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SPACE Hits Blueskin Bay Area Doctors Point, Waitati, Evansdale, Warrington, Seacliff 1 June 2009 SPACE hits Blueskin Bay area by Christine Rainbow SPACE (supporting parents alongside children’s education) arrives in Blueskin Bay on Monday June 8 at 10.30-1pm, Warrington Playcentre. SPACE is a programme for mainly first-time parents and babies. The weekly sessions are held in a relaxed and baby friendly environment and include: • opportunities for parents to meet and get to know one another • play sessions with age-appropriate equipment that supports infants learning and development • discussions and information on Looking for a space to call home? Warrington relevant child development and Playcentre is hosting the SPACE program. parenting topics a chat to see if SPACE is for you and have • an introduction to rhymes, music and a child aged under 10 months or will soon books for infants have a child, ring or txt Christine on 021 If you would like to come for a coffee and 237 1158 or 482 2005. From Bland vision to grand design by the editors The Blueskin Youth Centre Association hard, smooth playing surface. resolved on Monday 25 May to develop The Association will hold a meeting, a replacement at Bland Park in Waitati open to the public, on 22 June at Waitati for the old Youth Hall, a former church, Hall, to advance its proposal. Full details damaged by fire several years ago. It is will be published in next month’s ‘Blueskin proposed that the replacement will be News’. a covered, all-weather structure with a 1 June 2009 Blueskin News 1 Smith Crane & Construction building movers needed the help of a Fulton Hogan grader to remove this Habode pre-fabricated house from the Blueskin Hotel forecourt at Evansdale, where it had been on display as a show home. The house was being taken to Christchurch on Tuesday, 26 May. Photo by Peter Dowden. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Local contact: Elspeth 482 2022 www.amnesty.org.nz BLUESKIN NEWS Published not-for-profit by volunteers of Blueskin Media on the 1st of each month, February to December, 600 copies distributed around Seacliff, Warrington, Evansdale, Waitati and Doctors’ Point. Additional copies available at Blueskin General Store, Blueskin Bay Community Library and Warrington Post Office Boxes. We publish anything about this area, or anything written by someone from this area; and all ranges of opinion which are expressed in a respectful way. All unattributed opinion shall be attributed to Blueskin Media. All material sent to and/or published by us is “copyleft” and may be freely copied, re-edited and re-published. Content is pooled with the blueskin.co.nz website and other local media. Content offered for publication under the above principles is welcome; please email by the 22nd of each month to [email protected]. Electronic copy should be formatted as simply as possible with two returns between each paragraph or item in a list, and after each heading. Produced and distributed this month with the help of: Craig Marshall, Louise Booth, Lynnaire Johnston, Peter Dowden, Polly Higham, Samantha Charlton, Kelvin & Bev Lyon Milk Vendors, Blueskin General Store, Gallery on Blueskin, the Contributors and Advertisers. Printed by North East Otago Computing, Hampden. 2 Blueskin News 1 June 2009 “True wealth is the already-accumulated organisation of human capabilities to clothe, shelter, feed, protect, inform and accommodate the initiatives of human life. “The magnitude of true wealth consists of the number of forward days of the number of human beings already provided for.” — Jaime Snyder Blueskin Bay Cafe Blueskin News advertising next to Blueskin Nurseries Consider advertising locally. Contact us to book Open 7 days from 8.30am to advertising in 2009. Our rates are: • business card (up to 1/8 of A5 page) $15 4.00pm • up to quarter A5 page: $25 Full menu available all day, plus • up to half A5 page: $35 counter food, coffee and a • up to full A5 page: $60 large range of teas. • Double A5 page spread: $100 All food is freshly prepared Discount or waiver of the above fees may be on the premises. available for non-commercial community events. Private functions and All classified ads are free. out-catering on request: Deadline: 22nd of the month, January to phone 482 2633 November everything printed here appears on our website as it arrives, in full colour, with clickable links and in searchable form 1 June 2009 Blueskin News 3 OPINION Please bring back Mimi by Lynnaire Johnston Resident Blueskin Bay Library and Waitati Hall cat, Mimi, has been banned from both premises. This seems grossly unfair not just to Mimi, but to all library patrons and hall users. She has been a fixture at the hall and library for some time and as far as I am aware there has been not a single complaint about