HIGHLIGHTS FROM THIS WEEKEND'S PROGRAMME SCHEDULE
** HIGHLIGHTS FROM THIS WEEKEND'S PROGRAMME SCHEDULE ON Coast Access Radio 104.7FM **
* Saturday 9am: "Conversations" - Nigel Hopkins talks with both local district councils; Kapiti Coast and Horowhenua in this council catch-up. Including talking about green spaces and the upgrade to the Waikanae water treatment plant.
* Sat 9.30am: "Age Friendly Cities" - Another insightful conversation between Jill Stansfield and Todd Zaner.
* Sat 12 midday: Our regular rotary catch-up is back. Todd Zaner talks with Steve Botica, who keeps us up to date with the local rotary clubs of Horowhenua and Kapiti.
*Sat/Sun/Mon 3pm: "NZ Retro weekly top 40" - with Rob Walker. Thus week featuring music from March 1980...
* Sunday 11am: "Focus on Arts"
* Sun 6pm: (repeated 3pm the following Wednesday...) A new book reading from the Manager of the Waikanae Baptist Op Shop, (here in Mahara Place, Waikanae) - Karen Gibbs reads extracts from her book, "Experiences of a little owl - The diary of the very first year in the life of Octavia Owl".
* Monday 7pm: "HOT Topic" - Pete Grindrod has a chat with KCDC district councillor Martin Malliday.
Stay alert and safe out there folks, and for more programmes and information go to our website. 👋
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?
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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?
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