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It’s the first of Classic Flyers’ family picnic-style airshows, starting at 2.30pm. The air display, with a dual-seat Spitfire as the star,

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Some of you are complete muppets It’s been a mixed bag in the news business this week.

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Some major stories have crossed our desk, with SunLive breaking news of the Mount blaze, the fire on board the White Island boat and the sensational rescue of 60 people.

Plus some outrageous crashes of cars and boats. A couple of guys managed to slamdunk themselves and jetski into a shipwreck.

The news is not the only thing broken this week. Your loyal readership and our slick news delivery online means we’ve romped to another record-breaking week for SunLive.

Toppling its page impression records of a couple of weeks ago, SunLive rated off the charts again, another million hits in a week.

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Hokey highlights

Intermingled with the real news has been a plethora of hokey stories, that despite seeming to have no real news value at all, have been embraced and catapulted into the ‘most read’ categories by fickle and feeble minded readers who clearly, are more interested in gossip and tattle, than real events.

The Hokey Highlights include Max Key breaking up with his girlfriend, Art Green did something important such as waking up in the morning, a nurse dies on ‘Shortland Street’, Pamela Anderson causes chaos in France, Jason Gunn loses fight with wheelie bin, Lorde breaks up with boyfriend… (our solution would be for Max Key to date Lorde, since they are both now free).

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The fact these non-stories have rated so highly really makes us wonder about the mentality of the average reader, and yes, that includes you.

But nothing compares to the idiocy on the Mount the other night...

Anarchist arsonists’ arsenals

You really have to wonder about the mentality of some people roaming the region this time of the year. Why we set ourselves up for an invasion of muppets, intent on creating mayhem and disorder.

There’s a hard core of losers that visit (some already live here) intent on turning a naturally stunning environment into some sort of third world warzone.

Perhaps we need tighter border controls, stop them at the city gates and measure their IQ and demeanour before allowing them in to make trouble.

To top it off, we let them get liquored up and give them free range with fireworks.

If that’s not a recipe for disaster, I don’t know what is.

So it’s hardly surprising that some waste of oxygen morons have managed to use fireworks to set fire to the region’s most recognised landmark, Mount Maunganui.

It was only a matter of time before some looney with a lighter and a bag of rockets managed to burn a treasured icon.

As regular readers may recall, this column has been banging on about bangers for years, calling for an end to the public sale and use of fireworks. Now what more reason do you need to concede that the practice is outdated, dangerous and clearly not safe in the hands of a large percentage of the population?

Oh, righto, perhaps people need to die?

Disfigurement and arson and vandalism with gunpowder ain’t enough?

It’s not just the big arson events, such as the latest Mauao fire, that need snuffing out.

It’s the stupidity of random fireworks being let off at random times of the day and night – nothing whatever to do with Guy Fawkes or New Year or any other perceived reason for celebrating with fire and explosives.

Neighbourhoods across the region being disturbed, animals frightened and the sleepdeprived awakened with state-supported senseless vandalism, noise pollution, littering, arson and dangerous behaviour.

Gun users have to be licenced, their use of firepower restricted to times and places, with heavy consequences for anyone stepping out of line.

We wouldn’t put up with idiots roaming the streets firing weapons in the air at random and deliberately setting about to desecrate and destroy, disturb the peace and scare animals.

So why are we letting these anarchist dipsticks loose on the streets with an arsenal of arson supplies?

Ban the sale of fireworks and the public use of explosives now. Before next Guy Fawkes.

Lock up anyone using them outside of an organised professional display. Rant over.

The Eagle has flown

More sad news this week in the entertainment world, with the passing of another iconic of music, Glenn Frey.

We’d not finished our tributes to Mr Bowie, when news broke of the passing of the Eagles founder. It’s a reminder the artists responsible for the soundtracks of our lives are not getting any younger; and some of them have lived a fairly chequered life so it may not be surprising that for some, it’s all catching up.

Thanks to a fine musician, on behalf of a grateful generation. I guess you can now Take It Easy, Glenn.

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IMPORTANT STUFF: All material is copyright and may not be reproduced without the written permission of the publisher. Sun Media makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all information and accepts no liability for errors or omissions or the subsequent use of information published. In the Republic of Ireland, fireworks are illegal and possession is punishable by huge fines and/or prison, according to Wikipedia. However, around Halloween a large amount of fireworks are set off, due to the ease of being able to purchase from Northern Ireland.

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Friday 22 January 2016

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The end of waste Kiwis have a dirty secret: each year – we produce 3.2 million tonnes of waste, according to Statistics New Zealand.

That’s enough waste to bury the rugby pitch at Eden Park in a pile of trash 3.5km deep.

This statistic is no news to Para Kore, a grass roots environmental group that aims to help every NZ marae, about 780 of them, work towards zero waste by 2020.

“We started with just three marae in 2009,” says Para Kore national manager Jacqui Forbes.

“At the end of 2015, we had more than 90 marae on the journey with us. More than 8000 people have taken part in wananga and hui, and we’ve diverted more than 90,000kg of waste from landfill.”

Jacqui says Para Kore, which means zero waste in te reo, helps whanau (families) rethink and redesign the way waste flows through marae.

“This means eliminating nonrecyclable waste coming onto marae (mainly non-recyclable plastic packaging) and maximising recycling, composting and reuse systems.”

And marae recycling is becoming the norm in Tauranga, thanks to the zero waste programme, says Para Kore waste advisor Kylie Willison.

“Huria Marae [Judea] and Wairoa Marae were two of the first marae to sign up to the programme and have successfully taken advantage of the education, ongoing support and access to free resources the programme provides.

“Marae not only learn about materials that are able to be recycled in their local area, they also look at other ways to reduce their rubbish such as through composting, worm farming and sensible shopping choices.”

Kylie has made presentations to Iwi Runanga, Hapu, Marae and Tauranga councils, and is keen to spread the message even further.

But Para Kore doesn’t stop with waste: it takes the conversation one step further.

The organisation’s waste advisors encourage whanau (families) to set up organic mara kai (community gardens).

Beyond yielding free, healthy, unsprayed vegetables, a mara kai eliminates packaging and provides a use for the wriggling, organic compost that comes from worm farms and compost bins.

Para Kore has waste advisors in Te Tau Ihu (top of the South Island), Taranaki, East Cape, Bay of Plenty, Waikato, Northland and Auckland. While the programme continues to expand in each region, there are waiting lists for marae in nearly every other region across the country.

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Memory of the Canon Helen Graham is a gentle, polite, and softly-spoken woman – not at all like her great-grandfather, Reverend Canon Charles Jordan.

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Arson cause of Mauao fire Arson has been determined as the cause of a fire which ripped through the summit of Mauao last week.

Pumicelands Rural Fire Authority zone manager Alan Pearce says people throwing fireworks off the top of the Mount started the fire deliberately.

The fire started about 12am on Thursday, January 14 in Mount Maunganui – burning between 800900sqm on the northeast side of the landmark.

Alan says the results of their investigation point strongly towards a deliberate attempt to cause a fire by throwing fireworks from the top of the Mount.

All tracks on the Mount have now been opened to the public.

Million dollar upgrade for highway A stretch of State Highway 2, north of Tauranga, is set to get a $1.8 million upgrade that is hoped will increase the chances of people walking away from a crash without serious injury.

A section of highway, between Wainui South Road and Sargent Drive, will be repaired and widened, and a wire rope central median barrier installed to prevent head on crashes.

The NZ Transport Agency says work starts this month and is expected to wrap up in early May. The Transport Agency’s Bay of Plenty highway manager, Niclas Johansson, says the project is a big job and will be carried out in three stages.

“We’re working hard to minimise the impact as much as possible and only minor delays to people’s journeys are expected.”

German tourist injured The meat workers union is calling for the government to get involved in the investigation of an accident at Affco Rangiuru.

A young German worker on a holiday visa was knocked out and left with cuts to his head after an accident on Friday.

The holiday worker was knocked out and suffered cuts to his face, head and damaged teeth in the accident, witnesses to the accident told the Meat Workers Union.

The accident took place on the mutton slaughter chain and the worker caught on a spreader, says union organiser Darien Fenton.

The union is calling on Worksafe and the government to investigate the accident and the practices of companies employing young visitors in meat plants.

SunLive Comment of the Week This comment was posted by Greertonboy following the announcement of the death of Eagles founder Glenn Frey.

“One of these nights? After spending his life in the fast lane, with witchy women and lying eyes.... this Desperado, once the new kid in town.... a victim of love who used to take it to the limit, wasted time at the hotel California drinking Tequila Sunrise and admiring the pretty maids all in a row. He was in it for the long run, the journey to the sorcerer has left a hole in the world. Now he has to learn to be still, no more cloudy days, he has left a hole in the world, definitely a heartache tonight. I hope he will be finally getting to take it easy... remember, love will keep us alive. Poor ol’ 55 ... I can’t tell you why? After the thrill is gone....

Too late for soul searching I guess? The heat is on, even after hours, No fun allowed.

Strange weather.”

He was a family man, says Helen.

She’s brought with her a folder full of newspaper clippings, family photographs, and letters, including one Charles wrote to his eldest daughter.

“He was writing to his little girls and hoping they’re well.”

The newspaper articles read The first vicar of Tauranga’s Holy Trinity Anglican about the fire at Holy Trinity Church, and nine-time City Mayor, the “feisty and Anglican Parish Church in 1999 strong-willed” Charles was seen as a controversial when the original building was figure in Tauranga. destroyed by an arson attack.

Even the statue erected in his memory on 1915 at Built in 1875, The Holy Wharepai Domain shapes his stern face in stone. “He Trinity Church is Tauranga’s was at war with just about everybody,” admits Helen. fi rst church and one of the What’s possibly an old character reference tells city’s oldest buildings. us the Canon also behaved soberly, piously, and “The fire that burnt Holy with ability and conformably in the doctrine and Trinity was set by burning discipline of the Church of Ireland. That’s why the a solvent soaked cushion Canon’s 86-year-old great-granddaughter is visiting under the vestry steps,” the Sun Media offices. says Helen.

She came to us after reading our article about the Helen tears up: finding of a 143-year-old testimonial, dated the July “When the church 18, 1872, at The Elms in October 2015. burned down it The Elms collections convenors, Dr Willie Turner really, truly, was and Kevin Hamm, found the copperplate written recommendation at The Elms’ Hunter House, hiding like losing part of great-granddad.” among old books, photos, love letters, recipes, and She still says a early prints of the original house that Reverend Alfred cheerful “good Nesbit Brown lived in. morning” to the The Canon was born in County Kerry, Ireland, monument that and served as a pastor before being appointed to stands in the the new parish of Tauranga, to serve the developing Canon’s memory settlement. at Tauranga’s Wharepai Domain each Willie says Charles had applied for a job here, so time she walks past. the testament was possibly his ticket out of Ireland.

“As children we were always taken A praising testament to his name, Canon Jordan got there.

My mother told us that when the job. But he and Brown soon butted heads. she was little her sister and two brothers “Clearly a different character to Brown, he was feisty and strong-willed,” says Willie. “A fighter, but a had to take turns to go down and scrub survivor. Everywhere he went there were arguments.” the green moss off grandfather,” she explains with a giggle.

Helen’s memories of Canon Jordan are extracts from stories told by her late great-grandmother, the Canon’s wife, Eleanor Ann Armstrong. Charles died Your questions answered before Helen was born, but his wife lived to age 99.

Visiting great-grandmother’s house KC Anderson-Hawke is a favourite memory of Helen’s.

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The Weekend Sun Canon Charles Jordan’s greatgranddaughter Helen Graham, sitting at the statue of her great-grandfather at Wharepai Domain.

Photo: Bruce Barnard.

where we played.”

Then nestled on Eighth Ave, the Canon and Eleanor’s home looked over the land that is now Memorial Park.

A painting of Memorial Park preplayground and water fountain hangs in Helen’s home.

“That was grandfather’s cow patch,” explains Helen. “The section went right down to Devonport Rd.” Although Helen never met her greatgrandfather, through the monuments and photographs at Borough Council Office on Willow St and Holy Trinity Church on Devonport Rd she feels a connection.

While admiring a portrait of the Canon at the Borough Council Office, Helen says a photographer walked past and commented, ‘He’s a handsome chap isn’t he?’

She replied, “Well he should be, he’s my great-grandfather.”

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Friday 22 January 2016

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Uplifting resolutions What is Kieran Mischewski’s New Year resolution? “...one national record, which I don’t have, so I want to get that,” says the 40-year-old Tauranga powerlifter.

Kieran holds the New Zealand record for his weight division in the squat with a 200kg lift and 262.5kg deadlift – and winning the national bench press title would lift a weight off his shoulders.

The NZ bench press record is 142.5kg and Kieran’s lifting 130kg. “It’s close. I’m going to try to be greedy and try to hold ‘em all,” says Kieran.

Ending 2015 with a silver medal at the Commonwealth Powerlifting Championships in Vancouver last December, Kieran’s New Year goal is to get to the Oceania Powerlifting Championships in December, 2016.

“I’m hoping by the time I do the Oceania Powerlifting Championships I’ll have the Oceania deadlift record. I think that’s going to be doable at 285kg.”

The father-of-three trains at home, in the garage, with mostly homemade gear. It’s a personal decision, giving him more family time.

“My boy’s started hanging around in the garage and doing some weights which is quite cool.”

A national champ in training perhaps? “He’s only 12 so he’s got a good head start,” laughs Kieran.

The powerlifting dad has just started training for his first competition of the year at Taupo in February.

“That’s the real test to see just how much of an impact Christmas has had,” jokes Kieran. “The ol’ weight belt is a bit tighter than it was before.”

With no injuries to the body, Kieran’s ready to lift the post-Christmas weight and the weights on his bar as he focuses on the year ahead.

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Heating before health, claims survey Are some New Zealanders making drastic personal sacrifices just to pay their power bills?

A nationwide survey suggests 45 per cent of those surveyed are skimping on essentials, such as visits to the dentist or the doctor because of the increasing cost of electricity and gas.

And we’re also skimping on holidays (48 per cent) and eating out (58 per

cent) so we can be either warmer or cooler depending on the time of year.

These are the findings of a nationwide survey conducted on behalf of Knauf, a global home insulation company. The survey sample group was more than 400 New Zealanders and was conducted in December.

The survey found that 50 per cent of us “noticed a rise in our energy bills over the last year”. And with the average house spending $2000 a year

on power and gas, it’s suggested 45 per cent of those surveyed had to making drastic savings elsewhere.

But the survey doesn’t make sense to Trustpower.

“It certainly doesn’t reflect what we are seeing,” says Trustpower community relations manager Graeme Purches. “And we trade all over New Zealand.”

But Trustpower fully supports home insulation. “We agree that installing insulation where there is none, or in some cases improving existing insulation, can reduce energy bills.”

The marketing manager for Knauf, Claire Cunliff, says people who depend on artificial heating and cooling often don’t realise if they don’t have enough insulation it can mean less efficient use of

appliances and therefore higher energy bills.

“And as a consequence many families are feeling the pinch.”

The company research says the average household uses 63 per cent of its energy on heating and cooling. Despite spending more on energy bills, almost 60 per cent of kiwis still feel uncomfortable in their homes during the warmest and coldest months of the year.

They say their research also shows rising energy costs have affected one in two New Zealanders with many compromising their health by cutting back on medical treatment.

However Trustpower says

Government statistics show that for many regions, energy costs have been “pretty static for well over a year”.

Graeme says trying to talk about energy use based on a “simplistic survey asking pre-determined questions without demographics is flawed”.

He says the claim Kiwis use 63 per cent of their energy powering heating and cooling appliances is misleading and the suggestion 60 per cent are uncomfortable during the hottest and coldest months would suggest to him those surveyed were from regions with extremes of temperature.

He says the comment regarding “sacrifices” reflects statistics generally attributed to low and/or fixed income households, typically those in retirement or on benefits.

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Friday 22 January 2016

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Classic style for a classy show A newcomer to Tauranga and one of the stars of the Classic of the Sky – Tauranga City Airshow is Marty Cantlon’s Gilmore Waco Taperwing.

In addition to the Gilmore Waco (inset), this Pitts Special S2 (piloted by Russell Harris) will also be making an appearance at the Tauranga City Airshow.

Photo: Bruce Barnard.

He spotted the aircraft at the Oshkosh airshow in Wisconsin, where it won the Concours d’Elegance.

It’s a 1982 kit aircraft based on the original.

“It’s hard to describe some of these kits,” says Classic Aircraft CEO Andrew Gormlie.

“It’s almost like a Ferrari kit car because they were built back in the period where people were trying to emulate the original item. So it’s not a 1928 aeroplane, it’s a 1982 aeroplane.

“They are made of the same old components, same period engine, and all that sort of stuff.”

Marty brought the aircraft into the country at the end of last year, so it’s brand new into New Zealand. The reconstruction is just completed and he’s flown only about half a dozen hours, says Andrew.

“He’s stripped it and refurbished it completely from bottom to top.

It’s beautiful. It’s a spectacular example of one of those.”

The Gilmore Waco, pronounced ‘waako’, Taperwing, is known as the best flying aircraft of the roaring ‘20s, and is still sought after among pilots.

Designed for landing and taking off from cow paddocks at country fairs and rough fields, the Weaver Aircraft Company intended the Taperwing to replace the surplus WWI aircraft that began the barnstorming era.

The aircraft is equipped with hydraulic shock absorbers on the undercarriage, an unusual feature on a light aircraft of the day.

The Taperwing also has seating for two passengers side by side under the wing, bringing in twice the income from airshow joy riders.

Originally powered by a water cooled V8, later aircraft were more commonly powered

by air-cooled radial engines.

The Gilmore Taperwing leads a strong showing of similar era biplane at the airshow, even though the theme is Spitfire at Sunset. There are also Stearmans and Tiger Moths.

