Puahue Kids Undercover
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Published Tuesday and Thursday TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2009 6863005AA Circulated FREE to all households throughout Te Awamutu and surrounding districts. Extra copies 40c. BRIEFLY Puahue kids undercover Quiz night for BY DEAN TAYLOR mission team This isn’t a story about A quiz night on Saturday, Puahue schoolchildren September 12 will help raise wearing disguises, funds for a Te Awamutu mission infiltrating the enemy and group heading to India at the end spying — its about keeping of this year. out of the elements while People are invited to register waiting for the bus. a team of six ($10 per person). Puahue School successfuly applied for a Local businesses have new bus shelter thanks to helped out with a wide array of the Totalspan Undercover prizes and supper is provided. Kids Programme. The event starts at 7pm at Te Totalspan Hamiton and Awamutu Bible Chapel. King Country has donated a For more information or to number of Undercover Kids register your team (due by Bus Shelters to rural September 7), phone 871 5500 schools around the Waikato or email Caleb at the_1_ and King Country area. [email protected] (payment The shelters are designed can be made at the church office to protect children as they on the night). wait for buses on rural The mission group is also school bus routes. fundraising by doing jobs like The Undercover Kids cleaning/gardening etc. Phone Programme is designed to leader Geoff Brown at 871 6022 reduce the risk to our chil- for more information. dren, who too often are waiting on roadsides for Peace Cup school buses with no protec- tion from the weather. The shelters are highly reps on roll visible and will encourage Te Awamutu Rugby Sub Kiwi kids to gravitate Union representatives added the towards them, keeping them scalp of Bay of Plenty dry and away from traffic. Development team to their The launch of the pro- earlier victory over Tainui Waka gramme featured in our (Waikato Maori) on Saturday. DriveBy magazine in June Te Awamutu overcame Bay last year. of Plenty 10-8 in the mud at Franchise owner Grant Kuirau Park in their second lead- Lumsden says Totalspan up game before their Peace Cup has a significant presence in challenge against Hamilton this the rural community with Saturday. our steel buildings from gar- The challenge will be hosted ages, lifestyle and commer- at Melville Rugby Club in Collins cial buildings. Road at 2.30pm. ‘‘It is good to be able to Head coach David Fox will put something back into the TC180809DT01 name his team at training this community that supports PUAHUE School students (from back to front) Harriet, Josh, Ifor, Jack, Conner, Bryn-Louis, Samara, Eifion and us.’’ Georgia wait for their bus in their new Totalspan Undercover Kids Bus Shelter. Thursday night. Locally owned and oper- See report from Saturday’s ated, Totalspan is a leading victory in Rotorua on page 15 of manufacturer of steel build- today’s issue. ings and a part of a company Daffodil day which has been operating Blind leading the blind for more than 30 years. The Puahue School help wanted Board of Trustees is grateful BY DEAN TAYLOR Mr Kay-Smith is also often seen raising money for Volunteers and fresh to Totalspan for donating a Waikato Blind Sports. daffodils are needed for the bus shelter for their A familiar sight walking our streets, complete with his He is a member of the Waikato Goalball team which is Cancer Society’s annual students. white cane, is blind man Mark Kay-Smith. always looking for funds. fundraiser on August 28. They say they feel fortu- On Friday morning he will be leading me around the Mr Kay-Smith says the next big event is the Goalball If you can help phone Kathy nate to have been selected as streets, complete with blindfolds and white cane, so I can Nationals in Auckland on October 2. Keighley at 872 2852. one of the many schools that experience what this is like first hand. People can support the fundraising if they see us out Volunteers are also welcome have received such a great Part of the aim is to make people aware of Waikato and about on Friday from about 11am, or drop a donation to join the Cancer Support shelter to help keep kids Blind Sports as we will be accepting donations for this into the Courier front office. Group which assists local protected from the Waikato organisation. The public is also welcome to view the sport this people — phone 871 4118. winters. I am also keen, as Te Awamutu Community Board Saturday at the Te Awamutu College Gymnasium when It has been particularly chairman, to know how the local body can make Waikato hosts to Auckland teams in a warm-up tourna- welcomed this winter. improvements to our town for people with disabilities. ment from 11am until about 4pm. Something WE FIX TRUCKS! 