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11/08/2010 St John in New Zealand celebrate 125 years 2010 is a special year for St John in New Zealand as they celebrate 125years of service to our nation. In recognition of this milestone they have commissioned a special St John rose. This rose is from Matthews Nurseries Wanganui. This glorious rose is called Luminis (Floribunda- Jacfabse). She is (anything this beautiful from the inside and out, has got to be a she...) a clear white cup shaped flowers that ooze with sweet fruity fragrance. On Tuesday Ruth Ashby (from St Johns) presented Rose Whitaker with this rose which they planted in the rose garden of Hospice Te Rangimarie. This was in recognition of our relationship for the care of patients. Thank you St John and thank you Ruth we look forward to seeing this rose in all her glamour.

6/08/2010 Fabulous donation from Probus Kevin Nielsen was invited by Fitzroy Ladies Probus group to attend their meeting this week, where they presented him/us with this wonderful collection of goods ...groceries, linen and wool amongst other very useful items. Thank you very much ladies. This photo doesn't do justice to the wonderful generosity that you have shown us.

22/07/2010 Paediatric Resources & Storage Unit Thanks to the generosity of Pukekura Breakfast Rotary Club and BNI Success Like No Other we now have a Paediatric Resources & Storage Unit. This cabinet is in memory of Dr Alan Parsons, a doctor who was passionate about Hospice working with paediatric patients, young people and their families. The cabinet stores many of the items and resources we may need for paediatric patients and childern visiting here at Te Rangimarie. Photo of Kevin Nielsen thanking and shaking hands with Wayne Dellow of BNI Success like No Other. Wayne was the founder of this BNI chapter for New Plymouth.

7/07/2010 Tolietries and personal care products The North Taranaki Federation of Womens Institute Inc very generously donated a large amount of toiletries and personal care items for patients and their visiting families. They had spent obviously a lot of time putting this all together as it even included draw string toilet bags. The items ranged from bedsocks to toothpaste. The highlight is the nail varnish and other pampering items for patients to enjoy. It is wonderful to have such generosity from the community and we are very grateful. Thank you to the members of this institute.

2/06/2010 Top Shop Hawera HospiceShop has been voted for in the TSB Bank TopShop awards 2010, for "good customer service". The winners will be announced on the evening of Wednesday 30th June. We wish everyone in the Hawera HospiceShop all the best - they are obviously doing a super job.

20/05/2010 Send a FREE e-moment JOIN THE EXCITEMENT ...Click onto "create & send a FREE e-moment" on our HOME page and you will be spreading the idea of living every moment and creating something that makes people smile and feel good - without costing a thing! This is doing fantastically and the count of e-moments sent is up to #2740 and counting. So easy to use and makes your "thanks" unique and special. Send an e-moment today.

17/05/2010 AWARENESS WEEK OUR HOSPICE AWARENESS WEEK went well. The NEW Walnut Recipe book has a few copies available at HospiceShops (New Plymouth, Hawera and Stratford) QUIZ Night at PIHMS on Tuesday 18th May had 29 teams competing for the Trip that was sponsored by House of Travel New Plymouth. Great fun. WACKY Wednesday in your workplace - here in Te Rangimarie volunteers, staff and management had "rocker" of a day. Thank you to those wonderful people who have PURCHASED a bottle of Mountain View wine. From each bottle purchased we received $5. HOST a Time to Remember Event New Plymouth Library played an informative DVD regarding our services for the public to view. New World in New Plymouth and Stratford are fundraising for us by inviting shoppers to "Add a $" at the checkout. For details on any of the above ... contact Rose at Hospice Taranaki 06 753 7830 or email your enquiry to rose.whitaker@hospicetaranaki.org.nz

9/04/2010 latest HospiceTalk newsletter now available the second issue (July) HospiceTalk 2010 will be out very shortly. If you don't receive a newsletter and you would like to be posted a copy then please let us know by telephoning during normal office hours 06 753 5830 or you should be able to download the newsletter on the "newsletter" page.

29/03/2010 Walnuts - thank you Thank you to everyone who donated, very generously, bags of walnuts for us to provide walnuts to accompany the new Walnut recipe book. These are the people I do know but there are others - Thank you all, including John & Esme Wenn,Ray Fordyce,Karen Ditchburn,Stefan Campbell and Evlin Mills. This is a photo of Nora Banks handing a baking sample from the Walnut Recipe book to a shopper.

18/03/2010 TRFU new season 2010 TenderLink Taranaki 2010 Season Memberships ON SALE NOW - Catch the team at Yarrow Stadium for seven LIVE home games vs. NORTHLAND 29 July - 7.35pm vs. TASMAN 06 August - 7.35pm vs. BAY OF PLENTY 20August-7.35pm vs. COUNTIES MANUKAU 12 September - 4.35pm vs. CANTERBURY 18 September - 2.35pm vs. SOUTHLAND 02 October - 7.35pm vs. MANAWATU 09 October - 2.35pm