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Seven Figure Investment in Otaki

Otaki’s Riverbank Road concrete plant has a new lease of life. All the bridge beams for the $250 million McKays to Peka Peka expressway (M2PP) will be made there. This is an injection of...

News

Matariki at Raukawa

With the coming of the Matariki, the Maori New Year, the 2014/15 maramataka or calendar was launched at a ceremony held at Raukawa Marae...

Honda Planting Day

There was a good turn-out for the Friends of the Otaki River’s (FOTOR) final public planting day for the year in June.In the latest...

Gardening

Focus on growing beetroot

There’s a great deal more to this easy-to-grow vegetable than the tinned product you find on supermarket shelves - a commercial equivalent of boiling,...

Mutabilis – ancient China rose

Mutabilis – ancient China rose (also known as the Butterfly Bush)Mutabilis is a spectacular ancient shrub rose that flowers 10 months of the year...

Thumbs up, Thumbs down

Thumbs up

R-Thumbsup

  • KCDC for reviewing Otaki library charges
  • Rotary for their fundraising debate in support of the Otaki Surf Club and other Rotary projects
  • To those who have donated to the family of Robert Ayley
  • Belated thanks from the Weldons to Otaki Volunteer Firefighters for their swift & efficient action on Good Friday

Thumbs down

R-ThumbsdownTo the various ratbags who:

  • Stole 50 frozen food items from an elderly woman
  • Stole petrol from various cars in Lupin Road
  • Threw offal in the Waitohu stream
  • Broke off the RSA flagpoles by the Cenotaph

Taking Ōtaki's Pulse

School-Based Health Service provides better access

The recent expansion of the School-Based Health Service (SBHS) to decile three secondary schools is further reducing barriers that prevent students from accessing healthcare...

Health wins for children

Horowhenua and indirectly Otaki will be the first of four regions in New Zealand to get a children’s team. The aim is to wrap...

History

Historic Picture of the month » August 2014

Louis George Varnham St. George 1872-1924 was a chemist in Otaki 1898-1924 with a shop in Aotaki Street. He married Mary Bain and they...

From the Otaki Mail, Monday August 11, 1924

Memorial Service for Louis St George Tribute by the Rev G F Petrie, MA Very beautiful and touching was the tribute paid to the memory of...

Life

Library book reviews, July 2014

  Kia ora from the Otaki Public Library – Te Wharepukapuka o Otaki The Good Italian by Stephen Burke It is 1935. Enzo Secchi, harbourmaster for Eritrea's main...

HUHA Volunteer Recognised

Otaki’s HUHA animal shelter manager, Claire Thornton, was the first recipient of Volunteer Kapiti’s Volunteer Recognition Award, with a 45 minute helicopter flight over...

Business, industry & farming

Arohanui OpShop birthday

Otaki’s Arohanui Op shop was one year old on July 16 and they still have 20 of the original volunteers working regular shifts at...

Pork on the range

It’s a great spot for happy pigs. Snug within the foothills of the Tararua Ranges, set against a backdrop of dark-coloured pine and drifts...

Sports, arts, music & entertainment

Otaki Canoe Club – New Zealand Representatives

The Otaki Canoe Club is celebrating its success with members selected to New Zealand Teams and top placings at the end of the 2014...

Otaki Players : Another Spectacular Production

Otaki Players continue to surprise and delight with spectacular productions and the musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat provides another thrilling experience for...

KCDC Update

Otaki Community Board June 2014

Public Speaking Time and Responses: Julie Brown spoke to her dissatisfaction of the Kapiti Coast District Council’s Long Term Plan community consultation, stating it was...

Environment

Honda Planting Day

There was a good turn-out for the Friends of the Otaki River’s (FOTOR) final public planting day for the year in June.In the latest...

Our people

HUHA Volunteer Recognised

Otaki’s HUHA animal shelter manager, Claire Thornton, was the first recipient of Volunteer Kapiti’s Volunteer Recognition Award, with a 45 minute helicopter flight over...

Happy 90th Sylvia Rountree

Sylvia Rountree celebrated her 90th birthday day in style! Arriving at the Otaki RSA in a Rolls Royce for an afternoon tea arranged by her...

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