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theprattler.org.nzThe Prattlerprideinputaruru.com Pride in Putaruru Community Newspaper APRIL 2019 Issue 146 INSIDE THIS ISSUE • The Vigil • Local Achievers • School News • Clubs and Organisations • Shining Light on the Dark • 100 Year Old Church 8 10 18 26 28 OUR COMMUNITY REACHES OUT Supporting Your Community 07 883 7309 www.vandyks.co.nz Putaruru > 2 Read the daily Prattler on-line at: theprattler.org.nz April 2019 Our condolences to those Martyrs who lost their souls for the sake of making us solid as one united Whanau and one nation. Terror-stricken, paralysed with fear, horrified, shaking like a leaf. What just happened? No words can describe the shock. The real time has come. I lost myself, my identity, who I am - lost my belief, lost my religion, lost my confidence. It is not an easy thing. We are so happy and grateful and proud of this gathering. He brought us together under one umbrella. This act started another chapter of understanding and awareness of the appreciation for being different and diverse. I believe that we will cooperate to get rid of any kind of hatred and racism. Racism speech is now not free speech. Manar Azzam speaking at the Putaruru Vigil. Humanity is like one body. If any part of that body is injured the whole body feels it and this is the demonstration I see today. That body was New Zealand and the people of New Zealand. Islam means peace - to be at peace with everything and everyone. One of the problems we are facing is the misrepresentation of people and their faith because the media want to present a form of ideology. That hurts because most of the time it is not the truth. When you talk you realise that you have been given a story that doesn’t actually match the people that you meet. I always felt safe in this community (Putaruru). There’s never been a reason for me to feel unsafe. There’s a very close a assimilation between the Maori way and the Muslim way and the way they do things - the only difference is language. We must never ever lose our humanity no matter what the differences are. Mogamat Thebus speaking at the Putaruru Vigil. 1:30pm Tuesday - National 2 minutes of silence observed outside Graham Brown and Co. Friday 4:00pm tidy of Vigil site, Putaruru. April 2019 Read the daily Prattler on-line at: theprattler.org.nz 3 Supporting Your Community 07 883 7309 www.vandyks.co.nz Putaruru > 4 Read the daily Prattler on-line at: theprattler.org.nz April 2019 God is our refuge and strength, a helper who is always found in times of trouble. Therefore we will be not afraid though the earth tremble and the mountains tumble into the depths of the sea. [Psalm 46] “We have to cure ourselves of the itch for absolute knowledge and power. We have to close the distance between the push- button order and the human act. We have to touch people. In science or outside of it, we are not uncertain. Our knowledge is merely confined within a certain tolerance. We should call it the principle of tolerance. Welcome: Nigel Te Hiko. Karakia: Kaumatua Rikiriki. Pastor Markus Schonberger. First in the engineering sense. Science It’s great to come I look around has progressed, step by step, the most to a new country tonight and I see successful enterprise in the ascent of the South Waikato and be accepted... man, because it has understood that the New Zealand has at its best - out of this, our country has exchange of information between man changed quite a come together as lot really. one - that’s us here and nature, and man and man, can only When I first tonight. take place with a certain tolerance. arrived it We’ve gained an But I also use the word, passionately, was really a understanding that monoculture - we can all have about the real world. All knowledge, all but New Zealand different beliefs information, between human beings, is becoming a and faiths but we can only be exchanged within a play country in its own live under one roof. right because we Division and hatred of tolerance, and that's whether it's in are becoming will never ever science, or in literature, or in religion, or more and more, have a place in our in politics, or in any form of thought that one people. community. aspires to dogma.” [Jacob Bronowski Councillor Herman Van Rooijen. Mayor Jenny Shattock. in The Ascent of Man.] When I was listening on the This is about our country. We come to remember radio I was thinking, this is not those that have passed as a result of hate and happening in my country. resentment. We come to recognize those families We can never remove what who have lost loved ones. happened on Friday from our We come recognizing those who serve in so many history but we absolutely are in ways, police, fire service, St Johns, Doctors and control of what we do with that Nurses, those who have given of themselves in any and how we make a different way and experienced the pain that goes with that. future. We remember little ones who have experienced The president of the Waikato a world that no child should ever experience, and Muslim’s Association said, “we also adults who for whatever reason were in lock can choose hate or we can down in Christchurch. choose love, and we choose We come with love to recognize our Muslim love.” community who came to this country seeking love The challenge isn’t just tonight and peace and have had that shattered. May you as we gather, it will be in the find it again and may our support for you through coming days, months, where these vigils and in the days that are ahead be there will be lots of soul strengthening to you, encourage you and reassure searching, a lot of questions… you that you are welcome in this country. I want you to understand that As we share our tributes, light our candles, embrace your Parliament is united. each other or just be here we think of you and your I ask you to be courageous, families here in NZ and throughout the world. May to have conversations, to ask this event never again be part of our country, our questions. MP Louise Upston. lives, your lives, our world. Raewyn Whiteman-Thorne. April 2019 Read the daily Prattler on-line at: theprattler.org.nz 5 Bottom Left: Hymns, led by The Living Springs Church. All others pictures: groups at the Putaruru Vigil. > 6 Read the daily Prattler on-line at: theprattler.org.nz April 2019 TRANSFORM AOTEAROA: HT CLASS 2 LICENCE COURSE FIBRES OF THE EARTH: NZ EMBROIDERER’S GUILD Our new HT Class 2 course with All Drive NZ came about due to an obvious need The Waikato/Bay of Plenty regional exhibition of work of the NZ Association of in the community and New Zealand for qualified truck drivers. So Transform Embroiderer's Guild will be exhibiting at the Tokoroa Event Centre 23-25 May this Aotearoa decided to help give the locals in Putaruru a helping hand and found a year and entry is free. funder who believes in the local community and desires to see locals gain valued The South Waikato Embroiderer's Guild will host the Bi-Annual Exhibition of work employment and provide for their families. It has proved to be so successful, that of the BOP/Waikato region of NZEG. This is the first time that this exhibition has Transform Aotearoa is hoping to run the course again sometime in the near future. come to the South Waikato area, and it promises to be a great event. Pieces of work shown in this exhibition will not have been displayed before, and there are vied-for trophies at stake. There will be keen competition for the Kay Sheffield Regional Award, open to stitchers of the greater Waikato/BOP from Opotiki in the south, to Coromandel in the north. The theme of this competition is, "In The Forest", which will be interpreted by individual stitchers. Also open for competition is our local President's challenge. These two awards will be made by a qualified adjudicator and viewers will be able to cast their votes for the "Popular Choice" award. We are also privileged to announce that 4 completed tapestries from the Tapestry Trust of NZ project will be on display, (including our own South Waikato tapestry). The trust are producing a series of tapestries depicting all facets of life in NZ, and hundreds of men and women in guilds all over NZ have been working on them. When completed, they will be hung in a purpose-built gallery. This is an immense undertaking and more information will be mounted with this display. BUT WAIT - THERE'S MORE! Joining the Embroiderer's Guild, will be displays from James Turney from All Drive NZ. other local art and craft groups, including The Putaruru Quilters, Woodturners, The first day refreshed everyone on the road code and learning heavy vehicle questions Painters, Fibre twiddlers, Tivaeve, Jewellery and Photography. There will be sales that the participants could expect on the AA test to gain a truck learners licence. tables and food. In fact, so much going on, you'll probably have to visit TWICE! The 4 women and 3 men passed with flying colours, and were eager to start the NZQA truck modules on day 2 and 3.