North Haven Hospice opening shop in Waipu
North Haven Hospice is to open a second hand goods shop in the empty retail outlet (which used to be the Lotto Shop) next to the Waipu Bakery. It will be opening in TARTAN Week.
To avoid taking custom from the Anglican Church opportunity shop the proceeds of which all goes to charity, the new hospice shop will not be selling clothing. Hospice Shop manager Kathy McMillan said “We are expanding in Waipu as for a long time now we have been asked to open a second, smaller shop in another location and Waipu was chosen as the best place to be. It is very exciting for us and we really do look forward to opening the shop during Tartan Week”: the first week of July.
North Haven Hospice operates a large second hand store selling clothes and furniture at the corner of James and Robert Streets in the Whangarei central business district.
A team of volunteers will be needed to run the Waipu store
Contact Kathy McMillan on 09 438 1050
The shop will be open Mon-Sat throughout the colder months, and Tue-Sun throughout summer months. She said the work “would provide any new volunteers with a chance to become part of a loving, caring and fun team. They become part of a whole new social circle and make new friends – it can be a lot of fun. It is great teamwork!”
Hospice staff are happy to collect items now that will be stored until the shop’s opening. If you would like to donate goods please phone. 438 1050
(taken from Bream Bay News)
Kiwi Release in Brynderwyns
Wendy Sporle of the Kiwis for Kiwi trust encourages little John Robinson of Mangawhai to pat a kiwi
before it was releaseed into the Marunui conservation block on the south eastern edge of the Brynderwyn
ranges
For the first time in something like 50 years there are kiwi in the Brynderwyn ranges. Fourteen north island brown kiwi were released into the 400 hectare Maranui conservation block on the south eastern side of the Brynderwyns on Saturday 13 April 2013 (article from Bream Bay News)
Speaking to several hundred people gathered for the occasion at the King Rd. entrance to the Maranui block, Catherine Hawley, representing the Maranui community, said that the land was purchased 26 years ago by a group of families and was covenanted by the Queen Elizabeth 11 Trust, which gives it protection in perpetuity. Read more
Where should the Cycleway/Walkway Go?
Last week I chaired a public meeting in the Anglican Church Hall which drew a great crowd, and some passions running hot for and against the proposed combined cycleway/walkway between Waipu village and Waipu Cove.
The end result of the meeting was:
- Overwhelming support for the walkway/cycleway to do beside Cove Road (safely and separate from traffic)
- This route would also point to the public access points to the estuary, and from here people could walk along the public esplanade reserves.
- The issue of public access to Esplanade Reserves and strips remains important, and should be something that we continue to work with as a community, and as affected landowners.
- This worthwhile project needs continued community support, energy, and funding
- The Trust overseeing the project will keep people in touch with developments via a newsletter and their website. Read more
Waipu in Tartan 2013
Tartan Week – yes it is happening again in 2013, but it is being renamed
WAIPU IN TARTAN
Dates for 2013
29 June – 14th July
Same web address www.waipu-tartan.co.nz New Facebook Page
New co-ordinators: Nikki Collins and Sarah Archer
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Calendar of Events (Draft at this Stage!!)
| First it was Tartan Day as part of Winter@Waipu, then it was Tartan Week, and then it was Tartan Two Weeks. We decided a new name was needed – so it is Waipu in Tartan |  |
Saturday 29 June – 31 July
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Saturday 29th June 11.30am on
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Ruakaka Racecourse
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Sunday 30th June Tee off from 3pm
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Waipu Golf Club
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| Monday 1st July International Tartan Day Tartan Pipe Band Parade 11am Celebrate International Tartan Day with us. Young and old invited to don their tartan and join the parade. Prize for best dressed. Street Theatre – some local lads will once again be shaking off their trousers and and donning a wee bit of tartan and the Plod will be there keeping a watchful eye From Pizza Barn to Caledonian park. Waipu Primary School will take part. |
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Tuesday 2nd July
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Friday 5th July
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Saturday 6th Saturday Festivities
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Are you rough enough? Waipu Mud RunTartan must be worn on the day!!
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7pm Saturday 6 July Glamour in the Gloamin’
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 The Celtic FlyersTickets will sell out so get in quick! |
Sunday 7th July10am Kirkin of the Tartan – Waipu Presbyterian Church 10am-3pm Waipu Wellbeing MacClean motto – Honor Thine Virtue - Join us in this hands on expo and showcase of the local Well Being providers around Waipu. Stalls, workshops. treatments and refreshment.
