Square Circular April 2012 - Palmerston North City Council

ISSUE 166, APRIL 2012
LAST week to
have your say
Have you met the Palmy family yet? They are a
typical (well, fairly typical) family. But they all
want different things. You can meet the Palmys
on the Council’s website. The Council knows what
the Palmys want… We now need to know what
you want.
The Draft 10 Year Plan is currently out for consultation and
we encourage you to have your say.
The 10 Year Plan sets out what the Council plans to do over
the next 10 years and what levels of rates and debt this will
require.
All submissions go
to Councillors to help them
make their decisions on what
is in the final Plan.
In your submission you can say whether or not you want to
talk about your ideas to an informal meeting of Councillors
during early May.
Councillors will then revisit the 10 Year Plan in light of
comments made through the submissions and hearings. The
Plan will be finalised in June.
Everybody who makes a submission to the Draft Plan,
whether they attend a hearing or not, will receive a letter
from the Council outlining its decision on the points raised in
their submissions once the Plan is finalised.
Here’s how you can have your say, write your thoughts
down on paper and send them to us at: 10 Year Plan
Submissions, Palmerston North City Council, Private Bag
11034, Palmerston North 4410. You can also email them to
submission@pncc.govt.nz, or you can phone us on 06 356
8199.
Submissions close on Friday, 27 April.
Palmerston North City Council
10 yEAR PLAN
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LONG TERM PLAN
Including the following draft updated and new policies:
• Policy on Significance
• Revenue and Financing Policy
• Rates Remission and Postponement Policies
• Development Contributions Policy
• Draft Financial Strategy
• Proposal to become a shareholder in New Zealand
Local Government Funding Agency
ANZAC DAY
Palmerston North City Council together with the Palmerston
North Returned Services Association Inc. would like to invite
members of the public to attend the following Services and the
laying of wreaths at the Cenotaph in the Square, Palmerston
North on Wednesday, 25 April 2012.
Dawn Service of Remembrance: 6.00am
Returned and Service Personnel and other Associations assemble at
5.30am on Broadway Avenue in front of the Palmerston North RSA
Clubrooms, ready to march off at 5.45am to the Cenotaph.
Civic Parade and Commemoration Service: 9.30am
Returned and Service Personnel and other Associations assemble at
9.00am on Broadway Avenue in front of the Palmerston North RSA
Clubrooms, ready to march off at 9.10am to the Cenotaph.
All RSA Members who have medals are requested to wear them.
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ISSUE 166, APRIL 2012
Palmerston North Youth Space hosts
Master Chef
Ta & Grayson
Lance & Kobe
Paikea & Deon
The Youth Space on the corner of Coleman Mall and George Street is proving
a popular place these days.
It recently hosted its very first Master Chef event organised by the Project Tuakana Team. The
event involved several teams of two working together to create and then cook a main dish and
a dessert. Project Tuakana is a mentoring programme run by Whaioro Trust that provides Taiohi
(Māori male youth) with a male adult mentor. The programme, which is now in its second year,
encourages strong relationships in positive environments, either one on one or in group activities.
The Chef competition tested the ability of the six teams to work together in a competitive
situation. The Youth Space has a commercial kitchen and provided the perfect environment for
the competition.
“The Youth Space is like a second home for some of our youth,” Dale Anderson Project
Coordinator said. “So we felt it was the right place to hold the competition. It was also a great
environment for whānau to come along to support the participants. I don’t think we could have
done it if it wasn’t for the Youth Space”.
Youth Space Manager Rhiannon Malley thought the event was a perfect event for the Space.
“It was great to see the Youth Space being used to provide opportunities for local young
people, and I loved it that the families got to see where their teens hang out and learn a little of
what it’s about here,” Rhiannon said.
The overall winners were Team Xtreme who cooked a crab and avocado salad with flounder
fillets with poached pears as their dessert.
YOU DON’T WANNA
MISS THIS...
Coming this April/May
Hey You-th!
Check out these mean activities, for free!
