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Edition #17<br />
march <strong>2016</strong><br />
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Our stories, our people, our Māngere<br />
Kōrero paki ō tatou, Tāngata ō tatou, Ngā Hau Māngere ō tatou<br />
first female hawk INTO KIWI ferns<br />
<strong>275</strong> <strong>Times</strong> contributor<br />
Ernestina Maro<br />
recently sat down for<br />
a chat with Mangere's<br />
newest league star.<br />
Here's her story:<br />
The humble and talented Annetta<br />
Nuuausala has been in the headlines<br />
lately with her inclusion in New<br />
Zealand Womens’ Rugby League<br />
team, the Kiwi Ferns – making her<br />
the first from the Mangere East<br />
Hawks to achieve this. The Samoan<br />
21-year-old is the youngest of<br />
six and she says church is a big<br />
reason she’s been able to make<br />
this journey. Annetta is a shining<br />
example for many other female<br />
athletes and has particularly pushed<br />
boundaries for many Pacific females<br />
to get into Rugby League. Annetta<br />
was inspired by her sports-mad<br />
family to give league a go and<br />
because netball wasn’t providing<br />
enough excitement. She says being<br />
brought up in a household where<br />
LEAGUE STAR: Annetta breaks new ground for<br />
Mangere East Hawks.<br />
sport has been played at an elite<br />
level by her older brother Frank-<br />
Paul Nuuausala – who currently<br />
plays in the NRL for the Canberra<br />
Raiders and has won a premiership<br />
with the Sydney Roosters – has also<br />
driven her to aim for a higher level<br />
with the goal of becoming a rugby<br />
league star in her own right. In her<br />
short career one major highlight<br />
has been representing New Zealand<br />
at the recent NRL Nines event at<br />
Eden Park and playing in front of a<br />
packed house of screaming fans.<br />
She says none of this would have<br />
been possible without her family<br />
and friends, but particularly her<br />
brother John, Rusty Matua from<br />
the Auckland Vulcans and Askhan.<br />
And her message for any Pacific<br />
women considering giving league a<br />
crack: “Put yourself out there and<br />
go hard!”<br />
If you're interested in league<br />
contact the Mangere East Hawks<br />
on 276 3420 or merlfc@xtra.co.nz<br />
USO Bike ride promotes paSifiKa health<br />
USO Bike Ride crew stopped in Mangere as part of nationwide bike tour. The team of 18 Polynesian riders have ridden the<br />
lenght of NZ to raise cancer awareness amongst Polynesian communities, encouraging regular health checks, and pass on the health<br />
and wellbeing benefits of cycling. The Mangere BikeFIT crew joined the USO riders during their stop-over. Visit www.usobikeride.co.nz<br />
for more info.
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AAAP set to make big impact<br />
READY TO IMPACT: Alastair Russell ( left) and two fellow AAAP members.<br />
Think you’re getting ripped off?<br />
If so, make sure you’re outside the<br />
Pukapuka Hall on April 5,6, and 7 as<br />
Auckland Action Against Poverty is<br />
coming to Mangere. The direct action,<br />
advocacy and education group will be<br />
running its fourth Impact event aimed<br />
at ensuring people on low incomes<br />
are getting their full entitlements<br />
from Work and Income. AAAP<br />
spokesperson Alastair Russell says<br />
the last event was a huge success,<br />
with over 500 people helped and<br />
more than $100,000 in grants and<br />
entitlements received by attendees of<br />
the event.<br />
“The purpose of the event is to firstly<br />
to help as many people as possible<br />
in Mangere. These events have<br />
steadily grown. We have helped stop<br />
deductions, get a range of advances<br />
for people sleeping on the floor and<br />
ensuring many, many people get<br />
housing or retain housing.”<br />
AAAP started in 2010 and have<br />
been involved in running similar<br />
events across Auckland as well as<br />
participating in protests and nonviolent<br />
direct action. Alastair says<br />
AAAP’s Impact events are part of a<br />
wider campaign aimed at curbing the<br />
Government’s welform reforms.<br />
“Our work involves opposing and<br />
exposing the Government’s welfare<br />
reforms and the agenda to have an<br />
undeclared war on the poor and<br />
show the proof of the ever-widening<br />
gap between the rich and poor. What<br />
these events do is provide concrete<br />
proof of the realities of poverty.”<br />
If you’d like to attend the event<br />
be at the Pukapuka Hall, Canning<br />
Crescent, Mangere from 9am –<br />
5pm, April 5,6,7. Alternatively,<br />
if you’d like to volunteer at this<br />
event go to www.aaap.org.nz<br />
Local beatmakers do battle in the <strong>275</strong><br />
Local beatmakers from across the city headed to the Mangere Arts Centre on February 27 to showcase their talents and<br />
dope beats. Artists went head to head in a battle for cash, audio equipment, streetwear and the new 'Rep Your Beats'<br />
trophy. Peter Pedro took out the event and special thanks goes to the judges Anonymouz, Dlove, and HazBeats who<br />
made sure that the winner earned their spot. The inaugural event was hosted by NZ's No.1 Hip Hop station - based in<br />
Mangere - Rep FM and the Hip Hop website Ayebro and it's set to be an annual feature so look out for it next year.<br />
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Little church makes big sacrifice for Lent<br />
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Mangere Baptist Church may be<br />
small but that hasn’t stopped it<br />
from taking on the big challenge<br />
of waste minimisation during the<br />
Christian season of Lent.<br />
Traditionally Lent is a time when<br />
Christians around the world go<br />
