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NZ Herald
25-04-2025
- General
- NZ Herald
Tolaga Bay Anzac service honours centenary with poignant poem
And we vow that this should never happen again. Pause, repeat. Tolaga Bay Anzac Day dawn service Dr Wayne Ngata said he wanted to do something different before delivering his original and poignant poem, of which the above is an excerpt. He was speaking to one of the largest crowds a Tolaga Bay dawn service had seen in years. The community turned out in force to commemorate the centenary of the opening of the township's iconic Memorial Gates, which honour 22 fallen soldiers of World War I and about another 48 who fell in World War II. The service also featured the Battle flag of the 28th Battalion and the Tolaga Bay RSA Flag, recently recovered after going missing in 1968. After the service, the flag was taken through the Tolaga Bay Soldiers Cemetery before being officially retired to safekeeping at Tolaga Bay Area School. One of the organisers, Padre Bill Gray, told the Gisborne Herald the Tolaga Bay community had come together with a sense of duty, and to acknowledge the courage of men and women who gave their very all to serve the community. They were aware of the significance of the flag and 'are ready to bring it back home'. A unique part of the service was when Dennis Marsh sang The Bridge as service, military and marae representatives presented wreaths. Some members of the public joined in and sang the popular te reo song with Marsh. Marsh and another music legend, Brendan Dugan, were due to perform at a music showcase at Te Rawheoro Marae later in the day. Marsh said he was honoured to be asked to participate as he had relatives who had served in the forces. Among those attending was Jason Devery. He proudly held a portrait of his grandfather and 28th Battalion serviceman Erena Te Okore Maurirere. Devery said the portrait was a prized family taonga. Maurirere survived the war.
Otago Daily Times
23-04-2025
- General
- Otago Daily Times
Southland, South Otago, West Otago Services
SOUTHLAND SERVICES Athol : 10am – Athol Memorial Hall Awarua / 2nd NZEF : 10am – 177 Don St Balfour : 9:50am – Parade from Sports Ground gates 10am - Balfour Public Hall Bluff : 7am – Bluff Memorial Grove 11am – Bluff Cenotaph, Marine Parade Clinton : 10am – Clinton Community Centre Colac Bay : 9am Dipton : 10am – Dipton Memorial Hall Drummond : 8:15am – War Memorial (wet weather: Drummond Primary) Edendale & surrounds 8:45am – Parade at Rugby Pavilion, 9am – War Memorial, 10am – Waimahaka Service, 11am – Seaward Downs Wreath Laying, 2pm – Menzies Ferry Service Gore : 6:30am – Parade assembles (Mersey & Main) 7am – Cenotaph Gorge Road : 8:45am – War Memorial Invercargill: 7am – Cenotaph, Dee Street 9am – RSA Section, Invercargill : 7am – Cenotaph, Dee Street 9am – RSA Section Invercargill Cemetery Lorneville / Makarewa: 10am – Makarewa Country Club Hall Lumsden: 7am – Monument Mataura: 8am – Cenotaph Mossburn: 7am – Memorial Gates Myross Bush: 10am – War Memorial Hall Orepuki: 9am – Memorial Gates, Bolton Street Otautau: 7am – Cenotaph Pukerau: 9:30am – Memorial Gates Riversdale: 10am – Community Centre Riverton: 7am – Te Hikoi Museum 10am – Civic Service Te Anau: 7am – Te Anau Club 11am – Anzac Reserve Thornbury: 8:30am – Assemble at Fire Station 8:45am – Parade Start Tokanui: 9:30am – Tokanui Memorial Hall Tuatapere / Orava: 7am – Orawia Cenotaph, 10am – Tuatapere RSA Hall Wreath laying at Memorial Library Tuturau: 11am – Tuturau War Memorial Waikaia: 10am – Community Centre Waikaka: 9:55am – Flag raising 10am – Centennial Hall Waimumu / Te Genius: 10am – Waimumu-Te Tipua Hall Winton: 7am – Anzac Oval Woodlands: 7:45am – Meet at garage 8am – Start Wyndham: 7:45am – Assemble at Town Square 8am – Wreath laying WEST OTAGO SERVICES Heriot: 7am – War Memorial Dunrobin: 12pm – Monument service Tapanui: 10:30am – Community Centre SOUTH OTAGO SERVICES Balclutha: 6:45am – Parade from Topoma 7am – Cenotaph Service Benhar: 10am – Benhar Cenotaph Clinton: 10am – Community Centre Kaka Point: 12pm – War Memorial Katea: 3pm – Memorial Cenotaph Kaitangata: 10am – Community Centre Lawrence: 7:30am – Peace Garden Lovells