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• • Randell Cottage celebrates 10 years of writer residencies

    • 8 May 2012
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • This year, 2012, the Creative New Zealand Randell Cottage Writers Trust celebrates its tenth anniversary.
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• • City Council needs to improve communication concerning planning information

    • 6 May 2012
    • Thorndon Residents Assocation
    • When heritage proposals descended on Thorndon three years ago, the TRA members and Thorndon residents generally, unveiled numerous shortfalls in WCC's consultation and engagement approach especially from a residents' perspective.
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• • Demolition of the Old Grant Road Scout Hall

    • 3 May 2012
    • Thorndon Residents Assocation
    • The TRA has been advised by the Wellington City Council that they will be demolishing the Old Grant Road Scout Hall, starting Monday, 7 May.
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• • Yet Another Car Wreck in Hobson St

    • 29 Apr 2012
    • Thorndon Residents Assocation
    • A year on, and yet another serious car accident has occurred outside #58 and #60 Hobson St.
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• • Published: New Zealand-translated novel by Randell’s Fariba Hachtroudi

    • 27 Apr 2012
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • New Zealand literary translator Sian Robyns is the translator of The Twelfth Imam is a Woman written by French author Fariba Hachtroudi while in residence at Randell Cottage. Sian is also a new member of the Randell Cottage Friends Committee.
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• • Regional one men - 2012 winners!

    • 21 Mar 2012
    • Wellington Tennis Club
    •   Our regional one men beat Thorndon in the finals on 17 March at the Renouf Centre. It was a convincing 6-0 win.- Congratulations to (L-R) Sam Vinton-Boot, Dominic Miller, Kiranpal Pannu, Herve Michaud, Victor Romero and Kyle Butters.  
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• • More waggons on the straits workhorse

    • 20 Dec 2011
    • Capital Times
    • The newly enlarged Aratere is carrying more rail traffic across Cook Strait than ever before and rail business is growing says Thomas Davis, General Manager of the Interisland Line. “That new Mainfreight container depot  on Thorndon Quay is just
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• • Those blazing hills

    • 13 Dec 2011
    • Capital Times
    • PATCHES of crimson should be appearing on the hills of Tinakori this summer thanks to Project Crimson. Since 2005 volunteers have been replanting the Northern Rata which once covered the Tinakori hills and over the next few years, as trees mature, t
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• • The Creative NZ Randell Cottage Writer in Residence 2012 is Auckland author, poet and playwright Vivienne Plumb

    • 10 Dec 2011
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • For its tenth birthday next year, Randell Cottage Writers Trust has appointed Vivienne Plumb to be the New Zealand writer who will blow the candles out.
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• • Creative NZ Randell Cottage Writers Residency – business as usual on the eve of its tenth birthday

    • 30 Oct 2011
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • Historic Randell Cottage in Thorndon, which hosts a French-NZ writers’ residency turning ten next year, is in the midst of its summer changeover with writers leaving and arriving, and applications closing for next year’s NZ writer.
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• • Ideas on local government reform in Wellington

    • 28 Oct 2011
    • Thorndon Residents Assocation
    • A paper has been brought to our attention by the Federation of Wellington Progressive and Residents Associations.
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• • Thorndon Pool Summer Hours

    • 21 Oct 2011
    • Wellington City Council
    • Dust off the togs and break out the sunscreen - it's time for an early summer dip in Thorndon Pool - which opened on Saturday.
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• • Longer Hours at Thorndon Pool this Summer

    • 19 Oct 2011
    • Wellington City Council
    • Thorndon Pool opens this Saturday 20 October and will have its longest summer season yet, with extended daily opening hours.
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• • Randell Cottage Open Day — 19 November

    • 10 Oct 2011
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • The Trustees of the Randell Cottage Writers Trust invite you to visit historic Randell Cottage Open Day: 11am – 4pm Saturday 19 November 14 St Mary Street, Thorndon, Wellington Built in 1867, Randell Cottage is one of Wellington’s oldest restored cottages and home to both NZ and French writers. Take the opportunity to explore this corner of our city’s history.
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• • New Zealand writers’ application date: Friday 4 November 2011

