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    • Hedge trim & secateur sharpen
      • The Heritage Gardeners hand shear hedge trimming & secateur sharpening session is still on under Level 2. A visitors register will need to be signed and physical distancing will be required. When: Saturday 15th August 2020. Starts 1:00 p.m. Ends 2:00 p.m.  Where: Historic Halfway House, Glenside Reserve, next to Twiglands. Cost: Free Hosted by: Heritage Gardeners, with Twigland Gardeners World and Porirua Cycle & Mower Centre What to bring: The hedges at the historic Halfway House need trimming and Tod from Twigland Gardeners World is going to show us how to do it! Clean your blades and bring your hand shears along, to learn and have a go yourself. Barbara from Porirua Cycle & Mower Centre will be there also, showing us how to sharpen our secateur blades. Clean your secateurs, bring them along and try out the sharpening tool! Bring coins to purchase heritage seed and cash for handy blade sharpening tool.

    • Instructions GPA meeting April 8th
      • Hello to Glenside Progressive Association residents and business's. We hope you will be able to join us for the Glenside Progressive Association meeting on Wednesday, 8th April at 7:30 p.m. which we will be conducting using Zoom.  Zoom is a free to use teleconferencing programme designed for meetings with multiple attendees, without leaving your own home. The Zoom meeting is offered to residents or business's in Glenside who can be verified by our e-newsletter or street coordinators contact list. If would like an invitation to the meeting, please send a note to our email address info @ glenside.org.nz before Monday, 6th April using MEETING in the subject line. You will receive an email invitation to join the meeting, with instructions.

    • Covid 19 Guide For Outside
      • Wellington City Council Parks and Reserves advise the following (25 March 2020): You are still able to go outdoors for a walk, run or ride. In order to do this safely you must: - Be by yourself or with the people you are self-isolating with - Stay close to home - Use personal transport if you can’t walk from home - Keep a 2 metre distance from others you come across - Avoid ‘high touch’ areas like hand rails - Thoroughly wash your hands when you return home

    • Glenside Neighbours Day 2020 Cancelled
      • Our Glenside Neighbours Day Event on April 4th is cancelled to help prevent a community outbreak of Covid-19. Please follow the instructions on the Ministry of Health website to prevent a community outbreak of Covid-19.  Consider offerring support to your neighbours, friends and family in self-isolation with a phone call, text or e-mail. Ministry of Health - Covid-19 Advice

    • Flowers to remember her
      •   This Thursday, 10 October, people are invited to lay some flowers at the Glenside memorial of a pioneer woman who died and was buried nearby 174 years ago. In the late afternoon of 10 October, 1842, Bishop Selwyn and his entourage of Maori arrived in the valley of The Halfway (Glenside) and halted beside a stream to make camp for the night. The Bishop was on a walking journey north. At about 4:00 in the afternoon he called at the house of Susannah and Anthony Wall. In a letter to her sisters back in England, Susannah wrote of that visit: “....he called at my house it was aboute 4 oclock in the afternoon there was aboute 30 of the natives with him carry his tent and provisions and different things that he needed there is not houses for travellers to call at and accomadation as in england when night comes they must lie down rapt in there blankit and kindle a fire... ...a poor woman at the neighbouring house ad died in the winter and the rodes was so bad at that time she could not be carried down to the burying ground in Wellington and she was burred with oute the buriel servise I told the Bishop and he whent with me and the poor womans husband to the grave and read the burial services...” The name of the woman who died and was buried there is not known. When the Westchester Drive link road was formed through Glenside in 2011-2012, the Wellington City Council had an archaeologist on site to ensure that the burial site was not disturbed. The site was not located and on 10 October, 2013 a memorial to honour her memory was unveiled near where people remember the site was marked. This Thursday, 10th October, commemorates the anniversary of the visit by Bishop Selwyn to bless her burial site in 1842 and the memorial unveiling in 2013.  People are invited to lay some flowers at the memorial in remembrance of her passing.

