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Leading through adversity As covid-19 presents challenges to Wairarapa, council leaders have fronted the battle locally.

Midweek reporter LISA URBANI delves deep to see what makes them tick.

Carterton Mayor Greg Lang believes that we should turn “challenges into opportunities.”

Despite the current uncertainty of covid-19, he is committed to helping the people of the Carterton district through this difficult time, using his influence as mayor.

“I am in a privileged position, I can utilize information in a positive way, and make things happen.”

Greg is a man of action, and for Carterton, one of the challenges would be to “reboot the central business district”, working with building owners and businesses addressing earth-quake prone regulations.

A mayoral task force would address the economic covid-19 recovery plans, and to this end, discussions are being held with local businesses to find out what

problems they are facing, and what their needs are.

This involves a lot of talking and meetings, but his love of triathlons has given him the discipline to persevere.

Just before the lockdown in March, he had completed his fourth New Zealand Ironman, reaching a personal best time, and a good result in his age group.

He is not one to let the grass grow under his feet.

Once settled in Gladstone in 1994, where he lives and runs his wheelwright and carriage building business with his wife Ali, Greg set about making his “investment” in his community.

Becoming involved in promoting the Gladstone area was the first step, and Greg was instrumental

South Wairarapa Mayor Alex Beijen, left, Carterton Mayor Greg Lang, and Masterton Mayor Lyn Patterson.

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Mayors plan for post covid-19 Continued from page 1 in the organisation of the annual Scarecrow Festival.

Later, he served as a councillor for Carterton and then ran for mayor.

Despite the fact that a Carterton council staff member was the first person to be affected by the coronavirus in Wairarapa, Greg said that the management team had handled it well because they already had a pandemic plan in place, and he praised them as “a great team to work with.”

Greg says believing in yourself is the key to good leadership.

Locally, he has great admiration for Gary

Riddell, a “great leader”, who has worked tirelessly and selflessly on the Gladstone Sports and Social Complex.

He also marvelled at how New Zealand’s own Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, has led the country through difficult times.

For him the “biggest joy is to give joy”, and in serving his community as mayor, he said that “the residents of Carterton District had been fantastic in supporting the covid-19 instructions” and he hoped that as Wairarapa moved through the levels, everyone would think local and support local businesses.

Lyn Patterson

Lyn Patterson has been serving Masterton in her capacity as Mayor for two terms and is on her third.

Before that she was a councillor for two terms, a total of 12 and a- half years.

She is motivated by the belief that, “your working week takes up a good part of your life, and you must enjoy it”.

“Working in the public sector, you can have a say in making a difference.”

Her life experience has been varied, a stint in nursing, factory, and cleaning work, and gaining her chartered accountancy qualification – while raising her two children – which she then put to good use, working in the financial sector, mainly for not-for-profit organisations.

Accounting training has stood her in good stead in understanding council budgets, but Lyn’s focus in on the people of Masterton.

Although she says water and roads are very important to a community, it is looking after people that counts the most, and she is proud of the commitment made to locals by means of the council’s ‘Wellbeing Strategy’, which focused

Masterton Mayor Lyn Patterson.

on the social, economic, environmental, and cultural aspects of Masterton.

“Our council was one of the first to have an iwi representative, it was a brave decision, but it was important to have all the voices at the table.”

She has learned that compromise is the name of the game in her role as mayor.

“Someone told me you have to ‘be prepared to lose a battle to win a war’.

“Sometimes things don’t go the way you want, but that is democracy in action.

“To date I have never had to forsake my own values.”

Acknowledging that she has learned from her mistakes too and sees

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them as an opportunity for personal growth, Lyn says she admires the willingness of people in the community to volunteer and serve on the many different organisations in Masterton.

Recovery from the repercussions of covid-19 are at the forefront of the council’s agenda, with meetings every second day, and engagement with all sectors – be they sport, businesses or not-forprofit organisations – to assess the needs.

They are “working on a ‘Wairarapa Recovery Plan’ with a focus and energy on support in a targeted way”.

Having spent three years in Newcastle, Kwa Zulu Natal, in South Africa working as a financial advisor to the local municipality, Lyn developed a great respect for South African leader Nelson Mandela, whose example of compassion and leadership were an inspiration worldwide.

In her precious free time she enjoys reading biographies to learn from other people’s experiences, but she and husband Phil are most looking forward to being able to see their three grandchildren, who live in Porirua, once travel to other regions is possible.

Alex Beijen

South Wairarapa Mayor Alex Beijen “took a bit of a punt and threw my hat in the ring”, when he stepped forward to run for mayor in the district.

He had not been a councillor – the traditional path to the mayoralty – and so it was a bold strategy that paid off, in part because he made the time to meet and greet his potential constituents, and get the lay of the land.

His message of “transparency in local government” also resonated with voters.

“People need to understand the information, they can’t comprehend it if it is kept secret, and they have a right to know what is going on.”

Using his background in business studies, he felt it was important to “be practical in deciding what must be done in the region, and then working out how to pay for it”.

“We need to be open and make sensible decisions and explain why we made them – communication is very important.”

He also wanted to hold councillors to a high standard of openness, but said the public also

South Wairarapa Mayor Alex Beijen.

needed to work with the council in a cooperative manner.

There seemed to be an impression that council staff were too prescriptive, when they were simply doing their job and were bound by law to follow regulations.

Alex was originally from Christchurch, but his wife Julie, was born in Martinborough, and they have raised their family in Wairarapa, so their roots are firmly planted here for the foreseeable future.

With a Bachelor of Commerce degree and experience in property valuation and management, Alex will be keeping an eye on how the local housing market will be affected by the

expected economic fallout from covid-19.

However, as he pointed out, there had been a 22 per cent increase in property prices earlier in the year, so the district could probably cope with some adjustments.

The important thing was to make sure that “people most affected by the coronavirus – the elderly and vulnerable – would be supported”, as he predicted that there might be after-effects of the virus for years to come.

Real leadership would be required post-covid-19, and in terms of leaders he admired, he cited Helen Clarke and Jenny Shipley for the fact that they “broke barriers as female leaders in a male dominated area at that time and coped with a society in massive change”.

“And hindsight showed that, in general, they did a good job.”

For the most part, he was glad that “everyone was doing amazingly well” and he hoped that “everyone would be tolerant of opinions and accepting of differences, since we are living in a complex world”.

“If we could be forgiving, we would have a better society.”

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Quest to find identity evolving Lisa Urbani For Dame Robin White,” being an artist is not what you do, it’s who you are”.

Her long and illustrious career has been an evolving quest, a discovery made in stages, leading her to find her own identity as an artist.

“When you’re young, your urge to create compels you towards a self-awareness that is fostered by the encouragement of people around you.”

With a sketchbook always at hand, her attentive and supportive parents encouraged her and ensured that she received a good education.

Their belief in the education of women as being of the utmost importance, was due to their embrace of the Baha’i Faith.

Under the watchful eye of her art teacher at Epsom Girls Grammar School, Robin was propelled to her

next step and her time at Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Art where she was awakened to her full “consciousness, that this was for me”.

She never considered it as a “job” and had no thought for the financial implications of being an artist.

She relied on her parent’s advice to “aim high”.

Having been on a student scholarship, she was required to teach art as part of her bond, and this gave her the opportunity during her years as an art teacher in Wellington, to work and exhibit until she could be independent.

The 1960s were a time of creative freedom, of openness of thought, and the beginnings of a lifelong friendship with the poet Sam Hunt, whose portrait she painted.

In her growth as an artist, she’s learnt that “from being at work you

Dame Robin White in her Masterton studio.

get the ideas for making more work – it’s a constant process of creating and

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learning”.

Currently, Robin is preparing for an exhibition

at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney.

Called ‘Matisse alive’, it will showcase the artistic responses of four separate artists – Nina Chanel Abney (USA), Sally Smart (Australia), Angela Tiatia (Samoa/New Zealand/ Australia) and Robin White (New Zealand) – to the great 20th century artist, Henri Matisse.

Each artist will present an original and different form of art, ranging from a mural, to a cut-out assemblage installation, and an immersive video.

Dame Robin’s offering will be a set of large works on bark cloth made in collaboration with her friends from Tonga and Fiji.

Drawing on her background in painting and printmaking, she is working within a Pacific art tradition of richly patterned tapa cloth.

It is a process that augments the skills gained during her “17 years of

glorious learning”, as she described it, in the Pacific Republic of Kiribati, living on the atoll of Tarawa.

When a fire destroyed her house and studio in 1996, she adapted to the lack of her usual art supplies by learning to work with local women, combining her design skill with their love of weaving.

She considers herself “a student” when collaborating with others, learning as we go about each other and the processes we’re engaged in.”

In these uncertain times of covid-19, her Baha’i faith stands her in good stead.

At the core of its teaching is the belief in unity, the oneness of mankind, and now more than ever, she believes, we all need to “educate ourselves to work collectively for the good of society”.

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It is a wonder that he found the time to indulge in his favourite leisure pastime of golf, and Terry is particularly proud to have been acknowledged as a life member and patron of the golf club.

Modestly, he said that due to his long financial background in banking, he was “only too pleased to give back my time to the community in any way that can assist future development, as well as ensuring that the administration side is maintained”.

Considering his many years of service to the community of Martinborough, his award was richly deserved.

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years he worked as the security manager – which included making sure ANZ buildings were safe and secure for staff, training staff in security measures and also leading investigations into internal fraud matters.

Finally, in 1998, he settled in Martinborough

and in 2017 was elected to the St John Central Regional Trust Board, as the representative of Wairarapa and Wellington.

Added to his list of credits, was his involvement with the Martinborough Youth Trust, and the Ruamahunga Health Trust – which was formed to set up a new medical centre in Martinborough .

He served both as trustee, and treasurer.

“It was a lot of fun deciding where it [the medical Centre] should be located, then, raising the necessary funds to build it.

“Originally, it did not have a pharmacy, but due to some sound analysis, this was later achieved.”

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permanently, after retiring from a 38-year career in banking.

The knowledge and skills he acquired during this time were immediately recognised when he joined the local Lions Club and was duly elected as their treasurer, a position he still holds.

Later, in 2002, he took over as treasurer of the St Johns branch in Martinborough, and again his background and financial experience resulted in him ending up as treasurer and advisor to the district in 2005.

Gradually, he became the treasurer for the St Johns’ branches of Carterton, Featherston, and Pahiatua as well,

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For Terry Blacktop, being given a Rotary Club of South Wairarapa Pride of Workmanship and Community Service Award 2020, was a “pleasant surprise.”

Born in Auckland in 1942, Terry attended Marist Convent, and St Peters College, and later studied accountancy part time through Auckland University.

In 1960, he joined the ANZ Bank in Auckland and this was to be lifelong association, as his banking career took him to several towns around New Zealand, before he ended up at head office in Wellington, in 1976, working in the property

division – taking care of premises that the bank either owned or leased.

From 1982, he served as the ANZ bank manager in Martinborough, an exciting time for the then fledgling wineries and the growth of this small town.

Terry said that he “admired the vision” of those early pioneers in the vineyards, as Martinborough grew from a sleepy little farming village to a trendy tourist attraction with fashionable cafés and shops, and, a flourishing boutique wine industry.

After five years, Terry returned to the ANZ in Wellington, once again to the property division, but then in his last four

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Staying safe at Alert Level 3 Keeping your bubble small and making space around you are two important ways to keep yourself and the people in your household protected. They help keep other people safe too. Because the more contact you have with others, the more opportunity the virus has to spread.

Make the space

An important way to keep yourself and others safe is to ‘make the space’ by keeping a 2-metre distance from people who aren’t in your bubble, at all times.

Do I need to make space around me when picking-up takeaways?

Making space around you applies wherever you are, and particularly in places where people tend to gather, like the queue for picking up takeaways. While waiting, make sure you keep at least 2 metres apart from others at all times.

Can I enter the premises to pay or pick something up?

When you are collecting goods, including food, make sure this happens in a contactless way, from a separate area. You should not be entering the premises for any reason. This applies to businesses of any sort – such as clothing and electronics retailers – not just takeaways. The main exceptions to this are supermarkets, petrol stations and dairies (dairies must follow the ‘one-in, one-out’ rule).

How do I pay?

The best way to pay is to do so online or over the phone, and then have items delivered to your front door. If you have to pick-up goods, keep a 2-metre distance and do so in a contactless way. If you have to pay for goods at the store, use payWave where possible. Only use cash if you have no other option. Wash your hands after touching cash.

