The Weekend Sun 8 August 2014

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McLaren Falls has been in the news this week, with the opening of a new footbridge, as you may have read on SunLive.

There’s more interesting stuff about it on the Western Bay District Council page in this edition, page 8, and more kilts on page 7.

Of course someone fell into the old trap last week of adding an S to the end of McLaren, which reminded me of a column I wrote back in 2009, a mainly fictitious account of how the Falls came to be named, without an S or an apostrophe.

Excerpts of that column are reproduced here, not necessarily because you need to hear it again, but because someone went boating this week and didn’t do any work. Enjoy, Rabbits Regurgitated…

The unofficial history of McLaren A legend who lived life on the edge A discussion we have regularly in the newsroom delves into the correct names of local places.

Often we are supplied information which is incorrect or mis-spelled. It’s the moral and ethical duty of a newspaper to at least try to get it right.

That’s why it’s important that subeditors are locals, who know the region’s place names, personalities and local quirks – not stationed in a newsroom in some far off city or even another country, as tends to be the case these days of large corporateowned newspapers (not the Sun, of course).

Just as call centres and customer help desks are often located in some distant land and manned by people with a shaky grasp on how to pronounce the letters R and L and even shakier grasp on the English language and the geography between Otamarakau and Waihi Beach; so is local knowledge vital to a sensible news organisation.

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One of my personal favourites is McLaren Falls, which is often incorrectly referred to as McLaren’s or McLarens. (At this point I will apologise to the McLaren family in advance for this creative interpretation).

I’m sure there’s a lovely historian in a dusty corner somewhere who knows the official story of the naming of the falls.

But according to my excellent education it’s the spelling of this place name that gives all the necessary vital clues to the complete story.

It starts with the lack of a plural, or apostrophe denoting ownership, from which we can only assume the following:

There’s been some dreadful mistake in the application, or omission, of an apostrophe which has changed the course of history.

OR…There was only one McLaren. Otherwise it would be McLarens. And… He or she didn’t own the falls, otherwise it would McLaren’s. And… If it had been owned by multiple McLarens, it would be McLarens’.

Therefore the area must have been named after only a singular nonwaterfall-owning McLaren who fell.

The rest of the McLaren clan must have just staggered and lurched and maybe scuffed their spats, but didn’t actually fall over.

If you’ve seen the size of the boulders up there (up the falls, not up his kilt) you’ll understand that jumping around the rocks in low-hanging tartan would indeed be a perilous pastime and it’s not surprising that McLaren fell.

We can assume also that he was male, since rock hopping around an un-named waterfall wearing a picnic blanket is only the sort of thing a bloke would do, probably after one too many Glenfiddich.

The good McLaren women, so much wiser and sensible, would have been home, minding the wee bairns, making haggis and shaking their heads, saying to each other: “Och ey, why roark hopping? Why canna the auld bogger noot doer regoolar sporart, like indooer bools?”

Boulder issues

Now to my way of thinking (warped) the only reasonable explanation for the naming of this waterfall is that it was the place where one lonely McLaren fell over, and nothing to do with the waterfall itself.

The fact that a river ran over a cliff nearby in the area where McLaren toppled, is purely coincidental.

Now if you consider that with a name like McLaren he/she must have been Scottish; then it’s likely he/she was approaching the area of the falls in his/her kilt.

It’s logical to assume the rock-traversing Scotsman also wore a sporran. Indeed, the sporran would have been even more of a hindrance to McRockhopper.

There are two important valuable life coaching points to be gleaned from the hard lessons learned by our friend McLaren.

Keep your sporran hitched high at all times so it doesn’t swing dangerously close to your boulders.

History re-written

Use apostrophes wisely and correctly, or run the risk of having history re-written by some wisecrack in a newspaper column with far too much time on his hands.

Stick with the original Maori name, which probably translates as: “The place where Mahuta and the bros had a good laugh at the bandy Pakeha who went leg-up and skinned his knees”.

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The cost of a life Police at the scene of last weekend’s fatal crash on the Kaimai Range summit.

Every loss of life on the road comes at a cost and with another fatal crash on the region’s roads last weekend, the statistics paint a grisly picture.

Saturday afternoon’s crash near the Kaimai Range summit, which took the life of 17-year-old Jasmine Clothier, takes the total number of fatalities on Bay roads to 17 this year – two shy of 2013’s total.

The 2014 count looks set to break a four year streak of steadily decreasing road fatality totals.

NZ Transport Agency figures released to The Weekend Sun show the number of deaths on Bay roads has reduced by more than half - from 40 in 2010; 20 in 2011 to 19 last year.

But while long-term fatality numbers are down, Western Bay of Plenty acting road policing manager Sergeant Mike Owens says this year’s figures are alarming.

“Certainly, if you look at that total, and factor in the fact we still have a number of months to go this year, then that is very concerning.”

He says too many vehicles crossing the centreline this year is a big concern.

“The cause of many of these incidents is driver error, whether it is distraction, or speed, people need to make sure they are concentrating and driving to the conditions.

“This is especially of concern on the stage highways, the speed is higher, and the consequence of those mistakes is much more serious.

“You undertake a huge responsibility every time you get behind the wheel.”

Every fatality on a Bay road costs $4.7million in social costs, reports the Ministry of Transport.

Social costs is the estimated financial and non-financial costs incurred as a result of a crash, including loss of life and quality, loss of output, medical, private property damage, legal and court costs, traffic management and road repairs.

It excludes financial costs to NZTA to cover traffic management and roading repairs. Last year the most expensive fatality in the Western Bay of Plenty cost NZTA $4437 in repairs. This figure is almost $1000 less than

the cost of the double fatality on the Kaimai Range in May this year, which cost NZTA $5314.

Mike says this year’s fatalities have highlighted just how high risk SH29 over the Kaimai Ranges and SH2 between Tauranga and Waihi are.

NZTA acting highway manager, Andrew Scott, says hard work is being put in to reduce the number of deaths and serious injuries on these highways.

A NZ-first weather activated variable speed limit trial on a 12km high-crash rate stretch between Soldiers Road and the Matamata turnoff of SH29 will begin later this year.

This highway from Tauranga ranks seventh on the KiwiRAP national risk list, with five fatal accidents and 21 serious crashes from 2009-2013, and two fatal crashes this year.

State Highway 2 between Tauranga and Waihi is ranked 14th on the national risk list.

The stretch of road also had five fatal crashes from 2009-2013.

It’s recently claimed the life of mother-of-two Tracey O’Brien in May, and 78-year-old Peter Curnow in July.

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Fatal crash on Kaimai Range

The tight-knit town of Matamata is mourning the loss of teenager Jasmine Clothier killed in a crash on the Kaimai Ranges at the weekend.

The 17-year-old Matamata College student was the front seat passenger in one of two cars involved in the collision on State Highway 29 about 4.10pm Saturday.

Police revealed on Tuesday the driver of the Mercedes Benz that crashed was a forbidden driver.

Waikato District road policing manager, Inspector Freda Grace confirmed to SunLive the male driver was earlier forbidden by police to drive, but cannot speculate on what caused him to cross the centreline in wet conditions.

Speaking on behalf of the family – parents Gavin and Wendy and sister Crystal – Jasmine's uncle Steve Clothier says the they are still coming to grips with her death.

Opotiki murder accused named

The Opotiki man accused of the murder of 22-year-old Joe Collier who died following a gang-related street brawl last month has been named.

Name suppression lapsed for Tamaikoha Takao when he appeared in the High Court at Tauranga on Wednesday where he pleaded not guilty to one count of murder.

Takao was arrested following a two day investigation into the death of Joe on July 13.

A 20-year-old man is also facing a charge of assault with a weapon in relation to the fight on for allegedly driving a car into a crowd of people.

Falling lamp-post strikes ute

A Papamoa builder wants answers over a falling lamp-post that struck his ute causing major damage that will now cost him his insurance excess.

Silvio Kors was slowing for the Bell Road turn on State Highway 2 at Papamoa on July 9 when the lamp-post fell onto his ute, cracking his windshield, holing the bonnet and puncturing the firewall. He says he hasn't had an apology from NZTA despite the base of the lamppost clearly being “rusted over”.

The NZTA says because Silvio has made a claim with his insurance company it's not appropriate to discuss the details until the claim has been resolved.

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Father fights fight back Colin Milne.

The father of the late Brad Milne is speaking out against the illness that tore his son apart for more than a decade, wanting everyone to know depression is not something to be ashamed of.

Colin Milne was shocked to learn most of the 200 people who attended a recent memorial event in Brad’s name knew someone who had committed suicide as a result of depression.

The Brad Milne Memorial Charity Event saw a sell-out crowd pack

The Crown and Badger in July to hear New Zealand comedian Mike King speak.

But Mike’s topic of the night was no laughing matter, and Colin says what followed was a “truly inspiring” address.

“He altered many people’s opinions around depression and suicide; he told us that he has not touched drugs or alcohol for seven years now.”

Mike admitted to previously suffering depression and using drugs and alcohol to relieve the feelings.

He now fronts a trust, Target Zero, with the aim of reducing the country’s suicide rate to none.

“The scary thing was during his address he asked how many people had had a family member or someone they knew well commit suicide, and the majority of the crowd raised their hands,” says Colin.

Brad died three years ago, age 30, after battling depression since his late teens.

Suffering guilt and grief ever since, Colin is on a mission to defeat the disease through awareness.

“The thing to me, when I was at school, you associated someone with a mental illness with being crazy or mad. But with depression, they’re not either of those; they’re down in the dumps. It’s a killer of self-esteem.

“People suffering depression referred to as a mental illness are not mad. Indeed, they should be admired in the fact that most appear to the outsider to lead normal lives, when they are in fact battling an illness that can be crippling to their confidence and selfesteem.”

The family’s annual event raised a record $7220 for The Acorn Foundation.

Bay of Plenty District Health Board mental health and addiction services business leader Eileen Hughe says about 20 per cent of New Zealanders will experience depression for different reasons during their lifetime.

She says the most serious consequence of untreated depression is self-harm, or harming another person.

“More common consequences are that important relationships are damaged. A person with depression might not be able to work, and consequently they will have a reduction in their standard of living.”

She encourages anyone concerned to see their GP, as a large amount of help is available.

“It is okay to ask for help and to access whatever

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While Gallipoli and the Western Front are battlefields recalled annually, Hazel’s father John Hammond was among New Zealand forces who saw action very early on - and much closer to home.

Hazel believes New Zealand’s response to German Samoa in the Pacific is often overshadowed by the war’s bloodier battles, because the mission was successful – without a single loss of life.

When WWI began, Britain asked New Zealand to seize German Samoa as a ‘great and urgent Imperial service’.

The 1385-strong Samoa Advance Party was led by Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Logan.

Landing at Apia on August 29, there was no resistance from German officials or the general population, making Samoa the second German territory, after Togoland in Africa, to fall to the Allies in the First World War. The next day the German flag was lowered and all buildings and properties belonging to the previous administration were seized. Not a single shot was taken during the mission.

“In 1914 half of Samoa was occupied by Germans,” says Hazel.

“The Samoans were very pleased to see the New Zealanders arrive.”

William Massey, Prime Minster of New Zealand from 1912-1925, has previously written of the Samoan expedition, saying the men entered on the undertaking believing grave dangers faced them.

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Following the Samoan mission, Hazel’s father continued on to France. He remained working on the railroads throughout the war until 1919.

“I just feel like people should be made known of this,” says Hazel. “So many New Zealanders these days don’t know what those men did there.

“Going there, they were just as brave as the others.”

Hazel says her father returned to New Zealand, where he met and married her mother at age 33. The couple had two daughters, while John remained in the railway industry his entire career. He died of a stroke in 1956, age 65.

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Pipes are calling Channelling two generations of Scottish heritage, Tauranga highland dancers Angus and Conor Hendry are marvelling in their father’s homeland as they show their take on Scotland’s iconic dance.

Angus, 19, and his 21-year-old sister Conor are the only Bay of Plenty residents selected for a 36-strong New Zealand team performing at the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo in Scotland this month.

Angus, who will be wearing his family tartan on his kilt, says it’s exciting to be performing highland dance in the country where their father Doug was born.

“Even though we dance on the

Conor and Angus Hendry are in Scotland to perform at the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo this month.

other side of the world it’s cool that we can travel over there and show them how we do it.”

The siblings flew to Scotland last week for the three-week trip, where they’ll be rehearsing five days a week for twice-weekly shows, with a rest day on Sundays.

The shows are expected to be watched by more than 8000 people each night, with an expected international television audience of more than 200,000 people.

Following in the footsteps of his older sister, Angus has been dancing for 14 years – Conor has been dancing for a year longer.

“She learned about it through a friend and so I went along to her auditions; and being the little brother, I decided I wanted to join in.

“When I’m up there dancing, you can hear people clapping, they’re smiling and they’re happy – it just gives me a huge buzz.” By Zoe Hunter

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ISSUE 109 • 8 AUGUST 2014

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Matt Gaskin was one of the most enthusiastic visitors to the ‘Portraits of our Place’ road show.

Matt, 33, is a dedicated follower of Bedford trucks, so when he spotted the Weekend Sun story about the Portraits of Our Place road show with Council, he wanted to get on board.

Matt is a client at the Greerton centre of the Arohanui Art and Education Trust that provides community participation and day activities for people aged 16 years and over with a disability. One of Matt’s greatest aspirations – apart from being around Bedfords - is to contribute to his community and expand his social connections.

With the support of Council’s Team Leader Community Development Kathy

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NEW PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE MAKES FOR A SAFER DAY OUT AT MCLAREN FALLS Visitors to McLaren Falls will have a safer day out with the addition of a new pedestrian bridge adjacent to the vehicle bridge over the falls. Mayor Ross Paterson officially opened the new pedestrian bridge last Friday, 1 August.

Ross said the bridge will make a huge improvement to everyone’s safety and peace of mind as they enjoy the McLaren Falls environment.

The bridge area is a hazardous spot in summer due to the conflict of vehicles crossing the bridge and the many picnickers, kayakers, swimmers and sightseers also accessing the bridge.

The nearby equestrian park is an added

hazard due to large horse trucks and floats negotiating the bridge.

Traffic volumes are around 1000 vehicles a day in peak summer.

Last year a 30km/h speed limit was imposed to improve safety at the site and recent roading projects have improved the alignment of the hairpin bend and provided more parking.

Ross thanked the McLaren Falls Environmental Enhancement Group members for their enthusiasm and effort to help keep the area around the bridge pristine.

Councillor Margaret Murray-Benge has been a staunch backer of the project, lobbying with the community for Council’s approval for funding through the Annual Plan process.

The new bridge cost $265,000 with new railing around the parking area and plantings included in the final design.

Webb, Local Area Coordinator Jenny Dawber arranged for Matt to join the road show crew on board the Beddie.

“Everybody enjoys the chance to be involved in things which are important to them – this was the perfect opportunity for Matt to do just that. The experience of the road show also highlighted that Matt has a lot to contribute – such as his invaluable help with the sausage sizzle,” says Jenny.

Kathy says it was great to have Matt along for the ride. “After all – that’s what this road show was all about – to tell our story to our communities and to invite them to tell us theirs,” says Kathy.

“I hope this will be a story Matt enjoys telling his friends.”

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The Weekend Sun Veteran teacher Fred Newton reading a book written by a former student, Ian Mune.

Photo by Bruce Barnard.

Old boy’s serious status Dedicating 27 years of his life to education at Tauranga Boys’ College has earned Fred Newton life membership status at the school.

The 88-year-old is the 10th person to receive the honourable nomination from the Tauranga Boys’ College Old Boys’ Association.

Fred was recruited to the school by former principal Arthur Nicholson, and was a founding member of staff when the college converted to a single-sex school in 1958.

Current principle Robert Mangan acknowledges the significance of Fred’s time at the school.

He says in Fred’s 27 years teaching, he was an active participant in a many extracurricular groups, including leading the school football, initiating Saturday morning

junior football and rugby competitions, and coaching rowing.

Among his students were four future principals: Garth Sim, Roger Barton, Norm Morris and Graham Young.

Fred retired in 1986, as head of the science department.

Today, he lives with his daughter in Pyes Pa, where he says the nomination came as a “bit of a shock”.

“I really thought ‘Why pick me? I haven’t done anything’.

“But it was a good surprise.”

Fred’s nomination will be put forward at the Old Boys’ Association’s annual general meeting on August 11.

Member Michael Sand says other life members include former principals, teachers and people recognised for their substantial contri-

bution to the school.

In 2013 Gill Gemming received life membership after 11 years as chair of the Board of Trustees and dedication to the college’s hockey programme.

The association’s AGM is at 7pm on Monday, August 11, in the school staffroom.

Anyone with close links to the school is invited to attend.

The association is also organising its Old Boys’ Annual Dinner on September 19, a chance for supporters to enjoy an evening of camaraderie and entertainment and to support the Old Boys’ work. At the dinner renowned artist Nigel Brown will be recognised as 2014 Old Boy of the Year.

Contact Rob Leslie on 07 578 4029 for more information.

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“It’s new territory being in the winter; To help or enter, phone Bryce on we’re hoping it will be just as successful, 021 616 601 or email rain or shine.”

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Field ‘skids’ will burn out - council A spate of burnouts leaving gouged ruts on a Memorial Park field isn’t prompting council to hastily look into further security measures, instead staff are optimistic the craze will blow over.

In the last two weeks there have been reports of two late-night incidents where people are consuming alcohol and doing burnouts or doughnuts in their vehicles on Jordan Field, between Devonport Rd and the Tauranga Rowing Club.

Jordan Field is part of Memorial Park’s 11 hectares of land sitting next to the harbour between 11th and 7th avenues.

Tauranga City Council parks coordinator Peter Mouldey says the latest incident on Saturday was reported by a concerned Devonport Rd resident.

But there is no need to investigate any elaborate safety measures, he says.

Currently there is about 140 square metres around the boundary of Jordan Field that’s not fenced, but has a reasonably high curb.

Peter understands the vehicles are being driven onto the field near Memorial Pool.

