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Working Bees for Lake Okareka Community Walking Track

28/2/2017

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Dear Lake Okareka Community Assn volunteers and supporters
 
Thank you to those volunteers who have been coming to help with the walking track Working Bees on Tuesday afternoons / evenings. The track work is going along really well, and is getting plenty of use. Also good to see that there have been disabled people in wheel chairs using the track over the past 2 months, even though it is not yet completed.
The feedback from users of the walking track has been really positive and very encouraging.
 
WORKING BEE AFTER WORK - TUESDAY 28th February 2017
 
Once again tomorrow afternoon it will be laying textiles and then gravel over the top, using the tractor and trailer to cart and spread the gravel. So there is work suitable for people of all abilities and strengths.
 
Please park in the car park area near the Te Waiariki Purea Trust Paddle Shed adjacent to Boyes beach (there may be other vehicles with the Te Au Rere Waka Ama club - or secondary school waka ama teams - in there too, so please park considerately) and go to where the large heap of gravel is located. There is Health and Safety signing in to do.
 
Please wear suitable clothing and strong closed toes foot wear. If it is hot and sunny, please wear a sun hat and put on some sunscreen. Bring gardening gloves, a shovel and a rake (if you have them). Please also bring a drink and a snack (morning tea on Saturday morning).  We will have a water container available to top up your water bottles.
 
Please continue to mark Tuesday afternoons in your diary as Working Bee afternoons for the Lake Okareka Community Walking Track, until further notice.
 
SATURDAY 4th March 2017 Track Working Bee from 9 am to 12 noon
 
If any one is available to help with the walking Track Working Bee this coming Saturday 4th March 2017,  your assistance would be most appreciated.
All the same instructions re parking and what to bring with you as above.
 
For further information please email sgoodwin@actrix.co.nz or phone 07 362 8865.
 
Kind regards
Sandra Goodwin
Secretary
Lake Okareka Community Assn
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Landcare Okareka Working Bee 25th February 2017

24/2/2017

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Dear Landcare Okareka volunteers and supporters,
 
I hope that everyone had a relaxing and happy break over Christmas and New Year - and you have all had an opportunity to enjoy some of the lovely, sunny weather that we experienced in the Rotorua area, during January. While some of you may feel we have had an excessive amount of rain recently, it was very welcome for the plants, birds,other wildlife, the lake and people. Everything seems lovely and fresh this morning - and hopefully there are still several weeks of warm late summer / autumn days before the weather changes again!
 
It's time again to get back into regular Landcare Okareka Working Bees, undertaking maintenance around the reserves around the Lake Okareka settlement. Weeds or like rust - they never seem to sleep!
 
THIS MONTH'S WORKING BEE - SATURDAY 25th February 2017 from 9 am to 12 noon Health & Safety briefing and sign in at 9 am sharp.
 
WHERE: End of Acacia Road (pathway and garden) and Taumaihi peninsula reserve
WHAT: Weeding - some things can be hand weeded, others will need cutting and pasting with Round Up gel paste.
WHAT TO BRING: wear suitable clothing, sun hat and sun screen (if hot & sunny), gardening gloves or impermeable gloves (if using gel paste). Please also bring some rubbish bags (for montbretia bulbs), cutting tools - secatuers, loppers, pruning saw - any and all of these. A good idea to bring some water in a drink bottle - we will have water to top up water bottles.
 
We will provide all of the makings (tea, coffee, hot water, milk, food, etc) for morning tea.
 
Hope to see some of you at this Working Bee.
 
Kind regards
 
Sandra Goodwin
Secretary
Landcare Okareka
Phone: 07 362 8865
Email: 
sgoodwin@actrix.co.nz
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Lake Okareka Community Walking Track Working Bee

17/2/2017

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Hi everyone
 
A big thank you to those who have been coming to help help on the Lake Okareka Community walking track each Tuesday afternoon/early evening and also on Saturday 4th February. The walking track had approx 750 pairs of feet run over it last Saturday morning (11th February 2017) - the Tarawera Ultra marathon 100 and 85 km runners - and Brian Law, Project Manager for LOCA reported at the LOCA AGM on Sunday 12th Feb that you wouldn't have known - the track stood up extremely well. And now we have had a little bit of rain, it will help lay the dust at least. There is another Working Bee this afternoon.
 
WORKING BEE AFTER WORK - TUESDAY 14th  February 2017 any time from 4pm
 
Once again this afternoon it will be laying textiles and then gravel over the top, using the tractor and trailer to cart and spread the gravel.
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Please park in the car park area near the Te Waiariki Purea Trust Paddle Shed adjacent to Boyes beach (there may be other vehicles with the Te Au Rere Waka Ama club in there too, so please park considerately) and go to where the large heap of gravel is located.

Please wear suitable clothing and strong closed toes foot wear. Bring gardening gloves, a shovel and a rake (if you have them). Please also bring a drink and a snack, if you think you might get hungry/thirsty.
 
Please continue to mark Tuesday afternoons in your diary as Working Bee afternoons for the Lake Okareka Community Walking Track, until further notice.
 
For further information please email sgoodwin@actrix.co.nz or phone 07 362 8865.
 
Kind regards
Sandra Goodwin
Secretary
Lake Okareka Community Assn
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