Record numbers of wine and food stalls will be operating for
visitors to this weekend's Clyde Wine and Food Harvest
Festival, as organisers prepare to celebrate the event's 10th
anniversary.
Tree plantings, movies, music and an eco-festival will mark
Earth Day in Wanaka today as part of a worldwide celebration
to promote awareness and appreciation for the earth's natural
environment.
Preparations for the latest reunion of the Clyde-Earnscleugh
Rugby Football Club are well under way, as past and present
club members reminisce about the club's games and history.
Central
Otago could become one of the country's first "solar centres"
through a Central Otago District Council (CODC) scheme that
could see ratepayers able to pay off solar hot-water systems
through their CODC rates.
"Make a difference over a cuppa'' is the slogan behind a
service focusing on the needs of elderly people set to be
launched in Queenstown and Wanaka next week.
Winter air quality has been ‘‘significantly better'' in
Central Otago than last year, but it is still too soon to say
why, according to the Otago Regional Council (ORC).
A rural fire exercise held at the Otago Conservancy Rural
Fire Centre in Clyde was a ‘‘modified scaling'' of the two
major wildfires north and south of Alexandra in February,
1999.
