Off Pat with Pat Booth

OFF PAT

By PAT BOOTH


North Harbour News

NHN DUmpster

Trash to treasure

Members of a fringe group known as dumpster divers are enjoying fancy meals – for free.

Runners are heroes for kids like Hannah

Hannah Lacey It's hard to believe little Hannah Lacey can still raise a smile when you consider all she's gone through in her short life.

Petrel breeds in gulf

A bird once thought to be extinct for 150 years is now reportedly breeding on islands in Auckland's Hauraki Gulf, according to collected evidence.

Run-off monitored

Questions are being raised over the monitoring of sediment run-off at a Long Bay housing development.

Organ is music to the ears

Walk into Holy Cross Church in Albany and you are bound to hear Anne Connolly-Munt playing on her new toy – a Johannus Opus 37 organ.

Ko favourite with TAB

Lydia Ko Fourteen-year-old New Zealand golf star Lydia Ko is regarded as the bookies favourite for the New Zealand Women's Open.

McClennan shooting for NRL title

Brian McClennan is sticking to his bold target of shooting for the NRL premiership in his first year in charge of the Warriors.

Forman reads Breakers style

Sacha Jones returns to NZ

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.

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

When Helen Dorresteyn sees the expression on someone's face after tasting a spoonful of buffalo yoghurt she knows the risk she took is paying off.

Crackdown on synthetic drugs

Vital service full of drama

Mock fire but it's taken seriously

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

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