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One of Warkworth’s longest-running and best-known shops is closing at the end of the year after 34 years in business.Dorothy Goudie, who founded Dorothy’s Fashions in 1982, has decided not to renew the lease on her Neville Street boutique and is retiring at the age of 78.The mother of two fell into fashion retailing almost by accident, after a friend heard of a business up for sale and told her to go for it.“I was working out at Matakana for Roke and Smith Hardware,” she says. “I said ‘I don’t want a clothing business’ and she said, ‘Yes, you do!’ Without her, it wouldn’t have happened. I was casting around for something else to do, and it all just fell into place from there; it just felt right.”Dorothy had done a diploma course in dressmaking and design, so right from the start made alterations a key part of her business, though she struggled for space in the early days. Her original shop was a small wooden ex-garage next to Warkworth Vets in Neville Street where Countdown now stands. In 1987, the owners of the new Lawlink House down the road offered Dorothy a shop tenancy there.“I said ‘No, there’s no way, it’s just far too big’.” But after being given incentives, including a rent holiday and some fixtures and fittings, Dorothy moved into the shop and she has been there ever since.Inevitably, she has seen a lot of changes in her time, not only in Warkworth itself, but in the clothes that her 40-plus clientele are wearing.

Final fashion showFor well over 20 years, Dorothy’s has teamed up with the Lions Club of Kowhai Coast to run charity fashion shows in aid of Warkworth & Wellsford Hospice. The last ever such event will take place on Tuesday May 17 at 7pm at Bowls Warkworth, with a special ‘Tribute to Dorothy’ Fashion Parade. Lions Club members will model new winter fashions, then the last ever model will be Dorothy herself. Tickets cost $15, which includes supper and a 20 per cent discount.

Everything must go: Dorothy is bowing out with a fashion show and a sale.

End of an era for iconic Warkworth retail store

“When I started, it was all dresses, skirts and blouses – not even tops, just blouses. There weren’t a lot of slacks, women didn’t wear pants much then. I think I was in my fifties before I had my first pair of jeans – my children were so shocked!“Now 80 per cent of business is pants, cropped pants and jeans.” Many of the 1600 customers she has on her mailing list come from as far afield as Auckland and Northland, because of a general lack of clothing stores for older women.

“My customers tell me that I can’t retire until they don’t need clothes any more!“I can understand their problems … they say if you go to one mall, you’ve been to them all, the shops there don’t cater for older ladies, and there’s no one to help you if you do find something.”Customers will still have plenty of opportunities to stock up before the shop closes in January, with new winter stock arriving now, a fashion show on May 17 (see panel above) and a massive closing down sale starting in August.Dorothy, who was chairman of the Warkworth Area Business Association in the 1980s, says she has really enjoyed being at the heart of the local business community and will miss seeing “all the lovely people”, but feels ready for a quieter life now.“I learned to fly in the past and got my private pilot’s licence years ago, but these days I play bowls and just like to keep fit,” she says. “Once the shop has closed, I’m going to relax for a bit, and just let whatever happens happen.”

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Warkworth Business and Professional Women’s Club (BPW) president Sally Smith has been named as one of two vice presidents for the club’s national executive and won the club’s Outstanding Leadership award last month. Sally has been president of the Warkworth branch for a year and a half and says the award was in recognition of the growing Warkworth club.“Other clubs in New Zealand have been shrinking, but we now have the biggest branch in the country, with 55 members,” Sally says. “I give a huge amount of credit to the Warkworth club members. They’ve been hugely supportive and have made meetings fun and educational.”Sally recently returned from a two-week conference on the status of women at the United Nations headquarters in New York, where she represented BPW.“It was an amazing experience being at the General Assembly, listening to the Secretary General speak.”The conference helped set sustainable development goals on the status of women, which all UN members are to aspire to.“I’m on the Abuse Prevention Service committee for Rodney and Hibiscus and so I focused on domestic violence issues. Sex trafficking was one of the big issues discussed. It’s one of the biggest growth industries in the world.”BPW is focused on encouraging equal opportunities for women and meets for dinner at the Salty Dog in

Warkworth Business and Professional Women’s Club president Sally Smith with the Outstanding Leadership award she won last month.

