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Anzac commemorated, P4-5 ISSN 2703-5700 NOW PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY Issue 018 April 28, 2021 ‘Killer’ bus routes protested By KELLEY TANTAU kids “weren’t even old enough to be left alone at home, let C 100 aurakiC 0 parents have alone roadside on one of the MH 25 calledM 0 a public meeting most dangerous highways in Y with 0 theY 0 Ministry of Educa- New Zealand”. K tion 0 overK 100 “dangerous chang- “Not to mention,” she said, es” to college bus routes that “at some stops, the students would see children walking will have no choice but to on some of the region’s most stand on the actual road it- Fontdeadly :: stateTimes highways. (modified) self. We also have students The meeting, which was with limited eyesight - [being] planned for Tuesday morn- roadside without supervision ing, was called to bring af- is not an option for them.” fected families, school rep- A recent Valley Profi le in- resentatives, and a ministry vestigation into our roads spokesperson from Welling- found SH25, from the SH2 ton together to discuss the roundabout to Kōpū, had sev- Term 2 changes to eight bus en fatal crashes over the past routes transporting students fi ve years. to Hauraki Plains College and “It’s an absolute safety haz- some primary schools. ard. It doesn’t matter what According to the minis- way you put it,” Mrs Jolly said. try, one of the route changes, “I walk to our fenceline in Orongo/Pipiroa, will see bus the paddock and it scares me, stops moved to allow students and that’s just because there’s “ineligible” for transport to people hooning past, let alone Hauraki Plains College be- walking along the road with come eligible. no verge, and they’re wanting However, the proposed kids to do that?” change means students will Ministry head of education have to walk along State High- infrastructure service Kim way 25, a busy main highway Shannon told The Profi le the with no footpaths, to get to ministry allocated services the new bus stops. and funds based on those stu- Parents Karma Vitasovich, dents most in need of trans- Lisa Wiggins, and Angela Jol- port assistance, and in line ly said the changes were “dan- with the school transport eli- gerous” and would impact on gibility criteria. students’ safety, attendance, College principal Ngaire and achievement. Harris said parents’ frustra- Mrs Jolly, a mother of two tions around the changes was college students, said her chil- “totally understandable and dren would have to walk along justifi able”, especially around SH25 towards Bugger Cafe to student safety on main high- the new bus stop. To be wor- ways, the cancellation of long- ried was an understatement, standing bus pick ups, and she said. the challenges of organising “It’s dangerous at the best of transport to pick-up points. times, and this is just asking “There are enough challeng- for kids to be killed. It doesn’t es about living rurally; cutting The Vitasovich and Wiggins families are make any sense.” back on bus services is add- concerned about their kids walking along a busy In a letter to the ministry, ing another layer to that chal- state highway to get to their new bus stop. Ms Vitasovich said some of the lenge,” she said. Photo: KELLEY TANTAU Need a rubbish bin? AUTUMN