    • Heritage Flower Power
      •   A series of garden rambles, discussing plants on show and their relationship to colonial settlement, are being offered at the historic Halfway House in Glenside for Heritage Month in October.  "October is also National Gardening Week and coincides with the Yates Flower Power promotion," says organiser Claire Bibby. "This campaign is encouraging New Zealanders to bring back flowers for colour, bees and butterflies, and we are right behind this at Glenside." The volunteer gardeners have been working hard over the past years to establish heritage plants at Glenside, including flowers and styles of planting that were popular during colonial times – think granny bonnets, wallflowers and cornflowers. This will be the annual fundraiser for the gardeners - please bring coins to buy heritage plants and seeds, hand crafted cards and pure wool baby booties. The house will be open for morning tea. Where and when Halfway House, Glenside Reserve, next to Twiglands Garden Centre, Middleton Road, Glenside. Tuesday, 1st October 11:00 a.m. - midday. Garden guide Clare Gleeson Saturday, 12th October, 11:00 a.m. - midday Garden guide Lorna Webb  Friday, 25th October, 11:00 a.m. - midday Garden guide Paul Bicknell An initiative of the Heritage Gardeners, supported by Wellington Regional Heritage Promotion Council for Heritage Month and the Glenside Progressive Association Inc.  

    • New Footpath
      • New footpath for Westchester Drive in Glenside. Photo: Supplied. Wellington City Council has contracted Downer to develop a new footpath on Westchester Drive in Glenside. The work will take place from 2 September 2019 to about the end of the month. If you have questions, please use the contact Grant Gunter, Downer Phone 04 562 6431 or 021 893 127 or talk with the supervisor on site.

    • Doing Good In The Hood
      • The Wellington North Community Patrol has been selected for this year’s Z Good in the Hood programme for the second year runnning. "Vote for us to receive a share of $4,000 from Z Johnsonville!" says Cheryl Austin, coordinator for the Wellington North Community Patrol. Wellington North Community Patrol is one of the four groups being supported through Good in the Hood at Z Johnsonville. That means our Community Patrol will get a share of $$$$ but how much depends on how many votes we get. To vote, all you need to do is buy something from Z Johnsonville during September and you’ll be given an orange token to put in the voting box (or if you’re a Z card holder, you’ll get two votes!).  So please head down to Z Johnsonville during September and vote for Wellington North Community Patrol! You can also support our patrol by encouraging people you know to vote too. The Community Patrol is in partnership with New Zealand Police and helps prevent crime and reduce harm and victimisation through the active presence of trained patrollers across the Wellington North suburbs. The area patrolled includes Ohariu, Churton Park, Glenside, Grenada Village, Woodridge, Paparangi, Johnsonville, Newlands, Broadmeadows and Ngauranga. Both residential and commercial businesses are covered. In Glenside, the team patrols our roads and looks out for our businesses including Twiglands, Thyme Cafe and our Halfway House. Patrol members can be called upon to assist in the event of large scale community events, natural disasters and searches for missing persons. The Glenside Progressive Assn. Inc is a loyal supporter of the Wellington North Community Patrol. We signed up the first two volunteers for the patrol, one of whom still patrols today! As sponsors, we have our name on the rear decal of the car, and we have supported the patrol with petrol vouchers. The Patrol is a not-for-profit body and all members are volunteers.

