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- Now in our 40th year -
July 2016 Crossways plans virtual future New Crossways Community Centre has received City Council funding for a new Mt Victoria Community Hub. The Hub is a “ground-breaking” initiative because it will combine a physical location with an online community to link and support local events, venues, and groups. It has been likened to AirBnB because it aims to use spare capacity in existing Mt Victoria community venues. Mayor Celia Wade-Brown said that the New Crossways proposal and others receiving funding “met the criteria and are particularly worthy.” The Community Centre’s physical Hub will offer a centrally located meeting place in Mt Victoria and a community notice-board where passers-by can pause, read about the latest news, events and group activities, and view notices including the Mt Victoria Newsletter. The community centre office will have regular hours when people can drop-in. The digital Hub will involve an interactive website linking events, neighbourhood groups, tutors and classes with available venues, and connect family-based services around the suburb. The Hub will help community groups find somewhere to hold their meetings, as well as to publicise events and collaborate with other groups. The Centre says that the Hub could provide an entry point for anyone wishing to contact the Mt Victoria community. The Trust will also try to help various community organisations in speaking to the Wellington City Council with a single voice. New Crossways Trust Chair Pamela Bell says, “Mt Victoria is fortunate to host a number of active community groups, many with premises and spare capacity. The Trust hopes to harness this capacity along with energy from the wider community to form a future-focused Hub to serve a wide range of Mt Victoria residents. It’s an exciting phase of transformational change for our Trust and the inner city areas that we serve.” The Mt Victoria Community Centre is run by the New Crossways Trust, which “aims to serve Mt Victorians and their organisations to improve their sense of community, inclusiveness, and connectedness. The Trust strives to be an accessible, approachable and fun organisation providing venue and event assistance that is safe, financially sustainable, and collaborative.” Contact the New Crossways Community Trust at [email protected] or www.crossways.org.nz
Mid-Winter Dinner 2016 Innermost Gardens and New Crossways Community
Centre are co-hosting a Midwinter Community Dinner:
Saturday, 23 July, from 5pm, Innermost Gardens (off the top of Majoribanks St).
Bring along your whanau and friends to savour the delicious Winter fare harvested from the gardens and supplied by locals. Mulled wine will be provided on arrival, and there will be some fun activities to partake in along with a chance to mingle among folks from your community.
To book your ticket please email [email protected] or call 021765525
Tickets are limited so get in early. Cost is Koha donation on the night.
Our sponsor receives QSM Ian Paterson, who through the real estate firm Just Paterson has been a long-term sponsor of this Newsletter, was awarded the Queens Service Medal in the Queen’s Birthday honours list. Together with his family, Ian has also supported the Malaghan Institute for several years. The Just Paterson team, together with their clients and friends, has made a huge impact in accelerating the pace of cancer research through raising funds and lifting community awareness. Ian founded Just Paterson with his late wife Sally. Thank you, Ian. The recognition is well deserved!
Meeting to discuss access through Town Belt to Wellington East Girls' College
during building project Wednesday 27 July 6pm
WEGC Room 70 (off the school drive) We are in the process of making application under the Wellington Town Belt Management Plan for permission to use the access route into the college during the building enablement and construction works period. We are seeking to provide safer staff access to temporary parking on the top field. We expect the completion to be early 2019. We would like to meet with residents to outline and hear feedback about the proposal Sally Haughton Principal
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Community Events Transition Towns: Tuesday, 12 July, 7:30pm. New Crossways, 6 Roxburgh St. All welcome.
We aim to show Hungry for Change, a film from the Food Matters group about diets and the food manufacturing industry For more info, contact Frank Cook: 027 649 6508.
Innermost Gardens: The Mt Victoria Community Garden and the Charles Plimmer House are located on the greenbelt to the right off the top of Majoribanks St.
All welcome. www.innermostgardens.org.nz. Gardening Sundays: 1st & 3rd of each month, 11am-2pm.
Hiring Plimmer House/Innermost Gardens: $15/hour, $50/4 hours; we can be flexible. Contact Margaret or Ian ([email protected]).
Scottish Country Dancing: St Marks Community Hall, Dufferin St, Basin Reserve. Wednesdays at 7.30pm. All welcome.
