What a beautiful weekend have Christmas Celebrations we just had! Let’s hope our Weekend! summer is going be just as It is that time of year again, where gorgeous (but with enough rain to the children get excited about keep the animals happy too!). Santa; where adults start pulling You might have noticed some their hair out about the additional features in last month’s arrangements that need to be newsletter: ‘Top Notch made; and where we look Snippets’ and ‘Taihape Tidbits’. If forward to the Christmas spirit there’s anything you’d like to let that envelops Taihape. your community know, please get Saturday 1st December will see the in touch so we can include your annual Christmas parade return news in this newsletter . between 12 and 1pm. What a Contact Eva: [email protected]. wonderful opportunity to The newsletter provides our local promote our town, our clubs & voluntary groups the opportunity groups and businesses! To enter to ask for your interest and to your float as part of the event, go promote the work that they do. to pages 16 & 17 which have Examples are Taihape Search & details and a form to sign. Rescue and the Taihape Museum. Finally, this year, ‘Christmas in the If we have the space, we will aim Park’ is back on Sunday 2nd to include your club/group in this December from 3pm. Featuring newsletter. mass school choir, the Arcadian Singers and other local talent. See you there and then!

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5c Tui Street, Taihape

Cinemas are where memories are made

Night School (M) 111min Fri 26th Oct 8pm, Sat 27th 7.30pm, Sun 28th 5pm, Mon 29th 7pm

The House with the Clock in the Walls (PG) 105min Sat 27th Oct 5pm, Sun 28th 2.30pm, Sat 3rd Nov 5pm, Sun 4th 2.30pm

HALLOWEEN PRE BUY YOUR TICKETS AT PAPER PLUS OR CINEMA

Goosebumps Haunted Halloween (PG) 90min Wed 31st 5pm One Night Only

The Nun (R16) id required 96min Wed 31st 8.3pm One Night Only

A Simple Favour (M) 117min Fri 2nd Nov 8pm, Sat 3rd 7.30pm, Sun 4th 5pm, Mon 5th 7pm

The Seagull (M) 99min Fri 9th Nov 8pm, Sat 10th 7.30pm, Sun 11th 4.15pm, Mon 12th 7pm.

Opera Aida (TBA) 216min Thurs 15th Nov 5pm

Taihape Heritage Film Festival Fri 16th – Tues 20th Nov see website or Facebook for more details also in Talk Up Taihape

Coming up - Nutcracker & the four Realms 23rd Nov, The Grinch 30th Nov, Bohemian Rhapsody 30th Nov, Pick of the Litter 7th Dec, Ralph Breaks the Internet 14th Dec, The Old Man & the Gun 4th Dec and more.

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Taihape Community Development Trust AGM 8 November from 7pm

Town Hall, Council Chambers.

SANTA….. IS COMING….. TO TOWN….. But he needs your help!

Get your floats out for the Taihape Christmas Parade. All community groups-clubs- schools -organizations and businesses put your float together and join the parade. Saturday 1st December from 12 till 1pm (SH1) Please contact Eva at [email protected] for a form to enter your float. More details can be found on pages 16 & 17 of this newsletter, or go to www.facebook.conz/taihapenz or www.taihape.co.nz/events/christmasparade 2018 3 Taihape Anglican Church - Fundraiser

The Taihape Anglican Church is This event will be held at the Utiku putting on a fundraising evening Old Boys clubrooms on 23rd towards the repainting of St November from 7pm onwards. Margaret’s church. This should be a Entry is $12 per person which fun filled social event where we are includes a free wine, beer of juice auctioning off a holiday in a holiday and a sumptuous supper. home; a revival furniture chair; a dinner party hosted in your own Tickets available at the Information home; 3-hours cleaning includes Centre and Anna’s Homeware & windows; a free WOF inspection Gifts. from Glen’s Motors valid for one We are also looking for gifts and year; preserves; collectables; and talents that we can auction. many, many more gifts and services If you can help, please contact Please come and support Elizabeth on (03) 388 0524 or email this very exciting event. [email protected].

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Taihape Community Playgroup

TUESDAYS – from 9.30am to 11.30am

At St David’s Presbyterian Church Hall, Huia Street

Birth to 5 year

Light morning tea provided

Koha/donation welcome A great place to meet, a fun and educational time for children with

their parents/caregivers.

