The Great Tora Cook-off

Yes, it’s happening folk. A cooking contest featuring sea food, wild game, locally farmed animals, and home grown veges. There will be seven categories with the rule being that the dish’s main ingredient must have been caught, killed or grown from in and around the coast.

The contest will be held on Saturday June 1st. Judging will be at the Tora woolshed commencing at 6pm sharp. The judges will be the public, so come along and make your choice.
The categories are: … Continue Reading

South Wairarapa Rotary

At every Rotary South Wairarapa Martinborough Fair, Martinborough Lions distribute the trestle tables for the stall holders. Then when the Fair closes collect, stack, band and return them to the storage facility. Over many years a strong working relationship has developed to where in late March or early April each year we join together for a joint dinner and social occasion. This year’s event was held at Peppers in Martinborough with about 100 members from Rotary and Lions attending.
Rotary District Governor, Graeme Blick addressed the meeting on the history of Rotary and how Rotary was founded in Chicago by Paul Harris. There were six or seven founder members and they met weekly at each other’s houses on rotation – hence the name Rotary. To honour Rotary’s founders the Paul Harris Foundation was created. … Continue Reading

Plunket News

Hello from Martinborough Plunket,
In between packing the car to head away for a break over this school holiday period I have been doing lots of pick ups for our Plunket Garage Sale, which is on Saturday 8th of June kicking off at 10am until midday. We have been very fortunate to have the lovely people at South Wairarapa Storage provide us with space to store all the treasures and they are piling up fast..!.
Don’t be shy at asking us to call by and pick up any items you think will be  (we have a trailer available) as we appreciate being able recycle your second hand goods in to making this fund raising event a big success.

We will be kicking off the garage sale in the Town Hall 10am O Saturday the 8th of June as we mentioned and it’s promising to be bigger and better than last year, we are going to have a bouncy castle for the kids, a coffee cart and BBQ set up outside so those lining up early at the doors will have plenty of real coffee and sumptuous bacon sammies to keep you happy until the doors are thrown open at 10am sharp.

Remember to phone  Linda and Viv on 3066176 if you have some second hand goods suitable for the garage sale. If you would like to help out on the day on a stall we would love to hear from you
The last 6 months we have been drafting up our new plunket room plans and exploring if replacing our current rooms which have been found to be an earthquake risk (as has our library) is a viable option for us. We could not have done this without the support of local designer Geoff Kunac of GK Architecture who has held our hand through the whole investigative process. we will update you regularly how this process is going.

We are always glad to have more people join our committee and be involved, it’s not always about sipping coffee and eating cake (tho I might add we have very fine cakes and coffee to help us through our meetings and brainstorming sessions..)… We’d love to hear from you.
Linda and the Team at Martinborough Plunket.

One hundred donations

One hundred blood donations is something that few individuals can claim, but Peter Kavanagh of Martinborough is one of them. Peter was the star turn on Blood Day at the Town Hall as he clocked up 100 donations with a very relaxed air. Peter’s first donation was in the late 1960s, and although the exact date eludes him he clearly remembers what happened, saying with a smile, “I ended up on the floor that first time, but I’ve been fine each time since”. … Continue Reading