The Eastbourne Herald August 2019

ECB recommends moratorium over water security

by Carl McRae

Local and regional opposition to existing and possible new consents concerning a Petone water-bottling operation drew a sizeable crowd to the final meeting of the current Eastbourne Community Board on August 20.

A recommendation was passed by the Board requesting that Greater Wellington Regional Council place an immediate moratorium on any current consents for the extraction of Waiwhetu aquifer water for bottling purposes. ECB also requested that any future applications are put out for public consultation and asked Hutt City Council to assist in achieving these two outcomes.

ECB chair Virginia Horrocks says that with an increasing population, summer water restrictions and climate change, we run the risk of depleting the crucial aquifer resource, or saltwater contaminating the aquifer, which would render it inoperable for two years.

“Such results,” she says, “are not socially, environmentally, economically or culturally acceptable to our community".

Consents granted to date allow for in excess of 900 million litres of water to be drawn from the Lower Hutt Groundwater Zone/ Waiwhetu Aquifer, per year. One company, (Petone Pure Water Company Ltd, original consent granted in 2004), has not abstracted water since 2011, but renewed its application consent in March 2018.

GWRC who, under the Resource Management Act, manages the taking and use of water in the Wellington region - is currently awaiting further information on the location of the bore of the proposed water take. It is also known that PPWC Ltd has a limited timeframe in which to comply with a policy of annual return, or risk being struck from the Company’s

Office registrar. Meanwhile, a second consent application was lodged on June 28 this year by Heretaunga Water Ltd, to take and use groundwater from a bore located at 20-24 Hautonga Street in Petone for water bottling purposes at a maximum rate of 20 litres/second, 24 hours a day, 8,640 m3/ week, with an annual volume of 432,000m3/ year. The applicant is seeking a consent period of 30 years.

The Waiwhetu aquifer supplies the Wellington region with 40 percent of its water. If both applications were fully consented and the companies operable, water-bottling rights would equate to 3.8 percent of the total 86 percent of the aquifer’s water allocation. Four percent would equate to approximately 17,000 people’s daily water allotment.

GWRC’s Lower Hutt constituency councillor, Prue Lamason, says GWRC is currently bound by the RMA.

Cr Lamason, who also sits on the GWRC

Environment Committee, says that with such strong opposition to the projects, GWRC has since set up the Whaitua te Whanganui a Tara, which is the third of five Whaitua; select groups of local people from the Hutt Valley and Wellington.

“The Whaitua is assigned with developing a programme to improve the quality of our streams, rivers and harbour,” she says. “[It] will also be examining issues around the sustainability of aquifer water use and may even set new limits, based on the most up to date science information and community values.”

Cr Lamason said that this may not be a "quick fix", but she implored regional and local councils to work together over resolving the issue. Hutt City Councillors Campbell Barry and Josh Briggs both spoke against water-take at the meeting.

Labour list MP for Hutt South, Ginny Andersen, said there is no process for central Government to step in. Continues Page 2

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“Those that I have spoken to don’t like the idea that a company can put our water into plastic bottles and make a profit from a public resource. At the very least, the GWRC should have made this a public notification, so that all people can submit their views on the consent applications currently being considered.”

Current GWRC policy is applications for resource consents must include assessment of environmental effects that will occur as a result of the activity. Anyone can apply for a resource consent for any purpose, including overseas interest.

Ms Andersen said that in the past, New Zealand was promoted offshore as a place to extract and export bottled water.

“I am glad to say this Government does not support that kind of promotion,” she says. “We

are undertaking a comprehensive overhaul of the RMA. It’s unacceptable for this cornerstone law to be underperforming in a country that values the protection of the environment.”

“Water extraction has also been included in the review of the Overseas Investment Act,” she says.

Cr Lamason said Eastbourne people were well informed on the issues of water bottling/water take. “I have every respect for their concerns,” she says, “as I am also very concerned when water becomes a commodity to be exported in plastic bottles when we as a country are committed to reducing waste and our carbon footprint.”

“I urge people to write to their local MP to put pressure on the government to make the review of the RMA a matter of urgency. I also encourage people to take part in the Whaitua process.”

SAT, SUN & PUBLIC HOLIDAYS:

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

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

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August Eastbourne Community Board

Are you an eager voter? You can vote for:

5 Eastbourne Community Board members 1 Harbour Ward councillor 1 mayor 6 councillors elected city wide 2 Greater Wellington Regional Councillors 2 Hutt Mana Charitable Trust trustees 7 District Health Board members Are you dazed and confused? * Read profiles and comments in local papers * Eastbourne Community facebook will have candidate statements and you can ask them questions * Go to candidate public meetings * You don’t have to vote for a full slate of candidates, just tick those you feel confident represent your views. BOWEN TECHNIQUE MASSAGE REIKI THERAPY Jenni Gray R.N., R.M., Dip. Orthopedic, Dip. Occupational Health 562 7779 or 027 488 4000 jenni.gray48@gmail.com healthworks

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Youth group likely to close at end of term

The message is very simple from Eddie and Maree Jansen and Briar Bloomfield: “We have been Youth Group Board Members for quite a number of years and we need to move on.”

The three trustees intend to see this term out running ‘The Loft’, the long-standing Friday night venue for local Eastern bays teenagers, but if no one has come forward to take over running the operation by the start of term four, it’s curtains for the local youth group. “The role is most suited to parents with a vested interest,” Eddie says. “They have kids around the year 7-8 age and they enjoy the conversation, fun, banter that you can have with this age group whilst also providing good leadership examples.

