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Edition #19<br />
may <strong>2016</strong><br />
<strong>275</strong> times<br />
<strong>275</strong><br />
Māngere’s<br />
times<br />
Our stories, our people, our Māngere<br />
Kōrero paki ō tatou, Tāngata ō tatou, Ngā Hau Māngere ō tatou<br />
Free!<br />
LIVING TO SERVE EARNS HONOUR<br />
The tragic loss of a childhood know how significant this will be.”<br />
friend inspired Emeline Afeaki- Ms Afeaki-Mafile’o grew up in Māngere,<br />
Mafile’o to give her life to serving attending schools such as Favona<br />
others. And it has now led to Primary and McAuley High and her<br />
childhood friends included Jonah<br />
the unexpected honour of being<br />
Lomu. But it was the death of<br />
inducted into the New Zealand<br />
her closest friend Susan Fariu that she<br />
Order of Merit.<br />
describes as one of the most defining<br />
Ms Afeaki-Mafile’o accepted her<br />
moments of her life.<br />
award in a special ceremony at the<br />
Following her friend’s death from<br />
Governor’s General House on April 28<br />
cancer she decided to go into social<br />
accompanied by close family.<br />
work and this led her to leave South<br />
She says the news came as a huge<br />
Auckland for the first time and move<br />
surprise.<br />
to Albany.<br />
“I’m both honoured and frightened<br />
“My parents were really upset about it<br />
at the same time. The expectations<br />
as they didn’t want me to leave home<br />
that come with it are what make it<br />
INSPIRED: Emeline Afiaki-Mafile'o, NZOM frightening and I probably still don’t CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO...<br />
The voice of MĀngere's future<br />
My name is Paul Lesoa, aged 15,<br />
and a proud student of Māngere<br />
College. A lot of outsiders who<br />
are not from South Auckland look<br />
down on where we come from –<br />
Māngere <strong>275</strong>.<br />
Māngere is where most of us Islanders<br />
live. Māngere is home and I know a<br />
lot of people are afraid to tell people<br />
that they come from Māngere. Looking<br />
from the outside in people label us as<br />
the Compton of Auckland. There are<br />
people who may call us ‘overstayers’.<br />
Well, if I'm that, then I'm going to<br />
overstay and change this country<br />
for the better. I'm going to change<br />
Māngere’s reputation to a good one.<br />
I'm going to try my best to inspire<br />
other kids my age, younger and older,<br />
to dream big.<br />
The schools in Māngere may not<br />
have the flashest facilities or have the<br />
Paul Lesoa<br />
luxuries that other schools have but<br />
we have a bond, we can relate to each<br />
other, we all have a common goal and<br />
that’s to make our parents proud.<br />
At Māngere College, last year’s NCEA<br />
results were the best results our school<br />
has ever had. We don't need the nicest<br />
resources if we have a big heart and<br />
a big dream. Any brown kid can make<br />
it big. We can be the next SBW, the<br />
next doctor, the next principal or even<br />
the next Prime Minister. We just need<br />
to believe. We need to realise we are<br />
more than just the brown statistic.<br />
Our school has produced school<br />
principals, police officers, barristers,<br />
nurses, doctors, sporting legends and<br />
music stars. They had to work hard<br />
to get where they are now so that<br />
inspires us to work hard and to believe.<br />
We can be the generation that gives<br />
Māngere a good reputation for the rest<br />
of Auckland. We can be the generation<br />
that breaks the stereotype.<br />
Paul Lesoa contacted us last<br />
month to share why he loves his<br />
community. Feel free to share<br />
why you love your community by<br />
emailing <strong>275</strong>times@gmail.com<br />
WHAT'S INSIDE: P3: Super-coach comes to town P4: Mr Lane retires P5: Get Legal P7: Sport
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LIVING TO SERVE EARNS HONOUR continued...<br />
but they supported me getting higher<br />
education. They drove me to Albany<br />
as I still couldn’t drive and I crossed<br />
the harbor bridge for the first time in<br />
my life.”<br />
Her studies led her to undertake<br />
a Master's degree and develop a<br />
mentoring scheme particularly<br />
aimed at helping young Pacific<br />
women. This scheme would soon<br />
evolve into what is now known<br />
as Affirming Works. Since 2001,<br />
without the support of her husband<br />
and their faith in God.<br />
“We just feel called to this piece of<br />
work and it’s just by faith that we step<br />
out. The key for us has been about<br />
