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All fired up for a very good cause

A TUXEDO and shiny dance shoes aren’t Fenn Langbein’s usual approach to being a volunteer fireman. He and Mel Troy are dressed up in front of the Plimmerton Fire Brigade’s brand new fire engine to get...

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Shoppers’ comfort food helps quake relief

Bake for Quake While the teachers are away, the students will bake. Wellington East Girls’ College pupils were out in Cuba St this afternoon raising money for Canterbury quake relief efforts. School...

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Sensing the past to create award-winning art

Artist Lisa-Jane Myers says she “channelled” her Maori ancestors to inspire the cloak that won her an award at the Ms Aotearoa event in Porirua on Saturday night. Titled Korekē, the outfit was worn by...

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Boat club wants to become its own landlord

PLIMMERTON Boating Club  wants to be owner not tenant of its clubhouse (above) on Karehana Bay, Porirua. Ideally, the land it’s leasing there would be swapped with two unused sections of land the club...

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Plimmerton boating club opens yachting season

TWO competitors in Plimmerton Boating Club’s season opening yacht race gather their bearings while course setter Mark Dijksma (out of picture) holds up a weather vane to test conditions. Phoebe...

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Less advertising, more talking wins council seat

NEWLY elected Fa’afoi Seiuli used word of mouth rather than a billboard to get voted onto the Porirua City Council. Of the 11 who contested the eastern ward in Porirua, Victoria University student...

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Mad if you don’t care about heart children

MAD HATTER? Sir Peter Leitch with Heart Rate 180 cycle race organiser Nicola Pointon. SIR PETER LEITCH, known to many as the Mad Butcher, has joined Nicola Pointon to help her raise money for children...

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Using origami to help save the whales

ORIGAMI WHALES: Gareth Hughes launches his campaign. A MAJOR push to save the whales is coming from the Green Party. Green MP Gareth Hughes was in Cuba St this week kicking off a campaign to stop...

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Porirua bus passengers bump, grind in potholes

BUS DRIVERS in Porirua are fed up with the conditions of their main bus stop. Despite improvements at Porirua Station, bus drivers who use the road beside it are still facing the daily routine of...

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QUAKE: What’s on Twitter

HERE’S what is being said by tweeters in New Zealand and round the world (using the hashtag #eqnz on the social networking site Twitter:)   @DailyYomiuri  3:25pm: Family members of Japanese students...

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