Talking up Our Town
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July 2020 Prize package Talking up our town Carterton recently launched a weekend get-away competition on positive feedback regarding visitor numbers, with some local social media to celebrate a new promotional video featuring more homestays being booked every weekend since lockdown eased. than 30 reasons to visit the district. “We’ve seen a real drive towards backyard tourism, which is fantastic,” The video was created as an entry to the Seven Sharp competition says Ash. “We’re aiming to ride that wave and encourage people to “Talk up Your Town”, as a way to promote the Carterton district and its check out what Carterton has to offer.” local businesses on the national stage. St Mary’s School in Carterton also put together a creative video The video was created by a team from the Carterton District entry, which was featured prominently on Seven Sharp. Council, Go Carterton, the Carterton Events Centre, and Ka Pai “We are really proud of the video St Mary’s entered and it’s great to Carterton. Once the competition have so many passionate people was announced, they had just in Carterton who want to show over a week to plan the video, off our district,” says deputy mayor and pull the footage together. Rebecca Vergunst. The team had so much support Prizes were donated by The for the video that local businesses Winedrinkers Cottage, Carterton donated more than 15 prizes to Events Centre, Clareville Nursery give away, including tickets to & Garden Centre, Balter Bar Laura Collins and the Back Porch & Kitchen, Lavender Abbey, Blues Band, accommodation, TLC Services, Strength Nation, dinner, drinks, and goodies from Wairarapa Sports Podiatry, 3Mile local hospitality businesses. Coworking Community, Naturally Ash Walker, co-chair of 4 U Skin & Health Products, Go Carterton, thanked the The Cutting Room, Take Note businesses for their amazing Carterton, Wairarapa Dream prize package and said that the Clean, Clareville Bakery and Carterton business community Johner Estate. has yet again reflected the One of the exhibits in the astrophotography exhibition at Aratoi The video and competition town’s core values of friendliness, Museum by six Wellington- and Wairarapa-based artists who can be found at www.cartertonnz. generosity, and pride. show the power and beauty of the Wairarapa night from their own com/explore. Entries close 12 noon Go Carterton has received perspectives. Credit: Glen Butler 16 July. Family * Education * Fun! “We educate while we care, and care while we educate” Two Wonderful Centres Littlies Preschool 31 Augustus Street, Carterton 190 Belvedere Road, Carterton Phone: 06 379 7699 Phone: 06 379 7590 Open: 7.45am–5.00pm Open: 8.00am–5.00pm Specialist Early Childhood Centre Specialist Early Childhood Centre for Children aged 0–3 years for Children aged 3–5 years 100% Trained Registered Teachers * Excellent Ratios * Owned by two Carterton families Editorial Sifting out the chaff Covid-19 has given many people a new look on life, in part due to the isolation of lockdown and the increased need for self-reliance. Contact us Most of us did what we were asked to do: we stayed safe, and in Editorial: [email protected] doing so we kept our friends and neighbours safe as well. In the end, Deliveries: [email protected] 027 406 2694 we got a pretty good result. Advertisements: [email protected] 027 625 7765 Throughout the lockdown, those who could help others often did Deadline August issue: 5pm Saturday 25 July. Story word-limit so, perhaps by buying their groceries or bolstering the foodbank. We strictly 300, letters 200. Delivered by Wednesday 12 August. learned to look out for our neighbours, especially those who lived We’re online at www.cartertonnz.com/crier alone. kindly hosted by CDBI (Carterton District Business Initiative). And throughout it all, our “essential workers” carried on despite Find us on Facebook: The Carterton Crier their own fears and their own family concerns. Many did not choose to be “essential”, but stepped out every day regardless. Disclaimer Our community volunteers also carried on whenever possible. Hey, we’re all volunteers working to put out a free community newspaper Our firefighters answered every call, and our police and ambulance for Carterton and district. If we have made a mistake, just let us know crews covered our backs. It was great to see them acknowledged in at [email protected] and we will endeavour to make amends. Thanks. Volunteer Week last month. They were so much in evidence after the fatal car crash in the town on 19 June, and they were ably assisted by