The ‘broken’ shaft of the Cenotaph in Carterton’s Memorial Square is a symbol of young lives cut short. It also represents the broken families and fractured communities that resulted from our losses – the children never to be born, the branches of our families we will never know.

In World War I, from a country of about one million people, we lost eighteen thousand two hundred and one. We lost another eleven thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight in World War II from a population of a little over a million and a half. In both wars the ratio-to-population of New Zealanders killed was the highest in the Commonwealth and the casualty rate among Maori was almost fifty per cent higher than the New Zealand average.

Among the crosses in Memorial Square are repeated family names and the high turn-out at Anzac Day commemorations shows that we still feel these shocking absences.

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In both wars the ratio-to-population of New Zealanders killed was the highest in the Commonwealth and the casualty rate among Maori was almost fifty per cent higher than the New Zealand average. Photo Don Farr.

EditorialHub Carterton

It’s wonderful to watch this adaptable little town change to fit the times.

With the Events Centre we gained a hub for events, activities and services. Now the Council has opened up a new services hub – Haumanu House – (see article page 15). Instead of travelling into Masterton people will be able to access important services here.

The proposed sports hub in Carrington Park (see article page 20) holds out a lifeline to sports clubs and services currently experiencing difficulties in an economic environment which allows fewer active people the freedom to volunteer.

In the arts and environmental matters Carterton has been ahead of the pack for many years. (See article page 5)

Anzac Day: Anzac Day saw a huge turn out from the community. The front page article mentions that shock still felt by the community at the losses we suffered. Of course we are still shocked! As the Anzac Day parade – full of beautiful, healthy children – showed and as this issue again demonstrates, the instincts of this community are to nurture and treasure their families, to reject division and violence and to support each other and work together to answer life’s hard questions. (See Resilient Carterton page 14).

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DisclaimerIn October 2015 the Carterton Crier group began production of a new

publication using with permission the name of The Carterton Crier which had ceased publication. There is no other connection between the two publications and any debts, responsibilities or obligations of the previous publication remain with its publisher.

We take every care with copy and accept responsibility only for proofing errors. We are not responsible for incorrect information from contributors. We reserve the right to edit copy and to make the final decision on content.

Story CompetitionCongratulations to our Penny Dreadful star contributor,

Raewyn Foster, who has written our final chapter. The story so far: Penny Dreadful, private detective is hindered

by wanna-be detective Sylvester Slick in her efforts to bring down the notorious bridge-playing robbers and confidence tricksters, the Peabody gang, headed by evil Mrs Peabody. Things have got dangerous. Penny and Sylvester Slick have broken into Mrs Peabody’s house and Mrs Peabody has a gun:

Mrs Peabody shouted, “Stop thief!” Sylvester shouted, “No Mrs Peabody, its only me, Slinky Slick!” Smidge barked madly and Penny screamed, “Don’t shoot!”Mrs Peabody threw a switch and the room was flooded with light

and heavy breathing.“I’ll call the police,” Mrs Peabody snarled. “That’s not a good idea,” huffed Sylvester. “I’m sure we can work

this out.” He glared at Penny. “Well, I could have worked this out! Let’s sit down at the card table. It’s nearly midnight – certainly time for a cup of tea.

“No time for that nonsense,” Penny barked. “I am arresting you, Mrs Peabody, for theft!” She pulled out handcuffs.

Mrs Peabody grinned. “And who has the gun?” At this Sylvester, who wasn’t a bad bloke at heart, threw himself

sideways, striking the gun from Mrs Peabody’s hand. The gun went off, cracking a hole in the ceiling. Sylvester landed heavily, knocking the wind out of Mrs Peabody and Penny snapped the handcuffs on her.

Penny Dreadful, private investigator extraordinaire, had done it again!

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At twenty-five, Carterton karate instructor, Thomas Duncan, is one of the youngest karate sensei, a master of the art. He says it takes ten or twelve years to achieve and most sensei are in their forties.

Thomas teaches traditional Okinawan karate which originated there in the early 1800s. The warm-up exercises are unchanged from that time.

Thomas learnt karate in Featherston when he was thirteen and has trained three nights a week ever since. Watching him lead the exercises you see that this has made him fit, flexible, fast and seemingly tireless.

“Most people who are advanced in karate are between the ages of 40 and 70,” Thomas said. “It’s a lifelong sport. We take children at seven, when they can concentrate. We keep it relaxed. We want them to feel confident and enjoy it. We don’t expect anything of students, except to keep striving.

“It’s family oriented. Often parents come after their children have joined and they end up keener than the kids.

“I teach it because I like to see them change – become more confident – and see their faces when we tell them they’ve passed a grade.”

The Federation runs Gasshuku (training camps) throughout New Zealand and Australia. There are also overseas Gasshuku. Students are often subsidised by the Federation. Over the years, Thomas has been to about twenty, in Okinawa, Japan and Australia.

Thomas Duncan (r), one of the youngest karate sensei, teaches in Carterton. Photo Don Farr.

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“We’ve just had our annual, March, Castlepoint camp – we did a lot of training and socialising. We had a great weekend,” Thomas said.

The Federation, a non-profit organisation, runs four local dojos (training places). For one reasonable monthly fee people can train throughout the dojos.

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Carterton’s Deputy Fire Chief, Bryan Styles, joined the brigade thirty-five years ago and got straight into the fire brigade waterway competitions – see Youtube video: UFBA Waterway Challenge. In 1987 his Carterton team won the New Zealand national title and in 1990 they came second in the Australasian Waterway Championships. A later Carterton team won that championship.

Ten years ago Bryan joined the technical panel of the United Fire Brigade Association (UFBA). His role was to oversee the challenges: waterway, driving, road crash rescue (RCR) and the combat challenge, known as the toughest two minutes in sport. (Youtube: New Zealand Firefighter Combat Challenge official video.)

While he was on the panel Bryan officiated at the world RCR championships in Hamilton and Wellington. Three years ago, after six years on the panel Bryan stood for Vice President of the UFBA.

“I won but, because the President couldn’t take up his position, I became President the next day.

“The most memorable job I had as President was to give the Medal of Valour to Scott Shadbolt, a Christchurch firefighter who saved a man’s life by amputating his leg in a falling building. Only four of these badges have ever been awarded, the first in 1882. I also gave out eighty-three UFBA Valour Certificates to Christchurch firefighters.

“My last job was to chair the national conference. I really enjoyed that year.

“I still officiate at challenges and I’m the convenor of the Australasian panel for the Waterway Championships to be held in Carterton in October next year. There will be about thirty teams competing from Thursday through till Monday. It will be a big event!”

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The Carterton Volunteer Fire Brigade, training in Carrington Park. Photo Jan Farr.

