Cira Olivier

Bay of Plenty, Canterbury

Multimedia Journalist at NZME ( New Zealand Media & Entertainment)

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AIMS Games: First-ever orienteering event kicks off with hundreds competing

Sep 10, 2024 | nzherald.co.nz | Cira Olivier

The first-ever orienteering event at AIMS Games has kicked off with hundreds competing. Photo / Dave LintottSneakers securely fastened. Hair tied back. Stretches completed. Let’s go. Hundreds of excited competitors were raring to go on Tuesday morning as the inaugural Zespri AIMS Games orienteering event got underway. Orienteering has attracted about 300 entries in its first year, with most students competing in both the sprint event on Tuesday and the rogaining event on Wednesday.
The young school students travelling 828km a week to swim training

Sep 10, 2024 | nzherald.co.nz | Cira Olivier

Tasmin Henricksen and Jack Fenemor have to travel 828km for their swimming training each week. From their tiny rural town Pongaroa in the Tararua district to swimming pools in Dannevirke and Palmerston North. And then back home again. “I’ve gotten used to it,” Tasmin said. Jack Fenemor (left) and Tasmin Henricksen from Pongaroa School love to swim. Photo / Alan GibsonAdvertisementAdvertise with NZME. AdvertisementAdvertise with NZME.
Gymnast trades hospital admissions for Zespri Aims Games

Sep 9, 2024 | nzherald.co.nz | Cira Olivier Bay |Cira Olivier

Chloe Crump has gone from hospital admissions every other month to competing as a gymnast in Aims Games. Photo/ Jamie Troughton. Dscribe Media. If it wasn’t for gymnastics – and a small miracle – Chloe Crump reckons she’d still be visiting hospital every couple of months for a chronic lung disease. Instead, she hasn’t been to hospital in a year.
The Green Team: Worth their weight in gold

Sep 3, 2024 | sunlive.co.nz | Cira Olivier

For a group of intermediate students from Tauranga, their performance at next week’s Zespri AIMS Games will be measured in tons, not medals. That’s because the environmental warriors – nicknamed the Green Team – have one of the most important tasks at the week-long tournament; diverting thousands of kilograms of waste from landfills. With nearly 13,000 athletes - more than the 10,500 hosted at the Paris Olympics - set to descend on Tauranga from Saturday, it will be no small feat.
Bay of Plenty drowning and ACC water-related injury figures revealed

Jan 24, 2024 | nzherald.co.nz | Cira Olivier

Lifeguards are expecting people to continue to head to the beaches this summer. Photo / NZMEFive people drowned in the Bay of Plenty last year and there were nearly 3000 new water activity-related ACC claims costing nearly $10m as of November 1. Provisional water safety data and ACC figures have been released to the Bay of Plenty Times. A total of 90 people drowned across New Zealand in 2023, including six due to Cyclone Gabrielle, provisional Water Safety NZ figures show.
Bay of Plenty drowning and ACC water-related injury figures revealed

Jan 24, 2024 | refresh.news | Cira Olivier

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Family violence: Only half of the thousands of calls end up in any charges in the Bay of Plenty

Jan 1, 2024 | teaonews.co.nz | Cira Olivier

Women being run over by vehicles and knocked out, pregnant women being beaten and teens assaulting their parents. These are just some of the examples of the thousands of family violence callouts received last year—an average of 46 per day in the region. Those on the frontlines are calling for everyone to learn the signs of family violence and take care of each other.
Christmas Appeal: Community raises nearly $243k for Tauranga’s foodbank

Dec 22, 2023 | nzherald.co.nz | Cira Olivier

Tauranga Community Foodbank warehouse manager Jordy Gastmeier, manager Nicki Goodwin and support co-ordinator Halena Pritchard. Photo / Alex CairnsThe Tauranga community has smashed another appeal for the city’s foodbank, bringing in more than $240,000 of cash and food donations, despite the cost-of-living crisis. The Bay of Plenty Times six-week annual Christmas Appeal for the Tauranga Community Foodbank has ended. As of 9.30am yesterday, the appeal had raised a preliminary total of $242,768.40.
Family violence: Only half of the thousands of calls end up in any charges in the Bay of Plenty

Dec 21, 2023 | nzherald.co.nz | Cira Olivier

Police are being called to an average of 46 family harm incidents a day in the Bay of Plenty. Women being run over by vehicles and knocked out, pregnant women being beaten and teens assaulting their parents. These are just some of the examples of the thousands of family violence callouts received last year - an average of 46 per day in the region.
Sublime with Rome not coming to Tauranga, Taupō and Coromandel concerts this summer

Dec 21, 2023 | nzherald.co.nz | Cira Olivier

Several gigs this summer will be missing the sweet sounds of American band Sublime with Rome after they postponed their New Zealand tour. The well-known ska-punk band were scheduled to perform seven shows across the country, including three in the region (with L.A.B in Tauranga, at the Le Currents festival in Taupō and at Coro Classic in the Coromandel’s Matarangi) as well as in New Plymouth, Wellington, Havelock North and Nelson.