The region’s favourite community rag since 1990 February 2010 Happy Birthday Dear Old Rag! It seems fitting in a way to open the first put it together in the old fashioned cut edition of the Rag for 2010 with a birthday and paste way. “I printed out what I notice, as some locals may remember the wanted, pasted it onto the page and put Rag used to be full of residents’ birthdays on stickers to jazz it up a little.” About and anniversaries. 300 copies were produced in this way We caught up with the original every month and distributed throughout publisher of the Rag, Sue Sheat, online Hampden and for 17 years, until and asked her a few questions about the the end of 2006 when Sue moved to live early years (full interview with her on in and the Rag production was our website). When asked first how she taken over by Graeme Youngman of NEO feels about something she began turning Computing. 20, she replied, “that means I am 20 years The current Rag production team is older.” unsure whether it will be able to keep The reason Sue decided to start a going for that long, but certainly shares newsletter was to remind the locals the reason that kept her going. “Each of meetings and other events in the month someone would come up and say village, after she kept hearing people that they enjoyed it so that was great. I had missed them saying “I forgot.” loved the community and continued to be She knew a newsletter told that people looked forward to getting would work because it. As long as people it did in Lumsden in were submitting to Southland where she the Rag I was happy came from. compiling it. I am just The Rag in those pleased that obviously days was not like the community still it is today. It was wants to keep up with compiled by Sue what is happening and photocopied and that businesses at Moeraki Motor see the value in using Camp. It was one side it as an advertising of an A4 sheet. Sue tool.” collected submissions from the locals, and Happy birthday Rag. February 2010 Hamraki Rag 1 U-Choose Not (A Bus Story #1) In the November issue of the Hamraki Christchurch to book. There is no 0800 Rag, we published a bus timetable for number. Another resident tried to cancel travel in and out of Hampden. In an a booking made with the pass but was accompanying piece, we discussed the told on ringing the Christchurch number bulk purchase passes. that no cancellation was possible if you A couple of Hampden residents had booked using the pass. decided to have a go and purchased the If you market an online product, you U Choose passes offered by the Atomic have to have a manageable website and Shuttle bus company. reliable online set up. You just cannot The Atomic Shuttle’s website says: keep using “computer failure” as an “With the U-Choose Pass short hops excuse, if you expect customers to book are more accessible and affordable, online. Making it easier to go places you had never To the company’s credit, when thought of when you planned your trip.” challenged about their failure to mention Sounds ideal, doesn’t it, for people the one hour minimum charge, they wanting to make the short trip to Oamaru offered to refund the cost of the travel and back? But beware. What the website (which has not been done at the time of fails to mention is that the minimum printing). However, until Atomic Shuttle charge is one hour ($9). So, a trip from states clearly on its website what it Hampden to Oamaru, even though charges its customers, people will it takes only half an hour, costs the continue to sign up without being aware equivalent of an hour. What a rip-off! of the pitfalls of using the pass. Shouldn’t the company be obliged to The Hamraki Rag transport team state that? regrets that it might have misled the One resident also found that the readers that a return trip to Oamaru could website would not allow the booking to be cost as little as $9 using the Atomic’s made with the U-Choose pass and that U-Choose pass. We would like to hear the return bus was not even listed. This from readers about their experience of meant they had to make a phone call to using buses. hamraki rag The Hamraki Rag is a community paper published on the first Wednesday of every month by the Hamraki Media for the area between to Herbert including Hampden and Moeraki, Te Waka o Aoraki of New Zealand. 415 copies are home delivered in the area while extra copies are available from the library, Hampden Motors, Hilltop store, Toby’s Fresh Fish in Hampden, Moeraki Tavern, Herbert Service Station, and Oamaru public library. The Rag welcomes submissions. Write to us at 70 Norwich St, Hampden, 9410. Electronic copy can be forwarded to [email protected]. We reserve the right to edit the submission for clarity and for style. Please keep the format of your submission as plain as possible. The cut off date is the 20th of each month. All the pictures are taken by our staff photographer, Bent Jansen, unless otherwise stated.

