Maungaturoto Matters Issue 100 March 2010 Part 2

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INVITES YOUINVITES YOU

TO ATTENDEVERY TUESDAY

10AM

AT THECONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

MAUNGATUROTO

0-5 YRS MUSIC & MOVEMENTFOLLOWED BY MORNING TEA

CONTACT ELAINE 431-8317

Or RUTH 431-8491

supported by

Maungaturoto Congregational Church($2 donation per family please)


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Taste localMangawhai food &Wine Festival

Food and wine lovers should mark

Saturday March 13 in their diaries andhead for The Olive Grove, Insley St,Mangawhai, for the fifth annual foodand wine festival.

The Festival is held in conjunction withthe popular Mangawhai WalkingWeekend, now in its 11th year, andfeatures award winning wines fromseveral local vineyards, includingLochiel Estate and Millars, as well asMatakanas Omaha Bay.

Foodies can savor the flavours of themany local food producers attendingthe Festival.

Entertainment throughout the after-noon is provided by New ZealandsEntertainer of the Year Ray Woolf andthe Mike Walker Trio, along with theMary Madden Dancers and talentedStilt walker Sandra Jensen.Gates open at 3.00p.m.Tickets cost $20 (inclusive of wineglass) with proceeds going to the

Mangawhai Museum Building Fund.For information on ticket purchasevisit:

www.mangawhaiwalkingweekend.co.nz, or phone Jean Goldschmidt,on 09 431 5096.

There will be limited gate sales.

LINE DANCING

A group of enthusiastic line dancersdecided to go and kick up their heelsin Wellington at the Gordon ElliotWeekend workshops.

We took off in the van on Thursdayand after many coffee and sightseeing stops, arrived in Taupo in timefor dinner.

Arrived in Lower Hutt on Friday after-noon, and did a quick change, then offto the Friday night social where wemet up with old friends, danced all

night and had a brilliant time.

Saturday was a full on workshop.Gordon Elliot, who is from Australia,taught us some easy, and some notso easy dances. This was followed bydinner and another social where wedanced our socks off.

Line dancing is fun and great for fit-ness. We have our line dancing ses-sions on Thursdays 9 a.m. for begin-ners, Intermediate 10 a.m. at thePaparoa Hall.

We would like to see you there. Every-one is welcome.

Contact Rose on 09 431 7418

THE SAD DEMISE OF LORD

BRIGGS & STRATTON

Lawnmowers you either hate em oryou love em. Out there across theglobe that familiar drone of the lawn-mower will be resonating in the stillSunday morning air, while theneighbours in suburbia try to get theirsleep in. People are proud of theirlawns. They can spend thousandsgetting the looks and the height justright.

But always - there is that task awaitingthe lawn lover. The dreaded mowingritual.

Once, a very long time ago I had alawn mower. It was the kind of lawn-mower one had inherited from twogenerations back from dear oldGrandpa. My ex-husband had takenthe good one so here I was left withan ancient Briggs & Stratton 4 strokemower with a rusting body, wobblywheels and it smoked badly. For eightrestful months I had no need to getout there and perform that dreadedritual. I was staying at my mothersthen while my new home on the farmhere was being built and the hard asnails kikuyu grass got higher andhigher then over my head.

Having some brains (so I thought) Ihad my neighbours bring their cattle into lay waste to that 6 foot plus highgrass and knock it over so I could ac-

tually see where I was walking withoutvanishing every few steps down ahole or several. Winter came and thecows headed back home leaving be-hind the mash of kikuyu grass and the

mud with it.

But of course, with the departurecame that day in Spring when I had todo that dreaded task..mowing my*lawn*. Yes some lawn it was....

It wasn't too bad the first part. I got

out the old lawnmower cleared out thesparkplug, put in the new petrol andoil, after a 100 or so yanks the oldmower fired up. Off I went with themower rattling and banging over heckknows what, but at the end of thehour, I had a nicely mowed square ofwhat I thought might be the start of mynew front lawn - but then, there wasthe back of the house to do...

