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hen entertainer Paul Tamati (pictured) was invited to talk about Stars

in Your Eyes at the Wanaka Rotary Club on Tuesday, he turned up expecting to do just that and sing a song with his daughter Erina, 14, who appeared in the show for the first time this year.

It came as a complete surprise when Rotary announced he was the recipient of the club’s highest award – an international Paul Harris Fellowship – in recognition of outstanding work in the com-munity.

“I was so amazed. Rotary do a lot

of good work and when they said they had an award to announce, I was sure it would be for a Rotar-ian,” said Paul.

While Paul is probably best known as a long-time participant in Stars in Your Eyes, or as one of the smiling helpful staff at Mitre 10, these are just two of the many roles he plays in the community. Currently on the Mount Aspiring College Board of Trustees, Paul was on the Wanaka Pri-mary School board from 2006-2012. He coordinates the hangi as part of

the Kahu Youth Matariki celebra-tions and is the trade and food co-ordinator for the Wanaka Rodeo Club. He has been a trade marshall at the Wanaka Show since 2007 and

joined the cultural committee for the Wanaka Medical Centre in 2009. In 2012 he received a Bill King Award for community service.

He helped set up and run the Wanaka Primary School

Walking Bus from 2010-2014 and is part of the Wanaka Commu-nity Patrol. He was a member of the QLDC Library Task Force in 2014.

Several years ago

he set up the Upper Clutha Musical Instruments Library to raise money to buy instruments which are then loaned to children. The organisation is now called Aspiring Young Musicians and has 20 brass instruments, numerous ukuleles, guitars and keyboards.

Paul said of all the things he’s involved with, the organisation he’s most proud of is the A&P Society. “It’s such a wonderful show. (As a marshall) I place everyone who comes in. Last year there were 400 sites. It was amazing.”

Those who know Paul won’t be surprised to hear the event he enjoys being part of the most is Stars in your Eyes.

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Finishing the longest ski season in the South Island, Cardrona celebrated with half price lift tickets, a Fashion in the Field catwalk event and the usual crazy closing day antics as skiers and snowboarders slid around in the spring slush.

There was a festive atmosphere in the courtyard as music blasted and fashionistas of all ages strutted down the catwalk in their finery. There was an array of outstanding dress-ups that included seventies ski suits,

superheroes, dragon slayers, Hawaiian dresses, fairy dresses, tutus, sequins, business suits, lots of onesies and even an android.

“It was a great, fun weekend,” said General Manager Bridget Legnavsky. “We had a busy week with the New Zealand Junior Nationals. It was great to see so much young talent and energy. It was quite intense so it was brilliant to end with a weekend of celebrating.”

Cardrona was open for 17 weeks this season for the first time due to the great snow conditions. “We had a phenomenal snow year, which is great for us and the

whole district because internationals start looking at New Zealand as a place to definitely consider. Numbers have been strong and we hope that continues as our reputa-tion grows,” said Bridget.

Cardrona staff have recently moved into a new office in town, now called ‘Cardrona Corner’, and are busy refurbishing it and preparing for summer operations. Cardrona will soon be open for lift access in all four seasons – with mountain biking, hiking and more during summer and into autumn, and winter/spring skiing and snowboarding.

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The Luggate pub is on the market for $1.95 million, and the new owners get their very own in-house ghost to keep them company.

The 146-year-old pub was purchased by Wanaka busi-nessmen Brendan Quirke (pictured) and Sean Colbourne, of Alpine Holdings, 11 years ago.

The pair recently sold the Bullock Bar – the last of their joint ventures; Brendan also sold his shares in Fitzpatricks Bar, and is now concentrating on his new upmarket Mazunga Restaurant in Wanaka.

“We’ve kind of sold all the other businesses that we own and I’m taking a step back from that type of hospitality,” Brendan said.

The Luggate Hotel sale also includes a two-bedroom cottage, historic stone hut and bare land for development.

Brendan said there was huge opportunity to develop the place into a wedding venue or a microbrewery, but needed someone else with the drive.

As for the ghost? Like any good country pub (St Bathans,

The Vulcan and the long-closed Raes Junction Tavern), hav-ing a bit of ‘mystery’ about the place can make it attractive to visitors.

Brendan said there is definitely something hanging around the main lounge area, but he promises it is friendly.

