Hibiscus Matters_ Issue 298_1 April 1 2021

April 1, 2021

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Next level fun! In the last two weeks there has been a busy and celebratory atmosphere on the Hibiscus Coast – locals are scrambling to get their fill of community events while Auckland is in alert level 1 and the weather is good. The flurry of activity is also helping local schools, businesses and clubs with much-needed income. Our photographers were at all these recent events capturing the atmosphere – stories and more photos inside this issue, at www.localmatters.co.nz and on our Facebook page.

Will Dairy Flat have a say in landfill leachate application?

Waste Management hopes to introduce a new unit at its Dairy Flat landfill to evaporate leachate into the air, and residents hope they will be able to have a say on the proposal.

Leachate is a mix of chemicals that seeps through a landfill and its disposal involves using landfill gas to turn the leachate into vapour, then releasing it

into the atmosphere.

The company says its proposed new unit is more efficient and cleaner burning than its previous system, however some residents are worried, especially as the company wants to move the unit closer to neighbouring homes.

Whether or not the public will have a say in the proposal, currently seeking

resource consent, is up to Auckland Council.

The Rodney Local Board member for Dairy Flat, Louise Johnston, has a number of concerns.

The proposed new unit has been on trial at the landfill since June last year.

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This included testing and monitoring.

Reports attached to the consent application include an assessment of visual effects by Boffa Miskell, which states that, depending on the wind, the height of the plume can reach as high as 30 metres while at other times it will be a lot less visible. In addition, Tonkin and Taylor monitored the emission rates of key volatile organic compounds benzene, toluene and vinyl chloride, at four locations, three of which were within the landfill site, from August to November last year.

Mrs Johnston says throughout the trial period, residents have been telling her that there was a distinct, unpleasant smell coming from the plume of discharge.

“There are fears this could be what they’re in for if the unit gets resource consent,” she says. “It is my understanding that the discharge contains contaminants that were not emitted by the previous system. The level of those were tested as part of this trial, as well as monitoring the visual and odour effects. If the consent details are not notified, how can people be confident it’s safe?”

As well as public notification, Mrs Johnston believes that more air testing should be undertaken in the area, including near Dairy Flat School.

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school and residents for my liking,” she says. “There needs to be more testing, for peace of mind.”

A Waste Management spokesperson says the company has had consent for leachate evaporation technology at Dairy Flat since 1999.

Its existing consent requires that “the discharge must not cause noxious, dangerous, offensive or objectionable odour, dust, particulate, smoke or ash beyond the boundary of the premises where the activity takes place”.

“The original unit has operated for well over 20 years and we are now replacing it with a new plant,” the spokesperson says.

“Independent experts have concluded the trial of the new generation unit has demonstrated air quality effects are either similar or less than the effects originally predicted in the air quality assessment for the existing resource consent. They have also assesssed the visual impact of the steam plume as low.”

Dairy Flat School is aware of the proposal, but does not wish to comment.

Waste Management applied for resource consent to operate the new evaporator unit almost a month ago. If granted, the consent would apply until 2028.

Auckland Council staff are assessing the application and will decide whether it should be notified to neighbours, publicly notified or not notified at all.

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Event changes impact Ōrewa businesses The recent Covid-19 level 3 lockdown had a big impact on events focused on the America’s Cup, including the one in Ōrewa.

The local business improvement district (BID), Destination Ōrewa Beach, ran the event. It was funded by Ōrewa businesses, which were required to pay a one-off 14.4 percent increase in the annual BID levy (targeted rate).

Ten percent of this – $25,776 – was primarily to fund the event.

When Destination Ōrewa increased the levy, last June, it was because the Cup event was expected to be an economic driver, mainly for hospitality and retail, as well as generating foot traffic.

Originally planned as a Team NZ fan zone, three-day festival with the racing on an outdoor screen, the change that lockdown made to the timing of races meant the event lost its Cup focus and became two days of

food trucks and movies on March 19 and 20. The second day included the annual Sandcastle Competition, also rescheduled to March 20.

Destination Ōrewa Beach operations manager Hellen Wilkins says they were “gutted” to lose the Cup element.

“The impacts were huge but many other town centres had far bigger losses – we still managed to run an event, just not the event intended,” she says. “There were also a lot of logistical problems as there were so many events deferred from the past two weekends by the lockdown.”

She says the first day was quiet, with windy cool weather, but Saturday was busy. “Attendance would have been bigger if there had been racing and the bars and restaurants would have been far busier as the screen was initially placed where it could be seen from adjacent eateries,” she says.

Businesses spoken to by Hibiscus Matters felt it would have been wiser to hold onto the $25,000 and come up with a new plan in discussion with Destination Ōrewa’s members.

Good Hub Eatery owner Kerry Semiz says she ordered extra icecream and put on more staff because last year she was so busy when the sandcastle event was on.

“When there’s something on, it brings people into Ōrewa which is good for us,” she says. “But we weren’t very busy that weekend, and customers said they didn’t know the event was on. It was difficult to promote it, given the changing dates, but we certainly didn’t get anything much out of it.”

Shoreward co-owner Stephen Dalziel agrees, saying he did the normal Saturday trade. “There was a movie screen but you couldn’t see it from here, so there was nothing much for us in it,” he says. “Perhaps Destination Ōrewa

could knock a bit off its next levy?”

With bills still coming in, Mrs Wilkins says the scaled down event cost around $36,500, although she is not prepared to break those figures down due to commercial sensitivity.

“The largest costs were the screen and bringing the sand sculptors from Christchurch,” she says. “All costs were negotiated. We don’t have an issue sharing budgets generally, but in this instance we are protective of commercial arrangements.”

She says as well as the $25,776 BID levy, local board funding, the organisation’s events fund budget, fees from food trucks and Barfoot & Thompson sponsorship is expected to cover the costs but anything further will be underwritten by Destination Ōrewa.

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Millwater jeweller targeted in ram raid Jeweller Geoff Morris was shaken, but not stirred after his Millwater shop The Goldsmith was ram-raided and broken into in the early hours of Tuesday, March 23.

Even though the windows and front wall of the Millwater Parkway store were virtually demolished, he was still open for business the next day and serving customers as normal.

Four raiders smashed into the shopfront in a stolen car just after 2am and broke into a display cabinet, but they only escaped with a small amount of inexpensive silver jewellery, since anything valuable is always locked in a safe overnight.

Geoff ’s partner, Kathy Malcolm, said although the raid was a nasty shock, as soon as the shop was cleaned up and secured, the jeweller got straight back to work that morning.

She said the raid had been caught on camera, not just from CCTV in The Goldsmith and neighbouring shops, but by neighbours living in apartments above who were woken by the noise.

“In just two minutes they managed to do all that damage to the front, a small amount of damage inside and steal a tiny bit of jewellery,” she said.

The raiders made off in a second getaway vehicle,

which had also been stolen.

Kathy and Geoff were full of praise for the police, their security firm and an Auckland glazier, who were all quickly on the scene.

“The police were great, they were here straight away and they’ve since done some forensics,” Kathy said. “And our security company organised some glass people to come in immediately and it was all cleaned up and secured by 5am.”

But their biggest thanks went to the Hibiscus Coast community, following an outpouring of support when details of the raid were shared on social media.

“We’ve had more than 150 comments, people just showing their support and love for Geoff, it’s just been amazing,” Kathy said. “It helps hugely. Our biggest emphasis is to thank everyone for their support.”

Geoff Morris has been a jeweller for 48 years, starting in Tauranga before moving to the Coast nine years ago. This is only the second time he has been the target of criminals – in 2016, two would-be robbers went into his Ōrewa shop and demanded cash, but he forced them outside and they ran off. Geoff moved his shop to Millwater five years ago.

