Northland news in brief: Library closes for refurbishment; and fundraisers galore
4 May, 2021 05:00 PM
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Dargaville Library will close for two weeks while it is refurbished.
Northern Advocate
Dargaville Library is encouraging customers to stock up with books and DVDs during May before the library is closed temporarily for a freshen-up. The library will close from 5pm on May 28 and reopen on June 15. Lisa Salter, Kaipara Libraries Manager, said they are rearranging some of the facilities to make better use of the space they have. We re moving large print and audiobooks to a quieter space so people will be able to browse better. The public computers will be relocated to be closer to the counter so the team can help customers if they need it. Shelving will be improved and we re installing more CCTV, Salter said. The library will also be recarpeted, and some fittings moved, which means books will have to be boxed and shelves taken down and re-assembled. The library
“They have got 4000 lunches and they re doing that as a trial run because school hasn t started yet.” The Ministry of Education has this year extended its free school lunches programme to schools across the country and it will start next week when term one starts. She said Compass Group had contacted Just Zilch through the New Zealand food rescue network. Culver said of the other 2000 lunches they were given, 1000 would be given out in the Just Zilch shop and the other 1000 would be given to community organisations such as Te Pataka Kai 4412 on Maxwells Line and UCOL. She said being able to give away 4000 lunches would be “huge” and would help a lot of people.
Steve Braunias: 2021 is all downhill and summer is our first reward
31 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM
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OPINION: Let the good times roll. All year last year we were waiting for 2020 just to pack its bags and get the hell out of town, and now that great day has finally arrived. Already things feel better, brighter with promise, lighter with each passing hour. 2021 is set to be the year of sweet relief.
Yeah, okay, unless the plague returns. But while it s true it could strike at any moment - this very second, even; crazy to think you can completely and utterly seal the jar of New Zealand s borders – how many of us are worried about it to the point where we can even be bothered with the QV scan?