by Cimino | 28 Mar 2015 | Regional parks
There were very good reasons for celebrating in 2016. Thirty-first of March is the 50th anniversary of the purchase of Wenderholm Regional Park, meaning that the main celebratory event could justifiably been held on Tuesday. But while there was a certain amount of...
by Cimino | 22 Mar 2015 | Regional parks
This week sees concrete step number three, with step four imminent. Concrete step one towards the Mahurangi Coastal Trail was last November, when Christine Fletcher’s parks, recreation and sport committee voted for work to proceed on the Te Muri Concept Plan. The...
by Cimino | 14 Mar 2015 | Regional parks
Second concrete step as coastal trail wins Friends Friends of Regional Parks is strictly a high-level, umbrella group. It was formed to ensure that the Auckland Regional Parks network survived and flourished under the new unified governance arrangements for the...
by Cimino | 6 Mar 2015 | Regional parks
Trust is the essential element in any successful collaboration. And it is never more so when that collaboration involves various community groups, elected council representatives, and council staff. Trust was clearly a key factor in Mahurangi Coastal Trail gaining its...
by Cimino | 11 Feb 2015 | Media missing in climate action
Mainstream ignores novel climate-action mobilisation Story-telling goes back at least as far as the 200 000-year-old species itself. Yet humanity’s biggest story ever, how Homo sapiens sapiensas opposed to Homo sapiens, to acknowledge Homo sapiens idaltu, and to avoid...
by Cimino | 1 Feb 2015 | Regatta 2016
It will be well worth the extra week’s wait. Well, only six days, actually, as Auckland Anniversary Day is celebrated on the last Monday in January, even if that falls on 1 February—the logic of this rule for setting the date of an upcoming Mahurangi Regatta, possibly...
by Cimino | 29 Jan 2015 | Regatta 2015, Results
Results of the 2015 Mahurangi Regatta, to hand: A-Class Trophy Line honours Prize 1st Prize 2nd Rainbow 3rd Tawera 4th Waitangi 5th Iorangi 6th Frances 7th Thelma 8th Achernar Frostbites 1st Kiteroa 2nd Green hull 3rd Rapscalion 4th Tawhiri 5th Amber 6th Incognito 7th...
by Cimino | 19 Jan 2015 | Part 4 Surveys and Settlement
Jade River: A History of the Mahurangi Ronald H Locker First published 2001. Published online 2014– This online edition is a work in progress… Contents Part 4 Surveys and settlement Page 59in printed edition Introduction to Mahurangi surveys and settlement Rejected as...
by Cimino | 19 Jan 2015 | Part 1 Beginnings
Jade River: A History of the Mahurangi Ronald H Locker First published 2001. Published online 2014– This online edition is a work in progress… Contents Part 1 Beginnings Page 1in printed edition Introduction to how Aotearoa was formed and Mahurangi named Like...
