Published by Issue 392 Kurow Museum Wednesday And Information Centre as a service to our community 17th August 2016

Haka Valley School Jubilee

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY:

The Waitaki Valley Community Society are looking for expressions of interest for the posion of Administrave Officer and Minute Secretary to the Execuve Commiee. This paid posion is for SIX hours per month. For job descripon and further details please contact Rosina Russell 027 228 0677 prior to Wednesday 31 August 2016

UPDATE FROM JENNY HOPE: (As mentioned on Waitaki Valley FACEBOOK page) … The landscape featured in an exhibition for contemporary photography of NZ landscapes http://thelieoftheland.nz It was part of the Auckland Festival of Photography. Images were submitted and then chosen by a panel to appear in the exhibition, as you can imagine I was really excited. It was great to have a picture of Elephant rocks appearing in a gallery in Auckland. My current project On the Verge (which I promote on instagram @jennyhopephotographer) is appearing in the AIPA Cliq showcase www.cliq.co.nz which is truly amazing, it is also appearing in Pro Photographer magazine. I was interviewed as part of an article about personal projects and their importance for a professional photographer.

WAITAKI DISTRICT COUNCIL CITIZENS AWARDS: The Citizens’ Awards were held at the Opera House on Monday 8 August. There were eight residents from across the district who received a Citizens’ Award in recognition of the volunteer support and services they have provided to benefit the community. Of the eight recipients, four were recognised for their outstanding efforts to benefit the Waitaki Valley community. These recipients were:

1. Carron Cossens 2. Mike Gray 3. Vicky Munro 4. Bill Wallace

Each recipient was very deserving of the recognition for their outstanding community work. The Citizens’ Awards are a significant event each year, and it is a privilege to be able to honour those who have given so much to benefit their community. Nominations for the 2017 Citizens’ Awards will open in May 2017. The profiles of these recipients will feature through this edition of the Bugle.

WAITAKI VALLEY MEDICAL TRUST ANUUAL GENERAL MEETING: Waitaki Valley Medical Trust intends to hold its Annual General Meeting on Tuesday, 30 August, at 7.00 pm in the foyer of Kurow Memorial Hall.

WAITAKI ST JOHN KUROW: July data: 10 medical, 1017km 3 trauma, 331km 1 other, 28km. We have just completed a round of Continuing Clinical Education and now return to our two weekly station training. If you are a subscriber and receive an account for using the ambulance please pop the account in the post to PO Box 61, Kurow KUROW FOR SALE OUTDOOR Lounge Suite BOWLING CLUB 1 x 2 seat seee 2 single chairs MEETING REMINDER Very Good Condion

Sunday 21st August @ 10:30 am Phone 4360 262

NZ FARMERS LIVESTOCK BALEAGE FOR SALE

Regan Laughton Livestock Specialist Good quality grass Haka Valley PO Box 304 m: 027 440 6722 Straord 4352 office: 06 765 6199 Ring Andy regan.laughton@nzfll.co.nz My LiveStock.co.nz 021 026 41052 NO PRESBYTERI@N SERVICE @UGUST 21st

We will join St Albans on Sunday 21st August at 11:30am.

This will be Vicar Ken’s last service here before he and Lynee shi to Hawea.

A finger food lunch will follow the service.

ALL WELCOME

NEXT ISSUE: 31st August 2016 COPY IN: 26th August 2016 email: [email protected] phone: 03 4360 950 or post it to: Kurow Museum & Info Centre, 57 Bledisloe St, PO Box 56, Kurow. We look forward to contribuons from the Community to interest readers BILL WALLACE: Bill has a long involvement with the Kurow Presbyterian Church helping with fundraising, maintenance of grounds and buildings. He served on Whalan Lodge Trust for a number of years and he connues to support the lodge by helping in the vegetable garden, keeping the firewood in supply, and as a regular meal on wheels driver. Bill is involved with the Upper Waitaki RSA and is the treasurer and on their welfare commiee. He has served on the local Hall Commiees and the Cale Creek Bus Trust. He is a supporve member of the Kurow Golf Club and the Kurow Trong Club. Bill noted that the award is not something that he has earned on his own. Everything he has done with the support of others around him, and this award recognises their community generosity as much as it does his own.

Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.

Painting– Exterior & Interior Phone Greg on 027 740 9552

Local surveyors providing urban and rural surveying services...

 Subdivision & boundary adjustment Contact: Cameron Leckie  Easements Phone: (03) 434 8020  Accurate farm maps & contour Cell: 021 496 780 Office: 27a Coquet Street, Oamaru  Farm conversion design and layouts

Email: [email protected]  Dam design and earthworks calculaons Web: www.surveywaitaki.co.nz  Resource Consents & Council compliance SITUATION VACANT: Milker required full or part me. Milking twice a day unl October then once a day. Milking 400 cows. Otekaieke Area. Phone 027 4311 890 or 03 4311 890

Campbells Butchery quality meat and smallgoods available at Kurow Foodcentre and West Road On The Spot. For private processing of your cale and sheep contact Steve on 03 434 8780 Ext. 4

In total, Meridian has awarded more than $78,000 to thirteen projects in the latest round of funding from its Waitaki Community Fund.

Projects from our area to receive funding are: • Waitaki Valley Preschool - $10,000 for the installaon of a new kitchen • Residents Associaon of - $9,632 for two new heat pumps for the Omarama Community Hall. • Kurow JAB Rugby Club - $5,000 for new rugby training equipment. • Duntroon School Board of Trustees - $5,000 to replace the pool filter. • Omarama Search and Rescue —$8,000 for beer communicaons opons • Kurow Golf Club Management Commiee - $2,500 to replace pop -up sprinklers at the golf club. • Duntroon and District Development Associaon — $2,00 for a carved archway to go at the entrance of the Wetlands Meridian’s community funds support local projects in the areas near our generaon assets. It’s one way we can recognise the importance of local communies to our hydro and wind operaons. Call in and see Carron of you would like to know more about applying for funding for your group or project, or ring 4360 950 Waitaki Valley & Oamaru * Rats * Mice * Spiders * Flies * Borer * Wasps

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Martin Schurgers Electrical

Local registered electrician based in Hakataramea Valley for all your electrical needs, servicing the Waitaki, MacKenzie and Waimate Districts.

43 years’ experience in all types of electrical work including:

 New builds  Alteraons and addions  Domesc and Commercial work  Industrial, PLC programming and scada installaon  Pumping and control  Wireless ethernet extensions  Solar soluons

Contact Marn on 027 227 8259, email [email protected]

Associated with Healthy Heat Pump Cleaning – helping to keep your heat pump running the way it should. Contact Andrew on 022 3503 627, email [email protected] www.healthyhpc.co.nz VICKY MUNRO Vicky moved to Otematata with her family when she was only 2 years old as her dad worked on the dam.

Soon a er marrying her beloved late husband, Ronnie, they suffered a house fire. The support they received from the local fire service through this event encouraged Ronnie to join the local fire brigade as a volunteer, with Vicky right alongside him and acvely involved in the service doing working bees cleaning the staon, building fences etc. The fire brigade is a strong community group that has played a big part in their lives. Ronnie and Vicky were a strong team together, and the fire brigade connues to play a big part in Vicky’s life today. A er finishing work to raise a family when their daughter was born, Vicky looked for an outlet to keep her mind acve. This was when she joined the Plunket Group and then the Otematata School Commiee. Vicky remained a commiee member of the Plunket Group from 1977 -1981 and was an acve member of the School Commiee from 1976 -1998. Raising a family in Otematata meant that the kids sports were played out of town – so Vicky spent many years transporng sports teams, supporng them and playing team “mum” on trips. As the kids grew up, Vicky got more involved in community groups including the Meridian Sponsorship Board and the Meridian Waitaki Community Fund. Both of these groups offer grants to the community and for Vicky, it is rewarding to see the community benefit from this work.

