Tēnei te mihi ki a koutou e te whānau o Wairewa! While December was a quiet month for the portfolio, we were itching to get into things as soon as we returned from our summer break!

What better way to kick off the new year than a working bee! It was a chance for us to come together and put some mahi into our marae and whenua and spend time enjoying and reflecting on the glorious weather of raumati (summer)!

Firstly a massive mihi to all those who came along to help out on the day armed with weed eaters and garden gloves, to those who helped maintain our energy reserves by providing delicious kai and to those who just got stuck into it and got the mahi done! We cleared weeds, pruned trees, water-blasted basically anything we could waterblast, the inside cupboards got a good cleaning out, we've labelled things in the kauta (kitchen), we've started clearing a pathway from the marae down to near the domain following closely to our awa and we pulled some reka veg from our māra kai to include in our lunch!