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Two more qualify for ambulance frontline
Eighteen months of hard work has paid off for two Raglan volunteers who were awarded their National Diploma in Ambulance at a function in their honour at the local St John training room last Monday night. Tony Agar and Travis Slattery have “done the hard yards” and are now just one step away from becoming paramedics, says St John Ambulance team manager Bush Barton who hopes the honours night can become a regular event similar to that held each year by Raglan’s volunteer fire brigade. Bush says the ambulance emergency work is a “big commitment” which often includes callouts at night for volunteers who still have to hold down their day jobs. Tony is perhaps better known around town as the budget adviser at Raglan Community House while Travis is a familiar face at Raglan Surf Life Saving Club, as well as being a St John first aid teacher and relief officer. Local dentist Sam Beshara will very soon be through his ambulance drill too, says Bush, swelling further the ranks of the service in Raglan. Bush describes the course as a demanding one, with lots of online assignments to complete before unit standards – measured in credits – are gained towards the national qualification. It also involves practical “classroom-type” work Tony completed at Te Awamutu and Travis at Rotorua. Volunteers are mentored throughout their training before working as fully fledged ambulance officers within the community, managing patients with a wide range of trauma and medical conditions. Edith Symes
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Wharf repairs full steam ahead but shed awaits OK The $430,000 contract awarded to HEB Structures – the same company at work replacing the Kopua footbridge – provides for the wharf repairs to be completed within 12 weeks. That will pave the way for a start on the wharf replacement “shed”, construction of which is expected to take another six months. But hopes for having things back up and running at the wharf relatively speedily now hinge on agreement over the building’s final design, and on a Raglan Community Board meeting next Tuesday where a revised concept plan will be presented for the board’s okay. Board chairman Rodger Gallagher was this week delighted with progress, having pushed the project as the town’s No 1 priority since a massive early morning blaze razed the original 1920s wharf complex a year ago. He said on his website it was “great to see some action on getting the wharf working again”. Rodger told the Chronicle it was all happening a lot quicker and with much less disruption than an earlier option considered by Waikato District Council for replacing rather than repairing the wharf. A recent investigation by Beca consultants found that most of the wharf structure was in average to very good condition, said Rodger, and that meant an all-up repair bill of only around $500,000 – with a $60,000 contingency sum included – against a total replacement cost of about $1.7 million. Raglan ward councillor Clint Baddeley pointed out there was an additional $300,000 in supervision and design costs, bringing the council’s final spend to about $800,000 as
the cost of the new wharf building would be covered by insurance. “This (repair) has turned out the best option and the one I preferred,” said Clint. However council water and facilities general manager Richard Bax has cautioned that a further $1.5 million will need to be spent on maintaining the wharf during the next 45 years. Meantime, HEB has moved heavy equipment and containerised offices on site and erected construction barriers on the wharf – including across the accessway to the Wahinemoe harbour cruiser, Raglan’s latest tourist venture.
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But boat owner Charlie Young was this week unfazed by the barriers, which he said could be moved to allow access to the Wahinemoe. He understood the safety barriers had been put in to protect people from concrete “flying around” as weak concrete was sandblasted and replaced with Shotcrete. Charlie and other wharf users spoken to by the Chronicle this week were pleased to see some action finally at the wharf, but not all previous shed tenants were sure on whether they would return to the new building. While Raglan Coastguard’s Kevin Dreaver was clear the volunteer operation would be transferred from its temporary location in wharf containers back to the new building once it was up, potter Tony Sly was not so sure.
He’s happy to have relocated to the front of the wharf’s boatbuilding factory, which escaped the big blaze almost unscathed. And having traded successfully now for six months, he said it was “not a simple question” as to whether he’d move his business yet again. Meanwhile Steve Reid of Raglan Kayak, who with wife Candide has rebuilt their tourism business from home since its wharf base was razed by fire, also remains unsure whether he wants to go back to the wharf. His doubts over the design and “functionality” of the proposed wharf building were echoed this week by Raglan Seafoods owner Mark Mathers, who said he was “hanging in there” with his brand new ice machine now installed at the wharf near Tony Sly’s business but was not convinced the Beca plans up for community board approval next week were quite right. Mark – a builder, former trawler operator and businessman described by Clint as an “anchor tenant” – originally drew up his own plans for the retail side of wharf businesses, only to have them rejected by council for a Beca design which was then in turn modified to suit concerned parties like himself. He reckoned this week that if he’d waited for council to get things going again on the wharf he’d have been broke by now. Instead he’d diversified and was now working within the wholesale market, selling seafoods nationwide through Foodstuffs while also negotiating a contract for an export market. To this end, he was working towards an export packhouse – and would consider the retail side of his business again, and resurrecting his very popular fish and chip shop, only if the new wharf building was to his liking.