More recently Vicky was involved in arranging the Benmore Dam Reunion for the school and the town. This was a huge job which financially benefited the town through the accommodaon that was booked and the funcons that were aended. With 400 people aending, another important benefit was the posive impact the weekend had for the morale of the town. This was something that the residents had not expected as a result of the reunion, but such a key result for the community. Surplus funds from the reunion weekend were donated to the Rescue Helicopter Trust.

Vicky is also Secretary and Project Funding Coordinator for the Otematata Residents’ Associaon; Secretary/Treasurer for the Otematata Sports Club; and an elected Member of the Ahuriri Community Board.

Some of the key projects that Vicky has taken the lead on fundraising for and championing in the community include the walkway, playground and skate park.

Vicky enjoys being a part of the Ahuriri community board and she finds herself learning new things every day. She now has a much greater respect for the Council and its endeavours to benefit the community in what is does. Vicky sees no end to development in the community. She knows that community assets need to be connually upgraded to keep the town alive and bringing the money in.

While the Cizens’ Award is being awarded to Vicky, she is by no means accepng the credit alone. Vicky insists that every step of the way she had Ronnie by her side. Vicky had the contacts and Ronnie did the job. It was a great team – and it should be noted that while Vicky is today being honoured for many hours of volunteer community support – Ronnie was with her every step of the way and in all that Vicky did, they did together.

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HAKATARAMEA WATER SCHEME INC SOCIETY THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE HAKATARAMEA WATER SCHEME WILL BE HELD ON THE 24TH AUGUST , 2016 AT 7.30 PM AT THE WAITAKI ROD AND GUN CLUB ROOM HAYES ROAD, HAKA VALLEY. JANICE CLEAVE - SECRETARY YOGA 2016 Term Three All classes accommodate those new to yoga. Casual students welcome

Classes with Kate: Phone or text 0274 333 913 Join in anytime Tuesdays: 9.15am to 10.45am – Kurow Presbyterian Church Hall Tuesdays: 6.00pm to 7.30pm – Tokarahi Community Hall

Classes with Rosina: Phone 4360 445 or 027 228 0677 Mondays -7.30pm to 8.45pm – Kurow Presbyterian Church Hall Wednesdays -4pm to 5.30pm –Kurow School Community Room

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JULY STATISTICS PHONE 4360 950 Number of trips: 11 Number of passengers: 15 Volunteer Hours given: 50 TEXT Kilometres travelled: 2201 TOTAL SINCE START: 19,239 027 282 0615 Thought for the week

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Third Sunday of the Month Christian Life @ 3:00pm Centre You are warmly invited to join us for a church service, held in the Kurow Volunteer Fire Brigade Rooms (Contemporary Christian Service) Pastoral Care Services Available —Dedications, Marriages, Funerals Belong Believe Build ph (03) 437 -2666 (affiliated with the Assemblies of God in NZ)

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HOUSE FOR RENT IN KUROW Immaculate near new sunny warm 3 bedroom home. Carport aached to house. Double garage with sleep -out. Caring tenants required Non smokers. No dogs. Rent $300 /week. Negoable for long term tenants Phone 03 3479059 Email [email protected] MIKE GRAY In the words of one of Mike’s nominators, Mike has been the linchpin of the Duntroon community for many years. Almost every venture designed to promote and enhance the area in the last 18 years has had Mike’s energy as a key part of it’s driving force.

Mike moved to from Australia in 1975, seling in Dunedin with a job teaching at Logan Park. In 1998 Mike and his wife Lyn moved to Waitaki when he bought and renovated the Tokarahi Homestead, which they ran from 1998 -2003. During his me at Tokarahi Estate, Duntroon became his “focal point” and Tokarahi his newfound “patch of dirt”. While Mike doesn’t see himself as a local of the valley anymore since moving to Oamaru, he works closely with the locals to connue to fuel his passion for the valley that is as strong now as it ever was.

