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Public Hours: 8.00am to 5.00pm Member Hours: 6.00am to 9.00pm Friday's Timetable at the Centre Landfill Collections and Recycling Hours for Friday. The Wairoa Landfall will be open to the Public from 11.00am until 5.00pm today if you wish to dispose your household rubbish or green vegetation. The Kotemaori, Mohaka & Raupunga Districts are reminded to put out their Refuse today for their weekly roadside rural collection. Write Price Food Barn advise they will be open late tonight from 8.00am to 8.00pm, for those wishing to stock up on stores. If you are a visitor to Wairoa you can find our local supermarket in Clyde Court, corner of Queen Street and Paul Street.  Duty Doctor: For visitors to Wairoa and after 5-00pm, Phone 838 7099. Local Chemists:
Wairoa Hospital: Kitchener Street. Visiting Hours 2.00pm - 7.00pm Phone 838 7099 Wairoa Ambulance Service: Kitchener Street. 24 Hour Service. Phone 111. Wairoa Police: Wairoa Police Station, Queen Street. Station Phone: 838 8345. Tuai Police: Tuai Police Station, 63 Hill Street, Waikaremoana. Station Phone: 837 3824. Nuhaka Police: Nuhaka Police Station, 3215 SH 2, Nuhaka. Station Phone: 837 8800. Kotemaori Police: Kotemaori Police Station, SH 2, Kotemaori. Station Phone: 837 6885. Duty Dentist: Dental Health Wairoa, Locke Street 8.30am - 5.00pm 838 7144. After hours: 838 7144. All Emergencies & Civil Defence: 24 Hour Contact, Phone: 838 7309. Wairoa Fire Service: Queen Street, Wairoa. Phone: 838 7755 Nuhaka Fire Service: Ringawhero Street, Nuhaka. Phone: 837 8799 Emergency Vet: Coast Vet, Napier Road, 24 Hour Contact: Phone: 838 4053.
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NB: Before installing any new software it is always tidier and safer to uninstall your old programs using Add/Remove found in Control Panel.
AVG Anti Virus Free Edition 2012 for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7:The free edition of AVG 2012 has now been released. Click on the link and download from Download.com. When asked, select "Save to", and save it to your Desktop or remember where you have saved it for later installation. Full installation instructions may be printed out from the AVG 2012 Installation Page to help you. Also print out AVG 2012 Maintenance for instructions on Updating and Scanning. Avast 4.8 Anti Virus for Windows 98, Windows 98SE and Windows ME: For those of you still running Windows 98 or ME, AVG no longer supports these Operating Systems. Avast does and may be downloaded from Download.com. Save it to your Desktop. Once downloaded click on the icon on your desktop to install it. When asked if you wish to do a scan on each computer start, select no. Full Instructions and registration details can be printed from the main menu. Spybot 1.6.2: For those of you running Spybot check your version. Version 1.6.2 is the latest and can be downloaded from Spybot.com. Save to Desktop and run installation. I suggest you untick all boxes when asked as they are unnecessary. Once installed run Spybot as usual and dont forget to update it by selecting "Search For Updates". Full instructions are on our Menu on the left. Ad-Aware 9.0: For those of you running Ad-Aware you can download Version 8 from Download.com also. If you do have an older version of Ad-aware our advice here is to replace it with Spybot 1.6.2. Our "in Workshop" testing suggests Spybot executes a better thorough scan and detection of spyware, malware, adware etc. This latest free version has too many features now disabled trying to force Users into purchasing the Pro version. Uninstall Ad-aware first in Control Panel - Add/Remove, before installing Spybot. Microsoft Windows Updates: To manually update Microsoft products you must use Microsoft Internet Explorer. It is important to download and install all Security Upgrades and Patches on a regular bases. Most of you will have 'Automatic Updates' turned on and hence Windows will do this for you. But it does no harm checking from time to time. I advise against updating any of the Drivers offered and also any Microsoft Office Updates. We have seen too many computers come through our workshop from these updates totally paralysed :) You may check for updates at the Microsoft Update Centre. Instructions to assist here are on the bottom of the menu Windows Updates. 
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 1.5.2:Malwarebytes is an excellent piece of software which removes malware and spyware. Use in conjunction with AVG and Spybot. Malwarebytes may be downloaded from Download.com. Save it to your Desktop. Once downloaded click on the icon on your desktop to install it. Full Instructions can be printed from the main menu. Windows Defender 1.1 Microsoft's Windows Defender is included with all versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7. If you are running Windows XP with Service Pack 2, download is free from Microsoft or from Download Com. Windows Defender is software that helps protect your computer against pop-ups, slow performance, and security threats caused by spyware and other unwanted software by detecting and removing known spyware from your computer. Although Defender is already installed on Vista and Windows 7, we feel Malwarebytes is the better of the two and hence advise installing this as well. This Day in History
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