Is it high time to protect your digital assets?
Last week we were called to look at a 10-year old laptop using Windows Live Mail for email on a Vista operating system. The...
Your Kitchen is built to serve!
Classic? Modern? Retro? Industrial? Whatever you want, whatever your dream, whatever your need, or unique idea, at Prestige Kitchens and Joinery, we make it...
Ideal Garages Tauranga
Our local business owner David Little was 10-years old, 44 years ago when he arrived in Tauranga from Dunedin. He has ensconced himself in...
Benefits of tenants for life
With the growing need for our elderly to “bunk in together” to survive, I urge any current investor or potential investor to think about...
TCC Pensioner Housing Review
Social housing and emergency service groups are working hard to better accommodate vulnerable members of society. Their main focus has been on housing and...
Older people and renting
A trend of which all social support services are becoming much more aware, is the increasing number of older people, generally single, who cannot...
A growing market for older tenants
Older-old people now experience difficulty renting a home in Tauranga City and the Western Bay of Plenty District. The problem is that rental properties...
Kinsa and Jenny: Seeking safe, suitable housing
Kinsa’s story
I’ve always owned my own home until a couple of years ago. Ten years ago, in the spirit of adventure I left Opotiki...
Prestige Kitchens and Joinery – just what you’re looking for!
We do different!
Owner and operator Stephen Parr has been manufacturing specialised kitchens and timber joinery for over 20 years throughout the Bay of Plenty,...
Fallen out of love with your older home?
Like you, many Kiwi families are living in older homes with no wall insulation. With up to 28% of your heat lost through the...
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Implementing zero waste behaviours within marae
Para Kore Marae Incorporated is a community-based, not-for-profit, Māori organisation (by Māori, for Māori) established in 2008 to deliver waste minimisation education and training...
Teddies on Call at Tauranga Hospital Emergency Department
Emergency Departments are frightening places when you are small, unwell or hurt.
The people you meet seem bigger and if you are in pain it...
Local business digs deep for Club
No more shivering in the wind and rain at Te Ariki Park in Maungatapu, home stomping ground of the 2016 Baywide Premier Champions, Rangataua...
Brendan McCarty sailing towards the next Olympics 2020
Greerton residents, Lyn and Graeme McCarty enjoy tracking the achievements of their youngest son Brendan who lives in Valencia, Spain.
For the past 4 years Brendan...
Any which way but lost – Maketū Gentleman’s Club – Poker Run 2017
Every two years in November the Maketū Gentleman’s Club’s (MGC) Poker Run is held. The first thing you hear is the roar, when nearly...
Taonga Tauranga
Promoting discussion – The Tauranga museum as an economic and social game changer.
The first in a series of public breakfast sessions where experts in...
Books from our own backyard
Writers in the Bay. Plenty to be proud about.
He’s known as Mattie to family and friends, and is now officially author Matthew Strauss with publication of his...
Ready for Turret Road change? Let’s go.
Bay Waka - Issue 10 - City Councillors Corner
With the new Maungatapu underpass to Welcome Bay opening soon, a cost-effective solution is being suggested...
Kidz Rule! Prize draw!
Download this picture for colouring in!
Read on if you want to to go into the draw for a really cool remote-control pet cockroach!
To win,...
Migrants shine with public speaking skills
On 16 December 2017, 12 Tauranga migrants sat a whole-day exam to qualify for a Speech New Zealand certificate in Professional Speaking. The exam...
Housing need report galvanises joint action in western Bay of Plenty
13 December 2017
It will only get harder for people to own and rent a home in the western Bay of Plenty unless a range...
Tauranga City Council Fireworks, The Strand waterfront at 9:30pm, 31 December 2017
All credit for this video (below) goes to Reilly (10) enthusiastically filming with his little camera resting on top a small waterfront concrete wall.
https://youtu.be/2657BrRpbSc
Morehu Day Aotearoa 2017 in Maungatapu
Morehu Day Aotearoa 2017 was hosted by Tauranga Moana on 18th November 2017
The Saturday morning pōwhiri was held at Te Pa o Te Ariki...
Freemason support to Tauranga Boys’ College Robotics Club
Launching Robotics at Tauranga Boys' College
2017 has seen the successful launch of Robotics at Tauranga Boys' College thanks to generous funding from Kiwibots, Tauranga’s...
Fresh Cuisine Recipe Book
Our lives seem to be more and more concerned with eliminating gluten and sugar from our food, whether this is due to personal circumstances,...
Chef Stephen’s – Food that brings people together
Feasts have always played an important role in the history of empires across the
globe, and the breaking of bread and sharing of meals have...
Lemongrass Catering – Cookies and cream cheesecake
When I was a child I’m pretty sure Christmas didn’t come around near as quick as what it seems to these years! And yet...
Home visits by beauty consultations needed
In need of advice about your Health or your Beauty regime? Are you putting it off because of time constraints, or is it too...
Baywave dials up the fun
Baywave’s dialling up the fun, with the introduction of a bombing platform, plus extended hydro slide hours and more waves.
Manager Mike Page says three...
Friendly Bacteria for Health – it works!
What have the Bay Waka and friendly bacteria (also called Probiotics) got in common? They both are both great communicators! The Bay Waka communicates...