Mike threw himself whole -heartedly into the Waitaki community when he became involved in the first Oamaru Victorian Heritage Celebraons as Chair of the Commiee from 1999 -2002, and started driving the “Explore Waitaki Valley” campaign at the same me in 1999 to ensure the valley didn’t die. The key to the “Explore Waitaki Valley” campaign was changing mindsets. On this campaign they fundraised to aend two TRENZ tradeshows (2001 & 2002), encouraging drivers and tour companies to change the tradional route (from Queenstown to Christchurch through the middle) and take the alternate route exploring the valley. Publicity in the A -Z Guide and Jason’s Southern Route Planner started some posive route -planning exposure. There have been many wins, and Mike connues to work with others to build the valley’s reputaon and presence, developing and emphasising its many unique aracons.

Mike was a founding member of Vanished World Inc and assisted in the seng up of the trail and the centre. When Mike had achieved what he set out to do with Vanished World, he set up a public meeng in 2002 which resulted in the establishment of the Duntroon & District Development Associaon.

The DDDA has been instrumental in managing and maintaining the facilies within the village. Since the foundaon of the organisaon and with Mike as Chair from 2002 -2013, the Duntroon Goal was returned to the village as an aracon. The DDDA manage the Duntroon Domain Camping Ground and hold a contract with the council to clean and maintain the public toilets. The Duntroon Wetlands were restored and opened to the public in 2012.

Mike has been the driving force for all the buildings that have been maintained or developed. He fights for funding, is out there with a paintbrush, and ensures the site’s success. connued In 2004 Mike chaired the iniave that eventually led to the “Way Forward Programme”, which was aimed at developing the region’s tourism potenal, and in 2005 -2006 Mike was a founding member and served as Chair on the Waitaki Tourism Associaon.

Mike’s current project is Nicol’s Blacksmith. In 2006 he developed the Nicol’s Blacksmith Historic Trust. This resulted in the restoraon of the blacksmith shop, and there are many plans currently in progress for further development of the smithy as a tourist venture.

There is never a task too big for Mike, and it is Mike who sets the standard for others to follow and who shows what can be achieved.

Now that he has rered from his teaching career, Mike is excited that he can move from a part -me volunteer to a full -me volunteer. I have no doubt that his “patch of soil” will benefit greatly from this.

Mike is commied to the volunteer work he does to grow Duntroon and the district, however he lives by the philosophy that: Volunteers should never be “trapped”; Volunteers should give only me and experse; Volunteers should never be out of pocket; and being a volunteer should not be a life sentence.

For almost 20 years Mike has poured his heart and soul into the Duntroon community and he has made an undeniable impact within the community and for the community. Boys Cricket fundraiser for 2017 Trip to India and Sri Lanka

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Rabbits, Hares, Wallabies a problem? Phone Ross Chilton 021 0234 7135 or 03 4360 535 Night Shoong Specialist

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A PROBLEM SHARED IS A PROBLEM HALVED Reflexology Information Session with Sharyn Menzies Saturday 27 th August from 10am - 11am

Sharyn Menzies is now working from Cure Community Wellness Centre. Sharyn will be presenng Reflexology, it's benefits and techniques to the community 27 th August at Whalan Lodge. Reflexology treatments from 1pm.

Reflexology is a form of massage through our feet. Each part of our body is mirrored in our feet and with the massage techniques used in reflexology, we can smulate nerves and reflex points that need aenon. This is a great natural way to heal our body.

