If you missed the Arts Trail this past weekend, it’s happening again this coming weekend, 5th/6th November.

Our very own treasurer Johanna Goudsblom is exhibiting in the Kapiti Arts Trail. She has been a professional photographer for many years and recently my focus has been on the medium of creative photo artistry. Creative photo artistry can take the imagination and carry us anywhere. Her art has been published in the magazine “Living […]

full post: Kapiti Arts Trail – Johanna Goudsblom — Kapiti Coast Photographic Society

A sign seen in Minnesota.  A county commissioner is the same as a county councilor.

There is a sameness in message which Kapiti people can relate to, though: from his website:

“We cannot just continue to expect those who pay taxes to bear the burden for unwise spending by career politicians like my opponent. My opponent who has been in this office for nearly 20 years has simply been feeding us a steady diet of tax increases year after year. After her 20 years in this office, can we really expect her to do anything different in this next term if elected? No! It is now time for Beer, Vote For Beer!

“More and more taxes and no lid on spending in sight…something has to give; it can’t be us anymore. Next year’s expected increase is another 5.5% increase.”

Update

Mr Beer won this contest on 8 November 2016.

An Evening Post pic taken on 16 February 1990 showing members of the Waikanae Game Fishing Club, Kevin Foothead (left) and Mike Bramley, holding a 27.5 kg yellow-fin tuna, one of 16 they caught during the 1990 Penn International Yellow-fin Tuna Tournament in Whakatane. However, the original caption stated that this wasn’t the biggest, which was 62 kg.

So can fish like this be caught off the coast at Waikanae? We’ve no idea — a reader may know.

A mix of planted and self-sown bushes.

New mayor Guru in the foreground is serenaded by two of his children behind him singing the song “Welcome home” by Dave Dobbyn on Tuesday night. The hall was nicely decorated in the style of native bush. This is a screen-grab from a video on the KCDC Facebook page.

Cr Holborow is the only remaining member of Mayor Church’s ‘inner-core’

It’s a move that has surprised our contributors since Cr Holborow was one of the ‘inner core’ (as described by Guru) of the 5 councilors selected by previous Mayor Church to sit on his ‘CE Employment and Performance Committee’ which made the controversial decision in May last year to reappoint Dougherty.  As reported, Guru challenged his exclusion, along with that of the other 4 excluded councilors, in the High Court and won.

It could be that Guru considers Holborow will be less problematic on-side than off-side.  It’s not good news, however, for those who want to see a reduction in the ever-increasing imposition that the KCDC has been making on ratepayers. Since 2008 the annual expenditure of the council with Dougherty in charge has risen from $41 million to $70 million — an increase of 70% as against general CPI inflation of 14%.

The fire station at 353 Te Moana Road will be open to the public on Saturday, 5 November from 10 am to 2 pm. Various events, displays and demonstrations will be held in this time and it seems that the aim is to provide things for the whole family to appreciate.

Being Guy Fawkes night, this is a particularly busy occasion for fire brigades, of course. It’s not a good night for pets either.

According to the website:-

“The Waikanae Volunteer Fire Brigade was formed in May 1952 and was originally based at Waikanae Beach and started with 34  Volunteer members.

“We moved to our current location in Te Moana Rd in 1976 just as the New Zealand Fire Service was formed into one country-wide national fire service. We are Station 38 in Region 3 of the New Zealand Fire Service and currently have 32 Volunteer Members

“We attend between 170 and 250 call-outs each year to all manner of emergencies ranging from dogs stuck down rabbit holes, motor accidents, car fires, people stuck in lifts [in Waikanae?] and structure and vegetation fires.

“Training is an important part of our duties, so we train every Tuesday night from 19:30 hrs.

“We have two Fire Appliances: a Type 1 Fire Appliance known as Waikanae 381 and a Rescue Tender known as Waikanae 387.”