Off Pat with Pat Booth

OFF PAT

By PAT BOOTH


Papakura Courier

Round the Bays

Running for kids' hospital

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

Party in the park to unveil plans

Taka Park Takanini's Taka Park is getting a $250,000 upgrade and Auckland Council and the suburb's neighbourhood policing team are throwing a party in the park to unveil the plans.

Work starts on Hayman Park

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.

Taylor Shield chase is on

Counties Manukau club cricket's two-day championship for the W. H. Taylor Shield is going down to the wire.

On the Run

Reporter Lisa Honeybone thinks the impending Round the Bays run is the perfect excuse to get in shape and step out for a great cause. Follow her progress here...

Halbergs turn All Black

The RWC-winning All Blacks have cleaned up at the Halbergs, with top Auckland athletes Valerie Adams and Jacko Gill also being honoured.

Full strength All Whites named

Ryan Nelsen headlines an 18-man All Whites squad to play Jamaica in an international football friendly at Mt Smart Stadium.

Ko honoured with No 1 medal

Jacko Gill's national dilemma

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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