The first woman to become national president of Grey Power NZ, North Canterbury resident Jan Pentecost, has resigned from the role to look after her ill husband.
Bravo to North Canterbury Musicals (NCM) for its superb new show 42nd Street, which brings the razzle-dazzle of a high-class New York City Broadway production to Rangiora.
Living a long life is down to the family genes for Canterbury centenarian Donald Keen whose mother Ethel was the oldest living New Zealander when she died in 1982.
Recruitment has been a headache for Kaikōura District Council over recent years, but chief executive Will Doughty has finally found a new building control manager.
A proposal to build a coastal bund to protect Amberley Beach in Canterbury from rising sea levels has received support from the Hurunui District Council.