In brief
Pupils dig in for environment
A 12-year-old Taonui School project has been revived as senior students replanted native bush along the banks of Taonui Stream. The conservation effort was undertaken by 50 pupils from rooms three and four, who dug in to plant 30 toi toi and hebe plants supplied by Horizons Regional Council. The idea of the planting began when Taonui principal Mark Mccallum saw an old sign beside the stream with the school’s logo on it. He contacted Horizons and found the school had shelved a project to improve the area around the stream many years back.
Major passion for mini-bikes
Feilding High School’s engineering students are fuelled up and ready to race their personally made mini-bikes against fellow students from around the country. The challenges of designing and making the mini-bikes are tested annually with the national NZ Minimoto GP held at Manfeild Raceway every October. More than 200 year 12 engineering students will prove their design and frame construction skills by racing their own air-cooled 47cc powered minibikes. Year 13 students will race their water-cooled 70cc mini-bikes or the 110cc sidecars on the front track at the Manfeild race circuit.
Top cornet in concert
Champion Kiwi cornet player Kyle Lawson joins the Palmerston North Brass in concert on Saturday evening. Winner of the the inaugural New Zealand Young Brass Musician of the Year award in 2014, Lawson has recently returned from the UK where he has been playing with the worldfamous Brighouse and Rastrick Band. The 7.30pm Famous Melodies and Marches concert conducted by David Maas in St Andrew’s in the City is part of the preparation by Palmerston North Brass for a concert in The Square with the New Zealand Army Band in December.
Sublime Savages
Palmerston North’s Savage Club presents its annual variety concert in the Spiers Centre on Sunday. Compered by Peter Elliot, the 2pm matinee by the club that was originally set up for retired musicians and performers and named after quarrelsome and ne’er-do-well 18th century satirist Richard Savage, features a swing band, pianists, vocalists, skits and other entertainment. Tickets for the meander down memory lane concert are available from Beggs Music Works in the Midway Plaza on Albert St, opposite Countdown.