What do I do if I have symptoms?

Don’t leave the house if you’re sick or have symptoms. Contact your local GP or Healthline on 0800 358 5453 and they will advise you and arrange a safe way for you to be tested for COVID-19.

How to enjoy recreation safely You can visit parks and outdoor spaces, but be careful to not touch any surfaces with your hands, such as handrails or benches, etc.

Be sure to always make at least 2 metres of space around you.

Wash your hands thoroughly when you get home.

Activities that require experience You can do more activities at Alert Level 3, but only if you’re experienced and can do them safely. These activities include: Fishing – if you want to go fishing you can do so from a wharf or the shore, but don’t cast off the rocks. Boating is not allowed, including fishing from a boat.

Hunting – you can hunt on private land, but not on public conservation land. You need to stay within your region and stick to your bubble. Overnight trips are not allowed. You may only hunt on foot. That means using quad bikes, off-road bikes, helicopters and other motorised vehicles is not allowed.

Keep your bubble small

Keeping it small means restricting your bubble to your immediate household, and maybe extending it a small amount if you need to – perhaps by one or two people maximum.

This could mean reconnecting with close family, bringing in a caregiver, or supporting isolated an isolated person.

Can I visit my family if they are spread out across more than one other bubble?

You can’t join multiple family bubbles together. The way to stay safe is to limit your exposure to other people as much as possible, including family members. As mentioned, you can visit someone who is isolated or needs help. However, you should make sure you’re the only one joining their bubble.

Are neighbours allowed to merge bubbles?

Can I pop in and visit another bubble?

We know you’ve missed your friends and whānau, but now is not the time to pop in for a chat or to say ‘hi’. Stick to checking-in via a phone or video chat instead.

Can our flat extend our bubble to another flat?

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Generosity at a distance Wanting to acknowledge and highlight the effort of the Greytown FreshChoice staff who have kept the local supermarket running during the stressful covid-19 lockdown, the South Wairarapa Rotary Club gave each staff member a coffee and cake voucher from local cafes, as a token of appreciation .

In this way, they also supported the six cafes in Greytown that are open during the day, providing them with a welcome boost to their income.

Being proactive, South Wairarapa Rotary did not roll over to “wait it out “ during

Alert Level 4 lockdown, restructuring its methods and developing geographical network groups to support its members and respond to local needs.

The Martinborough and surrounding district group recommended a gift to Age Care staff, and in Featherston the local and rural schools will receive stationary sets for families struggling during this time.

Rotary is exploring other ways it can support its community, including how it could use its expertise to help businesses, and how it can assist in lessening the burden on families

during the anticipated hard times to come.

The South Wairarapa Rotary supports community, youth and environmental activities in the South Wairarapa and also has a small project in the Pacific.

The club is well known for its two annual fundraising and community events, the Martinborough Fair, which it has been running every year for the last four decades, and its annual Charity Fun Ride.

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Relief for forestry and wood processors Aleyna Martinez Relief has come for more than 100 employees in the Wairarapa forestry and wood processing industry after nearly five weeks of non-operation.

Juken New Zealand [JNL] said all employees that passed a medical clearance have been allowed back on site.

Those who could not return to work due to medical reasons have been able to take sick leave, JNL Wairarapa forests general manager Sean McBride said.

McBride said the company was heavily focussed on maintaining health and safety regulations observed during covid-19 restriction, some of these included no sharing of PPE gear, limiting the number of work vehicles, and disinfecting all hard surfaces that were touched, including pens and tools.

In Masterton, there was only one case of covid-19

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registered with the district health board, but workers came from all over Wairarapa McBride said.

They have also implemented specific plans for four of its workers over 70 years old on the Wairarapa site.

With more than 200 people working full time in its Wairarapa Mill, and another 125 people contracted in the forests, many local families rely on the company to be running

so they can maintain their incomes and businesses.

JNL owns two processing plants in Kaitaia, one in Gisborne, and one in Masterton.

Its head office is in Auckland and the company also had to access the wage subsidy during Alert Level 4. McBride said JNL had also offered staff options for mental health support and financial advice to anyone struggling through this very disruptive period.

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$15m rural pledge misses mark Arthur Hawkes

A new $15 million stimulus package, geared towards continued expansion and improvement of broadband in rural areas, was announced by the government last week.

But the package does not answer the prayers of Wairarapa people who need a connectivity boost most.

Currently the government’s Rural Broadband Initiative [RBI] is split into two parts, RBI1 and RBI2.

It is understood the money announced last week is going to RBI1, rather than RBI2.

RBI2 deals more with rural and remote properties, which has led some to question why only RBI1, which is operated

by Vodafone and Chorus and focuses more on rural towns as well as cellular connectivity, has received exclusive rights to this funding boost.

Hamish Wilson lives with his wife in a rural property in the Gladstone area.

After several years with satellite internet, which was virtually unusable for bandwidth-heavy tasks, they chipped in for a wireless radio mast, along with two neighbouring households, from the rural telecommunications

A WIZWireless worker installs a mast on a rural Wairarapa property.

company WIZwireless, which is based in Wairarapa.

“All told, it probably cost us around $4000,” Wilson said.

“The mast was $1000 and I reckon we all chipped in an extra $500 each for everything else.

“The mast has absolutely done the job. If the

government’s got money to put into the Wairarapa’s internet, they should point it straight at WIZWireless.

“We’re so happy that we don’t mind the fact we had to pay. It just does the job.

“But obviously not everyone can afford to fork out that kind of money. This is where the government should channel

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by Bridget Canning and her husband, who are farmers in Tinui.

“We wanted some decent internet at home, so we got together a team of people and built our first few radio towers, to be able to get it out here to the farm,” Canning said.

“Now we’ve got something like 74 sites, all around Wairarapa, from down at Lake Ferry, all the way up to the Waihoki Valley.

“We see that rural broadband is absolutely fundamental to the economy in the Wairarapa, but also from the social point of view: to give

people the choice to be able to work from home.

“We’ve got many, many who work from home in the Wairarapa, and the speeds and data that we provide for people give them the ability to do that.

“We are part of the government’s RBI2 initiative, but the money that they announced earlier was for RBI1, which is predominantly operated by Vodafone and Chorus.”

It is thought that the lockdown has put increasing demand on towers’ capacity.

Upgraded capacity and external antennae will mean that towers that are currently at or near capacity [and cannot service any new customers] will be able to provide service to more households already inside their coverage area.

Wairarapa Federated Farmers president William Beetham said there was “no question” that connectivity and broadband were critical “not just for the primary sector, but for the whole of rural New Zealand”.

“It’s so difficult sometimes for us to do business, and considering how much of the economy is dependent on the primary sector, it makes absolute sense to give better connectivity to rural areas.”

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10 Wairarapa Midweek Carterton Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Carterton app keeps truckies safe Gianina Schwanecke A Carterton business is helping transporters go contactless.

MyTrucking was first started by Sam and Sara Orsborn, of Sharpes Stockfeed, who wanted to help a friend run their new transport business more efficiently.

Six years on, the new general manager Gabor Szikszai said there’s now a range of things that transport operators can do with the service to stay contactless during the covid-19 pandemic.

“The entire job creation and delivery system can be done without personto-person contact just by using the MyTrucking web application, and a

mobile phone.

“With the MyTrucking job management system, businesses could run a delivery-based service and have complete visibility and control of what’s going where, and when.”

Driven by the call from the transport industry, Gabor said MyTrucking had recently shifted its focus to help existing clients move to contactless job dispatch and delivery.

This included measures such as replacing paperwork that was handed to drivers with digital copies that were shared via its mobile app, through to the ability to use SMS or email so delivery sites at businesses could be set up in advance of a truck arriving.

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Carterton buildings and signs were defaced with graffiti on Anzac Day. PHOTOS/SUPPLIED MyTrucking’s general manager Gabor Szikszai.

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Throughout Alert Level 4, interest in their services had increased, he said. “[During the lockdown] for our first week ever, we had no new triallers sign up - and that was concerning.

“But the contrast since then - things have really been picking up.”

Though the business initially focused on livestock and rural transport providers, this had expanded to a host of new types of customers.

Recent examples include a honey business, metal recyclers, civil engineering, and furniture movers.

“It has changed and moved to lots of different types of transport since then,” Gabor said.

“We’re rural. We’re urban. There are also new opportunities now, as retail businesses adapt to providing their services with less face-to-face and more contactless delivery.”

It’s not just domestic businesses either – MyTrucking has more than 3500 users across New Zealand, Australia, Samoa, and the UK. The Wairarapa-based team usually works out of a farmhouse turned office in rural Carterton but has been working fully remotely since March 23.

“One of the things that impressed me about the business from day one is that we always put our customers first.

“We’ve got a small and super committed team here, and our customers often tell us that they love us for it.”

Anzac vandalism angers residents Karen Coltman Carterton buildings were defaced with odd scarecrow-like faces the night before Anzac Day – and one of the district’s councillors would like to “meet the artists”.

On the night of April 24, vandals painted black and pale blue outlined circles with orange fill and a scarecrow-like face, about 30cm in size, on more than half a dozen buildings, signs, and fences around the town centre.

It took resident Hank Optland nearly an hour to scrub most of the paint off the Free Presbyterian Church building on the corner of Park Rd and SH2 on Anzac Day. He then water blasted the remaining paint off.

His daughter Alison De Boer helped.

“I think it is really disgusting and disrespectful to do this on Anzac Day – it is disrespectful to the soldiers that died in the war and their families,” Alison said.

She saw the vandalism at the Physiotherapy clinic across from New World and there are posts on the Facebook social media group, ‘Carterton Noticeboard’ with sightings of the faces at many other places.

Most of them are on the streets down to the railway station, at the train station carpark sign and at

Carterton swimming pools.

“I think the pics start at Marquis, Broadway, then go to railway land, Belvedere Rd, corner of Taylor and Belvedere – that’s what I have seen,” Justine Ticehurst posted to the Facebook group.

Hopefully someone is caught on camera. It’s pretty sad.”

Carterton councillor Rob Stockley said the council would remove any remaining painted faces as soon as it could.

He said he wasn’t surprised by the graffiti.

“I was disappointed that property was defaced but I wasn’t surprised.

“I’d like to meet the artists. I’d like to understand Carterton from their perspective.

What would make Carterton a more engaging place for them?”

It appears that the vandals would have painted them to coincide with the launch of a new Fortnite gaming platform and Travis Scott ‘virtual concert’ – Astronomical that was launched worldwide during that night New Zealand time.

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We’re getting back to business

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We’re still in Level 3, and that means Council services are operating a little differently - it won’t quite be business as usual.

Changes under Level 3

Continuing as normal

• Water treatment • Wastewater treatment • Water testing • Kerbside rubbish collection • Kerbside recycling collection in urban areas

Remaining closed under Level 3

• Council offices – payments can be made through online banking and direct debits – no cash.

Transfer stations

• Transfer stations throughout the

Wairarapa are now open to all public users with general waste, recycling and green waste, with strict social distancing protocols in place.

up and causes a safety issue transfer stations will have to be closed.

• No cash payments - be prepared to queue (staying inside vehicles).

• Transfer stations in Greytown and Parks and sportsfields

• Libraries – check library websites

• Parks and sportsfields are open

• Wairarapa Archives • Swimming pools and

•

for services available online.

recreation centres

• Community halls

remain closed because of the risk of contamination of surfaces.

Building-related services

• Provision of LIMs, PIMs and the

We can all slow the spread

• Please stagger visits - if traffic builds

Featherston are also open.

• Playgrounds and water fountains

processing of building and planning consents

• Building inspections • Advice is available for landowners and planning work.

Roading

• Essential roading maintenance and repair will continue, and planned construction work can resume

Animal/environmental services to use, but you must use social and Environmental HealthWe all need to work together if we want to slow the spread • Animal distancing. of COVID-19. Unite againstcalls, the virus now. dog control related including Mowing of parks, sportsfields and and noise complaints, will be berms will resume – we have a bit recorded and assessed on a caseto catch up on so this may take a by-case basis. couple of weeks.

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12 Wairarapa Midweek Opinion Wednesday, May 6, 2020 EDITORIAL

MIDWEEK PHOTOS

Opinion

Adjusting the sails “The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.”

So says John Maxwell, an American author and pastor who has written widely on the subject of leadership.

This week our Midweek edition is all about leadership.

Not only have we featured the three mayors of our region, but we have Rotary award winners who have been recognised as leaders in their respective fields, and an artist of international repute.

