Community Preparedness poster

How well do you know your neighbours?

Wellington City Council wants us to live in safe communities where we know our neighbours and are ready to help when things go wrong.

Last year the Council set up a Community Preparedness Grant for projects and events such as neighbourhood barbeques to help us get to know each other better.

The next funding round closes on 30 March 2012.

Wellington City Council has information on its website on how to apply and what the funding criteria are.

Ngaio Progressive Association can help local residents with applications.

The Battle for Ohariu

Saturday’s Dominion Post’s  has a full-page feature article about Ngaio Progressive Association’s meeting for electoral candidates on 9 November.

Read about the meeting, Dominion Post, 12 Nov 2011

Ohariu – and Dunne – on a knife edge

A separate article features recent poll results in Ohariu.

Read about the poll: Dominion Post, 12 Nov 2011

Do you want to find out more about the Ohariu electorate candidates in this year’s general election?

If so, come to our Meet the Candidates meeting on Wednesday, 9 November 2011 in the Ngaio Town Hall at 7:30 pm. The candidates will speak briefly and then take questions from the floor.

It’s usually a rollicking good time and a great opportunity to see them in action.

Supper afterwards.

Meet the Candidates 2011

Electoral candidates for Ohariu (ElectionsNZ webiste)

Meet the candidates 2010

Ngaio Progressive Association is holding another of our popular ‘Meet the Candidates’ meetings to help you decide who to vote for in next month’s local body elections.

We are inviting Mayoral and Onslow/Western ward candidates to speak and answer questions.

Join us in the Ngaio School hall from 7:45 – 9:00 pm on Thursday, 9 September. (Please note, the meeting will NOT be in the Ngaio Town Hall this year.)

More information about the election is on the Wellington City Council website.

Ngaio Junk Drive, October 2006

Bring out your old toasters, broken bikes and cracked flowerpots!

Ngaio’s next junk drive is on 18 September 2010. Put your inorganic junk where you normally put your rubbish bag by 8:00 am and leave a $10 donation in your letterbox or at the Ngaio Pharmacy.

We can collect most junk except:

• heavy or bulky  items, such as fridges, sofas and barbecues
• television sets and computers
• hazardous waste such as paint, poisons, car batteries or oil
• garden rubbish.

Does riding around Ngaio in a rubbish truck appeal?

We need people to help us.  Can you spare a Saturday morning to help on the rubbish trucks or drive ahead to see what’s waiting for collection? Please phone Trevor Lloyd  on 479 5439.

No recycling stall this year

We will not have a Used Good Junk  stall on Khandallah Road this year because the trucks must finish collecting junk by 1 p.m. If you have good junk you can take it to the Second Treasure shop at Wellington’s Southern Landfill.

Or you could join Wellington Re-cycle, a Google Groups email list. Their website says:

“This is a recycling group for anything you wish to keep out of the tip or is too good to throw away.  Whether it’s number 8 wire, the old bed, your kitchen sink, or your old kitchen, then if it’s your trash it maybe someone else’s treasure.”

Go to Wellington Re-cycle and apply for membership