“There’s quite a lot of period aircraft and that’s a rather nice one. You can see the style fits the sort of aircraft that relates to that era.”

This year’s airshow and truck show is a one-day afternoon/evening picnic style event. Bring the deck chairs and a rug.

It’s not BYO alcohol, but beer and wine is available for sale on site.

“Settle down, bring the deck chairs and gather round. Spend an evening strolling around looking at aircraft and trucks,” says Andrew.

Classics of the Sky – Tauranga City Airshow is on at Tauranga City Airport, Jean Batten Drive, on Saturday, January 23. Event begins at 2.30pm until 9pm.

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Jetsprints on track New Zealand Jetsprint Association vice president Erik Hoeksema says ASB Stadium Baypark is shaping up to worldclass standards for this weekend’s world jetsprint champs.

Construction of the temporary track began on Sunday with Erik marking out where the boats will run. It will see the rugby field in the middle of the track dug up and replaced with a waterfilled action-packed track for this year’s ENZED 2016 UIM Jetsprint World Championship.

The event takes place at Baypark Stadium on January 30. Erik says the event is set to top the excitement of last year’s action packed show.

“I think we’re going to do it better than ever myself. Baypark have taken a lot of the crowning off the footy field. We’ve got a lot more brilliant platform to play with. We’ll just finish marking out a track and actually peg it out with danger tape... It’s looking very promising, very good.”

Erik, who used to compete, says this year’s track will have some added features compared with last year’s track.

“It is actually different because it’s flatter we can extend it more. What we’ve done is we’ve put the barrier up against the launch pool before we even mark out the track. So we can look at the angles and we can expand the track.”

He says those who had competed at last year’s event described the track as “world class” and many were returning because it was being held in Tauranga.

“One thing that’s so good with Baypark is it’s so good here because the track is so big and there’s plenty of room in there... This is the perfect venue.”

For now it’s a matter of building the track with contractors digging up the field on Tuesday.

“It’s not a huge task because J Swap Contractors Ltd are doing it and in two or three days they will remove all the soil necessary and put it in the car park and just bring it back in when it’s over.”

To see the big dig in process, visit SunLive.co.nz; Greg Taipari Search ‘Jetsprints’.

Erik Hoeksema goes over the plan for the proposed Jetsprint World Champs track. Photo: Cameron Avery.

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Friday 22 January 2016

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A swallow in its death throes It was a discreet little inking.

“Eighty dollars – pretty cheap.

Got it done in Wellington.”

A tiny swallow etched indelibly into an otherwise perfect alabaster complexion of her wrist, a salute to her grandfather the sailor.

“I always sketched birds and in particular swallows because to me they signified coming home. To sailors, like my grandfather, swallows indicated they were near landfall.”

That’s ‘Sarah’. Not her real name, but we will call her Sarah for reasons which will become apparent.

“My mum said she liked my tattoo.

I knew she was lying. My dad didn’t say anything.”

A more crucial arbiter on the merits of Sarah’s tattoo was a prospective employer, an airline.

“The job I am going for, cabin crew, doesn’t allow visible tattoos. It’s stipulated in the rules of employment.”

So regardless of the personal significance, the tiny swallow became a game breaker, a career impediment.

“I am not ashamed of it,” says Sarah.

“It was just part of my life that has now gone. I didn’t have the foresight to see one day it might affect my employment opportunities.”

But it has – and it’s a common story.

“My clients will be sitting there with an interviewer glaring at some visible ink,” says Sue Stewart of PharmaLight IPL/Laser Services.

She lasers tattoos, painfully and expensively, to remove them. And she has a ready-made catchment of clients all over the central North Island.

“Those clients feel their tattoos are the single biggest reason for them being unsuccessful when going for employment.”

That’s why Sarah wasn’t prepared to compromise her job prospects.

“I thought people would judge me on my personality rather than how I presented. But not so! You find out when you grow up.”

And because the career was more important to Sarah than the tattoo, the swallow is now three sessions of laser treatment into its death throes.

“The removal is a lot more painful than the tattooing itself.”

She has undergone four treatments to date. “The most recent Sue did it twice, a deep treatment followed by a more superficial one, to get rid of it quicker. It was hideous.”

The laser shatters the ink particles, which are then absorbed into the bloodstream and filtered by the kidney and liver. Painful on the pocket too.

Four sessions of $65 and one of $70 for the consultation. And this was a small tattoo.

The swallow could have cost Sarah another job. She began working in a fine dining restaurant in Wellington.

“The manager told me they had issues with my tattoo. First they had to decide whether to employ me and then whether I should cover it.”

But the bulk of Sue’s laser patients aren’t as young as Sarah.

“They’re middle-aged people who have done silly things when they were young. They’re a bit ashamed and asking, ‘Why the hell did I do this?’”

Like the Taumarunui mum who at 16 bought a tattoo kit and Indian ink and mutilated herself.

“That’s what I am hearing,” says Sue. ”Young people getting drunk and tattooing themselves. Waking up with hangovers and tattoos.”

Now the Taumarunui mum doesn’t have to worry about her daughter seeing her indiscretion as the tattoo

has been lasered off.

“It’s crazy stuff that makes you wonder why, why, why? Why did you do that to yourself?”

Another of Sue’s clients got a Japanese script tattoo. “She can’t even remember what it means.” And there was the Mongrel Mobster who had broken with the gang but whose affiliation, the notorious number 13, was etched on his face. “He’s trying to turn things around and this is a start,” she says.

“It’s rewarding work because you are making a big difference to people’s lives.”

Sue sounds a warning as old as tattoos themselves: “Think long and hard about tattoos because to come back from a bad decision can be painful and expensive.”

Painful and ugly – a tattoo after several laser removal sessions.

Photo: Bruce Barnard.

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Kelly Brazier at a New Zealand Women’s Sevens training.

One step closer to Olympics Bay of Plenty sevens player Kelly Brazier is one step closer to realising her dream of competing at an Olympics.

Kelly has been named in the initial New Zealand squad to contest the Rio de Janeiro Olympics this year.

The 26-year-old was the only Bay player named in the 22 players contracted for this year. From this squad, 12 players will be selected for the New Zealand sevens team to compete at the Olympic Games.

She says it’s always been a dream to compete at an Olympics, but didn’t think it would happen playing rugby.

“I thought I’d picked the wrong sport because I always wanted to go to the Olympics and now Sevens is in it too.

So it’s all sort of coming true I guess.”

Kelly says the team has a great mix of experience and enthusiasm and all the players including herself have worked hard to get selected.

“It’s been pretty much three years now that some of us have been a part of the team. Each year has gotten harder and harder, especially this last year. A group of us here in the Bay have been training pretty hard.”

She says the work is only going to get

harder, but she is prepared to do exactly that, work hard.

Kelly, who moved from Dunedin to Tauranga about two years ago to further her sevens career, normally plays first-five or fullback. But the 15-a-side game for the Arataki Club has had to take a back seat obviously.

Former Steamers coach and current New Zealand Women’s Sevens coach Sean Horan says he is pleased with the balance in the squad.

“We’ve got some great experience which has served us really well for more than three years now. It’s a solid core and we have some up and coming players who are really exciting and who will bring new energy and enthusiasm.”

The delights of previously loved books “Old books exert a strange fascination – their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.”

You can share author Lauren Willig’s experience with used books at the Mt Maunganui Lion’s and Lionesses Bonanza Book Fair at Blake Park on Auckland Anniversary Weekend on January 30 and 31.

Members have been collecting and sorting books into categories twice a week since September. And they have pulled together an extraordinary collection of books, CDs, DVDs, puzzles and games. There will be something special for most and bargains for everyone.

Apart from hours of pleasure and entertainment, the bonanza book fair will provide an outstanding public facility. Proceeds will pay for a public barbeque to be installed at Moa Park in Mount Maunganui.

Contributions will also be made to other worthy local causes.

The Lions and Lionesses Book Fair Bonanza will be held at Blake Park on Saturday January 30 from 9am to 5pm and Sunday 31 from 9am to 4pm.

Eftpos will be available and you are invited to bring your own bags for purchases.

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Except all those blokes, all those misters, are one and the same chap: Peter Pratt.

Peter, the steel construction worker, family man, terminal global itinerant, short story writer, fullblown author, raconteur and, of course, bodybuilder.

“I just like to keep fit. And look good, of course.”

He’s nudging four score years, turns 80 in June, and after working out in gyms from Grimsby to Brighton, from Benoni to Bahrain and from Oman to Middlesbrough, Peter has finally stopped here in the Bay. “He used to look quite good,” says Pat, his wife of 60 years.

He still does for a man of his years. He has standout calves, even though they are the hardest muscles to develop apparently. They ripple when he walks and look a little incongruous on an older man.

“And he’s lost his bulk,” says Pat. But he can still be spotted three or four times a week at Snap Fitness in Judea, bench pressing 25kg, bicep curling 8kg dumbbells and tuning the cardio on the treadmill.

“I am not as strong as I used to be.”

But a personal trainer at Snap, Brent Henry, says he would be much stronger than anyone else his age.

And if he has the physique of an aged Adonis, Peter has a mind like a steel trap. He rattles off 79 years of dates, people, places and experiences without inhaling or exhaling.

And that’s why the gym is suffering, his golf is suffering. He has been exercising the mind as well.

He was writing a book.

‘The Road from Grimsby: A Memoir’ is the very unpretentious title. Grimsby being the fishing port on the Humber estuary, Peter’s birthplace.

It’s the story of an ordinary boy and extraordinary global adventures. Thirty-six chapters, 368 pages, tracking the first 40 years of one of life’s fascinating characters. It’s a test run – just 50 copies printed.

“It’s also a step up from short stories where I wrote about me as a boy – you know, school, getting caned, stealing and fishing.”

To read the full story, visit www.theweekendsun.co.nz; Hunter Wells Search ‘Peter’s body of work’.

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A whole new ball game Played on a half court, with one hoop, three-person teams and just 10 minutes game time, 3X3 basketball is a whole new ballgame.

Basketballers can try out the sport’s shorter format with the Burger King 3X3 Quest Tour, returning to Blake Park on January 23, in its fifth stop of the nationwide summer tour.

Josh Adamson, Curtis Thompson, James Green, Alex Pou Poasa, Victoria Webster-Paki and James Hegarty take a photo break from their game. Photo: Bruce Barnard.

Known as street ball, 3X3 is a form of basketball played three a side on one hoop, with teams restricted to 12 seconds to shoot, instead of 24 seconds in regular five-aside.

Open to all ages and abilities, the 3X3 tour is divided into Under 14, Under 16, Under 18 and Open grades for men and women.

Tauranga City Basketball general manager Mark Rogers says the winners of the Open Men’s Grade are eligible to play in the World Tour Qualifier Final at Auckland’s Aotea Square on April 2.

“The winner of the national finals for the men wins a free trip to Asia to compete in the

world tour.” This is the third time Tauranga has hosted the 3X3 tour.

“Last year we had the biggest event in the country of the New Zealand tour, so we’re hoping for a similar turn out on January 23,” says Mark.

“There’s hope for it to be an Olympic sport in 2020. So it’s going to be another opportunity for players to compete at a very high level.

“But it’s also great fun for everybody because you don’t need a lot of space or equipment, you can just get out and play.”

All 3X3 Tour events are endorsed by International Basketball Federation FIBA, with players encouraged to register

at 3X3Planet.com where they can compare skills with friends and professional players on the international circuit.

Players could even catch the eye of national selectors as they look to identify talent for New Zealand representative 3X3 sides for the Men’s and Women’s FIBA 3X3 U18 World Championships, and the Men’s and Women’s FIBA 3X3 Oceania Championships Open.

The Burger King 3X3 Quest Tour is at Blake Park on January 23, with registrations at 9am and games from 10am. Entry is Free.

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The city was humming with all the popular hotspots bustling with crowds, including the CBD. But the hum was not always positive. The Mount’s New Year’s Eve celebrations were national for the wrong reasons.

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They have found a tandem mountain bike, says crusade organiser Darryl Gove. They are now looking for sponsors for his transport.

The blind rider Douglas Sidialo was driving past the US embassy in Nairobi when the bomb went off in August 1998 and he was blinded as a result of the explosion.

The Kenyan team has the flights paid for and now needs a local sponsor to pay for the tandem mountain bike.

“We’re looking for a company that might want to pay for that and get the guys in their kit,” says Darryl.

The Kenyans are among about 100 confirmed entries for the inaugural New Zealand event.

A former multi-day eventer himself, Darryl is basing the seven day, seven stage, two man team, fully supported mountain bike stage race, on his experience of the Cape Epic, a 700km South African mountain biking event.

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“If you are catering more to the middle to back markers, making it an event that they can really enjoy, they are the ones with the money. They are the ones that will come back year after year, whereas the front guys are predominantly sponsored. It doesn’t come out of their back pockets. They are just there because their sponsor wants them to be there.

“So we are looking after the ones who want to be there and offering them an event that is really high class.”

It means that instead of biscuits, a bag of chips and some sweets offered with water at the water points, the Kiwi Crusade is planning boiled eggs with salt and pepper, boiled potatoes, donuts. The water points will be every 50km.

Racing is after breakfast, which will include cereals, fruit, yogurt, bread or toast. Lunch is a buffet of salads pasta salads cold meats, and it’s open from noon until 4.30pm.

By the time riders that are in after 4.30pm have showered and cleaned up, it is dinner time says Darryl.

Starting from and finishing at Tauranga the crusade is a mountain biker’s tour from Tauranga via McLaren Falls, over the Kaimai Road and up the Coromandel and back.

“We are way beyond the point of no return,” says Darryl. Two hundred and fifty tents have arrived need to be paid for, we’re desperately looking for a sponsor for that.”

“We are prepared for 200 teams.

The chances of us getting there pretty slim, but you never know.”

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Restoring memories of the red engine “I’d like to speak to Zoe Hunter about a story she wrote in the paper”. Iris Stockwell had a connection to the article and she wanted to share it.

It was The Weekend Sun article published in January 2015, about a 1950 Ford V8 fire engine, one of the first motorised fire trucks.

The article was about the Tauranga Fire Brigade volunteer firefighters and their mission to restore the fire engine that served the city from 1950 until the early 1970s.

“Here,” says Iris pointing to the picture with a little girl sitting on the fire engine’s bonnet.

“That’s my sister.” Scribbled on the back of the black and white photograph reads: ‘Betty Woodcock, 1953’.

Iris hands over a piece of paper that reads more about her connection with the fire truck.

It reads: ‘Another story connected to it was when one of the volunteer fireman arrived home one day to find his son Stewart with a nasty cut on his head requiring stitches.

‘As there were no vehicles at hand, he hopped in the Ford and took Stewart up to Doctor Mark who lived across the road from St Peters’ Church.’

Iris Stockwell’s sister Betty Woodcock on the bonnet of the 1950 Ford V8 fire engine. my brothers used to go over there when the firemen were busy putting the hoses on, and they threatened to stick my younger brother up there as well. So my other brother went and bit him on the bum,” Iris says with a chuckle.

They were cheeky, Iris’s five siblings.

She guesses she was 15 at the time and Tauranga Fire Brigade volunteers Kris Wright and Paul Sykes was probably working instead of playing around at the fire station. with the 1950 Ford V8 fire engine. Photo: Cameron Avery.

“The real connection was with the “I thought it was very resilient of the man to say fire brigade,” says Iris. “The alarm would go and I haven’t got a car so I’ll take him in the truck,” quite often it was my mother Dot who went across says Iris. the road. She would ring the telephone company to Back to the story published in January. The red fire find out where the fire was. engine was hauled up to Tauranga from the guys at “There was a blackboard in the station so by the Gisborne Transport Museum about two years ago for time all the volunteers got there it was up on the Tauranga volunteers to get stuck into preserving a bit board as to where the fire was, and they knew where of their brigade’s history. to go.”

Station officer Bruce Nilson told The Weekend All the memories came rushing back when Iris Sun at the time that the fire engine will be used for spotted the photo of the red truck in the paper that promoting fire safety at community events once day. She’s pleased the volunteers are giving it a spruce it’s restored. Or it could be used for children’s rides up. in the back of the truck, like firefighters did in the “I think it’s a good idea that it hasn’t just been left 1950s. out in a field to go rusty,” says Iris. “It’ll be a bit of And there it was, Iris’s photo of the fifties fire truck the past of the Tauranga city.” with sister Betty on the bonnet. The family used to The fire volunteers are updating the restoration on live opposite the fire station on Durham St. their 1950s Ford Fire Truck Rebuild Facebook page.

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“If it was a tip, ” he says a little condescendingly, “we would have refuse transfer station on the sign at the gate. Wouldn’t we?” Seems fair.

“But it’s not. It’s a poo farm. A waste water treatment plant and we treat human waste.”

‘Grumpy’ is the senior plant operator Lance Barlow of Tauranga City Council’s Waste Water Treatment Plant – the poo farm. Lance is a career poo man, having been in the industry for 30 years.

And the point he is trying to make is a valuable one for all ratepaying pooers. When we do our business, close the lid and flush, and we flush six million times a day in Tauranga, and Lance is very happy to take care of things from there.

Your business becomes his business at the treatment plant in Chapel Street.

Six million flushes a day. This city of 120,000 must spend an inordinate amount of time in the dunny each day.

“I dunno why they stick things in the toilet,” says Lance. He means things other than those that should be in a toilet. “Probably because they can make it go away. They can flush and something disappears and becomes someone else’s problem.”

What sort of things? Lots and lots of material and rags, wooden toys, dog

bones. Things that have no place in a toilet.

“We get $50 and $20 notes. We get calls to retrieve false teeth. Or my wife has lost her ring down the toilet and can you get it back for us please?”

