The country’s major supermarkets say they have plans to eliminate plastics which Waipā District Council has voted to remove from recycling bins. Countdown – owned by Woolworths New Zealand – and Foodstuffs, which oversees New…
The country’s major supermarkets say they have plans to eliminate plastics which Waipā District Council has voted to remove from recycling bins. Countdown – owned by Woolworths New Zealand – and Foodstuffs, which oversees New…
It could be five years before Waikato’s tourism sector rebounds to pre-Covid-19 lockdown levels, Waipā District Council’s Finance and Corporate Committee has been told. But Waipā’s strategic geographic location, natural environment and world-class event venues…
Lockdown at level four didn’t stop the quiet April 24 handover of Raeburn Lifecare rest-home into Cambridge Resthaven’s ownership. The facility also has a new name – Resthaven on Burns, named for the Leamington…
As dawn broke over Cambridge on Anzac Day, a self-proclaimed “ordinary pensioner” made his way – shrouded in darkness – to the end of his driveway to pause for reflection and remembrance. It was the…
God is the “firm foundation”, their family the cornerstone. Cambridge’s Roy and Joan Suisted marked their 70th – or platinum – wedding anniversary last week – and Joan said those factors have sustained them. “We’re…
Wearing personal protective equipment, two Waipā Disrtict Council staff have continued an “especially significant” essential role throughout the nation-wide Covid-19 lockdown. Waipā District Council parks and reserves supervisors Craig McCurdy and Stephen Bagnall manage the…
Waipā mayor Jim Mylchreest has sounded a warning about the consequences of freezing rates in the wake of the Covid-19 epidemic. He said his council could not be short sighted and had to consider the…
Cambridge Resthaven’s lockdown shopping for residents’ experience is unleashing a raft of positive outcomes for both parties. Bulk shopping for residents has become the new norm at the complex’s retirement village. The start of lockdown…
As a lethal form of influenza ravaged its way across New Zealand in November 1918, Cambridge nurses Linda Veale and Margaret Watt worked quickly to transform the Town Hall into an emergency hospital. On…
Mila Lockett couldn’t quite understand why her friends couldn’t join her to celebrate her fourth birthday. Mila loves fairies and was going to have a fairy themed birthday party. Just as it looked like the…