I had lunch, shoved back on my gum-boots (which weren't leaking at the

time) and dragged the old mower withits crooked wheels and rusting excusefor a body around the back, and firedit up again. With grim set determina-tion, an evil gleam in my eye and avery bad attitude towards the risingweeds, off me and the now chokingweezing..smoking mower went. I hadforgotten all about the foot deep cattleruts and the huge hunks of lime rockhidden in the jungle like tangle ofweeds and kikuyu grass didn't I...onehuge crunching sound after the other

with me vanishing down a hole everyso often as me and that ancientmower murdered thegreenery..then...there was an explo-sion...With black smoke pouring outand strange coughing choking soundsthe old mower cranked out its lastshudder and died. Yes I had murderedLord Briggs & Stratton for the very lasttime. See what happens when you getrid of the cows? So now I just usedfour legged lawnmowers and herbi-cide. One day perhaps I might just

might get a new mower and murderthat too...maybe.

- Mad Bush Farm

A THOUGHT

A thought which does not result in an action is

nothing much, and an action which does not pro-

ceed from a thought is nothing at all

- Anon.


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Playcentre news

Hi everyone, Kia Ora

We are now back at Playcentre afterthe long summer break. The weatherhas been great, although of course

now we all need a bit of rain for thewater tank/garden/farm as things aregetting pretty dry.

A few of our members had birthdaysin January. Marama turned 3, and 3other girls (Milly, Piper and Aviendha)turned 4. Birthday cakes all round!

Weve had some improvements toPlaycentre since last year. Firstly,weve got a great new shade sail thatruns right across our sandpit and

decked area, and provides some addi-tional shade on the concrete area formore places to play in the shade. Its acheery yellow and makes a big differ-ence to our outdoor play areas, provid-ing protection from the harsh sunshine.

New bark was laid around the swingand slide areas, also around the playhouse. However, there was quite a bigpile left over so it was decided that aworking bee should be held to get thismoved, as well as to do some other

jobs like weeding, pruning and buildinga retaining wall. We had a good turn-out, with several hardworking hus-bands putting in some hard graft in thehot sun. Thanks guys. Afterwardssome took the opportunity to cool off inthe school pool.

Term 1 is now in full swing. Weve hada bug hunt and bring a creature day(mainly frogs and spiders). At one ses-sion recently the children had great funjumping and sliding down the Zoom

slide.

We had a great turnout for the beachtrip to Waipu Cove. A shared morningtea was enjoyed by all. There was a lotof activity during the day - digging inthe sand, paddling in the water, beachcombing, jumping the surf, swinging onthe swing and exploring the cove.

Some of us rounded off a nice day outwith a Hokey Pokey ice cream on theway home!

There are plenty more fun activitiesplanned for the rest of this term. Werun 4 sessions a week on Mondays,Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridaysfrom 9.30 to midday. If you think yourchild might benefit from attending Play-centre, come along and visit us, or call431 8517, but due to our popularity,spaces are limited so be in quick!

HOMEBUILDERSMAUNGATUROTO/PAPAROA

My, how quickly the time to write thisarticle seems to come around eachmonth. I am very grateful to all whowork for the Matters for making a placefor us to give you a short update of ourgoings on.

We started a Parenting Course on

Thursday February 25

th

; this is free toall Parents and runs for 6 weeks.There is still one or two places so ifyou are interested you could ring 4319080 or just arrive at 7pm on Thursdayevening at the Community House.Supper will be provided.

On Tuesday 27thApril we are holdinga seminar for Brain Waves Trust at theCentennial Hall from 9.30am to12.30pm. This is a must for anyonewho works with littlies, and is very

helpful for Parents and Grandparents.

We are pleased to welcome Jane toour team this month. Jane has qualifi-cations in Counselling and Social Workand is joining us as a Family SupportWorker. It is also my pleasure towelcome Anna as a new volunteer.The ladies who volunteer to work atHomebuilders are such a blessing to

us as they pick up all sorts of jobsaround the house and take care of ourvisitors and sometimes of us. We arereally blessed to have them andgreatly appreciate their contribution.

I would like to thank all those in thiscommunity who make contributions tothe Community House for us to passon to those who need some sort ofassistance. This week we received aSavings Tin from the Four Squareshop, this tin had been on their counter

for some time and we will make verygood use of your kind donations. Ourthanks especially to the folk at FourSquare and to all who have contrib-uted.

We have over recent months estab-lished a Video Library for our Seniorsand we would like to ask if you mightlike to donate any videos you nolonger use. With winter coming itwould be great to freshen up our smalllibrary.

I am keen to establish a Big BrotherBig Sister Mentors group and would belooking for anyone in the Communitywho might be interested in joining mein this. To mentor a young person is tomake a huge contribution to our com-munity and does not take a great dealof time. This is just in an embryonicstage at the moment so if you wouldhave any interest at all could youplease give me a call on 431 9080, I

would love to hear from you.


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