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Bigger and better op-shop
The Taupō Hospice Shop is now in larger premises at the former Danske Mobler store in Totara Point and is open for business.
An ‘op a skip and a jump
A reshuffle of Taupō’s op shops will see the Salvation Army Family Store shift to Totara Point and the Hospice Shop move into nearby Danske Mobler.
The house built with love
The community came, it built a house and now Hospice is $220,000 better off.
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
Fashion for a good cause
The fashion event of the century is coming up in Taupō – and likely quite a bit of fashion from last century as well.
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.
Former Hospice Shop manager sentenced
Former retail operations manager at Lake Taupō Hospice Trust, Mark Wisniewski, 64, has been sentenced to 16 months in prison for his theft of just over $62,000 from the organisation between 2016 and 2024.
Budget beating op-shop
They were lining up at the door for the opening of Lake Taupō Hospice’s second Taupō store on Tuesday this week.
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