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NOVEMBER 2020 326 BROOKLYN TATTLER what’s happening in your community
IN THIS ISSUE from the
From the Community Centre
Library News
2-3
4 COMMUNITY
History
Local Interview - Val Willcox
5
6-7
CENTRE
BROOKLYN COMMUNITY CENTRE
Residents’ Association 9
PHONE 384 6799
What’s On 10-11
Friends of Central Park 12 Hello and welcome to the November issue
Vogelmorn Bike Track 13 of the Tattler, it’s hard to believe there is
Friends of Owhiro Stream 14 only one more to go until the end of the
Vogelmorn Precinct 15 year.
Resource Centre News 16 Market Tui Toru (Room 3) Brooklyn School who visited the Friday Circle this month. Photo Credit: Euan Harris
School News 16 The final market of the year is coming up resident Nick Beauchamp’s company ESL play, but due to Covid restrictions,
Cats Protection Wellington 17 next month on Saturday 12 December Industries Ltd. Keep an eye out for the they filmed it instead and presented
from 12pm – 4pm. Stalls are nearly February Tattler when we will hopefully it. We were all really impressed by the
Community Groups 18-19
all booked out but we do still have a have some photos of our exciting acting, presentation, and great character
couple left so if you or someone you revamped space. headbands the children made.
know would like to have one, contact
us at the market email address on this Meals on Wheels Have a good month.
page. We have quite a few new stall Meals on Wheels is a valuable
Julie and Euan
holders coming next month selling all community service made possible thanks
sorts of goodies including art works; to a team of volunteers who deliver food
Monday to Friday to seniors and the
jewellery; glass reusable coffee cups;
resin art and gifts; candles; Christmas
wreaths; clothing and much more, so
housebound throughout wider Brooklyn.
Pickups are from the Community Centre
CONTACT US
This months cover photo is of
treat yourself or stock up on Christmas in Harrison Street from approximately Hall Hire and General Enquiries:
Brooklyn School Room 3 visiting
the Friday Circle Seniors’ Group pressies. There is also a rumour that 11.30 am – 12 pm. coordinator@brooklyncommunitycentre.org.nz
at the Community Centre. Father Christmas will be making an Sue, our local coordinator, is currently Childcare Programmes:
Photo Credit: Euan Harris appearance sometime in the afternoon. looking for people who can deliver, so childcare@brooklyncommunitycentre.org.nz
Kitchen if you can spare a couple of hours each Accounts:
December 2020 copy due no later Planning for the kitchen renovation week, fortnight or month, please contact accounts@brooklyncommunitycentre.org.nz
than 5pm Tuesday 24 November is going well and we are all set to Sue on 021 620 599 or email her at
Email your contribution to sue@mcglashan.co.nz Manager:
begin once Before and After School manager@brooklyncommunitycentre.org.nz
tattler@brooklyncommunitycentre.org.nz Care finishes for the year. All going Friday Circle Tattler:
Brooklyn Tattler is published by the to plan the majority of the work will Seniors at our weekly Friday Circle tattler@brooklyncommunitycentre.org.nz
Brooklyn Community Association Inc. be completed prior to the Holiday group were treated recently to a visit
18 Harrison Street, Brooklyn. Association Programme starting on 11 January. New from Tui Toru (Tui Syndicate, Room 3) Market:
members accept no liability for the cabinets, servery, and flooring have been market@brooklyncommunitycentre.org.nz
contents which have been prepared in at Brooklyn School. Originally, they had
ordered, along with a shiny new custom- been planning to visit the group earlier Main Office: 04 384 6799
good faith. Printed by Pivotal.