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“In 2006 the late Shirley Andrews, who started the Information Centre, asked me if I would run a small art group,” said Jane Giles, one of Wai Art’s founders. “We started with volunteers in the back of what is now Almo’s. The Council agreed to fund an employee and we found Cheryl Jaggard – she was our angel!

“We ran quiz nights for a year to raise money. Then we made our big move from High Street to the Information Centre, across the road from the Council.

“We ran national exhibitions in that space. We couldn’t believe the huge response we got to the first one. We had twelve notable judges and several awards including a people’s choice award.

“Our philosophy has been to accept all-comers, let the viewers make up their own minds about what’s good and what isn’t and keep costs as low as possible for artists.

“Our current focus is on refreshing and renewing our outside art works. We plan to put existing images onto big boards and paint them, collectively.

“Wai Art meets at 10 am on the first Monday of the month in the Golf Club rooms. We get forty or so people. Some people bring their work along for discussion or feedback. We often run presentations; we have a screen and a computer. We have about sixty-five paid up subscribers and an enormous data base. We make sure people are kept up to speed. We email out our newsletter, The Canvas, to the data base. We welcome new members.”

Jane also runs a small business that places artists’ work in public spaces: Wai Art Scape. See What’s on for details.

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Wai Art’s current focus is on refreshing and renewing their outside art works. Photos Don Farr.

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“No school is too big or too small to enter the A&P show’s South Wairarapa Schools’ Gardening Shield competition,” convenor Coral Aitcheson said. “There are so many strengths it brings out in the pupils – there’s something for everyone in this – planning, planting, harvesting, cooking, recording and marketing.”

When the beautifully wrought shield turned up four years ago in a cupboard at the A&P Show offices, Coral resurrected the competition. The Bunny family’s name was on the shield so she persuaded descendant, John Bunny, to donate the prize of $500 each year. Rotary gave the second prize of $100. The Clareville Garden Shop supplied the third prize of $50 and had also made a preliminary gift of seeds to South Wairarapa schools. The Carterton garden group judged the competition.

“I’d like to acknowledge them all for their generosity,” Coral said. She added that the prizes are given unconditionally. The schools may

do whatever they like with the money.Winners this year were South End School with Pirinoa School

second and Greytown third.Coral was delighted with South End School’s book which recorded

a year of gardening in detail, with photos. Every stage is there – from pulling out the remains of last year’s crop, collecting the seeds, weeding the boxes, composting them, planting, harvesting and cooking with the produce – recipes included. They have also included a New Zealand planting guide.

“This book is the most impressive I have come across. It is exactly what I was hoping we would find,” Coral said.

Starting from 2017 the competition will be judged in November to fit in with the school year.

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Garden competition develops strengths

South End children clear the plots and plant their vegetables. And finally enjoy the fruits of their labour.

In 1989 there was a whisper that Carterton’s Railway Station (built 1880) would be flattened and replaced with a concrete block or plexiglass enclosure, so a group of locals set up the Carterton Railway Museum. Rail management gave them guardianship and charged a peppercorn rental for the land, although they have recently increased it.

Don Hodge, Carterton Railway Museum President and committee members, Doug Johnston, his grandson Vaughan Snell, Arthur Bleuler and Wayne Watt, were there on the morning we visited. While patiently archiving boxes of records that someone had found in the ceiling of an old station, Doug came across a telegram informing management of Queen Victoria’s death. The telegram set out the days-off for mourning and the pay arrangements.

Don showed us the women’s waiting room and toilet (once emptied by the town’s night cart). Historically the waiting room could be entered only from the platform. It is now open to the general waiting room and ticket office and filled with general memorabilia.

In the main display room beyond the ticket office there are rail exhibits and five perfectly-maintained tablet machines which communicate with each other through unique bells. Train drivers would pick up a tablet at each station and leave the last one behind, otherwise the train could not go. “There was never a head-on collision under the tablet system,” Don said.

The men’s toilet block, outside the station, is the oldest operating railway toilet in the country still on its original site.

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Doug Johnston sorts through rail archives at the museum. Photo Don Farr.

A truly local railway station

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Safety tip: Don says:

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Listening to Rhondda Greig one autumn afternoon we are transported to France, arriving in Paris by bus. She and Nelson Mandela then bring us to Matarawa on a bicycle, with God on the handle bars. We hear the story that almost twenty years ago the railway station there had a tree painted on its wall and someday Rhondda will paint it again.

We visit Scotland, austere in the far north, ice and quiet. Yet in the spring rapeseed shines so yellow that the writer asks who planted it. The colour leads to the title of her forthcoming book, Chew the Bright Hysteria, to be published by Steele Roberts in the Spring.

There is a trip around the supermarket aisles with a cleaner who says that onion skin is the hardest thing to remove from the floor and we see three of her paintings of shopping lists, in cursive script.

Life keeps moving, she says; many things are left unfinished; we go from one fad to another and use the word passionate far too often. One item that will never be on her list is a pair of jeans. She does not want that imperialism on her skin.

Rhondda says that she does not live in a house but in the landscape. “I live in a daisy.” Her new series of paintings is on homelessness.

She is the author of Noa’s Calf (2009), Eavesdropping with Angels (1994), Matarawa House (1991), and Matarawa Cats (1984). She appeared at the writers’ series, Wairarapa Word, in April.

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From Friday May 20, writer, Joy Cowley, and film designer, Richard Taylor, will lead the programme of events at Featherston’s Booktown festival.

“We are absolutely delighted to have Joy and Richard at Booktown, both pioneers in their respective fields,” said Featherston Booktown Director of Operations Kate Mead.

Joy Cowley, recently described by American media as the Elvis Presley of children’s books, will give two readings at the Royal Hotel on May 21 and lead a three-hour Creative Writing Workshop for Adults at the Senior Citizens’ Hall on May 22. Her words will also be put to music, created by composer Gareth Farr, in Scary Music. This will be performed by the New Zealand String Quartet at the Senior Citizens’ Hall.

Richard, design and effects supervisor at Weta Workshop has been awarded five Oscars and four BAFTA. He will be the guest speaker at the fish and chip supper being held at Featherston’s ANZAC Hall on May 20.

See the full programme online at www.booktown.org.nz

National Treasures at Featherston’s Booktown Festival

The Elvis Presley of children’s books – award winning writer Joy Cowley.

Rhondda Greig’s forthcoming book of poetry, Chew the Bright Hysteria, featured at April’s Wai Word. Photo Madeleine Slavick.

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Joe Bennett, Steve Braunias, Kate de Goldi, Harry Ricketts, David Hill, Nicky Pellegrino and Matinee Idle ‘s Phil O’Brien are just some of the well known names who will entertain us at the Yarns in Barns Festival from May 27 to June 5.

Steve Braunias will speak in Greytown on the morning of May 28 about his book on New Zealand’s high-profile crimes.

Colin Hogg and Joe Bennett will share road-trip yarns with master of ceremonies Gareth Winter on Saturday June 4 at the Strang Woolshed, Gladstone.

