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Twenty million trees part of wide-ranging Kaipara Harbour restoration project 3 May, 2021 06:00 AM 5 minutes to read The Northern Wairoa River flows past Dargaville Photo / Susan Botting Susan Botting is the Local Democracy Reporter for [email protected] More than 20 million trees and other natives will be planted around New Zealand s biggest harbour in the groundbreaking $200 million Kaipara Moana Remediation project. Alan Wilcox, a senior manager for the Kaipara Moana Remediation interim management unit, said planting the 20 million trees was the foundation of a new intergenerational approach. The first plantings are planned this month. They will be the start of New Zealand s biggest large-scale harbour restoration programme - across 6000sq km of land with more than 8000km of waterways. ....
Meet Dot Gorrie, Northland s most prolific council meeting attendee 22 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM 7 minutes to read Kaipara s Dot Gorrie - Northland s most prolific council meeting attendee. Photo / Susan Botting Dorothy (Dot) Gorrie reckons she is not addicted to attending council meetings. But she has been to about 60 in the past three decades, is now seeing Kaipara District Council s sixth mayor in action and has watched eight different council elections come and go, with new councillor line-ups each time. The septuagenarian is Northland s most prolific council meeting attendee, going to almost all the local Kaipara District Council (KDC) s Dargaville-based meetings. It s about keeping informed, Gorrie said. A lot of people complain about councils but don t take the time to find out what s going on. ....
Dorothy (Dot) Gorrie reckons she isn t addicted to attending council meetings. Photo: LDR / Susan Botting But she has been to about 60 in the past three decades, is now seeing Kaipara District Council s sixth mayor in action and has watched eight different council elections come and go, with new councillor lineups each time. The septuagenarian is Northland s most prolific council meeting attendee, going to almost all the local Kaipara District Council (KDC) s Dargaville-based meetings. It s about keeping informed, Gorrie said. A lot of people complain about councils but don t take the time to find out what s going on. Rain, hail or shine, Gorrie turns out to the council meetings, having checked out their agendas prior. She also attends a smattering of council briefings. ....