Weed bashing:<\/strong> TRiG had another great weed-bashing session up on Te Raekaihau last weekend. With local help we raked up a huge amount of tradescantia<\/em> (wandering willy) into a pile high enough to see the sea above the bush! We also have been cutting some steps in the steep parts of Ruru Track, although still more are needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They are only dirt steps, so please still take care when walking the track. We are planning a tree planting session on May 23 (dependent on the delivery of trees) so keep this afternoon free. If you\u2019d like to help more regularly (we make the weeding every bit as fun as the tree planting!) please contact Jenny.<\/p>\n\n\n Happy ending:<\/strong> A very happy Brian of View Rd reports his missing dog Wh\u012b was found and thanks everyone for their help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also Found:<\/strong> Work-persons last Friday rediscover and uncover the drain at the Houghton Valley stream mouth buried by last week\u2019s storms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Norman and contributors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Published as Issue No. 125 April 21, 2015 Book Swap?: on our Facebook Group Rachel asks: \u201cIs anyone keen on a book swap box or similar being installed somewhere in the area? I was thinking perhaps in or near a bus stop or possibly even the community garden?? What does everyone think to the idea please? Any suggestions on … Continue reading Newsletter No. 138<\/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-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","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=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/leachate-pipe-300x225-1.jpg\")
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