made stainless-steel benchtop which in the year as part of their community Childcare Office: 04 385 0089
is being manufactured by Brooklyn connections learning and perform a
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UPDATE HISTORY
from the Printing Good news! Our public computers are
now talking to the printer! This means printing is END OF A
St Matthew’s Church has been active as a
church since 1909 when a new wooden
LIBRARY available to all and access to public computers is now
free. If you have a library card the login is your card CHURCH ERA
building was erected replacing a small church
room that had become too small for the
number and last four digits of your phone number, growing parish. The vicarage was erected
same as for accessing our online services. If no library St Matthew’s Church in Washington Avenue is a year later. The building in the photo was
card, we have free guest session logins. After sending being put up for sale by the Anglican Diocese demolished in 1969 due to a borer infestation;
your printing to the printer you then login at the who have owned the land, building, and the current building was erected and
printer and follow the instructions. The first ten vicarage since 1897. completed in 1970.
pages of black and white printing are free, however
When the Methodist Church was sold and In its heyday, the Anglican Parish and Sunday
colour printing costs $1.50 per A4 side.
demolished and the Presbyterian Church School was so large there were three branch
Brooklyn Heritage During Heritage Week we closed its doors, both parishes closing due to Sunday Schools in addition to the main one
had a small display of Brooklyn history which falling parishioner numbers, St Matthew’s at Washington Ave and 10am church services
was of interest to many. This was put together decided to form a Uniting Cooperative Parish were full to overflowing. Now, for the first
with help from the Brooklyn Local History encompassing the three denominations. time in the history of Brooklyn, there will
Kia ora be no traditional church parishes left. The
Group. We do have an archive of local material This has worked well over the years, with
Summer is with us and we now have tinted both written and pictorial. If you are interested subsequent ministers officiating from all Presbyterian Church is now the Wellington
windows to help protect the books from sun in where you live, we may have some early maps three denominations. However there has Reformed Church; the Methodist Church was
damage, and also to perhaps reduce the late or photographs of interest. been a steady decline of parishioner numbers demolished in the 1970s; the Baptist Church
afternoon glare. in recent years, as more and more people is now the Korean Lutheran Church; and
Nga mihi
have turned to the more Pentecostal form of the Catholic Church is planning to close St
There will be other renovations to be done but
Heather and the team at Brooklyn religious gathering. Now, the Methodists and Bernard’s. The Anglicans still have a presence
I will talk more about this in the December
Presbyterian umbrella groups have decided to in Brooklyn however, with the recent purchase
issue.
relinquish their involvement in Brooklyn, and of the old Galleria on Todman Street.
Tech friendly We are tech friendly at Brooklyn. the Anglicans have decided to sell. Chris Rabey
Having trouble using your electronic device?
Scared you will do something wrong? Can’t
turn something off/on? Having trouble
loading an app? We welcome your tech
enquiries and will endeavour to help you
become more familiar with your device.
Remember no question is too silly. Monday
evenings up to 7.30pm is a great time to get
some one-on-one assistance. However, you
are welcome to ask us at any time and, time
permitting, we will assist you.
Book club We are thinking of starting a book
club at Brooklyn Library. Is anyone interested?
We would like expressions of interest and
some ideas on a format. This book club would
be for you, so input is welcome. For example:
when and what time; do you all want to read
the same book or books of a similar theme?
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LOCAL INTERVIEW LOCAL INTERVIEW
OUT & ABOUT IN
BROOKLYN
This month Euan Harris talks to Val
Willcox, long-time resident and Resource
Centre member
Val Willcox lived for 38 years at 30
Harrison Street and would still be there
had the Council owned apartment building and said that not once during her career did
not become an earthquake risk meaning she ever have to provide a CV or references,
all tenants had to be rehoused in other how times have changed. In the early 1970s,
suburbs. When Val was offered alternative after parting from Eric, Val went to live in
accommodation she asked to be close to the Ngaio where she met Conrad (Con) and
No.7 bus route for ease of travel to Brooklyn together in 1979 they shifted into the WCC
to enable her to maintain her community Harrison Street Flats. After retiring, Val kept
networks and to be close to familiar faces, busy delivering open home leaflets for her
shops and facilities. eldest son and real estate agent, John Willcox,
Originally from the King Country, Val and spent more time at the Brooklyn
was born in Ohakune and grew up on her Resource Centre which she first joined in the
parents’ dairy farm in National Park with early 1980s.
