Boost for health programmes

Boost for health programmes

Three central North Island primary health organisations have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Waikato University to tackle New Zealand’s health workforce shortages. In putting pen to paper, chief executives from Pinnacle, Hauraki and National…

What’s cooking?

Review: Cook Plate Savour, published by Cambridge Primary School. I’m not a cook, my family know that but even I could make something out of this book because the recipes are by and large simple…

Keryn, Ewen celebrate 40

Ewen Lee was nine months old, and his mother Keryn sensed there was something not right. He was not meeting the usual milestones and unlike others his age was barely moving on the floor. The…

Tower doomsday delayed

The historic Cambridge Water Tower has a stay of execution, but questions remain over why discussions about it were held behind closed doors at a public excluded workshop. Waipā District Council announced this week councillors…

Scoring in the eighties

Two Cambridge women point to technology as the major reason they are still playing golf after 60 and 40 years respectively. Gaye Bezzant, 87, and Betty Harvey, 90 next month, say their careers were extended…

Sheila wins again

Former Cambridge trainer Sheila Laxon notched up her second Melbourne Cup victory today – 23 years after her first when Ethereal won the Caulfield-Melbourne Cup double. Knight’s Choice ridden by Irish jockey Robbie Dolan won…

Not on my doorstep …

Meet Glenys Miller. The 72-year-old feisty Cambridge farmer, mother of two, grandmother of five and great grandmother to three and three quarters is angry. So mad she told the person to “get lost” who knocked…

New CEO on first two months

Members had so much interest in hearing what Waipā CEO Steph O’Sullivan had to say, Cambridge Chamber booked a bigger venue, where senior writer Mary Anne Gill grabbed a one on one with the council…

Chamber reveals consultants’ bill

Waipā spent more than $14 million on consultants in the financial year ended June 30 – up from $13.7 million the previous year. The council provided the figures to Cambridge Chamber chief executive Kelly Bouzaid…

For the people, by the people

Cambridge is a very “can do” town that doesn’t wait for things to happen; people make things happen, says Rowing New Zealand chief executive Simon Wickham. Speaking at the launch of the Cambridge Community Fund…