The weather gods smiled on the free family friendly Great Kiwi Summer Festival at Lake Karāpiro over the weekend. Highlights from the inaugural event included on-water demonstrations, adrenaline-packed displays, “have a go” sessions, the BMX…
The weather gods smiled on the free family friendly Great Kiwi Summer Festival at Lake Karāpiro over the weekend. Highlights from the inaugural event included on-water demonstrations, adrenaline-packed displays, “have a go” sessions, the BMX…
While we call phenomena like devastating eruptions, earthquakes, and storms “natural disasters”, they are actually a social event. If any one of these events strikes a remote area where there is nothing to impact, it…
Fashion statements in praise of the countries new citizens have come from and the country which they now call home have become an integral part of the Waipā citizenship ceremonies. Bright colours and Kiwi fashion…
I’m in Venice – where famous Venetian merchant Marco Polo launched his explorations to Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295. Venice is bursting with reminders of past life that match Florence with…
Phill Ross and cousin Nick – of Cambridge family civil construction business C and R Developments – will be racing at Taupō when the V8 Utes join forces with the SuperV8s over three days starting…
All three speakers at the Armistice Day commemorative service in Cambridge on Saturday reflected on how little the world had learned about living in peace. Mayor Susan O’Regan said as much saying it was sobering…
We – in our enjoyable retirement village – have bitten the bullet to reduce to a single car. We make no excuse for hitherto desiring the use of two vehicles and have worked hard through…
Cambridge Senior As, led by a classy 82 not out by opener Scott Warren, saw off Melville in round three of the Hamilton and Waikato Valley senior competition at Victoria Square in Cambridge on Saturday….
A partnership between New Zealand’s largest rural tours’ operator and the Cambridge i-Site will result in a significant boost to Waipā’s tourism industry and give farmers an added income stream. And the idea came from…
When Japanese students stay at Lynette Smith’s Tamahere property one of the things they love doing is rolling in the grass. “Where they’re from, for a lot of them, touching the grass is new. They…
