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CoastSummerA few lucky children, and one or two adults, got to jump onboard Coastguard’s Hibiscus Rescue 1 vessel for a chat with Santa Claus at the annual Carols on the Canal event in Gulf Harbour.Families, mainly from the Gulf Harbour area, gathered to share picnics or dine at one of the restaurants alongside the canal, on the calm, fine evening of Saturday December 6, while Christmas music flowed from the band rotunda.The North Shore Brass Academy Band played a set of Christmas favourites, followed by carols sung by the children of Whangaparaoa Primary School’s choir.Santa cruised in on the Coastguard boat and tied up alongside the canal, with children immediately jumping on board to tell him all about their Christmas wishes.The event has been put on for the past 19 years by the Gulf Harbour Marine Village Residents’ Association and includes a gold coin collection for Coastguard Hibiscus.

Looking festiveDestination Orewa Beach’s competition for the best festive window in the town centre was won by Orewa Optics, with Flowers by Joanne second. Judges were looking for window displays that were appealing visually and incorporated the business or its products. Orewa Optics ticked all the boxes, incorporating sparkly glasses and a beachy theme and Flowers by Joanne mixed flowers, toys and Kiwiana.

Santa’s arrival at Gulf Harbour, at twilight was picturesque. Father Christmas was escorted by Coastguard Hibiscus. More photos, www.localmatters.co.nz

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This summer, one of the year’s most popular events, The Big Dig, is taking place right in the thick of the school holidays, on January 17.Other scheduled events and the tides dictate the timing of the event, which involves digging for prize tickets on Orewa Beach. Since the very first Big Dig, in 1980, it has been held at various times over the summer – from straight after Christmas, to early January, Anniversary Weekend and early February.The event is one of the year’s biggest fundraisers for Orewa Lions Club, and all money raised goes back into local community projects.Orewa Lions vice president/secretary Mandy Hebben says the club hopes that the earlier date will ensure that Orewa holidaymakers will still be around and can join in the fun.

Entertainment, in the form of stalls and activities for the children, spills out into Orewa Reserve and this time Mandy says there will be more stalls and low cost activities than ever.They include go carts, bouncy castles, face painting, coconut shy, splat the rat, poppy the clown and more as well as a wide variety of food stalls and quick fire raffles.There will be more than 45 prize draws, with the major prizes including a four-person Family Tent and a kayak.The dig for the under 5s begins at 10.30am, and 5–12-year-old diggers start at 11am.Hibiscus Matters is a proud sponsor of The Big Dig.Orewa Lions Big Dig • Orewa Beach and Reserve • Saturday January 17, ticket sales from 9am

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A chance to enjoy live music in a beautiful setting, while supporting a group that is protecting local bush, is offered by the second annual Okura Forest Festival.Last summer’s festival raised $2500 for Friends of Okura Bush (FOOB) – an organisation that has been working hard over the past 18 months to bring life back into Auckland’s last large stand of mature native coastal broadleaf forest.Contained within the 116 hectare forest is Okura bush walkway – one of the busiest tracks in Auckland, used by 35,000 people per year and member Lezette Reid says FOOB is determined to have the track board-walked, to lessen the impact on the forest floor.“With the need greater than ever to look after our native heritage, it is imperative that the forest is managed correctly,” she says. “We’ve had a huge year of ridding pest flora and fauna with

regular coordinated trapping, weeding and planting, culminating with the removal of 550 rats, 200 possums, 400 mice and 35 stoats,” she says. “Already the native bird life, seedlings and little creatures have increased substantially in and around the forest.”This summer’s Okura Forest Festival is being held on Saturday, February 14 in the park at Okura Hall, Okura River Rd. It features live music and entertainment from 11am–11pm. Bands confirmed so far include Tequilla Sunrise, Desperate Models, 18 Strings and Black Friday.This Council backed event is to raise awareness about local conservation efforts as well as funds.Lezette says the money raised will enable the group to continue acquiring the traps and monitoring equipment necessary for the move towards a pest free Okura bush. Anyone interested in helping, contributing or finding out more, email [email protected]