Our beautiful valley is home to many motivated people with innovative ideas, hard workers, caring volunteers, health workers, farmers, food producers, artists, business owners, hospitality providers, young and old, people from different ethnic groups and religions, with a variety of attitudes, politics and belief systems.

Somehow, we have to collaborate more than ever before to combat the effects of a virus that has tainted the health of some, and

Whether it’s a reader photo, a cutie, or a snap of you with your Midweek, email it to midweek@age.co.nz with ‘Midweek Photo’ in the subject line, and it could be featured in this segment.

Piece of mind

CUTIE OF THE WEEK

Lisa Urbani decimated the livelihoods of many more.

Sacrifices have been made by all of us in varying ways, and we are now gearing up to ease out of restrictions, hopefully from Alert Level 3 to Alert Level 2, all going well.

This battle is yet undecided, only time (and perhaps someday a vaccine) will tell, if we have overcome the invisible enemy.

We can all be leaders in our own way, heads of our households, our businesses, keeping our families and workers safe, and supporting our elders.

Our children have been scarred by this life-changing event, and young adults are facing uncertain futures.

There are people who are alone and vulnerable.

Leadership will be about extending our help and goodwill, to our wider

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circle, neighbours, friends, and local businesses that will need our support.

This ever widening ‘circle of caring’ will encompass everyone in our region until no-one in the valley of ‘Glistening Waters’ (or as I like to think of it, as ‘Rainbow Valley’) will feel left behind, or unloved, or forgotten about.

We want to get back to the thriving, vibrant community we were just a few weeks ago, wiser, stronger together, and more appreciative of what we have.

Now is the time for us each to step forward and be counted as a “leader”, as the kind, caring, unselfish individuals that we are all capable of being.

Not just by our words, but by our actions, our good deeds, and our willingness to ‘adjust the sails’.

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STREET TALK

What have you learned about yourself during lockdown? when I say this, I mean around supermarkets, having to line up and wait, then knowing once in people are still outside lined up and waiting, so therefore feeling rushed, not fun for anxiety at all.

Savvy Oldershaw I have abs now!

Kasey Harlen That I really don’t like strict rules or change –

Jean Cretney That I’m coping well with isolation. I am in my late seventies with my little dog for company. Have interests to keep me occupied.

Elaine Leggott WC I have learnt people don’t know what ‘stay at home’ means.

Beth Copland I have realised that the most annoying person in my work team is actually me.

Jocelyn Konig I hate sitting and doing nothing.

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Sandra Walters I like being at home.

Shelley Luff That I can’t stand listening to my hubby chew.

Mandy Gibbins That my garden is now in desperate need of more soil and plants.

Rainë McStabby I am more of an extrovert than I thought!

Cheryl Cavanagh How good a lesson in appreciation this has been.

Anders Christopherson That I have to learn how to make muesli as a cereal substitute.

Ange Miller Patience – and lots of it.

I went out before the lockdown, because life feels the same to me.

Mandy Gibbins That I’ve lost the ability to sleep in.

Jocelyn Konig I can cope.

Kim Goodall I can actually bake.

Graeme Burnard That I don’t suit long hair.

I need a haircut!

Patricia Pye I’m alright being at home and creative.

Donna Marie Gray How good we are at connecting to those in need.

Colleen Elle Amy Parker I’ve realised how little

Most people have learned that they enjoy being at home.

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Aratoi Voices

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Susanna Shadbolt It is difficult to imagine a lockdown with no creativity, colour, images, books, music or film!

In bubbles around the country, the arts and culture help us get through this, by bringing happiness, laughter, comfort, inspiration and even hope. During lockdown, our museum has been developing alternative ways to inspire, connect and engage with communities through Virtual Aratoi.

This means, our museum is – virtually – open every day!

The Aratoi team delivers digitally items from the collection, online exhibitions, challenges, activities and ideas to provide moments of joy and relief during these times. Have a go at exploring the collection through online jigsaw puzzles, follow staff on a virtual tour of exhibitions or be inspired to create your own board game or artwork.

Not surprisingly, Aratoi’s plan for exhibitions, activities and vital fundraisers for

the year has been thrown into turmoil and staff are starting to plan for a yet unknown future. That is a challenge faced by many charitable organisations and most of those working in the arts and cultural sector.

It is only natural given the country’s focus on people’s health and the recovery of the economy – we are proud to play a part. We know how important it is to provide a cultural facility like Aratoi for our community and the team is working hard to continue providing access to our artists, exhibitions and especially the treasures from the collection online.

This is our collection of art, Taonga Māori and historical items – built for over 50 years by the Wairarapa community.

What can you do to help Aratoi and support the arts? Most of all spread the word and get involved.

We need a sound base of interested and involved Wairarapa people so we can support and promote our artists and care for and expand access to our collection. Aratoi needs your support

Left: Barbara Hepworth: Galliard – Forms in Movement (1956), copper, bronze. Collection of Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History. Purchased by public subscription and the Maunsell family. Right: Gavin Chilcott: Nature – Design and the Cosmos (2018), acrylic on paper. Collection of Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History. Gift of Michele Hewitson.

John Weeks: Untitled - Landscape (c 1935), oil on canvas on board. Collection of Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History. Gift of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

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Show that you value the arts and follow us, like us, sign up, share our

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• Virtual Aratoi is open 24/7 – Visit - https:// www.aratoi.org.nz/ virtual-aratoi

Women’s centre keeps contact using virtual world

The Wairarapa Women’s Centre have been busy during lockdown keeping in contact with Check and Chat for Connection through the Self Isolation Support – Wairarapa.

We have had amazing volunteers helping with phone calls or texts to keep people connected and checking the vulnerable within our communities have someone to talk to about their concerns.

The callers were checking on food supplies and medication which is paramount. Being able to get food parcels delivered to these in need is an especially important connection.

The foodbank during lockdown was amazing, with Lyn and her team taking on the challenge of the increased demands of more than 200 per cent. To see businesses coming in

and supporting them, just shows what a supportive community we live in.

Vonnie has been keeping in touch with her support groups changing from face to face to virtual cuppa and chat. The Wairarapa Women Centre meets the needs of women alone with no contact with others during the day so it’s important for well-being to stay connected.

The Cross-Stitch group has been meeting on Messenger every Wednesday, pictures of the progress has been amazing support and encouragement has been heart-warming.

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and Teddy Bear Challenge.

Some have continued to crochet, knit and make toys. If you are into crafts in anyway then we welcome, you. The main part that I have enjoyed seeing is new friendships building by have a similar interest and sharing advice.

Even though we are not back in the office until level 2 we are still working at our home offices. My dolls house has become my filing cabinet and the spare bedroom changed to an office.

The virtual schooling is new for my son, and for all students I am sure it is not only routine they are missing like us

all but the contact with friend and teachers. For teachers, the new challenge is encouraging your student to self-manage their workload and zoom meetings.

I am completing New Zealand Certificate in Adult Tertiary Tutoring course and we have met on Zoom over the past six months.

We are from all over the east coast so it saved so much time in travel.

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March kept us busy A lot has happened in the past month, it has been a serious time with the situation changing regularly.

We would like to share some of the positive activities have been involved with, including two successful collaborative March Seaweek events and the Wellington Pride Parade.

Seaweek 2020 On March 5, we worked with Sustainable Wairarapa, Forest and Bird, Enviroschools, Te Pātukituki community education and art hub, and Aratoi, to hold our “Kai and Kōrero” networking event to bring together community members to share their knowledge and aspirations for the lands and waters of Wairarapa.

The artists at Te Pātukituki put on an invigorating evening of storytelling through drama, waiata and dance while providing a space for like-minds to connect and discuss

some shared visions for restoring our environments.

Lake Onoke visit On March 8, Te Rua o Mahara kaimahi Raihānia Tipoki and Amber Craig, were our guides on the bus tour and beach tidy event at Lake Ōnoke.

We learned a lot of history of the South Wairarapa landscape including different pā sites, as well as the political history of Wairarapa Moana and the changes in the landscape through the diversion of the Ruamāhanga.

After picking up rubbish along the shore of Lake Ōnoke we heard about the issue of microplastics which have significant impacts on the marine environment yet are not easily visible. We heard about the effects of human activity on wildlife like inanga, tuna, Caspian tern and banded dotterel.

It was a beautiful day and

Rangers Jo, Jaime and Faith. Inset: Helen Dew and Waiaria Pitau.

we ended with a kōrero at the mātai whetū (time compass) about the maramataka (lunar calendar) which offers a way to live in a more balanced way in tune with our natural world.

It was such a hot day and an idea was raised to have the next tour after dark when we can see the night sky and hear more about Māori star lore and navigation.

Pride March 2020 On March 7, a few of the Wairarapa district team joined our Wellington national office colleagues and Ministry for the Environment staff at the Wellington Pride Parade.

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How are your neighbours doing?

We’re the type of community that looks out for one another, and now it’s more important than ever. Sometimes people can be unsure of asking for help with food or medicine because they don’t ordinarily need the support. That’s where we can come together as a community to make sure they get these items.

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Whānau, if you’re not at work, school, exercising or getting essentials then you must be at home, the same as Level 4.

With more people back at work and travelling between towns, there is more risk of COVID-19 transmission now than there was previously.

Hei whakamaharatia:

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Kura are open only if you can’t work • All from home during Level 3.

We can all slow the spread

can extend your bubble to • You extended whānau however keep it tight.

• Only essential travel is allowed – stay local!

• No more than 10 people at a Tangi.

• Horoi ringa i ngā wā katoa.

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Cough or sneeze into your elbow

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It keeps the virus off your hands, so you won’t spread it to other people and make them sick too.

Call your GP before visiting them.

Or call Healthline on 0800 358 5453.

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Focus on basics helps Kobe excel strategies about grit – how it can be grown and developed in all of us, regardless of our field.

In societies in which there is so much to want and do it can be easy to jump from one thing to another, without ever really sticking to anything. However, eventually there comes a time when, after sampling a range of experiences, pathways and activities, that to be truly successful we need to become passionate about one course, then persevere with it to lead a fulfilling life.

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It’s time to have your say on SWDC’s plan for next year The 2020/21 Annual Plan consultation is open and Council wants to hear from you.

The Annual Plan Consultation Document sets out where Council proposes to spend ratepayer money over the next year.

Critical issues we need to fix:

• Water supply – to ensure reliable, clean, clear and safe drinking water, compliant with Government standards • Wastewater and storm water – to raise our game in progressively discharging wastewater to land, stopping flows to waterways; and identifying storm water flooding hotspots • Roading – to improve surfaces, and safety, with increased maintenance and renewal.

Plus, other initiatives to enhance the health and wellbeing of our communities, such as: • The Greytown Sports and Recreation Hub • Upgrading housing for our seniors • Action plans for water conservation and waste minimisation.

And to do all this work we need to build Council’s capability to deliver.

Get a copy of the Annual Plan Consultation Document online at www.swdc.govt.nz and in your 13 May issue of Wairarapa MidWeek.

Due to COVID-19 restrictions, virtual public Q&A events are planned for Martinborough, Featherston and Greytown on 14, 18 and 20 May, respectively.

Submissions close on Sunday 24 May 2020.

Check our website swdc.govt.nz, or call 06 306 9611, for more details, including how to get a copy of the Consultation Document and make a submission

Kobe Bryant was one of the most exceptional basketball players of all time. This is quite an achievement when we consider many of the great players of the game ... Michael Jordan, Lebron James, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, and so many more.

Listening to author Alan Stein Jr talking about his experience with Bryant it becomes clear as to why he reached the level he did. Stein was invited to a training session with Bryant that started at 3.30am.

When he arrived early, Bryant was already there warming up, before taking part in his solo session.

The interesting thing, aside from the time the session started, that Stein found was that Bryant focused solely on the basics, the sort of skills that Stein would teach his junior teams.

Bryant’s comment was that the basics are the essentials of the game, and by spending plenty of time on them anyone can become a lot better at what they do.

Basketball may not be your thing, but for whatever you do, Stein believes that to become a lot better at it, focus on the basics and spend a lot of time doing so. If it got Bryant to the top of the game of basketball, think about how it could apply to whatever your area of potential greatness may be.

Spreading kindness

The Calm Meditation app had a focus on kindness and the impact that it can have on the world around us. An interesting idea that the meditation centred around was the concept of kindness spreading.

By this it means that when kindness happens it’s not just the recipient who benefits, it’s also the person being kind; we all feel that warm glow when we do something nice for another person.