Lance just shrugs. I suspect those teeth won’t grace a face again. And shouldn’t. And a diamond ring in 30 million litres of waste water has a needle in the haystack feel about it.

But much of the extraneous, supplementary matter which reaches the station couldn’t negotiate the S bend so it must enter the system through manhole services. Yep – people just chuck their rubbish down the sewer. Out of sight, out of mind and with no regard to the consequences.

“We have a bin out there full of rubbish that’s come through the system. It’s taken away every four or five days. Five tons a week we truck out.”

Its rubbish which clogs filters, jams pumps, causes breakdowns, costs manpower, costs call-outs and machine times. It’s a cost to you and I, the ratepayers.

“The water treatment plant is your asset. That’s what you pay rates for,” reminds Lance. “We are trying to do a good job by looking after your asset. Help us help you.”

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Travel with purpose: An orphan’s prayers She’s a schoolgirl who, “if God allows”, wants to be “someone who is helpful and kind to people”.

Noble sentiments from an 11-year-old who is deserving of a little help and kindness herself – and will probably get it, from right here in Tauranga.

“I want to be a nurse to help people who are sick and save their lives,” she says in a message to The Weekend Sun. Akot Mary is a Ugandan schoolgirl who has nothing but wants to give everything.

Why is she talking to The Weekend Sun, what is her connection with Tauranga? It has everything to do with fetching water and studying her way out of the poverty trap.

And while 150 Tauranga people were settling into cinema seats for a charity showing of the 007 thriller ‘Spectre’ last year, Akot Mary could well have been setting out to fetch water, one of her favourite domestic chores.

And by the time the movie in Tauranga ended two and a half hours later, Akot Mary had probably completed the 4km-round trip to the well, raised the water from the well to her head and carted it all the way home.

It’s the difference between here and there, the haves and the have-nots. It’s also about what Tauranga is doing to make some small, positive changes for Akot Mary and the other kids at the Sanctuary of Grace Christian Primary school in Kampala.

The inspiration comes from Matamata College teacher Anna Harrison who’s headed to the Kampala school for a term next year.

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But Akot Mary is determined to study her She will provide that help at way out of her predicament. her own expense, plus several “My performance is not thousand dollars she has raised so bad because I for resources. concentrate in the “My class needs furniture, class and I am sure textbooks to read, sports I will pass the next equipment and uniforms,” class without fail.” says Akot Mary.

But then we learn So basically they need Akot Mary hasn’t all the fundamentals that been at school. Kiwi in schools 14,500km away teacher Anna hears Akot in Tauranga are taken Mary’s aunty has been for granted. in hospital and another Deprivation is part of adult responsibility, another Akot Mary’s existence. load is dumped on slender, “We live in a hut youthful shoulders. because we don’t “In Uganda family members have enough money have to provide for the upkeep, to build a permanent feeding and personal assistance house,” she says. No Ugand of patients,” explains Anna. tap with an endless an scho olgirl A And what does she know of supply of pure fresh kot Ma ry. New Zealand? “We feel happy water. “And we eat beans and and joy at having a teacher from vegetables. And I like to eat chicken when it New Zealand. is fried well without soup.”

“And what I know all about the country is This in a country where the life that they are all united members.” English is expectancy of young women such as Akot Mary’s second language but the intent Akot Mary is just 57 years, where 46 of the message is clear. per cent of girls are married by 18 years Another connection with New Zealand and have an average six children. is her love of netball. “It is easy to play and Akot Mary fits just one of those yes, of course, I want to play for the She demographics. She is one of six.

Cranes when I have finished my studies.”

“But we are not altogether. I live with The She Crane being the Ugandan national my aunty because my mother is not here.” netball team.

Which The Weekend Sun takes to means Uganda is a country that has always been she is an orphan. in Anna’s heart. Hopefully there will also be She is an orphan in a country where war, room there for an 11-year-old who’s had to natural disasters, civil strife and Aids have grow up too fast. created many orphans.

Roadworks season in full swing – take care on roads As the holiday period comes to an end, so begins the roadworks around the Bay of Plenty – and the NZ Transport Agency is advising travellers to allow extra time to their journey.

There are four significant developments: SH2

between Tauranga and Waihi, a large section of State Highway 3 between the Hamilton Airport turnoff and Ohaupo, Matamata’s main street (SH24) and the Waikato Expressway.

Motorists travelling on SH2 between Tauranga and Waihi are urged to drive with care over the next four months as work gets underway on a safety upgrade.

A section of highway between Wainui South Road and Sargent Drive will be repaired and widened, and a wire rope central median barrier installed to prevent head on crashes.

Work starts this month and is expected to wrap up in early May. Meanwhile the six-week job on State Highway 3 will see repairs to a 1.2km

section of highway south of SH21 (Airport Road), side-by-side passing lanes removed and a section of wire rope barrier installed.

Work is also underway to repair Matamata’s main street. The works are at night for the town end with mostly day works for the section down to Burwood Road. Contractors Broadspectrum will be there until mid-February. Heavy vehicles are being detoured away from Broadway at night.

Get information on road works and detours in the region they are in, or travelling to by going online to www.nzta.govt.nz/summerjourneys, calling 0800 444 449 or following the Transport Agency on Facebook.

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A tale of woe: The lost passport and lessons learnt My holiday to Vietnam ended at the police station.

I know what you’re thinking – this twenty-something traveller taste tested too many Saigon beers and flashed someone her unmentionables.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but there is no exciting young traveller’s tale. Nope, it was a simple lost passport that got her face to face with a Vietnamese police officer.

Something else to take the spice out of the story – I was travelling with my parents and it was Dad who lost the passport on day one of our nine-day Vietnam adventure, after a six-hour flight from Nagoya, Japan.

Poor Dad, poor us. The following nine days in this Southeast Asian country were about to be tainted with a horrible cloud of uneasiness hanging over our heads.

But anyone who knows our family will know we have an incredible knack for turning negative into positive. Bad luck seems to follow us everywhere – so we slapped on a smile and cracked open a beer.

We were in Ho Chi Minh City after all, the city that never sleeps.

In between touring Vietnam’s largest city, its rugged beauty and unfathomable craziness, and the palm-lined beach resorts of Mui Ne – our mission was to get Dad’s passport back.

In the event of a lost or stolen passport, Immigration New Zealand says your first step is to report the loss of your passport to the local police station and complete a police report. This should prevent anyone else using your passport if it is found or stolen.

The issuing authority of your passport, such as the embassy, high commission or consular, must also be informed of the loss.

You should also request the issue of a new passport from them at the same time.

The request of an emergency passport cost us about $300. On the brighter side, we did have nine days to wait for its arrival. The passport arrived on day nine – good luck was on our side.

Once you obtained your new passport NZ Immigration says you should request a transfer of any valid NZ visas into your new passport using the Application for Transfer or Confirmation of a Visa form (INZ 1023).

Here comes that bad luck again.

Vietnam Immigration wouldn’t issue the visa needed for our transfer into China, Shang Hai, back to Nagoya. They stopped working at 4pm, we arrived at 3.45pm.

We were there earlier that day, but the rushed trip to the hotel on the other side of the city, where Dad left the police report needed to complete the application, set us back. Damn that bad luck.

We missed our flight and tried for that visa stamp the next day, which we received.

Welcome back good luck.

New Zealand Police say if someone finds your passport and visa they may try to use this to travel illegally.

How a Vietnamese man could trick customs into thinking they’re a five-foot tall Caucasian Kiwi man, I’ll never know. But my brain doesn’t work like a criminal’s does.

Never-the-less, our incredible, indescribable, intrepid journey to Vietnam was coloured with unforgettable memories and invaluable lessons – and I would do it again in a heartbeat (perhaps with my passport glued to my forehead).

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Friday 22 January 2016

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Reduce environmental waste; hinder farms?

Reducing farming’s environmental footprint in New Zealand will likely hinder land values in the future, according to a study recently completed by Farmax 2015 Dairy Consultant of the Year Phil Journeaux.

The Waikato AgFirst farm consultant was paid 40 hours to carry out a study that could benefit New Zealand’s agriculture sector, as part of winning the Dairy Consultant of the Year title last August.

Phil researched the impact of environmental constraints including reducing nitrogen, phosphorous, sediment and microbe discharges on NZ land values.

“As part of my work on agri-environmental issues, I was aware that a negative impact was acknowledged but that there was little work to quantify it,” says Phil.

“The price of land is often a key component in determining the entry into a farming career because farming traditionally requires ownership of land, and is a major aspect of farm profitability, as it is the price of land which usually determines the level of debt being carried by the farming business.

“Currently NZ farmers, particularly dairy farmers, are carrying high levels of debt and factors that have the potential to reduce land

prices are generally regarded with concern.”

The study considered the impact environmental constraints had on the three main drivers of land value including productive, consumptive, and speculative values. It found the relationship between the profitability of the farming operation and land value is not that strong – the other factors also have a direct influence.

Working on the assumption that dairying is currently the highest use of pastoral farming in NZ, Phil found dairy land values will be mostly impacted by environmental constraints that affect profitability.

These include reducing diffuse discharges to water with the cost of improving effluent systems, fencing off streams, developing riparian margins and wetlands, putting in feedpads and wintering barns, as well as implementing a range of farm management practice changes.

“The increased cost for farmers to mitigate the discharges and also reduce the flexibility of future land use change both have the potential to impact the price of land significantly,” says Phil.

It’s probably also only a matter of time before the Emissions Trading Scheme covered agriculture, meaning carbon charges

in the future were going to be inevitable and costly for farmers, says Phil.

He says the impact on farm profitability could therefore be significant, over time, which would feed through to reduced land values.

Phil also found the effect on forestry, under-developed land and sheep and beef land values will also be felt keenly for a number of reasons including a reduced ability to intensify or for conversion to dairy.

“At a national level, the implication of the impact of environmental constraints on land values is that the credit risk of farming, and the credit risk of banks, would be significantly increased.

“However, this will likely be a transitional effect with current landowners bearing the brunt of the impact, before a new level of stability is reached.”

Phil has been a member of the New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society for 23 years and on the executive team for 10 years, most recently as Treasurer.

With a MAgSc (Hons) and an MBA to his name, Phil’s specific areas of skill are economic analysis, risk management/disaster recovery, technology transfer, and water quality issues.

Country knowledge for city slickers Lifestyle block owners are from many walks of life, who have a genuine hunger for knowledge to help them live and enjoy their lifestyle dream.

And that’s why Farmland’s, New Zealand’s largest farmer-owned rural supplies co-operative, has set up Farmlands Lifestyle Lane at Saturday’s Tauranga A & P Lifestyle Show at the racecourse, in conjunction with leading Rural Insurers FMG. Lifestyle lane is a romantic notion with a very practical application.

It’s estimated there are more than 5000 property block holders in the Bay of Plenty operating a variety of farming and horticulture operations, with many being lifestylers.

And while farmers were probably born to the land, have generations of experience and knowledge at their disposal, lifestylers often have just a basic understanding of what is required to run their holding and a thirst to learn more to be more efficient.

That’s why Farmlands have brought together

35 of their suppliers and card partners with an amazing range of service and products to relax and share with lifestylers at the A & P Lifestyle Show.

It’s a wonderful opportunity for them to gain some knowledge and improve the running of their operation.

There’s a proven need because when Farmlands held a lifestyle block expo on a freezing cold midwinter evening back in July 2014 it was hugely successful. People came from miles around.

It prompted farmlands to incorporate the concept into the new A & P Lifestyle Show and many of the suppliers have travelled distance to be here and support Farmlands Tauranga and Te Puna teams.

Lyall Holmes of Farmlands says “Our lifestylers are smart, busy and resourceful people usually with off property main income, who just may require some backup services, expertise and knowledge and we are happy to accommodate by bringing our leading product and service suppliers into a central point.”

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Friday 22 January 2016

Call for privet rules change in Welcome Bay Alan Willoughby is considering a public campaign to change the legal status of privet, so the Bay of Plenty Regional Council can act to clear privet growing near his Welcome Bay home.

Alan and his asthmatic and hay fever suffering wife live across Welcome Bay Road from flourishing privet growing on neglected land between Oteki Park Drive and Waikite Road. His most recent complaint to the Tauranga City Council was referred to the Bay of Plenty Regional

Council which states it cannot do anything about it.

Privet is a restricted pest plant under the regional council’s pest management plan, prohibiting propagation and distribution of privet within the Bay of Plenty Region.

The regional council encourages land owners to control privet and offers advice, but it cannot require landowners to control privet.

Because of the concerns of neighbours the regional council has contacted the owners of the land, the Auckland directors of CDL Land New Zealand Ltd, Boo Keng Chiu and John Lindsay.

Regional council communications advisor Katrina Knill says this included several site visits with the owners’ contractors. The last visit was in May 2014.

“Unfortunately no control work has resulted, despite follow up calls by our staff to the landowners representative over the following three months,” says the statement.

The regional council expects the work to cost between $3000 and $10,000.

The only hope the regional council holds out for Alan and his wife is that the pest management plan is up for review in

Healthy privet beside Welcome Bay Road. Photo: Alan Willougby

No more meat, fish or poultry for me please!

Actor Alec Baldwin and comedians Ellen DeGeneres and Russell Brand are all said to be following a plant-based diet.

Apparently so are many Tauranga people, this reporter knows a few. This month is Veganuary – a month dedicated to inspiring and supporting people across the globe to go vegan from January 1-31.

As a non-profit organisation, Veganuary aims to change public attitudes, while providing all information and practical support required the transition to veganism as easy and enjoyable as possible.

But why? And what exactly does going vegan entail?

For most vegans, a love of animals is the catalyst for choosing a diet that doesn’t include meat, fish, poultry or other animal products or by-products including eggs and other dairy foods.

Going vegan can also be because of health, environmental or ethical reasons.

US actor Alec Baldwin is reported to have been diagnosed as prediabetic in 2011 and adopted a vegan diet as part of his lifestyle changes.

Comedian Ellen DeGeneres is said to have become

vegan in 2008 and is reported to have held a vegan wedding with her actress wife Portia de Rossi.

British comedian Russell Brand is believed to become vegetarian at age 14 before turning to veganism in 2013 after watching the film ‘Forks over Knives’ which investigates a theory that postulates adopting a plant-based diet can control or eliminate cancer and other ills.

the 2016/2017 financial year and public submissions are invited on any changes people might want to see.

There’s not just privet on the land, it also supports flourishing woolly nightshade, lantana, climbing kumara, and honeysuckle, says Alan.

“If I had that stuff growing on my land I would think the council would be down on me like a ton of bricks,” says Alan.

The land is zoned greenbelt says Alan. In 2006 the owners move to change the zoning to residential was opposed by residents including Alan.

“It’s basically unusable land and I think the owners have got no interest in it whatsoever.

“It’s a liability for them. I think they should be held to account they have already made their money out of it.”

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Plums $3… or Lego?

So money doesn’t grow on trees?

Tell that to the Morris kids of Grange Road.

Six-year-old William and five-year-old Tamara have about $700 in their kick. It grew on a tree, a big plum tree in their backyard in hours: Otumoetai.

Open all 6) and ( m It was Mum and Dad’s idea, a little money Willia (5).

Tamara earner for the holiday. A lesson in the value of a dollar and that money can grow on trees.

They stripped the plum tree, bagged up the fruit, 230 bags in all, and put it out for sale on a street stall. “Plums,” said the sign. “$3” said another. And “or Lego” said a third. came in. Not one Or Lego? Since when did Lego become legal tender? brick. People wanted Well, since William developed a passion for Lego. plums, but they He got a ‘Star Wars’ Lego set for Christmas and since didn’t want he decided he wanted more Lego. them that much “His father thought it might be a good marketing they’d give up their tool for the plum stall,” says mum Maryanne.

Lego for them.

But while Dane Ole Christiansen’s interlocking But never plastic bricks have enthralled generations of kids mind, because for 80 years, they haven’t yet gained currency with his cut of status in Otumoetai. the plum sales, The Morris’ plums kept going out, but no Lego William intends

making his own very healthy investment in Lego.

“It’s not cheap,” says Maryanne.

“About $40 for a small pack and more than $100 for a bigger more complex pack.”

Some of William’s money has been set aside for savings.

Tamara is a little cannier with a dollar – all her money’s headed for her Hunter Wells bank account.

Hopping on the school bus Students planning to use Tauranga’s Schoolhopper network in 2016 are reminded to hop on board the new school year and check their bus route online before they leave for their first day of school.

Schoolhopper services will resume for the 2016 school year on Tuesday, February 2. The start date of individual routes will depend on the start dates of the schools they service.

Based on feedback from users, the bus companies and schools, minor changes have been made to some

routes in a bid to improve the network.

Users should be aware of a fare increase on the network from $1.15 to $1.51 for people using a Smartride Card. An increase from $1.60 to $1.90 for a cash fare will take place from February 2. It will apply on both the Schoolhopper and Bayhopper networks.

Bay of Plenty Regional Council, which manages the network, has also updated its Baybus website www.baybus.co.nz to make it easier for people to find information about their routes.

For more information about the Schoolhopper network, visit www.baybus.co.nz

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Feeling Fine & Dandy with Liam and Gavin ‘Fine and Dandy’ – a wonderful phrase with wonderful meanings such as ‘excellent’, ‘all good’, or ‘mean bro’.

It’s also a new live sketch comedy show written and performed by Tauranga comedic conspirators Gavin Kerr and Liam Hagan, and on stage at 16th Avenue Theatre from January 26-30.

Fine & Dandy features a gargantuan gaggle of larger than life characters placed in hilarious observational and satirical sketches compiled into one big “laugh-a-minute” show.

“There must be something better than ‘laugh-a-minute’,” Gavin deadpans.

“How about, one laugh each act?

