Maungaturoto Matters November 2010 Part 4

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Get off the Couch! I’ve always been a “smell the roses” kind of person. I like to

gather the big picture in order to understand my environment. I

try to be aware of my surroundings and all the peripheral stuff

going on in it. It’s a temperament thing.

When I was a young fella’, a friend (who was just like me) was

having coffee with me in a big city restaurant and in walked the

most gorgeous girl I had ever seen. Stunning! I tried to focus

back on the conversation and keep my eyes on my friend but all

my instincts were screaming at me to watch the scenery. My

friend’s eyes never moved from mine and I was forced to admire

his restraint. Then in mid sentence he inserted a wry comment:

“By the way, I have amazing peripheral vision..” I nearly choked

on my coffee, but I never forgot the moment.

We have some stuff to see around us here in this neck of the

Kaipara and it’s not just peripheral, it’s stuff you look right at

regularly.

What disturbs me is the disinterest reflected to me by some of

my local friends. “Have you walked in the Kauri Bushman’s Me-

morial Park I have asked;” mostly the answer is “no”. Like a car

I watched that pulled in there during the perfect weather of Labor

weekend, they powered down the window and looked up through

the gate, (you can’t see the wood for the trees, literally,) “naaa,

doesn’t look like much” they probably said and drove off. In a

kind of funny way I was relieved; such philistines don’t deserve

to experience the almost cathedral like stillness and beauty in

there. So stay at home! On your couch! There you go.. now turn

on the Telly and watch a documentary about walking in some

awesome forest.

Have you walked the new trail at Paparoa yet? “yeah, I’m gonna

do that one day..” What about Batley? “nothin’ much to see there

eh?” Have you driven up through Ararua to Waiotira? “Naa, too

far..” What about Tinopai?, By the way where do you find a hill

called Pukearenga? I could go on.

Are we blinded by self interest when we cannot see beyond the

everyday to the rich scenery and history that fills this region?

Maybe it’s just general apathy about life that keeps a lot of peo-

ple on the couch.

In these lean mean recession days, we need to learn to walk a lot

and notice the stuff we used to race past in our cars. To do that

we have to get up off the couch!

David Patterson

Baldrock Mountain, Piroa Falls (not shown),

Kauri Bushmans Park: the best spot I know of to take

portraits - Images David Patterson







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OTAMATEA HIGH SCHOOL CALF AND LAMB DAY The 6th Annual OHS calf and lamb day was held on Friday Oc-

tober the 22nd.

The weather was good and the numbers of entrants were the

highest yet, in all 23 students with 26 animals took part, which

were supported by a huge turn out of family and friends. The

judges Neil Donaldson, Neil Sidwell and Des Smeath had their

work cut out for them as a high standard of calves and lambs

were on show.

Although the competition was tight, the attitude of all the par-

ticipants was excellent and so was the quality of all the effort

they had put in.

This year we were lucky to have two new trophies in the calf

section, a leading trophy and a junior champion trophy kindly

donated by Bryce Ball.

New trophies are always welcome and we seem to be a bit light

on trophies for the lamb section, if anyone would like to donate

a trophy please give me a call.

Thanks to our sponsors, Elders, The National Bank, RD1 Maun-

gaturoto, Agrisea, Paparoa Lions and a special mention to our

special quest the Prime Minister John Key.

