Parkvale, Hastings

Wondering about something in your neighbourhood?

Wondering about something in your neighbourhood?

Whether it's a new building going up or a strange noise you keep hearing, ask your neighbours here.

2535 days ago

Catch a selfie with Santa this weekend...

Harvey Norman

Hey neighbours, did you know that you and the kids can catch Santa at your local Harvey Norman this weekend? Head in store for a FREE 6x4 photo with Santa between 11am – 2pm this Saturday and Sunday. If you're still looking for the perfect gift for friends and family, grab a Santa Photo … View moreHey neighbours, did you know that you and the kids can catch Santa at your local Harvey Norman this weekend? Head in store for a FREE 6x4 photo with Santa between 11am – 2pm this Saturday and Sunday. If you're still looking for the perfect gift for friends and family, grab a Santa Photo pack! Find out more about Santa's visit here.

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2535 days ago

Update on 'Sleepover' post

Jude from Havelock North

Recently  I  posted  regarding  someone  to  spend    nights  with  a  friend  of  mine -   which  was  what  was  needed  at  the  time.   However  circumstances    have  changed  and  her  Daughter -in-Law  is  now  wanting  a   LIVE-IN   person  to  … View moreRecently  I  posted  regarding  someone  to  spend    nights  with  a  friend  of  mine -   which  was  what  was  needed  at  the  time.   However  circumstances    have  changed  and  her  Daughter -in-Law  is  now  wanting  a   LIVE-IN   person  to  assist  with  care  and  provide  companionship  for  her  Mother-in-Law  who  is  a  delightful,   humorous  lady  in  her   90's.   She    just  wants  to  spend  the  time  she  has  left  in  this  world  in  her  own   familiar   surroundings.    Care workers  call  in  3  times  a  day  at  the  moment  and  that 's  something  that  could  be  incorporated  into  the  arrangement.      If  you  are  interested  in  providing  the  security   she  needs  to   stay  in  her  own  home  then  please  give   Cathie  a  call   on      0274815425.  Thanks     : )

2536 days ago

COMMUNION

Elma Pienaar from St Columba's Presbyterian Church

Two communion services on Sunday. 8am Communion and quarterly communion service at 10.00am. All welcome.

2536 days ago

Your Homed intro...

Colleen O'Hanlon Reporter from Homed

Hi there, it's nice to 'meet' you. You might be new to Homed so I thought I'd let you know we're the new-ish kid on the block when it comes to serving up inspiring ideas for your home and outdoor spaces.

We'd love to hear from you - especially if you have a … View more
Hi there, it's nice to 'meet' you. You might be new to Homed so I thought I'd let you know we're the new-ish kid on the block when it comes to serving up inspiring ideas for your home and outdoor spaces.

We'd love to hear from you - especially if you have a fabulous or interesting home you'd like to share with your neighbours and our audience.

Otherwise, stay posted for great ideas coming your way. You can find us at www.homed.co.nz... and hear a little more from me in the video.

Bye for now.

2536 days ago

House for sale - Mahora

Jane from Mahora

www.trademe.co.nz...
Friend of mine / just helping them out :)
It is a pretty nice place I must say!

Negotiable

2536 days ago

Parcel Leave - for first time delivery

NZ Post

Are you buying gifts online this festive season? You can make sure they arrive at your place first time with Parcel Leave. Simply tell us where to leave your parcel if you can’t be home to sign for it. It could be in the playhouse, under the BBQ, next to the shed or anywhere else that’s nice … View moreAre you buying gifts online this festive season? You can make sure they arrive at your place first time with Parcel Leave. Simply tell us where to leave your parcel if you can’t be home to sign for it. It could be in the playhouse, under the BBQ, next to the shed or anywhere else that’s nice and dry.
Sign up for Parcel Leave now.
Sign up for Parcel Leave

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2536 days ago

The Neighbourly Christmas Elves have gone NUTS

The Team from Neighbourly.co.nz

Sleigh bells are ringing and the end of the year is approaching. We've been celebrating the lead up to Christmas by giving away sacks of goodies to our members! Today is day THREE of our 12 days of Christmas celebrations...

Make sure you keep checking our Christmas Blog each day to see if … View more
Sleigh bells are ringing and the end of the year is approaching. We've been celebrating the lead up to Christmas by giving away sacks of goodies to our members! Today is day THREE of our 12 days of Christmas celebrations...

Make sure you keep checking our Christmas Blog each day to see if you, or your neighbour have won something special from us!
Are you a winner?

