Get ready for Ormiston Safer Communities Day
🚨 Get ready for Ormiston Safer Communities Day 🚨
Mark your calendars, East Auckland! Ormiston Safer Communities Day — a FREE family-friendly event celebrating our everyday heroes! 👮♀️🚒🚑
📅 Saturday, 3 May 2025 (RAIN-DATE: Saturday 10th May, same time)
🕙 10:00am – 1:30pm
📍 Northwestern event grounds (beside St Paul's Anglican Church), Sir Barry Curtis Park, 141 Chapel Road, Flat Bush, Auckland 2019
🎟 FREE Admission | All Ages Welcome
Come meet our local legends — first responders, community champions, and non-profit heroes — and learn how to stay safe and empowered!
💪 Theme: Community Resilience & Empowerment
✨ Highlights include:
🔥 Fire safety & crime prevention tips
🌪 Disaster preparedness demos
📸 Photo ops with our heroes in action
💬 Info about local services that support YOU
🚶♀️ Visitor Tips:
Please walk, cycle, or bus — parking is limited
This is a SVAD-free event (no smoking, vaping, alcohol, or drugs)
Proudly presented by Neighbourhood Support Pakuranga/Bucklands Beach/Flat Bush (NSNZ) with support from Howick Local Board, NZ Police, FENZ & Auckland Emergency Management.
📩 Want to get involved or have questions? Email: howick@neighbourhoodsupport.co.nz
Let’s celebrate resilience, safety, and community spirit — see you there! 💚
Some Choice News!
DOC is rolling out a new tool to help figure out what to tackle first when it comes to protecting our threatened species and the things putting them at risk.
Why does this matter? As Nikki Macdonald from The Post points out, we’re a country with around 4,400 threatened species. With limited time and funding, conservation has always meant making tough calls about what gets attention first.
For the first time, DOC has put real numbers around what it would take to do everything needed to properly safeguard our unique natural environment. The new BioInvest tool shows the scale of the challenge: 310,177 actions across 28,007 sites.
Now that we can see the full picture, it brings the big question into focus: how much do we, as Kiwis, truly value protecting nature — and what are we prepared to invest to make it happen?
We hope this brings a smile!
Poll: 🤖 What skills do you think give a CV the ultimate edge in a robot-filled workplace?
The Reserve Bank has shared some pretty blunt advice: there’s no such thing as a “safe” job anymore 🛟😑
Robots are stepping into repetitive roles in factories, plants and warehouses. AI is taking care of the admin tasks that once filled many mid-level office jobs.
We want to know: As the world evolves, what skills do you think give a CV the ultimate edge in a robot-filled workplace?
Want to read more? The Press has you covered!
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52.6% Human-centred experience and communication
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14.7% Critical thinking
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29.9% Resilience and adaptability
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2.7% Other - I will share below!
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Love potatoes? We will give away free copies of the May 2026 issue to readers whose potato recipes are used in our magazine. To be in the running, make sure you email your family's favourite way to enjoy potatoes: mailbox@nzgardener.co.nz, by March 1, 2026.
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