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Time for a clear out? Whanganui s Hazardous Waste Day is back
22 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM
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Whanganui householders can get their hazardous waste safely disposed of by registering with the council. Photo / Bevan Conley
Whanganui householders can get their hazardous waste safely disposed of by registering with the council. Photo / Bevan Conley
Whanganui Chronicle
Whanganui District Council s popular Household Hazardous Waste Day is back.
Households can register their hazardous waste with the council and drop it off at a given location and time on May 15.
Hazardous waste which can be accepted from households includes pesticides, solvents, paint, oils, cleaning chemicals and aerosols.
Feijoabulous this Sunday
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Feijoabulous this Sunday. Photo / Bevan Conley
Wanganui Midweek
Everyone who loves eating feijoas is welcome to attend on Sunday, April 11.
The event starts at 11am and will finish at about 2pm.
Feijoabulous (pronounced fee-joe-ab-you-luss) attendees will speak, sing, dance, eat and drink feijoa, bringing food and drink made with feijoas, the recipe for the dish they bring, and surplus feijoas from their own trees.
Feijoabulous has been held five times, always in the Harakeke Room at the Whanganui Resource Recovery Centre. It is a popular event for families with children of all ages.
In the past, some guests have dressed up as feijoas. Last year there was no feijoa festival because of lockdown, so this year s event is a special one.
Artist ready for Open Studios take 2 after year of cancellations
8 Mar, 2021 02:55 AM
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Artist Pauline Allomes outside her Barrack St studio. Photo / Paul Brooks
Paul Brooks is editor of Whanganui Midweek, in your letterbox every Wednesdaypaul.brooks@nzme.co.nz
Artist Pauline Allomes had to cancel all her Open Studios plans last year: this year it s all on again and she has lots of new work or reworked older work.
One was a pencil drawing of the Rangitikei River. I quite liked it, but I decided to do something with it. It s pastel and paint on top of pencil and a little bit of Indian ink. Now it looks very different.