Heather du Plessis-Allan: Government must deal with appalling behaviour of emergency housing residents in motels
15 May, 2021 05:00 PM
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One of the problems is the sheer concentration of people in emergency housing in small areas. Photo / File
One of the problems is the sheer concentration of people in emergency housing in small areas. Photo / File
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There was a sad twist in the otherwise happy story of 3-year-old Axle who survived a night in the Gisborne bush alone. Axle and his family - it transpired - were homeless earlier this year, living in a tent.
They had been in an emergency housing motel, but it was a bad situation with drugs and alcohol and people fighting and smashing things all the time, and Axle s mum says she didn t want her kid around that . A tent was preferable.
Anchor AIMS Games is back after annual event cancelled last year
5 May, 2021 07:00 PM
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AIMS Games tournament director Vicki Semple. Photo / George Novak
September will bring thousands of young athletes from around the country to the Bay of Plenty, giving it a much-needed boost as the annual Anchor AIMS Games returns. This time last year, the heartbreaking decision was made to cancel the intermediate-aged sports tournament, held in Tauranga, due to Covid-19 and the need to make national safety a priority.
Registrations for 2021 were looking really good , tournament director Vicki Semple said, and were on par with the 2019 games which hosted more than 11,000 athletes 2.3 per cent more athletes than were in the Rio Olympic Games.
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