Louisa Steyl12:54, Jun 23 2021
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Parents with children at Southland Boys’ High School are being asked to make sure their children have been vaccinated against measles.
The Southern District Health Board has confirmed there is no case of measles at Southland Boys’ High School. In a letter sent to parents on Wednesday, associate rector Ray Laurenson advised parents to be on the lookout for signs and symptoms of measles after the school was advised of the case. In an update to parents at lunchtime, Laurenson said the school had received notice from the Public Health Unit that the case had not been confirmed.
He had made a lot of phone calls to get tradies along and he would make even more ahead of next year’s event, he said. He noted: “Builders are screaming out for people and a lot of boys are really keen on building, so I want to connect them to a builder.” The trades expo was the first the school had held and it would become an annual event, given about 70 per cent of boys’ high students got jobs in the trades, Marsh said.
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Southern Institute of Technology school of advanced engineering technology programme manager Carlo Gabriel talks to students, from left, Tommy Tawhai, 16, Johannes Boersen, 16, Hunter Campbell, 16, Jack Johnston, 16, Josh Kubrycht-Ellis, 17, and Ben Stewart, 16 at the Southland Boys’ High School trades expo on Friday.
It also gave 23 students from the Southern Institute of Technology and Southland Boys’ High School the chance to experience a busy commercial kitchen while learning from top chefs. Flack, who had resettled in his hometown of Invercargill, said his culinary idols had taught him about the importance of cooking with locally sourced, seasonal food. “There’s a connection between the plate of food and what s happening around you,” he said, adding that campaigns like Savour the South encouraged people to get to know their local producers. The luncheon meant students could learn from five different chefs with different experiences and mindsets,” Flack said.
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Justin Riley, originally from Invercargill, has been appointed as chief executive of NZ Functional Foods, the company in charge of building a carbon-neutral oat milk factory at Makarewa.
Former Southlander Justin Riley has been appointed chief executive of an industry-leading endeavour to build an oat milk plant near Invercargill. Riley is now the chief executive of NZ Functional Foods, the company overseeing plans for a proposed carbon-neutral plant at Makarewa, which could be operating by the end of 2022 and pumping out 40 million litres a year. Ten years ago baristas would say they could pick who drank alternative milks, nowadays “you can’t tell,” as a large cross section of society consumed non-dairy milks, Riley said.
“Rest in peace after a life of service, after a life of love,” she said.
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Dunedin mayor Dave Cull at his last press conference as a mayor. Ōtākou kaumātua Edward Ellison opened the service with a mihi for Cull, a friend, who he noted was a “builder of partnerships”. He praised his learning of te reo, mentoring of future leaders, and for working closely with mana whenua – a relationship that “flourished”. Current Dunedin mayor Aaron Hawkins praised Cull’s work in making Dunedin a resettlement centre for refugees and a UNESCO City of Literature, among many other things.