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Trucking good advice I’ve come to the conclusion that the biggest industry here on the Coast is trucks. My property looks across to Grand Drive and I would say that roughly every fourth vehicle is a truck hauling earth. They haul it up Grand Drive and they haul it down Grand Drive. Where on earth does it all go?

Anyway, fast-forward 10 years when all the houses are built and there is a trucking industry slump – that’s the time to invest in a shop that sells orange road cones. You can’t miss. No charge for this advice.

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Postcode delays ambulance I am writing about the article in Hibiscus and Mahurangi Matters about Puhoi postcodes (HM, March 3). I live in Weranui Road, about 5km inland from Waiwera, and not very far from Silverdale. The postcode here is 0994 – this is also the postcode for Puhoi, which is many miles away from me, and Warkworth, which is even further away. Parcels and letters sent to me at ‘RD1 Silverdale, 0994’, often have “not Puhoi” handwritten on them. Obviously they have gone to Puhoi first, and somebody there has readdressed them. Recently a parcel sent to me from Invercargill went to South Auckland, then Puhoi, then South Auckland again, then to Puhoi again; it eventually arrived having spent nearly two weeks in transit.

My local postie tells me that he and his colleagues ignore postcodes, and I can see why. In future I’m going to tell people that my address is ‘RD1 Silverdale’, not Puhoi, and I will omit the postcode entirely. That said, one company that I deal with in Invercargill, that posts parcels to me, tells me that couriers will not accept

them addressed to ‘RD1 Silverdale’, unless the word Puhoi is also included.

It appears that St John’s Ambulance use the same address system. When I phoned Silverdale St John to get an ambulance, it went to Puhoi because that’s what their directory said. That delayed it by about 25 minutes – just as well I hadn’t had a heart attack!

Marsden B Robinson, Silverdale (abridged)

Natural odour solution We have an open creek alongside/ on our property in Manly and we love it. Mature native trees, and kahikatea I brought over from our Arkles Bay property around 16 years ago are thriving in it. Residents near the D’Oyly wetland (HM March 17) could help plant these water-loving trees and suitable reeds to eliminate the smell.

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Haley Dudley of Tindalls Bay had no idea when she began making little Christmas cups filled with treats for her five children that the idea would take off, benefitting local families and Starship Hospital patients. The cups contain everything you need to make a Christmas Eve hot chocolate, and she made them again at Easter, filling them with treats. Friends asked to purchase some cups to give away and eventually more than 40 were sponsored. Ten went to Starship Hospital last week in time for Easter, and the rest were given to local children to brighten up the holiday. Haley says she may do it again next Christmas. Info is on her Facebook page, Haleyrious Dudley.

RSA needs Poppy Day help The Hibiscus Coast Community RSA is in urgent need of volunteers to look after the collection stations for Poppy Day, on April 16. If you can help, contact RSA welfare officer Lynton Bridger, email welfare@hbcrsa.org.nz or phone 027 439 2573.

Maygrove Residents Association held their annual picnic beside Maygrove Lake in Ōrewa on Sunday, March 21. Eighty residents enjoyed the fine weather and fellowship on Neighbours Day, the gumboot-throwing contest was the highlight.

Recently Hibiscus Rodders presented a cheque for $30,000 to the Hibiscus Coast Youth centre in Ōrewa – the proceeds of its Beach Festival in January. The Ōrewa event was scaled down this year, but Rodders spokesperson Sharon Morris says they were very pleased with the outcome and have had fabulous feedback. “With all the Covid challenges, we were very happy to keep it local and support our youth centre,” she says.

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Lachie Hamilton, right with his father Luke and friend Carlos Kahn at their garage sale.

Lessons learned at Lachie’s Lego fundraiser event Stanmore Bay School pupil Lachie Hamilton, aged six, has an expensive hobby – Lego.

Recently, his parents, Krystal and Luke, decided to sit down with him and work out a way he could raise enough money for the boxes of Avengers Lego that he desperately wants, which cost around $600.

“We wanted to show him how to make money himself, for the things he wants to buy,” Luke says.

In the end, it was a joint effort with friends and the community, especially families from Stanmore Bay School, all supporting the Hamiltons’ efforts.

Lachie and Luke walked their local streets, talking to neighbours and collecting second hand items for a garage sale.

Donated items included clothing, a fish tank, a drum kit, bikes and power tools.

Flyers were made and handed out and information was also posted on social media.

The community turned out in good numbers for the sale, held at Starfish Daycare’s carpark in Stanmore Bay on Saturday, March 13.

After a loss, grief is the way your mind and body gradually adjust to the reality of what has happened. It is a process. You’re not able to do it all at once and as you grieve you’re likely to experience a wide range of emotions, thoughts and reactions.

Just over $381 was raised in what Luke describes as “an amazing day”.

“I think everyone learned something from it, and Lachie wants to add a huge shout out to the wonderful community,” he says.

With saved pocket money and the sale of a few more big items, Lachie is expected to reach his goal. Anything raised on top of that will be donated to Love Soup.

Everyone grieves differently. Find ways to grieve that suits you – there is no “right” way to experience grief. There is no set timetable, no rules, no secret method that will take your grief away, it is a process. Take all the time and space you need and for as long as it takes.

Grief can affect every part of your life, your mind and thoughts, your emotions and feelings, your body and physical reactions, your spirit and what you believe about life and death, your social world and relationships with others.

Sometimes it is necessary or easier to seek help from others outside of your closer friends and family. Sometimes you don’t want to ‘burden’ those close to you, or perhaps friends are there to help you enjoy the good times rather than remind you of the sad times. Don’t be surprised or embarrassed if you need help at this particular point.

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New signs will be erected in reserves in the Hibiscus & Bays Local Board area – including eight reserves on the Coast.

In total the work is expected to cost the local board around $160,273 – with $58,970 of this being spent on signs in Hibiscus Coast reserves. This has gone up from the original cap of $100,000. The report presented by Auckland Council staff to the local board states that the original contract was signed in 2018 and prices for materials have increased since then, especially due to the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Auckland Council began assessing the condition of signs in the region in 2016.

The reserves that needed new signs were selected based on how many were in poor condition or the priority rating provided by the local board. Issues include signs with legacy Council

logos, and the desire to provide better readability and more information. All the new signs will be in Te Reo Maori as well as English, in line with Council policy.

While sign upgrades and new signs in most reserves is costing in the vicinity of $3000-$6000, the biggest spend is on two local reserves – Ōrewa Reserve, $13,678 and Stanmore Bay Park, $12,341. A total of $10,742 is being spent on signs at Arundel Reserve in Ōrewa.

At last month’s meeting, the Hibiscus & Bays Local Board approved the proposed signs.

Designs will now be finalised and Council staff will undertake a final walk over of the reserves “to ensure no changes to signage have occurred since the last site inspections”.

Once this is completed, signs will be manufactured and installed.

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Further to our story about a big influx of rabbits in Gulf Harbour last issue (HM March 17), further information was supplied recently by Auckland Council: Auckland Council’s regional arborists and ecological manager David Stejskal says Council undertook control of rabbits at Pacific Parade in Army Bay last year after receiving repeated requests from a resident. “There was a rapid reinvasion immediately after the control and further control on Council land was deemed to be wasteful,” Mr Stejskal says. He says the rabbits are likely coming from surrounding private properties, where Council does not carry out control. “Landowners are encouraged to control pests on their property. One option is using a low toxicity poison called Pindone in a bait station. Pindone can be purchased over the counter and legally used, as long as it is contained in a bait station to minimise the risk of non-target species (including dogs and cats) being exposed. In the unlikely event of a toxic dose being ingested, the antidote is vitamin K1,” Mr Stejskal says. In addition, while the paper was told previously that there are no rabbit issues at Shakespear Open Sanctuary, Mr Stejskal now confirms there was a recent incursion. “Our Regional Parks team manages rabbit control in the Okoromai Bay area and Shakespear Open Sanctuary, aiming for a zero density. Occasional incursions into the open sanctuary are pursued with priority. We are currently dealing with one and it is mostly under control.”

