Around the Clubs Mount Maunganui We've got a record 54-strong team heading to Red Beach, north of Auckland, this weekend for the Owen Chapman Cup. This is another good chance for our athletes to get some valuable competition, and two to watch... Read More

Brian Rogers Rogers Rabbits www.sunlive.co.nz Here we are in a new year and it's 2012. Yes, that's right, you read it in the newspaper, so it must be right. There's a lot to get through this year, because the world is going to end in March, according... Read More

News Hounds Ady & Flo 'ARK ARK' I don't know if this is a sound I make warning the mobile compost machine - namely Flo - away from my food bowl, or what we should be constructing to get all of us away from the big wet! But I, like most of you,... Read More

Claire Rogers All about wine www.sunlive.co.nz If you are looking for a nice sauvignon blanc to serve with seafood, then I highly recommend this week's wine: Mt. Difficulty Sauvignon Blanc 2011. From Central Otago, this wine is 'distinctly sauvignon',... Read More

Jane Nees BOP Regional Councillor www.janenees.co.nz I shook my head in disbelief as I read newspaper accounts of the debate had by the Tauranga City Council about SmartGrowth. I asked myself how elected representatives could lack understanding... Read More

Brian Anderson The Western Front www.sunlive.co.nz The Global Financial Crisis is a crisis of confidence and a growing distrust of the way money is being massaged and shared around the world. Inequities have become more obvious as new communication... Read More

Josh HoskinSmart Money jhoskin@goldridge.co.nz Many of you will enjoy this time of the year because at some stage you will have the chance to stop and think. You will have time to meet with loved ones and laugh like children do, without a care... Read More

Dr Anna Rolleston The Cardiac Clinic Even if you are fit and apparently healthy, a heart check is never inappropriate. Isn't it better to know you are fine, than not know you're not fine? As a society we will eventually be forced to be more proactive... Read More

Debra Jager Home Instead Senior Care I went to visit my grandmother the other week and was horrified when I went to get milk out and there was no food in the fridge. She is looking thin and said she was due to do the shopping, but she has recently... Read More

Gourmet Guide by Jo Blennerhassett of The Good Food Trading Co. Harmony is a Paeroa-based meat company with a focus on free range and organic. It produces a fabulous range of unique and different meat cuts to what you would find elsewhere. One... Read More

Daz Switalla Flavour SecretsNo.1 The Strand Chef www.no1thestrand.co.nz They say (who ever they are) that there are more vegans, vegetarians, gluten-free and fusspots than ever these days. I concur with these thoughts from years of catering to... Read More

Legal Brief with Alan Tate of Harris Tate www.harristate.co.nz Changes to the gift duty law that came into effect on October 1 seemed to hold out the promise of making life a lot more simple for people who wanted to transfer money or other assets... Read More