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Dairy farmers, sheep and beef farmers, iwi and other community members are celebrating the second anniversary of a largescale initiative to create an ecological corridor in the Waipā district. The Taiea te Taiao project will…

Mural plan explained

The wheels are rolling on a proposed $15,000 mural project for Te Awamutu’s new skate park. The 14-month-old million-dollar facility in Centennial Park – which also includes parkour features – opened in September last year…

Coral’s a gala day veteran

When Te Awamutu’s Coral Loomb tells you she often marvels at how much the St John’s Anglican Church Gala Day has grown – and changed – over the years, she knows what she’s talking about….

Receiving – and now giving

When Kellie Wakelin moved to Te Awamutu a little over four years ago, she did so without know any one at all. “Literally not a single soul,” she said. Yet, within a month of shifting,…

Classic time at Karāpiro

Parked up in a shady spot on Sunday, Te Awamutu Rod and Custom Club member Larry Jooste had the perfect vantage point from which to take in all the action. His 1938 Standard Eight was…

Cutting off their nose…

Thieves raided a Te Awamutu community forest to steal a tree but, no pun intended, it was no plum job. They uprooted and probably damaged a young plum tree which – in just three months…

Pies are coming back

Nearly eight months after a Sunday night fireripped through their business, Darrell and Nicola Liddington can see the “light at the end of the tunnel”. The owners of Te Awamutu’s Kiwi Pies have pencilled in…

Mayor: hard calls coming

Waipā mayor Susan O’Regan celebrated a successful year for the district but warned of stormy waters ahead last week. The mayor spoke at the annual Celebrating Waipā gathering at the Sir Don Rowlands Centre, Karāpiro,…

Boots ‘n all

When Te Awamutu Intermediate’s all-star kapa haka group was at the Celebrating Waipā event at Karāpiro last week it was hard not to notice year eight student Pokaia Heke. Pokaia has been recovering from a…

A plane that lands on a dime…

It took NZ Aero’s chief executive Stephen Burrows several years to fulfil his childhood passion of having a career in aviation. Back in the 1980s he would look up when planes flew over his family’s…

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