“This is an opportunity to provide solid development of our youth,” he adds, “and trust me, there is nothing more satisfying than catching up with ex-youth group members, 4-5 years down the track, and seeing that they have

developed into fine young people.”

Eddie says that presented here, is a fun opportunity for someone.

“We are more than happy to provide extensive handover, basically whatever it takes,” he says. “We also have some able assistants on duty each Friday, who make things happen without much pressure on a new group.”

Anyone interested in taking over the role is urged to contact Eddie; eddie@edwardc.co.nz

Maree and Eddie Jansen.

Kerr chosen as finalist in 2019 Parkin Art Award

The Arrangement, a work by local artist, Susanne Kerr, has been chosen as a finalist in the 2019 Parkin Drawing Award and will be on display at the NZ Academy of Fine Arts exhibition in Wellington until September 8.

Seventy-five works have been chosen from artists throughout New Zealand, the Parkin Drawing Prize recognised as the country’s premier award for drawing.

Each year the winning entry is purchased by the Academy and added to a unique collection of drawings by New Zealand artists. The Parkin Prize was established by arts patron Chris Parkin, former owner of the Museum Art Hotel in Wellington.

Susanne says that preparing for solo and group exhibitions, often means she has to rule out participating in many art awards, as her energy is focused elsewhere.

“After viewing the varied and accomplished works in the Parkin Drawing Award last year,” says Susanne, “I was inspired to create a work for it. As a first time contributor to this award I not only appreciate being selected as a finalist, but having the opportunity to exhibit my work in my hometown. I often have to fly elsewhere to see my work in an exhibition so it’s nice that this is only a short car trip away.”

Another work by Susanne entitled Parachute will also feature as part of the exhibition, although that work is currently at the Centre of Contemporary Art in Christchurch, as part of the 27th Annual Wallace Art Award.

The Awards are now the longest surviving and largest annual art awards of their kind in New Zealand, with a combined prize value in excess of $275,000.

Susanne was the People’s Choice Winner of the Wallace Art Award in 2011, an award she has been a finalist in on seven occasions since 2008.

Since completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree at the Ilam School of Fine Arts in Christchurch, 2000, Susanne has exhibited her work right throughout the country in solo, selected group and public exhibitions.

The most recent of her many accolades was as last year's winner of the Michael Evans Figurative Award winner at the Walker & Hall Award on Waiheke Island. In 2013, she spent three months on the same island as artist in residence.

In the past two years, Susanne has developed a new series of works, informed by the aesthetics of symmetry and asymmetry.

“Along with stylised nature and elaborate decoration embodied in Chinoiserie (European interpretation and imitation of Chinese and East Asian artistic traditions),” she says,”I have been drawn to the tension and dynamic asymmetric energy-flow of Ikebana flower

arrangements.”

The painted pictorial imagery entices the viewer in with the intricate patterning and colour and is a natural progression considering her long term interest in art from Asia.

Strongly symbolic, her works portray women as the key characters, while men play a supporting role.

“By achieving what is in my minds eye,” Susanne says, “I can present, with fresh eyes, a collective and individual experience of what makes us human.”

Susanne working in her studio on Muritai Road.

Farewells and best wishes from ECB Chair

by Carl McRae

The August 20th meeting was the last of the current Eastbourne Community Board, with three members - Liz Knight, Robert Ashe and Anna Sutherland - all known to be standing down. Chair, Virginia Horrocks says that all three had taken on a specific role as well as being valuable members of the board group.

“Anna has kept us in touch with ERAT,” she says, “Liz has been our contact with WREMO and emergency management and Rob has spearheaded action on enhancing the dunes.”

It is also farewell for this triennium for councillor’s Tui Lewis and Michael Lulich.

“Tui and Michael have worked tirelessly for the Eastbourne Community,” says Virginia, “particularly in pushing for the Shared Path and for Council to begin serious action on climate change. Although Tui and Michael’s term ends with this triennium we may yet see them both back in action; Tui is standing for the Harbour Ward and Michael to represent the city as a whole. We wish them both all the best for their campaigns.”

Virginia says that this has been a very harmonious board, working democratically and positively, including through some contentious issues.

“I thank them all, and of course Murray Gibbons who is not retiring, for their contribution to the board and community," she says.

As the term of the current board draws to a conclusion, Virginia says that she is very proud of their achievements and further commends Mr. Gibbons for his tireless work, working with the community and supporting the installation of the wonderful bird mosaics in Rimu Street and the development of the heritage trail.

The board was unanimous in its support of the skate ramp which has proved to be a great success.

“I constantly meet people who say how much they enjoy seeing the number of young and not so young loving that ramp,” she says. “It has also proved to be multi-purpose as a

slide for the very young, as well as a scooter and skate ramp for all ages.”

The recent climate emergency declaration was a major moment for the retiring board. However, it is only the beginning of community action, which Virginia says she hopes will be taken on by the new look ECB.

The plinth in Williams Park, describing the natural and human history of Days Bay, was another  community effort.

“We thank Don Long, George Gibbs and Simon Hoyle for their inspiration and slightly terrifying efficiency in designing this,” says Virginia. “I constantly see visitors reading the information and talking about it with their children.”

She adds that the community board cannot claim credit for the renewal of Rona and Days Bay wharves, which are council projects, but the ECB did lobby hard for their inclusion in council budgets.