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The dates for community meetings about Auckland Council’s new Coastal Management Plan for Whangaparāoa (HM February 17) were changed by the level 3 lockdown. The latest dates are: March 30, April 15 and May 6.

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“Does it make the boat go faster?” was the test for improvements that Sir Peter Blake applied to win the America’s Cup. It worked – and the same type of test can be applied to Auckland Council, Government and our community. With money tight, and too much to do, we must make the most of the resources we’ve got.

Applied locally we could ask: what projects can make a positive difference to the most people? Small things matter as well as big things. Often it can just be a matter of doing something a little differently to add a gain.

For example, at the Silverdale Park and Ride having a free left turn at the new exit would improve the flow of traffic along the highway; buses could pull out when the eastern lights at Pointon Road are red, saving a possible additional stop.

Completing the roading connection from Bunnings/Pak ‘n’ Save to Highgate Business Park, and linking to the right with Curley Ave, could revitalise the Silverdale Village area, adding another 60,000sqm of town centre that would allow apartments on top of commercial and retail space.

With easy walking distance to shops, the park and ride, Silverdale War Memorial Park and close to the 4500 jobs at Highgate that are coming on, this project ticks the boxes – especially helping the housing shortage. It would also free up a congested stretch of the Hibiscus Coast Highway between East Coast Rd and Whangaparāoa Rd and avoids another set of lights at Silverdale Street. And a significant financial contribution comes from the landowners and developers.

Many local organisations have projects that make a significant contribution to the environment and lifestyle of the area. Forest & Bird and Restore Hibiscus Coast have a trapping programme that aims to make the Coast pest free. We will see a quantum leap in birds and wildlife, reductions in the nuisance and damage from vermin, and cost savings. Groups like Love Soup reduce food waste and help people in need, while the network of Op Shops allow reuse of a vast array of goods – many of which also meet people’s basic needs.

Would that the government could provide the modest financial support that previously enabled community education to thrive on the Coast. Ōrewa College ran low-cost courses after school hours that provided life-enhancement, recreation and skills to many – a path also to potential employment and business start-ups, connecting people and community. Great use was made of the school buildings and facilities with a contribution to school costs.

This newspaper also forms part of the ‘glue’ in our community. It enables people to have a voice and find community news against a background where many newspapers are struggling to survive the competition from online platforms like Google and Facebook. The advertisers and contributors, as well as articles that are newsworthy, researched and relevant, provide insight into our community that is appreciated by many.

As the Coast is bouncing back after Covid-19, it is refreshing to notice the ‘local’ – the patronage of local shops, friendliness on the street, participation re-building in local clubs and groups, and the new people in our community – Kiwis returning and others making a life-changing decision to live and invest here. Together we all ‘make the boat go faster’.

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Biggest village seeks more units The Coast’s largest retirement village, The Botanic, behind the park and ride in Silverdale, is seeking to expand further.

The plan for the village was made public last October in Hibiscus Matters.

A total of 501 units are consented for the site – with the potential for 900 residents – but recently its owners applied for resource consent to add another 37 units, including 24 dementia beds.

Co-owner Alan Edwards says demand is high, with stage one of the development already sold out.

The original village plan includes 40 hospital beds, but Mr Edwards says they became aware that it was important to cater for “all eventualities”, including for people with memory deficit, cognitive impairment and dementia.

Mr Edwards says that the dementia homes will be secure but are designed to look like any other residence.

“We want them to look and feel like a home,” he says. “There will be a shared kitchen so residents can do day to day tasks for themselves, within their limitations.”

The dementia homes can also access a secure garden at the rear of the second floor building.

Adding the dementia homes means reducing the size of the commercial area on Small Road. At the same time, consent is sought to add a commercial retail unit to the ground floor of an apartment building. Mr Edwards

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From top, The biggest retirement village to be built so far on the Coast is seeking resource consent to add more units, including the dementia facility, pictured (on the upper level). The village covers an 8ha site on Small Road, Silverdale.

says the company hopes to attract tenancies such as doctors, pharmacists, audiologists and hairdressers to these units.

Additional changes sought include vegetation removal alongside a stream to allow a boardwalk to be constructed and new basement carparking in two of the blocks.

Mr Edwards says that the exact makeup of the commercial land on the corner of Small Road and the Painton Road extension is yet to be decided.

“It will be offices and other commercial spaces, but it has not been designed as

yet. It is likely to be 18 months to two years before we decide exactly what to do with that site,” he says.

Construction has begun, and Mr Edwards expects that the first residents will move in around July.

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Safety improvements to part of Hibiscus Coast Highway are in the wind, after funding was included in the recent refresh of the agreement between Government and Auckland Council to invest in transport projects (known as ATAP 2021-31). Criticism of the priority projects has come from a number of sources, especially the advocacy group Greater Auckland, which promotes good city planning and believes there is too much emphasis on roads and not enough on public transport. However, local Councillor John Watson says many of the projects are good news for the Hibiscus Coast. These include the Northern Busway, roading and motorway interchange at Wainui, and Hibiscus Coast Highway safety improvements. The highway work is between Hatfields Bridge and Waiwera Road and includes safety barriers, signs and markings. Funding for Penlink, $411m – already allocated through the Government’s NZ Upgrade programme – is also included in ATAP. “The net result of these projects will be a far more comprehensive and integrated transport network that will provide residents with increased travel choices,” Cr Watson says. “It’s taken a while, but finally the investment in transport infrastructure is following the huge increase in population in this area.” In total, ATAP represents a $31 billion package of Government and Council investment and operational support for Auckland’s transport system.

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An artist’s impression of Ōrewa’s new Primary school.

Work begins on new Primary for Ōrewa and the Environment Court issued a Consent Order detailing the terms.

They include more thorough and detailed requirements to manage things such as pick up and drop off spaces and school travel plans.

The Ministry’s head of education infrastructure, Kim Shannon, says that road and footpath upgrades and new pedestrian crossings around the site will be funded by the Government.

“We are currently in discussions with the developer, Ōrewa Developments, over these works,” Ms Shannon says.

Meanwhile, earthworks and the building of retaining structures began at the site on March 15.

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A dispute between Auckland Transport (AT) and the Ministry of Education that went all the way to the Environment Court has been resolved through mediation, paving the way for the building of a new Primary school in Ōrewa.

The school, Ōrewa North West Primary, is being built in Crozier Place, in a new subdivision.

Auckland Council also joined the appeal in support of AT. AT and Council wanted to ensure that infrastructure would provide safe access, as well as enough parking, cycling and walking facilities.

The parties came to an agreement to resolve the issues last December

million to build. It will initially cater for up to 420 students, and eventually up to 700. Included in the agreement between AT and the Ministry is that any increase in the school roll must be supported by measures to increase the proportion of students using transport such as walking, cycling, scooters and buses. This is so that the impact on the road network, during pick up and drop off times, remains at a maximum of 198 vehicles – the most that it’s estimated the network can safely support.

In a press release, Minister of Education Chris Hipkins says that both this school and Milldale Primary are expected to be open at the start of 2023.

