{"id":144,"date":"2025-08-05T02:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T02:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/news\/?p=144"},"modified":"2025-08-05T02:40:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T02:40:22","slug":"newsletter-no-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/newsletter-no-47\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter No. 47"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Houghton Valley Community Newsletter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 November 2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Last Saturday at Houghton Valley School:&nbsp;<\/strong>A feature of the long established school fair has been the extent of the community\u2019s involvement beyond families with children at the school. Last Saturday was no exception. When a call for help went out through this email newsletter many locals responded with goods and offers of assistance on the day. People \u2018came out of the woodwork\u2019 to drop off hundreds of plants at a stall run by those involved with the community garden. Along with a raffle of vegetables this raised several hundred dollars for the school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Great food and coffee at great prices, great music for \u2013 and from \u2013 young and old and the rain held off just long enough. Friendly, a generous spirit and plenty of what people wanted. Local MP Annette King was an early visitor (has she got something else on right now?) went away with plenty of plants to tuck into her garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It\u2019s not a new House!:&nbsp;<\/strong>Residents along the Hornsey Road ridge below the Mt Albert water tank, with assistance from the WCC, have started a hillside bush regeneration project. A large area of established blackberry has been cleared in preparation for autumn \/ winter 2012 planting. The area will include the bus stop area, along with the bare part of the gully across the road. We have been working on developing Road Reserve land on this corner recently stripping it of Cape Ivy, blackberry, Kooch Grass, Ivy etc and replacing with natives. We will be applying for a grant to fund the provision of materials to build some steps and a walking track to connect the road with the southern Walkway on the ridge above. The gully was used as an informal community tip in the past and we are having all surface rubbish removed. We will keep you informed of progress as it happens! \u2013 James of Hornsey Rd<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LOCAL CONTACTS<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following was compiled for a leaflet handed out at the school fair; it\u2019s an up to date list of contacts for local activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Houghton Valley Community Garden:\u00a0<\/strong>Turn up at 2 pm any Sunday to see what\u2019s going on; see also the Houghton Valley\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HoughtonValley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Facebook Page<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Hornsey Rd Neighbourhood Group:\u00a0<\/strong>If you live in Hornsey Rd you might know what\u2019s going on, otherwise contact James;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Archaeological Dig:\u00a0<\/strong>Will take place early next year on the site of the original dairy farm in Houghton Valley. See future issues of the newsletter or contact Grant;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Friends of Buckley Rd Reserve:<\/strong>\u00a0Planting group, contact Kate and Ian;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>TRiG \u2013 View Rd Reserve:\u00a0<\/strong>Te Raekaihau Restoration Group for tree planting and weeding, contact Jenny;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Alice Krebs Lodge:<\/strong>\u00a0For bookings contact Brenda;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Te Raekaihau Coast Care \u2013 seashore at Te Raekaihau Point:<\/strong>\u00a0Planting and coast care group, contact Sunita;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Upgraded Esplanade\/Houghton Bay Rd<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>intersection:<\/strong>\u00a0Contact Norman for more information;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Civil Defence Register:<\/strong>\u00a0Contact Norman to register any useful resources you have;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Houghton Valley PlayCentre:\u00a0<\/strong>For session times see:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wellingtonplaycentre.org.nz\/index.php\/find-a-centre-mainmenu-39\/58-houghton-vally-playcentre.html\">http:\/\/www.wellingtonplaycentre.org.nz\/index.php\/find-a-centre-mainmenu-39\/58-houghton-vally-playcentre.html<\/a>\u00a0(Link not current)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Regards, Grant and Norman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houghton Valley Community Newsletter 17 November 2011 Last Saturday at Houghton Valley School:&nbsp;A feature of the long established school fair has been the extent of the community\u2019s involvement beyond families with children at the school. Last Saturday was no exception. When a call for help went out through this email newsletter many locals responded with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/newsletter-no-47\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Newsletter No. 47<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}