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• Bar in gun over strip shows Controversy over new bar linked to Calendar Girls chain

  A SEX workers’ collective is calling on a new Queenstown bar featuring strip shows to be shut down as it’s not operating under an ‘adult entertainment’ liquor licence.

• Q’town skifields ready to ride

  IT’S not too shabby for an opening day.

• A SIXTH charity’s been added to the beneficiaries of the annual Latitude 45 South charity event.

• A PINK Ribbon Breakfast at Arrowtown’s Mora Wines & Artisan Kitchen last month raised $27,920 for the Breast Cancer Foundation.

• Youngest fireys still at school

  THEY’RE too young to vote, yet they can fight fires and save lives.

• Remarkables Park villas in high demand

  A TWO-level apartment development in Queenstown’s Remarkables Park appears to be hitting the sweet spot with the market.

• Queenstown’s beauty queen

  A QUEENSTOWNER is off to China at year’s end to represent New Zealand at the Mrs United Nations International pageant.

• Congestion-busting bus route en route

  ARROWTOWNERS will soon be able to take a back road bus to get to Queenstown’s CBD — almost halving the current travel time.

• Out to square the ledger

  HAVING suffered a first-round away loss to Maniototo, 22-19, one of only two this season, Wakatipu will be out for revenge when they host the Ranfurly-based team at the Queenstown Recreation Ground this Saturday at 2.30pm.

• Bike bus talk

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....

• Olivia Wensley, 37 Startup Queenstown Lakes chief executiveJon Mitchell, 58 Massey University capability and leadership development managerGlyn Lewers, 44 structural engineerNeeta Shetty, 48 business ownerAl Angus, retiredDaniel Shand

  1.Building trust with the community by unblocking the information flow currently operating....

• The evolution of Blanket Bay

  Americans Pauline and Tom Tusher this week hosted a function at Glenorchy’s Blanket Bay to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the opening of their lodge — regarded as the South Island’s first ‘super lodge’ — in 1999. They discuss with Philip Chandler how their world-renowned property came to be...

• More headwinds to face before return to ‘normal’YOURWORD

  WE all accept we don’t wish to see our health system overrun by throwing open the borders....

• Q’town’s real water crisis

  Two weeks ago, Queenstown’s Two Mile water intake was being examined as the potential cause of the current cryptosporidium outbreak. While unlikely, a boil-water notice remains in place for this water supply till a protozoa barrier’s installed. However, on another occasion that intake was at the...

• ‘‘It could have been so much worse’’

  TOITU Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) has directed contractors to remove a rope swing from the banks of the Arrow River as soon as possible after a local teen’s horror fall last Thursday afternoon....

• NZ Open’s amiable host

  With Arrowtown’s Millbrook being the home of the New Zealand Open golf tournament — starting again today — the resort’s director of operations, Brian Howie, is, by definition, the home’s host. Philip Chandler talks to the amiable Arrowtowner about how he ended up on the other side of the world and...

• 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...

• How school house was saved

  Frankton’s newest school opens on March 7. Well, not quite, but we’re referring to Country Lane’s School House Studios, which, when in Stanley St, was initially part of Queenstown’s first high school. Philip Chandler speaks to three women who doggedly ensured the 84-year-old building, which last...

• Family has ice in their DNA

  In recent months Queenstown became the new home for a couple who’ve have pretty much lived and breathed ice hockey, in one way or another, since they were toddlers. Libby-Jean and Jordan Challis talk to TraceyRoxburgh about their move to the Whakatipu — and return to the...