Building Milldale Primary is budgeted to cost $20 million. It will initially cater for up to 370 students.

“The Ōrewa Whangaparāoa catchment is a high growth area, with more than 1800 extra students expected by 2030,” Minister Hipkins says. “Other schools in the area are close to capacity so we’re making sure we have schooling options for families moving into new residential developments.”

Establishment boards will soon be appointed for both schools. They will consult the community on the schools’ vision and values.

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Natalie says her perfectionism stemmed from her career first as a chef and then running a private tertiary education provider, neither of which allowed much leeway for failure.

Deciding to leave the corporate world and run her own online mentoring business was a shock to the system – flying solo, with no one to bounce ideas off and no real grasp of how best to target her energies. The answer, in the end, was to start being herself and stop procrastinating.

“If you are not you, then who are you?” she says. “You can do this, but business needs time and it needs your belief. And, contrary to the highlight reels on social media, it’s not going to happen overnight.”

She hopes that by laying out her own failures and sucker punches, as well as her success stories, other women can “ditch the doubt” and grow their businesses.

Allergic to Perfect can be found at https://natalietolhopf.com It costs $30, including delivery.

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MP for Whangaparaoa For appointments and assistance please get in touch 7 Tamariki Avenue, Orewa 09 426 6215 mark.mitchellmp@parliament.govt.nz Clive Walbran, owner of Ōrewa Trademarket, with his dog Louie.

The business is going online only after Covid-19 made a physical store unsustainable.

Trademarket moves from Ōrewa to online only

Ōrewa Trademarket – a second-hand furniture and homeware business – has been on the same site for almost 43 years, tucked away on Tenzing Lane, off George Lowe Place.

Later this month that will change, as it becomes an entirely online store – a move that owner Clive Walbran says resulted from the impact of Covid-19 lockdowns.

Clive has been there for 25 years. He says having to be closed for level 3 and 4 lockdowns forced the business to refocus on developing an online store.

“Physical shops are becoming too expensive for small businesses,” he says.

The stock, which is about 80 percent secondhand and the rest new, will be sold from a local warehouse via a website. Clive says all items will be professionally photographed, but if a customer really needs to see the item in person, that could be arranged.

The store will still offer collection and delivery services.

The move will be a big change for Ōrewa Trademarket’s regulars, who Clive says often just come by for a browse and a chat.

He says as the area has developed, so has the range of customers changed – it now encompasses all age groups and includes young people going flatting, people on tight budgets and those preferring to buy secondhand for environmental reasons.

Rick Moores, Jim Hickey and Bill Valentine started the business in 1978.

In the early days, it included a regular auction. At one time the company had three stores – two in Ōrewa and one in Whangaparāoa – but around 20 years ago, the other two closed. Ōrewa Trademarket will close its doors on April 25 and Clive says up until then there will be bargains to be had, as he reduces the amount of stock that he’ll need to move to the warehouse.

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From left, The chestnut harvest is a full time job for Helene Blomfield on her Wainui farm. Each prickly exterior shields two or three nuts. Ten-kilo crates of nuts, ready for the market. Nothing is wasted – former florist Helene makes flowers from reject nuts and the mahogany coloured husks.

Chestnut farm opens to visitors One thing that chestnut farmer Helene Blomfield of Wainui likes about this crop is that it can be managed in a sustainable way, with nothing wasted.

Her sheep love the reject nuts, fallen leaves and inedible parts are composted, branches make good firewood and larger chunks of wood can be made into many things.

Seconds (split nuts) are given to friends for cooking.

Helene, an Estuary Arts volunteer and florist, also uses reject nuts and husks to make artworks.

Twenty years ago, Helene planted 350 chestnut trees, and the 280 that are left form an impressive shady corridor on the 6.8ha spray free farm.

“I was told you’d break even on the

costs after about eight years but that didn’t happen,” she says.

Helene says, in theory, the green spiky casing opens and the nuts drop to the ground but in practice they often fall off intact.

Before Covid-19, overseas Wwoofer (willing workers on organic farms) volunteers would help with the harvest, which takes place from midMarch to the end of April.

Without them, it is back breaking and time consuming work for the 75-yearold, who must rake fallen nuts into piles and sort them herself.

“Not a lot of housework gets done during harvest,” she says.

In a good year production would be around 1200kg, but is likely to be

around half that doing it solo.

While some people let horses or pigs eat their chestnuts, as harvest is so labour intensive, they are prized in a number of Asian and European countries.

Helene’s crop goes to Asian supermarkets and she says Kiwis are slowly being educated about how to use this low fat, high protein nut. They are used fresh, as they don’t store well.

Helene eats them raw in salads but there are many options including roasting, making ‘Chestnutella’ or grinding them into flour. They are also used in gourmet cooking – the Swiss make a chestnut pasta dessert called Vermicelles, and the French use them in sweet and savoury dishes.

Visit the farm On April 21, Estuary Arts Centre has organised a trip out to Helene’s farm as a fundraiser. It includes a farm tour, morning tea, chestnut tasting, information on how to use chestnuts in cooking and stalls of local produce. The event is on April 21, 10am-12 noon. Info and tickets: email manager@estuaryarts.org, or call into Estuary Arts in Western Reserve, Ōrewa.

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From left, Solar panels will be installed on Kristin School’s new ‘Lightbox’ sports complex currently under construction. Whangaparāoa College was the first local school to install solar panels.

Schools walking the talk with sustainability Work has started on building one of two new schools in Ōrewa and Milldale and the Government says sustainability will be a key part of the process for both.

The Ministry of Education’s head of education infrastructure service, Kim Shannon, says energy saving measures are routinely taken when planning schools like Ōrewa North West and Milldale Primary schools, both of which are set to open by 2023.

“The Ministry and its contractors use sustainable construction methods and materials in our new schools where possible, including design features to minimise the need for heating and cooling,” she says. “Sustainability initiatives inside classrooms are routinely included in new builds, including LED lighting, efficient heating/cooling systems and water savings measures.”

However, one energy saver that is already being picked up by several

local schools – solar power – will not be a feature of the new schools.

“The installation of solar panels is not routinely part of new school construction,” Ms Shannon says.

“Building to higher energy efficiency standards is generally more costeffective over a school building’s lifetime. Solar panels cannot effectively meet most schools’ energy demands.

However, we expect them to become more viable as solar technology improves.”

However, the Government has provided grant funding for sustainability projects, including solar panels, in its $5 million Sustainability Contestable Fund last year, and two local schools had already started on the path to solar power before that.

Whangaparāoa College was first off the blocks in 2018, when it installed 150 solar panels using $95,000 of Ministry compensation funding from

the sale of land next to the school for housing.

Principal James Thomas said at the time he had to convince the Ministry that solar panels were a suitable use of the funds, but the college’s property business manager, Jenny Catterall, says they have proved their worth, saving $1000 a month on power bills.

The college has also replaced all its lightbulbs with LEDs and installed low flow taps in its bathrooms.

Kristin School in Albany has also started on the solar power journey, installing enough panels last year to provide around 5 percent of its electricity, and it has plans to add a similar amount to a new sports complex by mid-2021.

Executive principal Mark Watson says the new panels will cost the private school around $140,000, which will be paid for by fundraising, and they will be installed on the new “Lightbox”

– a steel-framed structure encased by translucent cladding that will cover and weather-proof three sports courts.

Three new rainwater tanks that include an irrigation and pumping system will also be installed to cut Kristin’s use of mains water.

“Our young people are the most aware and passionate generation about our ‘climate crisis’ and the need for urgent action. As a school that seeks to ensure our students are ‘future ready’, we need to be leading by example,” Mark says. “We teach our students all about sustainability, so we want to be walking the talk.”