However, kindness spreads further still; if I was to see someone being kind to another person it makes me feel good; that’s three people impacted.

But it doesn’t stop there ... if I share an act of kindness I have witnessed or heard about in a school assembly where there’s 500 people in the room, then a lot of them are going to feel that warm glow, so the kindness has spread further, and it can potentially grow even more.

The unseen hours

Another insight from author Alan Stein Jnr which was shared on the Mojo Radio Show. Stein shares the ‘unseen hours’ concept. By this he is referring to all of the work that happens when no one is looking that leads to that person being so very good at what they do.

Take the example of a teacher who gets the very best out of students.

Anyone watching might assume that the teacher is simply a natural at building positive relationships as he or she gets the very best out of a class of 30 students, perhaps while working from only 9am to 3pm.

This simply isn’t the case.

The teacher who looks so natural will have built up a level of skill over several years, working countless hours during early mornings, late nights and school holidays.

The unseen hours idea doesn’t relate to just teachers, it’s about anyone

The way to habit change is to change your environment and remove the cues that reinforce the bad habit.

We can’t expect will power and good intentions on their own to maintain change. in any profession who just seems that little (or a lot) better than others. The reason this is so is because of the hard work during the unseen hours that goes into making things look easy.

What can happen in one day

Each day on the Calm meditation app the daily meditation finishes with the discussion of a key idea and a quote. Today the meditation focused on what can happen in one single day, today, with the quote (by Gayle Forman) being: ‘We are born in one day. We die in one day.

We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day’.

My understanding of the quote and the Calm meditation is that every

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day is of great value and we should always try to make the most of each one. Fantastic things can happen on any day; in some cases we may have an idea of when something might happen (good news or bad news), such as a new job, but in other cases something wonderful could happen on just any day, such as the chance meeting with the person who becomes your lifelong partner.

As Goethe states in my favourite ever quote: ‘Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday.

Tomorrow is still beyond your reach’.

Pay attention to the science

I saw a fascinating interview from Saturday Night Live, with host James Corden interviewing Yuval Noah Harari, author of 21 Lessons for the 21st Century.

As with most things in the interview focused on the covid-19 crisis. One very interesting thing that Yuval shared was how we

have paid attention to the science as a means of combating covid-19.

This is demonstrated by the way in which people all around the world are staying at home, with an example being those who have a strong religious faith not attending church.

Too often we pick and choose with science, but, as Harari has pointed out, when our backs are truly against the wall we are trusting those who are the most likely to overcome the pandemic, just as scientists have with many discoveries over time that have enhanced and improved the lives of millions.

We have a challenge when the covid-19 crisis is over, with this being to look at other issues that science can help us with, even if it isn’t so immediately obvious and impactful. For example, take a film like 2040 and start implementing the practical strategies shared there to help us overcome the coming ‘slow burn’ crisis of climate change before we

reach a tipping point of no return.

What NFL coaches are looking for in players

When interviewed on the Nike Trained Podcast, psychologist Angela Duckworth shared something that was backed up by the host, who trains athletes at the highest level of the game, including Russell Wilson, a Superbowl winning quarterback.

The idea shared was that two essential attributes that coaches look for in players are perseverance and passion. This may seem obvious, but it is something that can be overlooked as coaches may be blindsided by players who have the obvious high level of talent, yet go on to underperform, having short careers and never fulfilling their potential.

Duckworth calls the combination of passion and perseverance ‘grit’, a topic she has written a book about. Throughout her book she shares stories, ideas and

I read a fascinating study in the book Atomic Habits, which describes how 20 per cent of American soldiers in the Vietnam War were regular heroin users.

This essentially came down to the environment that the soldiers were in, with three key factors being: 1. A lot of colleagues and friends were using the drug.

2. The soldiers were in a highly stressful situation.

3. The drug was very accessible.

Further investigation found a surprising outcome when the soldiers returned to the United States, this being that only 10 per cent of those seemingly addicted in Vietnam remained users.

The reason for this – the change of environment and accessibility of the drug.

Because it was no longer accessible or obvious, the cue to use it was hugely reduced and for a vast majority of users the habit stopped.

Compare this to a drug user in our own society. Often they will go through a programme in a rehabilitation centre that is focused on strategies for curtailing the addiction.

However, once back in the environment where the addition started the habit returns in most cases.

The way to habit change is to change your environment and remove the cues that reinforce the bad habit. We can’t expect will power and good intentions on their own to maintain change.

• Tim Nelson is principal of Lakeview School and author of the book Small Steps for a happy and purposeful life. He endeavours to learn something new every day by reading books, listening to podcasts, and engaging with a wide range of other content.

A Lansdowne Vineyard harvest Photo; Wairarapa Archive.

The suburb of Lansdowne was established on the home farm of Mataikona Station owner and early politician Major John Valentine Smith.

His wife, Mary Wild, came from an area near Sydney called Lansdowne, and he named the property for her.

Their 1860s house was demolished in the 1930s and replaced with the present Lansdowne House.

Major Smith got into ÿ nancial troubles in the 1880s and sold his Lansdowne property to the T.C. Williams, a partner in ‘Brancepeth’.

His brother-in-law William Beetham planted an extensive vineyard on the slopes, and the original Masterton Hospital was established in Totara Street in 1878.

The Williams family slowly subdivided the estate, and by the 1920s the population

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was large enough to be included in the Masterton Borough – it had previously been part of Masterton County.

Lansdowne School opened in 1909, and the Presbyterian Church was opened four years later.

The Williams family gave an extensive piece of land to the Borough Council in the 1930s.

The suburb grew so much in the 1950s and 1960s that another school – Totara Drive School – had to be added and a separate intermediate school – Hiona - also opened.

The three schools were amalgamated in the early 2000s and became Lakeview School.

Expansion continues, with further subdivision of the old Williams estate land planned for the near future.

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How to deal with our mess Back in the late 90s, a couple of my work colleagues came up with a simple framework for classifying problems.

Problems are classified by diversity of perception of their severity (some may see no problem at all) and what might be acceptable solutions. They are also classified by complexity assessing the varying levels of specialist knowledge and brainpower required to solve them.

A problem with little diversity or complexity is a “tame problem”. It’s relatively easy to fix and there’s little disagreement about its nature or how to solve it. These are everyday problems and require no special technical skills or people management.

A problem that has a high diversity of perception among people but isn’t technically complex is a “wicked problem”.

Wicked problems include: determining drug legislation, brokering peace agreements, and social budget allocations. Wicked problems require skills in political management, emotional intelligence, communications and public relations.

A technically complex problem that has low diversity among people is a “mess”. Messes include the Chernobyl disaster,

The daily televised public briefings with question and answer sessions were an excellent balance between handling with the matters of diversity by the Prime Minister and the complexity by the Director General of Health.

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Messes require brainpower to solve, with often multiple complex interlocking factors calling for deep understanding, specialist experience and expertise.

The combination of both high diversity and technical complexity creates “wicked messes”. Wicked messes include: prosecuting a war, climate change, overpopulation. Wicked messes require outstanding

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leadership as the populace is brought together as best as possible while assessing the advice from the specialists and knowing who or what to trust.

Where does managing the influx of the SARSCoV-2 virus that leads to the covid-19 disease fit in this classification?

A pandemic is clearly a wicked mess. The news media and my Facebook feed tells me that there’s a

huge diversity of opinion about the problem and its severity.

Complexity? Balancing the medical response and impacts against the economic impacts is a devil’s bargain.

Epidemiology, risk management, pathology, logistics, triage, infection control, mortuary management, ICU are just a few of the gamut of domains where specialist knowledge is applied to combat a virus whose characteristics are only emerging as it is dealt with.

In my view, the daily televised public briefings with question and

answer sessions were an excellent balance between handling with the matters of diversity by the Prime Minister and the complexity by the Director General of Health.

Between them we were assured that both aspects of the wicked mess were and are being addressed.

This was clever design and the accolades they have received have been welldeserved.

We are moving forward into an uncertain future.

Mistakes will be made and opinions will differ. That is the nature of a wicked mess.

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Be like our kiwi Manukura Dear friends, Pūkaha remains temporally closed to the public amid the Covid-19 Alert Level 3 lockdown but we want to reassure you that our wildlife continue to be cared for by our dedicated rangers during this time.

We want to thank our community for their concern and kindness and hope each of you and your whanau are also well in your bubbles too.

Hopefully we can all come together again soon.

This week we thought we’d share some examples from nature of animals that go into isolation for a wee while and then manage to come back out again. Often better than before. Always refreshed and with renewed vigour.

Did you know that black bears, which are very

common along the east coast of America, can go into hibernation for a whopping seven and a half months!

During this time, they won’t eat any food or drink any water.

Hence, they don’t go to the toilet either. Gee that’s a long time to hold it in!

Closer to home, during the colder months of April to September, our own Tuatara will go into torpor – an extreme state of inactivity. They will hunker down into their underground dens and will rarely come out. They won’t eat, forcing them to slow down completely. So much so their heart rate will slow to 10 beats a minute and

Manukura, the rare white kiwi – loves her time living by herself.

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they will breathe as little as once an hour!

Our most famous resident – Manukura, the rare white kiwi – loves

her time living by herself.

Foraging away. Doing her own thing. In complete isolation. Completely happy she is. We have tried to introduce her to other kiwi friends in her custom Kiwi House enclosure, but she is just not interested. Put simply, she prefers her own bubble of just one.

If someone from your bubble is finding the lockdown period a bit tough, we would ask you to look after them, just like our rangers would. Maybe they could think about being like Manukura? That is; wake up each day, stay in your bubble, embrace life

and try to have as much fun as you can.

Please take care of one another and together we will get through this.

He waka eke noa – we are all in this together.

Speak again next week, The Pūkaha Rangers.

Contributed by Alex Wall • The Wairarapa Midweek has partnered with Pukaha National Wildlife Centre to put a spotlight on wildlife conservation efforts locally and allow readers to get up close and personal with New Zealand’s amazing native species.

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Hey Wairarapa!

Here’s what we can do and where we can go under Alert Level 3 If you’re not at work, school, exercising or getting essentials then you must be at home, the same as Level 4. With more people back at work and travelling between towns, there is more risk of COVID-19 transmission now than there was previously.

But great news! We can still support our local businesses.

• Feel free to go and grab your favourite take-aways or get a coffee fix but make minimal trips.

• Combine pick-ups with travel to essential services and send just one person per household.

• Your local business will have safety guidelines, which may include a sign in sheet, sanitiser or there

We can all slow the spread

may ground markings showing where you should stand. Please follow these.

• Please do not have social gatherings – we still need to stay 2 metres away from anyone outside our bubble.

• You can go and visit your closest park (not your favourite one) but please don’t touch the playground equipment. If walking your dog, please keep it on a lead.

• For any recreation, stay local and as close to home as possible. Local means the area near your home that you regularly visit for essential services.

We all need to work together if we want to slow the spread of COVID-19. Unite against the virus now.

And remember, testing for COVID-19 will continue throughout Level 3. If you have a cough, sore throat, or difficulty breathing, stay at home and quickly seek advice from your GP or Healthline on 0800 358 5453 to request a referral for a test. Healthcare is still available if you’re sick for any reason, not just for COVID-19. Contact your usual health professionals.

Be kind. Check-in Washing and Cough or sneeze Stay home on the elderly or vulnerable

drying your hands kills the virus

Make a difference by: • checking-in on any elderly or vulnerable people you know • dropping supplies to those at home sick.

Wash often. Use soap.

20 seconds. Then dry.

This kills the virus by bursting its protective bubble.

into your elbow

if you are sick

It keeps the virus off your hands, so you won’t spread it to other people and make them sick too.

Call your GP before visiting them.

Or call Healthline on 0800 358 5453.

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Nurses and Midwives celebrated every health employer around the world to provide leadership and development training for a group of their young nurses this year.

Both nurses and midwives are being celebrated this year and this month.

This year nurses globally and in New Zealand are celebrating the International Year of the Nurse and the global Nursing Now campaign.

2020 has been chosen by the World Health Organisation as the International Year of the Nurse, coinciding with the 200th anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale, one of the founders of modern nursing.

The Nursing Now movement, which coincides with the 2020 celebrations, is organised by the International Council of Nurses and is a worldwide campaign to raise the status and profile of nursing through a growing social network

2020 has also been designated as the International Year of the Midwife by the World Health Organisation.

The 200th anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale has inspired the international year of nurses and midwives

of groups aiming to influence global and national policy.

