Art Work of the Week: Whareroa Caravan

We are delighted with the emerging art work … Whareroa Guardians legend, Ann Evans

Transformation!

Story by Roger Childs, photos by Maureen Farmer

It’s destined to become the most photographed icon on the Kapiti Coast!

Many locals will remember it in a earlier life as a dilapidated eye sore near the Whareroa Farm shelter: it had NATIONAL PROVIDENT FUND written on it in fading letters.

It has now been totally transformed thanks to the hard work of the Guardians at the Hub site and the artistic skills of Julie Oliver. She will finish the job in August-September.

It will be officially opened on Sunday (June 3) at 10.30am.

ALL WELCOME.

And close by in the forest you can see the amazing kohekohe trees in flower straight from the trunk!

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STORY OF THE WEEK

Prue Hyman remembers Elinor Ostrom, Nobel prize winner, who proved that co-operation can beat competition.

The only woman to win a Nobel for economics

Elinor Ostrom is the only woman to have won the Nobel prize for economics and like many sensible women active on economic policy, she was not an orthodox economist.

As a political economist and academic, she won the prize in 2009 for work in public economics and sadly died just three years later. Her work encourages grassroots activism which should excite us all!

(full story Aug. 8)

THIS MONTH IN HISTORY

The Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, officially known as Operation Danube, was a joint invasion of Czechoslovakia by five Warsaw Pact nations – the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Hungary, East Germany and Poland – on the night of 20–21 August 1968.

Approximately 250,000 Warsaw pact troops attacked Czechoslovakia that night, with Romaniaand Albania refusing to participate. East German forces, except for a small number of specialists, did not participate in the invasion because they were ordered from Moscow not to cross the Czechoslovak border just hours before the invasion.

137 Czechoslovakian civilians were killed and 500 seriously wounded during the occupation.

The invasion successfully stopped Alexander Dubček's Prague Spring liberalisation reforms and strengthened the authority of the authoritarian wing within the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ). The foreign policy of the Soviet Union during this era was known as the Brezhnev Doctrine.

Kapiti Independent

Art Work of the Week: Whareroa Caravan

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