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1 September 2015 There s already been a couple of spring days, but there are still some cold days ahead of us therefore a yummy winter warmer recipe for those rainy days: Caramel, Apple & Hazelnut Cake Caramel Sauce 1.5 cups sugar 4 Tbsp salted butter 250ml thickened Community Contact is compiled from the contributions of the people of South Westland. Articles, items, news, recipes, stories, etc. from everyone are most welcome. All personal opinions should be signed and publication is at the discretion of the Community Contact team. The views expressed in Community Contact are not necessarily the views of the CC board. Send your articles or adverts to your contact or to lisa.reinhardt@outlook.com by 15 September to be included in the October issue. ADVERTISING RATES cream Cake 125g butter, softened 1.5cups caster sugar 3 eggs 1 tsp baking soda 1 3/4 cup self-raising flour 60ml caramel sauce 70 ml milk 2 medium unpeeled granny smith apples, sliced finely 150 roasted hazelnuts Full Page $ /2 Page $ /4 Page $ /8 Page $20.00 Address: Community Contact, Counter Delivery, Lake Paringa Post Centre, South Westland 7834 We prefer online banking payments directly into the Bank Account: The West Coast Office of the Cancer Society would sincerely like to thank the people of Westland and South Westland for their continued and much valued support of Daffodil Day and the Society in Should any of questions or relating to do not Cancer general. you have any queries cancer please hesitate to ring the Cancer Helpline on Make caramel sauce. Cook sugar in a sauce or ring the Greymouth pan over medium heat until sugar around office at edges begins to melt. As sugar dissolves, swirl it around pan from edges inwards. Watch it closely, and just before it starts smoking, remove from heat and whisk in butter. Gradually whisk in cream. Remove from heat and set aside. 2. Preheat oven to 200 degrees. Line a 30cm x 20cm baking tin with baking paper. 3. Place all cake ingredients except apple and nuts in the bowl of an electric mixer and mix for 5 minutes, until pale and smooth. Stir through apple. Pour cake batter into lined tin. 4. Bake for 30mins, or until top is golden and sides of cake are just pulling away from tin. 5. To serve, pour warm caramel sauce over the in the tin and sprinkle with hazelnuts. Slice and serve. Community Contact with your name & what the deposit is for. Please do not send cash. 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 HAAST Liz Hawker lizhawker@farmside.co.nz ph NEWSLETTER COMPILER Lisa Reinhardt lisa.reinhardt@outlook.com ph

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3 Franz Josef SEPTEMBER 2015 Haast SEPTEMBER 2015 Haast Road Opening 50th Anniversary Celebrations 5 th to 7 th November 2015 Celebrating the road and the people who made it. Call for market stalls to participate in the Market Day to be held on Saturday the 6 th November at the Haast airstrip. To book your space call or Liz Hawker, principal@haast.school.nz Ph (ah) (bh) pm 3

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6 Bruce Bay Sports Day October Time to start planning now! Bruce Bay SEPTEMBER 2015 Stalls book a stall now to buy, sell, exchange. Anything! Community groups, fundraising, education, information, stalls $20.00 Baking what are you going to come up with this year for your gateau? We have heard some very interesting ideas already! Have a practice run making a traditional cream sponge! Kids, don t forget to bake some cup cakes! Cakes to be ready for judging by 12 noon. Photo Competition Theme to be advised, check out the facebook page Bruce Bay Community. Hospitality Event Get your team together to compete in this fun event! Bedmaking, table setting and maybe some surprise elements introduced by the judges! Become a sponsor! The Bruce Bay Sports Day and Ball draw a large crowd and are the perfect events for sponsors to get noticed, both on the day and in publications following it. We are seeking sponsorship now! Sponsorship can be financial or in product, and it can be for a particular raffle or competition. Our raffles include: men s, ladies, children s, grocery, romantic weekend getaway, adventure weekend getaway, amongst others (perhaps you ve got an idea for a new one?). Funds raised for and during the Sports Day are used to run the Sports Day and Ball, for maintainance and upgrade of our hall, and for community projects. If you re interested in becoming a sponsor, contact Lisa on or lisa.reinhardt@outlook.com Van for sale The Ball Theme this year is the Gatsby Era. Who will win the Belle and Beau of the Ball Competition? Imagine the costumes this year! Exciting! Frills, lace, sequins, jewels, furs, headpieces, gloves. Men immaculate three piece suits with shiny or patent leather shoes and trilby, boater, or straw hats, the list is endless! The Band The band this year brings a whole new sound to Bruce Bay with popular Queenstown band Mojo, agreeing to come and play. Mojo played at Fox Glacier recently and was a crowd pleaser with overall appeal. Facebook Bruce Bay Community keep an eye on our facebook page for updates, we will have more information after our next meeting at the end of August. Ask us questions, give us feedback, make suggestions, lets make this a great and happy occasion for everyone! Bruce Bay Hall Board Inc. is selling the community van, formerly Jacobs River school bus 1997 Toyota Hiace, 2.4P ZL van, 5 manual kms 11 seater Towbar Current rego and wof Great condition; has been well looked after as a school bus For expressions of interest please contact or lisa.reinhardt@outlook.com 6

