YARMOUTH - The Sturgis West boys tennis team will have to wait another season for a chance at the Elite Eight The Navigators fell in the Round of 16 for a third consecutive season as they were swept 5-0 by last year’s semifinalists No 9 Cohasset on Monday in the MIAA Division 4 state tournament Cohasset jumped out to strong starts across all five matches and dropped six games combined through the first sets Sturgis doubles pair of senior Colby Hall and junior Robert Muhov fought hard but Cohasset's Max Crews won the first set 6-4 The pair played out the closest match by score 6-7 (5-7) and then 10-8 in an abbreviated third set tiebreaker that was decided with a competitive ferocity long after Sturgis’ fate had been sealed This match outlasted every other match by more than half an hour “Even with a loss that was the best way to go out,” said Hall drew one of the toughest assignments in senior Charlie Lankow considered one of the top players in the state but hung in each point with the two opponents putting on a high-level display of tennis “Playing against really good opponents is obviously going to make me raise my level and it’s going to force me to play better,” Zhang said Senior Ben Bass and freshman George Foster both lost their singles matches to senior Will Wildfire and junior Eamon Maxwell respectively 2 singles match secured Cohasset’s passage into the next round The three games won by Bass was two more than Wildfire’s first-round opponent they’re a solid team all the way through,” Sturgis head coach Ken Huckins said Sturgis ended their season with a 10-2 overall record The bright skies and sunshine that hung over the defeat Sturgis will lose just two seniors from their 2024 roster Sturgis had four underclassmen in their seven-man starting line-up 1 singles player and freshmen Foster and Kieran Murphy “I hope it means that we’re going to be pretty good going forward,” Zhang said with a smile was pitted against the hard-hitting Maxwell and left the court with postseason experience and the desire to get better in the offseason “I’m happy with the experience I’ve gotten this season – you win some and you lose some and that just how it works,” Foster began “I’m going to practice and hopefully come back a stronger player.” received a text the morning of the match saying he would be playing after Hall’s regular doubles partner Francisco Garcia Raya came down with an illness Murphy partnered with sophomore Thomas Nutbrown in second doubles and despite being blanked in a quick first set the two responded with resolve before Cohasset ultimately prevailed 6-0 6-3 in a tighter second set to senior Tyler Henry and Blaine Basile Sturgis is coming off two-straight seasons ranked inside the top 10 of the state tournament and I hope they bring that attitude next year,” Huckins said it’s time to wash the shirt they wore and be ready to go again when spring rolls around next year Allen Gunn is a high school sports reporter for the Cape Cod Times You can contact him at allen.t.gunn@gmail.com and follow him on X at @allentgunn Metrics details Oscillatory activity is commonly observed during the maintenance of information in short-term memory Non-oscillatory models of short-term memory storage are able to encode stimulus identity through their spatial patterns of activity but are typically limited to either an all-or-none representation of stimulus amplitude or exhibit a biologically implausible exact-tuning condition Here we demonstrate a simple mechanism by which oscillatory input enables a circuit to generate persistent or sequential activity that encodes information not only in the spatial pattern of activity This is accomplished through a phase-locking phenomenon that permits many different amplitudes of persistent activity to be stored without requiring exact tuning of model parameters this work proposes a class of models for the storage of information in working memory and a dynamical mechanism for maintaining multi-stable neural representations limiting storage about a given item to a single bit (“on” or “off”) of information we demonstrate a potential mechanistic role for oscillations by showing how the addition of oscillatory inputs to simple recurrent feedback circuits can enable both low firing rate persistent activity and a discretely graded set of persistent firing rates that increases the information capacity of a memory network a Simplified model illustrating key features of positive feedback models In the absence of external input (\({{{{{{\rm{external}}}}}}\; {{{{{\rm{input}}}}}}}=0\)) changes in the firing activity \(r(t)\) of a population are determined by the relative balance of network feedback (black \(f(r)\)) and neuronal decay processes (gray c Nonlinear models typically exhibit a “low firing rate problem” b During the memory period when external input is absent the intersections of the decay (gray) and network feedback (black) functions are