Please call Cure Community Wellness Centre to register your aendance

Quit Smoking Acupuncture With Rick Loos - Saturday 3 rd September

Acupuncture can be effecve as part of a plan to quit smoking. It can temporarily reduce the desire to smoke and re -establish healthy funconing of internal organs as people recover from their addicon. Taking bookings now for September 3 rd . Rick is also available for Tui Na (Chinese Massage) and Deep Tissue Massage

Services now available at Cure Hot Stone Massage Swedish Massage Tui Na (Chinese Massage) Deep Tissue Massage Acupuncture Reiki Reflexology

From October 7 th our Holisc Beauty Therapy services will be available! Watch this space....

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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. CARRON COSSENS A er being raised in Oamaru, Carron moved to Kurow with her partner for what she expected to be a 6 month period, but a er 24 years she is sll happy to be a part of the Kurow community. While Carron is employed for 30 hours a week at the Kurow Museum & Informaon Centre, a posion which she has held for 8 years (and 18 months previously there as a volunteer), Carron does at least the same number of hours again in any given week in a wide variety of voluntary community roles. This includes work with St John, the “Neighbour to Neighbour Helpline”, the Community Vehicle, Waitaki Suicide -Postvenon Group, Adult Literacy – and many other essenal community support groups both in the Valley and in Oamaru.

The Kurow Informaon Centre sees about 13,000 customers every year. Of this number, almost half of them are local, so Carron feels very fortunate to be in a role where she can see the changing needs of the community first -hand.

With a background in teaching, coupled with her own life experiences, Carron is well placed to recognise when those around her need addional support. The last 12 -18 months in parcular has seen a lot of pressure on the rural communies, which comes with its own set of needs. Needs that Carron has been quick to recognise, respond to, and invest her own me and experience in to support the community.

Carron recently established the Neighbour to Neighbour Helpline which has been acve for almost a year, and Carron also championed the seng up of the Community Vehicle.

Carron is the Chair of the Waitaki Suicide Postvenon Group where she has the opportunity to interact with a number of fabulous people. To build on Suicide Prevenon programmes for the Waitaki Community is a goal and she and her team meet o en in the a ermath of a death by suicide. They have also have a goal of not needing to meet in this way.

Building on this, Carron has become involved in Vicm Support. Due to her other commitments, she can only give 1 or 2 weekends a month to this. It is a small team, but Carron finds she can get much more from the others in the group than what she can give them, which is inspiring to her.

Carron has been a volunteer for St Johns for 8 years. Carron also enjoys the support she offers as a Literacy Tutor with North Otago Literacy Group.

As the editor and producer of the Bugle, Carron spends me each weekend on this, ensuring the fortnightly publicaon provides quality district informaon that keeps the community connected, as it is o en regarded as the lifeblood of the community. This is another aspect of building a strong and healthy community that Carron connues to dedicate her me to.

Carron is passionate about empowering others to help others. The ongoing training that Carron invests in is done with the community’s health and wellbeing at the absolute core of her undertaking. Her posion at the Kurow Informaon Centre has enabled Carron to make contacts with a range of organisaons and individuals that make a difference in the community.

Appreciave of her husband’s support when it comes to keeping their car running to meengs in Oamaru, Carron also appreciates the fact her employers The Waitaki Valley Community Society allow her leave to aend the many meengs she aends parcularly in the area of mental health. LOCAL HANDYMAN

For all jobs – from small jobs around the house to big jobs on farm # Decking # Yards – new and repairs # Roofing # Animal Shelters # Farm buildings # House maintenance Contact Nigel Paerson 027 265 1325 or 03 4360 811

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Otago Rural Support Trust When circumstances beyond your control lead to a rural business crisis — be it financial, climac or personal — the Otago Rural Support Trust is ready to assist. Services are free and confidenal. Phone 0800 787 254

