National is struggling to get positive engagement over its proposal to cut cell phone use in schools. The opposition announced last week that cell phone use at school would be banned to “help lift achievement…
National is struggling to get positive engagement over its proposal to cut cell phone use in schools. The opposition announced last week that cell phone use at school would be banned to “help lift achievement…
New Cambridge Lions president David Espin wants to extend the club’s community service focus to one that better cares for club members. “We have an effective hands-on approach to looking after people in the community,”…
I love ‘The Book of Heroic Failures’… it’s a hilarious compilation of people attempting things that resulted in spectacular failure. One standout from 1983 was a Californian sunbather seeking a perfect tan. Going for better…
For 20 years or more, we have been impressed and surprised by the positive economic data that has been coming out of China. Growth has been between 7 and 10 per cent a year over…
Thirteen organisations will share $52,030 from the Waipā Waste Minimisation Community fund for projects as diverse as embedding worm farms into berms to establishing a reusable party supplies hire kit. Waste minimisation officer Sally Fraser…
Did you know that the rock that makes up the top of Mount Everest is limestone that formed below the ocean? Enormous tectonic forces slowly pushed the rocks upwards to make a mountain range that…
Groundbreaking equine reproduction – or horse breeding – research at Equibreed NZ is helping keep work undertaken by Kiwi industry specialists “right up there” on the world stage. And, director Dr Lee Morris says nearly…
“I’ve been farming for nearly 30 years and can’t remember a season that’s been so wet for so long, particularly over summer.” Amongst at times “astronomical rainfall and the tough challenges” that’s brought with it,…
Council staff appear to have struck the right balance when it comes to naming Waipā streets, says deputy mayor Liz Stolwyk. “A road name can be quite sensitive for our residents,” she told this week’s…
Waipā council staff say they’ve been assured by health officials that fluoridation of council’s water supplies is safe. There would therefore be no grounds to action two notices of motion from the Te Awamutu and…
