August 6 2019
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School wins a shopping spree Mangawhai’s call for volunteers At a recent working bee at the Mangawhai Activity Zone …
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Election nominations closing soon
p Maungaturoto Primary School has been named Sport Northland’s Energize School of the year to win funds to go shopping for new sports equipment. Sports teacher Julia Neal put together a slideshow on school activities and is seen here on the left receiving a large cheque from Energize coordinator Shawni Paniona – helped by her seven-month-old son, Rize. See page 3 for the story.
Nominations for candidates in the forthcoming local body elections close next week …
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Kaipara landfill fight goes proactive u by Paul Campbell
The Fight the Tip movement opposing the proposed 1,000-hectare landfill for Auckland rubbish in the Dome Valley, a Hoteo River catchment for the Kaipara Harbour, has taken an active part in the Fox River clean-up on the South Island West Coast. Fight the Tip campaigner, Haley Warman, spent four days on the cleanup operation. The Kaipara Harbour-based protest movement has a petition to parliament and submissions to Auckland City Council opposing the perceived pollution threat from the Dome Valley dump,
Fresh gameplan for park’s future
A pathway toward better facilities and games of regional significance …
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with resource consent being sought by Chinese-owned Waste Management Ltd. Kaipara iwi from across the harbour has also declared an environmental rahui on the area. The landfill would put an estimated 350 truck movements a day on the Dome Valley highway. Haley Warman said when volunteers
were called for at Fox River, where a disused tip burst its banks in a major flood in March, “I made the decision to go, based on anger, that not enough was being done and I cared for the environment.” continued on page 3 …
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