“Residents have expressed delight with Rona wharf,” she says, “and we are impressed with the quality of work so far on the Days Bay wharf.”

Days Bay residents have now been invited to contribute ideas for how best to accommodate fishers, ferry commuters, jumpers and swimmers and the wharf's role in an emergency. Virginia expects some lively  discussions.

She says that there are exciting times ahead for those who will be joining her and Murray on the new board, the ongoing saga of the Eastern Bays Shared Pathway for one.

“Some final requests have been made to the designers,” she says, “which should be completed any day, then we are ready to gather community support for the resource consent.”

Transportation, current and future, is high on the agenda. Double Decker buses are to begin the Metlink 81 runs imminently. It is Virginia’s hope that they will produce an instant improvement in our public transport system, congestion issues and regularity of service.

Recently, Jeremy Ward of East by West,

presented up to date information on the building of an electric ferry, to a packed Days Bay AGM. The ferry is the first of its kind in the southern hemisphere, designed and built by a superb team of world class experts.

“We hope the ferry will be in service early next year.,” Virginia says. “It will expand our commuter service and I hope we will be able to get some synchronising of bus services and ferries. That is definitely something for the new board to push for.”

Other issues that look set to come up on the agenda for the new board in the first term include  comprehensive plans for a carbon reduction plan, as outlined at a Council workshop August 8th and what will be needed to reduce the city’s emissions.

Also (shared with Petone and Wainuiomata) concerns regarding two developing stories; consents to take water for bottling from the Hutt aquifer and methane leakage from Council owned landfills. Four new candidates for the ECB were in atte dance at the last official meeting of the current board; Bruce Spedding, Belinda Moss, Frank Vickers and Phil Sprey.

It's all Gobbledegook to Giselle

Imagine being commissioned to illustrate an anthology of poems and stories, written for children by the kuia of New Zealand children’s literature – an author from your own childhood.

The chance to bring to life the muchloved Joy Cowley’s stories and poems for a new generation of Kiwi kids – “to give them a whole second life” – was irresistible for York Bay illustrator and cartoonist Giselle Clarkson (right). She has created a bookful of images for a handsome new volume of the Featherstonbased author’s stories and poems from the last three decades.

It was a teacher at Hutt Intermediate, where she was a “quite nerdy” 12-year-old, who really set Giselle’s career in motion. She had done after-school art classes with Eve Owen at Wellesley College – “like the best-ever club!” – in primary school. Then Hutt Intermediate’s Charles Darr organised a one-person field trip for her – a visit to Wellington video game developer Sidhe, where Giselle was introduced to a designer using a drawing tablet and stylus. “I thought ‘I want to do that’,” she says.

After completing every art and design course available at Hutt Valley High School, plus art history by correspondence, Giselle skipped Year 13 and headed for Canterbury University. A Fine Arts degree in photography under Glenn Busch followed, teaching her much about composition as well as a way of looking at life critically. “It was not just about the photos – it was an overall education,” she says. “There was a real emphasis on educating ourselves about the world, of staying really informed through reading, and going to exhibitions.”

That spirit of staying informed, of thoroughly researching her subject, has stood Giselle, now 30, in good stead throughout the last five years as a freelance illustrator and cartoonist. She’s created advertisements for Kiwibank, illustrated a book on butterflies for the Auckland Museum and two Annuals, for Gecko and Annual Ink, and more recently produced an eight-page comic about our Subantarctic Islands for the School Journal, which has drawn enthusiastic responses from teachers and kids. Her cartoon blogs for New Zealand children’s book website The Sapling are a visually entertaining mine of information, and not just for children.

A lifelong passion for conservation – which almost won out as a career option – often sees Giselle sketching the old-fashioned way while out tramping or walking. But she creates all her finished work digitally.

Of all the work in The Gobbledegook Book, Giselle’s favourite is probably the one she started with – The Tiny Woman’s Coat. Asked by Gecko Press to “read some stories and see what you come up with”, she produced a quickly-drawn suite of scenes, assuming they were just roughs – but the publisher said “no, they’re done”.

Another favourite is the timeless tale Nickety Nackety Noo Noo Noo, involving an old woman and an ogre. “I love a wily woman,”

Giselle says. “She’s clever and sly and knows she’s going to come out on top.”

And no, she hasn’t met Joy Cowley yet – but when she does, she expects she’ll feel like fellow Gecko illustrator Kimberly Andrews did on meeting the Dame – “touched by greatness… somehow blessed”.

The Gobbledegook Book will be launched at a free Featherston Booktown event to be hosted by Joy Cowley in Anzac Hall Featherston on September 14.

MICHAEL LULICH City Councillor

Okiwi Volunteer Driving Service

Local Body Elections

Thank-you for the faith and trust you put in me for serving Eastbourne and the Bays over the years. I wish to continue to advocate for you but not as a Harbour Ward Councillor. I have decided instead to represent your views more strongly by seeking to be elected as a City Wide Councillor from the six vacancies available. I urge you to tick Michael Lulich when you receive your local body election papers in September.

Arts and Culture

As Chair of Arts and Culture I lobbied the Wellington Regional Amenities Fund to fund our local events. It was great securing funding for the High-light Festival that over 100,000 people attend yearly. We are looking for volunteers for the Festival this October. It was also a pleasure this year to show-case the Hutt Winter Festival. With the closure of the Naenae Pool, murals have been commissioned outside the pool to beautify and revitalise the area until the new pool is built.