On the final day, Sunday 5 June, there will be Poems On The Vine at the Gladstone Vineyard, featuring poets Ya-wen Ho, Lynley Edmeades and Ross Ireland, introduced by Madeleine Slavick.

To find out more about the extensive programme, go to www.hedleysbooks.co.nz

We spent a gripping evening with lashings of French flair at the Sunset Cinema in April!

First up was another Minty Hunter discovery, the riveting short film, l’Accordeur (The Piano Tuner) by Olivier Treiner. In fourteen rapid minutes it served up an intriguing premise, mesmerising characters, lots of laughs, a shocking twist and a knife-edge ending.

The feature was Fred Cavayé’s Pour Elle (Anything for Her). Vincent Lindon and Diane Kruger star as a loving couple whose life takes a terrible turn, lurching from intimacy to alienation when the woman is accused of a murder she didn’t commit and then jailed for twenty years.

In spite of the fact that the film failed in places to convince me, it was so fast-paced, exciting and emotionally gripping that I sailed over the credibility gaps without any trouble, except perhaps for the brief, seemingly tacked-on glimpse we were given, early in the piece, of the real culprit.

The main characters are attractive, strong, compelling and believable and the director makes good use of the viewer’s righteous indignation at the blind justice that threatens to destroy this innocent family. As a result the relief of the almost-fantasy ending is so great that my picky critic agreed to take a back seat.

Our June issue will review Ever the Land (2015) (showing May 8, before Crier distribution date) which observes the planning and construction of New Zealand’s first living building, Te Wharehou o Tahoe and whatever thrilling short film the mysterious Minty pairs it with!

The German film, Stations of the Cross shows on June 12. Full programme and details: www.sunsetcinemacarterton.com

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Yarns in Barns

Steve Braunias will speak about his latest book at Yarns in Barns.

Anything For HerSunset Cinema review

The smiling faces of craftswomen, Pat Snellgrove and Patricia Moran, looked up from their knitting needles and welcomed us to the Craft Market, where a group of local craftspeople sell their wares.

Laid out attractively on stalls and displayed in shelves are cheap, beautifully-crafted objects: cushions, knitted baby clothes, bed socks, hot-water-bottle covers, jewellery, jams and chutneys, domestic articles from kiwiana-designed fabric, sun-hats, honey soap, witty dolls whose skirts contain plastic bags, enormous toys made from recycled scrap and local paintings on the walls from Wai Art Space. It’s almost impossible to go round the shop without thinking of someone you would like to buy something for. Understandably their goods go all over the world.

Robyn Thwaites, who makes cushions from fabrics she loves, set up the Craft Market.

“For me it’s very important that the people who sell, also make their own things,” she said. “This is an artisan shop.I did it because I had my cushions and there were a lot of clever people around. My main thing is that I am into local people. I think it’s important that they have an outlet. Most of the crafters make to order. Things are cheap – my cushions – complete with inner and zip – are $20. I’m not here to make money. For me it’s all about helping people to do what they love.”

Jan Farr

The Oversew Fashion awards feature high-fashion clothes made from a minimum of 80% pre-worn garments.

Our partner and sponsor, Earthcare Environmental has been with us since our first show in 2012 and refers to our relationship with them as ‘a match made in recycling heaven’. We agree.

There are first and second prizes for each of our four categories, Young Designer; Tertiary Designer; The Space Between Internship at Massey University and The Award of Excellence which will be the finale for the Saturday night show.

The Sunday matinee will feature the People’s Choice Award donated by Copthorne Solway.

Tickets are selling fast, so don’t miss out.Saturday May 28, Carterton Events Centre, 7.30 pm, matinee

Sunday, May 29, 1 pm.Tickets available at www.eventfinda.co.nz, I sites or the Carterton

Information Centre. www.oversewfashion.com www.facebook.com/TheOversewFashionAwards

Patricia Moran and Pat Snellgrove at work. Photo Don Farr.

Oversew 2015, catwalk. Photo Masanori Udagawa.

Helping people to do what they love

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Craft Market

Over the last thirty years the Rotary Club of Carterton has raised thousands of dollars to go towards the project, End polio Now. In 1988 Rotary International and its partners committed to eradicating the disease. Polio paralysed more than 350,000 children per year in 125 countries – more than a thousand per day. Since that time the number of polio cases has been reduced by ninety-nine per cent. Case numbers of the disease have never been lower and only Afghanistan and Pakistan have not stopped transmission of the wild polio virus. This is an important time in the fight to eradicate polio, which, after smallpox, would be only the second human disease to be eradicated.

Rotary has contributed more than US$1.5 billion to ending polio. These funds are tripled thanks to a two-to-one contribution from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The World Health Organisation is confident that the world will be polio-free by 2018.

The club plans to run a fire wood raffle in May as part of fundraising for this great cause.

Jim Mckenzie Young Achievers’ awards evening – May 30This is an award to recognise local, young people, aged 10 –

16 inclusive, who in 2015/16 have reached an exceptionally high

standard of achievement in their chosen academic, arts, service or sports fields. We also offer a special award for any other exceptional achievement. If you know of anyone who could qualify for an award please contact Deirdre 379 5530 or dmoflynn@hotmail.com for more information.

Annual book sale July 9 and 10If you have any books you wish to donate please put them aside for

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Whatever the Scottish music – The dashing white sergeant, an eightsome reel or the graceful, haunting music of The minister on the loch – it stirs the soul and sets the toes tapping.

The inaugural Dance Scottish month in June this year has been organized by the New Zealand branch of the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society to promote Scottish country dancing throughout New Zealand.

The Carterton Scottish Country Dance Club meets on Monday evenings from 7.30 pm in the Carterton School hall and welcomes new members.

On Saturday June 18 the club will have a Come and have a go ceilidh in the Carterton School Hall from 7.30 pm. Entry is free and supper will be provided at the end of the evening. No partners necessary, soft shoes advisable.

For further information contact Elaine 377 0322 or Denise 379 8339.

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Wairarapa won Best Regional Stand at the one-day trade show, Convene 16, and secured a large conference booking.

“We’ve been working hard to demonstrate that the Wairarapa is an attractive place to host a conference,” says David Hancock, General Manager of Destination Wairarapa.

Destination Wairarapa partnered with Carterton Events Centre, Tui HQ, the Copthorne Hotel & Resort Solway Park, Brackenridge Country Retreat & Spa and Tranzit Coachlines to make the joint winning stand at the show.

Destination Wairarapa also hosted three events organisers from Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland for three days in Convene’s regional famil (familiarisation) programme.

“They were given a taste of the Wairarapa – from sampling our amazing Pinot Noir and regional food to seeing Manukura, the white kiwi, and the incredible collection of rare WWI aircraft at the Vintage Aviator,” said Mr Hancock. “The feedback we received was great and we’re sure we’ve inspired them to hold events here in the region in the future.”