staff from nearby business Support our advertisers premises. Carterton’s heart was on display. Carterton Littlies & Preschool Page 1 Keep that in mind when you read and hear comments in the news Safe Hands Plumbing Page 3 from politicians leading up to the General Election. Be ready to sift RP Construction Page 3 out the chaff. Quality Engineering Services Ltd Page 4 Those having no responsibility for the outcomes will call for all Completely Steaming Page 4 sorts of changes. Open the borders now, get rid of quarantining, get Codde Aluminium Page 5 Carterton District Council Page 6 on with the business of life. Carterton District Council Page 7 One week we are not doing enough, not quickly enough – a few Dirt Monkey Page 8 weeks later we have been too harsh and for too long. We’re doomed! House + Ground Architectural Landscape Design Page 8 We were too uncaring when imposing lockdown on grieving Wairarapa Electrical & Appliances Page 9 families. Then, we were too lax for allowing grieving families to unite Little Green Dunny Page 10 to bury their kin. South Wairarapa Workingmens’ Club Page 10 Page 42 Café & Gelato Page 12 The media is largely to blame, for it is they who accept these Take Note Page 13 strident calls without bothering to verify or filter them. Rick Spooner Building Contractor Page 14 Shock! Horror! Some international arrivals in quarantine turned The Hair Alchemist Page 14 out to have Covid-19. Who would have thought it? Carrington Bowling & Croquet Club Page 15 I hope we don’t forget the lessons we learned during lockdown. Formed by Hand Concrete Pottery Page 19 I hope we don’t lose the extra level of humanity that we exhibited. Stonehenge Page 20 Matador Motel Page 20 Most of all, I hope we don’t simply return to the inferior world we Carterton District Council Page 21 knew pre-Covid. Carterton District Council Page 22 Paul Dykes Jo Kelly & Co Page 24 Carterton Daffodil Festival Page 26 Correction John Stevenson Design & Illustration Page 27 Our traffic lights in Carrington Park are not the first in Wairarapa, a Ka Pai Soup Page 29 reader reports. Masterton already has a similar children’s roadway. Gain Momentum Health & Fitness Page 30 Richmond Funeral Home Page 31 Just Us Kids Preschool Page 32 Lifestyle Residential Property Management Page 32 Advertising rates for The Carterton Crier Contact Christine Miller, [email protected], 027 625 7765 (paid advertising only). Specs: 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 Full page = $230 + gst Full page = $400 + gst Banner = $100 + gst Banner = $160 + gst Deadline: last day of the month (No Crier in January) Circulation rural and urban Carterton: 3,835 Volunteer week Task force Unexpected gesture Whipping the says thanks CBD into shape A local baking group called Good Bitches Baking (GBB) took A lot has changed recently because of advantage of Volunteer Week last month to say thank you to our local Covid-19, but our community’s need for a vibrant firefighters and other emergency personnel. and revitalised central business district (CBD) is The women felt the crews had been put through a really difficult still strong. few months, and there was a big response from the Wairarapa GBB I have had overwhelming feedback from chapter. residents, with most saying they would like “There were so many people wanting to bake to show their the CBD to feel like the lounge of our district appreciation for the work that the emergency services do in the – a comfortable place to gather and meet, community, especially after Friday 19 June when the community lost to share a sense of community and feel the Reverend Jenny Henson in a terrible car crash in the main street,” connected to each other. a spokeswoman says. I get invigorated by the buzz of visiting GBB also delivered baked goodies to some of the local businesses Cuba St in Wellington and I would like to whose staff responded to the crash, as well as to the police station. re-create that same feeling here, but with Bryan Styles, Carterton Chief Fire Officer, said his men were our unique blend of rural and urban which humbled by the gesture as they are simply there to serve the makes Wairarapa so special. community. Pat Atkins of the Carterton Police said how much they We need to see our aspirations turned into enjoyed the treats and what an unexpected, but welcome, gesture reality. Our CBD could be a thriving hub that it was. tells our stories, expresses who we are, where we have come from and what we aspire to be. Our co-working spaces, real food stories, education, arts, culture, heritage, and central Wairarapa living are some of the influences to be embraced.