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Plants make a lovely gift for young and old. Personalise your gift by creating a potato print wrap for it using a favourite Resene testpot colour and a potato cut to your chosen shape. It’s easy to do – you can even get the kids to help. It’s also a handy way to disguise any old or stained … View morePlants make a lovely gift for young and old. Personalise your gift by creating a potato print wrap for it using a favourite Resene testpot colour and a potato cut to your chosen shape. It’s easy to do – you can even get the kids to help. It’s also a handy way to disguise any old or stained plant pots you may have in your home. Make the most of your weekend with this easy step by step project idea from Resene. Find out how to create this quick and easy project yourself
Before heading out on the roads this weekend, make sure you stop in at your local Beaurepaires and get a FREE 4 Point Safety Check. Life can be busy sometimes, but you’ll never regret taking a few minutes out of your day to ensure your family’s safety. It only takes 15 minutes to complete and … View moreBefore heading out on the roads this weekend, make sure you stop in at your local Beaurepaires and get a FREE 4 Point Safety Check. Life can be busy sometimes, but you’ll never regret taking a few minutes out of your day to ensure your family’s safety. It only takes 15 minutes to complete and no appointment is necessary, however, you can book in online!
Support for youth beneficiaries to get driver licences by Government.
Yippeee! Just received the early copies of How to Grow Flowers 1944-2019, a special edition celebrating our 75th year (making us the oldest continuously published magazine in New Zealand), and it's beautiful! The first of a set coming out this year, How to Grow Flowers features the best advice… View moreYippeee! Just received the early copies of How to Grow Flowers 1944-2019, a special edition celebrating our 75th year (making us the oldest continuously published magazine in New Zealand), and it's beautiful! The first of a set coming out this year, How to Grow Flowers features the best advice from our archive, complete with vintage wisdom from long-time subscribers, garden clubs and knowledgeable experts. You have until April 14 to get the pre-sale price of $11.90 (25% off retail price). Order online or phone 0800 624 744.
Come and help yourself. My neighbour felled all these trees and is leaving it for anyone who wants to come and get the wood. Take as much or as little as you like.
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Thanks to everyone who joined us or submitted questions for our live chat with Resene colour experts Christine Hawkings and Merenia Patira.
If you missed it, you can still check out their answers and get some fresh decorating ideas, here.
Do you know what your rights are at work? How about your rights to do with renting or owning a home? If you buy something that’s faulty do you know what your options are? This CAB Awareness Week from 8-14 April you’re being invited to Discover Your Rights – Tūhuratia ō motika!
Helping … View moreDo you know what your rights are at work? How about your rights to do with renting or owning a home? If you buy something that’s faulty do you know what your options are? This CAB Awareness Week from 8-14 April you’re being invited to Discover Your Rights – Tūhuratia ō motika!
Helping people to know what their rights and responsibilities are and how they can act on these is core to what the Citizens Advice Bureau is about. We help people from all walks of life to access the information they need so they are empowered to take next steps and to resolve their problems.
A highlight of this year’s Awareness Week is the launch of the CAB’s new public website - www.cab.org.nz.... After a year of development and user testing, the resulting website provides an accessible, mobile-friendly, knowledgebase of 2,000 questions and answers about people’s rights that are based on real issues confronted by clients.
The information about rights is grounded in the law but is practical and is expressed in a way that’s easy to understand.
The website also provides a directory of more than 30,000 community organisations so that the CAB can help connect people with any additional services they need.
We’re keen to break down any barriers people face in finding out what their rights are. Our new website is a fantastic resource for the whole community, and complements the amazing face-to-face and phone service provided by our skilled and dedicated volunteers.
We invite you to Discover Your Rights with us this Awareness Week by checking out our new website www.cab.org.nz..., calling us 0800 367 222, or by visiting your local CAB. We’re here to help.
Why I should be voted on as chairman of WDC disability advisory group
I would like to apply for the position of WDC DAG chair, I think it would be a privilege to work with and encourage the disability advisory group members
My aspirations, achievements are not only specifically for the disabled … View moreWhy I should be voted on as chairman of WDC disability advisory group
I would like to apply for the position of WDC DAG chair, I think it would be a privilege to work with and encourage the disability advisory group members
My aspirations, achievements are not only specifically for the disabled community — but for the wider community at large.
I am a person whose lifelong ambition has been and always will be to create an inclusive community for the disabled — to create a better world for all — for want of a better description.
This reference is designed to capture my human essence and a culmination of skills I bring — to support the disabled.
I have natural affability, sincere concern for others, and ability to communicate effectively, despite having a voice disability. I am 85% disabled and have been for nearly 49 years
I have quickly established myself as a valuable asset to the disabled community.
I have personally set a target to try to improve outcomes for 25% of this city of Whangarei’s population and have made this known publicly.
I worked with the Whangarei District Council on solutions to accessibility issues at the Canopy Bridge with success — in 2018.
I worked with the ASB Northland on solutions to accessibility issues at the ASB Walton street with success — in 2017.
I worked with the Northland DHB on solutions to accessibility issues at the Northland Hospitals with success — in 2018.
I worked with the Briscoes Northland on solutions to accessibility issues at the Okara Park Shopping Centre Port Rd with success — in 2017.
