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.
Recently project manager of
Open-Ground Indigenous Plants, and founding executive member of Friends of the Mahurangi.
Currently editor of the
Mahurangi Magazine.
Thirty-six 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 2010 Surprise visit to daughter Rewa, on her 40
th. Surprise arrival of daughter Tira, on Labour Weekend, consummately executed by partner Sarah.
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’).
Salvatore Cimino I : Wellington’s first Italian resident. Te Papa