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Over recent weeks I have heard people refer to Mount Karioi as the Sleeping Lady (Wahine Moe). This has puzzled me because, throughout my long knowledge of him, Karioi has always been rampantly male. The legend is that Karioi and Pirongia, both ardent males fell in love with the same beautiful maiden. Frightened by their ardour she ran away hotly persued by her suitors. When Karioi almost had her in his grasp she left her footprint in a rock called Te Reke Reke “the Heel”, leapt into the sea and swam for her life. It was then that the Gods took pity on her and turned all participants to stone - and there they stand to this day - Pirongia and Karioi, mountains, and away out to sea, poor Karewa (Gannet Island). Karioi is beautiful in the autumn light with every ridge etched. When you look at him (her, it) what do you see? E.Rawley.
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We would like to tell you not to leave your rubbish behind, and think green. Did you know that in New Zealand, in one month, you can fill a thirty story building that is 70m x 100m with land fill? Half of this could have been recycled or composted. http://www.weathermap.co.nz/?p=raglan We care, do you? From the Raglan Area School junior enviro club members.
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Check www.weathermap.co.nz for latest forecasts Forecast generated on Wednesday 9 March Max Summary Wind Waves* Tides* temp (C) (km/hr) (m) (High/Low) H 02:10 am Sunny and clear E 10 am L 08:20 am Fri 19 0.8 SW 20 pm skies H 02:20 pm L 08:40 pm H 02:50 am Sunny with some S 15 am L 09:10 am Sat 19 0.8 SW 25 pm cloud H 03:20 pm L 09:40 pm H 03:50 am Sunny with some E 20 am L 10:20 am Sun 22 0.6 NW 0 pm cloud H 04:20 pm L 10:50 pm H 05:10 am Sunny with some E 15 am L 11:30 am Mon 21 0.9 SW 15 pm cloud H 05:50 pm L 12:00 am L 12:00 am NE 10 am H 06:30 am Tue Cloudy 21 1.3 SW 20 pm L 12:50 pm H 07:10 pm L 01:10 am Showers with NE 10 am H 07:40 am Wed 15 1.3 NE 10 pm clear spells L 01:50 pm H 08:10 pm L 02:10 am Mainly fine with N 5 am H 08:30 am Thu 23 1.6 N 5 pm possible showers L 02:50 pm H 09:00 pm
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Backdown clears way for Raglan’s own vision Raglan Community Board chairman Rodger Gallagher said that with the structure plan withdrawn it was now time to “update the Raglan Naturally document, work out our needs and wants and then look at the zoning etc”. While critical however of a structure plan that had “failed every practical question”, and a process which despite extensive public input didn’t work out how the town should develop, he didn’t see the exercise as a complete waste of time. “The tremendous information gathered and reports written can still be used,” he insisted. Rodger was hoping to tackle at this week’s monthly meeting “what we as a community board need to be doing next”. He told the Chronicle he’d asked Waikato District Council staff – either chief executive Gavin Ion or strategy & support general manager Tony Whittaker – to be present as a means to that end. Earlier, he said he was delighted that council had listened to submitters. More than 200 Raglan residents made submissions opposing the direction of the plan released last year. Of 1000 separate submission points, residents requested to be heard on about 650.
