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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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Whale songs add to science

Saturday 2 April 2011 | Published in Features

Local whale expert Nan Hauser has been studying whale songs – the noises male humpbacks emit as they hang upside-down, motionless – for over a decade. The songs are the focus of a paper she and some colleagues recently published in the scientific journal ‘Current Biology’, a paper which encompasses 11 years of research and […]

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Power bills going up

Saturday 2 April 2011 | Published in Features

Te Aponga Uira is estimating most Rarotonga households will see their monthly power bills increase by $15 to $20 excluding VAT. Most homes use around around 200-300 electricity units. Acting TAU chief executive Elma Spooner-Marurai says larger homes using more than 500 units a month can see an increase of around $30 to $50 in […]

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CITC gets proactive

Saturday 2 April 2011 | Published in Features

The country’s largest company CITC has taken the proactive step of giving staff the opportunity to learn how to better manage their budgets and make some savings. Manager Gaye Whitta says the company is also looking at ways to encourage staff to save power costs at home as well as at work. She explains CITC […]

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Start gardening and grow food

Saturday 2 April 2011 | Published in Features

The predicted cost of living increase could start a new trend – home gardens. Starting a home garden will help supplement the food budget. Agriculture will need to assist families with this by providing seedlings for vegetables and fruit trees and advice. Low maintenance crops should be a priority such as rukau viti, rukau taro, […]

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