

Barry and Nic, who will take on the club’s Northern League Division 1 team, have got into their work nice and early, with pre-season training and squad selection ahead of schedule and pre-season friendlies booked in.

“We want to be in a position to either fight for promotion or be up there challenging,” says Brendon.

Most, if not all, of last season’s players are back, and an influx of new talent is encouraging too.

“We've seen a few new players coming in from different areas both outside and inside Tauranga. Some are players from other clubs who are maybe thinking they want to challenge themselves in a higher league.

“We've also got a lot of good youth. At the training session I watched, I was really quite chuffed to see a lot of really good youth players.”

Brendon believes it’s time for Tauranga City to compete with the top clubs in the country, not just at premiership level but in its Talent Development Programme as well. He says clubs like Hamilton’s Melville United, which last year earned promotion to the Northern Premier League, are showing the way.

“You have to look at clubs like Melville. A few years ago they completely changed their model and put a lot of focus into their youth programmes.

“Our coaches talked to their coaches quite a bit.

“During this process we’ve kept open communication with those guys. They've been very helpful.” Brendon acknowledges programmes on this level come at a cost, but says the club is intent on Chris James delivering value for money.

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Decisions: Our city’s past, present and future

Wayne Rush

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We’ve got the best climate, the best beaches and the most beautiful surroundings of any city in New Zealand.

I’m sure this summer has reinforced to you, like it has to me, why we love living in this place.

We’re blessed with our natural environment - with Mauao, the harbour and the sea - but that has little to do with human influence; save protecting them from ourselves.

However, decisions made by our past leaders have changed

the built environment. Edwin Markham once said: “Choices are the hinges of destiny.”

That’s true of our personal lives - we make decisions and over time we become the sum of those decisions made, but it’s also true of us as a community.

Choices can have intergenerational implications, such as the decision of Alfred Brown to set up a mission station in Tauranga in 1838, or the decision of Tauranga Moana Iwi to support their kin in the Waikato’s King Movement and

General Cameron’s response.

Over the next little while, I want to write to you in three parts about relatively recent decisions made that have ‘turned the hinge’ on our city’s destiny; decisions that are currently before us that you need to know about, and choices for our next cohort of leaders.

Next week, ‘what might have been’.

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Boult in top form Trent Boult was destined to be an international cricketer from a young age.

He made national headlines while still at Otumoetai College, winning a schoolboy fast bowling competition at the age of 17. He was clocked at 130kph and has not slowed down since.

His ability to swing the ball at pace as a leftarmer is a rare thing. Add to that some fortunate genetics, superior fitness and determination, and you have the ideal basis to be a quick bowler.

Some of his greatest performances have come at Hamilton’s Seddon Park, where the intense humidity and baking hot sun make it a swing bowler’s nirvana.

Last week, in the fourth One Day International, he dismantled an impressive Indian battling line-up with match-winning figures of 5-21. What made it even more remarkable was it came from a 10-over spell bowled without a break – testament indeed to Boult’s dedicated fitness regime.

Almost two years to the day Boult ripped through the Australians in Hamilton, taking 6-33 as the Black Caps clinched a 2-0 series victory.

In December 2017 he took his 200th Test wicket in his 52nd Test to become just the fifth left-arm pace bowler in the game’s history to take 200 or

more Test wickets.

Those ahead of him are true legends of the game in Wasim Akram (414 wickets), Chaminda Vaas (355), Mitchell Johnson (313) and Zaheer Khan (311).

Boult grew up quickly as a cricketer, playing Baywide Premier grade for Otumoetai Cadets from his early teens.

He joined his older brother Jono Boult at the club and quickly made dramatic progress.

He made the New Zealand Under-19 team with Kane Williamson, who he had plenty of practice bowling to in club cricket and had played against since their intermediate days.

Club president Campbell Wilson says Boult is a pretty special player for the club.

“He is definitely Cadets through and through,” says Campbell. “Any chance he gets to be able to play for Cadets he certainly does that. Every time he walks through the gate it lifts the club, and he is a hell of a good man to have around.”

But despite all of the success, the accolades and the riches that have come his way, nothing has changed about Boult.

He is still as personable, polite and approachable as ever – just the way Kiwis like their sporting stars to be.

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Made in Rangiuru: rural school They signed the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 that formally ended World War One. And 100 years ago, they also rang a school bell for the first time at number 659, seven kilometres up Rangiuru Road and ten kilometres south-east of Te Puke.

School was in, and unlike the treaty it didn’t change the world, but it would certainly change generations of little

lives. Despite the best efforts of the South Auckland Education Board to close it down several times – dwindling numbers of course – Rangiuru School has survived. It even boasts being the only school in Te Puke to own its own bus. It is flash and it is flourishing Before the bell rang in 1919, schoolkids walked, rode horses or were transported by buggy ten kilometres “into town”.

That was when sheep and cows ruled Rangiuru Road, and long

Three generations of the Tanner family have been to Rangiuru. Brian Tanner, 68, his son Paul, 40, and his son Liam, 12. Photo: Bruce Barnard. before kiwifruit were Chinese gooseberries.

Come Friday, March 1 and Saturday, March 2, perhaps more than 100 past pupils, staff and school families will smugly sit down, cock a snook at the board and celebrate 100 years of what principal Mike Gullick describes as: “The best traditional rural school education with modern teaching practices.”

The little one room Kauri classroom which began with a handful of kids on horses is now a three-room, three teacher school with more than 40 kids.

The Weekend Sun held a curtainraiser to the centenary celebration

- a pre-match function.

We sat down with a former Rangiuru School teacher, a couple of mums and a former pupil.

A country school has plenty of history and plenty of stories.

“There’s heaps of enduring memories,” says Ian Schultz.

“Never forget those years.”

He was at Rangiuru from 1961 to 1966, when they took their own milk to school and boiled up cocoa for morning tea, and the kids chopped the kindling to fire u the pot belly.

He can’t remember anyone being chased with an axed or any lost digits, but there might be a health

and safety issue there now.

There was a concrete block swimming pool in the gully which filled with swamp water “Except the engineers didn’t get it right, and water flowed out as muc as it flowed in,” he recalls “It was full of mud because there was no filtration.

It wasn’t great, but the kids still swam. “Then someone realised Slater’s cow shed was just up the valley, and all the muck was going into and down the stream.”

The committee closed the pool and a few years later built a new one. Alan Hintz remembers most kids of his day going to school

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nurtures across the generations first teacher who freely used both ruler and strap. He would rap me across the knuckles for not getting the times table right, and it just made me worse and more likely to get them muddled.” But as far as Ian can remember, there was no bullying at Rangiuru. “It just didn’t happen, because everyone knew each other, respected each other and had to get on. There weren’t enough people to form factions or gangs.”

What about suspensions or expulsions – did they happen? “They would

Continued on horseback. “When we fell off, Mrs Johnstone would simply ring Mum to say she had just seen a horse go by without a rider.” No crisis, and what else was there to say?

He also spent a lot of time in the school gully digging caves. “The only time I ever smoked tobacco was in those caves at

Rangiuru School – the kids of 1920 and 2018. lunchtime. Before afternoon class, we would eat onion tops from the school garden in the hope that the teacher wouldn’t smell smoke on our breath.”

What about distinguished Rangiuru alumni – any prima ballerinas, baritones, scientists, All Blacks or PMs? No household names, but the curtain-raiser group points to the special qualities like caring, nurturing and leadership that a small country school education creates.

“The head girl, head boy, head prefect type of person,” says Shirley Bailey, whose daughter Beth was head girl at

Te Puke High. Karen May taught at Rangiuru for 14 years.

“The year groups are quite small, so they all have to play with kids who are younger or older,” she says. “Otherwise you would have no mates and no one to play with. The older kids develop a more caring, nurturing attitude which is recognised when they get to college.

“They’re not afraid to break away from their own age group and mix and talk with anyone.

It serves them well.”

There is academic success - a scientist. Judy Tanner’s boy David went to Rangiuru in 1977. He graduated from calf and lamb days to become a doctor of food science. He was head-hunted by an Australian company, returned to work for Zespri and now runs his own successful company.

A school is only as good as its teachers, and Fred Williams, a Polynesian teacher from the Cook Islands was a good teacher and a helluva nice bloke, according to Ian Schultz. “He had a great influence and he spared me the rod,” says Ian. “He never used it - not like my

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happen, but they were very, very rare,” says ex-teacher Karen. “In all the years I was there, I can only recall two incidents.” Tickets for the Rangiuru School Centenary celebrations can be purchased via: www.eventfinda.co.nz Contact the office at Rangiuru School on: (07) 573 7035, visit: rangiuruschool.co.nz, or contact Karen May on: 027 6515550 or: rjandkmmay@gmail.com Read the rest of the story at: www.theweekendsun.co.nz

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Brilliant teachers and a lasting legacy There is nothing better than watching good teachers teach.

We have so many great teachers, and during my time as a teacher and principal I have been fortunate enough to work with many of them.

Then there are those teachers who are simply extraordinary - we all know the ones. They are the teachers who go beyond the academics required of them.

They coach and support sports teams after school and at weekends, they run the debating and philosophy clubs during their lunch hour, they dance with kids at the school disco, they high-five the children when they have achieved and ask if they are okay when they seem down.

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These extraordinary teachers provide a lasting legacy for their students and inspire them to go on to be the best that they can be in life.

They inspire their colleagues to be good teachers, they inspire students to go into teaching as a profession, and parents and the community are grateful to them for all that they do for our kids.

The ultimate zoom You will hear it before you see it, like a pesky little fly zooming in and out of the scenery.