For more information, please contact Evelyn on 388 1447 or Tania on 021 029 3473

New members welcome! Advertisement pricing & Deadline

Taihape Search and Rescue Voluntary Groups & Organisations meets monthly on 2nd Monday advertise meetings & events in a at the Taihape Police Station classified advertisement (between 1/8 and ¼ page) for FREE. from 7:00pm Next meeting 12 November Otherwise cost are as follows: 1 page (A5) $30 ½ page $20 If you would like to help ¼ page $10 Classified $5 Search and Rescue support These prices are incl GST the lost, missing and injured Deadline for the next issue is: please contact Greg Monday 12th November with 063887555 or Alan 021 publication & distribution on the 22nd. 2277243 for more information. Email your interest to Eva at [email protected]/

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The Armistice agreement was Hope as the Centenary comes signed at Compiegne, France to a closure. after four years of brutal conflict Please join with us to between the German and Allied commemorate with a service forces. at St Davids Church at 9.30am The guns fell silent on on Sunday 11th November the eleventh hour of followed by a dedication at the eleventh day of the Town Clock Memorial the eleventh month from 10.45am. and War finally gave way to peace. We WILL remember them Over one hundred thousand New Zealanders or ten per cent of the population at the time served Colin Mower overseas during the War and over President eighteen thousand lost their lives, Taihape and District RSA families and communities at home felt these losses acutely. At the time of the Armistice fifty- eight thousand troops were still serving overseas including twenty four thousand on the Western front where some of the bloodiest battles had been fought to finally decide the outcome of the War in favour of the Allies. The Armistice Centenary gives us the chance to acknowledge the loss and trauma of the First World War and to reflect on Peace and 6

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8 Senior Driving Programmes: CarFit helps senior drivers find More Confidence and Safety their safest and most comfortable fit in your car. Our trained Ageing affects our driving. Age technicians check and guide you to Concern is offering two have free events for senior drivers in Taihape this year. These • an understanding of the programmes have proved popular car’s safety features and get excellent feedback. For • clear lines of sight example “I feel more confident and • a seat and a steering wheel competent … It was easy to that fit comfortably and follow…. I am driving with more safely – giving you good knowledge and confidence now”. access to controls Keys to Safe Driving is a four hour • properly adjusted head refresher course delivered by an restraints experienced driving instructor and • and a safe and comfortable educator. It is interactive, giving seatbelt position opportunities to understand, An experienced Occupational refresh and improve your driving. It Therapist is also in attendance. includes key safety factors, Book in now with REAP for your planning, decision making, and the free 20 minute CarFit check on current road rules. We provide December 14th! lunch and a course booklet. These events are free and places Register for your free course on are limited – booking is essential. Monday December 3rd by calling Call REAP on 06 388 0109. REAP!

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Those of us who are often sick with Other signs that our body may be infections may well be experiencing stressed: long-term stress. Stress affects the • Do you have Morning fatigue on, whole body and the immune system or shortly after rising, even if you and is particularly affected by are getting 8 hours of sleep? chronic low-grade stress. In fact, • Do you wake tired and feel the stress-related problems are the root only way to get going is with coffee or sweet drinks? cause of approximately 75-90 • Do you have a mid-afternoon percent of doctor visits. low? Most people today associate stress • Are you less able to handle with worry, but stress has a much stress or stressful situations? broader meaning to your body. We • Do you feel better after evening may not realize how much stress our meal and get a second wind at bodies are actually experiencing. approximately 11:00 pm? Then Any kind of change, whether it be want to stay up until 1-2:00am? emotional, physical, environmental, • Do you have decreased or lack of hormonal or illness-related can be libido? stressful to the body. Just generally • Do you lack focus and striving too hard on a daily basis concentration or have a “brain takes a physiological toll. Even fog”? positive events, such as getting a • Are you more prone to promotion at work or taking a infections or illnesses and are vacation, can be stressful and can slower to recovery from illness or major stress? gradually weaken health without us • Do you have “fatigue that Simply realizing what is happening. If we cannot be overcome”, and have recently experienced a change cannot find out why? in sleep patterns, feels fatigued, If you have any or all the above anxious, lacks enjoyment for life, or symptoms, would you like help? has multiple aches and pains, it is Book an appointment today. highly likely that they are Karen Hughes Ph; 027 316 2341 overstressed. Email; [email protected] Clinics in , Taihape, Whanganui 11

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DIAL A DRIVER – COLIN MOWER 021 130 3586

AVAILABLE: Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays, 6pm till late

DIAL A DRIVER is available to drive groups / sports clubs etc to any function local or regional. Fee is negotiable at time of booking.

