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The first of two free dinners for over 70’s was officially kicked off by ILT CEO Chris Ramsay to a capacity 450 crowd. He had the room laughing when he assured them that he wouldn’t talk to long as he had the hard word from head chief Simon Henry that his speech would be over […]

The Southland Housing Action Forum is meeting Government and sector representatives next week as part of a concerted approach to tackling wide-ranging housing concerns in the region. The Southland Chamber of Commerce has been facilitating meetings between like-minded community organisations to look

Four new street signs featuring poppies to honour servicemen who fought for New Zealand have been put up in Invercargill. The Poppy Places Trust launched the Places of Remembrance Project on 11 November 2014 to identify and record NZ streets and other places that are directly related to people and e

The special exhibition which honours Southlanders who fought and died in World War I will reopen for two days this week due to demand. The exhibition, which was open at 63 Esk Street between November 1 and November 10, has proven to be so popular that volunteers have agreed to open it again on Frida

The 2018 Alex Lindsay Memorial Scholarship has been awarded to Donald Thomson, 19, from Invercargill. Donald, currently a Southern Institute of Technology student, is planning to continue his violin studies and achieve his LTCL. Donald is a former James Hargest College student. The Alex Lindsay Memo

Aiming to strengthen philanthropic efforts, the Invercargill Licensing Trust, ILT Foundation and Community Trust South have formalised their commitment to collaborate. The three funders have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to establish general framework for co-operation. ILT chairman and

Saturday Windsor Village will be a buzz celebrating the 10th annual Bonanza Day birthday, businesses in the Windsor Shopping Centre have been busy preparing to celebrate on Saturday. Mayor Tim will be joining the festivities at Windsor Wines at 12:30pm The Bonanza Day runs from 10am – 2pm will inclu

On Monday (15th October) Greg Kelly (known as Kell) arrived in Invercargill part of his fundraising tour riding the length and breadth of New Zealand on a Harley-Davidson over 5 weeks, raising awareness for Younger Onset (Frontotemporal) Dementia, of which he was diagnosed with in 2016, aged 59. Las