Cleaning up for summer
Cockle Bay has had a spruce-up getting it ready for summer.
Leos from Howick College, Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate, and students from Botany Downs Secondary College rallied together in good numbers to do the job.
A teacher from Howick College also attended. This project once again demonstrates that today’s youth cares for their environment. Good news!
Leos are based in local high schools and are young potential Lions.
Howick Lions supported this initiative by doing a sausage sizzle lunch at the beach, providing much-needed sustenance for the young workers.
Good community work all round.
Gordon Myer, Lions Club of Howick president
Inspired idea
Thank you for the excellent article from the pen of Phil Taylor, regarding the Howick RSA’s keen interest in operating out of the War Memorial Hall, right in the middle of the Village (Times Online, October 3).
What an inspired idea, and we amongst many others keenly involved in fighting for the Hall to be kept securely in the hands of the local community are enormously encouraged that such a concept may come to fruition.
It’s like a coming home: the war memorial would be hosting the very body tasked with caring both for the country’s veterans and their families and thus for the wider community.
To think that the RSA would keep the doors open every working day, both as a hub for growing the RSA’s vital welfare work and for other charitable and volunteer groups to share!
Wonderful concept, including the part about increasing the building’s legal headcount, which is long overdue.
Our heartfelt thanks to Barry Dreyer, president of the Howick RSA, and his investigative working group for piloting the plan, and we wish them every success as they pursue this idea whose time has come.
And a big thank you in anticipation of the Howick Local Board’s enthusiasm and important cooperation.
Janet Dickson, Howick Ratepayers and Residents Association chair
Tougher on gangs
One of this Government’s election promises was to get tougher on gangs.
On tonight’s TV news, November 2, there was a clip of the Mongrel Mob gang driving through the streets with gang members standing up in the back of a ute not holding on.
Others were sitting on a car-door window with half their body sticking out of the vehicle – passing police vehicles and police watching the event.
These vehicles were not travelling slowly.
If this had been normal members of the public the police would have given chase and stopped them and given them an infringement notice or similar.
So why did this not happen in this circumstance?
These gangs are getting away with things that the normal public would not.
So come on Government, start getting tougher.
It’s high time to do something positive.
Concerned resident
