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Rain, who cares? Christmas Parade a cracker

The Cambridge Christmas Parade went ahead today at 2pm with steady rain which eased off during the event giving the hundreds of people who packed the streets the opportunity to see all 51 floats, the…

Designed with maunga in mind

Through Antanas Procuta’s well-trained eyes, Cambridge is an architectural masterpiece. Speaking at the Cambridge Historical Society’s annual meeting last week on The Pattern of Cambridge: An Architectural and Urban Design Perspective, Procuta acknowledged the town’s…

News …. in brief

Cyber stars Waipā District Council has been recognised for its outstanding cybersecurity efforts, taking out the ‘Best in Cyber Security’ award at the Association of Local Government Information Management annual awards last week. The award…

Tainui executive in the running

Waikato-Tainui executive Glenda Taituha-Toka, originally from Piopio is a  finalist in the Young Executive of the Year category of the Deloitte Top 200 Awards. The winners will be announced on December 5. The Rahui-Pōkeka (Huntly)…

Treading water to one council?

Forming a multi council-controlled organisation for water services is the first step to creating a unitary authority in the Waikato. That’s the view of Waipā District Council Cambridge Ward member Mike Pettit who shared his…

Incinerator site ‘wrong’

Waipā District Council is drafting a submission against the building of the Paewira waste to energy plant in Racecourse Road in Te Awamutu. Councillors who debated the plan last week said they believed the wrong…

Val presses the rewind button

Almost everything about Sunday’s book launch at Ōhaupō School of Valerie Millington’s ‘Ellen of Denniston’ was intended to deliver a sense of time and place. And deliver it did, in spades. The hall, creaking with…

Pensioner flats in demand

Fifty four Waipā residents are on the waiting list for one of the 93 pensioner housing units owned by the council. The biggest number is in Te Awamutu where there are 23 on the list…

Waipā’s Tron man in print

The life and  comics of a Waipā artist who suffered a debilitating disease are being celebrated in two volumes of his work. Dean Ballinger, who died at age 48 in 2022 after enduring Motor Neuron…

Staff negotiate through issues

A former police crisis negotiator and personal protection officer has been delivering conflict management training to Waipā District Council staff and elected members. Lance Burdett, who now works for Wellness, Awareness, Resilience and Negotiation (Warn)…

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