Ribbon and trophy results: LAMBS – junior

Erin Mooney 1st leading, 1st rearing, 4th calling

Cheyanne Ball 2nd leading, 3rd rearing, 2nd = calling

Opal little 4th = leading, 3rd = rearing, 1st calling

Junior Champion

Taylor Dobson 3rd leading, 2nd rearing, 3rd calling

Erin Mooney

Dylan Hawken 4th= leading, 4th rearing, 2= calling

LAMBS-senior

Briahna Dawson 2nd leading, 1st rearing, 3rd calling

Brittany Brown 1st leading, 2nd rearing, 1st calling

Senior Champion

Liam Hawken 3rd leading, 3rd rearing, 2nd calling

Brittany Brown

CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS: Brittany Brown

CALVES- Junior

Abby Parker 5th leading, 3rd rearing, 1st dairy heavy

Kodi Foster 4th leading, 2nd dairy heavy

Inaya Clark 2nd leading, 2nd dairy light

Renee Forbes 3rd dairy light

Cheyeanne Hill 6th leading, 3rd dairy heavy

Junior Champion

Courtney Mottram 5th rearing, 1st dairy light

Cheyanne Ball

Cheyanne Ball 1st leading, 1st rearing, 1st kiwi cross

Rita Hames 6th leading, 4th rearing, 5th dairy heavy

Connor Small 4th leading, 6th dairy heavy

Rachael Roberts 3rd leading, 2nd rearing, 1st beef

Dylan Hawken 4th dairy heavy

CALVES- Senior

Bayley Coates 2nd leading, 1st rearing, 1st dairy heavy

Jessie Beeler 6= leading, 2nd rearing, 4th dairy heavy

Senior Champion

Emillee Ball 4th leading, 5th rearing, 3rd = dairy heavy

Bayley Coates

Liam Hawken 3rd leading, 3rd rearing, 2nd dairy heavy

Scott Donaldson 1st leading, 6th rearing, 3rd= dairy heavy

Darius Ogilvy 5th leading, 4th rearing, 1st beef

Monique Kriek 6th= leading, 6th= rearing, 2nd beef

CHAMPION BEEF- Rachael Roberts

CHAMPION DAIRY- Cheyanne Ball

LEADING CHAMPION- Cheyanne Ball

CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS

Cheyanne Ball

Look forward to seeing you all again next year

Terri Donaldson

Otamatea Calf and Lamb Day organiser

4318 599

6 November, 20 November, 4 December





NORTHLAND CIVIL DEFENCE

EMERGENCY GROUP

Northland Civil Defence Emergency Management Group is

encouraging Northland communities to have an emergency

response plan in place. A number of communities already have

developed a plan. The plan doesn’t need to be a major effort,

just a list of essential details, for example, a central place of

refuge in case of evacuation from your home, a list of people

and services that are available for assistance and who is re-

sponsible for helping out.

Our coastal communities are at risk from storm surge and tsu-

nami. As we have seen over the last few years, these events are

no longer rare. Sirens are being put into areas at risk to enable

Civil Defence to give advance warning of danger.

The Mangawhai community has a tsunami warning siren in

place and is looking at installing more. A public meeting is

being held on 9 December at the Mangawhai Club to finalise

their community emergency response plan.

Storm damage and fires are also capable of endangering com-

munities and we all need to have an emergency bag of essen-

tial documents and an emergency kit – just in case!

If you would like more information of emergency plans in

your area or would like to join the planning of an emergency

community plan, contact Kaipara District Council on 0800 72

7059 and talk to the Emergency Support Officer.

James Goodland - Emergency Support

Kaipara District Council

0800 72 7059

Kaipara District Council celebrates its

talented artists with the Kaipara Art

Awards

A first for Kaipara, the Art Awards are the culmination of a

number of displays held in Kaipara District Council’s Darga-

ville and Kaiwaka offices during the year. These exhibitions

were put together to showcase the work of artists throughout

the District, and to make art more readily available to the pub-

lic through the use of Council’s public space.

The final 2010 exhibition is now on in the Dargaville Council

Chambers foyer, off Station Road until Monday 15 November.

Members of the public are invited to view the works during

normal business hours, and to vote for the entry they like best.

This exhibition will conclude with an Art Awards evening on

Thursday 11 November from 5.00 pm to 7.00 pm in the Coun-

cil Chambers where, thanks to generous sponsorship, the

prizes will be awarded for first, second and third place. There

will also be a “people’s choice” prize.

This competition is a first for Kaipara and the hope is to build

on this for next year and make it part of Kaipara’s Art Calen-

dar.

Councillor Julia Sutherland is impressed by the quality of the

works submitted for this inaugural event, which range from

paintings to weaving, sculpture and jewellery. “While some

entries may not be very closely allied to the theme

“Celebrating Kaipara’s Abundance”, all demonstrate the crea-

tivity of talented individuals in Kaipara’s communities and

we’re delighted at the interest and support shown,” she said.




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