her brother and three sisters. Val enjoyed Val liked living in the Harrison Street flats
her childhood and the close-knit rural where tenants would keep a look-out for Katie Underwood
community life. She attended a one-room each other and take part in regular BBQs. THE QUIET ACHIEVER
“Would you
country primary school with a sole charge Council workers created a raised garden for
Licensed Residential Sales Consultant | Leaders Real Estate City Limited (REA Act 2008)
teacher and spent her secondary education shared vegetables to grow in and there were
at Taumararunui High School and Raurimu runner beans along the boundary fence. A
High. Val left school at the age of 15 to like to know
highlight was a mural project organised by
start her working life in an office job at the City Housing and facilitated by artist Ellen how much your
local sawmill where she met Eric, her future Coup to depict life in the flats and the local house is worth?
husband. Eventually the young family community. All tenants were invited to It would be
shifted to Titahi Bay where Eric became an submit ideas for the mural and help with my pleasure to
owner-driver for Porirua Taxis. In between the painting under Ellen’s guidance. Val’s
raising her three sons Val would often get offer you a free
contribution was a photo of her sitting with
behind the wheel of the cab to keep the appraisal.
”
her grandchild on her lap which became part
business running. of the mural. When the apartments were
While living in Porirua, Val also worked demolished during July last year, the mural
for the local James Smith branch on the facing out to Harrison Street was lost forever. Contact me on:
Stockings and Socks counter, and then at Fortunately, plenty of photos were taken m: 027 248 2061
James Smiths Johnsonville, in the wool to preserve the memory for Val and all the t: 04 894 3717
e: katie.underwood
section. Val always held down full-time jobs people who participated. @raywhite.com
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UPDATE
Monthly update on issues
and projects involving our
community
NEXT MEETING – all welcome!
February 2020 – date TBA - 7.30pm
At the RSA Room, Brooklyn Community Centre
WCC Spatial Plan https://planningforgrowth.wellington.govt.nz/spatial-plan
Written submissions on the plan are now closed. GBRAI writ-
ten submission made with oral submission in November. Any
thoughts, comments or queries on this important issue please
let us know.
Harrison Street WCC have applied for Resource Consent. For info:
Housing Rebuild https://wellington.govt.nz/your-council/projects/harrison-
street-flats-redevelopment WCC advise they are working
to address turning issues in Harrison Street – separately but
related to the housing rebuild – will provide their proposal in
due course. A petition by local residents has been sent to the
council to request turning access be put in.
Bus Network Number of changes to bus routes and timetables from 25 October
that affect services in our area - Check your route and timetable at
the Metlink website: https://www.metlink.org.nz/#timetables
St Matthew’s Church With sadness, we note St Matthew’s Church is to be sold by its
owners, the Anglican Church. We wish the Church well. With
the loss of this space, the Creche is looking for space in which
to operate. Please contact them directly if you have any leads
or connections that may help on (04) 389 5683
or contact@brooklynecc.org.nz
WCC Southern Landfill WCC Southern Landfill resource consent application for extension
pushed back to early next year.
Omāroro/ PoW Water Latest work at Prince of Wales Park - the construction of sediment
Reservoir control ponds. Info and updates: www.wellingtonwater.co.nz/omaroro/
Election Candidates Another successful election candidates meeting was held prior
Meeting to the election – thanks all who turned up and made it an
entertaining and enlightening event!
Email us your ideas, queries or concerns, or to sign up to our newsletter at:
brooklynresidentswellington@gmail.com
BROOKLYN TATTLER NOVEMBER 2020 9
WEDNESDAY
what’s on at your TABLE Inquiries Philip on 934 7445
BROOKLYN COMMUNITY CENTRE
18 Harrison Street
8 PM
TENNIS or email: codwgpdl@gmail.com.
WEEKDAYS
BEFORE SCHOOL CHILDCARE CRAFT Fortnightly crafters social group. Contact
10 AM - 12 PM
AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMMES Phone Adam Hendry 385 0089 or CONNECTIONS Louise email: louisebrockway.nz@gmail.com
THURSDAY
childcare@brooklyncommunitycentre.org.nz
HOLIDAY Post natal classes for new mums and their
10 - 11:30 AM KANGATRAINING babies with Hannah Foley.
