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Your paper Ruined, authentic Community support Are you going 100% local news Carkeek Observatory for Martinborough on a bear hunt? Together we can for heritage listing lock down slow the spread Page 3 Page 9 Page 15 april 2020 MARTINBOROUGHStar | LAKE FERRY | KAHUTARA | PIRINOA | TORA | NGAWI | HINAKURA | FEATHERSTON | WESTERN LAKE Another great Fair With Martinborough This year the Martinborough Fair celebrated its now a plastic bag 44th consecutive year! The Fair has evolved from free town, Rotary a modest 35 stalls and produce trucks to over 500 promoted this stalls from around New Zealand selling a wide initiative to our “Stall holders and range of quality items and attended by over 40,000 the general public. people over the two days. Food was popular in the George and Angus have printed on their footpath a early fairs, and is still so today with a lot of food timely message for passers by. trucks selling ethnic and traditional food. Local produce is particularly showcased at the Fair including olive oil, honey, salami, cheeses, bread, fruit preserves and juices, fresh produce and fudge. The Fair’s reputation is such that the demand for stalls exceeds the space available with waiting Unite against lists now commonplace. We have also increased our efforts” to publicise the fair in advance on the Web and on social media Covid-19 where it has its own website and Facebook page. With Martinborough now a plastic bag free town, Rotary promoted this initiative to our Stall holders and the general public, and also trialled new recycling stations for aluminium cans, plastics and glass. Stall holders helped out by taking their own rubbish home – helping to reduce the overall waste left behind after the Fair. Be kind Other new facilities that were introduced in 2020 included more port-a-loos, a drinking water truck in February, new streets included in the traffic management plans, extra power sockets for stall sites, more disabled parking and a Parents Room at the Waihinga Centre where small children could have a quiet time away from the excitement of the Fair. Stay at All of this could not happen with support from other groups such as the Lions and Inner Wheel so thanks to them for their home ongoing support. The end result is that the Martinborough Fair Charity Trust can make significant donations back to the community consistent with the four avenues of service endorsed by Rotary, namely Community Service, Youth and Vocational, Environment and International. About 80% of the profits are returned to the community to support local organisations, projects and individuals and the remainder is spent overseas in Wash your the South Pacific region. You can find out more about the Fair at https:// hands martinboroughfair.org.nz/fair-information. Tom Wilson Motors Martinborough (06) 306 9565 2 | The Martinborough Star April 2020 FROM THE Dear South Wairarapa, MAYOR We all saw this coming, but it ended up descending on us quicker than expected. DID YOU Given the speed and severity of Covid-19, I fully support the Government’s measures for isolation, in attempt to halt the spread within our community. I had lobbied for us to have reacted even sooner. KNOW? The effectiveness of the measures is now down to you, the public. I’m sure you by now have read and understand the measures and your responsibility to the community. Keep washing your hands, stay at home. Visit www.covid19.govt.nz often to get the latest. We also have a Wairarapa specific CONGRATULATIONS CURRENTLY there Facebook page – Covid-19 Wairarapa updates – for local information which is to Brackenridge on their are one hundred and updated daily, and you may see on there occasionally. twenty years providing a seventeen New Zealand My heart goes out to our neighbours who are in essential services, and risk their wonderful facility for both offshore island cleared local people and visitors. of predators. 2019 was health daily in keeping things running – police, medical staff, essential service staff – we owe you a debt of gratitude. ‘I LIKED IT MORE when the most successful ever - - - Prince Harry moving to breeding year for Kakapo. Council has passed emergency resolutions enacting an Emergency Committee Canada was the biggest THERE ARE eighty to be able to react quickly to issues that may arise over the coming weeks. I will existential crisis we faced eight companies licensed Chair this, and all Councillors are members. as a nation.’ Gaby Hinscliff to bottle water in New Please keep well. We can get through this if we all act in the best interests of in the Guardian Zealand taking 23 billion our community litres a year. The Otakiri IN 1752 in ORDER TO Cheers Mayor Alex line it’s calendar up with plant at Whakatane, which that of Europe Britain is licensed for 25 years, uses deleted a week and a half 3.7 million plastic bottles a from the calendar with day, 1.33 billion a year. COUNCILLOR COMMENTS September the 2 nd being ‘THE DIFFERENCE followed by the 14 th. between successful people Council meeting website www.swdc.govt.nz . The location of the extra Greece kept with the old and others is how long Our council meeting on the 18th March covered a paper versions of the Consultation Document will be calendar until 1923. they spend feeling sorry for number of items and I am going to summarise some advised nearer the time. Unfortunately we won’t be 96% IS THE SIMILARITY themselves.’ Babara Cocoran of these below. able to hold the community workshops as in previous between the Coronavirus ELETRIC CURRENT Recommendation from the Martinborough years. This year, we are needing to be creative and and the Sars virus the ampere is defined Community Board that the Pain Farm House and the think differently. identified in bats in China in terms of the current cottage are rented out separately from the end of the COVID-19 in 2013. required to generate a current lease. This was passed at and will take affect As you will be aware the Prime Minister has moved ‘AS DONALD TRUMP certain force between two from the new lease/rent arrangements. the Alert level for COVID-19 from Level 3 to a Level 4. and Boris Johnson has wires set a metre apart. Two On the 25th March at the emergency meeting of This means that all council staff will be working proven, voters can other units are included from home, should you need to contact anyone, in cheerfully elect a badly in the list: the amount of a Council we appointed the Emergency Committee of behaved candidate, substance in a given sample the Mayor and all councillors and agreed the TOR for the first instance please ring the Council offices on 06 even with considerable is measured in moles this committee to operate during Alert levels 3 and 3069611 and follow the message instructions. ratbaggery priced in. But and luminous intensity is 4 of the COVID-19 emergency. We also noted that If you would like to talk to a Councillor then our prefer to know what kind measured in candelas Local Government is reviewing quorums for these phone numbers & email contacts are below. of ratbag they are dealing 24,767 PEOPLE tried meeting in light of the numbers of councillors able to › Brian (Jeppy) Jephson 0275026198 with’ Jane Clifton to vote at the last election attend meetings. 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The draft first, family next and then neighbours and friends/ of 14 my father was so cost of $200 billion and Consultation Document should be finalised at our colleagues. Please take care and follow any instructions ignorant that I could rising, is costing more April 2nd meeting and then this will be delivered from our Prime Minister and the Ministry of Health. hardly stand to have the that all of the country’s through the Midweek to all households on the 15th Pam Colenso welfare and social security old guy around. But when April. 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