{"id":305,"date":"2025-08-05T05:21:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T05:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/news\/?p=305"},"modified":"2025-08-05T05:23:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T05:23:20","slug":"newsletter-no-109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/newsletter-no-109\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter No. 109"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Published as Issue No. 95<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>March 12, 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Population growth:&nbsp;<\/strong>Freda Alexandra of Hornsey Rd was born on February 19, weighing in at 3.39 kg. Her bigger sisters, and parents are over the moon. [No photo attached] Last month the community gardeners received a visit from Lorna (b. January 24) of Houghton Bay Rd, Kerry and Philip\u2019s first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lifting the Creek Project:<\/strong>&nbsp;Jan and Ella of Hungerford Rd advise the Waterwheel mailbox positioned opposite the Houghton Bay Road playground for around two weeks received 50+ postcards, written and drawn personal responses. Main themes included enthusiasm about the idea of lifting the creek, remembering its past health, the importance of a clean environment, and imaginaries of the future clean creek and thriving wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>More water:<\/strong>&nbsp;Hornsey Rd residents have been meeting with the Council to discuss new water tanks on the Mt Albert ridge and associated landscaping and discharge. Council will provide a copy of the design proposals for distribution to the wider neighbourhood for feedback. Advised benefits include a more stable water supply and landscape improvements; issues involve discharge of 440,000 litres into the Te Kawakawa Commons garden basin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Neighbours Day:<\/strong>&nbsp;(March 29\/30) is about taking time to engage in small and local acts of neighbourliness to make New Zealand safe, fun and friendly places to live. [Link not current]. Anything planned in your neck of the woods?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Norman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published as Issue No. 95 March 12, 2014 Population growth:&nbsp;Freda Alexandra of Hornsey Rd was born on February 19, weighing in at 3.39 kg. Her bigger sisters, and parents are over the moon. [No photo attached] Last month the community gardeners received a visit from Lorna (b. January 24) of Houghton Bay Rd, Kerry and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/newsletter-no-109\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Newsletter No. 109<\/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-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","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=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}