Hamraki Rag is published and printed by NEO Computing, Hampden.

2 Hamraki Rag February 2010 Old Cribbing Tradition Lives On by Shirley Lyness Are we able to contest the title of the oldest In the Depression of the 1930s family of crib owners in Hampden? Granny painted old biscuit tins Do many others have family for food storage, knotted rag regularly holidaying here rugs for the floors and since the early 1930s? embroidered sacking to The crib was first bought cover wooden crates by our grandfather, to serve as cupboards. Dr Owen-Johnston All are still used as are in 1935. Granny and the flour sack pillow Grandfather had cases. stayed here as guests Our grandfather of the MacRitchies left the cottage to his several times before daughter, our mother, this, fell in love with it and Shirley Lyness, who brought when the sisters decided to sell, her children for three months made a quick offer. A big draw card for during the summer of each year to Grandfather was no telephone! For a busy attend the Hampden school until 1955, doctor this was bliss. As the Invercargill under the tyrannical reign of ‘strapping’ honorary vet and a racehorse owner, New Smithy and the warmth and caring of Year’s Day racing at Waikouaiti drew Dora Malthus. Shirley modernised the him too. cottage a little, adding a bathroom and The crib came fully furnished, and still inside toilet where the MacRitchies’ horse today most of the old Victorian cutlery, and cart used to pull in, and leaving the china, brass bedsteads and furniture outhouse to be hidden by a climbing remain in use. We think the macrocarpa honeysuckle. The old coal range in front hedge is well over one hundred of which we used to be bathed in years old, and many of the the old hip bath was removed orchard’s laden plum, and a modern window apple and pear trees are inserted. Shirley in also from this period. t u r n p a s s e d t h e Two large olive trees cottage on to us four prov i d i ng sha d e children, John, Peter, were brought back Mary and Robin. by Grandfather from We had wonderful Trieste where he had childhood holidays served in the Second here, picnicking at World War as Lieutenant- continues on page 13 Colonel. February 2010 Hamraki Rag 3 Life in Moeraki without a car (A bus story #2) by Alison MacTavish Our car died about a month ago, and since assisted bike. then we’ve been testing the feasibility of We are growing wiser and more living in Moeraki without a car. resourceful. After our first painful The Hamraki Rag’s comprehensive experience, we no longer accept, guide to bus timetables in the November without thought, invitations to meet issue gave us a great kick start. We have up with friends out beyond Herbert or bought Intercity’s 15-hour flexi-passes Palmerston. The raggy old foam blanket ($11.20/hour of travel) and have travelled in the attic has proved useful at last, to Oamaru and on them, but called into service as extra seat padding, have not yet had the gall to ask to travel and comfortable backpacks are on the from the Moeraki turn-off to Hampden! shopping list, as getting ‘stuff’ in and There are hurdles, of course. Getting out of this place (including the petrol anywhere on time has always been a which, at least for now, makes our other challenge for us, and getting to the bus machines go!) is our biggest headache at is no exception. And, having achieved the moment. the challenge of punctuality ourselves, One of our aims is to understand the waiting beside the highway for a laggardly full extent of the problems experienced bus can be trying even in summer and we by rural people who do not have access imagine it could be a misery in winter. to a car (and there are more people in this Would a little shelter at the Moeraki category than we had realised before) and turn-off be a good idea? to try to find which are soluble. It has A bit of time has been spent on been very interesting so far, and promises re-furbishing the old bikes. We’re slowly to remain so for some time to come. We getting fitter, and it peels back the years to are certainly much more aware of how feel the riffle of wind in the hair and the we took for granted zipping from place to exhilaration of the downhill place, and transporting stuff plunge once again. But, in the wink of an eye for now being in my next to nothing. We seventh decade are rediscovering rather than in my t h e s i m p l e third as I was last pleasures of small time I was car-less achievements like in Hampden, I getting 15kg of am aware than the flour home in a hills are not likely back pack!! We to get any flatter have also been very and I’m looking at the humbled by the offers options for an electric- continues on page14 4 Hamraki Rag February 2010 community info Hampden Library Lockies Takeaways Hours: 2 to 4pm (Fridays) Hours: 11am to 7.30pm 10am to12 noon (Saturdays) (Monday to Thursday, may be closed between 2pm and 4pm if quiet) Landfill Transfer 11am to 8pm (Friday Station to Sunday) Hours: 8.30am to Phone: 4394 744 12.30pm (Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays) Hampden Mechanical Hours: 8.30am to 5.30pm Hampden Motors (except on Wednesdays Hours: 7.30am to and Sundays) 5.30pm weekdays Closed for lunch between 8am to 12 noon weekends noon and 1pm Phone: 4394 086 Phone: 4394 646