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SATURDAY: 3.59am & 4.45pm had to endure headlines of being labelled: while Cr Cox agreed and referred to it as They should not be made fearful of SUNDAY: 5.15am & 6.07pm ‘Pimps and Dobbers’ and the Waikato ‘sticky beaking’. being labelled as a pimp or dobber, should MONDAY: 6.33am & 7.19pm Times was quick to pounce on such a juicy Regardless of your personal viewpoints they wish to contact professional staff for headline to report . councillors, the residents and ratepayers guidance/education or support. These comments came from our elected should have your respect and not have silly Whether follow up action is deemed councillors during a recent Council meet- name calling going on in the Council necessary or not (by staff), does not take WHITEBAIT SEASON ing, in regard to the number of complaints chambers. away that right. and concerns Council had received over Members of our community deserve to Let’s have more positive reports for our the past few months being tabled in a be able to approach Council to discuss community. HAS STARTED report. issues such as non compliance or an MONIQUE MEXTED Good caregivers need not worry In response to Kim Taylor. In biblical Such parents/caregivers often claimed are seldom prosecuted. times, adulteresses were stoned to death! as a defence in a court of law that the For instance, under section 209 of the I would like to know where in the Bible, beatings and often injuries inflicted were Crimes Act, if a caregiver sends a child to Christ advocates child beating! I recall justified for disciplinary reasons. their room against their will, this technic- ‘‘Suffer little children who come unto me’’. In such cases caregivers can no longer ally constitutes kidnapping, but Police do Like Clare Richardson, she misses the claim immunity from the law on these not regularly prosecute for this particular point of the Crimes (Abolition of Force as a grounds. ‘offence’. Justification for Child Discipline) Amend- For ‘‘good’’ caregivers who use ‘‘reason- Clearly, good caregivers have nothing ment bill. able force’’ as a means of child protection: to fear from the Crimes (Abolition of Force This is surely to protect children who The commentary of the bill points out that as a Justification for Child Discipline) NEW SEASON are excessively beaten and often severely there are several potential offences Amendment bill. WHITEBAIT NETS injured by parents/caregivers. directly related to the care of children that STEVE WILSON AVAILABLE NOW! Escape, explore, discover Support uplifting NEW SEASON — Library Week in TA for Newby family The Newby family would like to WADERS IN Library Week held many surprises for on a mission through the scorched desert express a heartfelt thankyou to the lovely patrons at Te Awamutu Library. sands of Libya with Rommel’s Afrika Korps. person who has put a ceramic planter STORE They were greeted with Hershey’s Children, during Library Week, with the containing two lavender plants on my Kisses, and beautifully presented brown assistance of helpful librarians, enjoyed father’s grave. paper packages complete with a blurb of hunting for hidden letters amongst our It means a lot and is greatly appreci- enticement. library’s real treasures — thousands of ated. I chose carefully, ‘In the heat of battle you great books, DVDs, puzzles, databases, We would also like to thank the people have two choices: Death or Glory’. magazines, newspapers, talking books, lan- of Te Awamutu for the many kind words of The mystery package was Michael guage and music CDs. Well done Te Awa- support we have been receiving. Asher’s latest book ‘Death or Glory: The mutu Library, what would we do without Bless you all and thank you all from the Last Commando’ (Penguin 2009). A great you? Newby family. 166 Cambridge Rd, Ph 871 6793 read for a wet weekend taking my husband LEIGH GLEESON JOY NEWBY 7000840AA CATCH YOUR NPC TEAM MASSIVE CLEARANCE $598 MASSIVE $1788 TEAC 37cm (15”) HD LCD/DVD Combo Panasonic 106cmv (42”) VIERA HD Plasma IDTV Model: LCDV1515 SAVINGS