The fair continues to be a real community event for Houghton Valley with wide involvement including former pupils and local people and an event that attracts and welcomes visitors from further afield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
HVPA: <\/strong>Houghton Valley Progressive Association will have the last meeting for 2014 at 3 pm on Sunday, 14 December at the Hall. There will be an agenda sent out to committee members a few days before the meeting so, if you want to be included on that list, email Ken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Beach Art:<\/strong> After a conversation with the man responsible, local Mel wonders what people think of the balancing wood and rock beach art\/sculptures which have become predominant along the coastline particularly between Houghton Bay and Red Rocks. Another local has sought clarification from Council about the status of these \u2018man-made\u2019 constructions.<\/p>\n\n\n Reporting in: <\/strong>Wellington City Council and consultants Cardno reported to the Houghton Valley community on Sunday on progress on ideas to \u2018Lift the Creek\u2019\u2019 as the means to put an end to the leachate problem on the beach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They are working to a briefing developed by local people in partnership with the Council. Discussions over afternoon tea at the community garden is increasingly the venue and process used to consider local issues although on this occasion time did not permit the promotion of the meeting in the newsletter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Norman and contributors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Published as Issue No. 117 November 25, 2014 $29,289.56: Karen, one of the principal organisers, reports this is the provisional profit of this year\u2019s school fair, She says this is believed to be the most raised at a Fair \u2026 \u201cso give yourselves a huge pat on the back. Also, any feedback on how things went, what worked … Continue reading Newsletter No. 130<\/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-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","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=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/HV-Stream-Proposal-300x225-1.jpg\")