Aimee Wilson

Southland’s Diwali celebrations this Saturday is expected to attract thousands of people after a 2-year hiatus.  Hosted by the Indian Community Southland Inc, the festival at ILT Stadium Southland is gearing  up to be the biggest in the event’s five year history. Chair Vinay Sood said the festival w

Sonya Chalmers has been involved in many special celebrations in people’s lives, but after 28 years with Michael Hill Jeweller, she decided it was time for a new challenge. The Invercargill manager will have her last day at the new store in Invercargill Central on Saturday, and admits she will be sa

Invercargill’s Santa Parade just gets better every year, and organisers are busy getting ready for a family gala afternoon to follow the main event. Event manager Alice Pottinger said the original 3km circuit around the city would be back with floats and entertainers, so that all the groups that mis

Councils around the country were once responsible for traffic enforcement, and Invercargill’s Glenn Cockroft has a museum filled with much of the old memorabilia. (Watch the full video of Mike & About tour of this incredible place). Traffic patrol cars, the first fitted telephones, uniforms, badges,

EIS were finalists for seven projects across four categories in the 2022 Master Electrician Excellence Awards held in Auckland, last Friday. This was out of 75 entries from Master Electrician members throughout New Zealand, the most entries ever submitted.  The awards are biennial and celebrate the

It’s full steam ahead for The Great Little Train Show this Labour weekend. Hosted annually by the Southland Society of Model Engineers since 1985, the club is looking forward to a full weekend of activities, after Covid-19 disruptions in recent years. President Greg Fordyce said the 2021 event had t

Groundswell NZ has taken to the highways again, and this time as we watched, you couldn’t help but sing the song ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’ by Twisted Sister, as they rolled through the cities. The protest was fairly low key in Invercargill, in fact, many people would’ve just thought it was farmer’s

The new president of the Invercargill Licensing Trust board, Paddy O’Brien, told the new team on Wednesday he promised to give 100% and expected other elected members to as well. Angela Newell was re-elected vice-president, and the board heard from chief executive Chris Ramsay, who reported a strong