mahurangi matters, kowhai feature, 1 october 2014

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Kowhai Festival says “summer” in MahurangiThere will be music and entertainment all day long at the Kowhai Festival’s Huge Day Out on Saturday, October 11.From 10am onwards, the streets of downtown Warkworth will be filled with music, stalls, hot rods, vintage cars and well-dressed dogs vying for a ribbon in the Children’s Dog Show. The competition is sponsored by the Warkworth Vet Farm & Pet Clinic this year. Prizes will be awarded for the Waggiest Tail, Best Trick, Scruffiest Dog, Owner Look Alike, Best Costume, Smallest and Biggest Dog. Entry is by donation with all proceeds going to Julie’s Animal Shelter.The festival theme this year is The Fifties so visitors can expect to see rock ‘n’ roll demonstrations and some impressive hot rods.Among the entertainers will be the Tyler Brothers, Tom Sharplin and Sal Valentine and the Babyshakes.Appearing on the Baxter Street Stage will be The Kavelliers and Wellsford Rockers, George and his rock and roll band, Andy Richards, Lou Lou and Festus McBoyle and the pirates.As usual, children will be well catered for with plenty of fairground rides. The giant water slide is back for those who don’t mind getting a little wet. It

will again operate in Lucy Moore Park.A Garden Bar, which replaces the Wine and Food Festival, will be located a comfortable distance from the main stage, under the shade of Pohutukawa trees by the wharf. Patrons will be able to enjoy locally made beverages, including wine on tap from the Free Range Wine Co, a manuka-flavoured lager made specially for the festival and cider from the award winning Zeffer Cidery. Low and non-alcoholic refreshments will also be available.Justin and Cynthia Oliver, of the Free Range Wine Co, say they have had discussions with festival organisers

about expanding this area at future festivals to showcase high quality local food and beverage producers.Other festival events include the Warkworth Museum Open Day on October 5, The Troubles at the Matakana Hall on October 12, the Great Debate at Ascension Wine Estate on October 16, a screening of Grease at the Openair Cinema on Friday October 17, and ‘Colours of Rodney’ Rodney Arts Award Exhibition in the Old Masonic Hall, Warkworth, from October 17 to 19.

See www.kowhai festival.co.nz for more details and programme updates.

Your handy pull-out guideMahurangi Matters - October 1, 20148

ChuRCh nOtiCeS

Warkworth Anglican Parish Church Services

Phone 425 8054 or www.anglican-warkworth.org

Christ Church, Church Hill, Warkworth Every Sunday 8am and 9.30am

St. Leonard's, Matakana 1st and 3rd Sundays at 9.30am

Snells Beach Community Church 2nd Sunday at 9am

St.Alban's, Kaipara Flats 1st Sunday at 11.15am

St.Michael and All Angels, Leigh 3rd Sunday at 11.00am

CATHOLIC CHURCH

WARKWORTHHoly Name Church, 6 Alnwick Street

Saturday Vigil: 6.00pmSunday: 10.30am

Holy Mass Timetable:

Phone 425 8545

PUHOISS. Peter & Paul Church

Sunday: 8.30am

www.holyname.org.nz

Mahurangi Methodist Parish

Warkworth Methodist1 Hexham Street, WarkworthParish Office: Ph 425 8660Sunday Service 10.30am

Hall Bookings PH 425 8053snell’s Beach Community Church

325 Mahurangi East RdSunday Service 9am

Hall Bookings PH 425 5707Phone 425 8660 for information

Sunday Services 9am & 10.30am

Kowhai FestivalCombined Service

Oct 12th - 10am at Mahurangi College

Guest Speaker is Rod Thompson principal of Laidlaw College

5 Pulham Road, Warkworth Phone 425 8861

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Applications close on October 17.

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2014 | Programme

the best dressed Superhero so grab your cape and tights and join in the fun5th October 2014 WARKWORTH MUSEUM OPEN DAY 10am to 3pm - Entry to the museum is free all day.Lots of fun for the whole family at Warkworth and District Museum

Programme of children activities:-Colonial dress competition. (entry forms in children’s tent)Find the Dinosaurs competition (Prizes for best boy & girl)

The age old art of polishing Kauri gum.Make your own peg doll.

Make a Grass Head Creature.Pony rides on the lawn.

Vintage hay baler working.Vintage engines and machinery all running.

