Bay Harbour: February 06, 2025

<strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News Thursday <strong>February</strong> 6 <strong>2025</strong><br />

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NEWS<br />

Lyttelton band<br />

to play at new<br />

country festival<br />

• By Kees Chalmers<br />

A BAND OF Lyttelton music<br />

legends and other well-known<br />

musicians are set to play at a new<br />

festival called ‘Country in the<br />

Country’.<br />

Lyttelton-based band, The Eastern,<br />

will perform at the festival in<br />

Leeston on March 30. They have<br />

opened for Jimmy Barnes and<br />

Fleetwood Mac, while taking their<br />

folk-country blend everywhere<br />

from Nashville to Timaru.<br />

Christchurch-based alt-country<br />

singer Katie Thompson, who will<br />

also be on stage for the festival,<br />

opened for Elton John in Dunedin<br />

in 2011.<br />

Also performing will be 17-yearold<br />

Southlander Carly Drysdale, a<br />

finalist for the New Zealand country<br />

music awards songwriter of<br />

the year for her song Revenge, plus<br />

Dunedin-based The Sisterhood.<br />

The festival is the brainchild of<br />

Selwyn Sounds co-promoter Craig<br />

Bradford and Hang Up Entertainment<br />

Services director Andre<br />

Goldsmith who noticed a gap in<br />

the festival market for country<br />

music, in the midst of the genre’s<br />

massive commercial resurgence.<br />

• Ticket prices for adults<br />

are $64 with free entry for<br />

children 12 years and under.<br />

See leestonv.flicket.co.nz for<br />

more information.<br />

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How Mentoring Helped Grow<br />

A Holistic Wellness Business<br />

For Jenine Kerr, building a thriving<br />

business in Ōtautahi Christchurch<br />

has been a challenging yet rewarding<br />

journey. After starting Nine Healing<br />

Arts, she faced the reality of restarting<br />

from scratch.<br />

“I create events to help recalibrate<br />

your nervous system,” she explains.<br />

Offering everything from Thai Yoga<br />

Massage to Sound Healing and ‘Gong<br />

Baths’, it’s a business deeply rooted in<br />

holistic wellness. However, getting back<br />

on the ground in her hometown of<br />

Christchurch after being away for 15<br />

years posed unique challenges.<br />

Kerr’s entrepreneurial journey began<br />

in Berlin with a nomadic yoga studio.<br />

After returning to Christchurch and<br />

taking time off to care for her son, she<br />

needed support to get back on track.<br />

She found the guidance she needed at<br />

Business Mentors New Zealand.<br />

“Working with a mentor has been a<br />

game changer,” she says. “My mentor,<br />

Katherinne Jaimes, has been flexible<br />

and supportive, helping me focus on<br />

the basics of running a business and<br />

marketing it effectively.”<br />

One of the most valuable outcomes of<br />

their work together was clarifying her<br />

direction. “Katherinne helped me map<br />

out my services, finances, and ‘why.’ I’m<br />

creative by nature, so numbers weren’t<br />

my strength, but now I have a clearer<br />

picture of where I need to invest<br />

my time.”<br />

As a result, Kerr has streamlined her<br />

business model, focusing on structured<br />

workshops, which now generate<br />

more income.<br />

Kerr also recognised that marketing<br />

was a key area for improvement. Her<br />

mentor suggested hiring help, leading<br />

Kerr to bring in a specialist to work on<br />

her website and SEO. “Now, when you<br />

Google ‘sound healing in Christchurch,’<br />

I’m one of the first results.” With<br />

Katherinne’s guidance, Kerr has<br />

strengthened her social media presence<br />

and built a more consistent brand. “I’m<br />

getting great reviews and new clients.”<br />

Accountability has been key. “As a<br />

freelancer, you’re often alone. Having<br />

someone to bounce ideas off has been<br />

invaluable. Katherinne helps me stay on<br />

track, even when I’m feeling uninspired.”<br />

Kerr highly recommends mentorship<br />

through Business Mentors New<br />

Zealand. “It’s a very affordable<br />

investment, and the right mentor offers<br />

invaluable support.”<br />

See businessmentors.org.nz if you<br />

are interested in finding or becoming<br />

a mentor.<br />

Jenine Kerr from Nine Healing Arts has grown<br />

her business with the help of a mentor.<br />

Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />

Hercules make final flyover<br />

• By Geoff Sloan<br />

BANKS PENINSULA residents<br />

got a chance to see New<br />

Zealand’s celebrated air force<br />

workhorses for the final time on<br />

Tuesday.<br />

Three No 40 Squadron RN-<br />

ZAF C-130H Hercules flew over<br />

the peninsula and city about<br />

noon in a final salute to the nation,<br />

ending their 60-year career<br />

with the RNZAF.<br />

The Hercules retirement flight<br />

took off from Whenuapai in<br />

Auckland on Monday, flying<br />

along the west coast before stopping<br />

overnight in Invercargill.<br />

The final flight back along the<br />

east coast took in Dunedin and<br />

Christchurch, before landing for<br />

the final time at RNZAF Base<br />

Woodbourne to join two other<br />

aircraft already there.<br />

Four of the aircraft will retire<br />

to the base, while New Zealand’s<br />

first Hercules to go into operation,<br />

NZ7001, will be parked<br />

up inside the new $20 million<br />

exhibition hangar to be built at<br />

Wigram’s Air Force Museum.<br />

The now retired fleet has been<br />

replaced by five C-130J Hercules,<br />

boasting greater range, speed<br />

and capacity. The first of the new<br />

aircraft started operations last<br />

year, with the RNZAF taking<br />

delivery of the final aircraft in<br />

December.<br />

FAREWELL: Three RNZAF C-130H Hercules flew over Banks Peninsula on Tuesday on their<br />

way to retirement.<br />

PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN<br />

The Jam Maker<br />

by Mary-Lou Stephens<br />

<strong>2025</strong>’s best new Tasmanian historical fiction based on a true<br />

story, perfect for readers of Fiona McIntosh and Victoria<br />

Purman. Jam is sweet but it can also burn.<br />

Tasmania, 1874. Growing up in the impoverished tenements<br />

along the Hobart Rivulet, Harriet Brown is used to doing<br />

whatever it takes to survive. Including, at just twelve years old,<br />

shearing off her hair and pretending to be a boy to secure a job as<br />

label-paster at the George Peacock and Sons jam factory. Four years later, the<br />

deceit becomes too much to bear and Harriet risks everything on the chance at<br />

a future with her ambitious friend and workmate Henry Jones. But this decision<br />

forces her into a new deception: play the role of expert jam maker, or else be<br />

cast out onto the streets. As the secrets and lies grow, Harriet is driven to more<br />

and more desperate choices. Choices that will end with a dangerous secret<br />

which, if discovered, could destroy not only her life but the lives of those she<br />

loves and protects. Intertwined with the fascinating history of the Tasmanian<br />

jam industry and the striking historical figure Henry Jones, The Jam Maker is<br />

a tale of danger, deceit and the desperate measures one woman will take to<br />

succeed in love and life.<br />

The Day of the Roaring<br />

by Nina Bhadreshwar<br />

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