Community Groups / July 2011
August 2011 | June 2011-
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News for Sunday 24 July 2011
- Karori Anglican Churches
- Let’s help Christchurch!Jenny Lowe, a previous parishioner who was interviewed at 10.
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News for Sunday 31 July 2011
- Karori Anglican Churches
- Bishops’ Emergency Appeal for Christchurch Earthquakes.
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Why has the Basin Reserve Trust failed to do its job?
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- In today's editorial, The Wellingtonian editor Joseph Romanos inaccurately and unfairly characterizes the Save The Basin Reserve Campaign as anti-roading: "But instead of fronting a politically suicidal campaign called Ban Cars, they chose the more emotive Save the Basin, their logic being that a major road linking Buckle St to the Mt Victoria Tunnel would have a detrimental impact on the sportsmen doing their thing at the Basin. The news that the Basin Reserve trustees had negotiated for a grandstand to be built at the northern end of the ground leaves these campaigners in a quandary. Romanos may be using the inflammatory language and approach of tabloid journalism - trying to report the conflict rather than the issue - but he does raise a key question: why has the Basin Reserve Trust failed to to its job?
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The Urban Dream Brokerage
- Architectural Centre Inc
- Friday 29th July, 6pm Illot Theatre, Wellington Town Hall. Three property owners and managers, four artists and an engaged audience are coming together to discuss the question: how can vacant commercial space be more creatively utilised to provide a more vital inner-city? You’re invited to attend The Urban Dream Brokerage, a live art and property panel pitching session. In a live local twist on reality TV formats like Dragon’s Den, artists and then property developers and owners pitch their creative ideas for city vacant spaces to a panel of their opposite. Walking down the city street, what does your dream realty look like?
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Memorial Car Park
- Architectural Centre Inc
- Since the unveiling of the NZTA schemes for around the Basin now almost a month ago, we have been having a good look at their back issues – the NZTA publications that they have been storing up away from prying eyes. Now, however, a good number of them have been published and are available on line. One of the more interesting things unveiled, is the plan of the work for the Memorial Park.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Option X: FAQs
- Architectural Centre Inc
- Thanks again for all your questions. We’ll up date this page to address questions as they come in, and supply new drawings etc. to explain things as needed. Here’s an initial batch of questions and answers to start with.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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$11.5 million to buy votes around the council table
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- The Dominion Post is reporting that a deal has been reached between the NZ Transport Agency and the Basin Reserve Trust to construct a new stand at the Basin Reserve - with the explicit intention of hiding the ugly flyover only 20 metres from the boundary fence.
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It’s just not cricket
- Architectural Centre Inc
- Being keen on cricket I was shocked and amazed to see the article in this morning’s DomPost featuring, if the story is correct, a piece of horse-trading going on between the NZTA and the Basin Reserve Trust. The story raises a number of rather obvious, questions:
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Option X: plus
- Architectural Centre Inc
- Thanks for all the comments so far. Here are a couple more images which might answer some questions and may create some more. The first image is looking from the North-east side towards the Carillon, which shows conceptually how the levels work.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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DCM Bulletin - Bookfair Bargains!
- Downtown Community Ministry
- This weekend is Wellington’s biggest annual Bookfair, with over 80,000 books, cds, dvds, videos, vinyl records and magazines on sale. All start at the low bargain price of just $2! “This year we have a massive range of fiction books, more than we have ever had. There is also a lot of recent release fiction as well, and everything is at really competitive prices,” says Jennifer Stewart, DCM’s communications and events coordinator.
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The Public needs a real choice: Option X
- Architectural Centre Inc
- The NZTA have proposed options for redeveloping the roading of the Basin Reserve. But these are not really options. They are two schemes for flyovers which have very little difference. We believe that the scheme/s proposed by NZTA exclude the public from making a real choice.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Option X
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- The Architecture Centre has launched the real alternative to the NZ Transport Agency's disastrous plans for the Basin Reserve - Option X.
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Support Wellington Samaritans' Annual Appeal 19/20 August
- Samaritans
- Volunteer to support Samaritans of Wellington during its Annual Appeal and help to reduce the number of suicides in New Zealand.
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What traffic growth?
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- The NZ Transport Agency says that we need an ugly, intrusive flyover at the Basin Reserve because the traffic congestion is choking the city, and it's necessary to have faster-moving traffic on State Highway 1.
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The Public needs a real choice: Option X
- Architectural Centre Inc
- The NZTA have proposed options for redeveloping the roading of the Basin Reserve. But these are not really options. They are two schemes for flyovers which have very little difference. We believe that the scheme/s proposed by NZTA exclude the public from making a real choice. Currently the Basin is a mess. From a multi-modal perspective (pedestrian, [...]
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Hibernation Contest (11-12 June 2011) - Results Announced
- Wellington VHF Group
- The following from ZL2TAR, Contest Manager: read more
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Does the NZTA scheme measure up?
