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Te Awamutu Ph (07) 871-5069 email: [email protected] 410 Bond Road, Te Awamutu YourC community newspaper for over 100 years Thursday, October 8, 2020 A/H 021 503 404 BRIEFLY Ticket giveaway Te Awamutu Courier is giving away five double passes to the NZMCA Motorhome Caravan and Leisure Show on this weekend at Mystery Creek Events Centre. The giveaway is running on our Facebook page, please see the post there for details and to enter. Be quick, winners are being drawn this afternoon. Tokanui Hospital staff reunion A reunion event is being held this Saturday at the Te Awamutu RSA starting at 11am. Contact Lona Paul on 020 4135 8327. Grey Power invite Children from Kids Zone Holiday programme spent the day riding horses at Te Awamutu RDA. Photos / Valu Maka to public meeting Te Awamutu Grey Power is holding a public meeting on Thursday, October 15 at 1.30pm at the RSA Clubrooms. Theme is ‘let’s get this going again!’ and there will be a RDA teams up with general discussion on a wide range of topics for the public to have their stay. $2 entry donation, afternoon tea provided. Contact Hazel barnes for information, 870 1924. holiday programme Spring Challenge Caitlan Johnston for teams of women Next Friday—Sunday, October e Awamutu Riding for 16—18 is the Spring Challenge Disabled (RDA) and Te Cambridge at Lake Kara¯piro. Awamutu Kids Zone The event is an an adventure Holiday Programme has race for women that includes Trecently collaborated in an effort to kayaking, mountain biking, help children with their confidence hiking and orienteering — a and raise money for the organisation. team event where three The idea for the two to come women do the entire course together was that of Retha Van together. DerWesthurzen, both an employee at Navigation is a factor, and Kids Zone and volunteer for the RDA. each year the event has a new “When I started working for Kids course in a different location. Zone I immediately realised the Apart from an appetite for potential to do this because of the adventure, there are 3-main way Simone runs her business. She Skye Hodgson options for the event, 3, 6 and is very child-orientated, outdoor on the horse 9-hour options, plus activity orientated and challenges the during Kids categories within. kids,” Retha says. Zones visit to For more information go to “More or less the same kind of the Te springchallenge.co.nz challenges that the riding for the Awamutu RDA. continued on A3 BETA DEMO DAY Think Water. Sun 18th Oct 2020 - 10AM - 3PM Think Pratts. A range of these Filtration world-class ticulation championship 2 & 4 stroke motorcycles for you to try! A division of Pratts Karamu Trail & Horse Trek Track TTS PROUD TO BE LOCAL, PROUD TO SUPPORT LOCAL 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, October 8, 2020 ■ LETTERS TO THE EDITOR New museum proposed leaves open the possibility of remember 1969 and the summer most restrictive in the world. Council are proposing a new incorporating aspects of ‘post- of love and forget 1971 and the war They cannot have read it museum, at a cost of $16 million. capitalism’ into the future of New on drugs. properly or they would know that Circulated free to 14,045 homes in They also want the population to Zealand society. With such a vision in mind New it lacks many basic safeguards Te Awamutu and surrounding districts. grow, so have opened up large Social Distancing isn’t a new Zealand will come of age in 2021. present in overseas legislation. tracts of land for upwards of 600 phenomenon to me but thank you Dale Griffiths None of the doctors involved CIRCULATION 14,045* houses. Covid-19 for putting a name to my needs to be a specialist in the PHONE: 07 871 5151 This is going to put pressure on social experience since 1992 when Dog owners person’s illness; no stand-down us as ratepayers to stump up the my father was imprisoned for Dog owners have three main period is provided before the POSTAL ADDRESS: money for all the infrastructure Possession of Cannabis for Supply responsibilities to the general prescription is written and there is 97 Sloane Street, PO Box 1, needed to allow for these growth and Cultivation of Cannabis. public: safety from dog bites; clean no mental competency test when Te Awamutu 3840 cells. In 1992 Cannabis was the poster- footpaths; no barking. the lethal dose is administered. OFFICE HOURS: They want to build a boy of the global “war on drugs” The dog bites situation hits the All of these provisions are in roundabout for