Changes planned for Whanganui Vintage Weekend
18 Jan, 2021 10:08 PM
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Helping make Mainstreet Caboodle a success are representatives from Mainstreet, Stellar, The Vic Bar, Downers, More FM, Momiji, La Quattro, Ray White, Bayleys, Vintage Car Club, and some of the many musicians taking part on three stages throughout the day. Photo / Paul Brooks
Helping make Mainstreet Caboodle a success are representatives from Mainstreet, Stellar, The Vic Bar, Downers, More FM, Momiji, La Quattro, Ray White, Bayleys, Vintage Car Club, and some of the many musicians taking part on three stages throughout the day. Photo / Paul Brooks
Paul Brooks is editor of Whanganui Midweek, in your letterbox every Wednesdaypaul.brooks@nzme.co.nz
The Marketplace off to a good start - but more retailers needed
19 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Oil painter Paul Heather-Xia says The Marketplace is the perfect place to test the water . Photo / Mike Tweed
Oil painter Paul Heather-Xia says The Marketplace is the perfect place to test the water . Photo / Mike Tweed
Mike Tweed is a multimedia journalist at the Whanganui Chroniclemichael.tweed@nzme.co.nzWhangaChron
Collaborative retail space The Marketplace has now been open on Victoria Ave for two months. Mike Tweed visits to ask how it s going. Oil painter Paul Heather-Xia and his husband Alan moved to Whanganui a
Big read: Non-stop events could make this Whanganui s biggest summer yet
15 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Hamish McDouall says there has always been festival after festival after festival in Whanganui. Photo / Bevan Conley
Hamish McDouall says there has always been festival after festival after festival in Whanganui. Photo / Bevan Conley
Mike Tweed is a multimedia journalist at the Whanganui Chroniclemichael.tweed@nzme.co.nzWhangaChron
Whanganui is in the middle of a summer event season that is full to bursting over the next three months. A wide range of festivals, concerts and events guarantee something of interest for people of all ages, and if we can maintain vigilance and remain at alert level 1, the next three months may be Whanganui s biggest event season ever.
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.