Tamahere’s long-term future, major transport projects and local reserve developments will feature at the Tamahere Community Committee meeting on Tuesday 6 October, at 7.30pm in the Tamahere Community Centre.

RAPID stands for Rural Address Property Identification. It’s the numbering system used for rural properties. Your RAPID number helps emergency services locate your entrance: it gives an approximate distance along the road from its starting point. Number 82, for example, means an entrance roughly 820 metres along the road.

The Tamahere Community Response Group (Civil Defence -TCRG) is a community-led volunteer group working alongside Waikato District Council Emergency Management. Its purpose is simple: use local people, knowledge and connections to help Tamahere prepare for, respond to and recover from emergencies.

The strong earthquake that shook much of the central North Island last month was a timely reminder that Tamahere and the wider Waikato are certainly not immune from earthquakes. The magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck just south of Taumarunui at 4.51am on Saturday 25 July, at a depth of only 9km. GeoNet received more than 22,000 felt reports, with the shaking felt widely across the North Island, including here in the Waikato.

Tamahere avocados have been decimated by Jackfrost as locals count the cost of one of the harsher runs of winter frosts experienced in recent years, with some trees dropping virtually their entire crop and others left with brown, frost-burnt foliage just weeks before spring flowering.

Residents are invited to attend the next meeting of the Tamahere Community Committee on Tuesday 4 August, with a full agenda covering several important issues currently affecting the community.