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The girls 1st XI cricket teams from Blue Mountain College and Gore High School celebrated the last rites of summer in Gore on Wednesday.

The South West Pacific federation of Soroptimist International celebrated 30 years of service last weekend at the South Island regional conference in Gore.

Children at Roxburgh's health camp cast their eyes on the potato this week.

Murals being painted on the Clyde Historical Museum give the public a taste of the many exhibitions housed in the building.

Thrust into the spotlight through injury, Crusaders replacement hooker Ti'i Paulo plans to stick to a regular routine ahead of the Super 14 rugby final against the New South Wales Waratahs here on Saturday.

A diamond wedding anniversary, marking 60 years of marriage, is a rare and precious event, and one that James and Jeanie Oliver, formerly of Gore and now of Riversdale, will celebrate today.

Sibling rivalry is alive and well in the Terry household in Gore, with older sister Nadine (17) leading the race through the ranks of Highland dancing and younger brother Leighton (15) following behind.

Ice dancing may have reached its public pinnacle in the 1980s with Torvill and Dean at the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, but for one Gore boy, ice dancing is his passion and sport of choice.

Allan Williment (Ariki) became the first athlete in the 58-year history of the Barnes Cross-country to race and win the event for a second time.

Building on the success of the Gore Rural Information Technology School (Grits) is the plan for Grits facilitator Kim Scott and new project director Anne Gover.

It was a case of ‘‘Here's looking at you, kids'', when second-year students from the Diploma of Hospitality Management course at Queenstown Resort College (QRC) decided to give the proceeds from a Casablanca themed evening in Arrowtown last week to Wakatipu Plunket.

It is enough to send a chill down a sheep's spine.

The sun shone brightly, the racing was fast and furious, and the competing children had a blast, at the concluding meeting of the Gore BMX Club, held at Hamilton Park on Sunday afternoon.

Sporting success can run in families - well, it certainly does in the case of the Gibson family, with brother Malcolm and sister Rebecca both performing well at a national level recently.

The Southern Pig Hunters Club has just held a competition hunt, the first of five planned for this year, with a successful weekend had by some.

It was smiles all round at Southland Building Society (SBS) Gore Branch, with the presentation of a $1000 cheque to the Kaiwera Fundraising Committee.