    • 10 Oct 2011
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • Creative New Zealand Randell Cottage Writers Residency July 2012 to December 2012 exact entry & exit dates tba Stipend of $20,000 Closing date for applications for New Zealand writers: Friday 4 November 2011 Click here for application forms and queries  or email info@randellcottage.
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• • Thorndon kids will teach parents how to be social

    • 26 Sep 2011
    • Newswire.co.nz
    • SAFE SOCIALISING: Thorndon School children's art is on public show, but their social networking learning will be private and safe thanks to a new programme.
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• • Jealous of Katherine Mansfield

    • 6 Sep 2011
    • Capital Times
    • THE Katherine Mansfield Birthplace (KMB), one of the gems in Thorndon’s crown has curated an exhibition of six portraits of the writer, some of them unseen by the Wellington public before.
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• • Peter Walker event at the Rona Gallery this Sunday

    • 25 Aug 2011
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • Peter Walker will be guest speaker at an event this Sunday 4.
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• • Thorndon to fight for shallow pool plan

    • 22 Aug 2011
    • Newswire.co.nz
    • THORNDON residents are worried spending on a new shallow area for their summer pool is being sidelined because of big plans for the Kilbirnie pool.
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• • Randell Cottage Writer in Residence, Peter Walker, reads at Eastbourne’s Rona Gallery as part of the Writers’ Winter Series, 4.30-6.15 pm, Sunday, August 28

    • 28 Jul 2011
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • Randell Cottage Writer in Residence, Peter Walker, reads at Eastbourne’s Rona Gallery as part of the Writers’ Winter Series: Sunday August 28 4.
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• • Six Shopping Centres get Heritage Status

    • 25 Jul 2011
    • Wellington City Council
    • Six of Wellington's older suburban shopping areas have been added to the District Plan heritage list.
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• • No extra consent rules

    • 4 Jul 2011
    • Thorndon Residents Assocation
    • As part of preparations to make changes to the District Plan, WCC's Strategic and Policy Committee has decided that inner residential Thorndon shall face no additional consent rules.
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• • Launch for Jennifer Compton’s new book by Otago University Press.

    • 3 Jul 2011
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • Jennifer Compton’s new book This City: Poems by Jennifer Compton (Otago University Press) will be launched at the Thistle Inn, Monday 18 July at 6pm.
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• • Te Papa opens up mysterious Randell collection

    • 23 Jun 2011
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    • Sister’s Secret Stash – Tales from Te Papa episode 88 Te Papa has a collection of items found in the Randell Cottage.
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• • WCC Strategy Committee to consider residential heritage in Thorndon

    • 18 Jun 2011
    • Thorndon Residents Assocation
    • WCC's Strategy and Policy Committee is about to consider the approach to Heritage Management in the Residential Areas of Thorndon.
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• • Alert to log removal operation by Helicopter

    • 18 Jun 2011
    • Thorndon Residents Assocation
    • A helicopter will be used because it isn’t practical to remove it from the location marked X in any other way.
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• • Fiction on Fire – A Randell Cottage event at Millwood Gallery

    • 16 Jun 2011
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    •  A Randell Cottage event at Millwood Gallery 291B Tinakori Road Thorndon Tuesday 12 July 6-7 pm.
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• • Friends of the Randell Cottage AGM

    • 16 Jun 2011
    • Randell Cottage Writers Trust
    •  Friends of the Randell Cottage AGM (The AGM follows on from the Fiction on Fire event at the Millwood Gallery)  Tuesday 12 July at 7.45 pm Thistle Inn (upstairs room), 3 Mulgrave Street, Thorndon All welcome.
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• • Why have a district plan?

    • 7 Jun 2011
    • Capital Times
    • Thorndon resident Kevin O’Connor asks why the Wellington City Council even looks at  building applications  when the size of the planned building would be way outside the council’s own guidelines.
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• • Draft Thorndon Design Guidelines

    • 6 Jun 2011
    • Thorndon Residents Assocation
    • In mid May 2011, WCC's urban planners convened a workshop to discuss possible residential design guidelines for Thorndon. TRA representatives participated. Here is the draft report. The revision marks are by the TRA's representatives. This report will be discussed at the WCC convened Thorndon Advisory Group meeting, Tuesday 7 June.Background to the project.
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