GAMEKEEPER PRODUCTS KUROW For all your home kill processing and wild game meats Public Sales Charcuterie Specialty (French Butchery Techniques) Nitrate free bacon and sausages Call Steve Hotton 021 222 2996

www.kurow.org.nz CONSERVATION WEEK 10 -18 September 2016 The Department of Conservaon and the wider Waitaki Community Wai O Toura (Gards Road, Duntroon) Revegetaon Day Wednesday 14 th September 2016 Background Wai O Toura (Gards Road Scenic Reserve) is located in the Waitaki River valley between Oake River and Gards Road about 3 km northwest of Otekaieke, North Otago. The c. 20 ha reserve contains a limestone ridge and escarpment covered in exoc grassland and remnants of indigenous vegetaon, including a range of naonally ‘Threatened and At Risk’ species such as prostrate kowhai (Sophora prostrata), the rare nave cress (Lepidium sisymbrioides), and the mat daisy (Raoulia monroi). It is also home to the rare nave broom (Carmichaelia Hollowayi), one of only three places in New Zealand where it grows wild.

Wai O Toura (Gards Road)

The reserve purchased in 2013 through the Nature Heritage Fund and administered by the Department of Conservaon (DOC). Areas of stewardship land administered by DOC are present in many streams and riverbeds throughout the lower Waitaki Valley, but Wai O Toura is the first lowland scenic reserve in the Waitaki Valley. Around the me of its formal acquision, consideraon was given to how the wider Waitaki communies could become involved in the restoraon of Wai O Toura. How with their involvement could help the re -establishment of the dryland forest that we (DOC) predict would have occurred there in pre -Polynesian mes was considered an appropriate, relevant and worth while community acvity. As kowhai was likely to have been a significant canopy species of such a forest, the idea of carrying out such revegetaon under the ‘Project Gold’ umbrella was born. With this idea in mind, in 2014 DOC helped establish a community nursery in Oamaru in the public gardens in partnership with other community groups, The Community Gardens Trust, Forest & Bird and Waitaki District Council’s parks & gardens using land and facilies generously provided by the Waitaki District Council (WDC). DOC engaged a volunteer nursery manager (Allan Adamson) who kindly volunteered a significant amount of me and energy in the propagaon of many thousands of kowhai from seed, from local areas like Goodwood (Palmerston), Earthquakes (Duntroon) and Allanni (Elephant Rocks). The intenon is that Kowhai trees and other naves such as Broadleaf and Ribbonwood will be available in September 2016 to contribute to the revegetaon of Wai O Toura . Inaugural planng & Programme for the Day DOC will hold an inaugural planng day which will take place mid Conservaon Week at Wai O Toura on Wednesday 14th September 2016. And it is hoped that with the assistance of local community groups, volunteers and possibly schools we can plant out up to 1500 trees and other naves in this precious and iconic area.

Programme for the day:

08.15 hrs - Assemble Oamaru DOC Office Yard, 8 Regina Lane (hopefully armed with some sort of digging implement) DOC has a few tools but we encourage you to bring your own. 08.30 hrs - Depart via Richie’s 53 seat bus (or private vehicle if you wish) for Wai O Toura 09.30 hrs - Arrive/Morning Tea, DOC Health & Safety briefing, Planng & protector Demo (drinks throughout the day will be kindly provided by One Smart Coffee) 10.00 - 12.15 hrs - Session 1 planng (Divide into teams under supervision of a group leader). 12.15 - 12.45 hrs – Lunch (a sausage sizzle lunch will be provided & kindly sponsored by Southern Wide Real Estate, Oamaru) 12.45 - 1500 hrs - Session 2 planng 15.00 - 15.15 hrs - A ernoon tea 15.15 - 15.30 hrs - Clear & pack up site 15.30 hrs - Depart Wai O Toura for Oamaru 16.30 hrs - Arrive Oamaru DOC Office

Registraon:

So if you would like to have a day in the fresh air, bring a friend, meet like minded people and help our local environment please register your name at any of the following numbers or email address (this is to enable us to establish accurate figures for Health & Safety, a seat on the bus and food from the sausage sizzle ) Geraldine District Office 03 693 1010, [email protected] or Andy on 027 217 8912