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2536 days ago

Catering

Jude from Flaxmere

Hi all, looking to find a caterer for a small wedding next year in Hastings area, nothing fancy, just wondering if anyone knows of any organisations or clubs that do this as a fundraiser eg: kindergartens etc. Cheers

2537 days ago

Family Christmas Celebration

The Team from St John's Presbyterian Church

Children of all ages and adults are invited to a special celebration at St John's Presbyterian Church, 608 Frederick Street, Hastings, at 4:00pm on 24 December.

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2537 days ago

Join our Christmas 1 day sale celebrations this Thursday

SuperValue New Zealand

Hi neighbours! As part of our Christmas celebrations, we're holding a Christmas 1 DAY SALE this Thursday 7th Dec! Pop in and see us to get a whole heap of awesome savings and gear up for the festive season ahead. We have Ryans cooked ham for $7.99 kg, Bouton D'or cheese for $1.99 each, … View moreHi neighbours! As part of our Christmas celebrations, we're holding a Christmas 1 DAY SALE this Thursday 7th Dec! Pop in and see us to get a whole heap of awesome savings and gear up for the festive season ahead. We have Ryans cooked ham for $7.99 kg, Bouton D'or cheese for $1.99 each, plus loads more. We look forward to seeing you in-store! Find out more

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2537 days ago

Water restrictions

Communications from Hastings District Council

Hot weather has meant outdoor water use has ramped up. To fulfil consent requirements and make sure we all have access to the water we need restrictions have come in today. Water gardens every second day and in the evening or early morning.

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2537 days ago

Are you concerned about violence in New Zealand?

White Ribbon

Our young men are being exposed to violence and pornography in ever increasing amounts, and it is changing the way our young men think, and what they perceive is normal behaviour. Will you help us RAISE OUR BOYS by talking about Respectful Relationships and Respectful Sexual Relationships?

Find … View more
Our young men are being exposed to violence and pornography in ever increasing amounts, and it is changing the way our young men think, and what they perceive is normal behaviour. Will you help us RAISE OUR BOYS by talking about Respectful Relationships and Respectful Sexual Relationships?

Find out how to talk to your sons and use our Toolboxes at www.whiteribbon.org.nz or watch the film ‘Raise Our Men’ which provides an insight into how men are socialised into using violence. Help us end men’s violence towards women now.
Download the Toolboxes

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2537 days ago

Christmas in Taradale

Linda from Raureka

Taradale businesses are celebrating Christmas in Taradale and you are invited !!

Gloucester Street and the Lee Road carpark will come alive with entertainment, displays, giveaways, market stalls and loads of FREE children’s entertainment for the day.

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Come on down and … View more
Taradale businesses are celebrating Christmas in Taradale and you are invited !!

Gloucester Street and the Lee Road carpark will come alive with entertainment, displays, giveaways, market stalls and loads of FREE children’s entertainment for the day.

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Come on down and enjoy some of the great activities with the family;

• Santa will arrive in style and be escorted down Gloucester Street then be in the Lee Road carpark from 10am to 12noon - make sure get a photo and put your Christmas order in.
• FREE Parking
• FREE Face-painting
• FREE Bouncy Castle
• FREE candy floss with the team from ASB Bank Taradale
• Balloon Animals and fairy wonderfulness with Fairy Rosebud
• Giant Bubbles with Bubbles in the Bay
• All our wonderful Cafés and Restaurants will be open and offering plenty of yummy treats to satisfy the celebratory mood.
• Entertainment from the Napier Pipe Band , Sounds of Hawkes Bay Chorus and more.
• Meet the gorgeous ponies from Pony Hire Meeanee Road.
• Get some early Christmas shopping with loads of Market stalls in Gloucester Street including hand crafts, gifts, Soy Candles, jewellery, gift baskets, plants, Christmas raffles, Lions Christmas Cakes, shop special tables and much much more.
• The Christmas Shoppe is open in the Taradale Town Hall from 10am – 4pm with Santa visiting from 12noon – 1pm.

While in town make sure you take a stroll up Gloucester Street and take-a-look at the Wooden Christmas Tree Community Art Project and enter the People’s Choice award. Thirty-nine gorgeously decorated Wooden Christmas Trees will be on display giving Taradale a real festive feel, thanks to the schools, individuals and artists who decorated them. By voting for your favourite you could WIN $100 of Resene Vouchers for yourself and $200 worth of Resene Vouchers for the favourite school.

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2538 days ago

What a term!