We guarantee one laugh per seven minutes or your money back?”

“Yeah that could work, though we can’t really afford to give people their money back,” Liam replies.

Conceived as TV project the pair were working on last year, they decided to present Fine & Dandy on

Fine & Dandy comedic conspirators Gavin Kerr and Liam Hagan.

Come (Scottish Country) Dancing The Scots saved it when it was in danger of dying in 1923. They formed the Scottish Country Dancing Society in Glasgow – to inject some life into the jig, the reel and the strathspey.

And today the cultural conservation’s going on in the Tauranga suburb of Bureta too.

A Scottish country dance club is flourishing at the St John church hall in Bureta Road. And to ensure the good work continues, on Monday evenings beginning February 1, the club starts classes for newcomers.

“Fun, fitness and friendship,” says life member Sarah Hilton.

It’s good exercise and the music is lively. “You don’t need to bring a partner,” says Sarah.

“No special clothes are needed, not at the outset and it’s inexpensive.”

While the word ‘country’ implies rustic and rural, Scottish country dancing was for the wealthy and educated of Scotland in the Renaissance. Then in the 18th century the shorter quicker form of dance became light relief from the more formal, courtly version.

The first night of the Tauranga Scottish Country Dance Club new dancer classes is free.

“So come along and give it a go,” invites Sarah.

The classes begin 7.30pm Monday, February 1 at the St John Anglican Church Hall, 94 Bureta Road.

Contact Sarah Hilton on (07) 579 0123.

stage after recognising that Tauranga was bereft of any live sketch comedy.

With imagination their only limitation, the pair say their show spans a range of topics, situations and themes.

“From Shakespeare to modern times,” explains Liam.

“There’s nothing too obscure, maybe a couple of controversial moments and some choice language, but we promise something to laugh about.”

“Ahem,” Gavin interjects, “One laugh per seven minutes or your money back.”

“I told you, we’re not giving people’s money back,” says Liam.

The Weekend Sun has a double pass to ‘Fine & Dandy’ to give away to one lucky reader who can tell us how many laughs are guaranteed per minute?

Enter online at www. sunlive.co.nz under the completion section. All entries must be received

by Wednesday, January 27.

Fine & Dandy is on stage at 16th Avenue Theatre from January 26-30.

Tickets available online from David Tauranga www.iticket.co.nz

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A dancer’s safety a priority for school Safety first – it’s an age-old mantra, but one that The Dance House takes seriously when it comes to the physical and mental wellbeing of their students.

“Dancing is a whole body and mind experience, and we want those bodies and minds taken care of and respected, so that they can move for a lifetime,” says

The Dance House offers an array of styles, such teacher Kathy Corin. as ballet, contemporary, jazz, tap, musical theatre “We believe that dance is not just about what is and hip-hop. visible from the outside – our There are also preschool and baby classes for aim is to build the dancer the little ones to move and groove with from within, by focusing their parents, and adult barre classes on what is happening for strength, stability and flexibility. in ‘inner space’ both “We want our dancers to experience physically and mentally.” the artistry and joy of dance, while One of the ways in which developing correct technical ability, the Tauranga-based dance stability, flexibility and strength, in school achieves this is through the pursuit of excellence,” says Kathy. the lengths they go to, making sure their classes are teaching age and developmentally appropriate moves for their students.

Jasmine Sargent is an engaging teacher with award-winning choreographic skills and rates an incredible vision for emonst d t n e g ar . artistry and creativity.

Alana S r aerial skiolulrts . he : Stephen A’C Meanwhile, Kathy has Photo many years of experience as a physiotherapist with Madelein e particular interest in child development the contem Ford exhibits po – developing strong bodies and brains Photo: Wen rar y style. dy Dillon. through correct movement, music and play.

“Our focus is working closely with the dancers to ensure they are developing at the best level for them. We build a solid foundation to maximise the potential of the individual while avoiding injury.”

Sol3 Mio add second show It is official: Tauranga really loves Sol3 Mio – and it looks like the talented singing trio loves us too.

Due to overwhelming ticket demand, the operatic pop trio have added a second show for Tauranga as part of their On Another Note album tour which is taking place in March.

Making the announcement on Monday, the trio will now perform at ASB Baypark Arena in Mount Maunganui on Tuesday, March 8, and then again for their second show on Wednesday, March 9.

Just before Christmas Sol3

Mio announced that On Another Note will be their last New Zealand tour for at least the next two years.

Following the conclusion of the now 16 show national tour each of the three talented singers will resume their solo opera careers abroad.

A 12-hour presale for the second Tauranga shows will begin at midday on Thursday, January 21, with general release tickets on sale from midday on Friday, January 22.

Sol3 Mio performs at ASB Baypark Arena on Tuesday, March 8, and the recently As part of their ‘On Another Note’ announced second show national tour, operatic pop trio Sol3 Mio on Wednesday, March 9. have added a second Tauranga show at Tickets available online ASB Baypark Arena in March. via Ticketmaster.

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Life’s a theatre in the talented Harris household There’s never a dull moment at the Harris’ house.

Flynn is reciting lines for a play, Venice is singing or cartwheeling down the hallway and little Iisha is copying her big sis.

“It’s always like that,” says mum Melanie, who’s forever trying to quash the racket. “But I like them to be like that. I like them to be able to express that side of them.

But sometimes it’s just a bit too much,” she admits with a giggle.

And the theatre doesn’t stop, as nine-year-old Venice packs her bags for the Australian ‘Les Miserables’ Asia tour after being accepted as the role of Little Cosette – the illegitimate daughter of Fantine and Felix Tholomyes.

Venice and mum Melanie leave for Manila on February 14 until May 1 before Singapore on May 23 to July 24, after returning from Brisbane’s version of the musical ‘Les Misérables’, which ended on January 24.

The Broadway baby played Monsieur and Madame Thenardier’s cynical but streetsmart eldest child Eponine Thenardier, as well as roles in

the ensemble and as a village girl.

It’s almost like being audience to a live production at the Harris’ house. Mum’s had theatre roles and can sing, her sister’s Miss Lucy off the House of Travel ads and dad Clayton’s brother was in Kiwi band Opshop.

“So there’s a bit of it around in the family,” says Melanie.

Then there’s the kids. Fifteenyear-old Flynn started theatre at age five and nine-year-old Venice has already played roles in musicals including ‘Annie’, ‘The Sound of Music’ and her latest ‘Les Miserables’.

In 2015, Venice and Flynn won a scholarship for Sydney performing arts school The McDonald College.

The family is now considering packing their bags and following Flynn and Venice across the ditch this year.

“That’s the plan,” says Melanie.

“The enrolments are for 2016.”

While Flynn is in to theatre, and Venice enjoys musical theatre – three-year-old Iisha is in to both.

“I think she’s definitely going to be next,” says Melanie.

“When we were in Sydney she wanted to pack her bag and lunch like Venice and asked me what time she has to be at stage door. And when Venice went into stage door

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and she didn’t, Iisha got so upset and held my face and said: ‘I want to be in the show, when can I be in the show’?”

Has it always been like this in the Harris household? “Yip, from day one,” says Melanie. “Flynn would never sit and watch a movie when he was about three years old.

“He would have a movie on and sit and act out a two-hour movie.”

Youths find confidence through dance Rise Dance Company aims to provide Rise Dance Company strives to build a one-stop shop teaching a wide range confidence through dance. of dance styles Owner Carla to all ages in Beazley and many locations. her team of As the largest professional provider of dance teachers believe in the Bay of dance is about Plenty, Rise enjoyment and Dance Company expression, not offers more than exams.

50 classes weekly “Dance is for dancers aged an artform,” two to adults. says Carla.

Catering “It’s something Group work and a supportive environment for all dance that should build help build more confident dancers at Rise. abilities, Rise confidence, not Dance Company offers acro dance, something that should be critiqued and hip-hop, contemporary, jazz and boysthe most effective way for a dancer to only classes, as well as a specialised reach full potential is to be taught in an competition and advancement encouraging environment.”

programme for more experienced students.

“Our hip hop crews had great success in competitions last year and were invited to represent New Zealand at the World Hip Hop Unite Championships.”

Rise Dance Company has studios in Mount Maunganui, Tauranga and Papamoa, with a new studio opening in Rotorua in term one. Enrolments are now open for 2016.

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SPORT & RECREATION

YMCA plans for tennis club Tauranga YMCA is in talks with the city council about transforming the Welcome Bay tennis club into a youth centre.

Tauranga manager Calum Davie announced the YMCA’s intention at a public meeting before Christmas and says further meetings with council staff were held this week.

If the tennis club closes in April, at the end of the season, the clubrooms and tennis courts revert to the Tauranga City Council.

Tauranga YMCA already operates an after-school programme from the clubrooms on Victory Street.

“Whether we take over the actual tennis club aspect of it remains to be seen,” says Callum.

“We would like to keep the tennis going, but we are not tennis people. We would need some engagement from some of the remnants of their group. It kind of

remains to be seen, it’s quite early days.”

City council team leader of sport and recreation Josh Trafford says nothing is going to change at the club for at least three to six months, and the future of the six courts remains undecided.

The courts are decaying and need between $80100,000 to bring them up to club level playing standard.

“They have a relatively small junior club, no senior members and the current committee’s at the end of their tether really,” says Josh. “Nor are they prepared to work for the $100,000 to resurface the courts. With the members they have got they can’t stay viable.”

The future of the courts will eventually be a council decision. Ward councillor Bill Grainger has been dealing with the club, says Josh, and council staff have also been meeting with the Selwyn Ridge School and the Welcome Bay Community Centre.

“We are all working on a solution, it just takes time,”

says Josh.

“We haven’t walked away from tennis in Welcome Bay at all.”

Added to stands. the mix is it currently s a b u cl is n the current The ten restructuring being undertaken months, while the regional community by the tennis ruling body Hamiltonfacilities survey will not be ready for based Waibop Tennis, and the regional presentation to politicians for at least facilities strategy that the five councils six months. are currently involved in.

“It might not be the same club, Waibop Tennis is expected begin but we are not saying there’s not paying attention to Western Bay of going to be any tennis at Welcome Bay,” Plenty tennis’ needs in the next few says Josh.

Synchro swim: In the deep end Tauranga Synchronised Swimming is hosting a ‘Have a Go at Synchro’ session this weekend.

They are looking for new recruits aged between seven and 11 years who are confident swimmers and comfortable in deep water.

Synchro is a great sport for someone who likes the water and music – it combines all the fun of swimming, gymnastics and dance into one sport.

It’s also great for fitness – many of their

synchronized swimmers are also high achievers in other sports, just because of how fit they are.

Come along to the lane pool at Baywave on Saturday, January 23 at 10am ready to swim. The session is for two hours (some in the water and some out of it) and is completely free.

You will need to pay the usual Baywave entry fee. This is a great chance to give something new a go! Any queries contact Angela on 07 552 5416.

The colourful and creative swim team.

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Shorter dominates superbike champs this month It was three from three for Tauranga rider Robbie Shorter in the latest round of the New Zealand Superbike Championship in Invercargill.

Riding his new Kawasaki, the 40-year-old and his sidecar partner, Auckland’s Colin Buckley, managed a near-perfect round with three wins and a new track record.

Stuck at Auckland’s domestic airport due to flight delays as a result of Wellington Airport being fogged in, Robbie says he was happy with Saturday and Sunday’s results.

“I’m really happy, it’s just

getting better and better week by week. I’m getting a bit more familiar with the bike. So yeah it’s really good.”

It’s the first time Robbie has raced on Invercargill’s Teretonga Park Raceway in about 20 years.

“It was a typical Southland summery day. Nice and cold, we had a little bit of rain in the morning but the tracks actually in really good condition.

“They’ve sort of resurface quite a bit of it... the Southland club put on a good meeting. So it was a good weekend all round.”

He wasn’t the only one singing the praises of the track with Taupo’s Scotty Moir in the superbike class.

Scotty came away with a first

and two seconds at the weekend but the division is still lead by Wellington’s Sloan Frost who has a 31 point lead from his nearest rival Hamilton’s Andrew Stroud.

Nine-time former national superbike champion Stroud, who returned to the racetrack this season after a two-year hiatus, showed he was still capable of winning races and it is certainly not an impossible dream for him to believe that he can overturn that 31-point deficit in the two rounds that remain.

The big mover in the class was Moir, who experienced a difficult weekend at Ruapuna but celebrated a dream run at Teretonga and heroically

elevated himself from a distant eighth overall after round one to fourth in the standings.

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All on board for a game of chess If you are looking for 11-year-old Simon Wagstaff on a Monday evening, then head down to the Mount Maunganui RSA.

“I’ve been playing since I was eight-years-old, my dad taught me,” Simon says. “One of the best parts about chess is the new friends you make and it’s really fun and you’re never too old to learn.”

The program runs every Monday during the The youngster is one of a number of people school term, excluding public holidays and who head down there to be part of the RSA’s begins at 6pm.

Chess Club’s formal teaching program. The Caleb says after the program finishes at 7.30pm program starts back up after closing down participants can then take on other player from for the Christmas holidays. the Chess Club to further their ability.

It’s a great opportunity for young The club has a number of members and old to learn the game in a who teach the program Caleb says. friendly atmosphere says “We’re fortunate to have Mt Maunganui RSA teachers from central Europe Chess Club secretary and Asia to bring their Caleb Wright. teaching skills to the club.

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Avoid post-Christmas debt hangover With many excited shoppers having ticked up items over Christmas, now is the time to follow up – for every six months waited there is a 20 per cent less chance of recovery, so the sooner companies start working consumer debt, the sooner and more likely it can be collected.

Each year, bad debt costs Kiwi businesses hundreds of millions of dollars. Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) particularly feel the pinch, as there is often less liquidity and a tighter cash flow than larger corporates.

Lyn Egan is the Tauranga-based Baycorp NZ Business Manager and shares some of her best practice to dos on how to stave off bad debtors.

Lyn says SMEs should start with a credit check, to find out as much as you can in advance about new

customers or creditors.

“A common mistake we see is that people don’t check the correct legal entity of a business – get as much information as you can about a prospective customer so you can build a robust profile.”

Lyn says another top tip is to be punctual with invoicing, as customers are more likely to pay when invoices are issued accurately and on time.

“Chase up late payments by sending customers timely reminders regarding payment terms.”

Lyn says it’s important to ensure the business has a credit policy for all customers that is understood and adhered to by staff.

“Ensure that there are processes in place to regularly check your credit policy to ensure that it is up to date and reflects your business’ risk profile.”

Smart law, intelligent advice.

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Resolve to make 2016 a healthy and safe year for business Many of us relish the promise of the New Year, the opportunities it presents and the changes we hope to make. As we ponder such matters by the pool, it might pay to ask “how safe are you and your business?”

It is a timely thought considering impending changes to Health and Safety legislation – the most significant reform of New Zealand’s workplace health and safety in 20 years.

From April 4, new Health and Safety legislation will aim to reduce New Zealand’s workplace injury and death toll by 25 per cent by 2020. Following the Pike River Mine disaster, a major focus of the reform will be on responsibility and the elimination of risk.

Primary duties under the Act fall upon a Person Conducting a Business Undertaking (PCBU).

A PCBU has wide responsibilities for the health and safety of: A. Workers, including employees and contractors; B. Workers or contractors whose activities are influenced or directed by the PCBU; C. Other persons whose health and safety might

be at risk from work carried out by the PCBU. The duty of the PCBU is to ensure as far as is reasonably practicable, that the health and safety of workers and any other person is not put at risk from work carried out as part of the PCBU’s business.

This means taking steps to identify risks and minimising those risks.

A sparkling policy manual is not enough.

Workers must know how to minimise risk meaning that managers will have an important role in communicating the legislative requirements.

Duties will also be imposed on all officers of the employer, such as directors, who must exercise due diligence in ensuring compliance with the Act. Many business owners will need to completely review their current workplace health and safety systems to ensure they proactively manage and reduce risk across their businesses. I recommend you seek specialist and legal advice to ensure compliance with the Act sooner rather than later.

First home buyers, overcoming affordability blues confidently without strings attached It is no secret that property to your offer.

THE prices in the Bay of Plenty 2. Be aware that listings on Trade ADVISOR have showed a sharp and Me are not always up to date and in With Bruce Cortesi from many cases the property has already steady increase during the Planwise Financial Services got offer on it or even sold which is past three months. In some misleading. cases these increases are way above local 3. Sometimes a financial adviser may market prices – driven by demand know someone who wishes to sell privately, and be able to put you in from non-local residents who face touch with that person. price pressures in their own region.

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criteria, lenders are still giving deals that require up to 95 per cent finance serious consideration.

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TAURANGA CITY COUNCIL: CIVIC SPACE OPTIONS PROJECT

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The Civic Space Options project will determine the best options for Council accommodation and assess how this project could be a catalyst for other opportunities in the city centre.

We have a once in a lifetime opportunity!

Great cities have vibrant city centres. To achieve this, we need to create a world class civic heart in Tauranga that will deliver:

• A more active, safe and vibrant city • Improved value for money for the community • Improved local and regional economic development

Tauranga City Council is in the unique position of requiring a long-term site for its offices, at the same time as owning the largest central city site.

This could be a catalyst for other opportunities to create a ‘civic precinct’.

The City Centre Strategy vision for the city centre is to be the commercial, cultural and civic heart of Tauranga and the western Bay of Plenty.

1: NOVEMBER 2014:

Toxic mould discovered in Council’s Willow Street building.

MAY 2015:

Weather tightness, seismic and building services issues not a short term fix

JUNE 2015:

Community feedback through LTP 2015-2025 says we should look at wider options than fixing the buildings.

JUNE 2015:

Civic Space Options Project formed with Elected Members, Council staff and iwi.

