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Volunteers required for various shifts

9am-12.30pm & 12.30pm-4pm weekdays & weekends

on a weekly or fortnightly basis. Phone Kris 426 5570 if you can assist

or email admin@estuaryarts.org

To all our existing volunteers a very special THANKS – without you

the Centre would not exist!

Orewa Community Church

Orewa

Entrance from Amorino Drive, Red Beach. Phone 426 7023

www.occ.net.nz

~ All Welcome ~

Discovering GodSharing Christ’s Love

Sunday Family Services 10am + Kids Church

June 17“Your Identity & Role”

June 24 “Pastoral Sunday”

11 Moana Ave, Orewa • Ph 427 0117 • Open 7 days, 7am-10pm

Proudly supporting the Hibiscus Coast Community since 1967

Red Beach Methodist Church Hall, 76 Red Beach Road.

Tues 10am–12.30pm during school term.Volunteers required at our new Men’s centre for isolated seniors in the local community.

Help needed with activities/meal preparation/driving and other tasks. If you can spare a few hours to give back to the elderly in our

community then we would love to hear from you. Volunteer drivers also needed at our

Stanmore Bay centre on a Thursday morning.

For more information ph Rachel 09 489 8954 or www.cmans.org.nz

Coming soon to Hibiscus CoastCMA Men’s CentreOPENING July 17Volunteers Needed

A forest was planted at Dacre Cottage last month in a massive effort by volunteers.Thousands of native plants have already gone in over the last five years, and this planting on May 26 and 27 completed a natural break between the future development on the Weiti Station and the wilderness setting of the Dacre Cottage, beach and reserve. Dacre Cottage Management Committee chair Peter Townend says more than 60 volunteers planted around 2200 plants supplied by Auckland Council, and another 800 will go in over the next few weeks.Volunteers included a contingent of students and teachers from Dilworth College who travelled from their rural campus south of the Bombays and

Two environmental organisations are short of volunteers to monitor pest traps and help with bush maintenance. y The Shakespear Open Sanctuary Society is looking for volunteers to monitor traps and tracking tunnels at Shakespear Regional Park. Volunteers are given a line of traps and tunnels to monitor and full

training is provided. Info: ph Bruce Harrison on 424 8913.

y Hibiscus Coast Forest & Bird has urgent need of trappers for Matakatia Scenic Bush reserve, as well as weed busters for Crocodile Island in Orewa Estuary and at the Silverdale & Districts RSA bush lot. Info: Philip Wrigley, 427 8996.

Volunteers spent a day planting at Dacre Cottage, fuelled by a barbecue lunch.

Volunteers plant a forest at Dacre Cottage

planted until dark. They then jogged back from the cottage to Okura and took a bus home.

Peter says the planting was aided by the Property Manager for Weiti Forrest who provided a vehicle and trailer.

Hibiscus Coast Forest & Bird volunteers Philip Wrigley and Kath Rhodes are pictured about to walk across Orewa Estuary to weed Crocodile Island.

Trapping skills are in demand

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214E HBC Highway, Orewa (Behind iSite on Western Reserve)

Phone 426 3598 • Fax 426 3618Em: hbccommunityhouse@xtra.co.nz www.hbccommunityhouse.org.nz

Community Shop • FoodbankAfter School Care • Holiday

Programmes • Car Seat RentalHall Hire • Meetings/courses

HIBISCUS COAST COMMUNITY HOUSE

HELP US HELP OUR COMMUNITY

SHOP HOURS:Mon–Fri 9.30am – 3.30pm

Saturday 9am – 12pm

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Phone 426 3598

Everyone needs a friend to talk to.

St John Caring Caller is just a phone call away. A friendly phone call with someone who cares can make such a difference to your day.

St John Caring Caller is a free telephone friendship service that connects you to someone with similar interests who’ll call you regularly for a chat.

You too can enjoy the true friendship that a St John Caring Caller can offer you.

