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Otago Daily Times
20-07-2025
- Sport
- Otago Daily Times
Leaders stay perfect with late winner
Northern continued their 100% league record, winning 10 games on the trot. But they were made to work very hard for their 1-0 victory over a resilient Roslyn Wakari at Ellis Park in the men's Southern Premier League on Saturday. Northern had the majority of possession and attempted to speed up the game early, taking a more direct route. However, Roslyn's defensive pairing of Joe Woods and Angus Mackay dealt with things well. Both teams were cancelling each other out in the first half, being limited to half chances with Northern's Cam McPhail winning a lot of ball and Sam Cosgrove looking dangerous on his attacking forays. Rory Hibbert had the best chance of the first half with a shot from the left-hand edge of the 6-yard box, forcing Roslyn keeper Tom Stevens to save with an outstretched foot. The second half was equally tight with chances at a premium. Roslyn had a chance to take the lead when Jack McFarlane worked his way to the edge of the box and, having a clear sight at goal as well as striker Nathan Wilkie free on his inside, he opted to shoot and put it over the bar. Northern were not ready to give up their 100% record and got the winner in the 83rd minute. With Roslyn's defence stretched, Hibbert found space inside the box and shot from 10 yards, across Stevens into the top left-hand corner. University are in second spot following a 5-0 win away to Old Boys. Mosgiel overcame Queens Park 4-2 at Memorial Park, while the Northern Hearts secured a valuable point in a 2-2 draw with the Dunedin City Royals. In the Women's Southern Premier League Sofia Zame scored a hat-trick and Naomi Jutel added one more for Otago University to beat Northern 4-0 at the Caledonian Ground. Green Island beat Roslyn Wakari 4-2 at Sunnyvale, while Queens Park upset the Dunedin City Royals 2-0 in Invercargill. — Neville Watson
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Travel + Leisure
14-07-2025
- Business
- Travel + Leisure
How a New Wave of Roasters Is Revitalizing Melbourne's Iconic Coffee Scene
In the late 1950s, my great-uncle Alex took a woman named Roslyn on a date to Pellegrini's, a cafe that had opened a few years earlier on Bourke Street in Melbourne. It was touting the latest thing: real Italian coffee made by real Italians. Leo and Vildo Pellegrini had arrived in Australia after the war to find what was, in their eyes, a coffee desert. They imported one of the country's first true espresso machines, a Gaggia—and the city never looked back. In fact, Melbourne had been obsessed with coffee since the 1880s, when the temperance movement led to the construction of 'coffee palaces'—essentially residential hotels that served no alcohol. Some, like the 370-room Federal Coffee Palace, were so fabulous they became tourist attractions. The temperance drive didn't work so well, but the caffeine fixation stuck. On a sunny spring morning in the CBD, or Central Business District, I met Martina Jennings from the tour company This Is Melbourne, who designed for me a bespoke walkabout of coffee shops and cafes. We started at Patricia Coffee Brewers, near the site of the Federal Coffee Palace, which was pulled down, sadly, in the 1970s. This bijou corner space, which opened in 2011 in a former lawyer's chambers, was cool but unintimidating: there were framed newspapers along one wall and delicious-looking pastries on the walnut counter, and the servers wore beautiful leather butcher's aprons. From Left: Morning rush at Patricia Coffee Brewers, Melbourne; Collins Street's Market Lane Coffee. From Left: Ben Clement/Patricia Coffee Brewers; Armelle Habib/Market Lane Coffee The team at Patricia works with niche importers and roasts its beans in-house. The cafe's co-owner, Pip Heath, served me a rich and nutty filter coffee—'you can't hide anything with filter,' he said—made with beans from a small farm in Ecuador. My elegant cream-colored cup, which had an unusually short handle, was made by Sydney-based ceramist Malcolm Greenwood. Persuading him to supply Patricia's wasn't easy. According to Heath, 'He has to stop surfing long enough to make them!' Next came the best iced coffee I've ever tried. It resembled a light, caffeinated Guinness and was served cocktail-style, with a giant ice cube. Jennings and I also visited the Collins Street branch of Market Lane Coffee. In this airy space on the ground floor of a restored Victorian town house, co-owner Fleur Studd recalled falling for great coffee while working in London. She and her business partner Jason Scheltus opened the first Market Lane in one of the city's many farmers' markets in 2009, and began importing green (unroasted) coffee from Africa and South America. Studd values transparency in her supply chain—no simple matter on this side of the globe. Beans from Colombia take four to six weeks to arrive by sea; eight from Rwanda, by a combination of land and sea. Today Market Lane has 10 Melbourne shops, plus a roastery. Studd has remained focused: the shops don't serve food or tea. 'I want customers to connect the farm to the name,' she said firmly. 