Ponsonby Park+ March 2023 update
As the 20th of the month deadline for this update nears, I sit at my Dad’s dining table in the Manawatu and wonder what to say and even where to begin.
As the 20th of the month deadline for this update nears, I sit at my Dad’s dining table in the Manawatu and wonder what to say and even where to begin.
‘Mother Nature’ has given us a huge wake up call and left us reeling from these two cataclysmic weather events, revealing the true face of our country.
Auckland has had a challenging few weeks. Between the extreme flooding, and Cyclone Gabrielle, we’ve endured a lot.
The harrowing scenes of floods, slips, downed power lines, trapped families and disconnected communications infrastructure across the North Island that have seen lives lost and communities shattered are a melancholy start for 2023.
At the time of writing, we are in a National State of Emergency. Aotearoa New Zealand has been overwhelmingly affected by both the flooding events from the end of January, and Cyclone Gabrielle.
Blind Low Vision NZ is the only organisation who train and breed guide dogs for Kiwis with vision loss. We receive no government funding for Blind Low Vision NZ Guide Dogs.
Me mahi tahi tātou mō te oranga o te katoa/We should work together for the wellbeing of everyone.
In less time than it takes to produce and publish an edition of Ponsonby News from one month to the next, leading Ponsonby/Herne Bay/St Mary’s Bay/Grey Lynn residential real estate salesperson Blair Haddow has listed, marketed, and sold a luxury home in locale.
In this tragic time of unprecedented nationwide climate change disaster most of us have been focused on the management of our own lives, cleaning up and dealing with survivor guilt.
Barb and Roger had known each other since high school but hadn’t been in touch for a number of years.
For many of us, building a successful and wildly popular bar and restaurant would be the culmination of a lifelong dream.
Dr Joseph Earles, and his wife Dr Nina of Cockburn Street.