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Te Awamutu Courier Te Awamutu Blue Ribbon Realty Ltd Licensed Agent REAA 2008 www.harcourts.co.nz Combined Eff iciency Serving your Real Estate Needs for 15 years. Buying or selling contact ... CouPublished Tuesday & ThursdayurierTHURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2017 Stuart Parker Mandy Lata Sales Consultant Sales Consultant Your community newspaper for over 100 years EXTRA COPIES 40c M 027 283 5928 M 027 679 2224 Silver award Sanctuary Mountain Park is popping Maungatautari has achieved a Qualmark Silver Award under the new Sustainable TC021117BIKEPARK Tourism Business category. SPONSORS Donna and Qualmark has broadened Paul Davies from Davies the scope of its evaluation Foods join Te Awamutu criteria to recognise sisters Ruby (5) and Olivia Wrathall (8) at the businesses that are focussed site of the Pop ‘n’ Good on protecting what makes Bike Park. A New Zealand unique and sponsorship deal from special. the company means Being Qualmark-certified construction of the park is internationally-recognised will begin almost and will continue to grow the immediately. awareness of the mountain as both as visitor destination and an ecological sanctuary for native creatures, flora, and fauna of New Zealand. Scoot on in The Life Unlimited Mobility Scooter Workshop takes place tomorrow at the Te Awamutu Library from 9.30am-noon and there are still places available. Learn about mobility scooter etiquette, road safety and scooter skills, and mobility scooter care and maintenance. Places are limited, contact 0800 008 011 to register. Ramble on There are just a couple of days left to get your tickets for construction on the Pop ‘n’ this year’s Altrusa Home and Good Bike Park will begin Garden Ramble on Sunday, almost immediately. Civil November 5. Construction Services has Primary beneficiary this year been contracted to do the is Assistance Dogs New work. Zealand, Kainga Aroha The existing play- Children’s Camps and Te ground at Selwyn Park will Awamutu Altrusa’s own be closed to the public for a community and literacy Te Awamutu’s new bike skills park is thing back to a ‘terrific community’ that had period while construction is underway. Closure projects. officially Pop ‘n’ Good. supported their own family. dates will be advised. There are 12 properties on Waipa District Council has revealed a major Mr Davies was born in Te Awamutu and his When complete, the Pop ‘n’ Good Bike Park cash sponsorship deal with Te Awamutu-based wife has lived here for more than 30 years, will link to the new destination playground and the ramble, a mix of garden company, Davies Foods, to build the new bike raising their children together and seeing the existing Rose Gardens to become a community only and garden and home skills park in the town centre. town develop and grow. focal point at the Te Awamutu hub. viewings. The sponsorship, which Mayor Jim “We saw the bike skills park at the Mr Mylchreest says it was humbling to see a Tickets are available from Mylchreest describes as ‘phenomenally gener- Avantidrome and loved how well used it is and local family give back so generously to the Te Awamutu i-Site. ous,’ will cover the entire cost of the bike park what a healthy, family atmosphere it helps community. build. create,” says Mrs Davies. “It’s great the whole facility will have such a Lunch date Once complete, the facility will be known as “We really wanted to do something that had strong local flavour. We’ve had huge support for Members of Hearing the Pop ‘n’ Good Bike Park. longevity and encouraged good, healthy life- this and the wider destination playground Association Te Awamutu are Pop ‘n’ Good is a healthy popcorn brand styles starting at a young age. project and I’m just looking forward to seeing reminded the End of Year launched from Paul and Donna Davies’ Te “We’re both keen recreational cyclists our- kids and families using it.” luncheon is at the Te Awamutu Awamutu home kitchen in 1984. It is now sold selves and given the Pop ‘n’ Good brand and Club on Thursday, November nationwide as part of the Davies Foods product where it came from this was a really good fit. ■ For more about the hub development see page 6. 