Dunedin Community

Dunedin — The Dunedin City Council (DCC) launched the Dunedin People’s Panel on 7 August 2012, since when, 503 people have joined the People’s Panel.

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Dunedin — This year’s audit of the Dunedin Public Libraries’ waste shows a decrease of 67.70% per full time equivalent employee since the annual audits began in 2006.

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Dunedin — The DCC has been successful in its application to the Ministry of Youth Development’s Youth Development Partnership Fund 2012.

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Dunedin — The Ministry of Social Development has revised a recent policy decision that would have affected 40 Dunedin jobs.

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Dunedin — One way the Council gauges the views of the "silent majority" is through the annual Residents’ Opinion Survey, or ROS.

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Dunedin — The season’s first real frosts have appeared and the shortest day is looming so it’s becoming important for all of us to modify our road-use behaviour accordingly.

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Dunedin — The onset of winter means the DCC’s winter road maintenance programme is about to recommence.

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Dunedin — Keep Dunedin Beautiful, in conjunction with Rotary Dunedin, is holding its annual Trees for Babies event on Mother’s Day, Sunday 13 May at 11am.

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Dunedin — On Sunday 15 April at 3:45pm, Keep Dunedin Beautiful will officially open the newly painted Company Bay bus shelter to celebrate John Noakes’ work and to launch Paint NZ Beautiful (PNZB) 2012.

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Dunedin — Dunedin’s babies will get a boost of activity, thanks to free Wriggle & Rhyme: Active Movement for Early Learning sessions.

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Dunedin — The South Dunedin Retail Centre Revitalisation Plan was approved for release as a web-based plan by the DCC Planning and Environment Committee last week.

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Dunedin — Keep Dunedin Beautiful has extended the deadline for entries to the Most Improved Street Awards to ensure there is plenty of time to enter the competition in the New Year, after the busy Christmas period.

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Dunedin — The Dunedin City Council’s latest funding round has been completed and the Community Assistance Sub-Committee, comprising of councillors and community representatives, has allocated funds of $171,288.00 to groups and organisations, from the community, recreation, youth, arts, environmental, cultural, heritage and events sectors.

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Dunedin — The Highlanders 2012 squad will be lending a hand with Keep Dunedin Beautiful’s beach clean-up of four local beauty spots between 1 – 3 pm on Monday 5 December.

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Dunedin — In 1999, Edinburgh-based sculptor Sylvia Stewart took a rock from the Water of Leith in Dunedin, New Zealand, transported it 12,000 miles to Edinburgh, carved it and then installed it as piece of public art on the quayside in Leith, Scotland.

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Dunedin — Maintenance work will begin next week on the Pai Lau, the iconic ceremonial entrance to the Dunedin Chinese Garden.

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Dunedin — More than 300,000 people living in Otago and Southland now have free access to 35 public library branches, 3 Bookbuses and a collection of more than 1.5 million items, thanks to the collaborative efforts of Councils in Otago and Southland.

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Dunedin — Keep Dunedin Beautiful Co-ordinator Darlene Thomson is appealing for anyone who may have information about two missing murals to contact her.

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Dunedin — At 1pm today, the bells of St Paul’s Cathedral and First Church of Otago will peal for half an hour to herald the arrival of the first adult Royal Albatross back to the breeding colony at Taiaroa Head.

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Dunedin — The Dunedin Public Libraries latest initiative, the Food for Fines Amnesty, has been a huge success, with more than 7,500 cans donated to Dunedin’s food banks.

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Dunedin — The children of Room 1, St Bernadettes School, Dunedin, will be rewarded for naming Dunedin’s Rugby World Cup 2011 school mascot, Lachie Scrummage.

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Dunedin — One of the Otago Settlers’ Museum’s major attractions is about to depart – albeit temporarily.

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