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Daffodil Day is the Cancer Society’s largest fundraising and awareness campaign, and it’s crucial to allow us to support those impacted by cancer. We offer everything from a helpline and counselling support through to transport and accommodation during treatment.
Cancer doesn’t stop, and … View moreDaffodil Day is the Cancer Society’s largest fundraising and awareness campaign, and it’s crucial to allow us to support those impacted by cancer. We offer everything from a helpline and counselling support through to transport and accommodation during treatment.
Cancer doesn’t stop, and with your help, we won’t either. More New Zealanders will get cancer this year than ever before and no one should face cancer alone. Just $24 helps get someone to treatment. Please give generously this Daffodil Day so we can continue to be a lifeline for people with cancer and their whānau.
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The NZ Compare Awards are back... and we have introduced MOBILE Awards for the first time returning as an in-person celebration with a Gala Awards night hosted by Mike McRoberts in Auckland on December 1st 2022.
Recognising excellence, leadership and innovation in the New Zealand utility … View moreThe NZ Compare Awards are back... and we have introduced MOBILE Awards for the first time returning as an in-person celebration with a Gala Awards night hosted by Mike McRoberts in Auckland on December 1st 2022.
Recognising excellence, leadership and innovation in the New Zealand utility sectors, the NZ Compare Awards are back for the 6th year and in response to consumer demand, we have introduced MOBILE Awards for the first time.
As the boundaries between the utility industries continue to blur the organisers have responded to growing demand to increase the categories and industries celebrated by the NZ Compare Awards and will now recognise excellence and achievement within New Zealand’s BROADBAND, ENERGY and MOBILE sectors for the first time.
Award categories are consumer driven and informed by the 300,000 Kiwis who use NZ Compare websites each month. Winning carries real gravitas with the Kiwi consumer and the awards represent an opportunity to be confident in the talent and vision your company has worked so hard towards. This significant event will recognise the companies that provide New Zealanders with the very best products and services across these essential industries.
The NZ Compare Awards are supported by a wide range of companies including Movinghub, Vector Metering, Chorus, realestate.co.nz and Neighbourly. The prestigious awards will recognise the companies that provide New Zealanders with the very best products and services in their industries. With a range of different categories including best home and mobile provider, best customer support, fastest service, best rural provider and best broadband innovation.
Winning an NZ Compare Award depends on a combination of criteria. These include consumer surveys and reviews on the NZ Compare websites and decisions from our expert judging panel.
"Judged by an independent panel of New Zealand experts and presented at our gala awards event, the NZ Compare Awards provide a unique stage on which we recognize and reward the achievements of the New Zealand utility sectors." said Gavin Male, CEO of NZ Compare.
So what do you think? Give a shout out to your favourite utility provider here - not just for doing their job... we want to hear about those that go above and beyond! Who should be a winner?
What are the biggest issues your region is facing? Take part in the NowNext Local survey and you could win a one of twenty $100 Prezzy Card for your opinion.
Whether it’s how happy you are or if you plan on staying long term, the NowNext Local survey is getting a snapshot of how kiwis are … View moreWhat are the biggest issues your region is facing? Take part in the NowNext Local survey and you could win a one of twenty $100 Prezzy Card for your opinion.
Whether it’s how happy you are or if you plan on staying long term, the NowNext Local survey is getting a snapshot of how kiwis are feeling.
Dear neighbours,
Meet our Houseplant Hero competition winner Alan Mckenzie! If all sheds came like that, we want one too. Congratulations to Alan and his many many houseplants.
Our passions and mahi play a large part in our legacy. When we channel that mahi into championing causes and giving back, that legacy is carried as inspiration for generations to come.
The rymanhealthcare Senior New Zealander of the Year Te Mātāpuputu o te Tau celebrates Kiwis aged 70 and over… View moreOur passions and mahi play a large part in our legacy. When we channel that mahi into championing causes and giving back, that legacy is carried as inspiration for generations to come.