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More than 100 people enjoyed hearing the first-hand experiences of WWII veterans, who were guests of the Probus Club of Hibiscus Coast at its Christmas lunch at Whangaparaoa Golf Club on December 2.Two of the veterans, Neil Harton aged 97 from Manly and Jim Kelly, 90, from Papakura, were among the nine Kiwi veterans who attended the 70th Anniversary celebrations of the D Day landings at Normandy last June. Also attending the Probus lunch was Robert Shotton, aged 90, from Papakura who served with the British Royal Lincolnshire Regiment.Probus member Graeme McIntosh says that it was remarkable how keenly the veterans recalled the events that took place 70 years ago.“Each mentioned that their experience in returning to Normandy was very emotional and the gesture by the NZ Government in arranging their visit – especially the care taken of them on the trip – was a very real compensation for the indifference that many had experienced when returning home after the war,” Graeme says.Wing Commander Phill Bedford, who headed the NZ contingent on their journey to France, traveled from Wellington to re-join the veterans and be the club’s guest speaker.The Wing Commander acknowledged the work done by the veterans, saying that ‘Operation Overlord’, the code name for the D. Day landings, had fooled the enemy into thinking the evacuation of allied troops across the English Channel was to take place further to the northeast. Around 1100 aircraft were involved, and 54,000 troops were ferried across the Channel in anything that could float. A total of 10,000 personnel were lost on the first day, June 6, and in total, Bomber Command lost 120,000 personnel. New Zealand involvement included the Navy and Airforce.The nine New Zealand veterans at the reunion ranged in age from 89 to 97, and were very well cared for with doctors and nurses in attendance. There was also a Chaplain and Bugler to play the Last Post and Reveille. The veterans said that the Maori personnel were particularly welcomed by the French.The group departed from Whenuapai in an NZ Air Force Boeing 757, modified for the easy loading and

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unloading of freight, which also contains VIP suites. They were due to fly via Darwin, but a volcanic eruption forced a change of plans and a total of 27.5 hours flying time ensued – a long haul for the elderly veterans.The party visited Omaha Beach in Normandy on June 4, which was a dark cloudy day with a cold wind – the veterans noted that this was similar to the weather 70 years previously. Historian Simon Jones was their guide, taking them to gun bunkers and other places of interest. The delegation also visited Bayeux War Cemetery where there are nine headstones of NZ air force personnel, all aged 19 or 20 years. At one event, attended by Prince Charles, 400 paratroopers made a symbolic parachute jump – one of the parachutists had made the same drop 70 years ago, during the D. Day Landings.Another special memory for the veterans was a service in Bayeux Cathedral attended by dignitaries from all over the world. The French people took the Kiwis to their hearts, and it was obvious that this feeling is undiminished today.Her Majesty The Queen spoke at the ceremony at the Cemetery, and every one of the veterans had a chance to speak with her and Prince Philip.The ceremony at Sword Beach on June 6 was attended by many world leaders and a large group of local French children. This symbolism suggested to the veteranas that perhaps there is hope that world leaders may be able to avert future wars.


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Some of the best woodchoppers in the world are coming to Puhoi in January to swing razor sharp axes within metres of a crowd of over a thousand people.The event, held in front of the Puhoi Pub on January 10, will feature world champion woodchopper Jason Wynyard.Jason won the Stihl timbersports series for the 11th time this year and last month was jointly awarded Maori Sports Person of the Year with his son, national basketball star Tai Wynyard.The Stihl championship is broadcast to millions worldwide and has made Jason something of a woodchopping celebrity. He also holds the world record for white pine standing block chop (12.11 seconds) and the single buck chop (9.3 seconds).New Zealanders have dominated the international competition, with Kiwis taking out 16 of the last 18 championships.Taranaki woodchoppers and NZ representatives Jack and Shane Jordan will also return this year.Jack was a highlight of this year’s event, as the lean 17-year-old took out several titles, beating people twice his size with decades more experience.Puhoi Axemen secretary John Sanderson says the event has been called the best one-day chop in the country.“The atmosphere is unbeatable, with the historic pub in the background and the natural amphitheatre of the space. The crowd is right there in the action.“Spectators love the element of danger and seeing the axemen make a difficult task seem easy.“The standing events are booked out two months in advance. I don’t think there’s another woodchop in the country that can say that.”There will be a total of 47 competitors across all events, however the club has been unable to find enough people

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Axe factsPreparing wood for a chopping event takes months of work. The Puhoi Axemen prepare about 500 blocks each year to cover the four events they host, with 230 blocks chopped at the Puhoi carnival.This requires about 40 pine trees, which are donated by members of the public and are milled into standardised blocks by the club.“There’s nothing like the feeling of cutting blocks that you’ve spent months preparing yourself,” Puhoi Axemen secretary John Sanderson says.At the end of the event the cut blocks are donated to elderly people to use as firewood.

for the popular tree-felling event, where woodchoppers cut the top off a trunk while perched precariously on jiggerboards.“A few people have had to pull out because of injuries and we haven’t been able to convince anyone to take their place. I think people are scared. It’s an intimidating event.”Despite the basics of the event being unchanged for 100 years, the sport is making use of the latest technology. The club now uses an iPad app to determine the winner in dead-heats.“In a final, all the competitors might finish within a second. We had to use it several times this year.”

