Seven more years up Schitts Creek?

By Ray Lilley Eighteen months of repairs and a block on new sewerage connections – and only seven years to go to fix the mess. When? – 2031. That was the message from the little-known Joint Community Liaison Group’s meeting to report and review progress on the Martinborough and Greytown …

Pumped up and ready to go!

By Charlotte Harding This month we welcome the Trailpro team and officially celebrate a dream coming to reality as the Pump Track build starts! Martinborough Youth Trust members are thrilled to see this project come to fruition: “it’s been a long road but we finally got here!” With summer just …

Community patrol car goes Electric

Martinborough Community Patrol (MBCP) are now the proud owners of an Electric Nissan Leaf. The time had come to retire the old car, a Honda CRV, Claire Fleming, Coordinator of the Patrol, said.  “We wanted to on-sell it while it still had some value. The car had been a dedicated …

Another rural defibrillator installed

Wednesday, 28 August, saw a crowd of about 30 locals assembled at Ruakokoputuna Community Hall as an AED was installed and a CPR course held. AED? Automatic External Defibrillator _ in common language a heart reboot machine. CPR? An “incredibly worthwhile and hugely successful” Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation course, held for locals …

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Greytown groups scoop half wellbeing grants – August 2024

August 12, 2024 August 2024 Comments Off on Greytown groups scoop half wellbeing grants – August 2024

Two Greytown groups have been handed half of the $160,000 first tranche of central government funding earmarked for promoting community wellbeing.

A total of $500,000 of central government funding is available for dispersal from the council’s new Community Wellbeing Fund. The cash was left over from Te Tari Taiwhenua, the Department of Internal Affairs, out of its Better Off support packages that were provided to local authorities under the Three Waters Reform programme.

The successful groups: Kohunui Marae ($49,000), Cobblestones Museum Trust ($45,000), Greytown Little Theatre Trust ($36,000), Ngahuia Wild Bird Rescue ($20,000) and Courage Dear Heart Events ($10,000).

Successful recipients of the funds were able to demonstrate wellbeing outcomes that tick social, cultural, economic and environmental boxes, said Councillor Rebecca Gray. All four are key tenets of the Community Wellbeing Fund criteria. … Continue Reading

Martinborough School Update

August 12, 2024 August 2024 Comments Off on Martinborough School Update

From The Headmaster’s Desk – August 2024 

We have had quite the busy term. Lots of events on, and some marvellous results from the students.

Many thanks to Amanda Pickering and her wonderful team of helpers who organised the sporting

events. We had about 70 students representing the school at the Cluster Cross Country competition,

and have 15 students representing the Wairarapa at the regional event. The students have certainly put in a lot of work to ensure they are successful.

Sustainable Education

As part of wanting to reduce waste that goes into the landfill, the Middle Syndicate has implemented a recycling system in their classrooms. This consists of organic, paper and hard/soft plastic recycling. Some of the senior classes will start collecting their organic waste for the compost bin next term. This term Garden-to-Table sessions have been running in our year 5/6 classes. These sessions allow children to grow, harvest and share kai. It has been awesome to see tamariki develop their cooking skills as they prepare meals to share with their class from food that they have grown. We could not do this without our parent volunteers who help run the sessions. Thank you very much to those who have enabled this programme to run in our school. … Continue Reading

Inner Wheel and The Ruth Project

August 12, 2024 August 2024 Comments Off on Inner Wheel and The Ruth Project

Last meeting we had a fantastic speaker – Abby Worthington – founder of The Ruth Project

Four years ago, and inspired by her own experience of miscarriage and postnatal depression, Abby formed the Wairarapa-based charity to help people deal with perinatal stress. 

Having a miscarriage and receiving poor or no advice from medics, such as “do not breast feed,”  she found bonding with her first child difficult. 

She later realised this was wrong for her, especially after seeing how Māori mothers and fathers relate to their babies. Abby and her husband both felt that there was no support for families.

The organisation has 12 volunteers, mainly retired and vetted women and men. 

Project Ruth does not replace medical professionals who deal with serious matters. Instead, Abby’s charity lends a hand by giving practical and emotional support to those who need it.

Plunket, midwives, word of mouth and social media spread the word to would-be client families. The charity is funded by grants, donations and other innovative means.

Caption: Ruth Project’s Abby Worthington speaks to Inner Wheel members.

Help find little Archie from Pirinoa

August 12, 2024 August 2024 Comments Off on Help find little Archie from Pirinoa

Archie, a Shih Tzu Cross and beloved pet of the Frost family from Pirinoa, has been missing from home there for six weeks – and the family are desperate to recover him. 

Archie (pictured) was likely last seen by neighbours about 3.5 kilometers from his home on Lake Ferry Rd _ and Teresa Frost thinks it’s likely he walked out the neighbour’s driveway and was picked up by a passing motorist. 

She notes: “He does love the mud, so could be very muddy. And when scared or worried his tail goes down and can look longer. He does have his bottom teeth that sit out over the top a bit and is a little bow-legged.”

“I’m sure he is missing us all. His buddy, Bob (4yr Foxie) is missing ZOOMIES. He is very depressed without his best friend Archie. My daughter and I are completely broken hearted without him.”

“Thank you for everyone keeping an eye out for him,” Teresa said.

Contacts: 0224271517 or 0272414894 or 0212473529. 

Caption: Archie, the missing Pirinoa Shih Tzu X

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Lady golfers show Rosebowl winning ways

September has been an up and down month weatherwise for golfers, some beautiful early spring days followed by cold and rain. Thankfully for the important days the weather has mostly come to the party. Early in the month the Cotter Rosebowl was successfully defended at Carterton by Martinborough’s team of …

Stunning first 4 – 1 win for Marty Women’s FC

By All-knowing Football Reporter It was always going to happen. After a few draws, some losses the newly-formed MWFC won their first game. An impressive and resounding victory. It started with ‘The Fox in the Box,’ the striker who plays in the traditional Number 9 role of marauding the penalty …

Martinborough Golf Club

A taste of what the new clubhouse will offer was provided recently to members and the Martinborough community.  The weather also came to the party to give everyone fabulous views from the new bar /lounge area as well as the undercover outdoor space. Over 100 people took advantage of the …

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Cartel Food Company “Home Grown in Martinborough”

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Retiring Fire Chief Jake Hawkins joined Martinborough’s Volunteer Fire Brigade in 1994 _ 30 years …

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