Fruit trees planted in community garden
We had another great day in the community garden yesterday and planted most of the fruit trees. Rob Oscroft shows what we have achieved.
August 2018 Residents’ Association meeting
Refer to the July meeting minutes.
Agenda:
Welcome
Apologies―Pauline Morse, Ann Jebson, Dale Williams, Beccy Davis
Approval of previous minutes
Matters arising from previous minutes
Financial report
Correspondence
PKB pest-free update, Gillian Candler
Community/School hall, update
Celebration of hall’s 45thanniversary
Village Planning funding update, work for the coming year
Update items:
- He Ara Pukerua, including 2019 calendar
- Community garden
- Engine braking
- Coastal erosion workshop
PCC report and update on projects
Roaming dogs
Access track onto Muri Reserve
Other business
School reneges on hall partnership
Pukerua Bay School Board of Trustees pulls out of 45-year agreement on local hall
The Pukerua Bay Residents Association is very disappointed that the Pukerua Bay School Board of Trustees (BoT) has decided to pull out of a partnership that saw the school and the community jointly build and then manage our local hall for the past 45 years. …
July 2018 Residents’ Association meeting
See the draft June meeting minutes.
Agenda
Welcome
Apologies ― David Olsen
Approval of previous minutes
Matters arising from previous minutes
Financial report
Correspondence
PCC report and update on projects
Community/School hall ― update and progress
Paremata roundabout traffic issues update (Paul)
Support for Ahu Trust (next year’s Matariki)
Village Planning reports — Community garden, He Ara Pukerua (this year’s fundraiser)
Other business
Marking out the garden
Today a small, keen group worked in the community garden to prepare for our working bee tomorrow to get ready for planting the fruit trees arriving this month.
The community garden is really a ‘food forest’ that will eventually include a wonderful mixture of fruit trees, berries, herbs and support trees that will grow into a self-sustaining ecosystem. We’re developing it following permaculture principles to create a diverse and integrated system that is rich in plant, insect and microbe life, and recycles nutrients and doesn’t need many inputs from us. …
Penguin signs go up in the Bay
Penguins could be one step safer at Pukerua Bay, with a new sign providing tips and information to visitors. Little penguins or kororā are occasionally seen and heard by residents at Pukerua Bay beach. Kororā usually come ashore in the evening and return to the sea in the morning. But when they are breeding or moulting they stay on land all the time. As their name suggests, they are tiny at around 33 centimetres long, and as they are flightless, they can easily be attacked by dogs.
Children from Pukerua Bay School joined Councillor Dale Williams and local residents to celebrate this initiative on Thursday 14 June. The children planted around the sign and placed hand-painted penguins nearby.
Designed by Pukerua Bay resident Anne Johnston, the sign has been adapted from a sign placed at Paekakariki by the Kāpiti Coast Biodiversity Project. The Pukerua Bay sign was created with support from the Hutt Mana Charitable Trust, the Department of Conservation, the Kāpiti Coast Biodiversity Project, Porirua City Council and the Pukerua Bay Residents’ Association.
New highway pedestrian cross by shops
This Sunday night, 10 June, NZTA contractors will start building a crossing by the shops that pedestrians can use to get across the highway.
This is a proposal NZTA brought to the Residents Association over 18 months ago, and it’s finally being built!
As you can see in the picture, it is at the end of the car park, opposite Reds.
There is a 2.5m wide refuge in the middle of the road where pedestrians can stand, with rails on either side of the refuge, and 4m long islands running north and south.
The work will start 7pm Sunday night, and go until 5:30am. Night work will be spread over five nights, with some finishing work during the day, There will be stop/go traffic management in place during the work.
Once it’s built, vehicles will still be able to turn left out of the car park to go north, but won’t be able to turn right to go south from the toilet end of the car park. We’ll also have to get used to the refuge being in the middle of the road when turning right into Teihaha Road.
We’re pretty pleased, after many years of lobbying, to finally get some sort of safe crossing. It might not be perfect, but it’s better than the nothing we have at the moment!
June 2018 Residents’ Association meeting
Agenda: TBC, usually the weekend before. Please refer to the draft minutes from the May 2018 meeting.
Kororā sign planting (Take 2!)
Next Thursday (14 June) at 10.30 am, Pukerua Bay School children will be planting the area around the new Kororā (Little Blue Penguin) sign on the beach, at the start of the coastal walk track. The sign is for promoting the protection and conservation of the penguins.
Come and join us!
Kororā (Little Blue Penguin) sign planting
Pukerua Bay School children will be planting the area around the new Kororā (Little Blue Penguin) sign on the beach, at the start of the coastal walk track. The sign is for promoting the protection and conservation of the penguins.
Come and join us!