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Photography Workshop (sign up required)
Friday 20th April (time TBC)
Homework Tutor
From 3pm Tuesday 24th April
Electronic Music Workshop: Learn to sculpt sounds & beats
From midday Saturday 28th April
Careers Adviser: CV Writing, Interview Skills
4:15pm Thursday 3rd April
Youth Aerobics session
2pm Saturday 5th May
YOUTH SPACE CNR GEORGE ST AND
COLEMAN PLACE, PALMY NORTH
13-19 YEAR OLD PALMY-ITES
Coming up!
Guinness World Record attempts, Baking,
Guitar hero, Salsa class, Art and more!
Info at www.checkm8.co.nz
Youth Space
Tracks & jumps take shape
With the logging of Arapuke almost over for another year, it’s time to
concentrate on having some fun in the forest.
The Palmerston North City Council together
with the Manawatu Mountain Bike Club are
keen to see people get out and use the area
and are working together to develop a whole
range of new and exciting mountain bike
tracks to encourage people to get out and
have some fun.
“The mountain bike community is excited
about the partnership it has with the Council,”
Bill Russell from the Mountain Bike Club said.
“We are going to have a range of world class
trails when we’re finished.”
Arapuke Forest is considered one of the
main local recreation hubs and is used by
trampers and runners as well as professional
and recreational bikers of all ages. Logging of
the trees has meant many of the tracks have
Manawatu Mountain Bike Club member
Stephen Humphries tries out a new track at
Arapuke Forest, formerly Woodpecker Forest.
been destroyed so new tracks need to be
developed.
“I would like to encourage anyone who is
slightly interested in mountain biking to get
out and give it a go,” Brian Way Leisure Assets
Officer at PNCC said. “The enjoyment of the
views and riding the new trails will make the
30-60 min uphill ride through regenerating
bush well worth the effort.”
The Council has funded advisors and
machinery to help with track development
and although only one 700m long track has
been completed to date, (the Jumpin Jack
Track) there is a network of approximately
5kms of trails planned for this year and up
to approximately 20km by the time the site
development is complete.

ISSUE 166, APRIL 2012
Butterflies rule!
Volunteers plant the butterfly
garden with hundreds of plants
geared to provide food or nectar.
Apollo Park will soon be home to hundreds of butterflies
when a new community project is finished. Local man
Paul Vandenberg came up with the idea of creating a
garden especially for butterflies when he discovered that
the park is a popular stopover for Monarchs who winter
over each year.
Together with a group of enthusiastic volunteers, he obtained help
from the Palmerston North City Council, a grant from the Palmerston
North City Environmental Trust, and embarked in fundraising to make
the idea a reality.
“The Council has supported the vision of this community group,
through the development of a path to improve access to the site and
providing mulch for the gardens,” Brian Way Leisure Assets Officer for the
Council said. “It’s great that we can help a community group such as this
one to develop a real community asset.”
After many hours of community labour, several hundred plants
have been planted into a garden which when viewed from the air is
appropriately in the shape of a butterfly. All the plants will provide
nectar for the butterflies or food for caterpillars and will include Swan
Plants. With so many willing helpers, Paul’s wife Tracey spent many hours
cooking to feed all the volunteers as they worked on the project.
“Most of the plants are New Zealand natives,” Paul said. “There’s
Muehlenbeckia which provides food for Copper Caterpillars, and
Koromiko which is a favourite nectar plant for the Red Admirals. We have
planted several hundred plants now and there should be something
flowering all year round.”
It is hoped the garden will attract Monarchs, Red Admirals, Yellow
Admirals, NZ Copper and the little Blue Butterflies.
If you’d like to become involved in this project or follow progress and
events at the garden you can contact Paul at: paul.vandenberg@xtra.
co.nz or check out http://www.facebook.com/MonarchsApolloPark .
Recycling
centre offers
new service
for residents
The Ferguson Street Recycling Centre
has become an RCN e-Cycle site offering
electronics recycling.
The Centre will now be able to receive electronic
waste, (e-waste) which includes computers, monitors,
televisions, mobile phones, electrical cables, photocopiers
and printers.
