Domestic & Commercial Wiring Installation & Repairs Appliance Repairs Heat pumps 24 Hour faults callout
Your Local Electrical Experts 29 King Edward Street, Motueka Ph (03) 528 9071 Email: motueka@laserelectrical.co.nz
www.motueka.laserelectrical.co.nz
Wednesday 8 May 2024
Māpua’s despised planter boxes go MAX FRETHEY
Local Democracy Reporter
The widely-despised planter boxes along Māpua’s Aranui Rd will be removed and replaced with dashed yellow lines. The modification is just one of several tweaks Tasman District Council will make to the road’s pilot layout after polling residents on what they thought of the new changes. Concerns about the safety of a two-way shared path for cyclists and pedestrians have also prompted the council to change the path to only allow for cyclists travelling one-way, towards the wharf. Cyclists travelling away from the wharf will be encouraged to use the road traffic lane instead. The plastic bollards will also be removed, though on-road parking is not currently slated to return. The modifications to the road’s pilot layout were unanimously supported by councillors. The features had been installed along Aranui Rd as part of the Streets for People
SEE PAGE 2
The scintillating stitches of Jennie Green’s quilt will be raffled off at the annual quilt show. Displaying her work are Kay Palmer, Helen Hodginson, Shirley Marcusson, Shirley Cooper, Rose Rodgers and Lesley Conning. Photo: Elise Vollweiler.
Quilting community bands together ELISE VOLLWEILER For Jennie Green, the motivation to stitch by hand was borne from a reluctance to traipse out into the night and turn on the generator. Even though she and her husband have
since moved from their off-grid property and into the relative convenience of an urban house with mains power, hand stitching is firmly instilled as Jennie’s passion and peace. Tens of thousands of those stitches – 18 to the inch, she reports – will be on
display at this year’s annual quilt show, which begins next Friday. Jennie is the convenor of the show, which highlights the work of the Motueka Quilting Connection’s 28 members, as well as
SEE PAGE 2
FREE UPGRADE SAVE $140
FREE SECOND BATTERY
LOVE YOUR LAND LOCALLY OWNED AND OPERATED
guardianmotueka.co.nz