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They have released an EP “NativeSons” produced by Microwave Productions who also played a major part in their EP tour North Meets South in 2010. Native Sons play a huge range of covers as well as their own original songs. All original music performed by Native Sons contains messages of Unity, Respect, Family Values & Love. Their song “Love your children” has spent almost 2 months at number 1 in the Roots,Reggae,Dub charts on amplifier.co.nz Native Sons are playing Live at the Raglan Harbour View Hotel 7th of May to start off NZ MUSIC MONTH 2011 with support from Huntly’s newest reggae band CODE VII from 9pm, $10 cover charge at the door. Members: Marcus Taukiri- Lead vocals-guitar, Dallas Taukiri- Lead guitar-vocals, Nicholas Stevens - Keyboard-vocals, Jodie Williams-vocals Dayven Te Hau-Drums, Jared Prestley-bass
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Electronic age may keep Snuggly rug for Raglan students closer to home St John’s Ambulance raffle Raglan parents thinking of sending their teenagers over the divvy for their secondary education may now find one less reason to do so thanks to a change in the way the Correspondence School is corresponding. A meeting will be held at Raglan Area School next week to talk with the community about the new electronic process, which spells the end of lengthy delays as students wait for Correspondence School material to arrive in the post. Raglan Area School principal Malcolm Cox says next Thursday’s meeting is about making more parents aware that high school-aged children at the school can also hook into or “dual enrol” at the Correspondence School and enjoy a challenging teacher-supported learning environment. With a new system in place which sends correspondence schoolwork electronically in the form of PDFs students can be “engaged” from day one, he adds, rather than face the traditional wait at the start of the academic year. Local parents have also complained of up to four weeks’ turnaround time in some of their children’s dealings with the Correspondence School. Malcolm says it’s a “hugely changed” system, and that the Correspondence School – newly branded as Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu – is also now “fast-tracking” area school students in the queue and ensuring they’re not disadvantaged by the administrative complexities of a nationwide distance learning school that has a “phenomenal” roll size. All up, the Wellington-based school has about 24,000 part or fulltime students. Malcolm believes improved student access to the system will in turn increase subject choice and may ultimately help grow his own school’s roll. Correspondence School regional manager Anil Singh will be at the meeting to “affirm” the process and consult with the community. PDF stands for portable document format, which is now an “open standard” for exchanging material electronically. *The meeting will be at Raglan Area School staffroom on Thursday May 12, starting 7pm. Edith Symes
Mucking in – bowling club style The pride Raglan Bowling Club members have in their club was clear with record numbers pitching in to help last weekend at the annual end-of-season renovation day. “This renovation process is vitally important” says the club’s new greenkeeper, Terry Green. “We have a superb green and that’s largely due to the vigilance and ongoing hard-work of our former green-keeper, Blue (Richard) Stephens. Blue is still actively involved helping out and supporting me with his years of experience”. Even though the green will not be played on for a number of months as new seed germinates, the winter time can be challenging for green-keeping staff as moss, fungus and other diseases can take hold quickly. “I’m down here every day looking closely at the green. All the work we put in over these quiet months helps maintain it at its present high standard. We expect it to be in top condition when the season reopens in September”, says Terry. Ruth Rawlinson, Raglan Bowling Club President who is also Chairman of Bowls Waikato Operations Committee reflected Terry’s thoughts on the condition of the green. “I know our lawn green is among the top five in the Waikato. It’s consistently presented at a high standard and bowlers from throughout the region know this. A top bowler will happily travel the distance to play on a good surface and we have no trouble getting them out here”, she says. Though the lawn green is out of action over winter, bowling happens all year. The club is fortunate to also have an excellent artificial green. Four winter tournaments are scheduled over the next few months and nearly all are fully booked. Regular roll-ups continue on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons at 1 pm. Anyone who would like to give bowling a go is welcome to pop down at these times and some bowls will be made available to give it a try. Edith Symes
The busy knitters from Raglan’s knitting circle have created a small hand-pieced woollen rug to raffle with all proceeds going to St John’s.
