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Tech Skills for Seniors at Haumanu House Technology Changes Fast February 2019 WlN Tech skills for seniors at Haumanu House Technology changes fast. For many seniors, texting, emailing, No appointment is necessary but remember to bring your mobile, organising photos or filling out a website form isn’t always easy. Help laptop or tablet. Entry is between the clock tower and Carter Building is now available from Digital Seniors – the new digital learning hub, Supplies behind the police station. To find out more, call Lynn at 0800 $7,500 now open in Haumanu House. 373 646 or drop into Haumanu House on Tuesdays between 9.30 am Digital Seniors will be opening and 11.30 am. hubs throughout the Wairarapa area. It’s an initiative from the community and all assistance to seniors is free of Cash! charge. *Terms and conditions apply Community Manager, Lynn Bushell, said, “Our volunteer coaches work one-on-one to build skills and confidence at a pace directed by the senior. Improving well-being and List your property reducing isolation is a large part of what we aim to do by helping seniors with Team Carterton stay connected with family, friends and their community.” in February and you Rapid changes from paper-based to online forms have left many go in the draw seniors unprepared. “It saddens us to hear seniors speaking negatively to WIN! about their ability. These are highly intelligent people who just need time to absorb the digital formats that are Greg Ariell based on the manual systems they’ve used all their lives. By reducing the M 027 435 6327 fear of getting it all wrong, seniors E [email protected] can open new worlds, be entertained Digital Seniors’ Community Manager, Lynn Bushell (centre), works with Anne Firman (left) and Marjorie and learn new skills.” Finn (right) at Wharekaka Rest Home in Martinborough. Photo André Hattingh. Bill McLinden M 021 262 4519 E [email protected] Jillayne McGregor Family * Education * Fun! M 027 226 5155 “We educate while we care, and care while we educate” E [email protected] Two Wonderful Centres *Terms and Conditions All properties listed between 1 December 2018 and 28 February 2019 Littlies Preschool 90 day sole agency $1,300 minimum vendor advertising commitment 31 Augustus Street, 190 Belvedere Road, Carterton The prize draw will be conducted at 84 Chapel Street, Masterton and will be drawn at random. Phone: 06 379 7699 Phone: 06 379 7590 The prize will be drawn at 12 pm on Friday, 8th March 2019. Open: 745am–5.00 pm Open: 8.00am–5.00 pm Specialist Early Childhood Centre Specialist Early Childhood Centre for Children aged 0–3 years for Children aged 3–5 years pb.co.nz/cashgiveaway Property Brokers Licensed REAA 2008 100% Trained Registered Teachers * Excellent Ratios * Owned by two Carterton families Editorial Contact us Editorial: [email protected] Fear-free and tech savvy Deliveries: [email protected] 027 406 2694 Dear Agony Aunty Advertisements: [email protected] 027 625 7765 Do you have New Year’s resolutions? Bringing in the New Year is the Digital Seniors Programme. This Deadline for the March issue: Monday, February 25. Word-limit for Every year I write a list and never manage to stick to them. Last Yr les is a Wairarapa-wide initiative and an eagerly awaited addition stories 300, for letters 200. Delivered by Tuesday, March 12. year I tried having just one: “always return my Boomerang Bags to the Ned Kelly to Haumanu House. It is free and aims to make senior citizens as We’re online at www.cartertonnz.com/crier kindly hosted by CDBI supermarket within the week.” I now have enough at my back door I love the photograph of Ned Kelly at Middlerun. But I have news comfortable with technology as their grandchildren are. Or, if that’s a (Carterton District Business Initiative). to open a bag store. for you – a relation of Ned Kelly used to live in Carterton. He lived in bridge too far, at least able to relax around technology and use it to I’d love to be a more confi dent person who doesn’t seek validation Oz and came to NZ and changed his name. This came to light when I enter community life, rather than being squeezed out by it. from others. Do you think that’s an okay resolution? met up with his relations who live here and over the hill. The Wairarapa is the testing ground for a launch of Digital Seniors is to encourage a community-wide response to planning the future Good For Nothing Pinhey family? throughout the country. The community trust was the brainchild of of this town. Dear GFN I had a phone call from Greece, from a New Zealand woman from Cathy Harding, the CEO of Digital Seniors, who used her MA thesis And that’s not all! Read on! in Technological Futures to investigate digital literacy among