    • Pāpātuanuku in design
      • Leanne Stubbing, Churton Park Primary School teacher, is incorporating cultural heritage into design elements of the school. Leanne is passionate about making Te Tiriti of Waitangi a living, breathing document and teaching the importance of looking after Pāpātuanuku (the land). Leanne chose Kenepuru, Ponga, Totara and Pukehuia to reflect the historical character of the area. Claire Bibby of Glenside Progressive Association, provided history of the area which helped inform Leanne. Kenepuru is the original name of the Porirua stream, Totara represents the trees that featured in the area before the bush was felled (early maps mark Totara Ridge). Ponga is for the ferns that filled the streamside gullies along Stebbings Road and the old Porirua Road. "Ponga ferns were painted in art, described in early settler letters and resulted in the Stebbings family referring to stream beside Stebbings Road as Fern Tree Gully," said Claire. "Pukehuia is an old name for the area, particularly the hillsides and ridge-line east of Middleton Road, and was used by Sir Tamati Reedy when naming the Reedy block, their land in Glenside," said Claire. The school is being painted in various shades of green representing the land and blue representing the streams. Art designs reflecting the lansdcape of hills, stream, ponga and totara will be incorporated onto the exterior of the classrooms. Leanne, who is of Tainui descent, said the rebuild of the school was an ideal opportunity to make visible, the historical cultural history of the area. She is planning to meet with Ngati Toa to discuss how their historical designs might be included at the entrance of the school hall, and she is meeting with Owen Maurirere at the Royal NZ Police College to look at the carvings of legendary tuna (eels) in their Kapiti room. Leanne teaches Year 6 (Standard 4) school children at Churton Park Primary School.

    • Award Finalist
      • Glenside Progressive Association Inc. congratulates Predator Free Miramar (winners) and Jay Street Community Gardens and Nursery (runners up) for the Heritage and Environment category of the Wellington Airport Regional Community Awards! The Award is for 'Improvement or revitalising of the environment, culture or heritage'. The Glenside Progressive Association were finalists at the Awards, having been nominated by Rex Johnson of Cromwell.  Claire and Barry provided Rex this PDF document to support the nomination.  Rex flew in from Otago and joined Association representatives Claire Bibby and Barry Blackett at the Awards presentation on 31 July, 2019. Rex, who has been the website administrator for the Association since 2007, said he has watched the contributions and dedication of the GPA community grow over the years. "The GPA volunteer activities are made in the community, by the community, for the community," he said in support of his nomination. Activities that Rex highlighted were volunteers providing ongoing development of the Glenside Halfway House interior furnishing and heritage garden, and volunteers researching early identities and historic events for sharing on its website. He wrote of the community volunteers who "plant the stream banks, clean out invasive plant species, trap unwanted pests and rodents, and are caretakers to resident birds and eels." Rex also highlighted the special annual events the community share with the wider Wellington community.  "Working together on projects has built personal relationships, increased neighbourliness and greater pride in their efforts," he said. "The greater benefit is that at times of need the community knows where to find, or to offer support to others." Claire Bibby, President of the Glenside Progressive Association, described Rex as a champion of Glenside community leadership in heritage and the environment. "He lived in our community for several years, contributing to streamside restoration projects. He is the founder of the Association website and although he now lives in Otago, he continues to maintain the website to give visibility to the activities our community is involved in. He visits us at the historic Halfway House every summer and is very supportive of our fabulous community."

    • Tree Felling
      • Image above showing the trees to be felled, in red. Provided by Wellington City Council. William Melville, Tree Team Manager Arboriculture for Wellington City Council advises the following tree felling on Rowells Road: "Following the failure of a tree onto the train tracks in 2015, Council were contacted by KiwiRail about Pine and Macrocarpa trees on Rowells that posed a risk to rail users. At the time we sought independent arboricultural advice regarding the state of the trees and have monitored the trees annually since that point." "The trees are being proactively removed due to their age and location next to the railway line. The work will be carried out by the Council’s contractor Treescape and is due to start on 20th May. This is expected to take approximately two weeks, weather permitting." "Heavy machinery and chainsaws will be used to remove the trees and traffic management will be in place when required. Hours of operation will be between 0730 and 1800 Monday to Friday. Where possible the work will be completed from Kiwirail property to minimise disruption to the road." "Following the removals, this winter Council will be replanting the area with locally sources native species which will in time create a vegetation screen from the tracks."

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