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Donating the donations box

Te Awamutu Riding for the Disabled (RDA) has a brand new, hand-crafted rimu donations box thanks to its very own “expert wood turner”. Or so they now call him. RDA head coach and manager Rosalie…

Waste not, want not …..

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…

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Ruth sets a mountainous challenge Te Awamutu resident Ruth Mylchreest is in training for a marathon set of climbs in November. Mylchreest plans to climb Mt Kakepuku 10 times in 24 hours – a total…

Street names balanced

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…

Steampunk rocks into town

Steampunkers and visitors enjoyed a day of dress-up, ‘mad hatter’ teas and Victorian-styled competitions at Sunday’s third Steampunk Community Fun Day at the Cambridge Town Hall. The event, organised by the InterlockNZ Trust and Waipā…

Riding into the future

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…

Calving in the big wet

“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,…

Hip hop, silver lining…

There’s a silver lining from Brylee Gibbes’ time at the 2023 World Hip Hop Dance Championships. The 18-year-old Te Awamutu hip hop dancer – Waikato and Waipā’s sole representative at the event in Phoenix, Arizona…

Apakura’s emotional launch

“Today, as we release the first waiata from the album, it represents the first fruits of the project. There’s a sound coming from our people, our iwi, and from our land. “It is a flourishing…

Fluoride debate call rejected

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…

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