Lyrica Production Coming to The Plaza.

LYRICA PRODUCTION PRESENTS - The BIG Little Town Tour

Warm up your winter with New Zealands premiere pop-opera group LYRICA, as they say goodbye to the big city and take their vibrant and uplifting show on the road.

With their BIG spine-tingling sound and exquisite costuming, LYRICA will thrill you with their beautiful and unique interpretations of powerful classics from the legendary Moody Blues, Led Zeppelin, and Leonard Cohen (just to name a few), and will wow you with new classics including their stunning NZ song 'THE CALLING' (performed at the opening of the 2010 World Rowing Championships) as well as the awesome 300 year old haka TARAKIHI.

Be prepared to fall in love with the drama of the 'Moonlight Sonata', delight in the passion that is 'O Sole Mio' and bask in the warmth of a Tuscan summer as LYRICA takes you on a journey in song through sun kissed Italy with favourites such as 'That’s Amore', 'Volare' and 'Mambo Italiano'.

http://www.eventfinder.co.nz/2012/lyrica-the-big-little-towns-tour/putaruru

By the end of the night you may find yourself wanting to dance in the aisles as LYRICA teams up with top trumpeter Bill Stoneham and transports you back to the swinging dance halls of 1940s wartime USA. With sassy numbers like 'In the Mood' and 'Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy' and glamorous 1940s inspired costumes your toes will surely be tapping and your fingers will be snapping long after the curtain falls on the fun and passion that is LYRICA

Calling all Putaruru Clubs and Organisations

We are currently working on the next Prattler and our new website and I am interested in hearing from all you out there involved in the many different clubs and organisations running in Putaruru.
We would like to give you the opportunity to promote your organisation in the Prattler and on our website free of charge.
Please email Bex at info@prideinputaruru.com with details including meeting dates, time and person to contract.

Pride in Putaruru - new manager

Greetings, I'm Lee Robertson and I have just been appointed as the new manager for Pride in Putaruru as of 28th May.  After just two weeks in the job about all I am managing is to just keep my head above water! From a background in aviation for eighteen years and then twenty-two years in church ministry this new position is a steep learning curve - thank goodness I have a great instructor in Bex, who incidentally is staying on to help me float and to do the Prattler.  At the end of the month we move into our new premises at 2 Overdale Street - roll on the day!  I look forward to serving Putaruru and meeting all you good folk out there.

Warm up for winter evening seminar

Wednesday June 20, 7-9pm

Bill Gallagher Events Room 2, Wintec

Entry at Gate 3 from Tristram St

Entry: FREE

Ian Mayes, Eco Design Advisor at Hamilton City Council, will cover the basics of how to make your home warm and dry this winter – looking at insulation, draught proofing, curtaining, moisture extraction, and heating.

To rsvp or for queries, contact Megan Edmeades on megan@greenme.org.nz or 021 414 529.

2012 Putaruru Water Festival

Saturday 25th February

from 9.30am

Come along for a day of fun for the 

entire family.

Be prepared to get WET!

Enter the Arts and Craft Competition.

Open to all ages.

You can copy this image by clicking on it which will bring it up larger on the screen to copy,
 fill in the required information and return to Pride In Putaruru or the Putaruru Information Centre by Monday 20th February. 

To have the entry form sent to you please contact us here at the office on 07 883 7272 

or email bex@putaruru.co.nz.

Entries can be delivered into us here at Pride In Putaruru by Friday 24th February.  

You will need to advise us if you are using this option on the entry form or on the above contract details. 

Entries can also be dropped at the Grandstand Building at Glenshea Park Putaruru by 8.30am on Saturday 25th February.

Please ensure all entries are clearly named.  

Entries can be picked up from the Grandstand building on the Saturday from 2pm.

Enter the Top Team Competition.

We are looking for teams of 10 to take part in the Top Team on the Water Competition.

Adults (14 years and over) teams $20

Children (9 - 13 years) teams $10

Please contact us on 07 883 7272 or email bex@putaruru.co.nz for further information.

