{"id":193,"date":"2025-08-05T02:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T02:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/news\/?p=193"},"modified":"2025-08-05T03:04:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T03:04:26","slug":"newsletter-no-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/newsletter-no-65\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter No. 65"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Houghton Valley Community Newsletter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 August, 2012<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Message from Sunita of Sutherland Rd:<\/strong>&nbsp;I would like to invite anyone from the South Coast \/ Houghton Valley area to come to my place at 3 pm on August 25 to hear about the work of the Te Raekaihau Coast Care group (who have been planting natives on Te Raekaihau point) and to discuss ways in which planting groups in the area can work together better. If you would like to come, please email Grant and he will give you the details. Also, we will be planting on the point on 16 September, (10 am \u2013 12 midday), if you want to join us then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Houghton<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Valley<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Hornsey Rd<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;Community Project<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 our Facebook Group is growing. To join, go to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/119811444753435\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/119811444753435\/<\/a>&nbsp;and send a request. You are welcome to become an administrator and provide direct input if you want; it\u2019s a community resource.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>From Christine of&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Buckley Rd:<\/strong>&nbsp;The Houghton Valley Progressive Association has received from the Wellington Region Local Government Review Panel details of four public meetings. These are the opportunity for Wellington residents to tell the Panel what they think about how local and regional governance arrangements can best support their local and regional communities in the future. [No attachment]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>From Christine of&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Buckley Rd:<\/strong>&nbsp;The attached [No attachments] have been received from the Regional Council; the next iteration of the proposed new bus routes and timetable. The council advise they are<strong>&nbsp;t<\/strong>aking the feedback and we may be in touch again prior to our next meetings in October\/November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Message from Friends of&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Buckley Rd<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong>&nbsp;Planting this coming Sunday 19 August, 10 am \u2013 12.30 pm near the playing fields and track that runs from Buckley Rd down to the school, so bring your spades and gloves and we\u2019ll see you there (weather permitting).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Houghton<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Valley<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>School<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;fair:&nbsp;<\/strong>Donations of produce are sought to make preserves to sell at the Houghton Valley School Fair in October. Do you have, or do you know people who have more rhubarb, lemons, mint, feijoas (especially feijoas!), apples, quinces, chillies, tomatoes etc than you know what to do with? We am always keen to receive donations of produce to make into preserves and cordials to sell \u2013 no matter how small or large the donation, it is very welcome. Donors are given a jar\/bottle of what I make as a thank you! Contact Sarah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>World Famous in&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Houghton<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Valley<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong>&nbsp;Houghton Valley PlayCentre presents THE SIXTEENTH ANNUAL GREAT DEBATE. Topic:&nbsp;<em>\u201cThat New Zealand Women are the most promiscuous in the world\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;Thursday 23 August \u2013 Doors open 7 pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Speakers:<\/strong>\u00a0Hon Annette King, Pinky Agnew, Brent Edwards, Rt. Hon Winston Peters, David Townsend and Patrick Gower.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Chair:<\/strong>\u00a0Duncan Garner and MC Errol Pike.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Venue:<\/strong>\u00a0The Pines, 50 The Esplanade, Houghton Bay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Light Supper provided, prizes and raffles Tickets $20 each. All proceeds to PlayCentre. [No attachment]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regards, Norman and Grant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houghton Valley Community Newsletter 16 August, 2012 Message from Sunita of Sutherland Rd:&nbsp;I would like to invite anyone from the South Coast \/ Houghton Valley area to come to my place at 3 pm on August 25 to hear about the work of the Te Raekaihau Coast Care group (who have been planting natives on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/newsletter-no-65\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Newsletter No. 65<\/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-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","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=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}