THUMBS UP & DOWN

Thumbs up: to all the awesome staff at Nola's in Waipawa, great food, fabulous service.

Thumbs up: to the incredible ambulance staff in our community, (as well as the other first responders).

Thumbs up: to the great team at Waipawa auto super shoppe. Always such great service.

Thumbs up: good on you all for printing a paper that I used to love reading and look forward to every Tuesday. Thank you from Brisbane.

Thumbs up: to GM Panelbeaters! Excellent customer service and a perfect repair job (once again) completed on my car.

Thumbs up: I am so impressed with the Pa site on the hill in Waipukurau. I found it by chance and spent sometime reading all the history we never learnt about . Well done!

Thumbs up: to our whole Central Hawke's Bay community! What an awesome list of positivity and gratitude happening in our community!

Thumbs up: To Launch Waipukurau, the best decision we made enrolling our daughter there! She loves it and has learnt so much!

Thumbs up: for the people that are finding it hard at the moment. Keeping going it will get better one day at a time

Thumbs up: to Lucy Tod. Well done on your awesome work at the Waipukurau Covid 19 swab testing station, you were awesome. Thank you.

Thumbs up: to the honest lady that picked my phone up in the New World car park and handed it to the trolley man last week. I really appreciated it.

Thumbs up: to CHB Processors, Property Brokers Waipukurau, Tenku and Fish and Shoot for the use of your car parks for the CHB Farmers Market.

Thumbs up: to The Pakeke centre for going above and beyond for our mum and being a great support for our whanau last year while she was in hospital

Thumbs up: to Kelly James for moving to the CHB Community and for getting people inspired to do something with the Mackie Street Park.

Thumbs up: to the people who contribute to the Waipawa Community food cupboard. A resource that supports our community in these tough times for some.

Thumbs up: to the person who trimmed the trees hanging over the footpath in Don Allan reserve.

Thumbs up: to everyone who focuses on the positive.

Thumbs up: to our Porangahau Rural Post lady Pauline Signal — kids are always happy to see her and she's always smiling, waving and beeping every morning.

Thumbs up: to whomever organised the resurfacing and repairs to the entrance to Coronation Park.

Thumbs up: to Stuart from Wycom who I still use for my computer repairs even though we've moved away.

Thumbs up: to the police stopping and checking seat belts were on the kids down by the college, keeping our kids and community safe!

Thumbs up: to the shopkeepers, supermarket staff and anyone who is following the rules re covid containment even in the face of sometimes strident opposition.

Thumbs up: to the freedom fighters across NZ and thumbs down to negative people we encounter on the daily.

Thumbs up: to our local Elsthorpe vege shop. Awesome work fresh daily thanx Robert and Gay . . . keeping it local.

Thumbs up: to the amazing swim instructors at our local pool. You do an incredible job and make the lessons so much fun for our kids.

Thumbs up: to the new CHB Farmers Market well done.

Thumbs up: to Kiwi Kanz for always doing the best, I know I appreciate your hard mahi.

Thumbs up: to Marion and Stacey who so kindly donated foot spas to Scallywaggs Graduation Kindergarten for our tamariki. Your kindness and generosity was so heartwarming. Many thanks.

Thumbs up: to Launch Waipukurau and the amazing teachers, management and staff. Our daughter is so happy, settled and loves going. After a bumpy start things are continually getting better and better.

Thumbs up: to ManUp Central Hawke's Bay, Waipawa library every Thursday evening 7pm, helping the men breaking generational cycle of drugs alcohol violence addictions in the community well done team.

Thumbs up: to the small local businesses that got in behind the CHB Farmers Market that made it the success it was!

Thumbs up: to Waipukurau Mitre 10 for their very generous donation to the Onga Onga fire brigade in support of a brigade project.

Thumbs up: to the parents bringing their kids into the dental clinic who are are kind and encouraging.

Thumbs up: to our awesome Waipawa 4 square. You always have exactly what I need, even things not stocked at the big stores. We are lucky to have you and your friendly team.

Thumbs up: to the cardboard kids!

Thumbs up: to Esspresso Loco. Lovely setting, awesome staff and delicious coffee. Ka mau te wehi. Keep up the great service, and thank you.

Thumbs up: to Beany at New World Waipukurau. You get it right very time.

Thumbs down: to the male who stopped the car and punched the female passenger in the head.

Thumbs down: to anyone who attended the high risk rallies with their children then failed to isolate themselves and their families upon return. Workmates, shop staff, school staff, children and their families, we all had the right to informed consent of the risks you choose to expose us too. We choose to shop, learn and work with the expectation that those we were exposing ourselves and our families too had been following the same health rules, to keep everybody safe, that we had been.

You did not have the right to choose for us.

Thumbs up: to everyone who did follow the health and indeed the traffic rules.

Thumbs down: to the muppet that sped through a traffic cone almost hitting an emergency service worker. Then proceeded to yell at them when he was told to slow down. Our emergency heroes do a great job 24/7 in horrible weather conditions at times. They too deserve to go home to their families. Please slow down when you see cones or lights.

Thumbs down: to drivers who enter New World car park via the Exit Only.