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The Hamilton & Waikato Lifestyle Magazine For FREE please take home with you and enjoy Christmas Hamilton Issue The Hamilton & Waikato Lifestyle Magazine for those in the Prime of their lives! Erebus: Making Peace With A Mountain Summer at Hamilton Gardens Hearing Dogs Waiwhakareke for Deaf Opens To People NZ The Public also inside • Art, Trivia, History, Cars, Recipes, Humour, Prizes, Crossword, Events, Gardening, Entertainment, Health, Advice, News, Brain-Teasers, Shows and Much More! SAVE $1,000.00 ON FULL DENTURE SETS TS & CS APPLY $59 DENTURE REPAIRS Usually $220.00 Ts & Cs Apply Open over Christmas by appointment! Excellent service from the time I walked in to the time I walked out. I was made to feel very comfortable and the service was very professional. - A. Rolfe Get in touch today to schedule your FREE consultation! www.clinico.co.nz | 0800 11 23 24 2 Disclaimer The views expressed in the articles and advertising Welcome to are those of the contributors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Prime Hamilton and Prime Tauranga. Prime Hamilton and Prime Tauranga reserve the right to accept, edit or reject editorial and advertising material. All endeavours will be made to ensure accuracy at time of publication. Neither Prime Hamilton and Prime Tauranga accept responsibility for omissions or consequences that may arise from information published. For any queries regarding information that is published in Prime Hamilton and Prime Tauranga, contact names and information pertaining to that article is usually printed or supplied. Prime Hamilton and Prime Tauranga are happy to hear feedback regarding publications but will not accept abusive or derogatory correspondence to any staff or persons connected. Contact Romano Manuel – [email protected], 07 878 3045, www.manuelmedianz.com Christmas PRIME TAURANGA | PRIME HAMILTON Issue From the Editors Welcome to the Christmas Edition of Prime Hamilton! This month a copy of we are packed with Christmas features we know you will love! WIN Features include messages from MP's David Bennett and Jamie Stange on Outdoor Kid NZ developments in the city, an article on Hamilton & Harper, the Hearing Dog, and a focus on the Erebus disaster from a retired Waikato Kids' police inspector, plus much more! Also, Guidebook our prize give-away is from our own Prime Walks, Ceana Priest's new book on walks across the Waikato. These, and our regular contribution from Humbly Yours, Major Blunder and the Hamilton Gardens and TO GO IN DRAW articles on what's happening in Hamilton are also included. simply contact us via email (info@ We'd like to wish you all a safe manuelmedianz. and Merry Christmas and a com) tell us your Happy New Year! contact details! Romano and Lisa Tamahere Christmas Spirit The Christmas spirit is being lit with a special Twilight Tamahere Country Market followed by the annual St Stephen’s Christmas Festival. The Twilight Market on Saturday, December The range of gifts and decorations 7, 4-8pm, heralds the start of the Christmas promise to be a delight for young and Festival, which will run for one week at the old – table centres and wreaths, and Tamahere Drive church, a shorter term than decorations for the tree and around past years. the house that are crafted with artistry and imagination. Volunteers Gail Blackwell, left, and Val Nixon, with some of the The fundraising festival, with its charming decorations made for the St Stephen’s Tamahere Christmas Festival. Christmas Shop and tea rooms, is marking And for a good cause. All proceeds its 33rd year. will go to charities including the Kids Artists, florists, crafters with hand needles and sewing machines, First Whanau Centre, a residential glue, paints and glitter work their magic on a range of donated From Monday, December 9 to Friday, programme for women and children, materials – up-cycling, re-purposing, re-making and restyling – December 13, 10am to 4pm, the event in True Colours and the Hamilton to create clever one-off Christmas goodies. the church hall will be the place to buy a Foodbank. handcrafted Christmas gift or decoration. The festival also includes carol services in the church at 10.30am Over its many decades the festival has and 1.30pm daily led by school choirs and local musicians. It’s also where visitors can enjoy a genteel raised more than $400,000 for a range cup of tea or coffee in fine china and partake of charities thanks to the dedicated The St Stephen’s Christmas Festival and twilight market are of homemade Christmas cake or shortbread. work of volunteers who meet weekly held at the church, corner of Airport Road and Tamahere Drive. In other words, just the tonic for those for most of the year to make the The regular, monthly Tamahere Market will be held on Saturday, looking for some genuine Christmas spirit. unique stock. December 21, 8am to 1pm. 3 The Festive Season Third Age Tours EST 1999 As one sits here typing, amidst a steadily rising outdoor temperature, listening to what can only be Small Group Tours for the over 50s described as the cacophony of late spring, it occurs Domestic and International that the Festive season is upon us. Enchanting Ireland and Scotland 21 May – 17 Jun 2020 Captivating Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro and Venice 1 – 25 Jun 2020 Retailers have already hung Based on the reaction of the crowds decorations in a glorious riot of that visit the Harrowfield Lights each Rustic Charm of Southern England, Wales and Yorkshire Dales red, green, silver, and gold, all year, inside each and every one of us 27 Aug – 28 Sep 2020 designed to capture a northern lurks a child keen to be fascinated: Amazing Treasures of Turkey 1 – 25 Sep 2020 winter despite the evidence of the looks of wonder on people’s faces Breathtaking Vietnam and Cambodia 3 – 26 Oct 2020 your eyes; “Christmas” music are certainly something to see. has been looping in the malls Unique & Beautiful Norfolk Island 30 Oct – 6 Nov 2020 for some time, and the amount For one’s self, this is the time of year of advertising bumf through the to begin the process of prodding the box is rapidly approach tsunami new Martial Year into being, chasing status. And yes, the first Santa up foes, laying the groundwork for parades have already taken place! another active year defending the Empire from the Forces of Ennui, It all feels a Wowserism, and little unreal, Complacency. All but unreality of which requires is good for fuel, and at this the soul, as time of year that evidenced by means Christmas the hordes Cake! And Fruit South Island Tours that gather to Mince Tarts! take part in And Roasts! Scenic White Heron, Glaciers & Alpine Loop 17 – 22 Jan 2020 the battles the Not to mention Unique Stewart Island/Catlins 29 Jan – 6 Feb 2020 Regiment runs barbecues, pot- Stunning Arrowtown Autumn Festival 15 – 20 Apr 2020 at Armistice luck dinners, in Cambridge picnics and other (at Karapiro shared meals, all Domain), designed to carry PLUS OTHER DESTINATIONS! For a FREE INFORMATION PACK contact Brenda among other one forward into events. Part the New Year. 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New Zealand, due to the favourable exchange rate. • In 2001, when the last Positive Ageing Strategy was created, there CONTACT: Joe Steele is your Motorhome Specialist were nearly 50,000 people aged 85+. Last year there were nearly with over 20 years experience 87,000 people 85 or older – 15% of the senior population. That 09 309 1163 | [email protected] number is predicted to rise to 179,000 in 2034. • The senior population is also increasingly diverse. By 2034 the number of Māori aged 65+ will more than double from 2018 figures (from 48,500 to 109,400) the senior Pacific population will also do this (from 21,300 to 46,700), and there will be nearly three times as many Asian New Zealanders aged 65+ (from 59,500 to 171,900). • Seniors currently make up around 6.2% of the workforce. By 2033 the number of seniors at work will nearly double and they will make up 10.6% of the workforce.
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