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Snells Beach once a month.“It’s a great way to meet new people, especially for people who are new to the area.”Sally is also focusing on encouraging young women to join the club.“They will be the future. I’m looking to overhaul the education programmes we offer and make it more pertinent to what young people want to learn and to encourage women to have a voice.”Last month the group learned all about belly dancing. Eleanor Trueman gave a glimpse into the development of the dance and how the variations related to the cultures of the countries where women practiced this dance form.

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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 New Zealand.Rebecca, aged 34, started riding just two years ago after seeing how much fun her son Alex was having on his bike.“My two younger 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. She also goes to the gym to help develop strength and agility, and nutrition has been an important factor in optimising her performance.“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 competing on the bike.“There are so many different skills to learn with BMX riding so you choose how far you want to take it.”Both her son Alex and daughter Grace are keen to improve on the 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.”Rebecca admires his courage and love for riding.Grace has only just moved onto riding pedal bikes but already has aspirations to be an elite rider like New Zealand’s Sarah Walker.All three family members attend race meetings together.“It’s a great family sport.”

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

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Congratulations to Gabrielle Connor, who won a gift basket full of products from Matakana Botanicals, The Vintry and Wharf Street Bistro in our Mother’s Day competition. To enter, people had to send in “The best advice their mother gave them”. Gabrielle’s winning entry was, “Always go to bed with a clean heart”.Gabrielle’s husband, Andre, and son Ziggy (pictured) collected the prize on her behalf.Other entries included, “Your kids won’t remember your clean house, but they will remember your carpet picnics! I still remember carpet picnics with my Mum! Just the two of us”, which was submitted by Clare Woods, and “You cannot change other people, you can only change your reaction to other people”, submitted by Aurora Christenson.

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A Matakana resident who has spent two years researching the harrowing experiences of the 13 local men who died during WWI is retelling their stories on Facebook.Adrienne Miller has published photos and stories in a timeline on the Matakana War Memorial Facebook page, including a story about Matakana resident Susannah Stevens, who lost three sons in the war. Ralph, Walter, and Harold Stevens all survived the battlefield and returned home, but later died of diseases they contracted while serving.“Her husband was ill and died in 1902 and the family struggled financially, but

her son Walter got a job as a labourer at Tongue Farm near Matakana,” Ms Miller says. “He must have worked hard and saved money because in 1913 he bought a farm at the intersection of Wrights Road and Matakana Road.“When he came back from the war he was so ill he couldn’t farm, so the local community got together and farmed it, but eventually he died of the illness he contracted on the battlefield.“But I’ve found every single man on that list was sick.”Using online military records, the Papers Past online newspaper archive and the archive of the Auckland Weekly News at the Warkworth Museum, she has been able to paint a relatively detailed picture of the Mahurangi veterans, including

photos of some of the overseas graves and memorials where the men were killed. She is now researching the seven men on the memorial roll of honour who died in WWII.“They all have an interesting back-story,” she says. “For years they’ve just been a name.“Getting control of my emotion has been the hardest part.“One of the most interesting stories I have discovered was of Major Sydney Ashton, who is the oldest on the role of honour and was in his 40s when he was killed. He was a career soldier and enlisted with the Rodney Mounted Rifles at the turn of the century and was already a lieutenant during WWI. He was responsible for training the

Auckland Mounted Rifles at first, before going to the front.“He did something incredibly brave when he died. He was looking after a squadron and his responsibility was to take the hill of Tel el Saba during the battle of Beersheba in Palestine in 1917. His squadron left their horses and ran up a sand hill against Turkish machine guns. They were the first up and a lot of them were mown down. Major Ashton was killed leading the third squadron, which was mainly made up of men from Rodney.“It was all senseless though, when you think about it.”Ms Miller is willing to help others discover the stories of the men on other Mahurangi memorials.

Adrienne Miller has been retelling the stories of the 20 men on the Matakana War Memorial role of honour, including Walter Stevens (pictured centre).

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