The rymanhealthcare Senior New Zealander of the Year Te Mātāpuputu o te Tau celebrates Kiwis aged 70 and over who continue to inspire, champion causes, and give back, building lasting legacies that make us all proud to call New Zealand home.
Making it onto the first rung of the property ladder can be an incredibly rewarding journey – and Stuff is here to help you through.
Stuff Homed has launched the First Time Buyers’ Club, an email series to help you navigate the equal-parts exciting and terrifying process of buying your first… View moreMaking it onto the first rung of the property ladder can be an incredibly rewarding journey – and Stuff is here to help you through.
Stuff Homed has launched the First Time Buyers’ Club, an email series to help you navigate the equal-parts exciting and terrifying process of buying your first ever home. When you join our six-week LearnStuff course, you’ll get an email every week giving you all the basics on what you need to know, who you need on your side, and what you need to do at each stage of the journey.
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Making it onto the first rung of the property ladder can be an incredibly rewarding journey – and Stuff is here to help you through.
Stuff Homed has launched the First Time Buyers’ Club, an email series to help you navigate the equal-parts exciting and terrifying process of buying your first… View moreMaking it onto the first rung of the property ladder can be an incredibly rewarding journey – and Stuff is here to help you through.
Stuff Homed has launched the First Time Buyers’ Club, an email series to help you navigate the equal-parts exciting and terrifying process of buying your first ever home. When you join our six-week LearnStuff course, you’ll get an email every week giving you all the basics on what you need to know, who you need on your side, and what you need to do at each stage of the journey.
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Dear neighbours,
Have you grown these veges and fruits, and what's on your list of money savers and budget boosters?
From local democracy reporter Jonathan Leask:
A dame, a DJ, farmers, and plenty of fresh faces are among the potential new Ashburton District Councillors.
Dame Lynda Topp is set to take on politics after stepping forward as one of the new candidates vying for a seat on the council.
She is … View moreFrom local democracy reporter Jonathan Leask:
A dame, a DJ, farmers, and plenty of fresh faces are among the potential new Ashburton District Councillors.
Dame Lynda Topp is set to take on politics after stepping forward as one of the new candidates vying for a seat on the council.
She is best known for being one-half of the Topp Twins with her sister Dame Jools. Earlier this year the duo announced that they were both fighting breast cancer.
On August 4 the twins shared an update on their Facebook page that said “we are both alive and kicking” and then just over a week later Topp has thrown herself into an election campaign.
She said she had been having weekly chemotherapy sessions and spending a lot of time on the couch when her election enrolment update arrived in the mail.
“It prompted me to think about it and I talked to a few people who said I should go for it,” Topp said.
“All you can do is have a goal and get on with life.
“It’s something I can look forward to and give back to the community, a community that has been so supportive of me in the past year.”
It’s her first official run at local office having previously had a satirical tilt at the Auckland mayoralty.
“Several years ago my character Camp Mother ran for the Auckland mayoralty with Camp Leader as the campaign manager.
“In the end, we pulled out as the polling was looking like we might go close to being the mayor of Auckland. But we only did it as a big publicity stunt to get more candidates in the Auckland area.”
Topp joins a host of new names seeking a seat on the council which is set for a changing of the guard with Stuart Wilson, Angus McKay, Dianne Rawlinson, and John Falloon not standing for re-election.
That means at least four new councillors will be announced on October 8, but that number could be higher with plenty of new candidates stepping up across all three wards, while current mayor Neil Brown has a challenger in local businessman Jeff Swindley.
Topp is standing against incumbents Liz McMillan and Rodger Letham in the Western Ward.
The Ashburton Ward is set to be hotly contested with 12 candidates vying for the five vacancies.
Sitting councillors Carolyn Cameron and Leen Braam are in the running along with two former councillors, Thelma Bell, who missed out in the last election, and Russell Ellis who was unable to stand in the last election after a technical error on his nomination form.
Janet Glassey and Shfire Sapphire were the final additions to the Ashburton Ward candidate list joining eight other potential newcomers -Tony Todd, Carol Johns, Phill Hooper, Bev Skates, Brie Burgess and Hayden Tasker.
