 Keep Waitakere Beautiful
The Keep Waitakere Beautiful (KWB) programme was
established by Waitakere City Council in 1993 as a
Council-Community partnership. The Keep Waitakere
Beautiful Trust was established in August 2002 to continue
the KWB Programme as an independent charitable trust, now
working outside of the Council, with the Ecomatters
Environmental Trust.
The Keep Waitakere Beautiful (KWB) programme is managed by a voluntary committee
which comprises seven Project Group Leaders, and the chairman,
Kevin Healy. Mayor Bob Harvey is patron.
For an update on all the latest news from Keep Waitakere
Beautiful Trust read the KWBT News Summer 2006 Update
here
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The Keep Waitakere Beautiful Trust runs many high profile events in partnership with Waitakere City Council including:
To contact Keep Waitakere Beautiful phone (09) 826 4276,
fax (09) 826 4278, email
info@kwbt.org.nz
or visit www.ecomatters.org.nz/kwb.htm.
Community Street Tree Planting
Applications of interest are
being called for one of Keep Waitakere Beautiful Trust's
more popular events - its annual Community Street Tree
Planting programme.
The event has been running for 12 years in partnership with
Waitakere City Council and in that time more than 4,000
trees have been planted by residents on road berms in their
streets.
A number of streets in each of the City's four wards (New
Lynn, Henderson, Massey and Waitakere) are selected in the
first quarter of each year and the planting takes place in
June and July when there's higher rainfall to give the trees
a good start. Most plantings result in a community barbecue
organised by the Trust.
Keep Waitakere Beautiful Trust supplies the trees, stakes,
mulch and fertiliser tablets free of charge and the
community supplies the labour. What's the catch? There is
none but applicants need to demonstrate that they have the
support of their neighbours and are prepared to do the
actual planting.
Other criteria for selection include: the road berm must be
at least 1.5 metres wide; there is plenty of room for tree
growth both horizontally and vertically; the ground is not
water-logged; road visibility is not reduced by tree
planting; there is no planned roading development in the
near future and that there are no overhead powerlines or
underground gas mains preventing planting.
Applications must be in writing and sent via email to
info@kwbt.org.nz or
by posting it to:
- Keep Waitakere Beautiful Trust
PO Box 15 215
New Lynn
Application of Interest
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 Operation Spring Clean
Spring Into Action - Help clean and green our city
1 September - 2 October
Planning for this year's Operation Spring Clean is well
underway with organisers saying they're confident of an
exceptional community response in 2006.
Run by Keep Waitakere Beautiful Trust in partnership with
Waitakere City Council, Operation Spring Clean is in its
12th year and will run throughout the city from 1 September
- 2 October.
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Waitakere College students do
their civic duty during Operation Spring Clean 2004
- first they cleaned up their school grounds and
then collected litter and weeds from the
neighbourhood around the school. |
Programme manager Moira Kennedy says more than 8,200
people took part last year collecting
18.03 tonnes tonnes of litter from city parks,
streams, reserves, school grounds and streets.
"Schools are always very quick to register their
participation and last year we also had tremendous response
from church, sport, community groups and individuals. A
number of businesses also use Operation Spring Clean as an
opportunity for staff team building. We're confident we'll
see that level of positive activity again," she says.
The Trust provides rubbish bags and gloves free of charge to
the public to help them with their efforts. If it's group
activity or a lot of people in one street wanting to get
involved, a jumbo bin may also be provided free.
"With the help from the public we really can make our city a
healthier and more beautiful place to live. We know of
people walking their dogs a different route each day and
collecting litter on the way, and one person last year
filled 30 rubbish bags with litter from her street.
"Another resident was recovering from a hip replacement
operation and when she walked to the end of her driveway as
therapy, she took long tongs and collected rubbish from the
roadside at the same time. These people are really quite
inspirational," Moira says.
"Every participant makes a positive difference, no matter
how much litter they collect."
Registration forms are available from KWBT, ph 826 4276 or
www.kwbt.org.nz
Register for Operation Spring Clean
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Operation Spring Clean Registration Form (Size 511K)
Operation Spring
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If you have a local group or project you would like to
register, or would like to put your name down to help with
an existing project phone Keep Waitakere Beautiful Trust on
(09) 826 4276 or email
info@kwbt.org.nz .
EcoWise
Community Awards
EcoWise Awards celebrate community
The exuberance of youth and long-time
experience have come together in a winning formula at Keep
Waitakere Beautiful Trust’s second annual EcoWise Community
Awards.
The Awards which celebrate volunteer action and pride in the
community are held in partnership with the Tag Out Trust,
Civic Contractors and Waitakere City Council.
Event manager Moira Kennedy says each of the winners has
played a significant role in making Waitakere City a more
attractive place in which to live, work, play and visit.
“The calibre of those nominated was just tremendous,” she
says. “And it was terrific to see so many young people
honoured alongside those who have volunteered their time in
the community for many, many years.”
