So much family fun on offer across two Winter festivals - check it out!
The July school holidays are jammed packed with fun - not just for locals but your visiting friends and family too!
Just some top picks are:
- Ice skating on real ice in the WBS Carterton Heart of Winter Festival (Book your hour long session at the Events Centre or on the festival website) www.cartertonec.co.nz...
- The Amazing Race Star Tour - Sunday 11ith at the Events Centre. Ideal for kids aged 8-12.
- Matariki fun activities day from 1pm at Cobblestones on Saturday 10th from 1pm - learn traditional games , try stilts, hobby horses, quoits, hula hoops and enjoy yummy food (entry by koha)
- Main Street Glow, Greytown - every night in July, Greytown's Main Street will be glowing with spectacular projections and lighting displays. The lights are on from 5pm, but look their best from 6pm.
FESTIVAL FUN -full details on both festivals are here:
www.cartertonec.co.nz...
www.greytownvillage.com...
⚠️ DOGS DIE IN HOT CARS. If you love them, don't leave them. ⚠️
It's a message we share time and time again, and this year, we're calling on you to help us spread that message further.
Did you know that calls to SPCA about dogs left inside hot cars made up a whopping 11% of all welfare calls last summer? This is a completely preventable issue, and one which is causing hundreds of dogs (often loved pets) to suffer.
Here are some quick facts to share with the dog owners in your life:
👉 The temperature inside a car can heat to over 50°C in less than 15 minutes.
👉 Parking in the shade and cracking windows does little to help on a warm day. Dogs rely on panting to keep cool, which they can't do in a hot car.
👉 This puts dogs at a high risk of heatstroke - a serious condition for dogs, with a mortality rate between 39%-50%.
👉 It is an offence under the Animal Welfare Act to leave a dog in a hot vehicle if they are showing signs of heat stress. You can be fined, and prosecuted.
SPCA has created downloadable resources to help you spread the message even further. Posters, a flyer, and a social media tile can be downloaded from our website here: www.spca.nz...
We encourage you to use these - and ask your local businesses to display the posters if they can. Flyers can be kept in your car and handed out as needed.
This is a community problem, and one we cannot solve alone. Help us to prevent more tragedies this summer by sharing this post.
On behalf of the animals - thank you ❤️
2025: The Year of Puzzling It Out!
There’s a one-story house where everything is yellow.
The walls are yellow, the doors are yellow, and even the furniture is yellow.
What colour are the stairs?
Do you think you know the answer to our daily riddle? Don't spoil it for your neighbours! Simply 'Like' this post and we'll post the answer in the comments below at 2pm.
Want to stop seeing riddles in your newsfeed?
Head here and hover on the Following button on the top right of the page (and it will show Unfollow) and then click it. If it is giving you the option to Follow, then you've successfully unfollowed the Riddles page.
We're talking new year resolutions...
Tidying the house before going to bed each night, meditating upon waking or taking the stairs at work.
What’s something quick, or easy, that you started doing that made a major positive change in your life?
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