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Derby races a dead certThe future of Soap Box Derby racing on the Hibiscus Coast is looking secure, with a committed group of Rotarians and an experienced event management company on board. Next year’s racing, which takes place on Brightside Rd, Stanmore Bay on March 28 and 29, will be the sixth held on the Hibiscus Coast. The Whangaparaoa event will be held on the Saturday, and the national finals the following day. Race director Terry Clarkson says that the Whangaparaoa Rotarians are committed to the event, which they started in 2008, but keeping it going has been a struggle, and this year there is less Council funding to rely on. However, community support for the Soap Box Derby continues to be solid and this year the experienced team at Event Designers will be running the derby on behalf of Rotary. The Coast races will again include the Corporate trolleys, Masters trolleys and trolleys designed for children with special needs as well as around 16 trolleys for schools and clubs to race. For the first time, the national winner of the Masters races will go to the USA to compete, as well as the Super Stock winner. The funds raised will go to various organisations that support young people with special needs. Anyone interested in sponsorship can contact Terry Clarkson, phone 09 426 5426 or 021 918 980.

Colour, action and excitement are promised at the annual Hibiscus Rodders Beach Festival, which will again take over Orewa on Anniversary Weekend, January 23–25.The festival began in 2010 as a one-day event, and Rodder Sharon Morris says it gets bigger and better every year, attracting massive crowds to view the line up of hot rods and enjoy a range of entertainment.The event is a fundraiser for the Westpac Helicopter Trust and last summer raised a record $18,000.The V8 Rumble, a Grande Parade cruise around Orewa, and even a Westpac Helicopter ‘hover’ down Orewa Boulevard is planned, along with a Drive In Movie at Orewa Reserve, the Miss Orewa Beach Festival and a tug of war between community clubs.Purchasing a $10 programme puts you in the draw for the grand prize of a trip to America that includes hire of a Mustang for four days. Repco is also selling tickets for $4000 worth of equipment with which to ‘Pimp your Garage’, with all funds going to the rescue helicopter service.

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Trees of remembranceRemember loved ones who can’t be with you this Christmas by making a donation to purchase a remembrance card. Write your personal message and hang it on the Hospice Tree of Remembrance. Trees can be found at Farmers and The Plaza in Whangaparaoa, and also at New World in Orewa.

Messages of hope, contained in hundreds of recyclable plastic bottles are now on display on Auckland’s waterfront.The bottles are arranged in a wave formation and each contains a written message of hope or an artwork, from an Auckland school student. A total of 4500 children took part in the project, including Year 7 and 8 students of Whangaparaoa College.The art project was lead by The Roots Creative Entrepreneurs and was designed to provide an opportunity for children to express their feelings of hope

for the Christmas season and beyond.Four members of The Roots worked with students at Whangaparaoa College last month, helping them to prepare their messages. Each message was photographed for viewing on a large screen in the Gantry area of Auckland’s waterfront for the duration of the project. There will also be other activities with an Under the Sea theme, and a market of art produced by Roots members.The sculpture is on display on Auckland’s Waterfront Gantry from December 5 to January 25.

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Shane Hales and the Shadz will have you dancing in the New Year, when they perform at the Silverdale RSA’s New Year’s Eve Dance Party.Benny Award winner Shane Hales has been in the entertainment industry for 50 years and is best known for his 1969 hit St Paul. The Shadz formed to play Shadows music and when Shane sang Cliff Richard songs with them one day,

Shane and the Shad was born. Although a tribute to Cliff and the Shadows is part of their set, they also play a variety of other music. This year the Shadz were named Top Group for 2014 by the Variety Artists of New Zealand.The New Year’s Eve Dance Party is at the RSA in Vipond Road on December 31 from 7.30pm until late. Tickets on sale at the RSA bar.

