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Business Improvement District goes ahead for Silverdale
Silverdale is getting down to business with the establishment of a new Business Improvement District approved by Hibiscus and Bays Local Board.
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Get planting in Upper Harbour
Winter has arrived and with it thousands of native plants ready for planting in local parks across the Upper Harbour Local Board area.
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Food scraps to find new home in your new bin
Residents in Albany and East Coast Bays start receiving their Auckland Council food scraps bins from this week with deliveries of the bins to the rest of the North Shore continuing throughout the month of June.
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Grants aid Hibiscus and Bays community projects
Fifty-five community organisations received $259,247 in the final round of the Hibiscus and Bays Local Board Grants Programme for 2022/2023.
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Call for Awaruku neighbours to join predator control efforts
The call has gone out for neighbours to band together and eradicate animal predators in the Long Bay-Awaruku catchment area, which borders Long Bay-Okura Marine Reserve and Long Bay Regional Park.
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Caribbean Drive sports fields update
A $3.5 million dollar sports field development at Unsworth Height’s Caribbean Drive is underway.
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Grants help Upper Harbour groups
Community groups received over $69,149.50 from Upper Harbour Local Board grants in April, with the programme heavily over-subscribed.
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Cock-a-doodle-doo for the Kell Park mural
Chickens once again rule the roost on a restored mural at Albany’s Kell Park.
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Book Chat
Are you looking for a fun way to meet new people & discover new authors?
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Wriggle & Rhyme - Albany Village Library
A programme to educate parents and caregivers in active movement,
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Money Talks Budgeting Workshops
Empower yourself with insights to enhance your financial wellbeing.
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Jiggle & Wiggle
Bring your dancing feet to our preschool session on Friday mornings for music, dancing, ukuleles,...
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Bi-lingual Storytime
Bi-lingual session, we will introduce children to the sound of different languages & introduce th...
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Code Club
At Code Club you can learn how to make cool games, animations & websites!
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Community Chip Packet Project Strip Fusing
Join us with a sense of charitable camaraderie to help fuse clean chip packets together to create...
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Digital Seniors one on one tech support - Hobsonville Point
A workshop for seniors who would like some help with your phone, laptop or tablet.