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What's On Next Week

There's heaps of things on at your local Library next week. If you want to do some planning for the second week of the school holidays, here's whats happening and where.

Monday 1st October
Helenville 10.30 am Storytime for preschoolers
Kumeu 10.30 am Storytime for Preschoolers
Warkworth 10.30 am Storytime for Preschoolers
Orewa 2 pm Spring into Spring - Stories and activities

Tuesday 2nd October
Helensville 10.30 am Spring flower stories and fun
Mahurangi East 10.30 am Storytime – What’s hatching?
Orewa 11 am Storytime for preschoolers
Whangaparaoa 11 am Storytime for preschoolers

Wednesday 3rd October
Kumeu 10.30 am Spring garden stories and fun
Orewa 2 pm Spring into Spring – Stories and activities
Warkworth 10.30 am Watch them grow – Garden stories & fun
Wellsford 10.30 am Storytime for Preschoolers
Whangaparaoa 11 am Storytime for Preschoolers
Whangaparaoa 2 pm Indoor games

Thursday 4th October
Helensville 10.30 a, Spring garden stories and fun
Orewa 11 am Rhymetime
Warkworth 10.30 am Storytime for Preschoolers
Wellsford 10.30 am Watch them grow – stories and activity
Whangaparaoa 11 am Rhymetime
Whangaparaoa 2 pm Dogs are your Friends with Craig

Friday 5th October
Whangaparaoa 11 am Free Music & Movement with Hendrina

HAVE A FANTASTIC WEEKEND EVERYONE.

Now there's the book

The effects of the Louise Nicholas trial ranged from tidal waves to ripples and are still being felt around the country.

On Monday Louise Nicholas' book "My story" hits the bookstores. In this book Louise Nicholas tells her story of a teenager whose abuse first began when she was a 13 year old and continued throughout her teens. Award-winning journalist Philip Kitchin's investigations into the cover-up of Louise's complaints led to the establishment of Operation Austin. Louise's story is interspersed with Philip's story detailing his investigations into the case. The result is a fascinating read with wider implications for the way we view the police in this country. Public interest in this complex and sorry tale is huge and this has been further piqued by the damning findings of the Commission of Inquiry into Police Conduct and the outcome of the Dewar case.

Rodney Libraries will have the book on our shelves, hopefully by the end of the week. In the meantime, if you would like to read it you can request it either online at our website or ask at your local library.

If you would like to hear Louise speak, there is an event on Tuesday which may interest you.

AN EVENING WITH LOUISE NICHOLAS

'Celebrate Louise's courage, the publication of her new book LOUISE NICHOLAS: MY STORY, and the changes she is bringing about in NZ society.

TUESDAY 2 OCTOBER 8pm

Dorothy Winstone Theatre, Auckland Girls' Grammar School, Howe St, off K'Rd

Tickets $20 waged, $15 unwaged from The Women's Bookshop.

Visa & Mastercard bookings accepted by phone 3764399, email books@womensbookshop.co.nz, or website.

A DONATION from ticket sales will go to RAPE CRISIS and THE AUCKLAND SEXUAL ABUSE HELP FOUNDATION.

Farewell to the Old Blog

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SPRING FORWARD ...

... Fall back.

That's how I always remember which way to turn my clocks for Daylight Savings. AND IT HAPPENS THIS WEEKEND.

Daylight Saving Time. From this year 2007, Daylight Saving will run for a period of 27 weeks. It now starts from the last Sunday in September, when 2.00am becomes 3.00am, and ends on the first Sunday in April the following year, when 3.00am becomes 2.00am.
Daylight Saving will start on Sunday 30 September 2007, and end on 6 April 2008.

So remember to adjust your clocks this weekend

E-day! A fantastic idea.

E-Day is a simple, free and effective way to dispose of your household computer waste and old mobile phones in an environmentally sustainable way. Electronic waste (e-waste) that is not disposed of properly can seriously harm the environment, wildlife and human health. Take part in this event to ensure you're the resources in your e-waste are recycled rather than landfilled.

There are two drop-off sites in the Auckland region they are open:
Sunday, 30 September 2007 10 am to 2 pm
• North Shore Events Centre, Silverfield Road entrance, Glenfield, North Shore City.
• TelstraPacific Events Centre , 770 Great South Road, Manukau City.

What can I bring?

• computer hardware
• monitors
• networking equipment
• scanners
• keyboards
• mice
• computer speakers
• laptops
• printers
• toner and ink jet cartridges
• games consoles
• mobile phones
  

Please remove all data from your computer's hard drive and any removable media such as CDs.

Eday is unable to accept televisions, stereos, appliances and furniture. Eday reserves the right to reject items that are not computer related.
The collection is open to all Auckland residents. The collections are setup for household car loads only. Commercial loads, trucks, trailers and vanloads will not be accepted.

For more information visit www.eday.org.nz

What can I read to my child? NZ picture books

New Zealand Book Month celebrates New Zealand books and authors. Here are two titles recommended by the NZ Book Month team.

Mrs. McGinty and the bizarre plant by Gavin Bishop.
Mrs McGinty is a very grumpy old woman whose life is bleak and lonely. Until one day, she buys a little plant which grows and grows and grows.

Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy by Lynley Dodd.
Hairy Maclary and his canine friends go for a walk and encounter the toughest tom in town.