Cambridge Women’s Club leaders, from left, Christine Griffith, Raewyn Handcock, Jennie Gainsford, Cabby Keyte and Renata Stent. Missing from the gathering was Jacky van der Poel (see inset). Cambridge Women’s Club is coming off the…
Cambridge Women’s Club leaders, from left, Christine Griffith, Raewyn Handcock, Jennie Gainsford, Cabby Keyte and Renata Stent. Missing from the gathering was Jacky van der Poel (see inset). Cambridge Women’s Club is coming off the…
My retirement village resident activities last week took me to Wellington to the Beehive – not the apiary version. For a day we discussed matters pertaining to the welfare of the almost 50,000 people who…
A public memorial service for Winston ‘Wint’ Steen will be held at the Cambridge Fire Station on Saturday. The man who was the longest-serving member of the Cambridge Volunteer Fire Brigade and a community stalwart…
A uniquely community café run by Interlock Waipā and conveying a message of inclusion opened recently for a few hours each Wednesday. The Cambridge Community Connection Café runs from 10am to 12 noon on Wednesdays…
Kirsty Downey understands why people’s eyes glaze over when she talks about Ahu Ake, Waipā’s spatial plan. “We don’t want this to be a document that sits on the shelf,” says Downey, the council’s Strategy…
Mayoral candidate Chris Woodhams has fired the opening salvo in the race for the top job by saying if elected, he would “build a bridge” across the Waikato River. The need for a third bridge…
Act will ‘pit public against council’ Two Waipā planners have lashed out at the government for its controversial housing intensification plans which they say is heavy handed and will change the face of the district….
A Cambridge man who nominated Dennis Lloyd as one of television’s Good Sorts has now convinced one of his business contacts to give the 91-year-old a new $800 walker. Todd Stephenson, who is the service…
Cambridge-based appearance medicine nurse Deborah Swann of Full Circle Appearance Medicine has taken out the Tainui category in the annual Māori Businesswoman Awards. The awards support the vision and mission of Māori Women’s Development to…
Tauwhare School principal Fiona Bradley is ‘gutted and disappointed’ at the theft of an AED (automated external defibrillator) from a secure lockbox attached to an outer school wall. The box was forced open sometime around…
