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 The Weekend Sun
The Weekend Sun set out to be different from the start, with bright, bold and brash editorial with outstanding advertising and graphic design. The community quickly embraced The Weekend Sun as its own, recognising not only the importance of excellent content, unrivalled coverage to every mailbox – but also its friendly, Bay-born-and-bred team, with its heart in the region. Now into its ninth year, Sun Media is thriving, based in a beautiful historic building located at 1 The Strand, Tauranga. The Bay's own independant and locally owned community newspaper. The Weekend Sun is free to 61,850 homes in the Bay of Plenty every Friday with 14,000 more readers than any other paper in the Bay every week To read up to the minute news and lifestyle stories from around the Bay of Plenty, click here. The Weekend Sun: Copy & Booking Deadlines .jpg) 30 Jul 2010
Western Bay of Plenty residents hoping to cash-in on the 2011 Rugby World Cup by renting their homes to overseas visitors could find themselves thousands of dollars out of pocket and in serious trouble with the Inland Revenue Department.
Tauranga Insurance Services broker/ manager Keiran Vlietstra is warning people who rent out their homes during the 2011 Rugby World Cup that it may cost them more than they earn from it. Photo by Bruce Barnard.
Tauranga Insurance Services broker/ More...
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Some people race cars, others collect stamps or sew, but Tauranga teacher Matthew Thomas’ hobby involves creating applications for computer giant Apple.
He has written three applications designed to improve children’s literacy and maths skills which the computer company has picked up.
Matthew Thomas combined his desire to learn and a passion for teaching to help him create applications for Apple. Photo by Tracy Hardy.
Two of the applications, ‘100th Board’ and More...
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Bethlehem College students bring the tragic story of Joan of Arc to life in their senior drama production at the college’s Performing Arts Centre, August 5-7.
The show covers the well known story of this 15th century saint and national heroine of France who led the French army to several important victories and King Charles VII to his coronation, before being burnt at the stake at age 19.
Daniella Schroder, Joan of Arc; Ryan Shillito; the Dauphin, King of France; and Reuben Simpson, More...
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Western Bay of Plenty artists Liz Turnbull and Grant Bullot are exhibiting at the New Zealand Art Show this weekend – one of the country’s biggest art shows.
About 400 artists from around New Zealand applied to display their artwork at the event, but only 84 were selected.
Liz Turnbull and Grant Bullot showcase some of the art they will take with them to the New Zealand Art Show in Wellington. Photo by Tracy Hardy.
A blind judging panel reviewed photographs of the artwork More...
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Twelve Tauranga volunteers travel to the village of Rakiraki, Fiji from September 26 to spend two weeks building facilities to improve the lives of the Fijian community.
Project Fiji is run by Bay of Plenty Polytechnic School of Applied Technology. The group travelling to Rakiraki this year includes eight polytechnic staff, three polytechnic carpentry students and a Tauranga Boys’ College student.
Tutor Jason Jackson and pre-trade course students Dylan Mayor and Hugh Matthewman are More...
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