Former Tauranga Boys College principal Norman Morris remembered as visionary leader
12 Mar, 2021 07:00 PM
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Norm Morris, 96, and his widow Dinah Morris in the garden of their Otumoetai home in 2017. Photo / Supplied.
Norm Morris, 96, and his widow Dinah Morris in the garden of their Otumoetai home in 2017. Photo / Supplied.
Bay of Plenty Times
A passionate educator, a visionary and a man ahead of his time is how past colleagues have described a highly respected former principal at Tauranga Boys College. A memorial service to celebrate the life of 96-year-old Norman David Morris will be held at St John s Anglican Church in Bureta Rd from 2pm on March 13.
Mike Maddog Maddox remembered as hard-working and pretty cheeky
11 Mar, 2021 05:00 PM
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Mike Maddox died on February 27. Photo / George Novak
Kerrie Maddox would give anything to have her husband tap her on the shoulder or pull her hair again. It was that cheekiness and sense of humour Kerrie fell in love with the moment she met Mike Maddog Maddox.
She s still waiting for him to walk through the door after work.
Tragically, Mike died in a head-on crash in north Waikato on Saturday, February 27. His motorbike collided with a ute on Kaiaua Rd, Mangatangi, near Miranda.
He was meant to start his perfect job on the Monday after the fatal accident.
Young people playing active role in disaster-hit areas Sorry, but your browser needs Javascript to use this site. If you re not sure how to activate it, please refer to this site: https://www.enable-javascript.com/
Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on March 6 | KYODO
Jiji Mar 11, 2021
Young people are increasingly working to help reconstruction efforts in the Tohoku region, hit hard by the disasters of March 11, 2011, by moving there and tackling challenges such as depopulation and regional revitalization.
Shunsuke Mitsui, 32, representative director of SET, a nonprofit based in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, hails from Ibaraki Prefecture.
He established SET in March 2011, when he was a university student, and has engaged in volunteering activities for reconstruction. Upon graduating, he moved to the Hirota district of Rikuzentakata and served as a city assembly member for four years from 2015.
Flame of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to move to Fukushima for 3/11 anniversary Sorry, but your browser needs Javascript to use this site. If you re not sure how to activate it, please refer to this site: https://www.enable-javascript.com/
The flame of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has been kept at Ueno Toshogu Shrine in Tokyo since 1990. | JOE MABEL / CC BY-SA 3.0
Jiji Mar 10, 2021
The “flame of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” kept at a Tokyo shrine for about 30 years as a prayer for the abolition of nuclear weapons, will be moved to a temple in Fukushima Prefecture, the location of Japan’s worst nuclear accident.
Ten years on, rugby lifts spirits in tsunami-struck Kamaishi Sorry, but your browser needs Javascript to use this site. If you re not sure how to activate it, please refer to this site: https://www.enable-javascript.com/
A banner in memory of March 11 victims is displayed on the pitch before a Rugby World Cup game between Fiji and Uruguay on Sept. 25, 2019, in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture. | REUTERS
Jiji Mar 10, 2021
Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture – Passion for rugby is offering a beacon of hope in the northeastern city of Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, after it was ravaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. We were able to aim for the same goal, the World Cup, said Yoshihiko Sakuraba, general manager of the Kamaishi Seawaves Rugby Football Club, of his relationship with the city in the decade after the disaster. That became a great asset.