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Elliot Paerata-Reid through to under-18 semis
Elliot Paerata-Reid is through to the semi-finals of the under-18 Hyundai National Surfing Champs. Here’s seen here today (Wednesday 16th January) with one of his many fans, Rafael Hosking, having [ Read More ]
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Progress on bush regeneration project at Piha
Hot day today, but went and inspected how our bush regeneration is getting on. People at Piha 20 years ago will recall the fires in 1994 and 1996 that ripped [ Read More ]
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Tribute to Tony Hopkins, drumming legend and friend of Piha
Piha’s lost a good friend in Tony Hopkins, the legendary drummer, who passed away on 4 January 2013 after a short illness with cancer. We’ve enjoyed the talents of Tony [ Read More ]
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Mermaid Mischa on Summer Noelle
Piha born-and-bred, Mischa Davis featured on Summer Noelle on Radio New Zealand this week, taking Noelle on a guided tour of Piha. The multi-talented Mischa talked about being a mermaid, [ Read More ]
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Piha R&R AGM learns about the Unitary Plan
Last night’s Piha R&R AGM went off fairly smoothly, with first up a presentation from Penny Pirrit of the Auckland Council on the Unitary Plan. Penny is the manager in [ Read More ]
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Mischa top of the class on longboard
Piha’s Mischa Davis (daughter of Steve and Monique), topped the women’s longboard champs at Raglan in the weekend. With 12.53 points she was ahead of Belinda Goodwin of Mt Maunganui [ Read More ]
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Arise Sir Bob!
Bob Harvey has been made a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in this year’s New Year’s Honours, for services to local government and the community. A [ Read More ]
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Tennis in the sun
Drizzly rain is not so good for sun-bathing or sand csatle competitions, but is great for the bush and the winter’s plantings. The Piha Tennis Club managed to get a [ Read More ]
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Woman missing at Mercer Bay
A woman missing from the Mercer Bay Loop Track area is believed to have fallen into the water. Police, Search and Rescue, surf life saving and parks rangers have been searching [ Read More ]
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Orpheus Commemoration 7 February 2013
CALL OUT TO INTERESTED ARTISTS TO BE PART OF A COMMEMORATIVE INSTALLATION Next year, 7 February 2013, marks the 150th anniversary of the wreck of HMS Orpheus on the Manukau [ Read More ]