Local Rosie Worsp was one such resident also “thrilled” last week that council was finally “listening to us”. She believed the tide had turned and people could now see their efforts having an effect. But she suggested the community still needed clear direction – possibly in the form of workshops – on writing submissions related to future plans or developments. The task could be a bit daunting for the ordinary person, she said. Whaingaroa Environmental Defence (WED) has also welcomed council’s decision to scrap the structure plan but says it still “fears for the future” and called a meeting this week to try to find a way forward. “We knew council was wasting ratepayers’ money in getting Auckland planners to dust off the decade-old plans for high rise on Cliff Street,” said WED convener Malibu Hamilton. But he also remained unconvinced last week that council would serve Raglan’s best interests for the future. The council had “still not learnt to consult – as is all too obvious from their plans for the wharf”, he said. WED was to hold a public meeting this Wednesday – a day after the community board meeting – to “discuss the merits of the current system for deciding the future of Raglan and what changes can be made”. WED member and council watchdog John Lawson complained there had been “lots of (council) decisions made which have come as a surprise (to the community) – the structure plan being the latest”. Along with unpopular decisions at times over replacement of the Kopua footbridge, the
wharf and the museum, he said, there had also been an “awful lot of money wasted”. “We need debates out in the open before lots of (ratepayer) money gets spent.” Meantime Rodger Gallagher last week took a swipe in turn at WED over having planned its own protest meeting at the community house on wharf issues, a protest forum which was postponed and then rolled into this Wednesday’s broader-agenda meeting when it looked as though – as WED put it – council might listen to community opinion. Roger said WED’s planned meeting on the wharf “once again confirms just how far out of touch with community views the Malibu/John combo are”. He said community board meetings were the right place to provide input on and discussion about getting the wharf working again. That issue was the No 1 priority for the board. “At the February meeting we set aside quite a lengthy period to discuss the wharf,” he said. “A good discussion took place and we have been working with council staff since then.” • There has been a perception for some years that the Raglan Community Board, like similar boards elsewhere, is largely toothless and easily ignored at council level. That frustration was shown graphically at last year’s council elections, where none of the existing board members stood again – and some cited their frustration at not being able to get things done. Edith Symes
Raglan Naturally was an extensive twoyear community consultation exercise which culminated in a detailed 45-page community plan published in 2001. The exercise, led by a project team of 12 local residents, was hailed as “the collective views and aspirations of our diverse community”. The plan set out how the community wanted to “generate opportunities for local employment, new business and planned growth while protecting and enhancing Raglan’s unique character and diversity”. But despite all the time and effort – which included two surveys to consider issues and options relating to the town’s development – the Raglan Community Board-sponsored exercise seemed in the end to attract little more than lip service from Waikato District Council.
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Water metering Council proposal programme begins to increase rates Waikato District Council today awarded Potter Contracting Waikato Limited with the contract to install manifolds and meter boxes onto water services lines and to upgrade the public network in some areas of Raglan. The total value of the project is $270,465.52. Installing water meters in Raglan is the first stage in Council’s $2.1 million district-wide water metering programme, which encourages water conservation and attempts to defer capital expenditure over the next two decades. Waikato District Council Water and Facilities General Manager, Richard Bax, said initially the Raglan project will involve installing a manifold and backflow preventer to all connections but no actual meter. “The first step is to get Raglan properties ready for the introduction of water metering by replacing all existing tobies (valves, taps) with manifolds and meter boxes,” he said. It is anticipated the programmed works will take up to 12 weeks to complete and will be finished before the end of June 2011. Water will be turned off for a couple of hours while pipes are altered outside affected Raglan properties. Potter Contracting Waikato Limited will contact those residents directly with details.
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Waikato District Council is proposing to increase targeted water and wastewater rates from 1 July this year.
Council chief executive Gavin Ion said the rates increases are necessary across a number of services to ensure the people who have the services pay for them. There is a need to upgrade and improve water systems to meet New Zealand drinking water standards and to maintain and improve our wastewater systems. “As yet these increases do not fully reflect the costs of providing the services. An element of General Rate is required to bridge the gap. “In recent years we’ve had minor increases and these increases have not kept up with costs. Targeted rates in the Waikato district will still generally continue to be lower than neighbouring councils,” he said. Council will begin consultation on the Draft Annual Plan at the end of March and people will have the opportunity then to comment on the proposed rise. Targeted rates vary by area. To meet costs in some cases the required increase for non-metered water supply could have been up to 24 per cent but Council has reduced the impact by supplementing the increase with the general rate to bring back the increase to 17 per cent. The increase, in the urban areas of Raglan, Ngaruawahia and Huntly amounts to $87 per year.
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Dead or Alive? A common misperception these days - ‘I eat really well’. Generally heard from people who might be, low in energy, gluten intolerant, have hay fever, asthma, eczema, high blood pressure - to name a mere few and are taking medications for ailments that they need not even have or are overweight.
