Press Release – Central Lakes Trust Central Lakes Trust (CLT) grant $1.75 million to the further development of the cycle trails linking the great rides of New Zealand with the latest round of funding, marking year four of a five year grant commitment. Central Otago Queenstown Trail …
Central Lakes Trust (CLT) grant $1.75 million to the further development of the cycle trails linking the great rides of New Zealand with the latest round of funding, marking year four of a five year grant commitment.
Central Otago Queenstown Trail Network Trust (COQTNT) chair Stephen Jeffery says, “The completed Lake Dunstan Trail is stage one of five to establish an additional 170 kilometres of trail linking Queenstown and Wanaka to existing New Zealand Cycle Trails.”
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February 18, 2021
By TRACEY ROXBURGH
King Beats organiser Brendan Mulcahy says he’s ‘‘having a nightmare’’ with the Kingston
festival, planned for this Saturday, in light of the uncertainty around Covid-19.
Last year’s event saw ‘‘a bit of bad luck’’ with a storm softening ticket sales.
While the weather held for the overnight event, a deluge arrived early the morning after and caused carnage.
‘‘The guys building the stage were stuck in Kingston for a week because roads were closed.
‘‘This year was the year to come back and everything was looking amazing … until [Sunday].’’
Now in its fifth year, the event’s raised close to $40,000 for a variety of charities including the Wakatipu Youth Trust, Happiness House, Athol’s volunteer fire brigade and Garston Primary School.
Noelene Tait. PICTURE: EMILY ADAMSON
Hundreds turn out to pay their respects to Noelene Tait, 84, who died after a crash on Frankton Road on January 14 while on her way home from the library in Queenstown.
One of the original members of the Arrow Miners Band, Noelene loved Irish music and used to go to The Fork and Tap in Arrowtown and play on Wednesday nights.
The former theatre nurse at Kew Hospital, now Southland Hospital, in Invercargill moved to Queenstown 21 years ago after her late husband, Peter, died.
Noelene was heavily involved in the community and spent a huge amount of time entertaining residents at resthomes in Queenstown, either playing music for them or playing cards with them.