by Cimino | 30 Dec 2018 | Dredging, Regatta 2019
There could only be one flagship for the ‘Up the Mahu!’ day-after-the-regatta flotilla. She will lead the demonstration of support, departing the Scotts Landing jetty at midday. The Jane Gifford scow, aside from being the face of the Mahurangi Regatta since 2010,...
by Cimino | 24 Dec 2018 | Dredging, Local board, Paths and trails, Warkworth Town Hall Talk
Warkworth Town Hall, inescapably, is where the community should assemble to make decisions for itself. Not the Auckland Town Hall, with its region-wide responsibilities for a city of 1.7 million. In a slightly less imperfect world, Mahurangi and districts would have...
by Cimino | 19 Dec 2018 | Warkworth
Its arse-end is one of Warkworth’s worst features, despite robust heritage architecture being about striving to keep public buildings relevant to their communities. Nothing about the blank back wall of the Old Masonic Hall commends it to be considered sacrosanct. In...
by Cimino | 15 Dec 2018 | Fauna, Warkworth Town Hall Talk
When a Warkworth Town Hall Talk catalysed the Mahurangi-based green-lipped mussel reef restoration research project, it triggered a veritable chain reaction. The immediate impact was to shock the community into taking responsibility for a ‘Mahurangi Action Plan Phase...
by Cimino | 8 Dec 2018 | Fauna, Warkworth, Weirs
Millennia before human habitation, the natural sandstone weir at the Mahurangi River tidehead would have formed a formidable barrier to īnanga in their imperative to migrate from the sea to freshwater reaches. Then, over about the last 6000 years, towards its lower,...
by Cimino | 5 Dec 2018 | Warkworth
Better connecting its tidehead town to its river has been a Mahurangi Action goal since the organisation was formed 44 years and one fortnight ago. Understandably, for a forward-looking town, Warkworth was built with its back to the river that represented the past....
by Cimino | 24 Nov 2018 | Action plan planning
Billed as a district and regional council initiative, the goal of the Mahurangi Action Plan, when launched in 2004, was to kickstart the fencing and planting of riparian margins, and after five years leave a community motivated and organised to continue the work to...
by Cimino | 17 Nov 2018 | Meetings and celebrations, Warkworth Town Hall Talk
Wednesday night’s wonderful, wonderfully well-attended town-hall talk wasn’t supposed to happen and wouldn’t have, had Auckland Council not hired Adrian and Alex Hayward to promote the use of the Warkworth Town Hall. The same day Adrian and Alex were introduced to the...
by Cimino | 14 Nov 2018 | Sea-level rise, Warkworth
Permanent ice sheets are a misnomer. Ages involving alternating glacial and interglacial periods are ephemeral, occupying only a small percentage of geological time. Humankind’s greatest—although certainly not in any laudatory sense of the adjective—achievement is to...
