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If you’d like us to design your ad, please give us as much notice as possible so we can get it right. LAYOUT and DESIGN Creative By Design [email protected] PRINTING Horton Media RATES Contact us for our The popular Polar Plunge returns to Pāpāmoa. Pictured is a previous event. competitive advertising rates. We offer discounts to regular advertisers. G DELIVERY The publication will be delivered et your costumes ready and take a win big for local not-for profit organisa - Pāpāmoa community always blows her around the start of each month. deep breath – the Pāpāmoa Polar tions, sports teams, or clubs – cash prizes away with its creative costumes, and there Plunge is back for 2021. of $1000, $500 and $250 are at stake. The will be “best dressed” prizes. After a break in 2020, the annual more entrants from an organisation, the The big splash Polar Plunge will take highlight of Pāpāmoa Beach’s winter more chances they have to win. place at the beach at Pāpāmoa Domain in Follow Papamoa Post on calendar is back on Sunday 20 June, from Entry is free, with entrants enjoying a front of the surf club. For more details, the Facebook and Instagram 10am. free hot chocolate on the beach “plus heaps free registration link and up-to-date infor - /PapamoaPost Organiser Julia Manktelow of Pāpāmoa of goodies and fun stuff”, says Julia. mation on weather and changes, follow the Unlimited says it’s time to “get freezin’ for The dress-up component while not com - Facebook event “Pāpāmoa Polar Plunge WE WANT YOUR LETTERS! a reason”, as the event is an opportunity to pulsory is always popular – Julia says the 2021”. We welcome letters to the editor for publication. From the editor’s desk Email [email protected] . Letters should not exceed 200 words, T and may be edited, abridged, or rejected at the Editor's discretion. he opening of the new Pāpāmoa Surf Once again, this community has proven given from the heart and this night has Rescue Base is momentous for our why it’s one of the best places to live in become one to treasure in our memories whole community. New Zealand. Last month the team at (page 13). Get In Touch! The vision, drive and volunteer hours Golden Sands School put out a call to the Kindness seems to be a theme in this Got a story to share? that have gone into this project are out - community to help them support a issue. Caring for others is something that If it’s local and it’s news, we want to know about standing. The building is a credit to our local family needing a hand. A Night for comes naturally to Sarah Horne. We loved it! We invite local clubs and organisations to get community, and while its principal pur - Oscar was created to bring together the meeting this Pāpāmoa East local and hear - in touch and contribute your stories. pose is to help save lives in the water, it’s community and raise money for the Bis - ing her story about her mission to support Are you a business owner who wants to also going to be a fantastic community hub man family as six-year-old Oscar under - new mothers (page 7). Then there’s the advertise in this exciting new publication? We and meeting place for other groups and goes treatment for leukaemia at Starship children at Tahatai Coast School who are would love to hear from you. organisations. Hospital. The community response has making sure their peers are getting a nutri - Email now: [email protected] . 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Having promote the work done by lifeguards, and the beautiful coastal strip, says lifeguarding on your CV ticks so many boxes: community Jamie, who is a member of both Mount Maunganui and Pāpāmoa Surf Life spirit, dedication to a cause, first aid.” Saving Clubs. Jamie came late into surf lifesaving. Growing up in Waharoa “It’s been hugely positive. A lot of it is focused on the regional guards, near Matamata, he had always loved the beach and spending the paid lifeguards who are from all three clubs – Mount Maunganui, his summers at Pāpāmoa East with his family. Working as a Ōmanu and Pāpāmoa - so there is a great opportunity for people to recog - sports reporter and photographer, he became interested nise what the Ōmanu and Pāpāmoa lifeguards do too.” in surf sports and started to get involved. While the summer period showcased on the TV show was “light on res - He decided to train as a lifeguard after being on the cues”, it succeeds in portraying the huge amount of patrol hours and pre - beach when a man drowned at Pāpāmoa Domain. Now ventative actions performed by the team, as well as their extensive first he’s been on patrol for almost a decade, and encour - aid skills. ages anyone to give it a go. Says Jamie: “Because so many of our rescues at the Mount are up Mauao, “The whole thing of ‘in it for life’ is so true,” he says, our call-out squad needs to be really upskilled in first aid. Summer is the referencing Surf Life Saving New Zealand’s slogan. key time for people getting into trouble on Mauao, due to the sheer num - “It’s never too late. You don’t even need to be a good ber of visitors, the dry and dusty tracks causing people to slip, and the risk swimmer. You can qualify as a Patrol Support and not of dehydration.” go in the water, which is great for people who have first As the father of three teenage girls, one of Jamie’s proudest moments aid skills or like helping people.” was the day that his two oldest daughters, Pāpāmoa College students Abi, Jamie is a talented photographer whose Dscribe Jamie Troughton. 17, and Sophie, 15, were on patrol with him for the first time. Over the Media Services photos are often shared online by the summer, Abi was employed as a paid lifeguard by the regional lifeguards surf clubs and in this publication. He doesn’t court the – a dream job – and she patrolled with her dad. limelight of reality TV but is grateful for the publicity Bay “Lifeguarding has been the most amazing thing for my girls,” says Jamie. Patrol has provided for beach safety. “It’s been great for that “It’s a really positive, encouragingT anad nuurturringa scenne fogr thaem. T–he l ife ae dsucaution.b” urb of Pāpāmoa P āpāmoa residents are invited to voice one of the examples given at the recent promises, promises, LIES”.