Confirmed: The Lakes residents to go ahead with ratepayers group
26 Feb, 2021 02:20 AM
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Residents at The Lakes have decided to go ahead with their own ratepayers advocacy group. Photo / File
Residents at The Lakes have decided to go ahead with their own ratepayers advocacy group. Photo / File
Tauranga is set to have another ratepayers advocacy group after residents of The Lakes decided they want to present a unified voice on the big issues facing the city.
Retiree Tony Gavin organised a public meeting last night, in a bid to find out what the key issues were for the community and whether it wanted a collective body to represent residents in discussions with the council s new commissioner team.
I always had a love of music. I got drums when I was a kid, then the guitar. I tried every instrument under the sun. My dad gave me Paul Simon s Graceland the year it came out, when I was four, and I played it on repeat, then I got decks for Christmas when I was 12 and from then I wanted to be a DJ.
Three years later, at the tender age of 15, her dream started to come true when she got work in pirate radio. Then at 17, I left school at the start of fifth year and got a job on FM104. she says.
Simone and Joe in the courtyard between their home and the gallery. It was Simone s idea to put the frame-like structure above the fountain, the better to train the eye on the garden. Photo: Tony Gavin
The themes of her paintings and prints are quintessentially Irish. The Wexford-based artist is noted for her nostalgic take on the Irish larder and Irish brands; her scenes of an Irish childhood; her quirky vision of our coastal villages, and her highly individual interpretation of our many national heritage sites. Yet, it was a quality in the New Zealand climate that set her on her course.