Schools generally are getting help from the Government to install insulation and replace inefficient lights in around 600 state schools. Greg Pierce, the new principal at Ōrewa College, says that process is underway at the Riverside Road school with a gradual switch to LED lighting currently taking place.

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Learning how to make a carbon sink at home Adding biochar to your garden is a way to have a positive effect on climate change by creating your own carbon sink.

Biochar, which is charcoal made from untreated sawdust that would normally be burned or put into the landfill, is now available by the bucket load from Whangaparāoa Community Recycling Centre’s Ecoshop at 637 Whangaparāoa Road.

Biochar holds onto water and nutrients like compost does. However, it does not break down in the soil, so it needs to be sprinkled into a compost bin or worm farm, or placed in a layer in a Bokashi bin.

Sustainable North Trust trustee Betsy Kettle says recent evidence suggests that biochar acts as a catalyst to remove and store atmospheric carbon in the soil.

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Sustainability feels good In 2021, there are few people in the world who deny that our climate is in crisis, but they do exist.

They claim our planet is ‘just fine’. These climate crisis deniers would say that governments who declare climate emergencies, just like New Zealand did last year, are ‘over the top’, and those who go out of their way to make daily decisions that do not destroy the planet, are absolutely crazy.

To these people I say, ‘I hope you are right’. I hope our planet is okay, and I hope the chance of the human race existing as we do now, is not in jeopardy.

That would be amazing! But even if you are right, I am still going to live life as sustainably and responsibly as possible.

No matter what you say, you’ll find me bringing my reusable cup (it’s actually a jar with an old sock around the bottom) to Drifter’s Cafe in Ōrewa, and I’ll certainly ride my bike to grab it.

Even if the world is absolutely flourishing and okay, you’ll continue to see me browse all the wonderful second hand shops on the Hibiscus Coast, take my own containers to get veggie curry from the Curry Hut in Red Beach, and visit the library instead of buying new books.

Why? Because I believe living sustainably is how humans thrive; and I don’t want to live my short life on earth without thriving.

Visiting the Ōrewa Farmers Market on Sunday morning to chat with the people who grow my plants, and the woman who makes my honey, fills my internal cup.

Thoughtfully making my own treats for the week with ingredients purchased at Silverdale Bin Inn gives me more nutrition than purchasing cookies at the supermarket ever would. Plus, using up what I have, instead of buying new, saves me lots of money.

So, climate crisis deniers; I hope you are right, I really do. But I hope you understand that I don’t live sustainably because we are in a crisis. I live this way because it feels good; it feels right.

I don’t always live a perfect sustainable life (there is still plastic in my pantry), but I try my best. No matter the state of the world or how difficult our systems make living sustainably, I will persevere with my rewarding way of living that respects and honours other people and this planet. Climate crisis deniers – I hope you will too.

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Vaccination begins for local health teams In recent weeks, the first local health professionals have been given their Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine jabs.

Among the first was the Silverdale Medical team. Dr Isabelle Duck says she got her jab on March 13 in the city.

“The process was well organised and quick,” she says. “There was a temperature check and a consent form to sign. Afterwards we were monitored for 30 minutes. I have had no side effects and was able to continue my weekend as normal.”

Dr Duck says there are several reasons why she got the vaccine.

“This vaccine helps to protect me from the illness. Yes, there is a small chance I may still get this infection, but the data suggest that if I were to become infected, I would most likely get milder symptoms. In addition to this, having been vaccinated, I am less likely to spread the infection, and am therefore protecting others. There will be a small number of people who

Doctor Isabelle Duck, along with other members of the Silverdale Medical team, was among the first local health practitioners to receive the Pfizer Covid-19 injection.

cannot be vaccinated, such as those with allergies to components of the vaccine. However, it is recommended that everyone who can get the vaccine, gets it. We need to do this in order to protect those who can’t,” she says.

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Stanmore Bay Leisure Centre recently celebrated the life of Linden Cowan, right,who died recently of cancer, by raising funds for hospice. Linden worked for the centre for about 16 years as group fitness manager. She created aqua classes and brought in the Les Mills programmes that are still successfully running there. Team fitness leader, Julie Bish, says Linden mentored many fitness instructors and touched hundreds of people’s lives with her energy and passion for exercise. In her memory, a fundraising Pump/Step class was held on March 20. Around 40 people attended, raising $500 for Hibiscus Hospice.

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Vaccine worries addressed The Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine was developed quickly – so how can it still be safe?

It is a question I get asked a lot and, truth be told, was one of my own major concerns, so I decided to find out how this could be correct.

First and foremost, we know that Medsafe, New Zealand’s medicines safety authority, deemed the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine safe. This should be enough to satisfy most people that it is so. No vaccine is made available for public use in New Zealand until Medsafe completes its assessment and approves the vaccine for use. So how did it all happen so quickly?

As vaccines or medicines are developed, the various testing processes usually happen one after the other. However, when the Covid-19 vaccines were being developed, processes were worked on at the same time, instead of waiting for the one before to finish. You could think of it being like cooking a hamburger where previously the bun would have to be fully toasted before the meat patty was made and subsequently cooked. Speeding up the delivery was the equivalent of cooking the meat patty, while the buns were being toasted.

Secondly, all nations, big and small, donated resources toward the research.

The global support for this project, in terms of both people and funding, was unprecedented.

Thirdly, in a world of commercial interests and self-promotion, Covid-19 changed the science world for the better. For the first time in a long time, scientists from around the world openly shared their findings so that any successes could be used by others and built upon. This enabled a faster path to a solution.

Furthermore, instead of Government regulatory bodies, such as Medsafe, waiting for all research to be completed before reviewing the vaccine for approval, they streamlined the process. While the same levels of scrutiny were involved, pharmaceutical companies were able to submit rolling applications by sending data for review as soon as it was available.

We are also quite lucky in New Zealand, in that we have been able to learn from other countries that have administered millions of doses to people already and shared their reports in terms of safety information.

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Life Education for adults

Helping families to face and tackle the many challenges presented by troubled times is the aim of an evening organised by Life Education Trust Rodney in Ōrewa on Tuesday, April 13.

The trust is best known for helping children in schools, using its Healthy Harold giraffe character and classroom truck, but chair John Davies says with lockdowns, Covid-19 and record house prices and rents, it’s time to help adults build up resilience too.

“These are challenging times,” he says.

“For adults, we are facing different challenges that sometimes feel overwhelming as we try to manage a course through the choppy waters life insists on putting us in.”

The trust has lined up three expert speakers who John hopes will get families thinking around any problems and finding workable solutions.

First up is economist and media commentator Cameron Bagrie, who was chief economist of ANZ Bank for 11 years, and who has also worked at the New Zealand Treasury and Statistics NZ. He sits on the national board of Life Education and prides himself on taking

a pragmatic approach to economics.

He will be followed by Christine Liggins, who runs Debtfix in Warkworth. She aims to give as many people as possible the practical tools to manage their money, take control of any debts and most of all put them in control of their finances.

The third speaker is former senior police negotiator, life coach and Ōrewa-based author Lance Burdett.

He combines 22 years of practical experience in elite units of the police, military and FBI with neuroscience, research and positive psychology to help people overcome the pressures and stresses of the modern world.

“It will be a fun and educational evening out, and there will be plenty of chances for family photos with Harold,” John says.

Harold Does Resilience will take place at Ōrewa Community Centre, 40-46 Ōrewa Square, from 7pm to 9pm on April 13. Tickets cost $20 per adult and children are free. All proceeds will go to Life Education Trust Rodney.

