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
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
Bream Bay supports Christchurch – come on lets get involved
Come and help raise money for Christchurch and have a great time doing it:
16 April 2011 from 5pm at Marsden Cove Marquee
$10/adult $5 student 12yrs and under free
Tickets available from Ruakaka Take Note and Waipu Stationary and Lotto and at the Door
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Live Band: Jim Wallace and sons
Prize for best dressed – Black & Red Costume!
5pm – 5:30pm Circus performers
5:30 – 6:30pm Short Performances from three schools interspersed with quick fire raffles
6:30pm Charity Auction (see partial list below)
7pm Live Band: Jim Wallace and Sons (formerly The Outlaws)
Meals will be available from 5pm. Kids meals as well. Ice Creams and cokes. Cash Bar.
All proceeds going to Habitat for Humanity’s project: SHELTER: “getting a roof over Canterbury”.
Auction Items
- Bay of Islands Holiday: Accommodation at the Copthorne (with breakfast) and Hole in the Rock Tour from Explore NZ.
- Bag a Builder – Fancy finishing up a deck or other project? Craig Cogan will supply 3 of his best for 8hrs each!
- Beauty Therapy vouchers from Pure Essence! Think – Mother’s Day
- Holiday Bach in Mangawhai – accommodation vouchers.
- Hop over to the Matakohe museum with a family pass.
- Art – Richard Robinson limited edition print: “Coming Home II”. Check it out on www.newzealandartist.com.
- Entertaining this winter? You’ll be sorted with this package: The Marsden Yacht Club venue with the use of a spit-roaster (donated by Cowley’s Hire Centre) and a sheep for the spit.
- And why not put the out of town guests up at a Farm-stay? They also get golf and a massage!
- A unique gift idea…..A Vasectomy Operation. Donated by our local Urologist, Dr. Nixon of Cardinal Points Specialists.
- Aussie winter holiday? Try Magnetic Island! Just off the coast of Townsville in North Queensland in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. A week’s stay in a holiday home that sleeps 8. Show the kids the real Australia this year. We’ve got a $100 travel voucher from The Travel Brokers to help with the airfare.
- The Patchwork Group is working on a special quilt commemorating Bream Bay’s effort to help Canterbury!
…..And More: There are silent auction items, baskets, dinner vouchers, something for every budget.
The organising committee wishes to extend a huge THANK YOU for all of the generous donations and support services from our community members and Bream Bay businesses.
See more on Facebook: Bream Bay Supports Christchurch
Listen to “Battle of the Sexes” MoreFM the week prior to: 16 April 2011
Winter Programme 2010
Detailed Programme of Events 2010
The programme for 2010 will be developed in the next few months. This programme is not yet finalised, but it will give you and idea of what is on offer and where the gaps are. Last years programme is here
For more events in Bream Bay
- see the Bream Bay Calendar of Events
For blog posts and photos of Winter@waipu – Click here
Introduction to Winter@waipu Winter@Waipu Previous Years
Winter@Waipu is a community festival – creating a spark in the winter months of energy and creativity
The Heart of Winter@Waipu from 2010 on will be Tartan Week - the irrepressible Celtic spirit flys free this week with a celebration of all things gaelic, scottish and tartan. More about TARTAN WEEK – including the history of the event and the programmeIn 2010 Winter@waipu begins with the Long Weekend in June and finishes at the end of September
Every Sunday Night – May – September$15 Roasts at The BeachHouse Restaurant, Waipu Cove09 432 0877 info@thebeachhouserestaurant.co.nz |
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Saturday 5 June : 9-1pmWaipu Street MarketThis is great country market in this small Northland village with its unique scottish history – Waipu’s own pipe band will parade at about 11am. If you are interested in having a stall contact Ronnie 09 432 0046 9-1pm Waipu Hall MarketIn Coronation Hall: A real country market – Fruit and veges, plants, produce, handcrafts – always a great selection. Every first Saturday of the month |
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Sunday 6 June 9am – 4pm
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Sunday 6 June 3pm Giving Thanks:A Matariki Celebration at Waipu CemeteryTo remember and give thanks for those from our community who are buried in the Waipu Cemetery. We will remember especially those who have died in the past year, as well as honouring others buried there. Bring some flowers/herbs to put on the graves as a symbol of thanks and remembrance: Meet at the Hammon Rd Gate ‚ This event is part of Matariki Northland Celebrations |
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June 11/12 Mid Winter Festival of FlowersFantastic flowers and exhibits, spot prizes, all welcome to attend or to enter…. There will be plant, produce and craft stalls, a patchwork quilt display and a refreshment area with real home-baked goodies. “Country Life at its best!” |
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Sunday 13 June 5pm Traditional Choral EvensongSt Peters Anglican Church, WaipuLauchie Mclean will once again be conducting the choir for this winter event, with Opera North and Ian Render as Cantor. |
Join the choir practice at 2pmAll welcome |
11 and 18 June 6.30
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11 and 18 June 6.30The Beachhouse Restaurant
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The 53rd Victim – Bogwood Productions
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 Sarah Boon will star in 53rd Victim |
Wed 23 June Ruakaka Races Where the Surf meets the TurfRuakaka racecourse is home to Whangarei Racing Club and boasts expansive ocean views and hosts nine meetings per season. The racing surface has a well-earned reputation as New Zealand’s finest ‘all weather’ track. The reliability of the racing surface makes Ruakaka popular with trainers outside the area who base themselves here during the winter months. Access to the beautiful beach to train on makes the racecourse unique, hence its logo:”Where the turf meets the surf!” Information from Karen Houlihan Mobile: 0274 334 498. Online Here |
