Kaitaia Fire

Two groups of Far North students excelled at the Community Problem Solving Championships in Lexington, Kentucky. Kaitaia Primary School won the junior (9-11) section of the competition with their solution to the regular low-level flooding of their school, while nearby Ahipara Primary came second in the intermediate section with their clean up plan for the badly polluted Wairoa Stream. “They are an amazing bunch of children,” said Kaitaia Primary assistant principal Cherie Duncan. “We are all just so stoked for them and so proud of them.”