Old rope making machine. (it will be making rope) The archives will be open, if your family lived here

we have records from the early 1800’s look for them.Photographic archives may have a photo of

Great great granddad.Textiles can show you clothing, lace wear, furs & needle

work from the early 1800’s.All day refreshments & sausage sizzle.

If you like what we do, ask to become a MUSEUM VOLUNTEER.

11 October 2014 - HUGE DAY OUT For more information see advert this page.

12 October 2014 HISTORIC WALK - CRUISEDeparts from Warkworth i-SITE at 8.45am.

Join a one hour Historic walkabout of Warkworth Township followed by optional one hour Excursion aboard the Jane Gifford at 1000hrs. Costs: Walk $10, Cruise $15pp Total $25.00.

Reservations 4259081 / 4255006 or 0274849935

12 October 2014 WARKWORTH MUSIC CONCERT4pm, Matakana Hall - Warkworth Music presents ‘The Troubles’

Tickets $30 on the door (students free)Wellington’s coolest Jazz band and one of the most original and engaging ensembles.

6 musicians and 2 strings, double bass, percussion and saxophone. Playing Blues, Swing, Ballads and All that’s Jazz

16 October 2014 THE GREAT DEBATEto be held at Ascension Wine Estate 6:30pmGreat night out with lots of laughs!!Come along and watch the teams battle each other in these funny, lighthearted debates.

Tickets: $30 Includes fi nger food and two debates Moots: Toastmasters Vs Rotarians

‘What was good enough for our parents is not good enough for us’Parlimentarians Vs Toastmasters

‘The Female, the deadlier of the species’Tickets available at Hospice House, The Vintry,

Or phone 0274 966550 email [email protected]

17 October 2014 OPEN AIR CINEMAShoesmith’s Domain Event start 7pm, Movie start 8pm, Gold coin donation, ‘Grease’

17 - 19 October 2014 ‘COLOURS OF RODNEY’ EXHIBITION Rodney Arts Award Exhibition, Old Masonic Hall, Warkworth, Friday, Saturday 10am til 4pm, Sunday 10am - 3pmFor entries or more information please contact the following:Enquiries to: Joy Bell – Ph (09) 4224957, email: [email protected] OR Mona Townson – Ph (09) 4256121, email: [email protected]

Other events dates, times and venues to be confi rmed

5 October - 19 October

the best dressed Superhero so grab your cape and tights and join in the fun5th October 2014 Huge Day Out | 11th October

The theme for this year’s festival is “The Fifties” so come along to see the hotrods and enjoy some rock n’ roll. From 9am there will be kids entertain-ment, stalls, stalls and more stalls!

8:30am Canoe Showdown 2014

Registration On The Day Starts At 8:30amBriefi ng Is At 8:45amRace Starts At 9am Distances: 20kms Premier Race, 10kms Race, 5kms CruiseEnter: Registration is open online now at Canoe Showdown.co.nz

10am Children’s Dog Show

Ross Lynch, Warkworth Vet Farm & Pet ClinicWarkworth Riverbank, behind the libraryWaggiest Tail, Best Trick, Scruffi est Dog, Owner Look AlikeBest Costume, Smallest and Biggest Dog, Entry by donation with all proceeds going to Julie’s Animal Shelter

11am Warkworth Taoist Tai Chi Demonstration

11am outside the Masonic hall and libraryTaoist Tai chi is an ancient art that is practised for good health and wellbeing.Society members will be on hand with information about the moves and details about upcoming classes in Warkworth and Wellsford.

12pm Giant Water Slide

Opens at 12pm - Lucy Moore park

Wine, Food and Music at the Wharf All Day!!

This year the wine is provided by ‘Free range wine company’Come along and see them at “The Garden Bar” on the grass at the bottom of Kapanui StWharf stage:9:30 - 10am - Kapa Haka group performing in front of the stage10am to 12pm - Tyler Brothers12:30 - 2pm- Tom Sharplin2:30 - 3:45pm - Sal Valentine and the Babyshakes

Baxter Street Stage:10am -11:30am - The Kavelliers and Wellsford Rockers11:30 - 1pm - Festus McBoyle and Pirates1pm -2pm - George and his rock and roll band2:30 - 3:30pm - Andy Richards

Other acts include LouLou. There will be other musicians playing in Argyle Angle during the day too!! Guggemusik will also be back again this year plus The Warkworth Wellsford Pipe band!

Hotrods

The Hotrods will be parked down Baxter street so make sure you go and have a look!