To create a civic heart , we need to define what that means. Creating a sense of identity, pride and ownership in our city centre and in the civic activities that we can enjoy there is part of creating heart. We want to hear from you how this project can help in developing this identity and pride.

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Heart and Mind: What is civic heart?

What does a civic heart mean to you? What do we need to do to develop our identity and invoke pride in the city centre?

DECEMBER - FEBRUARY 2016:

Four-stage community engagement to begin; 1. Heart and Mind: What is civic heart?

1. Heart and Mind: What is civic heart?

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Facts and Figures: What do they mean?

Discuss wider economic benefits, affordability and funding options.

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Elected Members have identified the following scope elements to investigate:

• Council offices – to deliver excellence to the community • Library – to share stories and knowledge This is a once in a lifetime opportunity • Museum – to celebrate our history • Performing Arts Centre – to showcase for the public and private sector to our local talent and appreciate world work together to create a civic heart in class visiting talent one of New Zealand’s fastest growing cities; to be courageous, plan ahead for • City Square – a place to gather, celebrate and create the future 10, 20, 30 years, and make • Conference Centre – a place to learn the most of our city centre’s natural and share environs, talent and culture.

• Hotel – a place to enjoy and relax • Retail, hospitality activity – i-SITE Look and feel: What could it look like?

• Accessibility and car parking – to Communicates how the civic heart could look.

How different activities and spaces could be enable people to enjoy our city centre.

2. Facts and Figures: Discuss economic and social benefits, cost and funding.

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physically developed.

3. Look and Feel: What could this look like in our city centre?

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4. Long Term Plan Amendment: Formal community consultation.

Decision point – what we create.

When. Where. How it will be funded.

What the benefits are.

LTP Amendment: Community decision making All of this is going to come together as a series of projects and the LTP amendment process will ensure the community is included in the final decision making.

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Optometrist warns summer UV damage could cause ocular melanoma A new campaign is underway to raise awareness of the dangers of ocular melanoma, or cancer of the eye, due to UV damage.

According to the Cancer Society, people are affected by ocular melanoma every year in New Zealand, and it’s more likely to affect people with light-coloured eyes and in older age groups.

While the exact cause of ocular melanoma is unknown, it’s believed sun exposure and the subsequent UV damage to the eyes could be to blame.

Research shows about 90 per cent of all skin cancers occur above the neck, an area which represents between five to 10 per cent of our total skin area. More than 4000 people are diagnosed with either melanoma in situ or invasive melanoma annually.

Optometrist Bruce Nicholls, of Nicholls and Associates Optometrists in Auckland, says ocular melanomas are particularly dangerous because they’re unable to be seen with the naked eye.

“Nobody is immune from UV damage. Most of us have experienced sunburn and we feel it straight away,” says Bruce.

“The problem with melanoma

in the eye is that you are unlikely to know you have it until your optometrist detects it.”

While Kiwis are aware of the need to protect their skin with sunscreen, many don’t think about how exposed their eyes and the skin around their eyes is to potential damage, says Bruce.

“The signs of UV damage to the eyes vary. It can show as a changing spot on the eyelids, a redness to the surface of the eye, or the retina at the back of the eye could be developing a melanoma.”

Treatments for ocular melanoma include external and internal radiation of the cancer and/or surgery. In some cases, the whole eye may need to be removed.

“What we need to remember is that UV light damages the human body, and nobody is immune to it. As well as ocular melanoma, it’s believed cataract and macular degeneration conditions can also be triggered by UV light exposure, and by the time they are picked up the damage is often done.”

Eye health exams with an optometrist at least every two

years are essential to monitor any changes that could signal one of these diseases, but it’s equally important to try to prevent harm to your eyes in the first place.

“Protecting your eyes from the harmful effects of the sun’s UV radiation is important at all ages, but the earlier you start the better.”

Bruce recommends wearing wrap-around UV-blocking sunglasses which stop harmful light entering the eye from the front, above and sides any time you are outside or in direct sunlight, including when driving.

“We enjoy an outdoor lifestyle in NZ, and we can’t eliminate all exposure to the sun, but we need to protect where we can.

“Optometrists have a range of lens and coating options for sunglasses that will protect your eyes, and even clear prescription lenses can now be treated to block harmful UV light with an e-SPF 25 protection rating.”

Look for Cancer Society approved eyewear and clear lens UV coatings which provide the highest level of eye protection front and back to protect their eyes and vision.

Physical vs chemical: What’s the difference?

At Jamele, we have the privilege of taking care of clients who are serious about taking care of their skin. But we have noticed a common blind spot that worries us – most Bay of Plenty women don’t take suncare seriously enough.

Spending money on facial treatments and skincare products, and not using a high-quality sunscreen is like carrying cash around in a wallet with a big hole at the bottom of it. No matter how much good stuff you put in, the benefits are going to disappear.

Sunscreen is essential to maintaining beautiful skin, but not all sunscreens are created equal. In simple terms, there are two types of sunscreen formulations – chemical and physical. Chemical sunscreens work by absorbing the sun’s rays into the sunscreen.

Physical sunscreens contain key ingredients, which reflect and repel the harmful rays instead of absorbing them.

The active ingredients in physical sunscreens are zinc oxide or titanium dioxide. These might sound malicious, but they are far from it. These compounds physically sit on top of your epidermis, literally creating a ‘second skin’ as that all-important protection. There are not any 100 per cent physical sunscreens on the market, but some that get pretty close.

At Jamele, we highly recommend Environ RAD Sun Protection Cream. RAD is a mostly physical suncscreen which also includes vitamins A, C and E, which combat the effects of the sun and pollution to the skin. RAD is an everyday essential this summer.

Visit www.jamele.co.nz/physical-vs-chemicalsunscreen for more details.

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Benefits of a good supplement nerves and bone.

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Many people have low levels of vitamin D. Vitamin D influences our immune system and is responsible for some cancer defences. Look for vitamin D at 1000IU daily.

The trace mineral selenium is the building block of our antioxidant enzyme systems and low levels have been linked to some cancers and immune disorders.

A good multi should have all the important trace minerals including selenium, manganese, zinc, copper, iodine, boron, molybdenum, chromium and vanadium. Look for the major minerals of calcium, magnesium and potassium as these are needed for many body functions including muscles,

heart disease and dementia related problems.

Finally it should contain the most potent antioxidants, especially grapeseed extract. I know of only a few multis that contain these super potent antioxidants. My preferred grape seed extract is the well-researched patented ActiVin™.

Antioxidants work best when combined and I like to include bilberry, goji, hesperidin, lutein, lycopene with vitamins C and natural E for broad spectrum protection against free radicals. I generally recommend a three-month trial to evaluate how you are doing. Give me a call if you have questions. Join my full weekly newsletter at www.abundant.co.nz John Arts is a qualified nutritional medicine practitioner and founder of Abundant Health.

Contact John on 0800 423 559. To read more go to www.sunlive.co.nz

Celebrating the special in the everyday If we spend every waking moment ten steps ahead, it’s easy to miss the beauty of what is right in front of us.

FRANK LERO We make resolutions as the New Year comes around that unfortunately don’t always develop, so I saw something I thought might make a good alternative.

You may already have seen this but I thought it worth repeating... take an empty jar, or a box, or some other container that appeals to you, and start filling it with notes about the good things that are happening in your life,

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Free Learning Outcomes course to be held Community Education BOP is running a free training workshop on ‘Assessment of Learner Outcomes’, a new tool created by ACE Aotearoa.

This is a valuable tool to help participants in assessing the students’ learning experiences, and in clearly showing the positive results of courses

participants teach. How to pull together information for funding applications will also be covered.

The course is on Tuesday, January 26 from 10.30am-2.30pm; includes light lunch. Venue is the Pacific Coast Technical Institute. Only 20 spaces.

Email: info@communityedbop.co.nz

Have you chosen the best options?

Ewan McLeod (at McLeod Careers) enjoys his career planning work with Tauranga Girls’ College student Keeley Grantham. Photo: Tracy Hardy.

Many families are continuing to invest in independent professional guidance and advice from Ewan McLeod at McLeod Careers, allowing their children to make positive, informed choices in planning for their future.

Ewan discusses educational choices with his 15-30-year-old clients, to ensure that each person is selecting the “right subjects and courses” for them, so that they aren’t “closing any doors” to their future career.

“Our business is all about supporting young adults in their career decisions,” says Ewan.

“It’s about individuals taking positive steps towards establishing their unique education pathway, which will allow them to gain qualifications that suit their personal needs. At this time of the year, many clients

have received their NCEA results and are considering what secondary subjects to continue on with, or are anxious about their future tertiary focus.”

He and his wife Sue have operated their homebased business from Greerton since 2008 and have experienced another record year in 2015.

“We’re both ‘people-people’ – I’ve had a wealth of experience in proactively encouraging young people locally, while Sue is well respected for her work in the community,” says Ewan.

“Our business has had hundreds of clients visit us over the last eight years from as far away as Wellington. Having Tim and Juliana Smithells (who are recognised nationally for their career development work) as our mentors, definitely provides advantages in being an Approved Smithells Professional.”

Ewan says that McLeod Careers is “family-friendly, flexible, affordable – and here to help young people take positive first career directions”.

Employment advice for young workers There are many horror stories about young people being poorly treated in the workplace, and Tony Stevens has heard most of them.

The Young Workers’ Resource Centre (YWRC) coordinator is out to change how young workers are treated.

“Young people don’t step forward and speak out. They don’t know who to contact or what to say.”

What can you do if your employer suddenly cuts your

hours? When are you entitled to sick leave? What are the rules around 90 day trial periods?

“These are questions workers of all ages grapple with – but young workers, in particular, are often unaware of their rights or legal obligations in the workplace.”

The non-profit organisation works across the Waikato and Bay of Plenty helping people aged 25 and under gain fair employment opportunities and secure working conditions.

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only for themselves but to help set a precedent for others as well”.

YWRC has produced a new written resource called ‘The Whole Picture’, which outlines employment rights and obligations.

Tony also travels to high schools and tertiary training providers throughout the region to present workshops to young students.

“We cover the minimum wage, employment agreements, different types of employment, health and safety, and how to deal with problems when they arise.”

For more information visit www.ywrc.org.nz

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Listening in on a future career in audiology Sammie Dudley was reading ‘The Human Body: What It Is and How It Works’ at age five.

hopes to study a Masters of Audiology Health and Sciences.

“I also hope to one day progress to a doctorate level.”

Named after Acorn Foundation donors Since age 18, the Mount Maunganui Mary and the late Roy McGowan, the College graduate has her nose buried in $1200 scholarship is to assist students, audiology books. who’ve completed Year 12-13 at Mount As the first recipient of Acorn Foundation’s Maunganui College, to proceed tertiary inaugural Roy and Mary McGowan study in the following year.

Scholarship, Sammie’s “I’m so very grateful,” says Sammie. got her eyes (and An eligible student for the scholarship, ears) open for Sammie participated in the 2015 Dale acceptance into Carnegie Student leadership course, University of which is also funded by Tauranga Acorn Auckland, Foundation donors Mary and the where she late Roy McGowan.

Her heart set on a career in music, Sammie says it wasn’t until Year 13 that she started knuckling down in her science classes and began liking what she was hearing.

Level 3 NCEA physics and biology led Sammie towards a career in audiology, with both subjects possessing qualities that go hand-in-hand with audiology.

“Physics with its concepts on Sammie Dudley, 18, with her copy of sound wave patterns and biology ‘The Human Body’. Photo: Tracy Hardy. in terms of neuroscience.”

Still an avid musician, Sammie noticed healthy hearing is often taken for granted and neglected, with classmates pushing headphones into their ears and turning up the volume on their iPods.

“I would love to see generations of our society take greater care of their hearing,” says Sammie.

“Education is the number-one rule. I’m not an audiologist yet, so I can only speak from personal experience, but I think that if we knew some of the damage that we might be doing, especially as this next generation comes through with the technology that we’re able to have with music, just having that knowledge is a really huge thing.

“If I’m able to study audiology and give knowledge to my friends and family and society it think that would be beneficial.

“I love music and I love sound so much, and I want people to hear it as long as possible.”

Sammie starts her first year of a Bachelor Degree in Science majoring in psychology as a prerequisite to a Masters in Audiology this year.

Meanwhile, the first scholarships from a new partnership with the Bay of Plenty Clinical School that will provide an annual grant for a Tauranga medical student in their third or fourth year of study through the Clinical School at Tauranga Hospital, are still yet to be awarded.

At an initial $4200 value, the annual scholarship supports a student originally from the Western Bay of Plenty, whose family is not in a position to help them financially through their medical studies.

The BOP Clinical School was established by the Bay of Plenty District Health Board in 2007 to develop training and research initiatives that would attract healthcare students and encourage them to return as employees once qualified.

The school has since supported the clinical training of about 480 undergraduate medical, nursing and allied health students per year at Tauranga Hospital, Whakatane Hospital and in general practices in the Bay of Plenty.

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Small groups can create ideal learning environment Often people turn away from the chance to join a small group of people learning together.

example to improve their reading or writing skills for the workplace, gain their learner’s driving licence or help their children with their homework.

Manager of Literacy Bay of Plenty The groups are usually made up of Annamaria Grafas acknowledges that people with similar goals in mind, for for many people group class learning at school did not work for them, but says the small groups Literacy BOP offers are nothing like school.

“These groups of no more than six to eight are set up as a small group of adults sharing knowledge and helping each other.

The tutor acts Literacy Bay of Plenty literacy manager as a facilitator of Annamaria Grafas. Photo: Tracy Hardy. the learning and

feedback has always been very positive.

“Comments such as, ‘I actually didn’t know how much I did know’ and ‘This was great, I’m sad it’s over’, ‘I’ve learnt heaps and made some really good friends’ are typical after our classes.”

Literacy BOP invites any adult who is at all interested in finding out more about the courses offered to call and have a chat. The courses are all in the literacy rooms and are held in the evening. These courses are at no cost to the participants.

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Greerton library build progressing Roofing iron for the new Greerton Library is onsite and expected to be going up this week.

internet, or with popular IT devices such as e-readers, I-Pads and tablets, and to run children’s activities, says Jill.

The new library is expected to be completed in two or three months.

The design/build by Marra Construction

The pre-cast panels are all up and internal framing has commenced on the $3.45 million building.

“New books and equipment are being ordered for the 900m2 building,” says city libraries manager Jill Best.

“The new library will have around 55,000 books and DVDs – that’s about 12,000 more books than the old library.”

It will also offer a Learning Centre (with IT tutor) and a meeting room for hire as well as traditional services.

New technology will allow borrowers to check their own books back in, just by placing them on an electronic shelf.

This will give librarians more time to assist library customers with information,

is expected to be completed in two or three months.

Construction of the Greerton library was approved in the 2014/15 annual plan following 21 years of broken promises by previous city councils.

The roof of the new Greerton Library will be going on this week.

Welcome to Greerton Village 2016 The madness is over, the ham and mince pies long gone (I hope so anyway!) and we look forward to a bright New Year in Greerton Village.

First up on the calendar is our Valentine’s Day promotion running from February 1-11 at businesses throughout the village.

All you need to do is make a purchase and you are in the draw to win a hamper of goodies valued at more than $500 for your

Valentine – or to share if he or she is feeling generous.

Following on, in March we have the revival of the Irish Mile, a promotion that many will remember as an iconic event from way back, run in conjunction with the then Fahy’s Motor Inn. We have taken this and turned it on its head to become a family orientated, fun-filled couple of

hours on St. Patricks Day – of course – Thursday, March 17 at the Greerton Village School from 5.30 -7pm The route is planned, the Irish music is booked and the sponsors are coming on board with prizes for The Silliest Walk section, Best Dressed Baby Buggy or Pram and any other fun ideas that we come up with.

So put this one in your diary, start looking for Irish-themed costumes to wear and search out any Leprechauns to join you for a bit of fun, to be sure, to be sure.

Culture pop: Comics and games galore In the Tardis on Cameron Road, game nights are coming.

like to make sure you have space for all your friends we also take bookings,” says Tom. “We have lots of other game nights in the My Pop Culture pipeline, Cards opened its doors in Against Humanity, November and in Dungeons and just two months has Dragons and a grown immensely. few others.

New to the store “We also currently are game nights, stock Magic: The in which MPC are Gathering, Boosters, catering to all ages. starter packs and “We have Magic: single mythical and The Gathering game rare cards, as well nights starting this as the new Oath week,” says owner of the Gatewatch Tom Gaudin. cards, due in store “All ages are on at the beginning of Owner Tom Gaudin plays Magic with Jess Terry.

Thursday nights February. We will be at 5.30-9pm, and Youth 16 and under on Sundays stocking up on more from 12.30-4pm.” varieties over the coming months.”

My Pop Culture not only puts on gaming events, If you would like to join the team, all entry but has a gaming area open for use seven days a is free and you can find events on the website week. www.mypopculture.co.nz. If you would like MPC “Come in any time and play a game, if you would to host a game night please contact them any time.

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Friday 22 January 2016

It’s a date!

This must-try, flavour-packed recipe is full of sweet natural honey and ripe bananas. It is perfect to pop into kid’s lunches without all the additives of those store-brought cakes.

This recipe is super quick to whip up, packed with dates and walnuts to keep kids (and yourself!) fuller for longer and giving you a slow release of energy throughout the day.

Date, walnut and honey loaf

Ingredients: 1 tsp ground cinnamon 175g softened butter 100g brown sugar or muscavado sugar 4 tbsp of natural honey 225g self-raising flour 2 free-range eggs, beaten 2 ripe bananas (about 250g with skin on) 50g chopped walnuts, plus some extra to sprinkle on top 100g dates 250g light cream cheese

Method: 1. Preheat the oven at 175 degrees Celsius.

