{"id":890,"date":"2025-08-06T19:01:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T19:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/news\/?p=890"},"modified":"2025-08-06T19:23:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T19:23:38","slug":"newsletter-no-212","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/newsletter-no-212\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter No. 212"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\" src=\"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/67797180-14b0-4b37-afef-5c1b354c3d6c.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-891\" style=\"width:1200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/67797180-14b0-4b37-afef-5c1b354c3d6c.png 1024w, https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/67797180-14b0-4b37-afef-5c1b354c3d6c-300x100.png 300w, https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/67797180-14b0-4b37-afef-5c1b354c3d6c-768x256.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>April 11, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sharing a vision for the waterways in Houghton Valley<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This Wednesday, 14 April, the Wellington region&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gw.govt.nz\/whaitua-committees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Whaitua Committee<\/a>, Te K\u0101hui Taiao and neighbouring water restoration groups&nbsp;have been specially invited to join the Houghton Valley community for an evening of shared aspirations and conversations about how to restore the Houghton Valley water catchment. A group of locals are passionate about solving our environmental problems and are keen to share their vision and challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This invitation is also open to the Houghton Valley community as an introduction to the ideas, but there with be further community engagement opportunities as the project gains momentum. If you are interested in coming along this week here are some details:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>5.30pm:<\/strong>\u00a0the event will begin at the Buckley Road Reserve playground\u00a0near Hungerford Road with a welcome and look at the nearby springs and wetland area. Parking is a little congested around the playground at times, so if you are coming by car, make sure you allow time to walk\u00a0from your parking spot to arrive before 5.30 pm;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>6.00pm:<\/strong>\u00a0everyone will\u00a0reconvene at the school hall\u00a0for some kai and the Houghton Valley presentation. The Whaitua Committee and Te K\u0101hui Taiao members will then have the opportunity to introduce themselves, and share a bit about what they are doing. The rest of the evening will be open for facilitated conversations, questions and dialogue until about 8 \u2013 8.30 pm, or whenever it\u2019s appropriate to wrap up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are able to RSVP by Tuesday morning&nbsp;that would be great (to help with catering), but otherwise please just come \u2013 we would love your support!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(153 recipients, 99 opens)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 11, 2021 Sharing a vision for the waterways in Houghton Valley This Wednesday, 14 April, the Wellington region&nbsp;Whaitua Committee, Te K\u0101hui Taiao and neighbouring water restoration groups&nbsp;have been specially invited to join the Houghton Valley community for an evening of shared aspirations and conversations about how to restore the Houghton Valley water catchment. A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/newsletter-no-212\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Newsletter No. 212<\/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-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","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=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haewaihoughtonvalley.org\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}