Email hannah@kangatraining.co.nz
Contact Patricia Reilly 027 297 6049.
9 AM PILATES
Contact Liz Birkett on 027 503 0211 or 5 - 6:30 PM KARATE Email: preilly64@gmail.com
lizbirkett.yoga.pilates@gmail.com
MONDAY
Contact Ferne McKenzie on 389 1433
Improve your movement, posture &
6:30 - 7:30 PM TAI CHI or ferne.david@xtra.co.nz
10:30 - 11:30 AM FELDENKRAIS breathing. Contact Toni McWhinnie on
475 3355 or email temcwhinnie@gmail.com Contact Liz Birkett on 027 503 0211 or
9 & 10 AM PILATES lizbirkett.yoga.pilates@gmail.com
Contact Margaret 389 3028
6 - 7:30 PM BROWNIES
FRIDAY
or email marrexj@gmail.com LA LECHE Monthly on the last Friday. Contact
10 AM wellington@lalecheleague.org.nz
LEAGUE
FRIDAY Seniors Social Group, meets weekly
TABLE Inquiries Philip on 934 7445 11 AM - 2 PM for light lunch and activities. Contact
9 AM - 12 PM TENNIS or email: codwgpdl@gmail.com. CIRCLE Euan Harris, details at bottom of page
TUESDAY
Music classes for 0-3 years with Kate
10 AM - 11 AM BABYBELLES Whelen. For more info visit baby-belles. DANCE CLASSES Email: info@db4dance.co.nz
com or follow @babybelles on Facebook. 9 - 10 AM FOR CHILDREN or view online at www.db4dance.co.nz
SATURDAY
ST JOHN
10:30 AM VINYASA
During school terms. Carol 0274 321 204 All levels welcome. $5 drop in. BYO mat.
6:30 - 8 PM or Email: carol.bewley@stjohn.org.nz Email: jetbluenz5@gmail.com. See Jenn’s
CADETS YOGA updates on Facebook at ‘Blue Ocean Yoga’.
12 - 4 PM QUARTERLY
Brooklyn Market 12 December 2020
PORSE Contact Maria Byrne on (04) 233 from 12pm to 4pm. Contact 384 6799 or
9:30 - 11 AM PLAYSCHOOL 0494 or email: maria.byrne@porse.co.nz MARKETS market@brooklyncommunitycentre.org.nz
WEDNESDAY
11:30 AM - FELDENKRAIS Contact Toni McWhinnie on 475 3355 EKKAALLAM Tamil Christian worship and service.
SUNDAY
12:30 PM or email temcwhinnie@gmail.com 10 AM - 12 PM Contact Robert tec.wgtn@gmail.com
CHURCH or 027 858 9916
FAMILY FIT Beginners Karate (5+ years). Contact FAMILY FIT
5:30 - 6:15 PM Sensei Patricia 027 297 6049. 5:30 - 7:30 PM Contact Sensei Patricia 027 297 6049.
KARATE KARATE
Cardio & Core strength workout (12+ years).
7:30 - 8 PM GET FIT FAST Contact Sensei Patricia 027 297 6049. To book Brooklyn Community Centre for classes, groups or events contact
Euan Harris on 384 6799 or coordinator@brooklyncommunitycentre.org.nz
UPDATE VOGELMORN BIKE TRACK
So, fungi – more than meets the eye. Good to eat
(if you pick the right varieties) and also an essential
connector in the eco-system which ultimately
BIKE TRACK
provides our air and beautiful spaces to relax in. For Tawatawa - Vogelmorn’s new skills features are complete and were ready to be officially
the next working bee at Central Park, see the details opened on 30 October. Come visit on three wheels, two wheels, or two feet as there is
below. Bring your own mug and gloves if you have plenty to try out!
them. We provide hot drinks and home-baking.
Next working bees
Thursday 12 November 10am – 12pm (and
every second Thursday of the month)
Meet at the playground.
friends of Sunday 29 November 10am – 12.30pm
CENTRAL PARK Meeting place to be advised.
