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Pony winners in Matariki Dish Challenge

The fourth annual Matariki Dish Challenge took place over June 9 to July 14 with winners announced last week. The event, organised by Waikato Food Inc, sees restaurants and cafes around the region enter their…

Fuel bunker gets spruce up

Members of the community were out in force recently, painting the concrete pump house above the Te Koo Utu Lake car park. The structure was once attached to an aviation fuel depot during World War…

Boys’ breakkie with Liam

More than 90 lads, dads, granddads and other significant males enjoyed breakfast at Cambridge Primary on Wednesday last week, joined by a special guest, rugby player Liam Messam. The breakfast was a chance for senior…

Woodall victory at Cambridge Classic

The Cambridge Golf Club hosted 120 of the country’s top amateur players over the weekend for the 46th Classic Builders Cambridge Classic. Cambridge’s Jordan Woodall, 19, was the leading player throughout the tournament and went…

Teachers set to strike

Failing a last-minute agreement in mediation, primary school classrooms across Cambridge and the rest of the country will fall silent next Wednesday, August 15, as primary teachers and principals strike for the day. Initially scheduled…

Kenpo 5.0 students bring home trophy haul

The local martial arts school of Kenpo 5.0 sent a team to the Kenpo 5.0 World Tournament in Las Vegas late last month, with all competitors performing extremely well and all achieving at least one…

Forty bubs latching on at once

The Big Latch On event held in Cambridge last week was a resounding success with a total of 40 babies and their mums breastfeeding at the same time, suitably in the former Cambridge Maternity Hospital…

Sports students on world stage

August is an exciting month for a few local young cyclists and rowers. St Peter’s School students Ally Wollaston and Finn Fisher-Black are competing in the UCI Junior World Track Championships in Switzerland next week,…

Fundraising in the works for historic organ

St Andrews Church is working to raise funds for a massive project to restore the church’s 119-year-old organ, believed to be the first organ built in this country by a New Zealander. The magnificent instrument…

Holocaust survivor speaks at St Peter’s

Students and staff at St Peter’s School were treated with an eye-opening visit from a holocaust survivor this week. Paris-born Polish Jew Vivienne Spiegel, who immigrated to Melbourne in 1948, shared the heart-wrenching story of…

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