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Stroke Clubs are organised by the Stroke Foundation to unite people who have had a stroke and for mutual support and friendship. As well as enabling people to share experiences and help each other, the clubs hold social activities and organise outings. They offer a great opportunity for like-minded people who want to get out of their own four walls and enjoy each other’s company.
The Glen Eden Stroke Club meets at the Glen Eden RSA on Tuesdays from 10am. Following morning tea, there are raffles, exercises, Housie and bowls. A lunch is provided and the morning normally wraps up around 12.15pm.
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The friendly group resumed its activities on October 13 after lock down much to everyone’s delight. However, the group needs another volunteer to help with general kitchen duties, making morning tea and lunch, doing dishes and helping out.
Contact Anne Rogers on 626 7040 if you can help.
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Hello team,
I have just finished reading the September Fringe and saw the article about the restoration of the old Nihotupu filter station.
I would like to submit a suggestion. As Exhibition Drive is a thriving walk, run, cycling place to be for our daily exercises with friends and family, I thought at the end of our adventure on the Drive it would be good to have a pancake house/café. Pancakes come in many forms: sweet, savoury and children’s versions. For the children a bear pancake where the kiddies (young or old) could have fun decorating their own pancake for example with chocolate syrup to form their eyes and mouth or jam. For the adults, bacon, apple and maple syrup (my favourite), mushroom and onions, ham and cheese, chicken and brie, lemon and sugar, and more.
We have many cafés in Titirangi and further up the road on Scenic Drive. A familyoriented place might just be the thing for Titirangi.
Kind regards, Libby
Work is well underway on the replacement clubhouse for the Karekare Surf Club, despite the disruptions caused by Covid-19 lock downs.
Working together for the good of the Ranges
I am sure that everyone is happy that the election campaign, in what feels like the longest campaign of all time, is now finished.
The results were clear. There was an emphatic swing to Labour and the Greens and for the first time in our history of MMP elections one party has the ability to rule without any support party.
I hope that they do not do this. I have found that democracy works better where as far as possible all points of view are thrown into the mix and considered.
The west is now a sea of red. New Lynn is no longer a marginal seat and on the election night figures, local MP Deborah Russell had a majority of over 10,000. Carmel Sepuloni and Phil Twyford were returned with large majorities. Slightly further north National’s Chris Penk was returned with a safe although somewhat reduced majority.
The upset of the night out west was Upper Harbour where Labour’s Vanushi Walters managed to defeat National’s Jake Bezzant. Vanushi is a Waitākere resident and I am sure will be a very good representative.
The Green Party candidate for New Lynn, Steve Abel, may have just missed out but, pending special votes, could be the next Green MP into Parliament.
The Māori Party were also returned to Parliament with Rawiri Waititi being elected to Waiariki. Westie John Tamihere went close in Tāmaki Makaurau losing to Labour’s Peeni Henare and Kelvin Davies won Te Tai Tokerau convincingly.
In the past Deborah and Chris have
both taken an active part in local board matters including attending the combined Resident and Ratepayer group meetings. Chris’ new seat is just outside the area but he has taken an active interest and as a local resident I hope that he continues to do so. It is important that there is a constructive dialogue between the board and all political parties.
In terms of what I would like the new Government to do these are some suggestions in no particular order: 1. Kauri dieback continues to be a scourge. The proposal for extra funding and the implementation of a National Pest Management Plan under the Biosecurity Act needs to be implemented as soon as possible. 2. Job creation through shovel ready projects continues to be important and I would like to propose the biggest shovel ready project that requires no resource consents or huge amounts of resource and which will have a tremendous beneficial environmental effect. This is weeding the Waitākere Ranges. 3. If we are going to meet the Government’s desire of being carbon neutral in 2050 alternatives to cars will be incredibly important. The Waitakere Ranges Greenways Plan is an example of the sorts of projects that need to be accelerated.
Good luck to all of the local MPs from all parties. I am sure that we can continue the constructive dialogue that we had last term.
