KAIPARA LIFESTYLER April 4 - 2017
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Wonderful memories made
Network News
by Anna Harding
A sold-out show saw a packed Lighthouse Function Centre on Sunday afternoon to see the tenth Kevin Friedrich and Friends annual show, A Trip Down Memory Lane. The audience was treated to music from the Auckland Accordion Symphonietta, 11-year-old vocalist Kate Cotching, local pianist Nolene Osbaldiston, former local Deborah Orr on the pipes and Garth Mackay on the drums, vocalist, accordionist and conductor Lionel Reekie, The Eccentric Ukes from Matakohe, Ben Emmett Accordions Reunion Ensemble, flautist Pippa Howes and pianist Matt Watson. Then came Sax ’n Sister Act Two, vocalist Alanah Jones and The Starlight Duo, The Dargaville Tamburica Orchestra, The Martin Family Strings, The River Town Singers and Take Five. Towards the end of the show Kevin along with Lionel, Alanah, the Martin family, The River Town Singers and Take Five played a series of accordion, vocal and string pieces with various dancers. Ken Cashin also added nostalgia with a video that looked back over the last ten years of concerts, keeping in with the ‘trip down memory lane’ theme. Overall the crowd seemed to enjoy the afternoon, and were certainly left in awe of the wonderful talent of Kevin Friedrich and his friends once again.
The extension of Northpower Fibre’s ultrafast broadband fibre network throughout Whangarei and Kaipara Districts will begin in a matter of weeks thanks to the Government’s UFB2 initiative. Northpower has secured contracts to build UFB networks in 12 Kaipara and Whangarei towns – Kaiwaka, Mangawhai Village, Mangawhai Heads, Maungaturoto, Paparoa, Ruawai, Dargaville, Waipu, Ruakaka, One Tree Point, Waikaraka and Hikurangi. The four year project will cost around $30 million.
The Rivertown Singers, Take five, Kevin and The Martin Family Strings
The first town to benefit from UFB will be Hikurangi. The build starts in April. This will be followed by Waipu in June – with residents of theese towns able to connect to the UFB fibre before Christmas. One Tree Point’s UFB network build begins in July, Dargaville West will be underway in January 2018, Ruakaka in March 2018 and Mangawhai Village in September 2018. Dargaville East will begin to receive fibre from February 2019, followed by Mangawhai Heads South in March 2019 and Mangawhai Heads North in August 2019.
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The Kaiwaka UFB network build will begin in April 2020, Maungaturoto in June 2020, Waikaraka in September 2020 and Ruawai in November 2020. Work on the Paparoa network will start in January 2021 and be completed in May 2021. For more information on coverage areas and build schedules:
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Northpower Trust Ownership Review Northpower Electric Power Trust (NEPT) conducts an Ownership Review of the shares in Northpower Limited every five years and this process is underway now. In recent weeks public meetings have been held in Whangarei, Kaiwaka and Dargaville to discuss the Ownership Review options (Option 1 - Retain the Northpower Ltd shares in the Trust; Option 2 - Dispose of a portion of the shares and retain the remainder in the Trust; Option 3 - Dispose of all the shares). Northpower electricity consumers can make submissions (in writing) on the Ownership Review in accordance with the Trust Deed no later than 4pm, 28 April 2017, addressed to: Submission to the Trustees Northpower Electric Power Trust PO Box 1609 WHANGAREI 0140 Submitters should indicate if they wish to be heard in support of their submission.
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The expansion of Northpower’s UFB network is a substantial boost to the region as it will take fibre to a further 9000 premises – adding to well over 20,000 UFB premises in Northpower Fibre’s Whangarei UFB network – New Zealand’s inaugural UFB network which was completed in 2014. The first connections in every township network are likely to happen one month before the completion of each network build.
Kevin with the Sax ‘n Sister Act Two members — Joan Emmett Brown playing the accordion, Linda Emmett Litt on the drums and Stewart Stevenson playing the saxophone
Kevin Friedrich on the accordion
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