The Eastbourne Herald September 2019

New faces fight vie a place around the council table

by Louise Parry

Nineteen candidates are vying for six citywide seats in our local election.

Last week’s candidates’ meeting was dominated by those seeking these spots, with an impressive lineup of new and younger people putting their names forward to represent Hutt City residents around the council table and on the Eastbourne Community Board.

The evening kicked off with each of the three mayoral candidates present outlining their intentions; a difficult task in just five minutes.

Main challenger Campbell Barry spoke about the need to improve transport and infrastructure, and to look after the environment.

He said the council had been wrongly focussed on the “big end of town” and had given $29m in rates remissions and fee waivers to property developers, along with a $4m subsidy to a hotel in central Lower Hutt which is yet to be built, two years after it was due to be finished.

A two-term councillor, Barry said the council needed to work with NZTA to secure funding for the rest of the Eastern Bays shared path. He supported the Cross Valley Link Road.

He said the shared path had become a political issue in the campaign, and denied accusations by Phil Sprey that he knew about funding being withdrawn before that announcement was made public.

“I heard it from the newspaper,” he told the meeting. "The mayor was sent this information 6-7 weeks ago. The only person he spoke to was Phil Sprey – that’s an insult to everyone in this community.”

Following the meeting, Barry told The Eastbourne Herald he has had enough of false accusations, and that Ray Wallace had "sat on"

a letter from NZTA about the funding change since August 12. It was publicly announced by HCC on September 10.

"The bigger question is, what budget does council have for the rest of the path - there's a funding shortfall on council's side," Barry says.

Mayoral contender David Smith said climate change was a major concern, and seawalls, waterborne taxis, all-terrain vehicles, and moveable houses and buildings should be considered to deal with the rising sea level.

He supported the Cross Valley Link, and proposed a sustainability subsidy.

Ray Wallace said under his leadership the

city had had “the biggest rejuvenation in this city’s history”.

He said the council had maintained the lowest rates increases in the region, and that he was confident the pathway would get built, but that Melling was the first priority.

He denied the $4m was a subsidy to the hotel developer, and said it was paid to the developer so council had control over the site of the hotel, and the money would be paid back once it was built.

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Young and hungry: This year's election has a crop of new and young potential councillors standing. Back: Joshua Joshua Peauafi, Simon Monrad, Gabriel Tupou, Brady Dyer, Josh Briggs and front Karen Yung and Campbell Barry.

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Hutt City Council is giving a one-off grant of $30,000 to help Wellington City Mission set up transitional housing in Lower Hutt for homeless people. HCC recently began funding services to assist homeless families and individuals into settled private rental accommodation, providing advocacy and support, and preventing those at risk from losing their tenancies from becoming homeless. The grant will assist Wellington City Mission establish transitional housing for up to 19 people, initially available to single men. The service includes social support for clients and assistance into settled accommodation. The service will run out of Britannia House in Petone, which was recently purchased by Council Controlled Organisation Urban Plus Ltd and leased to Wellington City Mission for

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Eastbourne's playgrounds, swimming pool, parks, sports grounds, bus shelters, beaches, outdoor dining areas, council-run and sponsored events, and outside the Eastbourne Library have all been declared smoke free, as part of the council's smokefree policy.

Eastbourne local Zoe Lovell-Smith was part of a winning design team from Massey University with an electric cargo trike, designed to address environmental issues, efficient package delivery and couriers' safety. The young designers will receive $3500 and will now progress to the international stage of the James Dyson Award, with the hope of winning up to $55,000 plus $9000 for their university.

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Next ECB Meeting

To be decided after election of new ECB East Harbour Women’s Club, Muritai Road

Previous agendas and papers available

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Board members are: Virginia Horrocks (Chair) virginia.horrocks@huttcity.govt.nz

Anna Sutherland (Deputy chair) anna.sutherland@huttcity.govt.nz

Murray Gibbons murray.gibbons@huttcity.govt.nz

Liz Knight liz.knight@huttcity.govt.nz

Robert Ashe robert.ashe@huttcity.govt.nz

Cr Tui Lewis tui.lewis@huttcity.govt.nz

Cr Michael Lulich michael.lulich@huttcity.govt.nz

Eastern Bays shared path funding on hold

The long-planned Eastern Bays Shared Pathway is unlikely to be completed anytime soon, after New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) confirmed it will not partner with HCC to complete the entire project. NZTA says it may only fund part of the first stage (Days Bay to Windy Point) of the $20 million cycle and walkway from Eastbourne to Petone, due to financial constraints.

Eastbourne Community Board Chair, Virginia Horrocks, says that future progress on the shared path is now dependent on the outcome of the consenting process.

“Council commitment will be needed to keep this moving,” she says. “Community support will be vital during the submission period.”

The Resource Consent for the shared path will proceed as planned. It was lodged, with NZTA approval, in April and HCC has been providing GWRC with more information and answering questions since then. It is hoped the consent will be notified soon and opened for submissions. The whole approval process is expected to take 6-12 months.

“It has been decided that Eastbourne to Days Bay will be completed initially,” says Ms. Horrocks, “the timing and cost of construction dependent on what consent conditions are imposed. Council hopes the conditions for Windy Point will not be too onerous as there is no beach along this section.”

NZTA wants a final cost and confirmation that work will be completed in this Long Term Plan period which ends in 2021, before it considers final approval.

“Opposition could delay the whole process,” Ms Horrocks adds. “I’m sure the new ECB will be making a strong submission

in support of the pathway and leading the community to give massive support when the time comes.”

Mayor Ray Wallace describes this delay by central government as outrageous, especially since residents were expecting work to begin as early as next year.

“I am deeply concerned that this crucial project which has been in the works for more than a decade is being stalled by NZTA because they claim they have no money. We have spent years working with NZTA, co-designing the plans to get us to the resource consent stage. That work has also included many hundreds of hours engaging with residents of Eastbourne and Bays.”

Mayor Wallace says it is incredibly frustrating and disappointing and he is seeking urgent confirmation from the government that they will commit to funding the entire pathway.

“This pathway is crucial for Eastbourne,” he says.

“We all know there’s a lack of dedicated cycling and walking facilities and the tightly constrained nature of Marine Drive has meant that there is currently low pedestrian and cyclist use. For the most part, cyclists and pedestrians must use the road shoulder, which is very narrow and even non-existent in sections.”

HCC had been working with NZTA officers on final designs for the project, which were recently submitted for consent. Government policy is that they will cover 58 percent of the total costs, providing projects meet their criteria.

HCC general manager City and Community Services Matt Reid says NZTA has continued to fund the design and consenting of the entire pathway, and should still fund

construction of the Windy Point section in the current period. "While this news isn’t ideal, we want to reinforce that while there is no guarantee NZTA will support this project in the next funding period [2021 to 2024], their current position may not impact HCC’s current programme.”

NZTA director of Regional Relationships Emma Speight says the 2018 Government Policy Statement on Land Transport set a new direction for land transport investment in New Zealand. As a result, the Transport Agency has needed to reprioritise the remaining funding within the 2018-21 National Land Transport Programme (NLTP).

“Our priorities are for a safer transport system,” she says, “and one that gives New Zealanders access to jobs and education, delivers value for money and works harder to protect the environment.”

“The Eastern Bays Shared Path was one of the projects that we considered in the reprioritisation of the NLTP and we identified that the project is unlikely to receive funding in the current NLTP period. At the time of the reprioritisation, the project was under consideration and had not yet been consented. There has been no funding cut.”

Ms Speight says that following discussion with HCC, NZTA advised that the Windy Point section of the shared path would be likely to receive funding, on the basis of the safety concerns in this section of the corridor.

“The Windy Point project will now need to go through the usual business case process to obtain funding approval,” she adds.

“It is too early to say how much the project is expected to cost.”

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ECB member stands down

by Carl McRae

Standing down after eight years' service on the Eastbourne Community Board, Robert Ashe is keen to spend some quality time with his wife and young daughter.

Robert was first elected to the ECB in the 2011 by-election, the first Green Party member ever to be successfully elected to office in Lower Hutt.

“I stood as a Green,” said Robert, “as I felt no other single word on the ballot paper better said to voters what my values were. I hope in the future more candidates have the courage to declare their values more clearly to voters. Recent research shows you’re more likely to be successful and more people will vote in local body elections when they know what they’re voting for.”

Once elected, Robert quickly worked out that to represent successfully and achieve results, one has to work together with all manner of people across the political spectrum. An idealist at heart, he says that compromise was the hardest thing for him to learn. And that, he says, is so different to the tribal way politics happen in Parliament.

“As a newbie,” he says, “I also struggled with the stuffy, procedural formalities that our board meetings are meant to follow. A good chair, however, can overcome these and allow much better public participation in our meetings and decision making processes. Ginny Horrocks does this particularly well.”

No election took place in 2013 because there were only five candidates for five positions, so the board decided to conduct a community survey in its place. The survey results showed that the number one need in Eastbourne and the Bays was for a safe, shared path for walking

and cycling.

Robert says that this finding really focused the board’s work plan for the term and securing the multi-million dollar funding to build the shared path was the retiring Board’s greatest achievement. It also coincided with the then National Government investing in urban cycleways.

The news last week that NZTA has reprioritised this project came as somewhat of a shock to Robert and is something he describes as a massive setback for the Eastern Bays.

“The shared path is also incredibly important for our community’s resilience, as the new seawall will help protect the road from climate change.”

