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Meet Ohope Prince. He’s a local horse carrying local hopes in tomorrow’s feature race – the Group 2 Windsor Park Stud JapanNew Zealand International Trophy – at The Bayleys International Raceday. And he’s trained by no other than Tauranga’s Jim Pender, who has trained four winning horses in the Japan Cup before.

But there’s more than horse racing to pull punters tomorrow – as shown by Jim’s daughter Kirsty Guthrie.

There’ll be Fashions in the Field for the ladies, a best-dressed award for the blokes and kids’ entertainment.

So get along to Tauranga Racecourse tomorrow – gates open 10.30am and a full day of racing starts 12.30pm.

And keep an eye out for Ohope Prince – or read about him, Jim and the races on pages 8-9. And for some punting tips, see Frank Vosper’s top picks on page 33. Photo: Trish Dunell.

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We’ve had plenty of feedback on last week’s RR column, on the subject of millennial perception that they’re hard done-by, in the face of rampant retirement of the Baby Boomer generation. Here’s one Boomer’s perspective, from former columnist and city councillor, Bill Faulkner.

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From a Boomer’s perspective You may remember me! I used to contribute a weekly column telling some of what really went on at City Hall. That used to upset a majority of elected members - not so much for what was written but what might get written.

Confidential matters were sacrosanct but many times there was carry-on that should have been written about.

If the unsuspecting trusting voters knew the half of what some of their uprighteous elected members said or did, as opposed to what they said they would do when seeking election, it would make Donald Trump an attractive option. Writing that column was enjoyable, at least to me, but churning it out week after week was a chore. Just like being a Baby Boomer (BB) has turned out to be. Last week’s Rogers Rabbits editorial prompted this perspective.

They really were mostly “the good ol’ days”. We weren’t heavily regulated, we were allowed to be individuals, we could go more or less anywhere unhindered without some Govt Dept Nazi trying to control us such as DOC, Regional Council, Local Council, and the plethora of bureaucrats we suffer today.

The blight of cellphones, reality TV, internet, Facebook, twitter et al had not descended to corrupt and influence society’s most impressionable. But you said most of that. It wasn’t all roses though.

Downsides could be extreme and totally unacceptable. Police rarely attended “domestics.” Some families got the living daylights beaten out of them regularly.

Beatings at school

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Beatings by teachers were the custom at school. Caned for not wearing a cap. (Not me!) A few teachers and priests (and others) were predators who stalked vulnerable students and got away with it because

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“that sort of thing” was ignored by the hierarchy. Having long hair as a student was almost a hanging offence! Wages were low. Real low. Some got a State Advances loan for a 3 bedroom Beazley box on a 1/4 acre. You could capitalise your child benefit (about $6 per week per child) to get the deposit. These were about 1000 sq.ft but were a roof over your head and home. Sixty years on they stood the test of time. Today the focus is on repopulation by immigration.

Half failed

Mum didn’t have to work and stayed home to look after her family. Simple formula for stability? A lot of us paid 18% interest on the mortgages over the years.

If you could get one. Local Bay Savings Bank had a points system where you had to save so much for so long to get enough points to get in the queue for a mortgage.

But joy of joy no RMA so we didn’t have to comply and pay for a set of rules we may not have needed. No Worksafe, OSH, double glazing, scaffolding and so on. BB’s tailored their housing expectations according to limited funds available. No en suites, no designer kitchens like today. Maybe a carport.

Neighbours and friends had working bees to do fences, paths and gardens. Jobs were available but generally poorly paid. Savings? For most a dream. Some bosses were pigs. No employment acts then. Many staff were fired because the boss could.

School Certificate marks were scaled so that 50% failed.

This helped supply the trades with people. No one fails today, just varying degrees of

success. There was no drug culture. Just a booze culture where Dad dived into the pub, downed as many jugs of beer (from a tightly controlled brewery duopoly) as he could before 6 o’clock when he was tipped out to drive home. With half the population of today they managed to kill around 800 a year on the roads.

Blithely unaware

Retail was an uncompetitive scam.

Horrendous tax on pitiful pay. Successive Governments (a two party system mainly) protected their mates by an import licensing system designed to protect local industry (very noble intent) which effectively suppressed competition.

Clothing, particularly children’s clothing was outrageously priced. So Mums made the kids clothes. Vegetable gardens were common in backyards. These backyards now mostly contain another house. Infill caused lots of infrastructural problems (roads, water, wastewater etc) as people got jammed on top of one another. Councils were inefficiently run by an old boy network and infrastructure got way behind.

(Auckland an outstanding example). And even today growth goes nowhere near to paying for growth. BB males were caught up in Compulsory Military Training.

Later revised to a birthday ballot scheme.

The only thing of note I ever won! Oh joy with the prospect (didn’t eventuate) of conscription to Vietnam. Tim Shadbolt’s Progressive Youth Movement was amongst the first protest movements for BB’s against conscription. Tim can be a yoyo but he did good there. The best thing about today is not living in the aftermath of the Second World War and the 1930s depression. Those two events really took the stuffing out of the people - both mentally and physically. None of our family were killed thankfully. Nothing changes much with human nature, Except the Beatles era maybe? Perhaps Trump will be today’s equivalent. Political correctness is destroying the fabric of society and the millennials seem blithely unaware of what is being done to them. It’s great being a BB watching life unfold.

- Bill Faulkner.

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Better deal for pensioners Te Puke councillor Mike Lally believes tenants in the Western Bay of Plenty District Council’s pensioner flats deserve better.

He says the council-owned flats in Lee St and Slater Place in Te Puke charge higher rents, and are of lesser quality, than other social housing providers.

He also believes the necessary maintenance isn’t being carried out.

“They’re not being looked after. A couple of staff from council come over every now and then, and that’s it,” says Mike.

“When I was chairman of the Te Puke Community Board we had it under control. But that was nearly 20 years ago. Now there’s no relationship between the community board and the people in the pensioner flats.”

He’s circulated a letter among councillors and members of the Te Puke Community Board, as well as tenants of the flats, outlining his ideas.

Essentially, he’d like to see the council become a silent partner, handing over the running of the flats to a trust, with more local input. Six trustees would be invited from the Te Puke community.

First priority would be tidying the units up and installing much-needed heat pumps.

Mike would also like to see the asset threshold for prospective tenants lifted from $25,000 to $60,000, with preference given to Te Puke residents.

He even believes a better service can be provided at a reduced cost this way.

“I’m pretty sure we can drop the rent, too. If other providers can do it for a lot less, and look after their places, why can’t we?”

He says the response so far has generally been positive. “I’ve got a lot of support from the community board. They think it’s wonderful.”

Many of the tenants agree. Margaret Edge has been living at the Lee St flats for eight years.

“We feel a bit neglected,” she says.

“Whenever we want something done with the units we have to ring up and put a service request in, even if we want a washer replaced on a tap.”

Regular maintenance isn’t done, unless it’s requested. Ken McPhee, who’s been in a Slater Place unit for five years, says it’s a good place to live but feels the council could do more to make the

tenants comfortable. “The units aren’t bad, but the bedrooms in winter are like an iceberg. Very cold, very damp.” He’s had a look at Mike’s proposal, and reckons some of his ideas are quite good.

“I’ve always maintained any money we pay in rent should go into a trust account so any maintenance that’s needed can be paid for,” says Ken. Another Slater Place resident of 15 years, Hazel Sweetman, supports the idea of new heat pumps.

“The flats are very cold and draughty in the winter time. It was only a couple years ago I got them to put some rubbers down under the doors, because it wasn’t worth having the heaters going.”

A council spokesperson says proposals similar to Mike’s have been looked at in the past.

“However, trusts initially interested have not followed through with a suitable offer that would ensure tenants’ benefits were not reduced in any way.”

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Seawall now short term patch up “They just wanted us out, plain and simple”.

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Accused of indecent assault A Tauranga man is facing sexual assault charges following complaints to Police.

The 54-year-old man was arrested following an investigation by Western Bay of Plenty Police, says Detective Senior Sergeant Greg Turner.

Greg told SunLive the man is facing 11 charges of making intimate visual recordings and two charges of committing an indecent act with a girl aged 12-16 years.

Papamoa East flood predictions Climate change could put Papamoa East, from Domain Rd up to Maketu, under water, according to some predictions.

A new website claims to simulate the possible effects of a global temperature increase on sea levels, showing how coastal cities around the world might fare.

A two degree or higher change could see coastal suburbs threatened, while a four degree increase in global temperatures would put much of Tauranga Eastern Link underwater.

Thieves rip off backpackers A pair of foreign travellers have ripped off a local backpackers after failing to return surfing equipment that was rented to them on March 16.

For $70 ‘Sebastian’ and ‘Florian’ rented two surfboards and wetsuits with a total retail value of $1800.

People with information about the theft are asked to contact Police or Mount Backpackers.

SunLive Comment of the Week ‘Cycleways’, posted by sangrae on the story: “Cyclists want safer tracks”: “Bring back the cycleway along Cameron Rd, ie boys’ college to the CBD on both sides, come on council planners get of your comfy seats and come outside your air-conditioned offices and see what is really like. Also is the harbour bridge out of bounds to cyclists, just wondering?”.

And whenever Brenda Butler – former manager of the Cargo Shed arts collective on Dive Crescent – sees another cruise liner across the harbour, whenever she sees the empty Cargo Shed, she feels “gutted”.

“We could have stayed in the Cargo Shed for another seven months because the work that was meant to start on the Dive Crescent seawall didn’t start till last week.”

And while the shed sat idle, the cruise ships which brought a lot of tourist dollars to the arts collective came and went – 72 of them and about 11 more to see out the season. That’s nearly 154,000 passengers, all potential Cargo Shed customers and their fat wallets. And not just them.

“What about all the tour buses? We had a promo going in 1000 hotel and motel rooms in the city, a promo we couldn’t cancel,” says Brenda. And she’s still fielding calls from frustrated customers who find the shed closed.

“We are also trying to work out how much money the council lost by not having a tenant in the shed. It lost 10 per cent of our profits that we were charged – the rent, rates, power, water, cleaning and maintenance. The council didn’t think it through properly.”

The council doesn’t want to discuss that.

Apparently its license to occupy agreements are confidential – even if there’s no-one actually occupying the shed.

What upsets Brenda Butler and the arts collective even more is the council’s now stating the works to fix a dangerous seawall originally planned for October “were reviewed and scaled back”. And obviously delayed by several months.

“It’s now an interim repair job to make sure it won’t compromise any future development of the Dive Crescent area,”

‘Interim repair job’ on Dive Crescent seawall.

according to Tauranga City Council’s Jaine Lovell-Gadd.

The collective is confused. The council says the arts market and its stall holders were advised last year that health and safety issues associated with the proposed seawall meant they would need to vacate the Cargo Shed. “But,” says Brenda, “when the works were delayed there were no health and safety issues and we could have stayed.”

At the same time they were offered the Cargo Shed on an hourly rate but stall holders would have been required “to pack down their gear after each use” – in other words bring their stuff in at the beginning of the day and remove it at the end of each day.

“It was an offer that obviously wouldn’t and couldn’t work for stallholders. It was impracticable.” As were the other accommodation offers.

“And when it comes down to it we would have been happy to stay until the end of April and we could have planned from there. It’s now clear there was no need for us to leave immediately.”

And all that income for the council and the stall holders lost.

Meanwhile the council has confirmed it’s working with Land Information New Zealand on securing joint ownership with the Otamataha Trust for the Dive Crescent/Cargo Shed site. Once ownership is established the long term options will be worked out.

“Meanwhile the Cargo Shed is available for booking based on an hourly rate,” says Jaine Lovell-Gadd.

To date there’s only been a short term booking for storage. “We could have and should have been there for several more months.” Especially over the lucrative Christmas and cruise liner season.

Road closures for street art festival starting next Tuesday Tauranga City road-users are being encouraged to use a different route to avoid road closures that will come with the upcoming Paradox Street Art Festival.

The festival, which runs from March 28 to June 15, is the first of its kind in Tauranga – not only by bringing street art into a gallery but also by internationally acclaimed artists turning the city into an outdoor gallery, adding to the city’s existing display of street art.

From next Tuesday, March 28, to Friday, March 31, Wharf St from Willow St to

The Strand will close daily from 8am-6pm – but it may not be shut the full duration each day.

On Saturday, April 1, The Strand from Devonport Rd to Harrington St, and Wharf St from Willow St to The Strand will be closed from 9am-11pm.

The road closures are for crowd safety with large numbers expected to attend festival events.

Businesses with carparks in these areas will still have access – but you’ll need to notify security at the cordons and they will

let you through if it is safe to do so.

For businesses expecting deliveries down Wharf St or The Strand on these days it is recommended you schedule your deliveries outside the road closure times if possible. Security will let delivery vehicles through if they can but on April 1, once the crowds start to assemble, access may not be possible with crowd safety the first consideration.

Paradox events are organised by Tauranga City Council, so if you have any questions phone 07 577 7000.

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Painting the town – literally Some of the CBD’s streets and walls are being given a cosmopolitan dress-up by some of the world’s finest street artists.

“It’s a chance for Tauranga to position itself as a city with a rich arts scene,” says Tourism Bay of Plenty’s Kath Low. Blank central city walls will become canvases, murals and works of art as part of Paradox:Tauranga Street Art Festival, which start next Tuesday, March 28.

Artists like Lucy McLauchlan is transforming a wall of the Brooklyn Bar and Grill on the corner of The Strand and Hamilton St. It’s Lucy’s first outing in New Zealand and the work will be one of her signature monochromatic pieces.

The British-born artist’s work is in galleries and museums as Taking shape. Fintan Magee’s work transforming a well as gracing multi-storeyed Grey St service lane. buildings across Europe, gigantic which is 22 works by Banksy, a political artist and billboards in China, carparks in Detroit and arguably the world’s most prominent street artist. abandoned subway tunnels in New York.

It’s the first time a major collection of works by the Meanwhile, five fellow artists will transform world’s most talked-about artist has been on show in other pockets of the city with their work. They are the North Island. renowned Auckland graffiti and street artist Askew “We hope the festival will attract people from One, who will be working in Masonic Park at the around the country – and even the world – to back of the Public Art Gallery, Sofles from Brisbane Tauranga,” says festival artistic director George Shaw. will be at 176 Cameron Rd, Jacob Yikes from “I believe the chance to view a Banksy collection is Christchurch at the Spring St carpark, a massive drawcard.”

Sydney’s Fintan Magee at the Grey St service Banksy is back in the international gaze after the lane, and Charles and Janine Williams, also from unveiling of his latest installation – called ‘The Auckland, at Dive Crescent.

Walled Off Hotel’ – his first major work for two All will be substantial pieces – some several storeys years The hotel is just five metres from the security tall and another just one storey but long. All will wall that divides Israel from the Palestinian West become permanent features around town.

Bank and is decorated with dozens of new politicallyAnd the public has a chance to watch the work charged artworks for which Banksy’s renowned. evolve. It will take just 30 to 45 minutes to walk It’s hoped the free exhibition will draw people to between all of the works. the gallery who’d not normally visit.

Several artists will also be creating new work in “This high-profile event, which has been created Tauranga Art Gallery itself for the 11-week paradox for residents and visitors alike, easily matches with street art – three large murals and four installations events on an international stage,” says Tauranga City including a virtual reality work.

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Tauranga City councillors have overturned a previous council decision to sell off the land under the kindergarten in Darraghs Rd, Otumoetai.

The land has been rented to the kindergarten at a peppercorn rental since the 1960s.

The current lease expires in November 2021, and a recent council change of policy about long-term leases to kindergartens saw the operators offer to buy the land off council.

The 2015 city council resolved to do so, but failed to then notify Ngai Tamarawaho hapu which used to own

the land – and because it is reserve land the hapu’s assent would make more certain the required Ministerial approval for the change in status.

The council says it informed the hapu in January 2016.

But the hapu says it was told in January 2017 and objected in February 2017, saying it wants the reserve status to remain in place.

If the status is revoked and the land sold, the hapu loses any prospect of returning it to the Ngai Tamarawaho estate, says spokesman Buddy Mikaere.

They are happy with its current status and current use. If the hapu was able to obtain ownership it would continue with the current use, says Buddy.

Mount hot pools fees to increase Tauranga City councillors voted this week to increase the fees at the Mount Maunganui hot pools – for non-residents.

The new prices, which will take effect from April 5, are a $3 increase for non-resident adults from $11 to $14, children and seniors by 80 cents from $8.20 to $9, and family by $5.20 from $31.60 to $36.80.

The increases are a result of positive feedback from recent upgrades at the hot pools, with customer feedback

indicating it is seen as a world class facility offering high quality customer amenities.

The operator, Bay Venues Ltd, says entry prices to the facility are low amongst comparative facilities and to date prices have only increased in line with Consumers Price Index movement.

Councillors agreed the pools are looking much better and asked how patrons will prove residency to pools staff.

Pyes Pa reservoir work fast-tracked

A good performance by the contractor and good weather has seen work on the Pyes Pa reservoir brought forward.

Tauranga City councillors voted this week to bring forward $400,000 from the 2017/2018 financial year to begin construction of a retaining wall and stormwater works to the current financial year.

The works will start immediately after the earthworks are completed, now expected in April. The construction of the reservoir is scheduled for the 2017/2018 financial year.

The Pyes Pa reservoir was originally planned for construction in 2010, but was delayed by the global economic downturn and the financial collapse of the primary developer of The Lakes.

Tortoises set to walk 50km Cathy Davidson, Jessica Stratton, Lisa Horn and Kaydi O’Connor-Stratton have created a team, aptly named the Tauranga Tortoises, and have dusted off their hiking boots.

The team will be taking on the Oxfam Trailwalker, a fundraising event in Whakatane next weekend.

While physically challenging, you don’t have to be ultra-fit to enter, with the aim of the event being to have fun and raise money for Oxfam’s work while you’re at it.

The Tortoises have been sharing their experience with a sister team, The Hamilton Hares, and hope that all eight members will complete the event together on March 25-26.

The Tortoises hope to fundraise $4000 in total and complete the 50km walk in 12 hours.

They are well underway with training, and raising funds to support Oxfam’s

humanitarian and development work, and plan to organise several more events to boost their team total.

