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Popular principal retires By: Gerald Rillstone

After more than two decades at the helm of Arakura School principal Mark Kibblewhite has decided to retire from a job he has loved.

“I have seen a lot over the years and taught some of the children’s children of students from when I first came here,” he says.

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Arakura School principal Mark Kibblewhite retires after 23 years at the school.

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Principal Kibblewhite takes stock Continue from page 1 Mark says one of the main reasons he was at the school for so long is the community and the school board.

“The board is very good here a nd t he community has got its values right,” he says.

Along with this Mark says he feels he has made a real contribution to the community.

“I feel like I have really made a difference here,” he says.

Building on the community values with the students at the school has made his time there really enjoyable he says, but the work load for principals over the years has increased and he also felt the school was in a good position

for him to move on.

“I really want to just stop and have a break, collect my thoughts and spend time with family and grandchildren and my wife has had to put up with a lot over the years so I am really looking forward to taking some time, I think it is easy to get burnt out,” he says.

One of the biggest struggles for principals now days Mark says is the amount of paperwork required to be filled out in the job.

“One of the big things I would like to see change is more support for children with special needs, I think that is an area that is really worthwhile to put money into.”

Rather than sending

Retiring Arakura School principal Mark Kibblewhite plants a Ti Kouka with members of the student council, Kody Daymonds-Lints, Devyn Woodford, Krista Henderson-Williams, Bella Tavai, Mark Kibblewhite, Brooklyn Waite-Leach. a handout around the schools that has cost $70,000 to produce, that

hardly ever gets read, the money would be far better spent on more hours

for special needs teachers,” Mark says.

Wetlands and rivers get a boost Greater Wellington wetlands and rivers are getting a vital $10m boost from the Government’s post-Covid-19 jobs for nature programme.

The Ruamahanga catchment and the Wairarapa Moana Wetlands project will be targeted through the funding, with Greater Wellington Regional Council contributing approximately $4m on top of the Government’s $6m

investment.

Riparian activities for the Ruamahanga catchment will provide flood protection resilience and buffer planting through native and exotic planting alongside the upper Ruamahanga, Waingawa and Waipoua Rivers and will lead to improved ecosystems, carbon sequestration and water quality.

Wairarapa Moana activities

will include over 60ha of native planting, scaled up pest plant and animal control, extension of school and community group programmes, development of visitor facilities at Lake Domain, Lake Ferry and other key sites, and increased environmental and cultural research and monitoring.

Greater Wellington Chair Daran Ponter says the invest-

ment is wise.

“In the first instance this funding boost will bring forward works that will provide a much needed boost to employment in the region, while at the same time strengthening our resilience against floods, improving water quality and enabling a critical first step to managing the effects of climate change,” says Chair Ponter.

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LETTERS to the editor Pukeatua Primary School celebrate Matariki with Mayor Campbell Barry, Cr Josh Briggs, and Cr Keri Brown. Photo: Suppiled Students and staff at Pukeatua Primary School have planted nine different native trees donated by Hutt City Council in a ceremony to celebrate Matariki.

Alongside the tree planting, students also wrote down their ‘hopes and dreams’, which will be placed on the school fence so the two can grow in tandem.

Pukeatua School teacher Mark Williams, who reached out to Council for support for the nine native trees, said that the trees were planted to represent Pukeatua Primary School classrooms and Kokiri Marae as part of their Matariki celebrations.

“We wanted all the trees to reflect the dreams of our tamariki, so we planted eight trees for each classroom to represent their dreams growing into fruition.”

“We also wanted to plant one native tree for Kokiri marae. Our “skipathon” fundraiser raised $3,000 for Kokiri’s to thank them for their generous help and support for our whanau during lockdown.”

The ceremony recognised Matariki draw-

ing closer, and how the planting of native trees reflected the Maori new year’s celebration of new life.

Lower Hutt Mayor Campbell Barry, who was at the ceremony with Councillors Josh Briggs and Keri Brown, said that he was pleased that Council was able to support the school’s Matariki celebrations.

“The ceremony at Pukeatua Primary was a good example of how we can empower our communities to grow, even by something as simple as planting native trees. I’m happy Council could donate the trees and make a small, but positive difference for the students,” Campbell Barry says.

The ceremony also educated students about rongoa Maori, which focuses on enhancing Maori wellbeing and medicine, in order to see how their environment and health are connected.

The students learned that the mix of native trees helped local flora and fauna to cross-pollinate the environment around them, and help out the local bee population.

Thank you Kokiri Marae

Children at Pukeatua School skipping their way to raising money to thank Kokiri Marae for their help. Photo: Supplied Pukeatua Primary School and our whanau want to express their gratitude to Kokiri Marae for their generosity and hard work during our recent COVID19 Rāhui.