The Eastern Ward has incumbent Lynette Lovett joined by Richard Wilson, Rob Mackle and Keith Townshend.
Six candidates are running for the Methven Community Board’s five seats.
The Braided Rivers Community Trust will also have an election with nine nominations for the six vacancies.
Gerard Rushton, Chantelle Quinn, Kevin Clifford, and Sapphire all entered the race before the cut-off on Friday.
There are also three candidates standing for the two seats in Environment Canterbury’s Mid Canterbury Ōpākihi Regional Constituency.
Incumbents Ian Mackenzie and John Sunckell along with NZ Federation of Freshwater Anglers president Peter Trolove.
Where they stand
Mayor: Neil Brown, Jeff Swindley.
Western Ward (2): Rodger Letham, Liz McMillan, Lynda Topp
Eastern Ward (2): Lynette Lovett, Richard Wilson, Rob Mackle, Keith Townshend.
Ashburton Ward (5): Russell Ellis, Leen Braam, Hayden Tasker, Bev Skates, Tony Todd, Thelma Bell, Brie Burgess, Carol Johns, Phill Hooper, Janet Glassey, Carolyn Cameron. Shfire Sapphire.
Methven Community Board (5): Kelvin Holmes, Richie Owen, Allan Lock, Robin Jenkinson, Megan Fitzgerald, Adam Preston.
Braided River Community Trust (6): Tim Silva, Chris Robertson, Robert Harnett, Kerry Clough, Kieran Breakwell, Gerard Rushton, Shfire Sapphire, Chantelle Quinn, Kevin Clifford.
Voting opens: September 16
Dear neighbours,
To celebrate National Gardening Week (October 17-25), Yates have partnered with NZ Gardener to give away some fantastic prizes to some of the most inspirational compost builders in the country. Show us your compost setup, whether it’s tiny or huge, and the best looking compost … View moreDear neighbours,
To celebrate National Gardening Week (October 17-25), Yates have partnered with NZ Gardener to give away some fantastic prizes to some of the most inspirational compost builders in the country. Show us your compost setup, whether it’s tiny or huge, and the best looking compost wins 1 of 9 Compost Kits (RRP $319 each).
So email through your best tip for successful compost and one photo of your composting setup to loveyourgarden@yates.co.nz by August 26, 2022 to be in to win.
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With the 75+ population projected to double in 20 years’ time, it’s more important than ever to choose a retirement village that is equipped to support you when you’re fully independent as well as if you need care.
That’s why Ryman villages plan ahead by offering independent living in … View moreWith the 75+ population projected to double in 20 years’ time, it’s more important than ever to choose a retirement village that is equipped to support you when you’re fully independent as well as if you need care.
That’s why Ryman villages plan ahead by offering independent living in apartments and townhouses, assisted living in serviced apartments, resthome care and, in most villages, hospital and specialist dementia care.
We offer a higher ratio of care in our villages so that if your needs change, you have priority access to our care centres.
From local democracy reporter Jonathan Leask:
The recent run of heavy rainfall has caused an estimated $1.5 million of damage to the Ashburton district's already battered roading network.
Ashburton District Council infrastructure services group manager Neil McCann informed the councillors … View moreFrom local democracy reporter Jonathan Leask:
The recent run of heavy rainfall has caused an estimated $1.5 million of damage to the Ashburton district's already battered roading network.
Ashburton District Council infrastructure services group manager Neil McCann informed the councillors Wednesday that the expected cost of the last few weeks of heavy rainfall events has been initially estimated at $1.5m.
As a comparison, McCann said the district had suffered about $5m worth of damage from the May 2021 flood event.
“We currently are desperately trying to chase potholes,” McCann said.
“We now have three teams out working on road, tidying up and filling in potholes.
“This time of the year it’s really difficult to fix them. We can only temporarily fill until the weather gets better and we can do some decent repairs.”
The council is preparing an application for emergency works funding to cover a large percentage of the damage bill he said.
