Have you ever watched the running of the sheep in Te Kūiti?
The people flocked and the sheep obliged with baaar-ley an issue.
The woolly ones ran on cue - and without incident, unless you count the odd wayward ewe diverting into a liqour store - as Te Kūiti’s Running of the Sheep event made a comeback on Saturday after a four-year pause due to Covid-19 and health and safety concerns.
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The latest on city finances
Hamilton’s projected deficit has worsened, while development is on a “downward trajectory” not seen since the Global Financial Crisis.
Those findings were in a report to Tuesday’s finance and monitoring committee hui, as the cash-strapped council battles a range of issues and is consulting on a 19.9% rates rise for 2024-25.
Why Leonie loves lawn bowls
For the uninitiated, lawn bowls may just look like a bunch of people throwing balls up and down a flat piece of grass.
But for Evelyn Page Retirement Village resident Leonie, it is a game of skill that has brought her 40 years of friendship, camaraderie and many fun-filled experiences and memories.
So much so, that she has dedicated most of the last 20-plus years to umpiring the game. It is her way of giving back, she says, and now she is lending those skills to the upcoming trans-Tasman inter-village Ryman Roll Up.
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