Pukeatua teacher Mark Williams says they are grateful for the assistance provided by the Marae, “not just to our whanau but to our region with free food, soaps, sanitisers and essentials being delivered to their homes. Your efforts made it a bit easier for our whanau to get by.”

“As a kura we decided we needed to give something back to acknowledge and show our appreciation for all they have done during this very difficult time,” Mark says.

“Our students had a skipathon to raise a koha for Kokiri Marae and a big thank you to our whanau for their amazing generosity.”

Jordyn Heremia, Ngapera Mei, Kath Godinet-Samelu and Lyesha Hatata, from Tihei Rangatahi, were presented with $3000 by acting Principal Topsy Remuera.

The students also presented cards and letters to say thank you.

Not finished with their support of the kura and whānau, the team from Kokiri Marae then handed out cakes and biscuits to the students and whanau after they showed their Zumba skills.

Subdivisions a step too far Dear Editor, Wainuiomata is being subdivided at an ever increasing rate and the council most likely does not know how many subdivisions is a step too far before the infrastructure will no longer cope. I said when I stood for Mayor last time, very little is being done to future proof our houses, there is no compulsion or incentive for rainwater tanks, and if we don’t know how many subdivisions how can we know how much water will be needed. We can’t even guess whether those who move here will

be able to send their children to school in Wainui. Nor will they know how many cars will be clogging Wainui to go over the hill just to shop.We need to insist now that the Mayor and Council need to start asking the right questions of the chief executive and her staff before Wainui becomes a giant tip with low air quality, prone to flooding, with few mature trees and no birds or bees.

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The school holidays have got underway at Wainuiomata HUB with a full range of activities for the holiday period.

Saturday got off to a great start with an epic Gumboot hunt adventure for the whole whanau and screen printing on Monday.

Today you can learn a Waiata with Mama Mate and Hip Hop Dance for fun on Thursday.

This is all leading to the great Teddy Bear Sleepover on Friday when anyone who wants to can drop off their teddy bear

for a sleep over at the library after story time and come back and pick it up on Saturday morning for story time and a book showing what the teddies got up to in the library overnight.

Next week will get off to a great start with Percussion with Andreas on Monday when you can make music using a range of instruments, Easy as Pie on Wednesday the 15th which is making up-cycled window art.

The end of the week will be celebrating Matariki Luca Craig receives instruction from his mum Hana on Friday 17th through to during screen printing classes at the Wainuiomata HUB. Saturday.

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Enliven’s modified Tai Chi classes are back in action in Wainuiomata.

Modified Tai Chi returns Enliven is pleased to be restarting its modified Tai Chi classes in the Wainuiomata community following the easing of Covid-19 restrictions across the country.

Like many services, Enliven’s Tai Chi classes were not an essential service when the country went into Level 4 lock down and had to be put on hold.

Tai Chi, an ancient Chinese practice which involves performing a series of movements in a slow, focused manner, is known to improve coordination, balance and reduce the risk of falls among seniors.

To celebrate the classes restarting, Enliven is offering one free class for both new and existing participants to get back into the routine of attending classes. Attendees need to present this article and attend a class before 25 July 2020 to take advantage of the offer.

For many participants, the classes restarting will provide them a great opportunity to work on their mobility and reconnect with

others in the community, Enliven Tai Chi instructor Michael says.

Serious falls can have dire consequences for the long-term health of many elders, which can impact their mobility and even social interaction.

Michael says the gentle exercise is a great way for elders to improve their balance and coordination.

“Our classes are specifically designed to ensure all participants can take part at a level which is appropriate to them, which makes it a wonderful form of exercise for beginners.”

Enliven’s modified Tai Chi classes are held at the Wainuiomata Union Church hall, as well as other locations across Lower Hutt and the greater Wellington region. To learn more about these sessions or Enliven’s modified Tai Chi classes call 04 439 4967 or visit www.enlivencentral.org.nz.

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Haidi Syed presents his book about trees to Green Party co-leader James Shaw.

Photo: Gerald Rillstone By: Gerald Rillstone Improving the environment is an on going focus for the students at Konini school and last week they had a special visitor, Green party co-leader James Shaw.

Mr Shaw made a special trip out to the school and was taken on a guided tour of the grounds by the Enviroschools team.

He was shown the 1,000 trees which were planted around the boundary last year and was particularly impressed by the planting of the trees, which were supplied from the Rimutaka Prison nursery.

Last year the school was one of five schools around the country selected to win a $10,000 grant towards creating an

outdoor learning space from TREEmendous – a joint initiative between Project Crimson and the Mazda Foundation.

Five year old student Haidi Syed also had a surprise in store for Mr Shaw and presented him with a book about trees he had written. The pair each planted a tree in commemoration of the visit.