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All aboard mobile hearing clinic

During the recent Auckland lockdown, Triton Hearing in Tamariki Ave, Ōrewa was flooded beyond repair. The clinic is moving to new premises in Ōrewa, but in the meantime has brought in its Mobile Hearing Clinic, a 1949 Bedford bus known as Penelope, to provide services. The vintage bus was reconditioned into a mobile hearing clinic in 2018 (HM Feb 14, 2018). Since then the bus has travelled more than 4000km – visiting Marae, supporting community events, and heading to the Beehive to raise awareness about hearing loss on World Hearing Day in 2019.

Penelope will be in Ōrewa until April 20 when Triton Hearing opens its new clinic.

Winning in Waiwera – Ōrewa Garden Club members at their successful Harbour Hospice fundraiser.

Gardeners’ green fingers raise healthy new Hospice total They say a change is as good as a rest, and that was certainly the case for Ōrewa Garden Club’s recent annual fundraiser for Harbour Hospice.

After seven years at Hilary Ashcroft’s Ōrewa home and garden, the club moved out of town to the hills above Waiwera for this year’s event and ended up raising $1360 – almost double the usual total.

The day was held at Dee and Lloyd Farrand’s property and included a floral hat parade, raffles, a shared lunch and a plant stall. Club treasurer Linda Mellor said she was amazed when she totted up the total raised by the 35 women.

“I couldn’t believe it,” she said. “I added it up three times to make sure!”

She said Hospice was also thrilled, not least since many of their fundraising events had been cancelled due to the pandemic.

Linda was keen to thank raffle sponsors Gatmans, Fuchsia Hair Design, Animates, Nadia van Zyl and Chris Bone of Barfoot & Thompson, Gilmours and Outdoor Concepts.

As well as organising the annual garden fundraiser for Hospice, club members tend the gardens at the Whangaparāoa palliative care centre every Wednesday morning. Anyone interested in helping out in the Hospice gardens, or knowing more about Ōrewa Garden Club, can contact Linda Mellor on 027 614 0363 or email mellorsretreat@ xtra.co.nz

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Ivy will be put through her paces by owner Gareth Jenkins at Ōrewa Lions’ Hot Diggety Dog Show this month.

Ivy returns to Hot Diggety Dog Ōrewa Lions’ 2018 Hot Diggety Dog Show, and lessons with the Hibiscus Coast Dog Training Club, were a winning combination for American Staffordshire cross Ivy and her owners Gareth Jenkins and Rochelle O’Callaghan.

Gareth describes Ivy as “a little terror” when he first got her but says she was quick to learn obedience, followed by tricks and agility.

“When she first did Hot Diggety Dog I realised she liked the attention, and was eager to do more,” Gareth says.

Almost every weekend Ivy is competing or training and she gained a top 10 spot in last year’s Dog Almighty TV show.

She will be heading to the Hot Diggety Dog again this month, where she is one of the star attractions and Gareth

is a judge.

The event is a fun day for the family pooch with competitions in categories such as ‘best rescue hound’, ‘best dressed’ and ‘the dog the judges would most like to take home’.

The dog charity Saving Hope will be there, as well as food stalls and activities. Ōrewa Lions are excited about the event, which was cancelled last year due to lockdown. Proceeds go to Coast Pet Care Charitable Trust’s desexing and microchipping programme.

The Hot Diggety Dog Show is on at Western Reserve, Ōrewa, on Sunday, April 11. Registration 9am.

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www.localmatters.co.nz/whatson Mike Lee holds the America’s Cup high – he says the win was the most exhilarating thing he’s ever done. Photo, Emirates Team NZ

Red Socks were a feature aboard the spectator fleet. Photo, Mike Pignéguy

Club celebrates with Cup replica

Final race exhilarating for Team NZ grinder Team NZ grinder, Mike Lee of Red Beach (HM March 3), was on board for every second race, as the grinders were rotated.

Luck fell his way, and saw him grinding on what proved to be the final race against the Italians.

He says the Kiwi team went out confident they had a fast boat and a sharp crew but took nothing for granted.

“They are extremely difficult boats to sail, so we have to do our job right to the end. There’s no letting go of the handles,” he says.

Grinders don’t get to see the racing from

their positions low in the boat. But just before the boat crossed the line, the word came through from skipper Peter Burling to “stick your head up and enjoy it boys”.

While still grinding, Mike looked back for a split second and enjoyed that moment.

Then there was the excitement of getting back to 40,000 people lining the viaduct, and the celebrations that went on all night.

Life has gone from high octane to fairly flat for team members now that racing is over. Mike is looking at returning to project management, and

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some sort of normality – the best part of which is more time with his family.

He would do it all again in a heartbeat.

“Best case we’ll be waiting six months to hear what the future of the team and the Cup looks like,” he says. “Those decisions could even be 18 months or two years away.”

Meanwhile as a member of the NZ high performance surf lifesaving squad, he is jumping back into a surf ski for some training. A camp is coming up for the surf squad at the end of this month.

“Luckily grinding translates well to paddling, so I think I’ll be ok,” he says.

Celebrations of Team NZ’s America’s Cup win had a special flavour at Gulf Harbour Yacht Club, as an exact replica of the Cup was on display.

The replica was loaned to the club by the Royal NZ Yacht Squadron for the function, held on March 20.

The club had followed the racing closely, with live showings of every race that brought in people from their homes and, in some cases, off their boats, to see the race in the company of a lot of yachties.

Club member Mike Pignéguy skippered the Sky City spectator boat throughout the racing.

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Members of Gulf Harbour Yacht Club with the Americas Cup replica, Photo, Mike Pignéguy.

hundreds of spectator craft on the water.

“On a number of boats, fishing actually took precedence over the races, while some took the chance

for a swim and others a good old singalong,” he says. “It all helped to create an unforgettable atmosphere, even if you couldn’t see the race.”

Zephyrs zoom into Manly

The beach and reserve around Manly Sailing Club will be humming with activity when the club hosts the 65th Zephyr National Championships, from April 9-12. More than 70 of this dinghy sailing class are entered, with sailors coming from all over New Zealand. This year sees the addition of a new fibreglass version of the Des Townson designed 3.35m Zephyr sailing boat.

Designed to have the same weight and sailing characteristics of the original Zephyrs of the 1950s, the fibreglass version was built by MacKay Boat Builders of Silverdale. Club commodore, Barry Thom, says that the racing will be very interesting with several NZ and world champions, as well as Whitbread/Volvo Ocean Race, Olympians and America’s Cup “retired sailors” expected to be on the start line, battling it out with top Zephyr sailors.

Balinese flavour at Estuary Arts Kindness furniture sale An exhibition and sale currently on at Estuary Arts Centre in Ōrewa aims to celebrate the creativity of Balinese artists, provide an ethical source of crafts and promote sustainability.

The Kindness Furniture on display features handmade items from Bali, many using recycled materials including wood from old boats. Natural products, including bamboo straws and items made from rattan, are also included.

Everything is for sale, with a portion of the proceeds – around 5-10 percent – going to the Kindness Project. Its founder, Gary Parkinson, says in addition, everything sold supports the Balinese village economy.

“As a consumer society our obsession for things is straining the planet’s ability to survive,” Gary says. Often we are using materials that are not planet friendly and take hundreds of years to break down once discarded.

Through our offerings not only do we help people survive in traditional craft-

making, we also become part of the solution for being kind to the planet.

We have wonderful partners in Bali that ensure the sources are genuine and the supply chain has integrity.”

The project, which also supports an orphanage in Bali, is based in Albany.

