Several Rosetown Lions women spent Monday afternoon preparing gifts for the club’s annual Santa’s Grotto initiative. They spent the time wrapping and labelling Christmas presents for children visiting Santa at his First National spot in…
At least one woman a day in Cambridge is involved in a family harm incident that is reported to police and many more incidents go unreported. It is on the back of escalating family violence…
The Cambridge Christmas Festival is once again filling the town hall with festive décor, music and gift ideas. The event is run annually by the Cambridge Christmas Festival Society, with funds raised going back into…
Almost everything about Sunday’s book launch at Ōhaupō School of Valerie Millington’s ‘Ellen of Denniston’ was intended to deliver a sense of time and place. And deliver it did, in spades. The hall, creaking with…
Packaged 1kg cakes are being sold for the first time this year as a Lions club fundraiser with proceeeds from their sale going towards those in need in and around Cambridge. They and other club…
Far from being the stuff of nightmares, the leeches being bred in the Waikato on New Zealand’s only leech farm are highly valued medical miracles. Viv Posselt investigates. Maria and Robert Lupton have been breeding…
Pirongia School’s stompingly-good jump jammers won big at this month’s Jump Jam Nationals in Tauranga. Soon after winning the Year 7-8 Strictly Open division, the school’s ‘Bewitching Pirongia’ team heard it had scored the highest…
The setting up of this year’s Christmas tree marking the start of the Cambridge Altrusa Club’s second ‘Santa to a Senior’ was done in town on Saturday. Club members spent a few hours decorating the…
A new piece of interactive technology designed with diversional therapy and loads of enjoyment in mind is delighting residents at Cambridge Resthaven’s two care centres. The award-winning Omi Vista mobile interactive system has been in…
The Cambridge Lions Club has celebrated the hard work done by their Leos over the past year. The support given to Lions by their junior members was praised at the recent end-of-year prizegiving evening held…
