Te Awamutu Courier Thursday, May 30, 2019 Upgrade for Water Supply
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Te Awamutu Janeane Wright Sales Consultant M 021 - 883 753 Call me today and know you are working YourC community newspaper for over 100 years Thursday, May 30, 2019 with a trusted brand. Your dreams Taste of victory for Kihikihi Residents of Kihikihi and surrounding areas are invited to a public meeting at the Kihikihi Town Hall on Beats the heat to win national chilli eating contest Thursday, June 6 at 7.30pm. Residents are welcome to BY DEAN TAYLOR discuss current and future developments in the area and Te Awamutu has another their dreams for Kihikihi, with national title-holder in chilli eat- ing champion Justin Rummel — the goal of sharing ideas with and he had to go way beyond next Waipa¯councillors. level to achieve his goal. Justin beat reigning champion Choir show Greg Miller of Christchurch at Te Awamutu Music the Fire Dragon Chillies NZ Hot Federation is host a Concert Sauce Festival and Chilli Eating of Choirs at St John’s Championships in Auckland on Anglican Church, Arawata St, Saturday. on Sunday, June 9 at 2.30pm. He also knocked out US chilli The concert is featuring guru Johnny Scoville along the choral ensembles from St way. Paul’s Collegiate, conducted Justin is from Melbourne, but by Tim Carpenter. has been in Te Awamutu for three Adult tickets $20, students years. can enjoy the concert free. He says he has always liked heat in his food, and about 18 Book launch months ago ate a Carolina Reaper Kat Merewether’s latest — a chilli pepper ranked as one of children’s book Flit the Fantail the hottest in the world. and the Mystery Eggs is being Heat is measured in Scoville units — invented by and named launched at Te Awamutu after Wilbur Scoville in 1912. Paper Plus on Saturday, June The Carolina Reaper is in the 8 from 11am until midday. 800,000 to 3.2 million unit range. The book is an By comparison a jalapeno is in introduction to native the 1000 to 10,000 heat unit range. creatures, with a look at the He put the video on Facebook different colours and styles of and was tagged and it was native birds’ eggs. suggested he give the competition All are invited to the free a go. event which includes He entered and won the Hamil- activities, book signings and a ton Chilli Eating Contest and book reading. qualified for the 2018 national final, finishing third. Help to fund He teamed up with fellow Te Awamutu chilli lover Paul Chilli champion Justin Rummel celebrates his victory. Photo / Supplied sports centre Merson and the pair started A fundraiser for the future posting to Facebook and usually run for 10 or 12 rounds. spit or throw up. Chillies can cause pain, physi- O¯ haupo¯Sports & Recreation YouTube as Heat Hunters — In New Zealand the organisers In the 25th round Greg threw cal damage — and at worst can Centre is being held at the doing chilli challenges, had 24 rounds planned, but had up and Justin took the title. kill — so there is a huge element current club on Forkert Rd on reviewing chillies and present- to go to 25 rounds to separate the He prepares by drinking of danger. ing recipes. pair. cream to line the stomach and Justin hopes the win will help Sunday, June 9 at 6pm. Justin says it proved to be Staring with a Purple Birds making sure he has food as well. propel interest in Heat Hunters Enjoy a winter roast and good training for the 2019 Eye, competitors have to chew He says the main preparation and maybe get him some interna- hear from guest speakers and champs. for 30 seconds, prove to judges is to be mentally ready. tional recognition that may lead former All Blacks Matthew He won the Waikato and Bay they have chewed the chilli, then The chillies cause an almost to sponsored travel. Cooper and Steve Gordon. of Plenty titles and Paul won the swallow. narcotic effect — “it makes you Meanwhile, he plans to nur- To arrange your $55 ticket Hawke’s Bay title so they both After a few minutes to high and you have to work ture his hidden talent and contact 027 355 2596 or qualified for the finals last week- recuperate the process is through it,” he says. believes he has what it takes to ohauporugbysports@outloo- end. repeated with the next hottest It isn’t glamorous, but at the defend his New Zealand title in k.co.nz. To say he and Greg went next chilli. end of the competition competi- 2020. level is an understatement. Competitors are eliminated if tors need to empty their stomach Overseas competitions they cheat, pull out, have a drink, contents. ■ More photos page 3 “WHERE BUILDING QUALITY IS NEVER COMPROMISED” COME AND SEE US AT SITE I27 AT 11 Livingstone Brothers Lane Te Awamutu 0508 GIBSON (448766) PH (07) 871-4986 12TH—15TH JUNE www.gibsonconstruction.co.nz MYSTERY CREEK 2 Te Awamutu Courier Thursday, May 30, 2019 Upgrade for water supply A $12.6 million contract for 14,045 a brand new pipeline has been awarded as major work con- tinues on upgrading Te Awa- 14,045* mutu’s water supply. CIRCULATION 14,045* Waipa¯District Council has contracted Waipa¯ Civil to build a new pipeline to connect the Taylor’s Hill reservoir in Te Awamutu with a new water treatment plant to be built at Parallel Road. Contractors will also install a new water main from Tay- lor’s Hill, connecting to the Bond Road industrial park and [email protected] new residential areas in the town. The latest contract is just [email protected] one part of the wider strategy to upgrade the town’s water [email protected] infrastructure to cope with growth and address issues [email protected] with the existing supply. Te Awamutu’s water supply comes from the Mangauika [email protected] Stream on Mt Pirongia and a bore in Frontier Road. Under the terms of its [email protected] resource consent, the Council is limited as to how much water it can take from the stream on behalf of the com- munity. In some years, that has led to town water supplies run- Programme manager Marie McIntyre (left) and project delivery manager Lorraine Kendrick ning low over summer. discuss plans for the new Te Awamutu pipeline. Photo / Supplied In 2017, after failing to find [email protected] a second sustainable under- Meanwhile, work is already its strategy to upgrade infra- waste water infrastructure ground bore, elected members underway on an upgrade to the structure across the district. across the Waipa¯ district to opted to upgrade the Parallel Pukerimu raw water intake “In Te Awamutu, Council replace old infrastructure, Road water treatment plant to pump station and a new brought forward some of the deal with supply and demand enable more water to be taken untreated water main. work so taste and odour issues issues and cater for projected from the Waikato River. Project delivery manager caused by algae blooms over population growth. The contract for the Lorraine Kendrick said mul- summer could be more quickly Physical work on the latest We’re online at nzmecommunitynews.pressreader.com upgraded water treatment tiple million-dollar water addressed,” she said. pipeline contract for Te Awa- plant will be awarded later this infrastructure contracts were Over the next 9-10 years, mutu will begin in August and year with the plant operational being managed consecutively close to $108 million will be is likely to take around 12 2016 by late 2020. as Council pushed ahead with spent on upgrading water and months to complete. 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