From leaner food boxes to longer waiting lists, local social service agencies are feeling the pinch. As the economy continues to tank and the cost of everything from groceries to gas keeps rising, more people are asking social service agencies for help.
But those same agencies are having trouble making ends meet, too.
“The needs are up [...]
Maybe you ‘ve just had knee surgery and you need crutches and physical therapy.
Maybe you have an elderly parent who is no longer able to leave her home without assistance and would appreciate having meals brought in.
Or maybe your husband has been diagnosed with diabetes and needs to learn how test his blood sugar and [...]
A creamy-coloured female llama standing in yards in the South Island became the first member of her llama herd of 10, who live with her on the outskirts of New Plymouth.
Living with llamas has become a passion for Uta, who describes them as kind, gentle animals.
When the photographer and I visited last Friday, its fair [...]
When Hollywood next comes to remake Bedazzled, the film that put posters of 60s screen siren Raquel Welch on every teenage boys bedroom wall, it will have to find a way to depict not just pride, envy, gluttony, lust (the glorious Ms Welch), anger, greed and sloth, but the excessive accumulation of wealth and six [...]
Two Upper Hutt men charged Roy Samways, 82, $1246 to clean the windows of his small villa after charging him $24 the first time and $600 in January before the exorbitant amount this week.
A bank teller queried Mr Samways cheque when the two men presented it, and though he told the teller to honour it, [...]
The method involves introducing Gonatocerus ashmeadi, a microscopic parasitic wasp, into an ecosystem under siege from the glassy-winged sharpshooter. The tiny stingless wasp attacks glassy-winged sharpshooter eggs by drilling a tiny hole in the egg through which the parasite lays its own egg. The wasp larva that hatches from the egg then eats the [...]
Mr Samways, 82, paid $1240 to have the windows of his small Waikanae villa cleaned and was shocked to discover the job should have cost no more than $120.
Though initially a bit uneasy about paying two men the %26quot;hell of a price%26quot;, he felt reassured when they told him they charged other clients the same [...]
Boy racer chaos on Christchurch streets
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Christchurchs Little Hagley and North Hagley Parks were yesterday littered with smashed glass and hundreds of discarded bottles after Harper Avenue was grid-locked by thousands of boy racers.
They were drawn to the city for the annual Fours and Rotary Autoshow at Westpac Stadium.
Boy-racer bans [...]
Christchurchs Little Hagley and North Hagley Parks were yesterday littered with smashed glass and hundreds of discarded bottles after Harper Avenue was grid-locked by thousands of boy racers.
They were drawn to the city for the annual Fours and Rotary Autoshow at Westpac Stadium.
Boy-racer bans on the Oxford Terrace Strip and several streets on the city [...]
A ADULTS. You wont find many at Disneyland - just kids of all ages. To make the most of Disneyland, leave your grown-up status at the entry gate - and dont just take it from me; thats what the nice man at US Immigration instructed.
B BABY STROLLERS. Used like Panzer tanks by over-zealous parents to [...]