Waste Reduction

Hutt City Council and Upper Hutt councils have partnered a campaign to help support residents to reduce their waste. You can see the launch of the new joint council website on sortwaste.nz which aims to help residents across the Hutt think differently about waste. On the website local people who are on their waste reduction journey share their stories and there are simple tips to help others get started. You can save on the food waste, average yearly household cost is $644 in NZ, and benefit the environment.

Recognise Volunteer Work Of Community Groups In Our City

At the ‘Wellington Airport Regional Community Award (Lower Hutt)’ we recognised volunteer work of our community groups across the city in partnership with Wellington Airport and Wellington CommunityTrust. The Friends of Baring Heads Charitable Trust won the heritage and environment category while the supreme winner (Education category) was Te Awakairangi

Access Trust. The other categories winners were, Hutt City Brass (Arts and Culture), Common Unity Project Aotearoa Remakery (Health and Wellbeing), Hutt Valley Riding for the Disabled (Sports and Leisure); Enliven Contact (Rising Star). Civic Volunteers Awards won by V. Ferguson, Dr A. Kerr and S. McNair. Residents can contact me with their enquiries on 977-3166 (home) or 0210304561 (mobile), and you can email me at michaellulich14@gmail.com or follow facebook.com/MichaelLulich14 on Facebook

Authorised by Michael Lulich 10 Latimer Way, Petone

Jam-maker raising money to aid Indian children

by Carl McRae

An Eastbourne woman is wanting money for jam - the jam being made by her own hand, but the money destined for the underprivileged children of Bawana, India.

Heike Fetting says that with the citrus season in full swing, she decided to do another fundraiser for a cause close to her heart.

Last year she made jams and lemon curd, with all monies going toward helping a Lower Hutt child suffering from muscular dystrophy.

This year she decided she would like to raise funds for Global Tribe India's Children's Centre, founded and run by Kiwi woman JulieAnn Kamal, affectionately known as "Jig".

“Her goal is simple,” says Heike.

“To create a place where the kids can learn basic life skills, in a fun loving, safe environment that will empower them throughout their lives.”

“I know Julie-Ann personally,” she adds, “and I truly admire her for her work. Her love and dedication are one of a kind.”

Bawana is an industrial area in the NorthWest district of Delhi, with a population of around 75,000.

Like any organisation of its kind, the Centre relies heavily on donations. Currently, they are raising funds to fix a broken water filter, for new chairs for the teachers, undergarments for the children and a new DVD player.

Heike says that her jam has proven popular and is always in high demand when she has made batches in the past year or so. She says there is no special secret to making it, no family formula from her native Germany (although her Grandfather from Mölln was a pastry chef), really just the fruit from local trees that gets generously donated to her in times of abundance.

In fact, Heike’s Lemon or Grapefruit Marmalade, or Lemon Curd, is made totally from organic fruit from local gardens.

The freerange eggs required for the lemon curd are donated also.

“Arthur Holmes from Petone have supplied me with jars,” she says, “and Pak n’ Save Petone have helped with other basic ingredients. Their contributions have enabled me to give every cent of the proceeds (each jar is $5) directly towards JulieAnn's wonderful project.”

churning out another batch of her popular lemon curd.

Heike designed her own label for the jam jars, under the auspice of ‘Omi’s Treats’. She has decided that each year from now on, she will do the same and make jam for a cause that she deems worthwhile when there is citrus to be harvested.

If you can’t wait that long, ‘Omi’s Treats’ can be purchased directly from the Hive Cafe. Heike says that she is working on having other

local stockists also. The other way to buy some is by contacting her through her Facebook page. Heike says there’s a double feel-good factor involved here.

“People can buy some jam, safe in the knowledge that they are helping some underprivileged kids,” she says, “and still treat themselves at the same time!”

Heike Fetting at home,

Planting Planting Planting! Hundreds of volunteers have got their hands dirty and made a contribution to the restoration of all three areas of East Harbour Regional Park. As part of the national project to plant a Million Metres of river banks, Conservation Volunteers New Zealand and sponsors; Garage project, Tonkin and Taylor, Alsco and Ricoh have so far been blessed with still days on the Wainuiomata River at Baring Head. MIRO have lovingly grown from seed both primary and secondary species including some beautiful Kahikatea for the Parangarahu Lakes, tucked behind Pencarrow Head. Community volunteers and Taranaki Whānui, owners and Kaitiaki of the lakes enthusiastically planted the thirteenth fenced planting area.

MIRO The Wellington Mountain Bike Club has been working on the Rata Ridge track to close of braided areas with plants and temporary barriers. It’s great to be working with this group to start to address some of the damage bikes are causing around the park. It’s important for bikers to stay on the permitted tracks and not to damage vegetation. Bikes using tracks that have not been specifically built for them cause rutting, that water flow exacerbates and results in costly track damage.

I am sure many of you were relieved when the family that recently went missing in the Northern Forest walked out to safety. New track markers have been placed on the Lees Grove track and new signage will be installed on some of the bait lines to aid navigation. The family were well prepared and this should be a reminder to always go prepared, as anybody

can get lost.

The Baring Head/Ōrua-pouanui escarpment is known to have a remnant population of the nationally threatened lizard, the spotted skinks (Oligosoma lineoocellatum). Scree slopes on the escarpments provide a refuge from predators. Friends of Baring Head volunteers manage a network of traps and bait stations, which targets a range of pests. An extra level of protection involving wooden tunnel bait stations has also been in place to specifically protect the skinks. This network has recently been reconfigured with the aim of making it more effective.