Attracting events to the Wairarapa

The winning team at Convene 16. David Hancock, far right.

Music to stir the soul and sets the toes tapping. Photo: Pixabay.

EventsWairarapa to Host Restoration Day 2016. Saturday May 21, Carterton Events Centre, 10 am – 4 pm. Groups limited to five places. Contact Jill Greathead at 379 6193 or jill@enzedpcs.co.nz

Oversew Fashion Awards. Carterton Events Centre. Awards night May 28, 7.30 pm. Matinee May 29, 1 pm. Fashion show for aspiring designers who create, revamp and redesign pre-loved clothing into fashion garments. General seats: Awards night $49. Matinee $35. Phone sales 0800 289 849.

Fundraiser for stem cell treatment in Singapore for Nick Perkins. Glam and Gumboots dinner and auction night, May 21, 6 pm, Copthorne Solway Park. Tickets $90pp or $800 for a table of ten includes two-course meal, auction entry, entertainment and raffle ticket. http://www.perkins.net.nz 027 373 9966

Yarns in a Barn. Sat June 4, 3 pm. Strang Woolshed, Gladstone, four km on the right down the Longbush Road from Gladstone. Colin Hogg and Joe Bennett share road-trip yarns. Tickets $5 – Students $2.

Poems on the Vine. Sunday June 5, 3 pm at Gladstone Vineyard. Featuring poets Ya-wen Ho, Lynley Edmeades and Ross Ireland. Tickets $12, students $5. Includes one glass of Gladstone wine. Tickets www.hedleysbooks.co.nz, or Hedley’s Bookshop.

Limelight Theatre, improv workshop. Sat/Sun 21/22 May at Events Centre, register: limelight.org.nz/workshops

Limelight Theatre, improv show. Sunday May 22, 6 pm, Events Centre. Two hours of fun, laughter and surprises. $10 single, $15 couple.

Resilient Carterton, Workshop 2. Thursday May 19, 7:15 pm, Events Centre. All welcome. Get involved in strengthening our community. Register: www.projectwairarapa.org.nz

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The Carterton Scouts are gearing up for their Jamboree firewood fundraiser in May. So order your firewood! Delivery will be Saturday the 21st of May. $120 for 2 cubic metres of pine - delivered and stacked for residents in urban Carterton.

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Come down to Wild Oats the last Friday of every month to meet others who have recently moved to our great little town. From 5.30pm. For more information call Kylie 0276889401

Education, youth, childrenCarterton Kindergarten. 3 Victoria Street, 8.30 am – 2.30 pm, Monday to Friday. Call in for an enrolment form to go on our waiting list. Children two years and over 379 8102. Facebook. Website carterton@wmkindergartens.org.nz

Kiddie Gym. Up to three years old. Every Wednesday in term time, 9.30 am to 11 am, St David’s Church, 164 High Street. Morning tea provided for parents. Call Jannine 379 8550.

Rangatahi to Rangatira Youth Group. Free youth art workshops 6.30 pm first Wednesday each month at Toi Wairarapa: Heart of Arts, 47 High Street North. No need for arty experience. We are back in the Youth Centre 5.30 pm Wednesdays. All young people welcome. Facebook page: r2rcarterton.

Whanau Aroha Playgroup. Alison Dye leads music and play for pre-schoolers, Thursday, 9.30 am to 11 am, term time, Salvation

Army hall, 210 High Street.

Carterton Playcentre. Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, 9 am to noon, Howard Booth Park, Belvedere Road. Visitors and new families welcome. Liz Crow 022 312 0677, Leah Wynne 021 159 0782, Playcentre 379 7875, cartertonplaycentre@gmail.com and Facebook.

Carterton Scout Group. Keas (school years 1-3) Monday 4 pm to 5 pm, Bronwyn Pogson 379 7068. Cubs (school years 4-6) Monday 6:30 pm to 8 pm, Josh Hunter 027 481 6523. Scouts (school years 7-10) Thursday 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm, Ben Laybourn 027 641 7249.

ArtsWai Art Group. A monthly meeting of artists, first Monday of each month, 10 am at the Carterton Golf Club. New artists welcome. Jane Giles 379 6559.

Toi Wairarapa Heart of Arts. 47 High Street North, women’s open microphone event, Sunday 15 May, 3.30 pm. BYO welcome.

Wairarapa Art Sale. Featherston Community Centre 19 – 22 May 2016, an exhibition showcasing Featherston and Wairarapa artists and art. The sale coincides with Featherston Book Town 2016.

Carterton Community Choir. Thursdays 7.15 pm to 9 pm, Baptist Church Hall, 113 Belvedere Road. $4 unwaged, $6 waged. cartertonsinging@gmail.com.

Carterton’s Sunset Cinema. Eleven wonderful films in 2016. $25 for three-movie sampler. See Facebook or www.sunsetcinemacarterton.com

Carterton Book Group. A University of the Third Age (U3A) group. Meets fourth Friday of the month, 2 pm, St Marks hall. New members welcome. Sue Burns 379 6506.

Wai Art Scape. For $20 a month Jane Giles places artists’ work in publicly accessible spaces around the town. jcgiles@slingshot.co.nz, 379 6559.

ServicesNew Social Services Hub – Haumanu House: For Courts (Registrar and JP), Community Law, Wairarapa Free Budgeting, Care NZ (drug and alcohol), Pathways (mental health), Probation, Workwise (mental health, work brokers), Hauora (Māori mental health), Whaiora and Inland Revenue. Access beside rear entrance to Council Buildings and Events Centre. (See article)

Justice of the Peace in attendance. Last Friday of the month, 11 am to 1 pm, Carterton Library. JP available for certifying copies, taking declarations, affirmations, affidavits and other signings.

Masterton Toastmasters. Second Tuesday of month, 7.30 pm, Carterton Events Centre. Develop confidence in public speaking. Come as a guest for the first three sessions. Jill Greathead 379 6193.

Alcoholics Anonymous. 8 pm Mondays. Salvation Army Community Rooms, 210 High Street south. Dennis 377 5355 or Martin 372 7764.

Family History Service. Adele Pentony-Graham runs a free service for those interested in their early family history. pentonygraham@xtra.co.nz.

Senior Citizens. 150 High Street. Meet second and fourth Wednesday of month, 10 am – 11.30 am, morning tea and housie (fourth Wednesday we go to lunch). Fridays 1.30 pm to 4 pm: cards, scrabble, rummikub and pool. New members welcome. Yvonne 379 9298 or Francie 379 7719. Hall available for hire, $10 per hour.

What’s on in May and June

Rotary Club of Carterton. 6.15 pm Mondays. Club Carterton, 35 Broadway Carterton. Kevin Conroy (secretary) 379 9304

Carterton Probus Club. Last Tuesday of the month, 10 am, Carterton Events Centre. Jeanne 379 5444.

