Te Awamutu Courier Thursday, June 4, 2020
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Te Awamutu Next to Te Awamutu The Hire Centre Te Awamutu Landscape Lane, Te Awamutu YourC community newspaper for over 100 years Thursday, June 4, 2020 0800 TA Hire | www.hirecentreta.co.nz Detour lifted A part of Cambridge Road between Kaipaki and Parallel Roads had been closed for some time due to work being carried out on the Te Hooray for Hazel Awamutu Water Supply Project. Te Awamutu-bound traffic was detoured along Lamb Unwavering effort honoured with a QSM Street, Roto O Rangi and McLarnon Roads during the weekdays. This detour was Dean Taylor removed last week upon the completion of pressure testing ihikihi’s Hazel Barnes is of pipes. incredibly modest about her Queen’s Service Medal New fund for for services to local Kgovernment and the community women now open awarded in this year’s Queen’s Organisations that support Birthday Honours — but, with six women are invited to apply to decades of service, it is deserved a new $1 million fund as part of recognition. the Government’s Covid-19 A snapshot of her working career response. and volunteer and community work This may include initiatives shows a selfless woman who puts the such as opening a community wellbeing of others before wealth and centre for an additional day in possessions. order to provide extra services Hazel trained as a nurse, started or supporting a women’s her career in New Zealand and centre to deliver counselling nursed overseas. services. Although it is a nurturing role Organisations will be able to dedicated to serving others, she also apply for funding to support quickly learned that she could apply the government priorities of her intelligence and people skills to healthy and safe communities, affect change for the better — for reducing family and sexual fellow workers, for patients and for violence and improving child health, in general. wellbeing. She had returned to work in Applications are available obstetrics at Waikato Women’s until June 15. Find out more at Hospital and was appalled by the women.govt.nz/news/ common practice of adopting out the babies of young solo mothers. She says it wasn’t the fault of the Month left to newborn, mothers were grieving — register pooch help was needed. Dog owners have one month Hazel talked to the mothers, asked left to register their four-legged questions and began to change Hazel Barnes of Kihikihi was awarded the Queen's Service Medal for services to local government and the friends before the start of the attitudes. community. Photo / Dean Taylor next registration year. She also became interested in More than 1600 dogs in Waipa¯ Ma¯ori health, an area she says was Over the last 30 years she has deserving recipient of the award. volunteers dedicated to reviving have now been registered for overlooked and neglected. turned much of her attention to local “Hazel is a longstanding and Kihikihi and her efforts have led to the 2020-21 registration year — It was in the 1980s she realised she body politics and has made popular local councillor who has a large variety of restoration projects around 18 per cent of those could be more effective and bring significant contributions to the Waipa¯ poured a huge amount of time and in the town. living in the district. positive change as a social worker, community and helped to revitalise effort into making our community – Hazel says it has probably been With four weeks to go, Waipa¯ rather than a nurse, and she changed Kihikihi – the town she calls home. particularly Kihikihi — a place where her proudest achievement to help District Council compliance profession. “I acknowledge all the support people want to live, work and visit. turn Kihikihi into a vibrant and manager Karl Tutty is urging Even then Hazel felt she wasn’t behind me for all of the projects I “This award is a great chance to proud community. owners to register soon. close enough to the decision-making have completed over the years,” she publicly honour Hazel for all that she Her dream for the next 20 years Owners can register their dogs and the money, so took her first steps says. has done over the years.” is to see Kihikihi continue to grow at waipadc.govt.nz/dogs using into politics and stood for and won “I could never have attained them Hazel has been a Waipa¯District and to be recognised as the the unique ID number a seat on the then-Waikato Area without the willingness of the councillor for the past 17 years and outstanding community it is — and provided on their registration Health Board. community to want change and to previously served on and chaired for it to be treated as such by council notice or by heading into a There she worked closely with the better their living standards.” the Te Awamutu Community Board. and the rest of Waipa¯.- council office or calling 0800 CEO and financial team to bring about Waipa¯district mayor Jim Upon her initial election, she new attitudes and changes for Ma¯ori. 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Authorised by Barbara Kuriger MP, Parliament Buildings, Wellington. 2 Te Awamutu Courier Thursday, June 4, 2020 Circulated free to 14,045 homes in Te Awamutu and surrounding districts. Former Te Awamutu CIRCULATION 14,045* PHONE: 07 871 5151 POSTAL ADDRESS: 97 Sloane Street, PO Box 1, teacher receives ONZM Te Awamutu 3840 OFFICE HOURS: Dean Taylor It was at this time Lois and a Lois Chick: New partner broke away and, with the Monday - Thursday 9am - 4pm Queen’s Birthday Zealand Order of agreement of the Minister of Friday 9am - 3pm Honour recipient who Merit for services to Education, in 1996 the New DELIVERY QUERIES: 0800 111 200 will be fondly education. Zealand Graduate School of remembered in some Photo / Supplied Education (NZGSE) was born. EDITORIAL Acircles in Te Awamutu is Lois Lois continues to co-direct the Dean Taylor (Editor) Chick, now of Shirley in school. Ext: 67705 0274 819951 Christchurch. She helped develop a detailed [email protected] Lois was made a member of the system of criteria for effective New Zealand Order of Merit for Caitlan Johnston Ext: 67710 practice, as well as tools designed services to education, which to measure and assess teacher [email protected] includes establishing and running effectiveness. Jesse Wood Ext: 67713 a private teacher training A Te Reo and Tikanga [email protected] organisation. competencies course has also SPORT She and her husband Graham been introduced at NZGSE. [email protected] were part of the education and arts The organisation has trained fraternity in Te Awamutu in the more than 1600 primary and ADVERTISING 1980s. secondary teachers. Sarah Verran 021 345 951 Lois came from Norsewood and Lois says students at NZGSE [email protected] went to Dannevirke High School spend as much as two-thirds of [email protected] before training at Ardmore their course teaching in a Teachers College. classroom, a contrast to standard CLASSIFIEDS She taught in Levin, Napier, Bacon, whom they describe as teaching at another residential teaching models where students Tania King Ext: 67708 Dunsandel, Hamilton and talented teachers and well- special school she lectured at what are often sitting in lectures. [email protected] Morrinsville before coming to Te remembered by many in Te was then the Christchurch College And NZGSE has a successful Awamutu, where she worked at Awamutu. of Education. record: more than 97 per cent of We welcome letters - preferably via email. Pekerau School for four years “Graham and I thoroughly “This is where my interest in students gaining education jobs They should be under 300 words and under principal George Green. enjoyed our time in Te Awamutu teacher training began,” explains after graduation. must have the sender’s name, address Lois then won a job at Te and made many life-long friends,” Lois. As well as teaching and running and phone number. No pseudonyms Awamutu Intermediate School, says Lois. “I became convinced that her own training college, Lois’s are accepted and names will only be under principal Bill Hewitt, as a “Graham was part of Little increased practise time in schools expertise in special education and withheld in special circumstances at the Year 8 teacher with special Theatre and I sang in the Hamilton for those in training was critical learning support led to her chairing discretion of the editor. 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