During the lock-down trees had become a fascination for Haidi which grew into a passion project and he put the book together.

Mr Shaw talked with the students about the projects they had undertaken to improve the school environment and was also very impressed with the work completed on our vegetable gardens and he was given a selection of vegetables from the garden to take home.

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Wainui dog club SOS By: Gerald Rillstone

Wainuiomata Dog Training Club is desperate to find new committee members, office holders and trainers.

A prime opportunity for anyone keen on training dogs has arisen with in the Wainuiomata Dog Training Club.

First established around 1976 the club has a number of office holders who have put decades of work in but the time has come for them to move on and hand over the lead to someone new.

Club president Michael Deys says he has been in the postion for 23 years and was secretary of the club for five or six years prior to that.

“What has happened is over time we haven’t been able to get people coming through the ranks to take over from long serving members,” he says.

“It seems a daunting task to people thinking about it but it’s not in reality because everyone pitches in and helps to

get it done.”

Come March next year Michael says he will be based in Peka Peka and other members have already moved away.

“We are coming to a bottle neck where the club needs people in a hurry and we will give all the expertise needed to make confident dog training instructors, hopefully six months of it if we can, and from there they will have the confidence to take over the management of the club.”

He says the club needs to get an SOS out to the community as soon as possible so they can give as much training to those interested as possible.

The club has a long history of training in Wainuiomata and originally started in the car-park at the Wainuiomata Mall then moved to Fernlea School and eventually got their own grounds at the end of Burden Ave. Michael is keen to hear from anyone interested - please contact him on 0221533029.

Fenn looking alert during training with Yvette and Laura Stewart.

Kirsty Fitzgerald with Daisy during training. Border Collie Tea gets some encouragment from owner Michaela Carter and Michael Finlay Linda Wilkie. training with their dog Boston.

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GARDENING THIS WEEK Deciduous fruit trees: By Wally Richards With some miserable weather covering much of the country recently, now is a good time to look to those plants that we grow indoors which we commonly call house plants.

House plants not only brighten up the indoors they also assist in purifying the air we breathe, converting carbon dioxide to oxygen and filtering out harmful air borne substances.

A very valid point to remember as the owner and care giver of indoor plants is that house plants are solely dependent on us for their well-being.

We supply the moisture that they require along with nutrients in the form of plant foods and where we place them in a room will depend on how much natural light they receive.

Winter can be a hard time for house plants if you are not very careful about the amount of water you provide. Many plants are lost in winter as a result of root rots through over watering.

This even applies in a heated room where a plant that hates wet feet, is sitting in a saucer that is full of water, which means that the potting mix is saturated.

When we turn off the heat the room quickly chills making it very uncomfortable for the plant and as there is a lack of air around the roots they soon begin to rot.

In the warmer months with longer day light hours the plant is able to use the water and evaporation rates are higher also, which means the root rot problem will not occur unless we continue to overwater too often.

In winter the secret is to give your house plants a small drink of water on the average of once a week.

This may vary with plants that are pot bound and need a bit of a top up before the weekly watering comes around.

The plant will tell you as they go into water stress through lack of moisture, foliage and flowers will begin to droop indicating that the mix has become too dry.

(Note; drooping flowers and foliage can also be displayed when a plant has been over watered) A quick test is to lift the pot up and if it feels light then all is ok and a small drink maybe applied.

If the pot feels heavy and there is water in the saucer then it is too wet and needs to be dried out by placing it in a warm room and not giving any further water till it is light in weight.

It is surprising how light the container can become before any sign of water stress is displayed.

Plants that are in rooms not normally heated may only require a small drink every 2 to 4 weeks to

keep them happy in winter.

The amount of natural light that a plant receives indoors in winter is also another important aspect to its well-being.

We are down to about only eight hours of daylight at this time and through a window the brightest light is within one metre of that window. As we move across the room the light level dramatically drops, something we don’t notice but plants do.

There are a number of house plants such as philodendrons with their larger leaves that adjust to lower light levels very well.

Smaller leaf plants such as maidenhair ferns need a really bright light and to be within a metre of a good bright light window, to do well through the winter months.

A quick guide to the amount of light a plant needs is by the size of the leaves, generally speaking small leaf plants need better light levels than do large leaf plants.

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Co-ordinator of Predator Free Wainuiomata and a Trustee of the Wainuiomata Natural Heritage Trust  What food do you crave most often?

I often brew a pot of Kawakawa tea using the plentiful local Wainuiomata Kawakawa. Speaking of ‘bush kai’, a Wainuiomata friend of Ngati Porou descent recently put me on to the shoots of the Pikopiko fern which is often referred to as ‘bush asparagus’. Yum.  When you have had a bad day, what do you do to feel better?

