10 December 2014 AFTER months of renovations two buildings shifted to the corner of Kawerau’s Manukorihi Drive are renovated and ready to become the new head office of Mainstream Engineering Limited. MEL director Darrin Hawkes said a blessing was organised for the two buildings on Wednesday next week and staff would shift in later that […]
Keys – a childhood dream realised 12 December 2014 New author Sacha Cotter has had a dream come true. Her first book Keys, along with the te reo Māori version Ngā Kī, was launched at the Wellington City Library last Thursday, to an enthusiastic audience of children from local Kōhanga Reo and Kindergarten. For Sacha,
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Whakatane Mayor Tony Bonne, and the mayors of Kawerau and Opotiki, John Forbes and Malcolm Campbell, travelled to the capital to lobby for the airline’s decision to be reversed. They went armed with a letter of support from the Bay of Plenty District Health Board, which is supporting the mayors’ joint campaign. In the letter,
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New Corrections centre for Kawerau 16 December 2014 A NEW Department of Corrections centre in Kawerau will offer offenders an opportunity to complete programmes without having to travel to Whakatane. Preparation for the new centre, beside the Kawerau Enterprise Agency on Onslow Street, began in December. Bay of Plenty Corrections Department district manager Pauline Moran
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Kawerau Christmas in the Park 16 December 2014 KAWERAU’S Prideaux Park hosted the town’s annual Christmas in the Park on Saturday. Events and community activities team leader Lee Barton said 20 floats toured the town’s central business district with thousands of spectators lining the streets. The 1XX Community Concert ran from 1pm to 6pm followed
PUBLISHED: New author Sacha Cotter will be back in her home town of Kawerau this Christmas and will read her book Keys to children at the Kawerau Library. Photo supplied IT was an “amazing” teacher at Kawerau South School that instilled a love of storytelling in Sacha Cotter. Now, more than 25 years later, the
19 December 2014 CROWN research institute Scion has won a four-year grant to investigate the benefits of industrial symbiosis related to wood processing and the energy sectors. Economic development officer Su Cammell told Kawerau District Council about the grant at a regulatory and services committee meeting on Tuesday. She said the research would explore how
Station wants to broadcast to Kawerau shoppers 19 December 2014 KAWERAU’S Galaxy Radio station has appealed to Kawerau District Council for an opportunity to broadcast around Jellicoe Court. Galaxy breakfast host and chief executive Grant Reid spoke at the council’s regulatory and services committee meeting on Tuesday. He said Galaxy had become part of the
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Hillside hive location approved for Kawerau 29 December 2014 THE hill beside Kawerau’s transfer station is about to become a hive of insect activity now Kawerau District Council has granted consent to locate bees there. At a regulatory and services committee meeting on Tuesday, the council considered an application to move 30 beehives to a
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A TENDER to upgrade the size and quality of Kawerau District Council’s security camera network will close in January. Councillors agreed to upgrade the town’s 13 cameras and add six new cameras in September. During a regulatory and services committee meeting last month the council heard how security cameras from Rotorua, Tauranga and Whakatane were