Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

A Bay of Plenty-based group is turning a pest problem into a community solution.
Hunt for Good is a not-for-profit that culls wild deer, donating the venison and wild game meat to community groups and food banks.
It’s volunteer run, and helps farmers manage the wild deer population on their land in a sustainable way.
It was founded by Jasper Osborne at the end of 2024, and in that time they’ve culled nearly 2000 wild deer and donated over 16 thousand kilograms of mince to those in need.
“A lot of farmers are under a lot of stress ... and if they’ve got huge number of deer running around their properties, then that stock, they can’t have, so that’s really profit they can’t have,” Osborne told Jack Tame.
“If we can help them by eliminating some of the issues for them, and also turning it into a food source for the community, then it’s a double win."
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Canterbury residents are battling to save their golf course.
Wolfbrook Properties has bought the 80-hectare site of Pegasus Golf Course and unveiled plans for redevelopment.
Locals —including cricket legend Sir Richard Hadlee— are raising concerns about the scale and speed, particularly if plans go through the fast-track process.
But Kevin Milne thinks more than just the locals should be fighting for the golf course – he reckons the rest of the country should get behind it as well.
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The daughter of Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl has released her debut album.
‘Be Sweet To Me’ is the first album from Violet Grohl, with a sound reminiscent of 1990s alternative rock.
Though it’s primarily rock, the eleven tracks do feature elements of heavy metal, folk, and jazz, Grohl citing the Breeders, PJ Harvey, Pixies, Soundgarden, and Cocteau Twins as her primary influences.
Chris Schulz joined Jack Tame to share his thoughts on the album.
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Whistler by Ann Patchett
When Daphne Fuller and her husband Jonathan visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they notice an older, white-haired gentleman following them. The man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, who had been married to her mother for a little more than year when Daphne was nine. Now fifty-three, Daphne hasn’t seen Eddie for many years, not since the fateful event that changed the direction of both their lives. Meeting again, time falls away; while their relationship was brief, it had a profound impact on them both, and now that they are reunited, they have no intention of ever being separated again.
Whistler is a story about two adults looking back over the choices they made, and the choices that were made for them. It’s a story about bravery, memory, the often small yet consequential moments that define our lives, and the endless stream of loss that in time comes for us all. Beautiful in its simplicity, it is ultimately about how love endures, and how the feeling of being known by one other person, even for a short period of time, can change everything.

The Divorce by Freida McFadden
What is a happily ever after really worth?
Naomi was living the quintessential love story. Boy meets girl. They fall in love, get married, buy a dream house, start a family…
Then―he kicks her out, hires the city’s best divorce lawyers, drains their accounts, and takes up with a 20-something.
It’s a brutal end to the story. Naomi should accept defeat: move into a dingy apartment, get back into the workforce, and piece together the shattered remains of her life.
Except, why should she?
Instead, Naomi fixates on her husband’s new girlfriend. What begins as cynical curiosity soon twists into obsession―and then into something far darker. As Naomi uncovers secrets she never imagined, she realizes her own life may be in danger.
But if it keeps her perfect family intact, isn’t it worth it?

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"What springs to mind when you think of Southern California? Wide-open beaches? Streets lined with palm trees? Surfers, bikers, and rollerbladers mingling about? How about picture-perfect sunsets by the shore? An hour south of LA, Huntington Beach ticks all those boxes with panache. With its all-season sunshine and enormous sandy expanse of Pacific coastline, Huntington Beach sets the stage for a very leisurely layover. Nicknamed Surf City USA, what was once a sleepy surf town is now a hopping vacation hub. It’s a great place to stopover in the greater LA area. It’s the quintessential SoCal beach break and in easy reach to Orange County’s banner attractions, like Disneyland."
Read Mike's full article here.
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