2. In a large bowl place cinnamon, softened butter, sugar, 2 tablespoons of natural honey, flour and the beaten eggs, and with an electric hand beater mix until well combined.

3. In a separate bowl remove banana skins and mash, then add to the butter and flour mixture along with the walnuts and chopped dates (I use the scissors to chop the dates).

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Roast lamb Kiwis’ favourite meal

Kiwis have named the traditional Kiwi roast lamb dinner, with all the trimmings, as their favourite dish.

In a survey of more than 1000 respondents conducted this week, roast lamb was ranked ahead of other Kiwi classics, such as fish and chips and Shepherd’s pie, as their favourite dish.

In addition to this, 42.4 percent

of those surveyed selected lamb as their preferred meat over beef, pork and chicken.

The news comes ahead of the second annual National Lamb Day on Monday, February 15, with this year marking the 134th anniversary of one of the most significant milestones in New Zealand’s meat industry and providing another

reason for New Zealanders to enjoy their preferred dish.

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Driver testing moves to the Mount From the end of January, all practical driver testing will be done from Vehicle Testing NZ’s Mount Maunganui centre in Hewletts Road – a move driving instructors say disadvantages hundreds of school students across the Bay. Eight Tauranga driving instructors teaching students from the boys and girls colleges, Otumoetai, Bethlehem and Aquinas to drive will now have to arrange extra time for the extended journey across to Mount Maunganui for practical tests.

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believe VTNZ has halved the available testing sites, but believes the same number of licence testers will be working, two from Mount Maunganui plus the two who used to work out of the AA office in Tauranga.

In a written statement VTNZ confirms practical driver testing will be relocating from the current AA Centre to VTNZ Hewletts Road from February 2, 2016.

This is a part of the roll out of the practical driver license contract moving to VTNZ in May 2016.

Ready for battle in the Bay American Ron Domoe has fired a shot across the bow of his Kiwi rivals for next week’s ENZED 2016 UIM Jetsprint World Championship.

From Minden, a little town south of Reno Nevada, Ron is one of two US teams here to

take on the Kiwi drivers at the world champs being held at ASB Stadium Baypark Saturday week.

It is the first time Ron has visited New Zealand, but not the first time he’s competed against them.

“Most of the drivers were there in America for the 2014 world series and they beat us up pretty bad. So we’re looking for a bit of revenge. They’re not just going to

US jet boat driver Ron Domoe says he is fired up for next week’s world championship. Photo: Cameron Avery.

walk away with it. They’re going to have to earn it,” Ron says.

Along with the two American teams, Ron says two Canadian teams will also be in the mix to give the event plenty of tough competition and a lot of action for the spectators.

Ron says just because his country boarders the Canadians he won’t be holding back on them as well.

“I’m going to beat them to, I don’t care if they’re my friends or whatever. The gloves are off.”

He’ll be doing most of the talking on the track with his boat which holds a 404 cubic inch small block Chevi motor and is competing in the 400 class.

Ron says his goal is to finish in the top five.

It will be a nice little present for the driver who turned 60 on Wednesday.

“I’d be on top of the world if that happen.”

The ENZED 2016 UIM Jetsprint World Championships gets underway on January 30 from 4pm – 10pm.

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Near $14,000 raised for Cure Kids Life is fraught with danger for freestyle motocross rider Luke Price, but it was a simple set of steps that have been the undoing of the super-fit athlete.

Luke, who helped organise the Wheels for Cure Kids on Saturday, is nursing a broken ankle after slipping down some stairs after the event. Luke had surgery this week to insert plates into the ankle before returning home mid-week.

Despite the unfortunate accident he was in a jovial mood after raising $14,000 from the event held at Fraser Cove shopping mall.

Talking from his hospital bed Luke says he was “fizzing” after hearing the news of the total raised.

“We are stoked. It’s real good news. My goal was $10,000, last year we donated nine.

So to smash that we are absolutely wrapped.”

Luke says the tally raised made up for all the pain of the operation and he was keen to do it again.

Not the slipping down the stairs part – but raise funds for Cure Kids because they are a great cause.

“I’ve got two young kids myself. So you think about some of the horrible predicaments that parents are in with their children. [Cure Kids] do great work for children. They are definitely a good cause to help out with.”

About 2000 people turned out for the event, which was the brainchild of Luke. He came up with it a few months ago after doing something similar a few years back.

He was helped by Worlds End Bar and Restaurant owner Cameron Keogh, who was also delighted with the success of the event, which included BMX riders Billy Clerke and Levi Sherwood. The show also included a display of classic cars and hot rods.

Luke says there was a lot of positive feedback from the athletes who took part in the event.

“Speaking to most of the athletes, everybody is keen to do it again.”

Some of the action from last weekend’s fundraiser. Photo: Kelly Price.

Greg Taipari

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What happened behind closed doors?

In May 2013 the ‘Sunday Star Times’ made serious allegations regarding Zespri’s corrupt activities in China which resulted in a fine of $980,000.

More concerning, however, was the claim of remittances in the form of “suitcases of cash” from the convicted importer through his agent into an account designated by Zespri.

In reply growers were promised “in due course” a full accounting of the history of the case. In the absence of any disclosure (31 months later) a number of pertinent questions are appropriate; how many money transfers were made and their amounts,

to which banking accounts were they made, and were the transfers reflected in the annual accounts? While these answers may not be forthcoming, Zespri sought, after failing to have the matter struck out, a high court hearing date to proceed with the claim by the importer for 24 million dollars. The court obliged and the case is set down for August 2016. It is hoped that finally a full accounting and any wrongdoing will be revealed and be of interest not only to shareholders/growers, but also the Serious Fraud Office.

D J Sher, Mount Maunganui

Is it for the greater good of the country?

It’s both illogical and a travesty of common sense to immediately consider every activity that could increase the wealth and wellbeing of New Zealanders as bad, if it involves an environmental issue.

The public statements made to date against the proposed seabed

mining off Waihi Beach are a knee-jerk response and likely to be untrue. The green extremists consider every activity that converts natural resources into prosperity as automatically bad.

I’m surprised they condone the existence of farming.

Mining off Waihi Beach is no different to mining the Tauranga Harbour... except we call the harbour activity ‘dredging’.

I would like an informed debate over this issue based on a cost/ benefit analysis.

M O’Reilly, Tauranga

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Containing the issue Has the Port of Tauranga become a convenient dumping ground for surplus shipping containers?

In recent years the number of empty containers stockpiled in the port environs has increased enormously.

The stacks – up to seven containers high – appear to be semipermanent and are becoming a major eyesore.

Nor are they restricted to the port itself. Container mountains are now steadily encroaching across Sulphur Point well outside the port boundaries and similarly moving ever further inland

north of Totara Street at Mount Maunganui.

Plainly New Zealand is importing far more containerised goods than it exports, a situation unlikely to change anytime soon unless it becomes economic to containerise logs. One can understand shipping companies make little profit shifting empty containers.

But there are now grounds to suspect companies are taking advantage of space at our port.

One must hope that plans exist to control the container influx and – better yet – see the stock piles reduced.

D Blanshard, Welcome Bay

Politicians failing the region Katikati, and points north, have been short changed by our politicians.

Smartgrowth (now often called dumb growth) is promoting Tauranga and Tauriko and not, in my opinion, our neglected area.

Priority One and our local councillors need to respond urgently. Roading development towards Rangiuru, for political reasons, has attracted huge funding. In my opinion, this huge new road project carries less traffic than the 50-year-old roads north through Katikati, almost nose to tail some days, and increasing daily.

Local councillors and parliamentarians have let us down. Recent controversial expenditure on safety measures has done little to help traffic flow. Traffic through Katikati is now catastrophic (Simon Bridges take note) and building at around 10 per cent annually and the clowns that did away with more than 20 car parks in front of the Memorial Hall are cursed by locals and business people

alike,and must be regretting their silly decision.

You can no longer stop easily and do business in town and if you think it will get better you are dreaming.

Our local body and central government politicians have failed us.

We must vote next election for more wisdom and vision.

Long standing resident Alan Williams from Thompsons Track remembers years ago a contingent of local dignitaries and an MP inspecting Thompsons Track as an alternative link to the Waikato, but it stalled because of parochialism in some quarters.

Anticipated 10 per cent annual increase will soon make traffic movement in our area intolerable .

Ordinary sensible kiwis know the answer, so surely the professionals can see it. If unresponsive, we must replace them. Political expression is the only thing that will change things.

N Mayo, Tauranga

Stoking the fireworks debate – call for a ban Once again we have a major fire caused by fireworks. I have recently arrived in the Papamoa area and wonder if somebody could tell me what the fixation here is with fireworks. Like many other people in this area I have come from Auckland and I can assure you the firework problem in Auckland is nothing compared to this region. I have lived here for eight months and there have been fireworks during each and every one of those eight months.

I just wonder how much more damage to properties, people and pets has to happen before someone out there sees sense. The days of protecting pets on November 5 has long passed as now we never know when fireworks will go off.

I welcome the day the Government bans the sale of fireworks and we only have public displays.

C Barrett, Tauranga

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white SUV. She was the only cat in my life, but I wasn’t the only man in hers. Duplicitous damned thing.

I am crushed.

BARBED WIRE Things that should annoy us 1. Double deals at the supermarket. Who needs two lettuces? I never need two of anything.

2. People who treat the street like an ashtray. They flick their butts any which way.

Do they have a licence to litter? And just because they’re outside it’s okay to discharge clouds of toxic smoke your way.

3. Checkout operators who say “enjoy your day” when you are walking out of their store at 8.30pm.

4. Excessively jingoistic sports commentators such as Mark Taylor.

5. On site builders who cuss loudly and with impunity.

6. Motorists who are halfway through a lane change before they throw on their indicator.

7. Other motorists in general.

8. People who insist Mauao should be called the Mount.

Let us know things that annoy you. Why bellyache on your own?

Email hunter@thesun.co.nz with your rants and raves.

I received the following in an email today from a chum in the USA: “Petrol supplies are far exceeding demands so the price per gallon is $1.80 USD and we haven’t seen prices like this since 2010 or before.”

So why are we paying around $1.70 per litre?

We are being robbed as usual.

A Bourne, Tauranga

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BARBED WIRE It’s a burden that all we Auckland refugees have to bear. We abandoned Len Brown, grid lock, a woeful rugby team, Ponsonby Road goat milk doublehalf-caf-half-decaf-soy milk cappuccinos and absurd house prices for the Bay of Plenty and the good life, the real life.

The problem is friends and family members who never had a moment for us in Auckland have decided we are a now their destination of choice.

They have come in their droves.

My homes have become a B&B, a backpackers, a camping ground for Auckland’s looking for a cheap holiday just a couple of hours out of town.

I feel like a stay at home mum with all the sheets I have to wash, meals I have to cook and inane conversations I have to contribute to. Aucklanders also arrive with a sense of entitlement – they come too often and stay too long and there’s the imminent danger they will discover what we’ve discovered. And we wouldn’t want that.

BOUQUET She’s slinks around Cliff Road like a lady of the night. She’s slightly built, a coat of shiny ebony, even her wee nose is black and she oozes attitude.

I thought we had something special going down because she would regularly meet me at either end of the working day.

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ENTERTAINMENT ENTERTAINMENTGUIDE News, reviews and opinionated raving on the music scene. Pg 43

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It ain’t summer without a Brewers Field gig AC/DC – That’s who Mount Brewing Co director Glenn Miekle picks as his dream booking for a Brewers Field summer gig.

“Before their world tour I was chatting to Phil [Rudd] and said: ‘Can we book AC/ DC?’” Glenn says with a chuckle. “We would have had to come up with a million bucks, not that I have it; but it would have been a guaranteed sell-out show.”

“I love my reggae gigs too, they’re really laid back with a good buzz and everyone’s happy. We’ve staged a lot of reggae gigs, it is great music for events and there’s never any trouble.”

For eight or so summers now, Glenn and his team have transformed Brewers Field

into one of the country’s ‘go to’ venues for both local and holidaying music lovers, plus bands and artists alike.

They get a two-week window to stage four concerts under a temporary marquee erected in the field which is also known, officially, as Soper Reserve.

They’ve hosted a range of acts – from Shapeshifter to Dave Dobbyn, Katchafire to The Exponents, Gin Wigmore, Black Seeds, Dragon, and so many more.

“For our gigs in the past what I’ve found is that I don’t know anyone, you get 2500 people from here

Wellington, Auckland, all over the place. They’re on holiday and they’re looking for a neat evening.”

This summer saw the return of Fat Freddy’s Drop, Six60 and The Feelers, while international DJs Nero and Sub Zero played at Brewers Field for the first time to get the crowds shaking their collective backsides.

One of the first gigs they ran was the successful Fat Freddy’s Drop show back in 2009, remembers Glenn.

“That was amazing, it was a sold-out show and the massive numbers of people just wanting a good time, there was an awesome atmosphere.

“That’s the thing I’ve found with good entertainment; you don’t get any trouble, people are just happy and enjoying themselves.

“I’m definitely looking forward to the upcoming concerts, there’s going to be some great music, hopefully the weather is good and all the people will be out enjoying their summer.”

David Tauranga

Mount Brewing Co director Glenn Miekle enjoyed another stellar concert series at Brewers Field this summer. Photo: David Tauranga.

All the world’s a stage with OSITB The wonderful Bethlehem Musical Ensemble will The Bard is returning to Te Puna for Outdoor Shakespeare In The Bay latest production this summer. also serenade the audiences into the venue, she says.

“They’ll be performing baroque pieces from the 18th Produced by Twice as Good Productions, OSITB Century, which is the setting for our play before the presents Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It’ at Te Puna show, and they are magical.

Quarry from January 27 to February 7.

“We are so excited to be presenting ‘As You Like It’, After last year’s sold out season of ‘A Midsummer’s it’s such a brilliant and visually comedic Night’s Dream’, director Suzy Sampson show and we’re sure it’ll have audiences feels the quarry is like a ‘home away laughing their heads off.” from home’ for the company.

In the event of wet weather, “It’s the perfect location to play out performances will be moved to the events that occur in Shakespeare’s Te Puna Hall on SH2. The venue Forest of Arden,” says Suzy. “We love the change will be announced on their place, it’s beautiful and the cast realises website and Facebook page by 2pm how wonderful an opportunity it is, on the day of the performance. everyone is very excited.”

OSITB presents Shakespeare’s As You Suzy says they’ve struck gold with their Like It at Te Puna Quarry from January cast, which features actors both young 27 to February 7. and old, trained musicians, two members Tickets available online from of the national 2016 Young Shakespeare TicketDirect or over the counter at Company, plus Kiwi thespians rubbing shoulder with those who hail from India David Simes as Touchstone Baycourt. For more information visit: and Lilly O’Donnell as www.summershakespeare.com and Chile.

Audrey. Photo: Penelope Coleman.

David Tauranga

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Stop the rain, start the music There are a few nervous promoters out there at the moment I’d hazard.

the year, known as Blue Friday Sessions, happens on Friday, January 29 when regulars Mike Garner and Derek Jacombs host two of Wellington’s finest, virtuoso harp maestro Neil Billington and ex-Warratahs accordionist Alan Norman.

Much jamming will undoubtedly ensue.

There’s no charge and it kicks off at 8pm.

Then The Hop House has a veritable feast of music on Saturday 30. Waikato/Melbourne

Famous football manager Sir Alex Ferguson once memorably described the final stages of the league championship as “squeaky bum time”. I would imagine there’s more than a bit of that around amongst organisers of the many outdoor festivals about to be unveiled here and around the country.

It’s a double bind for promoters. Firstly they’re freaked out by the possibility of a rain-drenched festival; secondly, the chance of rain discourages people from buying tickets in advance, piling another bucketload of apprehension onto an already apprehensive promoter.

With any luck the Three-piece rockers Cheshire Grimm features vocalists Kat Waswo and weather’s going to settle Lora Thompson, with drummer Dan Yarranton. down soon and that long outfit Cheshire Grimm will be joined by Tauranga’s dry summer that was promised will kick in. It would Super Narco Man and The Prophet Motive for a wild certainly be good if it happened before the end of night of alt indie rock. All for the princely sum of... the month, in time for the Waitangi day weekend.

That’s when the One Love Festival takes place, and the nothing at all, no charge.

Maketu Kaimoana Festival. It’s the second of two long Out on the town weekends in a row – Auckland Anniversary Weekend Super Narco Man have a new EP almost ready closes out January – so sun would be most welcome. to be launched and are really getting out there at the moment with gigs in both Auckland and Wellington Monday, Monday in the next couple of weeks. You can check out some On the bright side, can I veer off on a tangent for of their new songs via their Facebook page. a minute and say how nice it is for the first time to Meanwhile, Cheshire Grimm are a rocking threeget a full holiday on Monday 8 in lieu of Waitangi piece fronted by the dual female vocals of Kat Waswo Day? It’s reassuring to take note that in a world of and Lora Thompson (who also play bass and guitar). increasing inequality and intolerance some small There are doses of dub, grunge, pop, ska and rock in things are improving. We’re having an extra day’s their sound, and they’re currently touring to promote holiday. Right now it doesn’t take much to make me a new video. You can watch that, and listen to their happy, and that does. last EP and more via their website cheshiregrimm.

There have been a couple of small local weather com. Doors open at 8pm. casualties so far this year, one of which was the Or, if you want to get out of town that night, American Beer Festival at The Hop House in Mount there are shows on in either direction. Swamp Maunganui. But that hasn’t dampened their spirits Thing are bringing their patented brand of highsays owner and host Dave Stanway: “You win some, energy blues rock to the Okere Store on the way to you lose some” he reckons.

Rotorua, along with special guest Minnie Marks.

“The first beer fest the week before was great but They kick off at 6.30pm and cost $20. you can’t do much outside when it’s tipping down.