Lightweight and fast, this flying machine can do extraordinary things with the right attachments.

But calling it a drone is a big no-no in the model aircraft industry. Their official name is Remote Piloted Aerial Systems.

RPAS flyer Graeme Hull has a RPAS business in horticulture and agriculture industries, and flies multispectral cameras over kiwifruit canopies to look at plant vigour and over farmland to inspect soil erosion.

He says overseas remote-sensing is used quite widely for wheat and corn, but in New Zealand we are only just starting to understand how it might be applied to different crops.

Remote-sensing attachments allow you to scan an object and find out information about it both quickly and effectively. With the right sensors, crops can be scanned for diseases from 100 metres away or even from satellites.

“Having your temperature taken when you go to the doctor is an indicator of your health, and it’s the same with plants. You can look at the spectral signature

of the light that is being reflected off the leaves, and they are indicators of plant health.”

Ecologist Hamish Kendall says they use aerial drones for his commercial business to map and monitor land and spray weed and vegetation for agencies, such as regional councils and park conservationists.

From RPAS’ they can get high-resolution, orthorectified imagery of landscapes, 3D models and specific waypoints.

A lot of their work also involves pin-pointing biosecurity issues, such as hazardous weeds.

They have also developed a spot spray drone, which sprays hard to reach weeds that can’t be eradicated by other tools.

All RPAS’ must be flown within Civil Aviation Rules. These are known as Part 101 and are summarised on CAA and council websites.

All commercial operators follow Part 102.

For more information go to: www.caa.govt.nz/unmanned-aircraft Sharnae Hope Read the rest of the story at: www.theweekendsun.co.nz

Ecologist Hamish Kendall and his commercial RPAS. Photo: John Borren.

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The whisperer of Mitchell Park Grant Sundborn looks like the enforcer - an intimidating chunk of a man who demands compliance and gets it.

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common sense and reason rather than hard-ball fist pumping and yelling.

“Relaxed but focused,” says the Eels’ Briar Hayman. “He gets buy-in from the players with his supportive approach.” A kind of league ‘whisperer’.

He proudly tells the story of the Taupo team he coached last year. “Seven Black Power, three Rebels,” he says. And a swarm of Killer Bees, apparently.

“The discipline hadn’t been great. So before every game I explained if they started fighting, they’d be playing with 12. And if they started telling the ref what to do, they’d be playing against 14. It was the same message, every game, over and over.”

And if they stopped that nonsense they could win the comp.

It took about eight games to sink in. He knew they believed his message when the gang members started giving him hugs. It might also have had something to do with the fact that Grant was driving from Tauranga to Taupo for training each week – a 300km round trip after work.

“Winning the comp and getting the trophy was great, but taming these guys, getting them under control and enjoying their league was a much greater prize. It was about making them see what they could achieve if they thought about it, and just playing the game.” That says something about the new Eels coach.

“It’s what I tell everyone –

the committee, the players, the supporters.

“First and foremost we have to enjoy ourselves. It is a game, it is a sport. If you aren’t doing that, you are in it for the wrong reasons.”

And it will probably be easier for Grant to preach that message in the rugby league oasis that is Mitchell Park, the community that is the Eels and the family dynamic that pervades everything at the club. But there is still a job to be done.

“Grant brings finals coaching experience,” says Briar Hayman. From Feilding, to Foxton, Taupo and now Tauranga. So the club has expectations, as does Grant. “Last year was my third championship win. I came to Mitchell Park for one thing, and that was to win the comp.” And to enjoy himself in the process, of course. To be a successful coach, Grant Sundborn believes you need to bring something different to the game. “I think outside the square,” he says. “I don’t do things by the book because everyone else is reading the same book.”

For example, when watching sport on TV, it’s a learning experience and information gathering. “I do it with a pad and pencil. I will listen for quotes and watch for drills – netball, NFL, whatever. It’s always the latest stuff and you can’t beat that.”

There have been a dozen pre-season training nights at Mitchell Park and Grant hasn’t repeated one drill. “Variation feeds interest.”

He’s working with a squad of about 25.

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The oracle of Mitchell Park – new Eels coach Grant Sundborn. Photo: John Borren.

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Jack tells rats to hit the road Welcome Bay teenager Jack Miller has been filling his holidays hunting neighbourhood vermin, to try and revitalise local birdlife.

Photo: Jamie Troughton/Dscribe Media.

In some ways, Jack Miller is the modern-day Pied Piper of Hamelin, but a little more noble and a lot more local.

Welcome Bay, in fact.

The original rat-catcher was the colourful star of German Middle Age legend, who used the magical powers of his flute to rid a town of its infestation of rats and save it from the plague.

The story turned bad when the townsfolk reneged on the deal, didn’t pay the piper and, in retaliation, he used the same magical powers to lure the town’s child population away.

Jack’s rat story, however, is much more optimistic.

At just 15, Jack’s motivation is not the lucre, rather the environment, flora and fauna. Instead of the mystical powers of a flute, Jake uses good old peanut butter, rat traps and his motorised chilly bin to harass pests in the upper Waitaha Road and Riverstone area of Welcome Bay. “So far I’ve caught a dozen rats, one mouse and a hedgehog,” he reports.

“Oh, and about seven possums around our house.”

Late last year, Jack saw a Facebook post advertising a presentation by Predator Free Bay of Plenty - the community-led backyard trapping initiative. It aims to bring native birds back to the suburbs and help make New Zealand predator-free by 2050.

That all seems an enormous undertaking for a Year 10 student from Tauranga Boys’ College. Keep in mind, however, that one rat is likely to kill up to 50 birds in its lifetime.

Predator Free Bay of Plenty needed a hand to get rid of rats and give native species a fighting chance, and that triggered Jack’s

awareness and conscience.

Later that night, he arrived home with rat traps made by the guys at the Men’s Shed, down at the Historic Village.

He vowed to take up arms on behalf of the local tuis and fantails.

“I like the whole idea of catching a rat and knowing I may have saved some native species, because rats do so much damage,” he says.

And his distinctive set of wheels?

When he saw a couple blokes on a motorised chilly bin on TV show The Block, he hoped to get one for his 14th birthday.

Little did he know that the gimmicky motorised toy would become a valiant steed in his one-man stand in the war on rats.

The chilly bin now holds all of Jack’s stuff - from bait, traps and trophies, which in this case are freshly-trapped vermin carcasses.

People stop him and ask him about the rat-mobile and he’s getting much better at explaining his mission.

“They are really surprised to learn what I am doing. They say ‘awesome’, ‘great job’ and they really appreciate it.”

One misinformed local thought Jack was just another boy-racer, albeit on a unique set of wheels, only to be delightedly surprised when the truth dawned.

“Shame on me,” they admit. “Here I was thinking the worst of this kid and he was actually doing the best job.

“It’s wicked to see Jack heading up and down the street now – what a cool thing to be doing.”

The good news is that the Pied Piper of Welcome Bay is just getting rolling.

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Reaching our economical potential If New Zealand’s economy is to reach its potential, then it must have world-leading planning and resource consent laws.

Unfortunately, processes can drag on and, all too frequently, get bogged down. I’ve seen stalled projects, good ideas being undone, decisions being reversed and projects that have been given the final tick moving forward with no urgency.

You only need to look at the huge holdups at the Te Tumu development in Papamoa East, or the time it is taking to put the new road and flyover in at Bayfair to prove

my point.

Many of the problems that have arisen in relation to the Resource Management Act have been about delays in the consent process, costs, consultation requirements and lack of uniformity in how local councils approach the Act. After 19 years, the Resource Management Act clearly requires thorough revision to improve processes and procedures, reduce compliance costs, clarify expectations and responsibilities and to facilitate progress and protection.

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the streamlining of the Resource Management Act to remove many of the obstacles and frustrations which have unnecessarily become part of these processes.

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Rattling the tambourine on Cameron Road They’re a dynamic young double act, and their weekly gigs are pulling increasing numbers of punters to the citadel on Cameron Road.

The citadel is the Salvation Army fortress of faith, and the double act is the bi-cultural Vemoas – Salvation Army Captain Corryn Vemoa, the new corps officer in Tauranga, and husband Francis, the new director of

community ministries, social services - the work end of the army here. They’ve been in town for a few weeks and probably won’t believe stories about Tauranga’s growth pangs. She’s from Hamilton, him from deepest West Auckland and they come here via Kilbirnie in suburban Wellington.

“We can now drive 10 kilometres to work in 10-to15 minutes,” says Corryn. “That’s a blessing.”

But they don’t travel along Hewletts Road at 8am. “It’s nowhere near the stresses of living in West Auckland,” says Francis. “And still easier than Kilbirnie.” At the Army church services on a Sunday morning, they share the spotlight and the pulpit – the Palagi one week and the Kiwi born Niuean the next.

“We have different styles,” says Francis.

“She’s academic and I speak from experience.”

That’s not quite how Corryn sees it though.

“I bring an empathy. I do feel for people. Francis, in his role, is probably more strategic.”

They don’t critique or assess each other’s performance. ”But we listen and we notice things because we are both skilled in that area,” she adds.

“And we listen because we want each other to be better, to grow those

skills. I love that he is quite honest when he shares his stories and things he has learned, especially when he is passionate about it.”

However, they do employ some techniques, like a little sign, a subtle - or not so subtle - cough, to remind each other if they blather on or have strayed from the point. “Francis is a walker, and wanders away from the microphone.”

A cough brings him back to the lectern.

