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The Brockville Community Development Project (BCDP) Office is in the Brockville Community Church. Contact details: 4764972 (Office), 02102018864, <[email protected]> web-site: www.brockville.co.nz/ Facebook page: Brockville Neighbourhood Dunedin
Brockville Community
Newsletter ISSUE NUMBER 25
Mauri ora, Greetings, Tālofa, Mālo
e lelei, Bula vinaka, Nihāo,
Namaste, Fakalofa lāhi atu, Tālofa
lava, Kia orana, Hola! Marhaba,
Gütten Tag, Assalam Alaikum
SPECIAL THANKS TO MARLENE
and Family for the use of Your lap-
top computer! THANKS HEAPS
too to Paulette, Ronnie and An-
drew Marlene for Your contribu-
tions to this issue.
KIA ORA to Marina, Mary, Jas-
mine, Fiona, Marlene, Salaevalu,
Paulette, Ronnie for Your Awe-
some voluntary work on the
news-letter and the BCDP web-site.
In this Issue, #25
Page 1 The Burning Question
by Andrew Scott
Page 2 Steady As You Go classes
Page 3 Pull-out Calendar (a) Brockville’s
February Dates
Page 4 Pull-out (b) Summer Happenin’s
and Up-coming Events
Page 5 What has BEST been up to?
Page 5 Paws Awhile with Shakira
by Paulette Boyes
Page 5 Newsletter Publications’
Schedule: Feb. to May, 2014
Page 6 Summer’s Happenin’s
The Burning Question
Many of you will have noticed a huge pile of logs dumped on the
lawn outside Brockville Community Church a couple of weeks back. The logs slowly disappeared to be replaced by a large stack of split wood that itself disappeared. And then this week another
pile will appear – and another pile is still to come! ‘What’s going
on?’ you may ask.
We have been given an opportunity to raise some funds for
our community food bank. In particular,
we need to pay for the electrical work of installing a large
2.4m2 chiller for storing the fresh
produce delivered to us for distribution in
our community every week. Costs for the chiller, installation
and initial running come to around $4,800. While $3,500 has been donated by the West Dunedin Youth and Community Trust,
we have had to find the rest ~
hence the firewood.
Any money we make over and
above this amount will go into the fund we are putting toward
a purpose-built commercial grade kitchen. This will open up
possibilities for community events, cooking classes and so much
more. I would love to see the work on the kitchen underway by June although
I suspect I am being more than a little
hopeful as we still need to
raise $15,000 of a total $40,000. So the wood arrived, rather more than we had really been expecting, and then the community arrived. It has
been an amazing and humbling experience seeing people simply
appear and start working.
Continued on Back Page
FRIDAY 07 FEB., 2014 The Burning Question
Continued from Page 1
I have met several people for the first time,
had conversations with people I have only
ever seen in the distance, and had a great
time just getting to know people.
On the first Saturday, we had nearly thirty
people on site, including children seated at a
distance for safety’s sake. Over the course
of the project, so far I can count more than
forty people turning up to help in one way or
another, from wielding a chainsaw to swing-
ing an axe to operating a log-splitter to
stacking the wood, picking up the wood
shavings, delivering the wood, manning the
BBQ, looking after the children and making
the all-important tea and coffee. What a
buzz! And thank you so much for all your
support and encouragement.
We have had requests for over 225m3 of
wood and unfortunately we are going to
have to disappoint some people because we
simply cannot cope with the work-load. It
would be nice to be able to continue but it is
simply not practical. In the meantime, we are
having fun working together as a community.
The Burning Question
Continued from Page 1
Summer School ~ January 10th-25th
Pictured above are Bethany Williams and Aileen Campbell, and Shavaughn Keelan
working with Mark Hogg.
B.E.S.T. Working Bee ~ Saturday January 25th
Pictured above (from left) are Dot White, Ronnie Weir and Sue Morey. Rosalie Feleti-Ivala is in the far distance in the
background.
SUMMER HAPPENIN’S continued from Page 4
Inaugural Summer School
Greetings for the 2014New
Year WELCOME TO THIS, our
first issue for 2014. (A publica-
tion schedule for Feb. to May
can be found on Page 4’s pull-
out.)