such that there are no stable fixed points (solid circles) within the range of firing rates typically observed during persistent neural activity c Firing rates below the unstable fixed point (b whereas firing rates above the unstable fixed point run off to unrealistically high rates (red e Linear models exhibit the “fine tuning problem”: minute changes in the strength of feedback (red: +5% orange: −5%) relative to the tuned value (blue) result in unstable growth (red) or decay (orange) c Schematic of conductance-based neuron with the addition of an oscillatory input d–f Maintenance of discretely graded persistent activity levels enabled by oscillatory input Phase-locking to the oscillatory input creates stable fixed points at integer multiples of the oscillation frequency There is a trade-off between the number of firing rates that can be maintained and the robustness of these fixed points which is related to the spacing between the fixed points d Lower frequency oscillations enable a larger number of closely spaced fixed points f Higher frequency oscillations lead to fewer d–f) are computed by smoothing the spike trains using an exponential filter with time constant equal to the model’s synaptic time constant (150 ms) There are several key requirements for this mechanism to enable discretely graded persistent activity. First, the oscillation must be sufficiently strong. For very small oscillatory input amplitudes, the system resembles the case with no oscillatory input of Fig. 2b in which external input is either too weak to cause sustained spiking so that activity returns quickly to the lower or is strong enough to trigger spiking but then runs off to the very high upper fixed point To maintain discretely graded persistent activity in the recurrently connected network the oscillation must be high enough at its peak to annihilate the no-spiking fixed point and cause spiking and low enough at its trough to annihilate the upper fixed point and terminate spiking in each cycle for a network of many neurons that receive oscillatory input with heterogeneous phases and therefore fire at staggered times the synaptic time constant can be smaller and the time between cycles may be bridged by the firing of other neurons in the network a Model schematic as in Fig. 2c b A small input perturbation (+ or − pulse) causes a transient phase shift (red phase delay) during the supra-threshold portion of the oscillatory cycle that is subsequently reset during the sub-threshold portion of the cycle Simulation shown for the conductance-based autapse model depicted in (a) c Simulations with synaptic feedback activation held constant at two different levels (cyan and magenta points) the corresponding voltage traces have the same number of spikes per cycle f Discretely graded spiking activity of a leaky integrate and fire neuron receiving an oscillatory input and a synaptic feedback input held constant For two less close-together levels (cyan and magenta points) the voltage traces exhibit an equal number of spikes per cycle of the oscillatory input Detuning the recurrent feedback strength by 5% (orange and red traces) causes spiking activity to decay to 0 (orange decreased feedback strength) or run off to high rates (red d Small weight changes cause systematic loss of fixed points in the traditional model Asymmetric connectivity underlies slow drift of activity bumps b Illustration of low-rate problem in a sequential-activity network of conductance-based spiking neurons without oscillatory input Drifting bumps of activity in the network initiated by short (100 ms) pulses (labeled by colored bars) exhibit only a single level of activity c Sequential-activity network with oscillatory input is able to maintain drifting bumps with discretely graded levels of activity due to not being able to average out noise across neurons the network still approximately maintained its level of persistent activity for multiple seconds the first spatial memory network to encode multi-level activity without requiring an exact tuning condition the oscillatory sequential memory network could encode multiple discretized stimulus levels or pool across multiple discretized representations to obtain higher resolution readouts population-wide recordings will hopefully make possible future experimental studies that can test the theoretical principle proposed in this work we demonstrate a complementary mechanism for forming multi-stable representations that relies on temporal this work suggests that the oscillatory activity commonly observed during working memory tasks may expand short-term memory capacity by enabling multi-level storage of information in persistent or sequential activity we show the equations for the dynamical variables most relevant to the maintenance of discretely graded persistent activity and modifications of the equations below to include input noise or more complex forms of oscillatory