JUNE2016 277 BROOKLYN TATTLER what’s happening in your community IN THIS ISSUE from the Coordinator/BCA 2-3 From the Mayor 4 COORDinATOR From the Councillor 5 EUAN HARRis Kaka project 6-7 BROOKLYN COMMunitY CentRE & History 8 VOGELMORN HALL PH 384 6799 What’s On 10-12 [email protected] FOOS / Upstream 14-15 Hi Everyone Winter Health 17 Going to the movies is always a popular Community Groups 18-19 way to spend a winters night, and in Brooklyn we are lucky to have our very own cinema in the village. Recently I View online at saw The Great Maiden’s Blush, a New brooklyncommunitycentre.org.nz Zealand movie filmed in Wellington featuring many local scenes which has Want to receive the Brooklyn received good reviews and is co-produced Tattler by email each month? by Vogeltown resident, Jeremy Macey who Join our mailing list and never miss as well as working in the film industry, is another issue. Email your name to very active in the community, being not Euan Harris at only part of the Vogelmorn Community [email protected] Group but also a member of the Brooklyn Do you have an article or Brooklyn- Community Association who govern relevant infomation? To contribute the Brooklyn Community Centre and to the Brooklyn Tattler please email Vogelmorn Hall. There are some great [email protected] films currently screening and of course the NZ International Film Festival is just around the corner, starting on 22 July. Thank You! Our cover photo is HOLIDAY PROGRAMMes In the two from mural artist Ellen Coup. weeks leading up to the NZ International Film Festival, the Brooklyn Community Centre will be busy running activities (including movie trips) for up to 60 kids per day during our mid-year school Copy Deadline holiday programme starting the Monday for the next Brooklyn Tattler is after School Term 2 finishes on 8 July. 5pm, Wednesday 29 June 2016 We will upload all programme details including enrolment forms on our website at brooklyncommunitycentre.org.nz Brooklyn Tattler is published monthly by You can also contact Adam Hendry for Brooklyn Community Centre more information at the Community 18 Harrison Street, Brooklyn Centre Afterschool Care office on 385 0089 Printed by Pivotal Thames or email [email protected] for 2 JUNE 2016 BROOKLYN TATTLER holiday programme details, and all Before School Care and Afterschool Care enquiries. Adam tells me that Before School Care which looks after Brooklyn School kids from BCA COunCIL 7:30-8:30am is gaining in popularity with up to 17 kids being enrolled at any one time. NEWS DOG OBEDienCE TRAininG The The COMMunitY CentRE building Vogelmorn Green is looking better than exterior is in great shape with the ever, thanks to the re-sowing of new grass which took place during autumn. Recently paintwork and mural completed, I spoke with Damian Nunns who is currently new tint on the office and storeroom working for Hutt City Council as a dog windows and new pansies in the planter control officer. Damian has previously been tubs. It’s wonderful to have the building employed by Wellington City Council in looking ‘happy’ and loved. a similar role and his current job covers much of the Wellington region. Damien THANK YOU to those who have and I discussed the possibility of running volunteered to help with maintenance dog obedience training courses on the work like cleaning out the garage at Vogelmorn Green. There can be up to 10 Vogelmorn Hall and giving our trestle dogs on each course that will be on leads tables a major scrub. We are creating tethered to their owner’s and as the courses an on-call list of locals who can help do are run by dog control officers, the dogs small jobs around the place including will be well controlled. Each course runs baking scones each month for the for 1-1 ½ hours on weekday afternoons monthly market. See Leonie’s volunteer between 1-4:30pm. Damian says the aim ad in this edition. We need you! of the training is to give owners better and more control of their dogs without having BROOKLYN HUB A public meeting to pay expensive fees. If you are interested was held on 29 May to give residents please contact me on 384 6799 or email a first look at the feasibility report on [email protected] a new community ‘hub’. For BCA Council members it is a time to listen TABLE tennis The Brooklyn Table Tennis group meet twice weekly to play in the to what residents want for this village Community Centre’s main hall. People of and community and ensure there is all ages and abilities are welcome to come sufficient knowledge and expertise along either on Tuesday mornings from applied to the process. Our approach 9am to 12pm or on Wednesdays evenings is to continue on with our five year from 