Archive / March 2007
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Hope everyone's sitting down...cos it'an update!
- CataBlog
- Hi all. So sorry for the lack of updating. Between work and the new shelter it's been a frantic few months. New shelter I hear you say? Yes - it's finally happened! Our new shelter is finished, the cats moved...
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Capital City Mazda Sprint
- Swimming Wellington
- 2007 Capital Sprint - Results 2007 Capital Sprint - Scores
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Watch the birdie
- WellUrban
- This morning, the ravaged environment of Ghuznee St finally got a positive addition to the streetscape: the world's largest tui landed on a roof to feed on some equally giant kowhai blossoms. It's part of the eye-catching new signage for the Forest and Bird headquarters.
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Marist St. Pat’s Set For 2007 Resurgence
- Wellington Club Weekly
- A much-anticipated 2007 Premier rugby season kicks off on Saturday with the first round of Swindale Shield matches, all at the earlier time of 2.30 pm. Another action packed competition is expected, following an extraordinary 2006 Club season remembered for its appalling weather off the field and its high-drama on it.
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From the Mayor's Desk - March
- Hutt City Council
- From the Mayor's Desk - March
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The Dead C are coming to town
- The Wellingtonista
- I wouldn't wanna put money on it or anything, but I'm pretty sure that the last time legendary NZ noise-rockers The Dead C (wikipedia) played in Wellington was when they supported Sonic Youth on their Dirty tour in 1993. And to be frank, with an utterly transcendant performance in the face of much tribulation, mopped the floor with them. Now they're playing at the City Gallery on Saturday night. It's free. What the hell else do you need to know?
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Wellington Phoenix FC
- The Wellingtonista
- Gah. If the stories we're hearing tonight are true, then we are ... underwhelmed. Seriously, Black Star Wellington was the bomb. And even Wellington City or Wellington FC were better options. But ... "Phoenix"? Ah well.
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Rusticity
- The Wellingtonista
- Following the success of the recent Wellington Flickr Group's exhibition at the Paramount, cames yet more photographic goodness from a Wellington flickr-ite legend A Different Perspective (aka Jim Henderson). He's putting on an exhibition of his work down at Island Bay's The Bach cafe, from the 1st to the 30th of April. To get a feel for what you might be seeing, check out his awesome flickr photostream here.
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Building rumours 11: Serepisos Towers?
- WellUrban
- The sports pages of the Dominion Post are not the most obvious source of urban development rumours, but there was an interesting titbit tucked away in Saturday's profile of Terry Serepisos, property tycoon, man-about-town and brand new owner of the Wellington Bees/Southerlies/Fever/Whatever. Among the usual breathless enumeration of the clothes, the cars and the parties, there was a reference to his desire to leave a legacy in Wellington, beyond his recent excursions into sports sponsorship. He wants to build Wellington's tallest building.
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Flight of the Conchords: Business Time
- The Wellingtonista
- Wellington's fourth most popular digi-folk paradists are currently shooting their 12-part HBO comedy series in New York, with fellow Wellingtonians Taika Waititi directing a couple of shows, and Duncan Sarkies providing the script for one of the episodes. All this, of course, is just an excuse to post some classic Flight of the Conchords for your listening enjoyment. Oooohhh yeahhhh, it's business time...
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Getting Moore for less
- The Wellingtonista
- Fashionistas may be excited to know about the very temporary-looking Andrea Moore 'workroom' set up by the bus stop on Manners St, whose windows are promising 50-70% off. But those who recently bought a (gorgeous) Andrea Moore dress at full cost might not want to read this at all...
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White Lightening
- Ben White (pictured) was on fire today as he scored four goals to lead the way for a Zephyr Rovers victory over Solnet. This was a potentially tricky fixture with only four regular squad members available for the local derby against Solnet.
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Bypassed
- WellUrban
- Well, it's done. The changeover to the southbound leg of the bypass happened without incident at just after 6 this morning, and while it's hard to tell for sure, there don't seem to be any major snarl-ups around town. Tomorrow will be a bigger test, once commuters hit the new layout in force, but we'll still have to wait for a while before we can see whether it achieves what it set out to do.