Tauranga City Council parks coordinator Peter Mouldey at Jordan Field. Photo by Tracy Hardy.

He says the concept of installing CCTV cameras on top of the rowing club is also premature, because so far there’s only been two incidents of cars mounting the curb to rip up the turf.

“This happens from time to time when the ground is a bit slippery and they [drivers] think it’s a bit of fun. It is generally not in Jordan Field, but it’s happened in other fields of town,” says Peter.

“Sometimes it will happen for a couple of weekends then it won’t happen again, so we try not to go to the expense of fencing

everything off because up until now we haven’t required that.”

The majority of the damage is superficial but there are a couple of wet areas that may require some soil to be brought in.

“The rest is superficial and the grass will grow back and after a couple of mows, you won’t even know.”

If the issue continues TCC will look into installing bollards to prevent damage, and work with police to keep an eye on who is using the area late at night, says Peter.

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Phillipa Lewis’ friend phoned the number on a flyer – which is being put into city letterboxes – advertising residents can receive a free gift if they call up.

Instead Phillipa’s friend found themselves on the receiving end of a two-hour long high pressure sales pitch for a vacuum cleaner and air filter combo costing a total of $6980.

“After nearly two hours she told them they could pack up and go; they never gave her the free gift.

“The vacuum cleaner my friend was quoted was $3990, and she was told if she would like the air filter to go with it that would be another $2990 – totalling nearly $7000.”

Phillipa is concerned some people may feel intimidated by the sales pitch and be pressured into buying the products.

She took her concerns to Tauranga Police, who told her to tell The Weekend Sun.

Police also warned her people may also find toll calls charged to their phone, from ringing to receive the gift.

“Often people give phone numbers and find a lot of toll calls wrapped up on their phone,” says Phillipa.

“I’m just a bit afraid the elderly people might be taken in and be intimidated.”

The vacuum cleaner is an Envirotect brand. The importers have previously been warned by the Commerce Commission about their sales techniques, and Consumer Magazine rates the vacuum cleaner lowly.

The Auckland-based sales company HAP Ltd has an office in Papamoa.

When The Weekend Sun rang the number on the flyer, the call-taker said a representative

The fine print says the purpose is business. would arrive to deliver the free gift – and at same time seek feedback on a portable air quality system called the xcaliber, designed to help with dust pollution and allergies.

When asked if it was a vacuum cleaner the call-taker repeated they were seeking opinion and feedback on an air quality system, and the sales representative would be carrying a couple of large bags.

The sales representative’s large bags did contain the portable air quality system – and a vacuum cleaner.

Consumer NZ tested the Envirotect vacuum in 2012, ranking it near the bottom of more than 50 machines. They reported it the $3000 vacuum performed no better than one bought for $100.

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Fashion forward Zoe Beck isn’t afraid of a little Fashion Week competition...

Zoe Beck, 14, has her eyes set on the fashion industry.

Standing at five feet 11 inches tall, it’s no wonder 14-year-old Zoe Beck has her eyes on the fashion industry.

This weekend the Tauranga Girls’ College student will line up with hundreds of models, some twice her age, from New Zealand and overseas to compete for a place modelling in New Zealand Fashion Week 2014.

“It would be a dream come true,” says Zoe, who has already modelled for designers such as Emmanuel Gerros Ltd, Jane Sutherland, Milly Black, Lucy Mae’d, Vanilla Ink, Angela Stone, Corina Snow Bridal Couture and Rachel Wolfgang McHardy.

“I’m pretty nervous, and I’m so excited for Fashion Week; to be in it would be even more amazing.”

Zoe’s mother Donna says it’s almost unheard of for a model of Zoe’s age to be invited to casting for Fashion Week.

She puts her daughter’s success down to a lot of dreaming, and hard work.

“Life hasn’t always been easy for Zoe. I’ve been unwell for a number of years. She also suddenly lost her Dad in a car accident four years ago.

“Coming to terms with everything, Zoe decided to take life by the horns and get in there and achieve,” says Donna.

“I’m sure there are many adults who could learn a thing or two about life from her.”

Zoe was put forward by her agent Donna Malneek, owner of Voda Model Management in Wellington.

“We know she will do us proud, whether she makes the final cut or not. Simply attending for someone so young is a huge deal in itself,” says Donna.

Not content with just modelling, Zoe is quickly making a name for herself as a designer too, already placing second runner-up in the student designer awards at ‘Tarnished Frocks and Divas’ in 2013, and first runner-up in the wearable arts section in Creation Fest 2014.

Last weekend Zoe received two first places at the South Waikato Wearable Arts Awards and third at the Bay of Plenty Global Connexions Design Awards.

“Sometimes I see pictures on Facebook of a fabric or piece of clothing and I can make an outfit from that picture,” says Zoe. “I like really funky and different styles, and bright colours.”

Zoe’s also well-known for spending many hours fundraising and volunteering for various charities as well as operating her Facebook business ‘Zoe’s Friendship Plates’.

New Zealand Fashion Week 2014 runs August 25-31.

Follow Zoe’s progress on Facebook pages ‘Zoe BeckMODEL’ and ‘Zoe Beck- DESIGNER’.

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That clock is ticking Many people come to live in New Zealand from all over the world. New Zealand is very popular with the British.

Many Brits have left

pension benefits behind in UK Schemes. The March 2014 UK Budget saw the biggest overhaul of pension rules in living memory.

As a consequence July 2014 has just seen clarification from treasury that from April 2015, transfers out of unfunded Public Sector Pensions will be prohibited.

This will affect all those people living in New Zealand who came from the UK and have left pension benefits behind in the National Health Service, Civil Service, Police, Teachers etc.

Anybody in those schemes should be looking to their options now before it’s too late.

It’s also very important people who come to live permanently New

Zealand take advice on pensions left overseas in their own or employer schemes within their first four years of residency.

New Zealand’s IRD allow you a four-year migration period, during which transfers of pension benefits from Foreign Superannuation Schemes are exempt from any taxation.

After this four-year period these transfers will have a liability to a portion or all of the transfer being treated as income for taxable purposes.

Effectively the longer you wait to transfer any pension benefits after this four-year migration period, the more tax you will pay.

Take the time to look closely at your situation.

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What’s really driving housing un-affordability?

I’m convinced the biggest driver of housing un-affordability is people’s expectations.

We all want more for less. But we all can’t have our dream home straight away.

I’m happy to work with government to prove Tauranga does not have a land supply issue.

Tauranga has an issue with providing affordable infrastructure to service new developments.

Personal income

Another key driver of housing unaffordability is personal income. While the city’s population has grown, the average household income remains well below the NZ average.

It speaks volumes that developers asked Council to lobby government for better ways to fund new infrastructure.

It’s likely Council will enter into a housing accord with government.

Housing accords reduce the hurdles for suitable areas to become housing developments.

It sounds cheesy but it’s true; my aim is to get the best deal for ratepayers.

Opening up more land puts pressure on Council’s finances.

I’m not interested in short-term housing affordability solutions, such as 10 year initiatives. I’m interested in genuine affordable housing solutions for future generations.

I personally reassessed my own overhead costs of home ownership in the suburbs. It led me to move into the heart of the Mount where everything I need on the weekends is within walking distance. It fits my stage in life,

but it won’t suit everyone.

I’m also against encouraging elderly to move into isolated villages on the outskirts of our city.

I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my elderly neighbours. I want them to feel part of my neighbourhood.

I enjoy the banter over the fence. I also enjoy helping them move heavy stuff around their property, including laughing off an occasion when an elderly woman touched my bum.

Protecting the future

I also want to protect the region’s main money earners; they’re the orchardists and livestock farmers that create jobs in the city. Converting productive rural land to housing will not help improve Tauranga’s average household incomes.

If we can get the public amenities right, I’m sure we can largely reduce the cost of living in Tauranga by changing our housing expectations (but we shouldn’t compromise on warmth and dryness). If we don’t want to be like Auckland, we need to start acting differently.

Stupidity is doing the same thing but expecting a different result. We can’t expect to improve housing affordability by converting economic land to housing the way we have done previously.

Feel free to email me your thoughts (matt.cowley@ tauranga.govt.nz), call/text me on 027 6989 548, and follow me at www.facebook.com/a.younger.voice.

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The Weekend Sun Bill Holland, Matt Cowley and Dave Randall.

Revolutionising personal finance Most people could do better when it comes to managing their personal finances, just like most people could eat healthier and exercise more.

Prepare to drop your boss Tauranga employees who’ve been sent over the edge by their bosses have the chance to turn the tables, as the city’s superiors and community frontrunners prepare to be dropped off the side of a sixstorey building for charity.

‘Drop Your Boss’ will see more than 20 businesspeople abseil off the Inland Revenue Department building on Elizabeth St to raise funds for Foundation for Youth Development Bay of Plenty on September 3.

Money raised will go towards Tauranga children involved in the foundation’s Kiwi Can and Project K programmes.

Tauranga City Councillor Matt Cowley volunteered to make the drop and has kick-started his Givealittle fundraising page with $100 to FYD. Matt has completed a bungee jump before but has never abseiled off the top of a building.

“It will be a first. But that’s why I’m willing to put my money where my mouth is and really back this charity.”

Otumoetai College principal Dave Randall says about a dozen students at OTC are supported by the foundation’s Project K programme, so he’s proud to support the cause.

“To see the changes in the lives of those young people is absolutely amazing. I can’t speak highly enough of what that programme does.”

Dave’s jumped from a plane at 10,000 feet and was once an abseiling instructor, so the estimated 30 metre fall doesn’t worry him.

Also making the jump are Holland Beckett partner Bill Holland, Tauranga City Mayor Stuart Crosby, Tauranga MP Simon Bridges, The Hits radio announcer Will Johnston and Welcome Bay School principal Nik House.

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By Zoe Hunter

EnableMe refer to themselves as ‘financial personal trainers’ – they do for their clients’ finances what a personal trainer would do for their fitness.

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EnableMe NZ director Hannah McQueen says her team has helped almost 2000 clients achieve the perfect balance everyone is striving for.

Hannah says clients they see are earning the most they’ve ever earned but usually have no sense that they are actually getting ahead.

“It’s time to get financially fit and we all know we could do with some help to get there. Not only that – we are stressed about how much we owe and it’s affecting our personal relationships much more than we realise.”

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Serving the community always Priding itself as always at the heart of giving, St Vincent de Paul Society is continuing its long and proud history of helping the Western Bay of Plenty community.

WBOP chief executive officer Lynne Mackenzie Brown says all proceeds from the four opportunity shops support community work carried out in the Western Bay region.

“More than 90 per cent of the work we do is carried out by volunteers. All of our shops and projects are in need of additional volunteers – we welcome people from all walks of life.”

The society offers a range of services which give back to the community, says Lynne.

Projects include the Full-

stop Van, which provides food and caring six nights a week. Loaves n Fishes provides school lunches to children, while ‘Young Vinnies’ encourage the city’s young people to care.

Support and assistance is offered for those struggling with life’s challenges, as well as a budgeting service in partnership with Budget Services.

“We also offer emotional and practical support for mums-to-be and new mums, with free baby packs and loan of essential baby equipment.”

By Zoe Hunter

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Upcycling your old jeans Don’t throw away your old jeans – recycle them.

If you’re anything like me, you’re favourite pair of Levis have lasted you a while but are probably tearing at the seams by now.

I know you’re not ready to part with them just yet – so I have a few tips to refashion them.

First of all – do they still fit?

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the shorts, place a hard object underneath the spot where the hole is wanted and sand it with sandpaper or a nail file.

Give them a final spin in the washing machine to give them that distressed look.

If they don’t fit – use the hems from your old jeans to design your own recycled denim coasters.

Trim the edges close and evenly with a pair of sharp scissors and join the hems together with a needle a thread.

Cover one side with fabric glue and tightly roll up the denim hem until you finish with an estimated four-inchwide rolled hem recycled coaster for the coffee table.

By Zoe Hunter

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Store helping humanity Pre-loved clothing and household items donated to restore Habitat for Humanity go further than just a great bargain – they can help families in need.

Store manager Craig Teaz says it’s very hard to believe everything at the Second Ave store is donated.

He believes the quality of items is impressive and very competitively priced.

“The items we get donated have been in someone’s home, loved and dusted, washed and used for many years.

“We treat peoples donated possessions with respect – all items must pass a rigorous quality test to ensure customers always get a great buy.”

The purpose of ReStore is to raise funds for the Habitat for Humanity Tauranga Housing Programme.

“We’re building two houses in Welcome Bay at the

moment,” says Craig. “The families are so happy to finally have a place they can call home.”

ReStore Habitat for Humanity is a charity secondhand store situated at 52 Second Ave, between Devonport Rd and Cameron Rd. Since its beginnings, nearly three years ago, the store has developed and evolved, says Craig.

“There’s a relaxed and friendly atmosphere and having a department store feel helps with an enjoyable shopping experience.

“This isn’t a small store by any means. Everything is neatly laid out, clean, tidy, light and bright.

“We’re always looking for donated goods, furniture, clothing, linen, household goods, curtains, books and much more.”

Craig says if people know of a family needing a break from “unaffordable” rent, sub-standard conditions, or overcrowding ReStore may be able to help.

By Zoe Hunter

Habitat for Humanity ReStore shop manager Craig Teaz.

Charity shop full of hidden gems

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VINTAGE Waipuna Hospice store manager Olwen Sorrenson with some of their retro kitchenware.

People are always astounded at what they find in the Fraser Street Hospice Shop, says store manager Olwen Sorrenson.

From designer clothing, to unique retro and vintage home ware – the store is restocked daily with a myriad of treasures.

Forget the stereotype of an op shop, with items gathering dust and smelling of someone’s grandma – this store is bursting with quality furniture, appliances, clothing, tools, toys and sports gear, all at bargain prices.

“Customers are often surprised at

what we have here,” says Olwen.

“And we get new stock in every day.”

Olwen says their two biggest sellers are clothing and furniture.

“We have a full range of furniture from $5 desks to $300 collectable china cabinets and coffee tables.

The furniture moves very quickly.

“We are fortunate to have a willing volunteer who restores some of the quality pieces back to their original condition, and they are quick to sell.”

Vintage home ware items are also popular, often picked out by people looking for unique gifts or home accessories.

The store also sells fridges, freez-

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ers and washing machines – all of which are safety checked by an electrical certifier.

“All of our electric items are certified and have a safety certificate, which is important. A lot of places don’t do that.”

Winter’s cold weather also puts the store’s heaters and hair dryers in high demand.

The Mount and Fraser Street Hospice Shops are open seven days a week for shoppers’ convenience, while Greerton and Te Puke are open Monday to Saturday.

Donated items, in good condition, are gratefully accepted at any of the shops.

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Pasta perfection for a rainy day

Creamy penne pasta and kale Serves 2 Ingredients 200g penne pasta 1 Tbsp butter ½ red onion, cut finely 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped ½ glass white wine 3 Tbsp parmesan powder 200ml cream 1Tbsp mild mustard 4 sundried tomatoes, chopped 1 bunch fresh small kale leaves Salt and pepper Method Cook pasta and steam small kale leaves over the top of the pot at the same time.

Once the pasta is cooked drain and set to one side.

Sauté onion and garlic in butter and cook until soft.

Add in sliced sundried tomatoes and mustard and reduce down with the wine.

Once the wine has almost evaporated add in the cream. It should be a fabulous reddish, yellow colour.

Now add in the parmesan powder and reduce a little more.

Then add the pasta back in, followed by the steamed kale leaves.

Mix together and serve in bowls topped with kale microgreens.

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With trays of kale, microgreens and seedlings, I decide on a quick nutritious lunch of steamed microgreens and pasta in a creamy garlic sauce.

Kale is a popular super vegetable that a lot of people don’t seem to know quite what to do with. Basically, I treat it the same way as silverbeet, steaming, boiling or eating it raw.

Often I find kale is sweeter when the leaves are smaller, and it seems to grow easily without too much bother now the weather is cooler.

The benefits from eating or juicing kale are now well-known, which has made it such a popular vegetable retaining a mid-high price. But good luck trying to find it at the supermarket.

Grab some seedlings or seed and grow this remarkable vegetable now. It can be continuously harvested for quite a while, just like silverbeet.

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Cheesy award success for farmers market stall Husband and wife artisan cheesemakers Chris and Jill Whalley’s Mount Eliza Cheeses have won the Creamiest Producer from the Dairy Supreme Award in the 2014 Farmers Market New Zealand Awards.

Chris Whalley, with some of the award-winning Mount Eliza Cheeses he makes at his property near Katikati.

The Katikati couple collected their award in Feilding last week after entering their Red Leicester, Eliza Blue and new product Blue Monkey in the awards three months ago, as Tauranga Farmers Market stallholders.

Other FMNZ award winners from Tauranga Farmers Market are Kandu Organics, which won the Organically from the Paddock category, while Bill and Bridget Hensley’s Basecamp Salami was Recognised as a Producer in the top 40 nationwide.

Chris, who makes Mount Eliza Cheese at a small creamery on his Hot Springs Rd property, says his family is excited about the accolade.

“There were lots of entries over the different categories and it’s thrilling to be named a top producer.”

Originally from England, Chris, a chemist-turnedcheesemaker, moved to New Zealand in 2006 with wife Jill and children Rebecca and Owen and established Mount Eliza Cheese.

Chris likes sharing their produce with people at farmers’ markets.

“The quality of produce at the farmers markets is very good and the people making it are intimately involved in the production.

Kitchen auction for diabetic youth With bated breath, Diabetes Help Tauranga Youth Committee members watched as an auction raising funds for the organisation skyrocketed in its final 15 minutes.

At Trinity Wharf hotel last Friday, Hafele New Zealand’s TradeMe auction of a $100,000 kitchen closed for $16,320.25 – the full sum being donated to DHT Youth.

Diabetes Help Tauranga committee member Julie Cole, youth DHT Youth Leader Temple Mayfield leader Temple Mayfield, president Rebecca Ryder and Hafele NZ says they are “absolutely thrilled” with marketing manager Greg Adams with the kitchen. the result.

