More than $300,000 has been passed onto the Bishop Suter Trust as another former fundraising trust for the Suter Art Gallery is wound down.
The Suter 2000 Appeal Trust presented a cheque of $362,526.25 to the current trust last Friday, to be used in the redevelopment of the Suter Art Gallery.
The Suter 2000 Appeal Trust was formed 15 years ago at the time of the previous redevelopment project, but the project was not completed. The cheque presented to the current trust was the balance of the funds after paying for those previous plans, including collected interest.
Suter Director Julie Catchpole said continuing the trust would not have any further benefit.
Catchpole said the 2000 Trust had made an earlier payment to the Bishop Suter Trust, taking their combined contribution to more than $500,000. She said that much of the work done for the previous project had been useful for the current redevelopment.
(The Nelson Mail, Tuesday, November 10, 2015)
Nestled among pine trees in a secluded spot in Mapua is a holiday home that has taken out the title of bach of the year.
Modern and inviting, the Beech Hill cottage was the winner in the pet-friendly category in the Bookabach Golden Piwa Awards.
It trumped 40 other finalists for the top spot and was also crowned the overall winner.
The Bookabach staff judges felt Beech Hill was the best all-rounder in terms of ‘‘bach-appeal’’ to travellers, and a high scorer in terms of traveller feedback, performance and votes.
General manager Peter Miles said the judges agreed the property was a gem.
(The Nelson Mail, Tuesday, November 10, 2015)
It might have been the smallest and ‘‘least finished’’ project in its category but Mapua Waterfront Park has received top recognition at the 2015 World Architecture Festival.
Irving Smith Architects, of Nelson, was highly commended in the production, energy and recycling category at the annual event for its work on the park, including the toilets and services block.
Directors Jeremy Smith and Andrew Irving presented the project at the festival in Singapore this month.
Smith, the lead architect, described the event as a cross between an architects’ Olympics and The X Factor.
The toilets and services block, constructed from weathered steel and timber, are on a site once used for the manufacture of synthetic pesticides such as DDT. Smith acknowledged the strength of community that helped transform it from a toxic wasteland to parkland.
(The Nelson Mail, Thursday, November 12, 2015)
The Mapua Boat Club is fighting to keep access to its boat ramp after a Tasman District Council decision to close the wharf area to vehicles.
‘‘We’re not prepared to accept being excluded,’’ long-time member Martyn Barlow said. ‘‘It is unacceptable to the Mapua Boat Club (MBC) and its membership to simply be excluded by the TDC without any solution or meaningful consultation that ensures the existing user rights are recognised and maintained in our coastal village.’’
The existing user rights were granted by the Nelson Harbour Board in 1987 when the club ‘‘stepped forward to save the Mapua wharf and created an asset that has been enjoyed by MBC members and the wider public ever since’’.
‘‘If it weren’t for boats and the MBC, there would be no wharf or boat ramp.’’
Barlow said the council decision in July to close the wharf area to vehicles from October, which prevents recreational boaties accessing the club-built boat ramp, was the ‘‘final straw’’ for members. Their access to the ramp and parking area had been steadily eroded as a result of ‘‘increased business activity that has been attracted to the wharf area and allowed to continue with no thought, and in fact, with disregard to the existing users’’.
Councillor Trevor Norriss said the lack of access for moored boat owners had been an ‘‘oversight’’ and there were plans to include a dingy rank in a redesign of an area near the ramp. Some councillors held an ‘‘informal discussion’’ about the boat club’s concerns and Waterfront Park could be a ‘‘good proposition’’ for a new access ramp if the neighbours did not mind, he said.
However, fellow councillor Brian Ensor sounded a note of caution over the Waterfront Park option: ‘‘People are very protective of their open space. I don’t think that would be an easy way forward.’’
Ensor said the council was putting together a group of staff and councillors to look at the options for another ramp and had $80,000 earmarked for it. He couldn’t provide a timeframe for the work but hoped it would be ‘‘reasonably soon’’.
In the meantime, boat club members would not be able to get access to the ramp ‘‘right throughout the day’’ but there were plans to allow access at off-peak times, Ensor said.
(The Nelson Mail, Friday, November 13, 2015)
The owner of Wakefield Quay's Boat Shed Cafe has opened another waterfront establishment in Mapua.
Owner Daniel Monopoli has renovated the former restaurant space near the Mapua waterfront and reopened the restaurant to the public on Friday evening.
The cafe will be open seven days a week from 10.30am to late.
(The Nelson Mail, Saturday, November 14, 2015)
Life is 10 percent what you make it,
and 90 percent how you take it.
Irving Berlin