8pm. Beginners are encouraged to plan until the Hub project reaches a join. We have just bought a new table which decision point. Brooklyn Community makes playing even more enjoyable and Centre is run by the community for the brings our total number of tables up to four. community and we can only do this Bats and balls are provided. Contact Philip effectively when we work with your for more details on 934 7445 or email him mandate. at [email protected] or just turn up. Kay Miller Have a great month. On behalf of BCA Council members BROOKLYN TATTLER JUNE 2016 3 UPDAte The first five months of 2016 have been from the action-packed for Wellington! MAYOR We’ve hosted very successful events such as CeLIA WADE-BROWN the New Zealand Festival, the Edinburgh Military tattoo, Fringe, Sevens and respectful ANZAC events. Community groups have also been extremely active: the Brooklyn Community Centre has been a hive of activity, and Owhiro Stream and Central Park are looking great thanks to volunteers. 19 – 25 June is Mayor holding the cherished broadsword that was gifted to Wellington City by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Rt Hon Donald Wilson, on the eve National Volunteer of the final Royal Edinburgh Tattoo performance at Westpac Stadium. Week, which celebrates the vital contribution volunteers make to New Zealand’s society, economy and environment. This is a really good reminder to thank people who make time to volunteer. Council decided to extend Smokefree areas across the city. We’ve been discouraging OSCAR approved for smoking in bus stops, public building ages 5-13 entrances, Civic Square, the Botanical •before/after school care Gardens and Council community centres. We want to be the world’s first Smokefree •holiday programmes Capital. •affordable Lastly, local body elections are fast •pick up/drop off available approaching. From 16-21 September voting documents will arrive in your mailbox. St Bernards School Hall Make sure you vote! 40 Taft St [email protected] Ngā mihi mahana. 4 JUNE 2016 BROOKLYN TATTLER UPDAte great ideas; a community driven process is from the likely to be highly successful. Safety issues around Ohiro and Brooklyn roads continue to COunCILLOR concern me. The cost for making these roads IONA PAnnett, WeLLinGTON CitY safer is high but at some point, action will COunCILLOR LAMBTON WARD need to be taken as our budget allows us (as is the case in many other parts of the city). It was wonderful to see the Town Belt Bill passed a few weeks ago after so much work by so many people. This precious bit of land will now be protected for all Wellingtonians in perpetuity 384-3382 / 021-227-8509 including Sector 4, the Brooklyn Hills and [email protected] Section 3, Aro Valley and Polhill Gully. Great to see so much progress on Project After some good work from locals and a Kaka. The commitment of the community review by council officers, we have gone has been impressive and has provided a great back to the drawing board to look at the testing ground for a new model of community capacity needed for the Southern landfill in development that will be able to be used in the future. We now believe that we shouldn’t other parts of the city. Another benefit from provide as much capacity as originally the Kaka project has been to see the ideas planned, preferring to focus on reducing from the community about how to make waste in the first place. Work continues to walking and cycling safer in Brooklyn and be done on a new resource consent and I the wider area. You have come up with some will keep you updated on progress. Adults, Teens and Children – learn traditional Chinese martial arts For: Fitness – Self Defense – Style – Friendship – Class Atmosphere – Family – History – Values – Confidence Shaolin Gao Can Mun Nam Pai Chuan owes its origins to the teachings of Monk Seh Gao Can who became the Abbot of Shaolin Sion Lim Temple in Singapore. The system includes: • Kicking, punching • Locking, throwing, ground work • Shaolin animal styles and weapons • Chi gung, Tai Chi – and more Children’s Classes Adults Classes Mondays: 5.00–6.00pm Mondays: 6.00–8.00pm Fridays: 4.30pm–5.30pm Fridays: 5.30pm–7.30pm Saturdays: 9.00am–10.00am Saturdays: 10.00am–11.30am Contact: Scott Willson 021 187 5006 or [email protected] or just come along to try a free class – wear a T shirt and long trackies. Venue: Tanera Park Hall, Tanera Crescent (off Ohiro Road), Brooklyn. www.shaolinkungfu.co.nz BROOKLYN TATTLER JUNE2016 5 KAKA PROJECT The Brooklyn Hub feasibility study asked, BROOKLYN HUB “Is a hub possible?” and explored whether a single multi-purpose community building PROJECT PuBLIC could be accommodated in our village.