Flat: 9am – Cenotaph Milton: 10:30am – Meet at RSA 11am – Milton Cenotaph, Union Street Milton Fairfax Cemetery: 7:30am – Cemetery Service Owaka: 10am – Memorial Community Centre Taieri Mouth: 9am – Taieri Beach Cemetery Gate Tuapeka Mouth: 10:30am – Old School Warepa: 11am – Warepa Schoo Thank you to all our sponsors for ANZAC Day 2025: Adams group Adhesion Sealing Advantage Tyres Age Concern Otago Aitken Manufacturing Otago Alex Campbell Anvil Engineers Aotea Electric Aotea Electric Southern Limited Apex Engineering Ayres Shoe Repairs Ballantynes Showcase Jewellers Banks Auto Electrical Bayfield High School Berry and Co Birchleigh Blachawk Industries Bowker Menswear Brackens Office Products Depot Brent Lucas Builders Brian Scott Motors C&M Garden Products Challange Marketing Chatsford Cobb and Co Colin Clyne Motorcycles Colliers International Coombs Contracting Copeland Ashcroft Craigs Investment Partners Custom Signs Doma Electrial Drivetech Otago Dunedin City Motors Dunedin Goldsmiths Dunedin ITM Dunedin Morelite Dunedin Solar E13 Performance Windows Entire It Ewan McDougall Excel Scaffolding Firman Joinery Forsyth Barr Ltd Gallaway Cook Allan Gallery De Novo Gillions Godfrey Hirst Graymont Finace Green Island Fresh Choice Harcourts (highland R/E) Harrow Motor Body Works Limited Hiflo Group Hope and Sons House of Travel Jeffery Dennison John Grave Tiling Kings High School Kurow Autos Kurow Holiday Park Kurow Hotel Laser Plumbing Oamaru Leith Liquorland Let the Good Times Roll LJ Hooker Mains Plumbers Markhams McFarlanes Tyre Services Miles Anderson Minto Trading Montecillo Mortgage Me Dunedin Neat Feet Nind Electrical Services North End Health Centre North Otago Pastoral Northanjer Rest Home Oamaru Club Oamaru Engineering Oamaru Glass Oamaru Scaffolding Ltd Olveston House One Agency One Agency Otago Art Society Otago Packaging Supplies Ltd Otago Rugby Football Union Palmers Mechanical Paper Plus Oamaru Parkside Lime Parkside Lime (Oamaru Stone) Peter Keown Automotive PGG Wrightson Piano Specialists Placemakers Dunedin Polson Higgs Precast Concrete Preens Professionals North Otago Property Brokers Otago Southland Ltd PW Engineering Quality Joinery R & B Cleaning Razors Egde Regent Theatre Trust of Otago Reidd Cooper Gray Reillys Towage & Salvage Limited Riteway Panel & Paint Roses General Store Rothbury Insurance Rylock Otago Sheetmetal Specialists Site Weld Solomons Sonthanjew Rest Home Southern Insulation Speedprint Speedy Signs St kevins College Stanley Cardoza Stihl Shop Dunedin Stitch Craft Corner STMZnz Limited Suits on Wall St Superior Minerals Tansley Electrical TFR Electrical United Scaffolding Veterinary centre Ltd Waitaki District Council Waterforce Webbers Gourment Chicken Weston Automotive Wests Whistle & Pop Whitestone Cheese Whitestone Funeral Whitestone Panel, Paint & Coach Young Motors
Chicago Tribune
05-02-2025
- General
- Chicago Tribune
Winner announced for the biggest annual award for architecture
British architect Liam O'Connor is the winner of this year's Driehaus Prize from the University of Notre Dame — the award of $200,000 is the largest cash prize in the world of architecture. O'Connor is best known for his modern takes on war memorials and other public memorials, including the Commonwealth Memorial Gates in London, inaugurated in 2002 as a memorial for soldiers who served in the World Wars, and 2021's British Normandy Memorial in France. 'The jury acknowledged his lifelong dedication to the design of a body of excellent new traditional public and private buildings and civic monuments — works projecting grace and beauty and expressing the shared emotions and cultural expectations of their audiences,' according to an announcement of the award on Wednesday. The Richard H. Driehaus Prize is presented annually by the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture in recognition of that year's laureate's body of work. It's given in the name of the founder of Chicago-based Driehaus Capital Management and the award will be presented in a ceremony on March 22 at Chicago's Driehaus Museum (50 E. Erie St.). Additionally, the Henry Hope Reed Award of $50,000 will go to Belgian architect Philippe Rotthier.
