Churton Park Community Walkers
Newsletter June 23rd 2024
Last week’s walks.
The Wednesday walkers enjoyed a nice morning walking around Linden/Porirua with 7 Pleasure Pacers completing 4.2km, 29 Steady Steppers doing 6.4km and 20 Fast Footers walking 7.3km. Coffee at Gloria Jeans in Outlet City was enjoyed by many. On Thursday, on a nice evening, the Thursday group of 7 (plus Red) walked from Churton Park to Johnsonville and return for a distance of 5.7km. The 14 Friday walkers took in the superb scenery in fine weather on a cloudless morning walking the Skyline walkway journeying from Johnsonville to Karori.
Our 11th Anniversary Dinner – 27 July.
Thanks to all those who have already booked. As I mentioned last week, 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
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A Big Thank you.
CPCW are now the proud owners of a data projector which allows us to easily project images at an event such as our upcoming anniversary dinner or a PowerPoint presentation at any meeting, should someone choose. The group have been extremely fortunate to loan a projector and screen in the past through the good offices of Peter Nalder and Christine Binns. Peter has very kindly offered CPCW the opportunity to purchase SeniorNet's projector at a very reasonable price and the committee has accepted his offer. Peter has made a generous contribution to this purchase for which we are very grateful. Use of the projector for CPCW events can be arranged through the committee.
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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the current CPCW account details loaded; CPCW takes no responsibility for recovery of money if your payment goes to an outdated account!!***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
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 26th 2024.
This Week's Walks: This week we are off to one of our regular and favourite areas - Titahi Bay. We have tried to change the walks a little from what we have walked in the past, but the walks still use some of the streets and tracks we have walked before. Traffic should not be a major problem and so we will try to start the walks at 9:20am.
PPs: A 4.93km loop walk all on streets and reasonably flat. You can see the walk here
SSs: A 6.49km loop on footpaths, tracks and beach (or beach track) with some minor climbs. You can see the walk here
FFs: An 8.20km walk that is on streets and tracks and roadway. Includes some climbs. You can see the walk here and on Plotaroute here
Parking: The parking for all groups is in the large carpark on the corner of Main Road and Onepoto Road. (Next to the Rowing Club).
Coffee: As we are out Porirua way we will have Coffee at Columbus Coffee, Mitre 10 Mega, Porirua. (It is on our way home.) We will notify them that a good number of us will be calling for coffee.
Russell Paterson
Notice
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Are you a Wednesday walker who is interested in undertaking a rather longer – and perhaps more challenging! – walk on another day? A walk at a Steady Stepper pace.
If you are interested, please contact Annie van Herck - annie.vherck@gmail.com
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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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A total of 56 walkers wandered the streets of Linden and Tawa on Wednesday. Our photos this week are courtesy of Gay Hoffman, Mike Drain and Peter Nalder.
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Thank you to Hue Ng for this photo of Thursday's group who paced along routes between Churton Park and Johnsonville.
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After foregoing a Friday walk because of bad weather one week earlier, Friday's walkers this week were treated to a perfect morning to walk from Raroa up to Mt Kaukau and along the Skyline Walkway to Makara Road in Karori. With the exception of one youthful member of the group - who shepherded the group who were "on their outing from their rest home" (according to her!) - the journey home by bus and train was courtesy of our Gold Cards. If you consider the healthy benefits that the members of CPCW must be gaining from our walks, we must be quite a liability to MSD by living far too long! "Lunga vita a tutti noi" for "La dolce vita"!
Thank you to Alison Lavin and John Houghton for the following two photos:
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And to Bill Gaudie for the next two photos. The train conductor had not encountered such a rowdy bunch for a long time!
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Please check out the home page for some stunning Wellington views.
“Home Page”
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Thanks to Alison and Stu Lavin for this piece of wisdom:
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