Toi Ohomai's FREE* Computing and IT 12 Week Course - Starts 12/13th March
The New Zealand Certificate in Computing (User Fundamentals) (Level 2) is a free* course that helps you improve your basic computer skills and introduce you to cloud computing.
This course suits people who are:
> looking to return to the workforce and need to update their skills
> life-long learners looking for a new challenge
> self-employed and looking for better ways to run their business
> wanting an introduction to modern ways of computing with a focus on cloud computing
> considering higher education
You’ll meet and learn with others as we show you some of the latest computing methods and cover topics including cyber security, troubleshooting and privacy. You’ll also learn how to use Google Docs and build your own website.
St Andrews Church is the venue for these options:
DAY CLASSES - Starts 13 March to 6 June
Tues, Weds 9.30-1, Thurs 9.30-12.30
Information Session - Friday 9 March, 10am in the St Andrews Cafe.
EVENING CLASSES - Starts 12 March to 7 June
Monday-Thursdays, 6-8.30pm
Information Sessions - Thursday 8 March, 10am or Friday 9 March, 6pm
at St Andrews Church, 3 Macville Road, MM
For more information or to apply, call Toi Ohomai 0800 86 46 46
And the 2024 Prospa Local Business Hero is...
A huge congratulations to mother and son duo, Mary and Sam Danielson from The Puketapu Hotel.
The votes for all finalists have been tallied and they have been chosen by Neighbourly members across the country as the Prospa Local Business Hero of 2024.
The Puketapu Hotel was nominated by a local called Margaret and the nomination reads:
'On Feb 14, 2023, Cyclone Gabrielle flooded many of the rural areas. Puketapu Hotel went under perhaps half a meter of water. However, immediately Mary Danielson and her son, Sam Danielson, along with their loyal staff pulled it together to cook copious amounts of food that without electricity would have been wasted. Throughout the years many of us have been treated with a pub gathering where we can reconnect and a free meal. At Christmas there was Santa, games, gifts for kids, donated patchwork for adults, an ice cream truck and lots of camaraderie.
This February on the cyclone anniversary, they again pulled out the stops to give hundreds of us a special night. We are all tired of the cyclone cleanup and they understood that it was needed.'
Such a deserving business and team, well done Mary and Sam. And thank you to all those who voted!
Share your New Zealand music memories...
It's NZ Music Month and New Zealand really has some beautiful songs from artists that we call our own.
Whether it's April Sun in Cuba, Don't Forget your Roots, or How Bizarre or Bic Runga's 'Sway' - songs have a way of unlocking memories and evoking old feelings.
In honour of NZ Music Month, share a New Zealand song or artist that is special to you and explain why.
Type 'Not For Print' if you wish your comments to be excluded from the Conversations column of your local paper.
Tauranga Council-private cocktail party
So-here is the latest news. The Council is to host a private cocktail party on the waterfront (not that private then) for 150 invitees to celebrate the city's transformation and progress. The list of invitees is secret (nothing new in that with the track record of the commissioners). Can Council and the commissioners be any more tone deaf? Having a cocktail party with, I assume, canapes when :
1. We are facing a 7% rates rise in a cost of living crisis.
2. Businesses have closed because of the "progress made"
3. We continue to to suffer significant inconvenience in "orange cone
city".
4. We have 4 commissioners who tried to subvert democracy by
asking to remain as unelected overlords at Council.
But really-a private cocktail party? On the waterfront? With, presumably, gates and security guards patrolling to prevent the riff raff getting in. Tone deaf.
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