Don’t forget the Christmas Parade
This year’s Christmas Parade will be on Saturday 14t th commencing at 5pm. Followed by Carols in the Square featuring Madcaps leading the singing with Business House choirs (?) also taking a turn to lead.
This year’s Christmas Parade will be on Saturday 14t th commencing at 5pm. Followed by Carols in the Square featuring Madcaps leading the singing with Business House choirs (?) also taking a turn to lead.
Most grownups know that A is A,
And some will say so, come what may,
Yet most pretend that A is B
Unless they’re sure their friends agree … Continue Reading
Christmas is nearly upon us! I hope to see you all at the Christmas Parade on 14th December. I have been offered a vintage convertible to sit in by Peter McKeown, and hope to be joined by a pupil from Tuturumuri School, to show sympathy for its sad, imminent closure.
The last week saw the first SWDC proper Council meeting. At this meeting, my new committee structure was adopted by councillors – with some justified concern over where some functions of the disbanded committees would sit.
I have adopted a flat structure, removing all working groups to improve transparency and moving some decision-making to community boards, thereby allowing councillors to use the remaining committees and Council meetings to focus on issues with a broad overview. We will have one working group – the Annual Plan/Long Term Plan Working Group – that can be formed as needed and will involve the entire Council. … Continue Reading
We all know that many NZ native species are under serious threat from introduced predators and there are many conservation projects working in the wild to address this. It is not always quite so clear what we as urban residents can do. Well, here’s a chance for everyone to have an impact.
As part of its Predator-Free New Zealand initiative the government is supporting a programme of backyard trapping. In that way everyone in the community can become part of the solution. Some very successful trapping programmes are already operating in Wellington suburbs and elsewhere in New Zealand.
Special traps have been designed that work only for the target species (rats, mice, stoats, ferrets etc). These also reduce the yuk factor for the squeamish!
Local resident Jane Lenting has organised for DOC experts to come to Martinborough to talk to interested residents about how they can become involved. If we can harness our well-recognised community spirit maybe we can make Martinborough a model town for predator trapping.
The talk will be held at 41B Weld Street (leave cars on road) at 5pm on Thursday, 13 December. If you are interested or would like more information you can contact Jane Lenting at janelenting@xtra.co.nz, or call 021 025 78799. If you plan to attend please RSVP to Jane by Tuesday 11 December.
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