Goodbye 2020: Rotorua welcomes in 2021 together
31 Dec, 2020 01:02 AM
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New Year s Eve Rotorua Night Market visitors enjoy the sounds of Rotorua s Remaster. Photo / Shauni James
New Year s Eve Rotorua Night Market visitors enjoy the sounds of Rotorua s Remaster. Photo / Shauni James
Shauni James is the Rotorua Weekender reportershauni.james@nzme.co.nz@thedailypost
As the year came to a close - a year which could be described as unprecedented and challenging - people banded together to send off 2020. Thursday night s extra-late Rotorua Night Market finished at 10pm and featured local entertainment, including Remaster and the crew from 8 Scott Ave The Musical, alongside the food vendors offering an abundance of choice.
Summer read: Rotorua s unsung heroes of the lockdown
29 Dec, 2020 07:00 PM
8 minutes to read
The race is on to find a vaccine for Covid-19, so when will one be ready? Video / AP
The race is on to find a vaccine for Covid-19, so when will one be ready? Video / AP
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While most of us are on lockdown, at home with loved ones, some of Rotorua s essential workers won t get to see theirs for at least four weeks. They ve chosen to self-isolate themselves away from children and partners and are putting their own health on the line every day to make sure everyone in the community, the majority strangers, can access everything they need while New Zealand is in lockdown. If our city s healthcare providers and police staff to our supermarket workers and truck drivers, can do this for us, we should be able to stay home for them.