Glen Eden Pataka Free Pantry
Media Release:
19h September 2018
Community Pākata Free Pantries coming soon to Glen Eden
There is a movement sweeping New Zealand of community Fruit and Veggie Stalls, Pātakas and or Pantries springing up every day somewhere in the country.
Glen Eden Residents Association have been working with the community to find venues for community Pātaka Free Pantries in Glen Eden.
West Auckland is following the trend with pantries in Te Atatu, Massey, Avondale and Ranui and soon in Glen Eden.
The idea of the Pātaka/Pantry is one of sharing within the community, when you want to give to someone who is needing some food at that time. In turn that person will return when they can, and share with someone else.
There is always someone who for a variety of circumstances finds themselves with a bare cupboard. A visit to the Doctor, a new tyre or a school trip are all things that are unexpected.
Food is not wasted, fruit does not rot under trees, bread is not thrown out in the rubbish, veggies do not go to waste, everything is used and shared with each other.
Glen Eden Residents Association have one stall built by Jonathan Chase at Levelled Up Builders Ltd. as a donation and this will be sited at 28 Aquarius Ave. The second Community Pātaka Free Pantry built by Chris Irving from C I A Electrical and will be sited at 46 Seymour Road, and will be managed by two families working together. The third Pātaka/pantry is situated at 27 Clayburn Road hosted by Caroline and her family. All three Pātaka will open on Sunday 23rd September from 11.00am
There is so much surplus citrus fruit around at present, there will be boxes provided to place your donations in. We will not be taking donations of cooked foods, but would appreciate fruits, vegs, eggs, bread, rolls, buns, baked goods, tinned foods, dry goods like pasta, rice and packet sauces, toilet paper, sanitary items and toiletries.
The Glen Eden Free Community Pataka/Pantries will open on Sunday 23rd September, please put your donations in the pantry.
Take what you need, Share what you can.
Heather Tanguay - 0276995480
Joy Bennett
Penny Hinchelwood
Glen Eden Residents Association
Poll: Should drivers retake the theory test every 10 years?
Drivers get where they need to go, but sometimes it seems that we are all abiding by different road rules (for example, the varying ways drivers indicate around a roundabout).
Do you think drivers should be required to take a quick driving theory test every 10 years?
Vote in the poll and share any road rules that you've seen bent! 😱
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49.5% Yes
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48.6% No
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1.9% Other - I'll share below
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Why make picking up reserved library books harder? What do you think? Challenge: Write the last stanza for the first poem attached below.
Once books are reserved in Auckland Libraries books, when they are available no longer go alphabetically by customer but instead go into a Holds pickup shelf number based presumably somehow on when each book needs to be picked up by.
I had two books reserved that arrived on two different days in the Blockhouse Bay Library and hence each book has a different shelf number. Hard to find unless you knew the shelf number in the notification email. Even if you knew the shelf number I found myself three books by the same author on the two shelf numbers.
More recently yesterday a book I reserved was on a different shelf number than was specified in my notification email (see image below).
Sadly it is clear from library staff that a numerical system for reserves is here to stay.
I suggest that so that all books for each person has the same shelf number, the shelf number becomes the last digit of a person's library card (0-9).
Within each shelf number a book is found under the day the reserve arrives in the library (01 to 31, hopefully the same date the email is sent).
Since a customer appears to have 10 days to pick up a book, ten days of the month would appear to be required at any time (for each digit 0-9).
Once there are 10 days used the next day's reserves could go back at the beginning of the shelf number after any remaining books not collected (hopefully none) are removed (along with the old day number and the new day number (01 to 31) inserted) after the last day available and future days' books remaining moved forward to make room.
Each day number (01-31) would appear once for each shelf number (0-9) before the first book on that day- perhaps cover an old withdrawn book with paper with each day number on the spine?
When a reserved book arrives in the library the last digit of the library card could be placed on a piece of paper in the book to be removed when it is put on the shelf, to be recycled the next day.
What do you think?
See the image below and page 3 below for a letter appearing in the Western Leader on 9 September:
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