Reading Time: 2 minutesDuring Covid-19 Alert Levels 4 and 3, the Tūpuna Maunga Authority and Cornwall Park Trust worked together on closing both parks to vehicle traffic. However, while most of the park has opened up again, regular visitors to Cornwall Park and Maungakiekie/One Tree Hill Domain will have noticed the current road closures preventing vehicle access all ...
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRegistrations are now open for 2021 boat race as part of the Onehunga Festival. This inaugural event will see handmade cardboard or corflute boats race across the Onehunga Bay Reserve lagoon. Boats of any shape or design can be entered and a team can number 1 or 100. The primary rule is they can only ...
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis month marks the fifth anniversary of our award-winning foreshore reserve and beaches, Taumanu Reserve. Its opening, back in November 2015, marked almost 40 years since SH20 sliced through Onehunga Bay, our beaches and our access to the harbour. What’s important to acknowledge, is that these beaches exist because our community fought for them. In ...
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Onehunga War Memorial Pool has a new look for its summer season, with the refurbishment of the changing rooms and reception area giving the pools a fresh, modern overhaul. The Onehunga War Memorial Pool Comprehensive Renewal Project has been in progress since 2016 when the project was approved by the Maungakiekie-Tāmaki Local Board. The ...
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter days of gusty wind and rain, the sun came out for the launch of the Oranga Kai Ora Gardens on the first day of October – and so did the community. Neighbours, community leaders, Kāinga Ora staff, builders, and children from the local community centre programme, all gathered together to bless the garden and ...
Reading Time: 2 minutesThirteen year-old Mason Lockhart has shed his signature locks in the Shave for a Cure fundraiser, helping raise awareness and funds for Leukaemia & Blood Cancer New Zealand (LBC). LBC is the national charity dedicated to patients and their families living with a blood cancer or a related blood condition. Funding for core services such ...
Reading Time: 2 minutesAround two dozen people gathered for a behind-the-scenes look at Cornwall Park last month, at the annual farm tour. The yearly tour is usually booked out and offers a rare insight into how the farm operates, what has happened across the year, and some history about the park. Of course, a tour also includes getting ...
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Waikaraka Park Grandstand has finally been demolished. After almost 90 years as a local landmark, the ageing concrete structure was pulled down in September. Despite popular belief that the grandstand was built by the US Army during World War II, it was actually constructed in the 1930’s. It hosted cricket, rugby union and rugby ...
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor 25 years, Spectrum Care has provided customised support for children, young people and adults with disabilities, and their whānau. Their approach has changed and evolved over the past decades, from institutional care, to group residential support and, most recently, to supported independent living. Spectrum Care walks alongside people every step of the way, but ...
Reading Time: 2 minutesTwo traffic trials in the Maungakiekie-Tāmaki area have won funding in the latest round from Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency’s Innovating Streets Programme, which aims to bring safer and more people-friendly streets to Auckland. The pilot projects in Onehunga and Glen Innes will create Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) with the aim being to re-define the ...