Archive / September 2006
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Rocky out crops
- T3 Track Blog
- These pictures are of 2 rocky out crops on the track, they have been ridden both ways so are deemed to be finished. As you can see by the before and after photos a lot of earth and rock has been moved to make them just right. These two sections were like big jigsaws puzzle to design, trying to fit in the nice natural rock features and make it tricky at the same time.
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Hutt City gains advanced Business Excellence Award
- Hutt City Council
- Hutt City Council has just gained a Silver Level Achievement Award in business excellence. Apart from Auckland Regional Council, it is the only local body in New Zealand to get to Silver Level. It follows a Bronze for the Council in 2004.
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Skinks Back
- T3 Track Blog
- This is the next feature to be built on T3, The Skinks Back.
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Design Map and info
- T3 Track Blog
- The track has already been started and about 100mtrs is rideable from the Vertigo end up, but as you will be able to see by the design map it is by no means finished, there are several features to be put along this part of the track, and a whole heap more along the rest of it.
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It's bye-bye birdie for one Sanctuary resident
- Karori Sanctuary Trust
- Until now, it has been one-way traffic as far as rare species transfers at Wellington's world-first Karori Wildlife Sanctuary are concerned. But all that is about to change as the award-winning eco-restoration project prepares to transfer one of its rarest inhabitants out of the Sanctuary for the first time in its 11-year history.
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From WOW to WAW
- WellUrban
- s the World of WearableArt awards wrap up on Friday with the delayed parade, it's time to shift our attention from wearable art to inhabitable art. Wellington Architecture Week kicks off next Monday, and while there's a huge range of talks, open projects, debates, competitions and exhibitions, there are two very topical themes that come through: heritage issues, and the parliamentary precinct.
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Thanks for the lovely comments
- CataBlog
- Thanks to Sarah, Erin and Libby for the lovely comments. It was a horrible decision to have to make, but we just couldn't get her nerve pain under control and listening to her cry in pain after she ate or...
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Chews life
- WellUrban
- The first major demolition stage of the massive Chews Lane project is starting as I write. Thus far, work has been limited to removing the "temporary" tin shed on Victoria St and refurbishing the heritage buildings, with generally excellent results.
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We hope you like our new site design
- Wellington City Libraries
- The look of our site has been refreshed. The pages are in the same place, so hopefully no one will get confused!
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Dominion Post article on Eastbourne
- Hutt City Council
- I would hope that people in Eastbourne do not rely on the information in your editorial (22 September) to decide whether Eastbourne should leave Hutt City and join Wellington City.
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Celebrating our extraordinary Dowse Award Winners!
- Hutt City Council
- Since 1999 The Dowse has run two biennial awards supported by David Thomas, an Australian benefactor. They are the Thomas Gold Award for Jewellery and the Thomas Award for Glass. The awards have meant that each year The Dowse has been able to assist an artist in taking their work to the next level with an award to the value of $10,000. The recipients have been jewellers Pauline Bern, Joanna Campbell and Kirsten Haydon and glass artists Elizabeth McClure and Claudia Borella. The recipient of the 2006 Thomas Award for Glass is Lyndsay Patterson.
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'Miss JPSMOG'
- St Mary's Old Girls Netball Club (SMOG)
- It was great to see everyone all dressed up & enjoying themselves last Saturday night at Mac's Brewery Bar for 'Miss JPSMOG', the end of year prizegiving.
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For you were wee, small short and thrashy-tailed
- CataBlog
- And I Loved you So. Rest in pain-free peace my dearest little Jonny girl. I'll miss you....
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Rovers Back Save Our City Centre Sport
- Land Rovers Football Club
- Land Rovers manager Steve Hall said this morning that Land Rovers would throw their full support behind Save Our City Centre Sport. "Comments made earlier in the week might suggest Rovers don't support inner city sport which we obviously do" said Hall "but let's face it ideally we'd like to have better facilites with little luxuries like toilets and showers, not available in the Shed of Dreams".
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Hilton happening
- WellUrban
- After more than a decade of wheeling and dealing, wrangling and wailing, the proposed Queens Wharf Hilton has been granted resource consent.
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Be a good sport at hutt city pools these school holidays
- Hutt City Council
- Is your child a budding Sheik of Tweak, or perhaps the next Cambo, or future Cory Hutchings?
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Wellington Colts v Otago Colts
- Wellington Rugby Football Union
- Otago Colts 16 â Wellington Colts 8 (John Monu try, Brad Cooper pen). A second half revival wasnât enough for the Wellington U21s in their 16-8 loss to an efficient Otago U21s side at {Porirua} Park on Wednesday night.
