Forty years living here and 15 years working at Cambridge i-Site has secured Rachael Colgan’s position as one of the town’s most enthusiastic advocates. Last year, she was dubbed a ‘walking encyclopaedia’ by Destination Cambridge’s CEO Miff Macdiarmid,…
A charitable trust established in 2016 to drive a project to oversee the extension of the Cambridge Museum has been disbanded. The plug was officially pulled on the Cambridge Heritage Charitable Trust at its September…
Little more than two months into the job as Cambridge Rotary president, Ian Grant is signalling an approach he hopes will increase diversity, enhance growth and reinforce core Rotary values. Internationally, those values include steering…
Another successful event in support of senior citizens was held at Cambridge Raceway on Monday. This global walk to celebrate the value of older people, organised once again by Cambridge’s advocate for seniors Florence Shearman, was held…
All going to plan, the 2021 Rotary Garden Festival will go ahead as scheduled on November 21. Uncertainty around changing Covid-19 levels has prompted some to question whether this year’s festival might be postponed, as has been the case with…
This year’s global walk to celebrate the value of older people will go ahead at Cambridge Raceway as planned on September 27, unless there is a reversal of Covid levels. Organiser Florence Shearman said the event would proceed if current…
OBITUARY: ROGER JENNINGS: 1.07.1950 – 31.08.2021 In Roger Jennings’ world, there was scarcely a stopped timepiece he couldn’t re-start. For more than five decades, he thrilled at the precision workings of clocks and watches. Big or small,…
Ray Moncur, one of Cambridge’s enduring veterans and a man known for his links to the town’s sporting communities, has died aged 102. Ray was one of the few who were awarded life membership to the Cambridge Returned Services Association (RSA). When family gathered to celebrate his June 7 centenary in 2019, he was acutely aware that the…
This year could be a fundraising record-breaker for the Cambridge Lions, with over $205,600 already funnelled into the community since January and more than $17,300 donated in grants during July alone. Those figures are after…
Building is well underway on the multi-million-dollar redevelopment of the Ōtorohanga Kiwi House, one that will future-proof the 50-year-old facility and sustainably enhance its conservation efforts. The project will take place over the next three…