“We weren’t expecting it. It was about $5000 on the day and escalated in the last 15 minutes, the auto bid was extended about six times, and it was hilarious.”

She wishes to sincerely thank Hafele NZ and marketing manager Greg Adams, who approached the charity.

“Greg has a child with type 1 diabetes too.”

The provincial kitchen was designed by an Auckland designer for Hafele NZ’s head office showroom and is complete with the latest storage ideas and quality European kitchen fittings.

Temple says funds will help parent support groups and fund adventurous outing days for the youth.

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“And you usually get an opportunity to taste before you buy, which you don’t get in a supermarket.”

The 2015 FMNZ awards will be hosted by Tauranga Farmers Market.

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Learning at any stage key for career expo No matter what age or stage you’re at, there’s a veritable feast of career and training options being showcased this weekend at the annual Tauranga Careers and Business Expo, running today and tomorrow at ASB Arena, Baypark.

The expo, hosted by Priority One and the Rotary Club of Tauranga, is the flagship launch event for Western Bay at Work, a community initiative showcasing career opportunities in the Bay with two weeks of events and activities running across the region.

Priority One’s strategic projects manager Greg Simmonds says Western Bay at Work provides a platform to showcase the diverse and growing range of career and training options here in the Bay of Plenty.

“For this region to prosper and grow, we need a talented, highly-skilled workforce that positions the Western Bay of Plenty subregion as the business destination of choice for companies that produce high value products and services.

“It enables people at any stage of their careers to see the opportunities right here on their doorstep.”

Opening today, the Tauranga Careers and Business Expo features more than 80 exhibitors.

Greg says the expo presents an exciting opportunity for students, school leavers – in fact anyone at any stage in their career – to explore their training options in a highly interactive and engaging environment.

“Every year we introduce innovative new

aspects and this year we’re featuring two innovation hubs – a House of Science Hub and a DigiSchool IT Hub. “At the IT hub you will be able to try gaming, coding and animation; and at the Science hub you will be able to immerse yourself in some interesting science experiments, and really get a feel for the power and potential of science.”

Tauranga Rotary’s Sue Boyne says the event is truly unique.

“I believe we are the only expo that combines the career and training providers with a showcase of some of our most innovative businesses and industry sectors.

“Those attending can talk to some of our most innovative and successful businesses to gain an understanding of the key industry sectors we have in the Bay, and then they can talk to the career and training providers to identify the best learning pathways to get there.”

The Tauranga Rotary and Priority One Careers and Business Expo is free to attend and runs from 9am-4pm today and 9.30am– 3.30pm tomorrow.

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Fit and ready for job in law enforcement Alex Schipper has his sights on a career with NZ Police.

Spending 18 months recuperating from a hit and run accident would be enough to knock the wind out of anybody’s sails, but 19-year-old Alex Schipper wouldn’t let a little thing like that knock his stride.

A little more than two years later Alex has basketball firmly in his sights again, as well as a career in the New Zealand Police.

Unsure if he had enough skills to pass the Police entry test, Alex decided to enrol in Bay of Plenty Polytechnic’s Preparation for Law Enforcement programme after hearing good things about it.

“I’d heard great things about the tutors and how they really help you get ahead,” says Alex.

“We learned all kinds of stuff like communication, assertiveness, numeracy and literacy – but it’s the fitness part that I really liked.”

Obviously fitness plays a key role in the Police entry tests, so it’s one of the areas the Polytechnic course focuses on.

Other skills taught include defensive driving, swimming, cultural awareness, first aid and law.

With such determination, mixed with his irrepressible grin and obvious joy for life, it’s easy to see the New Zealand Police would be lucky to have Alex

Career opportunities for all ages With this year’s theme of Western Bay at Work being ‘Learning for Life’ the event aims to inspire and excite participants about possible career options – wherever they are in their career, taking an ‘any age, any stage’ approach.

Priority One strategic projects manager Greg Simmonds says the initiative is targeted at school leavers, tertiary students, and young professionals, as well as those wanting a career change mid-life, immigrants and people in their

senior years wishing to continue to contribute to the economy.

“Key to the continued growth of our region is our ability to attract and retain a talented, skilled workforce for companies that produce high value products and services,” he says.

“The increase of technology, an ageing population, and increased education services and food exports are changing the career paths for the next generation.”

Following on from the flagship opening event, The Careers and Business Expo this weekend at ASB Arena, the line-up of events on offer during the following

fortnight reflect Western Bay at Work’s theme and offer a veritable feast of options for those at any age or stage of their career, says Greg.

“Key events not to be missed include the annual Beca Engineering Day, a better exporting series, Careers NZ career clinics and University of Waikato information evenings.

“The full events calendar on our website shows a diverse range of events, so there is something for everyone.”

Western Bay at Work runs until August 24.

To find out all that’s on go to www.westernbayatwork.org.nz.

on their team.

Don’t be too surprised to see the basketball giant walking the beat on a street near you soon.

The next intake of students for Preparation for Law Enforcement is currently open and due to start on September 1, 2014.

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Courses connecting identities Tauranga’s Ellis Bryers has a vision of a nation where Maori tikanga and kawa [cultural practices] are understood and extensively utilised daily – by both Maori and nonMaori.

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Originally from Opononi, up north in the Hokianga region, Ellis has been living in Tauranga Moana for 21 years.

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“There I can proclaim who I am and my place in the world.”

From the time he learned his identity as a Maori New Zealander, Ellis says he felt a sense of pride, connection and strength greater than his own – and he’s

been empowering others to do the same ever since.

At his upcoming training day on August 15-16, Ellis says attendees will not only leave with their personal pepeha [formal introduction structure] built and ready to go – they’ll also feel connected, powerful and strong in their identity. “And we’ll have a lot of fun along the way.”

Ellis also works in business and engagement spaces between Maori and non-Maori and is a marriage and funeral celebrant and a former professional tour guide.

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Sales lift driving Tauranga car market

Tauranga car dealerships are breaking sales records with a continuing surge in new car vehicle sales seeing July figures reach the highest level in 29 years.

Ebbett Tauranga is among those benefitting from a 13 per cent increase nationally so far this year.

Dealer principal Craig Innes describes 2014 as a “boomer year” with Ebbett’s sales up 32 per cent.

“It’s been very good, and that’s over last year which also had great sales,” says Craig, who has taken on more staff to deal with the increased work including Ebbett’s first dedicated new vehicle sales manager “in many years”.

Pacific Toyota sales rep Johnny Colk says his dealership has been particularly busy during the last four months, but things went up another notch in July.

Commercials were selling strongly, along with Toyota’s Signature Class of reconditioned used models.

Motor Industry Association CEO David Crawford says July sales continued the strong trend of the last 18 months.

New vehicle sales in July were up 10 per cent on the same month last year.

Commercial vehicle sales also jumped 23 per cent last month compared to July 2013 – the highest level for the month since figures were first collected in 1981.

The surge in commercial sales was felt particularly strongly at Ebbett Tauranga, which experienced yearon-year growth of 70 per cent, accounting for a large share of the dealership’s 32 per cent lift in sales overall.

Toyota continued to dominate many sectors as the overall market leader in national tallies.

Toyota led the new sales market last month with a 16 per cent share, followed by Ford with 12 per cent and Holden with 11 per cent.

Toyota was also last month’s leader in the passenger car market with a 15 per cent share and in the commercial market, with 20 per cent.

Holden was second the car market and commercial market – with an 11 per cent share in both – while Ford was second in the commercial market, with 19 per cent, and third in car market with nine per cent.

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A new year time limit on new learner and restricted licences aimed at improving the safety of novice drivers and motorcyclists will come into force this December.

Changes to the Land Transport (Driver Licensing) Rule announced Associate Minister of Transport Michael Woodhouse will for the first time set a time limit on new learner and restricted car and motorcycling licences.

The time limit will encourage drivers and riders to progress to the next licence stage within five years. It comes into force on December 1.

Drivers or riders who don’t move on to the next stage of the Graduated Driver Licensing System (GDLS) within the time frame will need to pass another theory test to renew their learner or restricted licence after it expires.

The NZ Transport Agency is welcoming the confirmation of changes to GDLS. NZTA road safety director Ernst Zollner says the introduction of a time limit for each of the learner and restricted licence stages will encourage novice drivers and motorcyclists to progress to a full licence within a reasonable timeframe.

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Fired up with support

Supporters of Tauranga’s newest Variety Bash crew ride the 1981 International fire truck, being revived with a fresh paint job and mechanical work thanks to sponsorship from Kidicorp.

The future of Tauranga’s newest Variety Bash team has been assured thanks to sponsorship from Tauranga-based Kidicorp.

Morris Danks, who has led the ‘8th Tribe’ team since their first classic car fundraising convoy two years ago, says the sponsorship secures the future of the crew, now called the Kidicorp team.

“It takes the pressure off and means all the money we fundraise will go straight to Variety rather than having to put money into fixing the truck,” says Morris.

Earlier this year the crew’s 1981 International fire truck struck a series of mechanical problems while on the annual big bash, including an electrical fault that stopped them completing the first day’s leg to Waitomo.

Morris says the group is excited to know they’ll be able to take part in future Trillian Variety Bash events.

The truck’s next adventure is in October, with a

three-day mini bash taking the tribe on a round-trip from Auckland to Whangarei then Dargaville before returning home.

The re-branded truck, in its bright blue Kidicorp livery, will be officially launched at Papamoa Community Kindergarten on August 16.

Fundraising by the Variety Bash helps meet the health and educational needs of more than 10,000 children every year.

Morris says childcare operator Kidicorp is a “perfect fit” for the bash, as both organisations are committed to building brighter futures for Kiwi children.

Kidicorp owner Wayne Wright says he can’t wait to see the Kidicorp truck on the road.

He says the organisation has a deep admiration for the important work the bash does to raise funds for much-needed resources.

“There’s so much colour and fun with its crazy collection of vehicles calling on communities all around New Zealand, but underpinning that is total commitment from its team members to raise funds for children.”

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Another renovation success for charity

From plain to impressive pavers No longer is the concrete paver simply a concrete block.

Homes of Hope’s largest safe house is sporting brand new carpet and lino thanks to the generosity of a Tauranga business.

Carpet Court recently tore up the seven-bedroom home’s flooring, including three bathrooms, two lounges, a dining area and kitchen, replacing it with top of the line materials.

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Carpet Court Tauranga manager Richard Stephens, house parent Jessie Sam and Homes of Hope chief executive Hilary Price. another home was extended and renovated by 34 tradies and businesses.

But Carpet Court’s managing director Richard Stephens says it’s not about their business, it’s about helping an incredible community cause.

“We’re not doing this to grandstand for us. This is about putting something into the community, and I’d encourage anyone who can help Homes of Hope with anything to do so.”

Richard says they met with Homes of Hope CEO Hilary Price recently to hear about the work they do with children who are victims of abuse.

“We just think they do a fantastic job and we wanted to do something tangible to improve their living standards.”

To help, Richard and his team re-carpeted and revinyled the entire home with SmartStrand rhino carpet and woodplank vinyl.

“It looks a million bucks now. Everyone up there was pretty happy with what we achieved,” says Richard.

Hilary says the 11-year-old home was well in need of some tender, loving care.

“Eleven years of wear and tear, love, tussle and tumble from more than 100 children had worn our flooring out. We are so very grateful to have this huge donation of materials and labour gifted to us.

“The home now looks and feels amazing, so thank you immensely to Richard and his team.”

By Corrie Taylor

Just ask Philip and Donna Cox at Paving Innovations Bay of Plenty, who believe their company brings an entirely new expression to outdoor living development.

Philip and Donna say their cut limestone, split granite, leather stone and fossilised paver finishes are a far cry from plain concrete.

“All our moulds, which we make the pavers from, are taken off natural stone moulds so customers are getting something that looks like a natural stone.”

Pavers are cast in six size options ranging from 360mm by 360mm to 550mm by 550mm, which enables pavers to be used in confined or narrow spaces as well as wider, open areas.

Having owned the business for 10 years, Philip and Donna strongly believe the rapidly growing region will benefit from such a diverse, flexible product in landscape and garden design.

Using unique features, impressive textures and a comprehensive selection of designer colours – Philip and Donna believe their range of paving is second to none.

“Our pavers promise to enhance or uplift any outdoor area. From contemporary residential to existing commercial, our range provides choices to suit any application.”

Manufactured in Tauranga from locally-sourced materials, Philip and Donna believe Paving Innovations products are competitively priced without compromising quality.

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Au pairs’ care reaches Bay farms Au pair Caroline Seifert looks after fouryear-old Jack Webb, while his parents Sam and Davina work on their Otamarakau dairy farm.

Photo by Elaine Fisher.

Au pairs are becoming an increasing addition to Bay of Plenty farming families during calving season, as parents seek extra help looking after their own young flocks.

German tourist Caroline Seifert is an au pair caring for Sam and Davina Webb’s 4.5 year-old son Jack while the husband-and-wife team get through calving on their Otamarakau 580-cow dairy farm.

Caroline is one of 33 au pairs working for 28 rural Bay families this year, according to agency Au Pair Link, which links NZ families with au pair workers.

Arriving late-February, Catherine has worked weekdays at the family household from 7am-10am and 3pm-6pm, leaving next Thursday.

This sees Davina work on-farm six hours daily.

“It allows me to help on the farm – I couldn’t do it without her,” says Davina.

“During calving last March I had to take Jack with me; it was horrible weather and easy to get sick, so I’m glad I’ve got Caroline here.”

Davina says Caroline has picked up English well and fits into the family, bringing German culture, cooking

and life experiences with her.

“It’s the culture, the food, everything. We rattle on and on, she gets our jokes, now she says she’s dreaming in English.”

Davina says BOP farming families are turning to au pairs for a cost-effective and culture-rich solution to a busy rural lifestyle.

“I think for people, as long as their house is set up for it, it works well.

“We have a separate bedroom and bathroom at one end of the house, giving Caroline her own space.

“Gone are the days of trying to drag young kids around the farm; I mean you can put them in truck for an hour or so – but then what? For us it’s like having a big sister for Jack.”

For Caroline, 18, the farming family experience also offers a different culture, lifestyle and chance to get up close with the outdoors.

“I’ve seen a cow have a calf – I’ve never seen that before.

“Because I’ve lived in a city it’s not that important for me to be in a city and out here I can see different things to back home.

“I now have a second family and maybe a friendship with them for life, which is really cool.”

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Art exhibition returns with a difference After a gap year in 2013, Bethlehem College’s longstanding Art Exhibition is returning – with a few changes.

Nearly 100 artists from the Bay of Plenty and throughout New Zealand will exhibit at The Arts Market @ The Cargo Shed from August 30-September 7.

The exhibition was shelved last year, partially due to continuing pressure on college facilities.

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college prevented students’ access to facilities essential to their dayto-day activities for a period of some three weeks.

The Cargo Shed manager, Kathy Sass, offered to host it this year to partly fulfil the shed’s mission to encourage art and creativity within the community.

Kathy’s husband Michael, whose grandchildren have attended Bethlehem College for 11 years, has always exhibited in the exhibition.

“Michael was not the only artist who missed the exhibition last year. In conversation with other

artists, he discovered that the loss of the exhibition was missed by all artists,” says Kathy.

Art is sold to the public with all profits going to Bethlehem College Arts. Due to lack of space, there will be no children’s section this year. The opening night is Friday, August 29.

“We are extremely honoured to have Penelope Jackson, director of the Tauranga Art Gallery, opening the exhibition this year,” says Kathy.

The exhibition will be open to the public from 10am-4pm daily.

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Covering walls with acoustic wall fabrics is a common practice among commercial businesses, but home offices, media rooms, rumpus rooms and children’s bedrooms can all benefit from this awesome product.

Available in either a tile or 12mm thick sheet form, and in a multitude of colours, these wallcoverings offer a colourful or neutral palate – or a mix of

both – for your walls to absorb noise, provide extra warmth and act as a pin board for ideas, creations, crafts and artworks.

The fabric helps with noise control in your home, or with surround sound in your media room or rumpus space.

You can cover just one wall or all, and mix up a couple of colours in your children’s bedrooms and let them go crazy with their own

posters of choice.

It’s also ideal for your home office to keep business conversations within your home office walls or use the wall space for attaching pins and important notes and papers.

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Books, books, and more books Bay of Plenty bookworms can get a bargain on books and more, at Otumoetai College’s PTA Book-a-Rama Fundraiser this weekend.

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Building dream homes at Palm Springs There’s lots of new home excitement in Palm Springs Residential Development in Papamoa, with house plans being finalised in preparation for people to start building their dream homes.

“Hawridge Developments has proven through Royal Palm Beach Estate and existing Palm Springs that we keep a high quality right throughout the development, to ensure people will have value wherever they build their dream home within Palm Springs,” says marketing manager Annemaree Crawford.

About 300 homes are already established in the original Palm Springs development. The quality and attention to detail continues with the development of

stages eight and nine, says Annemaree.

The comprehensively designed Palm Springs development features reserves, waterways, cycle paths and communal recreational areas, along with playgrounds and designs to capture the coastal feel being so close to the beach.

Annemaree says there are a few larger sections still available in stage nine, opening onto a reserve with water views.

“Very soon we will be releasing some smaller sections that also open onto the reserve, some with waterways – and

Barbecues and decks With the hint of summer on the way, now is a great time to check the condition of your deck.

It’s the responsibility of the property owner to ensure safety provisions such as balustrades, gates and stairs will not cause incident to the health and safety of young and old.

This weekend put five minutes aside for a quick once-over of your deck, to check timbers are sound and not soft with rot, and to pull vegetation away from timber posts and steps.

Even tanalised timber needs to breath, or it may start rotting from the inside out.

Grab a spanner and ensure bolts are tight, as when timber dries it shrinks dimensionally so bolts need tightening to take up the slack.

The higher the deck is off the ground, the greater the risk to human life if failure occurs.

So here are some detailed areas to check, which are often overlooked.

Where the deck meets the wall of the house, is there anywhere that water can sit or track into the house? Is there proper waterproofing around the cantilevered joists or around other joists that penetrate the house wall?

