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Team Napier represents our collective mauri, the local spirit and strength of our great community.
Good ideas & hard work
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Based at Lagoon Farm, off Prebensen Drive, Blokart HB is home to one of the country’s most exhilarating land-based adventure sports.
It’s fair to say Matt Finlayson and Nathaniel Wright are pretty good mates. The 30-year-olds met at Napier Boys’ High School and have been friends ever since. They still play in the same football team some 12 years later.
Women seeking advice and encouragement to take the plunge back into the workforce will soon have the support from Dress for Success, a not-for-profit organisation opening its doors at 7 Market Street, Napier, in a few months’ time.
Napier Family Centre’s CEO, Kerry Henderson, began 2021 with a fresh perspective and clear vision for her organisation’s future thanks to a planning workshop she attended, hosted by The Icehouse and facilitated by leading Icehouse coach, Michaela Vodanovich.
A wānanga held in Maraenui recently saw 40 locals walk away with their own hand-crafted korowai, along with a deep appreciation and connection to Māoritanga.
A dream of having a mural beautify the external wall of Napier’s St Augustine’s Scout Hall has finally become a reality after 30 years.
The inaugural Napier Pre-Loved Market is being held this Saturday, January 16 at Asher Hall, Tennyson Street, Napier from 11.30am until 3.30pm and it will be jampacked full of quality pre-loved men’s and womenswear, accessories and homewares.
When Taradale High School got the green light to return after the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown, a group of like-minded students were inspired to give back to their local community in the hope of lifting peoples’ spirits.
Despite navigating a pandemic and severe flooding event, you have continued to support the Napier Community Foodbank, providing much needed food for people facing varying degrees of poverty and hardship.
Introducing Elsie Tonks – volunteer extraordinaire! Elsie has been busy in the kitchen providing lunches to members of the Tait Drive Social Club group for 23 years.
The inspirational Henry Hill School Principal is well-known for motivating his staff, students and school community with his can-do attitude and words of encouragement. So when a one in 250-year flooding event destroyed much of the Napier school’s buildings and infrastructure, and learning for the remainder of the year looked unlikely, Jason said “bring it on”.
Napier people have been given the opportunity to start their Sundays with sunrise yoga this summer, thanks to Napier yoga studio, YinYoga.
Locals frequenting the Tutaekuri River in Taradale have watched with intrigue as some serious looking bike jumps have begun to take shape amongst the trees on the riverbank. The jumps are the work of 20-year-old mountain-biking enthusiast, Charlie Makea, his brother, Alex, and friend, Aaren Markenstein.
Feelings of disbelief and amazement came over Napier teens, Jacob Driver and Roisin Kenny recently, when they were told they were the recipients of the highly contested Diana and Colin Crombie Scholarship, managed by Hawke’s Bay Foundation.
Shocked to see so many Napier homes underwater, Napier’s Restaurant Indonesia gathered their staff together and quickly got to work in their kitchen, preparing meals for people affected by the flooding.
Accomplished Napier artists, Vee Hoy, Dali and Ryan Edwards were inspired by local children for their latest art installation at Pirimai Park.
Napier’s Marine Parade is home to New Zealand’s very first beach-based fitness pod, ‘Domynis’.
Napier will host four events that are part of Hawke’s Bay Readers and Writers Week from 16-18 October, after the Hawke’s Bay Readers and Writers Charitable Trust successfully applied for funding from Napier City Council’s pandemic Recovery Projects Fund.
The Napier City Council has helped Song Hubs Aotearoa to bring its song writing collaborative event to Hawke’s Bay for the first time, with a grant of just under $10,000.
The Napier Theatre Company will establish itself in our CBD with the goal of making the arts financially accessible to all.
Because of the recent Alert Level changes we have much fewer visitors to Napier. This means our tourism and hospitality businesses need support now, more than ever! Your local businesses are the heart of Napier’s economy.
A new limestone pathway will run from the corner of Ulyatt Road & Harold Holt Avenue along the outskirts of Pirimai and through farmland for 4km to Te Awa Avenue, next to the Maraenui Golf Club. An offshoot of the path will also run along the Tannery Stream to connect with an existing pathway on Harold Holt Ave.
Napier City Business Inc. (NCBI) successfully applied for funding to create a marketing video to promote Napier’s CBD retail stores and eateries and help keep the city centre vibrant and alive.
Their goal is to minimise the food waste in Hawke's Bay and keep the community nourished for nil.
In 2009 Napier Central School approached Napier City Council wanting to adopt a green space. Gleeson Park was suggested, and the students, staff and their families have been making the park a better place ever since.
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