They have held several cinema evenings, office morning teas and raffles, and have sold chocolate and goodies to their work mates to raise money. As fundraising doesn’t close until after the walk there are still several more events planned such as a Ladies fashion evening at Repertoire, an Easter hamper raffle and a breakfast where the Tortoises will share a few photos and stories about their experience and offer advice and fundraising tips.

To follow the Tauranga Tortoises, or to make a donation, you can also visit their Oxfam Trailwalker team page at: www.oxfamtrailwalker.org.nz/otw17/ teams/tauranga-tortoises Or join the Facebook group by searching ‘Hares & Tortoises – Oxfam Trailwalker Team’.

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Alfie’s repertoire for the Doggy Day Out

Alfie’s challenge beat this if you can!

Photos: Tracy Hardy.

Alfie’s a show pony – a dog who’s a show pony – a shameless show off and attention seeker.

“When he gets playing he is a crazy little dog, who’s amazing to watch,” says doting owner Betty Hall, who is also Western Bay of Plenty District Council’s animal service officer.

And tomorrow, March 25, at the third annual Doggy Day Out, Alfie will grab his moment in the limelight with all four paws.

He has a comprehensive repertoire. “He can do anything with a ball, a balloon or a rope.”

And the little brown-andwhite Jack Russell-cross can also improvise with shadows and

aerosol cans. “He attacks them.”

That sounds like a crowdpleaser and will go down well at the event’s ‘My Dog’s Got Talent’ contest at Katikati’s Uretara Domain from 10am-2pm.

Dogs will be given up to five minutes to showcase their talents for first, second and third prizes.

Your dog may shower you with slobbery kisses every day but can it kiss on demand?

Can it bark on command? Can it fetch, roll over or play dead?

If you think your pooch has a forte or a flair, register it for the talent show by emailing: Carolyn. berben@westernbay.govt.nz Alfie has flair – especially with vacuum cleaners and brooms.

“He’s at his funniest then,” says Betty. And Alfie the performer

has a back story – plain and simple, he lucked it.

“He was in the Tauranga pound about a year and was about to be adopted. But he had a fractured leg so I ended up fostering him.

“He ended up staying,” says Betty. And then he entered local body politics.

He’s ‘spokesdog’ for the Way Bay of Plenty District Council – the face of the council, albeit one with a wet nose.

“He’s very high energy, very personable, very smart, very addicted,” says Betty.

Alfie is a typical small dog with big attitude.

“No-one has told him he’s a small dog. I call him my brat crossed with a muppet.”

Betty says tomorrow’s Doggy

Day Out is a chance for likeminded people to gather. “It’s a chance for people with dogs to mingle and share stories and experiences with other people with dogs.

“It’s a special time. She also invites people who don’t have dogs.

“There are a lot of people who, for one reason or another, can’t own a dog but would still enjoy that

interaction.” There will be plenty of people at Doggy Day Out who will be happy to share their dogs.

Doggy Day Out is at Katikati’s Uretara Domain from 10am-2pm, tomorrow, March 25.

There’s more information at www.westernbay.govt.nz Or ‘search ‘Doggy Day Out’ event on Facebook.

Calling all tinkerers, inventors and artists tinkerers, makers, conventional media artists and more to put their hands up. The Art of Technology event – from October 18- November 5 – is being touted as an experience that will get people talking – and will showcase creators’ ideas.

To find out more, see: www.artoftech.nz/register

The Art of Technology 2017 event – to be part of the Tauranga Arts Festival this October – is calling for exhibitors to register their interest.

Organisers are on the lookout for coders, hackers, engineers, writers, videographers, photographers, technicians, digital artists, musicians, inventors,

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Fillies and fashion fever!

Ladies and Gentleman – it’s time to don your fancy frocks and frills, grab your wallets and gather the kids – because tomorrow Racing Tauranga is hosting a horse racing and fashion in the field event for everyone.

The Bayleys International Raceday at Tauranga Racecourse is a full day of thoroughbred racing action – including

feature race of the day, the Group 2 Windsor Park Stud Japan-New Zealand International Trophy – with gates opening 10.30am But Racing Tauranga’s Andrew Love says there’ll be as much action off the field as on it.

“Our Fashions in the Field event had a record number of 26 entries last year,” says Andrew. “And we believe that was due to the great prize on offer – a trip-for-two to Brisbane to enter in the Fashion in the Fields at Eagle Farm Racing course in June.

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“He’ll win a $500 suit voucher from Bond and Co Menswear on Devonport Rd – so guys, we’re looking for you!”

And for those just interested in the gee-gees – there’s 10 races throughout the day.

“The Group 2 Windsor Park Stud Japan-New Zealand International Trophy is complemented by the Drymix Cement Bay of Plenty Cup and the Triton Pacific Owens Plate.”

But Andrew says it’s the 1600m Japan-Bay of Plenty International that makes tomorrow Tauranga’s richest and most glamorous

horseracing event. “While we get our biggest patronage at Christmas – as far as racing goes, this is our biggest raceday.” Plus trackside entertainment includes live music and free children’s entertainment.

So if you like horse racing make sure you get along tomorrow.

“And it’s a good day to dress up!”

The event is on this Saturday, March 25, at Tauranga Racecourse in Greerton.

Gates open 10.30am, racing starts 12.30pm.

For more information, visit: racingtauranga.co.nz To check out Frank Vosper’s tips for the races, see page 33.

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Jim’s fifth tilt at Tauranga trophy race Tauranga horse trainer Jim Pender has been four times lucky – training four winning horses to claim the Windsor Park Stud Japan NZ International Trophy at Tauranga Racecourse.

Tomorrow – at The Bayleys International Raceday’s feature race – he’s hoping for another Japan Cup win with Ohope Prince.

It’s a horse with a strong breeding history at the Greerton track – but Jim admits the field is tough, and there’s no secret to success.

Jim reckons he just sticks to his usual routine and formula.

“And it’s fingers crossed and you hope for the best.”

But Ohope Prince has made an impression on him. “Tauranga-based businessman Neil Craig and myself actually bred Ohope Prince – and we raced his mother Ginzapearl.

“Ginzapearl won about seven races and Kiwi champion jockey Lance O’Sullivan’s last raceday as a jockey was at Tauranga.

“His last ride was on Ginzapearl – and he won it. So there’s a little bit of Tauranga

history relating to Ohope Prince’s breeding.”

So far Ohope Prince has won eight races for Jim – including three at Tauranga.

“He likes Tauranga, he likes that righthanded way round the track – the only thing against us is I’ve had to consolidate his preparation.

“He probably likes the sting out of the track – so to trial him on a real firm track in February, I sort of backed off.

“So we’ve had a consolidated preparation where he’s had a trial then two weeks later he raced at Te Rapa [last Saturday] and came fourth in an open 1200m sprint.

“Tomorrow he’s going straight into the mile. Ideally, I’d like to try race him two weeks apart but unfortunately due to the weather – if you go early, you go on a really hard track and risk the chance of jarring him up.

“So it’s a juggling exercise – but he came through his race on Saturday well and I was happy with the result.”

Jim admits he’s been a bit lucky in the Japan Cup – part of tomorrow’s full day of thoroughbred racing action at Greerton.

“I’ve had seven runners in that cup and I’ve had four winners and two fourths.

“One year Cassabella Lane won it and Our Star Pupil came fourth. The next year it rained – and Our Star Pupil won and Cassabella Lane came fourth.

He’s only had one runner that didn’t finish.

“A little mare named Ella Sierra.”

And with his previous wins has Jim felt his horse had an edge, a good chance to win?

“No – all of the horses in the race present a pretty level playing filed. It’s just luck of the draw and how you get the run and how you get the breaks.”

And Jim says it’s a pretty tough field for tomorrow’s Japan Cup. “The draws have a bit of bearing on it and the weather. Rain is forecast, but you can’t do much about the weather gods.”

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Pack your weekend with action An action-packed day waits for people of all ages at TECT All Terrain Park’s 2017 Open Day this Sunday.

The popular adventure park is opening the doors to most of its activities, features and clubs on March 26 from 10am-4pm for visitors to test out and enjoy.

Park manager Bill Wheeler says the open day is about encouraging people to try new activities, explore the park, get a little adrenalin rush or simply explore with family and friends.

“The park’s been open for almost seven years now – and in that time we’ve added a huge number of activities and clubs, all offering exciting and interesting opportunities to try out.

“Some of our clubs are looking for new members while others love to share their passion with others. It’s going to be a fun, action-filled day for sure.”

Bill encourages people to bring a picnic lunch because food isn’t available at the park. There will be a fundraising sausage sizzle with hot drinks taking

cash only. Entry to the event is free and there will be free shuttle rides within the park for the duration of the event. Some ‘have a go’ activities will have a charge to cover club costs. Again, visitors should bring cash.

Free parking and bus rides will be available from Aquinas College. The first bus will leave Aquinas College at 9.30am and a more detailed timetable will be available on the park’s website.

Dogs are welcome but must be on a leash unless exercising in the Off-Leash Dog Exercise Area.

Parking will be limited, so people are advised to take advantage of the free bus and shuttles. And please note - cellphone coverage is minimal at the park.

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Chance to etch your name into the history books If you’ve ever wanted to see your name on the cover of a published book, then Tauranga Writers has a doozy of an opportunity for you.

In celebration of the group’s 50th anniversary this year, Tauranga Writers is aiming to create a Guinness World Record for the most number of authors contributing to a single book, which will be titled ‘A People’s History of The Bay of Plenty’.

“We’re hoping we’ll end up with a book with ‘A People’s History of The Bay of Plenty’, by…and then 200 names on the cover,” says Tauranga Writer’s member Bryan Winters. “This is an

attempt to get people thinking: ‘I could get my name on the cover of a book’ and encourage writing amongst the public.”

Bryan says with 200 writers contributing up to 200 words each, the book would end up being 40,000 words long, “which is pretty decent”.

It’ll feature 10 chapters covering everything from ancient and recent history, through to the future of the Bay of Plenty and everything in between.

“It could be quite Tauranga Writers’ Bryan entertaining, eye-opening Winters is inviting all and funny, who knows wordsmiths in the community what the outcome to help them create a will be.”

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But there’s a catch – to get involved you’ll need to save your submission onto a USB stick and physically upload it onto a computer that will be set up at Creative Bay of Plenty.

With a breath of fairy dust Add a little magic into your life this Sunday by heading to Kulim Park for some fairy good fun.

Remarquable Wonder, Amber’s Fairy Life and Baldaquin Inc Society are teaming up to bring you ‘A Very Fairy Picnic’ in Kulim Park this Sunday, March 26, from 10am-2pm.

This free family event will have lots of fairy fun including free face painting, fairy wand decoration, fairy dancing, treasure rock hunts, storytelling and lots more.

Bring your own picnic lunch and sit inside the enchanted forest while you listen to fabulous fairy stories.

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Emailed submissions won’t be accepted, says Bryan.

“What we’re trying to do is create a bit of action, people walking in and out of Creative BOP. Writing is often a solitary exercise, this exercise is all about collaboration and is not meant to be silent.

“We want people coming and going, demonstrating that writing is alive and well in Tauranga.”

Once complied ‘A People’s History of The Bay of Plenty’ will be published as a hardcopy book. All profits from sales will support Tauranga Writers and by making a submission you’ll be agreeing to this condition.

Submission will be accepted at Creative Bay of Plenty on Willow St, Tauranga, from Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm, up until March 31.

For more information, visit: www.bopbook.com David Tauranga

Weed and learn about Katikati’s water Katikati residents are encouraged to spare their time tomorrow to clear some invasive Himalayan honeysuckle weeds along the Wharawhara Stream.

Helpers will also get the chance to learn about where the township’s water supply comes from and the importance of water quality from the Kaimai Range all the way to Tauranga Harbour.

The event starts 4pm – participants are advised to bring their own picnic, gloves, garden hand tools, wear suitable footwear and clothing and bring a torch.

To register for the free event, call Katch Katikati on 07 549 5250 or email: info@katchkatikati. org.nz All registered participants will be contacted if bad weather hampers the event.

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Film makes international cut A pair of Tauranga Girls’ College filmmakers are finding the most important part of film-making is the fundraising.

Tina Jeong and Nathalia Luna have won the prize, they have the invite and tickets to the International Youth Silent Film Festival at Portland Oregon in June – and they have to raise the fare to get there.

The 17-year-olds’ three-minute entry in the New Zealand Youth Silent Film Festival came second when the competition was judged at Baycourt last

October. Their entry named ‘The Other side of The Mirror’ is set to a musical score the filmmakers chose from a list of 10 original compositions composed for the festival.

Festival’s composer Nathan Avakian played the soundtrack live on the Baycourt Wurlitzer for the event last October. Agreeing it was creepy old horror movie music, Tina and Nathalia chose to enter their film in the horror genre. “We can’t use any audio effects, anything; no dialogue.

“They provide us with the soundtrack,” says Tina.

“We can’t touch it. We have to create

The House becomes castle

‘Local hero’ Chris Duggan.

Chris Duggan is officially a ‘local hero’.

But she sees herself more as an ‘accidental hero’ who saw a need and decided someone needed to do something about it.

Now her solution to that need, the House of Science, has gone big; gone national.

“The speed and extent at which this concept has grown blows me away,” says Chris, who is CEO of the House of Science. “I am so excited the goal of raising scientific literacy across all ages and ethnicities is becoming a reality one family, one school, one town, at a time.”

The Wright Family Foundation has entered a partnership with the House of Science enabling it to move into Tauranga’s CBD and think beyond the Bay of Plenty.

Similar programmes had started in six other areas but Chris saw a need for more robust systems. So the House of Science NZ Charitable Trust was established with a vision of raising scientific literacy around the country.

This new national body is responsible for developing resource kits, and supports the establishment of House of Science branches through the length of the country.

The House of Science was born after Chris, a former head of science at Tauranga Girls’ College, was “appalled” by the lack of scientific knowledge Year 9 students had when entering secondary school.

House of Science developed and delivered a range of science resource kits to Bay of Plenty primary schools. The kits contain everything a Year 1-8 teacher needs to get kids involved in hands-on experiments involving topics like flight, forensics, food science and force and friction.

House of Science also provides comprehensive development to primary, intermediate and secondary teachers, runs after-school and holiday programmes, has a successful robotics club and provides a science tutoring service.

There’s no government funding so it relies on sponsorship of local businesses, community grants, donations and membership fees.

Each branch is an independent charitable trust and raises funding locally.

a whole story that fits the music and the genre of the music. “Yeah, we have to make everything from scratch and it was our first year of film,” says Nathalia.

They completed the whole process in about a month as part of a school assessment, but there were some ‘episodes’. The first fundraising option for their US trip is airpoints, where people who have a few lazy airpoints can allocate them to a particular cause.

That’s found by going to airpoints for schools website: www.airnewzealand. co.nz/airpoints-for-schools There’s also crowdfunding through Boosted website: www.boosted.org.nz/

Tina Jeong and Nathalia Luna are fundraising to get to the International Youth Silent Film Festival in the United States this June.

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School roll surges with region’s growth ACG Tauranga has experienced a substantial He believes it’s an ideal private school option for local parents surge in its roll, with numbers up to 113 in who don’t wish to send their children away to a boarding school.

“The region is booming, which is great,” 2017, from just 18 students two years ago. says Shawn. “At ACG Tauranga, Principal Shawn Hutchinson says with no waiting lists, it has plenty of capacity to take more students.

students are getting the best of both worlds – the lifestyle benefits of living in the Bay of Plenty, and an internationally-focused education.”

ACG Tauranga will be holding the first of this year’s four Open Days tomorrow, March 25, giving prospective parents and students a chance to find out more about the school’s learning opportunities, which are focused around teaching to the international Cambridge curriculum.

“Our international curriculum is preparing students for the future, with

an emphasis on literacy, numeracy and science.

“And we deliver it within a nurturing family environment, with an excellent teacher-student ratio. “Children benefit from our very focused and personalised teaching approach,” says Shawn.

Tauranga businessman Peter McSweeney and his wife Gill have all four of their children at ACG Tauranga.

“We never considered sending our children to a private school, so the decision was a total 180 degrees for us,” says Peter.

“I always thought we would try to support our children through university, but then realised that we actually need to invest in education now, at primary and secondary level. It is just so important.”

The Open Day is tomorrow, March 25, 10.30am-2.30pm at 6 Keenan ACG Tauranga Principal Shawn Hutchinson Rd, Pyes Pa, Tauranga. catches up with some students.

A forest alive at dark It simply looks like a tree, one that has fallen victim to the weather and has toppled over, leaving its roots sticking up for any and all visitors to the Otanewainuku Conservation Area.

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But in this loss of life there is new life – little glowworms have set up shop in the tree’s roots and spread their light for all to see - but only at night.

And during the day you’d never know.

The roots stand beside the Rimu walk and the worms don’t glow during the day.

But this is the way of the Otanewainuku Conservation Area – it’s a different experience at night, and walkers can enjoy guided walks through the forest and past the glowworms as part of the Echo Walking Fest, starting April 1.

Otanewainuku Kiwi Trust chairman Hans Pendergrast says the forest comes alive at night with wetas, spiders and a plethora of creepy crawlies.

“The night part of the forest is another world; it’s something completely different.

“There is an advantage to the guided tours we are offering, because we have a couple of entomologists who can share their vast knowledge and experience.”

And the presence of glowworms means a healthy, flourishing forest, says Hans, and that is helped by the volunteers of the trust.

“The tagline for the trust is: ‘When the forest flourishes, the people flourish’.

There’s a sense of saying this forest is healthy because of the work people do, and as a person I’m a beneficiary of that.”

Though glowworms aren’t guaranteed, the night hikes will uncover a range of other creepy crawlies for curious kids and adults alike.

With more than 50 walks happening throughout the Bay and beyond, the Echo Walking Fest has a range of easy to difficult outdoor activities for the whole family.

To book into the Otanewainuku Family Night Adventure, or any of the other Echo Walking Fest activities, visit: www.echowalkfest.org.nz/walks Booking into the activities is essential.

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A lifestyle that doubles as sport “It’s a very pretty sport.”

An insightful but unexpected take on her chosen sport of rowing by 17-year-old sculler Rebecca Frood.

I was expecting tough, timeconsuming, disciplined. “Yes, it’s all those too. But it’s very elegant.”