Toby’s Fish Hours: 11am-6pm, Wednesday through Monday (closed on Tuesdays)

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The Hamraki time line was originally compiled in 2005 by the late Diane Garbutt. Her printout has been on the town notice board on the main highway, but it has faded so much that it is almost illegible. Members of the Hampden Historic Society have spent a considerable amount of time reconstructing it, adding, retyping and updating, before passing it over to the Rag. The Society suggests we should publish a decade each month for the residents and readers to comment on. We may have got the dates wrong. We may have missed some significant events in the community that we collectively should remember. Feel free to make comments and suggestions. Additions and corrections are more than welcome. After all, this is your history. We start this month with the decade just passed, the 2000s. If you recall significant events in the community which took place during the 1990s, please let us know. 2001 • NEO Computing took over publishing • According to the census, the population Hamraki Rag from Sue Sheat of Hampden was 303. (December).

2002 2008 • Moeraki Tavern opened (April). • First energy expo organised by the • Moeraki Millenium Walkway opened HCE was held (June). (May). • Severe flood cut off the highway • Fleur’s Place restaurant opened in (July). Moeraki (October). • Recycling trailer introduced (November). 2003 • Visit in January of Roy Bailey, emissary 2009 of the John Hampden Society. • Rising floodwater kept ten campers • Hampden Super Store closed for stuck for three nights at business as a general store (June). (February). • First visit to St Stephens Church • Rubbish transfer station at Herbert by Rev. Penny Jameson, Bishop Of closed (July). Dunedin (August). • Hamraki Rag went online (June). • 130th anniversary celebrations 2004 (October). The Proclamation of • Population 304. Hampden as a Borough reenacted. • Gale force winds caused damage to • Public debate held on exponential property in the town (February). economic growth policies • Major macrocarpa trees around (November). camping ground felled for safety. • Derailment of freight train at Katigi. • Critically endangered lowland 2006 longjaw galaxiid were released in the • Hampden Community Energy Waianakarua River (December). formed. February 2010 Hamraki Rag 9 Come Join in Hampden Skyline Mountain Bike Ride The Hampden Skyline recreational shingle and 4wd tracks. Enjoy mountain bike ride on Sunday spectacular 360 degree views February 14, offers something for over the rolling hills to Central riders of all abilities. There and out over the Pacific are suitable rides for first Ocean. Then a great 10km timers or those more downhill ride back to hardened bikers who Hampden. want a workout (or to race their mates) in a great mountain Pugh Pedal Push b i k i n g a r e a $ 1 0 , S k y l i n e whilst enjoying R i d e $ 2 5 . wonderful vistas Family discounts out over the available. ocean. W a l k e r s welcome for any There is the Pugh event $10 Pedal Push. This is a 7km family fun ride which works Registration from its way gradually 8 . 3 0 a m a t t h e up a shingle road Hampden school to a nice vantage Compulsory briefing spot which looks out 9.45am over rolling farmland to the Ride begins at 10am ocean. Then ride down paddocks Contact Ian on 034394844 or back to Hampden. [email protected] More The Hampden Skyline Ride (350m information on http://www. climb), or 25km (500m climb) on sportsground.co.nz/ Sunday February 14 at 10am 10 Hamraki Rag February 2010 Be a FAG, From the Library Shelves It’s The Magnificent Seven We opened with a bang after the Christmas/ A film appreciation group will be formed New Year break, with lots of borrowers taking in Hampden. There is no title for the advantage of all our opening hours. The group yet, but how about Hampden FAG? opening hours will continue to be Thursday and There will be no public screenings; these Friday afternoons between 2 and 4 pm, and Saturday morning between 10am and noon. are not permitted under laws governing We have