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All about women – Mother’s Day, May 8 | Hibiscusmatters | May 4, 2016 14 Would you like to WIN High Tea for Two at The Langham Auckland? Shop at New World Whangaparaoa, pop your entry form into the “Mother’s Day Draw” box and you’re in to win. On Monday, May 9 we will draw three names to WIN ONE OF THREE PRIZES OF HIGH TEA AT THE LANGHAM AUCKLAND High Tea draw takes place on Monday, May 9 and winners will be notified. Winners will receive vouchers to be redeemed at the Langham Auckland 570-588 Whangaparaoa Road Phone 09 869 9013 Open 7am 10pm - 7 Days

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Would you like to WIN High Tea for Two

at The Langham Auckland?

Shop at New World Whangaparaoa, pop your entry form into the “Mother’s Day Draw” box and you’re in to win.

On Monday, May 9 we will draw three names to

WIN ONE OF THREE PRIZES OF HIGH TEA AT THE LANGHAM AUCKLAND

High Tea draw takes place on Monday, May 9 and winners will be notified. Winners will receive vouchers to be redeemed at the Langham Auckland

570-588 Whangaparaoa Road Phone 09 869 9013 Open 7am – 10pm - 7 Days

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Wearing a leather jacket with a patch on the back and riding a black motorbike as fast as she can comes naturally to Anne Murphy – although she dresses more conservatively and drives a Saab to her day job as manager of The Plaza in Whangaparaoa.Anne got her bike licence at the age of 22 and raced motocross for a few years, before giving up riding in her 30s. She’s been riding pillion with her husband Danny, on his 1600cc Kawasaki Nomad, for a few years but six months ago Anne, whose biker name is Flower, got back on her very own bike.She did so because of Bikers Against Child Abuse (BACA), of which she is now Auckland Chapter secretary.“It’s been a huge issue getting back on a bike – almost like learning to ride all over again,” Anne says. “But I’m so glad I did.”The Auckland chapter of BACA is currently the only one in NZ, although Anne says one is starting up in Christchurch. It is part of an international, not for profit organisation that began in the States with a mission “to empower children to be unafraid of the world in which they live”.Children are referred to BACA by social agencies or Police. The bikers visit the child on bikes. “We roll up there on our noisy bikes and some members have beards and tattoos,” Anne says. It’s a show of support that she says resonates with children who have been made to feel powerless.Each child is given a vest with the words “I do not live in fear” printed on it, and a patch. They choose a ‘road name’ for themselves. BACA members can also support children at court and parole hearings.Anne says that BACA members are definitely bikers – “not motorcyclists in their high viz vests”, but they are not a gang.“Our patch had to be properly approved by the biker community, so they know we’re not a threat and that it’s all about helping the kids.”

BMX may be thought of as a young person’s sport, but a Snells Beach mother of two, Rebecca Palmer, hasn’t let this stop her becoming the third top rider in her age group in NZ.Rebecca, aged 34, started riding two years ago after seeing how much fun her son was having on his bike. “My sisters and I were always riding bikes growing up, but never competitively,” she says.Rebecca moved north from Auckland last year and joined the North Harbour BMX club in Albany. The club currently holds the title for the most finalists at the national championship.Rebecca trains weekly and competes in a club race night. “The best thing about BMX riding is speed. It’s you against the fear in your mind.”Her first big competition was the 2014 North Island Championships, but since then she has competed in the nationals twice and this year won the Northern Region Championship. Apart from a twisted ankle at her first nationals, which put her out of the race, Rebecca has had no injuries while competing.Her son Alex and daughter Grace are keen to improve on bikes as well. “Alex has been confident on the bike since he was four, powering off down the big BMX start ramp with no hesitation.”Grace has only just moved onto riding pedal bikes but already has aspirations to be an elite rider.All three family members attend race meetings together. “It’s a great family sport.”

They take part in various fundraising rides, such as the Anzac Day Ride of Respect, and the Auckland Chapter meets regularly at Dairy Flat Country Club.Every year BACA members worldwide take part in the 100 Mile Awareness Ride to raise awareness and funds for the organisation. Each rider must raise $100 to participate in the ride, which takes place this month, on May 21. The route takes riders from Drury to Tuakau.Anne is looking forward to the ride. Despite coming off her bike on one occasion, her enthusiasm for riding has only grown since she got back into it. She has her eye on a Harley, but only because her heart’s desire – a 1400cc Indian Scout – is out of her price range at $20,000.“It’s awesome to open up the throttle and ride with other bikers,” she says. It’s my idea of fun.”To donate to BACA, or find out more phone 022 652 7784 or visit www.bacaworld.org

Anne Murphy, manager of The Plaza,

rides with Bikers Against Child Abuse

whenever she can.

Family pushes pedals

Rebecca Palmer is setting the pace for her children, Alex and Grace.