Epilepsy Support Group. Mondays 11 am, Salvation Army Office, 210 High Street south. 0800 20 21 22.

Club Carterton. Restaurant open Friday and Saturday nights. Function rooms and menus at competitive prices. www.club-carterton.com, and Facebook.

South Wairarapa Working Men’s Club. www.swwmc.org.nz/, 304 9449, swwmc@wise.net.nz.

Fairs, marketsCarterton Community Market. Saturdays 9 am to 12.30 pm, Baptist Church hall, 113 Belvedere Road: crafts, home-grown produce and garage sales. Space available for new sellers, $5 a table. Just turn up with your goods and $5.

Carterton Farmers’ Market. Sundays, 9 am to 12.30 pm, Memorial Square. Dan Broughton 027 663 9011.

Carterton Craft Market. Open seven days, 10 am to 2 pm. High Street Carterton. Home-made crafts and produce. Robyn 379 7099.

Sport, fitness, movementCarterton Swimming Club. New members welcome. Russell Geange 379 7750, Rick Anderson 021 943 410. Water aerobics Monday to Thursday 10 am (all welcome). For independent use of the indoor pool and key hire, Grant Crawford 379 6431.

Pilates. Wednesdays, 5.30 pm, Gladstone Sports and Social Complex. First class free. Di Bailey 027 498 7261.

Yoga with Odette. Beginners, Wednesday 9 am. A gentle class for those new to yoga or wishing to support stiff muscles and joints. Kundalini, breathwork, meditation, yoga postures: aligns the body, reduces stress. All levels. Monday 7 pm. 75 Brooklyn Road, Carterton. 021 180 9452. Classes $10.

Tai Chi. Gentle exercises for all ages. Wednesday 9.30 to 10.30am. St Mark’s Hall, Richmond Rd. $6 per session.

Carterton Bowling and Croquet Club. Association croquet. Thursday and Sunday, 9.15 am, Helen Smith 304 8840. Golf croquet,Wednesday 9.15 am Saturday, 1.15 pm. Steve Davis 304 7155. Trish Moran 379 7071. Bowls, Tuesday and Saturday, 1.30 pm, Ray Beale 379 8242. New members welcome.

Wairarapa Dance Club. Old-time dancing at Club Carterton, Broadway. Every second Friday 7.30 pm to 10.30 pm. Russell 377 1609.

Crows’ Feet Dance Collective. Tuesdays 10 am to 11.15 am, St Mark’s Church Hall, Richmond Road, Bridget 379 7192.

The Dance Shed. 450 Belvedere Road. Line-dancing class, Mondays 7 pm to 9 pm. Rock and roll class, Wednesdays 7 pm to 9 pm. Contact Wendy or Don 027 319 9814

Carterton Scottish Country Dance Club. Mondays, 7.30 pm. April, St James Church hall, High Street, Masterton. Elaine 377 0322, Julie 370 4493.

Carterton nine-hole golf. Women, Wednesday 11.00 am. Men and women, Tuesday 11.30 am. Colleen 377 0841.

Carterton Golf Club. Veterans men and women: Tuesday, 18 hole tee-off, 9.30 am. Members $5, visitors $10. Members’ club day: Saturdays, draw 11.50 am April to September. Visitors welcome.

Dalefield Hockey Club. Premier men’s and women’s teams playing in the Wellington competition. Local men’s and women’s teams. Schoolchildren teams playing at Clareville. Contact Leanne Percy 379 9096, Gail Miller 379 8341.

Carterton Tennis Club. Midweek: Tuesday 9 am to noon all year round. Google us. Like us on Facebook. www.cartertontennis.co.nz.

Karate. South End School hall, 6 pm Thursday.Enquiries, Thomas Duncan, 027 302 8923, 06 308 8844.

Ruamahanga Ramblers. Tuesday, 6.15 pm. www.sportsground.co.nz/ruamahangaramblers. A social running and walking group for all ages and abilities. No subscriptions or weekly fees. Contact: Paul Furkert 379 5355.

Indoor bowls. Morrison Bush, Monday, 7 pm, Greytown School hall, Howard Billman 304 9147. South Wairarapa Workingmen, Thursday, 7.30 pm, Jackie Whittington 377 1512. Featherston R.S.A. Thursday, 7 pm, R.S.A Club, Featherston, Brian Love 308 9330. Clareville, Monday, 7.30 pm, Tom Bubb rooms, Clareville show grounds, Colleen Larkin 379 8399.

Basketball. Monday, 7 pm, Kuranui College gym. All ages and abilities welcome. Skill drills with Jason Hutchings and Lee Rapson followed by short games. $2 koha. Facebook: Wairarapa Basketball Society. Facebook

Carterton Squash Club. We play squash all year. Drop into the club on a Wednesday or Friday evening: howardboothsquash@gmail.com.

Wairarapa Dog Training. Rally-O, obedience and agility classes, info@wairarapadogtraining.co.nz, www.wairarapadogtraining.co.nz.

HIIT classes – High Intensity Interval Training. Most weekdays, 8.30 am and 4.30 pm, Carrington Park, with Anaru and Dallas Te Rangi. Facebook: HIIT FIIT – Strength, Cardio, Circuit.

Special InterestsCarterton District Historical Society. Display and Information Centre. A wide range of historical, local business and family records. To arrange a visit phone Alison Underhill 379 7827. Set opening times later in year.

Carterton Garden Group. Meets second Tuesday 1.30 pm. We meet at each other’s gardens, swap plants, ideas and information. No fee. Vicki Waller 379 9080, rvwaller@xtra.co.nz

Holdsworth Women’s Institute. Meets West Taratahi hall, first Thursday of each month, 1.30 pm. Colleen Bunning 379 8002. New members welcome.

Menzshed Carterton. Mondays 9 a m to 1 pm, Tuesdays 1 pm to 5 pm, Fridays 9 am to 1 pm, Clareville complex. A&P grounds, follow the signs.

Phoenix Astronomical Society. Meetings second Monday of month, 7:30 pm in the AV centre, Stonehenge Aotearoa, 51 Ahiaruhe Road.

Wairarapa Vintage Car Club. Club night, first Monday of month 7.30 pm, except statutory holidays, Clareville Showgrounds, Chester Road. Gary or Barbara Lang 372 7593.

Mangatarere Society. Help breathe life into our river: mangatarere.restoration@gmail.com.

Masterton Toastmasters. New venue – Toi Wairarapa 47 High St North, Tuesday, May 10, 7:30 pm, Tuesday May 24, 7:30 pm.

This is a community initiative to build a more resilient community in the Carterton district. The first workshop was held in late March to find out from the community what they think resilience looks like, what is happening already, what needs to be done and where we are vulnerable. Four themes have emerged.

