Community Contact wishes you a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

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1 December 2015 & January 2016 Community Contact wishes you a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year! Thank you for reading Community Contact this year. If you ve enjoyed it, please consider making a donaon. ROSS Lynley Hargraves ph HARI HARI Nick or Karyn at SWAS karyn@swas.ac.nz ph WHATAROA Karla Maisey karla.garth@xtra.co.nz ph OKARITO Paula Sheridan okaritoboattours@gmail.com ph FRANZ JOSEF Helen Lash franzjosefcdo@xtra.co.nz FOX GLACIER Marlayna Liebert foxglaciercdo@xtra.co.nz SOUTH Brenda Monk paringamonk@farmside.co.nz Home ph Work ph Community Contact is compiled from the contribuons of the people of South Westland. Arcles, items, news, recipes, stories, etc. from everyone are most welcome. All personal opinions should be signed and publicaon is at the discreon of the Community Contact team. The views expressed in Community Contact are not necessarily the views of the CC board. Send your arcles or adverts to your contact or to lisa.reinhardt@outlook.com by 15TH January to be included in the February issue. ADVERTISING RATES Full Page $ /2 Page $ /4 Page $ /8 Page $20.00 HAAST Liz Hawker lizhawker@farmside.co.nz ph NEWSLETTER COMPILER Lisa Reinhardt lisa.reinhardt@outlook.com ph Address: Brenda Monk - Lake Paringa Post Centre, South Westland 7834 We prefer online banking payments directly into the Bank Account: Community Contact with your name & what the deposit is for. Please do not send cash. 1

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5 Haast DECEMBER 15 & JANUARY 16 Haast Happenings November We celebrated the fiaieth anniversary of opening the last secon of State Highway 6 between Haast and Paringa on the weekend 6-8 November. There was a great turn out from those involved in the making of the road. It was a chance for many to catch up on the past and present. There was a meet and greet on Friday evening with speeches, then a re-enactment of the opening at the Knights Point viewing area. An addional plaque was added to the memorial and a ribbon cut. potatoes and kumara. So tasty. This was followed by two pavlovas, then drinks and a very nice cake. We all thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. Since the last meal there have been several birthdays in September, so HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Roy Hutcheson on the 17th,Claire Hutcheson on the 23rd, and Gaynor Brown on the 29th. Then in October there was Di Solomon on the 11th,and Bill Kay/Smith on the 13th. Our next meal will be on the 18th November in the Haast Hall, where Colleen Anderson The rain held off at the speeches and ribbon cung has kindly donated some pork for us to enjoy. The Housie evenings have been going really well, with good afendances. In the 4th week, the winners were Dave Varcoe,and Molly Bowen. In the 5th week it was Bruce Horrell and Craig Flynn. The 6th week saw Robert Afan and Ken Hall winning. The 7th week was Steve McFarlane and Colleen Anderson.Colleen was kind enough to share hers with everybody. The 8th week saw Kerry McWhinney and Henry Pomana get the goodies. The 9th week we had Archie Cowan and Logan and Min enjoy the cakes, then last week(10th) Bloxhams took the first two, and Gaynor Brown the third. There is only one week to go for Housie, and we will be dressing this next lot up with a few extras seeing as how it is the end of the season,so tell your friends, and come along. Many vintage and veteran cars travelled south to join the celebraon Haast Allstars On the 21st of October we were invited to Neroli Nolan s lovely home for our monthly All Stars meal. With 11 people present it was nice to have Heleen back with us, and both our Prime nurses present as well. This was our first gathering since we had lost June Johnston, and it was also here that Ian Rendall had had his last oung. So we all observed a short silence for both of them. AAer that it was into the wonderful meal that Neroli had prepared for us. Thank you so much Neroli for all your me and effort and the lovely food. We had a beauful meal of grilled chicken pieces accompanied by a tasty yoghurt dressing, afended by four choices of salad, with cubed baked pm 5

