Waitakere City Community

Waitakere City — Waitakere youth services will get a boost through the Community Response Fund says MP for Waitakere Paula Bennett.

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Waitakere City — New Zealand charity, KidsCan StandTall, handed out their 50,000th raincoat with the help of All Blacks hero Ali Williams to children in need today at The Waitakere Trust Stadium.

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Waitakere City — Are you passionate about your local park? Then join Waitakere City Council’s volunteer park ranger programme.

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Waitakere City — All Black coach Graham Henry is used to letting his players take the accolades.

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Waitakere City — Mayor Harvey is aghastthat New Zealands child health and safety figures are among the worst in the OECD.

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Waitakere City — Researching the history of taonga in a marae and repainting an old church are among projects to receive a boost from the Waitakere City Council Heritage Fund.  Seven applicants have been successful in the 2008/09 funding round with the value of works totalling $32,382.70.

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Waitakere City — Neighbourhood Support Waitakere has been awarded a two-year funding agreement by Waitakere City Council in recognition of its valuable contribution to community safety.  The $35,000 agreement will run until 30 June 2011, subject to the negotiation of a service agreement and associated work programme with the council.

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Waitakere City — Waitakere’s new network of walk and cycleways scooped a Golden Foot Award this week - acknowledging what the city’s pedestrians already knew – our walkways are the best.

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Waitakere City — Old tales of rail in Swanson and extracts of West Auckland literature will feature in an innovative artwork to adorn a new pedestrian overbridge planned for Swanson Rail Station.

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Waitakere City — Waitakere awards Creative Communities   Opportunities for at-risk youth to record their own music and an anthology of hand printed poems are among projects allocated money in first round of Creative Communities Scheme in 2009.

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Waitakere City — Music, dance and song performed by some of Waitakere’s talented young people are the feature of national Youth Week celebrations later this month.

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Waitakere City — An upgraded auditorium at Green Bay High School is a step closer thanks to a $160,000 grant from Waitakere City Council.

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Waitakere City — A new facility in Henderson promises to be a mine of information for Waitakere youth.

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Waitakere City — New Zealand’s “most enterprising entrepreneur”, managing director of HRL Morrison and Co and owner of the New Lynn bus depot, Lloyd Morrison, has endorsed Waitakere Mayor Bob Harvey’s concept for a Chinatown to be developed in New Lynn.

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Waitakere City — A design concept for a new community centre in Henderson’s McLaren Park area will be on show at a community meeting on October 30.

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Waitakere City — Work on the first Local Area Plan to be drawn up under the Waitakere Ranges Heritage Area Act gets underway next month with a public workshop in Oratia.

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Waitakere City — Work started today on the final phase of playground developments at Olympic Park in New Lynn.

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Waitakere City — Waitakere’s youth finally have a place to call their own with the opening of a multi-purpose youth facility in Henderson today.

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Waitakere City — Actor Annie Whittle, All Black great Michael Jones, television personality Pio Terei and Outrageous Fortune’s Tammy Davis are the latest high profile westies to feature in Waitakere’s anti family violence campaign.

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Waitakere City — The reopening of St Michael's Chapel (on March 2-3) marks another milestone in the history of Henderson.

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Waitakere City — On Wednesday the 26th of September 2007 Waitakere City opened a brand new purpose built emergency operations Centre.

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