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What's NEW In Store...Lots of adidas gear has just landed....come on in this weekend and have a browse :)
Booking online is an easy way to make sure your collection is sorted - you don't need to wait for your flyer.
All Auckland households can book an annual inorganic rubbish collection of up to 1 cubic metre (roughly the size of a small trailer load). Find out what can be collected here.
… View moreBooking online is an easy way to make sure your collection is sorted - you don't need to wait for your flyer.
All Auckland households can book an annual inorganic rubbish collection of up to 1 cubic metre (roughly the size of a small trailer load). Find out what can be collected here.
Collections run from March to December 2017. You may have items you could sell or swap, from bikes the kids have outgrown, to a bbq a new family down the street could use, please consider 'donating, selling or swapping them.
Take a look at what residents across Auckland are giving away for FREE or give away or sell an item now.
This Valentine's Day, give a gift that will melt hearts and speak volumes about how much you care.
TLC gifts are virtual gifts to which you can add either an e-card or a printed card. You simply select which animal you'd like to save and whether you'd like to give them the gift of… View moreThis Valentine's Day, give a gift that will melt hearts and speak volumes about how much you care.
TLC gifts are virtual gifts to which you can add either an e-card or a printed card. You simply select which animal you'd like to save and whether you'd like to give them the gift of love or rescue on behalf of the one you love.
Long after everyone else's chocolates have been eaten and flowers have wilted your gift will live on in the life of the animal you helped save.
Visit our TLC Shop now to find out more: shop.spca.org.nz...
I'm signing up for the Aotearoa Bike Challenge.
It's a bit hard to ride my bike to and from work because I live out in Clevedon, but I will try and get around on my bike when I'm in the city.
Are you keen to join in?
We had a great response to our "What's your tsunami plan?" competition. It sounds like you're all ready.
Congratulations to our winners:
Ann from Motueka
Lou from Wainuiomata
Angie from Rangiora
Remember:
- In a large local tsunami causing earthquake, roads may be … View moreWe had a great response to our "What's your tsunami plan?" competition. It sounds like you're all ready.
Congratulations to our winners:
Ann from Motueka
Lou from Wainuiomata
Angie from Rangiora
Remember:
- In a large local tsunami causing earthquake, roads may be damaged or blocked, so include walking.
- Don't wait for an official warning, there may not be time in a local source tsunami.
- Remember long OR strong, get gone.
Visit www.happens.nz... to work out what you will do.
Read the latest news on children who may have been exposed to blood and saliva at Pukekohe Intermediate Dental Clinic.
Buy & register your child's AT HOP card and save
Terms of use for AT HOP cards are available at AT.govt.nz/athop
The faster you go, the less time you have to react and stop, slow down around schools. Find out more about road safety around schools here: AT.govt.nz/driving-parking/safer-communities-roads-schools/road-safety/road-safety-around-schools
Does your community group need funding?
Are you putting together a project or event in the Franklin Local Board area? As well as the standard local grants, the local board is now able to approve quick response grants of up to $2000. Priority is given to: community events, community safety, health… View moreDoes your community group need funding?
Are you putting together a project or event in the Franklin Local Board area? As well as the standard local grants, the local board is now able to approve quick response grants of up to $2000. Priority is given to: community events, community safety, health and wellbeing, environment.
Applications for Quick Response Grants: 13 Feb - 10 Mar
After a social media call-out made by Mad Mike Whiddett, Shaun Johnson gets behind the wheel of an 800 horse power drift car in an effort to get it sideways!
Do you have a neighbour who is seriously awesome, the glue and connector of your neighbourhood, and the person at the centre of your community, or who is just a really good sort! Nominate them to be our Neighbourhood Champion and they can go in the running to win an Orania Natural Skincare … View moreDo you have a neighbour who is seriously awesome, the glue and connector of your neighbourhood, and the person at the centre of your community, or who is just a really good sort! Nominate them to be our Neighbourhood Champion and they can go in the running to win an Orania Natural Skincare package as a lovely 'Thank you!'
It was a joy to celebrate Auckland's 177th Anniversary at the Glenbrook Vintage Railway. The lovely people from the GVR invited me to launch their new rail turntable. I went along with my Dad who did his time as an apprentice fitter and turner in the railway workshops both before and after … View moreIt was a joy to celebrate Auckland's 177th Anniversary at the Glenbrook Vintage Railway. The lovely people from the GVR invited me to launch their new rail turntable. I went along with my Dad who did his time as an apprentice fitter and turner in the railway workshops both before and after WW2.
I got to shovel coal into the boiler of JA 1250 and take the ride down to Waiuku. Steam locomotives are a living breathing thing; dirtier and smellier than our trains today, but a great experience and significant part of our history.
Congratulations to the 150 volunteers that make the Glenbrook experience what it is. I encourage locals in the Franklin Ward area - and Auckland in general - to visit.
Parents of children starting intermediate school have been facing up to mobile phone choice time.
Read more: www.stuff.co.nz...
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