Tickets for the raffle can be purchased at Blacksand Café, the home of the knitting circle, and cost $2 each or 3 for $5. 200 tickets have been allocated to the raffle and it will be drawn as soon as they have all sold. The winner will be contacted by phone and a notice will appear in the Chronicle at the time. The knitting group has become a bit of an institution at the café. It’s in its fifth year and meets weekly on Wednesday mornings. Needles start clicking from around 9.30 am and everyone is welcome regardless of knitting skill level. Sue Russell
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Double the fun for Raglan harbour setting kids Clay Classes for Waka Ama race Due to the great success of her after school clay classes for kids, Susanne Gressen Prinz has much pleasure in introducing potter Natasha Rao to the team. This means classes can be run on Mondays and Tuesdays, doubling the number of places available. Susanne, who has run 3 programmes a year for the last few years, says numbers of applicants for her last series reached 14, too many for the Clay Shed behind the Old School Arts Centre where the classes are held. Natasha, who has lived in Raglan for two and a half years, is excited to be teaching clay, her favourite teaching medium. “Children have so much fun with clay,” she says, “and
its amazing what they can create because they have such fantastic imagination.” An experienced art teacher, her background includes delivering programmes in alternative education facilities and teaching children with special needs. She especially enjoys holding exhibitions of children’s art. “Their work has so much energy and life.”
Susanne and Natasha are looking forward to working as a team. Their aim is for the children to have fun while being challenged to explore new techniques in a relaxed way as they ‘play’ with the clay. And they will have fun, if past classes are anything to go by, with the workspace alive with weird, wacky and often quite beautiful creations. The Clay Shed is small but well equipped, the kiln recently renovated to cope with the influx of new work from the children as well as from regular members, and Susanne is grateful to those members who come along to help run the children’s sessions.
Around 500 paddlers are expected for the 17th annual Whaingaroa Hoe this Saturday. This race was established in 1994 by members of a Hamilton based club Nga Tai Whakarongo, and is now hosted by local waka ama club Whaingaroa. The Race attracts paddlers from all over the North Island who will compete in long distance iron person races from 8km up to 24km long. There will be 24 local paddlers competing in a novice 8km race and a local mens team in the 24km. There are great spots around the harbour to view the race and cheer on the competitors.
Top mens teams Vaka Manu, Pineula, Mean DNA and Herberts on Tour are all attending and expected to have a good battle in the 24km mens race Women’s waka ama veterans Corrina Gage and Raipoia Brightwell are bringing a top master womens team from Tauranga, Porirua based team Inano and Napier’s Manu’z and Jemima’z are
expected to be strong challengers for two time winner Team Paddle Up from Northland/Auckland in the womens 24km race. The women’s race has the Chrissy Herbert Memorial which is awarded to the first womens team to cross the line. Chrissy Herbert was a top NZ steerswomen who fell ill with an aneurysm and later passed away while competing here 10 years ago. The trophy is a very prestigious one and is strongly contested between womens teams. Teammates, whanau and friends of Chrissy have all been invited to spend the morning on the harbour cruise boat Wahine Moe watching the races along with local kaumatua, and Whaingaroa Waka Whanau supporters. Pio Terei from Fishing with Tangaroa will be filming segments for his show throughout the day. The day winds up with a prize giving and meal at Whaingaroa ki te Whenua Kokiri Centre. For further information please contact Race Director Amber Hartstone 8257012
Susanne’s Monday class will be making self portraits in clay, while on Tuesdays Natasha’s group will make sculptures, learning the Japanese haniwa technique.