In Katikati, blues & roots favourites Kokomo We’re excited that our blues nights are starting again play a Twilight Concert at the Haiku Reserve with at the end of the month and we’ve got some cool support by Sarah Spicer. Gates 5pm, concert 6pm, touring acts coming through.” tickets $20.

The first regular blues and Americana night for watusi@thesun.co.nz

Tauranga Ramblers athlete 95-year-old Eric de Lautour competes with 85-year-old Mount Joggers athlete Hector Mein at the Waikato/Bay of Plenty Masters Athletics Championships at the weekend. The pair have been racing each other for 25 years.

Photo: Chris Callinan.

Summer races Photos: Chris Callinan.

Hundreds of people enjoyed the popular Interislander Summer Festival on the weekend.

Erin Bradley, Cheryl Irving, Rod Irving, Rob Still, Steve Lambie and Judith Lambie.

Sall Horler holding Summer Horler, 11 months, Helen Weeden and Laula Tongalea holding Nina TongaleaThompson, 11 weeks.

Amy Dickinson 5, Amber Dickinson, one-and-halfyears and Tyler Dickinson, 8, from Papamoa.

Erin Tuhakaraina holding Noel Tuhakaraina, 8 months, Taku Nicholas holding Kapene Nepia, 4.

Narangi Nepia, 4, Harley Nicholas, 1, and Kaha Nepia, 2.

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Serving up New Zealand’s finest The annual outdoor celebration featuring some of New Zealand’s best craft food, beer and wine is making a welcome return Mount Maunganui next weekend.

10th February Visit website for pitstop locations Prizes to be won!

Tauranga vineyards in a sophisticated setting.

“Many will be pleased to hear we are also introducing the On the Lawn ‘Country Club,’ featuring a six-hole Mount Maunganui Mini-Putt, with themed holes designed around iconic Bay of Plenty On The Lawn returns on Sunday, January 31, with locations – plus a selection of popular lawn organisers promising a vast line-up of passionate foodies games including table-tennis and croquet,” and brewers on hand to deliver a quality craft brewery says Rachelle. experience in an outdoor ‘Sunday session’ environment.

“There will be competitions during the “Once again, our goal is to create a fun, engaging event for punters to compete for an upgrade and classy outdoor food and drink experience in New to the VIP zone and the Country Club will Zealand’s iconic holiday getaway,” says event director be offering non-alcoholic drinks throughout Rachelle Duffy. the day.”

“We are expecting more than 10,000 guests from all Sweet Mix Kids and Sal Valentine and the over Central North Island to make the most of the long Babyshakes, award-winning musicians Sola weekend.”

Rosa have been confirmed for the main stage, Good George Brewing will be trialling a chocolateas well as legendary Wellington MC and inspired beer available in limited quantities. Other instrumentalist Olmecha Supreme Sound well-known brands, including Tuatara Beer, Zeffer System. More headline acts will be announced Cider and award-winning Mount Brewing Co will be Last year’s event saw huge crowds soon. showcasing more than 30 different beers and ciders On the Lawn is at Blake Park on Sunday, flock to the event for summer during four tasting sessions throughout the day.

January 31, from 1pm-10pm. General tickets sounds and beverages.

“The event will also see the return of some of New and VIP passes to the R18 event are available Zealand’s best food trucks in a dedicated gourmet food area called via www.onthelawn.co.nz/products/on-the-lawn-tickets Gasoline Alley, which will be specialising in cuisine from around For more information, visit www.onthelawn.co.nz the world matched to selected beers, wines and ciders available The Weekend Sun has one double pass to give away from the tasting tent,” says Rachelle. to On The Lawn to one lucky reader who can name “Plus live music from the main stage and pop-up acoustic one of the acts confirmed for the main stage? music around the event will create a well-rounded culinary and Enter online at www.sunlive.co.nz under the festival experience.” competitions section. Entries must be received before This year, event organisers have added ‘The Wine Room’ for Wednesday, January 27. people keen on sampling the latest wines from a collection of

Learn CPR and you could save a life

GIGGUIDE & ENTERTAINMENT Greer’s Gastro Bar The Crown and Badger Sunday 24 – U4RIA 5.30Friday 22 – Shabang.

8.30pm. Jazz, funk, blues & Saturday 23 – Shabang. soul band.

Sunday 24 – Sammie Dudley.

Mount RSA Friday 22 – Back Porch 7.30pm.

Saturday 23 – The Wild Clovers 7.30pm.

Sunday 24 – Mark Taipari 4.30pm.

The Hop House Friday 22 – Shakes and Ants 9pm.

Saturday 23 – Phil and Tilly.

Sunday 24 – DJ Bling.

Thursday 28 – Quiz night 7pm.

For a simple gold coin donation you can learn the necessary skills to save a life next Monday.

The Welcome Bay Community Centre is hosting two, 90-minute CPR two training sessions on January 25 at 1pm and again at 7.30pm.

Sponsored by the Welcome Bay Baptist Church, team leader Jeremy Denmead says this accredited course is for people who have never learned CPR as well as for those who need a refresher.

The church is subsiding the course, which would usually cost $15 per person.

Numbers are limited so to book your place on the course calling the community centre on David Tauranga 07 544 9774.

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Save the date: Multicultural Festival

Arts galore down at The Incubator This free exhibition will feature a range of works and is open for viewing Monday to Friday 9am to 2pm, from February 4-18.

For more information and to see what amazing things are happening down at The Incubator visit: www.theincubator.co.nz David Tauranga

Looking to sate your appetite for the arts?

Then make sure you get down to The Incubator this January and February.

Last year’s Parade of Nations.

Multicultural Tauranga has started preparing its annual festival. It will be held on Saturday, March 19, at its traditional venue, The Historic Village.

This year marks the festival’s 17th year and the event is getting more popular with every year.

Drawing close to 5000 people to the Village on 17th Avenue, it is a family fun event and showcase of the region’s multicultural ethnic mix.

The artist collective and creative project space based in the Historic Village on 17th Avenue is hosting a number of events that’s guaranteed to The festival’s recipe for success is tickle your artistic fancies. its ingredients: music, dance, culture, First up, art lovers are being given the chance to food and lots of opportunities to get to purchase works from renowned New Zealand artist know different cultures and participate Kristian Lomath down at The Incubator which kicks in workshops. off tonight.

Most of the festival performers are For one week only, the Rotorua-based painter is community groups or individual ethnic running a studio clearance sale down at the creative artists. Applications from community project space in the Historic Village on 17th Avenue groups for food stalls are also given which opens at 6pm. preference over commercial providers.

This will be a rare opportunity for savvy art collectors to pick up some of Kristian’s amazing “We still welcome applications for work at a crazy price. stalls or from stage performers”, says Then in February, The Incubator will also host The Ewa Fenn, this year’s festival director.

Te Puke Art Inspired exhibition which features works For more information please e-mail created by members of the Te Puke Art Society. enquiries@trmc.co.nz

New year, a new local campus Te Wānanga o Aotearoa is hosting an open day next Friday to welcome first-time and returning students to their brand new, stateof-the-art facility on 17th Avenue.

Formerly located on Spring Street, the education provider’s new facility, which was finished in November last year, boasts more classroom space, mod-cons and a library, to work with their ongoing desire to serve the tauira (students) of Tauranga.

Hoe Whakatere - Te Waenga Takiwā director Jocelyn

Hoe Whakatere - Te Waenga Takiwa director Jocelyn Mikaere at the education provider’s new Tauranga location.

Mikaere says their main goal is to offer the best courses with the best resources.

“We want to present opportunities using the power of education, and we believe that starts with you. So we’re invested in your success as one of our tauira – whether your goal is to get qualified for a career, pursue traditional knowledge, or just continue to explore, learn and grow.”

The open day will begin at 9am on Friday, January 29, with a powhiri, followed by a chance to meet and converse with kaiako (teachers) about what the institute has to offer.

“We provide exciting and life-changing education opportunities for everyone. There’s so much that sets the Wānanga experience apart from the rest because we want to contribute to the positive transformation of whanau (family),” says Jocelyn.

“We are a proudly kaupapa Maori organisation, which means our special brand of manaaki (care and support) makes everyone feel welcome and our tauira tell us we feel like whanau. I’m so proud to lead a team of passionate kaiako and support staff who go above and beyond every day because they believe in contributing to tauira success.”

For more information, visit Te Wānanga o Aotearoa’s website: www.twoa.ac.nz

Te Wānanga o Aotearoa

Open Day Date: Friday 29th January Time: 10.30-2pm Location: 180 17th Avenue Tauranga

Come check out our Brand new campus.

Find out who we are and what we do.

Featuring Special guest Artist well-renowned Rob Ruha Kai, prizes, competitions

www.twoa.ac.nz | 0800 355 553

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Have greatness thrust upon you Romance, mistaken identities and crossdressing escapades lie at the heart of Summer Shakespeare Tauranga’s inaugural production this month.

The city’s newest theatre troupe is proud to present Shakespeare’s much-loved comedy ‘Twelfth Night’ on The Lawn at The Historic Village from January 29 to February 13. Since last August the cast and crew have worked hard to present a production that’d knock the socks off Shakespeare himself.

“I’m feeling nervous excitement peppered with confidence,” says director Dylan Frewin.

“We can’t wait to have the show in front of an audience because there’s going to be so much for them to enjoy.”

‘Twelfth Night’ features a cast of talented actors who range in age and experience – from first timers to wellpracticed thespians such as Craig Teaz, who’ve appeared in more than 50 productions.

For their inaugural production, SST is working with Tauranga’s Habitat for Humanity ReStore and will donate all proceeds from the sale of their programmes to the charity.

The season will also kick off with a hiss and a roar with a Gala Opening Night, hosted by The Incubator at Historic Village from 5pm, featuring musicians, street performers, a Venetian-themed bar and hot food.

David Tauranga

From left: Ginevra Wohlstadt as Fabian, Craig Teaz as Sir Toby Belch and David Holt as Sir Andrew Aguecheek.

Photo: JP Joubert.

The Weekend Sun has three double passes for opening night to give away to three lucky readers who can tell us where ‘Twelfth Night’ will be staged?

Enter online at www.sunlive.co.nz under the completion section.

All entries must be received by Wednesday, January 27.

SST presents Shakespeare’s

Twelfth Night at the Historic Village from January 29 to February 13.

For information and tickets visit: summershakespearetauranga.org.nz

Step back in time and explore our rich history Sand and sun are what summer is all about, but what do you do if the weather turns soggy? Step back in time and take a walk through some local history.

reflecting the early history of Ulster settlement in Katikati and Athenree.

Home to the first settlers to the area Adela and Hugh Stewart, the house is beautifully presented with authentic late Victorian and early Edwardian homestead rooms. Athenree Homestead is open The little white house on the corner of Cameron Sundays from 12pm-3pm at 360 Athenree Road.

Road and Elizabeth Street is Brain Watkins House, Tours are $5. and it’s well worth the $4 entrance fee for a glimpse The Elms Mission Station on Mission Street, into Tauranga’s history.

Tauranga, dates back to the 1830s, and the buildings Joseph Brain built the house in 1881, and for nearly onsite include the Chapel Belfry and Bell, Coach 100 years it was home to the one family. Retaining House, Library, and the Mission House. The latter many of its original was home to missionary contents from the late Alfred Brown, wife 19th and early 20th Charlotte, and family. centuries, the house The grounds include shows how the middle Alfred and Charlotte’s class European families Garden, Alice and of the day lived. Brain Edith’s Garden, and Watkins is open Sunday Duff and Gertrude’s afternoons from 2-4pm.

Garden. The Elms From a similar era, the Mission Station is open Athenree Homestead seven days a week from was built in 1887.

10am-4pm. The gardens The building plays Check out some of the local history are free, the House & an important part in Library Tour is $5. in the Bay this summer.

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Friday 22 January

NZ Medieval Faire In Tauranga for

the first time every Jan 22, 23 & 24. Friday 12.30-4pm, Sat & Sun 10am - 4pm.

Displays, tournaments, traders’ market, have a go activities.

No gate charge. Saturdays attendees will pay $10 to enjoy the A&P Show.

Andria 021 0225 5898 or http:// nzmedievalfaire2016.webs.com/ Pop Up Studio Clearance Kristian Lomath - a one off opportunity to purchase exceptional original paintings at unheard of prices at the Incubator, Historic Village, 17th Ave. 1 week only. Doors open 6pm.

The Choice Jan 22-Feb 26 at The Blue Baths, Government Gardens, Rotorua. Directed by Jennifer WardLeland. A wierdly wonderful talent show unlike any other. Cabaret style seating $45-$55, Senior Citizens $35, Grandstands $25, Cheap Tuesday (26th Jan) $25. Tickets from bluebaths.co.nz, 07 350 2119

Saturday 23 January

Alcoholics Anonymous Women’s meeting at St Andrews, Dee St 10-11am, children welcome.

0800 229 6757 Arataki Markets Every Saturday at Grenada St Park, off Girven Rd, Bayfair 9am - 1pm. Variety of quality foods. Preloved goods & more.

Classics of the Sky

Tauranga City Airshow at Tauranga City Airport, Jean Batten Drive 2.30-9pm.

A mix of classic, sports, military aircraft & gliders along with local NZ Police teams & other displays. https://www.facebook.com/ classicsoftheskytauranga/ Dick ‘Magic’ Johnson Held Jan 30 - Pauly K Christiano, the Invisible Man, food & drink specials available all night at Waihi Beach Hotel. Doors open 8pm. Tickets from Waihi Beach Hotel, 60 Wilson Rd. ph 07 863 5402 Fashion Fiesta At Historic Village 9am – 12pm. Top quality fashion, preloved women’s clothing. $5 per garment. Sizes 10-20. Cash only.

Judo Training At Tauranga

Clubrooms, Moreland Fox Park, Greerton 10am. No fees. Get fit & learn effective self defence systems. Kevin 021 0794 368 Outdoor Movie Night At Masonic Park 8.45pm. Dumb & Dumber.

Entry via gold coin donation, all proceeds to Kids Can Charity.

Presented by The Phoenix.

Self-Healing Workshop Learn an easy way to improve & maintain your well-being. Jan 23 & 24 9am 4.30pm. Sacred Journeys Sanctuary.

Maggie 549 3337 or www.sacredjourneys.co.nz Taoist Tai Chi For better health & well being, learn a moving meditation. New beginner class starts Feb 13 at 15 Koromiko St 8.3010am. John 576 9836

Tauranga A&P Lifestyle Show

All the usual A&P events, plus wood chopping demonstrations, BOP Strongest man, Medieval Faire & more. Tauranga Racecourse, Cameron Rd 10am - 4pm. Adults $10, children 12yrs & under free.

Gate sales only.

Tauranga Synchronised Swimming

‘Have a go session’ – looking for new swimmers aged between 7 & 11years.

Come along to the lane pool at Baywave 10am. The session is for 2 hours & is free. Ange 552 5416 Te Puna Speed Sheer At Top shot Bar, Te Puna (behind Farmlands) 5.30pm – late. Live music, raffles & more. Gold coin entry.

Village Radio Community radio broadcasting from Tauranga Historic Village 1368 kHz AM. Music of 1920’s - 80’s weekends 9am - 5pm, weekdays 10am - 5pm. Specialty programmes. www.villageradio.co.nz or 571 3710

Sunday 24 January

Athenree Station And refreshment rooms open Sundays 10am-3pm for our famous Athenree Teas. Homestead open 12– 3pm 360 Athenree Road Athenree.

Bay Bible Fellowship/Lord’s Day

saleable items greatly appreciated.

579 9039 Body & Soul Fun Fitness For over 50’s, social events & guest speakers. Mon & Fri Greerton Hall Cameron Rd. Tues Wesley Church Hall, 13th Ave. Weds City Church cnr Otumoetai Rd/ Sherwood St. Thurs at Tauranga Senior Citizens Hall, Norris St behind Pak n Save. All classes 9.15-10.15am.

First class free. Dianne 576 5031 ‘Qualified Sport & Physical recreation instructor’.

Citizens Advice Bureau For free, confidential information and advice about anything call in MondayFriday 9am-5pm 38 Hamilton Street, Tauranga or Freephone 0800 367 HARD 222 or 578 1592. Justice of the Peace Service every Mon 1-4pm, Weds & Thurs 9am-11.30am. Migrant Clinics Tues - Fri 1pm-4pm No appointment necessary.

Civic Choir Tauranga Restarts Feb 1 - every Monday at Wesley Church, 13th Ave, Tauranga 7.30pm. www. taurangacivicchoir.org.nz or Heather 575 9092 Don’t Let Your Friends No.1816 HARD Drown this Summer Welcome Bay Community Centre is hosting a CPR course 1pm & 7.30pm to give you the skills to save a life. For those who have never learned CPR & for those who need a refresher. Numbers are limited so book your place 544 9774. Course lasts about 1.5hrs. The real cost per person is $15 but this is being subsidised & the minimum How to solve payment will be gold coin donation.

Sudoku!

Fitness League Ladies 50 plusNo.1816 exercise with dance to music. Improve posture, energy, toned body, increase strength & fun. Every Mon at Fill the grid so that Greerton Senior Citizens Hall, 39 every row and every Maitland St 9.30-10.30am. Gloria 3x3 square contains 573 4429 the digits 1 to 9 Continued...

Worship service at Welcome Bay Primary School Hall, 309 Welcome Bay Rd 10am. Breathtaking Grace - Judges Series. Judges 2:1-5 “God’s unexpected intervention. Pastor Lincoln Forlong. All welcome. www.bbf.net.nz Kids Go Wild Free carnival for families Jan 31 at Gordon Spratt Reserve, Papamoa 4-7pm. Mini jeeps, bungy tramp, merry-goround, face painting, under 5’s area, prizes & more. All games & rides are free. Some food available onsite for purchase. Presented by City Church, Tauranga.

