Gisborne District Council opts out in principle to Three Waters reform
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Vaping statement from Hauora Tairāwhiti DHB sparks debate
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Has this landed where we wanted it to?
That was Gisborne district councillor Kerry Worsnop s question for the table as elected members deliberated the region s rates for the next 10 years.
Worsnop pointed to an East Coast property worth $95,000 facing a rate increase of 4.3 percent, or $62, compared to a $1.22 million property in Gisborne s Lytton West, where rates would only increase by $55.
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She pointed to an East Coast property worth $95,000 facing a rate increase of 4.3 percent, or $62, compared to a $1.22 million property in Gisborne s Lytton West, where rates would only increase by $55. That just seems bizarre and ridiculous if you re trying to address affordability because that trend is perpetuated across all of the rural townships, Cr Worsnop said.
BGSU students bridge the pandemic divide
Communication-gerontology collaboration creates community engagement project with long-term care facility in Columbus
By Bob Cunningham
While the pandemic was severely limiting our interactions with others and forcing many to function inside a protective and often lonely self-enforced bubble, a group of Bowling Green State University students explored a different avenue of communication and found a landscape of exciting new connections.
Dr. Sandra Faulkner from the School of Media and Communication collaborated with Dr. Wendy Watson in gerontology to create a community engagement project that linked students with residents of the Worthington Christian Village long-term care facility in Columbus.