Raglan Childcare once again paraded through town wearing their beautiful easter bonnets which the children design and create. An Easter Bonnet represents the tail-end of a tradition of wearing new clothes at Easter, in harmony with the renewal of the year and the promise of spiritual renewal and redemption. The “Easter bonnet” was fixed in popular culture by Irving Berlin, whose frame of reference was the Easter parade in New York City, a festive walkabout that made its way down Fifth Avenue from St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Wikipedia
Classes cater for children from 5-12 years, and last from 3.30-5.00pm. The eight sessions in this series start on Monday 9 and Tuesday 10 May, and cost just $49 for the whole programme including the cost of clay and glazes. Susanne says they do everything possible to keep the cost down, so sponsorship or donations are always appreciated.
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Please note that each class must have 8-10 children to be viable, so call the Arts Centre now to make sure of a place – 825 0023 or info@raglanartscentre.co.nz. Judith Collins
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Bowls last summer roll Senior rugby roundup Yes, it had to come, our last competition for our summer season, this being our Annual Interclub Exchange with Pirongia Bowling Club. Saturday 30th April, in lovely autumn sunshine, six ‘mixed’ teams from each club did battle to win the shield for 2011. By ‘mixed’ it means that each team must have a mixture of men and women in it.
Morning tea was served first because after the bus trip from Pirongia they all needed some sustenance to get started. Two games were played, then it was time for lunch, followed by two more games. As afternoon tea was being consumed the scorecards were being tallied up. Many of the games were won or lost by only a few points but there were a couple of games where the scores were miles apart! This became quite a feature in the final tally. The scoring system for this competition is not the usual set up. The way we go is to add up all Pirongia teams overall ‘points gained’ and then all of Raglan’s teams overall ‘points gained’... the one with the highest points wins the Shield. And guess what? WE LOST THE SHIELD! Pirongia had 258 points and Raglan had 221. Well... What can one say about that... nothing really, they played better than us on the day. Better luck next year. The winning team prize was won by Pironga’s Ron Parson’s team from Pirongia with 4 wins, and runner-up was Bill Bond, Sue Russell/Terry Green and Des Bishop (Raglan) with 3 wins and 57 points gained. Congratulations to you all. The first of our winter tournaments is scheduled for Saturday 7th May and it looks like full teams again too. Such a popular place is our Bowling Club. Our AGM is to be held on Sunday 22nd May, followed by our prize-giving and a shared pot luck luncheon. Roll-ups will still be happening on Wednesday afternoons at 1pm. Enjoy your bowls Happy bowling, Eileen Stephens
The old foe, Frankton, turned up to challenge us for the Rheineck Cup on a fine Saturday afternoon at the Recreation Ground in Cross street.
Only, it didn’t look much like a Frankton team we had ever seen before, Most Raglan rugby people only recognised three or four players from last year’s beaten semi finalists. They have recruited well in the off season and a new look team got their heads up after going 21 points ahead after the first 15 minutes. A simple inside pass from the No 10 to the winger off a lineout was missed by the defence and another couple around the blind broke through for a strong lead on the board. That didn’t mean Raglan were not in it, replying with converted tries of our own which kept our guys in touch. A strong forward effort and playing structured Rugby led to a good try by front row prop Jason Rippey, who went on to secure Player of the Day for the home team. Really, we made them look better than they were and a lucky bounce (when no one from Raglan wanted to take a speculator up and under on the full) saw the speedy winger for the opposition run away from halfway for another easy try.
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This was a high scoring game and 55 to 33 shows it wasn’t all one way traffic. Some international visitors who had never seen rugby played were impressed with the pace of the game and the high scoring rate. Raglan certainly lifted the intensity when the subs came on and senior players like Nathan Rhind, Paul Gillett and coach Noel Barber sparked the level up a few notches. It was naturally too late to actually retain the Cup but we hope the other players realise getting stuck in and making those crucial tackles first up, can put the opposition onto the back foot and gain ascendancy. The Raglan senior B team had a good win in a game played at pace in downing their Frankton counterparts 41 to 24 in the opening game of the day.
