Timebank Raglan is going online! We're really excited about the new Community Weaver online software. You will be able to create a profile, make offers and requests, connect to other members and record trades. We'll also post events, announcements and alerts.

In order to sign up to the new software, you must attend an orientation session. If you have a laptop, please bring it! Also bring some ideas about what you want to offer and request.. And finally, we'll need your beautiful face, as we'll be taking profile pictures!

We really want to get this Timebank revving, so bring a friend and spread the word!

PLUS you'll receive ONE timebank credit for coming to the orientation!

Timebank Raglan Orientation

Thursday April 26th @ 8pm

At WEC (in the Town Hall)

If you can't make it, but want to be a part of our Timebank, please email Bexie to discuss on wenvc@kol.co.nz.. More orientations will follow....

What is a timebank?

A timebank develops a community by allowing members to support each other by trading time and services. Time credits are recorded and can be earned and spent amongst the timebank community.Some examples of timebank trades include gardening or home help, teaching skills such as languages or musical lessons, financial advice, rides to the airport or hospital, haircuts, workshops... The possibilities are many. Members can donate their time credits to the community chest to provide services for those who need them. Timebanking also provides volunteer hours for events and workshops, to be coordinated by the Whaingaroa Environment Centre and the Raglan Timebank.

Check out this screenshot of our new software!

Part-time (15hr per week) coordinator position available at Whaingaroa Environment Centre

Kimberley and her family are moving on to the deep south, so there is a job opportunity at WEC. 

Whaingaroa Environment Centre has two part-time coordinators who run the centre and coordinate projects. We are looking for an energetic, motivated people-person who can promote sustainability issues; manage projects; manage centre admistration and budgeting; maintain and enhance networks and maintain WEC funding. 

Applications close on Friday 27th April. Send your CV and covering letter to wenvc@kol.co.nz, or drop it in at the centre.

JD Coordinator 2012 .docx

Waikato Regional Council has released their draft long term plan for commentsand submissions. We have several copies here at WEC which you are welcome to take away for reading.

Council policy and direction (including expenditure) is informed by public submissions on the draft plan. Communities that participate are communities that get noticed! If you have an interest in how Raglan develops and evolves in the future, you may wish to have a look at thedraft.

Submissions can be made in writing or online at www.waikatoregion.govt.nz/ltp

Kimberley

Message forwarded:

I wonder if you could please notify your good Maui's dolphin champions and those participating in the Maui's dolphin day at Raglan, of this event we're having in West Auckland (near Muriwai beach, also dolphin's habitat).
The details are:
Funeral March for Maui's, 10.30 Saturday April 7, wear black and assemble at Kumeu Arts Centre at 300 Main Rd, Kumeu with a cut out Maui's dolphin (on a stake for putting in the ground) for a funeral march to John Key's office and to honour the dolphins already dead and the last 55 remaining.  Maui's & Hector's dolphins are the world's rarest and smallest marine dolphin found only in NZ waters, but sliding toward extinction due to set netting and trawling. The cut out dolphins will be used to create a dolphin graveyard outside John Key's office, because that's what we'll have off the coast if his government fails to protect these dolphins properly.

It would be great to have some Raglan people there if possible...

I hope you can help, and it would be most appreciated. 
Thanks heaps,
all the best

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Beyond the Kelp is a film about people's connection to Hector's & Maui's dolphins, and it was made as a part of a post graduate diploma in wildlife filmmaking through the University of Otago. It was later broadcast on Maori TV, and won a Forest & Bird Sea-week film competition.

Amy Taylor, filmmaker, attended our recent Maui's Dolphin Day in Raglan, but was unable to show her film for technical reasons. But now you have the chance to watch it at home, or where ever you connect to the internet...

You can watch this 25-minute film at...

http://www.ziln.co.nz/video/2120

Forwarded from KASM:

This sunday 25th March at 10am at Ngarunui Beach, an anti-sea bed mining ad is being filmed and we need volunteers to be in the final shot of lots of people walking along the beach. Where to meet? Life guard tower on the beach. Bring your kids, take your sunday walk in front of a camera...should only take 40 minutes.

Want to find out more and or get involved in the anti sea bed mining movement? Go to blacksands.org.nz or when you are on facebook, search for Kiwis Against Seabed Mining page, 'like' it and you will be kept updated on calls to action.

It's time to plant your winter garden! Jon from the Seed Bank has suggested the following seeds for sowing right now! Drop into the Seed bank on Wednesday between 1 and 3pm, and Rhonda and Mandi will sort you out with your winter garden needs.  You can also email WEC for a list of seeds available and email your order in to be picked up.

-Cabbage       -Chinese Cabbage      -Tat Soi        -Mizuna    -Mizuna, Red Coral      -Kale, various       -Cauliflower        -Broccoli      -Calendula        -Broad Beans         -Plantago (leafy greens)        -Corn Salad         -Leek        -Orach       -Coriander         -Beetroot        -Sugar beet         -Carrot          -Turnip       -Peas       -Cress, various        -Komatsuna

KASM meeting this tuesday 20th March, 7pm, community house.
Come hear what KASM (Kiwis Against Seabed Mining) have been doing in the last few years and what directions we can go from here to try and protect our coastline from seabed mining.
KASM need enthusiastic and motivated to people to join in and get involved and make sure mining of our sand and oceans does not happen. All welcome.