Vintage Cars

Also don’t miss the Vintage cars which will be parked down Neville St

Plus win great prizes!!!

Prizes include:• a mystery weekend away donated by Harvey World Travel Warkworth.• a half day boat charter donated by ‘Chill out Charters’• a kids mystery box donated by Warehouse Stationery Warkworth• a Panasonic Bread maker donated by Noel Leeming Warkworth

FOR A FULL PROGRAMME GO TO www.kowhaifestival.co.nz


KOWHAI ART & CRAFTAnnuAl EXHIBITIOn & SAlE

Old Masonic Hall WarkworthAdmission Free

Fri Oct 10th 12-4pm, Oct 11th 9-4,Sun Oct 12th 9-3pm

All WelcomeSponsored by Creative Communities & Resene Paints

Adults $30 • Students Free • Info. Ph 425 7313 or 425 7015

THE TROUBLES“...a rambunctious live performance”. Blues, Swing, Ballads & All That’s Jazz

Warkworth Musicpresents

SUNDAY 12th October at 4pmAt Matakana Village Hall,

Matakana

A Wellington-based jazz band The Troubles will present an engaging and eclectic programme of original and newly-arranged jazz compositions in the Matakana Hall on Sunday October 12.Warkworth Music will host the show, the last concert of a successful season. The concert promises something for all musical tastes, from traditional blues, swing and ballads to works influenced by traditions of the Middle East, Mediterranean and South America. What will make the music and its presentation particularly special will

be the mixture of written material with the spontaneity of improvisation, which will include extended solos to restructuring a piece mid-way in response to the energy in the room.The Troubles have been based at the Wellington jazz venue Meow since the beginning of 2012. The musicians on tour comprise three of New Zealand’s most talented and sought after string players, a legendary double bass player, a percussionist of international repute, and a critically-acclaimed saxophone player. Their leader, drummer and composer John Rae, describes the band as being about call and response,

not just between instrumentalists but by the band vocally responding to his trade mark exhortations. In August, The Troubles played a series of gigs at the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival including being part of the Commonwealth Jazz Orchestra.The concert is an exciting departure for Warkworth Music, being somewhat less conventional than their norm, but reflects the membership’s wide-ranging musical tastes and interests.Tickets are $30 and are available at the door; students free. The concert starts at 4pm.Info: warkworthmusic.org.nz

The Troubles will be a departure from Warkworth Music’s normal concert programme and will wrap-up another successful season.

Troubles bring improvisation to Matakana

Science of beer under scrutinyTahi Bar will be showcasing Mahurangi’s brewing talents at the Kowhai Festival with brewers from Sawmill Brewery, Zepher Cider, 8 Wired and Lothlorien Winery manning a drinks stall.Bar owner Ian Marriott says it’s a great chance to celebrate the award winning local drops.“We’ve had individual brewers come in previous years, but we wanted to do something to celebrate the collective abilities of these people,” Ian says.“We have some world class talent in the area. 8 Wired brewer Soren Erikson is rated the 40th best brewer in the world on international website Ratebeer and all of the breweries took home medals at the recent Brewers Guild Awards.”Ian says it will be a great opportunity for both beer geeks and novices to find out more about what goes into the beers they enjoy.“Beer is a science. This is a chance to talk with the scientists. People will be able to taste a wide range of beers and sit down and discuss the intricacies of the beers with the people who made them.”Carl Vasta, head brewer from Paraparaumu brewery, Tuatara, will also feature as a guest brewer at the stall. Carl is coming to Warkworth as part of a trip north to see for himself why a number of top brewers are relocating to the region.

Authorised by Mark Mitchell Tamariki House,7 Tamariki Ave, Orewa

THANK YOU FROM MARK MITCHELL MP FOR RODNEYI would like to convey a huge thank you and acknowledgement to all those who voted this year, regardless of the Party or Candidate you supported.

For Rodney National Party supporters you made the biggest Party Vote contribution in the country, and the support and belief in both myself and Rt Hon John Key will be returned by sheer hard work and dedication in continuing to make sure New Zealand remains on track to achieve our potential, and continues to be the best country in the world to live, work and play.

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Gardeners sharpen trowels

Warkworth gardeners will compete for $100 prizemoney in the vegetable garden competition at the Warkworth & Districts Rose & Flower Show next month.