“I’m personally frustrated with the mayor,” Robert says, “who assured us for years that council was committed to building the path when we secured central government funding in 2015. Rather than soothe our growing anxiety, he needed to push council officers to get on and build the path. We all know that if you don’t spend government money, you lose it.”

“Much of the board's day-to-day work is reactive,” Robert says, “so my advice for the new board is to pick one or two projects you think are valuable and to focus on them with unwavering determination.”

“Council officers and the CEO hold way too much power under our current constitutional arrangements,” he adds, “which makes even

achieving simple gains - like new recycling bins with lids to stop all our plastic from blowing into the sea - impossible, if (unelected) council officers don’t agree with you. That operational model clearly needs to change.”

Robert’s biggest highlight? “Undoubtedly it was the recent opening of the mini skate ramp,” he says. “No single issue energised the community more, both positively and negatively, meaning the role of the board was suddenly crucial in brokering a fair way forward. I hope we got it right; I lost some close friends in the process. But every day I walk past and see a once disused park now overflowing with happy, active children, I think all the years of service have been worth it.”

Robert feels confident the ECB can work collaboratively again with central and local government to re-secure the funding needed to build the shared path.

Charlotte and Robert Ashe.

Trees and Council rile property owner

by Carl McRae

An Eastbourne property owner is growing more and more frustrated with Hutt City Council's response to his request for tree trimming, and with the local community board’s failure to act on his behalf.

Greg Dellabarca of Days Bay Estates Ltd received a complaint from his tenant that there was a substantial difference in temperature in the winter months in the lower storey of the house in Maire Street, owing to sunlight being blocked by Pohutukawa trees at the southern end of the adjacent HW Shortt Park.

Mr Dellabarca asked HCC to top the trees for winter sunlight, but instead had three options presented to him.

“Option 1; do nothing, option 2; the complete removal of four trees and some minor pruning of the remaining seven. Option 3; Removal of trees directly impacting, replaced by hedge plantings," he says

Mr Dellabarca sees no reason to remove any trees.

"Central government has a policy now that houses be insulated and warm by law,” he says. “The house in question is fully compliant with insulation standards.”

He is aking why tenants should have to put up with council policy that is neither consistent nor fair, and says Tui Road (Days Bay) properties bordering Williams Park enjoy sunlight and views, thanks to the topping of trees in front of them by persons unknown.

“No prosecutions to my knowledge have been made against the Tui Road residents, who are the only people that would have a

vested interest in topping the trees in Williams Park, immediately in front of their properties, on the eastern boundary. And the traditional shelter belt hedge on the western boundary has been maintained at a low level for many years by council.”

HCC has threatened police intervention if Mr Dellabarca, who HCC acting general counsel Chris Bell describes as offensive and threatening towards council staff and community board members, does not stop his campaign via email, meetings and phone calls.

Following Mr Dellabarca’s initial requests, Aaron Marsh, HCC Team leader for parks and recreation, provided a report to the ECB identifying the trees bordering the property in question as "quality trees" and providing the board with the three options. A quality tree is defined as one that is in good health and therefore it is highly unlikely to be removed.

“When residents believe that quality trees unreasonably interfere with sunlight and views of residential properties,” Mr Bell says in a letter to Mr Dellabarca, “council will consider whether it is practical to manage the situation individually by pruning. However, council and its contractor will only carry out pruning where the result is going to benefit the residents and have little effect on the quality of the tree.”

At the June ECB meeting it was decided

to proceed with option 1 because the resident concerned did not support the officer’s recommendation, so no further action on the trees would be taken.

“But the trees that the council have proposed to remove are insulting,” he says, “as their removal would do absolutely nothing to provide winter sunlight to the property’s lower storey.”

Mr Dellabarca may have remedies under the Property Law Act.

“The company will not be taking any legal action that needs employing a lawyer,” Mr Dellabarca says, “but it will be presenting a case to the Tenancy Tribunal, to seek an order to give the tenants the sunlight they deserve in that location, if the council continues with this nonsense.”

“If the tribunal decides because of the council policy that the trees have to be removed,” he says.

“Then I think the HCC will very quickly have its rating receipts from Eastbourne and Bays diverted to the Wellington City Council, I believe in the vicinity of $10,000,000 per annum, because there are many people, including myself, that see absolutely no need to remove any trees.”

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Election meeting continued

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“If [Campbell Barry] turned up more often to the workshops we have he would know.”

Eastbourne Community Board: “I love standing just to keep the council on their toes, and promote Eastbourne in particular, Eastbourne Community Board incumbent Murray Gibbons, told the meeting.

Keen to promote Eastbourne as Hutt City’s number one visitor destination, he wanted to see the historic police cells placed at the entrance to Rona Bay Wharf, the Heritage Trail enhanced, and electric car charging stations in Eastbourne.

Current ECB chair Ginny Horrocks said she was like “a puppy who's not going to let go of the old sock". The declared climate emergency needed to be followed up with action.Horrocks is also standing for Hutt Mana Charitable Trust.

Belinda Moss said she was standing for the ECB because there were no other candidates north of Days Bay, and to push the completion of Eastern Bays Shared Path. “It’s so important for the whole of Eastbourne and the Wellington region.”

Bruce Spedding saw the community board as an extension of his current volunteering;running Waterbourne, providing a facility for young people to borrow and learn to use water equipment, and intalling an FM radio station to be used across the Bays in an emergency.

“I don’t see problems, I see opportunities.”

Frank Vickers said he was “shamelessly using this platform to promote an agenda”: the need to reduce methane production created by the huge amount of greenwaste currently dumped in council tips.He said methane contributed much more to our greenhouse gas production than plastic.

HCC encouraged green waste going to

the tip to claim carbon credits from methane production at the tip, he said. He was promoting the roll out of green waste bins.

Harbour Ward candidates:Tui Lewis said she had worked with residents to bring in rates postponements for elderly people struggling to pay their installments. Working on the Whaitua Water catchment programme, she said water quality, sensitive urban design and the shared pathway were priorities.

Simon Monrad received the loudest clap, when, after talking about rationalising transport services and decreasing inequality he said "I'm running on no donations and no money so I need volunteers as well".

Gavin Murphy said he stood for "business with a heart" and said the Harbour Ward had been "seriously underrepresented" around the council table. He wanted to see a sustainable long term strategy for the council.

Citywide candidates: Josh Briggs was the first to mention the disastrous SNA process conducted by the council. "Poor consultation over SNAs has been a dropped ball by all of us.

“We need to improve the way we do consultaion, we need to listen and get the best outcomes for everyone. I won’t always vote the way you want, but I’ll listen.” He supported a climate change adaptation plan.

Brady Dyer said the council needed more innovative thinking, and he supported work on transport, new way to do recycling, cycleways, and the Cross-Valley lLnk.

Ex-Hutt News Editor and one term councillor Simon Edwards spoke of the need to keep rates rise to no more than inflation. There was room to fund a new pool in Naenae, he said, and supported the Cross Valley Link, and river link, along with shifting Melling Station.

Buzz Cafe owner Michael Gray said he had a business brain and wanted the council to take action to improve High Street.

Deborah Hislop, councillor 2004-2010. had always intended to return, and said she wanted to revitalise suburban shopping hubs,

see prudent financial management, the Melling link, shared path and redevelop Naenae Pool.

Michael Lulich talked abot the council's homeless strategy, it being a living wage employer, and said he supported technology businesses in Hutt City. He thought something like the Jackson Street Project project may work in Eastbourne.

Chris Norton said the council needed radical long term thinking in a coastal, low lying city. He said the council had kept rates low by increasing debt, which would need to be paid off.

Ashok Parbhu said his platform stood on "diversity, governance and innovation".

Joshua Peauafi said he had a background in youth development and enterprise, and had worked for HCC previously. "It's my job to pave the way for people who look like me," he told the crowd.

Shazly Rasheed said, as a business owner, she could contribute to a greater understanding and help to small businesses around the council table.

Naomi Shaw said she had a passion for the Hutt, and her key focus was on the young and the elderly. She is also standing for the DHB.

Phil Sprey, who is standing as a citywide councillor and ECB member, said he wanted to fight for pathway funding, and claimed Campbell Barry knew about NZTA's decision in advance, and planned to keep it quiet until after the election.

Kamiria Mid Thomas-Savelio spoke of the need to strategise and had a business and academic background.

Chair of Wainuiomata community board Gabriel Tupou said he was standing on resilience and had a passion for civil defence preparedness, seeing the environment protected and local economic growth.

Final speaker Karen Yung, said being on the Petone CB had given her a passion for the city. She was concerned about the way SNAs had been handled, and about the shared path and climate change.

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Uncertain future for shared path

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Local politicians, councillors and community board members are also aghast at the news that this long-term project may be stymied.

Mayoral hopeful Campbell Barry said, “The Shared Pathway is a vital piece of infrastructure for the Bays.

"The Windy Point section should be approved, but it is incredibly disappointing that NZTA look not prepared to grant and honour the full subsidy. The completion of the pathway is vital to the region and it is my desire that local and central government work together in lobbying, to get the full project approved and paid for. Plans have been approved, assurances given and it is time to follow through on that.”

Hutt South MP Chris Bishop said, “The Council and NZTA have spent hundreds of hours consulting residents, and getting the designs right. "The project has been worked on for many years, and for funding to be pulled at this juncture is a hammer blow to Eastbourne

and Bays residents.”

