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Horizons new biodiversity fund up for applications
12 May, 2021 05:00 PM
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Horizons councillor Fiona Gordon says a new biodiversity fund will be a huge help for community groups. Photo / supplied
Horizons councillor Fiona Gordon says a new biodiversity fund will be a huge help for community groups. Photo / supplied
Whanganui Chronicle
A new fund for community biodiversity projects is now open.
Horizons Regional Council s Kanorau Koiora Taketake - Indigenous Biodiversity Community Grant is a contestable fund, and a change from previous years when the Rangitīkei Environment Group got $95,000 a year from Rangitīkei ratepayers in a targeted rate to fight the weed old man s beard.
As they sit around sharing stories of the old and new in the Hamilton Fire Station you can see their passion for the job, and why they stayed in the gig for 50 years. Turkington, 69, joined the fire service in Plimmerton when he was 18 and at the end of a mechanic apprenticeship. His father convinced him to finish the apprenticeship and two days after it was complete he joined the fire brigade full time. In 2000 he made the move from Wellington to Hamilton, where he attended the Tamahere coolstore fire in 2008, which saw one firefighter die and several injured.
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Rangitīkei Environment Group may have to compete for funding
19 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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Funding from Horizons rates provides an important baseline for Rangitīkei Environment Group, chairman and Rangitīkei councillor Angus Gordon says. Photo / Bevan Conley
Funding from Horizons rates provides an important baseline for Rangitīkei Environment Group, chairman and Rangitīkei councillor Angus Gordon says. Photo / Bevan Conley
Laurel Stowell is a reporter for the Whanganui Chroniclelaurel.stowell@whanganuichronicle.co.nzWhangaChron
Horizons Regional Council could make the Rangitīkei Environment Group compete for funding if changes to the way it funds community biodiversity projects get approved in its next Long Term Plan.