Promoting women s health and celebrating Mother s Day in Taupō
12 May, 2021 08:00 PM
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Guests enjoying the Mother s Day Kaupapa at Waitahanui Hall. Photo / Supplied
Taupo & Turangi Weekender
Take care of your health and give generously.
These are two messages from local women putting the spotlight on women s health last weekend.
Mother s Day events were hosted at the Waitahanui Hall and on a Chris Jolly Outdoors boat on Sunday, with local women sharing their respective cancer journeys to raise money and increase awareness of breast cancer and cervical cancer.
The first-ever Mother s Day Kaupapa, organised by Carol Mitchell, Linda Northcroft, Josie Wall and Janice Wall, was held at the Waitahanui Hall. Speaking on behalf of the organisers, Janice said the women wanted to do something for mums in the Waitahanui community.
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Carol Mitchell s home, or the place she s spent most of her time for the past several decades, always has been the softball field.
Gibbs High School s iconic coach, both a Tennessee Softball Coaches Association and USA Softball of Tennessee hall of famer, remembers only once since age four when she hasn t spent her spring on softball fields peppering the Volunteer State and the Southeast region. Then, last year due to COVID, that same absence happened again.
It was then that the normal cacophony of sounds at the ballpark was replaced by an entirely unnerving phenomenon: silence.
After a busy start to 2021, Portland’s TIQA Mediterranean restaurant closed in April for three weeks due to a staffing shortage reflecting an industry-wide hiring crunch brought on by the pandemic.
“The options were really horrible,” says Deen Haleem, who owns and operates the restaurant inside the Courtyard by Marriott with his wife, Carol Mitchell. “We could have kept our restaurant open, which would have led to really overworking the existing kitchen staff as well as bad service and long wait times.”
Instead, they’re using the time to deep clean and update menus.
Two weeks into the closure, the kitchen staff was up to eight, including two senior chefs as the search for a sous chef, baker and a third line cook continued. Frustrated about filling vacancies, Haleem says that interview no-shows are common and even received a message from one applicant who responded to a job ad with upfront demands about starting salary, scheduling and paid leave.
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Waitahanui s Janice Wall is Harcourts Taupō s Good Sort of the Month
14 Apr, 2021 07:39 PM
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Harcourts Taupō good sort Janice Wall (second from right), with residential sales consultant Steve Sprague (left), co-owner Mary-Louise Johns, mayor David Trewavas, and co-owner Rosie Harvey.
Harcourts Taupō good sort Janice Wall (second from right), with residential sales consultant Steve Sprague (left), co-owner Mary-Louise Johns, mayor David Trewavas, and co-owner Rosie Harvey.
Not even breast cancer can halt Janice Wall s passion to do mahi for her people.
For her involvement in many community initiatives, Janice is this month s Harcourts Taupō Good Sort.
On hand to congratulate Janice last Thursday at the award presentation were Taupō mayor David Trewavas, Harcourts co-owners Rosie Harvey and Mary-Louise Johns, and real estate agent for Waitahanui Steve Sprague. Janice said she was humbled to receive it.