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Free Drought Busting Dinner at Ruakaka
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Saturday 26 June 6pmLight up Northland this Matariki
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Sunday 27 June 9-1 pm
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 Bob and Sylvia - local growers |
Tartan Week in Waipu 1-11 July
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Saturday July 3 9-1pm Waipu Hall MarketIn Coronation Hall: A real country market – Fruit and veges, plants, produce, handcrafts – always a great selection. Every first Saturday of the month |
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Friday 16 July 6am – 10am
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Saturday 17 July Ruakaka Races
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Saturday 24 July Ruakaka Races
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 Where the Surf meets the Turf |
The Bream Bay News Poetry CompetitionIts on again we decided this was too good a thing to let die. Email your poems to:breambaynews@xtra.co.nz or post them to The Bream Bay News, RD2, Waipu 0582 before Friday 17 July 2009. |
A $50 book voucher prize
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7pm 30 July National Poetry Day in WaipuAnnouncement of the winners of the Bream Bay News Poetry Competition. Food 45 by the Four Square in Waipu |
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31 July and 1 August
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Sunday 31 July 10-2pm
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Fri. 6 August Ruakaka Races
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Sat. 7 August 9-1pm
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Wednesday 25 August Ruakaka Races
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Where the Surf meets the Turf |
Sunday 29 August 9-1 pm
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Bob and Sylvia - local growers |
Tartan Week Programme 2011
Tartan Week in Waipu is growing…
2011 Friday 1 – 16 July Tartan week in Waipu in 2011
www.waipu-tartan.co.nz
Don your tartan
and join us to celebrate
all things Tartan in Waipu.
Thanks this year to George and Bachcare for sponsoring printing our tartan week flyer
| Celebrate Tartan Week In WaipuA Full Scottish Brunch at The Waipu Clansman Restaurant 11am to 1pm each of those days – bookings essential We guarantee you will not go away hungry!!! Fri, Sat and Sun of each week- 1st, 2nd and 3rd July |
Wear your tartan to Waipu - join the fun
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Friday 1 July6-10am Classic Hits Breakfast kicks of Tartan Week at the Ynot Restaurant in Artform. Snow for the kids and breakfast available from 6am. Come and join the fun. 11am Waipu Pipe Band Parade with Waipu Primary School and street theatre
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Sat 2 JulyHaggis Tasting for customers at the Waipu Butcher 9-1pm Waipu Saturday Market with tartan flavour: Waipu Coronation Hall 9-1pm contact: Sue Martin ph 0274 586-144 email 11am – Waipu Highland Pipe Band Parades in the Main street – and invites all of Waipu’s scottish descendents to join the march in their tartan. 1.30-3.00 Whisky Tasting $10pp 7.30pm Annual Clan Dinner The Waipu Caledonian Society and Clan MacLean Association are co-hosting the annual Clans Dinner where everyone is invited to attend and enjoy an important part of Tartan Week Bookings for the dinner: [You may like to pay by direct debit - 12-3099-0694105-00 Waipu Caledonian Society. Ref 2010 Clan Dinner; and email or phone to confirm this or pay at the dinner] |
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Tartan at the Races
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Sunday 3 July10am The Kirkin’ o the Tartan Waipu Presbyterian Church invites all tartan wearers (and others!) to join this special service. 10am Waipu Highland Dancing Competition 1pm Tartan Golf join us for a social game followed by dinner at Waipu Golf Club 09 432 0259 |
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Monday 4 July 7-10pm Tartan Week CeilidhThe Waipu Scottish Country Dance Club invites you to an evening of Fun and Social dancing to celebrate the International Tartan Week. And being the 4th of July we will have some dances for our friends in the USA too. Easy dancing for all the Family, no partners needed and there’s a live band! 7 July at 7pm in the Church hallPrimary School Speech Competition - always a fabulous night |
$5 per person and bring along a plate for supper and lots of energy to Dance. Door sale only and Raffles too Contact ; Ginny 432 1721 |
Friday 8 JulyWaipu Rugby and Tarts in Tartan Netball Challenge 5.30 30vs 40 ys Tarts in Tartan Netball at Tennis Courts Caledonian Park 6.30 40vs 50 yrs - under 50s and over 50s. Will the over 50s win again!!! 7.30 Men in Kilts Rugby Challenge – Post Match celebrations at the Waipu Rugby Club
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Saturday 9th July11am Pets in Tartan Parade Bring your pet along and march behind Waipu’s own Highland Pipe Band, Supported by Waipu Vet Club. Prizes. Gather outside the Waipu Pizza Barn 1.30-3.00 Whisky Tasting $10pp 7pm Waipu Clansman Tartan Week Evening Jim Wallace and Sons live at The Waipu Clansman Restaurant for an evening of fine food, song and laughter with Jim Wallace and his Sons. The evening will include a light meal, full bar facility. $40.00 per person, includes dinner and entertainment.
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Sunday 10 July 9-1pmWaipu Boutique Sunday Market and Espresso Café 2pm Mid Winter Swim at Waipu Cove Bain will be piping the swimmers in and afterwards join in the BeachHouse Sunday Roast!! |
“Shaking off the Trousers and Donning the Tartan” Come on – join the fun – 2pm Mid winter swim organised by the Waipu Surf Club |
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