Rotorua

If you would like to help out with one of our projects, or have any suggestions of where we can help out please contact us, we'd love to hear from you!

Remaining scheduled meetings for the year

• 13 December

These will all be held In the Rotorua District council committee meeting room at 5.15 pm. Meetings usually last about an hour. All welcome.

The final meeting for the year is 13 December venue to be decided at a later date.

Successful projects run by Keep Rotorua Beautiful other than national projects include

• School Essay competition "Who has the Best School Caretaker"
• Year 7 & 8 speech contest. This will be held in the council chamber on 16th August 2011 at 7pm. All welcome to hear these imaginative and interesting young speakers.
• Best Garden of the month as viewed from the road and sponsored by Oderings
• Annual scholarship awarded to a year 13 student going on to study environmental topics.
• Care of the gardens at Te Amorangi museum.
• Council unit garden competition
• School litter programme
• Actively involved with Neat St and neighbourhood support
• Conservation department projects during conservation week
• Second Hand Sunday - to be held in October – date to be advised

Members of the public are invited to attend any of these projects and for more information contact Christine Findon on contact details above

Hurunga Te Rangi Marae Clean Up

Keep Rotorua Beautiful was very pleased to be involved with a cleanup of Hurunga Te Rangi Marae and the surrounding area on Saturday 11th June 2011. Five large skips of rubbish were removed sponsored by Keep Rotorua Beautiful and the Recycling company Kiwi Commodity Recycling Solutions Ltd provided trailers and trucks to remove a large quantity of metal, including fridges, washing machines etc as well as paper, glass etc.

We invited the Corrections Dept to join us and their clients did a great job of wombling the local streets as well as assisting the residents unload their vehicles. The organiser of the event Anthony Waiomio (in the beanie ) is joined by two of our Keep Rotorua Beautiful Committee members Julia Steele and Rick Mansell.