Maehe (March) 2022 WBRA Newsletter
Kia ora e te whānau,
first up: this is the last WBRA newsletter from me because I've stood down from the Committee as of 19 March 2022. After 5 years working on behalf of the community through the WBRA I've decided to put my efforts out there more directly. Visit my website Waikawa News for future news and newsletter updates.
If you'd enjoy being a website editor and newsletter writer for WBRA (WordPress skills helpful, but I can give training) please contact me for more information about what's involved. Email me at admin@wow-waikawa.nz .
AGM update: the Secretary announced a postponement:
"Unfortunately due to Covid it has been decided that the AGM will not be happening until things have settled down. Miraz had announced it in the newsletter but as we have being trying to sort out the financial members list things have been on hold. We will be advising everyone once these lists have been sorted."
This month's relevant Māori word — Tawhiti: in the distance, afar.
Renovations on the toilet block begin on Monday, 14 March 2022, Covid willing. Read more at Toilet block update March 2022. Some fencing has already been delivered to the site ready for work to begin. Note that Portaloos will be available for public use while the toilet block is being renovated.
The project costs in the region of $354,000. Note: that averages out to about $7,000 per year for the potential 50 year lifespan of the building.
I also took a load of photos for the archives of the 'old' block. This is a data heavy page: Documentary photos of the 'old' toilet block.
Road-related matters
- We are still awaiting the promised bike stands. It's a supply chain delay.
- Don't laugh, there are hints that Transmission Gully might open 'soon'.
- Horowhenua District Council mower trimmed up a metre or so of the grass verges on 04 March 2022.
- In 2021 between Mill Road in Ōtaki and Hokio Beach Road in Levin, on SH1, there were: 37 crashes, 5 road closures, 26 delays and 8 deaths. Read more at Road Crash stats.
In the night sky this month
All the bright planets are in the morning sky, some better placed than others. Venus is the beacon for the region, rising due east after 3:30 at the beginning of the month. To the right of Venus is Mars, much fainter and red-coloured. Well below and right of Venus are Mercury and Saturn. They make a close pair at the beginning of the month, rising after 5 a.m. Mercury is the brighter of the two.
… The apparent closeness of the planets is all line-of-sight, of course. At mid-month Mercury is 194 million km away, Venus 96 million, Mars 285 million, Jupiter 890 million and Saturn 1600 million km away.
Take a look at The Evening Sky in March 2022.
Property
Still for sale: 58 Manga Pirau Street, 75 Strathnaver Drive, 10 Arthur Street, properties on Walkers Lane (judging by the roadside signs). Also: 686 Waikawa Beach Road, 159 Emma Drive, 40 Manga Pirau Street, 44 Sarah Street, 13 Arthur Street.
Properties just aren't moving at the moment.
Ngā mihi nui, Miraz Jordan, Waikawa News