“We were doing some decorating out the back and I heard a door slam. The pub wasn’t open at that time, and I’m not a ghosty person, but you could definitely feel a presence there.”

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Paul honoured by award

Paul has been committed to Stars in Your Eyes for 18 years, as a performer, backing singer, vocal director and recently as director of the entire show. People audition to play the role of a favourite performer singing one of their hits. This year, as well as directing the show, Paul played Luther Vandross singing “Never too much”. He’s also played Freddy Mercury (“I want to break free”) but his favourite of all 18 roles remains Stevie Wonder, singing “I just called to say I love you”.

Will he remain with Stars any longer? “Of course. I’ll be there for as long as I’m around.”

Paul has lived in Wanaka since he was 22 years old. Now married with three children, it’s a wonder he finds time for so much community work, as well as his job, and his family who he’s devoted too.

“It’s all about time management. My wife Robyn has always gone to bed early, and when the children were little they were all tucked up by 7.30pm. So I only went to meetings which started after 7.30pm. I didn’t want to sit around watching TV. And that’s how it all began.”

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The return of a pie eating competition proved popular and old favourites, the card-board boat race and polar plunge lake swim, attracted a record number of participants.

There was also a pet parade and an “imagi-nation station” with plenty of fun and games

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Munch Your Lunch is the brainchild of the Wanaka Primary School Future Trust and Tiffany Firth, a chef from Te Tiritiri Kitchen.

Their aim is to make healthy delivered school lunches available with no waste, while raising some money for the future of Wanaka Primary.

Together with the Wastebusters Enviroschools facilitator Simon Williams, they came up with a plan to use packag-ing which could be washed, sterilised and reused.

Simon’s vision was that collecting the packaging and putting any food scraps into the school Bokashi composting system would help the children learn about reuse and zero waste.

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Local make-up artist Gena Bagley has been named as one of the top 10 finalists in a nationwide competition.

Run by Maybelline New Zealand, the contest gives the winners the opportunity to become a Maybelline makeup artist at the 2015 Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards, creating looks for some of New Zealand’s most glamorous celebrities.

For stage one of the competition Gena created a make-up tutorial video, with the help of local model Mackenzie Ayres and photographer Andrew Sloan, and posted it to YouTube.

From this she was chosen as one of 10 national finalists to attend a live trial in Auckland last weekend.

“We had to create two different looks on two different models using Maybelline products,” said Gena. “This was to assess our skills, but also to see whether we would be a good representative for the Maybelline brand. It was a really amazing experience.”

Gena will find out later this week if she has been chosen as one of the winners. She has been running her own freelance make-up business in Wanaka for the

past 11 years after starting her career on the Dunedin MAC cosmetics counter in 2004.

“I have been overwhelmed by the support shown by the community and really want to thank all of those that have been in touch to share their thoughts and well wishes,” said Gena. “This has been a fulfilling experience that has created wonderful opportunities for me and has yet again reinforced the wonderful, supportive community we live in.”

Treble Cone ski instructor Bob Campbell has finally been given the green light to fly home after he suffered a stroke in his Wanaka home on August 29.

Originally from Vermont, USA, Bob – who is approaching 70 - has shared his passion for the mountains with thousands of adults and children worldwide and is one of Treble Cone’s most loved and respected instruc-tors. Bob was taken to Dunedin Hospital after suffering the stroke and doctors decided this week that he was fit enough to travel home to Vermont to continue his rehabilita-tion with his family. Bob started his journey home on Tuesday (October 13).

With over 52 ski seasons, 7,500 lessons and six winters at Treble Cone under his belt, ski instructor Bob Campbell has become a local legend here in Wanaka.

To relieve some of the financial burden faced by Bob, with mounting hospital and rehabilitation costs, Bob’s students, friends and co-workers rallied together to raise funds.

They organised events and set up a Givealittle web page which generated thousands of dollars from donations from people all over the world.

Bob thanked people for all the support on his Facebook page on Monday. “So many thanks to Wanaka and Treble Cone people and wonderful family and friends from around the world,” he wrote. “It’s been a long haul. Looking forward to seeing my part of the world at its most beautiful time. Going to miss Wanaka and New Zealand, except for the last eight weeks, it’s been a terrific six seasons. Thanks to so many for your support and making NZ like home.”