You had to be sitting in the chase boat out on Tauranga Harbour just after six o’clock last Saturday morning to contextualise those observations.

A new dawn had daubed the Papamoa Hills skyline with a brilliant orange, the city still slept and the Tauranga Girls’ College octuple – or sculled eight – is poised out on the flood tide, in the dark, ready to go. Along with several other TGC crews.

The harbour is statue still. The rowers own it – no-one else is out there.

It was the week leading into Maadi Cup – named for the World War 2 army camp in Egypt. And Maadi Cup named for a conflict – the battle for national secondary school rowing supremacy.

TGC has a squad of 32 going to Maadi at Lake Karapiro.

After the North Island championships, where TGC came fourth out of 95 schools with four golds and a silver – Maadi is very different. South Island schools are headed north. They’re mean and very competitive.

“But a great representation from TGC,” says coach Bruce Fettes. “I would really love to see us medal – I feel confident we will be on the podium for three or four events.”

Back out on the harbour, the coxswain barks. “Sit ready.” Sixteen sculls dip, hold and then unleash. Eight sets of legs drive back in their seats, eight sets of square athletic young shoulders strike and haul and the boat rockets forward.

The acceleration is extraordinary. The sight is exhilarating.

The coxswain, the conductor, and crew are playing in perfect unison.

A crisp rating of 30 to 34 strokes a minute. “And it’s the power in each that counts,” says coach Jeff Johnson.

One minute of maximum effort and one minute weight off. Times 10.

And then three sets. Out of the dawn, up to the Harbour Bridge, across to Maungatapu and home.

It all seems so regimented, so disciplined, so focused. Until this moment of normality.

“I need to be back by eight,” cries a voice from the middle of the octuple.

She’s going to Auckland to see Justin Bieber. “You’re sick,” yells back the coach. “We going too,” says another voice from the shell. “Then you’re all sick,” declares the coach.

Then hardnosed coach bares a soft underbelly. “They’re great kids. I never have to drive them. They drive themselves.” And as the saying goes, these rowers do more before 7am than most kids do in a day.

“Last one,” cries Jeff. “Let’s bury it.”

And the shell snakes off around the sandbanks towards the boatshed lights at Memorial Park.

Now Rebecca Frood is revealing a little of her inner self. “I used to be very skinny and didn’t have much confidence. Rowing has built my strength and physique. Now I can stand up, look the world in the eye and say: ‘I am a rower’.”

But it doesn’t come without sacrifice.

Grace Holland is sitting there in a visor signed by Mahe Drysdale. She carried blades for Mahe once and he thanked her. Nice touch. Drysdale, in Grace’s estimations, is up there with Robbie Manson and Zoe Stevenson.

“You can have a social life,” says Grace. Then on reflection she adds: “Umm – no you can’t”. Because last night, Friday night, before most teenagers were headed into town for a night out, Rebecca and Grace were in bed. And not long after most had arrived home from town, Rebecca and Grace were up and headed to the boatshed. Up about 5am, boatshed not long afterwards and on the water at 5.45am. “It demands a real discipline,” says Jeff. “I’ve been told one of the girls puts her training gear on the night before so she can just tumble out of bed in the morning.” They can’t not turn up, they can’t sleep in and they can’t be late. A boat, a seat in that boat and a crew depends on it. It demands

commitment. Just this morning Jeff had to send a girl home. “She had turned up and she was obviously ill.

She was utterly determined.” That is commitment. An injured knee has kept another girl out of the boat for two months. But she still turns up for training. That is also commitment.

“I am in bed by 8.30pm” says Grace. “I like the routine, I like the fitness – it keeps you focused. And it’s something to get up for every morning.” Good grounding for Grace, who has an eye to business studies at university next year.

Both Grace and Rebecca both have boyfriends. They chuckle. “It helps they’re both rowers,” says Grace.

“They understand. It’s a lifestyle and then a sport.”

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TGC out on the briny before the world wakes up. Photos: Hunter Wells.

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With a full head of steam It cost $380,000 and took the equivalent of 1000 40-hour working weeks for one man, or 40,000 voluntary labour hours to build.

They’re the impressive numbers behind the extensions to the Tauranga Model Marine and Engineering Club’s Memorial Park model railway.

And they’re figures that helped the club win the Supreme Winner at the TrustPower Tauranga Community Awards for 2016.

Now the club is off to compete with 24 of the country’s best voluntary organisations at the TrustPower National Community Awards in

Rotorua next weekend. One rival is the 2016 TrustPower Western Bay of Plenty Supreme Winner Omokoroa Community Skate Group. “The miniature railway is hugely iconic,” says TrustPower’s Teresa Partridge.

“And the volunteers tend to fly under the radar.”

She says the club will make wonderful ambassadors for Tauranga at the national awards.

The Tauranga Model Marine and Engineering Club has to give an eight-minute presentation on what the club has achieved and why they believe they deserve the title of TrustPower National Community Award Supreme Winner.

The presentation will be made by club president Peter Jones, junior member Oliver Duncan and Tauranga Mayor Greg Brownless. They will be supported by a video.

The Community Awards winner will take home $4000 in prize money, a framed certificate and a $1000 consultancy voucher from a leading training provider in the community sector. The runner-up gets $2500.

Men and their toys - Trevor Chapman, life member of the club.

Climate change and you What does climate change mean for Tauranga’s environment and people? How will the city respond to it?

These are just some of the searching questions to be addressed at a climate change seminar in Tauranga tomorrow night, March 25.

Chaired by Tauranga Deputy Mayor Kevin Clout, the seminar has been organised by Forest and Bird, Tauranga Carbon Reduction Group and is part of the Sustainable Backyards programme.

“Rising sea levels, more droughts and storms and increased pests and diseases all threaten nature as much as they threaten people,” says Forest and Bird climate advocate and seminar speaker Adelia Hallett.

“The Bay of Plenty will have fewer frosts than it gets now, it will be more vulnerable to pests and diseases now found in Northland and Auckland like kikuyu grass, coral trees, clover flea and tropical grass webworm.”

The gloom continues. “Native forests will be affected by increased droughts and warmer weather will lead to an explosion in numbers of pests like rats. And in coastal areas rising sea levels and more intense storms will affect the ability of shorebirds to nest.”

However, the good news according to Adelia, is that by protecting nature we can also protect ourselves.

Other speakers at the seminar include James Low, who’ll talk on regional council action, Peter Jensen will put across the horticulture-agriculture view, Ian McLean will deliver a scientific reality check and Isobel Brun-Kaier will talk about learning from Europe.

The free seminar is at the Bongard Centre, 200 Cameron Rd, on Saturday March 25 from 6pm-8pm.

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Make sure you’re not slapped with a bill As Kiwis, we all know how to protect ourselves with slip, slop, slap when the sun comes out. But are we as good at making sure we’re covered financially when we’re abroad?

For a small population, Kiwis certainly know how to travel big! In 2016 we made 2.62 million visits overseas and in January 2017 alone, nearly 166,000 of us packed our bags and took off on a foreign trip.

For many travellers, it goes exactly as planned. No major issues, bags arrived when they do and they got back home in one piece.

But, unfortunately for some people, mishaps, accidents or illness can take the shine off their trip.

Kiwi research company Canstar’s general manager Jose George says booking a trip overseas can be expensive and travel insurance can feel like an additional extra to sort out later – but it’s important to keep it front of mind. “The sooner you buy it, the

earlier you are covered and that could mean if you are unfortunate enough to fall ill or have an accident before you even go, you could get some or all of your money back.

Jose says some of the popular destinations for Kiwis can be very expensive if things go wrong.

“In Australia Kiwis are covered for emergency care but even the ambulance to get you to the hospital will cost you extra.

“In the United States, a broken limb can cost tens of thousands of dollars even for the most straightforward cases. “That’s not the kind of holiday souvenir many of us either want or can afford.”

So what you should consider when buying travel insurance?

In 2016 our favourite destinations were Australia, with 1,176,140 trips by Kiwis, the United States with 197,000 trips made and China with 101,180 trips.

Selecting the right tour company When it comes to planning the trip of a lifetime, the team at Unique Holiday Tours say it’s important to select the right tour company.

“One that makes sure you leave with special memories, incredible stories and lifelong friends,” says tour manager Colleen Prestidge. “We love what we do and it shows.”

With the majority of Unique Holiday Tours travelers aged 55-plus, Colleen says you are sure to meet likeminded people and make new friends.

“When choosing a Unique Holiday Tours you can be assured you are getting great value for money.

“Our long standing relationships with operators and our volume of travellers enables us to get the best deals on the must do attractions.

“We pass these savings onto you so you can do more and see more while on one of our tours.”

Colleen says you can enjoy a range of outdoor activities and you don’t have to be super-fit.

“All you need to join in on most of our activities is an adventurous spirit and the willingness to participate and have fun.”

There are also many extra options available on Unique Holiday Tours – from helicopter flights to punting the Avon, see glow worms or a castle.

“Choose to do everything or just relax, it’s completely up to you.”

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The trips were a combination of long, short, business or pleasure, and travellers ranged from singles to couples or families and senior travellers.

Cruise holidays are also increasing in popularity, but obviously pose different risks to those travelling by plane, train and automobile.

With so many variations, it will come as no surprise there’s no ‘one size fits all’ when it comes to travel insurance. So to make sure you get the best value cover for you, here are a few things to consider: So have you worked out what you need?

This may sound obvious but if you’re planning to take part in activities such as skiing, mountain climbing or any other strenuous activity, you may need to take out additional cover to make sure you and your gear are covered.

To find out the top-rated providers from Canstar’s annual travel insurance analysis, see: www.canstar.co.nz

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There are many ways one can travel.

By joining Friendship Force Tauranga Western Bay of Plenty, members are able to sign up with any exchange from any club in the world to any planned travel destination.

their upcoming exchange to Japan and Taiwan, are discussed and tales of members recent experiences visiting far-off lands with another club feature in discussions in the social time that follows,” says Reg. A list of exchanges planned by South Pacific clubs can be found at: friendshipforce.org.nz And the website – thefriendshipforce.org – has information on others planned throughout the world.

“There you can click on various links to learn “This unique home hospitality experience more about this non-profit organization, and in helps promote global understanding particular the themed exchanges and cultural where people find common ground in journeys to Vietnam or Myanmar.” conversation over shared meals, routines Alternatively, an information evening is of daily life and experiencing different being held at the club on Wednesday, April 5. cultures,” says organiser Reg Clothier.

Meet some of the club members over light Exchanges to Russia, Belgium, refreshments. “A keynote speaker and video Mexico, the United States, Australia display will feature, as will a question and and South Africa are just some of the answer session.”

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Reg is expecting keen interest and, as The local Friendship Force club, numbers are strictly limited, entry is by a formed in 1989, meets once a formal invitation only. month for a short, informal Phone Reg on 07 5620694 or meeting followed by various Friendship Force Tauranga WBOP 0220114776, or club president social activities. club president Barbara Procter.

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Taking the stress out of travel

It may seem like adding another level of stress to a time of year that is inherently stressful.

But planning a summer holiday can be a gift in itself because a poorly planned holiday can be a headache.

You will go back to work feeling like you haven’t had a break. It may seem contradictory but your wellplanned holiday should remain flexible. Don’t try to lock everything down because if it doesn’t play out according to your plan there will be frustration.

Flexibility creates time for diversions, sightseeing, spontaneous meal breaks during travel and the like of traffic and flight delays and weather.

Plan out food stops because searching for an appropriate eatery on travel day can be timeconsuming and frustrating if trying to please everyone. Take snacks like drinks and non-

perishables, nut bars and tuna and cheese packs. It saves time and money and arguments.

Pack light but be prepared. You can’t be prepared for every situation because you would have to pack the house.

Prepare for various weathers by packing outfits that can be layered. For example, you can add or remove layers depending on the weather. This saves space but keeps you covered.

A basic first aid kit is also good use of your suitcase space. It doesn’t have to be big, it doesn’t have to be a mobile emergency clinic, but it just may be a god send.

A feast of music on offer Katikati Concert Band is offering an afternoon of international music next month. The International Feast of Music is on April 1, at St Peter’s Anglican Church, Beach Rd, Katikati, from 2pm.

The concert will feature music from New Zealand to Russia and Canada to Korea.

Entry is a gold coin donation.

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Tips to avoid the unexpected Tens of thousands of New Zealanders travel or are residents overseas. For most, this is an incident-free experience but the best laid plans can be upset by a number of problems.

Some are impossible to foresee or avoid so, by planning ahead and arming yourself with the right information, you can reduce the risks you might encounter overseas.

So here’s some tips from New Zealand’s Safe Travel website to avoid the unexpected – if you can.

Check the latest travel advice on the Safe Travel website. You may not realise what is going on in a country or if health risks are imminent – so check before you hop in a plane.

Register your travel and contact details with the Safe Travel website.

This information is kept absolutely confidential and only used if there is an emergency.

For example, it means NZ’s consular services can give you warning of an approaching tropical cyclone, give you advice on what to do if there’s major civil unrest, and check your wellbeing if there’s been a terrorist attack.

Take out travel insurance. You need a comprehensive policy that covers any activities you plan to undertake, from scuba diving to motorbike riding, medical treatment and any pre-existing medical conditions.

Even minor medical treatment can be very expensive overseas – particularly if a medical evacuation is required.

The Insurance Council of New Zealand provides more information on travel insurance and a list of Insurance Council members on their website.

Keep in contact with family and friends. Give a detailed copy of your itinerary, including accommodation details and your travel insurance policy, to a relative or friend.

If you change your itinerary, let your loved ones know. If you find yourself caught up in an overseas emergency situation, don’t forget to phone or email to let family know you are okay.

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Bronzing up the lily-white legs!

When you’re looking a shade of pale but want that summer glow and feel great all year round, it’s definitely the right time to seek help from a bronzing gel.

I’ve turned to bronzer in a bottle before, but lost faith. So I began investing in spray tanning at the salon. I like this option, but my wallet doesn’t.

Hello glowing complexion, but goodbye savings.

So I settled for my white legs and braved the embarrassment of ‘tanning’ at the beach beside bronzed babes, managing the quick dashes to the ocean before anyone sees my lily-white limbs.

Then, I was given the opportunity to review the Manuka Doctor ApiBronze Anti-Cellulite Bronzing Gel.

Multi-tasking self-tanner

This little beauty is a multi-tasking self-tanner with the extra benefit of improving skin firmness at the same time, which allows it to reduce the appearance of cellulite and helps create younger looking body contours.

This bronzing gel has the signature ingredient of Purified Bee Venom, which is a natural potent combination of enzymes, peptides and amino acids and is proven to visibly promote the skin’s elasticity.

The added benefit of New Zealand Manuka honey is well known to help boost moisture and visibly promote skin elasticity.

Enriched with Vitamin E to give the skin a silky smooth finish, this non-sticky formula smooths on evenly and blends flawlessly, leaving the skin refreshed and hydrated with a great glow.

The Manuka Doctor ApiBronze Anti-Cellulite .

Bronzing Gel My skin now feels smoother, looks visibly firmer and I have a tan.

To produce the lovely glow to the skin, Manuka Doctor has included DHA (or dihydroxyacetone) which is a safe self-tanning agent, formulated with the key ingredients to provide a natural looking tan.

At $49.95 per 200ml bottle, Manuka Doctor ApiBronze Anti-Cellulite Bronzing Gel is a perfect investment to a healthy glow instead of lying around in the harmful rays of the sun.

The finer details

Buy your bottle at www.manukadr.co.nz All Manuka Doctor products are dermatologically tested. Manuka Doctor products should not be used by people allergic to bee stings.

And in my best TV advertisement voice: Always read the label and use only as directed.

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Gradual process

I must admit, I wasn’t convinced in my first few weeks of using the gel. But then I started noticing a difference.

I have an extremely pale complexion after all, so it’s taken a while to notice any difference.

But I’ve since received comments from friends about my new tan.

I appreciate the gradual process. The more you work for something, the bigger the reward. I added fake tanning into my morning routine every second day and my reward has finally come!

Plan ahead for your cosmetic surgery When making the decision to get cosmetic surgery, make sure you do all of your own research and make a choice that you are happy with.

Make your own decisions – what’s right for your best friend may not be right for you, check out your surgeon, and ensure they are certified and

have experience and knowledge behind them.

And take your time – there is no point rushing into a decision that can affect many aspects of your life, including finances, emotional and physical wellbeing, and your health.

It’s also worth looking into the procedure thoroughly, to ensure you know what to expect when you go under the knife.

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A difficult test drive with a new experience Manuka Doctor Apiclear Purifying Face Mask .

It came from the cheeky pup over the divide in the office. A small cube of a packet containing something called Manuka Doctor Apiclear Purifying Face Mask.

And if you read on – a balance for skin imperfections with Manuka honey.

It promises the user will appear toned and youthful.

There was a pink sticky note on the cubed packet from cheeky pup. “Please review.” Cheeky pup was mocking the old man.

Because mine is a 66-year-old complexion, rough as a rhino’s bum and on the brink of its use-by date.

It needs panel beating rather than potions. Bearded, pitted, lined like the deflated bladder of an old football. And it’s had no more care than that offered by a splash of an astringent like Bay Rum or a sand down with an exfoliant.

It’s a face that is worn but still loveable I like to think. Anyhow, I thought I would call cheeky

“Five years ago I had a face/neck and eye lift,” says Jackie.

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the whiskers, the wrinkles and the sun damage, the skin was noticeably softer and smoother – rhino’s bum had become baby’s bum. I didn’t look younger but certainly felt younger.

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pup’s bluff and try this serum. If nothing else a chance to test the curative qualities of Manuka honey. In the downstairs bathroom, away from any gaze and cheap taunts, I did as directed on the cubed packet. I cleansed – or washed – my face. I applied – putting the goo on my face and neck. I applied twice as much as required and left for twice as long as the 10 to 15 minutes before rinsing off with warm water.

I thought I would give the Manuka honey a real chance of weaving some magic.