6 Haast Police DECEMBER 15 & JANUARY 16 Hi, my name is Paul Gurney and I ve been given the privilege of taking over from Snr Constable Rob Manera at Haast and live in this great part of New Zealand. Rob has rered aaer 28 years in the Police. 18 years of those staoned at Haast. It will take me awhile to achieve the vast local knowledge that Rob has and work out how he had this staon running. Over the last week I ve met a lot of you and I am slowly sefling in. Some of you may remember me from being staoned at Franz Josef between 2007 and Since then I ve had afew years on the Chatham Islands and more recently in Greymouth. My partner Rachel and two girls Rata and Miro, will join me aaer school finishes for the year. From me to me I ll place an entry in this community paper lemng you know what s been happening Police wise down here. It appears the roads are busy here during the day with traffic and are only going to get busier this summer. I ve been advised to expect a lot more tourists and New Zealand travellers. Accordingly I ve been asked by my bosses to be on the road as much as possible. Keep lea as best you can. I ve afended two crashes here in the last week. Both for crossing the centreline and colliding with oncoming traffic. Take it easy on the road. You can t predict what s coming round the corner. Constable Paul Gurney Haast Police Bruce Bay DECEMBER 15 & JANUARY Bruce Bay Sports Day & Ball AAer some rain in the morning, this year s labour weekend Sunday turned out a beauful day for the annual Bruce Bay Sports Day. The wood chopping event had a record field and everyone had a fantasc me. The Gatsby-themed ball at night was a huge success. The Queenstown-based band Mojo enjoyed the night as much as the ball-goers did, and are keen to return next year. Everyone looked stunning in their 1920s oupits! Amongst other projects, the proceeds from the day are going towards the upgrade of our community hall. At the moment, we are replacing rofen weatherboards and windows in preparaon for a repaint of the hall s exterior. Thank you to everyone who came! See you again next year. 6

7 Bruce Bay DECEMBER 15 & JANUARY 16 Whitebait Raffle Results: 1st 8kgs 2nd 4kgs 3rd 2kgs 4th 1kg A Wilson 5th 1kg Kat Neiman 6th 1kg Worrick John McLaren Bill Caldwell Wallace Whanau All winners have been nofied Winner of Pole Height ( m) Ian Leighton (11.608m) Winner of Guess number of Jellybeans (1185) Grace Rhodes (1200) Winner of Guess the number of Jaffas (233) Clem Swinburn (237) Thank you to all everyone who donated money, goods and their valuable me to make our day such a success Bruce Bay Sports Day Raffle Results & Sponsors Raffle Number Winner Grocery hamper 153 Sue McCallum Salmon Farm Hamper 11 Lisa Brady Lamb 77 Reina Hokika family package 1 st 16 K Radburn 2 nd 21 Matson Eco RaAing Voucher 29 Brodie H Childrens Raffle 25 Adrienne Terry Franz Package 89 Anne Manera Haast Package 33 Alex and May Christmas Hamper 7 Deb and Steve Work & Leisure Package 80 Sox Home & Living 11 Anna Liddell Coffee Maker 56 Beth ScoF Alpine Glacier Motel Aotea Electric Asure Aspiring Court Motel Barry Rochford Coffee & Equipment Dave and Diane Lindsay Dean Caldwell Ltd Deb Condon and Steve Monk Dispatch & Garlick EcoraAing Adventures Electronet Ellerys Hokika Eunice Sullivan & Maggie Williams Farmlands Whataroa Fiordland Souvenirs Fox Glacier Guiding Fox Store Franz Guides Full of Beans Café Franz Josef Glacier Hot Pools Glynis Condon Graham and Brenda Monk Greenstone Helicopters Grey Valley Couriers Haast River Safari Hann Construcon Hard Antler Hokika Glass Ian Leighton James Print Thank you to our Sponsors 2015 Jane (Jacobs River) John Pfeifer Panelbeang Johnston Motors Haast King Tiger Franz Josef Kiwi Centre Hokika Lake Matheson Café McMullan Timber ITM Mel and Rieke Macdonald Mitre 10 Wanaka New World Hokika Okarito Nature Tours PGG Wrightson Phil and Sandra Robson Pinegrove Motels Pipis Pizza Regent Theatre Hokika Rob Coers and Carol Daley Russell & Lorene Allison Salmon Farm Café Shining Star Motels Stumpers Te Rūnanga o Makaawhio The Landing Bar and Restaurant The Last Kitchen Tom Williams Contracng Treetop Walk Hokika WC Wildlife Centre West Coast Scrap & Steel Ltd Westroads 7