people My New Year’s resolution is to give up drinking alcohol for a year. Carterton who is married to a Greek man and wants information Jan Farr on the Pinhey family. Can anyone help? They were in business in over 65 and came up with this free, volunteer-based, government- Oh, and to be more careful with my punctuation; that should have read Wairarapa. Some lived in Carterton but none are buried here. backed, collective, community model. “My New Year’s resolution is to give up. Drinking alcohol for a year!” Adele Pentony-Graham, Carterton. If, whatever age you are, you feel left out by the rush of technology, I do fi nd that resolutions work best when tailored to the person who’s make use of the programme. It’s local. It’s accessible. It’s free. And it making them. For tech geeks, their resolution should be 1920x1080 Carterton Brick & Pipe workers, 1947 can change your life. (See article this issue.) (which is better than last year’s 1024x768). For Pilates newbies, ‘Use my Please fi nd photo we talked of early December. I hope is is clear Gain Momentum membership on days that end in a y.’ And for most Thanks to Aratoi communicator, Madeleine Slavick, we continue CUSTOMER TAKE NOTE -CARTERTON PUBLISHINGenough18/01/17 to reprint. The photo was taken at the Carterton Brick and of us: ‘Don’t make love to supermodels.’ That one is seeming quite our usual focus on Masterton’s Aratoi Museum and Gallery. Aratoi is a SALES REP L.HARTNELL PUBLICATIONPipe’sWA ChristmasIRARAPAN break-up,EWS December 1947. achievable this year. Happy 2019! hive of amazing ideas that reflect the area’s multi-cultural and multi- ADVERTISING DESIGNER OUTSOURCER SECTIONBackROP row BILL l ONLYto r, Chuck Hausman, DonWaterson, Tom Brown AA (Manager), Jack Conolly, Peter Marks, Claude Smith, Roy Clapp, Jim talented community. Don’t miss Not the Muse - an exhibition of six PROOF PROOFED 17/01/2017 10:30:00 a.m. SIZE 9.1X9 Humphries. Front row: Mick Third, Gordon Sunkle, Jack Bland, Barry local women artists’ work. Please sendAD IDyourWE-7355373AA questions (100%) for Agony Aunty to: FAXHopkins, Les Hooper. Featherston’s Heritage Museum reminds us again of holes war has [email protected] PLEASE APPROVE THIS AD AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. NOTE THATANYChuckALTERATIONS Hausman, Putararu. left in the fabric of our communities. (Let us know if you knew any of these people. Ed.) Greytown Little Theatre is putting on an extraordinary play which MUSTAdvertising BE FINALISED rates for BY OURThe Carterton MATERIAL DEADLINE.Crier has a different actor each night, none of whom have pre-read the Contact Christine Miller, [email protected], script. Nightmare territory! 027 625 7765 (paid advertising only). And Carterton is again showing the way in community action. The Specs: agenda of the new, diverse government-supported Ka Pai Committee 1/8 page = 95mm wide x 65mm deep 1/4 page = 95mm wide x 135mm deep 1/2 page = 195mm wide x 135mm deep Full page = 195mm wide x 280mm deep Banner = 195mm wide x 75mm deep Pricing, black and white: Pricing, colour: 1/8 page = $46 + gst 1/8 page = $75 + gst 1/4 page = $80 + gst 1/4 page = $140 + gst 1/2 page = $140 + gst 1/2 page = $230 + gst Business supports hotel proposal Full page = $230 + gst Full page = $400 + gst Banner = $100 + gst Banner = $160 + gst The executive of the business group, Go Carterton, supports the Carterton District Council’s initiative to seek funding for a feasibility Deadline: last day of the month (No Crier in January) study of a substantial hotel development in Carterton. The shortage Circulation rural and urban Carterton: 3,835 of larger-scale, good-quality accommodation was recognised in the Wairarapa Economic Development Strategy and Action Plan as a factor limiting development of tourism in the region. Benefi ts: • It would increase foot traffi c to High Street businesses. A potential improvement in the profi tability of tenants would make the necessary investment in earthquake-strengthening easier to justify. • Accommodation adjacent to the Events Centre would help the marketing of the facility, improve Council’s fi nancial position, have Wherethere’ssomething spin-off s for tourism and possibly increase the value of Council property on the north side of Holloway Street. This would fl ow into for everyone higher property valuations and additional rating income. A hotel Diaries •Calendars •Cards •Books would likely reduce future rate increases to residential ratepayers. Activity books for young and old • The proposed development would increase employment Magazines •Stationery •Ink cartridges opportunities for Carterton residents at the hotel itself, at the Events Centre and in High Street businesses.
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