The Waitaki District Council plans a proactive approach to ensuring Alliance Group's Pukeuri meatworks - which contributes about $90 million a year to the local economy - stays.

Kaitangata has a rich history and no museum to show it off, but that is about to change.

The mainstay of ice cream flavours - vanilla - has won the top prize at the 2008 New Zealand Ice Cream Awards.

Martin Vandorp will jump on his motorcycle today and prepare to tick another box on a bitter-sweet list.

From the sisters at the back bobbing along on their mounts, giggling and sipping on Drambuie, to the huntsman with the flared red coat-tails and the hounds with their noses to the wet ground - celebration was in the air for the opening hunt of the Otago Hunt Club's 125th jubilee.