received a wonderful donation public performances. of beautiful books on medicinal herbs from Instead, the group will convene by the Waitaki Resource Recovery Park. They invitation only, at the residence of one are on display at the moment, together with member of the group to see and discuss some new books and a heap of magazines a DVD. full of short, readable articles about New Eventually it is hoped to have a DVD Zealand’s past. projector available and the film image It’s almost time for the Oamaru book will be seen on a ‘big’ screen. Perhaps exchange again, so please bring in all the even a permanent venue may become Oamaru books as soon as you can, together with any requests for titles, authors or subjects available also. you would like us to try to get for you from the There will be 11 screenings per year Oamaru library. each on the first Thursday of the month (excepting January). The initial screening will be at 16 Lancaster Street, on Thursday JACQUI DEAN 4th of February at 7.30pm. The film to be MP for Waitaki screened is a Western - “The Magnificent Seven” starring Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Brad Dexter, Robert Vaughn, James Coburn and Horst Bucholz. Music is by Elmer Bernstein. It has a PG Certificate. A programme for further screenings through the year will be decided at the first screening. In most cases, subtitles for the hard of hearing will be displayed on screen (subject to availability). Because of the nature of the films to be screened in general, people under 18 will Please phone or e-mail my office for an not be invited to any screenings. appointment with me or talk to my staff. To obtain your invitation to the 42 Thames St, Oamaru. inaugural screening, phone Trevor on Phone 03 434 7325 or 0800 6792 48254. 4394 887. E-mail: [email protected], www.jacquidean.co.nz February 2010 Hamraki Rag 11 Hampden Market

During February, mini markets are being held every Saturday morning from 10 am till 1pm outside the hall. You will find fruit, vegies, plants, books, novelties and lots more.

On February 27, the regular 4th Saturday of the month super market will be in full swing between 9am and noon, with all your favourite stalls inside and outside the hall. Come along and find a bargain, meet up with your friends, have a cuppa and soak up the local atmosphere.

12 Hamraki Rag February 2010 Donations Cribbing On Appreciated continued from page 3 by Anna Barham, Administrator/Fundraiser, Trotters Gorge and Baghdad Creek, lazy hot Otago Healthcare Chaplaincy Support Trust days swimming at the beach and Waianakarua On behalf of the Otago Healthcare dam, musselling at , night floundering Chaplaincy Support Trust, I wish to thank in the creek, hauling ourselves in long climbs the people of Hampden for your very up the North and South Peaks, and flying generous donation from the Hampden high over the gully below on a rope swing Ecumenical Carol Service. attached to the huge blue gums which were Christmas time is over, and staff and once district landmarks. We remember patients’ family members placed almost fishing at the lighthouse rocks, New Year’s 400 doves on the Tree of Remembrance Eve bonfires on the beach, baking potatoes in the chapel in memory of loved ones. in the ashes of orchard fires in the evenings, camping ground competitions between During this new year period the chaplains locals, ‘cribbies’ and campers and movies and have found that many of the people in dances at the Memorial Hall. their care have come to Dunedin Hospital The crib will be passed on to our from out of town, particularly from North grandchildren who have begun to join their Otago and Southland. We are very happy parents on holidays here. Not much has to be able to support these patients and changed. There’s nothing trendy about our their families, and your gift will allow us cottage. The siege by borer has intensified, the to continue in this significant ministry. piles are sinking and the Victorian wallpaper May God bless you richly, as you already is much patched, but it remains a much loved have blessed those whom we serve. crib by all the family.