“It is a massive hit for the Eastbourne community, especially after the board had worked so hard to get the local community to support the pathway and to get it recognised by HCC as the number one priority for Eastbourne,," Robert Ashe, retiring ECB member and former Green Party staffer, said.

Michael Lulich, Harbour Ward councillor and current ECB member said, "I’m extremely disappointed. It is not time to wave the white flag just yet, but the project should be NZTA’s number one funding priority, for safety and resilience reasons alone. "I will also be writing to NZTA to express my disappointment and for more detailed reasons as to their most unpopular decision.”

"The disappointment of not receiving the expected full subsidy from NZTA was a blow for all of us,"Tui Lewis, Hutt City Councillor, Harbour Ward said. "There is so much potential for the area and region with a completed shared pathway, our Council needs to keep the pressure on NZTA. "Thankfully the priority is safety and NZTA confirm that they expect funding is ‘likely’ to be available for the construction phase for the Windy Point which will be a relief for all pedestrians and families using this section of the pathway."

How to vote under the new system

You only have one chance every three years to decide who you want to represent you on Council, so make sure you have your say.

Hutt City Councillors make important decisions about the future of our city and matters that affect your daily life – from recycling, roads and water to libraries, parks and sports grounds. Who will represent me? For the first time since Hutt City Council was formed in 1989, the city will have a mixed representation model this election. This means that residents will elect a Mayor, a ward Councillor for their area and six City Wide or ‘at large’ Councillors.

Residents in Petone, Wainuiomata and Eastbourne will also vote to elect members to their local Community Board. We’ll also elect representatives for the Greater Wellington Regional Council, Hutt Valley District Health Board and the Hutt Mana Charitable Trust.

How to vote: Voting packs were sent out to all registered voters from 20 September. When you receive your pack, just vote for your preferred candidates as per the instructions on your combined voting paper and pop it into the return envelope provided.

Return your combined voting paper by 12 October (it will need to be in the post by Tuesday 8 October to make sure it’s received in time), or drop into your local library, the Council Administration Building, or the ballot box at Wellington Railway Station (7-11 October only).

Special votes: If you enrolled after Friday 16 August, you won’t get your voting papers sent to you in the mail and you’ll have to make a special vote. You can also make a special vote if you didn’t receive your voting documents, are on the unpublished electoral roll, or have lost/damaged your voting documents. Special votes can be made from 9am-5pm on weekdays during the voting period (20 September - 12 October), and 9am12pm on election day (12 October).

You can make a special vote at:

Walter Nash Centre, Taita, Wainuiomata Library, Wainuiomata; HCC Administration Building, Laings Road, Lower Hutt; and Arapaki Manners Library and Service Centre, Manners Street, Wellington. For more information, go to: huttcity.govt.nz/elections2019

Mayoral candidates CAMPBELL BARRY

Transport

We all know it's getting harder to get around our city. Traffic congestion has been growing rapidly in recent years, and Council has failed to plan in this space. If elected as Mayor I’ll focus on developing an integrated transport plan that prioritises getting more people into public transport, the use of ride-sharing technology, and active transport options as well.

We also need to focus on strategic roading projects that will do more than just add cars to the network. The Cross Valley Link is a vital east to west connection for Lower Hutt. It will take pressure off the Esplanade, and provide us with a more resilient arterial route across our city. I will prioritise this project.

I will also work with all our representatives, and the community, to ensure NZTA provides subsidies for the entirety of the Eastern Bays Shared Path. We have the funding for Windy Point – so we must get on with this section immediately.

It’s vital that Lower Hutt receives its fair share of transport and infrastructure funding from central government. I think we can put a

much better case in for our transport needs in the future if we start to take this issue seriously.

Infrastructure

In recent years Council has been focusing too much on the big end of town with $29 million in hand outs to developers, and a $4 million subsidy for a Hotel. As Mayor, I’ll get back to basics and focus on what’s important for all our people. We often talk about there being a housing crisis here in Lower Hutt and across New Zealand, and that’s true. However, what we don’t talk about is the state of our infrastructure to support housing growth, and existing households. We have family homes and businesses being flooded in a heavy downpour because our stormwater system can’t cope.

As Mayor, I’ll reallocate spending from the nice to haves, to the basic infrastructure and services important for our city. This will include increasing our footpath replacement fund from $250,000 to $1.5 million per year, and putting a stop to the corporate welfare council currently engages in.

Environment

Council has declared a climate emergency, but what does that mean with no action? As Mayor, I will act by ring-fencing the profit made from the Silverstream Landfill ($6 million a year) and invest back into environmental initiatives and lowering our carbon footprint. I’ll review the operation of the Landfill which is currently one of the largest emitters of methane in our region.

I’ll introduce a two bin, wheelie bin system with clips for our kerbside recycling. This can be operated on a fortnightly basis, and save a significant portion of the current operating costs. Our current crates are not fit for purpose, we need to enter the 21st century.

Frank Vickers, one of the Eastbourne Community Board candidates has put forward a very strong case for organic/green waste bins. I will genuinely explore options for this service, but I’m not willing to make a commitment until I can fully understand the financial implications for ratepayers, and we have a wider conversation with people across our city.

The Eastbourne Herald asked candidates for their views on the three most pressing issues facing Hutt City.

ELECTIONS 2019 DAVID SMITH

Mayoral candidates

Climate change, waste management, the environment. Top priority illegal dumping, which impinges on housing, construction and transport projects which result in big amounts of waste material. I am challenging residents of Lower Hutt to invest in a sustainability fund and ask people to reduce their gambling, alcohol intake etc and instead take a gamble on the Future of LH. This will help businesses change to be eco-friendlier, help clean up environment. Will create jobs, money to Support voluntary groups and schools in recycling and re-using projects that take one item at a time out of our waste. I instigated a metal recycling scheme for Church. We have raised over $2000 and shifted tons of metal. Sorting waste at source produces less contaminated product. Application to keep the Wainuiomata clean landfill open longer must be withdrawn and inquiry into how trucks with other than clean fill, were allowed on site. No waste dumped close to water. Climate change headquarters to co-ordinate, educate, research, prioritise – (sponsors) get other councils and govt. to come on board as we have tech companies here. Water – use sustainability fund to help fix water leaks and replace taps with more eco friendly ones. Climate change issues means transport focus will be on maintaining

existing links rather than new links like cross valley. Support Melling project because it will relieve flooding issues. All-terrain vehicles in mix. Housing – Emergency housing priority. Will look at suitable flat packs to import, there are flatpacks that can be put up in 7 hours and can be fixed or moveable. (would be good to have an international flat Pack show, so we can evaluate). Made submissions re changes DP Plan and asked for water tanks, accommodation above most businesses and eco-friendly building products and techniques with longer shelf life. These measures will reduce need for

water in construction process and amount of rubble for dumping. Also need to build up in some areas and for space for communal living and meeting places, less tiny houses and in fill housing. We also need to look at how we demolish buildings and avoid getting contaminants in rubble. There are things like marble, wood etc that could and should be reused. Corruption, Organised crime and greed. United Nations have these high on priorities list. We need to too because if we don’t, we will not succeed in protecting our environment (Organised crime involved in illegal dumping worldwide), give a brighter future for our children, better health outcomes for all and have money for key projects in the Hutt. Need to deal with addiction issues and keeping young people out of gangs which means targeted projects in neglected areas I am keen on a dualpurpose addiction treatment centre (which I want to fundraise for). Will look at Hutt having its own office to fight corruption and assist Police. Police presence in all areas, will fight for that. CTV great for identifying and catching criminals, only partially successful where drugs and alcohol are involved. Cameras don’t prevent stupid or fatal actions. Have stated I will have Mayoral Breakfasts helping Volunteer groups fundraise, will consult on Corruption, crime.

Mayoral candidates

RAY WALLACE

Under my Mayoralty and leadership, the City has gone through the biggest rejuvenation in history. The upgrading and building of new community facilities has seen great improvement in the city’s wellbeing. There is still much to do in this space and I am committed to seeing that rejuvenation through.

Flood protection and in particular the central city flood defenses are our number one issue. The RiverLink Project will ensure the upgrade of our stop-banks and will establish a river promenade area. Currently the Central City business district remains at real risk of flooding which would mean billions of dollars’ worth of property damage, loss of jobs and a major hit to our economy. This is our Climate Change Emergency right now, not in 50 years’ time. I am committed to working with the Regional Council and NZTA to get RiverLink completed.

A key component of that project is the replacement of the Melling Bridge which is a major choke point in the river flow. This will mean a new Melling Interchange that will improve the public transport and rail links to the city. The Government has reneged on paying its share of the design and consent stage despite NZTA working with us for the last seven years on this project.

As an Independent Mayor with no Party Political links I will be able to lobby loud and hard to get Government to deliver on their

Harbour Ward TUI LEWIS

Tui Lewis, councillor for people of Eastbourne and the Bays;

Eastbourne and the bays, the area and setting is the envy of many. However the future will bring the impacts of climate change and it is the coastal areas, the Harbour Ward, which will bear the brunt of the effects.

So we need to start investigating options on how we can prepare in advance of such events.

This needs to be initiated now with the community leading the discussion so Council clearly understands what our community values, what we will accept and that we all understand who will take responsibility and who will pay?

The conversation needs to start immediately, in and with our communities aiming to have plans completed in 2020.

The shared pathway is vital for Eastbourne. We are all aware of the reasons, from a safety

commitment to us.

