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Rocking for Margaret

  No-one was in any doubt – Margaret Evelyn would have hated missing such a great party on Sunday at the Cambridge Cricket Pavilion. The ‘Afternoon Tea without Marg’ celebration attracted more than 100 people…

Flu jabs go wanting

Waipā’s immunisation rates for pensioners is well below the Waikato average as a season marked by severe flu takes hold. And in the face of growing numbers of flu cases, numbers of people lining up…

A special lunch for the seniors

Te Awamutu Māori Women’s Welfare League (MWWL) president Rosemary Murray described Saturday’s Matariki lunch for seniors as an “auspicious moment” for all concerned. This year’s lunch was held in the league’s neighbouring Anglican Church hall….

In the trust, we trust …….

Waipā District Council will provide a $750,000 loan guarantee to the trust behind an application to bring the New Zealand Sporting Hall of Fame to the district. In briefing councillors about the proposal, deputy chief…

Meet our global messenger

When Tegan Crotty’s friends told her she should try out swimming, she was initially reluctant. But the minute she got in the water “it was just like that,” the 27-year-old Te Awamutu retail assistant and…

Kai time – 158 years on

Matariki made history last week as the world’s first indigenous celebration to be recognised as a public holiday – and for local iwi Ngāti Apakura it was historic for other reasons. They celebrated Matariki with…

Paying tribute to steam

How does a train enthusiast get their steam engine fix once they have been phased out? They build their own. That’s exactly what Cambridge Model Engineering Society member Dennis Searle did. Searle’s love of steam…

Top spot for young Nick

At 71, Nicholas Bartosiak is the Te Awamutu Pakeke Lions Clubs’ youngest member. He was appointed their president last week, following the resignation of the club’s previous president, Myrtle McDowell. “I am delighted, I have…

Boards in The News

The roles of Waipā’s two community boards in water and dog issues are in the spotlight this week. Te Awamutu Community Board’s submission on the council’s draft Water Supply Bill sent earlier this month referred…

Council back predator attacks 

Waikato Regional Council has granted $2.076 million to four landscape scale predator control projects in the region – including one at Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari and another which benefits from it. At last week’s council meeting…

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