{"id":490,"date":"2025-08-05T23:57:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T23:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/news\/?p=490"},"modified":"2025-08-06T17:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T17:04:17","slug":"newsletter-no-168","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/newsletter-no-168\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter No. 168"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"730\" height=\"213\" src=\"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/c90c66d8-7f14-4f7a-b73d-821a40414f67.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-491\" style=\"width:1200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/c90c66d8-7f14-4f7a-b73d-821a40414f67.png 730w, https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/c90c66d8-7f14-4f7a-b73d-821a40414f67-300x88.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>February 9, 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wasn\u2019t intending to do another newsletter quite so soon, but there are some events hosted by the&nbsp;<em>Wellington Southern Bay Historical Society<\/em>&nbsp;as part of the&nbsp;<em>Island Bay Festival&nbsp;<\/em>next week that you may be interested in. Learning about the history of where you live is a good way of feeling that you belong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A Day in the Bay, Sunday February 11<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Historical Society will have specially illuminated historical displays, maps and photographs&nbsp;of Wellington\u2019s Southern Bays available to view&nbsp;in the Island Bay Surf Club Hall from 10 am to 4 pm, as part of the&nbsp;<em>Day in the Bay<\/em>&nbsp;gathering at Shorland Park. From there you can also view the&nbsp;<em>Blessing of the Boats<\/em>, or enjoy a seat and ice cold drinking water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Southern Bays Historical Society Open Day, Friday February 16<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Wellington Southern Bays Historical Society is holding an Open Day<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>at the Island Bay Community Centre, 137 The Parade, from 10 am \u2013 2 pm. They have a large collection of historical displays, photographs and folders, including Houghton Bay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Our Island Bay, Our History,&nbsp;Saturday February 17<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p> Colin Feslier will give a talk on the history of Island Bay with displays and photographs, with some reference to Houghton Bay as well. It will be at the Island Bay Community Centre from 3 \u2013 4 pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more details and the Society\u2019s full Festival programme, contact Marion Findlay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Houghton Valley\u2019s History<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" src=\"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Old-school-300x188-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-492\" style=\"width:300px\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>If you are interested in Houghton Valley\u2019s history, check out the photos, stories, maps and more on the Houghton Valley website history page:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.houghtonvalley.org.nz\/remembering\/HV_remembering.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.houghtonvalley.org.nz\/remembering\/HV_remembering.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(186 recipients, 89 opens)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 9, 2018 I wasn\u2019t intending to do another newsletter quite so soon, but there are some events hosted by the&nbsp;Wellington Southern Bay Historical Society&nbsp;as part of the&nbsp;Island Bay Festival&nbsp;next week that you may be interested in. Learning about the history of where you live is a good way of feeling that you belong. A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/newsletter-no-168\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Newsletter No. 168<\/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-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","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=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":745,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions\/745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}