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10 Ross DECEMBER 15 & JANUARY 16 Ross Ramblings Sff long dresses and and flowery hats mixed with lycra and helmets at the Ross Gold Rush 150 Celebraon on Labour weekend. The town celebrated both cycling wonders of today and gold discoveries of yesteryear. The community worked hard to pull everything together, the weather was great and the fireworks spectacular. Large numbers of cyclists bafled a bit of a headwind on the Saturday to make it to the West Coast Wilderness Trail opening in Ross, where they were greeted with sunshine, speeches and high tea sandwiches. On the Sunday costumes were out in force for the parade along with a beaufully maintained horse drawn carriage, pony trap, and fire engine. There was the band, dancing girls, miners and bonnet and cap wearing school children. Kids also got tradional games to play: three-legged races and tug-o-war. Another well afended event was a recent community meeng on the fight to keep a policeman in Ross. About 100 people available at the Ross shop if anyone from further south wants a copy a great way to get numbers for people that you can't so easily find in the West Coast phone book. Playgroup will have its always fantasc Christmas Party on Sunday Dec 20th at the Ross Swimming Pool. The me will be announced soon, but there will be a barbecue lunch and Fire Engine rides. If the usual Santa makes an appearance the grown ups can have fun seeing who is on to him despite a disncve accent, neighbouring children and grandchildren sll haven't worked out the game. If you're coming along please bring a plate and a small labelled gia for your children for Santa's sack. The Ross Pool complex is almost always warm enough inside to make you want to jump in the water. And the water is gemng warmer too. It was 24 degrees the other day and only gemng hofer, so enjoy the summer by gemng in a few laps. Contact Bev Manera for your key. afended the meeng at the Ross Hall on Tuesday 10 November. The decision on whether to replace the last Ross policeman has not yet been made, and you can have your say sll in the first week of December by contacng the inspector who carried out the review: jeffrey.penno@police.govt.nz. The school children having been busy this week wring lefers about why they think there should be a policeman in Ross. Buglaries and car accidents seem to feature high on the reasons there. The kids are right there was a run of fuel theas aaer the last policeman lea town. The school and playgroup teams have been doing a lot of fundraising lately, and the school has produced a new copy of the indespensible Ross phone book. These ought to be 10

11 Licensed Building Practitioner New Homes, Additions, Renovations, Concrete Work, Gib Stopping, Tiling and Finishing Work a Specialty Phone: Cell: deancaldwell@outlook.co.nz Penguin Encounters An evening with Craig Poon Tales and photographs from his encounters with penguins around the Southern Hemisphere 7pm, Friday 27th November, Hoki)ka Regent Theatre Fundraiser for the West Coast Penguin Trust Tickets $20 ($10 under 16) including complimentary nibbles and a glass of wine or beer To book or for more details, see GLACIER CONCRETE For all your concrete needs in Westland Call Tim Gibb on to discuss your requirements. Driveways, dairy sheds, lime bins, foundations, pole sheds, animals shelters, standoff areas, farm race ways etc. Now might be the time to add a concrete patio or pathway. Glacier Contracting can also provide gravel, sand, large stones for soak holes etc and can do your site preparation work. Call Tim for a free no obligation quote. glacierenterprises@xtra.co.nz 11

