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Monday, 21 September 2020
Sunny skies and warm temperatures provided welcome relief for Coromandel residents battling cabin fever over the past six weeks. However, the absence of significant rainfall means the Peninsula now has drier conditions than anywhere else in the country, with most coastal areas still in drought.
Whitianga Social Services has launched a new community initiative to help older people stay socially connected while keeping themselves safe as the Coromandel and New Zealand continues the fight against Covid-19.
Kiwis will be told to holiday just as if they were overseas when regional travel resumes under Covid-19 Alert Level 2.
The Covid-19 lockdown has created ongoing uncertainty and hardship the length and breadth of New Zealand. It has understandably forced many to focus strongly on their own health and wellbeing, as well as those who are closest and dearest to them.
For Whitianga resident, Tom Costello, returning to New Zealand from Vietnam during the last week of April, wasn’t what he expected.
Organisers of the inaugural Poppy Flight are vowing the project will fly next year after the initiative was grounded this year due to the Covid-19 lockdown.
Property owners in the top half of the Coromandel Peninsula are being invited to participate in a cross-community project aimed at growing the population of Coromandel brown kiwi.
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