It started just over a year ago and Gary says it’s been a steep learning curve. He says Bali has been severely impacted by the drop off in tourism as a result of Covid-19.

The Kindness Project is linked to the Global Giving Initiative, B1G1, which helps businesses become a real force for good.

Estuary Arts Centre manager Kim Boyd says as well as sustainability, hosting the sale is a way of bringing diversity to the gallery.

“As we can’t go to Bali, we thought we’d bring it to Ōrewa,” she says.

The exhibition and sale is on now at the arts centre, until April 18.

Estuary Arts gives back

Estuary Arts Centre manager Kim Boyd says the centre’s new “giving back to community strategy” is needed now more than ever. Some of the projects resulting from the strategy are: Emerging artists can apply for support in the form of an exhibition, event, use of studio space, mentorship or internship • Providing art activities at Whangaparāoa school gala • Raising awareness for the I am Hope Foundation and fundraising for Gumboot Day in May with an exhibition. • Support workshops for adults with aphasia and their families • Young adults under 18 Photographic competition in July – winners receive mentorship and an exhibition. The arts centre also continues to support Hospice with its annual fundraiser and have held themed exhibitions in support of Riding for Disabled and cancer charities.

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Coast community gets behind school gala The support given to Whangaparāoa School Gala has thrilled its organisers, who say they are so grateful to everyone who attended the event.

A lot of fundraising hopes were pinned on the gala, on Saturday, March 20, as last year’s event was a casualty of the level 4 lockdown.

Jenny Lisefski has helped to organise the annual event since 2019. She says after Covid the school wasn’t sure how much people would be able to give.

There were also a lot of other events held on the same weekend.

However, she says with a total of around $37,000 raised, it is clear that the community got behind the Gala in a big way. The money will be go towards the refurbishment of the school hall.

Big queues formed for cakes, toys, sausage sizzle and a new feature, the plant stall.

A total of 2000 bears featured in the teddy toss.

The Easter theme showed up in some of the cakes and other baking, and the Easter Egg Hunt in a tent was fun for the little ones.

A range of impressive stage performances helped make the gala a vibrant, happy place to be.

The finale, at 2pm, was a dramatic and drenching spray of water from the volunteers of Manly Fire Brigade.

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Clockwise from top, Friends Harry Brown (left) and Kaleb Coker enjoy Whangaparāoa School’s gala. Chris Bertram and daughter Rebecca Cleave with their haul from the plant stall. This stall was a new attraction, and one of the most popular. Teacher dunking never gets old. The Hibiscus Coast Concert Band, Whangaparāoa School choir, pictured, and the Northern School of the Performing Arts were among the live show stoppers.

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Feel-good fair brings much-needed funds A record 20 students of Red Beach School ran their own stalls at the Twilight Fair on Friday, March 19.

The stalls featured products they had made themselves and several also ran fun games such as eating dangling doughnuts without using your hands.

The children also offered face painting, food and crafts.

The fair also had a range of other stalls, food and entertainment on offer.

Lockdown meant that it was postponed by one week, but the school’s community committee co-chair, Shelley Ozturk, says that had only a minimal impact.

“It was a good community activity bringing in all the parents and students, and we’re very happy about that,” she says.

Around $12,000 was raised, which Shelley says goes towards supporting the school curriculum.

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Whangaparaoa Anglican Easter Services Good Friday Friday April 2: Family Service, 10am.

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As well as third place, Greased Lightning won best costume by swapping the gender roles. Photo, Photo Carnival, Stanmore Bay.

Daft rafts rule the waves

Crazy homemade rafts, many barely seaworthy, a pie-eating competition and egg throwing set the scene for the annual Stillwater Raft Race.

The event was held on Sunday, March 21 at Stillwater Boating Club.

The theme this year was the 1970s, which was interpreted in creative ways, including a Greased Lightning raft after the movie Grease (which came out in the 70s) and a Vietnamese plane, The Spruce Moose, in honour of 70s TV show M*A*S*H. With 11 people on board, it’s fair to say that The Spruce Moose struggled to get up on its foils.

A total of seven rafts gamely entered, spurred on by around 350 supporters.

The raft race is a fundraiser organised

by Stillwater Events Committee.

Chief organiser was Deb Thearle. She says the money raised, around $1200, will go towards future events in the community such as Christmas in the Park. It is also supporting the setting up of a community garden at the back of Stillwater Community Hall.

The winning raft was Waka Yea, made by four dads; in second place was The Wellermen, put together by

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Top, Winning team Waka Yea. The young Wellermen team came home second.

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largely in the dark the evening before the race. “It was held together with ratchet straps and high hopes,” Deb says.

The Bath Patrol craft was built of scaffold rigging with four plastic barrels and a bathtub in the centre.

Best Newcomers prize went to Ferg’s Angels, who paddled a picnic table on top of six plastic drums.

A messy pie eating event and three egg throwing competitions rounded out the day, along with races on boogie boards and paddleboards.

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Michele Copestake was crowned Queen of the Coast, and took away $1500 cash for catching the biggest snapper.

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Cup benefits Coastguard Congratulations to Emirates Team New Zealand for an amazing win and also congratulations to the Italian team for putting up a great challenge throughout the regatta.

I was lucky to be watching the final race at the viaduct along with many thousands of others and it should not go unnoticed how the whole event was so well managed.

Congratulations to all the volunteers who helped in some very trying circumstances.

With the America’s Cup over, Coastguard NZ will begin to see some fantastic benefits from the event. All the Cup support vessels were funded by Lotto NZ and they will now be fitted out and allocated to Coastguard units across the country, providing state-of-the-art rescue vessels. The Hibiscus Coast is not one of the lucky ones getting one of these vessels, however. Our vessel probably has another five years of service before we need to look at a replacement.

For Coastguard as a whole across Auckland this period has been very busy, and all the units have been putting additional crews and resources into assisting on America’s Cup race days as well as covering our normal call out rosters and helping the general public when needed.

From the start of the year to the middle of last month, your local Hibiscus Coastguard unit had dealt with around 50 callouts, which were, thankfully, mainly dealing with breakdowns of one type or another.

As we begin to move out of the busier summer period there is no slow down for the Hibiscus crew. We continue with our training – this week will see both of our rescue vessels on the water on our Tuesday training evening with a simulated training exercise involving on water and on shore searches and as usual some surprises thrown in by our training team.

Our training heading into the next few months will see a big focus on moving some of our senior crew through to being skippers.

This week our main rescue vessel, Hibiscus Rescue 1, will be taken out of the water for her 10-year survey and another 100-hour engine service.

To finish I would like to say a big thank you to all of the Hibiscus Coastguard crew for the many long hours you have put in over this busy summer period.

Editor’s note: This is the final Coastguard column for the summer. Thanks for all the input Dave!

First Queen of the Coast crowned by boating club

Fishing competitions are a monthly attraction at Hibiscus Coast Boating Club in Stanmore Bay. But this is the first time in the club’s history that it has held a women’s only contest – the Queen of the Coast Ladies’ Fishing Competition.

Eighty women fishers took part in the event on March 20, with 40 men providing support as skippers.

The event was organised by Donelle Schimanski and Kim Bayes, who are on the club’s fishing committee.

Kim says there was high demand for tickets, but they wanted to keep the first one to a manageable size and do it well.

Their efforts were very much appreciated by the fishers, who ranged

in age from two 12-year-olds to women in their late sixties.

“With champagne and goodie bags as well as cash prizes, Kim says the event had a really good vibe.

“It was different in many ways from the men’s competitions,” Kim says.

“The women were so appreciative and many said they could tell women had organised it!”

