Te Awamutu’s longstanding kapa haka festival Te Rā Whakamana Rangatahi is set to make an “exceptional” return – in September 2024. It’s been confirmed the 2023 event will not go ahead. Last November’s festival in…
Te Awamutu’s longstanding kapa haka festival Te Rā Whakamana Rangatahi is set to make an “exceptional” return – in September 2024. It’s been confirmed the 2023 event will not go ahead. Last November’s festival in…
The newest building at Zion Church’s community space in Te Awamutu is among Waipā projects caught up in potentially fraudulent engineering signoffs. And the space – which the church had hoped would be open by…
Te Awamutu and Kihikihi Community Board chair Ange Holt remains on a collision course with council staff over plans for War Memorial Park. Holt’s concerns were amplified in a regular column she wrote recently for…
Waipā District Council held another ‘secret’ workshop and briefing day for councillors this week, the second this month and the seventh this year. One of the items on the agenda was a potential new targeted…
Hundreds of Waipā pre-schoolers are getting a head-start on local history. It’s been 12 months since the Te Awamutu Museum, Education and Research Centre secured a three-year contract with the Ministry of Education. The contract…
Road trips are Troy Tucker’s happy place. “He’ll drive anywhere, he’s just content in the passenger seat watching the world go by,” dad Gavin said. Now, the Kihikihi father and son are tapping into that…
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…
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…
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…
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…