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Ju- the Plains to just $10,000 each dith said Positive Paeroa also per year, citing changes to their paid Mercury Energy for “com- focus on promotions. munity lighting” to the tune of But Positive Paeroa says that $6000-8000 per annum. amount would only cover the A reduction in funding to cost of the Santa Parade, and $10,000 meant the organisa- nothing else. tion was at risk of a restructure, The organisation’s chair, Ju- and its future could be in jeop- dith Jamieson, told The Profi le ardy, she said. Posi� ve Paeroa chair Judith the proposal came as a surprise. However, Hauraki Mayor Jamieson fears for the “They had forecast that the Toby Adams said they hadn’t re- future of the organisa� on. funding would change, because duced its town promotion budg- Photo: KELLEY TANTAU it has been dropping over the ets as such, but were proposing last while, but we didn’t know to shift the budgets around so new events co-ordination role be received by this Friday, April pendent on council for funding by how much,” she said. they aligned more with the pur- within council would likely be a 30. us; we have to have a diversifi ed “Positive Paeroa does a lot pose of its new committee, Ma- full-time paid position. Meanwhile, Thames-Coro- revenue stream. So, we have set in the background, and we’ve naaki Toiora, which is “all about “We haven’t developed a job mandel District Council con- about doing that.” probably been a little bit guilty lifting the mana and wellbeing description for the role at this fi rmed the three-year funding The TBA has implemented its of not blowing our own trum- within our communities”. stage, however it’s envisaged it agreement between council and membership programme, and pet, because you just kind of get “Under the proposed new would provide support to local the Thames Business Associa- was working on establishing on with it. model, some of the funds would business, community groups, tion (TBA) comes to an end in sponsorships and partnerships “Now, where do we go from go towards the district-wide and organisations in a number June. to help fund the association, she here? Will there be a Positive events co-ordination role, busi- of areas including event man- Across three years, the TBA said. It would still like to be able Paeroa from now on?” ness support and town pro- agement, volunteer recruitment received $229,000 from coun- to go to the Thames Community Positive Paeroa used to get motional activities, with the and training, and district and cil to get the association estab- Board for assistance with some $120,000 per year from coun- remainder distributed to other business promotion,” he said. lished, and chief executive Sue of its major events. cil, she said. However, last year, projects and initiatives that Positive Paeroa said it will be Lewis-O’Halloran said it was “We are putting things in they received just $50,000. focus on things like providing submitting against Hauraki Dis- now time “for a hand up, not a place to ensure the future of the The town promoter role was healthy and aff ordable homes in trict Council’s LTP promotions handout”. TBA, and I believe we will fi nd established in 2000, and aimed our communities,” he said. proposal, with hearings taking “I’ve been here a year now the funding because we have to promote and market Paeroa Council chief executive Lang- place on May 18 and 19. and the fi rst thing I identifi ed a strong case for support,” Sue as an “attractive, innovative ley Cavers said the proposed Submissions to the LTP must was that we must not be de- said.

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A lone bagpiper leads the Thames Anzac parade down Pollen St. Photos: THE VALLEY PROFILE Many took part in the Paeroa parade.

A ﬂ agbearer leads the Paeroa parade. St John take part in Thames.

Hauraki Plains College students take part in the Ngatea parade. A St Joseph’s School student lays a wreath. Hauraki Mayor Toby Adams, centre. Ngatea kids walk in the parade.

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The Kerepehi Brass Band took part in both Ngatea and Paeroa parades.

Hauraki Plains College students and veterans lead the Ngatea parade. The flag is raised at the dawn service in Kerepēhi.

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By KELLEY TANTAU but since we got funding, we haven’t actually done anything first-time festival which active to change the environ- Awas to take the vision of ment in which we live,” Debo- Solarpunk to the streets of rah told The Profile. Thames has been cancelled, “We have been tied up in but those passionate about the governance and funding appli- art movement have ensured the cations, we’ve got ageing vol- vision will endure. unteers, people with competing Solarpunk Aotearoa was priorities, we’ve got Covid anxi- planned for the town in May, ety, and we’ve got deep divides and was to be “in essence, one within our community. big party”, featuring live mu- Deborah MacDonald Brown says although the festival won’t go ahead as planned, Solarpunk will be ever-present sic, exhibitions, creative work- “We’ve got a hugely within the community. Photo: KELLEY TANTAU shops, trade expos, and talks, passionate team, but Deborah said. This new direction was prov- that encouraged people to en- among other community pro- we’ve been tied up in It will be a change for Solar- en possible at a recent Solar- vision a more sustainable and jects and displays. punk Aotearoa’s core team of punk meeting, in which team optimistic future in the face of However, organiser Deborah governance knots ... the 12, who are “divorcing govern- members put in $1000 of their threats from environmental de- MacDonald Brown said since funding process is very ance” and going out on their own money to pay for the trees struction and climate change. Totally Thames - who were difficult.” own, she said. involved in the May planting. The May 9 tree planting presenting the festival - ob- “We’ve got a hugely passion- “We’re wanting to have would celebrate mother earth, - Deborah MacDonald Brown tained $6000 in funding from ate team, but we’ve been tied something happening monthly, Deborah said, and people of the Thames Community Board “So while we’ve cancelled the up in governance knots… and and then at some point in the all ages were encouraged to at- in August to run the event, no festival concept, we’re going to you have this governance struc- future, if somebody wants to tend. action had been taken to better start acting now.” ture so you can receive funds, set up a new governance struc- DETAILS: Mother’s Day Tree the local environment - the fun- A tree planting will take place and the funding process is very ture and do [the festival], we’re Planting, Sunday, May 9, 10am damental ethos of Solarpunk. on May 9 at Burke St Reserve, difficult. open to that.” to 4pm. Meet at Burke St Re- “We as a team are absolutely in Thames, and what will fol- “So, we decided we can do According to Solarpunk serve, by Seagull Refuge Cen- passionate about taking action low in the future will be work- most of what we want without Aotearoa, Solarpunk was de- tre. Bring along your gumboots, to do with the environment, shops, talks, and exhibitions, funds.” scribed as an art movement forks, buckets, and drink bottles.

