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As one of the inaugural Te Kakau a Māui scholars at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC), Ashlin receives full tuition fees for her double degree, studying towards Bachelors of Laws and Criminal Justice. Along with financial sup
Mountain Scene July 30, 2021 By TRACEY ROXBURGH Queenstown’s Covid heroes are being sought for the second edition of the Spirit of the Wakatipu Awards, being announced in September. Event organiser and Wakatipu Community Foundation (WCF) trustee Simon Green says as tough as the past 18 months have been in the resort, it’s also shown the strength of the community. First held in 2019, the awards, run by Queenstown’s council and WCF, acknowledge community contributions across 12 categories, including education, arts and culture, sport and recreation, health, youth, enviro...
Mountain Scene January 25, 2021 By PHILIP CHANDLER As if Beatrice Onions’ first semester studying performing arts at New York University wasn’t dramatic enough, it took another interesting twist last week. Because of Covid-19, the 21-year-old Queenstowner, who first took drama classes at the age of nine, undertook her first term at the university’s prestigious Tisch School of the Arts by Zoom. Fitting in with New York time, her classes, beginning last August, started at ‘‘probably the most incompatible time zone difference’’ of 3am each day. ‘‘We had a moveme...