Reading Time: 2 minutesA new initiative to turn Maungakiekie/One Tree Hill and Cornwall Park into a safe haven for birds, is being launched this month. The Maungakiekie Songbird Trust will be introducing an innovative eradication programme to reduce the number of rats, possums and other predators around the mountain. Organiser, Ian Hook, says the key to the project’s ...
Reading Time: 2 minutesDuring the month of October, The EcoMatters Bike Hubs are encouraging cyclists to get on their bikes as part of The Power Box Bike Challenge for Biketober, Auckland’s annual festival of bicycle fun. Participants will have the opportunity to explore their neighbourhood in search of painted power boxes all across Auckland. The month-long treasure hunt ...
Reading Time: 2 minutesClub Onehunga was officially launched at the beginning of August with a large turnout of members from the Onehunga RSA and Onehunga Club. After a ribbon cutting ceremony performed by Maungakiekie MP, Denise Lee, and a welcoming Karanga by Kaikaranga Dianne Timu-Carter, everybody went on to toast the success of the joint venture inside the ...
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor three whole days in August, there was snow on the ground at Oranga Kindergarten. No, it wasn’t an unexpected weather event – the kindy children enjoyed the wintry treat thanks to Penrose-based property company, Southpark Corp Ltd. The four-metre pile of snow arrived early on a Monday morning, and was unloaded onto a clear ...
Reading Time: 2 minutesAt the beginning of August, Race Relations Commissioner (RRC), Meng Foon, visited the Epsom Combined Probus group to give a wide-ranging talk about his job, and racism and discrimination in New Zealand. When Race Relations Commissioner, Meng Foon, stood in front of a large room full of mostly Pãkeha New Zealanders in August, he doesn’t ...
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe space outside St Peter’s Church has never been the same since the mosaic chess table, one of Onehunga’s much photographed pieces of street art, was destroyed in a late-night incident involving a car. Thankfully, the nearby ceramic sofa was left unscathed. Following the event, the Onehunga Community News Facebook page was flooded with ...
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn Onehunga-based youth trust has launched a crowdfunding campaign to carry on its work in granting annual scholarships to local high school students. The 36 year-old Onehunga Youth Trust has been described by one of its founding members, Greg Woodcock, as “low key” – but its influence on young people’s lives has been just the ...
Reading Time: 2 minutesA dynamite idea ? Not possible says Waka Kotahi NZTA The coffer dam in place for construction of one of the bridge’s main support piers. On the left is the staging platform for cranes and other equipment to move about on while the bridge is under construction. At the beginning of August, the Onehunga Community ...
Reading Time: 2 minutesAsk anyone in and around Onehunga, and nine times out of ten they will know of Baz the Postie. Barry MacGroucutt has dedicated almost two decades of his life to the job as the local postman. He does the job through rain or shine, and always with a smile. The popular postman is best known ...
Reading Time: 2 minutesA young Mãngere Bridge resident has been judged the winner of her age-group in this year’s She Can Code competition. The budding young scientist, eight year-old Odette Ala’alatoa-Dale, has invented a Surface-Skimming Net Robot (SSNR), designed to skim off the floating plastics from the water beneath the new Mãngere Bridge. The She Can Code competition ...