Another key issue is keeping rate increases to a minimum. Over the past nine years under my leadership our rate increases have consistently been the lowest in the region and in some years across the country. I am very conscious that Eastbourne and the Bays pay some of the highest rates in the city. Working as a united Council under my continued leadership we will ensure any small increase in rates is justified as a result of quality spend on core services such as the Eastern Bays cycle and walkway.

The overall wellbeing of our entire city is crucial. We are on a roll of positive things happening but we still have real major issues to address, such as the housing shortage. I will work with Housing New Zealand and the Government to make sure they live up

to their responsibilities of providing for the socially disadvantaged and at risk families in our community. That is a core Government responsibility first and foremost, not a Council or rate payer funded responsibility.

Council, under my leadership will ensure we create the environment for more private developments to provide more quality homes for young families and professionals. These developments will provide a good balance of quality homes while maintaining our beautiful green environment.

Over the past nine years, under my leadership, the Council has worked well and made some huge improvements across the city. There is still more to do, to continue this positive momentum.

I am the only Mayoral Candidate with the proven track record of delivering on our commitments and improving the community facilities that benefit the residents and visitors to Lower Hutt.

I am the only candidate with the experience and life skills to continue to see Lower Hutt grow and prosper as a City.

My relationship with Eastbourne and the Bays has always been a positive and productive one where I have listened and we have always worked together on agreeable solutions. My vision is to have a Council of truly Independent people working for the very best interests of the people we serve.

I seek your support in this Election so I can continue this positive momentum.

along with the uptake of people on e-bikes and scooters.

The saga continues with getting a share of funding for this project which means Community and Council need to be united, and persistent pressure has to be kept on the Government and NZTA to make sure funding is secured. So to ensure NZTA get to hear from our community, I will call a public meeting with NZTA, local MPs and Council.

Last year there was unnecessary upset put onto the community with the way consultation was carried out for the establishment of SNAs on private property.

point of view first and into the future, it could well play a part with protection from sea level rise. We all know and have seen the increase in use of the very narrow path around the bays and usage will increase as our population grows

We can and will do much better. The priority for me is to have a culture where Council engages properly, takes time, listens, builds relationships, trust and works hard alongside communities to understand the aspirations of each community. There is a lot of work to be done but it can happen if we desire change. Communities will never experience this again.

2019

Harbour Ward SIMON MONRAD

Our ward is immensely beautiful, but it may not be so for long. Climate change is the defining challenge of our time. It encompasses all other issues, because if we no longer have a habitable planet to live on, Hutt City will no longer exist. What is required is radical, transformational change to our economy and society. While scary, it’s an opportunity. We can learn new ways to live, to build, thrive, and care for one another in cooperative community. Everything is tied to global warming: wealth inequality, rejecting indigenous knowledge, food supply.

Climate response means uprooting the systemic causes, not individual consumer choices. Nationalised, free public transport, car-free green spaces, and community food gardens will all help. Let’s be clear that none of what’s required to reverse climate change can be done with bylaws alone. However, council

Harbour Ward

GAVIN MURPHY

can facilitate the right conditions. I’m going to work with social movements in council, those undertaking real change. Whatungarongāro te tangata, toitū te whenua: people disappear, but the land remains. We’re caretakers of this place, and caretakers of each other.

An immediate issue is housing. That rents take up a significant part of the paycheck of so many people, that tenants lack power, and

that homelessness exists at all is a scandal. Homelessness is artificially created. At last census there were 41,705 homeless in NZ and 141,366 empty homes. The problem is not supply and demand. The problem is refusing to treat a human right as a right. With social housing we’ll end homelessness. Half of a median income in Harbour Ward gets sucked up into rent. Annual change? 15.40% increase. 60% of people have below average incomes after rent. All according to council reports. Councillors have known this. We need rent controls across residential and commercial spaces. A city-wide tenants’ union and council inspections to ensure warm, dry, safe homes will make our city a place people can live in again.

These issues are all interlinked. If I can draw out a final one, it is wealth inequality. The secret of our city is that its beauty, its sense of community, masks the pain and hurt of poverty lying under the surface. Just as inequality has been widened in the last three decades by cruel economic policy, compassionate politics can narrow it again. A living wage city, increasing union membership, democratising workplaces – we can make it a Hutt for everyone.

young and not so young) can participate in healthy activities in a safe environment.

Gavin

Murphy (Independent) – The Man for the Future

Roading and infrastructure - in the Harbour Ward we live in a unique part of the world which provides us with the opportunity to spend time walking, cycling and enjoying the natural beauty of our landscape. We must be safe, our children must be safe. The announcement on September 10, 2019 regarding the LTA’s withdrawal (or delay) of funding of the Eastern Bays Shared Path was a huge blow. As your elected Councillor I will lobby hard to ensure that the funding is reinstated so we can all continue to use our recreation and commute time safely. We must also ensure that our long-term plan makes the right provision to ensure we are investing in key infrastructure to ensure it is fit for purpose, both now and into the future. We owe this to the next generation. I will insist on a well thought-out long-term plan.

Climate change and resilience – living so close to the sea, and being a beautiful part of the city that has many natural attractions, creates

unavoidable risk with climate change. We need to plan for this. I will work to ensure that we have a robust plan to deal with these impacts and ensure that our city has resilience built in to mitigate, or lessen, the impacts of climate change and/or natural disasters. We need continued investment in parks and community recreation areas where our residents (both

Control on rates and debt - while ensuring preservation of unique character – our greatest strength is our natural beauty, history and the wonderful people who live in our city. I consider myself, commercial with a heart. Having run (and continuing to do so) a very successful funeral business I have the qualities and business acumen to look at all decisions required by Council in a commercial, yet sensitive way. I will oppose rates increases that are not in line with a robust and well thought out business plan. I will advocate that we have a careful look at all costs under Council control (from the top down) and ensure that Council is run as efficiently as possible and is world class when bench-marked across similar organisations, both nationally and internationally. It’s time for change, voting for the incumbent will give us more of the same. I won’t be a silent bystander at Council meetings. The calibre of those sitting around the Council must be raised – a vote for Gavin Murphy will ensure this.

Together, we can create something special.

Citywide + ECB

PHIL SPREY

As a Days Bay resident, this is my neighbourhood, where my whole family lives and where I have worked from for a decade. It is our home.

I was going to do the ‘standard’ candidate campaign statement but decided in light of what happened with the funding withdrawal by Labour-Greens-NZTA on our long-awaited Shared Pathway Development that this was far too important to ignore. I discovered that a ‘rumoured’ decision had been made before HCC did, before even our MPs knew and put it into the public arena online. The disclosure was attacked by some other candidates who had tried to hide the facts until after this election. Now it is out, the truth exposed. I am not gloating over this issue, it is a serious matter that I need to be on Council for to help solve. And it must be reversed. Now!

Like the SNA surprise attack recently, which also impacted on many within our community, politicians and local authorities should openly

MURRAY GIBBONS

Community Boards are a vital communicational link to our city ouncillors as well as to Council Officers.

I enjoy advocating for the citizens of Eastbourne and the Bays in our dealings with the Hutt City Council and striving to get the best result for our community. I like to think I get things done.

I think our  number one concern at present is maintain pressure on the Hutt City Council, Greater Wellington Council, as well as the Government to make sure THE SHARED PATH  around the bays is started to give far safer access for cyclists and pedestrians as well as a vital first step to combat climate change.

Number two would be create attractions in Days Bay and Eastbourne to make Eastbourne

engage with the community, instead of the sledgehammer approach. If they had asked about the SNA position a less costly, negative interaction could have been avoided.

I’ve been listening specifically to our Eastbourne and Bays community and know it is the time to get a stronger voice at Council level.

Standing as a true, 100% Independent

Candidate, I am not a slave to party political masters which is another cry echoed by a majority. Just look at what Lester and Labour have done in Wellington. An example we need to keep out of the Hutt.

Unorthodox, and with innovative approach. I make no undeliverable promises. From wharves to walkways, climate change infrastructure, to new ways to engage with the community, I have a fresh perspective and eager to get results. My years in corporate and private business and chairing non-profit organisations has given me a unique set of skills and experience that will, with the support of the community, head us toward a new and exciting future.

Eastbourne and the Bays have a unique demographic, a special community which resides in one of the most scenic locations on the harbour. Where native bush, indigenous wildlife, beaches and shoreline collide in an enviable stunning way. Protecting yet sharing our place is as vital as is insuring it's being better serviced and cared for. Make me one of your six candidate’s choices as a City-Wide Councillor and/or also on the Community Board.  Visit: www.stuffed.kiwi

and the Bays the No1 visitor destination for both locals as well as overseas visitors.

This could be achieved by further enhancing the Heritage Trail by the addition of the Old Police Cell block at the entrance to Rona Bay Wharf as well as additional seating on the Wharf and installing two Charging Stations for electric cars in Eastbourne and Days Bay and encouraging more concerts for Williams Park.

The only other major issues I can think of like The Gill Road Housing development where the access road goes through York Bay, The “Land Grab “ ie Areas of Natural Significance, Wellesley College’s plans for the tennis courts in Days Bay are all slowly working their way through the lawyers etc.

GINNY HORROCKS

One of the main reasons I decided to run for the ECB one more time was to see the Shared Path through the consent process and into the construction phase. What looked like a cruise a couple of weeks ago has turned into a roller coaster! But after the initial shock of the change in plan, I realised there is still hope and we will have to do what Eastbourners are good at, get organised and fight for the dream.