Today I received fantastic news from Hammond Decorating that they will strip one of the out buildings at the Baring Head Light house complex for free to help move the Friends of Baring Head one step closer to their vision. If you want to get involved see more at www. baringhead.org.nz Thanks Shawn, no wonder you have just won a New Zealand Master Painter award.

I am off to England to catch up with family and will be returning in September when I hope spring will be in the air.

- Jo Greenman East Harbour Regional Park Ranger

Community Volunteers and Taranaki Whānui planting at Parangarahu.

SUMMER IS ONLY AROUND THE CORNER...

In light of recent news that we have had the busiest July for house sales in three years, there is reason to be optimistic if you are thinking of selling at this time of year. With current stock low, we are finding a greater amount of interest in every listed propertyultimately bringing better results for current vendors.

As we approach warmer weather, with more properties becoming available for buyers to choose from, it has never been a better time to consider bringing a home to market than now. For suggestions of cost-effective ways to prepare your home for sale or questions about selling or buying in this wonderful area...

safety

On Saturday 3 August, I travelled Seaview Road between Bell Road and Gracefield Road three times between 6pm and 10.30pm. On each occasion, I passed a police car with flashing lights and a police officer presumably ticketing a motorist for speeding. The conditions were fine and there was very little traffic, certainly no traffic movements in and out of business premises. This stretch of road is wide and safe with virtually no record of accidents. I can only assume that the police are using it for revenue generation purposes at the expense of Eastern Bays residents. If they were worried about safety, they would be on the Haywards Hill road or some place where accidents occur.

Is it not time for Eastern Bays residents to demand that Seaview Road have a 70kph limit outside of normal business hours? Variable speed limits are common in other places in our region. With local body elections looming, how about we push candidates on this issue.

In the meantime, when I see the police on Seaview Road, I will flick my lights at oncoming traffic to alert them.

John Welch

This month sees the 96th Anniversary of the Eastbourne Volunteer Fire Brigade.

On behalf of the Eastbourne Volunteer Fire Brigade, I would like to thank all past and present members of the Brigade and their very supportive families and friends, for their commitment to the safety of the community of Eastbourne and surrounding Bays.

Appliances

Here are some tips for using appliances safely.

• Turn off appliances when not in use. If practical, unplug them at the wall as well.

• Keep all electrical appliances away from water.

• When buying second hand appliances, ensure they've been tested by a licensed electrician or gas fitter, and have been certified as safe.

• Do not place fans, heaters, televisions or other electrical equipment in areas without good airflow, as they may overheat.

• If you're worried about the condition of any appliances (like electric blankets, heaters, air conditioners or fans), have them checked by a qualified electrician.

• Laundry

• Remove lint from the clothes dryer filter after each use. Static electricity and build-up of heat can cause dust, lint and chemical residue on clothing to catch fire.

• Ensure the dryer goes through the full cycle, including cool down, before you open it.

• Ensure there's proper ventilation and air space around the clothes dryer.

• Don't install a smoke alarm in your laundry as you might get false alarms. Try a heat detector instead.

Remember!

Working Smoke Alarms Save Lives.

Emergency Call Outs:

• 27 July 19 - Gas leak, York Bay

• 28 July 19 – Fire on Beach, Maire St

• 29 July 19 – Fire on Beach, Recreation ground

• 03 August 19 – Medical Event, Konini St

• 05 August 19 – Animal Rescue, Tuatoru St

• 16 August 19 – Assist public – Rimu St

• 19 August 19 – Medical Event –Muritai Rd

The Eastbourne Volunteer Fire Brigade is still 12 Firefighters short of its optimum membership which is 50% of the Brigade operational establishment, so please give some serious thought to becoming a Volunteer to help protect your community.

Please call Ross Carroll, Chief Fire Officer (021 648 114), if you think you’ve got what it takes.

-Corned Silverside

-Osso Buco

-Beef Cheeks

-Rolled Pork Roasts

-Lamb Legs & Shoulder

-Free Range Chicken

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. au

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

Gavin Murphy General Manager

One point decider for seniors

So near, yet so far: the Eastbourne senior rugby team was beaten  18-17 by defending champion Wellington in the division two final of the  Wellington 85kg division for the Tony O’Brien Shield.

Eastbourne rallied from eight points down to close within a point of  Wellington and had a chance to snatch a win but a late penalty attempt   faded just wide of the posts.

An impressive 34-14 win over Marist-St Pats a week earlier propelled  Eastbourne into the final and the team continued its steady improvement  throughout the season to fully stretch the league champions.

Coach Barry Luke shared his players’ immediate disappointment at the  outcome of the final but was able to look at the bigger picture. The  team had started the season with very few expectations: they built a  formidable team spirit and while they lost the final by the narrowest of  margins they showed they were able to match the best teams in their  division. “The final was a great game but, more than that, the semifinal  against Marist-St Pats was also a great game,” Luke said. “We played  some great rugby over the last few weeks of the season and, looking  back, that made it all worthwhile.

“We lost the final by a point; that’s disappointing. We missed a  penalty and could have won it but that’s the way things go. I’m really  proud of the rugby we played towards the end of the season and I think

we came a long way together.”

Luke said Eastbourne’s outstanding performance in the final “capped  off a good season for rebuilding.”

“I’m pretty pleased with the year,” he said. “It’s only  disappointing that we didn’t win it but I think we made a lot of  progess as a team.