Tough love: bikers ride for abused kids

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Three women from the Hibiscus Coast and four from Mahurangi will be part of an ‘International Shimmy Mob’ performance on Saturday May 14, to fundraise for the North Shore Women’s Centre.The event is part of World Belly Dancing Day, when people around the globe to fundraise for shelters for victims of abuse. The performance will be in a ‘flash mob’ style, with belly dancers springing to action on an unsuspecting crowd in a public place.The group will perform at a number of locations around Auckland from 2pm to 7pm and collect donations from onlookers.

Warkworth resident Nicole Wilson joined the project after friends became involved.“A few of us had never belly danced, but we thought it’s for a good cause and why not,” Nicole says. “It’s been great fun.”The first mob will be in Victoria Park in central city, followed by Takapuna Beach, Browns Bay and Mairangi Bay.“We will wander around amongst the crowd and when the music will start and we will all join in. But how inconspicuous are a bunch of women in bright pink t-shirts and coin belts going to be? It’s going to be quite entertaining!”

Hibiscus ‘Shimmy mobsters’ (back row from left) Camille and Emily Gale, with Mahurangi mobster Lynn Hailes and Eleanor Trueman, and (front row) Ishtar Presnell from Hibiscus and Nicole Wilson from Warkworth.

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Mother’s Day car washA team of netballers from Whangaparaoa College’s Senior Team 1 and their parents, are holding a car wash this weekend in Silverdale. The team will be washing cars on Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 8 at Pak ‘n’ Save Silverdale from 9am–3pm. The money raised goes towards the costs of attending the UNISS tournament at the end of August.

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By Sheryl Takayama, nutritionistWeight maintenance is easy when mum is number one. With mums these days busier than ever, it’s little surprise that latest statistics show that 31 percent of New Zealand women are now considered obese. The demands of motherhood can wreak havoc on your relationship with food, particularly if you are an emotional eater. Hours can be spent in the kitchen preparing food for the family. Children go to school with delicious packed lunches wh ile we, the mums, grab at whatever’s left and eat it as quickly as possible between jobs. Add in hormonal changes and tiredness and it’s a recipe for disaster.Often we’re left reaching for the latest diet or eating regime, but the truth is that changes in your weight and health all come down to one simple principle: putting yourself first. From a nutritional perspective, the changes that will stem from this will powerfully change not just your body but your life. Here are some tips to get started: Start valuing the importance of good nutrition: The fact is that we have to eat every three to four hours and what we eat sends powerful hormonal messages to our body. If you are eating five times a day, this means you have 35 chances a week to eat in a way that helps your body get into a fat-burning state. It also means you have 35 chances to put your body into a

It’s Pink Ribbon Breakfast month and registrations are open, with NZ cook Chelsea Winter encouraging Kiwis to host a breakfast in May, to raise funds for the NZ Breast Cancer Foundation. Proceeds from this year’s Pink Ribbon Breakfasts go towards breast cancer research, with a focus on support for clinical trials, immunotherapies, preventing the spread of cancer, improving clinical practice and treatments for advanced breast cancer.NZ Breast Cancer Foundation chief executive Evangelia Henderson says the funds raised will help make up for the dire shortfall in dollars available for research. “We have top-notch researchers working in areas such as vaccines and immunotherapy, but often there’s simply not enough money to take their work forward to a stage where patients can benefit,” she says.With more than 600 women a year dying of breast cancer, and the latest life-prolonging drugs seemingly beyond Pharmac’s budget, NZ doctors and researchers have a vital role to play. The Foundation helps fund clinical trials that can give patients access to treatments, studies into making better use of existing drugs, and development of medicines.Last year, supporters held 2600 Pink Ribbon Breakfasts around the country, attended by 65,000 people and raising over a million dollars. Info: www.pinkribbonbreakfast.co.nz

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Weighty matters concerning mumsfat-storage state if you are mindlessly grabbing at the wrong food.Think about ‘why’: You need to know why your goal is important to you – whether it is better energy, weight loss or being a better role model for your children. This goal needs to be exciting! If not, chances are you won’t take the action required to achieve it.Look at your habits: Examining how and why you are eating is more important than focusing on what you are eating. Create a list of bad habits that are causing problems: these could be things like picking at food, eating the children’s leftovers or drinking too

much coffee and not enough water. Choose just one of these and start working to improve it. Once you have conquered the habit, move onto the next one. If you adopt this simple strategy and tackle one habit at a time, your life will be completely different in six months – as will your waistline.Realise that weight loss and maintenance requires organisation and structure around food: the same way that we need structure for any area of life where we want success. Problems with finances? Get a budget. Big project looming? Break it down into

chunks. Food is the same. Thinking in advance and having a food plan is essential. My top food tips for busy mumsWrite a quick plan of what you are going to eat each day. It takes five minutes and means you don’t need to think about it again.Eat protein with every meal. This will keep you full and boost your metabolism.Base your meals on real food. Mother Nature got it right and it’s the stuff in packets that is causing the problems.Make nutrition a priority and you will soon start noticing the changes. By putting yourself first, you will not just be a better role model for your children but a much happier mum in the process.Sheryl Takayama is a nutritionist based in Gulf Harbour. She specialises in weight loss and helping people overcome emotional eating via Why Weight Nutrition.

