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[email protected] PH: 438 9452 Mobile 027432 0070 Postal address - RD 2, Waipu 0582 27 April 2017 34 Albert St Whangarei Website: www.breambaynews.co.nz LOCALLY OWNED AND OPERATED Div. Shadelite Industry Grading those pot holes in An Easter Carnival fairy the Ruakaka bus stop area Tony Jelas took matters into his own hands and borrowed a grader to smooth out the big potholes at the bus stop and car parking area adjacent to the Ruakaka SH1 roundabout. 0U -HODV REWDLQHG WKH XVH RI D JUDGHU IUHH RI FKDUJH IURP WKH :KDQJDUHL ÀUP McKenzie Contracting and spent three hours on 14 April (Good Friday) smoothing out the badly pot holed surface. McKenzie Contracting also supplied fuel for the job and Mr. Jelas did the work voluntarily. He said it was hard-going as in some areas there was concrete which had lifted and in places the surface had to be leveled by 200mm. He is hoping to obtain some road surface material left over from the Brynderwyn hills upgrade to complete the job. He had earlier that morning used the grader to level the car park alongside the Ruakaka Recreation Centre. This was also done free of charge as Mr. Jelas is a member of the Recreation Centre Committee. Despite repeated requests by the Ruakaka Residents and Ratepayers Association to do something about the state of the bus stop area, the Whangarei District Council had failed to come to an agreement with Ilia Petro, the owner of the bus stop land about an upgrade of this area, which, as well as being used as a bus stop, is used as a parking area for vehicles by people who are travelling by Ten-year-old Lucy Murray was an Easter fairy handing out lollipops and bus or car pooling to inviting children to make wishes at the Waipu Easter Carnival travel to Whangarei or Tony Jelas at work with the borrowed grader Auckland.