Petanque Tga/BOP Club Every Sun & Thurs at Cliff Rd 12.45pm. Also at Club Mt Maunganui 12.45pm.

Boules available, tuition given.

578 3606 Quakers in Tauranga Meet each Sunday in hall behind Brain Watkins House, cnr Elizabeth St/Cameron Rd 10am for an hour of mainly silent worship followed by tea/coffee & talk.

544 0448 www.quaker.org.nz

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Radio Controlled Model Yachts

Meet Sun 1.30pm & Thurs 5.30pm at pond behind 24 Montego Drive, Papamoa, to sail electron & similar 3ft long yachts for fun. Beginners welcome. Graham 572 5419

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Free volleyball, basketball, giant 8 2 9 7 8 games, dance workshops, BBQ & 9 iceblocks, giveaways & more. Free.

5 1 8 Bitz & Bobz Op Shop Mon - Fri at 82 2nd Ave 9am - 4pm & Sat 9am No.1815 1 6 3 8Solution 3 quality 7 - 1pm. Volunteers & good 1 9 5 6 4 2 7 2 4 9 7 1 8 6 3 5 6 3 4 5 7 6 3 2 4 1 8 9 9 6 5 1 3 2 7 4 8 2 1 6 8 2 7 6 4 9 5 1 3 1 3 4 8 7 5 2 9 6 6 9 3 6 5 3 4 9 1 8 7 2 7 1 2 5 8 3 9 6 4 7 8 4 98 26 7 351 9 HARD Walks, dinners & outings for over 50’s. Barbara 544 7461

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Harmony a Plenty Barbershop Chorus

Every Mon at Bethlehem Community Church, 183 Moffat Rd 7pm. New members welcome. Wilf 571 5576 or www.harmonyaplenty.co.nz Judo Training At Tauranga Clubrooms, Moreland Fox Park, Greerton 6.30pm. No fees. Get fit & learn effective self defense systems. Kevin 021 0794 368 Meditation & See What Unfolds Every Mon 7-9pm with Kevin Reed. A variety of meditation techniques & spiritual discussion. Join in. Kevin 578 7205 or www.psychiccafe.nz Meditation Group Free classes Mon 10am & Weds 7.30pm. Find peace, spiritual awareness & the meaning of your life.

David 576 9764 Missing things in Conversation? Come to a 1:1 session or join a weekly support group to learn about how to manage the hearing difficulties you are experiencing. Topics include, hearing evaluation, communication strategies, tinnitus, possible funding. Groups for singles & couples with a trained Hearing Therapist. Angeline 927 6324

Mount Chess Club Mondays at St Thomas More Church, 17 Gloucester Rd 1-4pm.

The only place you can play standard length chess in Tauranga. $3 per session. Sets, boards, clocks & refreshments provided.

Bob/Vic 575 5845 or 0274 786 282 Overindulged During the Holidays? Need help with your diabetes? Free confidential advice & support available. 571 3422 Taoist Tai Chi Moving meditation. New beginners classes starting from end of January. Very reasonable subscription rates.

Ann 577 9145 or www.taoist.org.nz Tauranga Heart Support Group Low impact group exercise class for those with or at risk of heart disease. Every Mon at St Enoch’s Church Hall, 16th Ave & every Thurs at City Church, Otumoetai. Both 9.30-10.30am. $4pp includes light refreshment. Hannah (Clinical Exercise Physiologist) 0508 227 342 Tauranga Senior Citizens Club Cards, 500 & Bridge Mon & Thurs. Indoor Bowls Tues, Weds & Sat at 14 Norris St, behind Pak n Save 1-4pm. Register by 12.45pm. $2 includes afternoon tea.

Tuesday 26 January

Balmoral Kilties Marching team.

Ladies aged 30-60yrs welcome to join this awesome sport for fun, friendship & travel. Experience preferred but not essential. Anita 571 4096 or 021 0257 6094 Bayfair Petanque Club Tuition & boules available for learners & visitors. Every Tues & Thurs at Bayfair Reserve, Russley Drive 1pm. Margaret 572 3173 Bethlehem Pottery Club/Gallery Open Tues, Weds, Thurs at 13 Bethlehem Rd 9.30am – 3.30pm. Email: bethlehempottery@gmail.com or 552 4460 Bureta Garden Circle Monthly meeting at St John’s Church Hall, 94 Bureta Rd, Otumoetai 1.30pm. Visitors welcome.

Colleen 576 7610 Fitness League Ladies 50 plus exercise with dance to music. Improve posture, energy, toned body, increased strength.

Every Tues at St Columba Church, 502 Otumoetai Rd, Cherrywood 9.3010.30am. Gloria 573 4429 Neighbourhood Run/Walk Tues, Thurs & Fri at Pyes Pa 6am start. Ask about free recovery shake. Svetlana 027 616 2124 New Social Book Club Commencing Feb 9 10.30am & Feb 13 1.30pm. No fees. For venue, Joy 021 0243 9129 Ocean Running 5k Mount Fun Run every Tues 6pm. Run or walk, walkers start from 5.30pm, runners 6pm.

Register at Mount Ocean Sports Club, Pilot Bay 5.15pm. $5 entry, includes free drink & opportunity to win a spot prize after the run. All welcome. Phil 021 383 354 Peace Vigil for Peace in Syria A worldwide interfaith vigil Feb 2. Join millions of people who will stop for 15 minutes & send their prayers to heal the trauma of the population, especially the starving children of Syria. To join go to http://www.jamestwyman.com/ Prayer_Vigil_Signup.html or email samuelmiracles.nz@gmail.com Recreational Cycle Group Every Tues at Palmers, Ohauiti 9am. Pam/Andrew 544 3272. Every Weds at Sulphur Pt, near Nautilus, off Cross Rd 9am. Cam 552 4513. Every Sun at Papamoa Sports & Recreation Centre, Parton Rd 9am.

Heinz 574 1543 Taoist Tai Chi Exercise your body, challenge your mind. New class starts Feb 2 at 15 Koromiko St, Judea 7pm.

Wade 021 606 133

Tauranga Astronomical Society Video presentation

- hunting the edges of space from Galileo to the Kepler telescopes.

An informative, astronomical & historical overview of this science.

Fergusson Park Observatory 7.30pm.

Wednesday 27 January Cards Do you play cribbage or would like to learn the game? Every Weds at Tauranga RSA 1pm. New members welcome. Rona 578 7939

Healing Rooms Experience God’s

healing touch at Bethlehem Town Centre, cnr shop behind PO/Bookstore, & at Papamoa Healing Rooms. Over all of January please direct all inquiries to 021 110 0878 www.healingrooms.co.nz. We will be resuming as normal early Feb. Leisure Marching Requires new ladies for non competitive marching. No experience required. Every Weds at Morland Fox Park, Greerton 8-9.30am.

Tricia 543 4581 Mount RSA 8 Ball Club Every Weds at Mount RSA 6.30pm. Enjoy a game of pool or learn to play. Come along. Gail 022 647 5314 Mountain Bike Group Meet at RideBikes, 393 Cameron Rd 6.15pm.

Jen 578 0016 Single Coffee Club 60+ Mixed company for singles 60+ that meet once a week for coffee, enjoy socialising & making new friends. Email: mixandmingle@xtra.co.nz or 027 439 4267 Taoist Tai Chi For good all round wellbeing. New class starts Feb 10 at 15 Koromiko St 1pm. Caroline 548 1209 Tauranga Embroiderers’ Guild Every Weds at Tauranga Rowing Club rooms, Memorial Park 10am - 2.30pm & 7.309.30pm. Juniors 4-5.30pm. Beginners & experienced stitchers welcome. Nancy 544 4778

Tauranga Mid-Week Tramping Group Te Tuhi to Wairere Falls (car shuffle). Grade mod, approx.

5.5hrs. Garry 578 3083

Te Puke Spiritual & Healing Centre Sue Buckland, medium.

Constables Gallery, Commerce Lane, Te Puke 7pm. $5 entry. All welcome.

Toastmasters Build your confidence, find your voice & open doors of opportunity in 2016. Join the happy bunch at City Early Start. Every Weds at Avgas Cafe, Classic Flyers 7-8.15am.

021 044 5654 or www.cityearlystart. co.nz

Thursday 28 January

A Course in Miracles Study & support

group starting in Tauranga. Txt only for details 021 027 42502 French Connection For lovers of all things French. Come & meet like-minded people over a relaxed drink. Meet every second Thurs at La Mexica, the Strand between 4.306.30pm. Andrea - agohns@yahoo.co.nz Italian Travel Evening With Chelsea Winter at House of Travel, Domain Rd, Papamoa 6-8pm. Complimentary drinks & Italian nibbles. $15pp.

Register with 542 9300 or taitken@hot. co.nz Judo Training At Tauranga Clubrooms, Moreland Fox Park, Greerton 6.30pm.

No fees. Get fit & learn effective self defense systems. Kevin 021 0794 368 Keynotes 4 Part Harmony Women’s chorus meet every Thurs at Wesley Church Hall, 13th Ave 6.45pm. Sing for fun & health. Nora 544 2714

Smith’s Sport Shoes Everyone’s Run Walk Thursday’s (Daylight Saving) Fergusson Park 3km & 5km waterfront course options. Entries from 5.15pm. Studens $3, adults $5. Measured course, times recorded with results available next day www.taurangaramblers.co.nz $100 weekly spot prize voucher with up to 15 minor spot prizes. Prizegiving 7pm Neighbourhood Beer Kitchen. Malcolm 027 292 4411 Tauranga Model Railway Club Every Thurs at Mirrielees Rd 7.30pm.

Tennis Seniors WBOP Players 35+, Tauranga Lawn Tennis Club, Wharepai Domain 9am - 12pm. $3 ball fee. New members welcome. Lynda 575 0627 or tswbop@gmail.com

Friday 29 January

Alcoholics Anonymous Open

meeting every Fri at Hamner Clinic, 1235 Cameron Rd, Greerton (behind Bridgestone) 7.30pm. For more meetings or assistance 0800 229 6757 Art Waihi Annual Exhibition Jan 29 - Feb 1 at Waihi Memorial Hall, Seddon St, Waihi 10am - 4pm. Guest artist: Val Tubman & Craft Artists.

Gold coin entry.

Chess Tauranga At Tauranga RSA, Greerton 5-7pm, for the whole family. Werner 548 1111 http://www. westernbopchess.weebly.com/ Enzed 2016 UIM Jetsprint World Championship Jan 29 – Round 2 Practice Day/Qualifying Rounds at ASB Baypark Stadium. Gates open from 5pm. Jan 30 – Round 2 Final, gates open from 1pm. Book online with eventfinda Gourmet Night Market Every Fri at Coronation Park, Mt Maunganui 5pm until dark. A diverse range of speciality streetfood from some of the Bay’s top foodtrucks & restaurants.

Summer Shakespeare Outdoor production of ‘Twelfth Night’ on the lawn at Historic Village 7pm. Show runs until Feb 13.

Music, street performances, street food available. Tickets online at Eventfinda or at the door.

TaiChi QingGoing 18 Moves A good way to improve your health. Every Fri at Greerton Hall 6.30-7.15pm. Gold coin donation, all welcome. 571 5168.

Tauranga Lyceum Club Women’s friendship club. Catered lunch first Fri of month & dinner third Weds with varied & interesting speakers. Other activities include; painting, mah jong, music appreciation, bridge & book club. 68 1st Ave. June 926 9044 Te Wananga O Aotearoa Site opening & open day at 180 17th Ave, Tauranga 10am - 3pm. www.twoa.ac.nz The Sociables A 30’s/40’s age group of males & females that meet up once a week to socialise by dining out or participating in local activities & events. 022 0120 376

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As one door closes, a window opens One of the phrases that has caught the popular imagination is “window of opportunity”.

Originally I believe it came from military strategists to describe the opening of a circumstance or small amount of time in which the army could move in and take enemy territory with a minimum number of casualties.

It’s also a good phrase and one that Christians can happily use. For example; do you look for “windows of opportunity” which make it easier for you to share your faith in Jesus with others?

Sometimes personal circumstances or world events give us opportunities. I recently read how when the new ‘Star Wars’ movie was released the Church of England wanted

to have an advertisement show before the movie began encouraging people to “open themselves to God” and pray.

The theatre chain banned it. Amazing an ad encouraging people to pray was banned! I have asked people what they think about this and I am amazed at their response. It has facilitated very meaningful discussions.

Sadly, we tend to miss the “windows of opportunity” life presents us with. The birth of a baby, a wedding anniversary or an act of courage. Look for them in your life. They are there. God gives them and we need to be sensitised by the Holy Spirit to see them. The Bible says; “Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.”

Grab that “window of opportunity”.

The season to be jolly? How to be happy Deck the halls with boughs of holly, Fa la la la la, la la la la. Tis’ the season to be jolly, Fa la la la la, la la la la.

It is strange that Christmas and New Year are not necessarily the season to be jolly for everyone.

Statistics reveal that more people suffer from depression at Christmas and self-harm rates often rise during this period into the New Year. We may miss a loved one, our work may seem unfulfilling, we may have to live with a challenging illness and we most certainly live in challenging times!

What is the reason for this loss of hope and unhappiness? It is because of the added pressure and expectation

to be joyful. ‘Why such a long face?’

‘Be happy’! Such pressure can cause self-pity and depression which seems even darker against the bright lights and so called joy of the season. We may feel we were the unwanted child, there may be mental instability in the family, we may not be have achieved what we once hoped for and so on.

If these or similar dark thoughts fill your mind at this time, remember God in Jesus took upon Himself our sorrows and however unfriendly the world may seem Jesus does know and cares. Do you need courage to face the next few days? Do you need courage to face the future? He can give it to you.

Call on him in prayer, talk to a Christian friend you can trust, ask for help. There are people who care and a God who became one with us to show us the way, the truth and the life.

Donald Hegan

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CLASSIFIEDSECTION PH: 07 928 3042 or email aimee@thesun.co.nz these pages can be viewed online at www.sunlive.co.nz

See the wood from the trees If you’ve got some hard-to-tackle trees to be removed from your property or section, make Tree and Forest Contractors your first port of call.

The owner-operated business specialises in large and multiple tree removals.

Owner Hamish McMorran says, “We can reduce shelterbelt heights and go where machines can’t go. We are rural tree specialists, but can also section clear any site in town. We are also standing tree and woodlot buyers.”

In the arboriculture industry for seven years, Hamish and

Hamish McMorran on the job. his selected team of experienced contractors have the right skills and equipment to get the job done.

“We feel that the basics are important,” says Hamish, “Such as getting back to people and turning up on time. If you can’t get that right, you probably aren’t the right person for the job.”

Clear out those critters

Summer is the time of year when spiders, cockroaches and flies are at their peak and come out in force.

There’s nothing more annoying than when you just sit down to eat a meal and a fly is buzzing around, or your child is screaming because they just saw a cockroach?

“It’s no secret that cockroaches carry disease and that they love being around food areas,” says Alan Tuson from No Fuss House Washing.

“I don’t know about you but I sure as heck are not keen on some cockroach trying to contaminate what I put in my mouth.”

Then there’s the outside of your home – you just brushed off the cobwebs on your house the other week and they are back again!

Alan and his team want to take care of these problems for you. No Fuss House

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No Fuss House Washing owner Alan Tuson.

Washing is offering both an exterior and internal spider, cockroach and fly treatment for $195.

Other services No Fuss offers include house washing, roof treatments, gutter cleans, deck driveway and path cleans, and window cleaning.

Contact No Fuss on the toll free number 0508 66 3877.

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I am currently working with a young man aged 14 who is unable to live with his parents and needs a home. He has made excellent progress in the last year and has very strong leadership skills. He enjoys the gym, carving and the outdoors.

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COMPUTER GETTING you down? Problems, viruses, upgrades, internet, new or refurb PC’s tuition, or advice. Ph Bruce for a no obligation chat or quote 576 7940 or 021 260 9183 FREE ON SITE DIAGNOSIS & quote. We come to you & don’t charge extra for travel. Pensioner discounts. Ph Kyle at Tech Solutions 027 828 7078

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

lost & found LOST/FOUND PETS, check with us to see if someone has handed your precious pet in. Ph SPCA 07 578 0245

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”A A A” - THE ROYAL EDINBURGH MILITARY TATTOO IN WELLINGTON: includes return coach, Ticket to the Show, accommodation, meals. - Tour 2: - Phantom of The Opera Show & Tickets - Tour 3: - White Island Scenic Flight.

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Buy, sell – or do you stay?

It has picked up again since.

However interest rates are relatively stable and the Auckland market appears to be softening and that invariably impacts on Tauranga.

What’s in store for the Tauranga real estate market for 2016.

Market leaders aren’t keen to stick their necks out – it’s a very much a watching brief although, at the moment, it’s still on the boil.

The market is still being fuelled from Auckland with Tauranga a two-to-one favourite over Hamilton as a destination of choice.

Buyers are a mix of investors, retirees and young couples looking for somewhere different to set up.

Apparently there are a lot more Auckland investors eyeing Tauranga but the stock simply isn’t there for them to buy. A frustrating situation for real estate agents too.

And Quotable Value NZ statistics show remarkable growth in house prices with some suburbs rising by ten percent during the past 12 months.

For example, one owner who’s playing with numbers at the moment, bought her three bedroomed town house close to the city for $620,000 about 14 months ago. A couple of agents tell her she could pull at least $700,000 if she chose to sell today.

But she still has to replace it.

And even if you can’t buy you are paying through the roof to live. Because average rentals sky-rocketed 13 percent to $395 a week for September 2015 compared to the same time the previous year.

The number of homes selling varied wildly last year – 202 in May, down in June, back up in July, down again August and September and then in October and November back up to around 200.

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