without something significant to help<br />
them remember Jesus – and so this<br />
year the church's Pastor John Catmur<br />
has decided to focus their efforts on<br />
giving up some of the rubbish they<br />
produce over this time. Ps John says<br />
this is great way to put their faith into<br />
action.<br />
“I see taking care of God’s creation as<br />
a way to worship God.”<br />
The church kicked off the Lent period<br />
with a waste reduction workshop,<br />
facilitated by ME Family Service’s<br />
Talking Rubbish team. The members<br />
learned of some of the issues our<br />
planet is facing. Many in the group<br />
were already doing things at home<br />
and in the community to reduce<br />
their waste and the workshop was<br />
an opportunity to share ideas and<br />
Māngere goes viral<br />
BIG CLEAN UP: Ps John (far right) with his church members picking and sorting rubbish.<br />
learn from each other. Thanks to<br />
some resources supplied by Talking<br />
Rubbish, and some creative input by<br />
Ps John, the church has now got it's<br />
own waste station. Separated bins<br />
and labelling are making it much<br />
easier for church users to put their<br />
waste in the right bin. Ps John says<br />
his little church has the potential to<br />
speak loudly to the wider Auckland<br />
community through this initiative.<br />
If other pastors in the Mangere/<br />
Otahuhu area would like info on<br />
reducing waste please contact<br />
the Talking Rubbish team on<br />
0212389717.<br />
Have you seen the 24hrs South campaign<br />
video yet? (see link above)<br />
If not, you're in a minority as over 340,000 have watched<br />
what a fun place Mangere in particular can be. The video<br />
shows a couple doing a range of activities in Mangere,<br />
around Auckland airport, and at Rainbow’s End in<br />
Manukau. The Mangere-Otahuhu Local Board funded<br />
the production as part of its local economic development<br />
programme. Local Board member Christine O’Brien says<br />
the video has gone viral: "Between 11th December and<br />
18th January it reached 346,508 people on Facebook with<br />
568 shares and over two thousand likes."<br />
QUOTE OF THE MONTH: "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the<br />
obstacles which he has overcome." - Booker T Washington
Community Notices<br />
MANGERE EAST CULTURAL FESTIVAL<br />
The famous Mangere East Cultural Festival is on again. Head to<br />
372 Massey Road on <strong>March</strong> 26 to experience our unique and<br />
talented community through performance, arts & craft, traditional<br />
games, creative workshops, and an awesome variety of ethinc<br />
foods. Stall-holders and performers are still needed so contact<br />
fiona@mangereeast.org if you’re keen to be apart of this cultural<br />
extravaganza.<br />
MANGERE AND KRISTIN COLLEGE EXCHANGE<br />
Mangere College and Kristin School are coming together for a music<br />
exchange. There will be a combined performance at Mangere Art<br />
Center on <strong>March</strong> 22 at 11am.<br />
RELIEF FOR FIJI & TONGA<br />
The Mayor’s Fund for the Pacific has been activated in response to<br />
the damage inflicted on Fiji and Tonga by Tropical Cyclone Winston.<br />
Contact Mangere/Otahuhu Local board member Christine O’Brien<br />
on Christine.O'Brien@parliament.govt.nz for info about where to<br />
donate money and goods to help those in Fiji and Tonga affected by<br />
the cyclone.<br />
GUIDED WALK AT STONEFIELDS<br />
Seaweek - Out and About Ranger Walk Otuataua Stonefields<br />
Otuataua Stonefields, 56 Ihumatao Quarry Rd, Ihumatao, Auckland.<br />
<strong>March</strong> 15, 9:30am – 12pm.<br />
FREE LEGAL INFO CLINIC AND WORKSHOPS<br />
The Mangere East Community Centre runs a free legal clinic every<br />
Friday morning in conjunction with the Mangere Community Law<br />
Centre. The Mangere Community Law Centre also offers low costs<br />
legal workshops every Wednesday during the school terms. Call<br />
<strong>275</strong>-4310 for more info.<br />
SINGLE MUMS BBQ<br />
Join single Mums at Ambury Park with a BBQ <strong>March</strong> 13. Come along<br />
and join in a meet-up where we all have something in common!<br />
Hang out with other single mums and kids. Contact Rochelle on 376<br />
3227 ext 2 or 027-460-5632 or email skip@womenz.org.nz<br />
FREE AFTER-SCHOOL SPORTS<br />
The Raise Up crew based at the Moana-A-Kiwa Pools in Mangere<br />
will be running casual sports every Tuesday, 4pm -6pm during the<br />
school term for 13 to 18-yr-olds. And there's a free BBQ on the last<br />
Tuesday of each month.<br />
Welding +<br />
Panel beating<br />
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Automotive<br />
Recreation<br />
& Sport<br />
Joinery<br />
& Cabinet<br />
making<br />
Forces<br />
Pre-Entry:<br />
Army, Navy,<br />
Air force,<br />
Police<br />
Don’t<br />
just dream it.<br />
Warehousing<br />
& Forklift<br />
Operations<br />
Fitness &<br />
Exercise<br />
BECOME IT!<br />
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TRAINING<br />
SHA62 OPPOSERS: SOULdiers protesting at the Fletcher consent<br />
hearing in early Feburary.<br />
It is time to Make a Stand for the Land, show your opposition<br />
to the housing development at Otuataua Stonefields. The<br />
Save Our Unique Landscape campaign would like to invite you<br />
and your friends and family to join them in forming a human<br />
chain on the boundary of the Wallace Block, to send a very<br />
clear message that there is widespread community opposition<br />
to this development and that we are prepared to join together<br />
to protect and celebrate this very special land.<br />
For info go to: https://www.facebook.com/SOUL.noSHA/<br />
MANGERE<br />
(09) 257-5732<br />
59 TIDAL RD<br />
Conditions apply.
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