Council opens up events funding

Council opens up events funding

Waipā has a growing reputation for holding world-class events, and council is stepping up to help. Applications open today for a share of Council’s $150,000 District Promotions Fund. The fund supports events that drive economic…

From gardens to cars

A land use resource consent application lodged with Waipā council gives the first indication of how a former hardware and garden centre site in central Cambridge will look. Ingham Motor Group owns and leases land…

A pair in the running

Two horses with Waipā connections in the sulkies and on the training track are in with top chances at Cambridge Raceway’s Night of Champions next week. Cambridge trainer Arna Donnelly and six-year-old bay gelding Kango…

An undercurrent of concern

Picture a millpond on a summer’s evening. The last of the day’s sunlight angles through the low hanging leaves and sparkles on the water. The light catches a strand of a spider’s web wafting through…

Volcanos in the movies

I love a good action movie, and if they have an eruption or some other geological disaster as a plot line I am in. With field work at Mount Doom (Ngāuruhoe) last week and making…

Saints go running in…

Cam O’Leary batted sensibly to take St Peter’s through to victory.Flynn Morey’s man of the match 5-52 backed up by Xavier Bell’s all-round effort with bat, ball and in the field saw St Peter’s School,…

New criteria for funding

Waipā’s Heritage Fund, which has distributed more than $650,000 over a decade to organisations throughout the district, is in for its first significant shake up since its establishment in 2012. The fund has an annual…

Waipā visitor boom

Cambridge Chamber of Commerce says 50,000 people through the central business district last week proves the economic benefit events bring to the district. Numbers hit an all-time high on March 26 when the Autumn Festival’s…

Town Hall venue ‘brilliant’

There were plenty of familiar faces among members of Youth Orchestra Waikato who provided Cambridge Autumn Festival’s final and best-attended hurrah in the Town Hall on Sunday. Ten of the musicians are from the wider…

Me and my Kiwi Momma

Wendy Klyen looked across her hospital bed, saw a young, bruised and heavily bandaged woman lying on her back unable to do anything and knew she had to help. It was May 2018 and Wendy,…