by Cimino | 29 May 2021 | Paths and trails, Regional parks
Te Muri Crossing high-tea silent auction online Click to calendarise Te Muri Crossing coffee-and-croissants drop-in day Te Muri Crossing high-tea silent auction Physically at Tu Ngutu Villa on Sunday 30 May 2021, 2 pm–3.45 pm Online bidding, while ostensibly closed,...
by Cimino | 28 May 2021 | Regional parks
Grand start to greater Mahurangi coastal path Even Conservative-led England has its England Coast Path. A coastal pathway from Waiwera to Waipū, Whangārei or anywhere, once built, will seem the most obvious, and most marvellously magnificent thing in the world....
by Cimino | 23 May 2021 | Te Muri Crossing
High tea and then high time for community crossing engagement Transparency, in a democracy, should be the default behaviour that is only departed from rarely, rather than routinely. Thus, it is a relief to report that, come next Sunday’s high tea at Tu Ngutu Villa,...
by Cimino | 9 May 2021 | Paths and trails, Regional parks, Sea-level rise, Te Muri Crossing, Transport and climate action
Imperative for private-vehicle-free Te Muri future Not everyone supports the proposed Te Muri Crossing. Nor does everyone who supports the proposed Te Muri Crossing, support every aspect of it. For example, many Mahurangi West people would have preferred that...
by Ronald H Locker | 5 May 2021 | Part 6 Settlers and Services
Jade River: A History of the Mahurangi Ronald H Locker First published 2001. Published online 2014–. This online edition is a work in progress… Contents Click to blitz wicked Mahurangi West weeds immediately Part 6 Settlers and services Pages 257–260in printed edition...
by Cimino | 1 May 2021 | Climate mobilisation, Te Muri Crossing
Wicked climate action starts with Wenderholm Regional Park Wenderholm is a wicked place to tackle the wicked problem of anthropogenic global warming. Wickedly symbolic, to begin with—Wenderholm was the first of Auckland’s wonderful 41 000-hectare network of now...
by Cimino | 27 Apr 2021 | Action plan, Regatta 2022
Talking Heads community vhf land mobile radio In an ideal world, or even a fractionally less perverse one, the free-regatta-shuttlebus drivers would need to do little more than download an app. Cellular coverage at Scotts Landing would be so comprehensive that the...
by Cimino | 23 Apr 2021 | Action plan, Open-ground
Weed control’s loss wicked sediment mitigation gain “The good roads in the north, are in the south. Thomas Richard Roydhouse, fourth owner–editor of the Rodney Timesthen fully titled, Rodney and Otamatea (Ōtamatea) Times, but referred to colloquially, even by its...
by Ronald H Locker | 15 Apr 2021 | Part 10 Personal Account of the Mahurangi
Jade River: A History of the Mahurangi Ronald H Locker First published 2001. Published online 2014–. This online edition is a work in progress… Contents Calendarise Saturday 17 April Mahurangi land restoration launch Part 10 Personal account of the Mahurangi...
