Churton Park Community Walkers
Newsletter June 16th 2024
Last week’s walks.
Our Wednesday walk this week took us along various streets and paths around Khandallah. It was a glorious day and a total of 48 walkers headed out to enjoy it – 21 Fast Footers, 22 Steady Steppers and 5 Pleasure Pacers. Thursday saw 5 walkers (plus Red) head out and about in Churton Park and covering a distance of 6.2km. Friday's walk was cancelled due to heavy rain.
Our 11th Anniversary Dinner - Saturday July 27th
Arrangements are progressing with the organisation of this special event to be held at the Johnsonville Bowling Club. Please book early as this helps us to finalise everything for the function. As usual, it promises to be a fun night for all.
Brian Vincent
Convenor
Our mid-winter function will be held:
Where: Johnsonville Bowling Club, 34 Frankmoore Avenue
When: Saturday July 27th 2024 at 6.00pm
Catering : Dunsheas Deli of Khandallah
Drinks: Open Bar – own cost
Raffles/Games: Bring your cash
Cost: $45 per person
Please make payment to:
CPCW BNZ A/C: 02-0524-0233091-000
Please provide your name & number of tickets required.
***If you have set up CPCW as one of your regular payees in internet banking, please take the time to double check that you have the current CPCW account details loaded; CPCW takes no responsibility for recovery of money if your payment goes to an outdated account!!***
For further information, including details of the menu, please see:
Mid-winter function
Our Sponsors:
Our Sponsors:
We have a number of sponsors which we list on our Home Page and in our Newsletter. In recognition of the generosity of our sponsors, the committee has decided to also highlight one sponsor each week in our newsletter.
This week we have chosen Sprig + Fern Tawa as our featured sponsor:
Sprig + Fern Tawa is well known to members of CPCW. They are the very welcoming venue which hosts our monthly Friday drinks. Under new ownership of John and Rachel Sommerfield, Sprig + Fern Tawa has recently gone through some new and exciting changes. They have a range of 19 taps with award-winning craft beer and cider, alongside a range of wines, spirits, and a fresh new food menu.
CPCW encourage you to support Sprig + Fern Tawa who are generous supporters of CPCW.
Sprig + Fern Tawa, 99 Main Road, Tawa
Tues – Sun: 11.30am to 10.00pm; closed Monday
Phone: 04 232 1111
A reminder about walking arrangements:
After everyone has arrived at the starting location, each group should confirm its leader and also nominate a ‘tail-end Charlie’. Please remember the medical kits – there is at least one for each group – and a reminder to take photographs. These allow us to record that day’s walkers in each group. Please forward these by email.
Finally, just a reminder to swap telephone numbers amongst those with whom you travel to the starting point each week. A handy back-up for any late changes to arrangements.
Reminder: Please ensure that you inform your group’s leader if you leave a walk partway through.
Walk Details for Wednesday June 19th 2024.
This Week's Walks: This week we are walking fairly local with the walks being around the streets of Linden and parts of Porirua and Tawa. With the walks that close to Churton Park it should not be a problem to start the walks at 9:15am.
PPs: A 4.23km loop walk all on streets and reasonably flat. You can see the walk here
SSs: A 6.43km loop that is mainly on streets and does include a couple of small climbs. You can see the walk here
FFs: A 7.30km walk that is partly on streets and partly on walkways and does include a hill or two. You can see the walk here and on Plotaroute here
Parking: The parking for all groups is the Gee Street carpark with Gee Street being off Tawa Main Road by Linden Park.
Coffee: We have told Gloria Jeans Café that a good number of us will be coming for coffee. Gloria Jeans is the far end of The Outlet Centre (DressMart).
Russell Paterson
Website
When you open the website to view your walk have a quick look at the “Home Page” This usually has new images each week showing views from one of our walks.
Cancellation
If the walks are cancelled an email will be sent out as early as possible but definitely before 8:00am.
Walk Schedules
You can look at the walk schedule for June 2024 here.
Photos
Walkers - please try and take a photo of each group on walking days and email them to this link. Preferably small size (around 450kb). It has been great to receive a larger number of photos from PPs and SSs - keep them coming, please!
CPCW Photos
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Wednesday brought us a glorious winter day for our walks around Khandallah. Photos of the SSs and FFs were taken by Rod Stainer and Bill Gaudie respectively.
We always encourage walkers to take care of themselves when out walking - but occasionally somebody will mis-step and take a tumble, usually without doing themselves harm. On Wednesday, one of the FFs mis-stepped while organising himself for the photo - and tumbled, fortunately without injury. Even with the best of Health & Safety precautions, mishaps do occur.
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Thursday's walk. Thanks to Gillian Mills for these photos taken of the group out walking in Churton Park.
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Sadly, the forecast bad weather for Friday did arrive - and there was no group walking to be had. The Editor did learn of some "ad hoc" walking and coffee-drinking that was had by some hardy members of the group. It takes a lot to keep CPCW members off the streets!!
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