When Te Awamutu’s Coral Loomb tells you she often marvels at how much the St John’s Anglican Church Gala Day has grown – and changed – over the years, she knows what she’s talking about….
When Te Awamutu’s Coral Loomb tells you she often marvels at how much the St John’s Anglican Church Gala Day has grown – and changed – over the years, she knows what she’s talking about….
When Kellie Wakelin moved to Te Awamutu a little over four years ago, she did so without know any one at all. “Literally not a single soul,” she said. Yet, within a month of shifting,…
Parked up in a shady spot on Sunday, Te Awamutu Rod and Custom Club member Larry Jooste had the perfect vantage point from which to take in all the action. His 1938 Standard Eight was…
Thieves raided a Te Awamutu community forest to steal a tree but, no pun intended, it was no plum job. They uprooted and probably damaged a young plum tree which – in just three months…
Nearly eight months after a Sunday night fireripped through their business, Darrell and Nicola Liddington can see the “light at the end of the tunnel”. The owners of Te Awamutu’s Kiwi Pies have pencilled in…
Waipā mayor Susan O’Regan celebrated a successful year for the district but warned of stormy waters ahead last week. The mayor spoke at the annual Celebrating Waipā gathering at the Sir Don Rowlands Centre, Karāpiro,…
When Te Awamutu Intermediate’s all-star kapa haka group was at the Celebrating Waipā event at Karāpiro last week it was hard not to notice year eight student Pokaia Heke. Pokaia has been recovering from a…
It took NZ Aero’s chief executive Stephen Burrows several years to fulfil his childhood passion of having a career in aviation. Back in the 1980s he would look up when planes flew over his family’s…
Waipā District Council chief Garry Dyet will effectively be sprinting to the finish line when he finishes at the end of June. The chief who started work as health inspector for Waipā County Council in…
Four historic Māori names for parks and reserves have been approved by Waipā’s Service Delivery committee – and more naming decisions await. Whare marama Reserve in Leamington, Pirongia’s Mātakitaki, Tūrata in Kihikihi and Waipuke, on…