Then the last Sunday of every month.
Fabulous Fungi Check https://www.meetup.com/upstream/ for
Fungi. I know, right? The word doesn’t always confirmation of meeting place.
conjure the most pleasant images. But in Central Facebook https://www.facebook.com/
Park this spring there are some beauties on show UpstreamArtTrail/
(see the picture). And there is so much more to
fungi than a delicious mushroom soup. Fungi are Contact Lynne at all.whites@xtra.co.nz
one of the ways trees support each other in the Everyone welcome!
bush. The cap and stalk we’re familiar with are
only a small part of the story. The business end
of fungi is hidden beneath the ground in small
thread-like filaments called mycelium.
Attached to hair-thin trees roots, mycelium trade
phosphorus and other nutrients foraged from
the earth for carbohydrates photosynthesised by
the trees. Famously, the German forester Peter
Wohlleben suggested that trees ‘communicate’
with each other via their vast fungal networks.
Through these networks, trees share not only
nutrients but also warnings about droughts,
disease and insect infestations.
While some scientists would not go so far as to
say that trees have ‘intelligence’, there seems to be A
little dispute that trees are selectively co-operative.
P
They don’t stand alone. Through their fungal E
networks, trees look after their own and other W
favoured species.
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UPDATE UPDATE
VOGELMORN Spontaneous Stor ytelling
Workshop Sunday 8 November 9am
PRECINCT - 12pm, Vogelmorn Bowling Club
An intergenerational non-digital
playtime experience for families to
create stories together. The perfect
lockdown antidote for families
stuck at home… in case that ever
happens again. Bring your auntie,
your grandad, your uni-age step-
sibling. Michi and Derek from
Meegwai welcome and celebrate
vogelmornbc@gmail.com families of all sorts. Best for ages
https://vogelmorn.nz/
friends of T he Ear t h Ecstatic: Gat hering in
6+. Tickets available at https://
events.humanitix.com/spontaneous-
OWHIRO STREAM t he U nknow n Friday 6 November
7pm - 9.30pm, Vogelmorn
storytelling-workshop-for-families
Movement and Poetry with Rata
Bowling Club Gordon Sunday 8 November 2pm -
Well goodness me here we are in November; extra $100 million to control wildling
An evening hosted by Jonathan 3pm, Vogelmorn Bowling Club
the elections are over and the last FOOS pines - a big increase from the year
Ehrlich & Kaya Levin - You Get your body moving and your
working bee of the year will be on Saturday before when it was $10.5m. This was
can expect some movement, words flowing with Rata Gordon
11 November. This working bee will be a prior to the disastrous fires at Lake Ohau
light connection, music, ritual, (author of Second Person poetry
joint one with Owhiro School, working and the McKenzie country which have
meditation, and some exercises collection). For writers, non-writers,
along where the stream borders the school, brought the problem to the general
that help us deepen as a and anyone interested in exploring
and hopefully will involve not only FOOS, public’s attention, showing that this
community for the night. There the connection between mind, body,
but also supporters from other groups who is something everybody should worry
will be some music played at and creativity. Tickets available
work in the catchment. (SEA - Southern about, not just those tiresome Greenies.
different points throughout the at https://events.humanitix.com/
Environmental Association, Te Manawa Currently, according to F&B, these
night and spots are available for movement-and-poetry-rata-gordon
Kariori Owhiro Bay community). The school weeds take up 6 percent of our land area
sharing of ar t, poetr y, music, or
is lucky to have some enthusiastic and hard- in the Tondariro Plateau; Marlborough Vegan Christmas Lunch and The
any pieces of your magic that want
working volunteer parents who have regular high country; upper Waimakariri; and Vogelmorn Orchestra Sunday 19
to be shared during the gathering
working bees to help create an environment MacKenzie Basin, and they are spreading December 12pm - 3pm, Vogelmorn
(five-minute slots).