Fare schedule Town boundary (2kms) $ 5.00 pp Over 2kms $10.00pp More than 5kms Negotiable 12-Seater Van available for group Price neg trips

If you require a driver and van outside the stated times, please call, we are happy to discuss terms.

ENJOY YOUR NIGHT OUT – LET US DRIVE YOU HOME !!!!

U DRINK I DRIVE – MAKES SENSE DOESN’T IT?

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Council wants you to to make their own arrangements “Tell us what you want” for general rubbish (you would purchase bags or dispose of your Council is committed to developing own rubbish). The approximate its waste minimisation initiatives, and cost of this option is $125 per as part of this we are seeking your property, per year. feedback about the introduction of a kerbside recycling and / or rubbish - Kerbside rubbish and and recycling service in the recycling service residential areas of Turakina, Ratana, This would be a fortnightly , Scotts Ferry, Bulls, Marton, collection for recycling and Crofton, , and weekly collection for rubbish. Taihape. So, the postcard asks you to Residents would be supplied with tick which service you want. There 1 wheelie bin for plastics, are three options: cardboard, paper and cans and 1 - Kerbside recycling service crate for glass – jars and bottles and 1 small wheelie bin for This would be a fortnightly rubbish. The approximate cost of collection. Residents would be this option is $195 per property, supplied with 1 wheelie bin for per year. plastics, cardboard, paper and cans and 1 crate for glass – jars and bottles. Residents would continue

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- Status Quo toll free number: 0800 422 522. You can also go in the draw to win $200 Things would remain as they are worth of grocery vouchers. now – i.e. no Council service for recycling or rubbish collection. If you want any further information Residents would continue to there are some frequently asked purchase bags or bins from a private questions (FAQs) on Council’s operator and choose how to website: dispose of their own rubbish. https://www.rangitikei.govt.nz/ser vices/rubbish-recycling Please return your postcard by Friday, 2 November or phone our

Taihape Women's It does not matter how Club Meeting slowly you go as long 7th November at 1.30pm as you do not stop. Guest Speaker to be Our greatest glory is arranged. not in never falling, but All Welcome. in rising every time we Please mark your calendars for our fall. Christmas lunch to be held Confucius on 5th December.

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Taihape Friendship Group (55yrs and over) We meet every 2nd and 4th

Wednesday of the month at the Taihape & Districts Woman's Club in

Tui Street (10am - 1pm). Fees: $15 Annual Membership and add $10 on the day if you wish to have cooked lunch. Come and have cuppa, chat, join in

the activity planned, have lunch....

New Members welcome.

Phone Karen 027 240 2593

To commemorate 14th Nov Armistice Day, Taihape Museum will be hosting a A day at the special screening of

Races Rangitikei Remembers - Stories From World War 1 and Not just Horses!!!!!!

Sunday 11 November 1pm Majestic Theatre

Normal admission charges

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The TCDT, would like to thank Top Notch Taihape the following organisations in Snippets providing grants towards activities & events that were organised for Congratulations to the following our community in the previous 8 Taihapians: months: Kim Reid (Tapsell) Head girl at St Joseph’s School in 1995, is the face of RICS (Royal Institute of Chartered Accountants) training programme based in London. Kim acknowledges the influence in construction her late stepfather Bill Byford had on her early years.

Sarah and Tom - Hinterland Foods – secured a contract with Virgin Australia to provide beef to their services.

Helene Wong, who was born in Taihape and grew up in Lower Hutt released her memoir, Being Chinese - A New Zealander's Story, in 2016. She was part of this year’s Readers & Writers Festival which was held in Hawkes Bay over Labour Weekend. Please send us your good news snippets of locals striving and succeeding:

[email protected].