Understand local skills and resources: know what skills and resources we have and how to access them when needed. Discover what’s missing.

Build community: build trust, networks and working relationships. Address isolation and dislocation.

Develop in a sustainable way: boost local activity opportunities – especially for young people – and encourage sustainable economic development.

Be prepared: ensure that we are aware and prepared to deal with adverse events.

Workshop Two will dig into these themes and look at opportunities and then create projects that will provide tangible differences within a few months. Some of these projects may be to develop, support or expand existing initiatives.

Come along to Workshop Two, Thursday May 19 at the Carterton Events Centre at 7.15 pm. The workshop starts at 7:30 pm sharp.

Please register at www.projectwairarapa.org.nz so we can send you the information that will help you arrive at the workshop ready to get straight into it.

Mike Osborne

Rita Adair and Helen Langley have sold ANZAC poppies in Carterton for twenty years.

“I used to sell them in the Hutt, as well,” Rita said. “Helen and I are both from Carterton and members of the Women’s Section of Carterton RSA.”

Rita and Helen’s husbands both served in the desert and survived the war.

Rita said that her husband was away for four years and was killed, after his return, in a railway shunting accident.

ANZAC Day is a special day for both women.

Workshop two Poppy day stalwartsResilient Carterton

Developing and encouraging young people is essential for a resilient community. South End School takes a wreath to the Anzac Memorial Service.

Rita Adair and Helen Langley sell poppies outside New World, Carterton on Poppy Day. Photo Don Farr.

Mt Dick lookout – built with Carterton Lions, 2002

The amazing weather has allowed us to finish the painting of the Sparks Park bridges and tables. We are still working on the toilet at the cemetery and soon there will be leaves and chestnuts all over the graves, so we will be up there again in June and July.

How did the group start? I have spoken to several people who were around near the beginning. It started out as council project in 1994 and was part of Keep New Zealand Beautiful Group. However, being part of KNZBG cost quite a bit of money so Carterton formed a separate group. A group of volunteers have worked and run it ever since with back-up from the council.

The hanging baskets started as pots of daffodils outside the shops, with all Carterton schools helping to plant them. After a while they dried up or were stolen. In August, 1999, the group decided to hang the baskets and put in an irrigation system. About 200 baskets were planted and put up, in November 1999, in the town centre and surrounding area.

In the past we have held competitions for schools and kindergarten children to plant daffodils in unusual containers.

As well, we built the bridges at Sparks Park and have continued to maintain them.

In 2002, along with the Carterton Lions, we built a viewing platform

at Mt Dick. It overlooks the Wairarapa and looks amazing.Thanks to all of the past members who gave me this information.Karen Chalmers

The group that keeps Carterton beautiful

The Wairarapa Road Safety Council advises motorists to prepare now for winter driving.

Check list: Check for maximum tread depth and correct inflation of tyres (essential). Get your spare tyre and tools checked at the same time.

Check lights, brakes, cooling system, demisters, wiper blades and batteries. You need to see and be seen and there’s more drain on batteries in winter.

Consider carrying spare waterproof clothing, a torch and a first aid kit. Prepare for the unexpected. It takes very little room.

Tips for safe winter driving: • Commuters driving over the Rimutaka Hill need to take their time

and watch for ice, snow, wind gusts and oil and diesel spills. Slow down and consider the road and weather conditions. Know before you go – get the latest road information: call 0800 4 HIGHWAYS – 0800 44 44 49

• Beware of black ice on bends in the morning where the road is shaded on the Rimutakas, Mount Bruce and local bridges.

• Be visible! Turn your headlights on! This can reduce winter crashes by fifty per cent. Cyclists, make sure you have suitable bright lights and high viz reflecting gear.

• Increase your following distances to four seconds and slow down!• Avoid sudden braking and turning manoeuvres.• Look out for slippery, painted road surfaces. This applies especially

to cyclists and motorcycle riders.• Always make sure you and your passengers wear seatbelts and

children are properly secured in child restraints.Pick up a free digital tyre pressure gauge or tread depth gauge key-

ring from REAP House, 340 Queen Street, Masterton, while stocks last.

Carterton’s recently opened Haumanu House will give locals a chance to access social services that they once had to travel to Masterton for. The name Haumanu means to revive, restore to health and rejuvenate.

Carterton District Council has taken over the lease of the vacant police house on council land behind the police station and converted it into a social services hub. The house has three bedrooms and a large living room which will be used as offices and a waiting room.

Providing services are Courts (Registrar and JP), Community Law, Wairarapa Free Budgeting, Care NZ (drug and alcohol), Pathways (mental health), Probation, Workwise (mental health, work brokers), Hauora (Māori mental health), Whaiora and Inland Revenue.

Carolyn McKenzie, Carterton District Council community services manager, is happy that the Council is able to save time and money for local people needing appointments with these services. “Getting to Masterton and back can be a full-time job if you don’t have a car,” she said.

You can get to Haumanu house from High Street, through the lane beside the clock tower that leads to the rear entrance of the Council Buildings and Events Centre.

Winter in the Rimutakas. Photo MetService.

This way to the town’s new social services hub.

Be safe on the road this winter

Social services hub opened in Carterton

Colin’s grandson, Jason, with the whopper pumpkin. Photo John Stevenson.

Carterton residents Colin and Ruth Hooper returned from a holiday in South Australia earlier this month to discover a very large pumpkin in their garden and to find that the Carterton Lions were judging the A&P Grow the Biggest Pumpkin competition.

Although he was a bit jet-lagged, Colin, with the aid of his son Craig, managed to get his whopping 81.9 kg pumpkin onto the trailer and into the local RSA in time to win.

He shared the $500 prize money with Carterton local, John Stevenson who had entered into an understanding with Colin in late 2015. John purchased the seed at last year’s A&P show and, in a moment of clarity, realising that his pumpkin-growing skills weren’t that impressive, gave the seed to the local chap who makes and delivers the best compost.

If you’re interested in buying the pumpkin for shop-display or feed please contact the Hoopers at 379 8421

John Stevenson

Winning whopper for sale

The Veranda Band was a regular attraction at Lounge.

On Saturday May 28 at Club Carterton we are holding an Autumn dance party featuring local artists the Verandah Band featuring Steve Trotman on lead vocals and rhythm guitar, Miles Reay on bass and vocals, Alistair Barr on lead guitar and vocals and Roger Gordon-Wiles on drums and vocals.

The band was a regular attraction at Lounge in Carterton, has played four Toast Martinborough festivals and appeared with The Desotos at their show at King Street Live. You can take advantage of our excellent dance floor. And dance the night away.

Non-members are most welcome. Tickets $15, available from the club or the band.

