Housing: National puts up its solution to housing shortage woes
13 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM
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National Party leader Judith Collins with housing spokeswoman Nicola Wills, left, and Infrastructure spokesman Andrew Bayly. Photo / Mark Mitchell
National Party leader Judith Collins with housing spokeswoman Nicola Wills, left, and Infrastructure spokesman Andrew Bayly. Photo / Mark Mitchell
The National Party has released its counter to the Government s housing steps - a bill to use emergency powers to short circuit the consenting process and build houses quickly and to require councils to zone more land for housing.
National Party leader Judith Collins has put the steps into a member s bill which she will try to get before Parliament.
Western Bay Council opens $140k Community Matching Fund
12 Apr, 2021 12:13 AM
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There is $140,000 available for projects through the Community Matching Fund. Photo / File
Rotorua Daily Post
The Western Bay of Plenty District Council s $140,000 Community Matching Fund is open for applications.
Until May 28, the annual fund is eligible for not-for-profit community groups that are able to match the council s cash grant in volunteer hours, cash or in kind contributions.
The council s community team manager David Pearce said the fund was a valuable resource for those groups that stand out as self sufficient in their own right but who struggle to raise finance for bigger projects.
Covid-19 coronavirus: Financial support for Dunedin Railways not covered in council budget
12 Apr, 2021 09:04 PM
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If Dunedin city councillors decide today Dunedin Railways Ltd requires financial support, it will have to come from money that is not in the council s budget. Photo / ODT
If Dunedin city councillors decide today Dunedin Railways Ltd requires financial support, it will have to come from money that is not in the council s budget. Photo / ODT
Otago Daily Times
If Dunedin city councillors decide today Dunedin Railways Ltd requires financial support, it will have to come from money that is not in the council s budget.
Bânai mitzvah ceremonies have transformed during the COVID-19 pandemic from crowded affairs to limited gatherings of friends and family. Over the past year people have become used to watching a Haftorah reading via Zoom instead of inside a sanctuary.
At first glance, that may seem like a big downgrade, but Greater Phoenixâs rabbis donât view it that way. A few of them shared some of the past yearâs ceremonies that will stick in their memories forever.
Downtown Phoenix Chabad Rabbi Dover Dechter will always remember a bar mitzvah that he witnessed right at the beginning of COVID.