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In Memoriam: Remembering Weinbrenner’s Lance Nienow and More Footwear Industry Legends FN Staff April 16, 2021: Lance R. Nienow, the former president and CEO of Weinbrenner Shoe Company Inc., died on April 11 at the age of 77. The footwear executive spent an impressive 50 years with the Weinbrenner organization. He joined the company in 1970 and rose through the ranks, holding positions in human resources, purchasing and operations, before he was named president in 1992. He held that position until his retirement in 2010, when he joined the board of directors — a role he c...

Manuwhenua ki Mohua bless 'Te Whare Whakata' at the opening ceremony on January 17. Everyone who has visited the base of Farewell Spit will know it. The house locally known as Freeman’s cottage which adjoins the carpark is demarcated off by a picket fence. It takes its name from the original builder and farm owner, Stephen Freeman, who constructed it back in the 1930s. Thanks to HealthPost Nature Trust and a heap of volunteers who gave it a serious facelift over the summer, this cottage has found new life as the trust’s new field station. It will be used by those conducting biodiversity...

WITH the start of a new year, I thought I would take a look back at some of my previous submissions regarding the history of Didcot. Archaeological digs indicate evidence of Iron Age and Romano-British occupation in the area. A Saxon settlement named Wibaldston was recorded in the Domesday register of 1086. From approximately 1200, the name Duddas Cot (Cottage of Dydda) appears. The Stonor family owned the village of Duddas Cot for some 300 years, from 1300. Didcot or Ducote as it was known continued as a typical agricultural village with farm labourers cottages huddled around All Sai...