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Jul 18, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Judith Lacy
SuperGrans Manawatū manager Joanne Baird (left) and Heart Kids NZ family support taituarā Julie Meehan with some of the pyjamas volunteers have made. Photo / Judith LacyA chest scar can be part of life for children with a congenital heart defect. They might be keen to show it off but as they grow older they might become self-conscious of how they are different from other people.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Judith Lacy
The new mural at Palmerston North Boys' High School celebrates brotherhood, relationships and belonging. Photo / Judith LacyOne boy cradles a seedling, another wears a korowai and the third is ready for life after Palmerston North Boys’ High School. These different stages of the school journey greet students on their way to assembly each day in the new mural, Riporipo.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Judith Lacy
The temporarily named Yellow, one of Wildbase Recovery's red-crowned kākāriki. Manager Chris Smith says the chirpy and cheery birds are fun to watch. Manawatū is unashamedly green on and off the sports field, and now residents don’t have to travel to see red-crowned parakeets (kākāriki). Two of the striking green birds are the latest additions at Central Energy Trust Wildbase Recovery in Palmerston North.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Judith Lacy
Alzheimers Manawatū manager Tracy Lynn (third from left) with Palmerston North City Library staff Nora Kilpin (home services co-ordinator), content development librarian Louise Stormont and Roslyn librarian Gina Phillips. They are by the new Memory Matters collection at Roslyn Library. Photo / Judith LacyMemory matters and so do resources for people with dementia.
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Jul 14, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Judith Lacy
Colleen Carr, pictured with husband Terry, has retired after 25 years as Ashhurst Senior Citizens Association president. The couple have been married 62 years and have eight great-grandchildren. Photo / Judith LacyIt is 50 years since five Ashhurst churches got together to provide entertainment and friendship for senior citizens in the town. The Ashhurst Senior Citizens Association celebrated its 50th anniversary on July 4 with a party attended by about 100 people.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Judith Lacy
Feline-in-chief Maysie says it wasn't a dog or a cat that ate the editor's notebook but a deer!Judith Lacy is the editor of the Manawatū Guardian. She has been writing Judith’s Jottings for more than three years. OPINIONWell, well, well. Once again Palmerston North residents demonstrate their superior IQ and PhD preponderance by inquiring about my professional prospects. Yes, gentle and not-so-gentle readers I, Maysie Belle Lacy, am out of a job come July 19.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Judith Lacy
The Mog and the Frog illustrator Laura Wenden Green (left), author Kaye Arnott and translator for A Mavis rāua ko Poraka Ian Christensen with one of the StoryWalk boards at Ahimate Reserve. Photo / Judith LacyStoryWalk has finally come to Palmerston North with the 11 boards at Ahimate Reserve telling of Mavis the mog’s encounter with a frog. The River Stop Awapuni project was opened on Monday by The Mog and the Frog author and Palmerston North resident Kaye Arnott.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Judith Lacy
Palmerston North's public clock is nearly 120 years old. Photo / Palmerston North City CouncilWhen Warren Warbrick notices the clock in Te Marae o Hine is slow he remembers Kerei Te Panau was 102 or 103 when the timepiece was named after him. The clock is “a little bit slow because [Te Panau’s] got a bit of age on him”. The clock used to be in the old post office building on the corner of The Square and Main St East in Palmerston North.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Judith Lacy
The Awhina Room at Caccia Birch House is once again open for functions. Photo / Judith LacyPalmerston North historic house Caccia Birch has reopened one month earlier than planned. Work to strengthen the floor framing and replace the floorboards of the upstairs Awhina Room started on March 18 and was scheduled to be completed by July 11. However, the builders finished at the end of May and on June 12 the Hokowhitu house was once again open for business.
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Jul 7, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Judith Lacy
Palmerston North tour operator Margaret Jones with the flowers she received during her last South Island trip. Long-serving Palmerston North tour operator Margaret Jones has put away her microphone, clipboard and brochures. Retirement beckons for Jones, who established Margaret’s Golden Tours in 2013. Her travel industry career began on Boxing Day, 1980 taking high school children on a South Island tour.