doing those small things well. Doing<br />
the ordinary things right and I think by<br />
doing that, things fall into place.”<br />
Watching these young Pacific leaders<br />
come up is what excites me now.”<br />
Ms Afeaki-Mafile’o says her upbringing<br />
in Māngere has given her a unique<br />
perspective on the world to help her<br />
achieve big things.<br />
“It’s all about Māngere. I think it’s the<br />
richness and diversity of the people<br />
here that has prepared me so well<br />
and it’s basically helped me feel<br />
confident in being brown.”<br />
So what's next for Ms Afeaki-<br />
Affirming Works has supported<br />
more than 5,000 youth and<br />
children and provided training<br />
and employment to more than<br />
100 youth workers.<br />
But Ms Afeaki-Mafile’o has<br />
morphed from social worker into<br />
social entrepreneur as she and her<br />
husband have gone on to run two<br />
cafes, a consultancy business and a<br />
coffee plantation in Tonga.<br />
In 2006 she was awarded the Sir Peter<br />
Blake Emerging Leader Award, and in<br />
2013 she was awarded the Westpac<br />
Woman of influence for Community<br />
and Social Enterprise.<br />
The mother of three says she couldn’t<br />
have undertaken all these projects<br />
“It’s all about<br />
Māngere.<br />
I think it’s the richness<br />
and diversity of the<br />
people here that has<br />
prepared me so well..."<br />
She says all the proceeds from their<br />
business enterprises are reinvested<br />
into the support services for young<br />
people as that remains her greatest<br />
passion.<br />
“We’re focused on trying to grow the<br />
next generation of leaders by creating<br />
opportunities for our youth to use<br />
their giftedness.<br />
Mafile’o and her team?<br />
"We've run this conference<br />
for the last three years called<br />
"Young, Free and Pasifika" - it's<br />
for young women to explore<br />
their culture, identity and to<br />
empower their communities." She<br />
says attendees are hand-picked<br />
from around secondary schools in<br />
Auckland and this year it will be held<br />
on <strong>May</strong> 27 at the Māngere Arts Centre.<br />
To find out more check out the<br />
YouTube clip from last's year<br />
event: https://www.youtube.com/<br />
watch?v=TPmSozuYd24<br />
Or visit https://www.facebook.com/<br />
affirmingworksltd/ for more info.<br />
<strong>275</strong> times<br />
<strong>275</strong><br />
Māngere’s<br />
times<br />
Words: Justin Latif<br />
Design: Jo Latif<br />
Publisher: ME Family Services<br />
We are currently reaching around 15,000<br />
people via Facebook, Twitter and our hard<br />
copies magazines which are distributed to<br />
over 100 pick up sites around Māngere, Māngere<br />
East, Māngere Bridge and the Airport District. If<br />
you would like to promote your business AND<br />
support this community initiative please email<br />
us and we'll send you more info.<br />
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what we're about<br />
There are so many great things going on in Māngere<br />
but unfortunately we don’t hear about them or these<br />
positive events get overlooked.<br />
Therefore, with the help of ME Family Services, we<br />
have set up this local media initiative to provide a<br />
platform for sharing the positive stories of Māngere,<br />
celebrating successes and also bringing to light things<br />
that matter in the community.<br />
This is a social enterprise aimed at enriching this<br />
community through informing and entertaining<br />
anyone who workds, lives or plays in Māngere.<br />
If you're unsure why the '<strong>275</strong>' - it refers to the <strong>275</strong><br />
telephone prefix than many used to have and it<br />
also has become the unofficial nickname of this<br />
community.<br />
Please don't hesitate to send us any feedback or ideas for stories.<br />
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Contact: Tuhin Choudhury<br />
Unit 7/17 Airpark Drive
Football super-coach comes to Māngere<br />
3<br />
If you know anything about<br />
football in New Zealand, then<br />
you know Kevin Fallon.<br />
His name has been synomous with<br />
footballing titles, success and awards<br />
ever since he arrived in the country<br />
from the north of England in the<br />
1970s. He was assistant coach to the<br />
All Whites on their miraculous run to<br />
the 1982 FIFA World Cup. He's also<br />
coached Gisborne United, Hamilton<br />
AFC, Central United, the U17 All Whites,<br />
the Football Kingz as well as guiding<br />
Mt Albert Grammar to seven national<br />