No special clothing or partner necessary; just soft-soled shoes. Call Elaine 389 3597 or Carole 472 4558.
Mt Victoria Toastmasters Club
Every Tuesday fortnight. 7:30pm. New Crossways, 6 Roxburgh St. All welcome.
Join us and improve your public speaking and leadership skills. For more information email [email protected], visit www.mtvictoastmasters.org.nz, or drop in.
Peak Players Table Tennis Mon 9.30-noon; Wed 1.30-4. Constable St end of Alexandra Rd, just past the Croquet Club. $4 includes tea/coffee. For more info, email Diana Winn at [email protected] or phone 8019556.
Mt Victoria Historical Society
Sunday 31 July at 2.00pm New Crossways 6 Roxburgh Street
Using family history research sources
Rachel Brown, an amateur genealogist and history researcher for some 20 years, traced her family’s
journey in 1883 from Wiltshire in England to Moir St, and its subsequent move to Newtown 10 years later.
Visit www.MtVictoria.history.org.nz.
Crossways Community Crèche Crossways Community Crèche is a parent-run early learning centre at 61 Majoribanks St for children aged 1-5. We have an excellent child-to-teacher ratio: 18 children/session, 3 qualified teachers, and up to 2 volunteers. Sessions: 8:30am-1:15pm, Mon-Fri. Spaces currently available. Contact [email protected]; 04 384 8201.
PikoPiko Clyde Quay Kindergarten Cnr Elizabeth & Brougham Sts. 8.45am-2.45pm, M – F. On the Clyde Quay School grounds; offering 20 hours ECE. Prefer 3-day minimum enrolment.
Contact/info: 385 0441; www.wmkindergartens.org.nz; [email protected].
On our website: A menu of goodies We have a menu of websites we think might be of interest to Mt Victorians listed on our own website
www.mtvicnews.org.nz
Unclassified Advertisements Free 3-line ads to [email protected] by 20th
of preceding month. Include an expiry date for editor & readers. Mt Victoria connection, please.
• Rental wanted: Professional female, 2 children at CQS, beautiful female Labrador, require, 2/3 bed home and garden, long term. Ph: 021 191 9105.
• Painter: Trade-qualified, small job specialist with refs. Free quotes; $25 p/hr; Gold Card discount. Please contact Andre: 020-40076548.
• Pet sitter: 18-months full-time experience looking after fluffy faces. References and police check available. www.katjenkins.co.nz.
• Wanted to rent: Small, quiet hard-working family need 2bdrm flat/home with garden space in Mt Vic. Please help. Ph 0277334413 or 3836951.
• Graphic Designer available: Branding to wedding invitation. University-qualified; 5 years experience. Please contact [email protected].
• Pre-school dance classes: Innermost Gardens House. Saturdays 10-10.30am. www.db4dance.co.nz.
• Babysitter: Year 12 High School student; good with children. Available any night, own transport. Please call Shanna 384 3069.
• Babysitter: Student nurse, late 20s, first aid certified with driving license. Flexible availability incl evenings & weekends. Please call/text Saffron 0211213470.
• Babysitter: Experienced; have first aid training; Year 11 WEGC student. Contact Niamh Murphy: ph/text 021 239 6929.
• Nanny/Babysitter available: Reliable 2nd-year Victoria student with lots of experience. Please contact Jess on 0278161004.
• Babysitter: reliable teenager; any night of the week. Call Milly on 385 6423.
• Painter available: Experienced house painter in Mt Vic area. Indoor or outdoor, will quote for jobs large and small. Please call Jason on 0212631586 or email [email protected]
Hey, Mt Victorians – want to help get the suburb prepared for an
emergency?
The Mt Victoria Residents Association is calling this meeting to get broad support to help us facilitate a community response plan. Contact [email protected] for more information.
Babysitters & Pet Minders For a full listing of available Babysitters,
Child Minders, Pet Feeders & Dog Walkers Visit our website
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Emergency management - Civil Defence preparedness
for Mt Victoria Public meeting 6-8pm 14 July
Clyde Quay School Hall
Elizabeth St, Mt Victoria
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Dear Editor
While I appreciate that “Victoria” is giving advice in a light-hearted way, to advise people to apply weedkiller on a neighbour’s property without consent seems irresponsible. Surely no one has a right to damage other people’s property.