Another part of the celebrations is the Nightingale Challenge, named after Florence Nightingale.

The challenge is asking

Pass on the aroha

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has launched a Facebook campaign called 'Pass on the Aroha' to thank frontline health and disability workers for their work during COVID-19.

In a video on the Ministry of Health’s Facebook page, Director-General of Health

Dr Ashley Bloomfield, is asking New Zealanders to prepare a sign thanking our health & disability workers and then posting a photograph or video of them with it.

“We’re so thankful for all our frontline health and disability workers during this challenging time.

Every day midwives welcome around 168 new babies into the world in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Midwives are at the birth of every baby - in homes, in primary maternity units; in hospitals. Midwives stand alongside women, partners and whanau.

They are wise companions on a universal journey that begins in pregnancy, continues with the birth of a baby and culminates when the woman and her baby are transferred to well child care.

They’ve been working tirelessly to make sure we’re safe and cared for, and we’re so grateful for their mahi,” says a MoH Facebook post.

“Share the love Aotearoa!

Rally your friends, whānau, community, and create your video with a sign of thanks. Let's show

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Throughout this year, there is a concerted push to promote midwifery in New Zealand, to upskill and inform people about aspects of midwifery, and to push for more education and employment options for the midwifery workforce.

Every year on May 5th International Day of the Midwife is celebrated while a week later, on 12th May, International Nurses Day is celebrated, the anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth.

The theme for International Nurses Day this year is “Nurses: A Voice to Lead – Nursing the World to Health.”

The theme demonstrates how nurses are central to addressing a wide range of health challenges.

every health and disability worker how much we appreciate them.

“Tag us Ministry of Health - Manatū Hauora (@Ministry of Health) in your post with #ArohanuiHealthHeroes.

Pass on the aroha.”

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THANK YOU To all of our healthcare staff, and especially nurses, thank you for everything you are doing to keep our community safe and healthy.

As someone with healthcare workers in my family, I have first-hand appreciation for how hard you work.

When emergencies hit and many of us retreat home to our families, you instead head out to work. It is a significant sacrifice you are all making for our community and we all thank you sincerely.

Mayor Lyn Patterson.

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In praise of nursing for the elderly Being a nurse in a rest home is a special role, says Rae Andrews, manager of Carter Court Rest Home.

The Carterton rest home has 42 beds, 18 of which provide hospital-level care, with 11 permanent and casual nurses among the staff.

It is a complex role and Aged Care nursing staff have skilled expertise and knowledge, says Rae. “Our residents require both holistic care and clinical care. Often our residents have complex health issues, and nursing staff have to be highly vigilant and monitor and respond to any health changes.

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“So it is quite a varied role for our nurses, duties ranging from managing acute to chronic conditions to rehabilitation or palliative care. This is all done in partnership with family members and in liaison

Celebrating International Nurses Day last year at Carter Court. From left: Lynley Batson (Carter Court Nurse Manager), Maureen Aston (Carter Court Registered Nurse), Corina Ngatai (Carterton Medical Nurse Practitioner) and Moyra Te Whare (Carter Court Enrolled Nurse)

with external providers, such as our GP.” Nurses in Aged Residential care deliver person centred care with empathy and compassion, often going the extra mile.

Rest home nursing is a very busy role, Rae

notes, with three eight hour shifts over 24 hours, meaning nursing staff have to be able to adjust to different working hours over a period of weeks.

Rae respects and values the care, knowledge and expertise that the nursing staff bring to Carter Court

every day.

“We are very much a team at Carter Court and support each other.

We value the extra skills and responsibilities our nursing staff carry. We are honoured to celebrate with them annually on International Nurses Day.”

Passion for nursing found at Kandahar Home Aged care wasn’t something Nikki Wyeth considered when she became

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a registered nurse.

She says all the staff work hard to maintain a familyfriendly environment at the rest home.

She had worked at Enliven’s Kandahar Home in Masterton as a caregiver before pursuing a career in nursing.

“We are a family here. Definitely.”

“I did my post g r a d u a t e certificate in mental health and then Tamariki Ora,” Nikki remembers.

“I’d never thought of working in aged care.

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“When I moved back to Masterton, I worked for an agency and enjoyed doing the aged care nursing. I guess I had believed the stigma of nurses in aged care.”

Nikki has now worked for more than five years at Kandahar Home, most recently in its hospital area.

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Kandahar Home registered nurse Nikki Wyeth.

Kandahar Home I was hooked,” Nikki says. “I loved the passionate staff, the wonderful residents and having the privilege of caring for people at the end of their journey of life.”

Enliven has almost 160 nurses working in its rest homes across the lower North Island, including registered nurses, enrolled nurses, clinical nurse managers, clinical coordinators and RN managers.

It also offers new graduate nursing opportunities through its First Year of Practice programme, established in 2015.

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As part of International Nurses Day 2020, we’re acknowledging and celebrating nurses working across Wairarapa.

Every day nurses make significant contributions to improving the health and well-being of our community.

Tū Ora Compass Health recognises the mahi (work) of nurses, nurse practitioners and midwives in both community and hospital settings across the region.

Nurses play a vital role in health promotion, disease prevention and treatment of acute and chronic illness for our community.

The care and support they provide spans the lifecycle from maternity through to end of life care.

Tū Ora Compass Health wants to acknowledge the contribution and commitment that our nurses and midwives continue to make for their clients, patients and whānau during the ongoing fight against Covid-19.

Working on the Covid-19 frontline has presented

Masterton Medical Nurse Team

The contribution that nurses, nurse practitioners and midwives make to the Wairarapa health system does not go unnoticed ... many challenges for our health workers such as time isolating from vulnerable family members and whanau to reduce risk.

“The contribution that nurses, nurse practitioners and midwives make to the Wairarapa health system does not go unnoticed, and we want to take this

This means people who are over 65, people with long term conditions or Hapu mama (pregnant women).

opportunity to say thanks, you are appreciated,” says Justine Thorpe, Deputy CEO Tū Ora Compass Health.

People within these groups are more vulnerable to the impacts of Flu, so please get in touch with your Medical Centre if you or someone in your whanau is eligible for a funded Flu vaccination.

With winter approaching, Medical Centre Nurse teams want to hear from people who are eligible for funded Flu (Influenza) vaccines.

Tū Ora Compass Health Primary Health Organisation supports seven General Practice teams to provide health care throughout the Wairarapa region.

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Health matters

International Nurses Day 2020 Nurses working across the Wairarapa are every day making a significant contribution to improving the health and well-being of our community.

From delivering high quality patient care to positively impacting society, nurses play an important role in health promotion, disease prevention and treatment of acute and chronic illness.

Tū Ora Compass Health recognises the work that Nurses, Nurse Practitioners and Midwives do in both community and hospital settings across the region. The care and support they give spans the lifecycle spectrum from the beginnings in maternity through to end of life care.

Image of Masterton Medical Practice Nurses.

Tū Ora Compass Health would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the contribution and commitment that our nurses and midwives have continued to make to their clients, patients and whānau in rising to the challenge of the fight against Covid-19.

‘The contribution that Nurses, Nurse Practitioners and Midwives make to the Wairarapa health system does not go unnoticed and we want to take this opportunity to say thank you, you are appreciated’ says Justine Thorpe, Deputy CEO.

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A satisfying career Carterton Medical is a busy practice, where its Practice Nurses deal with many aspects of patient care.

One of these nurses is Megan Coulson who joined Carterton Medical five years ago after being a paediatric nurse at Wellington Hospital.

Megan grew up in Wairarapa, and with both her mother and aunty nurses, it was a career she was always attracted to.

“Seeing the job satisfaction my mother gained every day by helping people in her job, inspired my own interest in the nursing field.”

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But first, Megan worked in the insurance industry.

Looking back, she says this was good preparation for becoming a nurse.

“It increased my maturity, learning to deal with conflict and challenging situations.

Good communication and accuracy was imperative in keeping notes and documentation, which I use today daily in my nursing practice.”

Practice nursing had always been an area of interest to Megan.

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We acknowledge the work and commitment our nurses have shown during COVID to our community and medical centre

THANK YOU!

environment with an aim of reducing health inequalities amongst communities, and preventing hospital admissions through education and support.”

Practice Nurses like Megan work with GPs in primary care practices.

They provide a wide range of services including immunisation, wound care, medical advice, acute care and chronic disease management.

their whanau and providing continuity of care throughout.

Nursing and healthcare is a career that is forever changing and evolving, Megan says.

“It is exciting that nurses are being given more responsibilities and wider scopes of practice through post graduate education”.

They work in assessing and helping to treat patients, working in partnership with them to help achieve their optimal health, as well as having a strong education and teaching role.

“No two days are the same. You never stop learning in nursing. I learn something new from my colleagues and patients everyday.

“I enjoy working alongside a professional, caring, highly skilled team at Carterton Medical and the wider Wairarapa primary healthcare sector, who are all very passionate in their roles in providing optimal healthcare to our community.”

Megan says along with a professional, caring, empathetic manner, excellent team work and communication skills are important aspects of being a nurse.

“Practice Nursing is challenging and interesting, and I enjoy being a part of the primary health care team and making a difference in people's everyday lives,” says Megan.

“I love what I do, the variety it offers and working with a wide range of people and their whanau who walk through my door every day!”.

“I value the opportunity to develop long term trusting relationships with my patients and

All the staff at Carterton Pharmacy would like to thank all our loyal and patient customers for your understanding through this busy and stressful time.

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We offer a broad range of specialised care from rest home, hospital, dementia, short term/long care, Day Care, Palliative Care and Health Recovery.

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Home births up during lockdown

Midwives provide antenatal care, advice and parenting education shaped to fit the specific needs of the woman, her baby and her environment.

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A big thank you

International Nurses’ Day and the International Day of the Midwife are redcircle dates on Wairarapa District Health Board’s annual calendar.

These are days to reflect on the professionalism and excellent care that nurses in the hospital and community provide to the people of Wairarapa.

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– 28% in April – with a competent, confident team of midwifery professionals to assist.

In the face of COVID-19, midwives in both the hospital and community setting have needed to adapt how they provide care.

Strong relationships and the supportive, collaborative working ethic in this specialist group has ensured that our women have continued to be well catered for, despite the added pressures of the response.

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Left to right, Louise Millar, Monika Steinmetz, Donna Thompson, Leila Sparrow, Rosie Johnson, Maria Gollan, Alex Williamson, Perri Williams and Michelle Thomas

centric service and providing good quality care is business as usual for the midwifery team.

The national COVID-19 response, while introducing the They are an opportunity to acknowledge each of these key staff for the difference they make for us all.

Most recently, we recognise the additional challenges the COVID-19 pandemic has created for our nurses and our midwifery teams across the region.

We know the people of Wairarapa join us in celebrating our nurses, midwives and lead maternity carers for the

complication of PPE requirements, virtual consultations and reduced “bubble” support, has had its silver lining.

More mothers have chosen to birth at home work they do and the difference they make.

We know this because they tell us. The majority of the compliments and gestures of kindness received at the hospital, for example, describe the wonderful care delivered by these two groups.

On behalf of the Wairarapa DHB board and executive leadership team, we would like to thank all of our nursing and our midwifery staff, and extend that gratitude

Happy International Nurses and Midwives Day!

Thank you, to all our great team!

International Nurses and 2020 is the International Year ofHappy the Nurse and Midwife.

Midwives Day!

Wairarapa District Health Board sincerely thanks all our nurses and midwives for 2020 is the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife. the professional and compassionate care theyWairarapa continue to provide the hospital District Health Board sincerelyin thanks all our nurses and midwives for the professional and compassionate care they continue to provide in the hospital and across the community in these especially challenging times. and across the community in these especially challenging times.

International Midwives day 5 May International Nurses day 12 May

International Midwives Day 5 May International Nurses Day 12 May

Thank you for all you are, and all you do, for all you meet

Thank you for all you are, and all you do, for all you meet

LET US LOOK AFTER YOU AT GLENWOOD

Here at Glenwood we offer you the very best in clinical care within a warm and welcoming community.

A BIG THANK YOU to all Glenwood Sta˜ who have gone above and beyond during these challenging times Denise McAlpine - Facility Manager 74 Upper Plain Road, Masterton | Tel 06 377 0221 E: gmhmanager@masonicvillages.co.nz

“I could not be prouder of the LMC and DHB midwifery team. They continually provide a gold standard service and rise to any challenge,” says Michelle Thomas, Director of Midwifery, Wairarapa District Health Board (DHB).

