Our lead story is a call out to businesses to consider supporting Tairua Fire Brigade’s raffle by donating prizes or vouchers. The raffle will be run as part of the annual Easter Firefighters’ Market. Inside, our Short & Sweet column this week has 5 snippets - reminders, mainly, of events on the horizon.

Barry's What's Your Score? beet, betel, bite, biter, byte, CELEBRITY, cite, city, elect, erect, liberty, recite, relict, retire, tier, tile, tiler, tire, treble, tree, tribe, tyre (22)