Important Notes:

A portaloo will be on site for the day (all items provided). Wear warm and plenty of clothing (layer system) easier to take off if you get to hot. Bring sturdy gloves. Hat, sun glasses & sunscreen (VITAL) Wet weather gear Wear sturdy/suitable footwear (it is a hilly environment) Water boles or other drinks as required Drinking cup (instead of using disposable coffee cups) Snacks if required If possible a digging implement SOUTHERN LAND CKL 03 443 5577

Email [email protected]

Vergne Wilson

RPSurv, B.Surv, NZCE (Civil)

Registered Professional Surveyor

Weekly in Kurow and surrounding districts.

Please phone to discuss your project

For all land related matters – free initial consultation

Subdivisions * Boundary Relocations * GPS Surveys * Farm/ Property Mapping * Contouring * Vineyard Set out * Land Development Engineering * Resource Consents *

Pinot Noir The Vintners Drop, and Ostler Wines, are delighted to offer limited quanes of a new Pinot Noir brand - Snow Bird - for sale. Produced as a good value -for -money label, the first vintage (2015) of this wine is produced from fruit grown right here in the Waitaki Valley. Fresh crunchy fruit – delicious! We would love for you to stop , to taste and purchase this, or any of our Ostler wines with the shop being staffed most week days between 10am and 3pm - come through the side door. Special price for Snow Bird: 1-5 Boles $24.90ea, 6 -11 boles $23.90ea, 12 + boles $22.90ea.

Phone 436 0545 for any queries.

KUROW RUGBY CLUB We held our Awards night on Saturday 30th July. It was a collar and e night, so it was great to see all our players in their Number Ones. We started with a Social Hour and welcomed our Life Members and Sponsors. We then enjoyed a two course meal and speeches. All the me Carol had revolving photos from the season on the screen.

AWARDS WERE:

PRESIDENTS GRADE coached by Dave Suon and Tim Graham Brian Jones Cup – Most Dedicated: Daniel Hendren Waitangi Staon Cup —Best Back: Jason Angland Te Akatarawa Staon Cup —Best Forward: Jarod Jamieson Kurow Hotel Cup —Player of the Year: Tim Larkin

SENIOR TEAM coached by Kevin Malcolm and Ben Nowell G Loomes Trophy —Most Dedicated: Jason Frew Coaches Cup —Most Improved: Dean Malcolm J McCone Cup —Best Back: Ben Nowell Tempero Cup —Best Forward: Rob Verbakel

Boar Cup (Selected by the President for the Person/s who do the most for the Club) Dave and Kerrie Suon

The President thanked those who put the me and effort in to keep the Club going. The Support from the Community again has been tremendous and with having two teams on the field the players certainly appreciated it. Our Seniors made the semi finals only to be beaten by the eventual winners and the Reserve side were beaten finalists. We should be very proud of these young men and their efforts. We need to build on these results so that they can have another great year next year. We held an aucon on the night, full of items of clothes and bags donated by our own Richard McCaw and a painng print by Graham Smith (Hawk). Thanks to the auconeering skills of Hamish Benny we made in excess of $2,500. We would like to thank the Buyers and the under bidders for their brilliant contribuons.

We will see you all Next Season... Revive Hair Design is located across from Whalan Lodge and will be opened every second week Monday to Friday by appointment only. The qualified senior stylist has been in the hairdressing industry for 10 years. To make an appointment call/txt shell on 027 540 1001 or message me through Facebook at revive hair design.

Cancer Society Fashion Show Fundraiser 7pm, Wednesday 12th October at the Loan and Mercantile, Oamaru

Canapes and complimentary beverage on arrival Raffles and Pop Up Shops $30 per person

Tickets from Preens, Caroline Eve or Neat Feet Or phone Rayna on 03 431 7897Waitaki or Bob 027 and friends 362 at the4980 Kurow Museum