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Monthly meeting
Living Streets Wellington no longer has meetings at set times each month. Instead, we are holding a series of meetings and events throughout the year, timed and designed to allow us to address topical issues. Those meetings will be notified on the website and to members by email. We look forward to seeing you at the next event.
Know your feet and come to the Wellington
branch AGM
Dr Tim Halpine is the guest speaker at Living Streets Wellington branch
AGM on Monday 22nd June.
He studied for his Doctor of Podiatric Medicine in California and now lives with his family in Wilton, Wellington. He is a keen sportsman, involved in tennis and gym.
"The human foot is an amazingly engineered structure that is both flexible and strong. Its design has evolved while functioning on soft irregular surfaces, for example the forest floor. Modern surfaces which are flat and hard, and extreme stress caused by running or prolonged walking can cause painful conditions to arise."
If you love walking, learn how to avoid problems arising that could curtail your steps! Come along to our evening meeting and hear Tim give hints on early recognition of foot problems and advice on shoe selection.
Celia Wade-Brown, Wellington City Councillor, says "Living Streets Wellington does a fabulous job of encouraging people to walk to work, to stretch a leg at lunchtimes and to chivvy council in improving routes around the city. For example, Living Streets Wellington has been instrumental in persuading Council to lower the speed limit along the Golden Mile. However, people need to look after their own feet too!"
Living Streets Wellington has a core group of energetic and effective people and welcomes new committee members.
The AGM is at Committee Room 1, Wellington City
Council, 101 Wakefield Street from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on Monday 22nd June 2009.
There will be refreshments provided. The new Wellington walking maps will also
be available (Newtown Berhampore Walking Map Edition 2 and the three Lunchtime
Walks brochures).
Calendar
See also events page.
Also see events page.
The Peace Foundation has designed two walks linking peace monuments, sculptures, trees and historic sites dedicated to peace, tolerance and understanding in the Wellington Botanical Gardens and Central Business District. The walks are designed to be self-guided. However, we are considering the possibility of providing guided walks, either on special peace days or on an ongoing basis. The walks can be seen online at http://www.peace.net.nz/index.php?pageID=62#pwalk or a draft brochure can be obtained from our office: The Peace Foundation Wellington Office; PO Box 24-429, Manners Street; Wellington, Aotearoa-New Zealand 6142
Tuesday lunchtime civic walkers
See also Wellington walking groups
On 3rd June , Hon. Tariana Turia, Associate Minister for Health joined Living Streets Wellington members for a lunchtime walk, and helped to launch the new pocket maps range. There are three maps, showing short walks around the city and they are freely available for anyone wanting to explore Wellington.
To get copy of the maps, or to order some for your workplace, contact Janet at janet.lawson at livingstreets.org.nz
See here for maps of the lunch-time walks
Walk Wellington, which provides guided walking tours around Wellington, is a not-for-profit operation under the Living Streets Aotearoa umbrella. For more information about Walk Wellington visit their website www.walk.wellington.net.nz. We need volunteer guides - click here for more details.
For minutes of earlier meetings please go here
(See LSA site for LSA minutes)
(See also documents page and handouts & notes)
(see LSA site for newsletters)
(See also the NZ maps links page)
See also the Wellington submissions on the LSA document page
(See LSA site for LSA submissions)
See also documents page and articles, papers, etc.
25 August 2003: Paul Barker (WCC) on the area based safety project. See also http://www.wcc.govt.nz/news/projects/saferroads/.
25 August 2003: Matt Grant (LTSA) on the pedestrian and cyclist safety framework. Jane Mitchell (LTSA) on the safe routes project.
23 June 2003: Brent Efford on Are all those signals necessary on Wellington's Golden Mile? (pdf file 1 megabyte long - will take several minutes to download on a phone line).
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