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Monday 8th July 5.15pm -6.45pm
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Wed 10 July 7pmWaipu Tavern All welcome All to contestants to wear tartan!
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Saturday 13th July
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Sunday 14th July
Tartan Taniwha Competition – Use recycled/found/ household products, this can be made prior to the day & brought along & placed for judging or made on the beach on the day! Prizes for best junior and senior creations. |
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Estuary Restaurant Opens in Ruakaka
Dale Pullen (left) and David Graham toast the success of their new restaurant
The Estuary Restaurant has just opened at 5 Princes Rd., Ruakaka under the Bream Bay Club. David and Dale took over the lease on this property in November 2012 and have been running a cafe and takeaways there all summer. Read more
Waipu Pageant – doing the numbers
Photo:Peter Davies
From the latest Bream Bay News – read it on line
Settlers from Nova Scotia travel up the Waipu River and step ashore near the place where the Waipu Grand
Pageant, a reinactiment of their story was staged last weekend.
This photograph of the scene of their arrival
was taken at the second performance of the pageant held in front of an audience of 2,400 people on
Saturday night , 12 January.
Bream Bay News has the Numbers…
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Photo by Peter Davies
Number of people who appear on stage – at least 300, including the Waipu Pipe Band, the waka team from Kaeo and the kapahaka group.
- Back stage people – at least another 100.
- Number of pipers – 15, drummers – 2 and a drum major.
- Number of Highland dancers – 12
- Number of rugby players – 5 (6 if you count ex All Black Richie Guy, who kicked a rugby ball into the wings in the first act.
- Built pieces of set included a croft, which got set alight three nights in a row (including at the dress rehearsal) so had to be partially rebuilt. A sailing ship built on top of a truck with a mast, which is raised dramatically on stage. Stage wings to hide the actors and props off stage.
- Number of people in the crowd scenes who began rehearsing two nights a week for around two to three hours each time since 20 September – 81. Closer to the production date they have spent whole days on the set going over their parts.
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Tommy Ryan Photo Geoff Spencer
Total number of rehearsal hours put in by George Mutch who with his native Scottish accent played the part of Murdoch, the narrator of the migration story and filled in for Dame Fiona Kidman who lives in Wellington, for many of the rehearsals
– 180. This doesn’t include the hours George put in rehearsing the script at home. - Number of costumes – around 200 said Sue Welford, who was in charge of this department. “Many were supplied by the actors themselves. We sewed a lot of aprons and bonnets. We interchanged bonnets for the different scenes. Black bonnets when they were going through hard times, straw hats when they were out in the fields.”
- Number of props – close to 300 said Sue Mathews, who was in charge of getting all these together. These included: a coffin, spinning wheels, old – fashioned wooden handled agricultural tools, cream cans.
- One waka Te Aukaha brought down with a team of paddlers and a support crew from Kaeo .
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Funeral of Norman McLeod Photo Peter Davies
Animals involved – Two big Clydesdales named Mark and Glen, two beautiful black Friesian horses, two stunt horses, two highland cattle and one jersey cow. The bullock team, which was to have been part of the show, was cancelled when the big animals got a bit testy at rehearsal frightening actors in the crowd scenes. The decision was taken not to risk them on the night.
- Two horse – drawn carriages
- Four vintage cars.
- Money spent – despite all the voluntary contributions by the actors and background crew, the Grand Pageant cost approximately $240,000 to stage.
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McLeod exhorts his followers Photo Peter Davies
Costs included the hiring of the professional technical crew – Oceania who provided lighting and projection and the LED screens, the hiring and running of generators, a koha to The Rununga of Whangaroa for the waka and its crew and promotional advertising.
- Ticket sales – the production team was still cleaning up on Monday when the Bream Bay News went to print and final figures were not available but Joy McKay, whose husband Rod as Waipu Museum chairman, oversaw the sales and expenditure was able to tell us that a fairly accurate estimate is 1800 tickets sold for the Friday night show and 2,400 tickets sold for Saturday night.
“It is pretty close but we don’t think we will have to run to our underwriters. Thank goodness the weather stayed fine.”
Walk the Tanekaha Forest Track
Pictured is the elegant little swing bridge on the Tanekaha Forest Track.
Taken from the Bream Bay News – get the news online as well as in your letterbox
A new track which has been named the Tanekaha Forest Track has been built to provide public access to the Brynderwyn ridge. A group of volunteers describing themselves as “a bunch of old broken down track builders”, gained funding from the New Zealand Walking Access Commission and the agreement of private land owners Marunui Conservation Trust and dairy farmer Mark Gash, to form the track which was formally on Labour Weekend.