I suspected some time ago that the Windy Point section was the political favourite and that we were likely to have to fight for the rest. Windy Point still looks a real possibility but we will have to keep up the pressure. The rest is just as important, so many other sections in the bays are as dangerous to use and much more threatened by storm surges and rising sea level. Whether or not I’m re-elected to the ECB I plan to continue the battle to get this path done.

ECB ECB

BELINDA MOSS

The Herald’s brief is for candidates to list their top three issues and our solutions for them. The Eastbourne Community Board’s (ECB) role, however, is to represent the community, listen to concerns and liaise with the Councils (Hutt City and Wellington Regional). It should be a strong voice advocating for the Councils to address issues and consider solutions (weighing cost, value and efficiency) and to then consult with the community to prioritise implementation of the best solutions.

My top three issues:

The Shared Path was the top priority for residents in the ECB’s 2014 survey. If we surveyed today (and if I am elected this will be one of the first things I’d like to see happen), I believe the support will be even stronger. NZTA’s recent withdrawal of funding is a blow. We need to challenge the Wellington Regional Land Transport Plan which lists the Eastern

I’m also keen to follow up the ECB declaration of a climate emergency with local action. I ‘d like to coordinate community meetings to get real information about what’s ahead and discuss what we would like to do – Do we want to reduce our emissions?

If so how? Should we use our cars less? Go electric? Car share? Should we invite insurance representatives to tell us what’s happening now and where insurance is moving? Could we become a plastic bottle free community? Whatever we do some change is coming. We need to start thinking about the long term outlook and how can we work as a community and with council to plan for the future.

Central to all of this is our young people. They turned out in force and spoke up at the ECB climate emergency meeting. They have all sorts of ideas. We need to listen to them, respect their courage and not be scared to act.

Finally I’m also keen to stay on the ECB for my own satisfaction. I love living in Eastbourne, my grandchildren love staying with us here, visitors envy us – I want to keep the amazing qualities of Eastbourne while supporting local business and tourism that bring the economic security we need. I enjoy being part of this community and the contact with people that comes with being on the ECB.

Bays Shared Path as a priority three project. Why is that? How was this calculated when safety is a significant factor? Why is a very similar shared path being quietly constructed along the harbour side of the Otago Peninsula road? It is listed as a priority one project in the Otago Southland Regional Transport Plan. It’s

hard to understand the disparity in importance given the similarity of terrain and users.

The shared path will help address other issues by offering the first stage of protection against rising sea levels, and if we can cycle or walk along it, we can leave our cars at home and help reduce carbon emissions.

A reliable, connected public transport system will help us leave our cars at home too. I’d like to see the bus services in both directions linking better with the ferry, and with the airport bus (which should be incorporated back into Metlink).

Rubbish. So much of the plastic and waste we see on our beaches and in the sea seems to come from recycling and rubbish that isn’t collected effectively. Throughout the Hutt Valley, it falls onto streets, into gutters and is washed into the river and out to the sea and onto our beaches. We need a better system.

If I can add a fourth issue within my 400 words, it would be Significant Natural Areas (SNAs) along with District Plan Changes 36 and 46.

LOCAL BODY ELECTIONS 2019

BRUCE SPEDDING

Eastbourne combines the best of all worlds, a small village with good services, access to a great natural environment, and access to a vibrant city. Completing the shared path around the bays will not only make us more resilient, it will make Eastbourne a destination for the people we want to attract. I have contributed to promoting this in various ways but I also think the section from Windy Point south would be the easiest and cheapest section to improve. I intend to continue pushing for changes along this part of the waterfront, including improvements to the Burdans Gate area such as a kids cycle skills area.

I first came to Eastbourne to windsurf 40 years ago, made my home here and have continued to enjoy the water on regular basis ever since. We have a fantastic water recreational area and I want to share this, especially with teenagers and adults who don’t have access to the equipment or friends to help them. I am creating a storage area next to the skate ramp, and with donated gear

Frank Vickers

The most significant and pressing issue facing Eastbourne is surely sea level rise due to Climate Change. Any Southerly gale will attest to that. The Shared Path will hopefully, at least in the short term, address this issue.

However, if we want our children and grandchildren to inherit this paradise we have to address our Greenhouse Gas emissions. Here is one small thing we can do that will collectively make a huge difference.

Methane. “What’s that got to do with me?” you may ask. The answer is “Lots”. As a developed nation, it’s not our plastic use that’s our main contributor to Planetary destruction, it’s the Greenhouse gases we produce.

And while most of our methane comes from farming, 11% of it (or 4 million tons a year) is made by you and me. And it is completely unnecessary. How do we create this gas? By throwing biodegradable material into our rubbish bin. Wood, paper, kitchen scraps and green waste.

(windsurfing, kitesurfing, paddleboarding, kayaking) I plan to make this available with free instruction this summer, and hope that some sort of ongoing group will result.

I have also become involved in civil defence preparedness in Eastbourne, and now have responsibility for the volunteer radio network that will link the bays in an emergency. As part of the need for us to be prepared and to respond to an emergency I am developing a local radio FM station. It will not only provide a community service during normal times, it is designed to provide community information

during an emergency, especially important if all other information services fail.

I try to look at issues as opportunities rather than problems, and intend to bring this approach to my involvement on the community board if elected.

I totally support climate emergency actions, would like to see the bottling of water in single use bottles banned, and bottling of water in the Hutt also.

Focus on improved public transport

Generally want to improve safety, sustainability and resilience of Eastbourneespecially for kids (safely roam), and elderly (especially from various frauds online/ physical).

Support appropriate business development, keep us resilient, keep our services, reduce need to travel.

Would like to see official Sports Hub recognition/support for ESSC area.

Would like to see more collaboration within Hutt Council teams (less silo mentality) to make sure they do not undermine each other.

I also feel that the focus of the Hutt City Council has been too much on the Hutt CBD to the cost of communities.

Any and all biological material that goes to landfill produces methane. Hutt City Council

knows this and actively encourages us to dump it in the Silverstream Landfill. Why? Because Around 1/3 of the methane produced escapes into the atmosphere.

Measured over a 20 year timescale, methane has a Global Warming Potential (GWP) 85 times that of carbon dioxide.

This means scraping 1kg of food scraps into your bin produces methane with a GWP of 85kg CO2e. It could have been composted instead. There’s a cheap, effortless way to change this. Green waste bins for every household.

When you think about it, it’s an absolute nobrainer. And it is not a radical idea. It’s already done in Christchurch. Why aren’t Hutt City providing these? Are they worried the small increase in rates might lose them an election.

Obviously I am keen to make this an election issue. This is not aimed at the ECB, but certain sitting members of the Hutt City Council.

Please consider candidates’ green credentials when casting your vote. And if you get a chance to talk to any of them, please quiz them on this. Thank you.

Amalgamation revisited

October 2019 is the 30th anniversary of Eastbourne losing its Borough status and becoming part of Lower Hutt. It also happens to be Heritage Month, so this year the Historical Society of Eastbourne had no trouble choosing a theme!

We’re marking the anniversary by looking back at the ‘good old days’ of the independent Borough (1906-89); the battle over amalgamation; and what’s happened in the 30 years since. Oral history interviews will capture the memories and opinions of various people closely involved in those events. Meanwhile a display in the Eastbourne Library will feature timelines, photos, documents, and ephemera; it will also give residents a chance to share their own memories, and to cast their retrospective ‘vote’ on amalgamation.

And at 2pm on Sunday, October 20, at the East Harbour Women’s Club, the Historical Society will host a panel discussion on ‘The Borough, Amalgamation, and Beyond: What have we lost, what have we gained?’ Some of the key players in our recent political past will be on the panel, and we’re expecting a lively

discussion. Afterwards we’ll invite questions and comments from the floor, followed by afternoon tea. Everyone is welcome: admission free for HSE members, and by gold coin donation for non-members.

Ali Carew

Update Your Look

Save the Date! Point Howard Christmas Long Lunch 01 December 2019

After the success of last year, the PHA Christmas Long Lunch will be held once again at the Point Howard Tennis Club Pavilion / Playcentre from 12:00 pm on Sunday, 01 December 2019 . Watch this space for further details!

Point Howard Tennis Club - Spring Coaching Sessions

Tennis Coaching at Point Howard, group sessions for term four commencing on Tuesday 22nd October and Friday 25th October. Hotshots Tennis coaching for kids from 5 to 14 years old. Tennis Xpress classes for beginner adults or novice club players who want to gain more confidence about playing the game. Private coaching available and fitness based tennis an option if there is a demand. See the following website for more information and to register your spot; www.clubspark.kiwi/CTF or phone Darren 021 870 978, to discuss your needs. Restringing service also available to get your racquet ready for the new season.

Seaview Noise Update

Port Road Street Sprints: Sunday 27th

October 2019, with reserve day Monday 28th October

News from Point Howard

Historical Society of Eastbourne Inc

Former EB Vicar’s son to study, play football in US

Another former Eastbourne junior footballer who is making a name plying his trade is Alexander Plimmer, son of former St Alban's Church Vicar, Damon and wife, Raewyn.

When the Plimmer family left Eastbourne in 2013, Alex attended Mt Aspiring College in Wanaka. In his last year he was captain, MVP and top goal-scorer for the school's 1st XI. He also played for the Wanaka men’s Premier side.

In July, Alex was accepted into Longwood University in Virginia and will represent the University in football, while studying political science.

“I’ve been looking at going to the States for a few years now,” says Alex, “and started the proper process at the beginning of 2018. I wanted to come over here and be able to continue pursuing a professional football contract, whilst also getting a degree.”

