News
Flipping Heck!
How long does it take to flip a tractor tyre the 4.5 kilometres from the Main Highway to the beach? If you were Ngawira...
The worst floods in twenty years
Otaki wasn’t alone in suffering from a downpour this time. Wanganui suffered much worse.At the Waikawa Stream, the State Highway One bridge was taken...
Gardening
At the Te Horo Garden Centre
Two favourite shrubs to delight you in winter are available this month which the birds and bees love
Dichroa – The Evergreen Hydrangea with its...
Sand Country
Prior to settlement along the Kapiti Coast the coastal sand dune system extended from Paekakariki in the south to beyond Foxton in the north....
Edible blooms
The culinary use of flowers, particularly those of herbs, dates back thousands of years. You’ll find rose petals in many Indian dishes, squash blossoms...
Thumbs up, Thumbs down
Thumbs up
Kapiti Council for the bbq table/seats in the skate park- All our volunteers
- Emergency services during the recent flood event
- Otaki College students who graduated from the CACTUS course
- New World for supplying breakfast to the CACTUS kids
- Joseph from Body and Soul for a free month’s membership in July for CACTUS kids and their parents
- Matariki
- Errol Maffey for filming the CACTUS kids
- Terry Moore and the Otaki Police for the CACTUS kids initiative
- Atea and Ngawira, flipping for Rena to raise funds for her treatment
Thumbs down
The rubbish dumpers at Te Rito School recycling bins thereby negating the value of teaching the kids the value of recycling- The sightseekers after the flooding who invaded Atkinson Ave, leaving wheel ruts in the verge
- Fonterra & supermarkets — why does milk have to cost so much?
Life
The Magic of Wood
In the MenzShed rickety old antique chairs are stripped down, missing bits replaced, old shellac scraped off and sandpaper lovingly worked for hours to...
Energise Otaki update
Clean Technology Interns for Otaki
Om Dolasia, a postgraduate Environmental Engineering student from Western Australia, will be arriving in New Zealand and coming to work...
Business, industry & farming
Tech Talk
Don’t forget your Phone Filters
This used to be the first question that Internet providers asked when a customer reported an internet issue. Now it...
Ultrafast broadband for Ōtaki
To stimulate business growth and productivity, Ōtaki is making a bid to be linked up to ultra-fast broadband (UFB).
KCDC is preparing a submission for...
Sports, arts, music & entertainment
KCDC Update
Environment
River watchers wanted
Ōtaki and Te Horo were hard hit in the recent floods, particularly homes andrural blocks in low-lying areas near waterways.
Living by a river or...
Bring on the energy revolution
Andrew Clark, solar energy expert and founder of local cleantech company Sunrayker Ltd, recently gave TTO (Transition Town Otaki) an over-view of solar energy...
Our people
Focus on: Rod Clifton
You could call Te Horo’s Rod Clifton the original boy racer. And you’d be right.
Rod has been racing cars (stock cars, saloons and super...
A delicious Te Horo harvest
Barbara Harford-Silas likens her 5 hectare Hautere Plains property, with its own commercial kitchen, to a creative “jam central.” It’s here Barbara produces an...