The e-waste is sent to an RCN processing plant in
Wellington where it is dismantled and recycled in an
ethical and environmentally sustainable way. Much of
the e-waste contains elements that can be recycled, but
it also contains chemicals that can leach into the soil and
waterways making it one of the most toxic types of waste
in the world, far more toxic than common household
rubbish.
Costs are as follows:
PC (Desktops, Laptop and Servers) $5.00
Printers (Ink-Jet and Desktop Laser) $11.50
Photocopiers (all sizes) $46.00 - $70.00)
Consumer Electronics (DVD Players, VCRs,
Stereo Systems) $6.00
Fax machines $11.50
LCD Screens $6.00
CRT Computer Monitors $14.00
Cell phones are free.
Hours for the Ferguson Street
Recycling Centre are:
7.30am to 4.30pm Monday to Friday
8.00am to 4.30pm Saturday
10.00am to 3.00pm Sunday and public
holidays.
RCN e-Cycle has received funding from the Waste
Minimisation Fund, administered by the Ministry for the
Environment.
For a full list of charges and more information contact
the Palmerston North City Council on 06 356 8199.
Know where to have
fun with your dog
If you own a dog it is your responsibility to ensure it gets
adequate exercise. Depending on the size of your dog, it will
need exercising at least once a day, and if it’s a large dog it
will have boundless energy.
Some dogs will enjoy a walk while others will require more intense
workouts. Often if your dog is misbehaving it’s due to boredom or lack
of physical activity. For dogs that need lots of exercise, take a ball for
fetching, or a Frisbee, dogs love chasing a frisbee.
Unless you are in a designated ‘dog off-leash’ exercise area you will need
to keep your dog restrained on a lead at all times. But if you want to play
Frisbee with your dog then head to one of the designated ‘off the lead’
exercise areas where your dog is free to run around unrestrained.
If you’re exercising while on a lead take the opportunity to incorporate
some basic training into the walk. This will help with dog obedience when
it comes to crossing roads and meeting other pedestrians on shared
walkways.
If you’d like to exercise on ‘dog off-leash’ areas, there are a number of
them around the city where you can do this. They are the only places
where exercising your dog off the lead is permitted. While using these
areas you must remain with your dog at all times.
For a full list of places where exercising your dog is prohibited, to ‘dog
on-leash’ areas and ‘dog off-leash’ areas check out the Palmerston North
City Council website at: www.pncc.govt.nz or call the Council on 06 356
8199.
Annual book sale this weekend
It’s time once again for the Palmerston North City Library to hold its Annual Book Sale.
This popular event promises to once again attract large crowds with a wide selection of
cancelled library materials and some donated items.
This year the sale will be held at Events Central at the City Library over 20th, 21 and 22nd April and will open
from 10 – 8 Friday, 10 – 4 on Saturday and 1 – 4 on Sunday.
Selected books, CDs and DVDs will be individually priced but there will be loads of bargains! It’s a great
opportunity to stock up on reading material for the winter months. Eftpos will be available.
The sale will include fiction and non fiction books, magazines, children’s items and a range of CD and DVD.

ISSUE 166, APRIL 2012
Set yourself some
challenges in the garden
Rock Construction No. 1, Neil
Dawson, 1984. Collection of Te
Manawa Museums Trust.
If you’ve been thinking of having a
go at growing a few vegetables, now
is a good time to turn your plans into
action. While you’re about it, why
not set yourself a challenge to grow
all your vegetables for the next 12
months?
It’s not as hard as you think it might be and
doesn’t necessarily mean lots of digging. If you
live in a rented property or you don’t want to
put in a permanent garden, collect up as many
old tyres as you can, tyre centres will usually
give you old tyres if you ask. Once you have
enough stack them in rows two or three high.
Place layers of newspaper in the bottom and
fill with compost. Now you have your garden
ready to plant.
