Northland REGIONAL COUNCIL Te Kaunihera a rohe o Te Taitokerau NUW Find your future RIorlhpower Students, teachers and careers advisors from Herthlan seven secondary schools attended Find your future', an interactive careers event for Year 10 -13 students destined for tertiary study. The early August event saw participants take part in interactive workshops run by inspiring industry professionals from Northland's primary industries. Emergency services funding allocated »Northland Emergency Services Trust - A rescue helicopter trust and surf lifesavers are among six recipients from our latest round $535.000 annually to support the provision of of Emergency Services Fund grants. They enabled students to explore career possibilities in Northland's professional helicopter rescue and ambulance services and The council, through its Long Term Plan process, necessary helicopter upgrades. has decided to continue with the Emergency Services Fund (ESF) for the next three financial primary industries, discover where a tertiary qualification can take you, take part in practical sessions and visit a professional workplace. Surf Life Saving Northern Region - $224,000 annually to provide professional ifeguard services in six key Northland locations during the peak holiday period. years. Workshop leaders indluded representatives Ratepayers contribute about $12 each a year, creating a fund (the ESF) to support organisations St John Northern Region - $0.000 annually whose primary purpose is to save lives that are in immediate or critical danger, in the Northland region. from Northland Regional Council's marine and pest plant staff, Rabobank, seed producer Pioneer and Ballance Agri-Nutrients with participants able to visit NIWA's Northland Marine Research Centre or Loca Avocado, to support and train volunteers to participate in their life-saving services. Coastguard Northern Region - $84,000 annually to support their ongoing life-saving where viticulture and agriculture partner with horticulture. For each of the following three financial years the emergency services rate raises an estimated maritime rescue services in Northland. actual collection of $982,000. (Of this, $10,000 will go towards emergency services related promotion and community engagement, leaving $972,000 per year available to allocate.) Far North & Northland Land Search and Rescue - $30,000 jointly annually towards purchasing life-saving equipment and training for volunteers. As part of the Long Term Plan process, council held a workshop in June to hear presentations » Far North Radio and Sea Rescue - $9000 annually to support the radio service, in particular its continued search and rescue and from emergency service providers and discuss how the ESF should be allocated for the next three financial years. Passionate about wetlands emergency response. Hands-on experiences in environmental education outside the classroom; a time to Based on the presentations and discussion at the workshop, the following allocations have since been confirmed: learn how everything is connected, inter- related and dependent on everything else. That was the aim of a recent visit by Whangarei Intermediate (WIS) students to the privately-owned Dragonfly Springs Wetland Sanctuary, a restored wetland replicating the natural swamp that existed on the Onerahi shoreline centuries ago. 10 new Enviroschools Early Childhood Centres sought The backers of the popular Enviroschools programme are on the hunt for 10 early childhood centres (ECE) keen to join the Enviroschools fold. Northland Regional Council introduced the popular programme to Northland in 2004 and there are now more than 130 schools, kindergartens and early childhood centres in the programme region wide. Despite their young age, ECE tamariki are growing and planting kai and native trees, managing their waste via composting, worm farming and chickens and are controlling Owner Jeremy Busck is passionate about t six hectare wetlands and educating others and opened the sanctuary to about 58 WIS students recently. WIS is concentrating on the environment this year. Studying the wetlands is a part of that along with what we can do, and need to do, to restore and maintain our natural ecosystems. pests. They're also taking home key sustainability messages and skills and changing practices within the whanau. More information on the wider Enviroschools programme in Northland is available from: www.nrc.govt.nz/enviroschools Northland Contact your local councillor at www.nrc.govt.nz/councillors REGIONAL COUNCIL Te Kaunihera a rohe o Te Taitokerau RESCUE Northland REGIONAL COUNCIL Te Kaunihera a rohe o Te Taitokerau NUW Find your future RIorlhpower Students, teachers and careers advisors from Herthlan seven secondary schools attended Find your future', an interactive careers event for Year 10 -13 students destined for tertiary study. The early August event saw participants take part in interactive workshops run by inspiring industry professionals from Northland's primary industries. Emergency services funding allocated »Northland Emergency Services Trust - A rescue helicopter trust and surf lifesavers are among six recipients from our latest round $535.000 annually to support the provision of of Emergency Services Fund grants. They enabled students to explore career possibilities in Northland's professional helicopter rescue and ambulance services and The council, through its Long Term Plan process, necessary helicopter upgrades. has decided to continue with the Emergency Services Fund (ESF) for the next three financial primary industries, discover where a tertiary qualification can take you, take part in practical sessions and visit a professional workplace. Surf Life Saving Northern Region - $224,000 annually to provide professional ifeguard services in six key Northland locations during the peak holiday period. years. Workshop leaders indluded representatives Ratepayers contribute about $12 each a year, creating a fund (the ESF) to support organisations St John Northern Region - $0.000 annually whose primary purpose is to save lives that are in immediate or critical danger, in the Northland region. from Northland Regional Council's marine and pest plant staff, Rabobank, seed producer Pioneer and Ballance Agri-Nutrients with participants able to visit NIWA's Northland Marine Research Centre or Loca Avocado, to support and train volunteers to participate in their life-saving services. Coastguard Northern Region - $84,000 annually to support their ongoing life-saving where viticulture and agriculture partner with horticulture. For each of the following three financial years the emergency services rate raises an estimated maritime rescue services in Northland. actual collection of $982,000. (Of this, $10,000 will go towards emergency services related promotion and community engagement, leaving $972,000 per year available to allocate.) Far North & Northland Land Search and Rescue - $30,000 jointly annually towards purchasing life-saving equipment and training for volunteers. As part of the Long Term Plan process, council held a workshop in June to hear presentations » Far North Radio and Sea Rescue - $9000 annually to support the radio service, in particular its continued search and rescue and from emergency service providers and discuss how the ESF should be allocated for the next three financial years. Passionate about wetlands emergency response. Hands-on experiences in environmental education outside the classroom; a time to Based on the presentations and discussion at the workshop, the following allocations have since been confirmed: learn how everything is connected, inter- related and dependent on everything else. That was the aim of a recent visit by Whangarei Intermediate (WIS) students to the privately-owned Dragonfly Springs Wetland Sanctuary, a restored wetland replicating the natural swamp that existed on the Onerahi shoreline centuries ago. 10 new Enviroschools Early Childhood Centres sought The backers of the popular Enviroschools programme are on the hunt for 10 early childhood centres (ECE) keen to join the Enviroschools fold. Northland Regional Council introduced the popular programme to Northland in 2004 and there are now more than 130 schools, kindergartens and early childhood centres in the programme region wide. Despite their young age, ECE tamariki are growing and planting kai and native trees, managing their waste via composting, worm farming and chickens and are controlling Owner Jeremy Busck is passionate about t six hectare wetlands and educating others and opened the sanctuary to about 58 WIS students recently. WIS is concentrating on the environment this year. Studying the wetlands is a part of that along with what we can do, and need to do, to restore and maintain our natural ecosystems. pests. They're also taking home key sustainability messages and skills and changing practices within the whanau. More information on the wider Enviroschools programme in Northland is available from: www.nrc.govt.nz/enviroschools Northland Contact your local councillor at www.nrc.govt.nz/councillors REGIONAL COUNCIL Te Kaunihera a rohe o Te Taitokerau RESCUE