Members of the Cambridge 60s Up group have enjoyed two decades of companionship, but it is a connection with knitted dolls aimed at comforting those in need that has taken their fancy in recent years….
Members of the Cambridge 60s Up group have enjoyed two decades of companionship, but it is a connection with knitted dolls aimed at comforting those in need that has taken their fancy in recent years….
When the Kairangi Hall committee got together to discuss something special to celebrate the hall’s 90 years, the Kairangi Hall Summer Festival was initiated. Over 100 people attended the celebration and family gathering at the…
Cambridge Middle School food technology teacher Robyn Gibbeson is hanging up her apron today (December 12) after four decades in the job. Robyn, who started at the school in 1985, said she’d decided to retire…
Suzy Reid clearly remembers the day a girl in her class splashed Indian ink across a stunning piece of nearly finished art. With tears in her eyes, she leant over the student, said “now make magic”, and…
I said repeatedly on the campaign trail that if I did a good job, I would be a one term councillor. I have always been an advocate for a restructure but never in my wildest…
An organisation that supports and connects rural women, their families and communities has celebrated its 100th birthday with a new chief executive at the helm. Sandra Kirby brings more than two decades of leadership experience…
New Zealand’s only medical leech breeding and supply business – based in Te Miro just outside Cambridge – sold recently in a transaction that feels uniquely made to measure. Viv Posselt explains. A niche enterprise…
The upgrade and refit of Waipā District’ Council’s Roche Street building came in under budget and finished weeks early. About a third of the council’s 370 staff moved back to the building from temporary office…
Contemporary society’s downward spiral into becoming more secularised and humanistic, has triggered lots of inevitable consequences. Notably, fewer people identify nowadays as ‘religious’. A weird irony is that with Christianity being the originating source for…
Ōhaupō Rugby Sports Club held their annual calf rearers’ day in Ngāhinapōuri last month a great initiative to raise funds to help keep the club running in the summer months. The day was well attended…
