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ADVERTISE in the POWA Community News, Phone 027 253 9205, P O Box 21, Email: [email protected] i JULY 2020 Issue BRAVE THE SHAVE On Friday 26th June the Waikouaiti Volunteer Fire Brigade and our local Police Constable Olivia Winbush, did the Brave The Shave at the Golden Fleece Restaurant and Bar. They had amazing support from the community on the night with a number of locals stepping up and getting their hair shaved for the great cause. By the end of the night they had raised $3,500 to bring the total raised to $10,300. This is an amazing efort by our community, friends, family and work colleagues. Thank you to Joss from Scissors on Main in Palmerston for shaving all their hair. Now who's knitting the beanies? 2020 POWA Community News 2020 POWA Community News ONECOAST REPORT WAIKOUAITI BOWLING CLUB Things have started moving very quickly for OneCoast this month. The Waikouaiti Bowling Club is off-season just now The Rummage Shed is back in business. It was great this weekend to and would not normally have meetings during July see the bathroom ware and spare toilet bowls that have been outside and August. However, since we were unable to since before lockdown get picked up. Many items inside the shed are discuss and vote on any remits affecting next season enjoying a quick turnover. before lockdown was imposed, we are having a short meeting at the clubhouse on Thursday 2nd July at Two new events are being planned for July. Both of these will be 2.00pm. This will be followed by a cuppa! All widely advertised when we have more details available. To make sure members who are available to attend will be very you get up to date information email [email protected] for welcome. updates. Please note it is the intention to hold our Annual General Meeting at the clubhouse on Thursday 24th 1. Beach litter data collection workshop and monitoring project September at 2.00pm. All welcome. Saturday 11 July, 12pm-4pm If you would like information about the club please Waikouaiti Beach - workshop venue to be announced contact the Secretary below. Ben Knight of Sustainable Coastlines is visiting Waikouaiti that Saturday to help us set up a beach litter measurement site. This will Eva Hammond, Secretary. Phone 465 7790 or An afternoon of music be one of a network of nationwide sites that citizen scientists like us email [email protected] St John’s Church, Beach Street use to record rubbish levels and its changes around our coastline. We on Sunday 2nd August at 2pm will commit to keep monitoring our beach at least 4 times a year for at least 3 years. More information about the project at this website: You are welcome to come and enjoy an afternoon of music in https://litterintelligence.org/about/ the beautiful St John’s Church. The 2 hour concert will feature some of this area’s top talent performing a range of popular 2. Waikouaiti wardrobe workout! Used clothing swap and sale. songs and musical numbers. There will be a short interval Sunday 26 July, 2pm when we can stretch our legs and the afternoon will conclude East Otago Events Centre with tea/coffee and cake in the adjacent church hall. All this This will be a great way to refresh your wardrobe, recycle your for only a gold coin donation. lockdown clear outs, meet friends and have some fun. There will be a small entrance fee and some clothes may have a small price. Any Although we are farewelling winter you can be assured that funds raised will go towards OneCoast running costs and the new the church will be warm with a relaxed atmosphere. food bank. Keep an eye out for more information. Email [email protected] if you would like to help or to arrange St John’s Church was opened in 1858 and is the oldest clothes pick up. church building in Otago and Southland. It has a Historic Places Trust “B” classification. The most remarkable feature Finally, the DCC has announced that from Monday 6 July (blue bins) of St John’s is its atmosphere. Sit back and take in the they are making changes to the recycling they can accept. For glass, amazing vaulted ceiling, the beautiful stained glass windows lids must be removed from bottles and jars and left out of the blue bin. and the striking altar display. For plastics, now only types 1, 2 and 5 can be placed in the yellow bin, and again lids must be removed and kept out of the bin. This is The buildings and churchyard are maintained by a small because the criteria for recycling waste have been tightened and it will group of community volunteers who have worked hard to Indulgence Rural Retreat keep this piece of Waikouaiti’s history alive. The grounds 89 Goodwood Rd, Palmerston be rejected if there is more than 0.05% contamination. Also, loose bottle