'If they come in asking for coffee from La Piña, my work is done.' Traveller, a cafe in one of Melbourne's laneways. It was just three minutes' walk to Warkop, a slender cafe founded in 2021 by Barry Susanto and Erwin Chandra, two Indonesians who met 15 years ago, when both had just arrived in Australia. The name is short for Warung Kopi, which means 'coffee stall' in Indonesian, and Susanto and Chandra are aiming to re-create the laid-back feel of the roadside stands of their homeland. 'People can come in wearing their pajamas if they like,' Susanto told me. There is, however, one big difference. The warungs serve instant coffee, but the partners knew that would never work in Melbourne, so they invested in a shiny La Marzocco espresso machine. In a sense, these are the modern Pellegrinis, importing a foreign cafe culture to a receptive city. Some people attribute Melbourne's current coffee fixation to Mark Dundon, a chilled-out guy with a shock of silver hair and a smile as bright as a freshly polished Gaggia. In the early 2000s, he opened his first cafe, St. Ali, where an interest in specialty coffee grew into an obsession with traceable, quality beans, roasted locally. 'Melbourne already had a tradition of demanding good coffee,' he told me, 'but there wasn't a lot of information on provenance back then.' At St. Ali and, later, Brother Baba Budan (both still beloved), he started roasting his own beans; soon, he said, 'everyone was roasting for themselves.' His current company, Seven Seeds, includes a roastery and four cafes. We met at one of them, Traveller, a tiny spot in one of Melbourne's 'laneways,' or narrow pedestrian alleys, around the corner from Parliament House. With only eight seats, it made the others I had visited look like palaces. Dundon co-owns a coffee farm in Honduras. He is still doing his best to serve great coffee, although not at what he sees as the crazy prices that some Melbourne cafes now charge. He is preoccupied with squaring the circle: purveying great, affordable coffee that doesn't stiff the producer. My last stop, just steps from Traveller, was where it all started. That long-ago coffee at Pellegrini's must have been good, because Roslyn became my great-aunt; today, she is 89 and still lives in Melbourne. The high red-vinyl stools at the long bar where she sat with my great-uncle don't work for her any longer. But we found a table outside, drank great coffee, enviously eyed our neighbors' plates of pasta, and soaked in this lively city, still rich with the perfume of great coffees past. A version of this story first appeared in the August 2025 issue of Travel + Leisure under the headline 'Rise and Grind .'
Otago Daily Times
21-05-2025
- Sport
- Otago Daily Times
Royals in 1-0 loss after goal ruled out
After Southern League powerhouses Cashmere Technical and Coastal Spirit dropped points on Friday, the Dunedin City Royals had an opportunity to move up the congested table on Saturday. They came up against Universities of Canterbury away and gave away possession in the middle in the 11th minute. The home side's cross found Pero Forman unmarked in the penalty box to finish — and record a 1-0 victory against the Royals. The Royals thought they had forced an equaliser in the 85th minute only for this to be ruled out and despite eight minutes of time added on the Royals would not be able to find a way through. The loss left the Royals on 10 points and fourth equal. Wānaka made the long trip up to Nelson and thanks to keeper Josh Shackleton's heroics it looked like the Central Otago side would come away with a share of the points. He denied Nelson twice early, but was helpless to stop Lennon Whewell's 29th-minute opener. Shackleton again pulled off a couple of stunning saves early in the second half and Wānaka equalised on the hour mark when Ed Belingher ghosted in unmarked at the far post to score from close range. Heading into injury time, it looked like Wanaka would secure a draw but Whewell beat a couple of defenders and shot across goal to secure a 2-1 win. Frontrunners Christchurch United had a 2-1 win against Cashmere, Ferrymead Bays beat Coastal 3-1 and Nomads United had a 2-1 win against Selwyn United. Men's Southern Premiership In the men's Southern Premiership, University looked to claim their fifth consecutive victory when they went 2-0 up over Roslyn at Ellis Park after only 23 minutes. The students had the better share of possession and led through goals to Blake Allison and former Roslyn player Simba Muwunganirwa. University stretched Roslyn and should have added to their tally but paid for their missed chances. Roslyn were more structured in the second half with some slick touch passing resulting in Hamish Mair being on the end of a cross at 58 minutes. Roslyn's Jack McFarlane found himself in space on the left, dribbled into the box and calmly passed it into the net for the equaliser. McFarlane then turned creator, curling a right-sided free kick into the path of substitute Ben Williams-Davies who scored an 88th-minute goal for a 3-2 win. Northern steamrolled Old Boys 8-1 in Invercargill. Nicholas Brett scored a first-half