February 2010 Hamraki Rag 13 Life without a car Garden Notes for February continued from page 4 from of rides, vehicles and errands from so Exquisite Blooms many kind people, but at the same time Most plants have a certain time realise that we are not really achieving of year, or season that is the most our objective if we come to depend on beneficial for them to be planted. it. All the same it’s nice to live in such a thoughtful community! Perennials are no exception. Apart from delphinium and those that are Tips for bus travel: really really frost tender, there is no 1. So far Intercity has only deducted from doubt that autumn is the best time to my flexipass the exact travelling times of plant your perennials.They will settle my trips into Dunedin and Oamaru. in well with the dew on the ground, 2. Once I tried to book to go in to and while the heat of the summer is Oamaru on the same day. They told me gone, there is still enough warmth in that, as Moeraki turnoff and Hampden the soil to promote some root growth. are request stops, you had to book before Herbaceous perennials will die down the driver’s waybill was printed, and it and emerge as much larger plants in would be safer to book the day before. the spring. With autumn planting you Their website is a bit contradictory on this point. get to enjoy the late flowering varieties 3. Watch for fares which are cheaper into early winter and in spring the than your flexipass rate e.g. it is cheaper well established plants will flower as to buy a ticket to Te Anau than to use soon as the days are warm enough. If your flexipass. planning a perennial border, or just 4. If travelling on Christmas Day, take adding plants to the garden, now is your own food or starve, as the café stops the time to be preparing the ground are all closed! ready to put in those plants that keep (The photo is supplied by the author.) on going, year after year. Meeting for Possible Hall Upgrading Following the public survey conducted in September 2009 jointly with Hampden Community Energy, the Hampden and Districts Memorial Community Hall committee is calling a public meeting to discuss possible improvements which could be made to the hall. The meeting will take place at the hall on Saturday February 20 at 1pm. Enquiries to Annette Selwood on 4394 160 or Elizabeth Norton on 4394 887. 14 Hamraki Rag February 2010 MOERAKI SERVICES LTD Your local Freeview Satellite TV Installer