On closer inspection many people are eating between 60 and 80% carbohydrate and have no idea. A result of industry & marketing, once you have your picture it’s so easy to tip the balance back to where it needs to be for you to experience as much clarity, energy and vitality as you deserve. When your body is receiving a larger proportion of its ‘nutrition’ from foods that are essentially dead and devoid of energy (processed foods and processed grains) it adjusts and does the best that it can. The body is incredible and can make adjustments for years before any symptoms appear. Symptoms and disease are simply your body’s way of communicating with you that it needs a change or some attention. Live (raw) food is the optimum fuel for the body. It contains masses of enzymes (imperative for digestion of nutrients), water (essential to life), high quality nutrients (required for healing) and energy. All of these are essential for healing, an energised body and a positive outlook.
Practically, nutrition is about feeding every body cell for optimum operation. The same way you get better performance from your car when using higher quality fuel, your body is the mechanical aspect of you, your Ferrari, its performance depends largely on what type of fuel you choose to give it. Give it dead fuel it has to work very hard to do anything, give it high octane fuel with a higher percentage of live food in your day, every day, anything becomes possible, the world opens up and your body can heal. It becomes energised, vibrant and you glow from the inside out. Symptoms that you may have been living with for years (thinking they are normal or age related or genetic – eek) can simply disappear. Do you think healthy eating is boring and tasteless? Wrong, when you know how you open up a world of divine taste, delicious sumptuous foods that are decadent and still provide the body with high octane fuel it needs for radiant energetic vitality, and it’s so easy. I’d love to show you how. Radiantly yours, Justine.
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Following off the back of their radio hit and first single Crash, and shows throughout the summer, including Rhythm and Vines and the Whangamata Summer Festival, the Phil Edwards Band are set to release their debut album Slow Borders in March, through Rhythmethod. Recorded in Auckland and the Hawke’s Bay, mixed in New York by Grammy Award-winning producer, mixer and engineer Dave O’Donnell (James Taylor, John Mayer, Eric Clapton) and mastered at Stirling Sound, New York, by Ryan Smith (Beyonce), Slow Borders has been a long evolving work in progress for this six-piece, hence the album title. “The title basically sums up how the album has come together,” says Phil Edwards. “Each song has been slowly built and slowly bordered into what they are today. There was some trial and error throughout, but now all the songs fit together just like they should.” Formed in 2008, the Phil Edwards Band are Phil Edwards (vocals, guitar), Ryan Wilson (drums), Tom Charleson (guitar, vocals), Adrian Ashdown
(bass), James Townend (harmonica, percussion, vocals) and Hamish McClean (keys, sax, trombone). To celebrate the release of the album, the Phil Edwards Band will be playing a number of shows throughout March and April including a gig at the YOT Club on Friday 1st April.
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Conflicting emotions as Christchurch family take time out in Raglan Mary Bancroft can’t get over all the cafes and the shops in Raglan now – her main memories from a fleeting visit 19 years ago are of a shoe shop which also sold macramé.
She does remember too, though, arriving at night and thinking what a “magical fairy town” Raglan was with all the lights of the seaside settlement beckoning. And now it’s her children who are falling under Raglan’s spell: they love the surfing, fishing from the wharf and a skatepark they reckon’s the best they’ve ever dropped in on. But it’s all a little bitter-sweet because Mary also can’t get over the fact she and her family have just fled quake-ravaged Christchurch, for good probably, where she’s lost not only her New Brighton home – just the one wall still stands – but also, more importantly, three friends to the tragedy. She admits to feeling sad and a bit guilty too while at the same time happy to be here, her family intact. Mary, 39, came to Raglan last week with her three kids, aged 11 to 17, their father Stuart (Stan) Howcroft and one of her daughter’s friends who was staying with them in Christchurch. They’ve had a week to unwind – chilllaxing they call it – in a relative’s bach in Rose Street, and caught snapper from the wharf within days of being here. They have no plans, says Mary. “We’re taking one day at a time.” She’s grateful to Auckland friend and relative Lynnie Howcroft, who offered them her family’s weekender in Raglan, and says that means more than monetary help could ever do. “It offers a way out,” she says simply.
