Making Tracks with Scroggin: Trampers gearing for a busy January
17 Dec, 2020 10:06 PM
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Wanganui Tramping Club member Helen Atkinson is dwarfed by the 60m Te Rerepahupahu Falls in Waitaanga Forest, North Taranaki, which the club will revisit in January. Photo / Supplied
Wanganui Midweek
The prime tramping month of January calls for some primo tramps and the Wanganui Tramping has them in spades.
Three multi-day tramps are scheduled, all of which have their own charms.
The first is a reprise of last January s visit to Whangamomona. This was so successful that it is being repeated with a number of new day trips in the area on the agenda.
2020 . the year that was
14 Dec, 2020 03:02 PM
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Repertory celebrates the end of 2020. Photos / Russell Penton
I m sure we can all say 2020 has been a year like no other we can remember and certainly one we d not want repeated. This time last year I d not heard of coronavirus but within a few months our country was in lockdown in a bid to stem the spread of this often fatal disease.
Repertory Theatre started the year full of optimism. We had a great old time at Music Hall evening on the Saturday of the Vintage Weekend during the Wellington Anniversary and were full of plans for the rest of the year . but . the best-laid schemes of Mice and Men Gang aft agley An lea e us naught but grief and pain , as Robert Burns reminded us.