“Our grateful thanks, appreciation, and hat’s off to the whole team from all of us at the DHB, and on behalf of all our new and expectant mothers too,” Michelle says. “Happy International Day of the Midwife (for yesterday) to you all.” to all the primary care, community and aged residential care teams.

Thank you for your commitment and dedication to supporting the health and wellbeing of people and communities in Wairarapa. We appreciate you, very much.

Sir Paul Collins, Board Chair Dale Oliff, Chief Executive Wairarapa District Health Board

INTERNATIONAL

NURSES DAY TUESDAY 12 MAY 2020

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Look to north for meteors The best time to see the eta Aquarids meteors is tomorrow morning, May 7. Get out about 6.30am and keep your eye on the northern sky.

You can’t miss red Mars almost due north about halfway up the sky.

Aquarius sits just northeast of Mars, and the meteors will appear to come from a point there but may trail in any direction from there.

These meteors are some of the fastest you’ll see. They impact our atmosphere’s fringes at 66 kilometres per second – that’s nearly 240,000 kmh. This speed causes ionisation in the upper atmosphere, which from our perspective means the meteors tend to leave trails.

The eta Aquarids are fragments left over from the passage of Halley’s comet which last whipped around the inner Solar System in 1986. If you are a lot younger than me, you may catch its return in 2061. I was lucky enough to catch it in 1986 from the desert of Saudi Arabia, where I was working, and somewhat later from the Florida Keys where I was holidaying.

Comet Atlas, that I promised a few weeks ago would brighten enough for us to see without aid, appears to be disintegrating. Unlike Halley’s it is small, and with comets being just

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Sky Watch

Nick Sault loose aggregates of rock, dust and ices, they tend to crumble under the pressure of the sun when they swing around too close.

The tail of a comet is no indication of its direction of travel. It points away

from the sun, driven away from the body of the comet by solar power. The tail can often be arrayed ahead of the direction of the comet’s motion.

For evening viewing, wait until the full moon is no longer washing out all

but the brightest stars, say Saturday or Sunday.

It is the time when two of the most noticeable and recognisable constellations sit on opposite horizons.

Orion, who has been our night companion throughout summer, is on his last legs, as far as gracing our skies. He sits on the northwest horizon after sunset – you can’t miss his striking three-star belt. Red giant Betelgeuse to the north of the belt has

been leading astronomers a merry time by dimming considerably – often a presage of going supernova.

But the star seems to be back to normal.

Way across the sky, the Scorpion is rising in the southeast. Its curly tail evident towards the south and its brightest star, red giant Antares, somewhat to the left of that from our perspective.

Next week: There’s an altar in the sky.

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The The massive massive slip slip which which has has dammed dammed the the Kaiwhata Kaiwhata River River between between Te Te Wharau Wharau and and Homewood Homewood remains remains fi firmly rmly in in place place while while water water levels levels continue continue to to rise. rise.

It It begs begs the the question question of of what what happens happens when when the the dam dam eventually eventually breaks. breaks.

A A team team from from GNS GNS Science Science were were at at the the site site on on Thursday Thursday to to collect collect data data to to answer answer this this question, question, using using a a drone, drone, GPS GPS and terrestrial laser scanner and terrestrial laser scanner to to provide provide detailed detailed hazard hazard information information to to local local authorities. authorities.

The The landslide landslide which which caused caused the the dam dam is is believed believed to to have have occurred sometime last occurred sometime last Saturday Saturday afternoon afternoon where where the the base base of of an an existing existing landslide landslide from from a a few few years years ago ago gave gave way. way.

The landslide that blocked The landslide that blocked the the river river has has a a volume volume of of 100,000 100,000 cubic cubic metres. metres. The The team team measured measured the the lowest lowest point point on on the the crest crest of of the the landslide landslide dam dam as as 15 15 metres metres above above the the original original river river level. level.

The The volume volume of of water water in in the the lake lake forming forming behind behind the the dam dam was was estimated to be 600,000 cubic estimated to be 600,000 cubic metres metres yesterday yesterday afternoon. afternoon.

It It was was expected expected to to spill spill over over the the top top of of the the dam dam at at some some point point today today if if water water levels levels

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As As crews crews prepared prepared to to scour scour the the Tararua Tararua Range Range for for missing missing tramper tramper Darren Darren Myers Myers for for the the second second consecutive consecutive day day of of the the current current four-day four-day mission, mission, his his brother-in-law brother-in-law spoke spoke of of his his experience experience in in the the outdoors outdoors and and love love of of adventure. adventure.

At At the the Wairarapa Wairarapa Search Search and and Rescue Rescue [SAR] [SAR] base base at at Hood Hood Aerodrome Aerodrome in in Masterton Masterton yesterday, yesterday, Duncan Duncan Styles Styles said said he he and and Myers Myers had had been been planning planning on on doing doing the the Dusky Dusky Track Track in in Fiordland later this year.

Fiordland later this year.

The The route route described described by by National National Geographic Geographic as as one one of of New New Zealand’s Zealand’s toughest toughest gives gives a a good good indication indication of of Myers’ Myers’ experience. experience.

“Darren “Darren had had done done lots lots of of tramping tramping in in the the UK. UK. He’s He’s done done six six weeks weeks crossing crossing the the Pyrenees Pyrenees in in France, France, plenty plenty of of major major expeditions, expeditions, and and big big mountain mountain bike bike tours tours in in places places such such as as Wales.

Wales.

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Brenda Rosser, an Brenda Rosser, an engineering geomorphologist engineering geomorphologist and sedimentologist from and sedimentologist from GNS GNS Science, Science, said said a a team team was was running running through through a a 3D 3D model model they they made made based based on on Thursday’s Thursday’s site site visit. visit.

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Abuse takes many forms Picture a man whose adult son moves back home and exposes him to drug abuse and aggressive verbal attacks.

Now think of a woman who sells her home and moves in with her daughter’s family, only to find she’s expected to do all the cooking, cleaning and childminding for the extended family, and to pay for their renovations.

And there’s also that woman whose husband has been violent and controlling for over 50 years of marriage.

These are all examples of elder abuse, a term used to describe abuse of an older person by any person of trust. It could be a family member, friend, neighbour or carer, and may include physical, financial, psychological, social and sexual abuse. Neglect can also constitute abuse.

While it’s difficult to say how often elder abuse occurs in New Zealand, global estimates suggest up to 10 per cent of older people are victims. Elder abuse can have serious consequences. As well as direct effects such as physical injury or financial

Global estimates suggest up to 10 per cent of older people are victims of elder abuse.

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hardship, it can cause stress, depression and anxiety. Elder abuse can shorten your life, too.

People who experience elder abuse have an increased susceptibility to illness and can be more likely to die early.

As a form of family violence, elder abuse most often occurs within the home or family, and is usually perpetrated by an adult son or daughter against their ageing parent. It includes intimate partner violence which may be the result of a new relationship or a continuation of a lifetime’s exposure to violence.

Ageist stereotypes and

May 2020

How can we help?

assumptions about the capabilities of older people can be disempowering and takes away older people’s rights and power. We see this when older people may be expected to give up control of their finances, allow their children to make decisions for them, or move into an aged care facility rather than live alone.

There are many ways of supporting and empowering older people to help them avoid elder abuse. Sometimes older people enter into ‘assets for care’ arrangements with family members where care and assistance will be provided to the

older person in return for money or property.

At other times older parents find themselves giving financial assistance to adult children or providing them with accommodation. The use of written rather than verbal agreements can help ensure these kinds of arrangements are fair to all parties and can be useful if the relationship breaks down.

While financial abuse is the most common type of elder abuse, multiple types of abuse often occur together.

Addressing elder abuse can often involve considering an older

person’s wishes and their needs regarding their relationship with family members, physical and mental health, income and assets, housing, and other supports.

This means there is a role for everybody to play in identifying and combatting elder abuse: health services, financial institutions, law enforcement, support agencies, legal services, aged and community care providers.

While many health and community sector workers may be aware that some older people are reliant on the perpetrator of abuse for their care needs, which can make it difficult to seek help, it’s also crucial to understand that many perpetrators are dependent on their older parents too – for housing, money and other support.

This demonstrates only one of the many complexities of elder abuse.

• Age Concern Wairarapa can offer support, advice and information to older people who feel they may at risk of elder abuse.

• Please contact Anne Murrell, our Elder Abuse co-ordinator [06] 929-7568

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Life under Lockdown

By Hailey Robson

Going from an COVID-19 Alert Level 2 to Alert Level 4 in a matter of two days did alarm me a bit, as never in my life had I known New Zealand to go into a lockdown.

9-17 MAY 2020

As many families scrambled to stock up on food and get supplies, me and my family were home discussing the changes that would come.

The biggest changes/challenges for me was not being able to see any friends, and go to The Way Youth Group which included not being able to go to Easter camp, a yearly camp we attend.

The biggest challenge has been staying in touch with the juniors and other seniors from The Way. Our leaders have connected with young people in our group

by Zoom calls, Cross-Road Quiz, and this week a riddle hunt in the town.

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After a few days into lockdown, it dawned on me how much it was a˜ ecting some of my friends.

Some found it great keeping busy by watching Net° ix and doing at-home workouts, connecting more with family, and focusing on doing better school work.

Others found being isolated and feeling alone with lots of school

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work very stressful and negative on their mental health.

Things I did over lockdown would be checking in on friends over social media and o˜ ering any support I could to them, with some being sent care packages.

When I wasn’t working or doing school work, I took this spare time as an opportunity to work on my ÿ tness, backyard football and lots of family time.

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has had some positives of ° exibility around schooling, practising any sport (at home), sleep-ins or even watching lots of Net° ix.

Lockdown has also had its negatives which have been things like not seeing friends, anxiety, and feeling like there’s no one to talk to.

Hailey is a Year 12 student at Wairarapa College in Masterton.

She is a youth leader for The Way youth group based in Featherston.

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Wednesday, May 6, 2020 Lifestyle Wairarapa Midweek

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Making the most of this opportunity Youth Week is a nationwide festival of events organised by young New Zealanders to celebrate the talents, passion and success of local young people.

Youth Week recognises the amazing contributions and achievements of young people in New Zealand.

The week inspires us to value, support, and a˜ rm the diversity of young people in our society.

We want Aotearoa to be a country where young people are vibrant and optimistic and are supported and encouraged to take up challenges.

Events are designed to encourage young people to take on challenges, share ideas and focus on the positive aspects of being young.

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The week also recognises the youth workers, youth service providers and others working with and for young people.

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A busy year for Wairarapa Whanau Trust

By Kawana Gaunt - Youth Pastor of Revolution Youth Masterton During the national lockdown, our youth group has been staying connected through social media and video calling platforms like ZOOM and House Party.

We’ve found daily video calls where one of our leaders or young people share an encouraging message has been very beneÿ cial and a great way to stay connected.

Our wider youth movement also hosted a national video call which saw over 350 young people across New Zealand partake in some virtual dance cam followed by a motivational message from world renowned youth communicator Reggie Dabbs from USA. We’ve been reminding our young people that even though it can seem like everything around them has changed, there are some things that never change, and if they make that their foundation, they can thrive in any circumstances.

For one of our young leaders,

oup at ior Way Youth Gr Members of the jun ngs with Seven Sharp sti Ha Splash Planet in y Wells Barry and Jerem presenters Hilary

Jacob Cavubati, who is also Deputy Head Boy at Wairarapa College, lockdown has provided an opportunity to really re˝ ect on what being Deputy Head Boy looks like and look at e˙ ective ways to lead through this.

“During these tough times I am working alongside other head prefects to see how we can best support our fellow students”, Jacob says.

“It’s our chance to be there for all our students and to ensure they are looking after their wellbeing, especially their mental health.”

Alongside other school prefects, Jacob has started up a hashtag

#stayingconnectedwc on social media and has been putting out little challenges for fellow students to try, which keeps everyone connected.

In closing, I want to leave you with this quote - “What looks like our greatest obstacle can become our greatest opportunity”.

I want to encourage other young people to consider what could be if we saw this time as an opportunity rather than a hindrance.

Let’s thrive in this season, and take some of those positives into the world once we are able to connect together again.

The past year has seen plenty of activities and achievements by young people supported by the Wairarapa Whanau Trust.

The Wairarapa Whanau Trust was started in 2016 as a not-for-proÿ t charitable organisation that aims to engage, develop and mentor young people aged 12 to 24, as well as working with other organisations sharing similar aims.

