MAY 2017 287 BROOKLYN TATTLER what’s happening in your community Brooklyn Scouts What’s On Winter Health Community News From the Library Brooklyn History Community Groups A five week course for parents starts on IN THIS ISSUE from the Tuesdays in the Brooklyn Community Centre’s RSA room from 10am to 12pm. Coordinator/BCA 2-3 BCA News coordinatOr The course is called your parenting act. From the Councillor 4 EUAN HARRis ACT is short for Acceptance and A longstanding member of our Brooklyn Scouts 5 brooklyn cOmmunity centre & Commitment Therapy. For more info community, Dave Fowler vOgelmOrn hall ph 384 6799 contact Amanda Jack on 021 0291 4453 or died suddenly in late April. History 6 [email protected] Residents’ Association 7 email: [email protected] Hi Everyone, Our condolences to Barbara, their Health News 8 On Fridays from 11:30am in the main hall, two children and wider family. From the Library 9 Old hall gigs We have just ended a special dance classes for 3 and 4 year olds busy month at Brooklyn Community What’s On 10-11 will run for 30 minute sessions. Called For those who knew Dave, a ‘Book Centre and Vogelmorn Hall. The special rocking popping bods, each session of Memories’ is available in the foyer Resource Centre News 12 music only evening concert hosted by aims to create a cool music motion class for of the Brooklyn Community Centre, Friends of Owhiro Stream 14 Old Hall Gigs at Vogelmorn Hall on preschoolers and their parents by rocking 18 Harrison St, to write stories Upstream 15 Saturday 22 April sold out quickly to a routines to pop tunes. Free taster class and messages. This will be given to capacity crowd of 160 and was enjoyed Community Groups 18-19 5 may 11:30am. The 8-week term Barbara at the end of May. by many of the people I spoke to. You begins the following Friday. Phone: 021 can view a great photo of the Vogelmorn Thank you! Anneleah 050 3075 Email: rockingpoppingbods@ There will be a special tribute to Hall interior on the Old Hall Gigs website Thornburrow for our cover gmail.com or on Facebook: https://m. Dave in the June Tattler. at www.oldhallgigs.co.nz Old Hall Gigs photo. Brooklyn Scouts youth facebook.com/rockingpoppingbods/ runs concerts in Wellington’s character and leaders on ANZAC morning. buildings. As well as Vogelmorn Hall, At Vogelmorn Hall on the corner of Kay Miller, on behalf of BCA Council Honoured to be part of the concerts have been held locally at the Vennell Street and Mornington Road service, they lined up outside Harrison Street Brooklyn Scout Den in no lights no lycra is running the Scout Hall - Cubs and June 2015 and the Wellington Swords Club fortnightly on Wednesday evenings. Make Scouts, youngest to oldest, two Want tO receive the Hall on Tanera Crescent during November sure you are there just before 8pm, as the by two, ready to march up to brooklyn tattler by 2016. Photos of these gigs are online. doors close at 8pm sharp. The sessions are the Brooklyn ANZAC service. held in the dark, so you can dance with email each mOnth? Their morning was full of dawn new ActiVities There are several new nobody watching. This month’s dances Join our mailing list and service (for some), sandwich activities starting this term at Brooklyn are on 10 & 24 May. More details on never miss another issue. making (for most), and setting Community Centre and Vogelmorn Hall. their Facebook page. www.facebook.com/ Email your name to Euan Harris up the service (everyone). During the first week of May three new NLNLWellington/ Don’t type in Brooklyn, coordinator@ groups begin at Brooklyn Community unless you want the sessions in New York. brooklyncommunitycentre.org.nz Centre including kangatraining in Copy due by the main hall on Mondays 10:15 -12 If you’re an early riser, then Wild Workouts 5pm, Friday 26 May 2017 vieW Online complete postnatal workout, focused have twice weekly fitness Boot Camps brooklyncommunitycentre.org.nz for the May Brooklyn Tattler on re-strengthening the pelvic floor and starting at Vogelmorn Hall on 23 May Email your contribution to: abdominal muscles after pregnancy. at 6am each Tuesday and Thursday. [email protected] The workout can be done while wearing Sessions run for 45 minutes and are fun HAVE AN ARticle your baby in a carrier – so no need classes open to people of all fitness levels. Or PHOtO? Or Brooklyn-relevant information? Brooklyn Tattler is published monthly by for a babysitter. Contact Hannah on Register online at www.wildworkouts. Brooklyn Community Centre 021 030 6981 or visit her Facebook co.nz to secure your place or email: duck@ To contribute, email 18 Harrison Street, Brooklyn page: https://www.facebook.com/ wildworkouts.co.nz or 027 528 6833. [email protected] Printed by Pivotal KangatrainingWellingtonCentral/ 2 MAY 2017 BROOKLYN TATTLER BROOKLYN TATTLER MAY 2017 3 update BROOKLYN scOUTS public-inputs/consultations/open/waste- from the management-and-minimisation-plan Submissions close 18th May. Brooklynites FUN & DELICIOUS! cOuncillOr iOna pannett, WellingtOn city may be particularly interested in this topic CouncillOr lambtOn Ward given the location of the city’s landfill. 