06 3798069, carterton.club@xtra.co.nz or www.club-carterton.com

Club News: The club ball was held on April 16 with about a hundred members and guests.Guests ate a three-course meal before the dancing, the seven-piece band Short term memory kept everyone on the floor with a good mix of music and the executive committee did a wonderful job of making the lounge look like an old-style ballroom. The committee has had a tremendous response from members and visitors who want a repeat next year.

Our caterer now provides meals on wheels from Monday to Friday at $12 for a main and dessert. Delivery is only within Greytown but you can pick up from the club if you live elsewhere. Book your orders in with the club office or the caterer the week before delivery.

Club 60: This month the Upper Hutt Cossie club will visit on Monday, May 16. Our normal monthly meeting is on Monday, May 30.

Golf: Four SWWMC teams took part in Club New Zealand’s National Golf Pairs Tournament, the Pen Hawkins Rosebowl, at the Waitomo Golf Club, hosted by the Otorohanga Club. Our pair of Craig Wilson and Grant Smith came tenth out of a field of ninety-six teams.

Snooker: SWWMC’s Jack Lemon was the winner of the recently-held Club New Zealand’s over-sixty handicap, snooker singles tournament. Jack lost only one frame in the qualifying round and won all his other matches convincingly. Congratulations, Jack!

Darts: Last month the cub hosted the Capital Area Mixed Pairs Championships. Both pairings of Mike Thomson and Chakira McEntee, and Tony Douglas and Joan Bateman, were quarter finalists in the main section. Two new members, Reuben Pourou and Elaine Rimene, were runners-up in the final to a pair from Taita.

Autumn Dance Party

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Stem cell treatment for Nick Perkins

Nick Perkins has tried to live a normal life since being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and battling crippling fatigue but now he and his family have decided to get him HSCT – a stem cell treatment that shows promise of halting the disease.

The treatment is offered in only a few countries. Nick has been accepted in Singapore. This comes with a huge price tag: $130,000 in treatment costs, $40,000 in accommodation and travel costs for Nick and his carers as well as loss of wages. The family aims to raise around $200,000 to cover the treatment.

How you can help:Buy tickets to the fundraiser dinner at Copthorne Solway Park on

May 21. See What’s On (middle pages) for details. Give money: Any

amount helps and the family appreciate every cent and would be grateful for your support.http://support.perkins.net.nz | http://www.perkins.net.nz |nick@perkins.net.nz | 027 234 5074

Karyn Parker started the Givealittle kindness for Carterton Facebook page in October 2015.

The informal group’s aim is to help others in the community at a time of need. They do this with baking, a home cooked meal, groceries or garden produce.

Their last special event was to support Nick Perkins. (See article this page).

If you would like to be involved in their next special event, the group invites you to join them in surprising Fire Brigade volunteers with a supper at one of their Wednesday night meetings.

Drop off point for baking and groceries is the Salvation Army, 210 High Street South, Carterton. Please label any food donations with a note attached for Givealittle kindness. Please also indicate if the donation is for someone in particular.

For more information or to make a donation: email: givealittlekindness@gmail.com, phone or text 027 2319 323. Facebook.

Givealittle kindness for Carterton

Nick Perkins and his family.

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After an ambitious opening, the Menzshed hours have been pared back to reflect actual activity and the number of qualified supervisors available. (See What’s on for opening times).

Our current project is to provide each workbench with its own electrical outlet so members may work in comfort.

We are grateful to the community for the large number of tools, machinery and materials that have been donated. If you have spare materials or tools that are unused or going rusty we can put them to good use.

One of the side products of woodworking is offcuts. These are

Carterton Menzshed

Recently the shed was visited by a group of farmers who used it in one of its previous lives as the Young Farmers hall.

bagged into usable lots and taken down to Logan Bathhurst of the Salvation Army, who distributes them to people in need of firewood.

Recently the shed was visited by a large group of farmers, who came to see what is happening in their old haunt. (The shed was previously the Young Farmers hall.) John Rose, one of the founding members of Young Farmers, organised the trip. Way back, we’re told, it was a hay shed with no walls and a dirt floor – that’s hard to imagine now.

Men and women are very welcome to join us at the shed. Come and have a look – follow the signage at the Clareville Showgrounds. You can like us on Facebook: Menzshed Carterton. Website under construction: http://www.menzshedcarterton.nz/

Mike Osborne

A large crowd turned out to commemorate this year’s Anzac Day. They laid wreaths on the memorial square monument, observed a minute’s silence to remember those who served, and their families and communities, and listened to the haunting sounds of the Last Post. Photos Don Farr.

Anzac Day

A rash of red sales dots broke out beside the art works of the ten exhibitors at the opening of the Boom! children’s art exhibition.

The exhibiton opened on Anzac day with the artists ranging in age from four years old to twelve.

A series of peg dolls, made by six year old Indie Blade, caught my eye. In her bio Indie confessed to having felt ‘a little bit excited’ when she made them.

Local artists were Isis Turner-Bartlett, the show’s founder, Meg Hunter and Frida Smart.

It was an amazing show, with talented children and their supportive families, led by Isis’s mother, Kathy Bartlett. The opening was packed. The children enjoyed a fitting supper of fairy bread, dips, crisps and punch. The exhibition ran at 17 Tory Street, Wellington, for several days.

The other artists were Elke Bartlett, Luca Blade, Tui Denee, Nina Jerram, Ari Menzies and Flynn Menzies.

Jan Farr

New Sports Hub aims to consolidate Carterton sports

After two years of deliberation the Carterton Sports and Recreation Trust (formerly the Howard Booth Park Sports Trust) has unveiled an exciting concept to turn Carrington Park into a multi-use sports and recreation hub.

Trust spokesman, Mike Osborne, says the venue will include a variety of local sporting, recreational

and community organisations and will provide an economic stimulus to the adjacent CBD.

“Location is paramount to the success of sports and recreation hubs and siting Carterton’s facility so close to the town’s CBD will have benefits for everyone. It will drive activity into the town centre as the Events Centre has done.

“We think that the Carrington Park concept will prevent the decline of sports participation by creating a central sporting complex with high quality facilities that involve all of our sporting and community organisations in one location.

“The Trust unveiled the broad concept and received strong support for a Community Sports Park at a public meeting at the Events Centre on the April 2, 2014. Subsequent assessment and the inclusion of the Rugby Club have shown Carrington Park to be a superior location. “The proposal will be formally presented to the Council for their consideration and we will be advising of all the ways the community can have a say in the coming weeks.”

Carterton residents Bek Farr and Sam Hunter

A provisional site plan and an artist’s impression of the main clubrooms.

The exhibition ran at 17 Tory Street, Wellington, for several days

Boom! art attack.

Well known restauranteur Steve Chapman has opened a new restaurant in Carterton called Red Tomatoes!

We specialise in:

Dine in or Takeaway

Open Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights from 5pm.

Available for bookings and private functions by arrangement. Call Steve on 027 687 5809or 0800 677 653 to book or make an enquiry.