The Vamoas arrived in town with their two preschoolers, Solomon (a king of Israel), Malachi (a prophet of the Old Testament) and baggage… more than an airport carousel.

“From the very beginning the Salvation Army has been involved in the messiness of life,” explains Corryn. Messy being The Weekend Sun’s word, not theirs. That’s when Corryn gives Francis a nudge, because it’s his story. And he has no trouble sharing his ‘messy’ story.

“I have two other children,” he says.

“I was very interested in girls at a young age and I had my first child, my daughter, when I had just turned 16.” Now, this neat as a pin, gleaming advertisement for the Army is 37.

His daughter, 21, and son, 15, are living in Australia with their Mum. Read the rest of this story at: www.theweekendsun.co.nz

The Army Corps’ new front line in Tauranga – Francis and Corryn Vemoa with sons Malachi and Solomon. Photo: Bruce Barnard.

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Kiwis must grasp a far greater awareness of health New Zealanders need to grasp a far greater awareness of health in 2019.

That the message from ExerciseNZ chief executive Richard Beddie after a recent consumer research report found awareness of health is the number one reason people exercise - just under three quarters of all New Zealand exercisers.

“This is quite consistent across all age bands, genders and income levels,” says Richard.

“There is lots more choice now, from traditional gym offerings from $6 a week to $75 for boutique

and specialist studios, as well as park, hall or mobile based services.

“Also, a far greater variety of products are on offer, with everything from yoga to boot camps and 20-minute, high-intensity classes to 90-minute meditation sessions.

“We are seeing a greater diversity of individuals interested in exercise. Many gyms have their youngest member in their teens and their oldest in their 80s or 90s.

“Equally, disabilities and health conditions that would historically be viewed as reasons not to exercise are now being catered for.”

The ExerciseNZ consumer research report says 51 per cent of all respondents indicated they had carried out structured exercise in the past 30 days.

Just under half of those, around 743,600 adults, reported currently having a fitness membership.

Non-participation in structured exercised activities

generally increased to a peak among 55-to-64 year olds.

While 18-to-24 year olds are relatively active in structured exercise terms, participation dropped significantly from 25 years of age and to a minority after 45 years of age, says Richard.

“Exercise is still the number one New Year’s resolution for most Kiwis,” he says, “and is also now the

number one sport in New Zealand, with more than half-a-million participants and growing research confirming the health benefits of activity for all Kiwis.

“New Year is a good time to start doing something regularly; the variety of exercise offerings has never been greater in quality or more diverse in offering, including price options and product range.”

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A properly insulated home is easier to heat and able to stay at a comfortable temperature when it’s hot outside during summer.

The Warm Up New Zealand Healthy Homes programme, which provided a 50 per cent subsidy to low-income home owners and landlords with low income tenants, has been replaced by the Warmer Kiwi Homes programme.

This programme started in 2018 and is available to low-income homeowners. It provides a grant that covers 67 per cent of the cost of ceiling and underfloor insulation in the home.

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There are other options too - for example, if you have a SuperGold Card, you may be able to get a discount on heating products (or insulation) on your card.

If you receive a Work and Income benefit – including NZ Superannuation – you will receive a Winter Heating Payment over the winter months to help with the cost of heating.

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Low standard drink knowledge New research suggests most Kiwis don’t know what a standard drink is, and even those who think they do can’t accurately communicate what it means.

The research, commissioned by Lion’s Alcohol&Me and conducted

by Fiftyfive5, surveyed 797 adult New Zealanders and found most people don’t understand standard drinks well enough.

There was also a lot of confusion around the drink driving limit in NZ,

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A hairy adventure Thousands of strands of hair were once chopped off and disposed of, destined to spend their last days in a bottomless landfill.

Now, a Tauranga hair salon has given your forgotten hair clippings a new lease of life, by becoming completely sustainable.

Hair to Stare At is leading the trend of becoming zero waste thanks to Sustainable Salons - a social enterprise that rescues up to 95 per cent of salon resources from landfill.

Salon owner Corina Conn says becoming completely sustainable has been an ongoing project for the last year, and recommends all Tauranga salons to get on board.

“It started off with my kids coming home from school saying they didn’t want to use glad wrap, because they were learning about what it does to the environment in school,” says Corina.

She says she started recycling, reusing and re-purposing items at home and thought she better start doing it at the salon as well.

“I started introducing the same washing powder packs, getting reusable gloves and using products from companies that are all about being sustainable and cruelty free.

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“That’s when I saw a Facebook post from an Australian company called Sustainable Salon, who do some really interesting stuff.

“They said that they were coming to New Zealand, so I put my name down for some help.”

Thanks to Sustainable Salon, Corina says the salon now recycles all paper, cardboard, foils and colour cans/tubes. All single-use plastics, such as bags, will also be recycled, reused or re-purposed, and hair clippings, razors and salon chemicals will be re-purposed.

“The hair that’s cut off will be collected in one bin and Sustainable Salon will come and take the hair to make into brooms for commercial oil spills,” she says.

“Anyone who wants more than 20cm of hair cut off will also have their hair collected and taken away to make wigs for kids with alopecia or cancer.”

Salon chemicals won’t go down the drain either instead they will be processed and turned back into re-usable water.

“I think being sustainable should be something that everyone should consider, because it’s extremely important.

“But from a business perspective, it’s helping keep down waste and also bringing in a new range of clients who are really self-conscious about their waste.”

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with only 17 per cent of respondents getting it right.

Most had a number of drinks they thought they could consume and still be safe to drive, with only 11 per cent correctly pointing out that there is no set number – a variety of factors impact whether you’re safe to get behind a wheel. “This survey highlights that there is a real opportunity to educate Kiwis in a way that resonates,” says Jude Walter from Alcohol&Me.

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Travelling safely in the digital age Technology has improved almost every aspect of travelling, but it also poses some new threats to travellers across the globe.

Data theft, fraud and hacking are things that everyone should be aware of, but how can you can keep yourself and your devices safe overseas?

Should travellers be worried about data security?

Just like you protect your bags from pickpockets, you should protect your

electronics from digital thieves.

After all, you might be on holiday but thieves aren’t.

Southern Cross Travel Insurance has compiled a list of things to watch out for to avoid cybercrime while travelling.

Using wifi in cafés

While public wifi networks might be convenient for tourists looking to find their way around a new city, they’re also particularly vulnerable to hacking.

How to avoid: Instead of relying on public wifi hotspots, buy a prepaid SIM card from a local mobile phone shop.

They can be inexpensive and include enough data to power vital apps such as maps, messaging, banking and booking. Better still, you’ll be on a secure network while browsing.

Bluetooth connections

Just like unsecured wifi networks, Bluetooth connections can provide hackers with a way into your devices. Bluetooth is most commonly used for file sharing and connecting one device to another (like connecting your phone to a car or a portable speaker).

How to avoid: The trick here is simple - turn your Bluetooth off! This is easily done via the settings on your phone, laptop or tablet.

Touch ID passwords

If your smartphone was built after 2016, chances are you’re familiar with using Touch ID technology to unlock your device. Touch ID allows you to access your phone by using a fingerprint instead of a password. However, there have been mounting concerns around the security of the technology.

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Consider using twofactor authentication to access your accounts, which add an extra layer of security.

Stalking

Technology allows us to stay connected with friends and family like never before. But it also means your travel plans can be there for all to see.

Stalking is a common technique used by hackers, which involves building a profile of your personal information with the goal of obtaining control of your finances.

How to avoid: You wouldn’t walk around with a t-shirt displaying your full name, email address, home address, phone number and next destination, so don’t post this information on your social accounts for all to see. Ensure your privacy settings are as secure as possible, so you have full control over who sees your posts.

Removable media

When it comes to protecting your devices, think beyond your phone and laptop. Removable media such as USB sticks, SD cards, CDs and cameras can also provide hackers with a way into your sensitive data.

How to avoid: Keep tabs on all of your electronic devices, no matter how small or seemingly insignificant. When you’re out and about, leave all electronics locked securely in the hotel safe.

Better still, think twice about whether or not you need to take all of these devices with you overseas.

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Making positive change Now that the kids have gone back to school, have you thought about any New Year resolutions for your child’s education?

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More study options available EmployNZ Tertiary Institute is proud to offer the local community more high-level training options, with the introduction of level five and six IT and Computing courses.

That brings the number of diplomas on offer to six, including Business and Management level six, Accounting level five, Project Management level seven, Health Management level seven and IT and Computing.

EmployNZ Tertiary appeals to students who prefer a mid-sized institution that can provide a personalised experience, and a very high quality learning experience.

Several of their Business courses also pathway on to Massey University Degrees, meaning you can start your study in Tauranga and continue to a Degree through distance learning.

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How to properly dispose of dangerous chemicals A new guide aimed at protecting New Zealanders from hazardous domestic chemicals has been released by Consumer New Zealand.

“Kiwis have been asking us how they should dispose of old and unwanted home and garden chemicals,” says Environmental Protection Authority chief executive Dr Allan Freeth.

“It’s among the most commonlyasked questions from visitors to our Safer Homes regional events.

“Almost everyone has unwanted or leftover chemicals in sheds

and garages across New Zealand. Left to accumulate, they can pose a risk to children, pets and the environment if they’re not disposed of safely.

“The new consumer guide will help New Zealanders find out how to dispose of this stuff safely, in the approved facility in their area.”

The guide, released with the support of the Environmental Protection Authority, is based on a survey of Consumer New Zealand members and city and district councils.

It includes information on

chemical storage, banned pesticides and a district guide to disposal facilities around New Zealand.