Preparations for the Warkworth Garden Club’s annual Warkworth & Districts Rose & Flower Show are well underway for the event in the Old Masonic Hall on Friday November 14.Club member Lois New says people wanting to enter the vegetable garden competition should already have sunk in a few seedlings as entries for the competition close on November 1.There will be a $100 prize for best vegetable garden with gardens judged on variety, quality, weeding and “neatly trimmed edges”.“A lot more people are into growing their own food and we wanted to do something to encourage more men to

enter in the categories,” Lois says.There will be a $50 prize for the winner of the First Ever Rose competition.It is the third year the show has had to downsize to fit into the Old Masonic Hall, but there are plans to hold the event back at the Town Hall once it is refurbished.“Visitors always delight in the gorgeous scent of roses as they enter the hall. The perfume of the room hits you you when you enter and the whole space is transformed with flowers.”Surplus funds raised from the show will be donated to a local charity. This year the Club donated $1000 to Springboard Community Works.

There are 31 sections in the show and entries are free. Entries to the vegetable garden competition close November 1. All other entries close November 13, at 3pm.To enter, contact Jocelyn Sharp on 425 7724 [email protected] schedules will be available at the Warkworth i-SITE, Mahurangi East Library, Mahurangi Matters office in Neville Street, and Tumbleweed Garden Centre, Matakana or warkworthgardenclub.com

Shoesmith Domain will be filled with leather jackets and Brylcreemed hair during an open air screening of Grease, on October 17 as part of the Kowhai Festival.There will be food stalls at Warkworth Primary School from 7pm with the movie starting at 8pmOpenair Cinema owner Urs Brauer says it will be a special night.“In the cinema people don’t stand up and dance like they do when it’s screened outdoors,” Mr Brauer says. “But we always have people singing and dancing and dressing up, especially with a movie like Grease.”People should bring their own chairs, rugs and cushions and a tarpaulin if the ground is damp. Entry is a gold coin donation.

Shoesmith setting for summer nights

The classic 1950s-themed musical, Grease, will screen at Shoesmith Domain on October 17.


Taoist Tai Chi

DemonstrationWhen:

11am, 11 October 2014, Kowhai Festival Big Day Out

Where: Outside Warkworth Library/

Old Masonic Hall

Then come and have a go:

7 week Introductory Class Starting Saturday Nov 1st 2014 10am at Warkworth Scout Hall

One off cost $35 for the 7 week course

Phone for detailsLynda 09 422 5040

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Retro & recycled treats at the Hospice Stall

In Queen St (outside Argyll Angle) on Festival day

Kowhai Festival Day Stall

The long locks of 21-year-old IT student Jonathan Symons, of Snells Beach, will be lopped off at the Big Day Out to raise funds for Hospice.It’s been at least six years since Jonathan last had a haircut and he admits to feeling a little nervous about getting a number two.“It’s probably about time though,” he says.Jonathan was motivated to organise the fundraiser after experiencing first-hand the help and care provided by Hospice.His father, Aubrey, is terminally ill with cancer and recently spent time at the North Shore Hospice.“I was blown away by the quality of care he received at North Shore and in Warkworth.“Hospice has been really impressive and their regular visits have given us a certain amount of peace of mind.”While the money raised by family, friends and strangers will be donated to Hospice, Jonathan’s hair will be donated to a wig maker who specialises in wigs for women suffering from cancer.

The Big Day Out will be the setting for Jonathan Symons’ fundraising haircut.

Tresses fall for Hospice funds

The Warkworth Wellsford Hospice has to raise $1 million annually to meet running costs.To donate to Joanthan’s fundraiser, go to www.givealittle.co.nz/cause/haircutforhospiceWhen Mahurangi Matters went to press, the total was $1340 and climbing.

On the waterThe annual canoe race on the Mahurangi River will get festivities underway on the Huge Day Out on October 11. Registrations will be accepted at the race HQ, at the end of Baxter Street, from 8.30am onwards. Racing will start at 9am. Casual paddlers, first-timers and children are encouraged to enter the 5km race, while the 10km race is ideal for sea kayaks and recreational craft. The four-lap 20km race is for serious contenders for the King and Queen of the Mahurangi River crowns.


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You never know quite what you’ll find during a stroll through the Warkworth Museum. Admission is free on the Open Day.