$12,000 tally blows away gala organiser
Kazbar in Christchurch, where the patrons returned to their favourite spot to enjoy their regular drink. Image supplied by Mary Bancroft
Meanwhile, Mary remains distraught at a quake whose aftershocks and repercussions “go on and on and on”. Some families, she says, have got nothing and are feeling ignored while the focus is all on the city centre. Mary’s in regular text contact with Christchurch friends, including last weekend when the biggest aftershock since last month’s quake was recorded. But despite missing home and friends, “no way” does she want to go back. She reckons she had the worst three hours of her life that fateful Tuesday afternoon, desperately trying to round up her two sons from two different schools while daughter Grace was with her, late for what would’ve been only her second day at Canterbury University. “I just collapsed, bawling,” says Mary at the relief of finding her children alive.
Like everyone, she panicked when Christchurch’s second earthquake within six months struck. “We’d dealt with it before, in the middle of the night. It was similar but worse this time,” she recalls. “The roads were much worse with liquefaction … massive holes with cars sticking out of them, concrete shattered, tar seal like candy coating … the earth underneath had liquefied and dropped away. “I don’t know if I’ll ever go back.” Meantime Mary and her family got into the spirit of last Sunday’s fundraising gala at Raglan Club which raised about $11,000 for the Christchurch earthquake appeal. “It was great,” she says, “with a really good sense of community … I’ve already made new friends.” Edith Symes
Whaingaroa Community and Environment Day this weekend Saturday 12 March 2011 the Raglan Community House together with Whaingaroa Environment Centre and Xtreme Waste will come together to celebrate Whaingaroa Community and Environment Day.
This is a non-commercial day to celebrate how special and important our children are and to also celebrate Sea Week and Maui Dolphin Day and will culminate in the Xtreme Waste Recycled Raft Race. The day will provide a full programme of free family fun with live music from Twisted Timber, Hand me Downs and Jacquemo, displays of Zumba and Afrocarribbean dance , dance and music performances by local school children, Sand Castle
Raglan Club manager Norm Curtis is amazed at the more than $12,000 netted at Sunday’s earthquake fundraising gala and believes “we’ve set a benchmark for a community”. “How many others could come up with that?” he asks incredulously. The generosity of people and the business community in particular, he says, is what made the day such a success. The auction, he adds, was the biggest fundraiser with the donation of Rob Poolton’s digger for a day a huge hit with the punters. Hundreds packed the venue inside and out where a barbecue lunch went down a treat, say organisers. Meanwhile paramedic Josh Searle has repeated this week his plea for temporary accommodation for the families of Christchurchbased emergency workers, saying there’s a “huge list” already of distraught families looking for a break. Solscape eco retreat is one business which has offered free accommodation for families from Sundays to Thursdays, and is hoping others will “put their hands up”. “This is something we can all do without too much effort,” says co-owner Bernadette Gavin. Some Raglan churches too have come to the fore with offers to deliver home-cooked meals to any Christchurch families staying in Raglan. And local counsellor Stephanie Philp has offered, through Raglan Chamber of Commerce, her services for free to those experiencing “earthquake trauma”.
Donations will be accepted at the club this week and will close 7pm Friday March 12th for people who were unable to make it to the Raglan Club on Sunday
Dig and Treasure Hunt, Raft Building, competitions, Face Painting and Flax Weaving and a Bouncy Castle. The day’s festivities will culminate in the Recycled Raft Race, an activity organised by Xtreme Waste Recycling Centre which drew the largest number of entrants to date at our 2010 event.
There will be educational information stalls with a strong environment and social theme. Forest and Bird, World Wild Life Foundation, Department of Conservation, Child Youth and Family, Raglan Community House, Surfside Christian Services and Volunteering Waikato will be giving information on up coming activities within the community and lots of fun activities for families to do at home.
