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Posted 18 September, 2024

He was one of the Wakatipu’s top sportsmen in his day, roaming a totally forested Queenstown Hill as his playground growing up, and representing Central Otago and Otago Country in tennis and rugby.

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Posted 11 September, 2024

Seldom do the secateurs stop snipping for Jean Britton, who’s been at it with flowers for more than 60 years, including decades at the helm of flower shows and rose societies across the region.

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Posted 4 September, 2024

Gary Mullings is a busy man. He may have supposedly ‘retired’ at 49 after working in multiple careers and successfully launching and selling multiple businesses, but somehow Gary’s entrepreneurial eye never closes.

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Posted 28 August, 2024

All good love stories should have a happy ending, and, despite immense trauma and loss, Emma Wilson’s does.

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Posted 21 August, 2024

Jim Moore grew up around hospitality. His Irish tea trader father brought the family to Auckland from their home in Sri Lanka soon after Jim was born.

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Posted 14 August, 2024

No fancy hospitality school launched longtime Queenstown restaurateur Tony Robertson’s 45-year career.

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Posted 7 August, 2024

After more than 50 years peering into grimacing, toothy grins, Queenstown’s longest serving dentist John Molloy has found something new to get his teeth into.

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Posted 31 July, 2024

A fascination with New Zealand eventually led to long-time Queenstown Japanese hiking guide ‘Kuzzy’ Kogure landing a job at Tokyo’s NZ Embassy, moving to Queenstown, and becoming a TV icon in his homeland.

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Posted 24 July, 2024

Colin Macnicol doesn’t like to sit idle, so when he and wife Jean supposedly ‘semi-retired’ from their Southland deer farm to Arrowtown in 2006, Colin got busy.

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Posted 17 July, 2024

She’s mother to many - ‘Mother Teresa’ to abandoned orphans across the world, and a whole generation later the immense satisfaction Sue van Schreven receives from making such a difference in these young lives keeps driving her to do more.

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Posted 10 July, 2024

Music runs through the veins of the Coutts family line, but it took some wild teenage tamperings and a few risky adventures for long-time Queenstown musician Noel Coutts to find the right note.

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Posted 3 July, 2024

He was New Zealand’s longest running breakfast radio announcer, starting out as the youngest at 24 and clocking more than 40 years in the game.

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Posted 26 June, 2024

If you’re heading into the mountains, then Tarn Pilkington’s the guy you want around. They don’t come much more qualified than this highly experienced Wakatipu LandSAR Alpine Cliff Rescue team leader and guide of all things adventure.

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Posted 19 June, 2024

She was born in small-town rural Canterbury, a country girl with a love of horticulture, destined for a life on snow, both passions deeply etched into her DNA.

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Posted 12 June, 2024

From bagpiping ice hockey star to organic farmer and health food retailer, Graeme Glass has always followed his passions, rather than following the crowd.

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Posted 5 June, 2024

David John is best known in the south for his incredible artistic talents, but his quick wit and words have also been recognised on the national and international stage as a playwright, poet, and scriptwriter.

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Posted 29 May, 2024

When a young 22-year-old South Otago farm boy bought the very rough 1.214ha (3000-acre) Queenstown Hill farm high above Lake Wakatipu he had no idea it might one day become a highly sought after goldmine – and one he’s preferred not to cash in.

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Posted 21 May, 2024

He’s best known as a quick-witted funnyman MC and broadcaster, but behind all the hilarity Grant Stewart also has an impressive serious side.

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Posted 15 May, 2024

You could say he was the Crocodile Dundee of the Wakatipu backcountry, spending much of his childhood at Skippers skinning goats and deer for big money, even walking away unscathed when his car careered off a 100-foot (30.4m) bluff into the canyon.

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Posted 8 May, 2024

Garry Hall’s always been a good guy to have around.

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