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Catholic celebration
Thursday 21 April 2011 | Published in Church Talk
Easter is the high point of the Catholic calendar and this weekends Easter church service at the St Josephs Cathedral will begin with mass at 7pm today. Tonights last supper mass will also include the washing of the feet enactment where Catholic Bishop Stuart OConnell will wash the feet of 12 parishioners. Tomorrow the Stations […]
Writer's life celebrated
Saturday 16 April 2011 | Published in Features
The life and work of prolific Cook Islands artist Alistair Te Ariki Campbell is being celebrated in an exhibition at the Pataka Porirua Museum of Art and Culture in New Zealand. Campbell, who was born on Penrhyn, was a renowned poet, playwright, and novelist in New Zealand where he spent most of his life. He […]
Jazz artists return for tribute concert
Saturday 16 April 2011 | Published in Features
Kiwi singer-songwriter Caitlin Smith and San Francisco soul sensation Edna Love will be performing a tribute to the late Jeannine Peyroux on Wednesday at the Little Polynesian. Both performed at the Billy TK Jnr’s Blues and Jazz Festival on Rarotonga two years ago, and recently called manager Te Tika Mataiapo Dorice Reid from San Francisco […]
Tuaman hits Raro!
Saturday 16 April 2011 | Published in Features
The island was hit with David Tua fever yesterday as the Samoan heavyweight boxer visited Nukutere School and various businesses on the island. Nukutere College hosted the well rested boxer for breakfast at 8am yesterday as part of the school’s ongoing ‘breakfast with the stars’ programme. Tua had to swap his trademark black leather cap […]
Just paint it!
Saturday 16 April 2011 | Published in Features
Take a moment and look on the brighter and happy side of life. That’s what local artists Kay and Ian George of The Art Studio in Arorangi hope people will do when they visit the studios first exhibition of the year titled – Just Paint It. Kay says that with so much going on in […]
CITC staff donate to Are Pa Metua
Saturday 16 April 2011 | Published in Features
Members of the Are Pa Metua enjoyed a great feast this week thanks to staff of the CITC Building Centre. On the last Friday of every month the Building Centre staff dress up in their best pareu wear and donate $2 each to go towards a charity and this time round – the Are Pa […]
Kids raise $14,500
Saturday 16 April 2011 | Published in Features
Students give of themselves for nothing in return but the joy of service to others. This was the theme of the Nukutere College run-a-thon on Thursday which raised $14,500 for victims of the Christchurch earthquake. The school presented Nga Jessie of Red Cross with the cheque and a promise that another cheque would handed over […]
Maori medicine works wonders
Saturday 16 April 2011 | Published in Features
The news that really rocked this week’s National Economic Development Summit is the revelation that Cook Islands plant remedies could revolutionise modern medicine. For nearly a century, a colonial ban on ‘black magic’ pushed traditional Cook Islands healing practices and Maori medicines into the shadows – plants with healing properties were ‘known about, but not […]
Bishop writes autobiography
Friday 15 April 2011 | Published in Church Talk
Wellington-born Bishop Robin Leamy, a priest of the Society of Mary and former Bishop of Rarotonga, this week launched his autobiography, Truly Blessed – My Story. The book covers his formative years in the capital, his many years of ministry as priest and bishop in Christchurch and the South Pacific, and his time serving in […]
It's the loveliest place
Thursday 14 April 2011 | Published in Features
Dear Editor, I have recently been a visitor to the Cook Islands, coming home last weekend. I loved my time in the Cook Islands and enjoyed especially a visit to parliament where Mr Metuakore (Motu) was kind enough to give me the time to show me around. What I couldn’t get a handle on is […]
Guide grows from Mexico experience
Saturday 9 April 2011 | Published in Features
Local Girl Guide Anabeth Tetauru recently returned from Mexico, where she and 200 other young Girl Guides attended the Young Women’s World Forum, other sessions of which simultaneously occurred in Switzerland, India and the United Kingdom. The theme of this year’s forum was ‘Grow’ – a fitting term, as Anabeth says she grew socially, spiritually […]
Guiding leadership meets
Saturday 9 April 2011 | Published in Features
Girl Guides from all over the southern group flocked to Rarotonga last month for the Girl Guides Association Cook Islands weekend training session. Just under 30 Girl Guides leaders from Aitutaki, Atiu, Mauke, Mitiaro, Mangaia and Rarotonga gathered at Sinai Hall to check a number of items off its agenda, including drafting and discussing the […]
Josephine tops the world!
Saturday 9 April 2011 | Published in Features
As invited guests gathered at the Hospitality Tourism Training Centre yesterday to see 24-year-old Josephine Rattle receive her prestigious award – the dedicated student was in the kitchen preparing tasty morsels for the guests. Rattle was awarded the World’s Top Food and Beverage City and Guilds International Medal yesterday in front of proud family, friends […]
Sustainability explained
Saturday 9 April 2011 | Published in Features
We must take sustainability seriously because if something is not sustainable, it is doomed to come to an end. Sustainability, simply put, is about ‘providing for today’s needs without compromising the needs of tomorrow’. For example, in agriculture if growers are using inorganic fertilisers that burn microbes and worms in the soil, whilst they may […]
Mauke makes 'Back Yard Farmer'
Saturday 9 April 2011 | Published in Features
In Australia’s latest ‘Back Yard Farmer’ magazine, a sustainable living venture on Mauke island is among 80 colourful pages of practical information on such subjects as DIY organic hydroponics, drought proof vegetables high in Vitamin C, worthy weeds, chook power, and building soils. As editor Fiona Tunnicliff says, it’s all ‘real stories from real people […]
DJ 'Whateva Treva' salutes Stevie Wonder
Saturday 2 April 2011 | Published in Features
DJ ‘Whateva Treva’ pays tribute to legendary singer/songwriter Stevland Morris, more commonly known as Stevie Wonder, during tomorrow’s three-hour ‘Groovin (on a Sunday afternoon)’ broadcast. From midday until 3 o’clock, ‘Whateva Treva’ will be playing a collection of songs by Stevie Wonder on 88FM. “(Stevie) got awarded the (Gershwin) Life Achievement Award from (President Barack) […]
'Tropical Vibes'
Saturday 2 April 2011 | Published in Features
Local company Motone, a husband-wife venture established in 2009 by musician Maurice ‘Mo’ Newport and marketing expert Glenda Tuaine, has big plans to expand the local creative industry. The couple contends that while people tend to ‘talk about’ growing the industry, Motone has the credentials and the connections to make it happen. Mo and Glenda […]
Thousands ask BCA 'where you from?'
Saturday 2 April 2011 | Published in Features
Earning the distinction of being the gallery from the farthest away at the prestigious VOLTA NY art show, the local Beachcomber Contemporary Art gallery has stirred enough interest there to feature on the annual art show’s website. Close to 20,000 people viewed, critiqued and some bought the art works exhibited by 85 galleries at VOLTA […]
'A life of luck and beauty'
Saturday 2 April 2011 | Published in Features
The long and successful career of accomplished New Zealand designer Annie Bonza will be celebrated at Auckland’s Bridal Fashion Week. On the eve of a retrospective of her best work at Auckland’s inaugural Bridal Fashion Week, fashion designer Annie Bonza is talking about good luck. Even with a career which has spanned 55 years, she […]
Last chance to win a car
Saturday 2 April 2011 | Published in Features
Today and Monday will be the last chance for shoppers to enter the CITC supermarket ‘win a car’ promotion. The promotion has been running since January with great response from the public. To enter the draw to win the brand new gold Hyundai Getz – customers simply have to buy one product from the four […]
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