With over 25 years of experience in hair and make-up and a master's degree in Applied Indigenous Knowledge, Bianca Fallon has seen a huge need for rongoā Māori medicine in her business. Rongoā Māori is traditional Māori healing, incorporating herbal remedies, physical therapies and spiritual healing. 'They are coming to me for hair and make-up, but it ends up being about something else. Particularly after lockdown, clients have been coming in and they have mental health issues,' Fallon said. In 2022 ACC began offering rongoā Māori services for all injured New Zealanders, to help them rehabilitate from a covered injury.

https://www.gisborneherald.co.nz/local-focus/connecting-with-rongoa-maori-to-help-clients

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My son came to me at age 11 and said she felt like she might be a girl. At the time I felt a number of emotions but a big one was fear and anxiety for her future. When I read some of the recent letters in the Herald, I feel that same sense of fear and anxiety. I wonder if perhaps at the heart of some of the letters is fear too. Fear of the unknown; of something outside their experience and therefore their understanding. I would like to think that the writers of those letters are good, kind people who when given the opportunity to understand what the life of someone who is transgender, and their family, looks like they may feel a little reassured.

https://www.gisborneherald.co.nz/letter/our-wonderful-daughter

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The Trust Tairawhiti Rescue Helicopter has flown seven missions since last Wednesday. On March 29 the chopper crew responded to a trauma in Tokomaru Bay, where the on-board critical care flight paramedic assessed and treated the patient, who was flown in a stable condition to Gisborne Hospital. 'Many thanks to the whānau who brought our patient to the park for uplift, and the nurse who cared for the person until we arrived,' said a spokeswoman for the service. The next day the crew were called to two medical events, one in Matawai, and in the other they flew a patient from Gisborne Hospital to Waikato Hospital.

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A Gisborne woman living with terminal cancer fears she will 'die prematurely' if proposed changes to the country's medicine legislation go through, limiting her ability to import a 'miracle' drug. Theresa Zame was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer in June 2022 and was given nine months to live. She is at the end of that prognosis but her health has significantly improved, thanks to Tagrix — an unfunded medication she imports from Bangladesh via a humanitarian business. Under the Therapeutic Products Bill, which is before the Government's Health Committee, Theresa will no longer be allowed to import medication.

https://www.gisborneherald.co.nz/news/new-bill-will-put-miracle-cancer-drug-out-of-reach

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‘I'M LIKE A BIRD': Greer Newman, with a little help from a trampoline, gets airborne among hanging birdhouses at the Aurora Education Foundation's Enviro Well-Being Day at Eastwoodhill Arboretum. Pictures by Rebecca Grunwell YOU ARE HERE: Ella Kirby inspects a map of Eastwoodhill during the Seek and Go orienteering challenge. TEAMWORK: Jasmine Graham and India Gill go through a list of things to find in the Seek and Go orienteering game at Eastwoodhill Arboretum.

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Seventh-ranked Taylor Newman wins silver medal at nationals Apr 14 2023 Updated 1 hour ago

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Cappellacci is similar to tortellini, though a little easier. Instead of cutting the pasta sheet into little 'rounds' before you fill them, you make little squares of pasta. The little triangle 'caps' left on the pasta help me to remember its name. This is a great recipe to make extra of. Freeze the uncooked cappellacci on a tray, then transfer to a bag once frozen. This stops them clumping together. They'll take about six minutes to cook from frozen. I love the browned butter and sage combination with pumpkin and it is seasonally ideal, because the pumpkin and sage are ready in the garden at the same time.

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Friends from Japan set up prestige event to support cyclone recovery Apr 15 2023 Updated 2 hours ago

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It will be interesting to see if Gisborne District Council agrees with its southern counterpart on the subject of the wood debris left after Cyclone Gabrielle. Hawke's Bay Regional Council has released a report which concludes the majority of the wood debris did not come from 'slash' or forestry activities. Its survey of 15 sites stated there was 'little evidence of slash — leftover material from harvesting or pruning — at any site, except one', even though pine made up 56 percent of the debris overall.

https://www.gisborneherald.co.nz/letter/hbay-debris-had-little-slash-half-pine-though

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GONE FISHING: Josh's extended family chipped in to purchase him a fishing drone, so he can continue with his passion of fishing.