Christmas Lights

Congratulations to the winners of this years light up your home competition, Carol Bernhard and family for their fantastic light display and also to the Putaruru Volunteer Fire Brigade for light up your business.
If you haven't seen the lights yet you still have time so get out and check them out tonight.  Maps are still available from the Putaruru Information Centre (and on their notice board in the window).

Santa is coming to town

Santa is coming to town tonight at 6pm for the Putaruru Float Parade... make sure you come along tonight to see him.  After the Parade there will be entertainment for the whole family.  And Santa will be in his Grotto (located at THE GIFTBOX cnr Princess & Main St)

Christmas Shopping Extravaganza @ The Plaza

6th December  7-10pm

  We are encouraging the community to

SHOP LOCAL.

This year local businesses and crafts people will be at the Plaza for a Christmas shopping extravaganza.  This is the perfect opportunity to do your Christmas shopping finding that perfect something for your 'special' someone.

Bring along your family and friends.

 

Christmas 2011

Below is the information about the upcoming Christmas season.

Look out in the next Prattler for the entry forms!

Matamata Toastmasters invite you to their "Pink Meeting"

The New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation (NZBCF) website states that each year over 2600 New Zealand women and 20 men are diagnosed with breast cancer. 1 in 9 women are at risk at being diagnosed with breast cancer, with a death rate of over 12 per week.

October is Breast Cancer Action Month with a challenge from NZBCF to take action to raise awareness about breast cancer and to raise funds for their life-saving work. And Matamata Toastmasters is doing exactly that.

Matamata Toastmasters has themed their next meeting as a "Pink Meeting" in honour of the breast cancer action month.  Matamata Toastmaster's resident naturopath member and experienced health speaker, Linda Hoggard (Naturopathic Diploma) will be delivering a speech on good, bad and xeno-oestrogens and their role in oestrogen dependant cancers. The club's president, Amrita Balaraman, will be delivering a speech on her favourite colour - pink, and there are other fun "pink" events lined up for the evening.

Matamata Toastmasters provides a safe forum to increase self confidence, become a good communicator, develop leadership skills and have fun. So don on something pink, bring along a gold coin donation for the New Zealand Brest Cancer Foundation, and come along to the Matamata Toastmasters' Pink Meeting on Wednesday, 19 October 2011 at the All Saints Church Lounge situated on the corner of Broadway and Hohaia Streets in Matamata at 7.15 pm.

For more information, contact Amrita on 027 261 0939 and visit the Matamata Toastmasters website on http://matamata.toastmastersclubs.org. For more information on October Breast Cancer Action Month, visit the New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation website on http://www.nzbcf.org.nz/

2011 Putaruru Business Celebration

2011 brings a new look to the Putaruru Business Awards.
This year there is a huge focus on Celebrating what Putaruru has to offer.
We have so many fantastic businesses in Putaruru and Pride In Putaruru want to take the opportunity to celebrate them while offering a great night out for the Business Community.
The awards this year are being judged by mystery shoppers who are out there now.  The categories will be similar to past years.
The Theme is 'Keeping it Local', and we are offering local entertainment, catering and also the volunteer Fire Brigade who will be in charge of the bar.
The guest speaker for the evening is Danny McBride who has just qualified in rowing for the 2012 paralympics.
Tickets are available now from the Putaruru Information Centre for $29.00 which includes the rolling supper and a complimentary beverage on arrival.

Proof at last!!!

Boys CAN cook, play RUGBY and farm chooks ALL at the same time.

Join our Master Class with Cameron Petley sharing his delicious Venison 

Back-strap Steak, at a very special event hosted by Charles Kindergarten.

On 10^th September at the

    Plaza in Putaruru on 

Kensington Street. 

 Starting at 6.30pm. 

PLUS…”Try” some tasty local foods from Putaruru businesses while you enjoy a glass of punch.  Explore Cameron’s kitchen specially made by Hopkins Kitchen with purrrfectly  quiet Hettich hardware.  This mini kitchen to be auctioned on Trade Me later.  Don’t leave without a signed copy of the Master Chef Cook Book, from Paper Plus, AND much more…..

