Resthaven residents enjoy Christmas vintage

Resthaven residents enjoy Christmas vintage

Resthaven residents enjoyed a wander down memory lane just before Christmas when members of the Veteran and Vintage Car Club (Waikato) showed up to take them on a variety of rides. Committee member Andy Hammond…

Bakers leaving large shoes to fill

Cambridge’s loss is about to become Hawera’s gain as Jenny and Gordon ‘Rusty’ Baker head back to the coastal settlement where their 55-year relationship began. The Bakers have both been the somewhat reluctant stars at…

Rouge Café changes hands

The MacKays are widely regarded as being among the town’s young power couples. Even as they toiled tirelessly over the past eight plus years to build Rouge from zero to hero, they also redirected a…

Horahora’s morning of books, grandies and speeches

Horahora School kids were in celebratory mood last week. For a few hours, they shared their love of books with their grandparents and other family members and demonstrated their new-found skill at public speaking. The…

Town Hall Christmas wonderland

This year’s Cambridge Christmas Festival more than lives up to its 2017 theme, “Deck the Halls”. From December 1 to 16, it will fill almost every inch of the Cambridge Town Hall with the sights…

St Peter’s Catholic future-proofing

St Peter’s Catholic School is approaching the end of 2017 with a series of festive school functions and news of building projects aimed at meeting long-term needs. Their November 21 Grandparents’ Day was the first…

Wandering Poppy returns

Cambridge’s globetrotting wedding celebrant, journalist and yoga teacher, Poppy Wortman, is back in town for the summer. Fourteen weddings booked and more in the pipeline have called the wandering Poppy home after six months abroad,…

Jewellery with country in mind

Chele Clarkin brings every ounce of her characteristic resilience to the jewellery she designs. The equestrian range that she and Geoff Taylor create for The Cambridge Collection is immensely popular across both New Zealand and…

Streamlined Christmas giving

Families receiving Christmas donations through the generosity of others will do so this year using a more streamlined system. The Cambridge Committee of Social Services (CCOSS) is working on a new template that will see…

Farewell to Richard Wright

The hallmark of a good send-off is that those attending leave knowing the departed individual with renewed understanding and delight. That would have been the case in spades for the hundreds of people who packed…