Reading Time: 2 minutesIn February, staff and students at Cornwall Park District School (CPDS) celebrated a milestone – its 100th year! In a low-key ceremony, the school’s oldest girl, Grace Sutcliffe, and youngest boy, Mark Xu, cut the ceremonial ribbon, and then the oldest boy, Dylan Wright, and the youngest girl, Charlize Lau, helped to dig up the time ...
Reading Time: 2 minutesVehicles using our residential streets as through-roads, and travelling at high speed, is a serious and pressing issue in Onehunga and surrounding suburbs. (Crash site – the Mesarich’s car was written off by the collision) Late last year, local business owners, Mark and Tania Mesarich, narrowly escaped serious injury after a car sped through a ...
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Community Cat Coalition (CCC) has received a grant from the Maungakiekie-Tāmaki Local Board to fund a cat de-sexing project in Onehunga. CCC is a community network which helps abandoned, feral and abused cats and kittens. They finance and facilitate trap-neuter-return (TNR) and they also feed and manage de-sexed community cats, and provide veterinary treatment ...
Reading Time: 2 minutesA youth mentoring trust, based at the once-derelict Te Papapa Bowling Club, is providing athlete development, tutoring and life-skills programmes to at-risk male youth who have dreams of a professional career in sport. Pro-Pare Athlete Management Trust (PAMT) chairman, George Gavet, encourages the teenagers to pursue their dream career outside of rugby league, and works ...
Reading Time: 2 minutesA local resident who walks every day through Taumanu Reserve, says its neglect is a “disgrace”. In November, Patrick Dyer contacted the Onehunga Community News to highlight the lack of maintenance and the general look of neglect. His main concern is about the proliferation of weeds throughout the area, the bottles and rubbish strewn around, ...
Reading Time: 2 minutesWaikaraka Park will be echoing to the sounds of the Highlands on February 28th. The Auckland Centre Pipe Bands’ Championship is being held at the park for the very first time, with bands from Rotorua to the Far North competing. The day will start mid-morning with street marches at the southern end of Captain Springs ...
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf you’re between 60 and 74 years-old, and living in central Auckland, you can have a free bowel cancer test – all in the privacy of your own home. Invitations to participate in the programme, and get your home-testing kit, will begin to appear now in the letterboxes of those eligible (dependent on birth date) ...
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Onehunga Community News team: L-R Tim Plant, Janet Hannah, Sharleen Haimotu-Tavai, Amanda Peart, Rachel Sturges When I wrote last year’s Christmas message, little did I know what was in store for us in 2020 – nobody would have believed it. Yet here we are at the end of the year, in good spirits despite ...
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOnehunga Primary students finally got their 2020 mini-fair in November, after Auckland stayed at alert level 1. The mini-fair is a tradition at the school, and is held usually twice a year on a Friday for a few hours during the day. The November fair had a sausage sizzle, ice-cream, baking provided by school families, ...
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt is the end of an era for St Oswald’s Anglican Church in One Tree Hill, as their congregation voted to close their doors permanently due to an ongoing decline in numbers. After almost a century of service to the community, people were invited to bid their final farewell at the last morning service at ...