by Cimino | 16 Apr 2008 | Development design guide, Regional parks
Success after three decades bleatin’ into submission The locals’ vehicle-free concept blew the regional council’s plans for a road bridge across Te Muri out of the estuary. It was 1986 and test drilling in the bed of the estuary had rudely reminded locals that the...
by Cimino | 12 Apr 2008 | Regional governance
Mahurangi ActionThen known as Friends of the Mahurangi’s submission to the Royal Commission on Auckland Governance could be its one opportunity to have its say on the subject. Or not. It all depends on what the government does with the commission’s recommendations,...
by Cimino | 6 Apr 2008 | Regional governance
It seems difficult to credit it now. When the editor’s family moved to Waiwera, in 1959, the local council offices were in Greys Avenue, Auckland. Coming from Te Kūiti, which had its own council offices, this seemed bizarre. But much that is taken for granted about...
by Cimino | 5 Mar 2008 | Mahurangi West Hall
Sunday afternoon saw another tremendous turnout at the Mahurangi West Hall, this time to support a Pūhoi-based initiative. The very worthy recipient of Mahurangi West hospitality and generosity was the Pūhoi Volunteer Rural Fire Force. Like rural volunteer rural fire...
by Cimino | 26 Feb 2008 | Climate disinformation, Reviews, Science
Preventing climate confusion raining Review The Discovery of Global Warming, Spencer R Weart Publishers: Harvard University Press (2003); American Institute of Physics (online) Regular readers will be aware that my goal of a new page published every day has gone up in...
by Cimino | 23 Feb 2008 | Community, Regatta 2008
A number of times the Mahurangi Regatta has had to be cancelled. On one occasion, controversially, it was the weather before the regatta, rather than on the day, that caused the cancellation of the shoreside regatta—the unprecedentedly rain-soaked regional park...
by Cimino | 20 Feb 2008 | Regatta 2008
Shoreside regatta director honoured – What time’s the tide? Even in 1977, it was inescapable. Having revived the regatta, after it had lapsed for three decades, Mahurangi Actionestablished 1974, as Friends of the Mahurangi found it had a tiger by the tail—an event...
by Cimino | 13 Feb 2008 | Action plan planning
Mahurangi action plan yes we can We’ve been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. I’d been struggling with how to simply and succinctly explain what the...
by Cimino | 2 Feb 2008 | Regatta 2008, Regatta history
An email from the Weiti Boating Club nicely summarised the sea change: Weiti Boating Club is racing to Mahurangi tonight and we plan to have our club barbecue and prize-giving ashore on Saturday evening at Scotts Landing, as we have done in past years. We realise that...
by Cimino | 24 Jan 2008 | Regatta 2008
Recreating the traditional picnic regatta, was the vision. When Mahurangi Actionestablished 1974 as Friends of the Mahurangi revived the Mahurangi Regatta, in 1977, the elders were adamant it was to be a traditional picnic regatta, where the only thing provided was...
