This morning, on a brilliant winter’s day, the mayor officially opened the new cycle/walk way that connects Havelock North to Hastings. Building this cycleway needed a serious engineering solution, as there were two very deep and long drains. The solution was to cover them with a metal skeleton, covered with a concrete pad. It works [...]

Last Sunday we had the inaugural County2Coast fun run on the Hastings section of the Rotary pathway. The 16 Km section started at River Road, just outside Havelock North and the the 7 Km section started in Grange Road, Haumoana.

As you can see from the photos, the tree limb was oh so close to the play equipment, what happens next time!

Latest research has shown that children growing up in homes with many books get 3 years more schooling than children from bookless homes, independent of theit parents’ education, occupation and class. This is as great an advantage as having university educated rather than unschooled parents, and twice the advantage of having a professional rather than [...]