A very positive note for this season is the numbers at training which is great to see, well done to the players who consistently make the effort, the coaches and club congratulate you . Saturday sees Raglan away to Matamata United at Bedford Park in Matamata ,we hope to see another good turnout of Raglan supporters over there for what is shaping up as a genuine challenge for our teams. Rob Kirkwood
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Letters Dear Editor Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good to see (issue 240 â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Look again at rates hikeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;) the chair of the Community Board saying rates should be held. At $194.26 per $100,000 itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s way above Franklinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s $61.33. This year we can compare Waikato District with Franklin, part of which was added when Auckland councils were merged. The flat rate UAGC is up 5.2%. These increases in the parts of the rate that apply to all properties, whether palace or hovel, mean that the percentage increases will be greatest for the poorest. The Annual Plan is written in such a way that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s almost impossible to work out just where our rates will be spent. In 208 pages, the news about the rates increase is on page 183. An example is the 8 pages about regulatory spending; the plan only tells us about spending of $28,027 (on building consents and a drink drive project) out of a total of $6,815,000. What happens to the other $6.7m (up $750,000 from last year)? The few figures there are suggest the environment isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t doing well. Footpath spending, planned at $501,875, is down to $360,018 and bus shelters, from $26,375 down to $20,316. Could part of the answer be in the summary document, which shows that 43% of spending is on roading (only 28% in Franklin) and that 72% of the Franklin income is not from rates, but only 56% in the rest of the district? Does that mean that more money is spent on projects which donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t qualify for government grants? Does that mean theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re less worthwhile? Charges are also rising, some less than others. The daily charge for aircraft on Raglan airfield will be $5.30, up 4%. Rents for retirement housing (unfortunately Raglan has none) are going up over 5%. Burial fees are again rising by about a third, eg internments up from $907 to $1,300. Checking of swimming pool fences remains free and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not clear why other charges donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t reflect their social or environmental value. These increases follow on a decade of rapidly rising rates. In the previous 3 years inflation had been 9%, but general rate increases 17% and UAGC 34%. We hope that Raglan will be making its voice heard in submissions to corporate.planning@waidc.govt.nz (or the council office) before Tuesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s closing date. Regards John Lawson Secretary, Whaingaroa Environmental Defence Inc Soc.
Open letter to the community: Do you remember the Starlight Ballroom? Kia ora, my name is Athene Jensen (AJ) and I am currently undertaking my masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s thesis in Theatre Studies at the University of Waikato. My focus is on the process of creating a performance using the methodology of documentary theatre. This simply put means collecting personal stories and documentation from a time or happening and editing it to create a theatrical performance piece. I have chosen to create a piece that has the working title, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stories from the Starlight Ballroomâ&#x20AC;?. I am hoping to collect stories and memories from people who: attended the Starlight Ballroom dances, worked at the Starlight, played music at this venue, remember being a youth in Hamilton in the 50â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, and/or recall the bodgie and widgie
culture. If you were aged around 15 to 20 years, between 1954 and 1960 and would be interested in being interviewed about your memories I would love to talk to you about being involved in this project. Interviews would take approximately one hour and confidentiality will be discussed prior to undertaking interviews. The information will be utilised to create a public performance (which contributors will be invited to) and to inform my masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s thesis about the documentary theatre process. I am also looking for photos and memorabilia relating to these subjects. If you are interested in being interviewed, contributing material or have any questions or queries please contact me on (07)825 8580 or email athenejensen@gmail.com Yours Sincerely Athene Jensen (AJ), Raglan
Dear Editor, I am aware submissions on the Waikato District Council Annual Plan are due on 11 May. I note the Mayor is striving for â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;economic excellenceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and has allocated: $1million to upgrade the air-conditioning, add offices for Franklin and a general tidy up; $100,000 for CEO business improvement development team, around $800,000 for the vehicle fleet plus $60,000 on GPS, Rugby World Cup bid $11,000. Close to $200,000 will be spent on tourism with the visitor population expected to reach 12,500. To meet peak visitor water demands, a contract for $270,465.52 to install water meters to all Raglan residences has been awarded to Potter Contracting Waikato Ltd.
In effect, Council is spending close to $200,000 a year attracting 10,000 visitors and ratepayers will be paying a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Targeted rate increase of 33% and water by meter increase of 37% ($ increase from $1.08 to $1.48.)â&#x20AC;? (pg 65). A metered user -pays approach to water conservation in Raglan is not the most effective way of promoting water conservation. The recent bylaw requiring new subdivisions to collect rainwater is a step towards sustainable water management required under the Resource Management Act. Even better, would be a tank retrofit grant made to existing houses and rehabilitation of our water ways. Ana Kee, Raglan
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