Waitaki District Libraries is going from strength to strength.
Over the past year, there has been a 150% increase in in the number of people attending events held at the library – from 322 people in March last year to 805 people in March this year.
Manager Jenny Bean was thrilled with the turnouts for events, which ranged from talks and meetings to book launches.
“We are quite deliberate about the sorts of activities we’re running and people seem to be really responding to that, which is really cool,” Ms Bean said.
“We’ve had some really strong events but I think it’s probably even more that people want to come out now [after lockdown] .
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Sometimes the smallest things can have the most significant impact on our lives.
For Jenny Bean, who was the guest speaker at Enfield’s Anzac Day service on Sunday, small things collected during her childhood – such as her grandfather’s medals and scarab beetle ring, her grandmother and great-grandmother’s lockets containing pictures of the men they loved, war games and books that contained snippets of war-like experiences – were all subconscious influences on her life and her values.
“The values of service, tradition, honour, doing the right thing for the greater good, leadership, discipline – all of these small things led me to the military,” she said.
It s not our crime, but it s still our sentence : Pillars founder Verna McFelin
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Pillars founder Verna McFelin talks to Joanna Wane about her life inside and outside the prison wire. People have long memories in a small town like Ōamaru. Not everyone is prepared to forgive the past, even four decades on, or willing to forget it.
Verna McFelin was born in Ōamaru, like four generations before her on both sides of the family. It s where she met her husband, Paul, when they were both teenagers, where she gave birth to their four children, and where they opened the town s first pizza parlour.
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