hat-trick. William Fleming's 29th-minute strike gave Old Boys some hope, but Rory Hibbert also scored a hat-trick and Toby Orchiston a brace to leave Northern top of the table on 15 points. Queens Park and Royals had an entertaining 2-2 draw. The Royals had a halftime lead, following a passage that involved 13 passes. It was crossed into the box and found Charlie Fawcett, who bent his right-footed shot perfectly past the outstretched hand of the keeper into the top corner. Queens Park equalised on the hour mark when Tom Kent's long-range free kick found Rodrigo Schmidt De Camargo in the penalty box. Queens Park took the lead when Anton Fitzgerald planted a far-post header into the back of the net. The Royals claimed a share of the points when skipper George Barker equalised with the 77th-minute penalty. In the battle at Sunnyvale, Mosgiel beat Green Island 2-1. Green Island took a 46th-minute lead through Finley Kruger. The Plainsmen responded when Luke Clissold showed great technique to volley home the equaliser and Mosgiel claimed three points when Patrick Koppert headed home an in-swinging corner on 65 minutes. In the women's South Island league, the Royals thumped Nelson Suburbs 8-0 at Logan Park. Amy Hislop claimed a hat-trick — leading the golden-boot race with a total of eight goals — and Raegan Potter bagged a brace. Hannah Mackay-Wright's goal made it 4-0 at halftime. Toni Power made it 7-0 on 65 minutes and substitute Georgia Kennedy rounded out. Roslyn Wakari moved up the table with a 2-1 victory in Kaiapoi over NW United. Zara Pratley's opener on 15 minutes was cancelled out when NW equalised 10 minutes before the break. However, Catriona Galvin scored the winner on 56 minutes to move Roslyn to fourth. Otago University held on for a 3-2 win against Universities of Canterbury at Logan Park yesterday. By Neville Watson
CBC
06-02-2025
- General
- CBC
Federal funding helping Greater Sudbury address homelessness, add shelter spaces
Social Sharing The federal government is helping the City of Greater Sudbury address homelessness through funding to help with the addition of more shelter spaces and warming centres. Liberal MP for Sudbury, Viviane Lapointe announced that Ottawa is providing $8,457,271 in funding to the city to help the municipality cope with the homelessness crisis. Sudbury has seen the number of unhoused people rise over the past three years. The investment includes $1,532,256 over two years through the Unsheltered Homelessness and Encampments Initiative, which will help support activities under a Community Engagement Response Plan. The plan includes the additional warming centre services at Energy Court and the Samaritan Centre over the winter months that were added at the start of the season. The remainder of the funds, $6,925,015 over four years, is coming through the Reaching Home: Designated Communities fund, which will assist the city in continuing to offer more shelter support. "This funding will directly support community-based efforts to provide warmth, safety, and stability for vulnerable homeless adults and youth," said Lapointe in a statement. "By expanding the capacity of warming centres, outreach services and shelters, we are working to improve the lives of people in our city." A portion of the $6 million investment is going to the Elizabeth Fry Society's Safe Harbour House, a low barrier emergency shelter for adult women and gender-diverse people. The organization, which recently opened a new, larger location on Cedar Street in December, has added 16 more shelter beds to its services for a total of 26. "The need has certainly grown over time," said Cory Roslyn, executive director of the Elizabeth Fry Society. "It didn't take long when we opened Safe Harbour House at our old location in 2021 for those 10 beds to fill up. But since we've been here for just over a month, we're almost full again at 26 beds. And so that really shows us the need that exists in our community and our organization." Safe Harbour House is also expanding its services to include homeless female youth between the ages of 16 and 18, which will help to fill a gap in youth services left behind with last year's closure of the Sudbury Action Centre for Youth (SACY). "It is a real shame that SACY had to close and that gap was created," said Roslyn. "So really, what we're doing is just responding to that need. And girls 16, 17, 18-years-old really are probably the most vulnerable group that we work with at Elizabeth Fry. And so it was important to us to be able to expand and offer that safety for them." Roslyn added that despite additional shelter and transitional housing spaces being added in the city, what is really needed is more permanent, affordable housing to solve the housing and homelessness crises. That's something the city is working on as it continues to try and reach its goal of ending homelessness by 2030, according to Greater Sudbury Mayor Paul Lefebvre. He says the city is in a better position now than it was 18 months ago. "I think we're in a better spot. That being said, the challenge remains and sometimes it's trying to find apartments for our most vulnerable," said Lefebvre.