The trade section of next month’s annual Warkworth A&P Lifestyle Show is shaping up to be well-supported with a greater number of exhibitors than usual.Show secretary Marjorie Blythen says she has been pleasantly surprised by the number of enquiries from businesses in the north, particularly businesses based in Whangarei and Dargaville.The 148th show will be held on Auckland Anniversary weekend, January 24 and 25.More than 7000 people are expected to go through the gates for the family-friendly event, which is becoming a showcase of rural life in Auckland’s north.Traditional events on the Saturday include the animal classes such as cattle, dairy goats and alpaca competitions, sheep shearing, sheep dog trials and the

hugely popular Puhoi Axemen.In the main arena, as well as the trade sites, there will be a Village Market which was introduced last year. Entries for the home grown produce, cake decorating and floral art exhibits in the Indoor Section are welcome, and there will be a food and wine section.Other attractions include live music, the Warkworth Pipe Band, miniature ponies, a petting zoo, a dance display and the popular sheep racing, as well as children’s sideshows and the Fairy Princess and Pirate competitions.Show jumping classes on the equestrian field will be held on the Sunday.Anyone interested in securing a trade stall should contact the A&P office on 09 422 2052.Information about the show is also available on their facebook page at Warkworth A&P Lifestyle Show.

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Rodney MP Mark Mitchell’s New Year’s resolutions are a mix of parliamentary, personal and recreational – they are: to increase pressure for the delivery of Penlink, getting fit and defending the Parliamentary Rugby World Cup title.

Busy business woman Hellen Wilkins of Destination Orewa Beach says she wants to keep her New Year’s resolution achievable: “Although I enjoy every aspect of my life and the variety of roles it entails, I need to offload a few aspects to give me a better work/life balance. More time with the children after school and less time at after work meetings is the key I think.”

Locals share hopes for 2015Lorraine Sampson of the Silverdale Commercial Residents & Ratepayers Association, below, says she enjoys keeping fit and knows how important it is, especially as you get older. She is already a regular at Pilates, but one of her resolutions is to go for an hour’s walk every day.

Hibiscus & Bays Local Board deputy chair Greg Sayers waxed lyrical when asked about his hopes for the New Year: “To banish doubt, worry and fear, and to grow in love, peace and cheer.”

Olympian Barbara Kendall revels in a challenge, and so it should be no surprise that her New Year’s resolution is to “try and have four new experiences in 2015 that stretch my comfort zone”. What is a surprise, however, is what is beyond her comfort zone – she gives the example of “taking singing lessons”!


Why less is more at ChristmasIt’s that time of year again, when we Coasties soak up the sun, get out on the boats, kayaks and stand-up paddle boards, swim with the dolphins that have been gracing our beaches lately, and enjoy nature. Mixed into our DNA is our love for the outdoors, and with Christmas fast approaching it is time to sit back and think about the products we are purchasing and the effects the silly season has on the environment. That’s right, I am talking about sustainability, and how we can easily take steps during this time of year (if not all year round) to reduce our consumption and our impact on our beautiful planet.With the Hibiscus Coast Branch of Forest and Bird’s most recent project, Pest Free Peninsula, really taking off, many people are engaging with us to help get rid of unwanted pests. This has prompted me to provide you with some helpful tips so you can show your support in a different way.There are multiple ways to become more sustainable during the festive season with minimal effort. Christmas doesn’t have to be a time of wasteful excess and with a bit of thought and some careful planning you have an eco-friendly Christmas that doesn’t cost a fortune. I have put together some ideas to get you started: y Consider making your own presents. Your family and friends will love all the effort you have put in creating something unique and tailored to them. I have made my own presents for the past two years and my family raves about it. Think homemade baking, an art piece, a board game – the list is endless.

y Give to charity instead of buying presents for one another. Oxfam has an excellent range of items you can purchase that go to those in need, from organic bananas, to a goat, or safe water packs. You can give your loved ones a card detailing the present you brought them and your donation goes to those who need it most. This really is an excellent gift idea.

y Give a native plant, such as a kowhai, corokia or five finger that, when it has grown, will feed our wonderful birds.

y Or even consider purchasing a trap or bait station to rid someone’s backyard of rats and possums so when they are sitting on their deck they will be surrounded by tui and bellbirds.

By making just one small change in order to reduce waste or recycle, you are helping to protect our environment and that’s one thing we can all be grateful for at this time of year.

Green scenewith Karen Field, Hibiscus Coast Forest and Bird chair, [email protected]

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