Categories and winners:
Kauri Award for the most active
individual volunteer working in the community to beautify
Waitakere City by reducing litter, weeds and/or graffiti:
Finalists: Garry Sturgess, Ken Catt,
Lyall Gardiner, Mark Gilliver, Melissa Walen and John Sumich
Winner: Ken Catt - a tireless worker
for the environment for a number of years, member Waitakere
Branch Forest and Bird society
Special Junior Kauri Award: Brendan
Potgieter. This special award was made to 11-year old
Brendan who has organised many of his friends at Lincoln
Heights School to keep the school grounds clean and
litter-free. Brendan also encourages recycling and gets his
classmates to collect litter from the roadsides on the way
to school
Totara Award â€" most active group of
volunteers.
Finalists: West Lynn Garden Society,
Huia Weed Warriors, Ark in the Park, Keep Herald Island
Beautiful group, Henderson Stake â€" Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints and The Huia Community â€" Upland Glade
Management Committee
Winner (jointly): Huia Weed Warriors
and the Huia Community Upland Glade Management Committee.
Pohutukawa Award â€" for the tidiest
and best presented school grounds through ongoing action by
the students
Finalists: Tirimoana Primary School,
New Lynn Primary School, Laingholm Primary School, Fruitvale
School Garden Club, Lincoln Heights School, Kelston Deaf
Education Centre and Glen Eden Primary School.
Highly commended: Tirimoana Primary
School
Winner: Fruitvale School Garden Club
Puriri Award â€" for the best school grounds tended by
students which feature composting facilities and plant
propagation sites
Finalists: Laingholm Primary School,
Oaklynn Special School, Room 10 Matipo Primary School and
Lincoln Heights School
Winner: Oaklynn Special School in New
Lynn
Kowhai Award for student leadership -for the student
whose positive actions have made a difference in our
community and to the environment.
Two awards were made in this category to young people doing
quite different activities to make our City a better place -
Jessica Grinter who developed an interest in the
Pixie Stream in her fourth form year … and who is now at
university pursuing an environmental career and 12-year old
Sam Rawlinson from Rangeview Intermediate School for
his leadership fighting graffiti in his neighbourhood.
Rimu Award for Civic Pride, sponsored by Civic
Contractors: For the street which was deemed to be
litter-free, graffiti-free and the tidiest and cleanest
through the efforts of its residents.
Finalists: Golf Road, Wisely Road,
Summerland Drive and Scenic Drive.
Winner: Summerland Drive, Waitakere
Ward
Special Award for 20 years service to environmental
education: Clive Lightbourne from Glen Eden Primary
School who’s retiring this year.
“Clive deserved a special mention at the EcoWise Awards
because since Keep Waitakere Beautiful”s inception in 1993,
he’s always involved his students in our programmes such as
Operation Spring Clean, War on Weeds, anti-graffiti
campaigns and all kinds of other environmental
beautification initiatives,” Moira Kennedy says. “His work
has been special and he’s been the most wonderful role model
for his students,” she says.
They’ve got rhythm!
Awards have also been presented to the winners of Keep
Waitakere Beautiful Trust’s inaugural WasteBlasters â€"
Rhythm of Recycling competition. Held in partnership
with the Tag Out Trust, this event was all about
young people having fun with musical instruments they’d made
themselves from recycled products.
The award for Individual WasteBlaster of the Year was
won by Vincent Loos of Swanson who made a SANSA
(thumb piano) from recycled timber, a coathanger, chocolate
wrappers and metal staples. Vincent is home schooled and won
$100.
Riva Dick of Lincoln Heights School was highly
commended for his didgeridoo entry.
The WasteBlaster Rhythm of Recycling Group Award was
won by Class 6C Te Puaâ€" waiâ€"tanga o Te Reo at Birdwood
School. The dozen students in the group made a
three-stringed guitar, rainmaker, xylophone, didgeridoo and
maracas from a range of recycled articles including pots and
bottles. They won $300.
War on Weeds
 War on Weeds is
a programme aimed at removing the threat of environmental weeds to the natural environment of Waitakere.
War on Weeds runs every year, from late March to mid April.
30 bins are placed around the city for the convenient disposal of environmental weeds from
private property. 
Walks
Twilight Walks for Children
Keep Waitakere Beautiful Trust’s Twilight Walks for
Children
Opanuku Stream â€" Tuesday 23 January 2007 â€" meet at the
Corbans Estate Art Bridge, Mt Lebanon Place, Henderson at
6pm to explore the Opanuku Stream
and
Oratia Stream â€" Tuesday 30 January 2007 â€" meet at Falls
Hotel carpark, Alderman Drive, Henderson at 6pm to explore
the Oratia Stream.
Take a leisurely stroll around Henderson streams and learn
about stream life and the reasons we need to look after our
precious water ways. Each walk is led by Cleanstream
Waitakere’s Neil Henderson.
Walks take approximately 2 hours from 6pm. Please wear
sturdy footwear and comfortable clothing and bring a sense
of adventure and fun with you. Bookings are essential. Keep
Waitakere Beautiful Trust, ph 826 4276. Donations: $6 per
family, will be donated to Ark in the Park projects.
Email:
info@ecomatters.org.nz
Night Walks with Nature - February 2007
See flyer and
registration form
Wednesday Waitakere Walks
See
flyer
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