by Waimea Weekly | Aug 31, 2018 | Local News
Rotoiti Lodge Outdoor Education Centre is celebrating half a century of providing outdoor education. Police sergeant Noel Oxnam from Murchison first suggested the idea for a youth hall in the early 1960’s, and after significant contributions by the region’s community...
by Waimea Weekly | Aug 30, 2018 | Local News
Artist Cindy Hutton is looking forward to the personal interaction with visitors to this year’s Art Expo Nelson, being held this Friday to Sunday at the Trafalgar Centre. “I do like to meet people who buy my work. It’s different from pieces that are bought in an...
by Waimea Weekly | Aug 30, 2018 | Local News
Thanks to local organisations, Harold the Giraffe, the Life Education Trust’s much-loved mascot, and Ingrid Kemp, Life Education’s educator, have a new vehicle to deliver the trusts important message to children around the region. Life Education Trust is a...
by Waimea Weekly | Aug 29, 2018 | Local News
This Saturday, September 1, marks the start of a six-week “unique” hunting competition with all proceeds going toward a late hunter’s daughter’s education. When Pete Adams had a mole removed and tested from his leg in 2015 the results came back clear, but a couple of...
by Waimea Weekly | Aug 29, 2018 | Local News
He’s been credited with contributing toward New Zealand music’s ‘big bang’ moment, but Richmond’s Jim Carter says he was “lucky”. On his lap steel guitar in 1948, Jim played the first notes on ‘Blue Smoke’ written by Ruru Karaitiana and sung by Pixie Williams. The...