- Architectural Centre Inc
- We’ve already begun discussing issues relevant to the Basin, particularly through blog posts … but this time we’re going back to basics. Core objects of our constitution include: 1. To work for the general improvement of the urban environment. 2. To promote a true understanding of Architecture and Design amongst the community. 3. To consider, critique and recommend changes of law and administration relating to or affecting architecture and urban planning.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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News for Sunday 17 July 2011
- Karori Anglican Churches
- Let’s help Christchurch!Jenny Lowe, a previous parishioner who was interviewed at 10.
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Te Tai Poutini polytech finds new funding stream
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- Te Tai Poutini Polytechnic is receiving an additional $750 million funding from Minister Steven Joyce after changing its name to the South Western Motorway.
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2011 Traditional vs St Patrick's College Town
- St Patricks College, Silverstream
- Wednesday 13 July 2011: Despite days of heavy rain, the Traditional against St Patrick's College Town got under way with a slight drizzle during the road races but cleared for the main events: the First XI Football and First XV Rugby.
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St Patricks College Silverstream, Fergusson Drive, Trentham, Upper Hutt, Wellington Region, New Zealand
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What About Light Rail?
- Architectural Centre Inc
- I lived in Szczecin, Poland, until I was 14. I had family in other large centers in Poland. All those cities had something in common—extensive and very well utilised light rail networks. The trams were a different colour in each city, usually coincident with the colours of the city’s coat of arms. Even at the lowest pointduring the communist regime when the people were at their poorest and the country was in a huge debt the trams were going strong, taking commuters to work, home, school, parks, shopping (when there was something to buy, anything really would do). I certainly don’t remember anyone not being able to afford to use the tram service.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Anointing Mass
- St Teresas Catholic Parish Karori
- Will be held at 9.30am on Thursday 21 July. Morning tea to follow. All welcome.
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Basin Checklist
- Architectural Centre Inc
- We’re keen to evaluate the Basin Reserve, and have produced a Check List of items that we believe it needs to be evaluated against – as should any other possible Basin scheme as well. We’ll be posting a critique of the official NZTA proposals next week – but first, without further ado, here are the issues that we think are the key points that any proposal really needs to address.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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DCM Bulletin - Shop at Z and Vote for DCM!
- Downtown Community Ministry
- rom today you can fill your petrol tank at an NZ owned petrol station, and support Downtown Community Ministry (DCM) at the same time – but only for the next month, so get in quick! DCM is excited to be one of the preferred charities of the new Z Harbour City station in WellingtonCity. The rebranded Shell station on the corner of Customhouse Quay and Whitmore Streetlaunched today.
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Our billboard is now up at the Basin Reserve!
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- Located behind the RA Vance stand. read more
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News for Sunday 10 July
- Karori Anglican Churches
- BaptismsWe gather to celebrate with the families and friends of those being baptised this morning.
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Traffic Congestion, Part 2: To build or not to build…
- Architectural Centre Inc
- Apparently that isn’t the question – according to our NZTA experts, yet I can’t help but wonder why the latter option (not to build), hasn’t been a part of NZTA investigations. Perhasp the RoNS steamroller is concerned more about ‘road’s than ‘transport’? Certainly it is easier to point to the achievement of four lanes from Levin to [...]
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79% opposition to the flyover - and a news roundup
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- An eagle-eyed contributor made mention of the fact that some 79% of submissions made on the Ngauranga to Airport Corridor Plan back in 2008 were against a flyover at the Basin Reserve.
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Weltec Hamburger Comp 2011
- St Patricks College, Silverstream
- Friday 1 July 2011: Benjamin Clegg (Year 10) and Thomas Humphrey (Year 13) represented the school at the National Beef and Lamb Hamburger Competition at WELTEC on Friday 1st July.
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St Patricks College Silverstream, Fergusson Drive, Trentham, Upper Hutt, Wellington Region, New Zealand
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News for Sunday 3 July 2011
- Karori Anglican Churches
- Old Photos PleaseWe need historical items for display on 13/14 August, the weekend when we will celebrate the Centenary of the current St Mary’s church building.
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Ruahine Street: another Karo Drive debacle in the making
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- The Dominion Post is busy engaging in some 1960's era civic boosterism in today's editorial, talking up all the alleged benefits of the NZ Transport Agency's roading projects and hoping - hoping! - that the flyover, tunnels and road widenings won't take as long to construct as the much-derided Inner City Bypass.
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Silent Key: Jamie Pye ZL2NN
- Wellington VHF Group
- Today I was made aware that Jamie Pye ZL2NN, a friend and acquaintance through Amateur Radio and someone who I of recent years had a wee bit to do with in respects to his role as the Webmaster for NZART, has become a silent key.
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Consultation begins, but no options other than flyovers
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- The NZ Transport Agency has begun their consultation on the Basin Reserve flyover with a PR assault designed to convince Wellingtonians that it's the only possible choice.
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