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Kids Athletics is a 6 week 'have-a-go' style athletics programme where primary and intermediate school aged kids have the opportunity to try a variety of athletics activities in a non-competitive environment.
Activities include running races, long jump, high jump, agility games and ball… View moreKids Athletics is a 6 week 'have-a-go' style athletics programme where primary and intermediate school aged kids have the opportunity to try a variety of athletics activities in a non-competitive environment.
Activities include running races, long jump, high jump, agility games and ball skills.
The programme starts on Tuesday 19th Feb and runs on consecutive Tuesdays until (and including) Tuesday 26 March.
As its an outdoor programme, it is weather dependent.
Attendance is free and casual so there is no need to book in advance or feel obligated to attend all sessions, though we do hope you will be able to.
Participants should arrive at the event venue at 4pm, which is the Vauxhall Sports Reserve, also known as the North Shore Rugby Club grounds - access is off Vauxhall Rd, where the bleachers are.
Registration is done on site, each session. Sessions finish at 6pm and there is food (sausage sizzle) and drink for sale on site.
For more info contact Maria ph: 445 9533 or email: maria@devonportpeninsulatrust.nz
Organised by the Devonport Peninsula Trust (www.devonportpeninsulatrust.nz...)
Special thanks to the Devonport Takapuna Local Board for their support.
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Family Fun Picnic tomorrow between 4pm-6pm!
Bring a picnic, your family and invite your neighbours to join us at Devonport’s Windsor Reserve to celebrate Neighbours Day! There will be a preschool play zone, bouncy castle, face-painting and live music to keep us entertained along with a sausage … View moreFamily Fun Picnic tomorrow between 4pm-6pm!
Bring a picnic, your family and invite your neighbours to join us at Devonport’s Windsor Reserve to celebrate Neighbours Day! There will be a preschool play zone, bouncy castle, face-painting and live music to keep us entertained along with a sausage sizzle and ice cream for sale.
Organised by the Devonport Youth Forum and the Devonport Peninsula Trust. Special thanks to the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board for their support.
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Solar power is proven to be extremely beneficial – not only for the environment but also financially. Build with Stonewood Homes today and … View moreSolar energy is derived from the sun’s radiation. The sun is a powerful energy source and this energy can be harnessed by installing solar panels.
Solar power is proven to be extremely beneficial – not only for the environment but also financially. Build with Stonewood Homes today and receive up to $6,700 off solar systems, call us on 0508 Go Solar or visit www.stonewood.co.nz/gosolar to take up this special offer now.
A long and hard-fought battle to save a treasured children's play boat once moored on the shores of …
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We are on the lookout for a new part-time carer for Jamie. (flexible hours after school hours and weekends) Jamie attends Takapuna Grammar School and he is a 15-year-old boy with Autism, which affects his communication. A few things that Jamie loves is swimming, outdoor adventures, … View moreHey everyone!
We are on the lookout for a new part-time carer for Jamie. (flexible hours after school hours and weekends) Jamie attends Takapuna Grammar School and he is a 15-year-old boy with Autism, which affects his communication. A few things that Jamie loves is swimming, outdoor adventures, and trains. If you or know anyone who may be interested, please pass this on. I can be contacted on 0212027313.
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Controls on the movement of fruit and vegetables in the Auckland suburbs of Devonport and Ōtara have been lifted after no further fruit fly have been found there.
TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF A STARK REALITY
Dear friends and neighbours, I usually write about sport once a week as ‘The Spotter’ for the site, sportsfreak.co.nz. However that seems so trivial right at this time. In my work as a teacher in Auckland I have had literally hundreds of students of … View moreTRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF A STARK REALITY
Dear friends and neighbours, I usually write about sport once a week as ‘The Spotter’ for the site, sportsfreak.co.nz. However that seems so trivial right at this time. In my work as a teacher in Auckland I have had literally hundreds of students of the Muslim faith. I cannot imagine the confusion, hopelessness, and incredulity they must have been feeling. In fact almost all of us, regardless of race, colour, beliefs or religion are no doubt feeling similarly.
Hopefully one week on, if anything remotely positive is to find it’s way into the light after the unspeakable, it is that we do not tolerate hateful rhetoric, and that we do not confuse ‘free’ speech with ‘hate’ speech. Somehow, I don’t think there would be too many people left willing to defend the right of extremists to speak on university campuses after the events of a week ago. And those that do are obviously hopelessly biased.
