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Urgent plea to fix Wellsford footpath hazards Joelene MacGillivray with her hazardous pavers petition in Rodney Street. Slippery when wet – rain can wreak havoc. Trip hazard – broken bricks. A Wellsford businesswoman is calling for safer footpath surfaces along the town’s main street, after a catalogue of trips, slips and falls by pedestrians. Joelene MacGillivray, who runs GoodTenant Property Management in Rodney Street, has started an online and paper petition, and will make a deputation to this month’s Rodney Local Board meeting on July 21. “I’m sick of seeing people slip or trip on the pavers,” she says. “It’s been an ongoing issue since they laid them. A couple of weeks ago, an old lady took a slip right outside the shop. ....
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Huge crowds return to Anzac services Click the image above to view slideshow Dame Trelise Cooper at Leigh. Servicemen with the NZ Navy and Air Force marched over the Memorial Park bridge at the end of the Puhoi ceremony. At Matakana. Photo, Emma MacDonald. Keith Tennant, left, and Thomas Dowling. After two years of cancellations and disruptions, Anzac Day 2021 dawned bright, warm and clear across the Mahurangi region, prompting an impressive turnout at local parades and services. Speakers at Puhoi – historian Richard Hern – and Leigh – JP Vince Anaki – reminded the crowds that New Zealand had, in both world wars, sent a disproportionately high percentage of its population to fight – and it had suffered correspondingly huge losses. Meanwhile, at Warkworth, RSA president Bob Harrison said the challenges and sacrifices of Covid-19 were in many ways similar to those of wartime. ....