Agresearch scientist Cor Vink has confirmed the venomous Australian redback spider found in John Barrow's vegetable patch in Albert Town last week was a sub-adult female and would not have started breeding.
The secret to the art of writing is, first, it is a job and, second, it is not an art.
Hugh Barnard has the peripatetic lifestyle and patchwork career common to many a Wanaka outdoor enthusiast.
The Wanaka Festival of Colour relies on support from dozens of volunteers. Retired physiotherapist Sue Webb has helped at all four arts festivals. Marjorie Cook discovers why she steps forward.
What goes on tour usually stays on tour - unless you take playwright Roger Hall.
Pos Mavaega is relishing the opportunity to bring a six-piece ensemble from Pacific Undergound to Wanaka tomorrow to perform at the Festival of Colour.
Wanaka's Festival of Colour sparked into life on the lakefront yesterday morning with the opening of Pouwhenua - Billboards: Markers on the Land.
Aaron Blackledge
Aaron Blackledge (19) dreams of going to Toi Whakaari, New Zealand Drama School, but missed the last intake of 10 students, so he is using his first year out of school to gain more performing arts experience. He talks to Wanaka reporter Marjorie Cook.
Q: What are you doing for the Festival of Colour?
Jennifer Ward-Lealand
Actress Jennifer Ward-Lealand and pianist Michael Houstoun are tasked with bringing alive the character of painter Rita Angus and the music of her lover, composer Douglas Lilburn, in Dave Armstrong's new multi-media production.
Marjorie Cook reports.
Q: Tell me about Rita and whether you enjoy playing her?
The University of Otago's Centre for Science Communication has gone from newest kid on the block to the institution's third most popular master's student programme in less than four years.
Wanaka's culture vultures were hovering with nervous anticipation yesterday as they put the finishing touches to the 2011 Festival of Colour.
The two men tasked with pulling together the 37-event, $800,000 Festival of Colour in Wanaka this week are confident they have a recipe for ongoing success.
Albert Town resident John Barrow is planning to work more carefully in his vegetable garden after discovering a venomous Australian redback spider in his silver beet on Thursday night.
The Wanaka Rowing Club is emerging as piggy-in-the-middle as community debate about buildings on the resort's lakefront heats up.
The Wanaka Presbyterian church's $1 million building extension programme has been approved by the Queenstown Lakes District Council.
In the past decade, much has been done to plan for growth at Wanaka Airport. ODT reporter Marjorie Cook discovers that while you can now buy a handbag there, jet planes are still off the agenda.
It has long been accepted Wanaka Airport might have to become a corporate entity so it can raise funds to undertake improvements outlined in the airport's 2008 master plan.
White-water slalom kayaking is becoming increasingly popular with Central Otago teenagers, and 26 young athletes from the region have entered the New Zealand secondary schools kayaking competition in the Bay of Plenty on April 18-21.
It is not yet known whether the new Warbirds Over Wanaka visitor attraction will get one of nine mothballed Skyhawk jet fighters from the Government.
Sara Brodie laughs as she tells a story on her youthful self. "When I was 4 years old I was watching my father rehearse for Salad Days and on the way home I was telling him off for not following the script, the director or standing stage centre, where he was supposed to be. And I also taught him the box step, because he was hopeless at it," she said.