where the children can appreciate and learn rapidly, “threatening the places we love Green & Hall
about the natural world. by sucking up freshwater, shading out Email ritesbetweenworlds@ Vogelmorn’s Orchestra will play a
native plants, and increasing fire risk.” gmail.com to claim your spot mix of classical and popular tunes,
Hopefully these children will grow up
Meanwhile, the many conservation in advance (or with any general followed by lunch cooked by Hasan
to be advocates for nature, supporting
groups can only keep working away q u e s t i o n s ) . O t h e r w i s e , t h e re m a y at Damascus. He will be preparing
plans by government or other agencies
doing their bit and speaking up for the be some spontaneous chances a vegan Syrian feast for our final
to keep New Zealand/Aotearoa in good
environment. to contribute as well. Keep an community meal of the year. Keep
health environmentally. All of which
e y e o n t h e Fr i e n d s o f Vo g e l m o r n an eye on the Friends of Vogelmorn
takes commitment - and money. As an Janet Campbell
Fa c e b o o k Pa g e f o r f u r t h e r d e t a i l s Facebook page for further details and
example, an article in the latest issue of
for Friends of Owhiro Stream and ticket information. ticket information.
Forest & Bird (F&B) magazine talked
about the government allocation of an email owhirosteam@gmail
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UPDATE CATS PROTECTION WELLINGTON
result of COVID this year, this phase
would not take as long. However, all REMI’S READY to us to find a new home.
Remi’s a friendly boy, although due to
good things take time.
The Trust Deed has been drawn up by
FOR FUN his condition he gets uncomfortable
with too much patting. He’s on a specific
the solicitor and after all the Trustees diet to help keep the itchiness at bay,
have signed the document it will be and is eligible for our permanent foster
lodged with the appropriate agencies programme, Care for Life, due to ongoing
for their approval. medical needs.
At some stage we will also undergo a If you want to meet Remi, check out his
brooklynresourcecentre@gmail.com change of name reflecting the change profile at catsprotectionwellington.org.nz,
of status of our organisation from an and then call us on 04 389 9668 for an
There is not a lot new to report on incorporated society to a registered appointment.
this month. We are entering the final charitable trust.
phase of the transition to a grants- We’re open for adoptions on Saturday
based organisation. We were hoping The BRC Society Inc. and Sunday by appointment between
that, after all the delays mainly as a 12pm and 3pm. From 3pm to 4pm, no
Remi is a handsome, sun-loving tabby and appointment is needed, but there are no
white boy who likes catnip and company. adoptions at this time.
When his person became unwell, the
You can also follow us on Facebook and
family took him to a vet to be put down.
SCHOOL NEWS The vet instead began treatment for Remi’s
severe skin allergy, and then brought him
Instagram for pictures, stories and videos of
cats in our shelter.
The final term of the school year
is well underway and by the time
the next Tattler comes out thoughts
will be of upcoming summer
holidays and Christmas celebrations.
Renovations are a common theme at
all out schools at the moment; along Visit us at
with the major work that has been www.tvf.org.nz
happening at Brooklyn and Ridgway
The Vogelmorn Foundation has
Schools, St Bernard’s had their main commenced distributing funds to
block painted and toilet renovations local organisations and individuals.
completed over the school holidays.
It is hoped work on the Kiwi block
at Brooklyn School will be finished
in the next few weeks at which time
work will begin on re-cladding the
For more information or to apply for
admin block. Drainage works are funding please visit our website.
planned to continue at the school Applications MUST be made online.
over the summer.
PO Box 14-330, Kilbirnie
Julie Seevens Wellington, 6022
admin@tvf.org.nz
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COMMUNITY GROUPS COMMUNITY GROUPS
BROOKLYN BROWNIES, BROOKLYN LOCAL HISTORY BROOKLYN SMALLBORE 16 Nov – Walk from montessori.school.nz/playgroup 10am-12pm on the second
GUIDES AND PIPPINS GROUP RIFLE CLUB Ages 14+ Porirua Station to Takapu or email Thursday of the month.
brooklyn.brownies@gmail.com Next meeting with Sundays 6.30pm-8pm mid- Station. Catch 9:03 No7 rata@montessori.school.nz Contact Celia Murphy at
Pippins Christmas nibbles on March to early October at bus, then 9:53 train. celia.r.murphy@gmail.com
THE KUNG FU SCHOOL
Kathryn Lawrie 802 5049 Saturday 28 November at the Royal Tiger Range, 131
23 Nov – Seatoun to Learn Shaolin Kung Fu for SCRABBLE WELLINGTON
Brownies 2pm. For venue details Russell Terrace, Newtown.