The Trust is part of the 247 Youth Work Programme, a national youth organisation, which provides youth workers in schools.

“Through our 247 Youth Work programmes in schools, we did over 1000 hours in schools including over 2000 one-to-one mentoring sessions over the past year” says Alan Maxwell,

Youth Coordinator for Whanau Trust.

Wairarapa

“We developed seven leaders who attended various training weekends and currently are helping lead youth groups. We were able to take young people to 12 major events such as Easter Camp, The Abbey, the Games and regional camps.

“The Way Youth also won the football tournament and the team spirit award at Easter Camp 2019, a fantastic achievement when you take into consideration there were over 1800 teens there. Coming out of this rahui, we intend to work on a community mural project to brighten up the Featherston stadium and reconnect with each other and the community.”

‘The House NZ Built’ aims to tap into the ‘collective genius’ of communities across the country.

PHOTO/SUPPLIED

Ultimate Kiwi home insights With a month spent locked in our homes we have gained a new perspective on life and how we use space, and a new initiative aims to harness these insights to design the ultimate Kiwi home.

‘The House NZ Built’, created by Stonewood Homes, aims to tap into the ‘collective genius’ of communities across the country to create a home fitting of the future the corona virus crisis has forced on the world.

“Covid lockdown has provided a unique opportunity for people to assess the space around them and what it means to be secure and connected,” said Steven Zhu executive director of Stonewood Homes.

“We are all looking at life differently now. Knowing something like a virus can have such a profound impact on our lives and basically bring it to a halt certainly changes what we need in a home to be comfortable and function not only as a family, but to manage work, life and our health needs.”

Zhu said the company is inviting families from across both islands to share what they love and hate about their home, what they would change, and ultimately what they need in a home.

“We believe we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to draw on extraordinary consumer insights to design a home that answers the overall needs of Kiwis and what they want in this new reality. We are calling on all New Zealanders to have their say and be involved in this special project.”

New Zealanders can take part in The House NZ Built by completing the survey at www.thehousenzbuilt. co.nz Award winning designer Peter Mannion from Synergy Designs will collate the findings to create the home plan.

“This is such a unique project and when I heard about it, I was excited to be involved and help bring the House NZ Built to life,” Mannion said. “People have never spent so much time assessing their homes,

and I can’t wait to see what New Zealanders want.”

Deborah Still from Deborah Still Interior Design said the House NZ Built was a wonderful opportunity for people to get creative and rethink how space can be utilised.

“Everybody has basic needs to be fulfilled by their home, so the influence on design really rests with lifestyle. This element will impact what they want and believe their home should be.”

Zhu said people who contribute to the research will gain exclusive access to the design, no obligation required.

“We want to reward people who share their thoughts with us and what better way than to give them access to the ‘House NZ Built’ plan. After all, they will have helped design it.”

Research is open from May 4 to May 22, with the home reveal and 3D virtual render launched before the end of June.

Thanks to ÿ reÿ ghters On Monday Fire and Emergency New Zealand released a video celebrating their people on International Firefighters’ Day. “This video is about showing that New Zealanders celebrate and acknowledge the important work our firefighters and the people who support them do, says Fire and Emergency CEO Rhys Jones.

“It is a difficult and dangerous job, but every one of our 1800 career and 12,000 volunteer

firefighters are committed to serving and protecting New Zealand communities.

And they do a great job.

“We know our people do more than just fight fires.

International Firefighters’ Day is a chance to publicly thank them for their bravery and commitment attending medical emergencies, motor vehicle accidents, and weather and hazardous substances incidents, as well as fires.

They respond to around 80,000 incidents a year.

“Through our nation’s covid-19 response, our

firefighters have continued to provide their essential service to people in need, Jones said..

“For many firefighters, their important role also brings with it missed meals, sleep and family commitments. So we also acknowledge their families and whanau for their support, which allows them to be available to serve New Zealander 24/7, 365 days every year.”

Jones said if you know a firefighter, please take this opportunity to send them a message and say thanks.

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Wednesday, May 6, 2020 Lifestyle Wairarapa Midweek

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Making the most of this opportunity Youth Week is a nationwide festival of events organised by young New Zealanders to celebrate the talents, passion and success of local young people.

Youth Week recognises the amazing contributions and achievements of young people in New Zealand.

The week inspires us to value, support, and a˜ rm the diversity of young people in our society.

We want Aotearoa to be a country where young people are vibrant and optimistic and are supported and encouraged to take up challenges.

Events are designed to encourage young people to take on challenges, share ideas and focus on the positive aspects of being young.

Be Warm this Winter with a Daikin Heatpump

The week also recognises the youth workers, youth service providers and others working with and for young people.

This year its theme is “E korero ana m° tou.

E whakarongo ana Call us for a quote koutou ?

We’re Put your heatpump on your rates speaking. Are you ?”

Youth with GWRC Funding - Masterton only listening Week 2020 will be held nationwide from Saturday 9th to Sunday B.W. O’BRIEN & CO. LTD. 17th May. 138 Dixon Street, Masterton Ph: 06 378 2288 | Mobile: 0274 425 022 www.heatpumpswairarapa.co.nz

Source: arataiohi.org.nz

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A busy year for Wairarapa Whanau Trust

By Kawana Gaunt - Youth Pastor of Revolution Youth Masterton During the national lockdown, our youth group has been staying connected through social media and video calling platforms like ZOOM and House Party.

We’ve found daily video calls where one of our leaders or young people share an encouraging message has been very beneÿ cial and a great way to stay connected.

Our wider youth movement also hosted a national video call which saw over 350 young people across New Zealand partake in some virtual dance cam followed by a motivational message from world renowned youth communicator Reggie Dabbs from USA. We’ve been reminding our young people that even though it can seem like everything around them has changed, there are some things that never change, and if they make that their foundation, they can thrive in any circumstances.

For one of our young leaders,

oup at ior Way Youth Gr Members of the jun ngs with Seven Sharp sti Ha Splash Planet in y Wells Barry and Jerem presenters Hilary

Jacob Cavubati, who is also Deputy Head Boy at Wairarapa College, lockdown has provided an opportunity to really re˝ ect on what being Deputy Head Boy looks like and look at e˙ ective ways to lead through this.

“During these tough times I am working alongside other head prefects to see how we can best support our fellow students”, Jacob says.

“It’s our chance to be there for all our students and to ensure they are looking after their wellbeing, especially their mental health.”

Alongside other school prefects, Jacob has started up a hashtag

#stayingconnectedwc on social media and has been putting out little challenges for fellow students to try, which keeps everyone connected.

In closing, I want to leave you with this quote - “What looks like our greatest obstacle can become our greatest opportunity”.

I want to encourage other young people to consider what could be if we saw this time as an opportunity rather than a hindrance.

Let’s thrive in this season, and take some of those positives into the world once we are able to connect together again.

The past year has seen plenty of activities and achievements by young people supported by the Wairarapa Whanau Trust.

The Wairarapa Whanau Trust was started in 2016 as a not-for-proÿ t charitable organisation that aims to engage, develop and mentor young people aged 12 to 24, as well as working with other organisations sharing similar aims.

The Trust is part of the 247 Youth Work Programme, a national youth organisation, which provides youth workers in schools.

“Through our 247 Youth Work programmes in schools, we did over 1000 hours in schools including over 2000 one-to-one mentoring sessions over the past year” says Alan Maxwell,

Youth Coordinator for Whanau Trust.

Wairarapa

“We developed seven leaders who attended various training weekends and currently are helping lead youth groups. We were able to take young people to 12 major events such as Easter Camp, The Abbey, the Games and regional camps.

“The Way Youth also won the football tournament and the team spirit award at Easter Camp 2019, a fantastic achievement when you take into consideration there were over 1800 teens there. Coming out of this rahui, we intend to work on a community mural project to brighten up the Featherston stadium and reconnect with each other and the community.”

‘The House NZ Built’ aims to tap into the ‘collective genius’ of communities across the country.

PHOTO/SUPPLIED

Ultimate Kiwi home insights With a month spent locked in our homes we have gained a new perspective on life and how we use space, and a new initiative aims to harness these insights to design the ultimate Kiwi home.

‘The House NZ Built’, created by Stonewood Homes, aims to tap into the ‘collective genius’ of communities across the country to create a home fitting of the future the corona virus crisis has forced on the world.

“Covid lockdown has provided a unique opportunity for people to assess the space around them and what it means to be secure and connected,” said Steven Zhu executive director of Stonewood Homes.

“We are all looking at life differently now. Knowing something like a virus can have such a profound impact on our lives and basically bring it to a halt certainly changes what we need in a home to be comfortable and function not only as a family, but to manage work, life and our health needs.”

Zhu said the company is inviting families from across both islands to share what they love and hate about their home, what they would change, and ultimately what they need in a home.

“We believe we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to draw on extraordinary consumer insights to design a home that answers the overall needs of Kiwis and what they want in this new reality. We are calling on all New Zealanders to have their say and be involved in this special project.”

New Zealanders can take part in The House NZ Built by completing the survey at www.thehousenzbuilt. co.nz Award winning designer Peter Mannion from Synergy Designs will collate the findings to create the home plan.

“This is such a unique project and when I heard about it, I was excited to be involved and help bring the House NZ Built to life,” Mannion said. “People have never spent so much time assessing their homes,

and I can’t wait to see what New Zealanders want.”

Deborah Still from Deborah Still Interior Design said the House NZ Built was a wonderful opportunity for people to get creative and rethink how space can be utilised.

“Everybody has basic needs to be fulfilled by their home, so the influence on design really rests with lifestyle. This element will impact what they want and believe their home should be.”

Zhu said people who contribute to the research will gain exclusive access to the design, no obligation required.

“We want to reward people who share their thoughts with us and what better way than to give them access to the ‘House NZ Built’ plan. After all, they will have helped design it.”

Research is open from May 4 to May 22, with the home reveal and 3D virtual render launched before the end of June.

Thanks to ÿ reÿ ghters On Monday Fire and Emergency New Zealand released a video celebrating their people on International Firefighters’ Day. “This video is about showing that New Zealanders celebrate and acknowledge the important work our firefighters and the people who support them do, says Fire and Emergency CEO Rhys Jones.

“It is a difficult and dangerous job, but every one of our 1800 career and 12,000 volunteer

firefighters are committed to serving and protecting New Zealand communities.

And they do a great job.

“We know our people do more than just fight fires.

International Firefighters’ Day is a chance to publicly thank them for their bravery and commitment attending medical emergencies, motor vehicle accidents, and weather and hazardous substances incidents, as well as fires.

They respond to around 80,000 incidents a year.

“Through our nation’s covid-19 response, our

firefighters have continued to provide their essential service to people in need, Jones said..

“For many firefighters, their important role also brings with it missed meals, sleep and family commitments. So we also acknowledge their families and whanau for their support, which allows them to be available to serve New Zealander 24/7, 365 days every year.”

Jones said if you know a firefighter, please take this opportunity to send them a message and say thanks.

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Dairy farmers are encouraged to have their say in the milksolids levy vote 2020, which is now open for voting.

It is a one-in-six year vote for industry good organisation, DairyNZ. DairyNZ chairman Jim van der Poel said the milksolids levy funds industry good activities through DairyNZ which delivers dairy sector research, development, advocacy and expertise.

“The milksolids levy has been part of New Zealand dairy farming for 17 years. Its roots are in funding work that enables farmers to continue thriving in an ever-changing world.

With the challenges of covid-19, the changing nature of farming has never been more real,” said van der Poel.

“I encourage farmers to vote and ensure their dairy farm neighbours and friends have their say too. DairyNZ is a farmerowned organisation – it’s important we receive their vote to continue supporting our farmers through science, research and advocacy.”

All levy payers – farm owners, sharemilkers and leaseholders – can place a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’ vote until 5pm, May 30.

The levy order expires in November and is required by government legislation, through the Commodity Levies Act 1990. Levy paying farmers contribute 3.6c per kilogram of milksolids [kgMS] produced.

“DairyNZ represents dairy farmers and helps deliver a better future for them and all New Zealanders, through a thriving dairy sector.

If there is a yes vote, farmers will continue to receive all the benefits of DairyNZ and we will continue to support the delivery of the Dairy Tomorrow strategy, which is the sector’s

Rural

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Above: Kirsty Dickins, DairyNZ consulting officer hosting a discussion group with farmers late last year. Left: Dale Beker, DairyNZ technical team leader, measuring pasture mass for a research project in Hamilton.

