Waihī Beach Menz Shed diary

By Bob Firth Secretary

Tuesday 20th December

Hi Shedders Is anyone at a loose end tomorrow with time on their hands? The Waihī Beach Community Board would like a hand weeding around shrubs adjacent to the Community Centre site If you can help, please be there at 1pm with gloves, rakes, and spades

Thursday 12th January ducted, Keith will be running induction sessions very soon

There are three basic rules: There must be two of you on-site at all times You must sign the attendance registrar You must be inducted on the machine you intend to use

Thursday 5th January

Come and see our new driveway all concreted now

The trap library is up and running - anyone can take one home and start trapping with full instructions given

All machinery is now in place and ready for your projects Test and tagging of all equipment and machinery has started Vinyl flooring will be completed in the kitchen and bathroom area on 15th January, thanks to Owens Flooring A new garden is being designed for our front entrance, and we hope to supply veg and herbs to the “Friends Place” The shed is fully alarmed and monitored now, with more street signage to go up soon

The fence is all fixed and rewired between the school and us We are now qualified with “SHE”, which means we can undertake work on behalf of the Council We are planning an open day, an official open day and an AGM More on this as the year progresses

We are planning to shift the big container and then build an archgola from the shed to the re-sited 40ft container Any shedder who has a contact or knows someone who can shift our container at a reasonable cost, please contact Don

We intend to list all paid-up members and their contact telephone numbers on the noticeboard This is so fellow shedders can contact one another for jobs, help or to have a chat In terms of personal privacy laws, if any shedder does not want his/her name displayed in this manner, kindly advise Otherwise, I can presume you are happy with this and proceed accordingly

We are having a full Executive meeting soon, and the Chairman will brief you on the outcome of this and any other updates

Come and see our new vinyl flooring, kindly donated and laid by Owens Flooring Ltd Please consider them when next seeking a flooring quote We are coming very close to opening the shed permanently and almost have the machinery set up and ready to go Your committee are working through this

We are seeking projects, semi-mass production items such as letterboxes, bird feeders, bbq tables and the like to get you guys involved and give us a purpose to get started These items could be sold at the markets or on TradeMe Anyone with any ideas or a plan of attack, please come forward The Tauranga Menz Shed has hundreds of templates for all sorts of items that we can borrow We just need to settle on something and go for it

Thursday 26th January

Thursday 19th January

The shed is now set up and ready to go All machinery has been set in place and is wired up and usable Paidup members are now free to come along and use it, provided you have been inducted in its use and signed the Health and Safety register If you have not been in-

Induction training days have been organised If you require training and induction on our machinery, Keith has set aside the following two Tuesdays at the Shed, 31st January and 2nd February, both 9am until noon The shed is now open to financial members A list has been posted on the noticeboard PHOTOS: Supplied