* Gourmet pizzas * Yummy pasta dishes* Decent sized main meals * Kids meals* Desserts and Coffee/tea

ItalianRestaurant

(at the Marquis Hotel63 High St)

At the recent 2016 NZ Age Group Championships held in Wellington, April 18 – 22, the Carterton Swimming Club’s developing competitive swimming squad team of ten swimmers, aged from nine to fourteen, collected an impressive medal tally: fourteen golds, eight silvers and ten bronzes.

Thirteen-year-olds Samantha Duthie and Kobe Edge were first-time qualifiers for this National meet. Samantha impressed with a gold medal in the 200m butterfly and fourth placing for the 100m fly. Kobe

swam a gutsy race and was placed ninth in finals in the 200m backstroke, seventeenth in the 100m backstroke and sixteenth in 50m backstroke. Both swimmers also recorded impressive personal best times.

The club finished its year with the indoor club championship meet in April. Nearly all the club swimmers competed for club trophies which will be awarded at the annual prize giving and AGM on June 12, 2016.

The club is looking for someone with time to spare and a desire to get involved in a community project. For further information check out Carterton Swimmingclub Facebook or http://www.sportsground.co.nz/cartertonswim

Fantastic season for swimmers

Gold medallist, Samantha Duthie, with coach Russell Geange

The small club with the big heart.

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My Mother in Law was given a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s about four years ago and is now int full-time care quite close to us. This means that I see her more often than most of the family do. We have reasonable support from doctors and support groups but there is one thing troubling me. One of the head carers feels the need to correct my MIL when she makes factually wrong or fantastical statements. She corrects a lot of harmless, typical Alzheimer’s type utterances and I feel it is unnecessary and a bit punitive for someone in their last years. I want to tell this woman to stop this style of care but I’m not sure how to raise it.

Managing But Agitated

Dear MBAFirstly, good on you for being a considerate and thoughtful family

member. Secondly, there is support out there for a less corrective approach to the logic-wanderings of your MIL. A couple in the USA decided not to constantly correct their MIL because they felt it was pointless and somewhat depressing for them, too. This woman’s son-in-law had an acting and improvisation background so, for instance, when she observed that there were monkeys in the trees outside he would say, “Oh yes, and isn’t it early in the season for monkeys?”

This couple say that their MIL is now happier generally and they are not the truth police. You can listen to an interview with them Google, This American Life, Rainy Days and Mondays or http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/532/magic-words?act=2#play (It’s brilliant! Ed.) I would suggest you play this interview to your family and then, as a group, you can weigh up a thoughtful approach to the care management.

AA

Adele remembers

When we moved up here as a family from Brooklyn in 1991 I never dreamt that in 1996 I would be doing the history of Carterton. I certainly never thought my name would be up for an award in 2014! History was one of my worst subjects at school in London back in the 1950s. Someone had to come bottom every year and I think it was reserved for Adele! But, thanks to the late Bill Baxter a member of the Carterton District Historical Society who had a secondhand bookshop in town, I got involved with local history. I did not know any New Zealand history back then. I was an ex- Londoner brought over in 1970 by James Smith’s store, all expenses paid to Wellington from Heathrow.

The local historical society is unique to our town, the nearest one is in Otaki, so take advantage of it, see what they have to offer. I was their secretary back in 1996. We started from scratch in Holloway Street. Trino Koers lent us his vacant shop, free of charge, for as long as we needed it. We had gathered quite a bit of history by then, thanks to our members, Jim McKenzie, Tinny Catt, Tommy Underhill, Bernie Tunnicliffe, Lottie Warrington, Ina Harland, Bill Baxter, Goerge Neich, Graham Eglinton and Adele Pentony-Graham. Only two of us are still alive.

Adele Pentony-Graham

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Between the Carterton kindergarten building and the boundary wall was a narrow space with no access and no use. Now, new entrance doors and a newly planted ngahere taonga (bush garden) fill that space.

On Thursday, April 7, Rawiri and Rowena from Hurunui o Rangi Marae gave a karakia and waiata to bless the new entrance to the bush garden before the families joined the first walk through it.

For the donation of the doors, Carterton Kindergarten thanks Greytown St Marks Lodge No 53. For contributions to the bush garden they thank the Pelorus Trust and the Roy and Jan Mace Trust. For the fundraising that has given them such a wonderful environment for their tamariki they thank the kindergarten families and the community.

Carterton PlayCentre recently held a gardening and produce stall at the Carterton Farmer’s Market in Memorial Square. They are working to raise money for a new security system to discourage break-ins and vandalism.

The stall had a great selection of plants, seeds, fresh produce, condiments, preserves and handy gardening consumables like string and worm wee.

They also provided entertainment by way of regular sing-a-longs and a guess-the-pumpkin-weight competition. The pumpkin weighed 38kg!

New kindergarten entrance blessed

Carterton Playcentre fundraising

Carterton Playcentre held a recent fund-raising stall at the Farmers’ Market.

Carterton Kindergarten graduates, Brian and Rikiti Aperahama, perform a haka before visitors take the ngahere taonga walk. Photo Don Farr.

Snippets from Kuranui’s newsletter

Kuranui Anzac Assembly honours Maori Battalion: This year Kuranui commemorated the Maori soldiers who served first as the native contingent and then went on to form the Maori Battalion. After speeches by student leaders and a slide show of photographs of the Maori Battalion in WW1 the staff performed the waiata, E te Hokowhitu-a-Tu, (Oh, the Maori Battalion) specially written to honour the awarding of a posthumous Victoria Cross to Lieutenant Ngarimu of the Maori Battalion.

Shorts Day for Hospice: The hospice is holding a Shorts for Hospice day on May 20, because, as they say, life is short. This will be a mufti day as a fund raiser for the hospice. Students are asked to donate a gold coin.

Interactive youth-friendly website: The Wairarapa Youth Reserve website is an interesting interactive site, made by youth for youth. It lists up and coming events, gives useful information about many relevant matters and users can add youth-friendly events, workshops or programmes to the online calendar. http://youth.connectingcommunities.org.nz

Kuranui Kōrero

Wairarapa Vintage Car Club

Our rally in April took members through the streets of Carterton and Masterton and over the Hinakura to Gladstone Road. Our lunch stop was at the Gladstone Sports and Social Complex.

An interesting aspect of this event was the use of straight-line navigation for part of the event. This navigation system consists of a map with a vertical line on it and various cross-lines depicting roads to be avoided. This system was devised at the end of World War II to guide military convoys through war-ravaged Europe where most of the road signs had been destroyed.

We will hold a major two-day motorcycle rally on May 14 and 15, visiting Northern Wairarapa and Central Hawkes Bay.

Enquiries to Barbara and Gary Lang at 372-7593. Hudson 1921 Phaeton. Photo Pixabay.

Straight-line navigation at car club rally

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