Consumer New Zealand’s research and production of the guide was funded by the EPA and is freely available to all New Zealanders through Consumer New Zealand’s website.

For tips and information on using and storing chemicals safely around your home, check out the Safer Homes Facebook page or visit: www.epa.govt.nz/everydayenvironment/

Homes spark five per cent rise in building consents Almost 33,000 new homes were consented in the year ending November 2018 – a figure up 5.3 per cent from the previous year.

Stats NZ says Auckland drove the increase in new homes consented, followed by Wellington, and a total of 32,783 new homes were consented.

“Stand-alone houses accounted for nearly twothirds of new homes consented in the year ended

November,” says construction statistics manager Melissa McKenzie.

“We saw a sustained increase in apartments, as well as townhouses, flats, and units, particularly in Auckland.”

In the Auckland region, 12,800 new homes were consented, down slightly from 13,078 in the year ended October 2018.

The number of new homes consented fell a seasonally adjusted two per cent in the November month, following a 1.4 per cent increase in October.

Issues force City Council to halt applications The process, formerly known as AC6, involves lodging building consent applications for newly created lots before a title is issued.

“It’s rare for a territorial authority to offer this service, which aims to speed up the development/build process,” says a council spokesperson.

“Unfortunately, a growing number of issues have forced us to cancel the service.”

Issues include AC7 applications becoming redundant once titles are issued and duplication of work in some instances. In addition, council often only get partial information.

“The above issues have resulted in disappointment for some customers and a very high workload for staff.

“We are sorry for any inconvenience that cancelling this service might cause.

“However, please be aware that this change will help

us reduce risks, remove inefficiencies and improve the processing of 224 applications for the betterment of the industry.”

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Protecting your family’s privacy and security when holding an open home When selling a property, many people are uncomfortable with the idea of strangers looking through their house when they’re not present. However, holding an open home is often the best way to show off the place to potential buyers.

Welcoming house hunters – and let’s be honest, a few nosy neighbours – to a property does come with privacy and security risks that vendors should be aware of and plan for.

“It’s natural for sellers to have concerns about privacy and security,” says Real Estate Authority chief executive Kevin Lampen-Smith. “After all, you’re inviting complete strangers into your family’s home.”

Kevin says sellers should prepare by taking note of any items of sentimental or monetary value that should be removed from the property.

“Think about items that could easily be slipped

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into a pocket or a handbag,” he says, “such as jewellery, silverware, small electronics or even the prescription medication stored in your bathroom cabinet.

“Tucking them away in your sock drawer or under your bed won’t do the trick.”

Something that’s often overlooked by sellers opening their house to potential buyers is the risk of identity theft.

It might sound far-fetched, but sellers who leave important documents like passports, bank statements or credit card receipts lying around are leaving themselves vulnerable.

Kevin recommends these sorts of documents be tidied away and stored somewhere secure.

Next, do a digital sweep of the property. The family PC or office desktop should be switched off and password protected. USB sticks or hard drives that are loaded with personal information should also be stored securely.

“While this might sound like plain old common sense to many, I’ve heard of a seller leaving a post-it note with the house alarm code right next to the alarm, for anyone to come back and deactivate later,” Kevin recalls.

Sellers should talk to their real estate agent or salesperson about how the

actual open home will be conducted.

“Ask if there will be a sign-in register, where visitors provide their name and contact information when they arrive at the showing,” he says.

“This is a helpful tool for the agent when it comes to following up with potential buyers and, in the case of something being damaged or stolen during the open home, the information can be passed onto police.”

The agent is required to be present at the viewing and shouldn’t leave potential buyers alone at the property.

Ideally, the agent should accompany visitors as they tour the house, but this isn’t always possible if the showing gets busy. Sellers could ask that a second person from the real estate agency be on-site during the open home, to greet visitors at the door, ask them to sign in and wait until the agent is free to show them through.

Sellers who still feel uneasy about having an open home could ask the agent to show the property ‘by appointment only’ to potential buyers.

“There’s no law saying you must have an open home,” says Kevin. “Remember, it’s your house and ultimately you don’t have to do anything you’re uncomfortable with.”

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The best for your home When it comes to building and renovating, one of the many decisions homeowners face is choosing which curtains and blinds best match the look they’re going for.

Toni Ainsworth, of BOP Curtains and Blinds, helps homeowners become inspired by their beautiful range of fabrics – many of which are perfect for summer.

“We’ve got the colours and designs for summer, which will be ideal for adding a bit of colour around the home,” says Toni.

Clients interested in bespoke options will love working with Toni. With many years’ experience, her knowledge of trends, colour and coordination will help clients achieve that stunning, unique look for their home.

A free measure and quote, as well as interior design advice, will help customers get the best look that is practical and within budget. A personal in-home consultation can also help you get the right look.

The company’s mobile service has also been tailored for customer convenience. Contact BOP Curtains and Blinds on: 07 571 2345 to schedule a personal consultation.

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Home hacks to make life easier Balancing your home and work can often be a challenge.

But those challenges can be overcome thanks to some genius home hacks that save time and energy.

The plastic crevice tool that comes with your vacuum cleaner isn’t bendable, but if you want a flexible attachment, it’s as easy as holding a toilet paper tube over the nozzle and squishing the cardboard to fit your space.

Kitchen benches can be expanded by incorporating a pull-out cutting board with a trash chute, making it easy to bin noncompostable food scraps.

This adds much needed bench space for chopping and dinner prep, but tucks away

when not in use.

The life of strawberries can be extended by washing the berries in one cup of vinegar and three cups of water before placing them in the refrigerator. This helps kill the bacteria that makes them go mouldy so quickly, but make sure they are thoroughly dry before storing.

If you store shoes by facing them in opposite directions, heel to toe, then you can squeeze in more pairs to a shelf or storage area.

Use the back of your kitchen door to hang a spice rack. This will help you gain more valuable storage space in your home and make it easier to find a spice or herb.

Remove that dark black mark on your light coloured shoes by rubbing the spot with a cotton swab with petroleum jelly on it.

And finally, store your out-ofseason clothes under your bed with a pull out storage unit.

Time running out for landlords The number of landlords insulating their rental properties is not as high as it needs to be to achieve full compliance by the July 1 deadline this year.

That’s the message to come out of the Residential Tenancies Act monitoring report, released by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.

Under changes to the RTA made in 2016, all rental properties must have ceiling and underfloor insulation installed, wherever possible, that meet the required standard.

As of March 2018, an estimated 67 per cent of private rental properties met the standard - an increase of just seven per cent since July 2016.

Estimates suggest there are between 126,000 and 220,000 rental homes which

still need to be properly fitted for insulation - more than what can be practicably carried out by qualified installers by the cut-off date.

From 1 July 2019, MBIE’s Tenancy Compliance and Investigation Team will be focusing on compliance and enforcement of insulation requirements. There will be consequences for landlords who fail to comply in time, with exemplary damages of up to $4000 per property.

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School bus frustration Following the article in last week’s Weekend Sun about the free bus from Welcome Bay for kids returning to school, we are part of that bus route but live on 11th Avenue and have children that attend Bethlehem College.

We arrived for our first journey at the bus stop, which is a 15 minute walk, but following a 20-minute wait we rang the Baybus 0800 number and were told that that service did not run as they did not have a driver.

I’m sure this affected many kids getting to school, not to mention their parents who in the end had to get in the

cars and drop them off late.

When I asked how this is allowed to happen and how to avoid the same thing in future, I was told that I would have to ring to find out from operations whether the service was running.

I’m not sure that is how a regular school bus service is supposed to work.

We had excellent bus services last year, but the reduced service goes against the desire to get more kids on buses. I’ve been on the phone to the Bay of Plenty Regional Council – they apologised and sounded as frustrated as I feel.

G Dufaur, Tauranga.

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Parking permit problems In response to the letter ‘Parking fine a joke’ (The Weekend Sun, February 1), I transport people with physical disabilities to shopping malls around the city every week.

There is generally always someone without a disability permit using the disabled parking spaces. If you approach them, you will either get abused or get told: “I’ll only be a minute.”

Just as bad are those with a disability permit in the car that belongs to a partner or a family member. I would have thought these people would be fully aware of the difficulty in finding available parks and would have shown more consideration.

There needs to be a system in place whereby you can send in a photo of the offending vehicle and an instant fine is issued.

The chances of getting a ticket for illegal parking – particularly at shopping centres – are almost non-existent, and basically people just don’t give a stuff anymore.

C McMahon, Ohauiti.

Parking woes at Pilot Bay On a recent busy Saturday morning, there were four cars/utes and jet-ski trailers parked along Pilot bay.

Two more parked up, removed their jet-skis and moved their vehicles immediately, which was appreciated.

There is a boat ramp at The Mount end of the bay for these vehicles – albeit limited, I know. For those of us that frequently swim, paddleboard or picnic in Pilot Bay or walk around or up The Mount, it is a challenge to find a park on a busy weekend morning.

It is even more difficult when there is a cruise ship or two in port when parking is even more restricted.

If you have a trailer, please do not park in the car parks but use the car/ trailer parks provided.

B Lorimer, Bethlehem.

Dictionaries outdated G. Parker and P. Hickling (The Weekend Sun, February 1) are using outdated dictionary meanings of the word ‘indigenous’.

It is now common scientific knowledge that the whole world was populated by human migration starting from Africa about 100,000 years ago.

Every region in the world was settled by migrants. Australian Aborigines have not been in Australia forever.

They migrated there from Asia.

Dictionaries that say that indigenous people had ancestors that had been there forever and did not come from another country are outdated.

