VALLEY PROFILE Digital Edition 29 June 2022
Digital Edition June 29, 2022
The Create the Vibe pedestrian space in Mary St, Thames. File photo: KELLEY TANTAU
Create the Vibe stays for another year
Despite three in-person pleas and a petition signed by more than 600 to remove the “temporary” Vibe in Thames, the community board chose to keep it for another year and…
Kevin Peka, left, receives his award from Waikato District Commander Superintendent Bruce Bird. Photo: SUPPLIED
AWARD FOR RIVER RESCUE
An “eerie” white light showed Kevin Peka where a drowning man lay at the depths of a Karangahake Gorge swimming hole during an heroic rescue last year.“[It] would’ve been about…