The target species was snapper, and some beauties were caught. The biggest weighed 7.55kg and second place was almost as heavy, 7.25kg.

The competition was open to nonmembers as well and Kim says it will definitely now become a regular on the club calendar.

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Hibiscus Coast cricketer in overseas invitational side Last month the bowling and batting attacks stepped up a notch for cricket all-rounder Ramesh Lakmal as he competed against some of Auckland’s best players.

He was selected to play for an international XI against the Auckland President’s XI – a team made up of premier players, including members of the Auckland Aces.

Ramesh says the idea of forming a one-off international 11, with borders closed, was to showcase the diverse cultures that play cricket in Auckland.

The game took place on March 21 in Kumeu.

Despite having no opportunity to train together prior to the event, the Overseas XI won the game by six wickets, with Ramesh taking two wickets for 10 runs in his two overs.

Ramesh has played for Hibiscus Coast Cricket Club since 2016, when he moved to Whangaparāoa from Sri Lanka. He is a leading member of the club’s premier team and a true all-rounder – being the club’s highest wicket taker and scoring three centuries this season. Increasingly, he also has a coaching role, working with the club’s junior and senior teams as well as a number of schools.

He is excited about the club’s strong start in its first season in Premier division, playing limited over matches.

Beating top of the table Birkenhead in the final game of the season placed Hibiscus Coast 6th equal out of eight teams.

Next season, Hibiscus Coast Cricket will take part in all forms of the game in Premier division.

Twilight Bowls at the Manly Bowling Club, 56 Laurence Street, Manly is to change to a Friday night at 6pm. The format played will be Bowls 3/5 as seen on TV, a fun and interesting way to enjoy Lawn Bowls. Wanting to join a friendly community club or play bowls for the first time? email manlybowlingclub@xtra.co.nz or visit www.manlybowlingclub.co.nz Whangaparāoa Indoor Bowling Club new members welcome. Come and learn this easy to play game. Club nights Monday 7pm, also Thursday afternoon at the Whangaparāoa Hall. Contact Geoff 428 5915 or Owen 426 8476 for more information.

Petanque Hibiscus Petanque Club, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, from 9am-12pm, and Sundays 1pm-4pm. Adjacent to Ōrewa Bowling Club, 214 Hibiscus Coast Highway. New members always welcome. Phone Club Captain Colleen 021 177 4820.

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DEATH NOTICE SCREACH, PETER JOHN On Thursday, 18th March 2021, peacefully, at NorthHaven Hospital.

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Standard run-on classifieds are $6.20p/line, boxed classifieds are $16 p/cm deep, colour +20%, GST included. Email: hibiscus@localmatters.co.nz

We can pick up and dispose of them. Ōrewa Lions collect old batteries, (NOT small batteries ie AAA etc) the money goes to the Child Mobility Foundation fund. Visit www.lionsclubs.org.nz/Clubs/ Activities/Child-Mobility and see just what a difference can be made. Ph Laurie 426 3122 or Frank 021 761 161.

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Stillwater, 3.30pm-6.30pm, free and open to the public. (on the grass picnic area in front of the club) swbc.co.nz/page/ what-s-happening/ Sunday April 11, 2s A Crowd; Sunday May 9, Happy Fish.

HIBISCUS COAST COUNTRY MUSIC CLUB, Sunday April 4, 1pm at the Ōrewa Community Centre, $4 entry all welcome. ŌREWA COMMUNITY CHURCH ART CLASS 9am-12pm, during school terms.

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HEARTBEATS, HEART EVENT SURVIVORS community-based, peerpeer support group meets the first Tuesday of each month at the Hibiscus Coast Community House (behind Estuary Arts Centre) at 10am-11.30am.

Monthly meetings include regular professional healthcare guest speakers.

All welcome. Info Trent 0220 606 199.

SERVING SPOONS FREE COMMUNITY LUNCH Free monthly lunch, 12.30pm, St John’s Church Hall, 180 Centreway Rd, Ōrewa. All welcome!

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Easter Bunny Hunt & Family Day, Silverdale Pioneer Village, 15 Wainui Road, Silverdale, 10am-3pm. Children’s games, Devonshire teas, music, Easter raffle. Entry free. All welcome. Info: www. silverdalepioneervillage.com

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Concert by Josh Jones and Secret Chords, raising funds for St Chad’s Hall, St Chad’s Church, cnr Centreway Rd and Florence Ave, Ōrewa, 7.30pm. (NB: this was postponed. If unable to attend, email chadŌrewa@gmail.com for refund.) Tickets, $20, from St Chad’s Op Shop, Ōrewa.

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Old clothes, old footwear and gloves needed. If you have waders, we need people to work in the water on the edges of the lake.

Supporters also welcome. Morning tea supplied at 11am. Info: phone Marie, 426 3742.

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SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SPORTING COMMUNITY WITH Author Lynne Third talks about her book Hard Graft – the story of the Dairy Flat Community, Whangaparāoa Library, Main Street, Whangaparāoa, 2pm.

A SIDELINE KIT Free CAP Money Management Course, The Hub, 13 Agency Lane, OVER Silverdale, 7pm-8.30pm. AdviceWORTH on how to budget, save and spend.

Hot Diggety Dog Show, Western Reserve, Ōrewa. Fun dog competitions and stalls for the family pooch. 10am-2pm. All welcome. Hosted by Ōrewa Lions Club. (see story p21)

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Life Education Trust Rodney presents Harold Does Resilience, Ōrewa Community Hall, 7pm. Two-hour fundraising event with speakers to help families face these times. Entry $20 (max $40 per family). Tickets from Eventfinda. (see story p20)

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Peninsula Club Retirement Village Market Day, 441 Whangaparāoa Rd, Stanmore Bay, 10am-2pm. Stalls, cream tea, bargains galore and * raffles. All welcome. (see ad p12)

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Sounds, Surf and Skate, Western Reserve, behind Estuary Arts and HBC Youth Centre, Ōrewa, 1pm-4pm. Live music, food trucks. A free event hosted by the Hibiscus & Bays Local Board, focused on youth.

Note: Postponed from March 13.

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Sand brings out community creativity Ōrewa’s Sandcastle competition attracted 26 entries, with sand sculptors coming from as far away as Tauranga and Wellsford.

This is the seventh year that the event has run. It offers top prizes of $500 for the best sculptures made on roped off portions of Ōrewa Beach.

This year numbers were down by about half, which organiser Destination Ōrewa Beach puts down to a postponement caused by the recent Covid-19 lockdown.

However, the sunny day on Saturday March 20 drew plenty of spectators to the beach to watch the sculptures take shape.

Sea creatures are always popular subjects – this year they included an octopus, a whale and two turtles. Other sculptures included a 3D map of New Zealand, a giant tower and a car.

‘Iceberg and penguins’ was a first time entry for the Graham family of Red Beach. Mike Graham used concreting tools to form the penguins and the sculpture won the beginner category.

A group of friends from Tindalls Bay and Ōrewa made a seaweed strewn hobbit house that was popular with spectators.

A big feature of the event is the giant sculpture made on Moana Reserve

by Christchurch’s In Good Form.

Covid-19 reduced this a little – five tons less of sand was trucked in for the sculpture, and two sculptors (instead of three) made the work over several days.

Clockwise from top, The Graham family’s design of an iceberg and penguins took out the beginner category. The massive effort that went into making this whale was rewarded with a Highly Commended. In Good Form from Christchurch chose the America’s Cup as the theme for this year’s giant sand sculpture.

From top, A group of friends made a hobbit house. The experienced category was won by Brett Muir from Tauranga with his “aquatic tower”.

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