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The ladies in red

I may be lacking in laugh lines and life experiences, but for one night I got to experience what it was like being the ripe old age of 50. The Red Hat... Read More

Curler, chemo, mince pies and doughnuts

It was a high tea in a hair dressing salon - a hair dressing academy to be precise. There were tiny cakes, cucumber sandwiches and lashings of pink. Pink... Read More

School to spray and destroy

A Tauranga high school has reacted swiftly and unequivocally to unconfirmed reports of students harvesting suspicious mushrooms on the banks of a gully bordering... Read More

Hot rodders having a blast

Hot rods and steampunk make for a heady mix and it's all coming to Tauranga this weekend for the Bay Rodders annual Winterblast. The event gets underway... Read More

The wiles and ways of Caldina

She's an orphan - unloved, abandoned. Given name Caldina, family name Toyota. Age - indeterminate - born Nagoya sometime between 1992 and 2007 when production... Read More

Cleaning up the kiwifruit industry

'Kiwifruit picking - why on earth would you?” A seasoned picker and pruner slamming the industry which has employed him for 35 years. And which, for the... Read More

Plant a tree, grow a dream

Most international travelers return home inspired by encounters, experiences, people, food, music and adventures. Not Geoff Brann. 'We've travelled extensively,... Read More

Pillar of Hawea Street

When Noel Kelly's garage doors open up, he's open for business. For more than 10 years, Noel has said he is going to retire, but he still keeps working. Described... Read More

Good food at the right price

They were once considered the realm of hippies, liberals and vegetarians, but the modern-day food co-op is simply about people looking for good, wholesome food... Read More

Wigs on for Wig Wednesday

For most of us, wearing is a wig usually involves dressing up in something whacky and having fun. But for Kiwi kids living with cancer there often isn't much fun... Read More

Finding fulfillment

Volunteering with Alzheimer's Tauranga/WBOP was a natural fit for Bruce Inglis. Bruce's father had passed away with Alzheimer's and he wanted to make a difference... Read More

Give so others may live

They're giving thanks all around the world to a bloke called Karl Landsteiner this week, because heaven knows how many millions of lives he has saved. He won... Read More