Almost a Local: Shortly after his family moved to Waiwera, in 1959, a Scout camp in the Pukapuka kicked-off Cimino’s fifty-year love affair with the Mahurangi.
Photographer Maree Owston-Doyle
Diverse career includes designing and building Waiwera pools’ first comprehensive water treatment system (circa 1971), a series of unique shallow-drive boats and Regal Salmon’s smokehouse in Invercargill.
Currently project manager of
Open-Ground Indigenous Plants, acting-secretary of Friends of the Mahurangi and editor of the
Mahurangi Magazine.
Thirty-five years of leadership in successful community-based initiatives including: Car-free Te Muri access; publication of
Jade River: A History of the Mahurangi; revival of the Mahurangi Regatta Prize-Giving and Dance; resolution of 45-year public access dispute at Jamieson Bay.
Partner Sarah; daughters Tira and Rewa; grandchildren Shane, Jaryd and Madison…
High points of 2009 Accompanying Sarah to
Waikäkaho for the celebration of the life of her aunt Maureen Wratt (1921–2009). And taking the first close look at
12 Tammadge Street, Te Küiti, since his family vacated its former (1951–1959) home.
Cimino? Previously Peter, Cimino’s mother: Noeline Adelaide Cole née Cimino 1911–1962. Cimino’s grandfather, great-grandfather, and
great-great-grandfather all took the name Salvatore Cimino (pronounced ‘Cheemeenoh’).
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Salvatore Cimino I : Wellington’s first Italian resident. Te Papa
