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School kayak nationals choose Tarawera 10 April 2015 PADDLING AHEAD: Trident High School paddler Kaitlin Blackwood takes in a big breath during a run in the Secondary Schools White Water Kayaking Nationals last week. Photo supplied TARAWERA River was stirred by 80 young paddlers from around New Zealand last week during the Secondary Schools White […]

Womens football kicks off 10 April 2015 BAY of Plenty women’s football kicks off the 2015 season this Sunday – but the break between seasons has been longer than summer for one Eastern Bay club. After six years with no women’s football team, Opotiki will host its first game against Rotorua at Magpie Park this

Bubble soccer a blast with youth 14 April 2015 BOBBLE HEADS: One bubble soccer player tips backwards in an inflated collision during Wednesday’s bubble soccer. Photos Troy Baker MORE than 300 teenagers filled Kawerau’s Ron Hardie Recreation Centre as part of the town’s Bubble Blast event on Wednesday. The fun day of school holiday activities

River runners power through 15 April 2015 AN open women’s team from Auckland University Canoe Club compete at the national rafting selection races in Kawerau on Saturday. The event included night races, where floodlights were set up along the banks of the Tarawera River. All winning teams will represent New Zealand at the World Rafting 

17 April 2015 KAWERAU’S library experienced a quieter March this year with only 6854 visitors, a drop from 8359 visitors in the same month last year. During a Kawerau District Council meeting on Tuesday, finance and corporate services manager Peter Christophers cited the town’s sixtieth anniversary for the high 2014 number. But since the start

New philanthropic foundation to launch 17 April 2015 Sir Stephen Tindall, Warehouse founder THE Warehouse founder Sir Stephen Tindall will speak at the launch of a new foundation aiming to financially support community initiatives in the Eastern Bay. The Eastern Bay Community Foundation is holding its official launch on Tuesday, April 21, at an invite-only

Kawerau boxers hit Tauranga 22 April 2015 Kawerau boxers hit Tauranga TWO Kawerau boxers took part in a TGA Box Professional Corporate Boxing event on Saturday. Coach Warwick Godfery said the pair from Kawerau Boxing Club competed on the undercard for the night’s main event at the QE II Event Centre in front of 600

Exterior of 100 MW geothermal power plant at Kawerau, New Zealand. Credit: Rjglewis/Wikimedia Commons “We are now the fifth largest geothermal power generator in the world,” he said. New Zealand produces 79.9 percent of their electricity from renewable energy resources, and Bridges explained that the renewables sector worldwide is expected to reach $7 trillion in

22 April 2015 MEMORIES: The arrival of Air Chathams’s vintage Douglas DC3 at Whakatane Airport this weekend will ignite the memories of older Eastern Bay residents. Back in November 1968 a crowd of 2000 gathered at the airport on a Sunday afternoon to farewell the National Airways Corporation (NAC) DC3 that had been servicing the region.

The Kawerau King of the Mountain is enriched with a 60 year history of intrepid mountain runners and has stamped itself in New Zealand as one of the must do ultimate challenges. With the diamond jubilee taking place in 2015 the race organisers expect the race to reach maximum numbers before race day.  Maximum numbers