Are the balustrades or posts correctly connected to the deck or balcony structure? They should not wobble.

Check galvanised steel connectors are not corroding. Nails heads may have walked out, these are hazardous to small feet.

With a hammer and punch, knock them back flush. Now you’re good to go for another season of barbecues.

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Annemaree says Palm Springs is a truly sought-after destination. “Come and have a look.”

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School’s leaky classrooms spell rebuild Otumoetai College is set to undergo a major affected in the rebuild, which will be funded the ministry, says Dave. rebuild with more than half of the school’s by“The biggest problem we’re facing is this leaky buildings needing to be torn down. school was built for 1200 students, the roll is

technology block is also underway, with the ministry indicating minor repairs are needed on the pavilion, gymnasium, library and drama block.

Dave says the technology block cost $1.27 now 2000. At the moment it looks as though million to build in 1999 and is now costing we’re going to have 54 classes affected.” $1.4 million to fix the roof and Dave says the ministry external cladding. invested $11 million in the Ministry of Education case manschool for construction about ager Graeme Hamlen says it’s too 14 years ago, and those new or soon to confirm if and when the renovated buildings are now all buildings will be demolished. leaky buildings.

“There’s a master plan being He’s unsure of the exact cost developed for the possible future and when the restructure will of the school. There’s a lot of begin, but expects it will take money involved and a lot of planup to five years. ning, and the ministry hasn’t made The school has already spent a decision on which way it will go more than five years trying to yet.” repair the buildings damaged Graeme says there are number by heavy rain, says Dave. of other Bay schools with smaller “It’s a question of: Do you development issues – but OTC’s spend thousands of dollars leaky buildings are the biggest trying to fix it? Or do you Otumoetai College principal Dave Randall, in front of the problem. demolish it and rebuild

By Zoe Hunter leaky buildings. Photo by Tracy Hardy.

Principal Dave Randall says the English, science, maths, social studies and H blocks need to be demolished and replaced.

This means about 70 per cent of the school will be

a modern environment?

“We want to make the best resources available, both for my staff and my young people.

It’s just having an environment that’s more conducive to positive learning.”

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“It makes it so much easier for everyone,” says Natasha, who loved the classes so much she took them over last year from founder Diego Rosenburg.

Mummy Bootcamp is one of a few programmes aimed specifically at women, offered as part of Play in the Bay’s ‘Move it Month’.

“I put on 30kgs with my boys and I lost that. It’s very effective, lots of fun and very social,” says Natasha, who shares information about nutrition and wholefood diets in the programme she runs at the Mount and Papamoa.

She says the programme’s high intensity workout is the best way to build fitness and reduce waistlines, and believes many mums are a lot more comfortable in the women-only classes.

Mums can take part in a free trial of the one hour fitness class at Mount Sports Centre, Maunganui Rd, on Monday, 9.15am. For details or to register children for childcare call Natasha on 021 226 4018.

Women can also try out women’s group fitness sessions at Links Ave Football Park stands on Monday for early morning or after work classes.

The sessions, which are also run on Wednesdays and Fridays, run from

Helen Edwards, Natasha Biddle and Melissa Berg doing boot camp exercises. Photo by Bruce Barnard.

6.10am and 5.45pm. For details contact Naomi Cranston on 027 328 6797.

Another women’s programme on offer are outdoor fitness classes which aim to improve strength and fitness. Women can do their first class free on Tuesday, August 19 at 9am (Marine Parade cenotaph, details Diane Bomford 021 047 6155.

The full Move It Month calendar can be picked up at libraries or downloaded from www.sportbop.co.nz

By Hamish Carter

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Meila’s battle highlights heart awareness When Tauranga parents Chris and Linda Butcher welcomed their daughter Meila into the world on October 20, 2012, everything appeared to be perfect.

But it didn’t last.

They’re sharing their story in the hope of raising awareness of Heart Kids Awareness Month – a month dedicated to the one in 100 babies born in New Zealand weekly with a congenital heart defect.

“I’d had a very straightforward pregnancy, and Meila looked perfect – we were over the moon,” says Linda.

In the first few days Meila began panting and was having difficult feeding, so Linda took her back to Tauranga Hospital for a check-up.

“At three days old Meila was given an x-ray, echo and ECG. Our lives were turned upside down,” says Linda.

“We were told Meila had several severe congenital heart defects including coarctation of the aorta, aortic stenosis and bicuspid aortic valve…she

was in heart failure.” Since that day, Linda and her husband have been in and out of hospital seeing Meila through numerous procedures and appointments, including two open heart surgeries in her first seven months.

“Meila had her first open heart surgery at five days old to repair her aortic valve; the surgery took over eight hours.

“She had her second open heart surgery at seven months old. This was another repair of the aortic valve. After this second surgery Meila took off with her growth and development, which was a huge relief.”

Meila will be two years old later this year and is a happy, healthy little girl, says Linda, thanks to the amazing work of doctors, the and heart foundations.

“We are very grateful to have the support of the wonderful team at Starship Hospital, our local hospital and the BOP branch of Heart Kids.

“It has been great to meet other heart families through coffee groups and family days organised by the branch.

“I’ve recently

Meila was diagnosed with a heart condition at three days old.

joined the BOP Heart Kids Committee and I’m looking forward to meeting more families and being able to give something back.”

Meila’s next surgery will be a replace-

ment of her aortic valve.

To support Heart Kids BOP visit Bayfair this Saturday, where a raffle is taking place from 9am-6pm.

By Corrie Taylor

Meila will turn two this year.

Why does breathing right matter?

Apart from the obvious – and important – function of keeping us alive, the way we breathe can have huge downstream effects on our health and posture.

We are beautifully designed to breathe using mostly our diaphragm – a big thin muscle below our lungs.

For multiple reasons – smoking, asthma, chronic stress, pain and allergies – our breathing pattern can change, so we use our diaphragm less and our ‘accessory’ muscles in the chest and neck more.

During time this can lead to the headsticking-forward and rounded-shoulder posture.

It can also contribute to a stiff ribcage and tight neck muscles. These people often walk into the clinic with shoul-

der and neck pain, as well as headaches.

The diaphragm is also a key player in the ‘core’ team of muscles.

Faulty breathing can lead to a loss of core function and an unstable lower back, which can again lead to pain and injury.

Almost every client I see with recurrent back pain has a poor breathing pattern.

Moving downstream, our deep buttock muscles may tighten up to compensate for the slack core –this in

turn pushes the hip forward in its socket.

This can contribute to hip pain and degeneration, and you guessed it: hip replacements.

Other non-structural effects of poor breathing include anxiety, insomnia and poor digestion.

If this sounds like you, it would be a good idea to get assessed by someone who can look at your breathing and posture.

Exercises and manual therapy can help align the body and improve your breathing.

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Momentum Life Coach graduates happily receive their certificates.

The Bay of Plenty’s only face-to-face life coach training school is holding its final student intake for 2014 with courses beginning in September.

Momentum’s Life Coach trainer Sarah Lanigan is inviting people to attend a free information evening on Wednesday, August 20, at 6.30pm.

Sarah says their courses give participants the right tools to empower and motivate others to move forward and make positive change in their lives.

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They are set in a fun, comfortable and motivating environment.

“We teach a variety of tools. Everything from reoccurring pattern intervention, overcoming limiting self-beliefs, goal setting, communication skills, personality profiling, looking at values, and what drives people at their deepest core.

“It’s a positive, purposeful and constructive process,” says Sarah.

Momentum is aligned with the International Coaching Federation and its course framework is directly based on the ICF’s core competencies.

Two courses are available next month: Level One Life Coach Training provides a solid base of life coaching tools and skills, while Level Two Advanced Training – for level one graduates – focuses on business and workplace coaching, health and wellbeing.

This includes stress, mental/emotional causes of weight gain, relationship/couple coaching, and career/life purpose coaching.

The level one evening course, from 5.30pm9.30pm, begins September 9, with the day course from 10am-2pm starting September 12.

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“We judge others by their behaviour. We judge ourselves by our intentions.”

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When I try to understand another person’s intentions, rather than judging only their behaviour I’m often pleasantly surprised at what I discover.

Recently I had an experience where someone attempted to bully me. I told him to stop doing this to me and was astonished at how he responded – he appeared really surprised that I felt bullied by his manner.

I realised he saw his intention as completely different to how I perceived it.

This reaction helped me look beyond his behaviour and see more clearly what he intended, which he believed was wellmeaning.

What would help you see another’s intentions, rather than only judging their unhelpful behaviour?

If you would like to know more about coaching, phone Mary Parker for a complimentary session on 07 577 1200, or visit www.coachingtheattitude.co.nz

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Clinic newly earthquake-proofed Minor renovations at Tranquillo Beauty Clinic are now complete and owner Sue Dewes is inviting clients back to the newly earthquake-proofed salon.

Tranquillo Beauty Clinic owner Sue Dewes.

The Grey St clinic has been under minor construction during the last five weeks to earthquake-proof the building and Sue would like to thank loyal customers for their patience.

“We would like to thank all of our wonderful and loyal customers, who have been so patient and understanding with us during this time.”

Tranquillo offers a complete range of beauty treatments including unwanted hair removal, facial treatments, massages and nail treatments.

Sue says they stock high quality skin care products that are widely respected in the beauty industry, including Dermalogica, Environ,

Metabolic syndrome – a major health issue This week we take a look at metabolic syndrome, which is the name for a group of factors that increase your risk of heart disease, diabetes, stroke and other health problems.

If you have two or more of these factors, it’s likely you will also be weight loss resistant.

These factors include: Having a large waistline, high triglyceride levels –high levels of fat in your blood -, a low High-Density Lipoprotein cholesterol level, combined with a high Low-Density Lipoprotein cholesterol level, and high blood pressure.

Metabolic syndrome is closely linked to being overweight or obese, and can be the result of a number of lifestyle

and genetic factors.

Insulin resistance, where the body can’t utilise insulin effectively, may also increase your risk of having metabolic syndrome.

The syndrome is becoming very common; it rises in proportion to increases in obesity and diabetes numbers. It’s also considered by some experts to be the third health epidemic.

Your GP will suggest a blood test to check on your triglycerides and cholesterol levels and will routinely take your blood pressure and evaluate the girth of your waistline.

An HbA1c test is also recommended. This will give you an average blood sugar reading from during the last few weeks.

If your tests come back showing you are on the cusp of, or have diabetes, then you have blood sugar metabolism problems.

This mean you have too much glucose in your blood and are more likely to store fat than burn it in the normal way.

The good news is in many situations a few simple lifestyle changes can improve and sometimes reverse these problems.

It can be as simple as cutting down on the consumption of simple carbohydrates.

Don’t hesitate to contact me if you’d like a personal consultation.

Leigh is the founder of Eat for Keeps and can be contacted on 027 2941980 or by emailing www.eatforkeeps.com

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The beauty clinic prides itself on offering personalised, results-driven beauty therapy in a serene and relaxing environment.

“Our team of highly experienced

staff are passionate about delivering exceptional results and building trust and support with their clients,” says Sue, who has 20 years’ experience in the beauty industry.

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The cub pack runs Monday nights from 5pm-6.30pm. They’re also looking for a new space to hold meetings.

Anyone interested in becoming a cub leader, or has space available to host meetings, can contact Graham on 07 548 2843.

Today is National Scarf Day, where all keas, cubs and scouts are encouraged to wear their scarf for the day.

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Otumoetai Football Club is this weekend hosting a Waikato/ Bay of Plenty-wide football competition at Ferguson Park.

On Sunday 52 teams of keen footballers aged eight to 11 years old will compete in the day-long tournament.

Anyone is invited to watch, with games running 10am-2.30pm.

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Group leader Graham Morine has Papamoa Scouts Group is had to step in as a substitute leader in desperately trying to recruit new the meantime.

Found wandering homeless, this beautiful girl is now with ARRC and is looking for somewhere to call home.

She’s a little reserved at first, but it doesn’t take long for her to get used to new people. Then she always wants to be stroked and loved.

All of our cats up for adoption have been de-sexed and vet-checked.

Adoption costs $60 to help with some of the vet costs.

If you might be able to give her a home, or one of our other friendly felines, please call ARRC’s foster carer Maureen on 07 578 8335 or have a look at www.arrc.org.nz or Facebook.

Tauranga’s own toy tester Tauranga youngster Chaz Stensness will get a chance to do what every six-year-old dreams of when he becomes an official toy tester for The Warehouse.

The six-year-old is one of four children nationwide to be chosen for the 12 month job as part of The Warehouse's annual July Toy Sale.

Each month, the toy testers will receive up to $200 of brand new toys as well as $8000 cash for their family.

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Watching ‘The Z Nail Gang’ At Te Puke’s Capitol Theatre I was privileged to join 300 other excited guests on the red carpet for the world premiere of the locally-made movie, ‘The Z Nail Gang’.

After watching this amazing 90-minute Kiwi production the theatre erupted with loud cheering and applause.

It’s now screening locally and is a must-see.

These three star performers – Erroll Shand, Tanya Horo and Paul Ballard – were obviously enjoying it as much as I was.

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One builder lost I was at the markets on Sunday, chatting with a stallholder who was selling off stuff.

“Yeah, returned here from Sweden six months ago with my Swedish wife and baby.

“We wanted to raise the children here.

Was away for six years and now find NZ is not the great place it used to be. We are heading back to Sweden ASAP.” What’s the problem?

“Well, you can’t live on one income, which means you have to compromise parenting.

“The houses are poorly constructed and really cold. The land is being poisoned with horticultural sprays, the rivers are toxic, and the beaches are littered with rubbish.

“This place might be green, but it isn’t clean. We are much better off in Sweden.”

Changing politics for the better This week in Tauranga and the Bay of Plenty we filmed the NZ Independent Coalition’s opening and closing TV statements.

I’ve been talking to people from all walks of life, many of whom never voted in 2011 because they didn’t believe their voice was being heard.

They said to me politics was boring and politicians just do what they want anyway.

It’s a wonderful feeling to be taking

the first steps to change politics for the better – people first, above party politics.

New Zealand’s newest political entity is about empowering people.

I’m so pleased the NZ Independent Coalition has mechanisms to ensure people’s voices will be heard.

We are committed to involving real New Zealanders in the formation of our country, in the future of our country.

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Ensuring our children have a great education means we ensure New Zealand has a bright future.

Today’s children are tomorrow’s teachers, leaders and innovators.

Education is one National’s top priorities, so I’m pleased latest information shows Kiwi children are achieving improved results across the board.

I’ve been reading with interest newly-

released Public Achievement Information, which gives our children great marks.

It shows more than threequarters of more than 400,000 primary school children assessed in reading, writing and maths last year were at, or above, National Standards.

The information also means we can identify children who aren’t doing as well and in what areas, so they can get specific help.

This makes a huge difference long-term.

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Squash job for race comments Susan Devoy’s unhinged media outburst last week on Jamie Whyte’s call for legal equality highlights the need for the Office of Race Relations Commissioner to be disbanded and for Ms Devoy to resign now. She’s unqualified and quite unsuitable for the role.

The use of the words “grotesque, inflammatory and incredibly naive” would more accurately describe the operations of her office, including its propaganda appendages.

Let’s have the names of those that make up the Devoy ‘race team’ because the tutoring/ learning curve isn’t working while the politically incorrect indoctrination is clearly flourishing.

Act’s Jamie Whyte, NZFirst’s Winston Peters, Conservatives’ Colin

Craig and 1LawFor All’s Tom Johnston all have it absolutely right.

And Ms Devoy has it completely wrong, because she simply cannot or is unable to follow the simple concepts of democracy, justice and commonsense.

Equality is not negotiable, nor is there any place for race-based politics with special deals or for any non-elected racial representation on Local Government or Government committees or anything else.

Get rid of the Maori seats and Waitangi Tribunal too. No matter what bleeding hearts think, 85 per cent of Kiwis don’t want a bar of Ms Devoy or her cohorts’ philosophy - which simply ignores what they see as the ‘irrelevant majority’ doing so at their peril.

G Kelly, Papamoa.

Rena: Equal give and take needed Re: ‘Rena Decision: All about money’ (The Weekend Sun, July 25). According to the report the Crown didn’t consult with ‘local Maori’ over deed settlements. Not strictly true.

In 2013 the Crown wrote to 20 ‘local Maori’ groups inviting them to three consultation sessions from November 2013 in Wellington.

Few responses were received. The Crown intent to consult with ‘local Maori’ was evident. It failed partly in this procedure by not sending reminders to the 20 groups because the few initial responses received stated they wouldn’t attend unless travel and accommodation

expenses were paid by the Crown.

In this situation the two parties involved should ‘meet halfway’. Neither should expect the other to pay all expenses.

‘Local Maori’ shot themselves in the foot, so have no cause for complaint.

Nowhere in the Treaty does it indicate the Crown must come running to them every time Maori demand. But talks about a partnership means there must be equal “give and take” by both partners. Who paid for Waitangi Tribunal representatives to travel to Tauranga for the Rena hearing? Not ‘local Maori’.

R Bailey, Papamoa.

Aim frustrations in right direction Re: ‘Rena Decision: All about money’.

M Brooks’ earlier letters had some merit but now I find its boring.

She keeps banging her head up against a brick wall, getting nowhere, while Buddy and his supporters continue to receive “the dollars”.

Mary reminds me of being Mandelaress, in reverse, of NZ - or should it be Aotearoa? But she should aim her frustrations at her elected government.

Voting reminder:

If readers voted in referendums the Government’s ignored they’ll know it’s forgotten it’s here to serve the people. Politicians are dictating their own agenda.

It’s clear interest groups and international agendas will continue driving policy until we choose to stop them. It’s time to make that choice. September 20 is the opportunity.

Deborah Cunliffe, Ohauiti.

Write to the Sun Do you have an issue to raise? The Weekend Sun welcomes letters.

Preference is given to short letters (200 words), supplied with the writer’s full name and contact details. Photographs are best in high resolution and jpeg format.

