Off Pat with Pat Booth

OFF PAT

By PAT BOOTH


Eastern Courier

Fairy Spreads Wings

Fairy spreads her wings

Having a fairy as your birthday party guest of honour would be a dream for most little girls.

Work starts on campus

MIT More than 50,000 students will flood into the heart of the south next year when the doors open at Manukau Institute of Technology's new campus.

Get ready a Plan B

Careers New Zealand is advising students to prepare a Plan B.

Books help kids' stay in hospital

Books For Kids A shipment of books to a children's hospital is expected to help patients overcome misconceptions about their stay.

Running for kids' hospital

She spends her days running a charity and her weekends running for charity.

Mock fire but it's taken seriously

Firefighters from across the Shore raced to put out a major school science block fire.

Hospital ship on Mercy mission

Seeing a child smile properly for the first time keeps Liz Irwin coming back to help on Mercy ships.

Home on the buffalo range

Crackdown on synthetic drugs

Time to support Auckland wharfies

Willie Jackson strap I had a raging argument with former local government minister Rodney Hide on radio last week over the Ports of Auckland.

Warriors pre-season on the horizon

Things are heating up as the NRL season approaches.

Trades teaching and classroom danger

Tapes, votes and oldies' worries

The double sorrow of parting

A caregiver's views: "The column comments on CYF came at an appropriate time.

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