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Thank you to all our essential service workers working tirelessly to ensure our communities are kept safe.
Issac is 81years old and was observed by a member of the public struggling to walk to the supermarket. A quick interaction with Isaac revealed he was in need of some intervention.
Community … View moreThank you to all our essential service workers working tirelessly to ensure our communities are kept safe.
Issac is 81years old and was observed by a member of the public struggling to walk to the supermarket. A quick interaction with Isaac revealed he was in need of some intervention.
Community Constable Reuben Boniface ?♂️ was able to connect Issac with Age Concern Southland and with their assistance provide a care package of cooked meals and loaves of bread to help him through this time ? #kindnessgoesalongway
Your emotional and mental wellbeing is important. It is normal to feel stressed or lonely when self-isolating, but there are some things you can do to feel better.
Even if you are not sick you may be feeling anxious about COVID-19. This is normal.
Reach out to your family and whānau, friends and… View moreYour emotional and mental wellbeing is important. It is normal to feel stressed or lonely when self-isolating, but there are some things you can do to feel better.
Even if you are not sick you may be feeling anxious about COVID-19. This is normal.
Reach out to your family and whānau, friends and workmates. Sharing how we feel and offering support to others is important.
We want to remind you that if you or someone you know is struggling right now, there is free help available.
See below a list of helplines throughout New Zealand ?
Kia Kaha Aotearoa.
Stay home this Easter! While normally Northland is an awesome place to spend a long weekend, the lock-down strategy depends on people staying put. 🏡
To help this, Northland leaders including Mayor Sheryl Mai have issued a joint statement that is quite opposite to usual!
"We know this will… View moreStay home this Easter! While normally Northland is an awesome place to spend a long weekend, the lock-down strategy depends on people staying put. 🏡
To help this, Northland leaders including Mayor Sheryl Mai have issued a joint statement that is quite opposite to usual!
"We know this will come as a sacrifice to many. Easter 2020 needs to be remembered as the time everyone stayed at home to save lives."
The team at Signature Homes Northland wants to keep you entertained while at home with a free digital copy of our latest home design magazine, full of real stories from Kiwi homeowners.
If you’re thinking of building new, or just looking for some home inspiration, Signature Style is a … View moreThe team at Signature Homes Northland wants to keep you entertained while at home with a free digital copy of our latest home design magazine, full of real stories from Kiwi homeowners.
If you’re thinking of building new, or just looking for some home inspiration, Signature Style is a must-read! We have a wide range House & Land Packages and home designs to suit your taste, budget, section and lifestyle.
We look forward to reconnecting with the community very soon, in the meantime please click to get your free digital copy of our magazine.
Craig & Leigh Dackers
Signature Homes Northland.
Kia ora koutou katoa
As a nation, Aotearoa/New Zealand, we can count ourselves very fortunate in this global crisis. Our natural island isolation, wide-open spaces, abundance of social support and a sensible government that has led us into a timely lock-down to come through this with the best … View moreKia ora koutou katoa
As a nation, Aotearoa/New Zealand, we can count ourselves very fortunate in this global crisis. Our natural island isolation, wide-open spaces, abundance of social support and a sensible government that has led us into a timely lock-down to come through this with the best possible outcomes. We are all doing our best to keep our lives and responsibilities afloat while we isolate in our familiar "bubbles". For our arts community it is a time for reflection and perhaps an invitation for new directions.
Non-essential?
The arts are officially deemed as "non-essential" and so Quarry Arts Centre is closed, now occupied only by the curious wildlife of Pukenui forest. We know art is essential to personal and social well being, and now in many homes this is being expressed in a wealth of creative activity. Fortunately, a lack of options is always inspiring for artists. However, the lock-down is a major disturbance to our workshops schedule, exhibitions and planned events.
Events on pause
All our regular services and events are paused, with the hope to continue where they left-off later.