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The Corrugated Iron Artist & the Gumboot -Instalment 2 of 2-

Combining Coffee, Inspiration and Grunt

A chance meeting in 1997 with of the gumboot to SH1 was Taihape’s Brown Sugar owner’s essential and timely. With the resulted in sketches on a serviette energy generated through Keep of a thrown gumboot being passed Taihape Beautiful (KTB) to take up on to the Gumboot Country the Gumboot Park Development Promotions Inc (GCP) committee. Project & the threat of permanent After much discussion and storage of the gumboot the priority consultation with Jeff, he was to relocate the gumboot became commissioned to build the paramount. gumboot as a celebration of the However, it was vital to ensure that millennium and to identify this high-profile art piece was sited Taihape’s icon in the most in the best position considering the appropriate rural art medium, right elevation and most fitting corrugated iron. surrounds. To achieve this fill and Completing his residency in rocks were required in the chosen Wanganui in June 2000 Jeff stayed site and landscaping, paths and with Bill & Jan Byford and using the lighting were essential to allow the Byford Construction yard as the public physical access to it while building site, completed this creating a natural environment for delightful icon for Taihape in August photographers. 2000. Under the supervision of Jeff

and Byford’s engineer it was carefully placed on a transporter and at the site lifted by a front-end loader for welding to the concrete anchors. The site in the Outback was only an interim measure.

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Compliances by Transit for the To complete the project, Keep Road preferred site had Taihape Beautiful, is installing a sign eased and on Thursday the 16th board with the story of the November 2006 HEB-Smithbridge gumboot & Council have installed a transported the gumboot to the SH parking bay. The committee of KTB 1 location. With the Councils policy is grateful to the generous for public art works the gumboot sponsorship of companies and sits under council’s long term care individuals who quickly came to the and maintenance. party & supplied product, service and cash to get the project To date the gumboot has interested completed. and intrigued the public from all over the world. It is photographed, Taihape is most fortunate to have climbed on, sat on and touched by such a prestigious artwork in the many and now at the more town created by such a world- accessible site it will continue to renowned artist. provide much interest to the S.H.1 The location on SH1 gives it the traffic. kudos it deserves.

Majestic Theatre is delighted to bring to you Taihape Heritage Film Festival With so many great films available to us and we are a small cinema with one screen, we decided to bring you a jammed packed 5 days of a variety of films for all tastes. We hope you will enjoy the films on offer – see you there. She Shears – Fri 16th Nov 8pm Born Racer Scott Dixon - Sun 18th Nov 7pm First Man - Sat 17th 5pm, Mon 19th Nov 7pm An Interview with God - Sun 18th 5pm Mon19th Nov 5pm Together - Fri 16th 6pm, Sat 17th Nov 3pm A Star is Born - Tues 20th Nov 7.30pm

For more information on these films see our website for synopsis & trailers. www.majestictaihape.co.nz and follow us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/majestictaihape/

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As a little girl climbed onto Santa's lap, Santa asked the usual, "And what would you like for Christmas?"

The child stared at him open mouthed and horrified for a minute, then gasped, "Didn't you get my E-mail?" 28

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TAIHAPE TIDBITS

Taihape Youth Zone is open in the Supper Rooms at the Town Hall from 3-5pm. Monday to Friday. Lots to do, Free WiFi, PS4 Computers, Table Tennis etc. Wednesdays: Kids Zone at St David’s Church Hall from 3-4.15pm for kids aged 5-10. Songs, stories, crafts and games. Whanau Hobby Hut at the Old Scout Hall, 6-7.30pm. For more information, phone Gary on 027 446 4498. Thursdays: Mainly Music at St David’s Church Hall from 9.30-10.30am. Tai-Chi ‘Sit and be fit’. 10-11am at the old hospital. Transport available, contact Mokai Patea Services on 388 1156. Business House Tennis Phone Caroline on 027 4206 914 for more information. Fridays 2nd November Mangaweka Fire Brigade Fireworks McIntyre reserve Ohingaiti. Gates open at 6.30pm. Food, refreshments, bouncy castle and more. Saturday 3rd November Grand Unveiling Party Taihape Farmlands, at 10.30am. Friday 9th November Utiku Old Girls present November netball mixed team netball competition. Contact Renee for registration on [email protected]. Friday 23rd November M-themed Quiz Night. Ataroa Community Hall. Contact Jennifer on 021 834 998 for details. Saturday 1st December Christmas Parade 12-1pm, SH1 Sunday 2nd December Christmas in the Park From 3pm onwards at Memorial Park Saturday 23rd March Gumboot Day 2019 10am start at Memorial Park

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