I worked with the Whangarei District Council on solutions to accessibility issues at the Whangarei Dog park with success — in 2018.
While many have been critical of our local Whangarei District Council — many have not acknowledged some of the changes they have made for the disabled and beyond, demonstrated in the aforementioned examples of my ability to communicate such changes through successful negotiation and rational discussion with them.
Advocacy requires a number of skills. Challenging the status quo to bring about improvements in any field, requires courage, focus, and fortitude.
I have campaigned for more than 30 years for the disabled to simply be accepted by the rest of the general population and into our community.
Human kindness, compassion, empathy, advocacy, empowering others, debating and negotiating skills, listening skills, persistence, etc.
Humility and accountability are other important qualities Glen emulates. If I make a mistake — I ask ‘What could I do differently?’
I have faced some criticism in the community along with a large amount of support having challenged others on different things in the past.
My shoulders are strong enough to take the good with the bad — and to negotiate favorable outcomes and improved relationships. For these reasons — I am ‘for the people,’ rather than myself.
VOTE GLEN MCMILLAN as Chairman of WDC DAG
There is a council news article on page 8 in today's Whangarei Leader about a bylaw consultation to disallow right turns from Tarewa Road into SH1 northbound in the future, once the intersection improvement work has been completed. The article states that NZTA is calling for submissions on … View moreThere is a council news article on page 8 in today's Whangarei Leader about a bylaw consultation to disallow right turns from Tarewa Road into SH1 northbound in the future, once the intersection improvement work has been completed. The article states that NZTA is calling for submissions on that bylaw change but only provides NZTA's home page as an information source, and if we click on the article itself in the online edition of the Leader it takes us to the WDC home page instead. This is of course not very helpful, so for those of us who wish to be heard or make a submission on the bylaw change, here's the relevant page on NZTA's website.
For many, having depression is like walking through mud every day.
Walk in their shoes for a day: put on your gumboots, and donate if you can to help us provide free counselling to any kid in need.
Two thumbs up to our awesome team over at Neighbourhood Support Waitakere for supporting this … View moreFor many, having depression is like walking through mud every day.
Walk in their shoes for a day: put on your gumboots, and donate if you can to help us provide free counselling to any kid in need.
Two thumbs up to our awesome team over at Neighbourhood Support Waitakere for supporting this year's campaign. 👍👍
#GumbootUpNZ
Magazines and newspapers starting to pile up and take over your lounge? Create a handy place to keep them handy and tidy at the same time with this practical magazine rack finished in Resene wood stain and paint. Make the most of your weekend with this easy step by step project idea from Resene. … View moreMagazines and newspapers starting to pile up and take over your lounge? Create a handy place to keep them handy and tidy at the same time with this practical magazine rack finished in Resene wood stain and paint. Make the most of your weekend with this easy step by step project idea from Resene. Find out how to create this quick and easy project yourself
We're excited to announce you can now earn Airpoints Dollars at your local Beaurepaires store. Airpoints Dollars can be earned with every purchase of tyres, oil, batteries and services. Shop in-store or online.
I am getting tired of the vilification of "drones" in the media.
We see so many stories of how they are "going to take down an aircraft", of how it's so unsafe to fly because of the threat they pose etc.
They are blamed for shutting down airports and hampering firefighting … View moreI am getting tired of the vilification of "drones" in the media.
We see so many stories of how they are "going to take down an aircraft", of how it's so unsafe to fly because of the threat they pose etc.
They are blamed for shutting down airports and hampering firefighting efforts due to aircraft having to land.
I am not saying this does not happen, there are idiots out there that do stupid stuff, just that all of us who fly these things are tarred with the same brush.
There are calls for tighter regulation, registration and licencing, how is that going to stop those self same idiots.
It really helps on the road right?
There are no road deaths due to registration and licencing right?
I am sure we all wish that was true, unfortunately it's not.
There has to date been no deaths directly attributable to a civilian drone, none, zero, yet the tirade of media BS continues.
After every published story, they rehash several of the older ones, even some that have been proven false.
Isn't it time the media shared some focus on the 65 plus lives that were saved with this technology just in the last year. (According to research by DJI, the largest drone manufacturer in the world).
And how about the fact that they are getting young people out from behind their screens and out in to the fresh air.
These "toys" are a fun and healthy hobby to some, and a means to earn a living for others.
For those that fear for the loss of privacy, there are very few photo's and videos taken with these machines that could not be taken far more surreptitiously with a cellphone on a long selfie stick or a good DSLR with a long lens. Let's face it drones are noisy and have to get reasonably close to get decent images or video.
Sure there are the bad eggs that use this tech maliciously, no different to those who would do the same with a cellphone, DSLR or any other form of image or video capture.
But there is also so much good that can come from it. They are used for search and rescue, finding people in the surf, delivering medical supplies and even organs for transplant. There are units equipped with defibrillators that can get through traffic jams far easier than motorcycles.
Ok sorry this turned in to a bit of a rant but I just had to vent it somewhere.
This can be a polarizing subject, I look forward to some healthy discussion. :)
Come and see what Abbeyfield is all about. Discover the Abbeyfield way of living for independent older people. Open afternoon Sunday April 7th 2.00-4.00pm. at 28 Mains Ave, Kensington.
Check out the display in the Whangarei Library.
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