her. Mimi, like many other residents, human and animal alike, contributes to the area’s unique and well-known character. A library cat is not a new or unique phenomenon. Indeed, Dunedin Public Libraries has the book ‘Dewey: the small-town library cat who touched the world’ in its collection. This book makes clear the benefits a feline librarian can offer to those who crave companionship, to children who may not have animals at home, and to staff who enjoy the responsibility of caring for him. And, I should point out, do so at no cost to ratepayers. (The ban on Mimi was not initiated by the Libraries, it should be noted. Yes, some people are allergic to cats. To a degree, many of us, including myself, are. But a few sneezes here and there shouldn’t stop us enjoying their company, their unconditional affection, and their sheer joy in life. Please bring back Mimi. Oh noes! Libry Cat is not in ur libry akshully 4 Blueskin News 1 June 2009 OPINION The full decision is available at http://tinyurl. Fluoride com/pwqluu by Olive McRae Powdered infant formula available in New Zealand contains negligible amounts of fluoride. Dear Blueskin Bay residents, The major source of fluoride in infant formula is Fluoride Action Network Dunedin would like to from the water used to reconstitute the powdered advise parents that it is now no longer safe to mix formula (provided it is fluoridated water). There is infants formula with tap water in your area. no evidence that the fluoride derived from water This is due to medication of the new used to reconstitute the formula has any harmful water supply with silico-fluoride a dangerous effects in areas where the fluoride concentration neurotoxin. is no more than 1.0 mg/L (Food and Nutrition Babies are at extreme risk of fluoride poisoning Guidelines for Healthy Infants and Toddlers (Aged when they are exposed to fluoridated tap water. 0-2): A background paper. Wellington: Ministry Please contact Fluoride Action Network (www. of Health. 2008). fannz.org.nz) for further inquires, or phone 027 667 7857. OPINION Reply Possum tossing not “Family fun” by John Holmes, Medical Officer of Health, Otago/Southland by Lorraine Weston-Webb People on the Waitati, Warrington water supply, The Blueskin A&P Family Fun Day “International who have previously used fluoride tablets as Possum Tossing Championship” contravenes ‘The supplements, are advised that this is no longer Universal Declaration of Animal Rights’. Article 3.3 necessary. The community water supply contains of the Declaration reads: “A dead animal must be fluoride at the optimal level (0.7–1.0 mg/L) as does treated with decency”. the water in urban Dunedin. The Declaration preamble reads: “respect of The Public Information provided by Fluoride animals by humans is inseparable from the respect Action Network Dunedin “that it is now no longer of men for each other” safe to mix infants formula with tap water in Permitting possum tossing as community your area. This is due to medication of the new entertainment is unjustifiable and shameful. It water supply with Silico-fluoride, a dangerous teaches our children unrestrained disrespect neurotoxin. Babies are at extreme risk of fluoride for animals, and by extension, it also glorifies poisoning when they are exposed to fluoridated killing. tap water” is misleading and untrue. I hope Blueskin Bay A&P Society will In 2008 the Advertising Standards Authority discontinue this event. decided that a flyer advertisement including [Lorraine has lived in Waitati on-and-off for similar claims, circulated by the Fluoride Action 7 years, currently lives in Oamaru for work and Network NZ in the Waitati district, breached regularly visits family in Waitati.] the Advertising Code of Ethics. The Complaints Board said that claims in the advertisement linking fluoride with cancer, clearly played on fear. In the Complaints Boards view, the same applied to the stated association of fluoridated water with infant milk formula. The Complaints Board said the Advertiser was entitled to express a view, but to do so in the manner before it played on fear, and as such rendered the advertisement in breach of Rule 6 of the Code of Ethics: “Advertisements should not exploit the superstitious, nor without justifiable reason, play on fear.” 1 June 2009 Blueskin News 5 WAITATI EDIBLE GARDENERS by Lynnaire Johnston The community garden project, co-ordinated by families and groups wishing to set up gardens Derek Onley has been a huge success. 250kg of there. To this end, anyone wishing to take potatoes were harvested in May, a great harvest for advantage of this free space should register their the garden’s first year of production. (Previously, interest by contacting me (Lynnaire Johnston: 482 it had been a corner of Frank and Lynley’s horse 1364 or [email protected]).
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