News in brief 30 September
Slam poet champion to perform
This was supposed to be the future - so what is the message now, you may well ask. Well, the message is in the poem – or to be exact, the slam poetry of one Carrie Rudzinski who will perform at the Mussel Inn on Sunday 2 October.
Rudzinski is the celebrated Boston slam poet champion with a voice that holds the space between mouth and ears and makes it her own. With a stream of words that ricochet like bullets of love off hearts that still know how to beat, she has criss-crossed America with her rhythms and rhymes cracking heads at every sleepy street corner along the way.
Rudzinski was ranked 14th in the world at the 2011 Women Of The World Poetry Slam and back in 2008 she was awarded “best female poet” and “best of the rest” at the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational.
In the midst of all that, A History Of Silence, Rudzinski’s first collection of poetry was published and is available online.
“Rudzinski’s confessional haunting verse lavishes detail on her beloved Midwest even as she chronicles her journeys eastward. These are tales of exploration, voyages of the children within each of us striving to love and shelter the adults the world has required us to become.” - GoodReads.com
Push not pedal on the path
This project, “push not pedal on the path” is an initiative from the Golden Bay Community Board that involves local primary school children (aged 5-10 years) to encourage people to push their bikes on the footpath, especially where there are lots of people around, such as Commercial Street.
To help pedestrians feel safe on the footpath and to raise awareness around this issue, the Community Board and Tasman District Council’s Road Safety Coordinator, Krista Hobday have organised a colouring competition based on a design by local artist, Dean Raybould. The task is for children to colour in as best they can a local Takaka scene. There will be three winners from each of three age categories and the colours from the winning entry will be used to produce a postcard. This postcard, which also includes some information about the project on the reverse, will then be printed and distributed throughout Golden Bay with the help of the sponsors, The Quiet Revolution, Escape Adventures, Hammer Hardware, and the GB Community Board.
For any enquires please either contact a Golden Bay Community Board Member or Krista Hobday at Tasman District Council on 03 543 8551 or krista.hobday@tasman.govt.nz
Submitted by TDC
Life Tubes now available
A life tube can speak for you when you can’t. A special tube contains vital personal information for emergency services in case of accident or illness.
Age Concern’s life tubes are small sealable plastic containers with a red label. Inside, you’ll find a form you can use to communicate any medical conditions, medications, doctor, next of kin, and contact numbers to be used by emergency services coming to your aid in a medical or civil emergency.
The container is kept inside your refrigerator, with a red sticker to alert emergency personnel. They are trained to look inside your fridge for a life tube.
If there are changes to your medications, we advise you to add a dated note advising the changes.
Why the refrigerator? It has a good chance of surviving earthquakes or floods. It’s distinctive and hard to miss, it can usually be found in the same place, and almost all homes have one. It’s the humble fridge – your emergency information storage vault!
Life tubes are available for $6 in Golden Bay from Wendy @ Heartlands.
Submitted by Heartlands
By-election: have you voted?
43.89 per cent return so far
A progress report for the Golden Bay councillor by-election on the TDC website. As at 28 September there were 1655 votes returned, which equates to 43.89 per cent.
The election closes on the Wednesday 5 October, not the Saturday as usual. There is a ballot box in the TDC Service Centre office, but if people are going to post their vote in, it needs to be in the mail no later than Monday morning.
Community board delegations
Last month the Tasman District Council agreed to a number of delegations to the Motueka and Golden Bay Community Boards following a process begun last year and further identified within the Local Government Commission’s recent Draft plan.
The delegations have been identified, after more than a year of meetings and consultation exercises, as key to the Boards’ role in the communities. Conferred with immediate effect, the delegations come with a 12 month review period in place.
“We have understood for some time now that the delegations need to be formalised to reinforce the boards’ important role. Despite some criticism from within sections of the community a key focus for the Council since the last election has been improving the relationships with the two community boards,” said Tasman Mayor Richard Kempthorne.
“The Commission’s Draft Proposal brought some light to the process, as the delegations identified by them were incorporated into the wider list being discussed between the council and the boards.
“The final list of delegations was agreed after a good discussion with the boards. The discussion identified which of the current list needed to be firmed up with the addition of some and dropping of others at the request of the boards to ensure they could achieve their goals without disadvantaging the residents in their wards.
“The conferring of the delegations is not an end point in the Council working with the Boards. It is an ongoing relationship and will develop in line with evolving resident expectations and aspirations” concluded Mayor Kempthorne.
Submitted by TDC