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blueprint for the future.”

“I believe in an organisation that exists to work exclusively for dairy farmers. Not many sectors have an industrygood organisation like ours. DairyNZ has helped us achieve real success as a sector and it’s a real strength for our future,” said van der Poel.

Dairy Tomorrow guides DairyNZ’s investments and was developed

by partners representing the dairy sector – DairyNZ, Dairy Women’s Network, Federated Farmers and Dairy Companies Association of New Zealand.

Through the milksolids levy, DairyNZ invests in farm systems, research and development, environmental protection, animal care, biosecurity, building great dairy workplaces, industry sponsorships and supporting vibrant communities. DairyNZ’s investment in TBfree’s national bovine tuberculosis control programme is the single largest investment from

the milksolids levy.

The milksolids levy vote is open from now until May 30. Voting packs have been posted to all eligible levy paying dairy farmers, including sharemilkers and dairy farm leaseholders, who produce milk from cows and supplied a dairy processor in the 2019/20

season ]year ended May 31, 2020].

Voting packs will be in mailboxes soon. Farmers can vote via www.dairynz. co.nz or post until May 30.

With some uncertainty around mail delivery during covid-19, farmers are encouraged to vote early.

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Plan for wages called ‘just a bandage’ Arthur Hawkes The wage subsidy scheme has helped Wairarapa businesses retain employees, but as it draws to the end of its 12 weeks, many businesses are worried that staff won’t be retained and income will be slow to return.

While hospitality and retail will be able to resume their normal function relatively quickly, tourism and tourist accommodation may take much longer to recover.

To combat this, the chamber of commerce, Business Wairarapa, has suggested a multifaceted approach, citing temporary jobs for laidoff employees and the potential for industryspecific packages.

Becks Sayer is the chairwoman of Business Wairarapa, and has been assisting several businesses navigate the lockdown, and prepare for operation without subsidy.

“The industries that are doing it the hardest are the ones associated with tourism and accommodation and that sort of thing,” Sayer said.

“Unless they’ve got cafes and things as part of their business, they can’t do anything, nobody can go and stay with them. A big stressor at the moment is the staff.

“They might have loyal employees that they’ve trained up for several years to be front of house or reception, at a motel

The wage subsidy is only for 12 weeks, so unless the government comes out with industryspecific packages at the end of that time, it might not be enough to keep people employed. for example.

“There’s a general sort of feeling that at the end of the 12 weeks they might have to get rid of these staff, but they don’t really want to because when they start to get busy they want to get them back.

“So, we’re trying to work out ways we might be able to connect people to other temporary employment.

“So, when the tourism side and motels and hotels get busy again, those people can go back into their roles.

“The wage subsidy is only for 12 weeks, so unless the government comes out with industryspecific packages at the end of that time, it might not be enough to keep people employed.”

Masterton’s The Highwayman Motel owner Mark Wellington said “the wage subsidy is just a bandage for employees; it doesn’t help businesses much – in some situations, it just prolongs their demise”.

“There’s still the fixed costs of rates, rents, eftpos, insurance, accountant, internet.

“All of those are still due, so when the government says the banks will offer you a sixmonth holiday, or a loan, it just prolongs it.

“The government has stopped industry, and it’s not just going to repair itself.”

For some businesses in the tourism sector, the proposed holiday on rates means that a triple quarterly bill will need to be paid after the two holiday quarters are up.

This could represent tens of thousands of dollars businesses are expected to fork over, despite the long-term lack of income.

Wellington acknowledged that, over the past few decades, other at-risk sectors had been bailed out by government intervention.

“In the past, other governments have had subsidies for the farming sector, in extreme situations.

“For our tourism industry, we need people travelling, using motels, hotels, but people are short on money.

“We’re not going to have any international travellers for quite a while, so maybe the government could provide some sort of specific subsidy.

“But there are still a lot of people and a lot of industries that might not come out the other side of this.”

Despite the grim forecast, Wellington said he was trying to remain “optimistic”.

38 Wairarapa Midweek Puzzles Wednesday, May 6, 2020

WORDSEARCH

A DRINK ANYONE?

BUMPER WORDFIT

Can you find all the words hidden in the grid? Read backwards or forwards, up or down, or diagonally. The words will always be in a straight line. Cross them off the list as you find them.

C D C B I T T E R S C V S H A N D Y

O P L C O P J S C H N A P P S L S W

C E A Q B V K L A G E R L S C V H P

O C R U M A R M Y A J W Q T A B E L

A I E V V A P I P U N C H O P R R F

ABSINTHE ALE ANGOSTURA APPLEJACK AQUAVIT BEER BITTERS BORDEAUX BOURBON BOVRIL BRANDY

G D T A E A I P L L M G D U P A R S

P E X T G L L I R Y E I X T U N Y B

O R N N L E M O N A D E L Q C D R U

R X E E J S A Q U A V I T K C Y W R

T E A A V A N G O S T U R A I C H G

G P C Q D A C O L A C P D K N H I U

I K K O B O R D E A U X A C O A S N

M C Y T F A B S I N T H E C Z B K D

E M V C M D C M H U B N F E A I Y S

T M E L Q J D X A E C A V A T S A W

L Q T M E A D Y E W I N E M D K I F

KAVA LAGER LEMONADE MEAD MILK

RUM RYE SAKI SCHNAPPS SHANDY SHERRY STOUT TEA TODDY

PORT PUNCH

WHISKEY WINE

ELIXIR GENEVA GIMLET KAHLUA

BURGUNDY CAPPUCCINO CAVA CHABLIS CHAMPAGNE CIDER CLARET COCOA COLA CORDIAL CREAM

L Q F B O U R B O N L T D R C L E Y

V C Y K A C O R D I A L E L I X I R

S O H

Fit the words into the grid to create a finished crossword 3 LETTERS ADO AIR APE ARE COG EAT GEN GUM HAG ILL LAB LAP MET NAP NOR OBI ROC RUT SEE SHE SOH STY

WET WIG 4 LETTERS IOTA MESS MOVE NEWS NODE OMEN PIGS SAKE SING SKEW TEAR THAI TRAP YAPS 5 LETTERS ABEAM ACUTE ADORE

AGATE ALERT ALGAE ALONE ARISE ASIAN AWAIT COMPO CORKS CRAMP EGEST ELDER ELITE ERECT GREAT INERT INURE IRATE KATIE KOREA LEAPS NOTES OCEAN

OCTAL PALMS PENAL PINTO PRISE PSALM RENAL SERUM SLEEK SLOTH SPEND STALE SWAMI TAPED TAPES TENOR TITLE TRIES WAGON WHALE

6 LETTERS CAPTOR DESERT DOGLEG REAPER 7 LETTERS ADAPTED AIRPORT EMPEROR PRAIRIE SULTANA VERTIGO 8 LETTERS COALESCE MEDIATOR MEMORIAL PERMEATE 11 LETTERS APPROPRIATE SMORGASBORD

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L E A P S

M S E K T E W S W I A N M E I R T N A D P E S R E O R C T

O C E A C O M P T A P E H A L E A L E R T G S O H C R A A T E I I E R A P M P R I S E O G U M R S L O T Y T R A W A I P E N A S T A L

S T H I E T L E M O V E

N O D E A D A P T E D

C O R K S A B E A M P I N T O T A I R O G L E G R E A N E W S A L A B R T I G O I A T O R S P E N D E E S A K E S C O G I N U R E N O T E S G R E A T

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S C U W O U G H N I G H E L M L I S S U E T Y A S E U N O A K E R

R F L T Y P A L P E R T T B E N G U R E

A I A U D S S L P E C I D C E M E N D S D I E S T O S E L A T E M G S O

NUMBER CRUNCHER

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SOLUTIONS

T M E L Q J D X A E C A V A T S A W

I S L E Z E D D I E S I E G O

E M V C M D C M H U B N F E A I Y S

N D S Q D G N M X S O J T P K

L Q F B O U R B O N L T D R C L E Y

A U S P I C E S K F T E A M S

M C Y T F A B S I N T H E C Z B K D

N A E C C E M D O S S J L R T

I K K O B O R D E A U X A C O A S N

F L Y P A P E R M T E N U R E

G P C Q D A C O L A C P D K N H I U

R D T L R L K H T C B V G L V

T E A A V A N G O S T U R A I C H G

U P H H T E L S E X S E N O R

R X E E J S A Q U A V I T K C Y W R

C B G U K H M Z U I A R U V E

O R N N L E M O N A D E L Q C D R U

S W U N G Y M I S T X E A F K

P E X T G L L I R Y E I X T U N Y B

D M O P I F L Q Q E Y O T I A

G D T A E A I P L L M G D U P A R S

C E D A R E A H Y A B L U R B

A I E V V A P I P U N C H O P R R F

M T O M Z G C W T O E S H E C

2 digits: 02 99 3 digits: 033 260 359 404 406 541 560 574 645 707 912 4 digits: 0572 0983 0985 1772 2616 3765 4874 5013 5790 6874 7556 7716 8789 9814 5 digits: 36036 54855 7 digits: 3412993 7506937

O C R U M A R M Y A J W Q T A B E L

M S I G N S C S P A R R O W R

Find the threeletter sequence which will complete all these words

C E A Q B V K L A G E R L S C V H P

X A D O A F G L M E E Z Y E W

Fit the numbers into the grid. Cross each one off as its position is found.

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Contact training for rugby won’t be allowed until Covid-19 Alert Level 1.

Indications were that there may have been some contact training when the country moves to be Alert Level 2, which is expected to occur sometime next week after the government announces their decision on Monday April 11.

However, in New Zealand Rugby guidelines detailed to provincial rugby unions on Friday, only limited training can take place under Alert Level 2.

Wairarapa-Bush chief executive officer Tony Hargood said the guidelines had been distributed to the local clubs and they provided clarity about what could and could not be done.

Training can commence where players can maintain a one metre personal bubble, such as team fitness sessions, kicking sessions, and ball skills sessions.

Any group or team training that involves being within one metre of a teammate or coach cannot be undertaken.

That includes activities such as touch, Rip Rugby, tackling, scrummaging, contact drills, lineouts, mauling, or breakdown work.

Balls and cones must be washed before and after training.

The guidelines do allow for in-person game development workshops to be held where Ministry of Health physical distancing guidelines of one metre are adhered to, with a maximum of 100 people indoors and 500 people outdoors.

Contact tracing measures must also be put in place.

Rugby clubrooms and facilities will be allowed to

Players must maintain social distancing when training under Level 2.

open so long as Ministry of Health guidelines on Health and Safety are met.

In a letter to clubs, New Zealand Rugby chief executive Mark Robinson said, “a key priority for both New Zealand Rugby and provincial unions is the return of community, club and school rugby”.

“We have some great people working hard to make sure that when we get the green light we’re ready to go.”

“Your local provincial union is focused on helping clubs in any way possible and the club development staff are there to provide advice and assistance should you require it.”

“This season will be challenging for everyone, but I’m sure the rugby whanau of players, referees, supporters, coaches and volunteers will pull together to show the resilience and passion that makes rugby such an important part of our

country.”

Hargood indicated Wairarapa-Bush were still aiming for a start of club rugby on the first weekend of July.

That would allow for clubs to have several training sessions and brief pre-season, provided that the country progresses quickly from Alert Level 2 to Alert Level 1.

A two to three-month club season would follow.

However, secondary school rugby is unlikely to commence until the start of the school term three, after July 20.

Wairarapa College play in the Wellington secondary school premier grade and Rathkeale play in the Central North Island competition, both of which involve significant travel outside Wairarapa.

Hargood said the Union was looking at alternatives should those competitions not go ahead in their usual format.

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Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Hey Wairarapa,

Let’s recycle more and keep our people safe.

Keep our people safe by only putting the right things in your recycling.

More of these: Plastic containers up to 3 litres in size eg. 3L milk bottles but not oversized containers of 4-5L or more

None of these: No soft plastics – bags, film flexible plastic packaging e.g. bacon packets

No wet wipes Plastic bottles and containers with numbers 1, 2. 5 No nappies or sanitary products

Aluminium and steel cans

No polystyrene, plastic toys, or furniture wrap

No shredded paper Paper bags

– it can’t be sorted

– flat with nothing in side them

No food scraps

Cardboard – flattened out

No metal – appliances, pots, wire, cables or car parts

Glass in Crates

No Glass in your Wheelie Bin!

www.wairecycle.nz for more information about recycling.