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February 2010 Hamraki Rag 15 A Postcard from the Frozen North by Rachel Welton and chopping wood. I am embarked on a needlework depiction of the boat which will keep me occupied until at least 2020. Plus there are neighbours to chat to and help out....some boats are not quite up to the unexpected conditions, and frozen pipes, guttering engines and dead batteries abound. The English have come to rely on a wet and mild winter and are somewhat taken aback by this cold white stuff, but Happy sunny summer New Year to you already people are talking of the ‘blitz and yours. Yes we are stuck even deeper in spirit’ when helping others who can’t keep ice and snow than last year, and have been their cupboards full to bursting. There is frustrated in our plans to have a winter no real danger of such hardship, but it fresh air and sunshine, and enjoying the cruise AGAIN. I was visualising spending does give people an excuse to say hello sights and sounds of the countryside, these cold dark days meandering dreamily to their neighbours, an increasingly rare just as we do. Yesterday we went for a and warmly around endless art galleries phenomenon in towns here. Living on walk along the canal and down beside and museums in London, the city paved ‘the cut’ is a bit different. It feels like the Cannock Chase, which almost surrounds with gold and dog poo, but no, we are past in so many ways, and there really us here - a great sprawling acreage of taking invigorating tramps through snow is an improvement in community spirit hills, trees and footpaths all open to the and ice instead. when you live like this. It’s almost as public. All along the way robins bounced, It is much colder than last winter. We good as in Hampden! Of course in the rooks cawed, sparrowhawks hovered, have been immobilised now for three past, if you were trying to make a living and in the snow we saw tracks of rabbits, weeks, and the last few nights have been on a boat it wouldn’t have been half as badgers and deer. There will have been cold enough to wear a hat to bed. At least pleasant. The ice would have been broken fox prints too, but they looks so much like -9 or-10. Luckily this year we are stuck by ice-breaker boats up to a point, and little dog prints I can’t tell the difference. in the marina so have theoretical access you would have had to continue trudging At night we hear owls, in between the to water, sewage disposal, and the car. along the towpath in the dark and cold, trains rumbling through. It’s all very olde The water is frozen in the taps outside, no matter what. When the canal froze too worlde to my eyes and ears, and along although not yet in the boat, the sewage thick to be kept open the canalboat people with the thatched cottages and the snow, disposal is likewise frozen, but at least the froze also, and weren’t paid. It could be it’s like something out of a storybook. car still goes! Lucky, also, that we were a pretty miserable life at times. Since the Well, I can’t say I’m not a little envious able to get in a great supply of wood and alternative in those days was working in of your sunny, summer weather, especially coal before the ice nabbed us, so we are a coalmine or a factory, it’s hard to say as we will be returning later in the year very warm and cosy, tucking into great what would have been worse. to yet another winter, but we are busily plates of porridge or stew throughout At least those earlier, hardier canal planning a trip to Italy and Slovenia the days. types would have been outdoors getting before we come back, so that brightens Ian keeps busy titivating the boat continues on page 18 16 Hamraki Rag February 2010 February 2010 Hamraki Rag 17 continued from page 16 trains rumbling through. It’s all very olde worlde to my eyes and ears, and along with the thatched cottages and the snow, it’s like something out of a storybook. Well, I can’t say I’m not a little envious of your sunny, summer weather, especially as we will be returning later in the year to yet another winter, but we are busily planning a trip to Italy and Slovenia before we come back, so that brightens fresh air and sunshine, and enjoying the up the long dark days a bit. The white sights and sounds of the countryside, Christmas, with all the traditions and just as we do. Yesterday we went for a trimmings was lovely too. We actually walk along the canal and down beside came out of the holly encrusted church Cannock Chase, which almost surrounds on Christmas Eve to a beautiful scene of us here - a great sprawling acreage of silent fluffy snowflakes falling, and then hills, trees and footpaths all open to the went to the cosy pub nearby for a hot public. All along the way robins bounced, toddy. Very northern hemisphere! rooks cawed, sparrowhawks hovered, We will update again in the spring, and in the snow we saw tracks of rabbits, when we will be off down the Grand badgers and deer. There will have been Union canal to London, along the fox prints too, but they look so much like Thames, and back up the Oxford canal. little dog prints I can’t tell the difference. Should be an interesting trip. At night we hear owls, in between the (All photos are supplied by the author.) Calling All Tradespeople The Hamraki Rag is planning to publish a local trades and services directory in a coming issue. We would like to help local businesses and local trades. If you are a plumber, electrician, builder, chimney sweep, agricultural contractor, hair dresser, firewood supplier, editor, mobile butcher, fencing contractor, shearer, tree lopper, piano tuner, translator or offer any other trade or service, we want to hear from you. You don't have to live in the area. As long as your service is available here, we would very much like to list you in the directory. Let us know your name, trade or service, business hours, contact such as phone number, address and email address, so that you are visible to the wider local population. (Remember, paid advertising is also available. Please contact us for the details.) To make this directory as comprehensive as possible, we are also asking you, the Rag readers, to let us know who your favourite tradespeople are. Send us their details to help them and help the community.