Email: letters@thesun.co.nz

The National Government invented The Waitangi Tribunal, appointed chairperson Maori Land Court chief judge Wilson Isaac and the Minister in Charge of the Cheque Book. Maori are only ‘the claimants’. I can help her draft an application to the Crown to abolish the tribunal and Maori Land Court - and take the cheque book off the Minister then everything will be even and sweet.

Norman Tane, Omokoroa.

Contradicting position Foot and Mouth disease has broken out again in Tauranga, with Dame Susan Devoy slamming Act Leader Jamie Whyte’s statement to abolish race-based politics as grotesque and naive.

Dr Whyte is highly qualified and soughtafter globally. We’re so fortunate he’s returned to NZ to live, and irrespective of politics he’s the calibre of politician we need.

Dame Susan may be able to play squash, and has accepted this new role of race commissioner, but should think seriously about resigning when she condemns policies for racial equality.

It is in direct contradiction of her duties.

B Leonard, Otumoetai.

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Green decisions have grown: I’m a green voter and small business owner and I weigh up and make choices that in my mind will have the best outcome for the planet and all that live on it.

So Rogers Rabbits we have some things in common. I was brought up in a very conservative home in the 1950s-1960s, where we all reused, recycled, mended, grew vegetables and walked to school.

How green is that? We were constantly mindful of those who had less and helped with and gave to charities, local and overseas. Hope I’m not sounding holier than anyone but that’s what we all did.

Life has become more complicated.

Now I have to consider agricultural pollutants, tourism, impact of leisure activities, crop pollination, climate mitigation, people begging on streets, children without lunches, rivers not fit to swim in, exploitation of farm animals, degradation of native forests and constant threats to marine environments.

I vote Green because I care deeply about all these matters and the Greens have good detailed policy concerning them.

Julia Milne, Matua.

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Being Green is easy Kermit the frog sang ‘It’s not easy being green’, but he was wrong.

Rogers Rabbits - the description of your lifestyle and business indicates the modern exploitation economy can be avoided, and that makes you pretty green in my book.

However, adopting a green lifestyle results in many shades of green among those why try.

Your shade is a deep green, and we celebrate that.

But we also celebrate any who try.

You raise an important distinction.

Living a green lifestyle is not the same as being politically green.

The Green kaupapa regards a healthy environment as fundamental to human endeavour.

A green lifestyle involves efforts to reduce one’s own impact on the planet and is consistent with that kaupapa. Green politics aims to organise our society

in ways that endorse long-term survival of this same planet.

Thus, green politics will likely reject social and economic policies - for example that promote inequality, assign industrial costs to the commons, or increase stress on the environment.

The reality is few - if any - of us live a truly green lifestyle, whatever that might mean.

I fail to understand why that challenge justifies devaluing the opportunity for voters to support a policy framework that has environmental sustainability at its core.

Ian McLean, Green Party Tauranga candidate.

Hearts in right place, but not heads I loved the opposing views from Rogers Rabbits and Ian McLean in last week’s The Weekend Sun. I too feel the greenies among us are a tad condescending, sometimes ill-advised, not to mention hypocritical.

For example, the development of hybrid cars, like the Prius, seems a step in the right direction. However, do the greenies stop to consider where the raw materials for their batteries come from?

Open cast mining in many cases, which is arguably more environmentally damaging than oil production, considering the material is sometimes flown between countries during the manufacturing process.

How would they feel if we tried mining for nickel, the main material, in this country?

What about when the battery’s life is over? It has to be flown - a massive carbon footprint - to another country for recycling. Well-known Greenie and ex-Beatle Paul McCa-

rtney almost refused the Prius given to him because the carbon footprint created in getting the car to him was more than the car would eliminate in its lifetime. And guess what, hybrid cars still require: oil-based products to operate. So you might argue their production doubles the negative environmental impact.

Greenies, if you own a dog, it has a larger carbon footprint than a four-wheel-drive SUV due to its food, medicine and sundry accessory production. Are you going to get rid of your dog? I don’t think so.

Greenies harp on about this and that in relation to the environment - and while I support the basic concept of preservation, I’m wary of Greenist theories until all the facts are available and the concept fully investigated and proven.

Green hearts are in the right place, but not always their heads. And for that reason, I cannot trust their judgement.

Stu Donnaghy, Tauranga City.

‘Mirror mirror’ not helpful Ian McLean sure pushed Rogers Rabbits buttons. It was light the blue touch paper and stand well clear for poor old Ian. I’ve read Ian’s letter, scanned it for pinko green propaganda and hypocritical smugness, even read it backwards for subliminal communist intent, but I found none.

Just some guy who takes caring for the environment seriously and believes he’s under attack.

In response to potentially having Greenie views shoved down your throat, you adopted the Israeli defence - full missile attack, with logic and common sense-suffering collateral damage. But like you, I agree no part of the political spectrum

needs to be averse to looking after the planet and obviously you’re doing your bit.

I guess the Greens see big government rather than big business as more likely allies at slowing the pace of world destruction.

Once the smoke has stopped coming out of your lop ears and you get back to being funny in your fluffy way, it’d be nice to know you and Ian have made up and realised how much you have in common.

Doing the ‘Mirror mirror on the wall who is the greenest of them all’ thing probably isn’t helpful, and being savaged by a rabbit is scary.

P Dawson, Ohauiti.

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I read with interest Ian McLean’s letter and Rogers Rabbits’ response in the last The Weekend Sun. It is a good conversation to be having.

While many of us may aspire to living as sustainably as possible, you’re right in pointing out it’s very hard to do without the luxury of land, time, and most importantly knowledge.

If we talk about going off-grid, that takes a further requirement for capital investment. We’re increasingly reliant on fossil-fuelled transport, and sometimes we are just plain lazy and take a car for convenience rather than out of necessity.

Having a major news and information site that’s paperless like SunLive is fantastic, and I applaud you.

But we must remember technology has come very far and fast in the past

50 years and there are members of our community for whom reading the news online is not something that’s realistic.

When it comes to the big picture, however, despite our individual efforts to ‘be green’, with our gardens, worm farms, compost, recyclable shopping bags, and call for ‘paper not plastic’ etc, there has to be a movement for national and indeed global action with the realisation that climate change is a very real threat to our lives as we know them, especially in our coastal region.

We need representatives at that highest level, government, to ensure environmental issues are considered in all policy – fiscal, social and corporate.

Our planet and future depend on it.

Clare Wilson, BOP Labour party candidate.

We knew it: We knew it! RR is a closet Greenie. Congratulations on having

the courage to come out. Now let those of every shade of ‘green’ publicise, appreciate and celebrate all actions taken to walk softly on our planet.

Together, we will make a difference.

M Ware, Otumoetai.

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Stop new Greerton library - Bethlehem needs it A reported recent large drop in library usage at the Tauranga City library makes me wonder if Tauranga City councillors should really now proceed on building a new library at Greerton?

Instead of blindly paying $3.8 million on a new library at Greerton - after being pressured in to it by a few councillors, and loss shops out there - perhaps the project should be deferred?

Instead a library should be installed in one of the large empty shops in Bethlehem’s shopping centre to cater for the many people now in that area living in retirement villages, who have no access to a good library there?

It would make much more sense, as this is the only area not catered for. It would serve not only many at retire-

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ment age but several schools, which would take advantage of a library at the Bethlehem Town Centre.

Greerton and Papamoa people already have a library. There isn’t a library to serve the people of Bethlehem and the country area around it.

The current income being derived from the shops at Greerton by TCC would more than pay for shelving in a new library at the Bethlehem’s shopping centre.

Then TCC wouldn’t have to find $3.8m to build a new library at Greerton. The building is already there at Bethlehem, empty and waiting to go.

Doesn’t that make much more sense?

How about it guys?

L Askin, Bethlehem.

Families the real losers in plane tragedy As one New York-based analyst stated on TV: “this is turning in to an ‘Alice in Wonderland’ whereby the verdict is decided before the trial”.

The words ‘unconfirmed’ and ‘if ’ and ‘unsubstantiated reports’ sprinkle much of the reporting.

It has also been reported the US is sending FBI investigators to assist with the investigation.

I really like that one. As in other air crash investigations - for example Trans World Airlines Flight 800 in 1996 and Pan Am Flight 103 in Lockerbie in 1988 - their role will be to protect American interests, should facts start pointing in the wrong direction.

Like the recent MH370 disaster, this recent incident looks to be shaping up to be another full of twists and turns in which it becomes impossible to sift fact from fiction. The victim’s families become the real losers as political foes play off against each other like a game of chess.

I Lucas, Brookfield.

Once again the world reels in shock over yet another plane tragedy. This time an international passenger plane is shot down while passing over the battle zone in Eastern Ukraine.

Almost immediately (and probably not unexpectedly) the Western media has launched a campaign of blame against Russia, who are the backers of the Pro-Russian fighters in the area.

An emergency meeting of the United Nations saw members calling for an immediate investigation, while at the same time openly accusing President Putin of complicity.

Putin had, in fact, made an earlier call for an investigation - stressing that any investigation needed to be by a totally independent body of international experts.

Regardless of the truth, he knows the odds are stacked against him as political agendas take precedence over truth.

Walkers’ sign most unwarranted Re: ‘Historic steps’ safety questioned’ (The Weekend Sun, August 1).

The thought that someone sees a sign is required advising care is needed to negotiate the historic Mauao steps is abominable.

I don’t want an unnecessary sign desecrating a particularly beautiful sight.

If the elderly, with years of experience in managing daily risks, can’t assess their competence or ability in such a situation - and accordingly take a more docile route - we’re going to end up with a proliferation of signs at all perceived danger spots on Mauao. And by the way, I’m a bit older than your worried walker.

A Jones, Otumoetai.

Work together for the greener good It’s a pity the discussion between Rogers Rabbits and Ian McLean was reduced to so much name-calling and finger-pointing, albeit figuratively.

Most of us want to preserve the environment for ourselves and our children, but may have different ways of going about it.

We may associate ourselves with spe-

cific groups, or we may not.

We may promote certain practices or policies, but that doesn’t mean we think we’re superior. None of us are perfect and have to live in an imperfect world.

The environment is far too important to waste time in such destructive infighting - let us work together.

G Southon, Judea.

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E N T E R T A I N M E N T G U I D E The Weekend Sun’s ever popular guide to ‘What’s On’ in the Bay.

Friday 8 August

MUSIC

SPECIAL EVENTS

OUT THERE

News, reviews and opinionated raving on the music scene.

Community events and occasions across the Bay.

Stories, snippets, strangeness, and general entertainment.

Taoist Tai Chi

Mix & Mingle Friendship Group 60+

Weekend Activities for over 50’s

Exercise your body, challenge your mind. New class starts Aug 16 at 15 Koromiko St, Tauranga 9am. Caroline 548 1209

Mixed company of singles 60+ that meet once a week for coffee, enjoy social dining & events. Email: mixandmingle@ xtra.co.nz or 027 439 3267

Walks, dinners, movies, day trips & good times. Zeana 544 1513

At Katikati’s Little Blue House, Main Rd, Katikati Aug 8-27.

Marking the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I, featuring information about each Katikati soldier killed in the conflict.

Tauranga Primary School cnr 5th Ave & Cameron Rd every Sat 7.45am - 12pm.

Fresh & artisian produced food. Taste sampling Aug 16 from 8.30am - 12pm.

Trixie 552 5278 or www.taurangafarmersmarket.co.nz

Every Sun in Phoenix car park 9am 1pm. Fresh fruit & veges, breads, cheese, oils, plants & more. All home grown & home made. 575 9911 mountmaunganui. org.nz

Feeling anxious about that forthcoming presentation? Learn to speak with confidence. 1st, 3rd Mon at St Stephens Hall, Otumoetai 7.30pm. Fraser 544 4579

Saturday 9 August

Aug 16 - Display day at QE Youth Centre, 11th Ave, Tauranga. March past 10.30am. Marching starts 11am - 2pm approx. Come & enjoy the colourful displays.

On the grass by McDonalds 7am – 12.30pm. Stalls must be set up by 7.30am. Great range of goods for sale including fruit & vege, arts & crafts.

Fundraising stalls to support needy causes. $10 per car space. 542 2559 a/hs

Scrapbooking & Card Making Weekend

Fri 5.30pm - Sat midnight. $35 class (4 x cards or 1 x page with extras) Ph 0274 303 781 or deborah@cropnshop.co.nz

WW100 Exhibition

Alcoholics Anonymous

Women’s meeting at St Andrews, Dee St 10-11am. Children welcome.

Arms & Militaria Show

Tauranga Farmers Market

Tauranga Leisure Marching

Tauranga Rock n Roll Social Dancers

Aug 16-17 at Greerton Hall, Tauranga.

Displays & sales tables of all kinds of sporting & military firearms, edged weapons & accessories; military collectibles, books, medals, uniforms etc.

General public welcome.

Blue winter hop, 14 Norris St 6-10pm.

Entry $10 with plate of food for supper.

Pete 544 5556

Legacy Trust ‘Major Keys’: classical orchestral concert with Yoshiko Tsuruta, marimba. Graham Young Theatre 7.30pm. Tickets $10 - $32.

The Sociables

Bay of Plenty Symphonia

Cabaret Night of Glitz & Glamour

Hosted by the outrageous Diva Miss Ribena & the sisters of the moonlight lounge. Presented by Botanical Rd Kindergarten Aug 23. (Limited) tickets $60pp & include dinner. Vicky/Ange 578 4481

Cool Cars for Cure Kids

Aug 16 - Inaugural fundraiser. Fun for all the family with classic cars, hot rods, vintage cars, music, kids entertainment & more. Gold coin donations for Cure Kids & Red Nose Day. At Bethlehem Town Centre, 19 Bethlehem Rd, Tauranga 10am - 2pm. www.shopbethlehem.co.nz/whats-on

Fundraiser Movie Night

Tauranga NZ China Friendship Soc present film screening of ‘Hero’ at Tauranga Historic Village, 17th Ave 6.30pm. Tickets $20, door sales available, drinks/nibbles provided. Info on facebook page NZCFS - Tauranga Branch or Anita 027 362 2254

Genealogy Informal Group

How is your family research going?

Come & tell us. Meet at 92 Haukore St, Maungatapu 1.30pm. Sue 544 1751

Laughter Yoga

At Mount Studio 3pm. Wear comfortable clothes. Children free. $5.

Messianic Weekly Meetings

The Way meet in the Kingfisher Room, Arataki Community Centre, Zambuk Way, Mt Maunganui 10am. 570 1438

Mount Sequence Dance

Monthly dance at Mount Sports Centre cnr Hull & Maunganui Rds 7.30-11pm.

Good company, live band, great supper. Entrance $7. Organised by Mount Scottish Soc. Elizabeth 544 5633

Te Puke Genealogy

Meeting for new members in the Council Committee Room, via Te Puke Library 10am - 12pm. Graham 533 1571 30’s/40’ age group of males & females that meet once a week to socialise by dining out or participating in local activities & events. Men, we need you too! Email sociables@outlook.co.nz

Village Radio

Community radio broadcasting from Tauranga Historic Village 1368 kHz AM. Music of 1920’s - 80’s weekends 9am 5pm, weekdays 10am - 5pm. Specialty programmes. www.villageradio.co.nz or 571 3710

Sunday 10 August

Bay Bible Fellowship/Lord’s Day

Welcome Bay Primary School Hall, 309 Welcome Bay Rd. 10am praise & worship. Tom Griffiths teaching from Galatians 4:8-20 “Freedom to bondage why?”www.baybiblefellowship.co.nz

Bay of Plenty Symphonia

Legacy Trust ‘Major Keys’: classical orchestral concert with Yoshiko Tsuruta, marimba. Waihi Beach Community Centre 2pm. Tickets $10 - $32.

Bible Seminars

Every Sun at Greerton Senior Citizen’s Hall, Maitland St, Greerton 1.45pm.

Title: “How can I be part of God’s kingdom?” Interactive, Q&A. Refreshments provided. Vic 543 0504

Czech School for Children

With Czech/Slovak background every Sun at Arataki Community Centre 10am - 12pm. New members welcome. www.facebook.com/ ceskyaslovenskyclubtauranga, email: csclubtauranga@hotmail.com

Falun Dafa

Simple exercises to liberate your mind & energise your body. Free to learn. At Memorial Park by the fountain 1st & 2nd Sundays 10.15am. Judy 576 9683 or txt 021 0425 398 en.falundafa.org

Mount Mainstreet Farmers Market

Palm Beach Plaza Lions Market

Patches & Pointed Cat Club

Wonderful world of cats (show & seminar) at Katikati Memorial Hall & Lunge, Main St Katikati. Open to public 9.30am - 3pm. Admission $3 adults & children (students) 50c. All cat lovers welcome.

Petanque

Every Sun, Tues & Thurs at Cliff Rd 12.45pm. Boules available, tuition given.

1st 3 visits free. 578 3606

Radio Controlled Model Power Boats

Racing at Lake Taurikura off Taurikua Drive, industrial area of The Lakes Subdivision 10am. Follow the RC Boat signs. Brian 548 1334

Radio Controlled Model Yachts

Meet Sun & Thurs at pond behind 24 Montego Drive, Papamoa 1.30pm, to sail electron & similar 3ft long yachts for fun.

Beginners welcome. Graham 572 5419

Ribbon Parade

Waipuna Park, Welcome Bay, entries taken from 9am. All purebred dogs welcome.

Spiritual Centre, The Psychic Cafe

Greerton Community Hall, Greerton 7pm. Crystal ball, auras, tarot, reiki, mini workshops & more. Door charge $10, everything else free. 578 7205

Tauranga Acoustic Music Club

Blackboard concert second Sun at McSwiggans Irish Pub, 158 Cambridge Rd, Tauranga 2pm. Paul 579 2346

Tauranga Underwater Hockey Club

Baywave Aquatic Centre 12.30-1.30pm Juniors up to & including Year 10 students) 1.30-2.30pm Seniors (Year 11 adults) meet every Sunday unless an event on at Baywave. Lance 027 287 4731 or 578 7573

Te Puke Spiritual Discussion Group

1st, 3rd & 5th Sun of month at Hair Linez, old railway Station, Jellicoe St 10.30-11.30am. $3 door. Meeting of spiritual minds, to learn & share with each other. Elaine 573 5361 or FB Hair Linez.