Bill Ringer - club member, having his vitals checked by Mark Reynolds for a gold coin donation at the Gala
Important Information for Xtreme Recycled Raft Race Entrants 12.30pm
All entrants to have checked in and registrations completed (at registrations tent)
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Race and Safety Brief at registrations tent
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Safety checks and judging of rafts (best raft, best dressed, best message etc) – on the water side, everyone traveling on the raft must be present as we will take photos and have our judges to talk to race entrants
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Raft Race begins
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Prize Giving Main stage
For more information or to register please call Lindsey on 0277 151516 / 825 5375 Or check on our website www.xtremewaste.org.nz - News and Events
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Richard the sculptor What it is about art that determines why one appreciates some work more than other? What defines ordinary from the not so? Is it that which strikes a chord within … is it one’s own personal journey - or that of the artist? Is it to do with the technical expertise of mastering a medium? Or is it the moment?
Big questions indeed. But whatever, I was utterly moved by the collective work of Richard Page, sculptor, father and resident of Whaingaroa at his installation opening at Te Ahiawa. Works on display indicate a man, his journey and an intrinsic connection to whenua and whanau. It is evident that Page takes a lead from mother - her name Nature – in the form of feminine curves sculpted out of masculine, unyielding rock such as basalt, marble, andesite and limestone. Some so hard it requires a nine-inch angle grinder, using
diamond discs, to shape the stone. When asked if the raw material dictates design, he reflects that it is more a consideration before he starts any sculpture, whether it be rock, aluminium or bronze. Page has a keen appreciation of the ocean; whether fishing, paddleboarding or kite-surfing, he observes the rhythm and changing light of nature - informing his work - thus rendering it timeless. Page, originally from Te Awamutu, left home on his big OE in 1991. He found himself stranded in London during a recession and, unable to find work as a builder, decided to go east. He landed at the Sdot-Yam kibbutz in the ancient city of Caesarea, Israel. It was here he had the good fortune to meet renowned Jewish sculptor Yael Artsi and under her guidance studied the art. Artsi, a Moroccan Berber, is considered to be one of the leading sculptors today who has installations worldwide. Page was selected to work with her on a monument in Tel Aviv for assassinated Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin. Page reflects that it
was an honour to work with Artsi … “like many New Zealanders I had a great desire to travel. Little was I to know that through this travel I was too learn the art of sculpture. Learning and living in a country as rich in culture as Israel sparked an artistic flame that had been ignited at an early age by my grandmother Joan Page [painter], but forgotten through teenage years.” After Israel, Page moved to Seravezza, Italy, to work with sculptors Cynthia Sah and Nicolas Bertoux. Working predominantly with marble, he was able to further hone his art alongside masters in this field. Friend Tony Bruce explains the depth of Page’s work and experience succinctly ...“After walking down main street of Tel Aviv and seeing his work at Rabin’s assassination spot ...then seeing the sculptures he had worked on all around Caesarea, I realised he is connected to some really high profile artists ...from Italy to Taiwan ...Israel to Raglan he is the man..”
resonates with me. Whilst small in stature and carved from Irish Limestone, Union is large in heart. It represents Page, his two children Luka 5 and Maia 3 and is one piece that he will find hard to sell. He likens it to “male maternity” … “growth of forms out of a base material, birth, emergence are key words which I try to bring to life in stone. Sculpture supplies me with energy and a satisfaction of problem solving that when I am without it, it feels like something is missing.” Brenda Rae Kidd
Back home, Page is as prolific as ever, working on installations in Te Awamutu and Napier. As a member (are you?) of the Te Kupenga Stone Society, he participated in the 2010 Groundswell symposium in New Plymouth. He has exhibited in various galleries around New Zealand including Pierre Peeters Gallery in Parnell, Auckland.
Richard (centre) at his exhibition opening based at Te Ahiawa
The body of work on display at Te Ahiawa is the culmination of one year’s work, 12 sculptures in total, where nature, the ocean and whanau are recurring themes. All are standout pieces in their own right and comprised of local basalt, Carrara Marble and imported stone, but it is a small sculpture Union that
Raglan Boat Charters breathe life back into the wharf A state-of-the-art sound system, 40inch LCD flat screen television with a satellite dish, romantic fireplace, spa pool and underwater lights, together, combine for a lavish experience aboard the new craft, ‘Wahine Moe’, a Maori name that translates to ‘Sleeping Lady’.
