Blogs

Kids learn better with a full stomach

Angie Warren-Clark Labour MP Kids learn better with a full stomach. Our Government's lunches in school programme has already served around 63 million health lunches, and they now reach 220,000 students across the country. This... Read More

Are you taking a joint supplement? – Part 2

John Arts Abundant Living www.johnarts.co.nz When I formulate any supplement, I use research and best evidence to build a successful formula. An example of this is the 'Aging Clin Exp Res, 2021' peer-reviewed study into the... Read More

Choosing who should do your skin cancer check

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE with Dr Franz Strydom & the Skinspots team Doctors spend a long time at university, and we all expect that this training is sufficient to do a proper job. Medical students receive between two hours on two... Read More

The blues, the big band and the boss

Winston Watusi Music Plus Sometime musing is in order: this week's arises from last weekend, which was musically unusual. For starters, music was a tad light on the ground here as no fewer than three Auckland band shows were... Read More

Boxers to “touch gloves” in Tauranga this weekend

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz 'Touch gloves” will be the final call of instruction from the referee to the boxers entering combat at the Tauranga Boxing Club tournament this Saturday. The... Read More

Tauranga Weather July 2022 ......1898-2022

Weather Eye with John Maunder Rainfalls for the month of July have been recorded in Tauranga since 1898, except for 1904, 1907, 1908, and 1909. The graph for the period 1898-2022 shows the range of rainfalls from an extreme high... Read More

Twenty-five loser bands? It’s Loserpalooza

Winston Watusi Music Plus It's deja vu all over again this week - more upcoming local gigs... Once again I'm going to look two weekends ahead, to give everyone the chance to assemble their drakes and hens in linear fashion.... Read More

Enjoy early-flowering varieties

From the Garden with Margaret Wilson from Pacifica Garden Centre Spring is just around the corner and some early-flowering magnolias are already in bloom. If you have a small garden, many varieties are not for you - however, your... Read More

More health workers for the Western Bay

Tamati Coffey Labour List MP Help is on the way with our Labour Government taking new steps to boost the health workforce and ease pressure on our local health system. Since we came into office in 2017, we've made building our... Read More

Assisting young people into work

Todd Talks with Todd Muller National MP A new policy that was released at the National Party Annual Conference is the plan to assist young people off the Jobseeker Benefit and into work. Aside from our own citizens... Read More

Beating up the bullies

Daniel Hutchinson From The Hutch It's back to school for everybody this week, so take your ear buds out and listen up! Bullying has been on everyone's lips and is not something we should be gingerly stepping around or hiding under... Read More

Tropospheric temperatures from 1979 to 2022

Weather Eye with John Maunder The chart below shows that since 1979, when reliable satellite observations became available, there has been an overall warming trend in the average tropospheric temperatures, apart from, at times,... Read More