When I looked in the mirror there was the same

Making you look as young as you feel It started with a face lift, and now Bums Tums and Gums’ Jackie Brown is running her very own cosmetic surgery tours.

crusty, gnarled, old visage – eyebrows need trimming –but even this cynic won’t hold the product accountable for what it was expected to achieve last night. Then in between the moles,

surgery and since I work in the travel industry, my cosmetic surgery tours company ‘Bums Tums and Gums’ was created. I am 61 years old and I feel like I have the appearance of someone 10 years younger.”

Jackie escorts around 40 client per year to Thailand for cosmetic surgery, and plenty more clients travel there independently rather than joining a group tour.

“Some clients have been with me three times, because they had so much fun with a group of likeminded people all with a mission to improve how they feel about themselves, and happy with the professional standards of the surgeons they came back for more.”

And the customers agree.

“Having wanting to have surgery for close to 20 years I have probably done more research than most,” says a happy Bums Tums and Gums client.

“Many things put me off – the cost, the time off work, the ‘I don’t deserve to be this selfish’ belief.

“I met Jackie and immediately knew and trusted in all that is Jackie. From beginning to now – there has been no end – she organized everything, she knew all the right people and she never laughed at what I thought were stupid questions, she had the answers and if she didn’t she never lied, she found out for me.”

For more information visit www.bumstumsandgums.co.nz

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Teacher Trish Valios guides Greenpark School eightyear-old pupils Cameron McEachen, Sienna Haycock and Harry Burt in their cooking endeavours.

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The pupils at Greenpark School in Greerton have taken to their new technology suite like ducks to water – they’re loving it.

A SpheroSPRK robot zips around underfoot at one end of the sectioned suite, and at the other a group of Year 4’s bake cupcakes for the Police.

Principal Graeme Lind says this new suite – opened Friday – adds a new potential to the future of the school and the pupils.

“We had a vision of having a technology suite. It’s an extension of our arts programme, we have our arts studio, we have a dance studio, we have a music suite; so it was an extension of what we could further develop in our curriculum.”

International manager Lynne Mossop, who markets the school to international students primarily in China and Korea, says the funding for

the new suite came from school fees paid by international students.

“That money – those tuition fees – goes towards providing the point of difference for us.”

“It’s given us the opportunity to build something like this and have the resources, which is quite unique for primary school.”

And Lynne says it couldn’t have been completed without the help of a team of experience teachers involved in setting up the science kits, resourcing the kitchen, sorting the robotics suite.

“It’s been a team of people that have worked really hard.

“A lot of people have put a lot of hard work into this. They’re all teachers and it’s just something else that they do outside the classroom.”

The suite will be streaming Te Reo lessons to classrooms from their television studio, learning to bake and cook, and getting hands-on robotics and science lessons.

“It sure makes learning memorable, and more fun and for some kids this is their talent,” says Lynne.

“It’s putting the curriculum into the real world.”

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A cuisine of cultures at college

A plane ticket is pretty expensive if you’re just looking for authentic cuisine, so save yourself some money and head to Otumoetai College today, March 24, for their International Food Festival.

With food spanning the globe from Korea,

Japan, China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Brazil, Germany, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Chile, visitors are bound to find something to tantalise their tastebuds.

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of activity and smells to get the mouth watering.

From Brazilian brigadeiros to Pad Thai from Thailand, visitors will have plenty to choose from.

Eftpos will be available and the school will be operating a token payment system.

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Tutus, banana cake and marathons Ross Steele certainly put in his eight hours – eight-hours-one-minute-and-55seconds to be exact.

“And 20 minutes of that was photo opportunities,” says Ross Steele after his fundraising Kirikiriroa marathon in Hamilton.

The time was irrelevant, even though it was five hours behind the winner. But the $2000-plus Ross raised for Alzheimers Tauranga was relevant, as was the fact it was Ross’ 99th marathon.

“I have arthritis in my left hip so I was only able to walk the course,” says Ross. He was met near the finish by 14 supporters and two grandchildren.

And they walked across the finish line together – all in orange tutus.

“Just for fun and colour,” says Ross, whose favourite colour is orange. “It was fantastic.” Especially the post-race celebration of 20 bottles of ‘bubbles’ and four orange banana cakes.

The course was ‘concrete and cobble’, which Ross says was tough on the bones. “My quads were smashed and my shins were sore.” But he was met by an accommodating physio.

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Rotorua on May 6. It will be the 24th time Ross has fronted for the Rotorua Marathon. “I’ll be walking because I need a new hip.” But he intends on being back running one day.

“When you find me in a wooden box, then my running days will be over.”

You can still assist Ross Steele’s fundraiser for Alzheimers Tauranga.

Go to: givealittle.co.nz/cause/ross100 Or you can make a donation to Alzheimers Tauranga/ WBOP account number 03-0435-0470677-00 and Ross100. “Let’s put a little more in the pot,” says Ross.

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During recent weeks we’ve looked at what you should expect from a good multinutritional formula. I know of no other supplement to have such profound health benefits. The best products use top quality United Statessourced ingredients and include these in meaningful amounts.

Antioxidants are compounds found in food, or made in the body, which have the ability to donate electrons to unbalanced free radicals. These have extra electrons they donate, thus preventing the chain of destruction caused by free radicals. Antioxidants protect the structures that make up cells from unwanted and premature damage.

As discussed in part 1 of this series on multivitamins, the most important antioxidants are those made in our body from trace minerals. Some vitamins are also antioxidants. The most obvious are water-soluble vitamin C and fat-soluble vitamins E and A. I prefer beta carotene than straight vitamin A as the body then changes this to vitamin A as needed.

The most potent food sourced antioxidants belong to a group of food chemicals called phytochemicals. These are biologically-active food compounds that often have significant antioxidant activity.

In terms of therapeutic qualities the grape seedsourced oligomeric proanthocyanidins – known

as OPC – have the most profound effect. There are many OPCs on the market.

Many are extracted with solvents. My preferred one is the US-made, naturally extracted ActiVin. A good multivitamin should have all of the main antioxidant groups and include the trace mineral especially selenium, zinc, iron, copper and manganese and the vitamin antioxidants as vitamins A from beta carotene and vitamins C and E. It should then have all the main phytochemical groups – especially OPC, bilberry, green tea, hesperidin, lutein and lycopene.

Try this for three months and you will notice the difference. For more information give me a call or email: john@abundant.co.nz. 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.

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Offering care and attention around nursing care Located in the heart of Matamata, Pohlen Hospital is a community charity trust hospital with 33 beds available.

Pohlen Hospital is well-known in the community, says general manager Suzanne Lawes, and they also help enrich the community.

“We offer Meals on Wheels to our local community and we are very well

respected in our community for the care and attention around our nursing care,” says Suzanne.

The hospital offers private and public funded care, offering a range of services such as carer support (respite care), long term aged care, transitional and acute care and palliative (end-of-life care), as well as having primary birthing unit and a small public and private out patients department.

“We’re quite a unique model,” says Suzanne.

With both double and single rooms available, the team at Pohlen Hospital work hard to help make their residents stay as much like home as possible being considerate of both the resident and the family’s needs.

“Our staff are proud to nurse your loved one. We can offer both rest home and hospital level care,”

The team at Pohlen Hospital. says Suzanne.

“We have planned activities in the weekday and a very proactive ‘Pohlen pal’ volunteer service.

Suzanne says the hospital has become a recognised part of the surrounding area and will be celebrating its 50th

“If the only prayer you ever say is ‘ thank you’ that will be enough” – ECKHART TOLLE. The power of these two little words can be immense. One of my personal intentions is to begin each day with a grateful heart.

This creates a perspective that lifts my spirits and opens my eyes to the beauty around

anniversary soon.

The hospital is supported by their local GP office which is located on-site, as well as an x-ray service, physiotherapist, chemist and path lab.

For more information, visit www.pohlen.co.nz

me rather than the blocks I may otherwise only focus on.

Sometimes I will be struggling with tough challenges and this isn’t intended to lessen the importance of those challenges. However, when I look at those struggles from a position of gratitude it often opens me to other options that may not have originally occurred to me. This can sometimes be a stretch when difficulties are overwhelming.

However, I encourage you to experiment.

What choices may be uncovered if you come from a position of thanks in each of the challenges you are undergoing?

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Waihi Beach woman’s brush with Legionnaires’ Disease Phillis Lois has an idea. A simple, cheap and easy one.

And it might just save other greenfingers going through the scary ordeal that took this Waihi Beach woman to the brink. And slowly and painfully back.

“The doctor in hospital asked me if I had family nearby. I said: ‘Whoa! This sounds serious’.” She took it to mean she was at death’s door. The doctor then advised her to call her family. “You are a very sick woman,” he said.

“I had it,” says Phillis. It being Legionnaires’ disease – a particularly nasty, potentially fatal form of pneumonia or lung inflammation.

“When my son arrived I was all teary. I said: ‘Is this it? Am I going to die?’” Phillis says she wasn’t afraid of dying, but rather, as a gardener, she Phillis Lois. had unfinished business. “It was

especially unpleasant, I don’t want to go through it again, and I don’t want anyone else to either.”

Phillis was at her workplace when she made what she considered to be an informed assessment.

“It was inside, but it was a foyer with a very high ceiling and near a doorway, so there was ventilation.”

She was re-potting a plant and she wasn’t expecting a near death experience because of it. But the airborne micro-organisms or bacteria from the potting mix were up to their evil.

She believes a quick easy solution would be to put cheap protective masks and gloves with the bags of potting mix. It might have helped Phillis.

First she felt unwell, cancelled a couple of engagements. Then she experienced what she graphically describes as “waterfalls of chills down my legs, starting at the top and floating down”.

Then the high temperatures and extreme chills set in. “I got into winter pyjamas, a singlet and hot water bottle.” This at the height of summer. “Then later I’m chucking things off.”

Between two and 10 days after exposure other signs and symptoms manifest. Coughing up mucus and blood, shortness of breath, chest pains.

One of Phillis’ lungs was full of pus and draining into the other. There can also be gastro-intestinal upsets like nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea. And Phillis endured the full gamut.

The next few days were a blur for Phillis – confusion

Helping hairdressers train to be the best Tauranga Hair Design Academy Ltd, trading as Hair to Train, has been in operation since 1997.

As the largest hairdressing training provider in the Bay of Plenty, they deliver NZQA qualifications in hairdressing and barbering to Level 4, from their two campuses based in Tauranga and Mount Maunganui, says Hair to Train general manager Donna Waterson.

Hair to Train is proud of their NZQA Category 1 Provider status – the highest award to achieve following External Evaluation and Review audits. An External Evaluation and Review – known as EER – audit is very similar to the Education Review Office audits undertaken in schools, and help parents decide where to educate their children.

Creativity and flexibility help make hairdressing an attractive career option for many and the next course – the NZ Certificate in Hairdressing Level 3 – starts on April 28.

Currently, the hairdressing industry is facing a shortage of qualified hairdressers, says Donna.

“For students aged 16-19 years old the course is free. It’s a fantastic opportunity for young people who would like to

start their career without the burden of a student loan.

“The great thing about the qualification is it gives students transferrable and employable skills, which are so important these days.”

The students work in a commercial salon environment with paying clients, which helps them build their skills and maximises their self-esteem and confidence. Students leave the course with both skills and experience, which is very attractive to employers.

Hair to Train’s next intake

Hair to Train: ‘The largest hairdressing training provider in the Bay of Plenty’.

of hairdressing students commences in April and enrolments are now open at: www.hairtotrain.co.nz

and other mental changes are part of the deal. And all because she had re-potted a plant – something this avid gardener has done a thousand times.

“I knew about Legionnaires’ disease, but I didn’t understand it. I knew there was a hazard, but I didn’t realise how much of a hazard.” Phillis understands a lot more now of course. And she got to thinking. She wanted to tell people her

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Reminder of an illegal practice Shark finning as a practice has been banned in New Zealand waters since 2016, but a large shark fin discovered at Matakana Island shows the practice may be continuing close to home.

The discovery of a shark fin at Matakana Island has Bay Explorer skipper Brandon Stone concerned about a practice he thinks in this instance was done by amateur rather than commercial fishers.

“Somebody cut the fin off the animal and pushed it back into the water without its fins,” is what he believes has happened.

Commercial shark finners kept the fins because dried they are worth more than $130 per kilogram.

Brandon thinks it’s a bronze whaler fin.

Leo and Maya Stone with the shark fin.

There are plenty of them around.

“They are here in big numbers, they are mostly pregnant females; we often see them along the beaches and people expressing concern about sharks in the surf at Papamoa Beach.

“People need to be aware they have been here forever.

“They come in here, give birth, and they are there in large numbers, like in hundreds.”

Brandon wants a little more respect shown the sharks.

He says most people who have sailed, fished, dived or swum in the harbour have

been completely unaware of how close they have been to a bronze whaler shark.

There is a record of a bronze whaler attack in New Zealand.

A spearfisher at Te Kaha was killed in 1976. They are known in the Bay of Plenty for taking fish and bait off lines, and the occasional spear fisher has lost the fish off his float line.

It is an offence under the Animal Welfare Act to remove the fin from a shark and return it to the sea alive.

The ban also makes it illegal to catch a shark, kill it, remove its fins and dump the carcass at sea.

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Anyone wanting to learn more about New Zealand’s first-ever marine spatial plan is being invited to a public forum at the Whangamata Ocean Sports Club on March 29.

If you use the Hauraki Gulf for leisure, sport, or business, the Sea Change – Tai Timu Tai Pari marine spatial plan, which aims to improve and protect the health of the gulf, affects you.

Several guest speakers will attend

and members of the audience will have an opportunity to ask questions about the plan.

The Sea Change – Tai Timu Tai Pari Public Forum is at 1100A Port Rd, Whangamata, on Wednesday, March 29, starting 7pm.

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Talking about the future So many positive things are going on here in Tauranga and the wider Bay of Plenty.

Last week I was able to meet with representatives from both Kiwi Produce Ltd and Zespri, companies at the top of their game.

The horticulture industry in the Bay of Plenty is doing so well and is a driving force for our local economy. It is reassuring to see there are so many dedicated and innovative people working hard to push our horticulture sector forward.

Our hardworking growers have had their dedication rewarded by great results for the most recent season. In the 2015/2016 period 129 million trays were sold and predictions see this rising to 182 million trays by 2020.

These results and the future forecasts are fantastic

for our local economy and show the importance of perseverance and innovation.

I wish all our growers and producers every success.

Recently, I also met with student leaders at Tauranga Boys’ College to talk about the future.

I enjoy meeting with our students because they often see the world differently and they offer a fresh perspective on things.

The students had great questions about where I see Tauranga heading and it was good to see their enthusiasm for what is ahead.

Most of them see a great future for themselves in Tauranga, which hasn’t always been the case.

Their continued focus to their education and their passion for our community is inspiring and I have no doubt that I will see more of them in the future.

New initiative to assist charities The Acorn Foundation is furthering their support of charitable trusts in the Western Bay of Plenty region, with the launch of a new initiative to provide assistance to some voluntary organisations.

Acorn Foundation general manager Nicky Wilkins says when new regulatory reporting standards came into effect in 2016 that directly impacted on charitable trusts, the Acorn Foundation decided to offer support.

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standards, managing and meeting reporting requirements for a charitable trust can be challenging, time-consuming and expensive. For some charitable trusts there may well be benefits from transferring their assets to the Acorn Foundation and establishing an endowment fund.

“Whilst the Acorn Foundation provides this vital support we still ensure the involvement of the charitable trust’s trustees [if they want] in the most important tasks – choosing how to make the distributions. This ensures each charitable trust can stay true to its values and purpose.”

An example is the Tauranga Help Foundation. Originally set up in

the early-1980s to support victims of abuse, particularly sexual abuse, trustee Norah Reid says it became increasingly difficult, over time, to operate the trust as government funding reduced.

“We simply weren’t receiving enough to pay the counsellors.

So the best possible decision was made – to wind up the trust and transfer the assets to Acorn, as the Tauranga Help endowment fund.

“Now every year distributions from this fund are made to support local organisations working for victims of abuse, in line with the original intentions of Tauranga Help.”

To find out more, visit: www.acornfoundation.org.nz

Scam warning for Kiwi businesses New Zealand businesses are being warned by Police about scammers using forged invoices to swindle companies out of expensive electronic equipment. NZ Police’s Detective Sergeant Michael Cartwright says overseas scammers have been using false email addresses, with domains similar to well-known universities, to target the companies.

“Using the false email address the scammers will send forged university invoices to businesses, requesting various electronic equipment such

as hard drives, camera equipment, computers and phones.

Police advise companies if they receive an email and invoice similar to those described, they should immediately contact the relevant university to check the legitimacy of the request before sending any goods.

They also ask anyone who has been a victim of this scam, or has received a suspicious email similar to those described, to contact Detective Sergeant Michael Cartwright on 09 212 9391 or their local Police Station.

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Add flowers to your workplace Adding flowers to your workplace can help add a bright burst of colour and it’s easier than you might think.

Forsyth Barr’s newest Adviser in the region

With the addition of two new Authorised Financial Advisers, Forsyth Barr starts 2017 with an increased presence in the Bay of Plenty. Our newest member of the team, Philip Kilpatrick, talks about his move to Forsyth Barr, how he plans to assist his clients and provides a glimpse into his life in the Bay of Plenty.

After 16 years of providing loyal and professional service to my clients, Spicers re-structured their business and decided my role was not required, so I was delighted to have the opportunity to join Forsyth Barr and work with their leading team of Authorised Financial Advisers in the region.

How do clients benefit from being with Forsyth Barr?

Investment research is central to the provision of advice to clients.

Supported by Forsyth Barr’s research and investment expertise, the firm’s advisers work with clients to deliver a personalised approach taking into account their investment objectives, preferences and tolerance for risk.

Forsyth Barr is proudly New Zealand owned and has one of New Zealand’s leading research teams producing equity, fixed interest and investment strategy research for clients.

In the 2016 FinanceAsia awards, Forsyth Barr was confirmed as New Zealand’s Best Investment Bank.

This year Citizens Advice Bureau Tauranga will reach the milestone of 40 years serving the city’s community.

I have over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry covering financial and investment advice, risk management and lending. I am an Authorised Financial Adviser, hold a Graduate Diploma in Business Studies and Personal Financial Planning from Massey University and am a Certified Financial Planner (CFPCM). I am also a local committee member of the Institute of Financial Advisers.

What about your interests outside of work — what are you passionate about?

