Wake up RDC and look around you, the city is already in trouble from loss of trade due to roadworks, unless you want a ghost town on your hands/
JIM ADAMS
Rotorua
Remembering 'Geronimo'
In the early 1970s I played football for Rotorua City with a young lad my age with whom I boarded.
His nickname was "Geronimo", a name he got from one of our opponents from Auckland.
He had long hair and wore a headband. This was the one and only Jimmy Heyder.
Jimmy was a dashing centre forward, arms and legs all over the place.
We played in the era when men were men you only fell over when some big defender kicked you up in the air.
Jimmy was a product of Rotorua Rangers Youth Academy along with Bobby Cunningham and Bert Klomp.
To me Jimmy and the basketball star Steve Adams look very similar at the same age. I do know that Jimmy is related to the well known Bennett family on his mother's side.
Jimmy still has a lot of old mates here in Rotorua from the Post Office and Telecom days.
These were great old days.
CLIVE PHILLIPS
Rotorua