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Dr Compost is running two free workshops this week, one on growing vegetables and one on hot composting. We have a climate of extremes, so even if you’ve gardened before, it’s really worth coming along to the Get Growing workshop on Thursday (15th Oct) to get some tips on how to deal with frosts and intense sun, and to pick the easiest crops to grow. One thing you can do to make your plants more resilient and less thirsty is to add compost to the soil. More humus helps to retain the moisture in your soil, and mulching over the top prevents the sun sucking it all back out.

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the added bonus of being able to peek inside Dr Compost’s own garden. The workshop is being held at Ben Elm’s place in Hawea, so you’ll be able to see his impressive stack of compost heaps and his sturdy macrocarpa raised beds. I went up there for a photo shoot a few weeks ago, and I loved that it’s clearly a working garden – with odd buckets half full of soil lying around. It made me feel better about the random objects inhabiting my garden.

These workshops are part of the Dr Compost project which

Wanaka Wastebusters delivers for Queenstown Lakes District Council to help keep organic waste out of the landfill. If you can’t make these ones, don’t fret. Keep an eye on the Wanaka Wastebusters website or Friend us on Facebook so you’ll hear about the autumn ones.

Get Growing workshop, Thursday 15th Oct, 6-8pm at St Johns Rooms, 4 Link Way

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The new chair of the Hawea Community Association, Paul Cunningham, is encouraging residents to make submissions on the proposed District Plan.

He said Hawea people are particularly concerned about two issues - whether the proposed new shopping zone for Lake Hawea is big enough, and if council can reassure property owners about the continued designation of rural residential subdivisions at Hawea Flat and Lake Hawea, particu-larly in relation to applications for consents to subdivide individual rural residential lots.

“Hawea citizens are encouraged to make a submission,” Paul said. “Whether it is about protecting our stunning Hawea night skies, concerns about rural residential subdivision rules, heritage sites or shopping zones – whatever, please consider making a submission.”

In respond to demand, the HCA is hosting an informal submission-writing workshop at 7.00pm tonight (15 October) at the Lake Hawea Community Centre.

“Resource Management consult-ant, Ian Greaves, will explain the ABCs of submission writing and, with others, provide assistance,” Paul said. “There will also be time to sit with fellow Hawea citizens and discuss matters of concern.” Submissions close on Friday 23 October.

Paul was appointed as the new chair at the HCA AGM on October 2, replacing Dennis Hughes.

Other appointments were as follows: deputy chair – John Os-borne, secretary – Doug Brenssell, assistant secretary – Dave Sherwin, treasurer – Ian Rae, and committee members – Don Roberston, John Taylor, Laura Solbak and Rob Devine.

Ruth Bennie is not your average 13-year-old.

She’s only been holding a gun for two years and is already the National Secondary School Ladies Trap Shooting Champion.

Another MAC student, Tim Weir (17), who also attended the National Secondary Schools Tournament in Hamilton recently, won the North Island men’s title in single barrel.

Ruth said it felt “unbeliev-able” that she took out the title, considering it was her first year, and she was shooting against 17 and 18-year-old competitors.

Her father Ewan Bennie, a former New Zealand representa-tive, said he only intended that his daughter compete and gain some experience, not realising her potential.

“There were over 300 shooters there,” he said.

Tim’s brother, Lachie (15), also did well to gain 10th in the Kilwell Trophy Match for the North Island championship.

Ruth said she had always been interested in shooting from a young age, when she would follow her father everywhere when he went hunting.

She has also been given free entry into the next New Zealand

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Ruth Bennie’s achievements: National Secondary School Ladies Trap Shooting Champion

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WANAKA SALVATION Army Family Store. Opening Hours – Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm, Saturday 9.30am – 4pm. We look forward to seeing you here!

DONATIONS KINDLY received. Please drop then in to the Salvation Army Family store or ph 443 5068 to book a pick up. WHO’S BEEN to Archangel or Bannock Brae? There are lots of fabulous local wine stories that we want to share with you! www.wanakawine-tours.com WINETRAIL (946387)

BUSINESS NETWORKING International. The Wanaka chapter of BNI meets weekly at 7am Tuesday morning. Great networking opportunity to grow your business. Contact Rudy for infor-mation 027 703 4037

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Young Wanaka talents contin-ued to impress at last week’s NZ Junior Freeski and Snowboard Nationals.

