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Roll on the regional parks rolling 50th celebrations
Auckland Council is planning to push the regional parks 50th boat out. But rather than one grand event, or weekend, the celebrations will likely take the form of a season of events, rather like the way Warkworth’s 150th anniversary was celebrated. For…
Wenderholm celebratory sunrise breakfast
There were very good reasons for celebrating in 2016. Thirty-first of March is the 50th anniversary of the purchase of Wenderholm Regional Park, meaning that the main celebratory event could justifiably been held on Tuesday. But while…
Trail trustees sign on and board votes to support
This week sees concrete step number three, with step four imminent. Concrete step one towards the Mahurangi Coastal Trail was last November, when Christine Fletcher’s parks, recreation and sport committee voted for work to proceed on the…
Second concrete step as coastal trail wins Friends
Friends of Regional Parks is strictly a high-level, umbrella group. It was formed to ensure that the Auckland Regional Parks network survived and flourished under the new unified governance arrangements for the region. So for Friends of Regional Parks to make a local…
Next step on coastal trail is trust and working group
Trust is the essential element in any successful collaboration. And it is never more so when that collaboration involves various community groups, elected council representatives, and council staff. Trust was clearly a key factor in Mahurangi Coastal Trail…
Mainstream ignores novel climate-action mobilisation
Story-telling goes back at least as far as the 200 000-year-old species itself. Yet humanity’s biggest story ever, how Homo sapiens sapiens learned how to exploit fossil fuels, and thus placed itself on the one guaranteed path to extinction, is neither a major…
2016 regatta will be well worth extra week’s wait
It will be well worth the extra week’s wait. Well, only six days, actually, as Auckland Anniversary Day is celebrated on the last Monday in January, even if that falls on 1 February—the logic of this rule for setting the date of an upcoming Mahurangi Regatta, possibly...
Mahurangi Regatta 2015 results
Results of the 2015 Mahurangi Regatta, to hand: A-Class Trophy Line honours Prize 1st Prize 2nd Rainbow 3rd Tawera 4th Waitangi 5th Iorangi 6th Frances 7th Thelma 8th Achernar Frostbites 1st Kiteroa 2nd Green hull 3rd Rapscalion 4th Tawhiri 5th Amber 6th Incognito 7th...