Thursday, 31 August 2017 H A U R A K I D I S T R I C T C O U N C I L Ward Refl ections This advertisement is authorised by the Council CREATIVE NZ FUNDING key ingredient in local book launch When you’re living on the Southwestern tip of the South Island you “chuck what you’ve got in the pot” says author and chef Paul Trevethick. Printed with the assistance of Creative NZ Funding, his new book “A Lighthouse Keeper’s Cookbook” combines true tales of his experiences as a relief lighthouse keeper, with the recipes he created at the time. Butterfi sh poached in vodka, crayfi sh omelette, and drunk sheep with coconut, are some of the creative combinations he cooked up in the most isolated and exposed corners of , where winds could gust up to 240km in a storm. “It was all about making the most of the local food available around the station,” he said, “It Need help to get your arts project off the ground? sounds bad, but I got so sick of eating crayfi sh I Applications for Creative NZ funding for local arts projects are came up with about 20 different ways to cook it.” now open. Find out more www.hauraki-dc.govt.nz/creativenz A Lighthouse Keeper’s Cookbook is available on Amazon or email Paul: [email protected]

-Miranda t Celebrating business Pūkorokoro o Thames GRAND OPENING Organisers of the Hauraki Coromandel Business G 9 SEPTEMBER 2017 Awards are thrilled with the enthusiasm they’re seeing around their fi rst event. The awards are being

10km organised by a committee of local businesspeople, HAURAKI COROMANDEL 7kmkm with fi nancial support from the Hauraki and Thames- BUSINESS AWARDS FESTIVAL Coromandel district councils. Local businesses 12km 11km have also got behind the awards, including Smart 15km THE NEW ZEALAND CYCLE TRAIL Environmental, which has bought the naming rights People’s Choice Nominees to the event, Positive , Hikaka Investigations, Announced Opening Programme:mme: BNZ, Mightway, Oceana Gold, Lynch & Partners, Placemakers , Unichem Heather Moore Nominees are: Carson’s Bookshop, 5.30am Dawn Blessing. There will be two dawn blessings held simultaneously at: Pharmacy, and Richardsons Real Estate. Coromandel Adventures, Flowers on Pollen, Holiday Resort, * Pūkorokoro - Miranda - Robert Findlay Committee spokesperson Kate Rigg said “We were Wildlife Area - E Coast Rd, Miranda Hello Friday, Lifestyle Yachts, keen to get the awards off the ground because * Kopu - side of MAKAWE Hair Salon, Make Your successful businesses mean successful communities.” the Kopu bridge ( side) - access Day Events, Milly’s Educare, and parking will be via the layby before Ms Rigg, said the awards allow local businesses to tell Paeroa and Waihi Laundromats, crossing Kopu Bridge their stories and to celebrate their successes. 8.30am Gala Festival - 79 Kopu Road Pamper Me, Seagull Centre, 9.00am Official Opening Speeches Public voting is now open for the People’s Choice Butchery, The Green Grocer, The 9.30am Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Award and fi nalists for the other categories will be Lost Spring, Trove , and 9.30am Rail Trail open for riding. Festival continues announced on 1 September. Kate Rigg says those Waiomu Beach Cafe. - 2.00pm Free Shuttle Services - dropping off and entries are being handled independently by judges The winner will be decided by a picking up cyclists and returning them from Innovation Park. to Kopu from: public vote, which is underway * - Buchanan Road; All results will be announced at a gala awards evening now until September 20. * - next to the at The Grand Mercure Puka Park Resort in Pauanui Biographies of the nominees are Country Store; and * Pūkorokoro-Miranda - on Thursday, September 28. Tickets are available on the awards’ website: www. Robert Findlay Wildlife Area on the Hauraki Coromandel Business Awards’ haurakicoromandelbusinessawards. 2.00pm Prize giving at Kopu - Best Dressedessed website, and all the latest news and developments co.nz/peoples-choice, where you Bird Competition winner announcedounced are on their Facebook page: www.facebook.com/ can also vote for your favourite. www.haurakirailtrail.co.nz HaurakiCoromandelBusinessAwards

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