titles. And now the heralded football<br />
coach is coaching the top team at<br />
Māngere’s very own Manukau City<br />
Association Football Club.<br />
Fallon admits himself that the move<br />
south wasn’t one he’d have predicted.<br />
"I was basically retired and getting a bit<br />
bored and to a lot of people, coming to<br />
Māngere was a bit of a strange move.<br />
"But it’s got some things that a lot of<br />
clubs don’t have. And as soon as I got<br />
back I felt good to be back in it."<br />
Fallon says he’s been in and around<br />
professional teams since he was 15<br />
and is relishing the chance to help<br />
foster a new crop of talent to reach<br />
their potential.<br />
“I set off in football in 1964 and I’ve<br />
had football in my head ever since.”<br />
And Fallon says the club has the right<br />
ingredients for success.<br />
“The lights are excellent and training<br />
fields are good and the main field is<br />
It’s her genuine love for people<br />
and an unexpected life change<br />
that drew Karen back into real<br />
estate in 2013.<br />
Being born and bred in South Auckland<br />
it was a natural choice to make Māngere<br />
Bridge home, especially near the ever<br />
changing Manukau Harbour she has<br />
always loved so much.<br />
Karen Grant-McKenzie doesn't do things<br />
by halves and a quick chat with her<br />
about career and personal life to date<br />
is evidence of her love to live life TO<br />
the full. Business ownership, Respite<br />
Care provider, Property Stylist, Post War<br />
(Croatia) Drug Rehabilitation Manager<br />
and missionary, not to mention artist<br />
and recently, wing walking on a flying<br />
plane, Karen has a few stories she could<br />
tell.<br />
Previously working as a counsellor,<br />
To see a video of the full interview search:<br />
'Māngere's <strong>275</strong> <strong>Times</strong>' on YouTube.com<br />
FRESH START: Kevin Fallon's arrival at MCAFC has already made a difference.<br />
good –so if you’ve got good facilities -<br />
the rest you can build on.”<br />
And he sees great potential to grow<br />
football in the area.<br />
“Like any area, it has a lot of kids who<br />
have the skills we can work with. And<br />
this is basically an area of football<br />
people. Whether they’ve come from<br />
the Phillipines, Fiji, South America or<br />
Africa. Our team is like a league of<br />
nations. This area and club will get<br />
stronger and stronger as it’s basically<br />
football people.”<br />
The club's senior team captain<br />
Hone Fowler says Fallon has had an<br />
immediate impact on the club.<br />
mostly in South Auckland high schools,<br />
Karen’s return to real estate combines<br />
her love of people, property and styling.<br />
Last year, the founder of Mangere<br />
Bridge Realty Limited, which is a<br />
boutique stand alone agency where<br />
Karen was working, was planning<br />
retirement. When she offered Karen the<br />
opportunity to buy the company she<br />
jumped at it! Since taking ownership<br />
of the business six months ago, Karen<br />
gets great satisfaction supporting the<br />
community as they buy and sell homes<br />
and ensures confidence and care during<br />
the process, with shared excitement<br />
about the results. She explains, “It<br />
is so neat being a part of this vibrant<br />
village community and because it is a<br />
small community, confidentiality is most<br />
critical along with ethical practice. I have<br />
made so many great friendships already<br />
through my work and my life here.”<br />
“He’s brought a new level of<br />
experience and knowledge from<br />
coaching at highest levels of the<br />
game."<br />
And Fowler hopes Fallon can also help<br />
establish a South Auckland Football<br />
Academy.<br />
“The dream is to change the mentality<br />
around football in our Pasifika<br />
community. Half of the All Whites<br />
team are of Polynesian descent so the<br />
outcome of this initiative could widen<br />
the pool of players for NZ and all the<br />
Island nations to choose from."<br />
Visit http://www.manukaucityafc.<br />
com/ for more information.<br />
Advertorial<br />
Helping local people buy local homes<br />
Property Insight Evenings.<br />
On Thursday evenings 6-7pm at St<br />
James - Church St, Māngere Village.<br />
Hear from guest speakers on topics<br />
such as subdividing and building<br />
minor dwellings, getting appraisals<br />
and valuations for insurance,<br />
mortgages and finance, and info<br />
about the upcoming Proposed<br />
Unitary Plan. Email karen@<br />
mangerebridgerealty.co.nz to<br />
express interest, all welcome.
