Obituary – Annie (Jean) Narbey

Annie (Jean) Narbey, 1910 – 2016 One of Helensville’s oldest residents Annie Narbey, known to all as Jean, passed away in September aged 106. Jean, who in the early years ran a beef farm with her husband Hector, was well known for her energetic and lifelong...

Profile – William Robert Boyd

by Helen Martin William Robert Boyd has lived in Helensville for just two years but he’s already well-known, firstly as one half of the couple who bought the iconic former BNZ bank and gave it a much-needed facelift, secondly as an accomplished painter happily...

October news and events for Helensville Library

He Pou Aroha, Community Cenotaph mobile Artefact Digitisation Unit (ADU) Do you have a relative who served in the New Zealand armed forces? Helensville Library is hosting one of Auckland War Memorial Museum’s ADUs during October and November. The digitisation kiosk...

MOTV8N to succeed – Caring for the Caregiver

There is a huge amount of people in our community who are in a caregiving role.  It can be parents, foster parents, grandparents raising grandchildren, looking after ageing parents, looking after special needs children, dealing with sick family members and friends,...