By Peter Carr I have just returned from a five-day swing through the South Island addressing residents of retirement villages. They are lovely people essentially over the age of 65 full of life, fun and…
By Peter Carr I have just returned from a five-day swing through the South Island addressing residents of retirement villages. They are lovely people essentially over the age of 65 full of life, fun and…
At an impressive 105-years-old, Maurice ‘Maurie’ Evans is the living embodiment of the glass-half-full approach to life. He has faced love and loss through the years, struggled with the aftermath of spending four years on…
A movie night being held at Cambridge’s Tivoli Theatre on Tuesday March 2 will help the four Cambridge businesswomen raise funds for Oxfam. Booking details and tickets for the movie, ‘Love, Weddings and Other Disasters’,…
The next phase of Predator-Free Mystery Creek has been launched by the New Zealand National Fieldays Society (NZNFS). The information evening last week was designed to kickstart a wider movement to extend predator control into…
Cambridge’s Fred Simpson – family doctor, wordsmith and a man with his roots deeply embedded in Africa – will launch his second novel ‘The Sunflower and the Sparrow’ at PaperPlus Cambridge from 5.30pm on Thursday…
Covid testing continued in the region this week including at a new pop-up site setting up in Piopio, the Waikato District Health board announced on its website. Testing facilities are for people who are symptomatic…
It all started with the leaves of the cypress plant. The twisting branches of the Bonsai tree offered form. And the Tensegrity sculpture, a kind of optical illusion that seems to defy gravity itself, was…
The growing need for people to better manage their asthma is behind a move by Asthma Waikato to extend its range of effectiveness in 2021. The three-person team operating from Hamilton plans to broaden its…
A lucky perk born out of 2020’s lockdown for Cambridge Museum administrator Karen Payne has become the bedrock of a new exhibition focusing on the history of the town’s volunteer fire brigade. Last year’s lockdown…
Few things in life demand little yet give a lot back – volunteering with the Citizens Advice Bureau might just be one of them. The Cambridge CAB team wants to boost its numbers of volunteers…