King Road is off Cove Rd. on the right hand side coming from Langs Beach and just passed the Mangawhai Heads turnoff. The track is accessed from 3 km up King Road via a legal unformed public road on the right just beyond the second bridge. A parking area has been constructed 100 metres up this access and no vehicles are permitted past this point. The track, marked by blue and silver markers, follows the road to a stile, which leads onto Marunui land and a swing bridge funded by the Walking Access Commission.
From the bridge the track crosses a second stream by stepping stones and briefly proceeds upstream before climbing towards the ridge and into Department of Conservation reserve. Steeper sections have been stepped and slopes benched but once on the ridge the grade lessens with just a few steeper climbs.
There are further plans to extend the track so it becomes a longer loop walk. He has been told by pig hunters that there are two waterfalls in the forest and he had been attempting to locate these so detours can be
built to view them. The Brynderwyn forest comprises 15 square kilometers of native forest,
shrublands, streams and wetlands.
Members of the newly formed The Friends of the Brynderwyns Society were at the track opening ceremony handing out leaflets and inviting new membership. The society has plans to reintroduce Northland brown kiwi to the forest. Contacts are: Martina Tschirky 09 431 5161, Catherine Hawley 09 376 4069 and Denis Kerins 09 376 4551.
The track passes through regenerating forest dominated by tanekaha at lower elevations and large very old kanuka higher up. There are scattered rimu, totara, and puriri, as well as nikau palms, lancewood and a variety of shrub hardwoods, along with lots of seedlings and saplings along the route. Glimpses of Mangawhai Harbour and the surrounding area occur along the track but the real views are from the top when the track reaches the trig. Depending on walking pace it takes from one to one and a half hours to reach the top.
The track was blessed by Ben de Thierry of Te Uri o Hau who said he was happy to give his support as it was te huanui ki te ora (a pathway to health.) It was opened by acting Conservator for Northland Alistair Drake, who commended the Mangawhai trust for building the track.
New walking track gives access to the Brynderwyn ridge
Pictured is the elegant little swing bridge on the Tanekaha Forest Track.
Taken from the Bream Bay News – get the news online as well as in your letterbox
A new track which has been named the Tanekaha Forest Track has been built to provide public access to the Brynderwyn ridge. A group of volunteers describing themselves as “a bunch of old broken down track builders”, gained funding from the New Zealand Walking Access Commission and the agreement of private land owners Marunui Conservation Trust and dairy farmer Mark Gash, to form the track which was formally opened on Labour Weekend. Read more
Tides Out Fun Run/Walk
Its the time of the year to start training for this.
Entry forms available from Bream Bay Retail outlets from 9 September.
Race is Saturday 27 October 10am
Get Training!!! Sharon at Smartfitness can help,
join her newsletter for hints and encouragement!
Playing with Horses….
Northland Natural Horsemanship Games
On Easter Sunday April 8th 2012 at Barge Showgrounds, Whangarei the Northland Natural Horsemanship Games (NHG) will run for its second year.
Following last year’s amazing success where over a 1,000 spectators watched 35 contestants play and ride naturally with their horses, contestants, stall holders and spectators asked for it to become an annual event.
This years organisors are all from Waipu – and they are all passionate about Natural horsemanship – relating to your horse by using the horse’s own language. The human uses almost exclusively body language and modifies their natural predator responses. The horse then enters into more of a partnership with their human which opens the possibility for more fun and extends what a horse and human can do.
At the NHG there are 16 different games for contestants and their horses to play at their chosen skill level. All the events give everyone a chance to win ribbons if they complete the game in time and with their relationship with their horse intact.
During the day there are students showcasing what they can do with their horses and inspirational demos from some professionals. There will be food stalls, raffles and horse focused stalls. Several new sponsors have joined last years in donating some fantastic and valuable prizes. It is $25 for participants for the day and free for spectators.
The highlights of the day will be two demonstrations by Russell Higgins, a 4* Parelli Professional, and his two horses. You will see Russell play with Oscar and Maverick both on the ground and ridden, sometimes at liberty, sometimes with saddle and bridle. It is an inspiration to see the love and relationship the horses have with him.
View the NHG website for more details. You can download the Games Booklet and enrolment form and start practising for the fun and challenges the day will bring. You can phone Pat and Claire on (09) 432-0018 for more information.