021-227-8509 Have your say on issues like whether we [email protected] should have an organic collection (green A recent waste waste and food), lobby the government audit shows on a tax on plastic bags, regulate the way that there is a waste companies collect our waste and lot of room for share waste services with other councils. improvement in the way we This issue is all the more topical because manage waste in this city. Compared to of recent publicity around pollution other major cities, we put out more waste in the Owhiro Stream. I am working and recycle less. actively with the Regional Council on the issue as they regulate the landfill owner. "We empower youth through adventurous We added our own twist - nutella rolls and As I write this, we are undertaking Ensuring that waste doesn’t end up in experiences to lead lives that make fairy bread! The sandwich platters were consultation on a new Waste Plan for the the stream also is a matter that requires a positive transferred to the Community Wellington Region to change this situation. further attention. A big thanks to the hard difference". This Centre where the Scouts then got More information can be found here: working volunteers who are protecting this was definitely in to work setting chairs out. 10am http://wellington.govt.nz/have-your-say/ stream. More to follow next month. action on ANZAC and it was time to get ready for Day morning. the Service. 400-500 guests Our scouting law -" Have Respect, were expected for Do Whats Right, Be Positive" was CARPET refreshments after visible throughout the morning the Anzac Service as our Scouts and Leaders at Brooklyn School actively participated in the food LAYER and Brooklyn preparation, service and then at the Installation of new or Scouts was asked community centre, being helpful second hand carpets. to prepare the where they saw Relays, repairs and sandwich platters. an opportunity with a friendly maintenance. Early on Anzac and positive Day morning, All materials can be attitude. supplied. with sun Free quotes streaming in the Yours in Scouting, windows, our scout hall in Harrison Anneleah Call John at Street was converted into an awesome Thornburrow, Atkinson Flooring on sandwich making production line. Brooklyn Scout 0274 426 915 Youth and parents worked side by Group, or 04 381 2216 side to convert 25 loaves of bread and Committee fillings into a delicious array of platters. Chairperson 4 MAY 2017 BROOKLYN TATTLER BROOKLYN TATTLER MAY 2017 5 HISTORY by Chris Rabey BRAI • Pedestrian & cycle safety at Brooklyn brooklyn Road/Ohiro Road intersection: Issue report completed (February). residents • Traffic counts completed (March). • Intersection modelling & feasibility assOciatiOn (progressing). Complete concept The Ohiro Rd development hearing was drawings (to do). scheduled for Tuesday 2 May and BRAI • Repaving and installation of advance stop were due to make an aural submission boxes at the traffic lights: Has been put as the Tattler went to press. Concerns off until further notice due to weather. include bush clearance in excess of what • Installation of a cycle fix it stand in should have been permitted and potential the Brooklyn town centre: Council are effects on Owhiro Stream. considering possible locations to install one. Wellington water are awaiting geotechnical Next meeting 7pm Wednesday 21st June investigations and design solutions for at the Brooklyn Resource Centre. All are drainage issues on Connaught Terrace that welcome, it would be great to see you there. Ashton Fitchett, remembered attending Charles Seagar was a prominent have seen a section of footpath hoarded off school there). This was opened in 1911. Get in touch here to join our email list: Wellington engineer, and later on his son following recent storm events. [email protected] Edward, became an equally well known Edward Seagar's presence in the area WCC have provided some updates via the Or Facebook: https://www.facebook. engineer in his own right. was well known, Ashton A2B group (Active to Brooklyn): com/brooklynresidentswellington Edward was a long time Fitchett's grandfather, resident of Ohiro. He was Ashton Buddle, was a living in the area when it frequent visitor to his house still comprised farming and they were close friends. estates, in a rambling house on the hill, shown When the tramway was in the photograph, and built to link Brooklyn where the Manston Flats with the City, a loop was are situated now.