Alan Duff’s Cambridge conversation
Multiple award-winning author Alan Duff, whose works launched with Once Were Warriors 25 years ago, spoke in Cambridge this week of his desire to use the written word to influence those behind bars to lead…
Multiple award-winning author Alan Duff, whose works launched with Once Were Warriors 25 years ago, spoke in Cambridge this week of his desire to use the written word to influence those behind bars to lead…
Euthanasia-Free NZ says it is “appalled” that Parliament spent so little time debating part two of David Seymour’s End of Life Choice Bill last week and voted to “leave it full of holes”. The executive…
Cambridge High School Year 13 student, Jessica Robertson-Timmins, has become the first student representative appointed to the Cambridge Community Charitable Trust. The 17-year-old’s skillset, particularly in the social media and IT space, made her a…
Hundreds of enthusiasts made their way to the Cambridge Town Hall last weekend to indulge their interest in miniature trains. The Model Railway Exhibition, mounted by The Greater Waikato Railway Modellers (GWR), brought members together…
Tickets for the 2019 Rotary Cambridge Garden Festival in November have gone on sale today. Project leader and Rotarian Carey Church said excitement was building for this year’s festival. The garden festival launched was last…
Ernest ‘Ernie’ Goodwin has been remembered as a devoted family man, long-time Lions Club member and a delightful character given to tricks and dressing up. His grandchildren remember the kindest, sometimes funniest, of grandfathers. They…
After 56 years, 9188 callouts and multiple awards, Winston Steen has stepped away from an active role with the Cambridge Volunteer Fire Brigade. It was time, he says. He’s given a great deal to the…
This weekend’s exhibition of quilts by members of the Cambridge Patchwork Group will blend skilled handicraft with good causes. The August 24/25 exhibition is at St Andrew’s Church hall from 10am to 4pm on both…
Waikato MPs are split in the way they voted on the Abortion Legislation Bill, which passed its first reading on August 8. Taupo MP Louise Upston and Hamilton West MP Tim Macindoe were among the…
Visitors to the Operation Cover-Up (OCU) display in Cambridge heard of the gratitude with which their gifts were received in impoverished parts of Eastern Europe. Guest speaker Andie Davies from the Auckland-based Mission without Borders…