inputs with heterogeneous phases or time-varying amplitudes and frequencies across neurons are included in the Supplementary Information The membrane potential of the Wang-Buzsaki neuron obeys the current balance equation: we used the time of the peak of the action potential with only action potentials exceeding a voltage of 0 mV included Integration was performed numerically using the fourth order Runge-Kutta method with a time step ∆t = 10−2 ms the additive noise was given independently by: where \({\sigma }_{n}\) is the amplitude of the noise For the ring connectivity structure in Fig. 7 the connection strength from neuron \(j\) to neuron \(i\) is described by: The directed structure illustrated in Fig. 8 resembles the ring structure but results in a drift of the “activity bump” in one direction The connection strength from neuron j to neuron i in this case is defined by: where \(H\) is the Heaviside (step) function and C controls the spatial extent of the connectivity In Fig. 4 we use an integrate-and-fire model whose membrane potential (V) dynamics are given by: and \({I}_{{ext}}\left(t\right)\) represents an external input We used a spike threshold of −59.9 \({{{{{{\rm{mV}}}}}}}\) and voltage reset of −68 \({{{{{{\rm{mV}}}}}}}\); we did not enforce a refractory period Further information on research design is available in the Nature Portfolio Reporting Summary linked to this article Synaptic reverberation underlying mnemonic persistent activity Persistent neural activity: prevalence and mechanisms Mechanisms of persistent activity in cortical circuits: possible neural substrates for working memory Basic mechanisms for graded persistent activity: discrete attractors In Encyclopedia of Neuroscience 165–178 (ed Synaptic basis of cortical persistent activity: the importance of NMDA receptors to working memory Working memory and neural oscillations: alpha–gamma versus theta–gamma codes for distinct WM information Neurophysiological and computational principles of cortical rhythms in cognition Are Different rhythms good for different functions Neuronal mechanisms and attentional modulation of corticothalamic alpha oscillations Storage of 7 +/− 2 short-term memories in oscillatory subcycles Neuronal assembly dynamics in the Beta1 frequency range permits short-term memory Dynamic predictions: oscillations and synchrony in top–down processing Flexible information routing by transient synchrony Causal evidence for a role of theta and alpha oscillations in the control of working memory Oscillatory activity in the monkey hippocampus during visual exploration and memory formation Saccades during visual exploration align hippocampal 3–8 Hz rhythms in human and non-human primates Oscillations in working memory and neural binding: a mechanism for multiple memories and their interactions Gamma oscillations mediate stimulus competition and attentional selection in a cortical network model Flexible frequency control of cortical oscillations enables computations required for working memory Stimulus load and oscillatory activity in higher cortex Theta rhythm and the encoding and retrieval of space and time Prefrontal oscillations modulate the propagation of neuronal activity required for working memory Gamma and beta bursts underlie working memory Neural oscillations as a signature of efficient coding in the presence of synaptic delays Synaptic mechanisms and network dynamics underlying spatial working memory in a cortical network model Gamma oscillation by synaptic inhibition in a hippocampal interneuronal network model Spatiotemporally graded NMDA spike/plateau potentials in basal dendrites of neocortical pyramidal neurons Rate models for conductance-based cortical neuronal networks The autapse: a simple illustration of short-term analog memory storage by tuned synaptic feedback Balanced cortical microcircuitry for spatial working memory based on corrective feedback control A dynamic neural field model of continuous input integration Internally generated cell assembly sequences in the rat hippocampus Hippocampal “Time Cells” bridge the gap in memory for discontiguous events Choice-specific sequences in parietal cortex during a virtual-navigation decision task Supramodal parametric working memory processing in humans Distinct effects of prefrontal and parietal cortex inactivations on an accumulation of evidence task in the rat Robust persistent neural activity in a model integrator with multiple hysteretic dendrites per neuron Lankow, B. S., Champion, K. P., Gozel, O., Ermentrout, G. B. & Goldman, M. S. Goldman-Lab/Championetal2023.Jl: Championetal2023.Jl, Zenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8170156 (2023) Download references We thank Steve Luck for helpful comments on the manuscript and the 2016 Methods in Computational Neuroscience course (supported by NIH grant R25 MH062204 and the Simons Foundation) at the Marine Biological Laboratory This work was supported by NIH grants R01EY027036 and U19NS104648 (M.S.G.) NSF Graduate Research Fellowship DGE-1256082 (K.P.C.) 