Novice golfers (from left) Aimee Hurley, Maddie Smith, Jess Kaimarama and Viki Hurring enjoy their bubbles after their bash at Waipu Golf Club. PHOTO/JULIE GORDON
Novice golfers (from left) Aimee Hurley, Maddie Smith, Jess Kaimarama and Viki Hurring enjoy their bubbles after their bash at Waipu Golf Club. PHOTO/JULIE GORDON
Bubbles and Bash party success More than 30 women took up the Bubbles and Bash challenge at Waipu Golf Club last Sunday to try their hand at golf.
The event was part of a New Zealand wide initiative to encourage women of all ages to give golf a go.
All participants received goodie bags from the New Zealand Golf "She Loves Golf" initiative followed by some basic coaching with Kylie Jacoby in the undercover coaching area. They then went out and played a few holes on the course, assisted by club volunteers.
Refreshments were needed after all this activity, and back at the clubhouse the golfers sipped champagne and dined on a shared platter lunch from Tee Café. They checked out the golf fashion on display, with lucky draw winner Maureen Woodney taking home a NZ Golf hooded sweatshirt plus a polo shirt of her choice from the Sporte Leisure range.
Shirts also went to Lorna Murray and Helen Wheldon. Club ladies' president Julie Gordon advises people to check the golf shop for further information – the club plans to hold another Bubbles and Bash party in spring.
Crazy hat fun A low turnout didn't stop partygoers at Ruakaka Recreation Centre's Crazy Hat party last Saturday enjoying themselves, says centre secretary Christine Thirling.
Kirsty Halliday created floral headwear for the Ruakaka Recreation Centre's Crazy Hat party. PHOTO/CHRISTINE THIRLING
"We had a great time, very good music and good food," she said. "The musicians Paul and Anita were fantastic, they played music from the 60s, 70s and 80s – wonderful for dancing."
The night was a fundraiser for the centre's proposed new multipurpose facility.
Mrs Thirling says the committee are grateful to their sponsors, Bream Bay Merchants, Marsden Metals Group, NSP, Thirling Computer Services, Orr's Pharmacy, George Jackson, Two Birds Cafe and Marsden Highway Liquor Shop.
The recreation centre's next big fundraiser is the Masquerade Party on October 6.
Remembering Anzac Day 1918 Guest speaker at last week's Anzac memorial service in Waipu was Royal New Zealand Navy warrant officer John Leybourne.
Bream Bay College's Siobhan McDonald (left) and Mi Jung Kang carry their school's wreath at Waipu's Anzac service. PHOTO/JULIE PATON
He spoke about Anzac Day in 1918, when World War l still dragged on after four long years, and thousands of New Zealanders had died.
"By Anzac Day 1918 people were reaching the limits of their endurance," he said. On that Anzac Day, while people gathered to honour the dead, they also longed for a day when the war would be over.
"While the year ended in victory, New Zealanders' suffering was not over. The Spanish influenza epidemic took another 8600 lives between October and December 1918. And just 20 years later, another terrible war began.
"Anzac Day is and will always be about remembering the service and sacrifice."
Waipu RSA president Dave Wistrand opened proceedings, reading Rudyard Kipling's poem My Boy Jack written after Kipling's son was lost in battle in 1916.
The Ode of Remembrance was read in Gaelic, Maori and English; and the names of all Waipu soldiers killed in both world wars were read before wreaths were laid at the memorial by representatives from schools and community groups.
New home needed for wicket Bream Bay Cricket Club are looking for a new site for a cricket wicket and are open to suggestions on where to put it.
The transportable wicket has been on the sports fields at Bream Bay College but must be moved as it is in the way of the new whare currently under construction and is surplus to requirements – the college has two other wickets.
Cricket player numbers are growing in the Bream Bay area and the club is keen to see it placed somewhere in Bream Bay.
If you have bright ideas as to a good location for a new outfield for cricket wicket in your neighbourhood, please call Bruce Paton on 0276017525.
■ Email Julie Paton at moojoy@xtra.co.nz if you've got Bream Bay news to share with Northern Advocate readers.