The United Nations recognises indigenous peoples as simply the first settlers in any region.

In reply to R. Baker, the beliefs of Maori in 1840 have been overtaken by modern scientific knowledge, and it is not disrespectful to Maori to say so. Radiocarbon dating led by Janet Wilmshurst covered 112 known sites of early settlement in New Zealand.

They were all settled by Maori. There is no reliable evidence of Moriori or any other residents in New Zealand before Maori arrived, which is why Maori are on the United Nations’ list of indigenous peoples.

P Dey, Welcome Bay.

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I’m out there watching you I drive through that horrible Bayfair-to-Baypark traffic to and from work every single weekday, and at least once a week I’ll take note of somebody’s number plate and report them to the police. Last week it was three in four days.

I understand there’s crawling traffic, but I do not understand what is just so gosh-darn important that you would put your own life and the lives of those around you at risk.

Put the damn phone down and drive!

One guy last week did not look up from his phone at all; he just rolled right on through traffic. If the car in front of him had stopped suddenly for whatever reason, he would have rolled right on into them.

Another guy decided to try and take sultry selfies while in rush-hour traffic. Is a tempting traffic snap for

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I’ve watched in horror at the dreadful transformation of a delightful mid-town multifunctional car park surrounded by iconic mature palm trees.

I question the sanity of the planners/bureaucrats who’ve inflicted on us the dreadful concrete slab result previously known as Phoenix Park.

What an absolute frivolous waste of ratepayer’s money. I’ve yet to meet anyone who’s not disgusted with the final outcome.

I heartily endorse the public assertion that those responsible should be held accountable and removed from any future position of city/park influence.

T Fellingham, Tauranga South.

Tinder really worth the build-up of cars behind you?

Traffic is bad enough without distracted drivers crashing into other people.

Next time you decide that Facebook just can’t wait another moment, know that I’m out there, taking down number-plates and reporting you to the coppers.

R Porter, Papamoa.

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I wish to add my strongest protest to the other commuters who are currently trying to use the bus services in Tauranga.

This ‘new’ service plan for the buses, planned by so-called ‘experts’, is a complete abomination and it has been yet another complete waste of time and money.

There was nothing wrong with the previous bus routes, but now they have all been changed people are having to make at least two changes to get where they are going, whereas previously they only had to get one bus.

The new timetables are complicated and very hard to understand, and the new service no longer runs to timetable anyway.

Yesterday I had to wait for over 20 minutes for a bus, and I got so fed up I ended up walking – not at all easy in this heat. The excuses being given by the bus company about new drivers etc are no longer acceptable and, in my view, it is not being run as a proper business.

I thought I was supporting public transport by leaving my car in the garage, but I have decided to resort back to using my car. Whoever schemed up these new bus routes should be sacked – even a child could have worked it out better.

T Sealey, Brookfield.

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Another Black Caps capitulation The Black Caps’ problem seems to be the size of their heads and their inflated egos - they even believe their own claptrap. They were like headless chooks in the fifth one day international game last Sunday, snatching yet another defeat out of the jaws of victory.

Yes, they won the fourth ODI against a depleted and dubious Indian outfit, but so what? It’s about time the perennial underperformers were given the ‘don’t come Monday’ treatment.

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Most disturbingly however, is the lack of bottle and fight when the going gets tough. After all, it’s how you lose that’s so important.

The usual spin surfaces every season, but the reality is this bunch simply doesn’t know how to perform and win against good opposition when it matters and don’t deserve public support for poor performances.

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Writing on the NZ Drug Foundation website, Keri Welham says: “Acute adverse effects of cannabis use include anxiety and panic in naïve users and a probable increased risk of accidents if users drive while intoxicated.

“Use during pregnancy could reduce birthweight.

“Chronic cannabis use can produce a dependence syndrome in as many as one in 10 users.

“Regular users have a higher risk of chronic bronchitis and impaired respiratory function and psychotic symptoms and disorders.

“The most probable adverse psychosocial effect in adolescents who become regular users is impaired educational attainment. Regular cannabis use in adolescence might also adversely affect mental health in young adults, with the strongest evidence for an increased risk of psychotic symptoms and disorders.”

Despite this, and New Zealand’s terrible mental health statistics, we will have a referendum on cannabis because some politicians see economic benefits. Others think a rehabilitation approach to drugs should be preferred to a punitive approach.

This rationale is deceptive because mandatory rehabilitation without conviction could easily apply to first and/or second offenders and then punishment thereafter.

Legalisation will only make this harmful drug more accessible.

Greater accessibility

to alcohol and cigarettes in the last 100 years has certainly ruined countless lives. ‘Education’ has clearly failed as regards to alcohol, so can we really expect it to work regarding cannabis?

I don’t think a Christian, or anyone who believes in loving their neighbour as themselves, could in all good conscience vote in a way that will cause this harmful drug to be far easier to obtain and increasingly used by youth and adults alike.

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Life is no bed of roses, that’s for sure.

Seldom do things work out the way we planned or the way we wished.

Take, for example, marriages that end in separation or divorce. The newlyweds had planned to have a rich and fulfilling marriage, yet for whatever reason the relationship broke down, trust evaporated and with it all their hopes and dreams of a satisfying marriage.

So just what is a person to do when things break down? There is really only one course of action that will truly help - turn to Jesus Christ.

Jesus himself put it this way: “Come to me, all you who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” (The Gospel of Matthew Chapter 11 verse 28).

When relationships break down, hearts become heavy and life becomes a real burden. But it is Jesus who can turn your life around.

How? By forgiving you, changing you and giving you new life, eternal life. So stop trying to deny the hurt and the pain. Admit your need and come to the only one who can really help you Jesus Christ.

Pastor Greg Burgess - The Orchard Church

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Jam Factory is what Tauranga needed An obvious indicator of getting older is people you know dying.

I realise that’s not a very happy way to start a column, but at a certain time of life - and I think I’m at it now recognisable faces from throughout your days begin to grow fewer.

In his later years, my father used to ask if particular famous people were alive or dead.

That used to bother me; I always worried it might be a sign of Alzheimer’s. But I needn't have been concerned – it’s just growing older.

Because I now find myself occasionally wondering if someone well known, an actor for instance that I have watched for years, is still alive. Have they just not made a movie recently, or did I miss the obituary?

Therefore, before moving onto some upcoming gigs, I’d like to make quick mention of a couple of people who died this week. Both made a small but indelible impression on me.

Firstly, of course, a big swoop of the cowboy hat to the late, great Peter Posa. What a nice man! I didn't know him but have heard nothing but lovely stories from those who did.

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In all honesty, I never really got into his style of guitar. Those bright ringing tones and cheerful melodies were very much of a different, gentler, more innocent time. I've come to appreciate the skill and ground-breaking nature of it now, but at the time I was more enamoured with Billy TK’s Hendrixinspired improvisations with Human Instinct.

But each to their own.

Peter Posa achieved extraordinary things.

Check out the picture of him in Las Vegas with Frankie and Dino Hayden Chisholm. if you doubt it.

The other guy who died this week, who caused me a great deal of pleasure, was Andrew MacLachlan.

I suspect the vast majority of you don’t immediately recognise that name. Andrew MacLachlan was an actor who worked for more than 30 years in British television drama, film and theatre.

Still not ring a bell?

What if I said: “What’s so funny about Biggus Dickus?” That line will be instantly recognisable to lovers of Monty Python, and it was Andrew MacLachlan who played the guard in Life Of Brian, trying not to laugh as Michael Palin's lisping Pontius Pilate argues over “unusual” Roman names

with John Cleese’s centurion.

Who would have thought that watching someone try not to laugh would be so funny? I've seen people watch that scene with tears of laughter rolling down their cheeks.

I've been one of them. So thanks, Andrew MacLachlan - laughter is a precious gift.

The Jam Factory

On to those upcoming shows, and I really wanted to mention The Jam Factory, part of arts hub The Incubator at The Historic Village. The Jam Factory is the venue Tauranga didn’t know it needed – respectable, user-friendly and really, really small.

Yes, The Jam Factory only holds 50 people. It’s not Carnegie Hall but, given the sheer number of concerts taking place there, it is exactly what was required.

In the past week alone they have hosted Paul Ubana Jones, harp player Maeve Gilchrist and a night of Indian music. This week there are acts from Wellington and Auckland one jazz, one folk and both well worthwhile.

Unwind (Thursday, February 14, $20) is a stunning outfit of Wellington jazz royalty led by saxophonist Hayden Chisholm. The group play original jazz with an influence of chamber music, Indian raga and various folk styles.

Alongside Hayden are renowned bassist Paul Dyne, pianist and composer Norman Meehan and percussion master Julien Dyne.

They will most likely be sensational.

The following night (Friday, February 15, $20) things go folky with multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Sam Loveridge and trio Bonnie Strides.

Sam has played mandolin, fiddle and guitar with a ‘who’s who?’ of Auckland bands (Albi and the Wolves, Bernie Griffin, Gitbox et al) and now has a debut album, Clarity. Bonnie Strides’ sound revolves around harmony vocals, and their music has been described as “an intricate, diverse experience, here to take you through traditional-minded folk, Mumford and Sonsinspired indie-folk to something completely new.”

Find more details, check The Incubator website via: www.theincubator.co.nz

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Exciting new sounds from Alpaca Social Club Alpaca Social Club launch their first album this summer, and span a diverse collection of world music genres including Arabic, Celtic, funk soul and gypsy jazz in the process.

The concept is a collaboration of kindred musical souls performing the music they love from wherever that comes from.