At 7pm the Master Class will begin when MC Chris Lewis ”kick” starts the evening.  Cameron will “pass” on his cooking skills by showing you three starters that you could easily make at home. YOU could be the one he picks to help make the “scrummy” food.

Audience participation will be throughout the night.

Tickets: only $20.00 and age of entry is R13.  All proceeds to renovations and new whiteware for the Kindergarten.

Seats are selling fast so BOOK YOUR TICKETS NOW   

purchase tickets  from the information centres in Tokoroa, Putaruru and Tirau.

Or phone Charles Kindergarten (07) 8837240

Door sales on the evening are also available CASH ONLY.

Free business listing with Google places.

I have just been told about this exciting option for business to list their details with google, that would allow people when searching for businesses on the internet to retrieve all you information.
All you need to do is visit http://www.google.com/places/ and list your details.  You can also include a photo of your storefront or products.
With lots of visitors coming to New Zealand for the Rugby World cup it is the prefect opportunity to promote you business to all of these potential customers and for FREE.

Dixie Street Jazz Band

Rod Andrew’s Australian Dixie Street Jazz Band is touring the North Island of New Zealand from Saturday 30th July to Sunday 28th August 2011. There are eighteen concerts including feature appearances during the Bay of Island Jazz And Blues Festival Friday 12th – Sunday 14th August.
The Band is a thoroughly decent, well-ripened bunch of larrikins who formed an ensemble from some of the best Traditional Jazz musicians in Australia. When Piano, Sousaphone, Banjo, Drums, Trombone, Trumpet and Reeds get together, the result is the nerves in your feet twitch whilst some rare musical gems from around 1900 simply grab your whole body and give it a good shake. The musicians bring to their performances ample quantities of good humour which overflows to their audiences, young and old.
Jazz exists primarily at the ‘moment of performance’. You might make a sound recording of it, and transcribe the notes onto a score. But the next live performance won’t sound like that record or that score. Beyond its historical significance, the music itself is sometimes punchy, full of flair and subtle when required, much of it is irresistibly happy. This tour aims at inviting you to experience the ‘moment of performance’ where the collective improvisation of the group provides that ‘sound of surprise’ that can only be experienced live.
The music for this tour was selected for its diverse mix, easy listening and danceablility. Tempo’s change from Ballads to Marches to Ragtime and Stomps. The repertoire highlights the 1900-1930 Golden Years of early Jazz, featuring classic compositions of Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver and Louis Armstrong. In addition, rare tunes seldom performed dating back to 1900 expand on this wonderfully rich repertoire.
Add to this some fine Australian compositions of Ade Mondsborough, Bob Barnard, Roger Bell and Alex Frame and you have an event to remember.
This Jazz is gloriously inclusive, absolutely fun to perform and fills the Halls with colourful sounds of yesteryear.
For more details and bookings contact: Nicola Warrington 07 883 8596 at The Plaza Box Office, Putaruru Information Centre 07 883 7284, Tokoroa i-Site Visitor Centre 07 886 8872, Fraser’s Bookshop TAKE NOTE Matamata 07 888 7787 Or online with: Eventfinder: http://www.eventfinder.co.nz/2011/aug/putaruru/dixie-street-jazz-band
Adults $20, Senior $15 Student under 18 $10 and for group bookings of adults 5+ tickets only $15 per person! BOOK NOW to avoid disappointment on the night.
If your music students haven’t been up close to a Sousaphone in full flight, with Trombone, Trumpet and Clarinet in delicious harmony, and with Banjo, Piano and Drums meeting out tight syncopation, then this tour may widen their musical experience and appreciation.
You are invited to come along, bring the kids and enjoy a . . . . .‘Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight!!!’ 

The June / July edition of The Prattler

Well here is the start of The Prattler online.