Julie Cronin from Te Mata School Home & School Committee

Well folks, it's been a crazy busy term, with work and study, assignments, maths club, birthdays, preparing for Christmas (oh cripes, thats only 20 days away 😱) and all the day to day minutiae of being a parent. But we are all nearly there. Whew! 8 days to go (we finish at lunchtime next … View moreWell folks, it's been a crazy busy term, with work and study, assignments, maths club, birthdays, preparing for Christmas (oh cripes, thats only 20 days away 😱) and all the day to day minutiae of being a parent. But we are all nearly there. Whew! 8 days to go (we finish at lunchtime next Friday).

The pools are open and fabulous. Get yourself an Aquatics Hastings card and get discounted entry to the public pools. Even the snacks are reasonably priced. Or get yourself a Club Card (available from iSites and Splash Planet with proof of address) and go to Splash Planet.

The Village Library is nearly open, and has the amazing Summer Sparks reading program. It's not just reading this year!

The Village Club has their annual Ham Carve on Sunday morning if you are a member. If you aren't, why not join! The kids will have a blast and you can stuff your faces. Father Christmas will even make a visit, or so I'm told.

Visit Arartaki Honey and check out the yummy selections on offer. Take a jar or pot and get your own, cheaper than the supermarket!

Or visit the MTG. It's free and fabulous!

Or do something completely off the cuff. Let me know what your ideas are.

If you are going away for the holidays, make sure you turn everything off, lock everything up (including pet doors) and let your neighbours know where you are going and when to expect you home. And give them contact details, for emergencies! Growing up in an emergency services family, I heard a lot of stories about people who came home to burglaries and fires and no one had let them know, because they had just gone without word or leaving contact details.

It's heartbreaking to return late at night only to find you had no home/possessions to come home to. I know, it's happened to us. They even stole my brothers socks and the toilet paper!
They must have been clothes horses though, they stole the iron too.

If you have pets, make sure they have somewhere safe to stay and be feed regularly, with fresh water provided every day. For cat families, Pussyfoot Cattery is my recommendation, but you will need to call and check what's happening with them. Louise told me they are on the move after Christmas.

Now, as for school. Our lost property is growing again. Please, before you go home on the last day, make sure to check for any items you may be missing. Even if you think you aren't missing anything, please check. I have returned quite a few jumpers and hats to kids who swore they weren't missing them. There are entire wardrobes with of clothes in the trolley. There are hats, pants, jumpers, shirts, shorts, socks, shoes, scarves, drink bottles, lunch containers, socks and hankies etc. If you find something in their belonging to someone you know, take it for them.

Anything that is not labelled will go to either the op shop or the tip after school closes.

Please, please, please check.

Also check the clothes your kids bring home, to make sure they belong to yours and if they don't, please return them to the school office or lost property trolley. NOT TO THE UNIFORM SHOP! Or, if you know the child/family, directly to them or their classroom. I am still missing my sons jumper from last years cross country. It has/had Levi Smith on the name tag.

If you find anything that doesn't belong to your family over the holidays, I am happy for you to drop it off to me and I will take it in next year. Just send me a message and I'll take care of it.

If you have left any containers at school for the fundraiser, please pop into the hall kitchen and check if they are there. There are named containers "Nettle" and "Peck". We also have a small black velveteen hooded jacket and a Green Lantern super hero cape left over from the fundraiser.

A huge thanks to everyone who has supported Te Mata School over the year, through fundraising, mufti days, discos, parent helping, maths club, school trips, the uniform shop, the lunch ladies, sports event volunteers, pencil sharpeners, glue guns wielders, guillotineers (don't do it when you are tired. It really hurts!), parents/grandparents/aunties/uncles/foster parents and guardians who read with your kids at night, and help with homework and projects, families who pay school donations, and those that don't (please do) and anyone and everyone else.

Thank you to the teachers, support staff, student teachers, teacher aides, Home & School, school board and anyone I may have inadvertently missed. You do a wonderful, hard, hopefully rewarding job, for far too little financial reward.

And most of all, thanks to the kids. Without them we would be a weird group, people would look at sideways, for all we do, with no one to do it for. With them we are an amazing bunch of people doing an amazing job for an amazing bunch of little people, who will, hopefully one day, go on to become amazing big people, doing what they can for the amazing little people in their world.

I think that pretty much covers everything for now. Spot ya on the flip side!

Oh and Merry Christmas; Happy Hanukkah; Blessed Rohatsu; Happy Mawlid an-Nabi; happiness, peace and love to you all. May the New Year bring you all you need and some of what you wish.

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