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By KELLEY TANTAU eight each of dog, cat, and pig. What the results did not pro- orms, freshwater jelly- duce was any evidence that any Wfish, pigs, cats, and hu- galaxiidae or small freshwa- mans have all shown up in DNA ter fish, such as kōkopu, was results pulled from a Thames present in the Karaka Stream, stream. which Mr Balfour expressed What wasn’t found was any shock at. evidence New Zealand native “They should be there, and fish kōkopu and kōaro existed that really stood out for me,” he in the sample area, surprising a said. local conservationist. “I have detected them in Ta- To encourage citizen science, raru Stream and I know they’re The Environmental Protection in the Kauaeranga, so what that Agency (EPA) have sponsored means is by having that big Environmental DNA (eDNA) structure that was downstream kits around the country. of the [Karaka Stream] sample NZ Landcare Trust Waikato site, I suspect that inanga, or catchments co-ordinator Ric whitebait, which are the young Balfour has 10 of these kits, of kōkopu, haven’t been able to worth $200 a pop. get up there.” He will be working with The sample was taken at the catchment groups and land- end of Bella St, upstream from owners across the Coromandel, Thames Hospital, and gathered Hauraki and Matamata-Piako information from up to 1km, to discover what is present and Mr Balfour said. absent in their streams. Another surprising result ABOVE: Thames High School “You collect the water sam- from the pilot was the pres- students work in the Karaka Stream, ple with a syringe, squeeze it ence of torrentfish (panoko) which was the site of a pilot eDNA through a filter which traps the and bullies, such as toitoi, as test. fragments of DNA, and then well as blackbirds and house RIGHT: NZ Landcare Trust Waikato you run about 4-5 litres [of wa- sparrows, of which there were catchments co-ordinator Ric ter] through it. 37 and 11 fragments found, re- Balfour will be undertaking eDNA “That gets bagged up and spectively. tests throughout the Hauraki and Coromandel regions. sent to Wilderlab in Welling- Their presence in the stream ton, and they take 2-3 weeks to could be determined by a drop BELOW: The lack of galaxiids in the analyse it,” Mr Balfour said. of a feather, Mr Balfour said. Karaka Stream surprised test-takers. From a pilot test taken with “This is a very exciting new the help of Thames High School tool that’s going to be available students at Karaka Stream, as part of water quality moni- eDNA results showed 193 frag- toring, and you just wouldn’t ments of oligochaete worm; be able to find half of these spe- 153 fragments of longfin eel; cies by the normal techniques 116 fragments of torrentfish; of fishing with a net or picking and 104 fragments of freshwa- up rocks. ter jellyfish. There were also 71 “This is a whole new level,” fragments of human DNA, and he said. FOR EARTHWORKS FOR CARTING OF

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Ph 07 8685100 – Fax 07 2800724 [email protected] Our team are locals suppor ng locals 24 THE VALLEY PROFILE, April 28, 2021 www.valleyprofile.co.nz Punk’d parade Elaborate costumes, steampunked vehicles and a thousand alter-egos paraded down Pollen St on Saturday morning as part of the 4-day Steampunk the Thames Festival. TERESA RAMSEY captured some of the colour.

Led by the iconic Steampunk train and tractor, the parade drew thousands of visitors into Thames on Saturday.

A sea of red alter egos join the parade.

The parade was fun for all ages.

A steampunked pram. An elaborate mask A steampunk pipe completes this costume. All sorts of steampunked vehicles brightened the parade.

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