It has been a hard slog to bring you this edition of the Prattler as we have really struggled to find the funding to produce this edition.  For this reason I would like to acknowledge the kind sponsorship we have received from Buttermilk, (a concept put forward by our Trustee Sherie Allison) helped by the fact that Annie Waterworth, Pride In Putaruru’s former Manager, is now managing this site. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU.  For those of you who do not know who Buttermilk is please turn to the middle pages of this edition to get an insight into what they are up to in our small town and please take the time to fill in the questionnaire on the back page and don’t forget to post it into the box at the front of Unichem Chemists on Princes Street or via mail to PO Box 377, TAURANGA.

I have made a feature of our schools this edition with them all taking up the front 8 pages.  I would like to acknowledge the support that we have received from our local schools, with all schools opting to be involved with the Prattler and submitting to each edition to keep you all up to date with what they are up to.

As you may have seen there has been some changes at Putaruru Information Centre.  Next time your going by, stop in and say hello to Memorie Brooky, the new Manager.  Memorie’s family come from Matamata and she has worked in both Matamata and Hamilton i-Sites.  She has a vast of knowledge of tourism and is learning a lot about Putaruru with support from myself and Jan Kinloch.

As we are still to secure funding for further editions, if there is anyone out there wanting to sponsor the next issue of this community publication, please contact me by any of the methods listed below.

Info from the Centre…..

Anne Berben JP. As Manager of the Putaruru Information Centre, for the past 3 years I would like to thank you the Putaruru residents for your great support . As my contract ends on the 30 June, My time Managing the centre has been a wonderful achievement.       Interacting with locals and International Tourists alike. I would like to thank my Staff Jan Kinloch, Shirley Wilson, Ron Carter, for their  support, and  making the Information Centre a great place to be. The Information Centre over the past three years has grown from strength to strength, with the statistics growing from 6500 to 11000 this year. I am excited with this growth of the     Centre. It is about 70% used by locals. Thanks also to Maurice Smith.  Anne Berben JP.

  

A Message from the Putaruru District Services Memorial Club

Following the AGM on Sunday 26^th  June we congratulate Joann Scheres the new club president, Lindsay Glover the new Vice President and David Schroeder and Mike White the new additions to the committee. Gilbert Hawkes, Wayne Ward and Heather Spinley remain for the new term.

Best wishes to Ron Macdonald the outgoing president who stood down after three years.

Jo and her team are keen to do what it takes to make the Club The Place to go for games, entertainment, dining out and socialising. They are determined to shake off the recession and get on with making the club a vibrant happy place for all.

Jo and Lindsay are local farmers and would love to see locals farmers make The Club their night off!  Members and prospective members around Putaruru watch this space as we’ll be a regular in The Prattler.

Waikato Duet “Axis” will be playing on Saturday 23^rd July at our “SEVENTIES NIGHT” do come along and dress up. It is a special licensed promotional evening so we love to see some prospective members come along and enjoy the open evening with us.   Pop in for dinner from 6pm and the music starts at 7.45pm.

The Last Thursday of each month is Quiz Night.  $10 per team of 4, registration 7.15pm.

Dan Macmillan

Club Manager

Club Phone 883 8591

BNZ Connect in Conjunction with the B5

Tonight is the next Business after 5 held in 

Conjunction with the BNZ Connect programme.

Tonight they have Ilona Bragg from the 

Putaruru Food Court to keep us up to date

with what is happening.

Hope to see you there.

Celebrities Cake It 4 Guides.

Go along to the Plaza on 

Saturday 9th July from 7pm

and support the 

Guides fundraising efforts for 

Jamboree 2012.

Quiz Night Tonight at the Club

Looking for something to do tonight?

The Putaruru District Services Memorial Club

are holding a Quiz Night Tonight.

Everyone is welcome!

Get a group of friends together and go along

for a fun night out.

The Prattler June - July Issue

Good News everyone, we have secured private funding to publish the next edition of the Prattler.
If your have some local news that you would like to get into this edition please email me as soon as possible at bex@putaruru.co.nz.
By the end of this month we should know if we have funding for another year of printing.  When this is confirmed I will post the proposed printing dates for the year.
I am also working at putting the published pages onto the blog so you can go back and look up anything that you may have missed.