the Thorncombe launched by Richard Nixon in headlines when it happens. Victoria’s legislation so the Monday - Wednesday 10am - 2pm Estate. The developers would want America in 1971, which aimed to Unfortunately, the other two speakers’ likening the EOLC Act to Closed Thursday, Friday, Public Holidays it, they should pay for it. eradicate drug abuse and drug responsibilities are greatly lacking. that law was completely invalid. DELIVERY QUERIES: 0800 111 200 Council has allocated $50m for dealers. Pakura St has been a mess for They were also out of order in the Cambridge West Housing, Unfortunately, I can only months. equating the act with the EDITORIAL roughly 2000ha of land. describe my experience as the Before mowing the grass verges, legislation in Oregon, which allows Dean Taylor (Editor) This is really great for the attempted eradication of me and neighbours have to clear up only assisted suicide but not Ext: 67705 0274 819951 environment, all that land with my family. We were exposed as a messes left by other people’s dogs. euthanasia. [email protected] buildings, concrete and roading. “virus” to avoid at all costs due to There must be other streets in a Both speakers repeatedly similar state. Caitlan Johnston Ext: 67710 With all this work that will need my father’s association with poured scorn on the concerns of to be done, the council wants to “drugs”. We became the forgotten Most owners have their dogs on Dr Rod MacLeod and Dr Mary [email protected] spend $16m on a museum. collateral damage of the War on a lead with a plastic bag to clear English regarding the inevitable Jesse Wood Ext: 67713 So many community assets Drugs as the world embraced up after them, but maybe it is coercion which would be faced by [email protected] such as the Memorial Park, band neoliberal globalisation and owners who allow their dogs out the elderly and the disabled. SPORT rotunda, etc, have been neglected commodified individualism. to roam who cause the mess. For some reason, Stuart When people go out to work or [email protected] because these councillors think The upcoming Cannabis Armstrong seemed to find this what they want is more important Referendum is not an argument elsewhere and dogs are left at situation amusing. So much for a ADVERTISING than what the community wants. about drugs; it is a question of home, they are bored and bark. If compassionate approach to the Sarah Verran 021 345 951 It is all very well having this education and the purpose of this they had a half hour walk early end of life. [email protected] 10-year plan and saying the public education. morning and again at night, they Paula Salisbury CLASSIFIEDS are being informed, but reality is Despite a slightly unorthodox would be tired and perhaps quiet. Hamilton that we have lives to live and what upbringing I am proud to say, at The larger the dog, the longer the Tania King Ext: 67708 the council is up to takes a back 38 years of age, I am finally happy walk needed. Concerned about Islam [email protected] seat and we have to trust them to and confident in myself and living Owners either do not realise Imram Sabah Al-Zafra confuses so We welcome letters - preferably via email. do what is right. life to the fullest. their dogs bark or do not believe called misconceptions with facts. They should be under 300 words and That at least two councillors Through my journey I am also neighbours when they tell them, The abuses of women and must have the sender’s name, address were annoyed that $40m was not now able to differentiate between because the dog is quiet when they children by Muslims are well- are home. and phone number. No pseudonyms going to be allocated gives a good healthy social interaction and documented. Sabah says “ . we indication of the attitude to our If dog owners had to get written all have fundamental rights, values are accepted and names will only be addiction. rates’ ability to keep paying. The knowledge and ability I permission from their neighbours and wishes”. Unfortunately, only withheld in special circumstances at the That they think $16m is a have as a result of my experience before they could get a dog, or half of Islam, the male half, follows discretion of the editor. Letters are not reasonable amount, also shows is invaluable and empowering. renew their annual licence, they this principle. usually acknowledged and may be edited, contempt. We do not need a It is my dream and vision for a would be horrified to be refused.

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