The two musicians at the core of the project are piano accordionist Craig Denham and bouzouki/guitarist Jon Sanders. After five years of writing material and touring worldwide, the pair created a collection of 12 original tracks and covers, recorded in the Czech Republic in late 2017.

Playing with skill, humour, passion and adventure, Alpaca Social Club has gained a unique notoriety, touring in diverse locations from Womad Festival to Stewart Island.

Fans have described their shows as “a pyrotechnic display of dazzling virtuosity” and “a quantum leaping musical curiosity”.

Jon is a leading exponent of the bouzouki, guitar, ukulele and vocals, while Craig is a recognised force in accordion and piano performance as well as low

Alpaca Social Club. whistle, vocals and percussion.

Through clever composition, and the combination of their sound and instruments, they are able to create a sonic landscape that belies the size of the band.

Alpaca Social Club will be performing for The Entertainers Club this Sunday, from 5-8 pm, upstairs at the Tauranga Citizens club. Door entry costs $15 per person and everyone is welcome.

Crafty beer, crafty food and crafty art A bar and restaurant that has everything from great food, service and atmosphere is now opening an art shop and gallery.

Atrium Gallery, which will open on February 16, will sell a range of locally handmade items such as paintings, jewellery, pottery, woodwork, photography, tempered glass platters, goat hide bags and much more.

The team behind the Atrium Gallery.

“The idea for the shop and gallery is to make us a destination,” says owner Peta Clavis.

As well as providing an outlet for local artists and artisans, it will be a creative hub featuring workshops and exhibitions held for the local community and schools.

To experience crafty beer, crafty food and crafty art, visit the Black Sheep Restaurant and Atrium Gallery at 21 Plummers Point Road, Whakamarama.

From February 16 onwards, Atrium Gallery will be open Wednesday-Sunday, from 11am-5pm, with the restaurant open 11am-9pm.

GIGGUIDE & ENTERTAINMENT MT RSA Fri 8th Back Porch 7pm – 10:30pm Sat 9th Ray Solomon 7:30pm Sun 10th Helen Riley 4:30pm – 7:30pm

3pm – 6pm Wed 13th Tauranga Blues Jam 7:30pm – 10:30pm

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THE BARREL ROOM Sat 9th Foxtrots Live 7:30pm.

Free entry. Foxtrots aka Zoe Scott is an award-winning MOUNT SOCIAL CLUB vocalist based in Geraldine.

Fri 8th Take Two 6pm, then DJ She was awarded Overall Amelio from 10pm Sat 9th Ash Laforteza 6pm, then Junior winner of the NZ Gold Guitar, and Overall winner of DJ Zac from 10pm Australia’s Coca Cola Battle of Sun 10th Super Social Sunday the Young Stars. with Camila & Santiago 7pm Thurs 14th Social Valentine with THE JAM FACTORY (Historic live music, then Open Mic Village, 17th Ave) from 10pm Fri 8th Harp player, Maeve JACK DUSTY’S ALE HOUSE Gilchrist. Doors open (Bureta) 6:30pm. Tickets $20 www.

Sun 10th Great local live music! theincubator.co.nz

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Seniors stay safe with driver refresher course Senior drivers over 70 are being encouraged to refresh their driving skills by attending a free workshop.

The theory based session includes road rules, negotiating roundabouts, searching and scanning skills, road markings and road signs, driving conditions that affect safety and driving rural roads.

The content is based on NZTA information and resources.

The workshop is presented by Age Concern Tauranga and supported by Tauranga City Council and Western Bay of Plenty District Council.

Age Concern Tauranga workshop facilitator, Deb Grainger, says: “All drivers, regardless of their age, need to continually assess their driving skills to maintain their high levels of safety.”

“The following key statement is central to the workshop: ‘Responsibility for my safety rests

with me, in spite of the actions of others and the conditions affecting me’.

“We offer this workshop throughout the year at a variety of venues in the Western Bay.” One workshop attendee says: “It’s time well spent - very interesting and informative with up-to-date information, and clear pictures and diagrams.

“I have been a driver since age 17, and I’m now 89-years-old. I need to keep up with traffic changes, and there was good variety in the presentation.”

Participants find it particularly useful prior to renewing their drivers’ licence.

People may attend as many times as needed, and there is no test or exam.

The course runs from 9.15am to 1.30pm with a break for lunch. Participants only need to bring their lunch, with tea and coffee provided.

Please register with Age Concern Tauranga on: 07 578 2631 as workshop numbers are limited.

What do men want?

Papamoa’s Tivoli Cinema will screen What Men Want, staring Taraji P. Henson, on February 14.

Passed up for a well-deserved promotion, sports agent Ali Davis (played by Henson) wonders what else she needs to do to succeed in a man’s world.

Hoping to find answers from a psychic, Ali drinks a weird concoction that suddenly allows her to hear what men are thinking.

Using her newfound ability, Ali starts to turn the tables on her obnoxious male colleagues while racing to sign the next basketball superstar.

Tickets cost $25 per person and include your ticket, a wine or beer and an ice cream.

The Weekend Sun has one pass to see What Men Want (rated M) on February 14 for one lucky reader who can tell us who Ali turns to for advice.

Enter online at: www.sunlive.co.nz under the competition section. Entries must be received

by Tuesday, February 12.

Don your ‘Saturday Best’ Grab your frock and decorate your bike for a fun cycling day out.

Waihi Beach’s 5th annual Frocks on Bikes group ride and after party will take place later this month A family-friendly event for all ages and abilities, Frocks on Bikes is a community event that encourages a bit of fun.

There will be prizes for a number of dress-up categories, with prize giving and the after party hosted by the Waihi Beach Hotel.

Frocks on Bikes is on Saturday, February 23 at 3pm starting at Waihi Beach Hotel, 60 Wilson Road. There will be a $2 registration on the day. Bring your bike, helmet, water bottle, sunblock and your ‘Saturday Best’.

Free workshops are being presented by Age Concern Tauranga to encourage senior drivers to refresh their driving skills.

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Saturday 9 February

Art In The Park Original Art for Sale. 9am-4pm, weather

permitting. Coronation Park, Mt Maunganui. Tauranga Society of Artists.

Bay Network Singles Club 50plus. Make new friends.

Barbeques, outings, dining out & pot-lucks. Ph Jonathan 572 2091 or Maureen 021 112 3307 Beth-El Messianic Family Celebrate family life with Jews & Gentiles gathering as Yeshua (Jesus) & the early believers did.

10am Otumoetai Primary. Joel 021 768 043 Genealogy Informal Group Hints & discussion about family research. 1:30pm in hall at rear of Brain Watkins House, Cameron Road. Ph Sue 544 1751 Greerton Hall Market Last Saturday of month. 8am-12pm.

Stalls inside/outside. Discounts for charity groups. Refreshments available. Phone/txt for site. Tricia 07 543 1487 or 027 908 2952, www facebook.com/greertonhallmarket

Katikati Bowling Club 8 Park Road. 12:453pm. Ph Phil Green 549 5344 Katikati Lions Moggies Market 2nd Sat of month Katikati Memorial Hall, Main Road 8am-Noon. Enquiries 549 3589 LOL Laughter Wellness Laugh your way to wellness. To learn how, come & join us at Arataki Community Centre, Zambuk Way, Mt Maunganui.

11-11:45am. Ph Trish 022 036 6768 Narcotics Anonymous Open meeting every Sat 7:30-8:30pm, at Hanmer Clinic (behind Super Liquor), 1235 Cameron Rd, Greerton. If using drugs is causing you problems, ph 0800 NA TODAY Otumoetai Tennis Club Adult Tennis. Start time 1:30pm Bellevue Park Windsor Road (adjacent to swimming pool complex). New players & visitors welcome. Ph Fred 544 5088 Petanque Tauranga Tga/BOP Club, at Club Mt Maunganui 12:50pm start. All welcome to try a new sport. Equip available, all coaching given.

Ph Jo Ann 578 3606 Pottery Gallery Bethlehem Pottery Gallery is open 10am-2pm Tues,Thurs & Sat. Come along & purchase locally made pottery.

Social Group Unique club for people with a mild disability. 25 to 45. Various friendly fortnightly outings. Ph 07 575 3739 or 021 206 2980 Tauranga Fuchsia Group Meet at Art/ Craft Centre Elizabeth St West, last Saturday of the month except Dec/Jan at 1:30pm. Growing fuchsias.

Pat 579 1655 Noeleen 578 4643 Tauranga Rotaries March Book-Sale Please donate books, records, CDs, DVDs, jigsaws, sheet music. Drop off at 24 Montana Dr, 20 Ririnui Pl. Ph Anne 543 5350 or Ross 544 0817 Te Puke Scottish Society Monthly Dance, red theme, Memorial Hall, Sat 16th Feb, 7:30-11pm, live band, air conditioned hall, great company, lovely supper. Enjoy dancing & socialising together.

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 Well-Being For Women You’re invited to join the conversation on the health & well-being of women today 12:30-3pm at Waipuna Hospice.

Email Ingrid, newzealand@esotericwomenshealth. com

Sunday 10 February

Bible Seminar 1:45pm Greerton Senior Citizens

hall Maitland street Greerton. A new year of Bible study begins today interactive discussion, Q&A. All welcome. Ph Vic 543 0504 Corkers Toastmasters Corkers Toastmasters meets 3rd Sunday of month at 2pm at Zone Cafe (upstairs) Owens Pl Mount Maunganui. Ph Chrissy 027 296 7939 Croquet Tauranga Domain, Cameron Road, 12:45 for 1pm start. Sun, Tues, Fri. Beginners welcome. Peter 571 0633 Farmers Market - Mount Mainstreet Held every Sunday 9-1pm rain or shine! Right in the middle of Mount Mainstreet at Coronation Park, Maunganui. www.mountmainstreet.nz

Friendship Force Travel Club Enjoy travel &

meeting visitors? For world-wide exchange travel ph Jonathan 572 2091, Barbara 574 5711, www.friendshipforce.org.nz Historic Village Market Great market every 1st & 3rd Sunday from 8am-12 pm at 17th Ave. Fruit & veg, crafts, tools, food, plants, clothes & paintings.