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Dude, where's my carpark?
- WellUrban
- Every time that I feel proud of Wellingtonians for being less car-dependent than their counterparts in other New Zealand cities, along comes a reminder that the hard-core vehicle addicts are still with us.
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TJ, Patch, Rusty and Victoria all settling into their new homes
- CataBlog
- ep that's right - 4 of our wee ones have gone to their new homes since last friday. TJ was the first to go on friday night and gave her new person and me a heartattack on Saturday when she...
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We all knew Petone was part of Wellington
- The Wellingtonista
- The Harbour Ward comprising Petone, Korokoro, Seaview, Gracefield and Eastbourne are launching a petition campaign over the next 2 weeks to gauge public support for the transfer of the HARBOUR WARD from Hutt City to Wellington City.
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New initiatives announced to support decorative arts and design.
- Hutt City Council
- The Blumhardt Foundation will host a panel discussion of leading artists tomorrow (Tuesday 19 September, 5.30pm, The Auditorium, National Library, Molesworth, Wellington). The Foundation will also announce new initiatives to foster the development of decorative arts and design in New Zealand.
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Speed architecture
- WellUrban
- Tomorrow evening at 5:30, this year's 20under40 architecture competition kicks off at the Architecture School in Vivian St. Competitors get their secret brief at 6pm, and then have 24 hours to come up with a scheme dazzling enough to win a share of the $2000 prizes.
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The litle Lampchop has the right drugs at last! Damn - or has she?
- CataBlog
- After many ups and downs (mostly downs) we seem to have got the mix right. The vet thinks that the oral steroids weren't being absorbed via her dodgy bowel, so she's now on injections which seem to be doing the...
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Supersize my Caketin
- WellUrban
- As Auckland faffs around about how and where to build a half-decent stadium in time for the 2011 Rugby World Cup, our acting mayor has jumped in with a classic piece of opportunism. Why not upgrade the capacity of our Stadium instead?
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Tiptoe Through the Tulips
- The Wellingtonista
- Well... around them anyway, if you don't want the gardeners getting medieval on you...
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Rhiannon Rocks!
- CataBlog
- Our wee girl is going from strength to strength in her new home. Check out the latest update: "She is doing wonderfully, while she still has moments of being frightened and runs away she is a lot braver by the...
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Win a $1,500 bike at the cycle science naenae tri
- Hutt City Council
- Entries have opened for the 15th annual Naenae Triathlon with the event set for Sunday 15 October 2006 at Naenae Pool in Lower Hutt.
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Councils welcome smartlinx3 funding
- Hutt City Council
- Smartlinx3 was confirmed today as a successful applicant with funding of $2.37 million approved by the Government.
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More reasons to moan about the buses...
- The Wellingtonista
- The fares have gone up! Well, for some of us they have. The new zones do make things a little simpler, but one gets the feeling the 2 and 3 stage price hikes will generally outweigh the discounts the more rare 4 stage traveller will be making.
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Vector price gouging
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- The Dompost called Denis Foot's recent letter relating to Vector over charging customers and his naming Mayors and Councillors who facilitated the sale of Capital Power, a case of "Ex-councillor berates others" but we think otherwise. Mr Foot makes a very valid point and we think it timely to remind Wellington's citizens of some political history.
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Building rumours 3: round-up
- WellUrban
- I was going to bring you some more building rumours, but I've just started looking at 35 pages of district plan change (293kB PDF) that could have a big impact on future development in the central city after they go to the council's Strategy & Policy meeting tomorrow.
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Waterfront update
- WellUrban
- Last night, I once again forced myself to sit through a Waterfront Development Subcommittee meeting. Here's an update on progress and plans, mainly based upon reports from the meeting, but with a few other tidbits.
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What's popular this month?
- Wellington City Libraries
- What's popular this month at WCL? All this and more. (Wellingtonians seem to be a bit concerned about food at the moment).
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Pany and Poppy
- CataBlog
- Hi all. Just got in a lovely update from Pansy and Poppy's new people up in Palmerston North. The girls are doing just great: "Just letting you know our little darlings are doing well. Pansy is a regular on our...
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Desperate measures
- WellUrban
- The gas outage has turned into a real crisis! Not only are thousands of people stuck with cold showers and forced to eat salad (the horror!), but the Wellington Brewing Company had to dump 8000 litres of wheat beer: enough to keep thirsty Wellingtonians satisified for several minutes.
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Tanadees Handicap Races, Evans Bay
- Wellington Scottish Athletics Club
- A glorious day with winds from the north west gusting to 80 plus kph. Throw in sand and salt spray and you have perfect conditions for exfoliation. And negative splits.
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