Going strong ... seniors of our Riversdale women. You wouldn't guess it, but both are in the eigties. Beryl is a retired home science teacher and Ena played hockey for New Zealand, a few years ago now.

Sunny side up …Rosie Pinckney, 5, shades her eyes from the bright winter sun as she walks on the raised edge of the Waikaia Church after the service.

Early bird …Mother Judith, Superior of the Community of the Sacred Name, is introduced to Ashleigh Ross, by her mother Sally. Ashleigh was a very prem baby who we all thought we were going to lose. The Church prayed for her and so did the community. So Mother Judith’s visit was made even more precious as she met Ashleigh for the first time. Ashleigh shows no sign of her struggles and is our ‘self appointed official’ candle snuffer.

Famous Five … Waikaia Church children smile for the World Wide Web. They are Portia Mahan, Gina Sutherland, Georgie Pinckney, with Teresa Dickson in front and, bobbing quickly into the picture, Bryce Ferguson.




Garden time … Vicar and Adrienne chat with Lois
and Alan Shallard, members of the Riversdale Church.


Important import … Jenni Heuck, an exchange student from Geneva, at her farewell service. Jenni lived with a church family for eleven months. She is standing in front of the Lumsden Church altar with her kiwi ‘sister’, Jessica, and her NZ ‘mother’ Jane Wayte. ‘We loved having her as part of our youth,’ vicar Chris said.


Wedding bells … local woman, Kate Menlove, marries Richard Coleman, who comes from Christchurch. Richard is the manager of the Fisheries and Kate is a Sonographer at Christchurch Hospital. At the dinner afterwards the best man claimed that Richard refused a hyphenated name as it would have read ‘Men love Colemen.’ Kate’s father, Ted Menlove, is a local farmer of deer, and her mother, Shirley, is a teacher at the high school.

Harvest time …a life of Southland plenty is displayed at Waikaia’s harvest festival.