Alex went through Sports Connect in order to get to the US to further his studies. The New Zealand run recruiting agency helped him to visit a selection of universities and participate in trials before deciding which one he would attend. Longwood University is a public liberal arts school of around 6,000 students.

“Longwood play in an NCAA Division 1 program,” Alex says, “so in the top level in the States. I’m going to be in the US for four years, all going well, and hope to go professional at the end of it.”

Within his political science degree, Alex

will focus on global politics. He is part of an Honours College, which is an extension to his degree, with classes based on principles of community leadership, service and scholarship. His scholarship grant covers tuition fees and room and board while stateside.Alex hopes

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to keep football top of his agenda, and the attraction of being able to pursue a professional career,with the ability to study and earn a degree, was a big drawcard. He will spend the forthcoming season playing for the Longwood Lancers in the Big South Conference.

WHAT'S ON

Mondays

• Retired Persons’ Assn meet 4th Mon, 10am St Ronan's Church hall for morning tea followed by a speaker - $2 entry.Transport can be arranged for these meetings on request, ph 562 7365 or 562 8387.

• East Harbour Women’s Club – Contract Bridge 2pm-5.30pm. Contact Judy Bishop 562 8985

• “Baby Bounce & Rhyme” at the library 10.00am.

• Singalong 1st Mon, 2pm at St Ronan’s.

• DB Playcentre Mon, Wed, Fri 9-12. Andrea Jensen 02102797311.

• Pt Howard Playcentre. Mon 9.15 -11.45am. Caroline 021 072 1070.

• The Historical Society’s Eastbourne History Room above the library is open 2-4 pm every Monday.

• Eastbourne Volunteer Fire Brigade training every Monday 7-9pm. Ph Ross Carroll Chief Fire Officer 562 7001 for more info.

• Toy Library 8-9pm. St Ronans Hall www. eastbournemibase.com.au Elizabeth 021 08224664.

• Eastbourne Karate Dojo junior and senior classes (children 8 year & older, plus parents) on Monday and senior classes on Thursday. Contact lindsaysensei@live.com, cell 021 844 873.

East Harbour Women’s Club

• Duplicate Bridge: 2-5pm. Contact Judy Bishop 562 8985

Tuesdays

• Pt Howard Playcentre Tues 9.15 -11.45am. Caroline 021 072 1070.

• Days Bay Playcentre Puddle Jumpers Tues 10:30 to 12 noon: Messy and Sensory play for children 2 years and under. Casual sessions, $3 donation.

• Muritai Tennis Club 9.30–noon. Merryn 562 0236.

• Eastbourne Homebirth Group 1st Tuesday of the month. Phone Kate 562-7096.

• East Harbour Women’s Club Morning Tea & Chat Group 10am. Contact Glendyr 562 7181.

• Eastbourne Embroidery Group, St Ronan’s Church lounge 10am-12noon.

• Indoor Bowls Club 1.30pm, at the croquet club, Oroua Street. Rosemary 562 7365

• Menzshed 9 till 12 , Williams Park, Mike 562 8688.

• Poetry group, every second Tuesday meet to read and enjoy poems old and new. Phone 562 8387.

• Toy Library9.30-10.30am. St Ronans Hall. Facebook: Eastbourne Toy Library Elizabeth 021 08224664www.eastbournemibase.com.

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• 9.30am Nia Dance Fitness Class (low impact - teens to 70+) Music Movement Magic -

Muritai Yacht Club - call Amanda 021 316692 www.niainwellington.com

Wednesdays

• Retired Persons’ Assn meet 2nd Wed at Tartines for morning tea and socialising 11am. Occasional outings arranged. Ph 5627365 or 562 8387.

• Library preschool story time 2–2.25pm.

• Pt Howard Playcentre Wed 9.15 -11.45am. Caroline 021 072 1070.

• Scottish Country Dance. Merryn 562 0236.

• Bridge Club 7-10pm. Shona 562 7073.

• DB Playcentre Mon, Wed, Fri 9-12. Andrea Jensen 02102797311.

• “Steady as You Go” Age Concern sponsored Falls Prevention and Exercise Programme. Held 12 noon each Wednesday at Eastbourne Community Hall. Classes are held for 1 hour and costs only $2. Improve your strength and balance to reduce falls and injuries. Falls are preventable. Please join us!

Pump Dance Hip hop & contemporary classes Wed afternoons in St Ronan’s hall 0274373508 info@pumpdance.com

Thursdays

• Menzshed 9 till 12 , Williams Park, Mike 562 8688. Women welcome.

• St Ronan’s Mainly Music, 9.30am-10.30am, contact Cathy 027 213 9342.

• SPACE at Days Bay Playcentre. Michelle 971 8598.

• East Harbour Women’s Club

- Bolivia 12.45pm, Contact Glendyr ph: 562 7181. Guest Speaker (3rd week of month)7pm, drinks and nibbles provide, Contact Diane ph: 562 7555 •Lions meet 2nd Thursday of the month at the Eastbourne Sports and Services Club,

Tuatoru St 6.30 pm. New members and visitors are welcome. Graham 562 8819.

• Eastbourne Karate Dojo junior and senior classes (children 8 year & older, plus parents) on Monday and senior classes on Thursday. Contact lindsaysensei@live.com, cell 021 844 873.

Fridays

• Pop in and Play playgroup at St Ronan's Church Hall, 9am-11.30am during school terms. All preschoolers (0-4 years) welcome. Cath 027 213 9342.

• Pt Howard Playcentre Fri 9.15 -11.45am. Caroline 021 072 1070.

• AA Plunket Rooms 7.30pm. Mark 566 6444/ Pauline 562 7833

• DB Playcentre Mon, Wed, Fri 9-12. Andrea Jensen 02102797311.

• Discovery Time for 4years+ at San Antonio School, 78 Oroua Street, 9.30-10.30am. Office 562 7398.

Saturdays

• Justice of the Peace at the Eastbourne Community Library, first Saturday of each month 12pm-1pm.

• Lions’ rubbish bin last Saturday of each month.

• Croquet from 10am Muritai Croquet Club. Lyn 562 8722 or Val 562 8181.

• Eastbourne Dune Restoration Group Meets dunes area in front of the Eastbourne Recreation Ground, on the first Saturday of the month at 9am. Contact Keena for more details on 562 0992.

Sundays

• AA Plunket Rooms 10am. Karen 021 440 705.

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ERAT succeeding in controlling EB pests

Many predator-free groups are using pest catch rates as a measure of success, along with pictures of their catches on social media, thus using an element of competition as an impetus to encourage people to continue trapping. However, through my experience as a MIRO committee member, I quickly became aware that all the key decisions about pest control are made on the back of the results of monitoring rather than catch rate.

ERAT’s monitoring system was designed by a scientist at Greater Wellington Regional Council to give us an overall estimate of pest levels in each local area and thus show whether the network of traps is having the desired effect. I hope that once the project establishment funding finishes in December, the local areas can continue to run the monitoring system and use the results as a measure of their trapping success, spurring them into more action if needed. ERAT has provided the framework and hopefully the educational tools to local residents, so now it’s up to each neighbourhood to improve upon it and we look forward to seeing what each area can accomplish.

Each local area has an operator (a volunteer) who has done their best to achieve complete trap coverage and an effective and sustainable network of trappers (neighbours). In effect, what has been achieved in their neighbourhood is called a Mainland Island. This term is usually reserved for patches of native forest (such as the Mainland Island in Butterfly Creek/Gollans Valley), where pest animals are kept at consistently low levels through either poisoning or trapping. The advantage of having so many traps in the residential area is that traps can be checked and cleared on a much more regular basis than in the forest due to easy access and a large number of people willing to help maintain the network. In doing so, we offer a safe refuge for animals and insects that we simply can’t currently achieve in the forest. At present though, the latest rat monitoring in the forest shows rats tracking at 98 percent outside of the Mainland Island and 34 percent inside it. Unfortunately, these are extremely high rates and will result

in a continued onslaught of pests on our birds, both in the forest and in the backyards of those properties backing on to the forest.

Although our monitoring continues to show low numbers of rats in the urban areas (8percent tracking rate—a reflection on the good cooperation between neighbours to achieve low pest numbers), we need to be vigilant about setting our traps because of the high numbers in the forest. When those rats start to infiltrate the urban area in search of food, their numbers may quickly increase. By the time you start to see them they are probably far more numerous than just that one individual that was brave enough to be moving about during daylight, so please… even if you’re not catching much, keep refreshing and checking your bait.

This mast (high seed-fall) year has resulted in much talk about giant rats, and I can testify to having cleared some very large rats from traps! I have also experienced some cases where the plastic Snap-E type traps have not managed to kill the rats that have triggered them, and this can cause the rats to become trap shy, thus making them very difficult to catch. We recommend the wooden Victor traps which will last about 2–3 years before needing to be replaced and can be purchased from most major hardware stores. We do not recommend people buy cheap traps - there are some very inhumane and ineffective traps on the market and their use will simply make rats much harder to catch.

A mouse trap placed behind the rat trap or in the bait cavity of a DOC200 trap will not only catch mice but, as mice are a food source for rats, a freshly dead mouse acts as a very good bait for rats and mustelids. We thus encourage you to leave a fresh mouse in your traps as bait for a few days. As you can see from the monitoring results (https://miro.org.nz/ monitoring/), there is an abundance of mice and this is probably due in part to our success in lowering the rat numbers, so keep up the good work people and thank you so much for all your efforts.