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Bypass surgery complete. Has the patient survived?
- The Wellingtonista
- At last, the final stage of the bypass has been opened, and the decades-long drama is drawing to an end. The DomPost reports...
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Road Rage Hits Wellington
- Over the last few weeks, significant road rage has hit Wellington regions roading system. This rage has been vented by commuters and out-of-towners, and now a new website www.roadragenz.com has been set up to allow commuters and others to vent their rage publicly.
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Coffee in chains
- WellUrban
- The good news is that, after a slow summer, there are a lot of new cafes, restaurants and bars about to open. I can think of a dozen that are definitely on the way, with another half dozen or so intriguing rumours. The bad news is that most of the cafes that have opened recently, or are about to open soon, are chain stores.
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Wellington MTBO Series - {Makara} Peak
- Wellington Orienteering Association
- Brilliant weather in other parts of Wellington today was replaced by mist on the top of {Makara} Peak, and a bit of a breeze buffeted riders on exposed tracks such as Ridgeline. However it was great in the bush and afterwards on the grass as the scores were totted up. Stephen Betts judged things nicely with slightly too many controls for MP Supporters president John Randal to visit - he scored 470 out of a possible 540.
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Not Happy With Shed 6
- Zephyr FC Manager Steve Hall said today that he was not happy with the increasing number of fixtures Rovers had scheduled for Shed 6. "It's no secret our that Rovers prefer the Shed of Dreams (pictured) as out preferred venue, probably something to do with that 10 - 0 drubbing we got in Shed 6 only six weeks ago" said Hall.
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Support YOUR Sanctuary
- Karori Sanctuary Trust
- On Wednesday 4 April, Karori Wildlife Sanctuary will hold its second annual street collection as part of its Annual Appeal. Over 100 volunteers will take to the streets around Wellington CBD, Karori, Thorndon, Johnsonville and the Airport. The money they raise will be put towards vital ecological restoration work at the award-winning Sanctuary, which costs over $2 million a year to run.
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Building rumours 10: new BNZ at Harbour Quays
- WellUrban
- I've wondered before about images of the planned new BNZ building at Harbour Quays, and I've just had a pointer from a helpful reader to say that there's now a publication on the CentrePort website (458kB PDF) with a couple of renders. Here
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Wellington City Council sets rates for 2007/08-Another election year
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- This is a Council on the run from its own policies and is about to have cardiac arrest. The Deputy Mayor, with his handful of votes that got him elected to Council, senses that CPR might be needed to a Council that is in its death throes now gasping for life with the possibility of an eight percent rate increase to the residents and a two percent increase to the commercial sector.
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Back on track: not so new
- WellUrban
- Most of you will have noticed the front-page headline in yesterday's Dominion Post: $200m to ease Wellington rail misery. The more observant among you may have noticed that the improvements mentioned in the sidebar (not online) don't quite add up to $200m, but a slightly less impressive $135m. The even more observant (and presumably long-suffering) among you might also have noticed that many of the upgrades sounded very familiar. Is this really news?
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What's in a name #1
- The Wellingtonista
- So, perhaps the most drawn out sports decision ever to be made by an Australasian sporting body has finally been confirmed, and a Wellington bid has won the right field a team in Australia's A-League soccer competition. Now all they need is a name (oh, and some players, and a home ground, but let's not mention that).
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Want to know more about family law?
- Wellington City Libraries
- If so, come along to this week's Law for Lunch topic: "Family Court parenting hearings". This popular series is happening every Thursday at Central Library, 2nd Floor, 12-1pm. To find out more about these sessions, check out the library website's News page.
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Bypassing Ghuznee
- WellUrban
- The moment of truth is nearly here: in less than a week's time, the bypass will be complete. Well, sort of. When the southbound route opens at 6am this Sunday, SH1 traffic will finally have been diverted out of the city streets and onto ... some other city streets.
