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Ronél Hunter is a singer songwriter residing in Kakapoint. Originally from South Africa, Ronél played at local folk festivals before moving to NZ in 2009. Ronél writes songs about real life and is a firm believer in being real and being yourself. She tells stories through her songs that connect to the audience in a personal and real way. In 2017 she picked up the pen and embarked on the journey of writing songs for her Debut album, which was released in March 2020. Lockdown also lead to the birth of some new songs. Influences on her music include artist like Tracy Chapman, Dolly Parton, Guy Clark, and Mary Gauthier.
Serious effort pays off with giant 95.5kg pumpkin for amateur grower
6 May, 2021 12:30 AM
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Donna Pettitt s prodigious 95kg pumpkin that set a record at this year s South Otago A&P Show Giant Pumpkin Competition. Photo / Supplied
Donna Pettitt s prodigious 95kg pumpkin that set a record at this year s South Otago A&P Show Giant Pumpkin Competition. Photo / Supplied
Otago Daily Times
By: Mary-Jo Tohill
Fruit or vegetable, a couple of amateur Clutha growers have grown some whopper pumpkins this year. Otago Daily Times reporter Mary-Jo Tohill had a chat to them following their wins at the recent fifth annual South Otago A&P Society Giant Pumpkin Competition.
Discover Taranaki’s Surf Highway 45 Keep a snowcapped Mt Taranaki on your left on a journey from New Plymouth to Hawera, and you can’t go wrong. Hopefully, the maunga’s perfect volcanic peak will be cloud-free as you negotiate Taranaki’s Surf Highway, taking time to detour down side roads to the skeletal remains of the SS Gairloch shipwreck just south of Ōakura, or the Cape Egmont Lighthouse at Pungarehu on Taranaki’s western-most point. Look forward to brisk westerlies and a winter Tasman swell rolling in all the way from Australia.
Don’t miss Two of regional New Zealand’s best galleries and museums, the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre in New Plymouth, and the Tawhiti Museum in Hāwera.