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  • ASB Bank, Rotary and Community Volunteer Planting Day—July 11, 2012

    As part of CUE Haven’s vision of Cultivating Understanding and Enlightenment, we have always hoped to bring diverse groups of people together to work with each other and get acquainted.  On July 11th we had the opportunity to have a corporate/community partnership as ASB Bank, the Rotary Club of Mt. Roskill/Hillsborough and some of our friends…

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  • Community Walking Track Day—July 1, 2012

    It was another fun but hard working day at CUE Haven as a group of energetic volunteers joined us to continue on with putting a layer of gravel on the walking track.  Back in March, we finished building a 600 metre walking track along the gully stream and in May a group of volunteers came…

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  • Conservation Volunteers—June 25-29, 2012

    This year’s planting efforts got a big boost as a great group of Conservation Volunteers battled some of the worst winter weather we’ve seen.  In spite of having to deal with rain, hail, thunder and wind on almost every day, the team still managed to plant almost 2,100 trees. The team was led by Ben…

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  • Contact Energy Volunteer Planting Day—June 27, 2012

    For the second year in a row, we were very happy to have a great team of volunteers from the Auckland office of Contact Energy join us for a day of planting.  Contact Energy, a generator and retailer of electricity, natural gas and LPG, is one of New Zealand’s largest public companies.  The team arrived…

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  • International Student Volunteers—June 18-21, 2012

    An enthusiastic group of International Student Volunteers spent Monday through Thursday with us and helped out with the CUE Haven planting efforts and some other challenging tasks. The ISV team was led by Chantal Whitby with the assistance of Dawn Gasparro of Conservation Volunteers NZ. The team consisted of Roy, Jolene, Ellen, Randi, and Steven…

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