TE NUPEPA O TE TAIRAWHITI SATURDAY-SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3-4, 2020 HOME-DELIVERED $1.90, RETAIL $2.70 Old girls TRANSTASMAN inspire students BUBBLE of today TRUMP IN HOSPITAL PAGE 9 PAGE 12 CHICKABOOM: Described by Rolling Stone magazine as “a fire- breathing belter on her own terms’’, New Zealand-based singer/songwriter Tami Neilson entertained the crowd with an eclectic mix of rocking country and soul-infused rhythm and blues at last night’s Kai Street Food Festival. Organised by City Centre Vibrancy manager Lana Davy the food festival was enjoyed by about 6000 people and marked the opening of this year’s Te Tairawhiti Arts Festival. STORY PAGE 2 Picture by Liam Clayton Post-Brexit wins for Maori High Commissioner talks with iwi cover trade and climate change by Andrew Ashton “The visit was partly because it was a going forward, in terms of our shared the NZ-UK free trade agreement (FTA) year ago that we came here as a group, aspirations and hopes for the future.” started in July, with the next round due A POST-BREXIT free trade agreement with my whanau, to express regret for The UK officially left the European to start later this month. between New Zealand and the United those deaths during the first encounters Union in February and is in a “We are very committed to ensuring Kingdom will realise the aspirations of 250 years ago as part of the Tuia 250 “transitional period”, which ends at the the Free Trade Agreement provides Maori, says British High Commissioner commemorations. So, we thought it end of this year, when the nation’s exit opportunities for Maori and realises the Laura Clarke says. was just a good time to come back and from the EU will be complete. aspirations of Maori and we have been It will also set a benchmark in terms of reconnect,” she told The Herald yesterday. 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We’ll rockabilly and soul-infused rhythm and definitely come back. It’s snowing at blues, Tami Neilson on the riverside home.” stage. Vendors barely had time to talk they Te Tairawhiti Arts Festival embraced were so busy. the annual Street Kai Festival to signify Mushroom fritters were a favourite, the opening of the nine-day event. said Maori Mix cook Ema Ngarangione Keira Coogan, Manaakiao Maxwell, as she flipped the sizzling patties. Also and The Witchdoctor with Tyna Keelan popular from the stall was the steaming were among acts to perform as people parengo, an aromatic seaweed dish, and navigated their way through the queues mussel chowder. of gourmands and the hungry that Dressed in a silver tinselled cloak stretched across the road in front of and signature beehive hairdo, Tami rows of Street Kai vendors. Neilson entertained the crowd with HAPPY AS: The aroma of sesame oil and sizzling skewers of steak pieces wafts from Filipino cuisine “Food, music and good bands — it’s stories behind her songs. created at the Christ New Creation stall by Atalia Foyle (left), Pastor Art Isnit, Maria Isnit, Ruby Aibales, a good combination,” said visitors Dave “I keep forgetting my hair is this big,” Myrna Dollaga, Analyn Aromin and Josiah Goddard. All pictures by Liam Clayton and Suzanne Pinfold as they enjoyed a she said. “I woke up like this.” dessert each. Among the eclectic range of country- A group of visitors from Raetihi, a inflected songs she performed was a percussion-driven piece as she clapped vendors had sold out, said City Centre coming together and the different types township near Ruapehu, were chuffed lockdown-inspired piece for parents and scraped the blocks with an upbeat, Vibrancy manager Lana Davy. of food shows our cultural diversity.” to find their holiday in Gisborne busy with children at home during that rhythmic song beat rounded off with “This is the seventh food festival As the kai festival came to a close coincided with the food and arts time. “boom boom chucka chucka”. City Centre Vibrancy has held and and the sun went down the Te Ara I festivals. “I wrote it with my kids’ wooden About 6000 people streamed through the second time we’ve held it on the Whiti trail of illuminated sculptures “We’ve never been here before,” said blocks,” she said. She was joined the Street Kai Festival and by the end Tairawhiti Arts Festival opening night. across the river lit up, its colours Jedd Tumataroa. only by her drummer to perform the of the evening around 90 percent of “It’s neat to see our community shimmering across the water. SUN, FOOD, MUSIC, SUN: Having escaped the cold in their home AL FRESCO: Dinner from one town of Raetihi, Jedd Tumataroa (left), Robyn Pulu, Lou Brider, Robin of the many vendors at the Kai FROM THE COAST: Maori Mix cooks Ema Ngarangione and Pani Brider, Daisy Tumataroa, Eden Tarapata enjoy the sun at the Kai Street Food Festival is followed by Fox manage to keep up with orders for their popular mushroom Street Food Festival. They were rapt to find their visit coincided with dessert and live entertainment for fritters, steaming parengo and mussel chowder. both the street food event and Te Tairawhiti Arts Festival. Suzanne and Dave Pinfold. Fire and Emergency alert amid signs of extreme weather OCTOBER marks the beginning of the quickly to prevent them spreading,” said Principal Dever said. Fire and Emergency NZ sent an appliance and 2020 Fire Season in this region and Fire and Rural Fire Officer Ray Dever. “We are now going into fire season so a water tanker to the scene at around 12.45am. 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