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Te Awamutu Courier Thursday, January 28, 2021 Negative Covid Test for Family Te Awamutu Ph (07) 871-5069 email: [email protected] 410 Bond Road, Te Awamutu YourC community newspaper for over 100 years Thursday, January 28, 2021 A/H 021 503 404 BRIEFLY Denied, denied, denied TA Rose Society fun club night Te Awamutu Rose Society is Wesley Jones has not seen his South African wife and daughter for over a year getting 2021 underway with a open club night at the Burchell Caitlan Johnston Pavilion from 7pm next Tuesday. ach day Wesley Jones fears Anyone wanting to find out for the safety of his wife and more about roses is invited to daughter, stuck in South attend. Africa while he works in New Visitors are also invited to Zealand.E bring along a mystery rose and Wesley had turned to New Zealand club members will identify to be able to provide his 9-year-old and name it. daughter, Amanda-Claire, with a bet- President Diana Jones will also ter life. talk about Te Awamutu’s roses But it’s now been more than a year and why they grow so well since he arrived — and his family here. remain in South Africa, unable to come here after the border closures in March. World Wetlands “I love New Zealand, it’s a great Day on Monday place to be and it’s really where I want Join the National Wetland my kid to come and be free,” says Trust, Nga¯ti Apakura, DOC and Wesley. Waipa District Council at Lake “But it’s been tough without them.” Nga¯roto for a mystery self- Wesley and his wife Bronwyn have drive tour of the wetlands of made 24 visa applications to Immi- the Waipa¯. gration New Zealand (INZ). Explore the habitats our apex All have been made under either predator calls home. the “partner of a student or work visa Complete the quiz questions holder” criteria or the “humanitarian” to go in the draw for a prize criteria. pack. All have been denied. Monday, February 1 from Wesley entered the country on a 10am-3pm. Free event for all visitor’s visa in January and was then ages. granted a work visa in February. He works at Wilks Penny Motor- cycles in Te Awamutu as a workshop Festival One coordinator and salesman – he was an Festival One returns to essential worker during the lockdown. Mystery Creek for the seventh A spokesperson for INZ says border consecutive year on restrictions have been set high to help Anniversary weekend, stop the spread of Covid-19. January 29 - February 1. “All individual requests for an ex- Shower, toilet, disability ception to the border restrictions are facilities provided. considered against the strict criteria as No alcohol or drugs permitted. set out in immigration instructions. For more information head to “While INZ is empathetic to the the website festival.one. situation those such as the Jones family find themselves in, INZ has no ability to apply discretion when con- Kiwigrass Festival sidering requests for border New Zealand’s own Bluegrass exemptions.” Festival — Kiwigrass — takes Wesley believes INZ are using the Wesley Jones has been trying to get his wife and daughter from South Africa to New Zealand for over a year now. place at the Don Rowlands virus as an “excuse”. Photo / Caitlan Johnston Centre, Lake Kara¯piro from “It’s a Covid problem for me and Friday — Sunday, February 5-7. everybody else in the same boat as fruit pickers while families are not him here. their 24 years together, the longest The festival includes me but let’s let movie stars in, let’s let allowed to be reunited. But not knowing is growing unbear- Wesley and Bronwyn have been apart blackboard concerts and jam rugby stars and let’s let fruit pickers “This flies in the face of this Gov- able. was six weeks. sessions, instrument makers in. How does that even work?” says ernment’s repeated statement to be “I’ve already missed birthdays, an- Bronwyn and Amanda-Claire are in and workshops. Wesley. kind,” says Siebert. niversaries and I missed Christmas,” Cape Town living in a backpackers Tickets from eventfinda — for Immigration lawyer of Flair Mi- Wesley says the situation he and says Wesley. operated by Bronwyn’s parents. more information go to www. grate, Grant Michael Siebert, says he his family are in would be easier if INZ “I can’t expect my daughter to live At every moment Wesley fears for kiwigrass.nz or facebook.com/ is “disturbed” by the number of border or immigration lawyers would give without her father.” their safety. kiwigrass. exemptions made to movie stars, them a timeframe of when Bronwyn Christmas was the first time they sports people, public personalities and and Amanda-Claire will be able to join have spent the holidays apart and, in Continued page 6 Need a plumber? At Pratts, one call does ita ll! 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Space Centre Te Awamutu family’s close encounter owner Dave CIRCULATION 14,045* with the Northland woman who Owen (aka Space PHONE: 07 871 5151 tested positive for the more virulent Dave) has South African Covid-19 strain is a stark returned to work POSTAL ADDRESS: Areminder for everyone to stay on guard. after a negative 97 Sloane Street, PO Box 1, Dave Owen, his wife Ange Holt and children Covid-19 test to Te Awamutu 3840 Jess and Floyd visited the Kauri Museum in catch up on jobs OFFICE HOURS: Northland at the same time as the infected before re-opening woman. this weekend. Monday - Wednesday 10am - 2pm Dave (aka Space Dave) owns Te Awamutu Photo / Dean Taylor Closed Thursday, Friday, Public Holidays Space Centre in Kihikihi, and although summer DELIVERY QUERIES: 0800 111 200 is busy for the attraction, the family also wanted some time together and took a week to travel EDITORIAL north. Dean Taylor (Editor) The contact with Covid was on the first day, Ext: 67705 0274 819951 Monday, January 18. [email protected] “There weren’t many people in the museum Caitlan Johnston Ext: 67710 that day,” says Dave. “Ange was talking to some of them so there Tuesday afternoon negative test results were It also meant he had the correct information [email protected] is a good chance she spoke to the woman, not confirmed. about the case — unlike the rumours, which Jesse Wood Ext: 67713 that we know who she is.” Dave has returned to work, but only to included that the Northland woman had travel- [email protected] The family continued their holiday and prepare for reopening on Saturday. led to Te Awamutu and not reported the fact, SPORT returned home on Saturday, opening the Space He feels it is better to err on the side of and that there was a positive Covid case in Te [email protected] Centre on Sunday. caution, plus he has some other jobs he can Awamutu. Later that day the community case was work on — including Zoom workshops he Dave says it shows why people must scan ADVERTISING announced and Dave kept an eye on the started with overseas schools during lockdown. where they have been and follow the proper Sarah Verran 021 345 951 ministry website and, using the log of his Covid Dave says it was scary to realise how quickly advice. [email protected] tracking app, saw they had been in contact with things can change, especially when there had For Jess and Floyd the biggest disappoint- CLASSIFIEDS the woman. been no community cases for so long. ment was missing the Kainga Aroha camp, Jess He contacted everyone who had been at the But he used the Covid tracking app re- as a leader and Floyd his last as a camper. Tania King Ext: 67708 Space Centre on Sunday and the family went ligiously and says it proved a fantastic tool, and But the pair have taken in the last few days, [email protected] into self isolation. gave the family peace of mind when they were albeit cautiously and following social distancing We welcome letters - preferably via email. On Monday the family was tested, and on caught up in the possible outbreak. rules “just in case”. They should be under 300 words and must have the sender’s name, address ■ LETTER TO THE EDITOR and phone number. No pseudonyms are accepted and names will only be Sad society promoting an oxymoron. What came first in this It is not acceptable that prisoners, regardless withheld in special circumstances at the It is more than a little sad that we live in a society case, the chicken or the egg? of their crimes, be kept in such conditions. It discretion of the editor. Letters are not which believes it is moving forward and What do politicians not understand about is also not acceptable that politicians who usually acknowledged and may be edited, becoming more “civilised”, then we see articles society having moved on from prisons as just allowed those conditions to endure for decades abridged or discarded.
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