WORKING WITH OUR WATERWAYS
Farmers, horticulturalists, and lifestyle block owners – share your ideas about creating more flood resilient land and improving the water quality of the streams and rivers.
Find out more about our river catchments and discuss the impact of stream management, good and bad, on farmers, businesses, and communities downstream.
At this FREE event find out more about:
• Matakana catchment and storm frequency.
• Natural waterway processes.
• How rivers and streams respond to flooding and long-term changes in flows.
• Stages of waterway channel formation and what to consider on your property.
• Reducing flood and channel instability risks in your reach of stream and for your neighbours.
Network with others to be better prepared for large storm events.
Presenter, Danny Klimetz – geomorphologist, and stream restoration and environmental research scientist, and others.
Clearing debris dams and what landowners should consider.
Trotter family farm visit to assess stream stages and management of Duck Creek.
Light lunch provided.
WHEN: 9.30am-3pm, Friday 7 June 2024
WHERE: The Meeting Room, Matakana Hall, 43 Matakana Valley Road, Matakana
Book you spot, now.
Limited spaces and registration essential. RSVP: foamfacilitator@gmail.com or message us, now.
More information at www.awamatakanakana.home.blog...
⚠️ DOGS DIE IN HOT CARS. If you love them, don't leave them. ⚠️
It's a message we share time and time again, and this year, we're calling on you to help us spread that message further.
Did you know that calls to SPCA about dogs left inside hot cars made up a whopping 11% of all welfare calls last summer? This is a completely preventable issue, and one which is causing hundreds of dogs (often loved pets) to suffer.
Here are some quick facts to share with the dog owners in your life:
👉 The temperature inside a car can heat to over 50°C in less than 15 minutes.
👉 Parking in the shade and cracking windows does little to help on a warm day. Dogs rely on panting to keep cool, which they can't do in a hot car.
👉 This puts dogs at a high risk of heatstroke - a serious condition for dogs, with a mortality rate between 39%-50%.
👉 It is an offence under the Animal Welfare Act to leave a dog in a hot vehicle if they are showing signs of heat stress. You can be fined, and prosecuted.
SPCA has created downloadable resources to help you spread the message even further. Posters, a flyer, and a social media tile can be downloaded from our website here: www.spca.nz...
We encourage you to use these - and ask your local businesses to display the posters if they can. Flyers can be kept in your car and handed out as needed.
This is a community problem, and one we cannot solve alone. Help us to prevent more tragedies this summer by sharing this post.
On behalf of the animals - thank you ❤️
Special Children's Christmas Parties in Auckland
Special Children's Christmas Parties held their Auckland event at
the Auckland Showgrounds recently inviting thousands of special needs children and their caregivers to a fun day of free entertainment, food and also took home three quality toys to call their own.
Special Children's Christmas Parties have been organising these events for over 25 years across a number of main centres throughout New Zealand.
Now, every year in New Zealand, nearly 10,000 Kiwi children with special needs, challenging life or health circumstances are invited to a party like no other.
The annual event is made possible by many local businesses supporting this event including Neighbourly.co.nz.
To be a part of this special event next year, please contact Aidan Belsham - Aidan@scevents.co.nz
Poll: Would you rather: Christmas in summer forever or winter forever?
Just a bit of a fun poll to get you thinking.
If you had to live out your Christmas days, would you prefer it was a summer Christmas or a winter Christmas?
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60.7% Summer
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37.4% Winter
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1.9% Other - I'll share below
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