18 Hamraki Rag February 2010 Hamraki Trading post ROTEC Supertub in good tidy condition. REDUCED to clear Toyota diesel Needs new washers in taps. Steal at $60. auto camperavan. Fresh water at sink, 4394259 2 burner stove, awning, 12v and 240v electrics. Heaps of cupboard and storage house clearance sale space. Very comfortable 2 berth, low km, Assortment of household goods for tidy vehicle. Give us $16 000 (reduced), sale, all in excellent condition. Casiotone and you will never look back. 4394 887 electric organ (CT-630), 5 octaves with (Trevor) pulse chord modulation, $120. Ashford spinning wheel including accessories and TRaCTOR Massey Ferguson TEA. sliver, $120. Single foam mattress with Needs some repairs but runs. $1000. pillow(never used, still in plastic), $50. 4394 259 Megahome water distiller (hardly used), retails at $280, but for you, $180. Russell housebus craft Locally crafted Hobbs 6lt slow cooker (used twice) for gifts for all occasions including wooden $50. Satak pottery vase, purchased in toys, native timber pens, stained glass Bali, stands approx 57cm, $80. Upright suncatchers, saffron and lavender herbal wooden cross stitch/embroidery frame, creams, herb and lavender plants. See $60. Contact Donna on 021 501 523. us at the Hampden market or call 021 702916 to visit us at home. MASSage Sore muscles? Aching back? Or just in need of a relaxing, de-stressing massage? Call Val on 4394 YOUR AD HERE FOR FREE Contact us for free ‘Classifieds’ in this page and 240. Hamrakitrading.blogspot.com. YOUR AD HERE FOR FREE Contact us for free ‘Classifieds’ in this page and One day Workshops with Jill Shackleton. Lotions and potions/ Hamrakitrading.blogspot.com. Introduction to Middle Eastern dance/ Introduction to simple cheese making/ wanted Local organic raw milk, Advanced cheese makers. They will organic sourdough culture, yoghurt be held in Feb/March. More details, starters and kefir grains if anyone has 4395534. some to share. Phone or text 021 264 7353(Vicki). I am happy to announce that LEARN to play piano Experienced the mislaid boning knife was teacher. Reasonable rates, all levels, found. Thanks everyone for any age, but must be keen learners. finding it. I am out of the dog 439 4599 house, unscathed. A happy new year to you all. Angy. February 2010 Hamraki Rag 19 community calendar for February Inaugural FAG gathering Where: the Hall Where: 16 Lancaster Street Cost: $5 casual or $30 for the term When: Thurs Feb 4 at 7.30pm (10 classes) Contact: 4394 887 Contact: Val Kerry on 4394 240 “What have we got for entertainment?” asked Joe Strummer in 1981. It is The Hampden Skyline Bike Ride Magnificent Seven of course. Though What: Mountain bike ride fund raiser it is not The Seven Samurai, it is for Hampden school still significant. See page11 for more When: Sun Feb 14 at 10am details. Where: Register at Hampden school Hampden Summer (mini) Market (from 8.30am) What: Community market Cost: $10~$25 When: Sat Feb 6, 13 and 20 between Contact: 4394 844(Ian) See page 10 for more information. 10am and 1pm Where: the Hall What better thing to do on a sunny Hall Meeting Saturday summer morning than to stroll When: Sat Feb 20 at 1pm down to the buzzing Hampden market Where: the Hall and catch up with neighbours, while Contact: 4394 160 or 4394 887 browsing for bargains? See page 14 for more information.

Tough Enough to Wear Pink H a m p d e n S u m m e r ( s u p e r ) What: Waikouaiti rodeo fund raiser for Market the Breast Cancer Foundation What: Community market When: Sun Feb 7 at 9.30am (second When: Sat Feb 27 between 9am and division) and at 1pm (open events) noon Where: Waikouaiti rodeo arena Where: the Hall Cost: $15 (adults), $5 (children), free Craft, vegies, plants, art, jewellery, bric (under 12) a brac, candles, knitting and assorted See page17 for more details. goodies. Stalls inside and outside the hall.

Taichi class A monthly calendar version of community When: Mondays Feb 8, 15 and 22 events is available now online at between 11.30am and 12.30pm hamrakirag.blogspot.com.

If you have any events, classes, workshop, garage sales, parties, anything in March, inform the Rag so that the whole community knows. 20 Hamraki Rag February 2010