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• A GROUP of Wakatipu High students is giving away a raffle prize a day next month, to help get to Nepal.

• Pop-up performance

• Have a go

• Child porn addict ‘couldn’t control’ actions

  A WANAKA man caught with more than 80,000 child porn images on his computer claimed he was collecting the material to report it to authorities.

• TWO former Queenstown high school students and a one-time local preschooler were part of a 4x100-metre Otago men’s relay team who won gold at the recent Australian athletics champs in Adelaide.

• Arrowtown stalwart honoured

  THE late Jim Ryan, ‘‘a stalwart for all things Arrowtown’’, is now being remembered with a memorial bench in front of the town’s library.

• A particularly puzzling competition

  SPEEDCUBING took over the Queenstown Memorial Centre last weekend as the South Island speedcubing competition was held in the resort for the first time.

• S OMETIMES the answer is simple.

• SOME of the world’s most inspiring action, environmental, cultural and adventure films screen at Queenstown Memorial Centre next Wednesday and Thursday as the annual Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour launches its New Zealand leg.

• Boatie jets off to worlds

  QUEENSTOWNER Tom Kelly will be hoping it’ll be third time lucky when he competes in his first overseas-based world jetboat marathon starting next Saturday in the United States.

Featured documents

• Matt Wong, 44 iFLY Indoor Skydiving Queenstown owner/ managing directorMary Weston Steve Chernishov, 41 educatorEsther Whitehead, 47 Thrivable.design inclusive sustainability educatorClaire Turnham, 41 advocate, educator, campaignerPeter Newport Niki Gladding, 47 councillorTony DornerGavin Bartlett, 50 engineer

  1.Our district is facing a number of challenges, many of which have an engineering aspect to them. I am offering my skills, training and experience to be part of a council team that is able to deal with these complex problems to achieve the best outcomes for our district....

• Violin comp raises the bar

  It’s arguably the most world-class event Queenstown ever hosts, but it’s been mute since 2019. On the eve of the 11th Michael Hill International Violin Competition, Philip Chandler strings along to hear what’s new this year and sounds out what’s happening in the...

• It’s just another whack with a bommy knocker

  THAT escalated quickly....

• Take your hat off to her

  Just a year after arriving in Queenstown from Perth, part-time milliner Nicola Gredziuk, 54, is already turning heads. She tells Philip Chandler, who put his hat in the ring to interview her, why she’s moved here and why she struggles to wear a hat herself W HEN Arrowtown entertainer Charlotte Graf ...

• Young travellers and the re-imagination of tourismYOURWORD

  ILOVE Italy, and have returned no less than five times in the 20-plus years since first visiting as a 24-year-old in the 1990s....

• Runners’ highs for marathon man

  He runs runs and also runs an awful lot himself. He’s Queenstown Parkrun founder and co-director and serial marathon runner Chris Seymour. Former runner Philip Chandler catches up with him to ask why he runs, and how a personal cause inspired him to run around the...

• Hometown hero running hot

  After a wretched run of injuries over the past10 years, Queenstown golfer Ben Campbell’s probably in the form of his life, raising expectations ahead of next week’s locally-hosted New Zealand Open. He tells Philip Chandler how two Queenstowners have been pivotal to his career, and explains why golf’...

• Q’town’s inspirational cricket coach

  Emma Campbell’s become one of Queenstown’s most influential ever cricket coaches since moving here 10 years ago. The former White Fern talks to Philip Chandler about her playing career and the buzz she gets from...

• It’s just another whack with a bommy knocker

  THAT escalated quickly....

• Rising mental health ‘stressors’

  Three Queenstown counsellors have combined to provide a clinical perspective on current discussions on rising mental health concerns in the community. Sarah Deering, Elizabeth Denton and Sonia Voldseth have 31 years’ combined local counselling experience, and believe the region’s collective mental...