Outside of work I have a small avocado orchard to attend to. I also enjoy a range of sporting activities including golf, running and tennis.

You can contact Philip by calling the Forsyth Barr Tauranga office on 07 577 5726. Alternatively, you can visit any of our Authorised Financial Advisers at the Forsyth Barr office located at 40 Selwyn St, Tauranga.

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Lily also does bouquets for weddings, special orders, or just because.

So if you are looking for a way to add some colour to your office, café, restaurant, or business, call Lily’s Beautiful Things on 07 578 9275, or for special orders anytime, phone 027 698 8774.

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Lily’s Beautiful Things is the perfect place to get your corporate flowers, and they are conveniently located at 50 Devonport Rd after relocating to a larger premises.

Florist Lily Charlton has a real love of flowers and takes great pride in her work.

“I have a passion for flowers and we are totally independent so we can be flexible on price,” says Lily.

Being the only florist in the central city, Lily says her store Lily’s Beautiful Things will soon be celebrating its two-year anniversary.

Supplying flowers to offices, restaurants, cafes, real estate agents, retirement homes and more, Lily’s Beautiful Things can deliver fresh flowers to your business.

“We can supply smaller bunches from as little as $15 a bunch each week on a regular basis,” says Lily.

“We offer delivery throughout the North Island.”

“I also do mini-gardens; these can be put in your office and they will last for years without the need to replenish them every week like regular flowers.”

“Back in 1977 our bureau was originally housed in the District Museum located on the corner of Hamilton S and Cameron Rd,” says CAB Tauranga bureau manager Kim Saunders.

Today CAB is located at 38 Hamilton St in the city and each week upwards of 50 volunteers working in the bureau each doing at least a shift of four hours Kim says during the four decades more than 500 volunteers have joined the bureau, including six life members who have contributed in excess of 20 years each. “All our volunteers have extensive training

throughout their time at the bureau to keep abreast of all the new laws and regulations.

“Each year we have two induction trainings for new volunteers to join the bureau,” says Kim. “During a 12-month period we have in excess of 11,000 enquiries on all sorts of topics.

“Young, old, all ethnicities, citizen, non-citizen, visitors to Tauranga – we help everyone!”

All CAB enquiries are treated as confidential and in an impartial way, and questioners will be empowered with options to follow their own path.

“Our celebration has been made possible with the support of the Legacy Trust, which we thank for their generosity.”

If you’re a past volunteer of CAB, email: manager. tauranga@cab.org.nz to be involved with this event.

To find out more about volunteering, visit: www.cab.org.nz

Volunteers in the Bay of Plenty area.

This column is general in nature and is not personalised investment advice. Disclosure Statements for Forsyth Barr Authorised Financial Advisers are available on request and free of charge.

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Council surveys and reviewing the reverse Robin Hood tax This week Tauranga City Council fulfilled one of councillor Larry Baldock’s election promises and we agreed to survey residents about some topical council issues via water rates invoices and online.

Topics will include a cap on bottle stores and pokie machines, Easter trading and changes to ward representation.

The feedback will be useful and it could

help the public’s perception of local democracy. I tried and failed to have an open workshop to include another topic on the survey list: Council’s recent decision to allow appointment of nonelected people on council committees such as the New Zealand Transport Agency, Priority One, tangata whenua and councillors from other councils.

There are some strengths in this but given

Water donations and blue obfuscations Here are some facts, as I see them – you can draw your own conclusions.

Land Information Minister Mark Mitchell says there is no “big buy-up” of New Zealand land by foreigners.

But last year foreign buyers bought up 465,863 hectares that we know of, which is up from 79,897ha the previous year.

The National Party and its coalition partners voted down New Zealand First’s Bill for a Registry of Foreign Ownership in New Zealand, so we would know for certain how much of New Zealand is under foreign ownership.

From Oravida’s website (translated from Chinese): “Oravida natural artesian water is sourced from New Zealand’s Bay of Plenty…our water is among the softest, purest and most drinkable anywhere in the world”.

Earlier this month The National Party received another $50,000 donation from Oravida’s founder Deyi (Stone) Shi. This last weekend, National Party Prime Minister Bill English and his Environment Minister Nick Smith describe charging foreign Companies which export New Zealand water for profit as “too hard” and “farcical” respectively.

What do you, as a New Zealander, think? Is there any cause-and-effect coincidence between political donations and political facilitation? Do we want a stake in our own land and resources, and any profits derived from them?

Support staff seeking pay increase Paid union meetings were held by NZEI support staff members this week in Tauranga over issues of pay and proper recognition.

NZEI support staff representative Barbara Turley says the main focus for them is a two per cent pay rise.

“Schools are already cutting support staff hours and jobs and this is hurting children’s learning, especially those who need extra assistance.

“NZEI is calling on the Government to end the operations grant funding freeze and inject a funding jolt because not only are schools being underfunded, but support staff are not being recognised and paid appropriately.”

However, Minister of Education Hekia Parata ‘utter refutes’ the claim of a freeze, saying an extra $12.3 million has been provided to schools on top of the $1.35 billion being distributed to schools in operational grants in 2017.

Hekia says last year’s budget included $15.3 million for in-class teacher aide hours, taking the total number of students supported by teacher aides to 2750 during the next two years.

nobody campaigned on the issue before the election, and it’s a change to the governance of the city, I thought the decision should be run past you – the ratepayer.

The sceptic in me thinks if an issue crops up that is unlikely to be supported by the public, we simply won’t survey you about it!

Also, this week council decided to begin a rates review with a focus on our reverse Robin Hood tax whereby 71 per cent of properties

subsidise the rates of the top 10 per cent value properties.

I was absolutely delighted because this is on my political ‘bucket list’.

You’ve had to put up with me banging on about how unfair our rating system is in this column for a few weeks and if you didn’t end up in an irreversible coma, well done!

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Keep out of business!

Re: Tauranga Mayor Greg Brownless reluctantly supports the proposal to build a supermarket at Welcome Bay on a council-owned reserve.

I go along with those who are criticising Tauranga City Council’s involvement in actively promoting and canvassing a Welcome Bay supermarket.

This is a commercial decision for the food chains to determine the financial feasibility or otherwise of such a venture.

Suggested locations at Owens Park , Waipuna Park or Ohauiti Rd are fatuous while the Welcome Bay Community Centre site may be suitable. There’s no problem in council selling off reserve land at full market value provided it is replaced with the same area of land in a nearby location that is fit for purpose.

All that aside, while I have no idea who owns the Welcome Bay

Village Centre, a re-jig moving the tavern into the existing foodmarket and demolishing and rebuilding a supermarket on the tavern site would make a lot of sense and retain the village atmosphere. Be that as it may, councillor Catherine Stewart is quite correct – it is not council’s business to be in business!

Tauranga Mayor Greg Brownless wonders aloud how council got involved in what is a business scenario.

Well it arose as part of the 2016 election campaign floated by Welcome Bay councillors along with the 15th Avenue/Turret Rd widening spiel. So wonder no more Mayor, you should never have been so weak as to support this initiative.

A warning to council, keep out of this business quagmire and let food chains spend money and float the various proposals.

R Paterson, Matapihi.

Give Kiwi taxpayers a break Re: The living wage argument. The system today sees many workers get paid, but it’s not enough to live on.

But you can go along to the local government office for a top up on the taxpayer, and the employer gets subsidised.

It’s a good deal for the employer. The other option is for the employer to pay a living wage, and give the taxpayer, and the country that they live in a break.

Some politicians are trying to run with the hare and the hounds, and not upset the situation as reported in the

media, the rackets on housing buying and selling to make a fast buck, which keeps our young and old in distress.

I hear some say we need to help our community in any way we can?

How about by standing up and demanding action on the housing pirates? Henri Ford was asked: ‘Why do pay your workers more than anyone else?’ He answered: ‘So that they can buy my cars’. This is a paramount problem, which if left to fester will become a disaster R Chamberlain, Otumoetai.

Let’s ensure it happens this time Re: the proposed Katikati Bypass. I reiterate once again that the physical design of the bypass at both ends only needs a turnoff for heavy/bypass traffic and straight through for all others, thereby ensuring the majority of cars will continue to access the shopping area.

Let’s make sure that it is designed this way. As a longstanding resident heavily involved in this community for more than 45 years, I don’t actually know

of any longstanding residents who don’t want a bypass apart from the two original naysayers who got it stopped so many years ago.

For many years now during business hours the Main St parking, including outside Hammer Hardware and the southernmost shops, has been at a premium mostly with local traffic. We have started a process here, let’s ensure that it happens this time.

P Martin, Katikati.

Get the psychics to sense murder!

One has to ask, after watching these ‘Sensing Murder’ programmes on TV lately, why, oh why, will the Police not bring in psychics to help them solve some of these real problem ones?

Okay, I guess they will make the point that they have never helped finally solve one. But when they are doing them 20 to 30 years later, and can still bring up

the information they do, wouldn’t you think they should be having brand new ones?

I guess making this suggestion in a provincial paper is not going to activate Wellington, or the ‘pollies’, but hey: this sort of idea has to start somewhere, so why not Tauranga?

R McGuinness, Tauranga.

Don’t just give water away for free My false teeth nearly fell into my cup of tea the other morning when Prime Minster Bill English told Duncan Garner on The AM Show it is “too hard” to price the country’ water before letting overseas company bottle and sell it.

What planet is he on?

Why would he want to let international companies bottle and sell our precious water for free?

It’s absurd! This could be a huge revenue stream for Bill’s government. Or it could be Bill’s big chance to conserve our beautiful water – as it is becoming scarce worldwide.

Bill is so worried about spending millions bring our water quality up to scratch by 2040 – he’s missed the point. Why improve the quality if we’re giving it away for free? And why improve

the quality if you’re going to give it away, meaning less for Kiwis in future?

He really has lost touch on this issue. So what if it is “hard” to make rules on this – you’re in government, that’s your job. To make rules to conserve and protect resources for all Kiwis – and sometimes that may be a “hard” job to do. But just do it!

C Coffs, Otumoetai.

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Where is the common sense?

Just what has become of common sense in this country?

I ask this after hearing the latest ramblings of the now in power political representatives. This idea that we cannot afford the pension is a total load of rubbish, off course we can.

Bad spending by government department, politician expenditure during and after they leave, tampering with the super fund - that by the way was set up for this reason - and many more bad spending practices are the reason pensioners are been hammered.

The Minister for the Environment on national TV told the public of New Zealand he was not interested in controlling how the water is sold here and overseas.

His comment that it takes 400 litre of water to make 100 litre of milk means to increase water would put the price of milk up. When did milk become more important than water?

This ideological thought of his shows me that his other brainstorm of making 90 per cent of our waterways swimmable in the next 22 years are nothing more than the ramblings of a human that takes nothing seriously and has the audacity to pull the wool over our eyes. Do my fellow Kiwis fell the same way? I would like to think so. If we continuously put the economy on a pedestal and ignore common sense then your children and grandchildren will suffer without doubt.

Those childhood memories of our own growing up and the happiness and freedom of yesteryear is fast becoming a swamp of waste.

How can the Prime Minister tell us that he cannot afford something one minute then entertain the idea of tax cuts. Where are the media? Where are the tough questions? The sensible, truthful reporting they advertise that their so good at. Where is the common sense of it all?

R Stewart, Te Puke.

Referendum on euthanasia According to the NZ First Bay of Plenty newsletter, Winston Peters thinks TVNZ Colmar Brunton opinion polls are ‘a sham, designed to be misleading and favour the National Party”.

Two months ago TVNZ ONE, on its 6pm Sunday night news claimed 63 per cent of New Zealanders favour medically assisted euthanasia according to its latest Colmar Brunton opinion poll.

This is not correct. A huge written response of 78 per cent – or 16,000 – sent to the Health Committee the ‘Petition 2014/18 of Hon Maryan Street on behalf of 8974 others’ opposed legalised euthanasia. Oral submissions were also around 77 per

cent against legalisation.

Yet in my oral submission over the telephone, Health Select Committee chair and Tamaki MP Simon O’Connor three times would not answer my question: ‘Why does the committee’s report to Parliament not be an emphatic rejection of a change to the law because of the above written and oral results?’

Simon Bridges last year also did his own local opinion poll of legalization of euthanasia with two-thirds in favour.

This issue must never come down to a parliamentary conscience vote remember the anti-smacking conscience vote? But if needs be, put to a national referendum. H Rhodes, Tauranga City.

A sincere mea culpa

An open letter to the disappointed and disenchanted. This week I had calls from Donella and Melanie – and one other. They were representative calls. They were looking for my blood. With some justification. I had written a story about a visiting Paraguayan harpist Eduard Klassen who was to play at St Andrews Church in the Mount. However I unwittingly transposed March dates for February dates.

So Klassen had come and gone by the time Donella, Melanie and several others were left standing outside a darkened and empty St Andrews Church waiting for a concert that wasn’t going to happen, or had happened a month before. When I rang and spoke to Donella she was remarkably polite and forgiving which made me feel even worse. I was in desperate need of a guilt trip. Anyhow to those of you still rightfully fuming, take comfort that on Friday night for a couple of hours I am going to sit quietly and reflectively outside St Andrews doing my penance.

Hunter Wells, Tauranga.

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Jack joins school – just like everyone else!

Jack Coombs is a different kid since The Weekend Sun last caught up with him in February 2015.

Back then Jack, who has a genetic hearing trait, along with his family were on a journey to regain sound in his life after receiving two cochlear implants.

Jack was learning to develop his

language to that of a hearing child – a bumpy mission for all involved.

But fast-forward to March 2017 – and Jack bounces up to The Weekend Sun photographer Tracy Hardy at the gate to Maungatapu School.

Today the five-year-old, who has just started school, can both hear and talk proficiently.

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Jack Coombs, 5, starting school at Maungatapu School. Photo: Tracy Hardy.

doing really, really well,” says mother Kirstin JohnsonCoombs, whose older son Reid was born with a severe hearing loss and used hearing aids until he was 11 then received bilateral cochlear implants, while oldest sibling, daughter Mackenzie has no hearing woes.

“Obviously he’s had many assessments along the way but now he’s talking at a four-and-half-year-old level, which is fantastic,” says Kirstin.

“So you can completely understand him – and in saying that, he is quite a chatterbox.”

Kirstin says Jack’s already picking up phrases from other kids at school, which is a good indicator his hearing is on track.

But things weren’t always so bright. Reid’s hearing prompted an audiologist to screen Jack at birth and he was diagnosed with a hearing loss.

In 2013 Jack, aged about 18 months, received one cochlear implant – and responded immediately.

And one year of rehabilitation via The Hearing

House followed, with treatment slowly activating his brain’s electrodes, allowing him to gradually hear.

In 2014 Jack received a second implant at age twoand-a-half. “When he had his first cochlear implant he got to the stage where he would recognise his name.

After his second implant, we’d take the first one off and he wouldn’t recognise his name again.”

Jack received another year of rehabilitation for his new implant.

“Without his cochlear implants, he’s deaf.”

Kirstin says the implants are fantastic – enabling Jack to have life with sound. “The first three or four months with implants took him a while to learn more language but then it just flowed.”

And so Jack’s behaviour has changed too – from a toddler who couldn’t understand and be understood – to a five-year-old keen to join school.

“Now he’s a lot more independent – even in the last few weeks he’s changed quite a bit – he’s taken to school like a duck to water.”

Now everyone at Maungatapu Primary School knows and loves Jack – Kirstin puts down to the school’s support and Jack’s siblings passing through the gates before him.

“He has a really cool personality – and with his journey, he’s come a long way.”

So what now for Jack? The Hearing House still helps Jack with hearing mapping and equipment. But his case has been transferred to Kelston Deaf Education Centre in Auckland for rehabilitation and a resource teacher, who comes into Jack’s school three times a week to help him.

“He’ll be doing normal schoolwork just like everyone else – he’ll be learning how to read and write just like all of the others kids.”

Kirstin says they’ve had so much support – from The Hearing House, Ministry of Education and Kelston Deaf Education Centre – and met so many amazing people.

“We’ve started a support group for parents with children with hearing difficulties,” says Kirstin, who is also a NZ Federation for Deaf Children Executive Committee member.

To get in touch about this group, contact Kirstin on bopdeafchildren@gmail.com or 027-737 2442

Schools win share of $7500

Five Bay of Plenty primary schools have won a share of $7500 thanks to Pak’nSave Tauriko’s latest promotion.

The supermarket’s Receipts for School competition encouraged shoppers to place their receipts in a box at checkouts for the school they supported.

At the end of the three-week competition, the five schools with the most receipts per number of students won their share of the prize money.

Kaimai School won $2500 for first place, Merivale Primary School won $2000 for second place, Pyes Pa School won $1500 for third place, Tauriko School won $1000 for fourth place and Oropi School won $500 for fifth place.

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The Weekend Sun’s ever popular guide to ‘What’s On’ in the Bay. Pg38

Shed, quarry, beach – concerts everywhere Easter. It’s coming up fast. Jazz Fest ‘n’ all.

This column isn’t about that.

No. Next week I’ll have a comprehensive look at the downtown section of the Jazz Festival but for now I wanted to let you know about a last-minute concert just arranged for next Tuesday, March 28. It’s small and will be very exclusive and I reckon it’ll be fantastic.

Currently touring New Zealand is the four-piece Canadian outfit All Day Breakfast Stringband, which features guitar, banjo, mandolin and fiddle.

These guys hail from Montreal and play all over Quebec and Ontario as well as festivals in places the rest of us just dream about going to on holiday. They won awards two years running at the Appalachian Stringband Festival in Clifftop, West Virginia, which is pretty high cotton in the bluegrass world.

Kicking off this weekend they’re playing 22 shows in New Zealand before the end of April, which means barely pausing for breath! Yet the indefatigable Rosie Holmes managed to track them down and has persuaded them to add a 23rd date – a special, one-off shed concert.

A shed show

Some of you might know Rosie. She’s been the main mover behind concerts at the Te Puna Memorial Hall for the last few years. Of course the hall is now no more, making way for a roundabout, or currently just a bunch of roadworks hindering traffic trying to get into Tauranga from the north. We’re told it’s a good thing in the long run though it has been suggested that when the new bypass goes in, the roundabout will again be unnecessary...

