Te Awamutu Ph (07) 871-5069 email: [email protected] 410 Bond Road, Te Awamutu YourC community newspaper for over 100 years Thursday, November 12, 2020 A/H 021 503 404 BRIEFLY Youth Development The Te Awamutu Youth Development Trust is making young people into champion boxers, but really it is also making champion young people. One main aim is to develop confidence (rangatahi) to empower people to have a positive impact on those around them. Hear Chris Graham talk about the boxing academy at the Continuing Education Group’s meeting on Wednesday, November 18 in the Waipa¯ Workingmen’s Club. See details in today’s classified section or phone 871 6434 or 870 3223. Memorial Park Author Heather Morris has The Te Awamutu Memorial released her first non- Park Concept Plan fiction title with tales from recommendations from growing up in Pirongia. Council staff has been Photo / Supplied deferred from the November Community Board meeting to the last meeting for 2020 — on Tuesday, December 8. Community Board chair Ange Holt says the announcement of the change was made after her column had been printed Author’s third work in the Courier. “The Community Board apologise for any inconvenience this may cause,” she says. Skills as listener used for new book including stories of growing up in Pirongia “Everyone is welcome to attend to see what progress Dean Taylor stories people told her — skills she to listen’, and I said my great- Melbourne, Heather is working on her has been made on this believes we can all learn. grandfather taught me. next fictional book, but that requires important project.” nternational bestselling author From her Melbourne home, “Margaret suggested that should be her travelling to Israel where she can Heather Morris has released her Heather says the inspiration for the next book.” do some more listening. third book — this time a non- Stories of Hope came after a bit of a Heather says as a young girl she While in South Africa she received No waste workshop fiction title full of stories from drunken night in Slovakia. would listen to her great-grandfather an email from a Canadian who said Sick of Christmas always being Igrowing up in Pirongia. “I was with my London based Christopher Charles Berry — a he had bought The Tattooist of about consumption? In Stories of Hope, Heather will publisher [New Zealander Margaret Pirongia identity and former mayor Auschwitz when he was visiting his Head to the free Zero Waste explore her extraordinary talents as Stead, daughter of author C.K. Stead] of the village. mother in Tel Aviv. Christmas workshop at The a listener — a skill she employed when and we had spent the day in our She explores the skill in various She saw the cover, with the Bible Chapel, 7pm, Friday, she first met Lale Sokolov, the apartment conducting research for chapters under such headings as tattooed arms, and said that must be November 13, and hear from tattooist at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Cilka’s Journey,” says Heather. Listening to your elders, your about Lale and Gita. local Ruth Webb who will the inspiration for her bestselling “We were staying in the same block children and yourself. One chapter This was a story Heather hadn’t share ideas to limit our impact novel. where Cilka lived much of her life and deals with a story about her brother heard previously — three Jewish on the Earth. You will get a It was this ability that led Lale to people that knew her were coming Ian, told in his words. sisters who knew Lale and Gita, who chance to learn the Japanese entrust Heather with his story, which to us and telling us her story.” The book title is inspired by the also escaped with their lives, then had art of furoshiki (fabric gift she told as the novel The Tattooist of Heather says she would ask the thousands of correspondence she further hardships and ended up as wrapping) or make a beeswax Auschwitz and its bestselling follow occasional question through an has received, and people she has freedom fighters. wrap. up, Cilka’s Journey. interpreter and the local people been invited to talk to in places such Heather went straight from South There will be a market selling Now Heather shares the story would open up and share their as prisons and drug rehabilitation Africa to Tel Aviv and met the two zero waste gifts (cash only). behind her inspirational writing stories. centres, who say her books have surviving sisters. Refreshments provided. journey and the defining experiences “Over drinks Margaret said she was given them hope. “They are amazing and beautiful Register via email of her life, including her profound flabbergasted at how complete “Hope is something we all need,” women who believe they are [email protected] friendship with Lale, and explores strangers opened up to me. says Heather. ordinary people,” says Heather. “That how she learned to really listen to the “She asked ‘how did I learn how Although currently trapped in is my next book — Three Sisters.” Which heat pump is right for your room? 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They want to open up 78ha of while this attitude prevails. responsibility and oversight by our Council has stated that correct POSTAL ADDRESS: land on Frontier Rd for a Bernie Fynn (Abridged) elected council. procedure has been followed for 97 Sloane Street, PO Box 1, retirement village and residential. Trust is a trait that is earned these changes and the community Te Awamutu 3840 This on top of 380ha all up around from being honest, transparent, was consulted. How many people OFFICE HOURS: Te Awamutu. Macron saga and truthful. have been asked? Has a They are allowing the The saga regarding the use of the Hayden Woods referendum been held or was it Monday - Wednesday 10am - 2pm equivalent of this amount of land macron name continues. The just a handful? Closed Thursday, Friday, Public Holidays all round Waipa¯, including massive macron name still remains non- I believe that they should stop DELIVERY QUERIES: 0800 111 200 areas around Cambridge to ruin legal and unrecognised, yet Waipa Macron use using the macron until proper the idyllic nature that was District Council are adamant that Regarding the use of a macron for consultation with Waipa residents EDITORIAL Cambridge. they have followed correct legal Waipa District Council, it is and ratepayers has been held. Dean Taylor (Editor) With the local council deciding procedure and are well within common knowledge that Ma¯ori With the use of the macron I Ext: 67705 0274 819951 to, or wanting to, remove town their rights to use the macron did not have a written language. believe that any correspondence [email protected] boundaries, is all this all to meld name. So am I right that when the from council is not binding. Caitlan Johnston Ext: 67710 us into a cosmopolitan area like Yet, this does not explain why Europeans arrived the sounds Don’t get me wrong, I also like Auckland? they avoid directly answering or were put into ‘writing’? If I’m in a to have language being spoken and [email protected] There is massive housing providing evidence to support non English or Dutch speaking written correctly, but there is a Jesse Wood Ext: 67713 coming from the south end of their bold claims, when provided country I have learn some of the process to be followed. [email protected] Hamilton and about 2000ha of with relevant clauses from the language. I used to use booklets of SPORT land being built on. Local Government Act and common sentences and now I Bernard Westerbaan (Abridged) [email protected] Both Cambridge and Te National Geographic Board would be using apps on my phone. Awamutu are being encircled with contradicting their position. In the time the Europeans ADVERTISING housing. This is reaffirmed with council’s arrived these tools were not Election fraud Sarah Verran 021 345 951 This is detrimental to Waipa¯ recent public admission; that they available so everyone had to rely It would appear that never in the [email protected] because it creates greater are still yet to make the name legal, on gestures, sound and pictures. history of the United States has CLASSIFIEDS congestion and bigger queues and and investigating what correct With the macron dilemma some there been such blatant ballot wait times, puts greater demand on path to take. research has been done and I fraud as in the recent Presidential Tania King Ext: 67708 already stretched resources, puts Well this says it all; clearly the would like to explore the findings. Elections. Apparently on suspicion [email protected] greater demand on neglected name is not legal, nor in my From the Encyclopedia of New of a dishonest plan, the We welcome letters - preferably via email.