9. Phone 871 4587 to book. range. We’re just looking forward to seeing it up and Ongoing updates on the Pop ‘n’ Good Bike Park Davies Foods co-owner Donna Davies said running. It’s going to be fantastic for the town.” project will be available at www.waipadc.govt.nz/ she and Paul were very happy to give some- With the sponsorship deal now in place, TA-playground Pratts knows pumps Sales and full service Diagnostics Sort water storage for summer Kelly Cruickshank Water Services now Engineer Before After Before After Before After Kathy lost 12kgs in Colin lost 23kgs Rose lost 46kgs 13 weeks 16 Market St, Te Awamutu 07 871 8558 • [email protected] 16A Vialou St, Hamilton 07 834 2271 • [email protected] 6 MAIN NORTH RD, OTOROHANGA 0800-PRATTS 07 873-6642 Check out our other testimonials on www.bodybuzz.co.nz www.pratts.co.nz 2 Te Awamutu Courier Thursday, November 2, 2017 ■ CourierTe Awamutu LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Community Newspaper of the Year 2014 Making swimming affordable Your community newspaper for over 100 years. Circulated free to 14,055 homes through Te Awamutu As a former president of the morning and at non-peak even though I believe the pool its way. This seldom, if ever, and surrounding districts. the Te Awamutu Swimming times. management has been offered happens actually. Club and an early promoter of I suggest that the extra cost the opportunity to take over Would it not be better to CIRCULATION 14,055* (7136 urban, 6919 rural) a new indoor swimming pool of having lane swimmers is the club. make pool entry accessible to in Te Awamutu I was minimal. With eight or more Does the Council, (of which much wider number of people. We welcome letters - preferably via email. They saddened to hear that the swimmers in a lane at times, the pool management commit- I believe a better approach should be under 300 words and must have the swimming club is closing. just the entry cost would tee is a ‘puppet’) get involved would be to keep prices to a sender’s name, address and phone number. No This seems to have come surely be reasonable without with other sports and sabo- minimum, offer ‘real’ subsidies pseudonyms are accepted and names will only be about largely from the exorbi- extra being charged for the tage the clubs in the way the and family concessions on per- withheld in special circumstances at the discretion tant prices being charged for lanes. swimming club is being haps a six-monthly basis so that of the editor. Letters are not usually acknowledged lane space, apparently around In fact, many non-club treated. ‘having a swim’ is affordable for and may be edited, abridged or discarded. $40,000 per year. members also use lane space. I Does the Council charge all members of the public. I have never understood have never been asked to pay exorbitant prices for the This would also get many SALES MANAGER why the swimming club has to when I have asked for a lane to numerous winter sports more kids into the pool, surely pay for lane space at all. The be roped off. organisations for the use of Belinda Wolland the first step in having [email protected] same people who are paying Another issue seems to be numerous public parks used youngsters that are safe and this are also ratepayers. that the pool management for sport? confident in water. EDITORIAL While there is possibly have excluded the swimming Is the Council really inter- Finally, let’s provide an en- some inconvenience at times club from teaching beginners. ested in promoting sports un- vironment where kids who Dean Taylor (editor) Ext: 67705 to the ‘public’ — which of In the past, these have less they can milk them for want to swim competitively, [email protected] course includes the swimmers often formed the basis of fu- everything they have? can do so without the huge fees Colin Thorsen (journalist) Ext: 67713 themselves — much of the ture club squads but this flow- Clearly, the Council wants that are currently needed. [email protected] training takes place early in on seems to have stopped, to make the pool complex pay STEVE WILSON Bethany Rolston (journalist) Ext: 67710 [email protected] ADVERTISING [email protected] Company fined for illegal discharges CLASSIFIEDS Tania King, Ext: 67708 A company operating Council prosecuted the million litres of leachate fine were imposed last the need for specific de- Tania Cortesi-Western, Ext: 67707 a composting and quarry company following a from a holding pond into week in the Hamilton terrence, given the com- Alanah Harvey, Ext: 67701 facility in Cambridge has complaint from a mem- the nearby stream. The District Court by Judge pany had a previous con- [email protected] been fined $64,125 for a ber of the public in Sep- leachate contained high Melanie Harland who viction and as it did not number of illegal tember last year, who levels of E. coli. said there were “very appear to have learnt its discharges into a stream came across a section of Investigations by the poor management prac- lesson. DELIVERY QUERIES 0800 111 200 that flows to the Waikato the waterway that was council revealed that tices and understanding Remediation (NZ) POSTAL ADDRESS River.
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