Little Ellie Turner and a bunch of her friends from Rainbow Kids Childcare were in Hamilton’s Garden Place last month to create their annual display of ‘poppies’ for Anzac Day. The childcare centre was awarded a highly commended in the public good category in last year’s Hamilton Central Business District Awards. They have been putting up the display in Garden Place for the past few years, using the opportunity to pass on an age-appropriate version of the Anzac story to the children throughout the year.
Andrew Pietersz and Melissa Renwick were celebrating after The Keg Room in Rototuna, Hamilton, was named best in the central North Island category at this year’s Top 50 Gastropub awards.
Judge Ed Massey pictured with representative of Maeroa Intermediate School one of the winners at the New Zealand Biosecurity Awards last month.
Part of the crowd in the Cambridge Town Hall for the Waipā citizenship awards last month. Photo: Mary Anne Gill.
The first of six new EV buses set to service Waipā was launched in Cambridge last month. Welcoming it outside Cambridge i-Site are, from left, Waipā District Council’s group manager service delivery, Dawn Inglis; Destination Cambridge general manager Ruth Crampton; Waikato Regional Council public transport manager Trudi Knight; and Waipā District councillor Roger Gordon. Photo: Viv Posselt
Waikato author David Farrell published his second book Where the Birds don’t Fly last month and took the opportunity to give one to ex-pat reviewer Shirley Field in Cambridge to take back to the Staines Mac Book Group in Middlesex, United Kingdom for them to critique. Photo: Mary Anne Gill.
Highlight after the Waipā citizenship awards is the group shot in front of the iconic Cambridge Town Hall. Getting 104 people plus mayor Susan O’Regan is always a challenge but worth it as this shot last month shows. Photo: Mary Anne Gill.
Night owl Carol Dix has delivered newspapers around the Waikato for more than 40 years and has also been a stalwart of Cambridge Pony Club since she was 10. She is now district commander and was one of the organisers at Leamington Pony Club’s Easter gymkhana last month. Photo: Mary Anne Gill.
The Waikato Business News even extends its Out and About pages to the Channel Islands. Mary Anne Gill filed this shot from an Anzac Day service in Guernsey showing the Dean of Guernsey Tim Barker, whose wife Judy is Australian, leading the Anzac Day commemoration attended by about 50 people including several ex pat Kiwis at Fort George. Lieutenant Governor Richard Cripwell, waits to lay his wreath at left, and New Zealand flag bearer Annaliese Sanders, 14, behind at right.
Altrusa Cambridge president Glenda Little, left, with a lineup of models – Adi Mercer, Desma Barrie, Toos Grootscholten, Florence Monson and Fay Haakma – who took part in an April fundraising fashion parade organised by the service club. Photo: Viv Posselt
Talking old times and the Fosters’ way at the company’s 50th celebration dinner were from left Colin Wade, Ian Sanders and Ross Pacey.
Young and old gathered at the Ōtorohanga railway station to discuss its history last month ahead of a June centenary. Kaea Ngapo, 7, from Kio Kio gleaned some memories from Hillview, Te Kuiti, resident Vivian Wilson.