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The Gisborne Country Music Awards at the War Memorial Theatre and the RSA saw local family The Maynards take the crown of overall winners of the awards. A total of 176 entries were received  for the competition, of contestants from Nelson, Whanganui, Hastings, Auckland, Hamilton , Matamata and Morrinsville, as well as Gisborne. The club meets on the first and third Sunday of every month, at 1pm, in the Senior Citizens Hall at the river end of Grey Street. Non-members $5 entry, members $3. Afternoon tea provided.

https://www.gisborneherald.co.nz/entertainment/best-of-the-best-1

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Efforts to reopen Wairoa's cyclone-damaged roads have been given a $17 million funding boost from Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency. The funding will be tagged for initial response and costs to get roads open, drainage and alignment work, as well as safety work on bridges, ford crossing installations, demolitions and Bailey bridge hire and installation costs. The funding is 100 percent Government-funded, with no impact on ratepayers, Wairoa District Council chief executive Kitea Tipuna said. 'It is reassuring to have this funding to enable immediate works to be carried out.

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FOX, Nga Morehu Tipuna Marbo. Peacefully, on Friday, April 7, 2023. Aged 72 years. Loved brother, uncle and brother-in- arms. Messages to the Fox family, C/o PO Box 10345, Christ- church 8145. A service to celebrate Nga's life, was held in the Ferry Park Chapel, 297 Ferry Road, this day, Friday, April 14, at 10am. Private crema- tion. Bell Lamb & Trotter Funeral Directors

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Your correspondent Sonia Smith is quite right to question my promoting to Gisborne District Council a Tutira to Te Pohue road connection when the route isn't even in our district — and congratulations to her group in obtaining a feasibility study on their alignment option adjacent to the railway to Napier. But where is the result of that study? Has it been completed, and the findings made available to their group or the public? My efforts in the 1990s on the Tutira to Te Pohue connection were on a different tack — a shortcut from northern Hawke's Bay, Wairoa and Tairawhiti/Gisborne to Taupo and the central volcanic plateau — with the added advantage of a bypass route to Napier in the event of closure of the tortuous Lake Tutira and Devil's Elbow section of SH2.

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A girl was admitted to Gisborne Hospital yesterday with serious pelvic injuries after she was struck by a log and partially buried in the sand at a spot along Centennial Marine Drive. The accident happened at around 4.30pm about a kilometre along the beach west of Stanley Road. Juliana Marston, aged 10, was walking along the beach with other family members when she and two other children in the group ran ahead to jump on a large log they could see in the shallows. 'The three children were on it when the log rolled with an incoming wave,' said Juliana's father, Clint Marston.

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Sense of land exploitation because forestry ‘unregulated': inquiry chair Apr 15 2023 Updated 2 hours ago

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Tairāwhiti and Hawke's Bay export successes will be celebrated at the region's eighth export awards in August. Details of the ExportNZ ASB Export Awards were announced today by ExportNZ Hawke's Bay executive officer Amanda Liddle, who said this year's awards were especially significant given Cyclone Gabrielle, and acknowledged the strength and durability of export businesses in Hawke's Bay and Tairāwhiti. 'This year has been particularly challenging for exporters who are facing yet another year of uncertainty.

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Terry Reeves did a great job for sport on Saturday. Controlling the Ngati Porou East Coast men's club rugby final is no easy task for any referee, let alone one from their closest neighbours Poverty Bay. But with the support of local officials Joe Coleman and Matt Richards, the teams  — Hicks Bay and Tihirau Victory Club — were well served. With the rescheduling of men's games prior to the final, and the NPEC women's semi-finals also being held on Saturday, pressure on NPEC's small but loyal body of referees saw the invitation to officiate the men's final extended to Reeves via Poverty Bay Rugby Football Union's club development officer Florian Bub.

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Grant Bramwell is the family's third-generation pharmacist to own Unichem Bramwells Pharmacy on Gladstone Road. Having sold the pharmacy in May this year, Grant is staying on to help the new owners with the transition. He reflects on the history and the changes to a business which dates back to 1927 when his grandfather Ivan Bramwell purchased Lawries Pharmacy from Stark Lawrie. Grant Bramwell didn't always want to be a pharmacist but as he completed his high school years and began pondering his future it seemed an obvious career for him to pursue.

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