At this time, all our planned exhibitions must be cancelled for the year. When we get a better sense of the evolving situation, we can look at creating a new exhibition programme going forward, and include our existing exhibitors in novel ways.
Studio Artists Exhibition
The Studio Artists group exhibition that would have started now will be held as the first showing when the curtain lifts. It is with great pride that we can present selected works from our richly talented community of resident artists. We can't wait to announce the opening and look forward to seeing some of you there.
Great Plate
The Great Plate is going ahead for another great year. As we speak, countless plates are being thrown at home and we greatly appreciate the efforts those potters who have generously given their time and energy to help .When we can, contributing artists can collect a plate to make what they will for the Great Plate auction and showcase.
Clay and glaze supplies
To our ceramics art community; we encourage you to place your clay and glaze orders with us now.
Most artists will be running out of their favourite supplies while thinking about what to make next. Place your orders now and we will put them aside for you. Or we'll let you know we've ordered more and when to expect the next shipment.
Maybe this way we can "flatten the curve" of panic-ceramics-buying and gracefully sail into practice with a renewed enthusiasm.
Kiln service
Our kiln-service is also on pause and will resume when we re-open. To avoid overloading the waiting-shelves in the kiln room, we ask that if you have work to fire, please let us know before you bring it in and we will get back to you swiftly about when is a good time. Once the kilns are firing again, Israel and the team will be making haste to work through everyone's pieces.
Back Soon
Keep caring for each other while we isolate and keep the creativity and humour flowing. We look forward to seeing everyone again soon, re-emerging in good spirits.
Haere ra,
The Quarry Team
Hey neighbours, it was great to see so many of you at our live lunch with NZ Home and Garden and NZ Gardener editors Naomi Larkin and Jo McCarroll. Thanks for stopping by :)
If you missed it, you can still drop in for a recap and see if Jo and Naomi answered your questions, here.
There are 2 dogs that look like they may have swum the river wandering along the end of Riverview Rd. They are very friendly one is a small heading pup the other a red colour. For more information phone 021818499
Hello neighbours, our editor Jo McCarroll is hosting another Live Lunch today (with colleague Naomi who edits NZ House & Garden), so jump online between 12.30 and 1pm to join them. You can ask questions in advance, so start firing through your gardening questions and pictures of your garden or … View moreHello neighbours, our editor Jo McCarroll is hosting another Live Lunch today (with colleague Naomi who edits NZ House & Garden), so jump online between 12.30 and 1pm to join them. You can ask questions in advance, so start firing through your gardening questions and pictures of your garden or the projects you've been tackling over lockdown anytime you like!
Freedom campers around the Whangārei district are being rounded up to two central Whangārei spots so police can keep an eye on them and ensure their needs are met. This comes as the number of cases in Northland hits double-digits, with 11 as of Thursday , with latest information available here. … View moreFreedom campers around the Whangārei district are being rounded up to two central Whangārei spots so police can keep an eye on them and ensure their needs are met. This comes as the number of cases in Northland hits double-digits, with 11 as of Thursday , with latest information available here. What do you think of the way freedom campers are treated? What alternative would you suggest?
How's everyone feeling at this stage of lockdown? Head over to the Reach Out page and let everyone know how you're coping and share any words of kindness that will help support each other during this time. Do you need help or can you help a neighbour in need? Perhaps you can offer a … View moreHow's everyone feeling at this stage of lockdown? Head over to the Reach Out page and let everyone know how you're coping and share any words of kindness that will help support each other during this time. Do you need help or can you help a neighbour in need? Perhaps you can offer a friendly phone call, have some great baking tips, ways to work from home or ideas to keep the kids entertained. Post on Reach Out and together we can all support each other and our communities during this time.
Lockdown is a stressful and difficult time for many and showing kindness can go a long way in brightening someone’s day. Be Neighbourly and spread positivity, we all know there’s plenty of that on Neighbourly!