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16 Ian, Kathy, Dave and the team would like to wish all our customers through 2015 a very Merry Christmas and a healthy New Year. We will be closed through the Christmas break but can sll be contacted via phone or . Best wishes to you and your families be safe. 16

17 Be part of the Global Climate March right here on the West Coast!! Carpooling from Buller is being arranged for those who are interested. Sunday 29th November 8am Greymouth District Council Fountain to Hoki)ka Beach (Revell St entrance) at 4pm where there will be a rally. Walk as far as you like but we recommend 5km bursts and there will be support vehicles accompanying us. Remember to bring water, food, sunscreen and sunhats. Dogs, horses, cycles and pushchairs all welcome! For more informaon look for: WestCoast People's Hikoi on Facebook Or ring/text Nicola on December 15 1 Franz Josef Community Council Meeng Franz Josef X-mas market CHURCH SERVICES December 2015 Catholic 6th 13th 20th 27th Christmas Ross 10.30am 10.30am Hari Hari 9am 6pm Sat. 9am 9am 25th Whataroa 10.30am M. tea after 9am 10.30am 9am 7pm 24th Franz Josef 5pm 5pm 5pm 24th Fox Glacier 11am 11am 6pm 24th Haast 5pm 10.30am 25th South Westland Catholic Parish: Contact Fr. Michael Mahoney, or Note: This mass is the normal parish schedule. It is wise to check that a mass has not been changed for some special reason. Anglican 6th 13th 16th 23rd 24th/25th Ross Hari Hari Combined service 1.30pm Whataroa 11.15am 4pm 10.30am 25th Franz Josef 3pm 9.30pm 24th Jacobs River Haast Reconciliation: Harihari 23rd 3pm; Whataroa 23rd 5pm; Franz Josef 23rd, 7pm; Fox Glacier 23rd 4pm; Haast, before mass 25th 6pm Anglican Contact: Rev d Vivien Harber (03) Christmas Eve 25 Christmas Day 26 Boxing Day Boxing Day holiday New Year s Eve 17

18 CHURCH SERVICES January 2016 Catholic 3rd 10th 17th 24th 31st Ross 10.30am 10.30am Hari Hari 9am 6pm Sat. 9am Whataroa 10.30am 9am 10.30am 9am 9am Franz Josef 5pm 5pm Fox Glacier 11am 11am 11am Haast 5pm South Westland Catholic Parish: Contact Fr. Michael Mahoney, or Note: This mass is the normal parish schedule. It is wise to check that a mass has not been changed for some special reason. Anglican 3rd 10th 13th 24th Ross Hari Hari Whataroa Franz Josef Jacobs River Haast 3pm Combined service 1.30pm 11.15am 6pm 9.30am Anglican Contact: Rev d Vivien Harber (03) January 16 1 Brenda Monk s birthday SUPPORT, HELP, ADVICE? West Coast contact numbers are: Westland Victim Support ask for Victim Support (03) Arthritis Foundation (03) Women s Refuge (9am 3pm) (03) AH Child Support Agency queries re child support Disability Information Service West Coast Rural Support Dianne Milne Lifeline West Coast Toll Free Kidsline 4pm 6pm every school day AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) (03) Poison helpline 0800 POISON HEALTHLINE FREE 24 HR HEALTH ADVICE South Westland Area Prac)ce Providing Healthcare from Hari Hari to Haast For all appointments, enquiries, and repeat prescripons please phone the Pracce Receponist (based at Franz Josef): 0800 SW Health / For urgent aaer hours care please phone your local clinic to obtain the correct phone number for the person on call (this may change daily) Hari Hari: Whataroa: Franz Josef: Fox Glacier: Haast: Please note that the individual clinic phones may not be aended daily FOR EMERGENCIES DIAL