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Copyright © 2025 Central Pennsylvania Newspapers LLC | https://www.altoonamirror.com | 301 Cayuga Ave. The Arizona Wildcats stomped the UCLA Bruins 48-12 in a game marred by a brawl and interrupted by a fake ref / streaker Prior to a bench-clearing brawl between the Arizona Wildcats and the UCLA Bruins a streaker ran onto the field in Arizona Stadium in Tucson Arizona Wildcats wide receiver Juron Criner hauled in a catch over the helmet of UCLA Bruins defensive back Aaron Hester The Arizona Stadium seems pretty empty before kickoff for the Wildcats game against the UCLA Bruins in Tim Kish's first game as head coach Junior safety Adam Hall is likely out for the season Leaders of the class were Class President Leila Omran and Valedictorians Laila Al Rashid and Charlie Lankow As we all wake up today and battle demons and hangovers let's all take a minute and reflect on the Pac-12 When the final whistle blew on Oregon-Washington Friday night not only did Bo Nix's 15-year run in college football (probably) end you can tell your kids and grandkids one day "about this one league called the Pac-12." It'll be a history book question question all the nerds will certainly get wrong We'll watch old USC-UCLA tapes and think to ourselves I miss the Pac-12 after dark.' What did Andy Bernard once say "I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them." He's right. We took a bunch of dumps on that Pac-12 over the years The internet -- lucky for us -- lives forever several college football fans were on Elon's Twitter reminiscing about that beautiful conference and one moment in particular went viral for all the right reasons When you tell your kids about something called the Pac-12 years from now Everything about this moment is what makes college football the greatest This little moment took place way back in 2011 He goes by Jacen Lankow -- an Arizona alum who is a household name in Tucson From a nifty little site called Tucson.com, which chronicled the event in real time: With four seconds left before halftime and the Wildcats leading 42-7 Lankow — a UA senior — ran onto the field dressed as a game official ball,” attempted to grab the football from the umpire — and then bolted from midfield to the north end zone while simultaneously ripping his costume off to reveal a Speedo This was a Halloween prank from the then-senior He bought a ref outfit from the costume store across the street He counterfeited an all-access field pass using Microsoft Paint.  Lankow walked towards the field right at the end of the first half pulled out a fake flip-phone as he was walking by security I’ll come by and bring the Gatorade right now.’ that's what the crooks at the NCAA (and ESPN!) just took from us You are agreeing to OutKick's Terms of Use and Privacy Policy DISCLAIMER: This site is 100% for entertainment purposes only and does not involve real money betting. 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If you or someone you know has a gambling problem and wants help, call 1-800-GAMBLER University of Arizona student Jacen Lankow is taken down by law enforcement officers as he makes his way down the field just before halftime during the Oct (This story was originally written in 2021) … I can’t believe it’s already been a decade or a friend of a friend will recognize me and say aren’t you that guy that did this?’ It’s still pretty funny even after 10 years.” a University of Arizona graduate who is most famous for a prank he pulled during an 2011 game between the UA and UCLA at Arizona Stadium Lankow — a UA senior at the time — ran onto the field dressed as a game official ball,” attempted to grab the football from the umpire — and then bolted from midfield to the north end zone while simultaneously ripping his costume off to reveal a Speedo His Twitter handle — @WhoIsJacen — was written on his torso Lankow was tackled by a Pima County Sheriff’s deputy and escorted out by UAPD officers Then things really got weird: The Arizona and UCLA benches cleared and a fight broke out between players “I just wanted to do something memorable for my senior year mostly for myself and just to have a story to tell,” said Lankow this idea came about and it sort of developed from there.” Lankow and a few UA players reflected on one of the most bizarre sequences to ever happen at Arizona Stadium: Lankow used the Halloween season as part of his plan; he visited different thrift stores across Tucson to find a referee costume and “tailored it as close to the real thing as possible.” Lankow purchased a phony flip-phone (for reasons that will be revealed later) and counterfeited an all-access field pass using Microsoft Paint Lankow hid his referee’s costume underneath a navy blue UA polo He taped the legs of his black pants underneath his shorts Lankow then entered Arizona Stadium as a Zona Zoo member because everyone in Zona Zoo is close to the center and I was just sitting there in the back corner with my brother and my friend … with this focus on my face,” Lankow said ‘Am I actually going to do this?’ My friend Elizabeth was a little freaked out and said I do.’ What made me follow through with it is I made sure to tell as many people as I could beforehand Lankow made his way toward the field during the second quarter of what was already a UA blowout Lankow took the flip phone out of his shorts and pressed it to his ear I’ll come by and bring the Gatorade right now,’” he said “I go down the ramp and once I’m on the field I’m just stunned that I’ve made it this far and as I’m walking to the players my friends sitting in the first row are going nuts and start cheering,” Lankow said I was really happy that I got onto the field Lankow set up behind Arizona’s sideline and in front of the Zona Zoo the more he questioned the timing of his stunt “It was about to be halftime and I didn’t know if I should do it in the second half and go with the players into the locker room go with the trainers wherever they go or retreat to ZonaZoo,” he said Lankow didn’t want to run onto the field while the UA was on offense because he didn’t want to disrupt any rhythm for the Wildcats Wildcats quarterback Nick Foles was well on his way to a 291-yard passing performance Wide receivers Gino Crump and Juron Criner finished with more than 100 yards UCLA had the ball with four seconds left before halftime Lankow got into costume behind Arizona’s bench snaked his way through the players and coaches in front of him “I gathered my thoughts and had the courage to run out onto the field It was pretty surreal and almost like an out-of-body experience,” Lankow said His shorts weren’t fully untaped when he ran onto the field ‘I’ve never seen a ref wear capris,” he said Lankow was escorted from the stadium moments later A UAPD officer walked him past the mariachi performers and Folklorico dancers who were set to perform for National Hispanic Heritage Month “As I’m walking down the line of 50 people I don’t think one person had a smile on their face,” Lankow said ‘Why is this bozo in a Speedo interrupting the game?’” Lankow was initially hit with a felony charge for criminal impersonation Seconds after Lankow was pummeled to the ground by a Pima County Sheriff’s deputy who was rehabbing an ACL injury at the time We’re going to have a fight and we’re gonna have suspensions.’ … Next thing I know I see one of their reserve offensive linemen — and the guy is 6-6 300 pounds — … starts running after me trying to hit me with a helmet “most vividly remembers (UCLA defensive end) Cassius Marsh chasing me with his helmet.” “We were blowing them out and they were in their feelings about it that’s why the fight started,” Richardson said The Wildcats went on to win the game 48-12 Interim coach Tim Kish would lose his next three games before finishing with wins over Arizona State and Louisiana-Lafayette were suspended for their roles in the brawl regardless of suspensions or people missing games,” said Fischer which we’re always going to be happy about.” The morning after Lankow’s overnight stay with UAPD he was picked up by a friend who handed him her phone with Facebook opened “Every single post was about the game and me running on the field,” Lankow said “That’s when I realized my stunt actually blew up.” ESPN’s “SportsCenter,” “Pardon the Interruption” and “Around the Horn” talked about the prank “It was cool to be featured on shows I watch regularly,” he said Worried that the prank might derail his graduation He was assigned four hours of community service at the UA — one hour for every second that remained on the clock before halftime the UA hired Lankow as a wildlife biologist He said his prank was never brought up during the interview process “I don’t even know if my immediate supervisor knows about this but maybe I’ll have to bring it up and ask him,” he said Lankow says he has “no regrets at all” a decade later it’s a solid ice-breaker at cocktail parties The first time Lankow met his girlfriend’s parents “It comes up whenever I’m asked what’s the craziest thing I’ve done,” he said “It’s a fun thing to show the video and tell the story.” Contact sports producer Justin Spears at 573-4312 or jspears@tucson.com Respond: Write a letter to the editor | Write a guest opinion Five storylines for Arizona's "white out" showdown with 19th-ranked UCLA in Tucson on Saturday night Following back-to-back wins over ranked opponents can the Arizona Wildcats make it three straight with a win over UCLA — and qualify for a bo… Everything to know about Arizona's "white out" showdown with No Michael Lev and Justin Spears make their picks for Week 10 in Pac-12 play including the Arizona Wildcats' ma… Jedd Fisch said Noah Fifita and