Two great events this week
Friday, July 25th, 2008 Posted in Local Issues | No Comments »In the past week I've had the opportunity to attend two significant social events in the electorate. On Saturday night I attended the Stokes Valley Cossie Club's 20th Anniversary Dinner. It was a great meal and a great night. I ...
Upper Hutt Transition Towns meeting
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 Posted in Environment, Local Issues | No Comments »On Monday afternoon I attended the Transition Towns meeting in Upper Hutt. The topic for the bi-monthly public meeting was permaculture and we watched a film about an Austrian farmer who is living off his land using natural and environmentally ...
Prayer service for Zimbabwe
Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in Local Issues, Nationhood, Race Relations | No Comments »On Sunday afternoon I had the opportunity to attend a prayer service at St Joseph's Hall for the people of Zimbabwe. The service was organised by the Upper Hutt Catholic Church in solidarity with the innocent pro-democracy Zimbabweans who are ...
Kindergarten Teachers Conference
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in Education, Featured, Labour's Achievements | No Comments »Last night I had the opportunity to participate in a political panel discussion at the Wellington Kindergarten Teachers Annual Conference. My fellow panellists were candidates from National and the Greens. I was pleased with the reception I received, although it ...
The launch of KiwiRail
Monday, July 7th, 2008 Posted in Labour's Achievements, Public Transport | No Comments »I don't think anyone who has taken more than a passing interest in my campaign will be at all surprised to learn that I was excited by the launch of KiwiRail last week. I'm a big fan of rail and ...
Community meeting in Stokes Valley
Monday, July 7th, 2008 Posted in Law & Order, Local Issues | 1 Comment »Earlier in the year I had the opportunity to attend a community meeting in Stokes Valley organised by one of the Hutt City Councillors, Gwen MacDonald. The meeting provided residents with an opportunity to raise any issues they were concerned ...
Chris Carter visit to Upper Hutt schools
Sunday, July 6th, 2008 Posted in Education, Local Issues | No Comments »Last week I arranged for the Minister of Education, Chris Carter, to visit Upper Hutt and Heretaunga Colleges. Earlier in the year I had the opportunity to look around both schools and I share their concerns about the state of ...
A re-cap of recent activity
Sunday, July 6th, 2008 Posted in Featured | No Comments »If you've been keeping an eye on my website you will have noticed that I haven't done much blogging lately. It's not that there has been any shortage of things to write about, it's just that I've been too busy ...