Issue September 2015

If a thing has a due date it will be listed as an event. Otherwise it is a notice. You can list your event on...

If you have an older cat or dog, age can sometimes be perceived as a barrier to treatment.  ‘She’s old so she’s not worth...

Karaka Million winner Johno Benner has added another trophy to his growing haul, the Otaki Golf Club’s Senior Men’s Champion. With Vespa, the Otaki trainer...

A Compilation Of Locally Made Films Newsreels and home movies, comedy and drama Saturday 5 September, 2pm Waikanae Community Centre, 28–32 Utauta Street Sunday 20 September, 2pm Paraparaumu...

Ōtaki Hydroponics are now in their second year of running their fun Potato growing competition . Ōtaki Fire Brigade This year all proceeds raised from the competition entries...

Spirea Nipponica ‘Snowmound’, a deciduous small shrub, dense and upright carries spectacular clusters of white flowers profusely over arching stems. Tolerant, graceful and easy to grow in well drained soil, full sun to part shade. Prune after flowering. Snowmound Butterflies love it and so will you.

Father’s Day Sunday 6 September Time for some potted colour: pansies, cyclamen, polyanthus, convulvulus cneorum, viola. You can’t have Don Watson but we have gifts for...

Wellington’s potters community have thrown themselves into an ambitious project to handcraft 850 bowls, to raise funds for DCM, the organisation committed to ending...

Flood of Fire  by Amitav Ghosh It is 1839 and tension has been rapidly mounting between China and British India following the crackdown on opium smuggling...

Well done Ōtaki Players on a fantastic play Whistle down the wind.  My family really enjoyed it, with my 10 and 7 year old wanting...

The main theatrical event on the Coast this year was at Otaki - as usual. The show was Whistle Down the Wind, the production...

From the Principal Building Leadership Ōtaki College is committed to growing tomorrow’s leaders. As the year progresses it is encouraging to see students at the college still...

Rotarians really enjoy supporting young people to grow and develop, and we particularly enjoy hearing of their exploits and escapades on Rotary sponsored events. Thursday...