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It's A-League For Wellington
- Zephyr Rovers FC
- Terry Serepisos (pictured) became a living legend in Wellington this afternoon when he bank-rolled the successful Wellington A-League bid for what was reputedly over a million dollars. "I've never met Terry as far as I know" said Zephyr Rovers Manager Steve Hall "but he's welcome to ring me tomorrow to see what we can do about reactivating that Zephyr bid for Wayne Rooney".
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Evan Crawford Appointed as High Performance Manager
- Wellington Rugby Football Union
- Wellington Rugby has appointed former New Zealand Secondary Schools coach Evan Crawford as its High Performance Manager.
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Zl6qh leads oceania in 2006 cq wpx cw contest
- ZL6QH Quartz Hill User Group
- We are pleased to note that ZL6QH achieved a score of 12,000,720 in the Multi-Two category of the 2006 CQ WPX CW Contest. This was the highest score in Oceania and the 7th highest world-wide, although we failed to beat the record Oceania score of 13,312,768 set by ZL6QH in 2004.
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Mayor Ogden welcomes housing portfolio transfer
- Hutt City Council
- Hutt City Council’s decision to transfer its housing portfolio to Hutt Holdings, a council controlled trading organisation, has been welcomed by Mayor David Ogden. Councillors on Tuesday (13 March) resolved 8-4 in favour of transferring the Council's stock of 186 housing units in the city to Hutt Holdings, after consultation through most of 2006.
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Rates rise among the lowest in the country
- Hutt City Council
- The rates increase for the average Hutt City ratepayer of 1.9% is among the lowest in the country, says Mayor David Ogden.
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Latest Get Going Guide Better than ever
- Hutt City Council
- Getting fit or staying active this autumn will be helped with the release of the latest edition of the Get Going guide, a brochure filled with ideas for fun and exercise for those over 50 years.
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Cuba Street Carnival Feedback
- The Wellingtonista
- Did you know that the Council supported the carnival? Do you think they should support the carnival? Got 2 minutes to answer those & a few other questions right here? Supplementary question: Are you offended by nudity at carnivals? If no, were you not outside Floriditas with half the Wellingtonista?
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Oh My God - It's Division 3
- Zephyr Rovers FC
- Wellington Indoor Sports today announced that Zephyr Rovers were to go into Division 3 after John Cao (pictured) apparently had a word with the centre Manager. "It has always been our vision to be the best team in Wellington by 30 June 2030" said Rover Manager Steve Hall "but this is going a bit faster than I anticipated, we're already over half way there with twenty three years or so to spare".
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Boredom Busters for these School Holidays
- Hutt City Council
- The holidays are here again, and Leisure Active once again got diverse and exciting programmes to keep youngsters happy and occupied during the break.
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Avanti Plus Bike Pencarrow Promises Family Fun
- Hutt City Council
- Avanti Plus Bike Pencarrow, Sunday 1 April, 11:00am – 2:00pm
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Council moves on Koro Cres “Black Spot”
- Hutt City Council
- Traffic from Koro Crescent in Petone will no longer be able to turn right onto Hutt Road from mid April.
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We ask: why are you here?
- The Wellingtonista
- The Wellingtonista would like to know why so many goddamn black-legged jellyfish decided to hang out at Lyall Bay over the weekend. Sure, it was hot, and swimming was a great idea, but for me, not for you creepy wobbly things!
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Borders': opening Thursday
- The Wellingtonista
- As Tom noted back in October, the northern portion of Capital on the Quay is to become a Borders'. Imagine a bookstore with a giant footprint, a café inside, and possibly the largest range of stock in town. That might well be what we're getting.
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Wellington swimmers enjoy successful National Age Groups
- Swimming Wellington
- Updated 15 March A strong contingent of Wellington swimmers completed a successful National Age Group swimming championships, which concluded in Hamilton on Saturday night. Georgia Hind (14, Capital, Wellington East Girls) secured two Gold medals on the final night of competition, both in Wellington record time, to claim a total of 4 Golds for the meet (in [...]
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Save Te Rae Kai Hau Point 2007
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- The $22 m cost of this project(the fish zoo) continues to escalate due to its proposed location at Te Rae Kai Hau Point and the need to protect the building from the relentless force of the sea. Not only will ratepayers be press-ganged into paying the inevitable shortfalls and ongoing costs, we will lose our precious natural heritage to so called environmentalists.