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Get started on a new career in the trades<br />
With projects such as the<br />
development at Auckland<br />
Airport, new housing areas, and<br />
public transport infrastructure<br />
– the opportunities for qualified<br />
tradespeople has never been<br />
better.<br />
The Southern Initiative’s Māori and<br />
Pasifika Trades (MPTT) training<br />
programme offers free trades training<br />
for Māori and Pasifika men and<br />
women 16-40 years old.<br />
“There is massive development in<br />
construction and infrastructure across<br />
Auckland so the work is there - our<br />
job is train people to have the skills<br />
needed and to be work-ready,” says<br />
recruitment coordinator Dale Williams.<br />
“If you are a school leaver with limited<br />
qualifications, a mum or dad looking<br />
to go back in to the workforce or in a<br />
job with limited security, we want to<br />
hear from you.”<br />
Having a great attitude and desire to<br />
learn is all you need to get started.<br />
Improving employment prospects<br />
and earning capacity of local workers<br />
Mr Lane bids farewell<br />
to Māngere College<br />
is a key driver towards creating<br />
transformational social and economic<br />
change for South Auckland.<br />
Skilled tradespeople can make good<br />
money and some eventually go on to<br />
own their own business.<br />
MPTT provides a pathway to an<br />
exciting career, help with getting a<br />
drivers’ licence trainees can get help<br />
to get their drivers’ licence and<br />
mentoring during and after their<br />
course.<br />
Three of MPTT’s training providers,<br />
Skills Update Training Institute, Te<br />
Wānanga o Aotearoa and Tai Poutini<br />
Polytechnic, have bases in Māngere.<br />
If this sounds like you, call 0800<br />
0800 874 678 (TSIMPTT) or go to<br />
www.mptt.co.nz or Facebook MPTT:<br />
Māori and Pasifika Training.<br />
After 19 and half years at Māngere College, and 42 years,<br />
7 months and 13 days (not that he's counting) in teaching,<br />
Jerry Lane is hanging up his teacher's whiteboard marker.<br />
The Deputy Principal says the main highlights of his time at<br />
the college have been interacting with the students and the<br />
end of year prizegivings. His one regret is seeing students who<br />
don't reach their potential. But a great source of pride has been<br />
seeing how much the school's NCEA grades have gone up<br />
and he puts that down to the teachers working to improve the<br />
students' study habits. His parting message to the community<br />
is: "Māngere College is a good school - safe, happy and you<br />
should send your kids here."