For more information call 0800 ST JOHN (0800 785 646) or visit www.stjohn.org.nz

Join us for Church on Fridays 6.30pm @ Kids RepublicKarepiro Drive, Whangaparaoa

We think outside the box

Long or short term hire *free bolt install (*conditions apply)

We can check if your car seat is installed correctly

HBC Community House

CAR SEAT REnTAl

Trained technicianPhone Tessa 426 3598

Carseat Restraint Clinic

14 June 9am -1pm

Sixteen years ago Whangaparaoa resident Joan Child joined St John as a Caring Caller, making her one of the earliest members of the service, which last month celebrated its 16th birthday.Joan was looking for a community programme she could support and has gone on to become team leader for the service on the Hibiscus Coast. She also does voluntary worth with SeniorNet. “I saw an ad for the service and thought it might be for me – obviously it was,” Joan says.St John’s Caring Caller is a national programme that provides a free telephone friendship service through trained volunteers, for anyone who needs it. The service is organised regionally, matching clients with caring callers who make regular calls to support them.“I enjoy being able to help people, and because our contact is only by phone, you don’t need to go anywhere to do it. We never meet our clients, and we don’t know their surnames – for a lot of elderly people this is a nice gentle way of connecting with someone,” she says.Joan says while calls may include a friendly reminder to take prescription medicine, mostly it involves chatting about whatever interests the client.

On the line in times of need

“Over the years I’ve made great friendships with so many different people. Most are elderly who live on their own, and may not have family nearby.”Joan says being a St John Caring Caller means providing support to a client, but this does not include giving advice.“Often our clients will share troubles they’re having with family members or issues they need to make a decision on. We support them to make the best decision for themselves without offering advice, and work closely with Age Concern in this respect,” says Joan.Info: phone John Eadie, 09 526 0527 ext 8902. St John Appeal Week runs from June 18-24.

Joan Child

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We can collect your larger items, call us for a pick-upOpen Mon–Fri 9.30am - 4.30pm, Sat 9.30am - 2pm

We urgently require quality: Housewares Furniture • Clothing • Toys & Bric-a-brac now

Located at 26 Karepiro Drive, Whangaparaoa (next to Mitre 10)Phone 424 2153

The Salvation Army Family Store

A fundraising event for

This event and many others, ours shops and our ancillary services all rely on the time and energy given so generously by our volunteers.

Hibiscus Hospice is extremely grateful to and would like to acknowledge, all of our volunteers during Volunteer Awareness Week.

Cocktail to formal attire - Masks not mandatory$125 per person or $100 per person

for table of ten. Tickets available from www.hibiscushospice.org.nz

or phone 09 421 9180

From left, Paul Evans (rear, centre) with members of J4 Gold team. Tania Cargo (rear, centre) is instrumental in up-skilling netball umpires and players.

Good sports support clubsLike many parents, Paul Evans began his involvement with a sports club on the sidelines, supporting his sons as they played rugby.Silverdale Rugby Club, however, had plans for the self-employed businessman, encouraging him to become manager of one of its junior teams, which lead, a few years later, to a role as director of junior rugby.It’s a multi-faceted role that Paul relishes and devotes around 20 hours per week to as a volunteer. He says owning his own local business gives him the flexibility to put time into the club, which is his way of putting something back into the community.As well as overseeing 33 teams (560 young players) in areas such as team selection, finding coaches and organising the smooth running behind the scenes, Paul and the committee introduced development squads, which saw skill levels and results at junior level rise dramatically. This year he instigated leadership courses that were held recently at Northern Arena and saw 30 boys tap into their leadership potential.His rewards come, he says, when he sees the club’s fields packed with kids having fun, playing with their mates and keeping fit.“I remember when I was a young guy, a lot of people put time and effort into us. It’s everyone’s duty to put something back. And seeing all those kids playing is very satisfying.”

After more than 20 years in the sport, Tania Cargo of Red Beach cannot imagine her life without netball.Her love of the game which she played for many years as a “small but fast Goal Defence” has seen her make an enormous voluntary contribution to local players including spending 22 years as a coach.Nine years ago she coached a Silverdale Premiere team all the way to the North Harbour Premiere league – the first time a Coast team had reached that level.She has been on the Hibiscus Coast Netball Centre’s committee for 10 years and is currently vice president and umpire coordinator as well as coaching three Red Beach School teams, Wentworth College’s number one team and an adult premiere team. The winter season finds her juggling her job as a clinical psychologist at Manukau District Health Board with a full day each week of coaching. She also spends every Saturday at the courts in Edith Hopper Park in Manly, overseeing and coordinating umpires.A system of mentoring young umpires and making a small donation to them for their work, which she instigated, has seen Hibiscus Coast Netball go from struggling to find qualified umpires to having plenty to go around.“It’s satisfying seeing young umpires grow in confidence as their skills improve. I do miss playing, but helping others is an awesome feeling.”

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