Features
Marsters wins heaviest tuna trophy
Wednesday 9 June 2010 | Published in Features
The Don Beer Senior Memorial Trophy for the heaviest tuna is run annually over Queen’s Birthday weekend by the Cook Islands Game Fishing Club. Fifteen boats registered and expectations among anglers were high as a number of good sized tuna had been caught the previous week. The calm waters over both days meant that paara […]
Avarua CICC youth groups rejoice
Friday 4 June 2010 | Published in Church Talk
Avarua Cook Islands Christian Church youth groups have been singing and dancing their praises for the lord during this week’s ‘Avarua youth week’ competition. The six ekalesia under the Avarua CICC branch namely Tupapa, Maraerenga, Takuvaine, Tutakimoa, Ruatonga and Avatiu have spent the past months practising various items for this week’s competition. The inter-ekalesia competition […]
Fine wine and a mouth-watering menu
Saturday 29 May 2010 | Published in Features
Wine club members and eager guests had a chance to enjoy an exquisite evening of dinner, drinks and conversation last Friday at Sails Restaurant in Muri. Chef Tim Tierney of Deli Foods whipped up a mouth-watering five-course menu, and paired each dish with an apposite wine from the Deli Foods cellar, to make for a […]
Pride and joy on stage
Saturday 29 May 2010 | Published in Features
Cultural inheritance is a birthright and the 29 dancers who took to the dancer of the year stage on Thursday night showed nothing but respect and pride for their Cook Islands culture. In opening the night’s show, minister Apii Piho commended all the competitors for taking on the challenge. He said that although there would […]
Searching for Ken Graham links
Saturday 29 May 2010 | Published in Features
New Zealand woman Kaye Winter is researching aspects of the life of her father Ken Graham during his time living and working in the Cook Islands in the late 1920s and through the 1930s. Winter said although this was a long time ago, there could be descendants of people he knew during those times who […]
Cook Islander named The Apprentice
Saturday 29 May 2010 | Published in Features
Earlier this month, a Cook Islander was dubbed the winner of The Apprentice New Zealand, a reality television series in which contestants battled it out to win an employment contract with multimillionaire Terry Serepisos. Thomas Ben, 35, won the coveted one-year employment contract at property development company Century City, of which Serepisos is chief executive […]
Te Uki Ou records history on website
Saturday 29 May 2010 | Published in Features
Year 7 and 8 students from Apii Te Uki Ou launched their website about the history of the school last week. They interviewed members of the community about the origins of the school, which served as an introduction to the research process. The introduction to the research process coincides with the school’s current building project […]
Thanks from Rotaract
Saturday 29 May 2010 | Published in Features
Member development and more funding for local projects are currently key initiatives for the Rotaract Club of Rarotonga. The club has been fundraising this month with the goals of contributing more funding to local projects, helping develop members and for other club activities. With the help of Rotary, members of Rotaract have been selling sausage […]
Te Vaerua to open soon
Saturday 29 May 2010 | Published in Features
Te Vaerua Community Rehabilitation Service is on the verge of opening its Arorangi office inside a re-modelled residential building. The service is free and aims to rehabilitate those with health issues and disabilities. Te Vaerua was registered as a non-charitable organisation in 2007, and in the absence of a functional office building, has been sending […]
Dancer of the year takes centre stage
Thursday 27 May 2010 | Published in Features
Twenty nine Cook Islands dancers will take to the stage tonight for the 2010 Dancer of the Year competition in all divisions juniors, intermediate and seniors. The competition will start at 6pm with the 10 junior and six intermediate dancers to showcase their slow and fast beat performances. The prize giving for the junior and […]
Golden Oldies dancers thrill crowd
Tuesday 25 May 2010 | Published in Features
The golden oldies dancer of the year competition was a real thrill for both spectators and dancers on Friday night. Dancers were grouped into two sections rauti para (ripe rauti leaf) for mama and papa dancers over 60-years and the rauti pi (green rauti leaf) for ‘younger’ dancers. While the mama dancers were graceful in […]
Voyagers set the tapu
Saturday 22 May 2010 | Published in Features
As we walked down the beach the rain began. Horns sounded and voices raised in song. The first marae. The kaumatua’s posture and korero were full of challenge. “Are you ready to enter the valley? Are you prepared?” he shouted. Each canoe filled a carved calabash with sea water as an offering for the other […]
Dancing queen
Saturday 22 May 2010 | Published in Features
Well known Aitutaki and national dance champion Uirangi Bishop (pictured) will be among the high calibre dancers taking up next week’s dancer of the year challenge. The junior, intermediate and senior dancer of the year competition has been combined this year and this will be held on Thursday, May 27 at the national auditorium. Will […]
Our Mauke mission – sustainable living
Saturday 22 May 2010 | Published in Church Talk
People still say they can’t believe Andrew left his home and I left a good job, to work income-less on a remote piece of rocky land. I’m sure they’ve got bets down on how long we’ll last in Mauke. God only knows that, but for now we know this is our mission. The opportunity to […]
Household water use quiz
Saturday 22 May 2010 | Published in Features
Can your household work out how much water it uses? Surveys overseas say an average household uses 250 – 450 litres of water per day, per person. Search online for a water usage calculator or use this as a guide to work out your usage. Bathroom 1. How many showers per day are had in […]
'Mentalist' here on world tour
Saturday 22 May 2010 | Published in Features
Twenty-one-year old Tom DeVoe from Wales reads minds, and he can bend a spoon using not physical force but the power of his thoughts. He dropped into CI News, handed me a book and told me to open it to a random page, pick a word and say the word in my mind. I chose […]
Justification by faith
Friday 21 May 2010 | Published in Church Talk
Paul is dealing with people caught in hypocrisy at the time. But the words he speaks can be so easily put to us today! We compel others to live in a way which we do not live ourselves. We change what we believe because of sin in our lives. If the Word says something, we […]
'Passing the torch'
Friday 21 May 2010 | Published in Church Talk
Passing of the Torch before the opening of the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games or even the South Pacific Games is becoming a familiar sight. The spectacular pageantry of the opening ceremonies cannot begin until the final carrier of the torch arrives in the stadium. The torch symbolically links the modern games to their 2700 years […]
CICC follows up seminar
Friday 21 May 2010 | Published in Church Talk
In response to positive feedback from a Walk Thru the Bible seminar conducted in March, CICC is hosting another Walk Thru. The Avarua Cook Islands Christian Church will be hosting a follow-up seminar at Sinai Hall sometime in June. Those who registered for and attended the first seminar are free to re-use the same manual […]
Dancing title up for grabs
Wednesday 19 May 2010 | Published in Features
With the departure from Rarotonga of ANZ Bank’s Darrin Walsh, the Papaa Male Dancer of the year title is up for grabs. Walsh has been a dominant force in that category of the competition, grabbing the title in recent years. Now that he has moved overseas there is a chance for someone to step up […]
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