Sutton Park School strives<br />
to help community<br />
Get<br />
Legal<br />
5<br />
Sutton Park School senior management, the school public health<br />
nurse, the Health Promoting Facilitator for schools and the Social<br />
Worker in Schools Heidi Lomiwes (pictured far right) are currently<br />
planning Sutton Park’s first ever community expo. They will be inviting<br />
doctors, youth workers, early childhood centres, police and anyone else that<br />
offers support to this community to have a stall where they can promote their<br />
services or give out information that is relevant to the issues facing our people.<br />
The expo is set for Wednesday, <strong>May</strong> 11 from 3.30pm-6.30pm. For more<br />
information about being a stall holder email: heidi@mefsc.org.nz<br />
Sutton Park school students, families and the community filled a<br />
container bound for Teidamu Primary School in Fiji. The container was<br />
filled on site at the school. Students and teachers were involved in the process<br />
of collecting, sorting, cataloguing and packing the container with items like<br />
desks, chairs, clothes, food and sports equipment. The school wants to thank<br />
everybody who partnered with us, especially our generous parents and Blue<br />
Scope Pacific Steel for sponsoring the container.<br />
Here's the latest column from<br />
the Māngere Community Law<br />
Centre. This month the focus is<br />
on the Disputes Tribunal.<br />
Have you had a car crash and the guy<br />
at fault is refusing to pay for repairs?<br />
<strong>May</strong>be your plumber did a shoddy<br />
job on fixing the tap and you’ve had<br />
to pay for someone else do it? Or<br />
maybe you can't decide who should<br />
pay for the fence repairs. Disputes<br />
in life are inevitable but how do we<br />
resolve it when it costs too much to<br />
hire a lawyer. That’s where the Disputes<br />
Tribunal comes in. The Disputes<br />
Tribunal (formerly known as the Small<br />
Claims court) is the place to go for any<br />
financial disagreements under $15,000.<br />
Fees range from $45 to $180 and allow<br />
you to put your side of the story to an<br />
impartial referee who can adjudicate<br />
on your dispute and order someone<br />
to pay up if necessary. One good thing<br />
about the Disputes Tribunal is you<br />
don’t need a lawyer and it’s a relatively<br />
quick process to get your matter heard.<br />
At the Māngere Community Law<br />
Centre we advise many clients to use<br />
this avenue and people find it a really<br />
worthwhile course of action when<br />
they’re faced with a sticky situation.<br />
The key to a successful claim is to<br />
make sure you have evidence to back<br />
up your side of the story. This could<br />
include video evidence, receipts,<br />
contracts or eye witness accounts.<br />
But whatever the situation is, make<br />
sure you can back your story up. One<br />
last aspect you need to know about<br />
the Disputes Tribunal is that it's not<br />
the place to get your undisputed debts<br />
recovered, have your tenancy issues<br />
sorted or clear up a disputed will or<br />
estate.<br />
For more information visit us<br />
or check out www.justice.govt.<br />
nz. The Māngere Community<br />
Law Centre has been serving<br />
the unmet legal needs of the<br />
community since 1986. If you’d<br />
like to make an appointment to<br />
see a lawyer call <strong>275</strong>-4310.
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Te Ara Mua<br />
Future Streets<br />
Work is underway on an exciting project to make the streets around<br />
Mā ngere Central safer and easier for people to travel around, especially by<br />
walking and cycling.<br />
Project area overview<br />
Town Centre Carpark<br />
Mascot Avenue<br />
Mascot Avenue<br />
• Wayfinding installations<br />
• Improved pedestrian and<br />
cycle facilities<br />
• Dedicated cycle lanes<br />
• Planting and street tree<br />
improvements<br />
Community Trail<br />
• High amenity shared path<br />
• Wayfinding installations<br />
• Reserve improvements<br />
including planting and<br />
lighting<br />
• Fitness equipment<br />
Massey Road<br />
Massey Road<br />
Community Trail<br />
Town Centre Carpark<br />
• Wayfinding installations<br />
• Improved pedestrian<br />
linkages to Town Centre<br />
• Cultural features<br />
including pou<br />
Massey Road<br />
