Local board gives back to Coast volunteers Around 60 people from a wide range of community organisations were honoured at a function organised by the Hibiscus & Bays Local Board last week. It’s the first time that the Community Volunteers Evening has been held on the Hibiscus Coast – last year it was in the Bays. The event, held on June 26 at the Orewa Community Centre, showed the depth of volunteer culture on the Coast: it was attended by volunteers of all ages from a wide range of organisations, including sporting groups, Coastguard, the Conservation Volunteers, Blue Light, business associations, the CYC Trust and Orewa library. Live music was supplied by the talented Whangaparaoa College band.
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Just as a series of mysterious bangs were heard around the Hibiscus Coast last month, a possible explanation arrived in the Hibiscus Matters inbox, entitled Create your own Fartbomb. The message, from Beat Bowel Cancer Aotearoa, promoted a new online tool that “allows Kiwis to upload videos or YouTube content, dropping strategically placed farts throughout, then share via social networking sites”. A Fartbomb Generator at http://www.beatbowelcancer.org.nz allows you to “improve any YouTube video with a well timed one-cheek sneak or a louder brown scream”. The underlying message is “that while our bums are full of surprises, the biggest surprise of all is bowel cancer”. Are you following us on facebook www.facebook.com/hibiscusmatters
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Clockwise from top, The Conservation Volunteers are doing good work around the Hibiscus Coast. The two Jills: Jill Jeffs of Maygrove, left, and Silverdale’s market coordinator Jill Ansell. Orewa Library volunteers.
World War I stories inspire young college artists A project that combined the study of World War I with art saw Year 7–10 students at Whangaparaoa College produce work in a range of media, reflecting their responses to the war. Some of the works were selected for an exhibition held recently at the Mairangi Bay Arts Centre. The work included poppy fields painted by the Year 7 students, inspired by the poem In Flanders Field and mixed media collage work by the Year 8s, while Year 9s made wire biplanes and graffiti walls. Year 10s used mono printing processes to create artworks about the soldiers’ experiences.
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Samantha Bright Y 8 mixed media with medal.
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Orewa Lions appointed its new officers at a function
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Winning shot This image, taken by keen amateur photographer Dave Barker of Orewa, was selected ahead of more than 1000 others as the winner of the Nikon Auckland Photo Day – also described as “a day in the life of Auckland”. The competition is part of Auckland’s Festival of Photography and the only requirement is that all entries are taken over the same 24 hours, providing a snapshot of Auckland from many perspectives. The competition has been running for a decade and Dave says he has entered every time. Judges described this photograph as “a fortuitously captured and intriguing moment bathed in a golden light – a photograph that asks questions of the people, customs, traditions and consumption”. The image joins the archive of more than 11,000 photos taken for the competition since it began in 2004.
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