Anyway, the hall rebuild is now sometime in the indefinite future but Rosie’s not one to let a small impediment like someone demolishing her venue stop the music: the concert next Tuesday, March 28, will be in the shed at her property on Wairoa Rd. This does make for a rather intimate show, since the shed holds only about 50 people. But it should be a blast!

If you’re uncertain about this kind of old-timey country music, check out the band’s website.

If you’re after tickets, they cost $20, contact Rosie at: redruth@vodafone.co.nz or phone 07 552 6291.

painting workshop at the quarry. Very serious. You can tell from his description of the workshop: “The two days will focus on mark making, under-painting, over-painting and essential gestures and processes which form the basis of painting, and participants will gain a deeper understanding of the way light, colour, surface, textures and gestures in the abstract form are still the essence of good

a plug for B-Side Band, the spunky little four-piece rockabilly outfit which stubbornly refuse to add a bass player to their line-up.

They’re playing out at Waihi Beach Hotel on Saturday night, March 25, starting 9pm – and there’s no cover charge. If you haven’t caught B-Side they comprise of drums, two guitars and sax/ harp, and play a mix of 1950s and 1960s rock ‘n’ roll gems and their own songs, which are an impressively eccentric Kiwiana take on country and rockabilly sounds.

After the usual big summer blow-out, it’s back to regular music happening again at the hotel, both on Saturday nights and Sunday afternoons, with the likes of Sarah Spicer, Brendan McCarthy, Jinan Dodd, All Day Breakfast Stringband playing Brendan Hopping and Coral Pitcher playing on Sundays and bands fitted in March 8. around rugby on Saturdays. Of interest painting”. Damn! You can book via: may be Easter Saturday, which features bopart.co.nz country-rock band The Desotos. They’re also playing in Downtown Tauranga at A beach show the jazz festival.

Finally, just because they got in touch More on that particular shindig with details about their gig this weekend next week.

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And since we’re north of the city, here’s a heads-up about another gig on the currently un-bypassed road to Katikati. On Sunday, April 2, Nigel Gavin and Richard Adams, both of Nairobi Trio fame, will be playing a duo show at the Te Puna Quarry Park.

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A night of song Join the Tauranga Civic Choir for an evening of classic and romantic music this April 1.

Musical director Nigel Williams will be leading the choir through their first performance of 2017 – and he says this will also be his first time directing a musical performance in Tauranga.

“It’s my first concert with the Tauranga Civic Choir, as I’m relatively new to Tauranga,” says Nigel.

“I’ve had a lifetime of music. I’ve had six years in the United Kingdom, and I write music, mainly for the American market; and I compose for Tauranga Civic Choir as well as a long history of taking choirs.”

Nigel has both sung in and conducted the choir on many occasions, and the choir is looking forward to performing many choral masterpieces under his baton.

With a choir numbering 50 singers, patrons to An Evening of Classic and Romantic are in for a treat.

The programme includes Haydn’s master work, the Lord Nelson Mass, also known as the Imperial, and two shorter works – Mozart’s ‘Ave Verum Corpus’, and Brahms’ ‘How Lovely are Thy Dwellings’.

Nigel will be bringing his own unique spin to the performance, and has plenty of experience.

He’s spent most of his working life with choirs in NZ and the UK. His own musical compositions have been sung in NZ as well as in Australia, UK and the USA, where much of his music is published.

So head to Wesley Church on 13th Ave on April 1 at 7.30pm for a night you won’t forget. Tickets are available at the door, Tauranga Civic Choir musical director and Eftpos is available.

For more information, visit: www.taurangacivicchoir.org.nz Nigel Williams. Photo: Tracy Hardy.

Living the dream with music I first met Waylon McPherson a couple of years ago when I had problem with my PA system.

While working at a music shop in Auckland, he met Shelley and their shared love of music has endured. They both run his business from a homebased workshop in Papamoa, where he He remembered using the same brand carries out his repairs and modifications while gigging in Auckland, so I was of musical instruments, PA systems, delighted he was able to easily fix it for speakers, mics, stage lighting and effects me. Then I checked out his music online, pedals. His love for inventing led him and was very impressed. to design and build his own brand Born in a small Taranaki town, Waylon McPherson Stompboxes. picked up a guitar at age nine. And by the Waylon taught music for nine years, time he was 16 he was playing in bands, but has given that up so he can devote including 4Eulogi managed by the late the time to business, the occasional great Ray Columbus.

Waylon McPherson. music gig and spending quality time He’s performed on TV shows like with his family.

New Zealand’s version of ‘Top of the Waylon is happy to be “living the Pops’, ‘The Good Morning Show’, dream” with music. He’s playing on and also had a song nominated in the Friday, March 31, at The Phoenix Juice Awards. from 9.30pm-12am, at the Brew And he’s entertained at many starCraft Beer Pub on Saturday, April 1, studded corporate and community events; being an accomplished performing artist, he from 4pm-7pm, and at Greer’s Gastro Bar on Sunday, easily entertains his audience.

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Masters of escape in Red Square There’s a new way to amuse yourself in Tauranga, and it’s sitting right in the heart of the city.

Escape Masters in Red Square will challenge your thinking as you get locked in a room and must escape.

Escape boss and Escape Masters Tauranga owner-operator Phil Holland says the new attraction brings something new and unrivalled to the city’s entertainment scape.

“We are passionate about the redevelopment of the city and want to be part of the revitalisation. “The venture will bring something new and interesting to the city, with a real point of difference – the experience is suitable for corporate functions, parties, team building or simply a good time with family and friends.”

It works like this: a group of between two to six people book in and turn up at the Spring St location. Participants are ‘locked’

in a room riddled with clues, props, locks and keys and hidden surprises –and they have one hour to find the door and escape.

A big red digital clock on the wall adds extra pressure to players, who are constantly reminded how much time they have left to complete the puzzles.

Everything feels like a clue and escaping the room is a great way to exercise your brain while having fun.

The challenging attraction has brought 10 jobs to Tauranga as well as a new entertaining way to spend an afternoon in the CBD. After being open for less than three weeks,

Escape Masters Tauranga is already the number one fun and games attraction as rated on Trip Advisor.

So what are you waiting for? Book your chance to escape at: www.escapemasters.co.nz

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Free gig to farewell The Hop House As the old saying goes, all good things in this world must come to an end – like a Mount Maunganui venue long considered an institution of the local music scene.

With the approaching demise of the old Cream Can building and current home of The Hop House, one final soirée dubbed ‘The Hop House Funeral - Down With

Corporations’ will take tomorrow.

“What made it so well-loved was the fact the venue encouraged original music; that’s what made it so popular with the local musos,” says local musician and gig co-organiser Dylan Israel.

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‘The Hop House Funeral - Down With Corporations’ gig is at The Hop House in Mount Maunganui tomorrow, March 25, from 7pm till late. Entry is free.

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Dreamy surrealism at Macandmor Gallery A woman’s body that is also a cello, with soft swirling fabric evoking the music flowing from within, or a boy flying a kite indoors with no ceiling above. These are some of the dreamlike unexpected juxtapositions that are so captivating about Natalya Doudell’s canvases.

Another piece with a woman playing a cello brings you back into a more accustomed reality.

On display at the Macandmor Gallery in the Goddard’s Shopping Centre

FAST, G THRILLINN! ACTIO Natalya Doudell

in Tauranga, there are painted and drawn pieces that dare us to merge our logical minds with the illogical.

This is surrealism, but with a softness and glow that seems to express the essence of a painter who has felt the intensity of life with all its range of emotions.

Whether this is a conscious or unconscious expression, the voice that speaks has liberated and woven the artist’s and the viewer’s imagination, allowing both to free themselves from an expected notion and explore the relationship between distant realities. It’s poetic and powerful.

Natalya Doudell grew up in Uzbekistan, arriving in New Zealand about 14 years ago. She’s found her voice in surrealism, after travelling to London and visiting Salvador Dali’s exhibition in 2004.

Her paintings express her life journey geographically as well as the new experiences that have shaped her perspective.

Standing in front of her work, one is first confronted, then absorbed, by the soft subtlety and deeper meaning and feeling that starts to flow between the mind of the painter and the beholder.

The exhibition runs until March 30 at the Macandmor Art Gallery, Goddard’s Rosalie Liddle Crawford Shopping Centre.

Great racing titles up for grabs tomorrow Super saloons, mini stocks, stockcars and more will take to the track this weekend.

The faithful Baypark Family Speedway supporters have always been generous, says promoter Bernie Gillon.

“While staunchly supporting the competitors in the major events at each meeting, those in the stands aren’t economical with their praise when it comes to applauding those in the support races either.”

This Saturday night though, on March 25, Bernie says spectators will have every reason to watch every race with interest, with Bay of Plenty titles up for grabs in five classes across the night.

Bernie is working closely with his Auckland counterpart and has stood down the sprint cars in order to allow them to compete at the John Webster Memorial event at Waikaraka Park, meaning they won’t contest their title until late-April.

However, there will still be plenty of great racing with titles up for grabs in stockcars, saloons, super saloons, six shooters and mini stocks.

Todd Hemingway is back to defend last season’s Bay of Plenty Mini Stock crown, but will likely be pushed hard by cousins Luke and Josh McClymont. The other open-wheel class, six shooters, is likely to be wide open with defending champion, Daniel Thomas, most-likely piloting his sprint car in Auckland.

The super saloon class will be packed with talent, with both Napier and Auckland tracks releasing their drivers to compete, but they will be hard pressed to take the title out of the Bay, especially if Sam Waddell has his way. In his rookie season, Waddell showed a clean pair of heels at the South Pacific title recently, heading off a classy field.

Stockcars will also be keenly fought with current point-leaders Matt Nielsen, Caitlin Hayward and Sarah Harris all expected to take the track. The saloon title is expected to follow the same trend, especially if current 3NZ Steve Cowling maintains his recent good form.

Racing at Baypark Family Speedway starts at 6.30pm on Saturday, March 25.

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An original journey to a classic ending It’s the most famous mystery of the world’s most famous detective, retold for a modern audience at 16th Ave Theatre.

Dylan Frewin as Sherlock Holmes with Doctor Watson, Marcus Blumsom.

‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ is a classic Sherlock Holmes mystery, adapted and reinterpreted many times.

And 16th Ave Theatre’s season of the play, adapted by Steven Canny and John Nicholson, involves three actors playing all of the roles in the story.

Naturally, comedy ensues as the production works with a minimalist set and frantic costume changes, delivering every scene with the odd deliberate stuff-up and a knowing wink.

After all, when the actors break character at the start of the show to read the health and safety message, you know you’re in for an irreverent treat.

Three local actors – Dylan Frewin, Matt Glover and Marcus Blumsom – deliver well-crafted performances, and well-timed jokes. In a play that relies so much on strong characterisation, these gentlemen never fail to communicate the essence of who they are embodying.

The comic moments are as tightly-wound as a watch, with characters popping off Blackadder-esque one-liners with perfect precision. In fact, the entire production itself runs very smoothly – aside from deliberate and very amusing lapses – with backstage crew playing a more obvious role than they otherwise might.

Director Liam Hagan is to be commended for bringing the vision together. Set changes are clever, with lighting, music and even slow-motion employed to excellent theatrical effect.

To conclude: the jokes are modern, the play never drags, and while we might guess – or know – the classic ending, the journey there is a complete original.

The remaining season of ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles runs’ from Friday, March 24, to Saturday, April 1. Tickets and times at: www.iticket.co.nz/ events/2017/mar/hound-of-the-baskervilles Ryan Wood

Discover Downtown Tauranga’s secrets Do you know where you can drink tequila upside down, enjoy flavours of the east with fusion of the pacific, watch a movie with a taste of Italian, find a butcher who will not only cut but cook your dinner for you or where the cocktails are barrel aged for 10 years? Well now you can find out and win.

The Downtown Tauranga ‘Secrets in the City’ video series has just been launched and to encourage the public to find out the city centre’s hidden gems there’s the chance to win a $1000 Downtown Tauranga shopping spree every time you watch one of the videos and answer a question.

Downtown Tauranga spokesperson Sally Cooke says the aim of the initiative is to celebrate what makes the city

centre unique and to share some hidden gems that not everyone knows.

“Being looked after with above and beyond service, or finding that place that provides something unique and memories all adds up to the magic of a place and to making you feel welcome,” says Sally.

“We have so many of these ‘secrets’ in our city centre that we thought it was about time we showcased and shared them… for all to enjoy.”

With 20 videos initially in the series, there are more being filmed regularly. To discover some little known secrets, test your local knowledge and be in to win a fantastic shopping spree make sure you jump online to www.downtowntauranga.co.nz and take a look

GIGGUIDE & ENTERTAINMENT

Greer’s Gastro Bar Sunday 26 – Sparx 5.308.30pm. Popular covers duo. Guitar and vocals.

The Crown and Badger Friday 24 – Ruckus 9pm till late.

Saturday 25 – Redzone 9pm till late.

The Matua Sunday 26 – Back Porch 3-6pm.

Wednesday 29 – “A taste of your music”. Come along with chord sheets and sing with the band. 7.30pm start.

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Saturday 25 March

30th Annual Book Sale Tauranga Rotary

Club April 15, 16 & 17 at Seeka Coolstore, Totara St, Mount. Books, records, CDs, DVDs, jigsaws & sheet music needed. Deliver to: Caltex Welcome Bay, Bayfair, Greerton, Katikati. Z Energy 11th Ave, Hewletts Rd & Bethlehem. Or Ross 544 0817 Bay Network Singles Social Club 55+ who wish to make new friends & enjoy club activities, dining, shows, trips, bbq’s etc. Mary-Anne 027 207 1690 or 576 9988 Baypark Family Speedway Drivers will be fighting to become the BOP champion on each of our registered classes. ASB Baypark Stadium 6.30-10pm. Adults $20, children $10. www.bayparkspeedway.co.nz

BOP Orchid Society Annual Show

April 7 & 8, Te Puke War Memorial Hall 10am - 4pm. Plants, speciality stalls, raffles. $3 entry.

Car Boot Sale Evans Rd Community Church 8-11am.Car Boot Sale, Car wash + Site $5. Real Coffee. ph/txt Arthur 0211 637 691 Caravan & Motorhome Owners Interested in joining like minded people & attend weekend rallies? Neal 576 9031 Come Dancing Tonight Sequence & old time dancing. Great music & supper.

Greerton Hall 7.30-10.30pm. Entry $7.

Run by Tauranga Scottish Soc. Nola 576 5076 Epic Te Puke Easter Egg Trail Prizes for all ages. Free fun for everyone.

Count eggs in Te Puke shop windows from April 1-11. Entry forms available at the Te Puke Library.

Friendship Force International Friendship & Home Hosting exchanges with other clubs worldwide. Barbara 574 5711 or email: regclothier@gmail.com www. thefriendshipforce.org Garage Sale Lions Club of Katikati at containers, rear of Caltex Service Station, Main Rd, Katikati 8am – 12pm. Furniture, white ware, electrical. No parking in Caltex yard please.

Guinea Pig Show Pyes Pa Hall, open to public 10am - 3pm, gold coin entry. Register your guinea pig for $5 before 12pm & enter fun classes. Fancy dress theme ‘Easter”. taurangacavyclub@gmail.com Inversion Back Pain Expo March 25 & 26 at Elizabeth St Community Centre, 169 Elizabeth St 10am – 4pm.

Katikati Tramping Club Tui Mine Franklin Rd, moderate. Easy option, Te Aroha - Tui Mine low level walks.

Peter 07 863 8781 Kids Gone Fishing Day April 1 9.30am - 1pm prizegiving at 1.15pm Tauranga Bridge Marina (Mount side). Bait provided, spot prizes.

Pre-register at www.tayt.org.nz - registrations at 9am. By Blue Light.

Messianic Meetings Every Sat at Hillier Centre, 31 Gloucester Rd, Mt Maunganui 10am. Seek to unite together in our walk to put truth into action on a daily basis.

544 7424 or 0210 226 3515

Narcotics Anonymous Open Meetings

Sat 7.30-8.30pm & every Sun 7-8pm, Hanmer Clinic, 1235 Cameron Rd, Greerton. Mon 7-8pm & Fri 7.308.30pm, Hillier Centre. 31 Gloucester Rd, Mt Maunganui. Women’s Meeting every Tues 10.30-11.30am Downstairs Hall, Salvation Army Recovery Church, 375

Cameron Rd. 0800 NA TODAY Original Greerton Hall Market 8am – 12pm. Crafts, plants, produce, bric-a-brac, tea, coffee, food available. New stallholders welcome. Tricia/Gary 543 1487 or 027 908 2952 greertonmar-ket@actrix.co.nz www.facebook.com/greertonhallmarket Petanque @ Club Mt Maunganui Sat & Sun - coaching & competitive play 1pm.

Equip available, all levels welcome. Jo Ann 578 3606 Sabbath Service Every Sat 10.30am Bible discussion adults & children.

11.45am share blessings/singing/sermon Arataki Community Centre, Zambuk Way, Mt Maunganui. 576 0435 or 021 0778 214 Tauranga Races Bayleys International Raceday, Group 2 Windsor Park Stud Japan NZ International Trophy & Shiseido Fashions in the Field. Tauranga Racecourse, Greerton 12-6.15pm. Adult General Admission (18+) $10, children under 18 years free.

The Seekers Story With Athol Guy & Friends. Music at Baycourt Addison Theatre 2.30pm. www.baycourt.co.nz

Trustpower Photographic Exhibition

Until April 9 at The Strand, Downtown Tauranga. Large scale exhibition showcasing our people & places. Free entry.

Village Radio Community radio broadcasting from Tauranga Historic Village 1368 kHz AM. Music of 1940’s - 90’s weekends 9am - 5pm, weekdays 10am 5pm. www.villageradio.co.nz or 571 3710 Waipuna Hospice Concert Songbirds – Sisters Take Flight, at Holy Trinity Church 7.30pm. Songs from Simon & Garfunkel, Michael Jackson, Shirley Bassey, Barbara Streisand & new material. Tickets: Adults $40, students $20. Tickets from Waipuna Hospice, Hospice Shops & www.waipunahospice.co.nz

Sunday 26 March

A Course in Miracles Spirited discussion on the Miracle principles at Backbenches Room, Grindz Cafe, 50 1st Ave. Free, non demoninational. 12.30pm: coffee & chat. 1pm: discussion - “How to bring loving solutions to unloving situations.”