Need help or can you support someone in need? … View moreLockdown is a stressful and difficult time for many and showing kindness can go a long way in brightening someone’s day. Be Neighbourly and spread positivity, we all know there’s plenty of that on Neighbourly!
Need help or can you support someone in need? Reach out to your Neighbours here now.
For starters: I do think that using the concept of staying out of the infection-spreading zone of other people is a really, really good idea. I'm in the high risk group of people; trust me, I do not want to catch the virus.
My wife went to go shopping yesterday. It took her hours to get … View moreFor starters: I do think that using the concept of staying out of the infection-spreading zone of other people is a really, really good idea. I'm in the high risk group of people; trust me, I do not want to catch the virus.
My wife went to go shopping yesterday. It took her hours to get into the supermarket. HOURS. There were lines formed and directed outside by the staff, and she tells me that no way were the lines at a safe distance from each other. Then some supervisor shouted if someone over 70 was there, there was, and the gentleman was led along the line of other people in the queue --- no distance at all, instead of being led around the outside.
Get this: he was led along the queue, exposed to ever single &^%$* other person waiting, with no distance kept at all. My wife jokingly said to him "you're not 2m away from me" and he just about jumped out of his skin and apologized to her. It wasn't his fault.
They are spraying and 'sterilizing' the trolleys outside the shop. When it got to checkout time, she got shouted at because the packer felt she was too close to the cashier. They packed all her goods into the trolley used by the person before her (sic!) instead of using hers, and when she wanted to walk out she had to pass right by the packer who made no moves to distance herself.
The whole thing is, pardon the pun, a sick joke. The basic idea is good, but the implementation is lousy, and inept, in some cases plain dangerous (talking about exposing the 'over 70' bloke to everybody else waiting in line, here). It is implemented by people who don't understand the underlying principles and flounder around trying to comply with 'rules' they don't really comprehend. In this form, the spread of the virus is highly likely to continue, never mind what.
Keeping people waiting outside the shop for hours (around 4 hours it took!) is NOT sanitary. With my arthritic knees and still recovering from a heart attack, I'd not even consider it, I'd sooner dig up grass roots and carrot weed in the paddock and eat those. And, to wit, the delivery system is completely overloaded.
The other food stores should be OPEN. That would reduce queues. The regulators who came up with this plan have handed a de facto monopoly to foodstuffs and woolworth, which is being exploited (are there any specials at all just now?) and the quarantine measures, as I said above, are poorly understood and implemented.
By and large I am pretty disgusted by the situation.
Incidentally, I notice that the traffic on SH1 through Kauri has picked up by a lot today. Yesterday it was quiet, the day before it was very quiet; today? Quite busy all day ...
Here's a nice thought: Who in your life deserves special recognition for their service to the Whangārei community?
Every year up to four citizens are honoured for outstanding voluntary service at a special Civic Honours Awards Ceremony at Semenoff Stadium.
Civic Honours Awards are our … View moreHere's a nice thought: Who in your life deserves special recognition for their service to the Whangārei community?
Every year up to four citizens are honoured for outstanding voluntary service at a special Civic Honours Awards Ceremony at Semenoff Stadium.
Civic Honours Awards are our chance to acknowledge the people that make a difference. Do you have someone coming to mind?
Nominations have been EXTENDED until the 1st of June this year. Start here:
www.wdc.govt.nz...
● Wash your hands.
● Use cough and sneeze etiquette.
● Respect self-isolation.
These are only some of the ways that you can keep yourself and your Neighbours safe!
We are looking for seniors 65+ to take part in a short questionnaire to help us improve our website. The questions will take no longer than 3 minutes to complete and no personal information is required. The winner of a $50 Prezzy Card will be drawn at random on 27 April and contacted directly.
… View moreWe are looking for seniors 65+ to take part in a short questionnaire to help us improve our website. The questions will take no longer than 3 minutes to complete and no personal information is required. The winner of a $50 Prezzy Card will be drawn at random on 27 April and contacted directly.
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