Theosophical Society

‘The Dalai Lama’s message of peace’ at Tauranga Yoga Centre, Elizabeth St West 2pm. Entry by donation to cover expenses. June 576 6106

Monday 11 August Achieve Toastmasters

Badminton

Tauranga Badminton Club every Mon & Weds at Bethlehem College Events Centre 7.30pm. All players welcome. Sue 021 194 4335 or www.taurangabadmintonclub.co.nz

Bay of Plenty Pipes & Drums

Army Hall, 11th Ave & Devonport Rd 6.45pm. Annette 577 9272

Beginner Salsa Lessons

At Otumoetai Action Centre 6.45pm.

New intake every 4 weeks. Improver salsa lessons, walk in classes 7.45pm. $15 per class. www.baysalsa.co.nz

Bethlehem Bowls

Every Mon at Bethlehem Hall, Main highway 7.15pm. First 3 nights free.

Wendy 578 2585

Body & Soul Fun Fitness

For over 50’s, social events & guest speakers. Mon & Fri Greerton Hall Cameron Rd. Tues Wesley Church Hall, 13th Ave. Weds City Church cnr Otumoetai Rd/ Sherwood St. All classes 9.15-10.15am.

First class free. For men & women.

Dianne 576 5031 Qualified Instructor/ Cardiac Care leader.

GUIDE The Weekend Sun’s guide to who’s playing and where. cise set to music using the Bagot Stack technique, designed for women of all ages & abilities. First class free. Every Mon at Settlers Hall Omokoroa 9.30am & Tues St Johns Anglican Church Waihi 9.30am.

Dorothy 549 3378

Greerton Garden Club

2nd Mon of month at St James Hall cnr Devon St & Pooles Rd, Greerton 1pm.

You don’t Need a big garden to join. Jill 543 0390

Harmony a Plenty Barbershop Chorus

Every Mon at Bethlehem Community Church, Moffat Rd 7pm. New members welcome. 572 3345 or www.harmonyaplenty.co.nz

Junction Mental Health Peer Support

And advocacy, coffee & chat 10am – 12pm. 579 9890

Learn to Dance Te Puke

Every Mon at St Pats Hall, Beatty Ave 6.30pm. Sequence dancing for beginners & experienced dancers. Partners required for dancers. $3pp. Gordon 572 0060

Marlin Probus Club

Meet 2nd Mon of month at Club Mt Maunganui, Kawaka St 9.45am. Liz 572 1794

Meditation

Free classes Mon 10am & Weds 7.30pm.

Find peace, spiritual awareness & the meaning of your life. David 576 9764

Otumoetai Indoor Bowls

Chess Mt Maunganui

Champion Fours &/or Club Night, Matua Primary School Hall, Clivedene St 7.15pm. New members welcome. Karen 576 0443

Cherrywood Probus

NZSG meet in the Tohora room, Papamoa Community Centre 9.30am 2.30pm. Small door charge. Coffee/tea provided. Bring your lunch. 575 4674

Citizens Advice Bureau

Every Mon at Papamoa Sports 12.304pm. Counting & non counting tables.

Afternoon tea. $3 per session.

Mount RSA Chess Club every Mon at Mount RSA, 544 Maunganui Rd. Juniors 6.15-7.15pm during school term. Open club 6-11pm Noel 579 5412 Meet 2nd Mon at Tauranga Citizens Club, 13th Ave 10am. New members welcome. Pam 578 3757 Free, confidential info & advice about anything call in Mon - Fri at 38 Hamilton St, Tauranga 9am - 5pm or freephone 0800 367 222 or 578 1592. JP service every Mon 1-5pm, Weds & Thurs 9am 11.30am. Weds CAB service at Welcome Bay Community Centre 9.30am 12.30pm, Fri at Mount Library 11.30am - 1.30pm. No appointment necessary.

Community Volunteers Needed

Youth training programme which trains college students (14-17) to be active community volunteers in emergency services (land search & rescue, coastguard, rural fire). Meet weekly during school term. 12 weekend training activities during the year.

For info & application form go to www.ysartauranga.co.nz

Diabetes Support

Call the Diabetes Support Line Mon Fri for confidential & free diabetes advice & support 571 3422

Fitness League

Safe effective, low impact fun exer-

Papamoa Genealogy Branch

Papamoa Mah Jong Club

Papamoa Progressive Assn

2nd Mon of month at Dune Room, Parton Rd, Gordon Spratt Reserve. Ken 574 2332

Recycled Teenagers

Gentle exercise for 50’s forwards, & injury or illness rehabilitation. Mon & Weds, 14 Norris St, Tauranga Senior Citizens Club, behind Pak n Save. Tues at St Mary’s Church Hall, Girven Rd. All 9 - 10.30am.

Classes taken by qualified instructor. First class free. Jennifer 571 1411

Taekwon Do

The Silla Club train Mon & Thurs at Te Puna School Hall.

All ages welcome. Gwyn 0274 587 871

Tauranga Brass Band

Practice at Legion of Frontiersmen’s Hall, 165 Elizabeth St 7-9pm. New players welcome. Peter 572 4358

Tauranga Bridge Club

Sessions Mon, Weds, Thurs 7.30pm.

Tues & Fri 1pm. Social bridge Thurs 1pm. 252 Ngatai Rd. 576 5022

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The Weekend Sun Tauranga Civic Choir

New members welcome to join & rehearse every Mon 7.30-9.30pm. 574 6366

Tauranga Creative Fibre

Every Mon at Arts Centre, Elizabeth St from 9.30am. Spinning, weaving, felting, knitting, crochet & more. Learn & share in a mutually supportive club.

Also on Thurs evening twice a month.

Joan 577 6781

Tauranga Rock n Roll Club

Monday club nights 8-9.30pm. Lessons 7-8pm. Tauranga RSA Cameron Rd. Website: Taurangarocknrollclub.org Liz 578 9063 after 5pm.

Tauranga RSA Indoor Bowls

Mon report 12.45pm for 1pm start.

Club Fours – Trophy. Weds 3.45 for 4pm start. Junior Club Fours – Trophy.

Leanne 570 0154

Tauranga Senior Citizens Club

Cards, 500 & Bridge Mon & Thurs.

Indoor Bowls Tues, Weds & Sat at 14 Norris St, behind Pak n Save 1-4pm.

Register by 12.45pm. $2 includes afternoon tea. New members welcome.

Tauranga Senior Citizens Club Indoor Bowls Every Mon at St Columba Church Hall, 502 Otumoetai Rd 1-4pm. Names in by 12.45pm. $3 entry includes afternoon tea. New members welcome. 571 6663

The Writing Project

For people who are working on a piece of writing or who would like to be. Meet 7pm. Kaye 07 218 1411 or 021 239 7142

Toughlove Parent Support Group

Every Mon at Totara House, 1428 Cameron Rd, Greerton 7-9pm. No need to register. 543 3194

YMCA - ALFS

(Active lifestyle for seniors). Smooth Movers class Mon 9-10am & 10.1511.15am at Matua Community Hall, Levers Rd. Also 9-9.55am & 10-10.55am at Arataki Hall, Zambuk Way (off Grenada St). Tues 9.1510.15am & 10.30-11.30am at Papamoa Community Centre, Gravatt Rd. Weds 9.15-10.15am Welcome Bay Hall, Welcome Bay Rd. First class free. Thurs 9-10am at Otumoetai Action Centre, Windsor Rd. Also 10.30-11.30am at Bethlehem Hall, Bethlehem Rd. Fri 9.15-10.15am at Papamoa Community Centre, Gravatt Rd. Also Fri at Papamoa Library 10.20am. 578 9272

Tuesday 12 August 2014 @ The Clothesline

Quality pre-loved clothing babies - adults 50c - $2, & prayer for the sick. 36D MacDonald St, Mt Maunganui 10am - 2pm.

ABC - Avenues Badminton Club

Every Tues at Tauranga Intermediate School Sports Centre. Juniors 6-7.30pm (term time), seniors (adults) 7.309.30pm. Club racquets & coaching available. Delwyn 027 212 4720

Active Nutrition Women’s Fitness Class

Every Tues & Fri meet at Mount cenotaph, Marine Pde 9am. Aimed at women 35 & over. Improve strength, core & flexibility, have fun. Free introductory class, $8 thereafter. 0210 476 155 email: info@activenutrition.co.nz

Altrusa Club of Tauranga

Women’s community service group.

Dinner & business meeting 2nd Tues.

Social programme 4th Tues monthly.

Interested? Denise 570 3134

Amicus Probus Club

Meet 2nd Tues of month at Tauranga Citizen’s Club 9.30am. Speakers, morning tea, friendly atmosphere. New members welcome. Frank 573 3392 or 022 103 5770

ABC - Avenues Badminton Club

Every Tues at Tauranga Intermediate School Sports Centre. Juniors 6-7.30pm (term time), seniors (adults) 7.309.30pm. Club racquets & coaching available. Delwyn 027 212 4720

Arataki Table Tennis

Every Tues at Arataki Community Centre 7.30pm. Social table tennis. $4 per player.

Badminton (Social)

Every Tues at Otumoetai Baptist Hall 9.30am - 12pm. Racquets available. All welcome. Lorraine 579 3229

Balmorals Leisure Marching Team

Ladies welcome to join aged 20-60 for fun, friendship & travel. Training every

Tues at Greerton 6-8pm. Anita 571 4096 or 021 0257 6094

Bayfair Petanque Club

Every Tues & Thurs at Bayfair Reserve, Russley Drive 1pm. Tuition & boules available for learners & visitors.

Margaret 572 3173

Bethlehem Pottery Club

Tues & Thurs at 13 Bethlehem Rd 10am - 3pm. Jane 552 0046

BOP Shirley Club Walking Group

Every Tues outside the Mount Surf Club 9.20am. Easy walking.

Cafe jaunt after. See you there.

Excel Toastmasters

Meet every 2nd, 4th & 5th Tues at Arataki Community Centre, Zambuk Way, Bayfair 6.15-8.30pm. Learn leadership & public speaking skills. Kaaren 572 5988

Inachord Chorus Womens 4 Part Harmony

Every Tues at Bethlehem Community Church, 183 Moffat Rd 6.55pm. Enjoy the challenge of singing & performing varied repertoire. Cathy 579 2040 email: inachordchorus@gmail.com

Israeli Dancing

Beginners class every Tues at Gate Pa Primary School Hall, Cameron Rd 7-8pm. All ages welcome - no partner required. Maria 544 1680

Join Peter Wells

Peter Wells, author, will be talking on his book ‘Journey to a Hanging’, the story around the murder of Rev Volkner in Opotiki in 1865. Held at Tauranga City Libraries CBD branch 5.30pm.

Books for sale & book signing. Free Books a Plenty event.

Mount Morning Badminton

Every Tues at Mount Sports Centre, Blake Park 9am - 12pm.

Social, competitive, all ages. Beginners welcome. Racquets available. Visitors $5 per session. Maxene 575 0162

Mount Social Table Tennis Group

Every Tues at Arataki Community Centre 7.30-9.30pm. Friendly social all levels. $4. 575 2048

Orange City Square & Round Dance Club

Tues class 10am - 12pm. Weds, plus, Thurs club night & new dancers.

7.30pm, Frontiersmen’s Hall. 543 1063

Otumoetai Toastmasters

Leadership skills, speaking skills. At Lyceum Club rooms, 68 1st Ave 7.159.30pm. Allan 544 5989

Overeaters Anonymous

Is your eating affecting the way you, or someone else, live your lives? Overeating, undereating - meet every Tues at Church of Christ, 1400 Cameron Rd 7-8pm. 544 1213

Saintly Shakers Preschool Music

Every Tues at St Peter’s Church, Victoria St, Mt Maunganui 10-11am & Thurs at St Mary’s Church, 1 Marlin St, Bayfair 9.30-10.30am. School term only. Music, dance, play, fun & morning tea.

Sequence Dancing

Tauranga Social & Leisure Club.

Every Tues at St John’s Anglican Church Hall, 94 Bureta Rd, Otumoetai 7-9.30pm. Second Tues of month 3-5.30pm. Visitors welcome. John 578 9716

Tauranga Toastmasters

Tga Lyceum Club 7.15-9.30pm.

Confidence building, speaking skills, leadership skills. Alan 544 5989

Wednesday 13 August Age Concern Walking Group

Meet at Welcome Bay Palmers garden centre 10am. 578 2631

Badminton Mt Maunganui

Weds club night at Mount Sports Centre, Maunganui Rd 7-9pm. Past new players welcome. Janice 575 2438 or 027 201 0529

Baywide Community Law Service

Drop in clinic every Weds at 63 Willow St 5-6.30pm. No appointment necessary. Free legal assistance. 571 6812. Every Tues morning at Te Puke Clinic. For appointment 573 5614.

Every Thurs morning at Katikati Clinic.

For appointment 549 0399

Bethlehem Mah Jong Club

Every Weds at the Pavilion, Kempton Park Village, 40 Te Paeroa Rd, Bethlehem 1-4pm. Arrive 15 mins before play so tables can be allocated. Mah Jong lessons available for beginners (by prior arrangement only). Shona 552 6230

Birds BoP

Speaker: Julian Fitter, Maketu Ongatoro Wetland Group “Biodiversity & habitat on the spit.” At Arts & Crafts Centre, Elizabeth St West 7pm. Gold coin donation to cover costs.

Borderline Personality Disorder

Support group for people who have a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder 1-2pm. Ph Junction 579 9890 for info or if you need a ride.

Bromeliad Meeting

At Yacht Club, Sulphur Pt 12.302.30pm. Change of speaker: John Beech, organiser of Garden & Arts Festival 2014. Plant of the month: Vrieseas. Sales table. Visitors welcome.

Lynley 576 7711

Cribbage Club Tauranga RSA Greerton

New members wanted, all ages. Every Weds 1-3.30pm. Entrance $3. Robert 579 1342

Diabetes Help Tauranga

Diabetes Support Group at Arataki Community Centre, Zambuk Way, Mt Maunganui 2pm. Anyone living with diabetes welcome. Deborah 571 3422

Fernlands Spa Water Exercise Classes

Weds 10.45-11.45am held rain or shine but not during school holidays.

New participants planning to attend ph Jennifer 571 1411

Gate Pa Indoor Bowls

Brookfield New World Open Fours Tournament at Greerton Hall 7.30pm.

Names in book. Plate for supper please.

Kevin 543 4044

Global Hearts Exercise Group

Weds 2-3pm & Fri 11am 12pm. Provides group activities combined with health education that encourages members to live a healthy & active lifestyle. Supported by NZ Heart Foundation. Mark 0274 444 945

Greerton Gold Leisure Marching Team

Club night at Greerton Hall, Tauranga. Names in by 7.15pm. Mary 541 0687

Ladies all ages invited to join them for fun, fitness & friendship every Weds at Morland Fox Park 8-9.30am.

No experience required. Marion 578 1108

Exercise your body, challenge your mind. New class for beginners starts Aug 19 at 15 Koromiko St, Judea 12.30pm. Ann 577 9145

Every Weds at Bethlehem Town Centre, corner shop behind PO 1-3pm. Christian prayer for healing.

021 110 0878 healingrooms.co.nz

McSwiggan’s Irish Pub, 158 Cambridge Rd 7.30pm. Friendly jam sessions. Sing, play or just listen. Paul 579 2346 or www.tamc.org.nz

Every Weds at Welcome Bay Community Centre, W/Bay Rd, behind hall 4.15-5.45pm. For girls aged 7-11yrs (yr 3-6). Badges, games, stories & more. Carolyn 544 0400

South City Indoor Bowls Club Taoist Tai Chi

Tauranga Acoustic Music Club

Tauranga Astronomical Society

Main programme Mercury & Venus 2 very hostile planets. At Fergusson Park Observatory 7.30pm. Telescope viewing weather dependent.

Tauranga Morning Badminton Club

Every Tues & Thurs at QEII Youth Centre, Memorial Park, Tauranga 9-11.30am. New players & visitors welcome. Heather 574 0976

Tauranga Scrabble Club

Tues at Tauranga Bridge Club, Ngatai Rd 9am. 3 games $3.

New players welcome.

544 8372

Healing Rooms

ICONZ for Girls

Kiwi Toasters

Learn to speak with confidence & grow leadership skills. Meet 2nd & 4th Weds at Te Puke Hotel 5.30-7pm.

Guests welcome. Chrissy 543 9493 or c.meyer@xtra.co.nz ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Support BOP Held 10.30am. Speaker: Physiotherapist Ineke Riley-Stol. All welcome. Tina 281 1480 or email: tina@mebop.org.nz

Mt Maunganui Indoor Bowls

Play Weds nights & Sun afternoons. Allen 575 0059

Omanu Probus Club

For fun, friendship & fellowship monthly every 2nd Weds at Club Mount, Kawaka St 9-11.30am. Visitors welcome. Margaret 575 8975

Otumoetai Care & Craft Group

Every Weds during school term at St Columba Church, Cherrywood 9am - 12.30pm. Dawn 576 7783

Pasifika Playgroup

the answer for building confidence & leadership skills. To find a club near you email: LaniDTM@gmail.com or 571 1545. http://cityearlystart.toastmastersclubs.org

T.S Chatham (Sea Cadets)

Weds during school term at TYPBC, Keith Allan Drive, Sulphur Pt 6.15-9pm.

Micah 021 336 719 or cucdr@tschathamorg.nz or www.tschatham.org.nz

Yoga with Ocean Views

Presented by Pacific island Community Tauranga Trust, 562 Cameron Rd every Weds during school term at Gate Pa School 9.30am - 12.30pm for 01-6yr olds. Parents/ caregivers welcome. Music, stories, dance & activities. Free entry. Emma 577 1270

Every Weds & Fri 9.30am & Tues 7pm at Fergusson Park, Matua. Stella 021 0249 6390

Fredi Jones - Tenor, accompanist Daphne Christophers, at St Andrew’s Church, Dee St, Mt Maunganui 2pm.