Bay Bible Fellowship/Lord’s Day

Worship service at Welcome Bay Primary School Hall, 309 Welcome Bay Rd. Exposition of 1 & 2 Peter - God’s foods that grow us.” Tom Griffiths. www.bbf.net.nz Bee Interest Group Monthly meeting, TECT Park, in conjunction with Park open day 2pm. Bring bee suit, plate for afternoon tea & gold coin donation for the group. Gordon 027 544 2882 Bible Seminars Greerton Senior Citizen’s Hall, Maitland St 1.45pm. Title: “The Way to Life Series - #6 the Return of Jesus.” Interactive, Q&A. Vic 543 0504 BOP Powerchair Football Club Powerchair football is for persons with disabilities of all ages who are power chair users.

Next session today, Tga Boys College, Gym 1 1-3pm. Murray 027 343 3314 Croquet Every Sun, Tues, Fri at Tauranga Domain, Cameron Rd 12.45pm. Beginners welcome. Peter 571 0633

Czech & Slovak Club Tauranga Czech School &

Playgroup at Tauranga Boys’ College, Devonport Rd 10am 12noon. Guests welcome. https://www.csclubtauranga.nz/en/

Home Computer Club (Tga) Inc Computer enthusiasts meet to share knowledge & experience, at Arts & Crafts Centre, Elizabeth St West, last Sun of month 9.30am – 12.30pm approx. $3 door charge. 544 2067 Papamoa Lions Club Market

Gordon Spratt Reserve, Parton Rd, Papamoa. Gates open 7am for stall holder entry. Ph Wayne 027 974 5699 Quakers in Tauranga 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 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. Adult beginners welcome. Graham 572 5419 Rifle Range Public Open Day Open to public on last Sun of the month. Range at end of Ngawaro Rd, at the TECT All Terrain Park 9am - 3pm. Bring own ammo, shooting rests, ear muffs etc. Must bring fire-arms license $15pp (cash only). www.deerstalkersbop.org.nz Steinway Open Day At Addison Theatre, Baycourt 10am. Free entry. www.baycourt.co.nz

Tauranga Friendship & Social Club

Walks, dinners & outings for over 50’s.

Barbara 544 7461

Tauranga Underwater Hockey Club

Every Sunday of school term as well as last Sunday of school holidays at Baywave. Beginners 5-6.15pm.

Experienced 6-7.45pm. Ken 533 2005 or 0210 274 4626

Monday 27 March

40th Anniversary of CAB in Tauranga

Calling all members/volunteers of Citizen’s Advice Bureau Tauranga. Celebrating 40 years of CAB in Tauranga. Email Kim, manager.tauranga@cab.org.nz Achieve Toastmasters Keep speaking, keep helping, keep succeeding. 1st, 3rd & 5th Mon of month at St Stephen’s Church Hall, Brookfield, Tauranga 7.30-9.30pm.

Craig 027 587 5115 Badminton Club Every Mon, Aquinas College, Pyes Pa 7.30-9.30pm. Adults & year 12 & above. Racquets available. Sue 0211 944 335 www.taurangabadmintonclub.co.nz Beginner Salsa Lessons Presented by Bay Salsa at Studio 162, 162 Durham St 6.30pm. Walk in classes. www.baysalsa. co.nz Body & Soul Fun Fitness 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. Classes 9.15-10.15am. Dianne 576 5031 or 027 431 4326 Bowel Cancer Support Group Support Group open to anyone living with bowel/ rectal cancer, &/or their carer. Meet 4th Mon of month at Cancer Society’s Tauranga office, 111 Cameron Rd 10-11.30am. Angelique 07 927 6505 Bowls Every Mon at Bethlehem Hall, Main Highway 7.15pm. First 3 nights free. Wendy 578 2585

Chess Mount Maunganui RSA Club

Every Mon 544 Maunganui Rd. Early

programme 6-7.30pm during school term. Late programme 7.30pm onwards.

Standard chess rules. Incl casual games.

Noel 579 5412 Civic Choir Tauranga Practice every Mon at Wesley Church, 13th Ave, Tauranga 7.30pm. www.taurangacivicchoir.org.nz Heather 575 9092 Come Dancing Monday Nights St Pats Hall, Beatty Ave, Te Puke 7-8.30pm. $3pp. Robert 573 8639 Dancing Every Mon & Weds at Senior Citizen’s Hall, Norris St 7pm.

Modern, waltzes, tango, quicksteps & more. $3pp. 543 9125 Fitness League Low impact exercise set to music using the Bagot Stack technique, for women of all ages & abilities. First class free. Mon at Settlers Hall Omokoroa 9.30am & Tues St Johns Anglican Church Waihi 9.30am. Dorothy 549 3378

Free Meditation Classes in Bellevue

Every Mon 10am & Weds 7.30pm.

Find peace & the joy of life. Stop those thoughts. Enjoy good health & better quality of sleep. David/Trisha 570 1204 Greerton Every Girls Rally Meet Mon fortnightly during school terms at Greerton Bible Church, cnr Oropi & Chadwick Rds, Tauranga 4-6pm. Open to girls ages 7yrs upwards. Mary 571 0061 Line Dancing Every Mon at Wesley Church Hall, 13th Ave 6-8pm. Every Weds at Arataki Community Hall, Zambuk Way, Bay-fair 12-2pm. Every Thurs at Matua Hall, Levers Rd 1-3pm.

Pat 544 2574 Mah Jong Every Mon at Tauranga South Bowling Club, 11th Ave 12.45-4pm. Visitors & beginners welcome. Free teaching available. Shirley 576 0014 Mount Chess Club Every Mon at Hillier Centre, 31 Gloucester Rd, Mt Maunganui 1-4pm. Standard length chess. $3 a session. Sets, boards, clocks & refreshments provided. Bob/Vic 575 5845 or 0274 786 282 Mt Maunganui Bridge Club Every Mon 12.45-4.15pm, with junior & novice sessions 7-9.15pm. Weds 7-10.15pm. Thurs 10.45am - 2.15pm (bring your lunch). Fri 12.45-4.15pm. 60 Golf Rd. $3 members $5 visitors. Anne 572 5522 Nam Wah Pai Kung Fu Chinese martial art training, Selwyn Ridge School, Welcome Bay 6-7.30pm. Brian 021 241 7059

Omokoroa Beach Indoor Bowling Club

Meet at Settlers Hall, Omokoroa Rd Mon 1.30pm & Tues 7.30pm. Cost $3. Anne 548 1636 Otumoetai Indoor Bowls Aggregate, Matua Primary School Hall, Clivedene St 7.15pm. New members welcome. Karen 576 0443 Piloga Classes Fusion of Pilates & yoga movements. Every Mon & Fri at Arataki Community Centre 10.15-11.30am. $15 per class.

Plant Based Cooking Seminar Arataki Community Centre, Zambuk Way, Mt Maunganui 6.30-8.30pm. Talk, teach, taste presented by Arna Buckley & others. Entry $10. Book now 576 0435 or 021 0778 214 Plunket Car Seat Clinic Mon & Thurs at 471 Devonport Rd, Tauranga 10am - 2pm. Car seats checked & fitted by qualified Child Restraint Technicians.

Donation appreciated. 578 7813 Recycled Teenagers Gentle exercise for 50’s forwards. Mon & Weds, 14 Norris

St, Tauranga Senior Citizens Club. Tues at St Mary’s Church Hall, Girven Rd. All 9 - 10.30am. First class free. Jennifer 571 1411 Ryukyu Kempo Karate Every Mon & Weds at Levers Rd Hall, Matua 6.30-8pm. Age 10 & up, families welcome. Marty 027 405 1468 Silver Singers Choir Tenor & base voices needed desperately for their 30 voice choir. Practices every Mon in St Stephen’s Chapel, Brookfield Tce, Otumoetai 1pm.

Pat 579 1036 Tauranga Creative Fibre Every Mon at Arts Centre, Elizabeth St from 9.30am.

Spinning, weaving, felting, knitting, crochet & more. Thurs evening twice a month. Margaret 571 3483 or 021 0817 0350 or marg.rus@gmail.com Tauranga Rock n Roll Club Inc Every Mon at Tauranga RSA, Cameron Rd, Greerton 8pm. Relaxed, social evening of dancing. Members $3, non-members $5.

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Trina 575 7461 a/hs 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 incl afternoon tea.

Tauranga Scottish Country Dance Club

Beginners class at St John’s Church Hall, 94 Bureta Rd 6.30-8.30pm. Sarah 579 0123 Te Puke Floral Art Group Meet 4th Mon at Methodist Church Hall, Oroua St 11am. Val 573 7804 Welcome Bay Painters Group Meet every Mon at Lighthouse Church Hall, Welcome Bay Rd 9.30am – 12.30pm.

Dennis 544 6451 Women’s Art Group Every Mon at Lyceum Club Rooms, 68 1st Ave 9am - 12pm. Margaret 543 3244

Tuesday 28 March

ABC - Avenues Badminton Club Every Tues at Tauranga Boys’ College Gym. Juniors 6-7.30pm (term time), seniors (adults) 7.30-9.30pm. Adults $7, student $5. Delwyn 027 212 4720 Aglow Mt Maunganui Salvation Army Hall, 57 Eversham Rd, Mt Maunganui 9.30am. “How God sees us. Teaching’s from Graeme Cook’s material.” Barbara 576 5870 Alcoholics Anonymous Meet every Tues at St Peter’s Church Hall, 11 Victoria Rd, Mount 7.30-8.30pm. 0800 229 6757 Altrusa Women’s Community Service

Meet 2nd Tues evening for dinner/business. 4th Tues for social evening monthly.

Email: presi-dent.tauranga@altrusa.org.nz Argentine Tango Guys, we need you to rotate, as partners, with the girls. No experience necessary as you’ll be given some FREE lessons. Denise 02040061340 Bureta Garden Circle Monthly meeting, St John’s Church Hall, 94 Bureta Rd, Otumoetai 1.30pm. Visitors welcome.

Jenny 576 3026 Cards 500 Every Tues & Thurs at Mount Senior Citizen’s, 345 Maunganui Rd 12.45pm. Garry 576 3033 Excel Toastmasters Every 2nd, 4th & 5th Tues of month at Arataki Community Centre, Zambuk Way, Bayfair 6.158.30pm. Learn public speaking & leadership skills. yolanda.cambridge@gmail.com or 544 3730

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Falun Dafa Classes Easy to learn & free. Simultaneous improvement of mind & body. Every Tues at Hillier Centre, 31 Gloucester Rd, Mt Maunganui 7pm. Judy 021 0425 398 or judy. shakespear45@gmail.com Fitness League Ladies exercise with dance, weights, floor work every Tues at St Columba Church, 502 Otumoetai Rd, Cherrywood 9.30-10.30am. Gloria 021 139 2448 Friends of the Library Mount Library Book Group meet 10am. Theme: TBA. Gail 574 3376 Friends of Cambodia Charitable Trust

Need volunteers. Meet at Board Room, Raft Cafe 12.30pm. Informal & relaxed.

Greerton Every Boys Rally Meet fortnightly on Tues during school terms at Greerton Bible Church, cnr Oropi & Chadwick Rds, Greerton 6-7.30pm.

Open to all boys aged 7 years upwards.

577 6467 Inachord Chorus Ladies singing group.

Great music, great company. Bethlehem Community Church Building, 183 Moffat Rd, Bethlehem 7.15-9.15pm.

Debbie 0211 291 126 Israeli Dancing Every Tues, Gate Pa Primary School, Cameron Rd 7-8pm.

All ages welcome, no partner required.

Maria 544 1680/022 165 2114 Junction Mental Health Peer support & advocacy: coffee & chat at St James’ Hall 10am – 12pm. 543 3010 Katikati Maestro’s More men needed to join their choir. Rehearse every Tues at St Peter’s Church 7pm. Jeanette 549 3668 or 027 243 5799 Mount Morning Badminton Every Tues at Mount Sports Centre, Blake Park 9-11.30am. Social, competitive, all ages.

Daily fee $5pp. Margaret 575 9792

Mt Maunganui Dog Training Club

AGM April 4 at Club gear shed 7pm. All welcome.

Ocean Running 5k run & walk around Mauao base track every Tues.

Register from 5.15pm at Mt Ocean Sports Club, Pilot Bay. $5 entry, free drink & chance to win spot prize.

Walkers start 5.45pm, runners 6pm.

Phil 021 383 354

Otumoetai Matua Walking Group

Every Tues at Kulim Park 9am.

576 7339 Overeaters Anonymous Do you or a family member or friend have a problem with over or under eating? Overeaters Anonymous can help - meet Tues & Fri. 544 1213 or 022 064 2186 Papamoa Sports Indoor Bowls Don Spratt Reserve, Parton Rd. Coaching available. Names in by 7.15pm for 7.30 start. Michael 542 0609 or 0274 888 5968 Petanque Bayfair Petanque Club, every Tues & Thurs at Russley Drive 1pm.

Equipment & coaching available. Try a new sport. Margie 542 0084 or 021 0293 7459 Petanque - Tga/BOP Club Club Mt Maunganui 4.30pm start (until daylight savings ends). Equip available, all coaching given. Jo Ann 578 3606 Pilates Classes Every Tues at Arataki Community Centre 11.15-12.15pm.

Every Thurs at Omokoroa Settler’s Hall 11am - 12pm. $12 per class. Claudia 0211 927 706 Sequence Dancing Tauranga Social & Leisure Club meet at St John’s Anglican Church Hall, Bureta Rd, Otumoetai every Tues 7.30-9.30pm except 2nd Tues of month 3.30-6pm. Murray 576 3294 South City Indoor Bowls 9- Bowl Triples (Gee Cup) at Greerton Hall 7.30pm. Mary 541 0687 Taoist Tai Chi New beginners classes at 15 Koromiko St, Judea 1pm & 5.30pm.

Wade 021 606 133

Tauranga Morning Badminton Club

Tues & Thurs at QE Youth Centre, cnr 11th Ave/Devonport Rd 9-11.30am.

AGM today. Heather 574 0976

Tauranga Patchwork & Quilters Grp

Meet first & third Tues 7pm & second & fourth Fri 10am. At Tauranga Art & Craft Centre, 177 Elizabeth St, Tauranga. Helen 0274 177 581 Tauranga Scrabble Club Tues at Tauranga Bridge Club, Ngatai Rd 8.50am. $3 games $2.50. New players welcome. 544 8372

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Tauranga Stroke Support Drop-In

Peer support group for stroke survivors & their carers. Every Tues at Greerton Senior Citizen’s Hall, Maitland St 9.30am - 12pm. $4pp 571 3050 Tauranga Toastmasters Every Tues at Tauranga Lyceum Club 7.15-9.30pm.

Learn public speaking & leadership skills. Guests welcome. Alan 544 5989 Widow & Widowers Club People living alone invited to Arts & Crafts Centre, Elizabeth St 2pm. Margaret 576 5292 Yoga Tues, Yoga Matua Hall 6.50-8pm.

Weds & Fri Yoga Fergusson Park 9.3010.40am. Tues & Thurs Yin Yoga, 121 Carlton St 10-11.30am. For timetable www.stellayoga.co.nz or Stella 021 024 96390

Wednesday 29 March

Age Concern Walking Group Vanilla

Café, off Maungatapu Rd 10am.

578 2631 Alcoholics Anonymous Reflections at Te Puke every Weds at Te Puke Baptist Church, Station Rd 7.30-8.30pm.

0800 229 6757 Bowls Indoor Every Weds & Fri at Mount Senior Citizen’s, 345 Maunganui Rd 12.45pm. Nancy/Ernie 575 4650 Disc Golf Weds evening (social) doubles. Beginners 9 hole course. Exp disc golfers on hand. Disc hire is incl. To register Facebook.com/Tauranga Disc Golf (2 per team) plus team name by 12noon. Wear good footwear. $10 per team. Dazz 021 0314 117 Cards Do you play crib or would like to learn? Every Weds at Greerton RSA 1pm.

Rona 578 7939 Club Mount Indoor Bowls Every Weds at 45 Kawaka St. Names in by 6.45 for 7pm start. Val 027 302 8149 or 543 4168

Community Bible Study International

Every Weds at City Church, 252 Otumoetai Rd 7-9pm. Bible study on “The Book of Genesis.” Julie 552 4068 Diabetes Help Tauranga Diabetes Help Tauranga and Tauranga Heart Foundation support group at Bow Owens Retirement Village 10am. Speakers: Jaine Kirtley, naturopath; Mark Webster, Webster Teas. 571 3422 or debbie@ diabeteshelp.org.nz Fernlands Water Exercise Class Every Weds 10.45-11.45am. Suitable for accident or illness rehabilitation. Helpful in weightloss or arthritis. Classes held rain or shine. Jennifer 571 1411 Gate Pa Indoor Bowls Ladies Singles & Garden Forest Marine Mens Singles (Ballinger Trophy) at Greerton Hall 7.30pm. Markers required. Kevin 543 4044 Healing Rooms Experience God’s healing touch. No charge, all ages welcome.

Upstairs at Graced Op Shop, cnr 11th Ave & Christopher St 1-3pm. 021 110 0878 www.healingrooms.co.nz Jazz Jam First Weds of month at Mount Social Club, 305 Maunganui Rd 6.30pm. Led by the TJS house band, plus a variety of guest musicians. Free entry.

Kiwi Toasters Every 1st, 3rd & 5th Weds of the month at 3 Palm Springs Boulevard (same building as Palm Springs Pharmacy) 5.30-7pm.