The week-long event held at Cardrona attracted over 200 competitors aged five to 18 from New Zealand, Australia and France.

“Every year we see the standard of halfpipe riding getting higher at Junior Nationals and this year in particular there were some outstanding performances,” said Head Judge Mike Hijgemann. “The young kids in particular really stood out, I thought they were amazing.”

In the Year 3-4 Boys’ age group for the Salomon Snow-board Halfpipe Wanaka riders Campbell Melville Ives and Rocco Jamieson had a friendly but determined battle for the top score, both throwing down technical tricks including back 3 alley-oops and front 3s and a backflip for Campbell on his last

hit. Campbell took the win by a whisker showing slightly more control and amplitude.

Although “pretty nervous at the start”, Campbell said the halfpipe is his favourite discipline because he likes “getting out there and having fun.”

The top three boys in the Year 9-10 age group also impressed the judges, their well-tweaked grabs proof that the control and amplitude boxes were being ticked. Fletcher Craig (Hamilton) finished first, Ronan Thompson (Wanaka) second and Lachlan Blackmore (Auckland) third.

While his twin brother was hard at work in the snowboard halfpipe comp, Finley Melville Ives took charge of the ski freeride side of things, winning the boys’ year 3-4 age category with a charging second run and particularly enjoying “gapping down the rock drops and being creative”.

Gustav Legnavsky (Wanaka)

“skied like an adult” despite his young age, the year 5-6 boys’ age group competitor impressing the judges with his strong skiing, arc-ing turns and total lack of hesita-tion. Ben Harrington (Wanaka) showed no hesitation with his big cliff hit, and skied a confident run top to bottom to win the year 9-10 boys’ age category.

There was also a showdown between Wanaka year 13 boys Craig Murray and Hank Bilous.

“It’s our last Junior Nationals so we thought we should send it,” said Hank. “We didn’t want to ski the same line so we worked it out beforehand,” added Craig.

Having spent several years impressing Junior Nationals

judges and spectators with their high-paced runs and penchant for landing on their feet no matter how big the rock drop, the question on everyone’s mind was what this pair will do next. The answer was simple: go bigger and faster. Craig came out in front with a massive cliff, tucked into a very technical high speed line.

Wanaka footballer Olly Ceci has been selected to step onto the global stage next week as part of the New Zealand U17 Men’s National Team competing in the FIFA U17 World Cup.

The next generation of All Whites are currently acclimatis-ing in Chile with some warm-up matches against Mexico and South Africa.

Led by coach Danny Hay – himself a former All Whites captain with 31 international caps – the team will contest Group F of the age-group international tournament in Puerto Montt along with France, Syria and Paraguay.

The New Zealand side meet France in their first game on Tuesday 20 October at 9am (NZ time).

All three of New Zealand’s pool matches and all of the games from the quarter-finals onwards will be shown live on Sky Sport 3.

In New Zealand, Olly plays for Auckland’s North Shore Utd.

The midfielder was recently awarded the Young Player of the Year trophy at the team’s senior prize-giving.

Olly Ceci at a shirt presentation ceremony in Auckland earlier this

Ceci ready for World Cup kick off

Double World Champion adap-tive ski racer Corey Peters was awarded Overall Athlete of the Year at the Snow Sports NZ an-nual awards.

The awards were held last Saturday night (October 10) at the Lake Wanaka Centre, where a number of local athletes were

recognised and received prizes.Instructor of the Year went to

Campbell Mason of Cardrona Alpine Resort. Coach of the Year was awarded to Tom Willmott. Snow Farm manager Andy Pohl was named Cross Country Ath-lete of the Year, while Freeskier of the Year went to Janina Kuzma. Cromwell’s Sam Smoothy won the award for Snowboarder of the Year.

This year’s awards encom-passed a 12-month timeframe including the 2014/15 Northern Hemisphere season and the 2015 Southern Hemisphere season. New Zealand athletes performed well at pinnacle events including World Cups, World Champion-ships, The Freeride World Tour and X Games.

Pictured above: Award winners Tom Willmott and Janina Kuzma.

Winter winners scoop top awards

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Young Wanaka talents continued to impress at last week’s NZ Junior Freeski and Snowboard Nationals. PHOTO:NEIL KERR

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