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Health expo targets Kayak group paddling ahead Maori women A free one-stop shop for women’s health is on offer to Bay of Plenty women and their whanau this month at Tauranga Moana City Clinic.
day for women. Pastele says students will be offering information on a number of topics, including heart health and smoking, healthy eating, the importance of getting regular smear tests, and other common female issues. There will also be qualified nurses on-site offerTe Manu Toroa a Tauranga Kaupapa Maori Health Service is teaming up with ing advice, smear tests and potentially immunisations for tamariki (children). Year 1 nursing students from Waiariki While it’s aimed at women, the expo Insitute of Technology to provide the also caters for families, and has dediexpo, which will feature nutrition cated entertainment advice, cervical screenfor children. ing, breast screening, It is hoped the expo massage, heart health, particularly attracts anti-smoking informaMaori women, as tion, and more. it’s an opportunity Student Pastele for them to focus on Duncanson says her themselves and their class is required to hold health needs while a health expo as part enjoying some fun of its Primary Health and pampering at the Care paper. same time. Raewyn In a bid to do “someEnsor says women’s thing different” the health is so important students approached “and this is the perfect Te Manu Toroa clinical one-stop-shop for services manager Mairi dealing with outLucas with the idea of standing issues”. working together. The free expo is on Mairi jumped at the Saturday, November idea, and a partnership Mairi Lucas with Waiariki 9, from 10am-3pm. was formed to offer a nursing students. By Corrie Taylor dedicated health
Bay Association of Sea Kayakers members.
Members of the Bay Association of Sea Kayakers recently experienced a very successful kayaking forum at the Tauranga Coastguard Sulphur Point headquarters. Currently, BASK has 85 members and nearly 30 per cent attended – covering subjects such as trip planning, navigation, weather, surf and hypothermia. The event ties in with a BASK rescue session, which was held earlier this year at the Otumoetai Pools, and complements planned surf sessions and novice days set for January and February next year. The association provides all of these activities free to its members, giving good value for the membership fee of only $25 for singles and $40 for doubles. Currently, BASK has a trip on offer every weekend; and during the last three months members have enjoyed trips on the Kaituna, Mokau and Waihou rivers, trips to Whanarua, Raglan, Lake Taupo, Slipper Island – as well as many trips on the Tauranga Harbour. This Saturday, in conjunction with the November Water Month being promoted by Sport Bay of Plenty, BASK will offer an opportunity for anyone interested to talk to club members and have a try in
Agatha Christie’s on-stage classic intrigues Detour Theatre’s latest production ‘Appointment with Death’ comes from the pen of the world’s favourite murder mystery writer – Agatha Christie. “Christie’s plays are tremendous fun for audience and actors alike,” says director Kim Williamson. “Filled with intrigue, romance, revenge, vivid characters, and of course murder, this has all the qualities of Agatha Christie murder mysteries that we all love. Add to this the exotic Middle Eastern location – and it’s a real treat.” It’s 1945 and Jerusalem’s King Solomon Hotel has seen some strange travellers in its time, but none so strange as those who are now visiting. Among them is an elderly American invalid and her stepchildren. To the casual onlooker they are models of devotion, but the reality is very different, and one of them has an appointment with death. Filled with colourful characters and intriguing mystery this show represents Agatha Christie at her riveting best. “A surprising facet to the play is that it has a different murderer. Agatha
Christie made sure that audience members, who had read her book of the same name, would still be in for a surprise at the theatre. What a wonderfully wicked woman she was,” laughs Kim. In Detour Theatre’s production, 17 actors take to the stage, playing an assortment of eccentric characters including a charming French psychiatrist (Chris Parnell), a disturbed American family (Jaden McLeod, Diana Corrigan, Katherine Knight, Sam Dowdall, Gin Mabey), a Jordanian police colonel (Geoff Herd) and his Bedouin tracker (Bob Hewat), various eccentric hotel guests (Jamie Parkes, Kate Akers, Philippa Powell, Devon Williamson, Jane McKenna, Daniel McKenna), Arab tour guides (Michael Morris and Flynn Harris) and a charming young doctor (Sarah Oemcke). The Detour Theatre is a delightful 75-seat theatre located in a lovingly renovated 100-year-old church at the Historic Village. The show runs from November 13-10.
Cast members Philippa Powell, Kate Akers, Geoff Herd, and Jamie Parkes.
The Weekend Sun has two double passes to Appointment with Death to give away to lucky readers who can tell us what year the production is set in. Enter online at www.sunlive.co.nz under the competitions section. Entries must be received before Wednesday, November 6.
a sea kayak. Members will also be at Pilot Bay, by the toilet block, between 9am and 11am before their planned trip to Rabbit Island.