Two markets coming up in Pirongia will offer Christmas buyers a wide selection of purchasing options, from crafts to woodwork, soaps to jewellery and a host of sweet-smelling things to boot. The Pirongia Sunday Market…
Two markets coming up in Pirongia will offer Christmas buyers a wide selection of purchasing options, from crafts to woodwork, soaps to jewellery and a host of sweet-smelling things to boot. The Pirongia Sunday Market…
Te Awamutu’s Seido Karate dojo celebrated its 40th Anniversary last weekend. Dojo founder and 6th Dan Black Belt ‘Sei Shihan’ Michael McIvor opened the dojo in August 1980, holding classes at Te Awamutu Primary School’s…
A rare exhibition featuring the work of two Cambridge-based artists – one a painter and the other a potter – will be open across two days later this month. ‘Just the Two of Us’ will…
Simon Drumm, the man steering Violence Free Waipā in Te Awamutu since March, says the White Ribbon initiative is mainly about transforming men. “It is about raising awareness … directing people away from violence, showing…
Youngsters from Ōhaupō School have taken out the top places in all four age-group categories in the Te Awamutu Rotary Club’s 2020 Children’s Essay Competition. Overall, they accounted for seven of the 13 placegetters in…
Oksana Voznyuk has been named Te Awamutu College’s year 2020 dux. Oksana – a Head Student described as a “fine ambassador” was top of subject for Drama, English Extension and Earth and Space Science. She…
Armistice Day this year was marked locally with three separate commemoration services, led by the Te Awamutu RSA. The first was on November 8 in Kawhia, the second was at Anzac Green in Te Awamutu,…
More than 500 visitors attended Spring Sheep Milk Company ‘s open day at its Tauwhare Road farm this month. The day was designed to give the public and prospective sheep milk farmers an insight into…
About 50 youngsters from two regional schools spent a morning earlier this month preparing supportive Christmas messages for children living in less fortunate circumstances. The students from Hamilton’s Knighton Normal School, and Korakonui School on…
The company behind plans for a new retirement village in Te Awamutu was spurred on by the success of a project just a few minutes’ drive away. The Sanderson Group’s development Manager Nathan Sanderson said…