Happy
Chinese New Year The Year of
the Green Wood Horse began
last Friday. Next year (Sheep)
begins on Feb. 19th, 2015.
The Brockville Community Development Project (BCDP) Office is in the Brockville Community Church. Contact details: 4764972 (Office), 02102018864, <[email protected]> web-site: www.brockville.co.nz/ Facebook page: Brockville Neighbourhood Dunedin
DESK-TOP COMPUTER PRIZE DRAW #03
The Brockville Radio & Publications’ Collective thanks everyone who responded to our
survey /third and final prize draw (via Issue #24). We congratulate MRS COBURN,
winner of the third desk-top computer.
Thank you so much for your interest. We do hope we will be able to run similar prize
draws later on, in 2014.
STEADY AS YOU GO ~ STRENGTH & BALANCE EXERCISES
Steady As You Go© is a unique Otago-developed community-based falls
prevention programme. Peer leaders and a central co-ordinator run the
programme. Sixty minute classes are held each week for 65+ year olds
in a variety of venues throughout Dunedin and in rural Otago in Waitati,
Milton, Kaitangata, Balclutha, Clinton, Lawrence, Roxburgh, Alexandra,
Clyde and Cromwell.
The gentle exercises used in the programme are based on those
proven to reduce falls ~ developed by Professor John Campbell and
Dr Clare Robertson from the University of Otago.
The exercises are designed to improve balance, leg strength, general
fitness and well-being. Participants warm up in a chair, followed by
standing exercises, walking exercises . Warm downs are done again
in a chair.
A range of light ankle weights is used for the leg strengthening exer-
cises and all participants are encouraged to work at their own pace
and stop if they feel dizzy or light-headed.
Three simple strength and balance tests are carried out on week one
and week ten of the programme.
Steady As You Go© has been evaluated by University of Otago
researchers. They found the classes were fun and provided links with
other people in the neighbourhood, improved physical function. As well,
participants showed a reduced falls risk. Instructors and peer leaders
have been trained by the School of Physiotherapy.
WHAT HAS B.E.S.T. BEEN UP TO?
As you will know, the Brockville Ecological Sustainability Team
continues to have responsibility for the new Community Orchard and
Haapori Maara Kai (Community Garden). Also, in the last issue (#24)
Turnbull Street residents Ronnie and Helen were explaining their
plans for a Hen-house/Green-house project. They had collected
bricks, window glass panes and other recycled materials and last
week the actual building of this project began.
Helen and Ronnie have been ably supported by Gaz, Kevin and Martin. As the photos indicate, the foundation is done. Ronnie and Helen are hoping for the good weather to continue! Thanks to Leon for the donated corner bricks.
Paws Awhile with Shakira
Cats are the ultimate entertainers. They can put on a
goofy show with a piece of string, a plastic bag or thin
air. But what’s really going on when a cat stares at a
wall, at an object or somewhere in space for extended
periods of time? Cats gaze for many reasons.
They could be watching your every move especially if
you have food on a bench or table, willing a mere
morsel to fall magically down into their waiting grasp.
Then there are the ultimate hunters – any toy, bug or
bird is fair game. Invisible windows would be very
handy here! Watching cats following golf, snooker or
pool games on TV is entertaining, too. Oh, and did I
mention be careful of your uncovered toes that
“accidentally” get in the way of their claws? That can
be a bit painful!
When cats are staring straight
ahead ‘though, transfixed on
what appears to be nothing,
are they meditating at a high-
er level of “kitty conscious-
ness”? They have exceptional
hearing at 45-64,000hz
whereas a human hears
between 64-23,000hz. Because a cat’s eyesight is
designed for detecting the slightest movement, your
particular feline often hears or sees things you may
not. Or, perhaps your moggie has been bingeing on her
or his Christmas catnip toy and is in another zone! If
she or he is looking straight through your feline could
be trying to unnerve you to make you move to another
seat… Shakira
STEADY AS YOU GO CLASSES
Classes for 65+ year olds are held weekly on a WEDNESDAY from 11am until Noon.
Venue: Brockville Community Church Hall, 274 Brockville Road
Cost: $2 per session
NEW MEMBERS WELCOME
Please phone 4763930 for more information.
WHAT HAS B.E.S.T.
BEEN UP TO?
HMK Working Bee,