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Alysha Jeffs took first place for her photo ‘Daffodils’.
By ZOE GARDEN
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The winners of the Lions Club of Howick student photo competition have been announced. The annual Howick Lions 2023 Calendar encouraged local secondary school pupils to snap pictures of bold images, suitable for a calendar, and good composition in east Auckland. The top 12 photos will be included in the calendar. An exhibition of all the entries was held at Fencible Lounge on Friday. Howick College snatched
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the top three spots with Alysha Jeffs taking first place ($1000 Prezzy card) for her photo Daffodils. Chantal Levi was second ($500 Prezzy card) for Sunrise Over Water, and Von Collins third ($300 Prezzy card) for Outgoing Tide. Alysha’s winning photo will be the cover of the Howick Lions 2023 calendar. Howick Lions committee member Jan Tait told the Times the students produced “some wonderful work and we were very pleased with the event”.
LIGHT MAKES LOCAL BOARD By CHRIS HARROWELL
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ased on preliminary voting results in this year’s local elections, there’s just one change to the makeup of the new Howick Local Board. Newcomer Damian Light has been elected to the board in the Botany subdivision. He replaces outgoing member Bob Wichman, who did not seek re-election at the Auckland Council elections on October 8. There are nine seats on the board with three each for the three subdivisions of Botany, Howick, and Pakuranga. Botany subdivision representatives Mike Turinsky and Peter
Young were re-elected and are joined by Light. John Spiller, Bo Burns and Adele White retain their Howick subdivision seats. In the Pakuranga subdivision Bruce Kendall, Katrina Bungard and David Collings were all re-elected. Light says the most recent board, chaired by Adele White, was better at “getting on and getting things done”. “It’s been a bit more directed than previous terms. They’ve been better this time at actually having things on their list so they can progress things. Obviously it was a bit of a struggle because they didn’t have much money due to issues with the council budget, so that was a bit of a challenge.”
During the campaign Light spoke out on his opposition to the Auckland Transport (AT) plan for the Eastern Busway to divert through Burswood as well as on delays to delivery of the Flat Bush Library and Community Centre. He describes himself as “issuesbased” and says he gets on well with the board’s other members. Light plans to keep pushing for the Flat Bush Library and Community Centre to be delivered. “It’s been in the local board plan for a while now and the issue is getting the money out of council. “I’m definitely keen to continue to fight for that because I think it’s a project that needs to get done. Flat Bush has waited too long.”
And he wants to see if it’s possible to have the Eastern Busway’s Burswood diversion scrapped. “That decision had been made ... but it sounds like the new mayor Wayne Brown is going to shake things up at AT. “AT talked up that it would be much faster to go through Burswood, which I don’t understand because how do you demolish 40 houses and that’s faster than using an existing roadway? I think if we’re going to do strategic projects, we should do them well and it’s worth getting them right.” Light says he appreciates the support and confidence local voters showed in him and he’s looking forward to representing them.
“I’m hard working, I’m dedicated, I love living in Botany and I think it’s fantastic. It’s a very diverse community. I know voter turnout was very low and I understand that. People feel the council doesn’t connect or represent them. “I look forward to helping represent the community but also talking to them to help them understand what’s going on and what we can do to make Botany everything it can be.” Light also unsuccessfully stood for one of the two seats on the council’s governing body. The new board will elect a chairperson and deputy chair when its members are sworn in later this month.
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