Kick-Start Your Great Idea

February 2020 Kick-start your great idea Ka Pai Carterton will kick o 2020 with KA PAI SOUP – a people will pitch the ideas, businesses or projects they aim to realise microgranting community dinner to be held on Thursday February in Carterton. The audience can ask questions and then vote on which 13 at the Carterton Events Centre. idea appeals the most. The winner will receive the pot of money (all Aimed at supporting and promoting community projects and proceeds from ticket sales) to further their idea or project. small business in Carterton, the evening social event will see the Ka Pai Carterton will raise the stakes by adding $500 cash to the audience receive soup, bread and one vote for $10. Around ve pot for the inaugural event too! Aside from a fun night out, other communities that have hosted SOUP events have beneted from new initiatives starting up and increased support of local business in their community. The event will be held at the Carterton Events Centre Foyer on Thursday February 13 from 6 pm. Tickets are $10. Bring cash as it goes straight into the winner’s pot. All welcome. Do you have an idea or a small business that would benet from community awareness and funding? Ka Pai Carterton are calling for people who want to pitch their ideas in 5-6 minutes in a fun and low tech manner. Email hello@kapaicarterton for more info, or nd out more at kapaicarterton.nz/events/SOUP including info on how to create an engaging pitch. Cimone of Ka Pai Carterton stirs the pot. 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 numbers have grown from 12 to 45. The team covers the urban area of Carterton. Lamb-Peters Print deals with rural deliveries. Through our growing database and the CDC noticeboard, we keep in touch with the community twice a month. Getting to know you Go Carterton hosts us online: (Type Carterton Crier into Google to Although I am stepping down, the Crier will continue in the read our back copies.) competent hands of Paul Dykes and hopefully others. See article p4. In my rst editorial I wrote that our focus would be on the not- We started in November 2015 with a database gleaned from an for-prot community. We’ve pretty much stuck to that. The exception Information Centre brochure. Playcentre was our rst responder. We has been community-minded businesses. We have never been short put them on the front page and chewed our ngernails as articles of copy and we have met hundreds of amazing people. As far as we slowly trickled in. (Now they come as a deluge.) know the Crier is in every house (but one) in Carterton – from the We – Bek Farr, Minty Hunter, cartoonist John Stevenson, Don Farr mountains to the sea. and I – decided to work as volunteers. Minty’s Melbourne-based Thanks for the rich and fullling experience, Carterton. It’s been a father, Michael, joined us as proof reader. Lamb-Peters Print in privilege to get to know you! Greytown agreed to layout and print the Crier, co-ordinate and sell Jan Farr, Editor the advertisements as they were already doing with the Greytown Grapevine. Since then the number of pages has increased from 20 to 32, the ads and articles have more than doubled in number and our free What’s On column has gone from spacious to cramped. The database provided Don with a team of deliverers whose Contact us Editorial: [email protected] Deliveries: [email protected] 027 406 2694 Advertisements: [email protected] 022 362 6342 Deadline, March issue: 5 pm Saturday February 25. Story word- limit, strictly 300, letters 200. Delivered by Thursday, March 12. We’re online at www.cartertonnz.com/crier kindly hosted by CDBI (Carterton District Business Initiative). Cartertonians at Aratoi Carterton has a notable presence at the museum these days. Over the holidays, the museum hosted a solo show of Matarawa In December, Carterton’s Rebekah Farr received the Jane Hyder artist Rhondda Greig. For many viewers, the centrepiece was Self Portrait Award ($1,000) at the Wairarapa Art Review. Selector Karl Portrait – a large, two-panelled painting on linen featuring all Chitham remarked on the painting titled Self [Acceptance] Portrait: the addresses where Rhondda has ever lived, in exquisite script: “This self-portrait was both visually engaging and haunting at Invercargill, Christchurch, Okahukura, Scotland, Carterton... the same time. The assured brush strokes and careful multiplane From February 14, it’s Carterton artist Paul Melser: One Hundred arrangement demonstrated a condent hand and sophisticated Plates showcases 100 plates. “For me,” says Paul, “making hundreds understanding of picture making.” (The People’s Choice Award will of the supposedly same thing over the last 50 years has always be announced 16 February, 2 pm – be sure to vote!) been entrancing and engaging because each pot ends up being individual.” Paul started making pots when he was about 10. He built his own kiln at about age 15, carrying 50 kilo bags of clay down or up 50 steps, about 100 metres along a path, then up a four-metre ladder. He moved to his present location at 659 Norfolk Road in 1974. “I have always been interested in the fact that domestic-ware has the same curious ratio of similarities and dierences as people have. Both are essentially the same at the early stage of their genesis but are then shaped by the circumstances of their environment.” Meet Paul Melser at Aratoi: Exhibition Opening, 14 February, from 5.30pm. Aratoi invites the public to a Pottery Studio Visit, 15 February, 11am-1pm, at 659 Norfolk Road, Masterton. See www.aratoi.org.nz Madeleine Slavick Paul Melser. Photo Adam West Watson Rā’s kōrero Future-prooﬁng Places of the Crier This is the nal Crier to be edited and produced by Jan Farr, who is connection exiting stage left after four years of diligent and dutiful editorship. While the Hurunui-o-Rangi marae Jan’s departure creates a huge hole in the volunteer group that trustees were condent that the papakainga works the magic that enables each issue to reach your hands. What’s housing would warm the marae, we under- more, her husband Don is relinquishing his role as distribution Ra Smith. estimated the connection we would have manager. Their move away from the constant demands of magazine Photo Masterton with the wider community. For example, in production is extremely well earned, with the pair being responsible District Council. our Māori language class guided by Aunty for elevating the Crier into the valuable community voice it is today. Paremo, from Te Hauora. Now others are This leaves the Crier at the crossroads. No editor, no distribution learning te Reo. Councillor Rob Stockley holds He kawhe me te Reo manager – and no Little Red Hen in sight. Does Carterton have at Page 42 Café and Gelato on Saturdays at 10 am. the people with the right skills to keep the Crier going? Does the Another place I had the privilege of hearing te reo Māori was at community want it to continue? the South End School prize-giving. I am acting as editor to see that the March issue comes out, but we Looking at the Carterton community from a Ka Pai Carterton will need new volunteer blood to take on the role long term, and ll the viewpoint I know that the connection our marae is experiencing can role of distribution manager. These two roles can be shared amongst be done throughout Carterton. Hurunui-o-Rangi was happy to host many, with guest editors taking the responsibility for one monthly issue. a Gladstone Community group this month that is capably led by Kat Likewise, we can share the distribution management load. Wildy. The guest editors will have control over the theme and focus of the We became aware of the untimely death of a stalwart of the front few pages of their issue, while all the usual community news will community, John Wardell. This loss was expressed in tears and ll the rest of the magazine. Don’t be scared to put your name forward. concern for John’s family. My poupou lived on the same stretch of Guidance and support will be provided. We think our guest editors road as his family. One day Mr Wardell came to me with a photo of my could come from community business organisations, schools, art and Poupou and Nanny amongst other members of our whanau taken at cultural groups, youth groups… Surprise us! his shearing shed. The Wardell name is associated with a bridge and If we take this route and share the load, the Crier will prosper. The Mr Wardell led a connecting life. Now Carterton, Gladstone, Te Whiti other pathways open to us do not look as promising. Help us to advance and Hurunui-o-Rangi are places of connection. the Crier. Volunteer your support by emailing us at [email protected] Rā Smith Paul Dykes Happy to Chat See you outside the old Post Ofﬁce The Happy to Chat bench was launched at the Carterton Street Party on January 26.

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