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ENGLISH Lakes Hotels Resorts & Venues have celebrated their longest serving team member who had worked for them for 35 years. Maria Walker, 52, is the Reservations Manager for English Lakes and began her career when she was 17 years old in Windmere. During those 35 years she has held positions including Waitress, Bar Supervisor, Bistro Manager, Head Receptionist, and Hotel Manager, before her current role. NOMINATED: Maria Walker celebrated 35 years working for English Lakes Hotels Resorts & Venues (English Lakes Blog) Maria said: “Thirty-five years, 1986 to 2021, I cannot belie...

ENGLISH Lakes Hotels Resorts & Venues have celebrated their longest serving team member who had worked for them for 35 years. Maria Walker, 52, is the Reservations Manager for English Lakes and began her career when she was 17 years old. During those 35 years she has held positions including Waitress, Bar Supervisor, Bistro Manager, Head Receptionist, and Hotel Manager, before her current role. Maria said: "Thirty-five years, 1986 to 2021, I cannot believe it. This makes me feel really old. "The years have flown by and I think that is because I’ve had variety in my job roles over ...

It was a bittersweet goodbye. Last month, @PackagingGeek David Luttenberger finally acted on his wife’s persistent request: He sorted, photographed, and then parted with his precious collection of 2,640 packages. He accumulated these samples over the last three decades, and stored them in his garage, home office, and the master bedroom walk-in closet. “I began my collection — addiction — in 1989 with a sample pack of wooden hotdogs, a PET [polyethylene terephthalate] preform, and a lump of melted aluminum cans,” Luttenberger recalls. As a fellow purveyor of packaging awesomeness, I ...

This creamy cheese has been in development at Whitestone for the last two years, using a unique mould strain found in North Otago. "When we talk about it, it's like that style of a gorgonzola, but we're calling it Oamaru blue because it's here from Oamaru," says Simon Berry, managing director of Whitestone Cheese and spokesperson for New Zealand Specialist Cheesemakers Association. Developing unique varieties is set to become more important. The European Union wants to ban other countries from using 'their' cheese names in local products. "So if we're producing a gruyere here in New Zealand, ...

BROOK SABIN There is a part of New Zealand so remote, humans have never touched the vast majority of its enormous landscape. And here's how you can explore it. A quick chat with Simon Berry, MD of Whitestone Cheese, Ōamaru. What's one place you'd take every visitor to NZ and why? Fiordland National Park. The fiords and alps are such a pristine natural habitat and it’s fantastic it remains as intact as it was before colonisation. Every Kiwi should experience this either at sea level, alpine or in the bush. The outdoor experiences are world-class and this is our best example of stepping ba...