Jayden de Laura "are both sitting in a spot where they're both preparing like the starter every single week Arizona safety Gunner Maldonado's "football IQ is unbelievable" and "he's our quarterback back there directing traffic and making sure we're … The Star's Justin Spears and Michael Lev return for another episode to break down Arizona's big-time — and balanced — win over No 11 Oregon State was "probably one of the best overall team games" the Wildcats played this season Five memorable games played between the Arizona Wildcats and UCLA Bruins in Tucson UCLA apparently doesn't want Arizona to participate in the "white out" on Saturday SCITUATE – Jen Palmer would have never guessed that a deck of cards and a YouTube video would turn into such a massive hobby for her 12-year-old son Charlie Lankow Two years after he first started dabbling in card and coin tricks the Cohasset sixth grader performed his first official show at Scituate Town Library on Wednesday afternoon “He’s not shy and he’s a very confident kid,” Palmer said “He’ll say ‘I’m going to do a trick for her’ at Shaw’s or in ice cream stores so he was definitely eager for a new audience.” The audience was just as eager to see his talents on display and a dozen kids in the library’s children’s room were transfixed on his slight of hand “How can you do that?” 5-year-old Tommy Chisholm asked after a particularly impressive trick “It’s just magic,” Lankow replied with a wink He performed for the group for about half an hour and displayed a dozen card tricks and a few using coins “He’s very talented and very entertaining,” Saurabh Gupta who brought his daughters 3-year-old Nina and 5-year-old Maya “It’s a great activity for the winter break it’s past their nap time but they want to stay for one more trick.” said she met “Charlie the Amazing Ace” at a library club meeting A streaker diverted attention from the UA vs The UA was leading 42-7 with 4 seconds remaining in the fi… Geoff Lankow installing new playground equipment in Featherston in 2007 Whanganui has lost its most successful male road cyclist with the death of Geoff Lankow in the Wairarapa Terence Geoffrey Lankow died on Thursday in Wharekaka Lankow won the New Zealand elite men's road cycling championship in Mosgiel in the 1965-66 season a period when the country possessed some fine riders including champions Warwick Dalton The Whanganui rider was one of earliest multiple time winners of the Auckland-Wellington six-day tour claiming the title in 1955 and 1957 when it was sponsored by Wisemans The tour later became the Dulux race with a number of top local riders competing over the years was always a super fit rider who won races tours and centre titles all around the country and had been a very strong contender to join Warwick Dalton for inclusion in the New Zealand team for the Rome Olympic Games in 1960 He made sizable breaks on the field in the hilly stages between Waikato and New Plymouth to win his two North Island six-day tour titles After moving to the Wellington area and riding with success Lankow settled in Martinborough in 2000 and became a prominent Wairarapa age grade rider and race organiser His all-ages fun rides raised more than $200,000 for the Volunteer Fire Brigade and Wairarapa Order of St He competed successfully in a number of New Zealand Masters Games age grade road races and time trials and held several national age grade records including a NZ 40km time trial record on the Gladstone course in the Wairarapa in 1993 Lankow was a talented all-round sportsman including at tennis in which he competed at the NZ Masters Games in Whanganui A private cremation service with family was held in Masterton and prominent Whanganui cycling official Ron Cheatley will speak at Geoff's memorial service in Martinborough this Wednesday brother and sister-in-law Jim and Sue Upston and his nephews and nieces Tim and Gabrielle Upston .st1{fill-rule:evenodd;clip-rule:evenodd;fill:#2a2a2a}By The Associated PressWALNUT CREEK -- The Pac-12 Conference suspended 10 players Friday for their involvement in a fight that occurred during the first half of the UCLA-Arizona football game Thursday night "The Conference is extremely disappointed in the actions of the student-athletes involved in this incident," Commissioner Larry Scott said in a statement "It is unacceptable behavior and violated Conference rules "I have taken these actions today because it is imperative that we hold our student-athletes and coaches to the highest standards of sportsmanship." Bruins wide receiver Taylor Embree and Arizona cornerback Shaquille Richardson were penalized by game officials for unsportsmanlike conduct and ejected from the contest for fighting with 4 seconds left in the first half They both will have to sit out an additional game UCLA defensive tackle Cassius Marsh was given a two-game ban while receivers Randall Carroll Guard Alberto Cid will have to sit for