tops interfere with the paper sorting. There is more detailed have been planted out with hundreds of daffodil bulbs which Beauty Therapy & Skin Care information under the headings at will look a picture come spring. A memorial garden has now Lash & Brow TreatmentsWaxing https://www.dunedin.govt.nz/services/rubbish-and-recycling. Of been established with the planting of many exotic trees. course this development is very bad news for waste minimization Birches, crabapples, maples and what will be a spectacular Facials, Manicures, Pedicures groups like ours and we will be looking at any steps we can take for Liriodendron (Tulip tree) as a focal point. These trees and Facial Peels local waste reduction. plantings will make for a brilliant display throughout the Anti-aging – Micro needling seasons. Massage Therapeutic & Relaxation From Left Dr. Catherine Brown, Prof. Campbell Murdoch,Editor Dr. Dave Sheryl Popham McKay, Practice Nurse Daphne Taylor and Dr. Don McKirdy Ph: 027 221 9392 or 03 465 1430 The POWA Office has now moved position. You can find us in the old Tumai Ora office, beside the Alan and Tracey Bartrum East Otago Events Centre entrance. GO THECREWCUT We are available for; community projects, community 027 932 0951 support, information, office for; Civil Defence, Waikouaiti Community Garden, Waikouaiti Youth They do: Club, Foodbank, Events Centre bookings, Lawn mowing, Hedge trimming Community Board information. Our door is always Section tidies, Spraying, open. Tree work Waikouaiti Lagoon Photo: Bruce Dow Photo supplied 2020 POWA Community News 2020 POWA Community News EAST OTAGO EVENTS CENTRE WAIKOUAITI COAST HERITAGE CENTRE The East Otago Events Centre is open now and it is good to see our Dunedin, it would appear, has never been shy to proudly promote itself and regulars and seasonal users back again. Users please note that the all the many technological advances and natural wonders throughout the kitchen is a hazardous area and children are not allowed in the dominion. It did this by organising popular, successful world fairs. The first kitchen for their own safety. Also, the kitchen does not have a as early as 1865 and again in 1889 and then came the one that broke all commercial licence, only the base licence, so no cooking or baking records in 1925/26. New Zealand & South Seas International Exhibition is permitted. opened on Tuesday the 17th of November by the Governor General Sir Charles Fergusson and ran for 6 months till the 1st of May, 1926. Just as a The POWA and Tumai Ora offices have recently swapped premises wee aside, half a world away in the United States the future heart-throb with each other. Tumai Ora is just upstairs from the Medical Centre Rock Hudson was to be born on the same date and Queen Elizabeth the and the EOEC bookings officer, Sonya, is now to be found adjacent second was born during the exhibition's tenure too on the 21st April 1926. to the Centre’s front doors. It was promoted by the Otago Expansion League in response to a Advance notice – The East Otago Event Centre is intending to hold population and economic drift north. The site was 16 acres and was built on its Annual General Meeting at the Centre on Thursday 3rd reclaimed land at Logan Park. A tidal inlet, originally known as Pelichet Bay September at 7.30pm. All welcome. had been partly reclaimed, leaving a flat area and lake called Lake Logan. Any enquiries or bookings please contact: To provide enough land for the exhibition, the lake was drained and the site Sonya Billyard on 027 253 9205 cleared before construction of a series of magnificent exhibition buildings by Eva Hammond, Secretary on 465 7790 architect Edmund Anscombe. The buildings consisted of a series of pavilions surrounding a central court which was dominated by a domed PEWS NEWS festival hall that cast its reflection into a still pool. At night it was lit by coloured lights. A new tree-lined road, linking the exhibition grounds to the Presbyterian Parish of Waikouaiti-Karitane city centre, was completed and which now forms Anzac Avenue. The July 5 10am shared service at Karitane church exhibition grounds and buildings included an amusement park with a July 12 10am shared service at St John's Anglican Church quarter-mile scenic railway loop, restaurant and tearooms. Along with many July 19 10am shared service at Karitane church displays featuring New Zealand, there included court displays from the July 26 10am service at Kildare Street led by John Nichol United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Fiji. It was said that people never August 2 10am shared service at Karitane church tired of the exhibition and was hugely popular right up to its final day, breaking an attendance record with 83,935.