Posts by Leigh Kennaway
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Actually, the Hero Parade was always quite fun. If I vote for C&R, will they help bring it back?
One of the major causes of the demise of the late great Hero Parade was the vitriolic homophobia that the organisers had to face from C&R councillors when they were trying to get Council backing for the event.
If the event is ever to be resurrected it will obviously have to come from within the GLBT community that started it in the first place, and despite a couple of their (straight) candidates making nice noises about supporting the idea, I can't see a C&R council actually doing so, going on their track record.
{This is a party political broadcast from one of several GLBT City Vision Candidates - who have and will continue to support any future Hero events}
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The Point Chev shops: yes, they could do with a freshen-up, so I'll grant them their demand for an urban renewal plan isn't unreasonable. I gather the Community Board has been discussing something of the kind anyway. And the arcade is actually improving anyway -- we have a deli!
Yeah, it's a good idea for the C&R team to bitch about our arcade - it was built by Les Mills after all in the 1960's - and we all know which team on Council he batted with during his mayoralty!! But - it's all privately owned - Council doesn't have the right to go in an tell the owners what to do and how to do it... and isn't C&R rather hot on individual property rights?!?!
Westmere: "How do we head into 2010 and still have Cox's Bay Creek and Meola Reef as polluted as they are?" Is this a joke? The amount of earthmoving, sealing-off and planting that's been done on Meola Reef in the past five years is amazing. What exactly is the plan for more? (And I'd note the person who has been driving this in the community is CV's Leigh Kennaway, not any of the people bitching in this flyer.)
<I Blush> Actually William McCahon, Mark and Irene Johnson and a whole lot of other wonderful Point Chevalier people did an enormous amount of work before I ever turned up - but I've been happy to do my bit, and the City Vision team on the Board have been happy to both fund the planting, and to come down and take part....
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Dick Hubbard may be socially conservative, but he's prepared to look past his own background and beliefs. After his gaff with the letter he co-signed on the Civil Unions issue in 2004, he accepted an invitation to visit The Big Gay Out, where he spent a lot of time with a group of gay and lesbian parents. He also accepted an invitation to visit them again during one of their regular playgroup sessions.
The Mayor also hosted the celebration marking the 20th anniversary of Homosexual Law Reform last year, held in the Town Hall, and he's attended a few of the partnership meetings with GLBT community groups. He may still be conservative, but I've never felt any insincerity from him, or resistance to discussing GLBT issues and viewpoints.
C&R candidate in the Hobson ward Aaron Bhatnagar points to this function as a prime example of the current Council's money-wasting...... but David Fermah, C&R candidate in the Western Bays ward has been calling for a return of the Hero Parade, with Council support....as it was conservative C&R Councillors who provided the largest of the stumbling blocks that eventually saw the parade die I find it hard to believe they would now provide enough funding and support to resurrect the event.
Having served with the previous Mayor and this one, I know who I'd put my money on as a genuine bridge-builder!!
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What's With All The Capital Letters In Tamaki's Press Release?
Is It Because He Loves All Words Equally?
When One is A Bishop, aka God's Right-Hand Buddy, One's Writing Style Should Adequately Reflect One's (Self)Elevated Style. Amen.
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Ben - did you use your own software to plot an escape route from the hordes of angry truck drivers? Was it refined enough to select a route that a Kenworth could not access??
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That's a nice walk, and one I've enjoyed a number of times. Even nicer if you detour off that route and walk through Bayfield Reserve, Jaggers Bush and Seddon Fields.
The blue dots stop at the Garnet Rd shops - did Paul run out of steam at the Meola Kitchen, and sit there waiting to be picked up?
Perhaps the Maxx site could be amended to include parks and reserves and good refuelling stops!
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Talkback - the new local government method of Binding Citizen-Initiated Referenda?!?!?!
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Or that age limit of being under 50yrs and therefore don't give a crap about the biddies on council (& doesn't AKL have a few councils) expressing our true apathy to local politics
We lefties in City Vision/Labour have a dozen or more candidates aiming for Council, various Community Boards and the ADHB well under the big 50... some are still in their twenties; Michael Wood in Mt Roskill, Arna Metcalfe and Kate Sutton in Tamaki have both youth and a huge amount of talent!
[__This has been a party political broadcast blah blah....__]
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Wish the little buggers wouldn't keep migrating from the top of the head to other less attractive locations
Why do they do that?!?!?! My hair-genes can't decide if they should follow the grand-dad who went bald, or my father who went grey.... meanwhile my eyebrows not only grow to astonishing length, they retain the rich copper hues that my hair lost a good many years back. Aging certainly does strange things to ya!
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My earliest barber memories were of the Lincoln Rd barber in Henderson.... or Da Linkdabarber as my younger brother called him..... sitting in his chair and listening to the wireless as Neil Armstrong got ready to walk on the moon.
The bestest barbers though are in Turkey... I visited several in different regions and they were all equally good. Shampoo, condition, cut, trim with cut-throat razor, scalp massage, and most amazing.... using a little ball of burning cotton on a long stick to singe away those pesky ear hairs. Sounds frightening, looked dramatic, but really cool!