“We had a minimum of 18 players at training every Thursday over the  season and it was because people turned up like that that we were in  such a good state. That shows enthusiasm and commitment and team spirit  and it’s the spirit we’re most proud of. We had a lot of good young players coming through in their second  season in the division and they came to the fore. We had the older guys  who have been around a while and they stepped up as leaders. That was  so important. It all came together in a team peformance which showed  pride and I’m happy with that.”

Luke will likely be back to coach the team again next season and he  expects many players to return with the help of a long-term incentive. “It’s the centenary of the club in 2021 and a lot of the current  players want to be around for that,” he said. "One more season and then it’s the centenary season and everyone  realises what it would mean to be part of a club that is 100 years old,  in that jubilee season. That’s what guys want to hang around for, to be  part of that, and it’s not too far away.”

Twelve hardy souls made it out to the Pt Howard Assn (PHA) and Tennis Club Fish and Chip night on 5 July. Thanks to everyone who made it out in the inclement weather. Unfortunately, it was weather for ducks and not for tennis, so the Tennis Club was unable to run its Friday night social.

Seaview Noise Dates for the Calendar: The PHA has received a notification from the Hutt Valley Motorsports Club that they have made an application to the Hutt City Council for road closures to run the annual Port Road Street Sprints for the following dates:

Sunday 27th October 2019, with reserve day

Monday 28th October

Sunday 19th January 2020, with reserve day

Monday 20th January

The PHA would like to thank the 82 households in Point Howard and Sorrento Bay who have become members of the association for 2019/2020. We really appreciate your support. If your household is not a member, and would like to become one, please email pthowardassn@gmail.com for more details.

Watch this space as the PHA will be announcing the date for the 2019 Christmas Long Lunch in the next edition.

pthowardassn@gmail.com

News from Point Howard

New gift shop fills void in village

There’s a new business in Rimu Street that is certainly worth a gander. The return to the village of a quality gift shop has excited the many who have ventured in already, say coowner’s Susie Auker and Gunn Storer, who bring a ton of experience between them, as marketeers of quality artisan products.

"It's just what the doctor ordered, was one comment made recently," Susie says.

The former Westpac bank manager, said it wasn’t an easy choice to give up the corporate job in a fiscal sense, but largely a ‘no-brainer’ when it came to shifting her career path. She herself is one of the 19 vendors that provide line items for the new store, the maker of a range of colourful and popular place mats, which feature disney characters and selected frames from Marvel comics.

Business partner, Gunn, hails from a small town near the capital Oslo, in southern Norway. Gunn specialises in the making of Kava Kava products, balm and soap. She is also an experienced jewellery maker and is an expert in the knowledge of crystal properties.

The pair shared side-by-side stalls on Wellington’s waterfront during last summer’s pop-up markets and decided that a business venture together would be worth considering.

“We looked at shop’s in Wellington and Lower Hutt,” Gunn says, “before making the

logical decision to try our luck in Eastbourne. Let’s face it, who wouldn’t want to be in Eastbourne over the summer months?”

“I’d heard that the crystal shop had recently closed in the village. The premise also ticked all the boxes, it had everything we were looking for. It was big enough to house the stock we had purchased and had enough storage space as well.”

Susie says that she has been overwhelmed by the positive and friendly response from other business in Eastbourne, most business or shop owners having already popped in to introduce

themselves and wish them all the best with there venture.

Gunn says that it can be risky going into business with friends, but she says that hers and Susie’s strength may lay in the fact that they, in many ways, are polar opposites.

“And in that situation,” she adds, “we find that we also compliment each other very well with our different strengths. And if we have any misunderstandings, we talk about it.”

So once again the village is complimented by the return of a quality gift shop, with what Susie terms ‘high-class kiwiana’ items, sourced from right throughout the country.

“We’re certainly interested in talking with local artisans about the potential to stock their products also, “she says. “Just pop in and say hello. You’ll find that we pretty much have something here for everyone.”

The Artisan Co-op Store also have a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ artisancoopstore/

Gunn Storer and Susie Auker attempt to entice local woman, Sheila Johnson in for a look around.

Rugby continues for some

The Eastbourne Junior Rugby Club will wrap up another successful  season on Saturday with the last round of regular season games and a  prizegiving.

While most players will be putting away their boots for another  year, some teams will remain active over the next few weeks.

The Eastbourne under-10 Sea Eagles and the Eastbourne under-11  pirates will travel to Queenstown next month to compete at the National  Junior Rugby Festival.

Festival events take place in Taupo and Queenstown and Eastbourne  teams have competed at the Taupo in the past. But this season parents  and players have decided to make the longer trip to Queenstown for the  event which brings together teams from around New Zealand.

Successful fundraising has covered most of the costs of a trip for  the players and supporters.

Eastbourne junior co-ordinator Mark Potter, who is stepping down at  the end of the current season when his own children finish their time  with the junior club, said the club is in good heart.

Player numbers have held steady at Eastbourne in recent seasons,  going against a national trend which

has seen junior numbers decline.  The numbers of girls playing rugby in Eastbourne has increased,  something Potter attributes to the significant amount of support now  being put behind female players to ensure they enjoy rugby and succeed.

More than 30 players have been in involved in the club’s pre-school  activities on Friday nights and those numbers are likely to ensure  strong representation as they pass through age grades.

The pre-school nursery grade has already helped to increase numbers  at under-6 and under-7 level this season.

“It’s been a great season,” Potter said.

“We’ve had awesome support  from parents and that gives the kids the chance to do what they enjoy,  have fun and learn.”

