words: Kim Newth Guiding small groups of mostly overseas tourists through some of the South Island’s most beautiful scenery is how Daniel Sutherland, 27, of Scargill Valley, spends his summer. As an outdoor guide for Active New Zealand, North Canterbury’s Dan Sutherland is away on tour for two weeks at a time on journeys that [...]
International Relations
Former high profile Rangiora retailer Rex Gibson tells Jo Bailey how a new career path and new international friends have enriched his life. When Rex Gibson closed the doors on his long-standing Rangiora business Gibson’s Appliances in 2011 he had no idea what new direction his life would take. Which is why he was surprised [...]
Reform Through Art
Words: Kim Newth Photos: Supplied by Arts Access Aotearoa A farmer’s wife from North Canterbury might seem an unlikely vehicle for change in the lives of convicted child sex offenders, drug dealers and other criminals, but it’s not just rural good sense that Corina Hazlett takes with her to Canterbury’s prisons every week: she also [...]
Shear Talent
When Emily Chamelin tells people in her native USA that she shears sheep for a living she says most look back at her blankly. But she felt right at home in New Zealand during a recent two month stay that culminated in her representing the USA at the Golden Shears championship in Masterton early [...]
Focus on Aikido
This month, we stop for coffee at the home of Loburn’s Jo Vanderlaan, the first ever female Aikido student in North Canterbury to attain an Aikido Black Belt. Words: Kim Newth Photos: Duet Photography There were times when Jo Vanderlaan “just about cracked” during the intense weeks of training leading up to her 1st [...]
Love this look
Words: Kim Newth Making waves in headlines magazine this spring is Rangiora stylist Michele Webb, of Hi Gorgeous, recently named the winner of the inaugural Patrick Cameron photographic challenge. Michele and her husband Steven are achieving exciting results in the field of makeup, hair and fashion photography. Steven Webb wishes he’d had a camera [...]
New Horizons
Invitation writer: Julia Sobkowiak (left in photo) Julia stopped by the essence office recently and we were intrigued by her story of having grown up in Poland and Germany, before moving to North Canterbury and starting a new life as an artist. In her own words, she describes her experience of taking part in last [...]
A new World
Interesting Career North Canterbury chef Phil Keen has stepped out of the kitchen into a whole new vocational role as Rangiora New World’s Specialty Meats Manager. The job change has involved a huge learning curve for Phil, whose previous position was as head chef with Seagars at Oxford. “Fortunately, I’m really blessed to have a [...]
Capturing intimacy
One of the lost pleasures in this digital age is the Polaroid print. Anyone else remember the joy of being able to take a photo and have the camera instantly develop it for you?! Rangiora photographer Amanda Haynes grew up taking snaps with her pocket Polaroid and admits she’s never quite lost her love for [...]
Rangiora Artist Caroline Trevella
Neither a car nor boat takes up space in Canadian-Kiwi artist Caroline Trevella’s suburban double garage. On any ordinary day, you’re more likely to fi nd monsters, masks, props and puppets parked there. This is the Rangiora workshop of Caroline’s company Bizzart, perhaps best known as the creative force behind Ballantynes’ Christmas window displays. But [...]
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