{"id":514,"date":"2025-08-06T00:29:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T00:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/news\/?p=514"},"modified":"2025-08-06T17:09:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T17:09:41","slug":"newsletter-no-171","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/newsletter-no-171\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter No. 171"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"731\" height=\"216\" src=\"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ec4fb1e7-d8b8-4b7b-81fd-aaae54a4a93d.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-520\" style=\"width:1200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ec4fb1e7-d8b8-4b7b-81fd-aaae54a4a93d.png 731w, https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ec4fb1e7-d8b8-4b7b-81fd-aaae54a4a93d-300x89.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 731px) 100vw, 731px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>April 6, 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another medley of items: this time video is being featured, maybe it will inspire you to send in some footage you have taken that celebrates the place where we live. Don\u2019t forget I am happy to use photos that you have taken for the newsletter banner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Dolphins in Houghton Bay<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week there were literally hundreds of dolphins in Houghton and Princess Bays. A workmate of a local took some drone footage of them sporting near the shore. An amazing sight!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dolphins playing in Princess Bay\" width=\"792\" height=\"446\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ou4L2_Tn-50?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Houghton Valley Progressive Association meetin<\/strong>g<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The next HVPA meeting is coming up this Sunday, 4pm at the community hall. All are welcome.&nbsp;Under discussion will be the GWRC Long Term Plan and the WCC Long Term Plan coming up for consultation on April 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are interested in what is happening over the hill, the Kilbirnie-Rongotai Progressive Association is having a meeting on 12 April at the Harbour City Chapel at 7.30 pm. They will be having a guest speaker from Wellington Water with an update on storm water and the Kilbirnie pump station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Water in our sea and skies<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"740\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screen-Shot-2025-08-06-at-12.32.01-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-518\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screen-Shot-2025-08-06-at-12.32.01-PM.png 740w, https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screen-Shot-2025-08-06-at-12.32.01-PM-300x178.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Upper Houghton Valley has a fine view of the Baring Heads, a promontory at the South-West entrance to Wellington Harbour.&nbsp;Dave McArthur has a spectacular view of the headland and has documented the ever-changing forms of water in the sea and sky over several years. Together they form a graphic \u2018riff\u2019 on his view of that headland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This \u2018animated\u2019 version of his still images was compiled by Geoff Hume-Cook of&nbsp;<em>Transforming Images<\/em>, who is a past and now honorary local. The video clip was made in 2014 as part of a&nbsp;Waterwheel Online Conference, in which several local artists participated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/95104205\">Wonderful Drama: WATER (Clip for part 2 of Dave McArthur\u2019s contribution)<\/a>&nbsp;from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/tranzfrmingimagz\">Transforming Images Ltd.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(167 recipients, 85 opens)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 6, 2018 Another medley of items: this time video is being featured, maybe it will inspire you to send in some footage you have taken that celebrates the place where we live. Don\u2019t forget I am happy to use photos that you have taken for the newsletter banner. Dolphins in Houghton Bay Last week &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/newsletter-no-171\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Newsletter No. 171<\/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-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","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=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}