Faith in the Community

Around Ireland…

A Druid, so the ancient story goes, once asked the warrior Fionn mac Cumaill, what he thought was the most beautiful music in all creation. How would you answer that, if you were asked? Would it be the waves jostling the stones on an Eastbourne beach at nightfall? Would it be the first plaintive notes of the tui, heralding in the dawn chorus? Would it be the peals of laughter of children at play? A Beethoven sonata…? Or the sound of a skylark rising over Dingle Peninsula, one of the Druid’s suggestions. “No” said mac Cumaill, “It is the music of what happens.” When we listen to the music of what happens in our lives, we become present to all of creation. To the divine. To the longings and sufferings of our neighbours. To moments of exquisite joy. To times of deep peace. And to the still small voice of God ever present, ever calling us into a relationship of love with those around us. Surely the most beautiful sound in all creation…

St Alban’s: ALPHA Tues, 6.30pm, starting 13 Aug, 12 Puriri St. • Men’s Group, a drink and a bite, first Wednesdays, 6pm, RSA. • Women’s Group third Mondays, 10am, Hive Café. 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). Taizé Candlelight Service, 1st Suns, 6.30pm (winter months). Parenting Course, Babies and toddlers, Term 3, Thurs 7-9pm, six weekly sessions (22 Aug to 26 Sept), enquire office@stronans.org.nz Alpha Discussion BYO lunch, Thurs 12.15pm, eight weekly sessions (1 Aug to 19 Sept), enquire office@stronans. org.nz

By Steve McMorran

The Eastbourne Football Club began this season with one major  objective: to see its top masters team promoted from Masters division  two to Masters division one in Capital football and the team achieved  that goal with four matches to spare

The Eastbourne “Hammers” won

Mission Accomplished!

16, drew one and lost only one of their  18 matches this season, finishing 16 points clear of their nearest rival  atop the divisional table. That ensures they will play in Masters One next season, a priority  for the Eastbourne club which began the current season without a senior  team for the first time in many years but with three teams in the  increasingly popular and competitive masters grades.

Eastbourne chairman Mike Andrews said the club is delighted with the  performance of the Hammers and of all three masters teams.

The Thirsty 5s finished seventh in Capital Masters Five with nine  wins, three draws and nine losses and the Eastbourne Gs were fifth in

the Masters Over-43 division.

“It’s been a pretty good season,” Andrews said. “We had a feeling  the Hammers would be very competitive but to win the grade with three or  four games in the bank was more than we had hoped for. We were sure the team would measure up in masters two. As soon as  we knew we had enough players for three teams this season, we realised  that we would have the basis of a very good first team. With what they’ve achieved, they’ve put a marker down for next year.”

“We also have a great trophy to show off. And we have a great social side to the club as well. We get  together at the Sports and Social Club and invite the opposition back  after home games. It’s a great atmosphere.”

SPORT

Eastbourne Diamonds sparkling

As the old expression goes…there’s something in the water.

At the Hutt Valley Sports Awards earlier this year, former Eastbourne junior footballer, Maya Hahn, took out the Young Sportswoman of the Year award, following her success as a key member of the New Zealand Under 17 Women's World Cup team. In winning bronze in Uruguay, the team achieved the best result ever recorded by a New Zealand team at a FIFA event.

Earlier this month, the now Americanbased, University of Oregon student was named in the German U19 squad, ahead of two friendlies against Belgium and the Netherlands (August 30 and September 1 respectively). These games are preparation for Germany’s U19 ‘Euro 2020’ qualifiers in October.

At the start of this New Zealand season, defender Sam Woolley was selected in the Wellington United Diamonds side, which recently took out the 2019 Women’s W-League and was beaten in extra-time in the Kate Sheppard Cup semi-final against Christchurch based Coastal Spirit last Saturday.

Sam was joined early in the season by a fellow Eastbourneite - Nea Blackham - who had impressed as a member of the Sapphires and was subsequently given game time with the top side when that team had members away in USA.

She repaid the faith shown in her with a stunning goal in the KS Cup quarter-final match against Wairarapa United, which resulted in a 4-1 win for the Diamonds.

Nea says that playing with and against women who are older and more experienced than her has been a massive learning curve and she has had to become a lot more physical.

“My skills have developed significantly since becoming part of the Diamonds,” she says. “My control of the ball has improved and I’ve become more confident during attacking play.”

Coach of the Diamonds, Guillermo Schiltenwolf, says that his club is absolutely delighted to have them both in the squad.

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“Both of them are great people,” he says. “Very humble.

"They want to improve every day and they have the discipline it takes to achieve goals.”

Both young women have been selected for the Capital National Womens League wider squad, the final make-up of that group will be named next week.

New Zealand Futsal Fern representative, Maxine Cooper is another ex-Eastbourneite who also previously played for Wellington United’s Diamonds side. Currently studying physiology at Auckland University, Maxine is one of the Auckland Federation’s most lethal weapons around a Futsal court and captained her country at the University World Championships held in Kazakhstan, achieving their first win on the international stage.

Current Eastbourne FC Chairman, Mike Andrews, says the club is immensely proud of the achievements of these former junior club footballers.

“It is outstanding,” he says, “but it’s also recognition of the huge support that the EFC kids get from their parents and coaches when playing their junior football for the club.

"The input from these parents and coaches is the lifeblood of the Eastbourne Club.”

Nea Blackham says that the Diamonds were definitely driven to win the final of the Kate Sheppard Cup and were devastated at losing their semi-final

“Extra fitness and early morning trainings were indicative to me, that we were ready to lift that trophy. That’ll have to be next year now.”