It’s completely superfluous it wasn’t a born and bred New Zealander who was responsible for the Christchurch terrorist massacre. Because no matter what, that bitter, bitter pill of what happened at Christchurch on March 15, 2019 will never get any easier to digest. And just now it feels as though the perpetrator has ruined our country for time immemorial.
The very unfortunate truth is that for years we brushed off violent, hardline supremacist rhetoric as the work of blowhard extremists. They were basically good for a laugh. As security expert Paul Buchanan stated in the aftermath, all along Government Intelligence were looking the wrong way. And so were we, the public. Surely there’s no doubt about that.
That being said, I don’t know if I completely go along with some column writers who have strongly asserted the New Zealand public are also rather responsible for what happened in Christchurch (then again, I may have no right to even write that- perhaps that should only be for those of the Muslim faith to comment upon). In society there are always a proportion of idiots and ignoramuses who scornfully denigrate others and their beliefs without actually knowing the life of a single different individual. Such people though are so painfully blinkered that they are going to bad mouth anyone who bears an even slight difference to themselves. Most sane and rational people are not like this.
It’s also entirely true that as globalisation and social media usage has increased so rapidly over the past decade, there is a greater preponderance of xenophobes in our midst. It certainly hasn’t helped the causes of tolerance and understanding, but it wasn’t much a part of the reason for why a white supremacist lunatic committed genocide.
I totally deplore xenophobia in any way, shape or form. Put it this way, it is beyond weird that people choose to demonise others who come here for the promise of a better life for themselves and their children; people who almost without fail try to ‘muck in’ with the quintessentially Kiwi way of living to do their best to gain our acceptance. And yet there are some who give these new arrivals a hard time because their beliefs and appearance don’t fall into line with Anglo-Saxonism. That is so warped and downright racist it isn’t funny.
But these ‘nasties’ are only bit-part extras in a massively bad production. Far more pertinent to look at one of the directors of the rhetoric- the Deputy PM, who it’s way too strong to say that he has blood on his hands, but is for my money, is just as, if not more culpable than those xenophobes you might have living down the street. For they are ignorant, irrationally fearful and don’t know any better, but he should. In fact if we are talking about blood on hands, then there is the apparent apathy and hopeless filters of heavyweights like Facebook and Twitter.
On the other hand, there’s no way the casual racists in society should be absolved. The level and very type of their ignorance borders on being a kind of synonym for hate. Even more so when it takes the form of a social media post. That very outlet ups the ante considerably. We should fight tooth and nail for reform in social media hate speech policy to go alongside the new gun proposals. Now we have just learnt that advertisers are on board with pre-empting change on social media rhetoric. A very good start.
Without wanting to dwell for more than a line or two on the cowardly scumbag who carried out the unspeakable crime, bastard extremists like this carry out such acts because of their own warped misinterpretation of history. They frequently have a history of self-loathing, low self-esteem and worth and quite possibly the simmering legacy of some horrible event from their childhood. They might commit their crimes to ‘achieve’ something in their ruined nothingness of an existence. There is enough evidence of the self-loathing factor with crimes like this that can be found within any decent library or in online journals and academic articles.
Most heartbreaking by far is the target of the crime- the Muslim brother and sisterhood. When a cleric from Wellington dissolved into tears on the news coverage and pleaded that ‘We are Kiwis, too’, I couldn’t take it anymore and cried awful tears with him. And I kept going- for a good while. Because that sentence more than any other hit hardest of all. How, just how could anyone have done this to those peace-loving people who love this country and were so proud to call it home?
I recall the gentle nature and heart-warming smiles of the Muslim students I have taught in my career as an English as a second language teacher and tutor: Ali, a former Saudi police detective- one of the hardest cases I’ve ever met anywhere and always poking fun at himself about his hair transplant. And Eman- a young Saudi woman I helped with an assignment a couple of months back. So polite and so intelligent. I could study for a thousand years and never come close to emulating her.
And then I stop and think that the only people who should really be writing anything on all of the above should be that brother and sisterhood that have been scarred for life by our nation. And for that, I am overcome and ashamed.
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