I get out into the beautiful and plentiful wilderness areas surrounding Wainuiomata. Ignorant people sometimes put Wainuiomata down.

They obviously aren’t aware of its incredible hinterland.  What’s one thing on your bucket list?

To enhance and protect Wainiomata’s incredible natural heritage.  Who has been the biggest inspiration in your life?

Gary James, my co-coordinator in Predator Free Wainuiomata is behind all the local environmental initiatives I am involved in. Gary is a co-founder of Zealandia, part-owns a native plant nursery that serves environment projects in Wellington and is the driving force behind the Forest and Bird project restoring the Waui Park wetland.  What’s the most beautiful place you’ve ever been?

I am from Otago originally - Dunedin and Wanaka.

Otago has its fair share of beauty spots. But often when I am walking in the East Harbour Regional Park above Wainuiomata, it feels like the most beautiful place I’ve ever been to.

 What was the last photo you took?

It is of a huge Matai that is just behind the Wainuiomata suburb of Parkway.  What thing do you really wish you could buy right now?

The restoration of much of New Zealand’s original native flora and fauna.

We are getting there.

Moa might pose a problem though!  What is the best or worst purchase you’ve ever made?

An A24 Goodnature automatic rat trap. It kills 24 rats in a ‘set and forget’ way. I suspect that such automatic traps are the way of the future with predator control.  Favourite programme currently watching?

Predator Free NZ Webinars!  If you had to flee the country, where would you choose to live?

Fleeing overseas would not be an option for me.

My ancestors came from Britain and Ireland via Australia many generations ago. But my heart and soul are in Aoteoroa/ New Zealand and, in particular, in its forests, hills, rivers, lakes and mountains - especially those near Wainuiomata!

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SPORTS TALK With Jacob Page

North v South a one and done?

The North versus South rugby match can have a long-term place in the rugby calendar but let’s not get too excited.

The match will return for the first-time in more than 20 years at Eden Park on November 29.

Selection will be determined by which province a player made his first-class debut in.

A one-off game early in the season can work if a number of factors come to fruition.

If it can be financially viable,

that always helps in 2020 plus if the teams are picked based on the birthplace of each player then you’ll get fresh match-ups each year that are currently not seen in Super Rugby.

What will not work, and it has been suggested a lot over the past week, is a three game series similar to the State of Origin rugby league.

Yes, it’s a nice concept in theory and it certainly works across the Tasman but it’s not an apples with

apples comparison.

Firstly, State of Origin is the pinnacle event in rugby league.

It easily trumps international league but rugby between nations will always be the big draw card.

Fans always love a blast of nostalgia and that is what this game will be.

What rugby players do not need is another game wedged annually into an already packed schedule.

Season-ending injuries caused by friendly-fire could also

be devastating.

There is no doubt this type of game is perfect for a pandemichit 2020 but whether it has legs beyond this year remains to be seen.

The rugby landscape and how players are picked has also changed over the past 10 years.

The theory that it was harder to be dropped from the All Blacks’ squad than actually crack the squad has prevailed for some time.

With that in mind, will a North versus South game be viewed by Ian Foster as a trial game where if players impress they could earn a black jersey.

That sort of approach seems unlikely.

Foster, like all coaches, will have his favourites, his automatic selections if you will, and they will be picked on past deeds rather than anything current.

Only time will tell if this match returns on a regular basis.

Famine to feast It will now go from a famine to a feast for the New Zealand motorcycling community after news this week that multiple major national events will be resurrected.

In addition to rescheduling events postponed during the lock-down, several new events are also being offered by MNZ, the sport’s governing body in New Zealand.

The annual New Zealand Junior Motocross Championships had been due to run near Tauranga on the weekend of April 18-19, but that was put on ice due to COVID-19, causing riders, their parents and supporters, race teams and sponsors to cancel their travel plans and motel bookings.

The junior nationals won’t be staged in 2020, but Tauranga will be hosting them in Febru-

ary 5, 6, 7 next year.

This is the weekend immediately following the annual New Zealand Motocross Grand Prix at Woodville (January 30-31, 2021) and this will enable South Island riders the cost-effective option of staying on in the North Island for just one week to ‘piggyback’ the junior nationals onto their journey north.

Tauranga Motorcycle Club president Ben Townley said he was excited about his club hosting the event in 2021.

But, for those who can’t wait until early next year for their motocross fix, there is the rescheduled North Island and Secondary Schools MX Nationals, now set for Taupo on Saturday, August 29 and the South Island Secondary School MX National are rescheduled for October 3.

Frantic first-turn action such as this, from the 2019 New Zealand Junior Motocross Championships, will hail a return to some normality on the Kiwi bike scene. Photo by Andy McGechan, BikesportNZ.com

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