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Omar’s Family and Friends —20 June 2020
Ever since Omar David Garcia Hoyos passed away three years ago, his family and friends have been remembering and celebrating his life with a volunteer day at CUE Haven. This year we appropriately did it at the start of Volunteering Week in New Zealand. Friends and family on site today included Omar’s parents, Alba and…
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Kiwi Avoidance Training—13 June 2020
Kiwi are New Zealand’s national bird and being flightless, are seriously endangered by introduced predators. Only a fraction of kiwi chicks born in the wild survive because of predators and ninety-five percent of those killed are killed by either dogs or cats. In 2013 and 2014, our neighbours, Gill & Kevin Adshead released nearly forty…
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Orewa College International Students—10 June 2020
We were very happy to welcome international students from Orewa College in Auckland as our first volunteers since the end of the Covid-19 lockdown. For the last seven years, international students from Orewa College have come to CUE Haven to help out and also learn a little about New Zealand plants and animals. Today’s group…
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ANZ Business Banking North and West and MMM Executives—11 March 2020
Today another hard working team from ANZ joined us to continue to improve the walking tracks at CUE Haven and to help us out with some other tasks as well. This group was made up of executives from the North and West Business Banking groups and the Mobile Mortgage Managers. The enthusiastic group arrived bright…
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Dulux and Friends Help Out With a Big Paint Job
Work on the viewing platform at the top of the CUE Haven property is progressing. The top and sides of the viewing platform pavilion will be covered with an cladding made up of a lattice of angled boards to reflect the Maori weaving pattern in the traditional colours of red and black. Dulux, a major…
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