North Have 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)

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:

1. Overwhelming support for the walkway/cycleway to do beside Cove Road (safely and separate from traffic)
2. This route would also point to the public access points to the estuary, and from here people could walk along the public esplanade reserves.
3. 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.
4. This worthwhile project needs continued community support, energy, and funding
5. 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

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 ArtnTartan on Display at Waipu Museum Past entries in ArtnTartan Wearable Art Awards on display at the Waipu Musuem.  The awards will continue in 2014 entry forms to be launched during the ArtnTartan Costume Ball on 6 July.  A special new section called “The Engine Room” to inspire wearable construction from our engineers and Builders
Saturday 29th June 11.30am on Tartan at the Races Join the excitement of the gallops at Ruakaka. Wear your tartan at the Rauakaka races, family fun day. Spot prizes & prize for best dressed. Kids face painting & kids colouring competition. All day food and refreshments Contact Rebecca 09 432 7249  www.ruakakaracing.co.nz	Ruakaka Racecourse
Sunday 30th June Tee off from 3pm Tartan Day 9 Hole Ambrose day “Tartan 9 Hole Ambrose Fun Golf Day” Teams of 4 – $40 per team Prize for best dressed in “Tartan” team Cafe open all day for meals/bar refreshments Hot Toddys etc.. Golf buggies available for spectators All welcome Contact: Dulcie Leech   09 432 0310	Waipu Golf Club Tartan Day
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.	Celebrate International Tartan Day in Waipu
Tuesday 2nd July Waipu Business Association Tartan Time “At the Razza” Brief meeting 5.15pm -6pm followed by a happy hour/Scottish food specials. Also pool/snooker/raffle night. All members (and potential members) invited
Friday 5th July Men in Kilts and Tarts in Tartan Netball Tarts in Tartan Netball 5.30pm Under 4os vs over 40s 6.30 under 50s and over 50s ( will the oldies win again??!!) Men in Kilts Rugby 7.30 kick off, post match functions at the Waipu Rugby Club, after of course the obligatory wee dram to begin the match. Rug up and come and watch the fun!
Saturday 6th Saturday Festivities 9am-1pm Waipu Country Market – at Presbyterian Church Hall Haggis Tasting at Waipu Butcher 10am Highland Rough Stuff - a mud run (more info below) 11.00am Pipe Band Parade 3pm Whiskey Tasting at the Jail (behind Museum) Charge $10 per person.  Try 3 or 4 single malts and taste some haggis 7pm ArtnTartan Costume Ball (more info below)
Highland Rough Stuff  10 am 6 July Waipu Mud Run Strictly limited to 100 brave souls over 16yrs. Entry $30 – tickets from Juanita at Waipu Four Square and Sharon at Smart Fitness. Don’t miss this inaugural event.  Walkers and runners welcome. Spot prizes, including prize for best tartan outfit. Course is on South Road, Waipu with 4 km and 8 Km options	Are you rough enough? Waipu Mud Run
7pm Saturday 6 July Glamour in the Gloamin’ Art n Tartan Costume Ball The Waipu Coronation Hall will be transformed to a place of mystery and wonder, with fantastic decorations and dramatic atmosphere, including a display of past “ArtnTartan” exhibits. Live music with the Celtic Flyers will have you dancing till you drop Supper included in the price, and a cash bar.  Add some tartan to your dance gear and join in for a night to remember. Tickets $50 from Waipu Museum	The Celtic FlyersTickets will sell out so get in quick!
Sunday 7th July 10am  Kirkin of the Tartan – Waipu Presbyterian Church All welcome to this annual church service 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.
Monday 8th July 5.15pm -6.45pm Yoga in Tartan With Nikki Collins at the Workshop at Waipu Primary school. Wear your tartan & join in for a fun filled Yoga class, prize for best dressed Contact Nikki waipuyoga@hotmail.co.nz ph 021 177 5461 7.15pm  Thursday 11 July  Tartan Spin with Sharon Don your tartan for an action packed Spin Class. At the Scout Den, Braemar Lane Friday 12 July 5.30 at The Clansman Happy hour and Sausage Sizzle - Wear your scottish hat – Prize for best hat	Wed 10 July 7pm Waipu Tavern Pool and Darts Comp. All welcome All to contestants to wear tartan!
Saturday 13th July 11am Tartan Parade Pets & People in Tartan - dress up to watch and to join in – you and/or the pooch – spot prizes, pet prizes. Mini Highland Games for kids - more info to come Haggis Tasting at Waipu Butcher 2pm Judging of Shortbread making Competition at Fire Station. Contact Trevor at Waipu Motors for details.  Have a go at making this Scottish favourite! 3pm Whiskey Tasting at the Jail (behind Museum) Charge $10 per person.  Try 3 or 4 single malts and taste some haggis
Sunday 14th July 9.00am to 1.00pm Boutique Sunday Market 1.30pm Mid Winter Swim Followed by Surf club BBQ Tartan Taniwha Competition on the beach, judging at noon by Waipu Surf Club create a Tartan Themed Taniwha. 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.

Estuary Restaurant Opens in Ruakaka

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

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.”

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.

 

 

 

Bream Bay Fitness Getway

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Local Waipu based personal Trainer Sharon of Smartfitness is teaming up with Sharon of FitandHappy from Auckland to offer this Bream Bay Fitness Getaway

Ditch inches and escape for a weekend of Fun Fitness and Friends

Friday 26 August – Sunday 28 August

This weekend will challenge your mind and body , leaving you with tools for your journey towards a fitter, healthier and stronger you!

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At only $349.00 including accommodation and meals, it is an absolute steal!  No fitness level required, just a great attitude and willingness to give 100%

More Details here: Smartfitness

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

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 Week 2011 – its on its way…

Small towns New Zealand each have their own character – giant Lemon and Paeroa bottles in Paeroa or carrots in Ohakune. In the small Northland town of Waipu south of Whangarei, its Tartan – in fact all things Scottish.

July 1st is International Tartan Day – celebrating the day in 1782 when the ban by the English on the wearing of Tartan was lifted, and what had been traditional highland dress became the proud emblem of nationalism in Scotland.

From July 1st for over two weeks, Waipu will be awash with tartan and invites everyone who loves the energy of Scotland to join in the fun. There is something for everyone from the Artntartan Wearable Arts, to Pets in tartan and mid winter swims. The Rugby Men in Kilts will be playing once again and Classic Hits Breakfast Show will broadcast live from 6am on 1 July.  Full Tartan Week Programme for 2011 Read more

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