Ruakaka Community Market – now at Marsden Cove
A new venue in the marquee at Marsden Cove means that this market will be great whatever the weather might bring!
First market of the season will be 16 October 2011 9-12 Bring the family, there will be fun for everyone – pony rides, lucky door prize, great coffee, arts and crafts, live demonstrations, specialty foods, awesome music, local produce and fresh flowers. Look for the market on the 3rd Sunday of the month at Marsden Cove.
For info phone Noeline 09 432 8303 or Helen 09 433 0205
Stall space $10 All funds raised go the the community
Not sure when markets are in Bream Bay?
The home page of www.breambay.co.nz always has the latest ones on the calendar
Spring – Flower Show and Garden Visits in Ruakaka
Spring has sprung and its time for the annual Marsden Bay Garden Club Spring Flower Show
Flower Show
Friday 28 October 2011 12 noon – 4pm
Saturday 29 October 2011 9am – 3.30pm
Admission $2pp at the Ruakaka Memorial Hall
Flowers, plants, produce, craft stalls, patchwork quilting display, and home baked refreshments
Garden Visits
Saturday 29 October 2011 ONLY $5pp get your maps and passes at the Flower Show
Information: Lorraine Sumich 09 432 1188 or Noeline Willis 09 432 8303
Health is a Family Affair
Hook up for Health Friday 26 August 10-4pm
Bream Bay Community Trust
Whanau and friends Fun day, come and enjoy a free sausage sizzle, fruit and yoghurt or a hot bowl of soup while you browse the information which will be available on the day:
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Manaia Health PHO
Smoking Cessation
- WINZ
- Diabetes eduction
- Mental health
- CarePlus and Whakamana Hauora
- Immunisations/youth health
- Dietician
- B4 School Checks
- Cervical Screening/Education
- Drug and Alcohol services
- Health Screening
The Great Living Legends Muck-In – Northland
On Sunday 18th September 9.30a,m – 1.30, Living Legends, a community conservation project, will be celebrating Rugby World Cup 2011 with a fun and conservation orientated event! Come along to the Uretiti Camp Ground off SH1 and take part in planting thousands of trees, while at the same time having fun and celebrate Rugby World Cup 2011. A preliminary planting will happen on 3o July – come and join us – more here Read more
SeaChange – Beachside cafe at Ruakaka
Chooky, Wai and Grant behind the counter at SeaChange Café
SeaChange Café and Takeaways near the Ruakaka Surf Club, and across the road from the Bream Bay Motel – is a perfect stop off after a walk on the beach – friendly with a focus on fresh local produce. Chooky Dudley and Grant and Wai Mason are the owner/operators of SeaChange Cafe – all three have all recently retired from the corporate world, hence the name SeaChange. Chooky was in finance, Grant in management and Wai in administration, so between them they have a diverse range of skills. “It all leads you somewhere,” says Chooky. Read more
Bream Bay Fun Run
The Bream Bay Tides Out Fun Run has graduated to college…
Tides Out Bream Bay Fun Run 6 November 2011 9.30-12pm
It started out in 2002 as a fundraiser for Bream Bay Kindergarten, which ran the event for five years. After a year in abeyance, it was taken up by the Waipu Primary PTA. Many of the parents who had helped to organise the fun run for its five years with the kindergarten now had children at the school. Read more
Tartan at the Races
Ruakaka Race Track from 11.30 Saturday 2 July
Whangarei Race Club is getting into the spirit of Tartan Week and hosting Tartan at the Races on Saturday 2 July. All are welcome, but especially if you are wearing some tartan!
There will be spot prizes for those who wear ‘the tartan’ and the ‘Tartan Police’ will be about checking out the crowd.
You could Win a bottle of Johnnie Walker Scotch Whisky and a $5 betting slip.
Raceday Features the 2nd Leg of the Westbury Stud 2 yr old handicap.
Free Buses from Whangarei – check our website for timetables. Free entrance and carparking. Website
Women in Business at the races…
WOMEN IN BUSINESS LADIES DAY OUT at The Ruakaka Racecourse
Friday 6 May 2011
Whangarei Racing Club are incorporating into our Friday May 6th Raceday an opportunity for Women in Business to have a day at the races with colleagues, clients, and other like minds. A great opportunity to network whilst enjoying a social day out and all the entertainment and excitement of a great days racing!!!!
This is a ‘warm up’ – celebrating the beginning of a great season of racing for the Club and also an opportunity for you to wear that fabulous outfit again.
An opportunity to have a flutter on your race the ‘The More Gorgeous Fillies and Mares Mile’.
COST; $45.00 per person (10% discount book and pay for 10) Read more
Break-Away holiday program – Join the Circus!
Circool Circus, Bream Bay
Ruakaka Recreational Centre 24 – 27 January 2011 from 10am -3pm.
Local community circus mand Achmed Abman is organising this government subsidised event. It is free and you can come for one day or more but you must fill in evaluation forms. We will do all sort of circus games and tricks to learn as well as fun and laughter to take home or into the upcoming school year.
….come along to acrobatic,clowning,poi,juggling ,unicycle and much more
New Flax Weaving Studio opens in Ruakaka
Nga Taonga Maori is a new raranga (flax weaving) co-operative workshop and studio, which opened on Saturday 4th December at 3pm with a powhiri and kapahaka in what was formally the garden and hardware shop at 458 Marsden Point Rd., Ruakaka.
“Our aim is to get something in place to pass on this matauranga (knowledge) for tamariki (children) so that these taonga (treasures) will never be lost”, said Hannah Carrington. Read more