Sally Bain—MIRO Committee member and

Garden Stuff with Sandy Lang

September/October: Mid spring. Warmer. Pruning done. Buds breaking. Frost unlikely…

Frost: When air temperature falls below 0°C you get a ‘frost’: a ‘slight frost’ (−1 to −3°C) or a ‘moderate frost’ (−3 to −6°C). We don’t get ‘severe’ or ‘very severe’ frosts in Wellington. We get about 10 frosts a year: Jun (2), Jul (3), Aug (3), Sept (1) plus a 50% chance of a frost in May and Oct. Eastbourne gets even fewer frosts because we’re by the sea and it’s windy…

Sea: The ‘thermal inertia’ of water is high, so sea temperature changes little through the year: max Feb (17°C), min Aug (12°C). Even in deep winter, Eastbourne air rarely gets to freezing (0°C), with the 12°C sea so close.

Death: If plant cells freeze, they die. Some plants are ‘frost hardy’. They contain antifreeze chemicals and can withstand a frost without freezing. Most plants develop some ‘frost resistance’ as temperatures gradually fall in autumn, and they lose it again as temperatures gradually rise in spring. But they can be caught out by a late-spring frost or an early-autumn frost. There’re two sorts of frost: advective and radiative.

Advective frosts: There’s no protection from a sub-zero Antarctic blast. It can destroy whole orchards. Happily, advective frosts are rare here.

Radiative frosts: At night, with no cloud and no wind, a leaf radiates heat to the sky. But ‘sky temperature’ is about −10°C, so there’s almost no ‘back radiation’, so leaf temperature falls to about 3C° below air temperature. This is enough for water to condense (dew). If air temperature is less than about +3°C, then leaf temperature dips below 0°C and the dew freezes (frost). If the plant is not frost resistant, it freezes and dies. Almost all Wellington frosts are radiative.

Inversion: Under the same conditions, the air at ground level (e.g. lawn) soon cools to leaf temperature. This allows the radiating grass leaves to cool down even more. Cold air is heavy, so the cold air forms a ‘puddle’ on the ground. The air at your toes is 3C° colder than the air at your nose. This is an ‘inversion’. Even a light breeze will mix the cold air on the ground with the warmer air just above and prevent a radiative frost. Horticulturists use wind machines to mix up the air and prevent/ mitigate inversions and associated radiative frosts.

Sandy Lang slang@xtra.co.nz

Who is Campbell Barry?

by Carl McRae

Since the incumbent Ray Wallace, was first elected in 2010, he has had little in the way of challengers to his mayoralty. In fact Mr Wallace has proved to be one of New Zealand’s most popular Mayors, winning both previous elections with 80 percent of the vote.

While challenging such an esteemed adversary may seem impossible, not so to Campbell Barry, 28. “I'm under absolutely no illusions at all that it will be easy,” he says. “I realise that I’m the massive underdog, but I’m good with that. For me it’s not about us versus them, it’s completely about issues facing the city that need to be addressed.”

Ray Wallace entered the political landscape on a National Party ticket, Campbell has the backing of the Labour Party. Chalk and cheese, polar opposites on the political landscape.

But they have one thing in common; they are fiercely passionate and parochial about Lower Hutt.

While Mr Wallace was being anointed as the 21st Mayor of Lower Hutt, 19 year old Campbell Barry, two years out of High School, stood for election onto the Wainuiomata Community Board, driven by a simple goal; to serve his community and make the life of local citizens better.

In 2013 he was elected a city councillor and immediately set about learning the trade,

developing his own philosophies and putting his visions in place.

Six years on, Campbell Barry believes that vision is now required to lead the city forward.

“The time is right for reprioritisation of council,” he says. “It’s great that so many facilities have been built for and added to the city, we needed them. But at the same time, the ‘big end of town’ focus, has come at a cost to simple infrastructure. It’s time to balance experience with fresh ideas and robust debate. Council should be seen as working as a team for the better of our constituents. We should be able to challenge each other's decisions without fear of being demoted.”

“Transport infrastructure is a high priority,” he says. “Getting the Hutt moving again with a transport plan that includes tackling the congestion issues and offering some viable public and active transport options.”

As well as the Melling interchange and the Cross Valley Link (Whites Line to Dowse), Campbell believes that a heavier traffic bypass system would be possible, to take pressure from congested Petone Esplanade.

He says that under his leadership, council would be getting serious about the environment, including climate change. He’d take the $6m profit HCC make from the Silverstream Landfill and re-invest it back into environmental initiatives.

“Current recycling crates would be gone,” he

says. “I’d like to see a two-bin, modern kerbside recycling system in place right across the city. Who needs to see their rubbish blown half-way down the street?”

Campbell says he’d end ratepayer subsidies to property developers and maintain community facilities wherever possible.

“I’ll have the Naenae pool rebuilt with some urgency,” he says, “and work with everyone in this groundswell of support to see the shared pathway back on the agenda and fully funded. Cycling and safety aside, the resilience programme that the pathway includes is absolutely essential for the Eastern Bays.”

Campbell Barry says he  is in politics for the long term and, if not elected to Mayor, will continue working as a city councillor to help ensure that the city is the best it can be.

Campbell Barry.

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Faith in the Community

Around Ireland…

I left Glendalough on the Feast of Transfiguration. We were standing, pilgrims all of us, waiting for the St Kevin’s bus which would take us back to Dublin - and our lives… Suddenly, a little old woman, wizened but with bright eyes, hurled herself across the road. “Jaysusmarynjoseph” she said, “youse wouldn’t still be waiting for the bus, would yers?”

“We are” I said. “It’s late. You were cutting it a bit fine.”

“Nothing’s gone right this morning, but I needed to get to Roundtown for me disability cheque.We pensioners have done it hard since the Post Office closed here. Mind you, I’m a pre-pensioner - got nine years to go.” She had me fooled.

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“But anyhow, you shouldn’t be talking to me. I’m not safe. My kids tell me that. I had seven brain operations when I was fourteen. Got a metal plate in my brain. Not safe, I am.”

“Well, look how wonderfully well you’ve done after all these years”, I said.

“I can play the tin whistle. Sometimes I play it on the bus all the way to Killarney.”

Then the bus arrived, and she scampered on, pushing us all out of the way, eager to get on her journey.

I’ve thought much about her since, about her metal plate, and her playing her tin whistle, and about my chance opportunity to encounter a vulnerable but beautiful soul on the way to Dublin. And I’ve thought - We can have transfiguration moments every day of our lives, if only we see Christ in the people we come across…

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San Antonio: • Women’s Group 3rd Fridays, 2pm, various homes, tel Eileen 562 8806

St Ronan’s: • Mainly Music, every Thurs, 9.15-11.15am (term times). •Toy Library, Mons 8-9pm & Tues 9.30-10.30am (term times). Parenting Course, Primary, (5-9 yrs), Term 4, Thurs 7-9pm, six sessions weekly (24 Oct to 5 Dec), enquire office@stronans.org.nz

Ray Wallace Re-elect for Mayor

Led the Biggest Rejuvenation Programme in the City s History

Pressured the Government in to Progressing the Melling Interchange

Developed Numerous New Community Facilities

Overseen the Lowest Rate Rises in the Region

Increased Science & Technology Investment

Enhanced Green Environmental Projects

Increased City’s Safety Programmes

Always put PEOPLE FIRST and will Continue to Lead a Diverse, Multi-cultural and Inclusive City and Council

Experience that Counts and will Keep our City in Safe Hands

Lobby and Pressure Government to co-fund the Eastern Bays Shared Pathway and get it completed

Continue to Provide Strong & Inclusive Leadership

Plan for Climate Change and Sea Level Rise

Work with the Community to Resolve the SNA Issue

Keep Rate Increases Low and Debt Manageable

Continue to Build and Upgrade Community Facilities

Continue to fight for the Melling Interchange NOW

Be Truly Independent from Political Parties

“Putting People First”

Mayor Ray Wallace’s Pledge to You:

Your Independent Voice

Ø Tight controls on debt & rates

Ø Effective & efficient delivery of Core Services

Ø Ensure safe & secure environment for all residents

Ø Solutions to address climate change

We are 100% Independent. We will not be told what to do by any political party.

We will all act and vote freely. We will all individually assess issues based on what we believe is best for the City.

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Local ceramicist  expands successful retail network

by Carl McRae

Jane Elizabeth and her company mascot, Archibald the fox, have expanded their local Eastbourne business to such an extent, that they have had to move into the old Unilever building in Petone.

Jane has been working full time as a potter/ ceramicist out of Eastbourne for a number of years, since returning to her native Wellington from a stint in the United States.

“I grew up watching my Mum go off to sculpture and pottery classes,” says Jane. “When I moved to St Louis, I started pottery classes in a community arts organisation and knew it was what I was meant to be doing. Then I had my three boys in Kansas and life was a nappy/ sleepless/lego fest/chaos-filled blur.”

The family moved back to Wellington, where Jane promptly set about gathering what she would need for setting up a ceramics business.

“Fortuitously,” she adds, “I got a kiln and a wheel and sorted out a studio in my garage. My then toddler would just sleep on the couch next to me as I started back into the process of clay and wedging and creating.”

“Having a studio in my backyard is incredible,” she says. “I’m out there any time I need to be, whether in the middle of cooking dinner or when everyone is in bed. I don’t forget how lucky I am.”

