With Rozanna Muriwai, as the new president of the Martinborough Bowling Club, the Club is humming. “When we returned from Bahrain 2 years ago, we wandered down to the Bowling Green to check it out. Both my husband and I love bowling, says Rozanna. We joined. The social side of …
The Martinborough Music Festival was performed in October, despite being reorganised three times. “It was a bit of a rollercoaster with “Will it happen, Won’t it happen?” moments,” said Brendan Smyth and Sharon Cuzens, two of the organising team for the festival. “But our whole team was determined to make …
The South Wairarapa Okinawan Goju Ryu karate club is continuing to grow in both numbers and achievements, and it was great to see two Martinborough locals recently achieve their Shodan (blackbelts) in September this year. Mother and daughter, Clare and Bonnie Miller, travelled to Dunedin with Senpai Anna Borjesson and …
Martinborough’s Hau Ariki Marae is unique. Opened in 1998, it’s a community marae, not affiliated directly to a particular iwi. Newly elected Chair Kevin Haunui says this means it allows “a connection for people not from here” to link with the Wairarapa and its tangata whenua. “Anyone can regard Hau …
Twentyfive cities are responsible for emitting more than half of all the urban greenhouse gasses around the globe despite covering only two percent of the earth’s surface. Asian cities particularly Tokyo and Shanghai were found to be the highest emitters of greenhouse gasses. Cities in Europe America and Australia had significantly higher emissions. The top sources were the electricity used in buildings and road transport.
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Simon Williams Lion’s District Governor.
Martinborough Lions hosted their District Governor (DG) Simon Williams at their meeting of 27th October. Simon gave the club an overview of what’s going on with Lions
International, which the Martinborough Club is a part of, and gave an update of New Zealand Lions current priorities around the globe.
Simon passed on a message from Lions International President Douglas Alexander; – Douglas wished to reinforce what Lions are all about through “Connecting to communities through impassioned giving, serving in this moment and leading with the Heart”
Martinborough Lions donate to the Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF). Simon noted that in the past year the foundation put more back into New Zealand than we paid into the fund. Financial support was specifically provided to the West Coast flood victims, and also a big donation was made to support the new Wellington Regional Children’s Hospital playground. The LCIF fund supports important work particularly in humanitarian and disaster relief efforts around the world.
The Lions International major themes for the coming year are Childhood Cancer, Diabetes, Environment, Hunger and Sight. Martinborough Lions actively supports all these causes through our members’ participation or our donating to them. DG Simon told the Martinborough Club that we were doing well holding our membership up at over 40 members, and told the club not to relax our efforts to bring more new members into the club.
DG Simon’s personal message to Martinborough Lions was “Dream – Believe – Achieve”. Hecomplimented the club on its significant range of activity noting the strong comaradie that exists within the club. … Continue Reading
It has been a busy few weeks out on the course. In mid November we had our Murray Halberg Day with 72 out enjoying the course. Davis Lester Clarke and Kris Chamberlain will be representing Martinborough at the Eagles Field Day at Paraparaumu in January.
The following day the Ladies travelled over to Royal Wellington to compete for the Lady Stout Trophy – unfortunately it stayed in Wellington!
The next day we had our 36 Hole Mixed 4Somes Open. The winning combination with the best gross were Ju Allen & Kirk Collins, 2nd Pip Kirk & Andrew Smith and 3rd Anna Possenniskie & Martin Napier. Best nett went to Britta Fraser & Garth Lippitt, 2nd Ro & Lyle Griffiths and 3rd Bindy & Lachie McLeod. Best Stableford went to Julie Weber & Trevor Petersen, 2nd Nicola & Richard Warren and 3rd Jo Loe & Colin Whibley-Smith.
The day after that the men travelled over to Royal Wellington to compete for the Bidwill/Leckie Cup which also stayed in Wellington! … Continue Reading
PEAR SHAPED
With some sense of relief 2021 is coming to an end. It hasn’t been flash for most of us and as a result it’s been difficult to find moments of joy to allow us to keep our chins up. As it happens, I had a bit of feedback, as it were, that November’s sardine story was well received, and perhaps helped in this regard. So for the moment, and for the final Star issue of the year, enough of doom and gloom: food it is again.
The term ‘pear shaped’, as you will be aware, means to go wrong, fail miserably and go awry in a terrible fashion. I’d always thought the association had something to do with an unfortunate body outline, but further investigation revealed the expression may have originated from the Royal Air Force’s description of pilots’ poor executions of loops in the sky, resulting in pear shapes rather than circles. A lot like this year. At least the humble pear is off the hook, and the avocado too.
Avocados are possibly my favourite food. This was not always so. My introduction to them came via a friend, who returned from Rarotonga [when travel was A Thing] bearing a box of pear-shaped objects which appeared to be coated in wrinkled black leather. Sadly they had not travelled well and became over-ripe in the process, so slicing one open revealed murky greyish flesh with the consistency and probable taste of slimy putty. I was polite and ate a cautious mouthful, but also put off. Months elapsed before I tasted an avocado again and now they’re a must on my shopping list. Supermarkets encourage them. The avocado stack is the first thing you come to after you’ve masked up, scanned in, sanitised your hands, grabbed a basket and, following the yellow striped arrows pasted to the floor, gone through the self-opening glass doors. Happy days! … Continue Reading
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With Rozanna Muriwai, as the new president of the Martinborough Bowling Club, the Club is humming. “When we returned from Bahrain 2 years ago, we wandered down to the Bowling Green to check it out. Both my husband and I love bowling, says Rozanna. We joined. The social side of …
The South Wairarapa Okinawan Goju Ryu karate club is continuing to grow in both numbers and achievements, and it was great to see two Martinborough locals recently achieve their Shodan (blackbelts) in September this year. Mother and daughter, Clare and Bonnie Miller, travelled to Dunedin with Senpai Anna Borjesson and …
It’s not often that two members of the same family compete for the winning place in the Womens’ Silver Golf Championships. But that is just what took place at the Martinborough Golf Club Sunday 7th November. Debbie Donaldson and Anna Posseniskie, the daughters of Viv and Martin Napier, went head …
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