Published as Issue No. 105<\/p>\n\n\n\n
June 10, 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Runway coming our way? <\/strong>An article in the Dom-Post last seek suggested there has been an about turn and any airport extension would be to the south. This will have a much greater impact, visual and noise-wise for locals than the previous plan for the 300 metre extension, to the north and into Evans Bay. People on View Rd will be most affected. See more<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In an article last year about the extension<\/a> Richard Randerson of Hataitai discussed the issues, NIMBY and beyond. A discussion has been opened on the website including information circulated today by Richard to the group which has been opposing the extension. [link not working]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Memories, good and bad: <\/strong>My name is Peter Drake, I have been asked to share some of my childhood memories of living in the valley. I was born in 1938 and lived on 69 View Road overlooking Lyall Bay. I attended Houghton Valley School from 1943 until 1950 then onto Rongotai College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lifting the creek: <\/strong>Working bee, this Saturday from 2 pm onwards, starting at the playground. Locals will be meeting to continue working on clearing the springs and removing weeds and rubbish. Bring gloves and a drink to share for afternoon tea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Exercise in disguise<\/strong>: Reminder, Houghton Valley Zumba with Natasha. Mondays at 9.30 am at the Community Hall with Natasha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Swim anybody? <\/strong>A photo of Houghton Bay taken on Monday afternoon. [No discharge photo]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Norman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Published as Issue No. 105 June 10, 2014 Runway coming our way? An article in the Dom-Post last seek suggested there has been an about turn and any airport extension would be to the south. This will have a much greater impact, visual and noise-wise for locals than the previous plan for the 300 metre extension, … Continue reading Newsletter No. 119<\/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-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","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=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}