Community kōrero 

Siv Fjærestad, Community Development Coordinator, South Wairarapa District Council 

Ehāra taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa takitini. 

(My strength is not as an individual but as a collective.)

Last year the South Wairarapa District Council and Carterton District Council partnered to create a Community Development Coordinator role working across the two districts. We set out to learn about our communities and about what local government Community Development would look like.  … Continue Reading

Country dog – City dog

Cooking corner

Kumara salad

Ingredients 

3. kumara, medium, washed, cut into large piece1

1 orange (zest and juice)

¼ cup yoghurt, unsweetene … Continue Reading

CLOSING DOWN OF COPPER PHONE SERVICES – WHAT IT WILL MEAN TO YOU:

Chorus plans to start shutting down its copper phone and broadband network from September, 2021, The Commerce Commission report that use of the copper network has fallen sharply in the past six years, due mainly to businesses and consumers switching to new fibre services.

Once an area has fibre it doesn’t make economic sense to keep the copper in the ground. Running two parallel access networks is costly and inefficient. There’s no engineering reason to have copper running alongside fibre.

As the hyper fast and reliable fibre broadband reaches 87% of Kiwi homes and businesses, the time has come to start switching off small sections of the old network which we are no longer dependent on. … Continue Reading