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Te Awamutu Courier Thursday, December 10, 2020 Te Awamutu Ph (07) 871-5069 email: [email protected] 410 Bond Road, Te Awamutu YourC community newspaper for over 100 years Thursday, December 10, 2020 A/H 021 503 404 Santa still steals BRIEFLY the show ver 30 floats featured in this year’s Te Awamutu Artistic Swimming Rotary Christmas The New Zealand Artistic Parade but it was Swimming Championships OImperious Dance Company that come to Hamilton’s came out on top winning the Best Waterworld this weekend and 2020 Float award. the public is invited to attend. The company used a Previously known as Freightline truck, lined with tinsel, Synchronised Swimming, the to showcase their dancers during event is on from Saturday — the parade. Monday, with best viewing For the past five years times Sunday, 9.30am-2.30pm Imperious Dance Company has and Monday, 7.30am-11am. been supported by Freightline for 176 athletes have entered, their Christmas parade float. including, for the first time, The People’s Choice award male competitors at the went to Little Minds Early National Champs. Learning Centre, Best Child and Youth Float went to Puahue Playcentre with Te Awamutu Girl Trust get-together Guides coming second. The Epilepsy Waikato Rosetown Motor Group won Charitable Trust is having its the award for the Best last get-together for 2020 at Commercial Float and Mad Hatter Red Kitchen on Wednesday, Costume were the runner-ups. December 16 from 10am. Falun Dafa Association Everyone is welcome to attend. received the award for the Best For more information phone Club and Community float, 027 7396753. Kiwanis Club of Te Awamutu as the runner-ups. Te Awamutu Rotary worked Christmas lights with Waikato Construction The Te Awamutu Christmas Management Limited and the Light Trail is published in the Coresteel Franchise Group to put liftout Christmas Supplement. on this year’s Christmas parade. If you are lighting up for They were supported by Christmas and are not on the Waipa¯District Council and the Te list please send your Awamutu Community Board. information by text — “It was an amazing day, the fun 0274 819951 or email — and laughter the kids had and the [email protected] smiles on the adults’ faces made the day very special for the Santa Claus was star of Rotary Christmas Parade team,” the show at Saturday’s says Te Awamutu Rotary Club Te Awamutu Rotary member Chris Kay. Christmas Parade. Coresteel Buildings Waikato Photo / Dean Taylor kitted out Santa’s ride this year and took on the task of creating Santa’s workshop featuring elves, the Grinch and Santa of course. After the success of the parade, a team is already enthusiastically planning next year’s parade. ■ See more of the Te Awamutu Rotary Christmas Parade in today’s liftout Christmas Supplement. Which heat pump is right for your room? A division of Pratts AVAILABLE FROM: 100 Roche Street, Te Awamutu 0800 772 887 | [email protected] | www.pratts.co.nz Your local heating specialist Other Showroom Locations: 6 Main North Road, Otorohanga | 10 Albert Street, Cambridge 2 Te Awamutu Courier Thursday, December 10, 2020 ■ LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Shame on council over rodeo Shame on MPI: NAWAC and Waipa¯District council should outline the reasons why these I had taken it upon myself to write to the Waipa¯ Council for continuing to enable bullies to terrify applicants were unsuccessful. District Council to see if they would consider animals and creates arenas of terror for the The wider community deserves to know Circulated free to 14,045 homes in being “leaders” in the arena of animal welfare animals involved in rodeo why some community groups received funding, Te Awamutu and surrounding districts. and to stop leasing grounds to the rodeo and Shame on all people who express so called and why others did not. therefore taking a stand on animal wellbeing empathy and kindness to humankind yet will The members of the unsuccessful CIRCULATION 14,045* and kindness and empathy to sentient animals. not extend that privilege to sentient beings, and community groups are ratepayers as well, and PHONE: 07 871 5151 But because MPI, through NAWAC, allows shame on the Waipa¯District Council for using they deserve to know why they were animals to be continued to be brutalised and ratepayers’ recreational land to support and unsuccessful. POSTAL ADDRESS: terrified within the rodeo setting, council is allow this to continue. Jarrod Godfrey 97 Sloane Street, PO Box 1, going to continue to allow this to keep Alice Hicks Council responds: All applications were Te Awamutu 3840 happening. assessed based on the criteria that was outlined OFFICE HOURS: I am a retired farmer and for most of my very clearly on the website and application 70 years I have owned, trained and instructed