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Te Awamutu Courier Thursday, July 21, 2016 Courierte Awamutu Community Newspaper of the Year 2014 Your Community Newspaper for Over 100 Years Te Awamutu B S U N S I O NE TI SS LU & LIFE SO CouPublished Tuesday & Thursdayurier THURSDAY, JULY 21, 2016 +64 7 872 0566 NOT YOUR TYPICAL ACCOUNTANT Your community newspaper for over 100 years EXTRA COPIES 40c Which way? NZ Secondary School Tornado strikes Orienteering Championships are being held in the Waikato this week, with the final day at Wharepapa South tomorrow. Over 400 students from Year 7-13 will begin at Harding Road (off Aotearoa Road) from 10.30am. Spectators are welcome and those that wish to participate may do so after the students finish. The elite students will be aiming to represent New Zealand at the Junior World Orienteering Champs. Magical run The Cold Power Magic netball team are New Zealand Conference Champions for the second consecutive year and will host the NSW Swifts at Claudelands Arena on Monday, July 25. If the Magic win their semi- final, they will progress through to the Grand Final. Can they go all the way in 2016 and hold the ANZ Championship trophy aloft for the second time? TC210716DT02 Laura lauded LAURIE Street residents Peter and Ross Ritsema with the uprooted kowhai tree in the front of their property. NSW Swift’s’ wing- defence Laura Langman is A number of Te Awamutu “There was a big noise like a the only netballer with New residents were in clean-up freight train and the fire Zealand connections to be mode yesterday after the town starting blowing out. named in the 2016 ANZ was hit by high winds, heavy “There was soot coming out Championship All-Star Team. rain and a tornado or two everywhere and the room was Thousands of fans have Tuesday night. filling with smoke and little cast their votes. Emergency services were embers were flying every- The All-Star Team, in its called to an Alexandra Street where. sixth year, recognises the home when the roof started to “Then there was this big lift and to the Ritsema family bang.” most outstanding players in home in Laurie Street which She says she had a fair idea a their respective positions and suffered the worst damage. tornado was about to strike. a coach over the course of a Daryl Ritsema says the fam- “I went running into the season. ily scrambled into a small bath- kids and said, ‘quick, quick, This is Langman’s third room to take cover as a tornado into the bathroom’.” start in the team, after being roared through their property. She raced to open windows named at centre in 2012 and She says she and her hus- on the far side of the house 2013. band Peter were sitting in the before joining her three adult She ranked fifth in the warmth of their lounge when children in the safety of the league for minutes played in their brightly burning fire central room. the regular season (787 started spewing smoke and minutes), only four minutes embers into the room. ■ Continued page 10 behind the top ranked athlete, and recorded 28 pickups – TC210716DT03 the third highest in the league. THE garden shed was carried from the Ritsemas’ neighbouring property, over their garage and back fence, over another house and settled in a Cactus Court property. 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