Jane became so successful at her craft, that some business re-structuring was in order and she called on a friend, Jonathan Paape, a successful businessman in his own right, to help her out.

With a revamped website and bigger premiseS from which to operate and fill the burgeoning requests for ‘Snowfox Ceramics’ from abroad, Jane moved the commercial side of her business to Petone, but continues to create at her home in Eastbourne.

She loves the process of making pottery.

“It is ancient and forward thinking,” she says, “and sometimes a forced process of slowing down. It tells stories of civilisations,

gatherings and intimate meals. We find shards of pots that are thousands of years old, immortalised by heat and the quiet darkness of buried earth, feeling a connection to the artist who made it.”

She has every intention of forging a name for herself on the New Zealand ceramic landscape.

“If  you love something,” she says, “why not take the risk and kick the ass out of it?”

Snowfox - the businesshas an array of functional and beautiful homewares.

“We have platters and cheeseboards,” Jane says. “Pitchers and vases and various sized bowls, ranging from smaller granola bowls up to gloriously big mixing or fruit bowls. We have tumblers that are irreverent and kitschy. We have serious and thoughtful pieces like pedestal bowls that like to sit as a centrepiece, happy to be filled with cherries or just stoically standing there nude.”

Snowfox also provide a custom order service (specific words on a cup for example), ceramics aesthetically  simple, giving a humble nod to Scandinavian and Japanese design.

In Eastbourne, the Hive cafe are the local stockist of Snowfox ceramics and owner, Brandon Bodden, says Jane has such good energy, his staff love their working relationship with her.

“We use the cups at home everyday,” he says, “and they are so popular at Hive, I have struggled to keep up with demand at times.”

“My days are whirlwinds of kids and pottery and making school lunches,” Jane says, “then getting caught up on invoicing and social media-ing and photographing products and editing pictures.”

She loves nothing more than walking out of her back door, coffee in hand, hearing the wings of the kereru as she enters her bush enclosed studio.

“There are many different projects waiting patiently for me to start on,” she says. “I may need to trim a pitcher or attach a handle. There is always cleaning to be done but just between you and me, I’m fine with the layer of dust that inevitably leaves a thin blanket on every surface. But do tell the health and safety people that I wear a mask at all times!”

Jane Elizabeth at work.

The Eastbourne Bowling Club will have teams in the Wellington men’s  and women’s Premier Interclub championships again this year but the big  names that propelled the club to three national club titles are unlikely  to be returning.

Six players from last year’s teams - five men and one woman - have  left the club, forcing a reorganisation of the men’s team not just in  personnel but in principle.

The premier interclub competitions begin on October 12 when both  Eastbourne teams will play at home, the women against Johnsonville and  the men against Miramar. Both teams are still being finalised but it is  likely the men’s team will take shape in time to play in the Hutt Valley  Gough Shield and Banner competitions this weekend.

The reason for the high player turnover is clear. The national  interclub competition which Eastbourne won on four occasions including  three years in succession is no longer part of the season’s calendar.

That tournament was a major attraction for the big-name players  which brought Eastbourne a national profile along with national and  center titles over the past decade. One of those players, Gary Lawson,  was a nominee for the New Zealand Bowls Player of the Year title again  this year.

With the reorganisation of the national calendar many leading  players have opted not to play in the Wellington premier competition  this year, not just for Eastbourne but for many other clubs.

Players such as Lawson, Phil Scoglund Junior and Jamie Hill will  probably not turn out for Eastbourne again. Scott Roddick, a leading

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light in the Eastbourne club for many years, will play for Wellington’s  Victoria club from this year.

Some might see that as a negative but Eastbourne club president  Dennis Davidson sees it as a positive, returning the interclub league to  what it used to be before the infiltration of professional or  semi-professional players.

He believes club players, who were unable to win selection for their  premier club teams during the era in which professional players  dominated, now have a chance again to play in the top interclub league.

Davidson said while the era of the star-studded Eastbourne teams  unquestionably raised the club’s profile “it got us  no more members and  no new sponsorships.

Fulltime and casual club members, who spend money across the bar in  the clubrooms, remain the life-blood of the club.

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St Alban’s Anglican: Sunday Worship 10am at Wellesley College. Thursday Worship 10am - check venue

with Parish office, 11 Ngaio St, Eastbourne tel: 562 6269

Children and Families Ministry: see www.stalbanschurch.nz

St Ronan’s Presbyterian: Muritai Rd, Eastbourne

tel: Parish Clerk 562 8753

Sunday Morning Worship: 9.30am. Power Hour: 9.30am

San Antonio Roman Catholic: Oroua St, Eastbourne

tel: Fr Marlon Maylon Parish

Priest 970 8405

Saturday Vigil Mass: 5.30pm

Sunday (Sacred Heart, Petone): 9.30am & 5.30pm

Max Meyers has been returned for another year as Commodore of the  Lowry Bay Yacht Club at the head of a largely unchanged committee.

Jamie Reid has been elected ViceCommodore and Lynn Porter as Rear  Commodore, House.

At the recent prizegiving Am Meer, sailed by Katie Mathison and  Geoff Thorn, picked up the line honours and handicap awards for the  combined division in the season championships.

Molly Melhuish’s Chickadee won the cruising division.

The 2019-2020 season opens on Sunday, September 29.

Registrations are open at the Muritai Tennis Club for the coming  junior interclub season.

The club held its junior open and registration day on Sunday,  September 23 but registration is still available online.

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Beck in hot demand

The relentless playing schedule of Eastbourne basketballer Stella  Beck continued this week when she played for New Zealand at the FIBA  Women’s Asia Cup at Bengaluru, India.

After coming together at a training camp in Melbourne - handy to  Beck’s new base - New Zealand, ranked 42 in the world, opened its  campaign at the tournament on Wednesday against seventh-ranked China. It then played third-ranked Australia and the Philippines, ranked  47, in its remaining group matches. The tournament concludes on Sunday  and forms an important part of New Zealand’s build-up to a qualifying  tournament for next year’s Tokyo Olympic Games.

Beck is one of five players who were members of the New Zealand team  which finished seventh at the last Asia Cup in 2017. She remains in hot demand in her first professional season, mixing  international duties with her appearances for the Launceston Tornadoes  in the Australian Women’s NBL. Beck has now signed to play for the  Melbourne Boomers in the 2019-2020 WNBL

season.

She also played for New Zealand at the William Jones Cup tournament  in Taiwan, where it finished second behind fourth-ranked Japan and at  the Women’s 3 x 3 Asia Cup.

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Gautrey honoured 100 years of cricket to be celebrated

Muritai sailor George Gautrey will again be honoured as one of New  Zealand yachting’s top achievers at Yachting New Zealand’s 2019 Volvo  Yachting Excellence Awards

Gautrey will receive a performance award at the annual dinner on  November 8, sharing that honour with some of New Zealand’s most  successful sailors.

His fellow recipients include Olympic champions and America’s Cup  winners Peter Burling and Blair Tuke, fellow laser sailor Sam Meech and  several of Gautrey’s New Zealand teammates.

Gautrey was named New Zealand’s Young Sailor of the Year at the 2016  awards ceremony.

After a long period of anticipation the centenary season of the  Eastbourne Cricket Club, established in 1919, is finally here and plans  are evolving to ensure the jubilee is fully and properly celebrated.

While those plans are still in development it seems likely the high  point of the jubilee will be an invitation match in the third weekend in  March, which will be followed by the major social event of the centenary.

That get together, which will be attended by club members past and  present from throughout New Zealand and overseas, is likely to be in the  afternoon because a centenary dinner had not proved popular.

Eastbourne junior players, representing the future of the club as  it honours its past, will also play a major role.

Chairman Michael Ferrier said the club had initially planned to  celebrate the centenary prior to Christmas but that had proved  unfeasible because its home pitch was unlikely to be available in time.

That was the main reason the invitational match, which is the  feature of the centenary weekend, has now tentatively been set for March.

It is still not entirely clear who will participate in that match  but it is likely to involve highprofile players with an affiliation to  Eastbourne and their former international or representative teammates.

Hahn scores high

Eastbourne footballer Maya Hahn (pictured) has made a record-breaking start to  her college career in the United States, scoring goals in three  consecutive matches for the University of Oregon Mighty Ducks.

If that’s not enough to make fans sit up and take notice, Hahn tore  a page from the superhero playbook: the page that says if you want to  get noticed wear a mask.

A minor facial injury has resulted in Hahn wearing a black,  full-face mask during recent matches, ensuring she stands out on the  field as the Mighty Ducks continue an early-season winning streak with  her goal-scoring impetus from midfield.

In a video interview for the Mighty Ducks website - which refers  often to Hahn’s exotic origins, “from Eastbourne, New Zealand” - Hahn  makes it clear the mask isn’t a welcome addition to her match-day attire.

“Unfortunately the mask lives on,” she said. “I think I have  another three or four weeks of that so I’ll get used to it.”

Hahn made her collegiate debut for the Ducks on August. 25 in a 4-1  loss to Santa Clara.

She didn’t take long to find the scoresheet, scoring goals against  Portland State, Villanova and Clemson.

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With summer on the way and some of these amazing spring days to enjoy, our tamariki have been able to take more of their art and play outside — painting fences, sensory play, outdoor jam sessions, scooters, bikes, and obstacle climbing galore.

Swing into spring and come check us out in term 4! Sessions run Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, 9:15-11:45am.

Pop in for a visit or phone Andrea 021 027 97311 for more information

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