Covid funding form. Each applicant that was unsuccessful Monday - Wednesday 10am - 2pm riders with horses, plus managed dairy cows I read with interest the article about the Waipa¯ received a email from the Waipa¯Recovery Closed Thursday, Friday, Public Holidays and sheep. District Council allocation of “Covid Recovery Fund working group to inform them that their DELIVERY QUERIES: 0800 111 200 Never have I ever deemed it necessary nor Funding”. application was unsuccessful. allowed anyone associated with me to be cruel, The article disclosed the successful Most have followed up with our staff asking EDITORIAL harsh or set up stressful scenarios for any recipients of funding, alongside the amounts why, to which they received a reply directly Dean Taylor (Editor) animal, and therefore I have been rewarded granted. The article also mentioned that there from Group Manager Strategy and Community Ext: 67705 0274 819951 with happy productive animals who are not were seven unsuccessful applications. Services, Debbie Lascelles, with a more detailed, [email protected] terrified if they saw me or any other human For transparency purposes, I believe that the individual explanation. Caitlan Johnston Ext: 67710 [email protected] Jesse Wood Ext: 67713 Spark switches on 5G in Te Awamutu [email protected] SPORT [email protected] his morning, Spark switched on 5G in confident that the reliable, fast connectivity of benefiting from the faster speeds and low Te Awamutu, the latest location in its 5G wireless will help us continue to look after latency that 5G provides.” ADVERTISING nationwide rollout of the next our customers, no matter what.” In the first year of Spark’s 5G rollout it has Sarah Verran 021 345 951 generation of mobile technology. In July, Spark confirmed it would turn on worked with Toyota in Palmerston North to [email protected] TSpark’s rollout of 5G provides much needed 5G in five locations before the end of the year. provide virtual reality test drives; partnered CLASSIFIEDS support in boosting capacity to areas like Te New Plymouth and Te Awamutu are the with Animation Research Limited to bring street Awamutu — the third busiest cell site in New fourth and fifth locations in New Zealand to art to life through augmented reality in Dunedin; Tania King Ext: 67708 Zealand for mobile data usage. have access to Spark’s 5G on both wireless offered a glimpse into the future of smart cities [email protected] Spark is working with Aon New Zealand in broadband and mobile, alongside Palmerston with Auckland Transport in Wynyard Quarter; We welcome letters - preferably via email. Te Awamutu to help keep their business North, Dunedin and Auckland as well as six helped Kiwi businesses to build future 5G They should be under 300 words and connected over 5G, through a trial of Spark’s South Island towns who have access to Spark’s applications through the 5G Starter Fund and must have the sender’s name, address cloud managed network VMware SD-WAN 5G wireless broadband services. introduced 5G to local businesses like Aon service. This will ensure there is no impact to and phone number. No pseudonyms Spark technology lead Renee Mateparae says Insurance to enable them to do what they do their business if their main fibre connection the team is happy to have successfully turned best. are accepted and names will only be fails, by enabling reliable, fast connectivity over on 5G in five locations across New Zealand in Spark will continue its 5G rollout next year, withheld in special circumstances at the 5G wireless. 2020, during what was an especially with new locations to be confirmed in the discretion of the editor. Letters are not Jonathon Cook, regional IT director at Aon challenging year. coming months. usually acknowledged and may be edited, New Zealand, says: “As an insurance provider “Rolling out 5G to a whole country is a Those who want to experience 5G speeds at abridged or discarded. helping people in times of urgent need, it’s really significant task, with or without a global home can sign up for Spark’s Discover 5G We’re online at important that we have a reliable, steady pandemic. Despite this we are on track with our Wireless Broadband Plan. For those who want nzmecommunitynews.pressreader.com internet connection 24/7. Aon is excited to be build program and excited to switch on 5G in to experience 5G mobile speeds, Spark has a trialling this new technology over Spark’s new Te Awamutu and New Plymouth today. As we range of 5G ready mobiles in store or online 5G network which will provide us with peace deploy 5G to new locations it is great to see and customers can access the new network on of mind should our fibre connection fail. We’re real-life examples of people and businesses any Spark plan free of charge until July 2021.
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