Roading manager Mark Chamberlain said most damage had occurred in the high country: Double Hill Run Rd, Ashburton Gorge Rd, Hakatere Potts Rd, Hakatere Heron Rd and the roads affected by Dry Creek flooding again.
The council added $300,000 to the previous financial year’s roading repair programme to bring in an extra stabilising machine to focus on potholes.
“A large proportion of that work has stood up really well. A few areas not as well.”
Those failures were the responsibility of the contractors to repair at no extra cost to the council, McCann said.
The council has included an extra $1.7m in the annual plan for major roading repairs.
Sitting mayor Neil Brown said potholes were not an issue unique to Ashburton and had not been helped by the reduced amount of funding coming from Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency to maintain roads.
“Underfunding over the years is starting to show up,” Brown said.
“We have stretched the things out and sweated the asset and we are now paying for it from a lack of funding.”
He said the council applied for more money every year and Waka Kotai was not approving all of it, leaving a shortfall.
All local roads around the country are subject to the FAR (financial assistance rate) of about 51% from Waka Kotahi and 49% from the local council.
Brown had raised the issue with the other Canterbury mayors at the regional transport committee, which he said was investigating the funding shortfall across the Canterbury region and would have a dollar figure at its next meeting.
From local democracy reporter Jonathan Leask:
The race is on in the Ashburton Ward with the local voice of Mid Canterbury radio one of the latest people in the running for Ashburton District Council.
Hokonui FM breakfast host Phill Hooper is running for a seat on the council in the Ashburton … View moreFrom local democracy reporter Jonathan Leask:
The race is on in the Ashburton Ward with the local voice of Mid Canterbury radio one of the latest people in the running for Ashburton District Council.
Hokonui FM breakfast host Phill Hooper is running for a seat on the council in the Ashburton ward and is joined by Carol Johns, the organiser of community events like the Santa Parade, Mid Town Mardi Gras and Waitangi on East.
The other new candidates coming forward are Rob Mackle and Keith Townshend in the Eastern ward.
With Hooper, Johns, and sitting Councillor Carolyn Cameron also expected to enter the race, there will be at least 10 candidates running for the five seats in the Ashburton ward.
Of those Cameron and Braam are the only current councillors standing again, Russell Ellis and Thelma Bell are former councillors and the other six candidates are newcomers.
The nominations of Mackle and Townshend means there will be an election in the Eastern Ward with sitting councillor Lynette Lovett and newcomer Richard Wilson, the son of retiring councillor Stuart Wilson already standing.
The mayoralty remains a two horse race between incumbent Neil Brown and local businessman Jeff Swindley.
The West ward currently has enough candidates to fill the vacancies without an election process.
There will be no need for an expensive by-election for the Methven Community Board with the nominations of Allan Lock, Robin Jenkinson, and Megan Fitzgerald providing enough to cover the five vacancies.
The Braided Rivers Community Trust had only five nominations for its six vacancies.
There are three nominations for the two seats in the Environment Canterbury Mid Canterbury Ōpākihi ward, with incumbents Ian Mackenzie and John Sunckell along with Peter Trolove.
Where they stand
Nominations Received (as at Wednesday 2pm)
Mayor: Neil Brown, Jeff Swindley.
Western Ward (2): Rodger Letham, Liz McMillan.
Eastern Ward (2): Lynette Lovett, Richard Wilson, Rob Mackle, Keith Townshend.
Ashburton ward (5): Russell Ellis, Leen Braam, Hayden Tasker, Bev Skates, Tony Todd, Thelma Bell, Brie Burgess, Carol Johns, Phill Hooper.
Intending to stand: Carolyn Cameron.
Ruled out: Stuart Wilson, Angus McKay, Dianne Rawlinson, John Falloon.
Methven Community Board (5): Kelvin Holmes, Richie Owen, Allan Lock, Robin Jenkinson, Megan Fitzgerald.
Braided River Community Trust (6): Tim Silva, Chris Robertson, Robert Harnett, Kerry Clough, Kieran Breakwell.
Nominations close: August 12
Voting opens: September 16
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