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COVID-19 Health Hub

With peak Omicron nearby this information will likely be useful for all of us:

The COVID-19 Health Hub is a depository of information around what to do if you test positive for, or are exposed to as a close or household contact of COVID-19: https://covid19.health.nz/advice/

The Health Hub outlines the simple steps to take to recover, isolate, look after yourself or access support and provides direct links to COVID-19 resources such as My Covid Record, Book My Vaccine and Ministry of Health and Unite Against Covid websites.

Please share this handy tool amongst the older people in your networks. For those who aren’t able to access the internet, phone support is available:

Healthline 0800 358 5453
Welfare line 0800 512 337.

In fact, just share it with everyone, not just older folks. Maybe print a copy and put it on your fridge. We all hope none of us will need this info, but if we do, we won’t want to be searching it out.

2021 road crash stats between Ōtaki and Levin

In 2021 on average there was one day each fortnight where you would have experienced delays driving on SH1 between Ōtaki and Levin.

Eight people sadly lost their life on that stretch of road, and there were 37 crashes — that’s about 3 each month on average.

The road was completely closed 5 times.

Those stats are why I take a book now if I’m travelling on that stretch of road.

To see more on this and to read the documents with the info, or for comparisons with recent years take a look at Road Crash stats – Waikawa News.

Pepuere (February) 2022 Newsletter

Kia ora e te whānau,
rain, rain and more rain! So far this month we’ve had about 160mm rain and there’s another 150mm or so forecast for this weekend. It’s hot and humid, so all the weeds are growing well. Top temperature so far this year was a baking 29.9C on 04 February 2022.

AGM update (more below): an in-person event will be held at 3pm on Saturday 19 March 2022 at Manakau Hall. Vaccine passes will be checked at the door.

With renovations on the roughly 60 year old toilet block at Waikawa Beach planned for this year, the handy word for this month is wharepaku: toilet / lavatory.

Continue reading “Pepuere (February) 2022 Newsletter”

Toilet block upgrade begins in March 2022

The long-awaited toilet block upgrade will begin in a few weeks. While work goes on two Portaloos will be in place for public use.

Back in November 2021 we wrote: Plans for new toilet block at Hank Edwards Reserve. Now we have an update from Stephan Titze, Horowhenua District Council, Parks and Property Project Lead:

The contract for the toilet upgrade has been awarded and Lee Builders from Palmerston North will start with the rehabilitation work by mid – end March.

The construction will start with the demolition of the male toilet block which means from mid- March 2022 onwards the toilets as such will no longer be accessible for the public. However, as discussed and agreed I have allowed for the provision of two portable toilets for the time being.

the current material shortage has an impact on this development (later start) and will most likely have also it’s impact in later stage. However for now we can’t say how big the impact will be

It’ll be a relief once this work is complete and locals and visitors alike can benefit from a clean, modern, well-lit, safe and accessible public toilet.

Two Covid cases in Levin, 11 February 2022

MidCentral District Health Board posted on Facebook on 11 February 2022:

MidCentral COVID-19 Update #2 Friday 11 February 2022

As reported earlier today, we have two new cases of COVID-19 in MidCentral, both of these cases have been confirmed as members of the same household in Levin. This brings the total number of active cases in the rohe (region) to thirteen.

A Public Health investigation is currently underway to identify any high-risk locations of interest and close contacts. Close contacts will be notified by Contact Tracers directly and any locations of interest where people need to self-identify as close contacts will be published to the Ministry of Health webpage here: bit.ly/LOIMDHB.