Martinborough Ladies Hockey Club

The Martinborough Ladies Hockey Club has had a great start to the 2016 season.
The team looks very smart in our new set of team shirts, thanks to fantastic sponsorship from E10, Pukemanu Bar & Eatery, and our matching bright green and black socks.

We have completed the first round of this year’s competition, being grading games, and were unfortunate to miss out on being promoted to the Women’s 2 grade. The team had to play a promotion/relegation match against St Mathew’s 2nd XI, and after being 0-0 at full time, went to a golden goal scenario to determine a winner. We were close, but no cigar!

Thank-you to all those who supported our club by buying tickets in our recent raffle. 1st prize, which was two tickets to the All Blacks verses Wales Rugby test in Wellington, was won by Jaquee Reid of Martinborough. 2nd prize, $100 voucher to E10, Pukemanu Bar & Eatery, was won by Mike Knapp. 3rd prize, $50 worth of scratchies, was won by Aaron Woodcock. Well done to all the winners.

Library news

Here we are in the middle of the year – again.  Winter school holidays are approaching and so is our Winter Warmers Reading Programme.  This year is focusing on the Olympics, so the reading route hops all over the world in search of Olympic sporting countries.  Read books and claim prizes along the way, how can you resist?  (sorry folks, school age children only!) 

The holidays also means no Book Babies or Te Reo Babies for those two weeks.  However the library will still be open and available for the children on holiday as well as everyone else – 9.30 to 5 weekdays and 10-12 Saturdays.  For those children under 8 years of age, please remember to bring an adult carer as we are not legally able to let you stay in the library unaccompanied. 

For those who are not school age and would like some new books, the new financial year is now upon us and the books are flooding in.  As I keep on knocking over glasses of water sometimes it is literally true too.  I am waiting with anticipation for the new Farrow and Ball decorating book, the Juan Li design books, The lubetkin legacy and of course the books on Alaska.  These will come along with all those books that have been personally requested by customers and we will process them as soon as we can and get them to you. 
We have had a really busy couple of months issuing books and DVDs and have had lots of new borrowers join our small but perfectly formed library.  Some of them even like shoes. … Continue Reading

Southern Netball

The netball season is shaping up to be an exciting one. All three of the Southern teams have improved dramatically throughout the season and it is impressive to watch. This is down to the hard work from the girls, the coaches/ managers and families that support every training and Saturday game. If anyone is interested in umpiring or coaching a younger team, please let Sarah Gadsby know through Martinborough School, 306 9602. … Continue Reading

Madcaps

Vicki Jones Madcaps President and Steve Lewis Madcaps Treasurer and Producer of this year’s show. Both Vicki and Steve are in costume for our coming show in September “Rock till you Drop, Time Travel the Musical Highway”.