{"id":430,"date":"2025-08-05T23:14:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T23:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/news\/?p=430"},"modified":"2025-08-05T23:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T23:18:11","slug":"newsletter-no-149","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/newsletter-no-149\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter No. 149"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Published as Issue No. 136<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>September 15, 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>New Singing group:<\/strong>&nbsp;several&nbsp;locals are interested in singing together&nbsp;on Wednesday&nbsp;nights at the community hall. Jenny, an experienced community choir singer, will direct the group.&nbsp;The group\u2019s first practice will be&nbsp;tomorrow&nbsp;Wednesday 16 September&nbsp;at&nbsp;7.30 pm&nbsp;at the Community Hall. Come along&nbsp;or register your interest by emailing Miranda (hall manager),&nbsp;who comments \u2013&nbsp;<em>\u201cDon\u2019t worry if you think you can\u2019t sing (not many of us can!), it\u2019s about having fun and enjoying music.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"230\" height=\"167\" src=\"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screen-Shot-2025-08-06-at-11.13.35-AM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-432\" style=\"width:300px\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Saturday&nbsp;morning coffee<\/strong>: coffee at the hall is set to become a regular feature of Valley life after people were heard singing the praises of our very own baristas Ross and Jan last Saturday.&nbsp; And the coffee was pretty good too! Thanks also to Ella for the beautiful music and Grant and Ken for joining halltables to make a pretty good impression of a table tennis table. The next coffee morning is planned for the first&nbsp;Saturday&nbsp;morning&nbsp;in October. More information will be in the next newsletter.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"267\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screen-Shot-2025-08-06-at-11.13.24-AM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-431\" style=\"width:300px\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Lamb on the Run:&nbsp;<\/strong>so many opportunities for bad puns, so little space. Houghton Valley\u2019s community network, Facebook Group and all, was put to use in the last couple of days when a lamb and mother were found in Hungerford Rd. Word went out and the newly acquired pets, which had gone missing within a day of arriving in the \u2018hood, were re-united with their owners and Baaaaa-ck at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Norman and contributors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published as Issue No. 136 September 15, 2015 New Singing group:&nbsp;several&nbsp;locals are interested in singing together&nbsp;on Wednesday&nbsp;nights at the community hall. Jenny, an experienced community choir singer, will direct the group.&nbsp;The group\u2019s first practice will be&nbsp;tomorrow&nbsp;Wednesday 16 September&nbsp;at&nbsp;7.30 pm&nbsp;at the Community Hall. Come along&nbsp;or register your interest by emailing Miranda (hall manager),&nbsp;who comments \u2013&nbsp;\u201cDon\u2019t worry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/newsletter-no-149\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Newsletter No. 149<\/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-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","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=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}