Recycling dates
Thursday 10th February glass
Wednesday 16th February wheelie bin
Wednesday 23rd February glass
Thursday 10th February glass
Wednesday 16th February wheelie bin
Wednesday 23rd February glass
Just prior to Christmas the Martinborough Volunteer Fire Brigade advised that we were starting our new Medical First Response Unit. The members of this unit have each, despite Covid delays, completed over 200 hours of clinical skill, training and Ambulance experience, provided by our training and response partner Wellington Free Ambulance, all gaining a NZ Certificate in Emergency Care.
This means that in a Medical Emergency, our Medical Responders will be dispatched by Wellington Free Ambulance (you still ring 111 and ask for Ambulance), on arrival the Fire Brigade Medical First Responders will provide patient care including medications and ECGs until an ambulance arrives, ensuring our Community receives the best in medical care and patient outcomes.
This may be in addition to a response from Dr Phillip and the team of PRIME Medical Responders from Martinborough Health Centre, whom we work closely alongside.
To date this has already provided several instances of life saving medications being given prior to the arrival of Wellington Free Ambulance Paramedics, improving health outcomes.
The Martinborough and Districts Ambulance Trust are delighted to announce that with their lease expiring on the land the Ambulance Building is located on, that they have generously donated the Ambulance Building to the Martinborough Volunteer Fire Brigade, for use as a Community Emergency Hub and Medical First Response Station. … Continue Reading
ANOTHER YEAR …
I’m hoping, like me, that you looked forward to the return of our Martinborough Star for 2022. And even though January has come and gone, perhaps those inevitable New Year’s Resolutions are still fresh in your mind? As we know, plans commonly involve some sort of self-improvement, including giving up stuff we love and starting things we hope we will learn. Naturally you’ll have made at least one (see below.)
The idea of making a ‘fresh start’ has been around for ever. Well, a very long time, to be fair. We can probably blame the Babylonians for the very first official ‘resolutions’, in 2000 B.C. Just a passing thought: perhaps 4000 B.C. – before Covid, that is. Just saying …
Anyway, moving on. Back then, this agricultural nation facing uncertainties and the vagaries of the weather (sound familiar?), organised a spring festival of self-flagellation to appease the gods, pay debts and return ‘borrowed’ farming gear.
The tradition caught on in ancient Rome, and with January, named after the two-faced god Janus, who looks forward for new beginnings as well as backward for reflection and resolution, as the first month of the year; January 1st seemed an appropriate day to end the frenzy of harvest partying and promise to be good. The occasion was also marked with sacrifices, so included a grand solution to the disposal of all that left-over Xmas lamb or turkey as well. … Continue Reading
Library debuts Click-and-Collect service
Need something to read, and can’t make it into a library? Try the new Click-and-Collect service from Martinborough Library! Our service is modeled on those many big retailers offer to speed up your shopping trip, but with two great options to best serve all our customers:
For more information, visit wls.org.nz/clickandcollect, give us a call, or drop by the library today.
Celebrate Waitangi Day with two new exciting nonfiction reads:
Kia Whakanuia te Whenua: People Place Landscape, ed. by Carolyn Hill. This Maori-led collection of visual essays, papers, poetry, and polemics aims to challenge the way we think about the environment in a changing world. With bold new approaches to land use, city planning, and the identity of landscape, this vital anthology aims to shake off our complacency and encourage us to truly listen to the land of Aotearoa. … Continue Reading
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