a half Arizona nickleback Jourdan Grandon will miss a game while cornerback Lyle Brown and safety Mark Watley each will sit a half The suspensions will occur during each school's next scheduled game while Arizona's next game is at Washington that day The fight started when a streaker ran onto the field and three players from each team started jawing at each other Shoves followed and players from both teams raced onto the field pushing each other and throwing wild punches in a melee that spread nearly 60 yards across the field Several players had to be restrained by coaches before officials got everyone back to their respective sidelines Arizona led 42-7 at the time and won 48-12 Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement, (updated 8/1/2024) and acknowledgement of our Privacy Policy, and Your Privacy Choices and Rights (updated 1/1/2025) © 2025 Advance Local Media LLC. All rights reserved (About Us) The material on this site may not be reproduced except with the prior written permission of Advance Local Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site YouTube's privacy policy is available here and YouTube's terms of service is available here Ad Choices NEARLY THERE: The new St John shop opens in Ingestre St today PHOTO/ANNE-MARIE MACDONALD 141114WCSP-DSCF2093 St John has a new fundraising venture in Wanganui - a second-hand shop which is opening this weekend The local branch of St John is opening the shop at 155 Ingestre St said it would help to fund vital St John services in Wanganui including emergency ambulance services and community programmes such as health shuttles "We've been thinking about this for a while The shop is based on a very successful model which has operated in other North and South Island locations for many years," Mrs Lankow said She said local businesses had rallied behind the venture with donations of goods for sale shop fittings and resources for staff and volunteers "We are humbled by the support we've received from local businesses GDM Retail Systems and Land Meat NZ Ltd," she said Mrs Lankow said the shop is looking for a manager a position which is temporarily held by her If you would like to volunteer at the shop or have quality second-hand goods to donate please call in to the shop at 155 Ingestre St Low temperatures are forecast to temporarily return to double digits this week Demand for homekill meat across the country is increasing with businesses putting it down to the rising cost of food rules around homekill are pushing people to look at hobby farming Waikato homekill service Wally Smith reported its business was up 30 percent compared to this time last year Wally Smith's Barbara Lankow believes the cost of meat at supermarkets has forced customers to look for alternative options despite having to up their own prices due to inflation "We were a bit worried with all the price increases that everyone would go away from it but we seem to be getting a little bit more now that the price is so dear in the supermarket," Lankow said "We found that even with our prices being up Homekill is the slaughtering and butchering of farmed animals for your own use and consumption It can be done by the person who owns the animal it is illegal to sell or trade homekill meat a person must own the animal for a total of 28 days before it is butchered by a homekill service farmworkers and their direct family able to consume the end product Lankow said while hunting for deer and pigs is also an option many are finding ways to ensure they have their own quality meat for reasonable pricing "A lot of farmers are giving a lot more to their brothers and sisters and family But I think a lot of people will most probably be looking at buying animals and trying to graze them somewhere and do it that way." She said the price to do this with a beast once you have included the cost of the homekill "I've noticed a lot of people are trying to buy sheep - because sheep are normally about that $180-$200 … then you're cutting up on top of that so I'm getting a lot of people ringing up and trying to find them." Other businesses spoken to by RNZ also said demand had increased - one saying the increase started before Christmas and had not slowed down The owner of the business - who chose not to be named - said she had been flat-out believing it to be a direct result of the cost of meat in supermarkets Home kill butchers have noticed an increase in people growing their own meat Southland Butcher Craig Hamilton is spending more time on the road than you'd expect for a man in white gumboots A spike in prosecutions for illegal homekill has prompted officials to warn people not to sell homekill on social media A large illegal home kill operation has been uncovered in Auckland by the Ministry for Primary Industries Two Auckland butcheries have taken out the top spots in this year's 100% New Zealand Bacon & Ham Awards Country RSS Follow RNZ News