Miramar walk via Worser self defense and functional Club nights every
Margaret Jones 389 3028 Contact Sharon Macintyre To join contact Dianne
Bay. Catch 9:56 No3 bus fitness. Wellington Swords Wednesday from 7pm in
Brooklyn Guides 027 634 4455 or 388 8088 Grain on 0274 449 641
from Wallace St. Club Building, 2 Tanera the cafe area upstairs at the
Kathryn Lawrie 802 5049 sharonmacintyre42@gmail. d.grain@xtra.co.nz
Crescent, Brooklyn. former Vogelmorn Bowling
www.bsrc.org.nz 30 Nov – Plimmerton
BROOKLYN FOOD GROUP com or Chris Rabey 384 Contact Rob Young on 021 Club, 93 Mornington Road.
coastal road walk. Catch
Local food and 9293 ships.pubs@gmail. BROOKLYN TABLE TENNIS 408 521 or All abilities welcome! First
9:03 No7 bus to connect
community. Working bees com for more information 9am-12pm Tuesdays and wellington@shaolinkungfu.co.nz
with 9:53 train. night free, otherwise $5/
held weekly on Monday BROOKLYN MAINLY MUSIC 8pm Wednesdays at www.shaolinkungfu.co.nz
night. Contact Nick Ascroft
evenings from 5:30 to 7 pm Fun affordable 30 minutes, Brooklyn Community BROOKLYN JUNIOR CRICKET ST JOHN PENGUIN AND for more information. Email:
at the Brooklyn Orchard, for parents or care givers Centre. We welcome new CLUB At the old Wellington YOUTH DIVISION nick_ascroft@hotmail.com
end of Harrison St. to enjoy with their pre- members of all ages and Bowling Club, Tanera Penguin Program 6-8 yrs. or phone/text 022 675 1399.
thebrooklynfoodgroup@ schooler(s). Morning Tea ability. Tables, bats and Crescent, Brooklyn. More Karen 389 4060
gmail.com or provided. balls provided. Phone details online at VOGELMORN TENNIS CLUB
Youth Division 8-18 yrs.
www.facebook.com/ Wellington Reformed Philip on 934 7445. www.bjcc.co.nz Welcomes players of
Carol 0274 321 204
BrooklynFoodGroupNZ Church 34 Harrison St. all ages and abilities. Join
BROOKLYN TOY LIBRARY FRIENDS OF OWHIRO www.stjohn.org.nz
BROOKLYN GARDEN CLUB Rachel 022 407 9652 The Toy Library has re- our social, family-friendly
STREAM Working bees TURBINE TALKERS
Meets 1st Wednesday opened in new premises at club. Club days, competitive
BROOKLYN NORTHERN UNITED on the second Saturday TOASTMASTERS CLUB
7:30pm from March to the Vogelmorn Precinct. play, professional coaching.
of the month 10am- Your local chapter of
JUNIOR FOOTBALL CLUB
October at St Matthew’s You’ll find us immediately 12:30pm. Contact Toastmasters International. vogelmorntennisclub.com
Email enquiries to info@
Church. New members to the right-hand side as Martin on 389 8995 or Tuesdays 7:15pm-9:15pm call in, or email
bnujfc.co.nz or visit us you enter the main gate
and visitors welcome. email: owhirostream@ fortnightly in secretary1vtc@gmail.com
Contact Ruth Jeffery on online at www.bnujfc.co.nz on Mornington Road. We gmail.com St Matthew’s Church lounge. WELLINGTON SWORDS
027 430 0964 or email: BROOKLYN PLAYGROUP have a fantastic range of John 029 771 3171,
PREDATOR FREE BROOKLYN CLUB By the Tanera
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