Warkworth Museum treasures on displayHistory will come alive at the annual Kowhai Festival Open Day, at the Warkworth Museum, on Sunday October 5.Treasures from the museum collection will be on display and volunteers will be on hand to share their knowledge and experience.Admission to the museum will be free.Immediate past president Ian Ferguson says this year there will be an emphasis on activities for children including a dinosaur hunt.There will opportunities to make peg dolls and learn other early crafts, watch a rope making demonstration, polish kauri gum and ride a pony. A number of museum exhibits will be fired up and demonstrated including engines, tractors and an old hand hay baler.“For anyone interested in the town’s history or their own family history, this is a great time to come along and talk to the volunteers who work in the archives,” Ian says. “You can do the research yourself or get some advice and guidance.“As well as the usual resources, visitors will also have access to more than 15,000 photos.”The impressive textile section, one of the largest collections in the area, will also be open. The open day will run from 10am to 3pm.

Colour is the theme of the annual Rodney Arts Exhibition, which will be held in the old Masonic Hall in Warkworth later this month.The exhibition showcases a wide range of arts and crafts from painting and photography to porcelain painting to mixed media, sculpture and jewellery.As well as the Supreme Award, there will also be prizes for Most Promising Artist and The Peoples Choice.The exhibition works, both two and three dimensional, were selected on the theme, quality, originality and craftmanship.The exhibition runs from October 17 to 19.

Art celebratesRodney colour

The annual exhibition showcases the range of talented artists in the area.


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4 BAxter Street

09 425 9440 [email protected]

Warkworth & District Museum Open DaySunday 5th October starting 10am

FREE ENTRY

Come and have a look around the Museum! Children’s Colonial Dress Competition

Entry forms from the childerens tent.Gum Polishing • Peg Doll Making • Pony Rides

$100 note RaffleRefreshments and Sausage Sizzle

Machinery DisplayA display of vintage Agricultural and Horticultural machinery from the extensive collection of the Engineering Department

including some recent aquisitions that have not been displayed before. Members of the Veteran Engine Restorers

club from Auckland will aslo be bringing some of their collection up. Subject to the availability of hay we hope

to have the Hay Baler running.All departments will be staffed and visitors are encouraged to take the opportunity to view areas not normally open to

the visiting public.

Parry Kauri Park, Tudor Collins Drive (Off Wilson Rd, Warkworth)Phone: 425 7093 | Email: [email protected]

www.wwmuseum.orconhosting.net.nzSee you there!

Contact your local church for more information.

Kowhai Festival Combined Church Service

Oct 12th - 10am at Mahurangi College

Guest Speaker is Rod Thompson principal of Laidlaw College

MPs and orators will be arguing across the generation gap and questioning gender roles in the fourth annual Kowhai Festival Great Debate on October 16 at Ascension Wine Estate.Event organiser Murray Chapman says the first debate will pit Warkworth Toastmasters against Warkworth Rotarians on the moot, ‘what was good enough for our parents is not good enough for us’.“It’s around the idea that the way our parents were educated and brought up isn’t going to work in today’s world,” Murray says. “But it’s not a serious debate. It’s a chance to have a lot of fun and take the mickey out of each other.”The second debate will feature local MPs headed by Rodney’s Mark Mitchell. They will take on Toastmasters’ top team on the moot, ‘the female is the deadlier of the species’.“They will be trying to determine whether women are more ruthless than men and call the shots in the workplace and at home. It will be great to see the rival MPs teaming up and working together and we will get to see how politically correct they really are.”But people will need to get in quick, as Murray is anticipating a sell out.“We had 75 people attend in our first year, then we jumped to 110 in the second and 180 in the third, so we think we will break the 200 barrier

MPs line-up for great debate

this year.”The night will raise money for Warkworth Wellsford Hospice, which Murray has a close connection with.“I lost my wife to pancreatic cancer 12 years ago when our children were eight and nine years old. Hospice was a great help. It’s an organisation I believe does a huge amount of work and struggles for funding.”Ascension’s previous owner, Darryl Soljan, will again moderate the evening and present the Darryl Soljan Trophy to the speaker he believes is the best on the night.“He’s absolutely hilarious. Ascension’s new owners have also been great to us, giving us the venue for free and allowing us to use the kitchen.”The Great Debate is at Ascension Wine Estate at 6.30pm. Tickets $30 available at Hospice House in Warkworth and The Vintry in Matakana. Ticket price includes finger food and two debates.

Mark Mitchell

mahurangi matters, kowhai feature, 1 october 2014

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