Mah Jong Te Puke Every Thursday & Sunday at Lyceum Clubrooms Palmer Pl Te Puke.

12:45-4pm. Learners welcome. Gig 537 5355 or 0274 306 383 Narcotics Anonymous Open meeting every Sunday, 7-8pm, at Hanmer Clinic (behind Super Liquor), 1235 Cameron Rd, Greerton. If using drugs is causing you problems, ph 0800 NA TODAY NZDA BOP Range Day NZDA BOP branch run public open days last Sunday each month at their 300m range in TECT All Terrain Park. 9am-3pm $20 bring firearms licence Omokoroa Lions Market 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 1:30-4pm, in pond behind 24 Montego Drive Papamoa, sailing Electron Yachts for fun. Adult beginners welcome. Graham 572 5419 Spiritualist Church New Generation Doors open 6:45pm. Service begins 7pm. Meetings held at Tauranga Senior Citz Club Hall, 14 Norris St, Tauranga Treaty of Waitangi Talks Free talks on the Treaty of Waitangi with law professor & historian Rev. Dr David Williams. 7-9pm @ St Georges Church, 1 Church Street, Gate Pa. https://www. facebook.com/GatePaAnglican WBOP Fish/ Game Club Clay Bird shoot sponsored by Hamils Sports Tauranga. Everyone welcome. Lots of drawn prizes. Lunch, ammo, avail. Registration 8-10am. Ph Ross Allen 0274 962 315

Monday 11 February

Achieve Toastmasters Meets 1st 3rd & 5th Monday at St Stephens Church Hall Brookfield Tce Tauranga 7:30pm-9:30pm. Ph Frank/Chrissy 543 9493 or 027 296 7939 Aglow Mt Maunganui Be encouraged by the presence of the Holy Spirit in praise & worship.

7pm Mount Baptist Church, 66 Ranch Rd. Ph Sharron 027 354 1060 Alcoholics Anonymous Open meeting 10am.

Tauranga Central Baptist Church,13th Ave/Cameron Rd. All welcome. Ph 0800 229 6757 Argentine Tango A close-embrace dance that will change your life! Come on guys meet friendly young dancers to walk this ‘journey’. Ph/Txt 020 4006 1340

Bethlehem Indoor Bowls Meets in Bethlehem

Hall Monday nights starting Feb 18th 7:30 start, names in by 7:15. New members of all ages welcome. Ph John 027 654 1298 Chess At Mount Maunganui Mount RSA Chess Club, 544 Maunganui Rd, 6-7pm during school term. Late program 7pm onwards. Incl casual games. Noel 579 5412 Greerton Garden Club Meets 2nd Monday each month at St James church hall, cnr Pooles Rd & Devon Rd, Greerton at 1pm. Visitors welcome.

Harmony-A-Plenty Barbershop Chorus Our Chorus teaches you to sing & enjoy a great craft.

Meets 7pm, 183 Moffatt Rd, Bethlehem. Ph Gordon 07 576 5008. Welcomes new members.

Indoor Bowling St Columba Indoor Bowling Club, 502 Otumoetai Rd, Cherrywood. Year starts 4 Feb. All playing levels welcome 7:30pm start, names in by 7:15pm. Ph Paul 576 6324 Multicultural English Classes English classes for all visa holders on Monday, Tuesday & Thursday morning 10am-12pm. Registration required to enquiries@trmc.co.nz or 07 571 6419 Multicultural Mandarin Classes Monday conversational all levels Mandarin classes 6pm-7pm.

Saturday academic classes 10am-12pm. Registration required to enquiries@trmc.co.nz Narcotics Anonymous Open meeting every Monday, 7-8pm, at Hillier Centre, 31 Gloucester Rd, Mt Maunganui. If using drugs is causing you problems ph 0800 NA TODAY Papamoa Genealogists Branch Meet in the Tohora Room, Papamoa Community Centre 9:30am-2pm. Small door charge. Coffee & tea provided. Please bring your own lunch. Ph Kate 07 929 7884

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Mon/Wed Tga Senior Citz Club 14 Norris St. 9:15-10:45am. Tues St Marys Hall cnr Girven & Marlin 9-10:30. Jennifer 571 1411 or 027 206 0776 Silver Singers Choir All singing voices required.

Alto, Soprano, Bass & Tenor. Ph Gaynor 579 2465 TaiChi Internal Arts Beginner class 9:30-11am Greerton Senior Citizens Hall 33 Maitland St, Greerton. All welcome. $5 per class. Concesssion card avail. Ph David 552 4425 Tauranga City Brass Practises at band room 10 Yatton St Greerton 7-9pm. Instruments available.

Percussionists needed, ie. kit player. Ph Jeremy 021 132 3341 Tauranga Creative Fibre Every Monday 9:30am, also 2nd & 4th Thursday 7pm. Learn/share spinning, weaving, felting, knitting, crochet & all things fibre. 177 Elizabeth St. Margaret 571 3483 Tauranga RocknRoll Club Lessons 6:45pm & social dancing 7:30pm at Legion of Frontiersmen Hall, 165 Elizabeth St. Ph Rana 027 699 5571 or www.taurangarocknrollclub.org.nz Tauranga Senior Citizens Club CARDS 500 Mon & Thurs. INDOOR BOWLS Tues,Wed & Sat, 14 Norris St (behind Pak n Save) 12:45pm for 1pm start. Entry $2 includes afternoon tea.

New members welcome.

Tauranga Vision Friendship Club For retirees.

Friendship, speakers, outings, social gatherings.

Meets 4th Monday each month 10am at Citizens Club. Ph Bryan 570 2483

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Alcoholics Anonymous Open Meeting every Tuesday night, 7:30pm St Peters Anglican Church, 11 Victoria Rd, Mt Maunganui. All welcome.

Ph 0800 229 6757 Alpha Course Begins at St Thomas More church centre, 17 Gloucester Rd, Mount Maunganui at 7pm. Everyone welcome. To register ph Heidi 575 4807 Ext 6 Beginner Social Dance Class Starting 19 Feb, 7pm Tauranga Primary School Hall, 5th Ave or Wed 20 Feb, 8pm, Welcome Bay School Hall, 309 Welcome Bay Road.

Ph 027 322 1786 Falun Dafa Free Classes New Start to New You. Complete, gentle mind body programme 7pm, The Hillier Centre 31 Gloucester Rd Bayfair. Ph/txt Judy 021 042 5398 Fitness League Ladies exercise, stretching, strength & balance exercise, floor work & dance. St Columba Church, 502 Otumoetai Rd, Cherrywood 9:30-10:30am. Ph Gloria 021 139 2448 Golf In The City Golf for all, Otumoetai golf Club.

Tee off from 3:30-5:30pm. Meals available. Prizes & fun. All welcome.

Inachord Women’s Chorus If you like to sing dance make friends have fun, join us! Great musical Director. 7-9pm Bethlehem Community Church 183 Moffat Rd. Ph Sabine 021 118 659 Let’s Learn Lifelong Learning Are you a lifelong learner ?

Check out the range of courses, workshops, classes, lectures, lessons & events on www.letslearn.co.nz or ph 544 9557 Multicultural Tai Chi Classes Tai Chi Classes for beginners 10-11am at Historic Village Multicultural Tauranga office. Registration required. enquiries@trmc.co.nz or 07 571 6419 Narcotics Anonymous Womens’ meeting every Tuesday at Downstairs Hall (accessed from building’s rear), Salvation Army Recovery Church, 51 Fifth Ave. (Children welcome).

Ph 0800 NA TODAY Oriana Singers Community Choir Rehearsals 7pm at St Andrews Church, Mt Maunganui. More tenors & basses required. Ph Terry 0210 266 8684 Otumoetai Tennis Club Adult Tennis.

Start time 9am Tues & Thurs, Bellevue Park Windsor Road (adjacent to swimming pool complex). New players & visitors welcome.

Ph Pam 570 0302 Otumoetai Walking Group Meet at 9am at Kulim Park.

Ph Jim 576 7339 Petanque Twilight TuesdaysTga/BOP Club at Club Mt Maunganui 4-6pm. All Welcome to try a new sport. Equip available, all coaching given. Ph Jo Ann 578 3606 Scrabble Tauranga Scrabble Club 8:50am-12pm. 3 games Tauranga Bridge Club Ngatai Rd. New players very welcome Ph 578 3606 St John Youth Children aged 6-18 interested in First aid, Medical or Ambulance profession come to St John Youth, Mt Maunganui Ambulance Station during term times 6-7:30pm. First night for Term 1 is tonight!

Taichi Internal Arts NZ Te Puke Beginner Class Memorial Hall. 9.30-11am. Settlers Room. $5/class. All welcome.

Airconditioning. Ph David 552 4425 Tauranga Acoustic Music Club Greerton RSA 7pm.

Friendly get-together, all instruments, all levels of ability.

