The Southland Tribune; Edition #30
Jamie Mackay: Southland farmer to national broadcaster/Mayor 'bites lip', agrees to sign-off on annual report/Jack Taylor locked in for 2023 and 2024 Stags seasons
Jamie Mackay: Southland farmer to national broadcaster
Mayor 'bites lip', agrees to sign-off on annual report
Jack Taylor locked in for 2023 and 2024 Stags seasons
Adamson cuts US trip short for Sharks
Today’s Poll…. Are you going to watch the Highlanders in Invercargill?
Why Southland is a gem…. Reason #30 Kepler Track
Out & About…. HANNA
Plus, Tribune Shoutout, our Quick Quiz and more
Jamie Mackay: ‘Broken down sheep farmer’ to national broadcaster
In 1994, with no experience in the radio industry, Jamie Mackay bought a radio station. It triggered a chain of events that has led him to grow a once-five-minute farming segment out of Gore into a nationwide hour-long show. A show that commands a regular slot with the Prime Minister. (READ MORE HERE).
Mayor 'bites lip', agrees to sign-off on annual report
Mayor Nobby Clark has “bitten his lip” and signed off on a key part of the Invercargill City Council’s annual report. On Tuesday morning Clark had threatened to not sign the documents as tensions between the council and Audit New Zealand bubble away. (READ MORE HERE)
Jack Taylor locked in for 2023 and 2024 Stags seasons
Promising hooker Jack Taylor has signed on with the SBS Bank Southland Stags for both the 2023 and 2024 seasons. And he’s likely to play a big role. (READ MORE HERE).
Adamson cuts US trip short for Sharks
Talented Aucklander Ben Adamson is the latest to be added to the Southland Sharks for the upcoming Sal's New Zealand National Basketball League season. Adamson, who is fresh back from a month at a basketball academy and prep school in Jacksonville, Florida will link with his Sharks' team mates this week and is bursting to get started in what will be his second NBL campaign. (READ MORE HERE).
Tribune Shoutout…. (Alex Crackett)
Invercargill City Councillor Alex Crackett has been elected as co-chair of the nationwide Young Elected Members Committee.
The Young Elected Members Committee - which is a subcommittee of Local Government New Zealand National Council - is a network of elected members under the age of 40.
“What a privilege to serve alongside these inspiring national leaders across the motu all advocating for our communities, I’m incredibly humbled by the network’s faith in us,” Crackett said.
It is Crackett’s second term as member of the Young Elected Members Committee. She is joined by Gore Mayor Ben Bell who has also been elected on the committee.
Amongst the group’s list of quests is to lower the barriers for young people to participate in local government.
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Quick Quiz….
1. Invercargill will host a motorsport festival from March 30 to April 2, which late race car constructor is the event named after?
2. Where was former New Zealand Prime Minister Jenny Shipley born?
3. Which central Southland school will celebrate 150 years from November 3 to 5 this year?
4. Who was the long-time Invercargill resident who was shifted out of his home at the museum last week?
5. Which former Invercargill mayor is the Invercargill Public Library named after?
(SCROLL TO BOTTOM FOR ANSWERS)
Today’s Poll…
Why Southland is a gem…. Reason #30
(We think it’s worth reminding ourselves why Southland is such a special place, so that’s what we’ll do regularly)
Kepler Track. How lucky are we to have this in our Southland backyard?
Highlights of the Kepler Track, one of New Zealand's Great Walks, include: exploring the fascinating Luxmore Caves, taking in alpine tussock grasslands and amazing views of Lake Te Anau, and walking to Iris Burn Falls.
Most walkers tramp the 60km loop in 4 days and 3 nights, but sections of the track can also be done as day walks. The track starts and finishes at the Kepler Track carpark near Te Anau. Great Walk tracks are of a higher standard than most other tracks so are well formed, wide, and easy to follow. Most rivers and waterways on these tracks have sturdy bridges, although occasionally there are also small streams to cross.
Each night is spent in one of the three huts or two campsites on the Kepler Track, which must be booked in advance during the Great Walks season (24 October 2017 - 30 April 2018). Camping or staying overnight in the shelters at Forest Burn and Hanging Valley is not permitted.
At each of the scenic campsites on the track you'll find: an open cooking shelter, water on tap, a clean toilet, and a friendly hut warden (during the Great Walks season) who may visit to chat and check campsite tickets. (Blurb credit: Southland NZ).
Out and About….
HANNA by Sam Potter - Thursday March 16, 6pm - Scottish Hall, Invercargill
Jennifer Ward-Lealand directs Cassandra Woodhouse in the acclaimed one-woman play, Hanna, by Sam Potter.
Being a young mum is supposed to be hard - but for Hanna, the only thing she's ever been brilliant at is raising her beloved daughter, Ellie. But then a DNA test reveals staggering news: Ellie is not Hanna’s child - and now her ‘real’ parents want to meet.
Is Hanna obliged to let these strangers into her daughter's life? And how do you explain a mix-up in an overstretched maternity ward to a three-year old? Forced to question what being a parent really means, she makes a drastic decision that will change all their lives.
Sam Potter's funny, heartfelt and compelling one-woman play, Hanna delicately weaves in questions of racial identity, economic privilege, and the lottery of birth - and asks: what does “family” actually mean in today's society?
Premiering in London in 2018, and proudly presented by NZ Theatre Company in its Auckland premiere, Hanna will be the first for the company, whose aim is to bring professional productions into community theatre spaces.
Arts On Tour NZ (AOTNZ) organises tours of outstanding New Zealand performers to rural and smaller centres in New Zealand www.aotnz.co.nz
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In case you missed it….
20 Years On: When Southlanders Gareth and Melissa Dykes first applied for a loan to start their business, the bank declined it. Two decades on, the pair are spearheading a multi-award-winning and internationally recognised business right from the heart of the deep south. (READ MORE HERE).
Smith’s Take: Long-serving athletics coach Lance Smith dishes up his personal take on the Southland team’s performance at the New Zealand Athletics Championships in Wellington. (READ MORE HERE).
Quiz Answers….
George Begg 2. Gore 3. Limehills School 4. Henry the Tuatara 5. Eve Poole