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The house built with love
The community came, it built a house and now Hospice is $220,000 better off.
Golf day a test of endurance
Golfers and novices alike are invited to step up - or swing out - for a great cause at the Cancer Society’s Longest Day Golf Tournament, on Sunday November 30 at Taupō Golf Club.
House for Hospice gets a roof
Lake Taupō Hospice ceo talks to those working on the house that will be auctioned off to raise funds. Photo: Dan Hutchinson
The house for Hospice
The old Ebbet car yard on the corner of Ruapehu and Paoroa Hapi Street came alive on Monday this week as a house-building fundraiser got underway for Lake Taupō Hospice.
Knitters prepare thousands of items
Those in freezing European conditions are about to receive bales full of warm fuzzies from Taupō’s knitting community.
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