Starts Aug 21 at Greerton Hall, 1247 Cameron Rd 8pm & Aug 22 at Tauranga Primary School Hall, 5th Ave 7pm. Learn rock & roll, cha cha, waltz & more. Sonia, Supreme Dance Centre 544 2337 or 027 322 1786 or just turn up.

First lesson free.

Recital

Scottish Country Dancing

Weds at Senior Citizens Hall, Maunganui Rd Beginners class 6pm, regular class 7.30pm. Fri at Papamoa Primary School Hall, Dickson Rd 7pm Children over 8 years welcome. 573 5055

Thursday 14 August

6- Week Social Beginner Dance Class

Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting

Table Tennis Tauranga

Salvation Army, Eversham Rd, Bayfair 7.30-8.30pm.

Taoist Tai Chi

Every Thurs at Tauranga Army Hall 6-9.30pm. Ages 13-17 youth development with a military flavour. Email: admin@ wbopcu.org.nz

At Memorial Hall, QEYC every Weds 1-3pm & 7-9pm & every Fri 7-9pm. All welcome. Bill 578 1662 www.sportsground. co.nz/tabletennistauranga Beginners class at 15 Koromiko St 5.30pm.

578 9116

Tauranga Mid-Week Tramping Group

Karangahake Mountain via Scotsman’s Gully, southwest track to trig & out on Country Rd. Grade moderate, approx 5.5hrs. Pat 544 0670

Tauranga Pryde

For gay, lesbian, bi, trans & intersex youth & friends or questioning. Social & support, 4.30pm fortnightly. FB Tauranga Pryde or 09 376 4155

Tauranga Floral Art Group

Meet at Baptist Hall cnr 13th Ave & Cameron Rd 1-3pm, plus Saturday 9.30-11.30am following the Wednesday. New members welcome. 572 2193

Tauranga Opera Forum

The Flying Dutchman - Richard Wagner’s nautical romance at Tauranga Club 5.45pm.

Complimentary wine, finger foods, lucky ticket draw & opera screening. Tickets from Creative Tauranga. Info 928 5270

Te Puke Toy Library

Weds - Sat at 248 Jellicoe St opp Atuaroa Ave, Te Puke 9.30am - 12pm. 021 130 6476

Toastmasters - City Early Start

Improve communication, leadership & teamwork skills. Every Weds at Classic Flyers Avgas Cafe 6.45-8.15am. Toastmasters is

Army Cadets (WBOP Cadet Unit)

Citizens Advice Bureau Tauranga

Te Pou Whakawhirinaki O Aotearoa AGM Aug 28 at St Stephens Church, Brookfield Tce, Otumoetai 10am.

Club Mt Maunganui

Social games club. Every Thurs 1.45pm.

Play indoor bowls, 500 & bolivia. John 575 2422

Community Bible Study International

Join us at 14th Ave Gospel Centre 10am - 12pm for a non denominational in-depth Bible study until Sept 25. Jack/Betty 544 3809

Envirohub AGM

At TECT Theatre, Historic Village, 17th Ave 5.30pm. All welcome. RSVP 578 6664 or email: tauranga@envirohub.org.nz

Fitness League

Safe, effective, low impact exercise to music using the Bagot Stack technique, designed for females. All ages & abilities, complementary first class, every Thurs Central Baptist Church Hall, cnr 13th Ave & Cameron Rd 9.30am & Weds at Katikati Memorial Hall 10am. Pam 549 4799 or 021 117 170

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By Winston Watusi

The Bay’s sound of music Maybe it’s because it’s August. Is it spring already? For whatever reason, the Bay is alive with the sound of music.

Some weeks are a little quiet and I can witter on at a little more length. Other weeks it just the facts – this is one of those weeks.

Consider it a public announcement, a little community service from your community newspaper. We’ve got reggae, folk, blues, jazz and more, that is harder to categorise, all happening between Sunday and Sunday.

Let’s start at the very beginning.

This Sunday, August 10, there’s another chance to see and hear Alice Sea. I strongly suggest you take it. The duo comprises of Aaron Saxon on acoustic guitar and the extraordinary Alice Foote on all sorts of other stuff: percussion, flute, guitar, didgeridoo, and more.

And she’s a fantastic singer. They play everything from radically-rearranged looped covers to stunning originals – the highlight last time was a jaw-dropping Latino instrumental of Aaron’s – with great musicianship, harmonies; the full works.

Honky tonk sounds

Also on the bill is high-energy American pianist David Hull, a specialist in honky tonk, boogie woogie, and probably any other rhyming piano style. Things happen at 5pm at the Citz Club and cost $10.

Take a breather for a couple of days, then head down to Brewers Bar at the Mount on Wednesday, August 13, to catch some Hawaiian reggae.

Kolohe Kai is a cheerful six-piece who are currently breezing round the country on their Paradise Tour. Check their website. I suspect they have a Christian component to their music – which might explain that cheerfulness – and they’re even advertising on telly.

book online your classified listing in either ... for only $20+gst up to 20 words any queries call Tasha 07 928 3042

sunlive.co.nz/members all things French. Come & meet like minded people every second Thurs at Brooklyn Eatery, The Strand between 4.30-6.30pm. Email Andrea: agohns@yahoo.co.nz Happiness & Our Mind Drop in meditation classes. Classes are selfcontained so start any date, beginners welcome. Cost $14 per class.

Otumoetai Plunket, 59 Otumoetai Rd. Monthly classes - next class Aug 21 7-8.30pm. www.meditateintauranga.org

Junction Mental Health Peer Support And advocacy: Addiction

Support Group 1-2pm. 579 9890 for info or if you need a ride.

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Love the blues?

Or perhaps folk music is a bit laid-back for your tastes. How about a shot of Chicago blues? The same night Brew Bar on The Strand is celebrating its first birthday with well-travelled bluesman Mike Garner and his band.

Mike has performed in England, Australia, Italy, Germany, New Caledonia, the Cook Islands and at the Himalayan Blues Festival, Kathmandu, in 2009. He played in San Francisco in 2012 and recently returned from a 10-day tour of Japan.

Accompanying him will be guitarist Stewart Martin, Stuart Lawrence on bass and Warren Houston on drums. Things kick off at 9pm and it’s free. And can I just offer a big swoop of the cowboy hat to Brew. Happy birthday; thank you for a year of interesting and varied music – good job!

But it’s on Saturday, August 16, with the most potentially interesting thing happening.

At the Historic Village Hall, the Tauranga Film Society is presenting a performance of ‘The Snapper Sandwich’ by Wellington film maker Tony Burt. This sounds

Tauranga musician Alice Sea in action.

absolutely fascinating.

Filmed in the Cape York area of Northern Queensland and in New Zealand, the film mixes Tony’s own story with others, combining Aboriginal, Maori and Pakeha themes of identity and belonging. Most interesting is that it’s accompanied by music including original compositions played live by Tony, who is a very impressive slide guitarist.

This is a great chance to experience a cool and innovative form of live performance documentary. It’ll be unlike anything you’ve seen before and I suspect will be brilliant.

For more information or to reserve your place contact Michael O’Brien at michael. obrien@paradise.net.nz or on 07 576 7575.

It happens at 7pm and costs a mere $5.

And I’ve almost run out of space for the jazz: Australia’s Dixie Street Jazz Band is playing at Katikati’s St Peter’s Church Auditorium on Sunday, August 17, at 4pm.

Admission is $25 and includes light refreshments.

(Pause for breathe). Till next week.

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There are various support acts; ‘The Snapper Sandwich’ things kick off at 9pm and cost $35.

by Wellington film And on to Friday, August 15, when maker Tony Burt. you have a choice of entertainment.

If you’re in the Katikati area you might fancy the Folk Club, where you can hear Mark Laurent and Brenda Liddiard.

The well-respected duo are both songwriters with their own styles, so the effectively function as each other’s backing band. Mark leans towards acoustic rock, blues and reggae, while Brenda’s songs tend to be new folk and alt country. As usual the concert is at the Bowling Club, starting at 7.30pm, $20 entry or $15 for members.

D I T H E R O E D I C T S

Fresh meat info nights for anyone interested in learning more about what roller derby is about. At Groove Bar, Hamilton St opp fruit & vege shop) 7.30-3pm. Kid friendly event.

Keynotes 4 Part Harmony Women’s chorus meet every Thurs at Wesley Church Hall, 13th Ave 6.45pm.

Sing for fun & health. Nora 544 2714 Mainly Music Every Thurs at St Enoch’s Church, 16th Ave 9.30am. $3 per family. New members welcome. 578 3040 More Than Craft Every Thurs at Greerton Bible Church Hall cnr Chadwick Rd & Oropi Rd 9.3011.30am. 10 crafts with talented tutors. June 544 0823 Mount Art Group Every Thurs at St Peter’s Church Hall, 11 Victoria

Rd, Mt Maunganui 9am - 1pm.

Visitors welcome. Merilynn 575 6777

Mt Maunganui Creative Fibre

Every Thurs at Arataki Community Centre 9am - 1pm. Share & learn spinning, weaving, crochet, knitting, felting & other creative crafts.

Visitors & new members welcome.

Jan 574 1265

Petanque Tauranga/BOP Club

Every Thurs & Sun at Cliff Rd venue 1pm start. Jo Ann 578 3606 Salsa on the Strand Every Thurs at La Mexica presented

by Bay Salsa. Intro class 8pm followed by social dancing. Really social, no partner required. $2 entry, members free. www.baysalsa.co.nz

Tauranga Heart Support Group

Phase 3 rehab exercise, social events & guest speakers for those with or at risk of heart disease. Every Thurs at City Church Hall, Otumoetai Rd/ Sherwood St 9.30-10.45am. Men & women welcome. Dianne 576 5031 Qualified instructor/Cardiac Care leader.

Tauranga Mixed Probus Club

Monthly meeting at Carmel Country Estate Social Centre, 11 Hollister Lane 10am. Guest speaker: Dr Hamish MacMillan. Maureen 544 5013

Tauranga Model Railway Club

Every Thurs & Tues 7.30pm. Ed 543 1108 Tauranga Pryde Youth Group For lesbian, gay, bi, trans. Meet 6.30pm 1st & 3rd Weds of each month & 2nd & 4th Thurs. 22 3536 968

“What’s On” is a FREE service for non-profit clubs & organisations.

Email julie@thesun.co.nz or Fax 571

Tauranga Rock n Roll Social Dancers Authentic music -

DJ Pete, every Thurs at 14 Norris St, behind Pak n Save 7.30-9.30pm. $3 entry pp supper included. Maria 576 7326 Tauranga Storytellers’ Group Meet last Thurs of month. Learn how to develop your storytelling skills. Claire 577 7220 Tennis Seniors WBOP Every Thurs at Tauranga Lawn Tennis Club, Wharepai Domain, Cameron Rd 9am - 12pm. $3 ball fee. New members & visitors welcome. Lynda 575 0627 Te Puke Table Tennis Club Every Thurs at Te Puke Intermediate School Hall 7-9pm. Ted 573 7216

Toastmasters - Kickstart Club

Have fun while learning to speak confidently. Breakfast meeting at Alimento Cafe, 1st Ave, Tauranga 7-8.15am. Guests welcome. Helen 571 6181

Friday 15 August

10-Pin Bowling Quicksilver League

Every Fri at 13th Ave 10.30pm. Come for a fun morning. Play in pairs. New members welcome. Ngaire 575 3806 Alcoholics Anonymous Open meeting every Fri at Hamner Clinic, 1235 Cameron Rd, Greerton (behind Tyremaster) 7.30pm. 0800 229 6757 for more meetings or assistance.

Chess Tauranga Every Fri at Tauranga RSA, Greerton 6pm onwards for the whole family.

Werner 548 1111 http://www.westernbopchess.weebly.com/

1116 or post to PO Box 240, Tauranga.

Deadline 3pm Tuesdays.

Dinner/Dance The Dix-

ieland Jazz Band playing at Te Puke Golf Club.

Tickets $25 each, includes 2 course meal followed by jazz music. Dinner 7pm. To book 533 1832 Documentary Nights Every 2nd Fri at 7pm. Many interesting & thought provoking subjects covered. Kim 576 9427 or 027 285 9611 Family History Month Every Fri in Aug in the NZ Room, Tauranga Library 11am - 4pm, a genealogist is on duty to assist with your research.

Heather 578 1689

Free Immigration Assessment

By Licenced Immigration Adviser.

Tauranga Multicultural Ethnic Council, Historic Village, 17th Ave. For appointment ph Iryna Stewart 543 9125 or 021 0226 2619 Free Immigration Clinic Every Fri - legal advice & information on immigration issues. For appointment, Baywide Community Law 571 6812 Fundraising Quiz Night Sept 26 at Otumoetai Golf Club 7pm. $60 a team - up to 6 people in a team.

Limit of 15 tables. Spot prizes & fundraising auction. Melanoma Foundation fundraiser. To reserve a table email aegissecurity@xtra.co.nz or Heather 021 323 535 Gay/Bi Men Support Group Do you need a trusting person to talk to? Discretion assured.

For meetings & locations ph/txt Alex 027 358 5934

Greerton Indoor Bowling Club

Amity Triples at Band Hall, Yatton St. Names in by 7.15pm. Sally 571 8914

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Devilishly popular tour coming to Tauranga Since releasing their first album on July 11, renowned band Devilskin have embarked on a nationwide tour, headed for Tauranga this month.

The heavy metal band, comprised of Paul Martin, aka The Axeman, on bass, Jennie Skulander on vocals, Nic Martin on drums and The Nail, formerly of Chuganaut, on guitar, will hit the stage at Brewers Bar on August 23.

Speaking to the Weekend Sun, Paul says the tour is amazing.

“Being on tour, you’re band members 24 hours a day, no day jobs, mundane chores or daily grind to worry about – just the music and the live shows.

“The crowds have been incredible with almost every show completely sold out. It’s been great to meet so many people that are into our music.”

For Paul the stand out moment of the tour so far has been seeing so many people singing along to their songs.

Devilskin’s ‘We Rise album’ was four years in the making and Paul says the lyrical composition comes from a variety of inspirations.

“Lyrically the songs I wrote are about life/love/motivation and introspection. Jennie’s lyrics are varied too, relationships feature a bit, one song Paul Martin, Jennie Skulander, Nic Martin and The Nail.

Ria is visiting the college on August 21 – to mentor NCEA Level 1 and 2 music students in songwriting, performance and career options as part of the NZ Music Commission Musicians Mentoring in Schools Programme.

Music teacher Katrina Wickham says the mentorship programme helps students not only gain NCEA credits, but gives them a real-life perspective into a

career in music.

“It’s teaching them that it’s not just a school assignment that we’re working on; we are musicians and we can create our own music.

“Writing our own songs is a valid way of expressing who we are.”

A former Tauranga Girls’ College student, Ria has collaborated with artists including J. Williams, Fly My Pretties, and Papamoa musician Tiki Taane.

Her recent duet – ‘Aotearoa’ – with

By Letitia Atkinson

The Weekend Sun has a copy of their new album to give away to a lucky reader to who can tell us who we spoke to from the band.

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

Entries must be received before Wednesday, August 13.

Making musical memories with students Tauranga-raised musician Ria Hall, who recently made a duet with Stan Walker, is returning to her hometown to share her musical talent with students at Papamoa College.

in particular was written after she was burgled.”

Devilskin will be supported by “two brilliant acts” when they come to Tauranga.

Fire At Will from Auckland and Alien Weaponry from Waipu, featuring two 11-year-olds and a 13-year-old will open the gig before Devilskin come out later in the night.

“Everyone is really pumped to be playing so much and meeting so many people. The travelling can be a bit gruelling but we keep ourselves amused.”

Paul says people planning on coming to their show can expect a “top notch sound and lighting system, big sweaty crows and a high energy, no-holds barred performance from the band”.

Mount Maunganui-raised musician Stan Walker, Maisey Rika and Troy Kingi was released in Maori to celebrate Maori Language Week.

Funded by the Ministry of Education, the Musicians Mentoring in Schools Programme supports students and teachers with achievement in NCEA music.

“We’ve got some really amazingly talented kids,” says Katrina. “For us, it’s just getting that inspiration from some really fantastic musicians.”

By Zoe Hunter

Papamoa College music students get in some practise before their special visit.

Windy set for chorus comp Prepped with brand new uniforms and finely-tuned vocal chords, Harmony A Plenty barbershop chorus is ready for the New Zealand Association of Barbershop Pan Pacific competition this month.

A little more than 20 chorus members, aged 40 to 80, will be performing at the international competition at Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington on August 14-17.

Harmony A Plenty member Bill Butterfield says The Lion Foundation has

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funded their new burgundy suit jackets for the chorus to wear at the occasion.

Bill says the group has been rehearsing every Monday night for about six months.

“We’re always having a lot of fun.”

The group won its first-ever bronze medal in the small chorus division at the NZ Annual Championships in Hamilton last September, says Bill.

Keen to build on that success, the group recently received expert tuition to help fine-tune their performance.

Friday Aug 8 to Wed Aug 13 131 Jellicoe Street, Te Puke.

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Comedic eco-drama made in NZ’s Bay of Plenty and Te Puke District.

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Fri 3:30, 8:15. Sat 1:00, 5:45.

Sun 2:35, 7:15pm. Mon 6:00.

Tue 3:10, 8:05pm. Wed 6:00.

Fri 1:20, 6:00pm, 8:00pm.

CALVARY (R13) Violence, Offensive Language & Content That May Disturb. DRAMA. Sat 11:15, 3:40, 6:25, 8:30pm.

Sun 10:45, 12:35, 5:15, 8:30. Mon 4:00, 6:30 Brendan Gleeson, Chris O’Dowd.

Tue 4:00, 6:15, 8:15pm. Wed 6:00, 8:30pm. After he is threatened during a

MRS. BROWN’S BOYS D’MOVIE Fri 3:55, 6:10pm.

Sat 1:15, 6:00. Sun 12:50, 5:45pm. Mon 4:05, 6:15pm.