The Raglan Chronicle team joined in on one of the daily sunset cruises to enjoy the abundant amenities. Complete with an elixir of choice and a memorable barbeque meal, these services offer a small taste of the full experience provided.
Directors of the new venture Charlie Young and Erin Rogers fulfilled a vision to
bring a new activity to the local water. The twin hulled catamaran glides through shallow water, bringing passengers deep into the harbour for an authentic indulgence resting in nature’s backdrop. Captain of the boat, Ian Hardie, welcomes all on board for a voyage that undoubtedly feels a world away. Part historic commentary, Hardie draws on nearly 20 years experience cruising the Whaingaora harbour with his own ferryboat service. He shares his gems of knowledge of the area while competently manning the control deck. Hardie’s insights into the geological land structures as well as the indigenous locales of the people who first came to this land provide an unforgetable experience for the passengers; Pa sites dot the horizon and limestone formations defy the pull of gravity.
The ‘Sleeping Lady’, arrived in Raglan the first week of 2011. The luxury catamaran departs daily from the Raglan Wharf at 6pm for a 2hr sunset cruise of the Raglan harbour. While the boat capacity is marked for up to 70 cruise passengers and a 5-member crew, the fun does not need to end at the conclusion of the sunset cruise. Sleeping quarters on the boat can accommodate up to 5 couples for an
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overnight adventure, moored in a protected area of the harbour. The captain anchors the vessel and then departs for the night, leaving the overnight guests privacy on the water and under the stars. Kate Waterman
Further information and bookings are available online. Visit the Raglan Net website: www.raglan.net.nz/things-to-see-do/ activities/wahinemoe-harbour-cruises or phone: 07 825 7873
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Animal Health Column For Raglan People + their Pets
Stray Cat and Kitten Pandemic Raglan is facing its worse season for abandoned and stray cats and kittens.
Cats hide Pain Veterinarians are becoming increasingly aware of how common arthritis is in cats, especially the elderly. One study of 100 cats over the age of 12 years revealed evidence of arthritis by x-ray in an astounding 90% of them! Cats are very adept at hiding signs of pain. It is difficult to pick up the early subtle signs of arthritis in cats. Lameness, unlike in dogs, does not occur in many cats with arthritis. The more common signs are behavioural changes, such as: -
Reluctance to jump or inability to jump as high as before eg not thieving off the kitchen bench as they used too!
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Avoiding human interaction such as stroking or brushing
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Decreased grooming, and a rough hair coat eg clumps of down staying in coat because it is not being removed by the cats tongue during grooming
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Urinating or soiling outside the litter box eg often right beside it because it hurts to climb over the wall of the box.
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Appearing to have less energy, playing less, hunting less
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Claw overgrowth eg catching in the carpet – pain in legs discourage them from ‘scratching’ on trees to keep claws short
The frustration is evident in Donna Rickard’s voice as she talks about the inundation of stray, homeless and unwanted cats and kittens she’s facing this season. “What does it take to get through to some people that when you get a little kitten it is going to grow up into an adult animal that is going to reproduce. What are you going to do with the kittens? We have so many kittens. The town and our resources are saturated. It’s so hard to find homes for them. This year is the worst we’ve seen because the warm weather has extended the breeding season.” Donna works at Anexa Veterinary Centre in Raglan which, she says, seems to be considered an SPCA drop-off point by some in this town. “We are not the SPCA – we’re not in a position to care for and find new homes for all the strays we receive. Those we can help are wormed and vaccinated prior to being given a new home, when we can find one. The cost for this treatment is met out of our meagre funds received from donations and fundraising. We never have enough money to go round and it’s sad to be faced with the reality of euthanizing some. At times this is the only humane option.” Raglan has a transient population with large numbers shifting around the rental accommodations and many moving in and out of town at this time of the year. This exacerbates the problem. As Donna says, “It’s not OK to accept a kitten into your family and then just abandon it when it’s time to move on. Domesticated cats and kittens are very different from feral ones. They simply can’t survive out in the wild. We receive them in appalling situations – starving and desperate. When the animal has got to this state there is little hope for its future. We are faced with putting a cat down than see it suffer any longer”. This morning Donna had a visit from a rental property owner who found a female cat abandoned by her former tenants. The cat is just about ready to drop her second litter of kittens and is in a pitiful state. The owner is going to try to catch the cat and kittens and bring them into the clinic. This happens often.
