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Battle of the Bus Shelter Be in to win GGreatreat TToyotaoyota a Toyota Yaris GGiveawayiveaway P19-27 Upper Hutt Leader Wednesday, November 2, 2016 SERVING YOUR COMMUNITY SINCE 1939 ‘‘I’ve hit a dead end with the Greater Wellington Regional Council Battle of and Paul Swain, our representative here’’ Dean Chandler-Mills the bus shelter COLIN WILLIAMS Dean Chandler-Mills is taking to the tools. A several year battle to have a bus shelter built at the terminus stop of the 110 service in Gemstone Rd, Birchville, has left the 70-year-old frustrated. A 100-signature petItion was delivered to the regional council in 2013 and plenty of letter writing and submission-making since has produced nothing. ‘‘I’ve hit a dead end with the Greater Wellington Regional Council and Paul Swain, our representative here, ’’ he said. Chandler-Mills said residents were looking at building their own shelter in an effort to highlight the issue. ‘‘There are a lot of people really angry about this. Patronage on the service is increasing and this is not going to go away. ‘‘The next step will be to form a group and build our own shelter. That’ll embarrass the regional council.’’ The Gemstone Rd terminus is next to an open paddock, the width of several sections. ‘‘It services more than 110 households but it is in one of the most exposed commuter areas in the Hutt Valley,’’ Chandler-Mills said. The former Public Service Association organiser recently took his issue to Upper Hutt mayor Wayne Guppy. ‘‘Wayne has expressed an interest in getting some movement on this. Any shelter would be on city land.’’ Swain, who recently stepped down from a public transport role with the regional council, said he was aware of the issue. Wellington public transport has 3137 bus stops, 861 have shelters and another 70 verandas. ‘‘The demand for bus shelters is always greater than the budget available to supply them,’’ he said. Each financial year to work out which should get shelters the regional council looks at the patronage of individual stops, at the facilities near them and the exposure to the elements . ‘‘As far as the 110 terminus stop is concerned, I can advise for this financial year it was a Category 2 which meant it didn’t make the list of stops to provide shelter at,’’ Swain said. ‘‘The patronage data has been updated and given the increase this stop moved to a Category, meaning it’ll make the list of stops to be considered in the next financial year.’’ You’ll love our Christmas 2 1 set menu RESTAURANT 528 3344 for TUESDAYS 2 course from $25. Book Now. Details at silverspoon.net.nz 2 UPPER HUTT LEADER, NOVEMBER 2, 2016 stuff.co.nz YOUR PAPER, YOUR PLACE 1. EXCITING This newspaper is EXHIBITION subject to NZ Press Council procedures. Browse or buy some art at the A complaint must first FROM Artbourne exhibition, at the be directed in writing, Wellesley Centennial Hall, on within one month of THE November 4 from 8.20am to 4pm, publication, to the editor’s email address. and November 5 and 6 from 11am If not satisfied with the response, the EDITOR complaint may be referred to the to 4pm. Press Council. PO Box 10-879, The Terrace, Wellington 6143. 2. SWEET READ Or use the online complaint form at Upper Hutt has been celebrating Hear Geraldine Brophy reading www.presscouncil.org.nz Please its city status for the past year, Hillary and the Chocolate Mountain include copies of the article and all culminating in Saturday’s street at the Lighthouse Cinema Petone 1 correspondence with the publication. festival, Little City Big Bash. on November 6, at 2pm and get It may have been cold but some free chocolate goodies from thousands of people came out to The Chocolate Story. CONTENTS join in the fun and to support all P13: Conversations the young talented singers as they 3. ART P16-17: What’s On sang their hearts out for the title APPRECIATION P18: Arts of Voice of Upper Hutt. P42: Community Cookbook Jessica Weston took out the Check out the exhibition, 12 P43: Dr Libby/Puzzles senior title, wowing the audience to do list Emotions in a Minute, which runs P47-48: Sport with a song she had written until November 7 at Expressions. 2 3 herself, penned after her father had been on a tour in 4. FAMILY FUN Afghanistan. (see page 3). Have fun at Pinehaven School’s Big Pets were proudly paraded, Family Day on November 5, bands entertained and children between 10am and 2pm. screamed on the rides. (pictures page 46). 5. FIERY SPEEDWAY It could have been a fizzer, but Once again the Fireworks the rain kept away and fireworks Supershow returns to Max Motors on Saturday night blasted into the Wellington Family Speedway on 4 5 night seeing out a busy year of November 5 at 7pm. celebrations marking Upper Hutt’s journey since it was named a city in 1966. Contact us NEWS DIRECTOR: Sharron Pardoe, [email protected] or [email protected] BUSINESS MANAGER: Grant - Sharron Pardoe Davidson, [email protected], Ph 589-7617 GENERAL INQUIRIES: Angela Foote, 528-9654 or [email protected], 28 Pine Ave, Upper Hutt CLASSIFIEDS: 0800 252 774 or [email protected] DELIVERY: Each Wednesday to 22,279 homes in Upper Hutt. www.facebook.com/upperhuttleader REAL KIWIS ARE THIRSTY KIWIS 1 . 1 J c o c B tt s o s s t . 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Friday: 5.30am – 10pm, Saturday: The 13-year-old took the senior 8am – 7pm, Sunday: 8am – 6.30 competition title at Saturday’s pm, 7pm – 9 pm (women only). Little City Big Bash Festival, Upper Hutt’s celebration of 50 NEW COUNCIL SIGNS ON years status as a city. The new Upper Hutt City Council Jessica’s win came with her came into being on Monday. solo delivery of ‘‘How Long?’’, a Mayor Wayne Guppy made oral song she wrote two years ago after and written declarations, to the safe return of her father to her assume office ahead of the 10 Maymorn home. elected city councillors, including It was the first time the song first-timers Ros Connelly and had been performed live with Jes- Chris Carson. John Gwilliam was sica bringing it out after playing also confirmed as deputy mayor. covers in the qualifying rounds. The first full council meeting will ‘‘I’d only been playing guitar be held on December 14. for six months when I came up with some chords I thought were DRESS FOR SUCCESS cool and I put the words to that,’’ Dress for Success is tonight she said. opening a branch in Lower Hutt, Her father, Richard Weston, to be opened by Lower Hutt was Commander of the New Zea- mayor Ray Wallace. It will be part land Mission Closure Team to of the international not-for-profit Afghanistan in 2012/13. organisation that helps women He was away for several on their path to employment and months with no guaranteed financial independence. Dress for return time, missing the family Success has been operating in Christmas and Jessica’s 10th New Zealand since 1999, helping birthday. women by providing a network ‘‘I wrote the song from my of support, professional attire and memory of that time,’’ Jessica development tools. The said. ’’That’s what it is about, not organisation always welcomes knowing when he would be back.’’ more volunteers, financial Jessica headed off several donations, and good quality new finalists in the afternoon semi- Voice of Upper Hutt winner, 13-year-old Jessica Weston. or used clothing and accessories. final and final competition. ‘‘I was quite nervous but I was WINNING DENTAL CLINIC friends of the other contestants so ‘‘We are both very proud of to study music at NCEA level and Jessica won four recording Naenae Dental Clinic were that helped. I was so proud, I her. She was nervous but once she at university. She has taken piano hours at the Prime Music Acad- named the best dental clinic in thought I wouldn’t win.’’ the got on the stage she was in lessons for eight years and emy studio and the opportunity to The Breeze’s Best of Wellington Heretaunga College student said.
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