A Concerned Mt Victorian
Online survey: Mt Victoria Tunnel project Now that the Mt Victoria Tunnel upgrade project is coming to a close, Research NZ, an independent research company, will be conducting a survey asking you to reflect back over the lifespan of the project, what the Memorial Park Alliance did well in its relationships with the neighbourhood, and what it can learn to help prepare for future projects. A link to a confidential online survey will be sent to you on request. Thank you for taking the time to provide a response. For more information: [email protected], www.nzta.govt.nz/mvt-upgrade2, or 0800 020 086.
Rotary Club on Belt again Volunteers working with Rotary Club of Wellington have started planting native trees again this winter. Two more planting days are planned on 2 July and 6 August. Contact Ian at [email protected] for more information
Volunteers have also been preparing to trap vermin on Mt Victoria's Town Belt to increase birdlife after initial monitoring found rats and mice throughout the area extending to Roseneath, Hataitai, and Newtown. Small numbers of stoats, possums, and hedgehogs have also been found.
Funding has been secured to purchase traps (in boxes to keep out native wildlife and pets) to get these pests under control.
Contact Donna on [email protected] for more information or to get involved.
Letter to the Editor Dear Mt Victoria Newsletter
In claiming Mt Victorians “had real reason to celebrate the recent passing of the Town Belt Bill” [in the June issue’s councillor’s column], Cr Pannett displays a surprising lack of knowledge of her own neighbourhood. Both the Mt Victoria Residents Association and the Mt Victoria Historical Society made submissions critical of the bill. Several Mt Victoria residents (including the writer) appeared before Parliament’s Local Government and Environment Select Committee to express our concerns about it.
Giving Wellington City Council officials unrestrained powers over the Town Belt and removing Wellington citizens as trustees are hardly things to celebrate. With the removal of the Botanic Gardens, Wellington Zoo and the Winter Show Grounds, our historic Town Belt is being dismembered already under this legislation.
David J Lee
Civil Defence Revived: Last of safety meetings The third and final meeting for Mt Victoria (and Oriental Bay) residents to develop a community preparedness plan for a civil defence emergency will be on 14 July at 6pm at Clyde Quay School Hall. Everyone is welcome even if you haven't made the first two meetings. So far we have thought about what strengths Mt Victoria has that we can use in an emergency - like our great open green spaces and compact neighbourhood. And we identified what we value about our suburbs. This meeting moves on from there.
Dear Victoria I am sick of our peaceful inner-city suburb being clogged up with nonresidents’ cars parked all day on coupon parks. We essentially have 4 rows of cars squished into dual carriageways. We are a residential suburb, not a public carpark. Is my irritation unreasonable? Worried I'm Becoming a Grumpy Old Man. Dear WIBaGOM Worry not. You have raised an issue I suspect most Mt Victorians have noted, but then forgotten after a couple of whiskeys at Slim Davey’s. (Until the very next morning of course, when they note a handsome young man hopping out of his car on Majoribanks St trying to scratch his coupon whilst juggling his coffee before heading off to work in town.) I understand one of the motives of our forward-thinking forebears in creating the Town Belt was to address “overcrowding and health issues” in the City by giving it “lungs.” I’m therefore thinking it’s time our civic leaders gave this organ a pulmonary function test, as I suspect Stage 2 emphysema. The circulatory system needs a rebore, maybe a bypass, and/or a valve replacement for better directional flow. The main arterial routes could be stripped of nonresidents’ cars to improve said flow and a valve replacement could ensure better directional flow if say Hawker and Majoribanks were one way into town, and Elizabeth and Pirie one way out of town. Blood purification could be achieved by discouraging fossil fuel use, improving walkways, and encouraging nonpolluting modes of transport. Maybe we could even expand the lungs by planting more trees. This I do believe will reconnect Mt Victoria with the original intention of the Town Belt Deed in keeping the inner-city residents healthy and happy. What do you think? Kind regards, Victoria