Tue 1:00, 6:00. Wed 6:00pm

After being released from a mental institution, Genesis (Cliff Curtis) moves in with his distant gang-affiliated brother and teenage nephew (James Rolleston). With no desire to stay in the gang house all day, Genesis joins the local Gisborne chess club where he hopes to somehow coach its youthful and diverse members to a national championship.

The Weekend Sun has two double passes to ‘The Dark Horse’ for lucky readers who can tell us what club Genesis joins in the film.

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

Entries must be received before Wednesday, August 6.

confession, a good-natured priest

(M) must battle the dark forces closing

Off Language.

HERCULES

(2D) (M) Violence, Sexual References & Off Lang. Dwayne Johnson. ACTION, ADVENTURE.

Fri 3:50. Sat 8:30pm. Tue 8:30pm.

in around him. Fri 1:30, 6:15.

Sat 3:45, 7:40. Sun 1:15, 5:15.

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(M) Violence. Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel,

Lee Pace, Benicio Del Toro, John C. Reilly.

Marvel’s deep space superhero team get a film adaptation. Fri 1:15, 6:00pm.

Sat 3:45, 8:05pm. Sun 1:15, 6:00pm.

Mon 4:00. Tue 1:10, 6:00. Wed 8:05pm

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HERCULES (3D)

(M) Viol, Sexual References & Off Lang.

Dwayne Johnson, John Hurt, Ian McShane.

Hercules, the Greek demigod, has his life as a sword-for-hire tested.

Friday 8:35pm. Sunday 3:50.

PLAYING THIS WEEK DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (3D) (2D) (M) Viol & Off Lang. ACTION, DRAMA, SCI-FI.

(M) Viol & Off Lang. Gary Oldman, Keri Russell.

A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened.

JERSEY BOYS (M) Off Language. BIO, DRAMA.

Saturday 3:20pm. Tuesday 3:25pm.

Fri 1:15. Sun 3:00. Tue 12:45.

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 Sunday 7:50pm. Wed 8:00pm.

Directed by Clint Eastwood.

(2D) (PG) Fantasy Violence. Sat

1:20. Sun 11:00.

THE FACE OF LOVE (M) DRAMA, ROM. TINKERBELL: THE PIRATE FAIRY (G)

Fri 3:30. Sat 5:45. Sun 3:15. Tue 8:05pm Adults at Kids Prices! Sat 11:00. Sun 10:45.

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (3D) (PG)

WORDS AND PICTURES (M) Off Lang. ERNEST & CELESTINE (G) In Lounge Cinema. Fantasy Violence. Animation, Adventure.

Saturday 11:00am.

Fri 8:15. Sat 1:40. Sun 7:15. Tue 3:35.

Adults at Kids Prices! Sat

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Fresh scenes for symphonia Bay of Plenty Symphonia will perform two classical orchestral concerts this weekend, in Tauranga and Waihi Beach.

The symphonia is Tauranga’s community orchestra, where members get together weekly to rehearse under conductor Justus Rozemond’s guidance.

While they usually perform in Tauranga, this time they are taking their music further afield – which is a new venture for the players and a rare treat for Waihi Beach.

The concerts are supported by Legacy Trust, and all the pieces are in major keys, reflecting a happy mood.

Classical music aficionados will probably know and love the programme, while those who are new to this type of concert will find the music easy to listen to.

A well-known item is Wagner’s ‘Siegfried Idyll’ was written as a surprise gift for his wife Cosima after the birth of their son Siegfried.

The story goes that Cosima woke on Christmas morning to the opening melody being played by a small group of friends outside their villa.

The other prominent item is Beethoven’s ‘Seventh Symphony’.

This is one of his most popular symphonies and is full of jubilant, rhythmic tunes.

In the remaining piece, the orchestra is proud to accompany New Zealand’s top marimba soloist, Yoshiko Tsuruta, in a Spanish-inspired concerto by 20th Century composer Castelnuovo -Tedesco.

Tauranga’s concert is Saturday, August 9 from 7.30pm, Graham Young Theatre, Tauranga Boys College.

Cash-only door sales adults $32 and students $12.

Waihi Beach’s concert is Sunday, August 10 from 2pm, Waihi Beach Community Centre. Cash-only door sales adults $25 and students $10.

Marimba soloist Yoshiko Tsuruta.

Perennial favourites by local performers Songs from many well-loved musicals will play out at Baycourt Theatre this month as Inachord Chorus celebrates the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Joined by guest performers on August 16, the chorus will deliver polished renditions of music from ‘Phantom of the Opera’, ‘Cats’, ‘Evita’, ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’,

‘Aspects of Love’, ‘Whistle down the Wind’, ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat’ and more.

Andrew was an innovator in creating such popular musicals, and songs from his shows have become imbedded in entertainment lore.

Inachord Chorus is an accomplished local chorus, many of whom have been singing together for more than a decade.

The chorus aim to demonstrate their four-part harmony by singing several medleys a capella in a varied programme, also featuring guest artists Petrina ThomasChisholm and Dave Wilson.

Petrina, a drama and singing teacher at Otumoetai College, has a stellar performance history, her most recent role playing Sandy in ‘Grease’ last year.

Dave is an experienced producer and director whose production company Zenith has staged several musicals.

He also sings with the group, Trio. Petrina and Dave will perform a series of duets including ‘All I Ask of You’ and ‘Don’t Cry for Me Argentina’.

The performance also features soloists Paula Harrison, pupils of Step Performing Arts, and rising star 15-year-old Erina McNeilly.

The Songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber promises to be a wonderful musical evening revisiting the hits of this prolific popular composer.

Inachord Chorus members.

Crown and Bader Friday 8 – Shabang.

Saturday 9 – Shabang.

McSwiggans Irish Pub Sunday 10 – Tauranga Acoustic Music Club Blackboard concert 2pm start.

Mount RSA Friday 8 – Marilyn Kingi &

Friends 7.30pm.

Saturday 9 – Chris Gunn 7.30pm.

Sunday 10 – Helen Riley 4.30pm.

The Matua Sunday 10 – Shirley Ryder and Graham Hardaker 3-6pm.

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Correne Hickisey cleaning a heat pump.

Heat pumps can be used to warm the home in winter and keep them cool during summer, so it’s important to keep your heat pump clean all year round.

That’s what Heat Pump Cleaning Bay of Plenty owners Brett and Correne Hickisey say.

“Just as you service and maintain your car, a thorough heat pump clean is important to keep your home and

Keeping the heat pump clean

work space heated or cooled efficiently, and improves air quality,” say Brett and Correne.

By conducting an annual clean and maintenance check, the pair can also identify any problems and refer customers to an installer they work closely with.

“It’s more than just a filter clean; it’s a thorough and complete service.”

They say cleaning the heat pump also reduces allergens, improves efficiency by 10 to 30 per cent, and ultimately reduces power bills.

“We can supply and install HRV and DVS suitable filters; these need to be changed at least every two years.

“We also can check and treat for vermin and cockroaches, and we can treat for any rust on the outside unit.”

The company cleans all heat pump makes and models.

A hot wash for home WayDgo Site Care offers an exterior hot wash service, powerful enough to melt chewing gum off driveways, carparks or business entrances, says owner Paul Collins.

For a top quality, environmentally-friendly, commercial or domestic exterior Hot Wash – the site care professionals at WayDgo Site Care are well…the way to go.

WayDgo Site Care offers an exterior hot wash service powerful enough to melt chewing gum off driveways, carparks or business entrances, says owner Paul Collins.

“It’s also totally chemical-free and

environmentally safe for you and your property,” says Paul.

“Our hot wash system is great for cleaning almost anything and amazing for decks and fences if you don’t want chemicals in your gardens or leaching into stormwater drains.”

Paul says while other cleaning businesses use chemicals and cold water, WayDgo uses only hot water making it 100 per cent environmentally-friendly.

“Our custom-built, fully mobile hot water cleaning machines are built in California and are able to run at very high pressures and extremely hot temperatures when needed.”

The company offers hot water blasting services for commercial or private applications in the Bay of Plenty and Waikato areas.

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THIS WEEKS GARAGE SALES! OHAUITI 32 WOODLEIGH PLC, off Hollister Lane, this Saturday & Sunday from 8am. Downsizing, moving house. Quality furniture, tools, bicycles, bedding, electrical goods, camping gear, a whole lot for everyone.

arts & crafts ONE DAY MOSAIC WORKSHOP Sat 30th August 9am-4pm $95. plus some materials. Suitable for beginners as we share all the tricks & techniques to achieve a mosaic that will impress and last.

Indoor/outdoor, glass/china/tile - all covered! Ph Lynn 571 3726 Clay Art Studio, Historic Village, 17th Ave

SCRAPBOOKING & CardMaking Weekend. $20 Fri 5.30pm-Sat Midnight $35 Class (4x cards or 1x page with extras) Ph 0274 303 781 or deborah@cropnshop.co.nz

bible digest I TELL YOU THE TRUTH, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father.

John 14: 12-13

cars for sale A NO DEPOSIT DEAL from $50 p/w. Cars, vans, & 4x4s. To find out more txt ‘NEWCAR’ and your name to 9090. Learner licence welcome, some conditions apply.

CAR FAIR – buy or sell any vehicle every Sunday at 11th Avenue Car park opposite Mad Butcher 8am-noon. Ph for more information 027 733 9686 or www.taurangacarfair.co.nz

childcare EXPERIENCED home based educator available for sleepovers, week days and weekends. Any age & WINZ subsidies available. Phone Lisa 027 758 5774

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TWO-SEATER COUCHES X2, great condition, really comfortable, selling as downsizing. Just $200 ONO. Ph or text Rose today 021 038 4938 or 07 560 3841

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housesitter PROFESSIONAL HOUSE MINDER available. Do you want peace of mind that your treasured home is in trustworthy hands while you are away on holiday?

Excellent references. Available now. Ph Cathie 022 162 8301

livestock AC PETFOODS collect injured & unwanted cows & horses.

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lost & found FOUND Gate Pa area, Rabbit Adult Fawn, Ref# 20456, Bayfair area Adult Brown/White Rabbit Ref# 20457, Pyes Pa area, DSH Female Tabbi/Torti cat, Ref# 20458, Matapihi area DSH Male Black/White Cat, Ref# 20459, Judea area, DSH Grey/White Female Cat Ref# 20461, Te Puke area. Pitty x puppy Female Ref# 20462, Brookfield Area. Staffy x puppy Female tan/White Ref# 20463, Whakamarama area, DLH Adult Black Male cat Ref# 20465, Whakamarama area , DSH Grey Torti Female cat REF# 20466, Gate Pa area, DSH Black cat, Ref # 20467, Bayfair area, Huntaway x puppy male Tri colour Ref# 20471, Merivale area, Pitbull x puppy choc Ref# 20472, Omanu/Bayfair area DSH White/torti Female Ref# 20475, Papamoa area, Budgie White Ref# 20476, Windemere Area,

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4 x young cats, Tabby/White & Tabby Ref # 20477-20479 , Gate Pa area, DMH Teen Black/White Female Cat Ref# 20480 , Gate Pa area, DSH Adult Ginger/White cat Ref# 20481. If you have lost a pet, please phone us Ph SPCA 07 578 0245

mobility MOBILITY SCOOTERS wheelchairs walkers & more. Visit or showroom 29 Burrows St, Tauranga Ph 578 1213. MES ‘Supporting your independence’

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

BOAT BUILDING repairs and maintenance. Timber & fibreglass trade qualified, boat builder. Ph Shaun 021 992 491 or 07 552 0277 BRYCE DECORATING Interior & exterior painting, wallpapering.

Quality work. Ph Wayne 579 5588 or 021 162 7052 ELECTRICIAN REGISTERED 18years experience. Residential, commercial.

New builds, renovations, maintenance & service. Free quotes, prompt service. Ph Andrew today 022 354 1960 GUTTERING CLEAN and repairs moss removal.

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trades & services HANDYMAN BUILDING and section maintenance, decks, fencing, pergolas, painting, water blasting, odd jobs.

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Make. Mend. Ph Rob at Magic Seal 543 4940 PAINTER Small job specialist, guaranteed workmanship assured, semi retired tradesman. Ph Mike today 027 473 7482 or a/h 576 5501 PAINTER / A1 DECORATOR available. All interior & exterior work. Prompt, reliable, excellent references. Ph Paul 576 4793 or 027 689 6252 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 PAINTERS AVAILABLE for immediate start. Interior/exterior.

Guaranteed workmanship. For free quotes ph Graeme today 022 0466 776 or 07 544 5234 PAINTERS; Husband and Wife team specialising in Interior Painting. For a quality finish with guaranteed workmanship please phone Stewart on 544 0538 or 021 929 976 and ROOF PAINTING maintenance. Roofs rescrewed.

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trades & services ROOF REPAIRS metal or onduline gutters & down pipes clean or replacement chimney repairs.

Certified Roofer over 30yrs experience Free quote. Ph Peter 542 4291 or 027 436 7740 STUMPINATOR STUMP Grinding free quotes & prompt service. Narrow machine to access rear yards. Ph 576 4245 or 022 076 4245 TILER QUALIFIED TILER references available free quotes all types of work done from kitchen splashbacks to full tiled bathrooms.

Ph Nelson 021 609 289 TIMBER RETAINING WALLS decks and all types of fencing.

Excellent work at a competitive price. Ph Clive 021 048 2833 or 552 6510 TREE SHRUB and hedges trimming, topping removal, rubbish removal, satisfaction guaranteed free quote. Ph Steve Hockly 571 5958 or 027 498 1857

transport DRIVING MISS DAISY – more than a taxi service! We will attend doctor’s appointments with the client and transmit relevant information back to family, assist with shopping or ensure children safely attend sports practices or music lessons. Safe, friendly, reliable service. Ph Jackie from Driving Miss Daisy 552 6614

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in Wairarapa 4. Sound of Music Show. Plus many other inspiring journeys.... Door to Door. Free Newsletters. Ph Hinterland Tours on 07 575 8118 A DAY TRIP to the popular Sounds Of Music with a 30-strong international cast. “A” Reserve seats with our special concession.

Also book now for a 3-day rail cart tour. Phone John’s Trips & Tours 576 9305 CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW 2015. An amazing 16 day UK tour including 2 days at Chelsea plus 8 first-class rail journeys to visit some amazing historical homes, botanical gardens, cathedrals, landscaped gardens, a medieval castle, a palace, a model village and more! all-inclusive price [apart from spending money and some meals] is great value at $6,500. A small friendly group tour [max of 10 people] so early booking is essential! For details: ph 07 579 6364 GLASS BLOWING TRIP to Taupo.

Phone us for the latest Travel Club Calendar – hot off the press this week . Ph Zealandier Tours 07 575 6425

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venues FOR WEDDINGS, FUNCTIONS OR MEETINGS check out No.1 The Strand, a beautiful historic setting. Ph Tony 07 928 3676 or email tony@thesun.co.nz

wanted to rent FULL TIME WORKING, friendly, tidy 63 year old male, non-smoking, looking for accommodation preferably in the Mount area, anything considered, up to $180pw.

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Papamoa 116 Evans Road Mortgagee Auction

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Lynn Eagar 027 458 1780 lynn.eagar@raywhite.com office 07 839 7060 John Pope 027 496 3111 john.pope@raywhite.com office 07 928 5000

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Jesus is the way, the truth, the life Paul warns in 2 Timothy 4:4 that “the time is coming when [people] will not tolerate sound and wholesome instruction, but, having ears itching [for something pleasing and gratifying], they will gather to themselves one teacher after another to a considerable number, chosen to satisfy their own liking and to foster the errors they hold, and will turn aside from hearing the truth and wander off into myths and man-made fictions”.

In the last article I mentioned we must take note of this serious warning if the Church in our nation is to stand as “the pillar and ground of truth” (1 Timothy 3:15).

We looked firstly, last time, at the fact we must hold firmly to and accept the entirety of God’s Word as His truth.

Secondly, we must hold to the deity of Christ and to the fact salvation is only found in Him.

Jesus says in John 14:6: “I am the way, and the truth, and the life.

No one comes to the Father except through Me”.

He says in Luke 10:22: “All things have been handed over to Me by My Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him”.

Simon Peter says to Jesus in John 6:68: “Lord, to whom shall we go?

You have the words of eternal life”.

We must resist every attempt to devalue or to diminish the truth of Christ’s deity and of His substitutionary death and atoning work on the cross.

Salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.

In 2 Corinthians 11:4, Paul warns about those who proclaim “another Jesus” and a “different gospel” (see

also Galatians 1:6-9).

Every cult and every false religion portrays Jesus in a way that essentially denies His deity and denies that salvation is only found in Him. Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life. Salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.

More to follow.

Peter Whitcombe, Jesus First Church

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Renaissance Sundays 10am 345 Maunganui Rd w. www.shoreline.org.nz e. info@shoreline.org.nz p. 022 043 2334

Sunday Services 9:30am & 6:00pm Come along!

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WWI – its meaning for our faith, then and now As we mark the beginning of World War I we remember its enormous cost, especially the supreme sacrifice of so many people.

around the world by peaceful means.

Yet what are we doing as a nation to prevent war? There are many uncertainties internationally and many ways conflicts arise.

We need to be vigilant. But what sort of We remember also the contribution of our vigilance do we pursue: military might or mutual churches, which varied understanding? considerably.

What is the answer that Many observed their comes from our faith? patriotic duty in assisting What comes out of our the war effort: supportprinciples of honesty and ing their members in integrity and respect for going to war as well as others? providing chaplains.

We see many countries A few others felt their investing heavily in arms religious beliefs commitinstead of addressing ted them to opposing war.

Some people became conscientious objectors, www. a few of which were taken to the front and suffered incredibly in what was called ‘Field Punishment No 1’.

Whatever the attitude to participation in war, we honour those that sacrificed.

We must also ensure we do all we can to avoid such tragedies reoccurring and to address current conflicts

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the poverty and social injustices, which are the causes of much conflict.

How does this country respond? How do we ensure we have thorough understanding of our neighbours, our global environment and peace-based methods of resolving conflict?

We have a large network of military training centres around the country including in schools, but where is our peacetraining network?

As we engage our faith in remembering our past, let us also engage our faith in pursuing our future.

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