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For our future our Waters’, an evening discussion hosted at the University of Waikato’s Tauranga campus on September 10, featuring leading experts Dr Mike Joy, Professor Chris Battershill, and environmental adviser John Burke. To read more go to pages 6 and 10.
and Katikati. “K Valley is a truly valuable resource, and the more people who understand its value to our city, the better,” said Holmes. “It’s two hours of planting, followed by a good old-fashioned sausage sizzle.” One of the week’s flagship events is ‘Healing
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Sun shines 100 for 10 years
The Weekend Sun is five, alive and thriving. Our 253rd issue went to press this week celebrating Sun Media’s fantastic contribution to community news in the Bay of Plenty. Sharing our birthday is five-year-old Matthew Talbot of Mount Maunganui who was on the front page of The Weekend Sun’s first birthday issue. Thanks to all readers and advertisers who have supported Sun Media in the last five years and we look forward to many more years of service. The Weekend Sun is the largest circulating newspaper in the Bay of Plenty t le Blowing the whistle and proud to be independent, locally owned and operated, and still number one in circulation in The Sun-ny BOP.
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week-long Rotary-led initiative from September 8-14 will see clubs, schools and community groups from Katikati all the way to Ōhope take action to restore local waterways, dunes, and reserves. Plantings, stream clean-ups and dune restoration events are also planned for Pāpāmoa
Rotarian Lyall Holmes is calling on 200 volunteers to help Tauranga’s four Rotary clubs plant 5000 native trees in Kōpūrererua Valley on Sunday, September 14 – one of several hands-on events happening across the region next month as part of the new Footprints for Our Future initiative. The
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