• Intersection<br />
improvements<br />
Construction Timeline<br />
SECTION 1<br />
Waddon Place to Mascot Avenue<br />
shared path construction<br />
SECTION 2<br />
Mascot Avenue shared path<br />
construction<br />
SECTION 3<br />
Māngere Town Centre<br />
walkway works<br />
<strong>2016</strong><br />
Mid March – June<br />
<strong>2016</strong><br />
March – June<br />
<strong>2016</strong><br />
April – June<br />
How will it look?<br />
Artist impression of Mascot Avenue and Town Centre Carpark once works have been completed<br />
J001200 Future Streets Ad_V4_KH_19.04.16<br />
2m wide shared path<br />
Wayfinding<br />
dots mark<br />
community<br />
trail<br />
Dedicated<br />
cyclelanes<br />
for improved<br />
safety<br />
Planting and street<br />
tree improvements<br />
Mascot Avenue<br />
Town Centre<br />
Ten marker posts identify and<br />
locate maunga in Māngere<br />
Emphasise pedestrian connection<br />
from reserve to mall with raised<br />
tables, widened footpath and<br />
planting<br />
Wayfinding signage<br />
shows significant sites,<br />
marae and education<br />
facilities in Māngere<br />
Dedicated<br />
pedestrian and<br />
cycle priority zones<br />
through carpark<br />
For more information visit www.AT.govt.nz/projects-roadworks/te-ara-mua-future-streets
Volleyball team a national success<br />
SPIKE THE HEIGHTS: The team are Auckland champions and 3rd in NZ.<br />
Māngere College's Premier Girls<br />
Volleyball team have taken on the<br />
best in New Zealand and fallen<br />
just short of taking out the title.<br />
The girls went to Palmerston North<br />
recently for the National Volleyball<br />
tournament and finished a heartbreaking<br />
third.<br />
They qualified for the event after<br />
winning their first Auckland champs.<br />
"We cruised through the Auckland<br />
comp to be honest," says Akanesi<br />
Funaki. Māngere College qualified for<br />
the Auckland championship event by<br />
finishing in the top 8 during the regular<br />
season Premier competition that runs<br />
during the year.<br />
Big things on the horizon for Takaji<br />
Takaji Young Yen is a young<br />
man on mission - whether<br />
it's on the rugby field, in the<br />
classroom, or with his church -<br />
he's going places.<br />
The Year 13 Kings College student is<br />
currently in his school’s first XV and if<br />
he repeats his 2015 form he should be<br />
a good chance for a repeat selection to<br />
the Blues Under 18 development squad<br />
and NZ Secondary Schools squad.<br />
But what makes his rise up the rugby<br />
rankings even more remarkable is that<br />
he’s only been playing rugby seriously<br />
since he was 14.<br />
Takaji was born and raised in Māngere<br />
and after initially taking up basketball,<br />
he found his feet as a prop at Year 10<br />
for Kings College.<br />
“I just love the game - whether<br />
it’s watching or playing,” he says.<br />
“But fitness training is not really my<br />
favourite part.”<br />
He says the school has given him a<br />
great platform to develop his rugby<br />
and career aspirations.<br />
“I’m looking to get into Commerce so<br />
hopefully my study goes well. It’s hard<br />
juggling the studies and the training.<br />
GOING PLACES: Takaji Young Yen is aiming high with his rugby and schooling.<br />
"But at the end of the day all the hard<br />
work will pay off. “<br />
He’s also proud of his local community.<br />
“A lot of the boys [in the Kings first XV]<br />
are also from Māngere. I love the area.<br />
There’s a lot good places here to do<br />
training or just to relax.”<br />
Takaji says it’s not uncommon to get a<br />
couple of thousand people coming to<br />
watch the Kings College team play and<br />
The girls say going to the Nationals<br />
was a lot of fun but the build-up to it<br />
was tough.<br />
"We learnt about hard work. We had to<br />
sacrifice things like Polyfest and family<br />
stuff like birthdays but at the end of the<br />
day it was worth it," says Jane Tipoki.<br />
The team lost a five-set nail biter to<br />
Tauranga Girls High in the semi-finals<br />
and then easily beat Marlborough Girls<br />
College in the 3rd and 4th play-off<br />
despite having lost to them earlier in<br />
the tournament.<br />
Jane says their success surprised many<br />
but not them.<br />
"Coming from a school where<br />
everyone looks down on you but then<br />