Come in & enjoy some live music. Grant 578 6448 Tauranga Astronomical Society English Astrophysicist Prof. Brian Cox, video, discusses Wonders, Origins & diversity of life. Seeing into the Sun, New Horizon’s discoveries around Pluto. Tauranga Observatory 7:30 Tauranga Diamond Friendship Club Formerly Probus, meets 1st Tuesday of each month 1:30pm at Tauranga Citizens Club, Guest Speakers, social outings, numerous activities. All welcome. Ph Nancy 543 4468 Tauranga UFO & Paranormal Monthly meeting 7:30pm in Senior Citizens Hall 14 Norris Street. Use rear entrance.

Door $4 inc light supper. All welcome. Ph Ian 544 2811 MEDIUM Type Two Diabetes? Living with type two diabetes?

Keen to reduce your HbA1c, Cholesterol & blood pressure? Meet DESMOND (Self Management Group) InfoLine 07 571 3422 Welcome Bay Strength Balance Welcome Bay Community Centre 11am-12. Strength & balance class aimed at older adults. Great music, qualified instructor. $6. Ph Raewyn 027 607 7437 Yoga for All Welcome Bay Community Centre, 6:30-8pm.

Traditional, relaxing yoga class. Beginners welcome. $12 one or $90 nine classes. Bring a mat. Ph Bhajan 07 929 7484

Become A Goddess Escape into the fantasy world of

bellydance at 7pm. Exciting props provided. Ph Linley 027 286 3452 or see us on facebook ‘Genies Unbottled’ Belly Dance Beginner Class Learn basic technique of this sassy dance form! Have fun, keep fit St Columba Church Hall 502 Otumoetai Rd, Tauranga, 6:30pm. Ph 021 124 5982 arabianspicebd@gmail.com Bromeliad Club Open Day At the Yacht club, Sulphur Point 12:30-2:30. Bromeliad display, & quality bromeliad plant sales & growing information available. Very reasonable prices. Free entry, spot prizes, raffles Cards 500, social, evenings to suit, some experience in card playing required. Ph Chris 572 3834 Cards Cribbage Do you play crib or would like to learn?

Every Wednesday at Greerton RSA starting time 1pm sharp.

Ph Michael 562 0517 Classical Journey Concert presented by The NZ Symphony Orchestra. Baycourt Addison Theatre, Feb 20th at 7:30pm. More info www.baycourt.co.nz or 577 7189 Community Bible Study Join us @ City Church 252 Otumoetai Road 7-9 for a Bible Study on the “Book of Daniel” starting today. Ph Julie 552 4068 Diabetes Group Te Puke St Andrews Church Oxford St Te Puke, 2pm. Meet our Diabetes Nurse Educator for free diabetes information, advice & support INFOline 07 571 3422 Fitness League Exercise, movement, dance, focusing on posture, stretching, strengthening & flexibility suitable for all ages & abilities. 10am Katikati Memorial Hall, Pam 07 549 4799 Free Meditation 7:30-8:30pm, drop in any time during the course. Youth Engagement Programme Building Behind Main Stadium Tauranga Domain, Cameron Rd, entrance opp Monmouth St Tauranga. Ph Ian 027 884 2238 Gate Pa Indoor Bowls Opening Night 7:30pm Names in Book 7:15pm. Ph Kevin 543 4044 Healing Rooms 1-3pm Come, experience God’s healing touch, whether physical, emotional, spiritual. Behind 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 12:45-3pm. Ph Phil Green 549 5344 Kiwi Toasters Toastmasters Find your Voice Kiwi Toasters meets 1st 3rd & 5th Wednesday at 3 Palm Springs Blvd Papamoa 5:30-7pm. Ph Chrissy 027 296 7939 Multicultural Morning Tea Want to meet people from other countries? Come to our morning tea 10:30am-12pm at Historic Village office, 17th Ave Tauranga Narcotics Anonymous Steps meeting (Closed), every Wednesday, 7:30-9pm, at Downstairs Hall (accessed from building’s rear carpark), Salvation Army Recovery Church, 51 Fifth Avenue, Tauranga. Ph 0800 NA TODAY Papamoa Palms Friendship Club Gordon Spratt Reserve, Parton Rd 11am. Bring own lunch. AM & PM speakers.

Everyone welcome. First meet free. Friendship our motto.

Ph Sue 574 3280 Papamoa Garden Circle First 2019 meeting, 1pm at Papamoa Sport & Recreation Centre. Guest speaker, Ailsa James talking on Camelias.

Scottish Country Dancing Beginners Classes 6:30pm, Senior Citizens Hall, Maunganui Rd. Come on your own or bring a friend. Wear light flat shoes.

Ph Lynne 021 140 7912

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Time, passion to spare for helping in your community? Like fun, food, enlightening speakers? Join us from 6pm, Daniels In The Park. Ph Bev 027 285 4066 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

Welcome Home Spiritual Community

Guest speaker Janis Priest, international speaker author & holistic practioner. St George’s lounge.

7:15pm $5 entry. Creator of rainbow magazine. 021 126 4790

Thursday 14 February

A Place to Bee Come & join us for knitting, card making or anything you want to craft while we chat at Lighthouse Church Welcome Bay 11am-1pm Bay City Rockers Social RocknRoll dancing, plus other popular dances at Senior Citizens Hall Norris St. 7-9:30pm.

Includes supper. $3 entry. Ph Gavin 027 643 6222 Community Bible Study Join us @ 14th Ave Gospel Centre 10am-12pm for Bible Study on the “Book of Daniel” starting today. Ph Gay 021 225 5981 Fitness League Exercise, movement, dance focusing on posture, stretching, strengthening & flexibility, suitable for all ages & abilities. Central Baptist Church, 13th Ave, 10am. Ph Pam 07 549 4799 Katikati Bowling Club 8 Park Rd Rummikub 1-4pm, $3 entry. Phil Green 549 5344 Katikati Toastmasters Meetings 1st 3rd & 5th Thursday at Katikati Community Centre 45 Beach Rd Katikati 7:30pm-9pm.

Ph Chrissy 027 296 7939

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8 4 5 2 9 7 8 How to solve 7 3 4 1 5 Sudoku!

No.1975 2 86 6 5 39 1 Fill the grid so that 6 4 97 9 6 8 4 every row and every 2 3x3 square contains 1 8 the digits 1 to 9 1 4 3 5 7 5 68 2 9 5 7 Solution No.1974 7 3 425189 637 1 5 How to solve MEDIUM 8No.1975 2 Sudoku! 6 5 39 18 76 24 56 37 89 45 12 Wednesday 13 February 6 7 1 8 3 4 5 2 9 1 Group Meet at 10am 6 at Kulim Age Concern Walking 4 9 Park.

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2 3 4 5 9 1 7 8 6 7 9 4 row and every Alcoholics Anonymous Open meeting 10am 1st/3rd3 Wed 8 1every 1 9 3 7 4 5 2 6 8 of month. Tauranga Central Baptist Church. 13th Ave/Cam-8 3x3 square contains 7 4 8 3 2 6 1 9 5 4 229 6747 eron Rd.5 All welcome. Ph 0800 1 to 9 6 the digits 5 5 6 2 9 1 8 3 7 4 2 9 7 8 No.1974 7 3 4 2Solution 1 5 5 1 8 9 6 3 7 2 8 6 5 39 18 76 24 56 37 89 45 12

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6-7:30pm. All welcome. $5/class. Ph David 552 4425

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Keynotes Women’s Chorus Open night

28 February 7pm Wesley Church 100 13th Ave. All welcome. We sing 4-part a-cappella style harmony. Ph Bernice 576 4848 Facebook Keynotes Inc. Ladies Craft Group A fun group of crafting ladies that meet 9am-2pm at Arataki Community Centre. BYO craft. Tea & coffee provided. $6. Sam 027 270 4383 Narcotics Anonymous Mens’ meeting (Closed), every Thursday, 7:30-8:30pm, at Papamoa Library, 15 Gravatt Rd, Papamoa.

If using drugs is causing you problems, maybe we can help. Ph 0800 NA TODAY Tauranga Model Railway Club Club Night every Thurs 7:30 in club rooms, cnr Mirrelees & Cross Rds, Sulphur Point. Ph Mike Oldfield 926 9198

Friday 15 February

Alcoholics Anonymous Open meeting 10am every Friday. Tauranga Central Baptist Church, 13 Ave/Cameron Rd. All welcome.

Ph 0800 229 6757 Arataki Artists Every Friday 9am-12pm at Arataki Community Centre. Paint with friends. Occasional tuition with local artists.

All levels welcome. Ph Lillybeth 021 150 1605 Baypark Family Speedway NZ Stock Car Championships 6:30pm. More info at www. baypark.co.nz Cards 500, social, evenings to suit, some experience in card playing required. Ph Chris 572 3834 Chess Tauranga Tauranga RSA Chess Club, Greerton 5-7pm, Casual & Standard length games. Ph Werner 548 1111 http:/ www.westernbopchess.weebly.com/ Narcotics Anonymous Open meeting every Fri at Hillier Centre, 31 Gloucester Rd, Mt Maunganui, 7:30-8:30pm. If using drugs is causing you problems, maybe we can help ph 0800 NA TODAY Taichi Internal Arts NZ Te Puke Memorial Hall, Settlers Room 9:30am. Regular 85 Yang form plus Qigong $5/class. Lok Hup Ba Fa. 11am $2/class. Ph David 552 4425 Te Puke Toy Library New opening hours Wed-Sat 10am-1pm Thurs 3:30-5:30pm during Terms 1 and 4. 7 Stock Road Playgroup Friday 10am-12pm. Come on down & join to hire toys & have some fun.

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