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Work to Begin Next Month on Hutt Park Sportshouse
- Hutt City Council
- The culmination of three years of hard work and careful planning will start to bear fruit next month when construction begins on the Pelorus Trust funded Sportshouse at Hutt Park.
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Hutt City Council Seeks Public Feedback
- Hutt City Council
- Hutt City Council will begin ‘phone surveys later this week (eds Fri 16th March) as part of its commitment to measure public opinion and increase involvement in setting council priorities, leading up to the release of the draft Long Term Council Community Plan (LTCCP) for 2007-2017.
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St Michael's & Kelburn Village Fair - March 10 from 10am
- The Wellingtonista
- The St Michael's & Kelburn Village Fair is on tomorrow at 10am. This will be the first one I've managed to catch, so I can't regale you with tales of past experiences, but I can promise you stalls, home baking, junk/treasure, and probably an awful lot of very out of date 2nd hand university text books.
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JPSMOG 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 team lists
- St Mary's Old Girls Netball Club (SMOG)
- Please see the Teams & Training page for team lists for JPSMOG 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5.
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Sports Strapping Course
- St Mary's Old Girls Netball Club (SMOG)
- Basic introduction to sports strapping: injury prevention for coaches and athletes. A qualified physiotherapist will instruct on strapping for ankle, knee, hand, shoulder. Date/Time: Monday 26 March, 7.00–9.00pm Venue: Sport Wellington Region, Level 2, [...]
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Lee makes it three at National Age Groups
- Swimming Wellington
- Samantha Lee (Capital) grabbed her third Gold medal in as many nights when she won the 14yrs 200m Freestyle and the National Age Group Championships in Hamilton tonight, having already claimed the 100m & 400m freestyle titles. The complete list of Wellington swimmers to collect medals on Day three was: Samantha Lee (CAP) 1st 14yrs 200m Free 2:10.50 Samantha Lucie-Smith (KAR) 3rd 14yrs 200m Free 2:10.94 Ryan [...]
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Volunteer required - Entertainment Books
- St Mary's Old Girls Netball Club (SMOG)
- Please please help us! We need an organised person is be our Entertainment Book co-ordinator for 2007!!! Last years co-ordinator did a superb job & earned the club in excess of $2000!!!! We have full details on what this role involves, so please contact smognetball@gmail.com if you are interested.
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Online to On the Wall
- The Wellingtonista
- We all know that Wellington is a great place to take photos: its natural beauty, public art, lively street life and eclectic architecture all contribute to a visually stimulating city. The busy Flickr-ers of the Wellington Flickr group know this, and they've decided to take their best photos into the real world. "Online to On the Wall" opens at the Paramount Theatre tomorrow night at 6pm, and runs until the 28th of March.
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Wellington swimmers among medals on opening night
- Swimming Wellington
- Samantha Lee, Ryan Cox, Gareth Kean and Georgia Hind (all Capital), secured Gold medals on the opening night of the National Age Groups in Hamilton tonight.
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The rates switch from business to your rates bill !
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- Note that the Revenue and Financing Policy outlines a shift in the commercial residential rating differential from 4.4 in 2006/07 to 3.8 in 2007/08.
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JPSMOG AGM 28th March
- St Mary's Old Girls Netball Club (SMOG)
- The JPSMOG Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held at 6pm on 28th March at Shoe Clinic on Willis Street. Watch this space for more info over the coming weeks, but it would be great to see you there!
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What's popular this month?
- Wellington City Libraries
- An Australian culinary journey, nonviolence, six women in Revolutionary France, convincing children to eat weird foreign flavours and climate change are the subjects of some of our most reserved books this month. Ian McEwan's new novel is on order and there are popular CDs from Bloc Party and Fray. Visit our booklists page for more info.
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Planning Workshop to discuss Options for McKenzie Pool
- Hutt City Council
- Hutt City Council is inviting interested parties to attend a public workshop designed to discuss options for the McKenzie Outdoor Pool in Udy Street, Petone.
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