Farmers' Market – a Community
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April 2016 Farmers’ Market – a community hub At a recent Project Wairarapa workshop to nurture resilience and sustainability in our town, I joined interested parties from all backgrounds to nut out ideas, create a framework, and construct an informed plan. We left on a high (too much coffee?) feeling we’d done our bit for the town. It was reassuring to feel the love in the room for the Farmers’ Market and its role in a resilient community and it left me thinking about its future. To date we have grown, overcome obstacles and tried new ideas with an overall goal merely to exist. But what are our core goals and what is our mission? After much contemplation I realised that the market should be about developing a hub – somewhere people can go to share their day. The market isn’t only for stallholders, regular customers or passing visitors. It’s a community event. We love that people can come for many reasons – make or spend some cash, speak on the Toastmasters stand to discuss issues important to them Roger Clarke yarns with Kevin and Jill Shipp at Carterton’s Farmers’ Market. or have a community stall to raise funds or awareness for Photo Don Farr. local causes; even just for somewhere to grab a coffee and say hi to others. We will continue to work with the Project Wairarapa team. Although the Farmers’ Market offers something for everyone within the community, resilience is not just about having food and supplies in an emergency – it also ensures that people interact, and know and support one another. Whether you are a young mum, an entrepreneurial teenager or retiree, come along – there will be others like you in our friendly community. See you at the market on Sunday! Dan Broughton FLAIR CALL IN FOR A FREE MEASURE & QUOTE! 97 - 101 HIGH ST NORTH CARTERTON PH 06 379 4055 www.flooringxtra.co.nz Editorial Disclaimer In October 2015 the Carterton Crier group began production of a new Respecting the past: braving the future publication using with permission the name of The Carterton Crier which had ceased publication. There is no other connection between the two Carterton Football Club are preparing for their annual Past Players’ publications and any debts, responsibilities or obligations of the previous Day on April 16 and also actively working for a new sports hub to publication remain with its publisher. move them into a supportive, more communal future. We take every care with copy and accept responsibility only for proofing Our front page article shows how visionary ideas grow. Dan errors. We are not responsible for incorrect information from contributors. Broughton of the Farmers’ Market went to a workshop on community We reserve the right to edit copy and to make the final decision on content. resilience (also featured in this issue) and thought (and wrote) about the role that the market can play in our town’s resilience. The story so far: It was a dark and rainy night. Private detective Rangitane to Rangatira (r2r) have come up with a slogan for Youth Penny Dreadful was onto something. After seeing a suspicious Week 2016: Giving Back is Giving Forward and they are planning limousine she followed her instincts to the house of creepy, but activities around it. youthfully attired, Mrs Peabody, where she spotted stolen goods The Carterton Council has developed an innovative irrigation through a window. Then, out of the darkness, stepped her old system that uses wastewater which you can see at their open day on nemesis, Sylvester Sly, the detective who had foiled her plans in the April 16. past. But Penny’s sharp brain saw a pattern in the stolen goods. The With her students’ futures in mind, Alison Woollard, Carterton Peabody gang seemed ready to start a money-gouging bridge club! School Principal has equipped four senior classrooms with one Sylvester Sly was small but ambitious. He wanted to infiltrate the Chrome book for each student. Peabody gang. Mrs Peabody was old, dangerous and had a gun. Her Our Sunset Cinema continues to push boundaries with its world dog, Smidge, had taken a shine to Penny Dreadful. Now read on.... class films, both local and international. Dedicated workers at the Historical Society show their respect for Chapter 5 future generations through their care and attention to the records and Sly threw himself backwards, moaning with fright. He hadn’t artefacts of those who went before. actually been shot, but it felt like it! He was furious with that stuck- We feature Carterton Council Library’s ground-breaking book club; up Penny Dreadful. How dare she try to brush him off! He peered Wai Word’s special guest, poet and painter, Pat White; as well as the through the bushes at Mrs Peabody. He could solve this faster than opening of Heart of Arts – Toi Wairarapa’s exciting new hub for our Penny Dreadful. He called, “Mrs Peabody, don’t shoot. It is Slinky Slick creative community. – er – Sly, and I have contacts from the underworld. I am familiar, as We look at people enriching the community through sharing their they say, with how ‘things’ work. I can help you and your gang – ahh time, their hobbies and their interests. – family....” With all of this positive Carterton activity nominations for the Just then Smidge barked loudly, as Penny had told him to. Mrs Charles Rooking Carter awards (also featured) should flood in. Peabody turned, Penny rushed to the window, Sylvester rushed to In this issue you will also find our popular Agony Aunty, What’s On Mrs Peabody and Smidge rushed at Sylvester. Mrs Peabody waved in Carterton and our second-to-last Penny Dreadful story. the gun wildly, shouting, “Stop thief!” Pandemonium reigned! Editor The window was unlatched. Now was Penny’s chance. She squeezed through and there was the proof she needed. Old Mr Snaggletooth’s wicker chair, Dora Tuppy’s tea pot, elderly Miss Eliza Have your say! Delany’s antique clock and Jimmy Snicker’s card table. She whipped Please note that our deadline for the May issue is 25 April. out her cell phone to call for back up just as Mrs Peabody burst through Our word limit: the door, Sylvester hot on her heels, and Smidge close behind. • letters: 200 words To be continued... • articles: 300 words • what’s on items: 50 words. Contributions may be edited. Story Competition Penny Dreadful – the penultimate chapter Congratulations to our winner Anonymous and thanks to our clever entrants. The next chapter will be our last. Read the story and see where your imagination takes it. The wilder the ending, the better! The final winning entry will, as usual, be enhanced by our wacky artist, John Stevenson, whose services are available at reasonable rates to the Carterton community. ([email protected]). We’re online: bookmark us! We’re online, kindly hosted by on the website of CDBI. Please send Chapter 6 – the final chapter – (200 words (Carterton District Business Initiative). Each issue of The maximum) to [email protected] by 5 pm April, 23. Carterton Crier will be posted and stored there, as a pdf file. http://www.cartertonnz.com/crier/ Rangatahi to Rangatira (R2R) Giving back is giving forward Our artwork painted on the treadmills in Carrington Park was created by Rangatahi to Rangatira, Carterton and graffiti artist, Juse, as part of Youth Week 2014. It is of our R2R logo and was created with spray paint, and overlaid with a weatherproof coating. We placed it in Carterton Park to encourage young people to take ownership of the park and feel pride in their community. We created four artworks over the two days with many young people taking part and learning new techniques. The theme for Youth Week 2014 was Be the change, which is also reflected in our r2rcarterton Facebook page! Youth Week 2016 is coming up in May, and the theme for this year is Giving back is giving forward. We are currently planning some activities with this theme in mind! We are back in the Youth Centre every Wednesday from 5.30 pm playing sport, sharing food and planning activities. All young people are welcome to come down and check us out! Our second art workshop will be held on the April 13, 6.30 pm at The Heart of the Arts. Also, with the school holidays coming up we have an awesome, environmentally-focused project in mind – more details to come! Keep an eye on our Facebook page for regular updates and events, www.facebook.com/r2rcarterton. 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