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I have been a keen and active sports person, abeit at a much lower level than today's top rugby players, since I was a kid and still am as I get into my 70's. Starting with rugby from about Standard 3 through high school, motor racing from 14, yachting in adulthood and a general interest … View moreI have been a keen and active sports person, abeit at a much lower level than today's top rugby players, since I was a kid and still am as I get into my 70's. Starting with rugby from about Standard 3 through high school, motor racing from 14, yachting in adulthood and a general interest in all sports plus activities to keep my bones from seizing up I am disappointed in the recent Taranaki Regional Council decision on Rugby Park. All councils should be concentrating on providing encouragement, activities and reasonable facilities for the wellbeing of the majority not the minority. This is even more so in the professional era we now find ourselves in. Even the professional era goes far beyond rugby as everyday there seems to be some new sport that is heading in the same direction. Most of this as you would expect is aimed at the elite level which have plenty of other sources of funding. With todays increasingly sedentary population and its inherent problems with obesity, mobility and general well-being not to mention our limited dollars a re-think is needed on this issue.
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"Well Read Cookies" features biscuits (with recipes) that are decorated (with instructions) with literary themes. Not needed by us, brand new, equally at home in kitchen or on coffee table. Normal retail $24.
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One of the best things about winter is having mates around to catch up over some hearty snacks and the entertainment of a big game.
Hearty gameday choices include blue cheese dip, fried camembert with paprika and parsley, halloumi chips with dukkah, chicken, spring onion and vintage cheddar … View moreOne of the best things about winter is having mates around to catch up over some hearty snacks and the entertainment of a big game.
Hearty gameday choices include blue cheese dip, fried camembert with paprika and parsley, halloumi chips with dukkah, chicken, spring onion and vintage cheddar pizza and impossible to fail Harvati quiche.
So stop off at the chiller section of the supermarket to stock up on quality Mainland cheeses to help craft and create some delicious snacks. Then no matter how your team plays, your friends will go home happy.
A travel store in the New Plymouth CBD is the ultimate winner of the TSB Top Shop awards this year. …
The expensive rort now trying to be imposed on Taranaki Rate Payers, especially business rate-payers, on again having to remedy structural deficiencies at Yarrows Stadium, New Plymouth, has to finish. NZ Rugby is a Professionally, highly paid and renumerated operation nowadays. They themselves … View moreThe expensive rort now trying to be imposed on Taranaki Rate Payers, especially business rate-payers, on again having to remedy structural deficiencies at Yarrows Stadium, New Plymouth, has to finish. NZ Rugby is a Professionally, highly paid and renumerated operation nowadays. They themselves are all about big money and Big Sponsorship deals. Rate-Payers have to be stopped being manipulated for money, for a lost way of life, that finished years back, when RUGBY especially, became a professional sport. The Amateur Code, unpaid and for the honour, has long been gone and buried. Professional Rugby Sponsorship is nothing to do with the Rate-Payers. It is way outside the Local Government Act. Then to add insult to injury, to suggest that business pay 6 times more than a residential rate payer has to, is plain ridiculous. That is theft, no way how you want to dress it up. Why for Gods sake are they singled out? Are these people, in places of control, in our Councils, even have a clue what they are actually wanting? Have they distorted reality that much that they are believing their own B.S. spin? No more, I stress, no more rate-payers money must go to this act of stupidity. For once I agree with Councillor Gordon Brown and his recent article in the Daily News. . Their are many, many more sports and groups that are or have a better entitlement to this call up of rate payers funds that this group of now grossly over paid sports people, re" Pro Rugby Players" and the" Over Paid Administrators". Lets not forget them, the parasites always on the edges! Making the spin, PR game up for a system that keeps them well employed. If they, "Rugby Pro's "want this so bad, lets see them put their own hands in THEIR pockets first and the start fund raising for the job, as it should be. Do not again take from people that seem to have no unified voice of protest, at this blatant theft! ENOUGH!
I discovered Heart In Diamond after the tragic loss of a friend's husband. I perfectly remember the personal white and yellow diamonds that she had created from her late husbands ashes and the hair from herself and their two children.
The thought of being able to commemorate a loved one, by … View moreI discovered Heart In Diamond after the tragic loss of a friend's husband. I perfectly remember the personal white and yellow diamonds that she had created from her late husbands ashes and the hair from herself and their two children.
The thought of being able to commemorate a loved one, by means of turning their hair or ashes into a diamond was truly captivating.
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