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Two Christmas’s ago The Stray Cat and Dog Fund, which works in conjunction with the Vet Clinic, received a substantial sum of money to help deal with the strays it receives. The money saved the lives of many cats and kittens including one that had been tortured. “We were able to tend to this cat and find a new loving home for him. We named him after the farmer who provided the money.” “We are very grateful and want to publically thank those who regularly give money to the fund” said Donna. More money is needed to boost the fund. “Owners of kittens need to appreciate that it costs $250 to vaccinate, worm and spay a female and up to $180 to deal with a male kitten properly. If they are not prepared to meet these responsibilities then don’t accept a kitten in the first place. They are not presents that can be returned to a shop if unwanted.” Donations to the Stray Cat and Dog Fund will be gratefully received at Anexa Veterinary Clinic in Bow Street. Sue Russell, Wintec Journalism Student
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Local tradesmen foster next generation Known for its surfing and café culture, Raglan does not provide many career opportunities for the youth population besides a job at the local surf shop or restaurant. Some tradesmen, however, have been taking on apprentices to support the younger generation. “At first I noticed a couple of the other tradesmen in Raglan taking on apprentices and I thought it was the new thing to do,” joked local master plumber, Dave Patterson. Dave has currently taken on two apprentices, Kieran van der Helder who has almost finished his four-year apprenticeship and Damon Rawley-Anderson who has been an apprentice for about a month. “It took me a while because you want the right kind of person with a good work ethic. They’re not a hassle at all, they’re a real asset to me,” says Dave. Prior to beginning his apprenticeship, Kieran was a sponsored surfer who held the Under 19 National Champion title and he also spent time living in Australia to enter the Australian Pro Junior circuit. “Mum and Dad always said it was good
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to have a trade behind me just in case and I guess you can’t surf forever because of injuries and stuff so it was either plumbing or surfing,” says Kieran. Both Kieran and Damon were employed through the Apprenticeship Training Trust, a charitable trust that provides opportunities for apprenticeships in the plumbing, gas fitting, drain laying and roofing industries. The
apprentices work with Dave to gain practical onsite experience as well as attending block courses for theory. “Instead of going to university and getting a massive loan, you get paid wages while you study and for me it was better to get the young local guys than find somebody from over the hill,” says Dave. For the apprentices, being able to work in Raglan means no early mornings and no driving or petrol costs, although the occasional blocked drain can be a bit of a nightmare. “ I would say about 80 to 90 percent of my mates are doing a trade of some sort, it’s really opened my eyes to what’s going on behind the walls and the ins and outs of the building trade,” says Kieran. Former advocate for the Engineers Union and Raglan Councillor, Clint Baddeley, was actively involved with promoting apprentices within the engineering trades and he stresses the importance of support from families, schools and tradesmen in delivering a successful apprenticeship. “It’s important to have that encouragement from families and it is imperative that
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tradesmen take on new apprentices to pass on their knowledge. It’s also about selfsufficiency within our community; we need qualified people to carry out repairs as well as new work, “ says Cr Baddeley. Also looking at the industry as a whole, the recent economic recession had a significant impact on the construction industry with worker numbers dropping around 5% between June 2007 and June 2010. The industry has recently picked up with the Department of Labour reporting an increase of 10.8% in the June 2010 quarter for residential building work. Raglan, despite its geographic isolation, was also affected by the recession but there is still work available. “Even with construction slowing down there are still half a dozen houses going up in Raglan and being a plumber, drain layer and gasfitter it’s also a service industry. By bringing on the younger guys I can get work done a lot quicker. Right now, I couldn’t live without them,” says Dave. Maki Nishiyama
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Rip Curl Pro pres by Nature Valley Set To Go
Rip Curl Pro - Raglan presented by Nature Valley is set to go off at Raglan’s infamous Manu Bay this weekend (11th - 13th March). Being one of only three 6-star events on the coveted SOL Surf Series, the Rip Curl Pro presented by Nature Valley attracts the largest field of competitors both male and female for the Series. Not only does this year’s event boast a total prize pool of $12,500 but the winner of the Open Men’s Division will also receive return flights to Bali, and an invitation to compete in the Rip Curl Padang Cup Invitational event.
