HIPPY Mid-Year Celebration

HIPPY (Home Interaction Programme for Parents and Youngsters) families recently celebrated reaching half-way through the year on the HIPPY programme. They gathered in the Parakai School hall for a morning of fun interactive activities, where children and parents...

Community Christmas Day Lunch Update

Holly Southernwood is to take over the coordinator, planner of the Helensville/Parakai Community Christmas Day Lunch Event Most of all if Christmas time has proven to be a difficult time for you or your family, for various reasons then remember the Christmas Lunch is...

Blast from the Past

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 19 June, 1912 PARAKAI LEAP YEAR SOCIAL Last evening a large number of ladies representing Parkhurst, Te Pua and Parakai met at the Parakai Hall to arrange for a Leap Year Social …Without much ado Thursday the 27th June was fixed as the day...

Matariki 2016 at the Art Centre

The 2016 Matariki Exhibition at the Art Centre, Helensville, will see a whole variety of artists exhibiting including James Ballantyne who has created huge stunning life-like images and a piece called Te Kohu by Hemi Kiwikiwi which demonstrates the earth painting...

Action at Alison McKenzie House

Alison McKenzie House was originally built in the 1930s as a general practitioner’s clinic and residence. The Helensville District Health Trust bought the building in 2004 and the house was named in honour of the founding Chairperson of the Trust. It has been home to...