to prove everyone wrong [by winning<br />
the Auckland champs and then<br />
finish third in the nationals] is pretty<br />
overwhelming."<br />
Māngere College Premier Girls<br />
Volleyball squad: Jane Tipoki, Rosita<br />
Sauni, Akanesi Funaki, Uamiata Salai<br />
Keni, Victoria Tilo, Jennice Ioramo,<br />
Madison Oa, Ana Salaikeni, Kiara<br />
Tufuga, Sela Filisione, Siata Ah Chong,<br />
Sarah Ah Chong, Mary Vaafai, Ruta<br />
Urika. Coach and manager: Nancy<br />
Palelei, Mr Stevens.<br />
they are hoping to repay their loyal<br />
supporters with a title this year.<br />
"At times it can be overwhelming<br />
[the big crowds] but once the whistle<br />
blows, you don’t really notice the<br />
cheering and you’re more focused on<br />
the game. We lost in the 1A semi-final<br />
to Grammar last year but the team this<br />
year is pretty strong so hopefully we<br />
can take it out [the title].”<br />
7
Community Notices<br />
MĀngere bike fit<br />
The Cycle Safe Awareness event will be taking place on Monday,<br />
June 6 Queens Birthday weekend at the Māngere Town Centre.<br />
Remember to also support Red Lunday de Waal, who is walking<br />
the Te Araroa Trail in aid of Teau Aiturau's Time To Thrive<br />
Charitable Trust & Māngere BikeFIT. Go to her Give-A-Little<br />
page to make a donation: https://www.givealittle.co.nz/cause/<br />
redwalks4time2thrive<br />
MĀNGERE FRIENDSHIP GROUP<br />
Communicare Māngere run a Friendship Centre in Māngere.<br />
They are a nonprofit multicultural organisation running a weekly<br />
group meeting in the Netball Centre in Court Town Close opposite<br />
the Town Centre. Guests enjoy morning tea, light exercise, craft<br />
activities then some bingo and a cooked lunch from 9.30-12.30<br />
for $6. Transport can also be arranged for those needing it. Their<br />
phone number is 09 631-5968 for further information.<br />
MĀNGERE ARTS CENTRE UPCOMING EVENTS<br />
Adrift, Opening <strong>May</strong> 6, 6pm. Collaborative works by Pacific People<br />
and Afghan former refugees. Exhibition will run until 4 June.<br />
The Great Adventure, <strong>May</strong> 12, 7pm, brought to you by Monica<br />
Moore Productions and Marcellin College. The <strong>May</strong> 12 event will be<br />
a Gala opening with special tickets that include drinks and nibbles<br />
from 6pm.<br />
MĀNGERE TOWN CENTRE LIBRARY<br />
Dance all around the world, <strong>May</strong> 9, 10.30am - 11.15am. Come<br />
along for a Wriggle and Rhyme session with home-grown NZ<br />
music. NZ Music Month KEWL Club performances, <strong>May</strong> 10, 4pm<br />
– 4.50pm. Enjoy some special performances from the OSCAR<br />
students from Moana-Nui-A-Kiwa.<br />
Sing-along storytime, <strong>May</strong>13, 10.30am - 11.15am. Come and join us<br />
as we learn some well-known Kiwi tales and tunes!<br />
PREPARE FOR WINTER - FREE INSULATION<br />
The Warm Up New Zealand Programme which provides free<br />
insulation in homes with a Community Services Card or Super Gold<br />
CSC is running out in June! Ring 0800 777 111 to find out more.<br />
NGA MANGA O MĀNGERE NETWORK MEETING<br />
A community network meeting for anyone working or living in<br />
Māngere, 10am, <strong>May</strong> 26 at Māngere Community Law Centre.<br />
Welding +<br />
Panel beating<br />
BUILDING<br />
AND<br />
CARPENTRY<br />
Employment Skills<br />
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 />
8<br />
New mural brightens up<br />
Robertson Rd School<br />
FREE LEARNERS<br />
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FOR 16-19YRS *<br />
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PROGRAMMES FOR<br />
20+ YEAR OLDS<br />
HANDS ON<br />
TRAINING<br />
Mural by Charles & Janine Williams<br />
World famous South Auckland artists, Charles and Janine<br />
Williams faciliated a workshop at Robertson Rd School,<br />
working with students and using research of the local area<br />
to come up with the mural callled 'Hikoi' (Journey).<br />
Some key components of the mural were the Torea (Pied<br />
Oyster Catcher), a local bird which they drew parallels to<br />
community life, search for knowledge and stewardship.<br />
The artists want to give a big thanks to Principal Wayne<br />
MacGillivray for inviting them into their school and for the<br />
support of the teachers.<br />
MANGERE<br />
(09) 257-5732<br />
59 TIDAL RD<br />
Conditions apply.