2011 Hyundai Pro Longboard Tour held at Port Waikato Daniel Kereopa won the Stand Up Paddleboard Division at the final event to claim the overall 2011 Tour title. Raglan’s Robert Hawkins also progressed to the final of the Stand Up Paddleboard Division placing fourth in his first ever final. The two surfers were also joined by the likes of Mike Thomson who placed third in the Over 50s Men’s Division and Armie Armstrong who won the Stand Up Paddleboard Race and overall Tour title for a successful weekend for Raglan surfers.
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Horticultural New format brings Society bowlers in The Annual meeting will be held on 15 March in the Union Church Hall at 1.15 pm. There are several positions to be filled if you are willing do offer your services. The Interest Table this month is Holiday Momentos. Here is an advance notice for the Morrinsville Floral Festival to be held in the Westpac Trust Events Centre on Wed the 30 March. We intend to car pool rather than hire a bus which should make it more affordable.The entrance cost is $10.We will give further information at the meeting. Everyone is most welcome to join our society.
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Business as usual here of course, the Ambulance in Raglan has been busy in February attending a total of 43 incidents involving a mixture of medical and accidents.
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The championship fours tournament, scheduled to play last weekend was postponed given flooding on the greens.
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The final was a real cliff-hanger with Jim’s team needing to pull off four shots to level the game and force another end. Despite playing some good tight bowls they were pipped at the post with the final score 19-18 to Mouse’s team. Congratulations to Mouse, Maureen (Maws) Wahanga and Ian Barnard and well done to runners-up Jim, Murray Ansley and Alec Lorenzen.
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Eight teams competed on the first day of the triples tournament held weekend before last and some very close matches took place in the preliminary rounds. Four teams qualified for play on the second day with teams skipped by Graham (Mouse) Stephens and Jim Boggiss making the final. A lot of spectators watched the finals day with a gusty breeze testing players’ skills.
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The decision to change the way teams are formed and to draw team members randomly has been a departure from members finding their own teams. As one longstanding club member said “It’s been a positive decision and it’s great to see so many new to bowls participating in our Championship events.”
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OPINION: Raglan Rules, OK? by Ian McKissack Variation 15: Raglan Structure Plan, has been withdrawn by Waikato District Council due to the opposition expressed in 222 submissions. It is unlikely that all submittals were in opposition so we are unable to estimate the actual force of the opposition. Even taking 222 submissions it is difficult to be sure how representative this weight of opinion was in relation to the total Raglan population. It was almost certainly minimal, as is the response rate at local body elections. Of course many submissions would be by people who had talked to mates here and there and believed that ‘everyone’ agreed with them. But how easy is it to disagree with a mate in full flight of righteous indignation? The problem is that there are no right and wrong answers to how Raglan should be in the future, only opinions. There is huge variation in how other seaside towns in New Zealand and around the world organise themselves. What they have on the roadside across from the beach, what kind of bridge they need to join two parts of the town, how much commercial development they want and of what kind? All questions with no answers ordained by God or other authority. All a matter of opinion and decided by democracy. But how effective is any particular democracy?
In North Africa they have been demonstrating, and even dying, to get democracy instead of rule by some form of dictatorship. Perhaps we should go the other way and reject an unrepresentative democracy and allow a sensible dictator to emerge. He, or more likely she, would not feel bound by the crowd, but just get on with the job of keeping the town on a reasonable track for its probable future. Might make some mistakes but also take a lower level of rates off us. Democratic bureaucracy is expensive. Where would we find this wise dictator? Ah, there’s the rub. It has been suggested that I have a dictatorial slant. I doubt if this was meant as a compliment. No doubt there are others similarly deluded and confident about their ability to govern Raglan wisely. It would not be surprising if there were many wishing to impose their vision on Raglan. We might have frequent coups to enliven the quiet winter months. All in all it would be much more fun than shooting down WDC plans.
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