Chrissy 027 296 7939

Mount Healing & Spiritual Centre

1st & 3rd Weds, Omanu Bowling Club, Golf Rd, Mount 7pm. Meet the Mediums: Pamela Kelly, Elaine Sollitt, Karen Kopa. Door charge $5. Janet 027 264 0226 Narcotics Anonymous Working the Steps. Closed meeting every Weds 7.30-9pm, Downstairs Hall (accessed from bottom carpark), Salvation Army Recovery Church, 375 Cameron Rd. Ph 0800 NA TODAY Otumoetai Care & Craft Every Weds at St Columba Church Hall, Cherrywood, Otumoetai 9am - 12.30pm during school term. . Crafts, fun, games, entertainment. Lunch provided. Dawn 576 7783 SAYgo - Falls Prevention Class Gentle exercise for the elderly, held 3 Weds each month. Hall not available 1st Weds of month. At St John’s Church Hall, 94 Bureta Rd, Otumoetai 2-3pm. Allison 576 4536

Scottish Country Dancing Every Weds

at Senior Citizen’s Hall, Maunganui Rd 7pm. Lynne 573 5055 Singles Coffee Club 60+Every Weds 10am for coffee & once a month for lunch for a social get together. Gayle 0274 393 267 or mixandmingle@xtra. co.nz Tai Chi Community class every Weds at Bethlehem Hall, 239 SH2 1-2pm.

Supreme ultimate health exercise programme, suitable everyone.

Trish Miller 021 482 842 communitytaichinz@gmail.com Tauranga Embroiderers’ Guild Every Weds at Tauranga Rowing Club, Devonport Rd, Tauranga 10am - 2.30pm & 7.30-9.30pm. Beginners welcome.

Jenny 07 219 7740

Tauranga Library Learning Centre

Microsoft Office Course. Topic: Getting Started in Excel. 1.30-2.30pm. Cost: $8.

Exploring the Digital World Seminar.

Topic: Shopping Online. Free. 5.306.30pm. 577 7177

Tauranga Mid-Week Tramping Group

Lindemann Loop. Harder option. Grade mod, approx. 5.5hrs. Rosemary 576 1878 Te Puke Toy Library Weds - Sat 9.30am - 12pm. Thurs 3.30-5.30pm.

242.1 Jellicoe St, Te Puke.

027 263 9309

Toastmasters - City Early Start

Improve communication, teamwork & leadership skills. Classic Flyers Avgas Cafe every Weds 6.45-8.15am.

LaniDTM@gmail.com txt 0210 445 654 www.cityearlystart.co.nz

Thursday 30 March

A Place to Bee Craft, conversation, coffee, knitting. Every Thurs at Lighthouse Church, next to Welcome Bay shops on the hill 11am 1pm. Mel 027 576 3105

Adult Adoptee’s Support Tauranga

Meet every 2nd Thurs at Oyster Catcher Room, Arataki Community Centre, Zambuk way, Bayfair. Scott 027 565 6459 Amazing Weekly Bag Sale Every Thurs at Historic Village 9-10am.

Fill a large bag for $5 with women’s, men’s & kids clothing & linen. Bags supplied.

Bay City Rockers Social Rock n Roll dancing as well as Neon Moon, Rock n Roll Waltz. Every Thurs at Senior Citizen’s Hall, Norris St 7.30-9.30pm. $3 entry. Gavin 027 643 6222

Cambodia Charitable Trust Fundraiser Your Home, Your Style. Matua

Bowling Club April 6 7pm. Tickets $25 from Lyon O’Neal Arnold or Devon 022 155 3994 Citizen’s Advice Bureau Trialling a fortnightly service on Thursdays. A specialist in family/whanau dispute resolution can help with decisions about proceeding forward with confidence. Ph 578 1592 Club Mt Maunganui Social games club. Play indoor bowls & cards every Thurs 12.45-3.30pm. Prizes to be won & visits to other clubs. Monthly subsidised dinners. Gloria 575 0059

Community Bible Study International Every Thurs at 14th Ave Gospel

Centre 10am - 12pm for a Bible study on “The Book of Matthew.” Jack/ Betty 544 3809 Concert Band Katikati Musicians wanted, especially wood-wind to join community based wind & brass band.

Rehearse Katikati town hall in the arts room 7-9pm. Wendy 022 387 2947 EMPLOYNZ Free Course Tauranga Library 10-11am, Papamoa 12-1pm & Greerton 2-3pm. Sally 027 652 1429 Fitness League Safe, effective, low impact exercise to music using the Bagot Stack technique. Helps posture, balance & stamina. Free 1st class. Thurs: Central Baptist Church Hall, cnr 13th Ave/Cameron Rd 9.30am. Weds: Katikati Memorial Hall 10am. Pam 549 4799 or 021 117 7170 Free Guitar Lessons Every Thurs at Historic Village 10-11.30am. Limited to 3 people per day. Register with Terry Heath from Turning Point 578 6934

Free Meditation Classes Every Thurs at

Meredith Hall, Fraser St, Merivale (near Yatton Park) 7.30pm. Enjoy good health & better quality of sleep. Ian 576 2032 Happiness & Our Mind Drop-in meditation. Every Thurs at Greerton Library, 139 Greerton Rd 7-8.30pm. Cost $15 per class. www.meditateintauranga.org Keynotes 4 Part Harmony Women’s chorus meet every Thurs at Wesley Church Hall, 13th Ave 7pm. Sing for fun & health.

Nora 544 2614 Maungatapu School Twilight Gala From 4-7pm. Fields of fun & plenty of stalls, including wipe-out, bumper balls, pony rides, bouncy castles, white elephant, plants & more. Cash only event.

More Than Crafts Every Thurs at Greerton Bible Church (cnr Chadwick & Oropi Rds) 9.3011.30am. All types of crafts. $3 entry. Ruth 543 4879 Mount/Papamoa Coffee & Chat From 1-2pm. Transport available if required.

Junction Mental Health Peer Support & Advocacy 543 3010

Orange City Square & Round Dance Club

Tuesday morning postponed until April.

Weds A & Plus, Thurs Club night & New Learner Class 7.30pm. Frontiersmen’s Hall.

543 1063 Otumoetai Hockey Club Men’s & Women’s teams available for senior hockey. Season commences early April. Caroline 576 5178 or 027 283 2153 cjbigham@hotmail.com Otumoetai Indoor Bowls Open Singles at Mount Sports Centre 7.30pm. New members welcome. Karen 576 0443 Papamoa 500 Club Every Thurs at Gordon Spratt Reserve 12.45pm.

Dave 575 5887 Salsa on the Strand Presented by Bay Salsa at La Mexica 8pm. Intro class, followed by social dancing.

No partner required. www.baysalsa. co.nz Sunshine Dance Group Learn sequence dancing every Thurs at Baptist Church Hall, cnr 13th Ave/Cameron Rd 7-8.30pm followed by dancing until 10pm. $2pp incl supper. Jan 544 4379 Tauranga Heart Support Group Low impact group exercise class for those with or at risk of heart & associated diseases. Mon & Thurs at City Church, Otumoetai Rd 9.30-10.30am. $4pp. Diana 021 0476 155

Tennis Seniors WBOP Players 35 years +. Tauranga Lawn Tennis Club, Wharepai Domain 9am - 12pm. $4 ball fee. Lynda tswbop@gmail.com 0210 576 601 Women’s Singing Group Every Thurs at 68 1st Ave, Tauranga 11am. Beginners welcome. Interested? Marie 576 1300

Friday 31 March

Brick Kids Te Puke - Lego Club Term time school aged children. Every Fri at Te Puke Library 3.30-4.30pm. Free entry.

Chess Tauranga Tauranga RSA, Greerton 5-7pm, for the whole family. Longer if necessary for longer games. Standard chess rules. Werner 548 1111 http:/www.westernbopchess.weebly.com/ Counselling Need to talk? First session free at Arataki Community Centre. To book your appointment ph Karen 021 579 249 Friday Fun Night Disco Fever Prizes, inflatables & more. This months theme: Disco Fever. Greerton Aquatic & Leisure Centre 5.30-7pm.

Genealogy Research Members of Papamoa Genealogy Branch available at Papamoa Library 10am – 12pm to assist researchers with their family history.

Daphne 575 4674 Greerton Indoor Bowling Club Championship Singles. Tauranga City Silver Band Hall, Yatton St. Names in by 7.15pm. Sally 571 8914 Tauranga Lyceum Club Catered lunch first Fri of month & dinner third Weds with varied & interesting speakers. Incl painting, mah jong, music, bridge & Rummikub. 68 First Ave. Margaret 543 3244 Te Puke Senior Citizen’s Club 500 cards every Fri 1-3pm. Brian 573 8465. Bolivia every Weds 1-4pm. Marie 573 9219. At Te Puke Lyceum Rooms. Refreshments provided.

The Lions, the Witch & the Wardrobe

Presented by Waihi Drama, with a steampunk twist. Thurs - Sun from March 31 - April. 9. Sunday matinee 2pm & evening show 7pm. Adults $15, school kids $10. waihidrama.co.nz The Sociables 30’s/40’s age group of males & females that meet weekly to socialise by dining out or participating in local activities & events. 022 0120 376

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The privileges of Christian life One of the greatest privileges of the Christian life is looking forward to receiving our eternal inheritance – being with God in heaven for eternity.

The Bible often speaks of this as being our secure and certain hope, or a living hope.

The knowledge that, in the end, we will be safe and secure with God and His Son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit in heaven is what keeps us going and motivates the Christian to live obedient and faithful to God every day. But the going can be tough while we make our way through this life. We all need encouragement along the way.

In a couple of weeks it will be time

for the annual Resolute conference in Tauranga. This conference is designed for Christians from every walk of life and any denomination – and also for anyone who is seeking after God. This year our Resolute theme is ‘The Supremacy and Sufficiency of Christ’. Jesus is indeed the answer to all of our questions about life. He alone is sufficient to meet our longing and yearning to get to know God. Why not plan to come along on April 7-9 and learn about the radiance of God’s Glory, the Supreme Lord, Jesus, the Faithful Son, and the joy of anticipation in meeting your Lord and Saviour one day? For more information see our Advert opposite or register at: www.resolute.org.nz Richard Roodt, Bay Bible Fellowship

Lord’s prayer: forgive and be forgiven A woman came forward for healing at the end of church service. She was in a wheelchair.

She was struggling with believing that God had forgiven her. Remembering the teaching of Jesus in the Lord’s Prayer which says: “Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us”, I asked her: “Have you forgiven your husband?”

“Forgive him?” she exclaimed. “He caused my paraplegia with his driving.

He caused the accident that left me in this wheelchair and he will push me in this chair until I die!”

I found her situation sad and tragic.

Not only was she burdened with paraplegia but far worse was the bitterness eating away at her life. The gradual erosion and total destruction of many marriages has come through a lack of forgiveness.

Martin Luther King Junior said: “We must develop and maintain the

capacity to forgive. They who are devoid of the power to forgive are devoid of the power to love.

There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies”.

Again, he said: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that”.

Forgiveness is the one thing that will release us from the past and help us move into the future with hope. Forgiveness gives us and the person who wrongs us the chance of a new beginning. Jesus knew this. That is why, when asked how many times we should forgive, he said: “Seventy times seven”.

Have you reached that number yet?

Reverend Jim Wallace, St Enoch’s Presbyterian Church

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Ph/txt Peter 027 201 2886 or 575 9903

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

PEA STRAW FOR SALE Conventional bales of pea straw. Very good quality. Approx 12 kilos per bale. For delivery contact The Peastrawboys, Ph Graham 027 838 7741 www.thepeastrawboys.com

APPLIANCE REPAIRS Qualified professional service to most brands of whiteware. Servicing Mt Maunganui, Papamoa and Te Puke. Pensioner discounts available. Ph 542 0540 or 021 426 978

RIDE ON MOWING lifestyle blocks, businesses, schools, churches, commercial and residential. Police vetted and insured operators. Ph Crewcut 0800 800 286

BOAT BUILDING repairs and maintenance. Timber & fibreglass trade qualified, boat builder. Ph Shaun 021 992 491 or 07 552 0277

health & beauty NATURAL NEW ZEALAND Health Products & Clinic.

Something for everyone. NZ Registered Natural Therapies & Natural Medicine Practitioners.

Opposite BP Te Puke. Ph 573 5533 www.naturaltherapiesnz. com and www.kiwikitz.com

housesitter available MATURE LADY HOME SITTER available, long term. No dogs.

Tauranga - Mount.

Ph 021 294 7104

livestock

TAURANGA TANDEM SKYDIVING best buzz in the Bay! Gift vouchers available. Ph 574 8533 today

AC PETFOODS collect injured & unwanted cows & horses.

Ph 800 369 6269

DRY PINE FIREWOOD $99 per trailer load delivered (2m3) ph 021 0834 1852 www. taurangafirewood.co.nz

FOUND YOUNG ADULT ginger female cat, Tauranga Central Area, Ref : 90546 Ph SPCA 07 578 0245

firewood for sale

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BOAT - ALUMINIUM DINGHY 7ft 6in x 4ft 2in. Handy trundler and oars. $750 ono. Ph 544 1160 ABLE GARDENER, experienced, efficient, knowledgeable, highly qualified.

Maintenance, pruning, hedges, shrubs, roses; disease/pest control, lifestyle blocks, garden renovations; design & plant.

Ph Tita 027 654 8781 or a/h 542 0120

THIS WEEKS GARAGE SALES!

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BRYCE DECORATING Interior & exterior painting, wallpapering.

Quality work. Ph Wayne 579 5588 or 021 162 7052 DECORATOR, Interior/exterior.

Quality workmanship. Best rates.

Get a free quote. AVAILABLE NOW. Ph or txt 028 409 7004 ELECTRICIAN, 18+ years experience, NZ registered.

Residential & commercial, maintenance & service, new builds, renovations. Fast, friendly service. Ph Andrew 022 354 1960 HANDYMAN BUILDING and section maintenance, decks, fencing, pergolas, painting, water blasting, odd jobs. Free quotes Ph Rossco 027 270 3313 or 544 5911 INSECT SCREENS Measure.

Make. Mend. Ph Rob at Magic Seal 543 4940

trades & services MAINTENANCE - TOTAL PROPERTY maintenance.

Building work. 30 years + experience, qualified in all aspects of building. Available now. Ph 0204 0864 211 PAINTER OLDER BLOKE seeks work. Smaller jobs preferred. 22 years experience. Very reliable.

Modest rates. Ph Bob Goddard 027 234 7141 PAINTER/DECORATOR Interior and Exterior, quality workmanship friendly services.

Over 20 years specialising in residential and more. Quality paint at trade prices. For your best advice in all areas.

Ph Shane Mount/Tauranga Decorators 07 544 6495 or 021 575 307 PAINTING & DECORATING Exterior & Interior Painting Gurus, Roof Painting, High quality workmanship, prompt service, fully insured, satisfaction guaranteed, get the A Team @ Fresh Coats Painting. Ph 022 421 4261 PLASTERER INTERIOR 30+years. Skimming walls, make good ceilings, walls, cornice cove, plasterboard stopping.

New builds. Small jobs. Free quote. Ph Stan 021 130 2621 PLASTERING, INTERIOR WALLS & ceilings. Tradesman 30yrs exp. Skimming, painting prep. Small jobs OK. Ph Murray 027 266 5657 RETAINING WALLS Specialist in all timber retaining walls, new builds and repairs. All associated earthmoving, design and engineering. Ph Mike 0274 942 966 ROOF REPAIRS free quotes for all maintenance of leaking roofs, gutter cleaning & repairs.

Chimney maintenance & repairs.

Registered roofer, 30yrs exp. Ph Peter 542 4291 or 027 436 7740 STUMPINATOR STUMP Grinding free quotes & friendly service. Narrow machine to access rear yards. Ph 576 4245 or 022 076 4245 TILER 30 YEARS + experience, qualified in all aspects of tiling.

Available now! Ph 0204 0864 211

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travel & tours

TREE SHRUB and hedges trimming, topping removal, rubbish removal, palm pruning or removal, satisfaction guaranteed free quote. Ph Steve Hockly 571 5958 or 027 498 1857

Peninsula & Manukau Heads Lighthouse. (3) May 22nd 5 Days; Fabulous Marlborough Sounds, Planes, Trains & Automobiles. (4) June 17th 1 Day; Million Dollar Quartet, Civic Theatre. (5) June 22nd 2 Days; Raurimu Spiral & Grand Chateau. (6) July 1st 1 Day; Westside Story, Civic Theatre. (7) Sept 28th 4 Days; Wellingtons Wearable Arts Show 2017, Government House & Exclusive Pencarrow Lodge now on sale.

Free Door to Door service, Day Trips, Shows & Free beautiful colour catalogue: Ph. No 8 Tours team on 579 3981 or Email info@no8tours.co.nz

travel & tours ”A A A” – HAWKES BAY & BEYOND STUNNING AUTUMN COLOURS HOLIDAY: - Plus other tours coming up...

(1) Treetops Luxury Lodge Luncheon: - (2) North Island Train Journey + Te Papa: - (3) Mid – Winter Christmas Tour & Mid - Winter Christmas Dinner at Chateau Tongariro: - (4) Westside Story Show, Auckland: - 5) Mystery Tours. Contact us for full details, and to chat about our other unique Trips. We provide door to door service (we will pick you up, and take you home again after tours). Free Tour Newsletter. Ph Hinterland Tours Team on 575 8118 or 027 235 7714.

A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY to experience a performance in the Auckland Globe Theatre. 2. Preferential Premium seats and tour to 2047 W.O.W World of Wearable Art in Wellington. 3. “Joseph” trips all filled. 4. Seats sill available for “Westside Story.” Phone John’s Tours 576 9305 NO 8 TOURS NEW ZEALAND’S SENIOR TRAVEL CLUB – Join our Club today for Free to receive all our VIP Members Benefits exclusive to No 8 Tours. (1) April 20th 4 Days; Wallingford Homestead Stay & Station Homes. (2) April 26th 2 Days; Discover Untamed Awhitu

venues FOR WEDDINGS, FUNCTIONS OR MEETINGS+ check out No.1 The Strand, a beautiful historic setting. Email: kim@ no1thestrand.co.nz or www.no1thestrand.co.nz WEDDINGS, PARTIES, MEETINGS etc - The perfect venue. With stunning Harbour views, fully licensed bar & kitchen onsite. Restaurant open every Friday from 5pm & Sunday from 4.30pm, kids under 12 years dine free with every paying adult. Tauranga Fish & Dive Club, 60 Cross Rd, Sulphur Point. Ph 571 8450

wanted to rent

OR BOARD. 26 year old male, looking for a 1 room unit to rent in the Te Puke area. Paramedic who works nightshift therefore needing quiet during the day.

Open to boarding. Ph 021 189 2975, txt is preferred.

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