In mid 2020 I got a Facebook friend request from veteran Kiwi filmmaker Costa Botes. Why is he friending me I wondered? Later after a screening at the 2022 NZ International Film Festival, Costa explained…
In mid 2020 I got a Facebook friend request from veteran Kiwi filmmaker Costa Botes. Why is he friending me I wondered? Later after a screening at the 2022 NZ International Film Festival, Costa explained…
John Wood will join the Te Awamutu Community Board after provisional votes saw him oust provisional member Norris Hall today. Special votes are yet to come. Wood, a semi-retired drainlayer/plumber, has links with Pirongia having…
Susan O’Regan has beaten incumbent Jim Mylchreest to be the new Waipā mayor. The 50-year-old Kakepuku farmer becomes the district’s first female mayor and only the fifth since the district’s establishment in 1989. It was…
Te Awamutu’s Operation Christmas Hampers is in a much better position than it was last year, but volunteers have a lot of work to do. “It is going a lot better this year, but we…
A push to “reconnect and recover” from Covid impacts is being championed by support group Connexu. Connexu works with adults who have intellectual, physical, or sensory disabilities and people living with neurological conditions. Reconnecting disabled…
Through all the freewheeling, travelling days of her life, artist Deborah ‘Debsi’ Gillespie stayed true to her core objective – to capture the essence, or inner spirit, of those whose portraits she paints. Judging from…
I often struggle to find topics for me to write about for this column. I try to keep them to relevant and topical to what I see on a regular basis while at work. One…
The local body elections are an opportunity for voters to elect people without narrow or limited views and who have the vision to consider the big picture, says a candidate for Waikato Regional Council. The…
Maungatautari has a secure funding future if responses from candidates for both Waikato Regional and Waipā District councils are an indication. Funding should continue to protect the Sacred Mountain so future generations can enjoy it,…
The minister responsible for putting the brakes on online voting for local body elections six years ago says the digital option still comes with risk. Taupō MP Louise Upston, part of whose electorate takes in…
