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Bejon Haswell/Stuff South Canterbury District Health Board members, staff and Arowhenua Runanga, with junior doctors who stayed at Arowhenua Marae. Six junior doctors were immersed in Māori culture on Monday at the Arowhenua Marae near Temuka to help inform their practice. It is the third year the South Canterbury District Health Board (SCDHB) and Te Rūnanga o Arowhenua have collaborated to introduce the doctors fresh out of university to the Māori community and its culture. On Monday night they were welcomed to the marae with a pōwhiri (welcoming ceremony), and waiata (song), kairanga ...

The simple announcement of a show for children sparked two petitions, a series of articles and plenty of community comment that stretched nearly two months, Doug Sail discovered when he reviewed the news that made headlines in August 2020 as part of our series looking back on the year that was. A Timaru woman launched a petition calling on the town’s library to cancel an event which would have seen a drag queen duo address children on diversity. Taranaki-based drag queens Erika and Coco Flash were due to visit Timaru on August 20 to deliver their Rainbow Story Time NZ session as part of a...

John Bisset/Stuff One of the few big fireworks that worked during the Caroline Bay New Year display early on New Year's Day 2020. The year began with a fizzer in South Canterbury but it was not Coronavirus/Covid-19 related writes Doug Sail in the first of our series looking back on the year that was – one in which our world changed dramatically. 2020 was just minutes old when thousands gathered at Caroline Bay in Timaru were unknowingly given an early insight of a year ahead which would be full of disappointment through the disruption of everything from events to business and education to ...