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8 West Coast wetlands protected by Nature Heritage Fund Associate Conservation Minister Nicky Wagner recently announced that Okuru landowners John and Nick Dalgety and their family have sold 56 hectares of important wetland to the Nature Heritage Fund. This purchase enables DOC to manage the land as a scenic reserve, preserving it for future generations to enjoy and making it available for Haast locals and visitors to access. The wetland will form a natural western boundary to the Okuru and Waiatoto conservation areas, which extend to Mt Aspiring National Park. The Dalgetys have owned the land for three generations, and are delighted that it will be protected this way. The land is on the south side of the Okuru River, to the east of the highway This land is a great example of open pakihi, a type of wetland characterised by low soil fertility, Ms Wagner said in a media release. The pakihi provides a perfect home for the declining South Island fernbird and supports several types of native plants, including sun orchids, carnivorous sundews and bladderworts. Both pakihi and the wetland and lowland forests which make up this land are under-represented in public ownership, so the acquisition is doubly welcome. What s the Nature Heritage Fund? The NHF is a contestable ministerial fund aimed at protecting the full range of New Zealand s natural ecosystems. The Fund has an annual budget of $1.8 million, the Fund s investment in the Okuru wetland area is just over $350,000. Since 1990 the Fund has protected more than 340,000 ha of natural areas which would have otherwise been cleared, logged or further damaged by introduced browsing animals. Want to know more? Call your local DOC office! 8

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11 Fox Glacier SEPTEMBER 2015 THANKS FROM THE FOX GLACIER PLAYGROUP. Fox playgroup would like to thank everyone who bought raffle tickets and supported their fundraising efforts over the course of the 3 Sundays of great Woodham Shield rugby at Snarler Park. The winners of the raffles were week 1 - Choc cake and wine - Rowan Sullivan week 2 - Hamper of baking and wine etc - Richard Molloy - $100 note - Richard Bungeroth week 3 - $100 note - Shaun Monk Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to all who bought tickets and gave donations. Very much appreciated Community Centre Update The Community Centre is all set to go. Building consent was gained in June and the build is set to commence in early September! We will be creating a bund on the Pekanga side shortly and will be calling for volunteers to help with planting it out. Fox Inc upcoming meetings Next General Meeting 14 th September 2015 Next Committee Meeting 12 th October 2015 Everyone is encouraged and welcome to come to any Fox Inc meeting. Woodham Shield Well Fox, Franz, Haast might not have won the shield but the boys played some awesome Rugby, and you ve done South proud! Great to see all the community support for this great event too. The town has looked amazing dressed in Black & White over August, and we ll have another good crack at it next year. Well played Whataroa. Congratulations on the win until next year! Chalet Lookout Track As many of you would already be aware the Chalet Lookout Track has sustained a significant amount of damage to a large proportion of the track. Mills Creek watercourse is changing regularly, destroying large sections of the track and the unpredictable nature of the creek now prevents safe access. Instability in the headwaters of the Mills Creek catchment is causing the release of a huge amount of rock and gravels into the creek, resulting in unprecedented build-up in the bed of the creek. Consequently Mills Creek is frequently changing course, flowing through surrounding forested slopes and making access and new track formation, for the Gardening Spring is here, so if you haven t already, it s time to start thinking about preparing the garden beds and planting seeds, as the ground begins to thaw out. If it s still too cold outside, we can always start by planting seeds in containers inside until it warms up enough to get them in the ground. time being, impossible. The Chalet Lookout track will be closed indefinitely and until such time as either Mill s Creek settles down or we can successful survey and fund a new route both are unlikely in the short term. I am sorry to bring you this news as Chalet Lookout track is a wonderful local walk that has been increasingly popular for views of the glacier. We will do our best to look at alternative route options but it really is challenging given the level of instability in the Mills Creek catchment at the present time. If you have any questions or ideas please don t hesitate to give me a call. Kind regards, Wayne Costello Conservation Services Manager Department of Conservation, Okarito SEPTEMBER 2015 August - planting season, and after many years of envying Ross their cherry trees, Okarito Community pitched in with a plan to plant an orchard. Among the species, carefully selected by Mark and Annebell as heritage and suitable for our area, were several pears, apricot, blackboy peach, plums, apples and quince trees. All hands on deck saw the work done in less than an hour. And a little further along the campground boundary, equipment was arriving for our next big project, the renewal of the sewerage drainage field for our campground. We expect this to be operating by this summer. At the entrance to the village, gorse is being removed and a wetland being replanted with help from locals and volunteers, using stock from the Okarito nursery. Well done to everyone involved in all these projects. 11

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16 CHURCH SERVICES September 2015 Catholic 6th 13th 20th 27th Ross 10.30am 10.30am Hari Hari 9am 5pm Sat. 9am Whataroa 10.30am 9am 10.30am 9am Franz Josef 5pm 5pm Fox Glacier 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 13th 18th 20th 27th Ross Hari Hari Whataroa 1.30pm combined service 10.30am 9.30am September 15 1 Start of whitebait season Franz Josef 3pm 13 Jacobs River Haast 6pm Anglican Contact: Rev d Vivien Harber (03) or Rev'd Rawinia Douglas Fox Inc meeting SUPPORT, HELP, ADVICE? West Coast contact numbers are: Westland Victim Support 0800 VICTIM or Arthritis Foundation (03) Cancer Society Chch office (03) or 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 Practice Providing Healthcare from Hari Hari to Haast For all appointments, enquiries, and repeat prescriptions please phone the Practice Receptionist (based at Franz Josef): 0800 SW Health / For urgent after 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 attended daily FOR EMERGENCIES DIAL Italian Hari Hari