Newsletter Issue 2 – May 2021

Welcome to our second issue of It’s All About Mangere Bridge, our Friends of the Farm community newsletter.

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Below you will find a list of our online versions of the articles from this issue. Enjoy!

Newsletter Issue 2 (May 2021) Article List

St James Church: Celebrating Life & Death

May 12, 2021

Māngere Bridge is a community with a story. A special chapter is the story of St James church.

May 12, 2021

In Māngere Bridge various housing developments are underway or planned. Will we be able to retain our village feel?

May 11, 2021

We meet Sapati Apa-Fepulea’i, a singer and music/ song writer who grew up in Māngere Bridge.

May 10, 2021

The Māngere Mountain Education Centre sits within beautiful gardens on the side of Te Pane ō Mataoho on Coronation Road.

2024 Winter Repair Café – Records Broken

We wondered, why do skilled locals volunteer their Saturday mornings to diagnose faults and mend household items? Repair Cafes are a worldwide movement, gaining in popularity each year as people try to reduce waste being sent to landfill and repair damaged household items.
Māngere Bridge Repair Café #9 was so fine!

A jacket turned into a sleeveless vest, a 13 year old favourite suitcase repaired, a 65-year-old Kenwood mixer running again and more at our 9th Repair Café…
Kiwi Esplanade and Mangroves- Update for Residents 2025

An update for residents on mangrove management in our Māngere Bridge area…
Community Orchard Budding Workshop

This literally takes a bud from a plant that you want to reproduce, and attaches it to a host plant. If you’re successful, it grows a branch of the original bud plant on the host. Amazing!
Preserves Workshop

We are always looking for ways in which we can bring people together, with a common interest, to learn new skills, and how we can utilise the resources we have, as in knowledge and in this case feijoas.
Wash Against Waste

Battery and blister pack collections are growing steadily each month as more of our community become aware of the service at the library. Be sure to tell your friends and family…
That’s just peachy!

What do you do when you have masses of ripe peaches? Put the word out to see who wants some! A Heritage peach tree in Mangere Bridge had a bumper crop this year so the tree owner asked who wanted some.
2024 Volunteer Celebration and Thank You

Over 60 locals gathered recently to celebrate the end of another year of working together to make Mangere Bridge a caring, connected, wastewise community.
Got Any Blisters? I mean Blister Packs…

Battery and blister pack collections are growing steadily each month as more of our community become aware of the service at the library. Be sure to tell your friends and family…
Papua New Guinea Pidgin Language Week Celebration

Recently Mangere Bridge Library held a special event to celebrate the first Papua New Guinea (PNG) Pidgin Language week. PNG is the most linguistically diverse country in the world and Pidgin is a commonly used dialect.
We Love Libraries!

These days, libraries are vibrant places that are the centre of communities. In addition to books and magazines, they offer activities to suit every age group, from babies and preschoolers’ music sessions to school holiday programmes to computer assistance for older adults…