October in Papakura

What's on in October in Papakura

Columns • elocal Digital Edition • October 2019

What's on in October with the Papakura Business Association NEW BUSINESSES IN TOWN: We welcome Krish Indian and Takeaways in O’Shannessey Street, Executive Travel ( previously Travel Smart ) in Roselands Shopping Centre, Island Butchery and Veges in O’S…

Meeting Our Heroes

Motoring • elocal Digital Edition • October 2019

by Greg Stokes

At the Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona, California back in January it was an honour for us to meet Jim "Jake" Jacobs who was the other half of Pete & Jakes Hot Rod Parts which GMS Hot Rods are dealers for. Pete & Jakes were founded in 1973 shor…

Petition for Port Waikato Erosion

Our Port Waikato community is on the edge, literally!

Community • elocal Digital Edition • October 2019

Our Port Waikato community is on the edge, literally! Years of erosion have taken their toll on Sunset Beach, Port Waikato and the problem is now more serious than ever. Over half the car park has been lost, the community hall has been condemned, and…

Papakura’s Loss of a Visionary

Papakura Residents miss out on true Visionary who wanted to help move our town forward

Social Issues • elocal Digital Edition • October 2019

Papakura Residents miss out on true Visionary who wanted to help move our town forward. Written by retiring Papakura Board member of 9 years Michael Turner and Papakura Board member of 6 years Bill McEntee We believe that Papakura missed out on a great o…

Franklin Speaking Frankly

October 2019

Sport • elocal Digital Edition • October 2019

Another season has passed, my 19th season of winter football in Franklin. Another year of progression – slowly but steady improvements that continue to drive the football talent space forward in our community. I was MC at last week’s prize giving and whi…

Attention All Cyclists!

Counties Cycle Classic

Sport • elocal Digital Edition • October 2019

Counties Cycle Classic The Counties Cycle Classic returns this year on October 13th at, Pukekohe Park raceway again using the world-famous VS track to start and finish the races. Fast become a fixture on the cycling calendar, the event organized by the R…

Nick Bosanac Builders

Building Beautiful Futures

People in Business • elocal Digital Edition • September 2019

by Sally Sumner

Building beautiful homes for families in Franklin Legacies can be amazing things, they shape who we are and where we have come from. They can also influence where we want to go and what we want to achieve. It was a family legacy of craftsmanship that inf…

Rapid Rail Technology

A Viable Alternative to Auckland's Infrastructure

Travel • elocal Digital Edition • September 2019

by Bob Sinclair

How is South American rapid rail technology linked to Franklin's Horticulture It goes back almost 40 years when a young Kiwi business entrepreneur started offering his new seaweed-based liquid fertiliser to Franklin crop growers and farmers. Kevin Smith…

Franklin Speaking Frankly

September 2019

Sport • elocal Digital Edition • September 2019

Franklin Football Update By Jim Evans, Operation Manager Franklin United The 2019 season is nearly at an end and it has been a challenging yet rewarding season for many reasons. At the start of the year, we decided to focus 100% on local talent at first …

‘Escape’ by Jade Khutze

Franklin Writers' Group Short Story Competition 2019

Books • elocal Digital Edition • September 2019

This year, stories were "flash fiction' 300 words in length, and beginning with the starter, "you wouldn't believe" You wouldn’t believe it was that easy. In the dead of night, I crept out of my closet-sized room, across the rickety wooden floor. Their d…

A year on for Richard Barnett

Education • elocal Digital Edition • September 2019

by Kerry Monaghan

A year on with Pukekohe High School Principal, Richard Barnett From his twelve years at Christchurch’s Burnside High School to now twelve months at Pukekohe High School, Principal Richard Barnett has been leading his school into its new chapter and is fe…

Literary Greats (Part II)

Sylvia Plath

Profiles • elocal Digital Edition • September 2019

by Kerry Monaghan

Credited with helping to advance the genre of ‘Confessional Poetry’ in the mid twentieth century; the style of writing that was written in an autobiographical manner and dealt with subject matter relating but not limited to, death, tragedy, trauma and de…

Value your Free Speech – Sting and All!

Editors Note • elocal Digital Edition • September 2019

by Sally Sumner

From the Editors desk Value your Free Speech – Sting and All! I’m writing this on deadline day, we print in four hours, and someone in their wisdom has decided to waterblast the office roof, think bees, many, many bees all angry and upset, disturbed and…

Winner! Auckland Football Federation Junior Coach of the Year 2019

AFF Shane Thomas Waiuku Junior Football Coach

Community • elocal Digital Edition • September 2019

by Kerry Monaghan

Auckland Football Federation Junior Coach of the Year 2019 Shane Thomas never imagined he would one day end up becoming a volunteer junior football coach, let alone winning the title of 2019 Regional Junior Football Coach of the Year for Auckland, that i…

‘Less is More’ by Linley Jones

Franklin Writers' Group Short Story Competition 2019

Books • elocal Digital Edition • September 2019

You wouldn’t believe that it had never defined me because, once it was gone, I felt its loss immensely. Life is that simple, that complicated. Major decisions at that time focused on where to meet for lunch, what pest was eating the passionfruit vine, w…

‘Green Paint Division’ by Trevor Prout

Franklin Writers' Group Short Story Competition 2019

Books • elocal Digital Edition • September 2019

This year, stories were "flash fiction' 300 words in length, and beginning with the starter, "you wouldn't believe" You wouldn’t believe why my grandson doubts my sanity. ‘What did you do in the war, granddad?’ I looked down at my grandson, about to sn…

Keeping Smiling!

People in Business • elocal Digital Edition • September 2019

Many people avoid going to the Dentist until they are forced to. Usually, a niggly pain suddenly turns into the toothache from hell, and the visit it not only necessary but urgent! Many people don’t realise that regular check-ups are not only affordable …

Captain James Cook (Part IV)

Icebergs, cannibals, and ‘other kinds of people’ The second voyage of James Cook, 1772-1775

History • elocal Digital Edition • September 2019

by Dr Michelle Ann Smith

Captain James Cook part 4 of 6 Still believing a Southern Continent existed, and keen to locate it, Joseph Banks pushed hard for a second Pacific voyage. To his disappointment, the Admiralty called on Cook to lead the expedition, with instructions to fin…

Should New Zealand stop exporting water?

Opinion • elocal Digital Edition • September 2019

by Dr Don Brash

Don Brash Opinion Piece One of the issues almost guaranteed to provoke a strong reaction at many a social gathering in New Zealand is any suggestion that New Zealand should be exporting more bottled water. There have been noisy demonstrations in public,…

Famous Behind the Lens

Memories from a Franklin Photo News Photographer

Community • elocal Digital Edition • September 2019

Memories from a Franklin Photo News Photographer The feedback we had on last month’s Franklin Photo News story was amazing. What an incredible feat to scan all the pages of a magazine that 40 years ago was the social media of the day. The stories that h…