Safety Driving Waitati Curve Realignment Project by the Editors the New Zealand Transport Agency Expects to Environment

Doctors Point, Waitati, Evansdale, Warrington, Seacliff 1 June 2010 Safety driving Waitati curve realignment project by the editors The New Zealand Transport Agency expects to environment. They say another key safety benefit begin realigning the tight curve in State Highway will come from the store being accessed from 1 at Waitati early next year. The work will involve Harvey St, where the speed limit is only 50km/h. shifting the Blueskin General Store to a new site The new store will have improved parking, turning next to the Blueskin Nursery, on land occupied by areas for cars, buses and trucks. the existing highway. The Harvey St intersection Because the store cannot be permanently into Waitati will also be upgraded. relocated to its new site until the highway works NZTA says the aim of the project is to are complete, NZTA will build a temporary store improve highway safety by aligning the curve so on Harvey St between the former hall and Gallery it is more compatible with the rural (100km/h) on Blueskin. As part of the project, there will be Local Identity will be improvements to adjacent QEII covenant area. The missed intersection has been designed so the registered oak tree and adjacent beech tree are not affected. The project will provide car pool parking and bus bays. Some sections of the highway not required for realignment will be made available for parking. NZTA expect the project to cost $3.5M-$4M, and construction is planned to commence in January 2011 and to be completed by December 2012. NZTA will lodge consents for this work in July. It is intended that these will be publicly notified so people will have an opportunity to review them and make a submission if they wish. The NZTA will hold a public information evening in Waitati, at which residents can gain a better insight of the project. NZTA will announce details about this evening in Blueskin News. NZTA will place further information on this project on their website www.nzta.govt.nz in early June. * NZTA project manager: Simon Underwood, phone Dunedin 955 2938, "Inserted on behalf of the community email [email protected] (Photo by Alasdair Morrison)" June 2010 Blueskin News 1 BLUESKIN PLAYCENTRE NEWS Successful Jumble Sale by Mikaela Wilson Big “send-off” for local identitiy Another successful jumble sale was held in by the editors the Waitati Hall on Sunday May 23. We had a wonderful time with the café, BBQ, face painting, Waitati streets were chokka on Friday 21 March books, games and jumble. We would like to thank as mourners attended a memorial celebration for everybody who participated in the many ways Terry Sheppard, castle builder and keen cricketer, that made this event possible. among his many talents, who recently died in Blueskin Playcentre is a wonderful tragic circumstances. An obituary will follow in environment where parents and children learn the next 'Blueskin News'. and grow together. It takes a whole community to raise a child and we have some beautiful, inspiring and curious children in ours. New Boards of Trustees elected The money raised at this event contributes by Peter Dowden towards new equipment, maintenance of existing equipment, educational toys and other resources. Local schools have completed their Board of Thank you to those who have supported Trustees elections. The parent representatives for Blueskin Playcentre by donating these generous Waitati School are Nathan Clarke, Antony Deaker, gifts and vouchers. We are very grateful for your Boris Baeumer, Bruce Muldrew and Tania Turei. support. They include: Utopia Dynamic Health, The parent representatives for Warington School The Monarch Boat, Albatross Colony, Orokonui are Mark Familton, Anthony Lobb, Eric Neuman, Ecosanctuary, Sonny Chin - Therapeutic massage, Rachel Ozanne and Lynley Verkerk. Each board Blueskin Library, Gallery on Blueskin, Blueskin also includes the principal and another staff Nursery, Taste Nature, Mandy Mayhem-bubble member. bath, Karan Snow,Whitcoulls, Toyworld, Boardbase, Arthur Barnetts, Dive Otago and Waitati carvers. The raffle will be drawn on June 1 at Playcentre. BLUESKIN NEWS Published not-for-profit by volunteers of Blueskin Media on the 1st of each month, February to December, 600 copies distributed around Seacliff, Warrington, Evansdale, Waitati and Doctors’ Point. Additional copies available at Blueskin General Store, Blueskin Bay Community Library and Warrington Post Office Boxes. 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Produced and distributed this month with the help of: Craig Marshall, Louise Booth, Lynnaire Johnston, Peter Dowden, Polly Higham, Coleen Hastie, Kelvin & Bev Lyon Milk Vendors, Blueskin General Store, Gallery on Blueskin, the Contributors and Advertisers. Printed by North East Otago Computing, Hampden. 2 Blueskin News June 2010 WARRINGTON RESERVE GROUP by Karen Hobday Warrington Domain Planting Day this year is We are also looking at tidying up the uneven Sunday June 13 at 10am. Come join us, create parking area at the end of the vehicle track to the beautiful areas of native plants, attracting birds north end of the beach, below the Esplanade. and providing shelter. Bring a spade if you have We want to level out the big puddles so there is one, friends and family, all ages welcome. We will more space for parking, since many people now start at the main planting site across from the use this access point. We need to retain access for playground . We hope to have enough people to surf club and boat launching, but we have received plant out some new sites as well. As always, we lots of complaints about the numbers of vehicles will have hot drinks and biscuits for you all, and parking and driving on the beach during tourist/ a smoko table if you want to bring food to share. holiday season. We are considering a simple chain A long term planting plan is to add native plants gate across the narrow beach end of the track, along the edges of the roads to the beach and bay, which would be easy to open for beach access, and around the domain. Planting sites will be but may encourage our many visitors to park where there is an existing vegetation line, so the here instead of on the beach. What do you think? overall look of the domain won’t change. We will Lastly, a explanation for any confused readers of retain existing plants, and replace weeds with new our column. In March and April, our contribution native plants to create a more varied and beautiful to ‘Blueskin News’ was presented under a Waitati boundary to the grassed open areas and roadside. Reserve heading, a wee mistake at the editorial stage, We are excited to report that we have some and in May our column and poster disappeared funding for the long-awaited notice board/ in cyberspace, something that has been known to information area, from Telecom via the DCC. happen from time to time in our Warrington area! We are now at the stage of design, quotes, and We like your feedback. Let us know if you then securing any additional funding if needed. have any ideas, or queries about any of our You may remember that we asked the community, projects. We have a box at Blueskin Store if via ‘Blueskin News’ in June 2007, where you you want to drop off a written suggestion. would most like this information site. There Warrington Reserve Group: Karen Hobday, 482 2762 was a clear preference for the grassed area near the playground, where the road divides to go to the surf club and the bay. We plan to make this an attractive area, with plants and sculpture, as well as information on our area and wildlife. The design will include space for permanent displays, seasonal information about wildlife, and an area for local notices relevant to beach and domain. everything printed here appears on our website as it arrives, in full colour, with clickable links and in searchable form June 2010 Blueskin News 3 ART REVIEW by Nigel Yates Fourteen 'photograms' by Jacob Feenstra featured in the May exhibition 'Subject to Change' at Gallery on Blueskin (7-30 May). The photogram is a very early form of photographic printing that can only be accomplished in a traditional 'wet' darkroom, an increasingly rare place with the advent of digital photography. The technician places an object straight onto photographic paper and exposes it to light for a pre-determined amount of time, and then processes the paper in developer and fixer. The result is a silhouette. Jacob's prints are of common and unusual objects found on local beaches, such as a glove in one print, and a seahorse in another.The prints are monochrome (black and white), although several have small patches of colour added and one has had selective sepia toning. The photogram process naturally delivers rich, deep blacks and bright whites, with few middle “RONDO” photogram by Jacob Feenstra tones.

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