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Surplus tools and materials at upcoming Mangawhai Shed garage saleJULIA WADE 23 May, 2022
A year on from the blessing and beginnings of local workshop hub the Mangawhai Shed, members are opening their doors to hold their first ‘Shed Sale’ on Queen’s Birthday weekend, offering an opportunity for visitors to add to their own shed gear as well as meet the tool men themselves. Thanks to the generosity of community donations, Shed chair Steve Mackay says they have a surplus of materials, tools and equipment. “We don’t need five compressors, maybe only two… so its a chance for people to ‘nail a bargain’,” he says. “The pizza oven and barbecue will be fired up and the Shed members will be around for people to talk about our new workshop and what we do, it’s going to be a bit like a garage sale, only better.” The Shed stands proudly on the grounds of Mangawhai Domain, graduating last year from Steve’s home garage to a purpose-built building where members share their skills, talents and ideas in all things ‘shed-like’ and donate their time to community projects including making Christmas parade floats, repairing furniture for local charities, constructing pest bait stations and live cat-traps for conservation groups. n Mangawhai Shed ‘Shed Sale’, Mangawhai Domain, Queens Birthday weekend, Saturday and Sunday June 4 & 5, 9am till midday. Cash only.
MBS Envirogroup teacher whasea Jackie Fanning says the Shed men ‘were just wonderful’. Besides making traps, which also involved the input of Waipu Mens' Shed, MBS Environgroup has installed traplines along the estuary’s school edge, adding to Mangawhai’s Predator Control Zone, and watched informative documentaries such as the highly recommended 'Fight for the Wild'. “This series gave the children a great background on what our country was like before people, the effect of introduced predators over time and the problems we face today,” she says. “Conservation Coast (Tara Iti), the Piroa-Brynderwyn Landcare Group and NZ Fairy Tern Trust, are very much involved in helping our school contribute to the Predator Free 2050 movement in Mangawhai, a great collaborative effort. We have well and truly begun our journey to help Mangawhai become Predator Free by 2050.” – PHOTO/SUPPLIED
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After moving in last year, the next challenge for Shed members was to raise enough cash to get the building hooked up with electricity, and on May 19 a trench was cut and cable laid for the power supply thanks to the support of local businesses.
Three Shed members – Miguel Hamber, Neil Reid and Shed chair Steve Mackay – also spent some time at Mangawhai Beach School (MBS) on May 19, helping Envirogroup students build rat traps as part of the school’s mission to help the country get predator free by 2050.
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