Published as Issue No. 100
No date April, 2014
100 and Counting!
In August 2010 four people received a group e-mail about starting a community garden. Ninety-nine e-mails later this edition of the (grandly named) Houghton Valley Community Newsletter went to 202 households.
Some had a sense back then that people living in this special part of Wellington wanted to connect more with each other, build community, and together address a range of concerns about, e.g. our environment, traffic and damage caused by southerly storms.
The group e-mail grew fast and in January 2011 morphed into the newsletter. Its role evolved to informing about local activities and as a platform to share information. Now there are many contributors.
Remember the archaeological dig, the traffic roundabout at the beach (which locals designed in collaboration with the council), the erection of signs in the View Rd / Te Raekaihau Park, Piebe’s seat, meetings at the school on a range of issues, the ice cream stall on View Rd? The newsletter helped make these happen and bring into existence the Houghton Valley website and Facebook page.
In turn this led to the development of a grand editorial policy for the Newsletter, which emerged over cups of tea at the aforementioned community garden – Something Every Second Week.
Here’s to the next 100!
From All to All.