Vegetables such as broccoli, cabbage,
cauliflower, lettuce, silverbeet will provide
you and your family with nutritious fresh
vegetables through the winter months. If you
have more tyres you can plant onions, Brussels
sprouts, carrots and a selection of herbs. If
you’d like to try growing beans, drive three
stakes around the outside of the tyre and plant
beans around the edge of the tyre. The stakes
will give the beans something to climb up. You
can do the same with peas.
When planting your garden, add a marigold
plant to each tyre, marigolds repel insects and
should save you from having to spray your
vegetables against chewing insects.
As you harvest your vegetables, rotate the
planting so that you aren’t growing the same
vegetables in the same tyres continuously.
During summer months tyres make great
planters for strawberry plants too. Try planting
a seed potato in a single tyre and as it shows
through the soil, add another tyre and more
compost until it is three or four tyres high. See
which family member can produce the most
potatoes from their tyre stack.
Encourage each child in the family to have
their own stack of tyres. Gardening doesn’t
have to be hard work. Why not make it fun for
everyone and introduce healthy cheap eating
at the same time.
Celebrating
Space
Invaders
at Te Manawa
A selection of impressive sculptures is now on display at Te Manawa
until 13 May.
Space Invaders showcases works by renowned sculptural artists including Ann Verdcourt,
Paul Dibble and Robert Jahnke. The exhibition is designed to investigate and challenge
our perceptions of space and the differing ways in which art sits within it – whether it is
crouching in a corner, jutting from a wall or languishing on the floor.
The exhibition is categorised into five sections examining various types of sculptures.
They are: grounded and strong monumental sculpture; works made with colour and light;
illusionistic sculpture which challenges our eyes and minds; the ephemeral – short-lived
and transitory; and finally enclosed space – a hinted at negative space which can ‘make or
break’ the sculpture within it.
“The late 19th century saw the beginnings of a new order in art that embraced
experimentation,” Lisa Rogers Art Curator at Te Manawa said. “In sculpture this comprised
a move towards utilising new materials and techniques, creating abstract forms and works
that represented the intangible as well as the actual.”
Te Manawa is the custodian of an outstanding art collection which is stored on behalf
of the community. A strong emphasis is placed on curating exhibitions which showcase
works for the public to enjoy.
In addition to Space Invaders, Te Manawa currently has two further exhibitions which
showcase works from the art collection. Movers & Shakers celebrates the achievement
of five iconic New Zealand artists – Don Peebles, Gordon Crook, Jeffrey Harris, Malcolm
Harrison and Pat Hanly. Now & Then explores enduring and developing themes in
New Zealand photography and draws on The Active Eye, a ground-breaking
photography exhibition which in 1975 became the foundation
for the photography collection of Te
Manawa.
Join a
winning
team
Did you know that
Palmerston North has
a Rescue Emergency
Support Team (REST)? It’s
made up of volunteers
and is operated under the
supervision of Palmerston
North City Council
Emergency Management.
The Team is now looking to
recruit new members.
Prospective applicants need to be
committed and dedicated, be able to provide
rescue support for at least 80 hours per year
and available to train weekly and often on
weekends too. They are also required to
complete NZQA National Certificates, Tertiary
Certificates and up to five industry certificates
in Rescue.
The main task of REST is to provide support
to emergency services locally and within
the Manawatu region with high angle rope
rescue, flood and storm response and swift
water rescue. They also provide support
to the Rural Fire Team and maintain a light
Urban Search and Rescue capability. REST
is also available to respond to national or
international emergencies if requested, such as
the earthquakes in Christchurch or flooding in
Australia.
Palmerston North’s Rescue and Emergency
Support Team are one of the best in the
country and have won numerous competitions
and awards. So, if you are looking for a new
challenge or want to give something back
to your community, this might be your
opportunity.
The Rescue Emergency Support Team will
be holding an Open Night on 1 May 2012 at
7pm at the Council Building where you can ask
questions and submit your application forms.
All interested persons are very welcome.
Check the Palmerston North City Council
website at www.pncc.govt.nz for more
information and an application form.
Photo caption: A member of Palmerston
North Rescue and Emergency Support Team
puts his skills to use following the earthquake
Christchurch.