Garden Stuff with Sandy Lang

August/September: Early spring. Temperatures rising. Pruning done. Plant new trees/shrubs now.

Genes: Plants and animals. There’s less difference than you might think. About 60% of your genes are similar to a banana’s, 90% to your cat’s and 99.9% to mine… It’s only 0.1% of our 25,000 different genes that tell us apart: sex, eye-colour, personality, health, height, blood-type… A few of these characteristics are determined by a single gene (freckles) but most involve multiple genes. Our 25,000 different genes each contain the code to make one protein, so we have about 25,000 different proteins.

Proteins: Indeed, we’re largely made of proteins. Some are structural (keratin – hair), others are functional (lipase – digests fat). A protein is a very long chain of 1,000 to 1,000,000 amino acids. There are 20 different amino acids (glutamine, serine and 18 others). The properties of a protein depend on the exact sequence of these 20 amino acids along the chain – get one amino acid wrong, and the protein may not work. The precise amino acid sequence of each of our proteins is coded in our DNA.

DNA: Each cell contains a nucleus, and each nucleus contains the full genetic code for all our proteins. This code is contained in a 2 m length of DNA - all scrunched up in a tiny ball. Think of DNA as a spiral ladder with 3,000,000,000 rungs - that’s as many rungs, as the millimetres of road between Auckland and Bluff, and back.

Bases: There are four different sorts of rungs (bases) - Adenine, Thymine, Guanine and Cytosine. These four bases appear in an exact sequence along the 3,000,000,000-rung DNA ladder. Writing just their initial letters, a close-up of a minute part of the DNA ladder might read –ACATGACAAGTCGCGGACAACTCCAGUAATTGT…

Code: There are 64 different ways of writing these four letters into three-letter words (making 64 different words). Many of these words share the same meaning, so CAA and CAG both code for the amino acid glutamine, and AGC and AGT both code for serine (in all, 64 words code for 20 amino acids).

mRNA: To make a particular protein, the cell first makes a copy of the corresponding section of DNA code (gene). This gene copy is called mRNA. The mRNA is then read by a tiny machine (ribosome) which constructs the protein chain according to the three-letter word codes, one amino acid at a time.

Sandy Lang slang@xtra.co.nz

Church Services In Eastbourne

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

Kidztalk

SPORT BRIEFS

Eastbourne basketballer Stella Beck made a major contribution to the  New Zealand Black Ferns team which finished second at the William Jones  Cup tournament in Taiwan late last month. The New Zealand women’s team won its first four matches before being  beaten 95-63 by favorite Japan in the final. New Zealand shot only 35 percent from the field and 22 percent from  the three-point range in the final to be outplayed by Japan whose shooting  was outstanding. But Beck, who plays professionally in the Australia women’s leagues,  was among the best of the Tall Ferns in the final with 8 points, 7  rebounds and 6 assists in an outstanding allcourt performance.

Five Eastbourne players have been chosen in the Hutt Valley under-13  B Basketball team which will compete at the Central Regional  Championships in New Plymouth. Aubrey Chunga, Lorenzo Caratori Tontini, Joseph Keenan, Inaki  Zaballa and Bruno Thompson, who has been named to captain the team, will  play at the championships from October 9 to 12.

A total of 24 students from Muritai School have qualified to  represent the South East Zone at the interzone swimming championships  for year 4 to 8 competitors next month. The students qualified after producing impressive performances at  the South East Zone championships on August 16.

News from our local playcentres

NEWS FROM POINT HOWARD PLAYCENTRE

Eastbourne basketballer Rufus Rusholme Cobb made a big impression while playing for the New Zealand Basketball Academy at tournaments in Las Vegas last month. The tournaments attract the best young talent in the United States. The New Zealand team won the silver division of first tournament inwhich they competed, the Big Foot Classic and Rusholme Cobb was a stand-out player. "I would say he was our most valuable player," ? Sam Twomey said. "He was really, really good. He held and carried the ball well. It was great to see how much he grew in terms of leadership. He became a lot more confident and a lot more central to our game. We knew he had the talent but he really developed in terms of his leadership status within the team. It's not going too far to say the other boys would have run through a brick wall for him."

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SONNY’S YOGA - EASTBOURNE CLASSES - Enjoy a relaxing yoga class near the ocean. Every Wednesday 6.30pm at Muritai Yacht Club. Beginners welcome. For more info call Sonny on 021 800 512.

Dan Reed lawn mowing, lawn and garden care. Contact 027 337 1360.

Our tamariki are loving our nature focus, which started with a visit to the new Te Taiao Nature exhibition zone at Te Papa. Next up was a trip to the Bugs – Our Backyard Heroes exhibition at Expressions in Upper Hutt.

We’ve followed these trips with on-session activities including:

• creating a tree and decorating it with pictures of leaves, bugs and birds

• science experiments

• nature-themed stories at kai time

• bush walks

• and even kai preparation with ‘edible worms’ on the menu!

Our other new focus area, kai preparation, is also a hit. Old favourites like pikelets and pinwheels have been happily created and devoured – a great way to learn measuring, mixing and cutting skills.

If you're interested in joining us, you can visit us at 1 Ngaumatau Road any time from 9.15 to 11.45 on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Friday – and ask us for an information pack to learn more about what we offer. You can also find out more about us by visiting our Facebook page or by contacting Caroline on 021 072 1070.

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