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Men dominate the upper echelons of the grocery industry, but two Hibiscus Coast women are bucking the trend.Both are store owners –Penny Ashton at New World Whangaparaoa and Catherine Versalko-West, along with her husband David West, at New World Orewa.There are 138 New World stores nationwide and although exact figures are not available, a Foodstuffs spokesperson calculates that only 16 stores are run exclusively by women.Both Penny and Catherine have many years experience in the grocery trade. Catherine started as a deli specialist with Foodstuffs Auckland in 1990. “Ironically, my training was at New World Orewa,” she says. “In 2000, David and I bought Bay Four Square in Russell when I was 39 years old. We bought NW Takapuna in 2004, NW Gate Pa in 2010 and NW Orewa in 2014. “When I started 26 years ago, there were no female operators/store owners in Foodstuffs Auckland but a lot of women worked in the business with their husbands – many unrecognised.

From left, Penny Ashton and Catherine Versalko-West

Grocery leaders represent changing of the guard

More women are becoming involved in the family business and, in time, you will see them taking the leadership role.”Catherine says owning a store isn’t particularly glamorous and it can be physically hard work. The long hours are also not particularly family-friendly.Catherine’s advice to anyone interested in one day owning a supermarket is to go overseas and have some fun. “Get some life skills that will help you understand your staff and cope with the day-to-day pressures of owning a supermarket. Be prepared to work for it and be knocked back along the way. Most importantly, stay true to yourself.”Penny has been in the grocery trade for 25 years and Whangaparaoa is her third store. She was 34 when she ran the Paeroa Four Square and ran New World Botany before moving north. She says running a store is a big commitment and you need a passion for the industry and hard work.“Women bring a different perspective to the job,” she says. “I think how fortunate I have been to have had the opportunity to be a part of the Foodstuffs entity.”

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At the end of April, Allie Nikita Birt was 121 days into her 365-day baking challenge and still going strong.Muffins, cupcakes, cookies, savoury and sweet pastries and brownies – and many varieties of her speciality, cheesecake – have been rolling out of her Stanmore Bay kitchen every day since January 1. They are auctioned for charity via Facebook, with all proceeds going to the NZ Epilepsy Foundation.A head injury that Allie received in a car accident in 2014 resulted in “weird episodes”, including shakes, muscle weakness and fits – this was diagnosed as epilepsy caused by head trauma.“I knew something was wrong when I couldn’t hold my son Josiah,” she says.Allie has always loved baking and around the same time as her diagnosis, she was looking for a project to help lift her spirits. A friend recommended watching the movie Julie and Julia, about a blogger called Julie who sets herself the challenge of cooking all of the recipes in Julia Child’s book Mastering the Art of French Cooking.“I decided that I’d do something similar, and it made sense to give the money to people that help with epilepsy.”Recipe ideas have come from friends and family, YouTube, Chelsea Winter and various websites.So far, Allie has raised around $200 – she says as well as auctioning her baking she has also given away quite a lot to people who can’t afford to buy it. “I understand what that’s like and I want to help,” she says.

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She says ingredients cost her around $50–$60 per week, so she may have to put up the prices on the Facebook page 365 Recipe Baking Auction Hibiscus Coast where her baking is auctioned. Donations of flour, eggs and other items have also been made by the community and are very welcome.The stay at home mother of one says, four months in, she is realising how much time it takes up to bake something every single day.Among the challenges that the 24-year-old still plans to perfect are Snow Globe Cupcakes, which are covered in a gelatine cap, revealing a fondant Christmas tree or snowman on top of a chocolate cupcake. Her favourite so far is a Carrot Cheesecake cake, made of alternate layers of carrot cake and cheesecake – “rich, but delicious”.

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Mother’s Day is just around the corner (May 8) and this is the final week for Hibiscus Matters’ Mother’s Day competition. We’re giving away a Life Pharmacy basket of goodies valued at over $500. Entry details are below.Entries have been flooding in via Facebook and post. The winner will be selected on May 6 and the basket presented the same day.We loved the things you told us about ‘the best advice that your mother ever gave you. Here’s a sample of the entries so far, full of wise advice from caring mums…“Always pay for your stamps and put plenty of filling in your sandwiches.”“Two wrongs do not make a right…and don’t squeeze your pimples – you will regret it later, as they will scar!”“Never leave the house with holes in your underwear in case you have an accident. Also never be critical of others as you

Final days for competitiondon’t know what your future holds.”“Always say please and thank you, maintain integrity in all things you say and do, stay true to yourself and strive to be the best you can.”“Never trust a man who doesn’t like cats.”

How to enterLife Pharmacy Orewa donated a MONSTER basket of goodies that one lucky Hibiscus Matters’ reader can WIN for Mothers Day. The contents are valued at over $500. To win this for your mother, tell us ‘the best advice that your mother ever gave you’. Write to: Life Pharmacy Mother’s Day basket, Hibiscus Matters, Unit G, Tamariki Plaza, 18 Tamariki Ave, Orewa 0931, including your name, postal address and daytime phone number. Or enter on our Facebook page. Entries close May 6.