On behalf of Portobello Community Incorporated have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We look forward to working with the community in 2014.
Category: Dunedin
Otago Peninsula A&P Show
The Otago Peninsula A&P Show on the 7th December is an absolute must for all of the community and visitors to the area. With a great range of events, displays and competitions there is enough going on at the show to keep you and the kids amused for the whole day.
It’s also a great chance to enter into some great events and maybe win a few locally sponsored prizes. So grab your gum-boots and your sun-hat and enjoy one of the Otago Peninsula’s great days out.
Event Schedule
8:00 Horse events start
11:30 Fancy Dress Competition (judged in age groups)
11:45 Best Pet Competition (judged in age groups)
12:00 Egg & Spoon Race
12:00 Cut off time for baking entries (at the Treats & Sweets Stall)
12:30 Gumboot Throwing
1:00 Tough Guy Challenge (Teams of 3)
– Charity Auction (proceeds to Portobello School)
– Cut off for vegetable sculpture entries (Treats & Sweets Stall)
2:30 Baking Competition Results
2:45 Vegetable & Vegetable Sculpture Competition Results
End of the Day
Lolly scramble and tug-o-war
All Day (from 10am)
Face painting, tank display, bouncy castle, argo rides, horizontal bungee and petting zoo. Click on pictures below to see in viewer.
Vegetable contest
Think you’re tough?
Hottest home baker
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Glorious Mud and Fun at the Paddock Pursuit
The second annual Portobello Paddock Pursuit held on Sunday at the Portobello Domain was a muddy and wet success, with over 220 kids and 30 adults taking part. The pursuit course had everyone climbing, running, sliding and jumping over a range of obstacles designed to be challenging and fun for all ages. With support from Sport Otago and Am I Fit the Pursuit raised $1800 for the Portobello School. What makes the Pursuit such a great event is the local support from organisations and people like Bronwyn Anderson, Peninsula Pony Club, the A&P Society and the Peninsula Volunteer Fire Brigade. Along with their help and the assistance of the many volunteers who work on the day Portobello is able to put on a well organised, fun and safe event for everyone. Click on the pictures below to view in full size.
Easy trigger!
Rope of mud
Warming up
Tyre obstacle
Water slide
Organised chaos
The course
Loving the mud
Is it raining?
Carefully now!
Good effort
Mud fun
Muddier fun
Loving it!
Two legged laugh
Great crowd
Great views
A special thanks to all of our Sponsors for their invaluable support
John Clearwater Contracting, Portobello Deli, Stewarts Coffee, Resene Paints, Couplands, Move Me, Laserforce, Warehouse Stationary, Tuapeka Gold Print, Chipmunks, Royal Albatross Centre, Sweets ‘n’ Treats, Portobello Motors, Blue Penguin Tours, Shem Sutherland, Terry Fogarty, Stephen Johnston, Penguin Café, Happy Hens and Spiralis Ltd. Click on the pictures below to view in full size.
Slip sliding away
A Muddy marriage?
That was fun!
Working hard
Splish splash!
Mud sunscreen and hat
Down hill from here
Top of the wall
Patience & balance
That was tough!
Nice style!
Nearly there!
Last hurdle
See you all next year!
Get ready to get wet and muddy!
Last chance to enter into the Portobello Paddock pursuit at Portobello Domain on Sunday November 10th. You can still register on the day from 10 am with the first event starting at 11am. Get all the details here….
Hawked and Hurled at the Domain
October can be a great time of year in Portobello with those balmy warm days that begin to give us hope that summer is just around the corner, and Sunday’s Hawk and Hurl was no exception. With a good number of local people deciding to sell their unwanted items there were plenty of opportunities for visitors to find a bargain 
or two.
The Portobello Community Inc. team were kept busy helping people with unloading their vehicles, rescuing recyclable items from the bins and collecting scrap metal. This year the team collected around 2-2.5 tons of scrap that will be sold and the proceeds going towards the school pool. The generosity of the community in this type of donation and the support by local farmer Brendon Cross who supplied the truck for cartage is greatly appreciated.
Many people donated items for sale rather than dumping them in the skips and quite a few people took the opportunity grab a bargain. With desks, outdoor furniture and a range of house-ware its great to see these items get re-used rather than go into the landfill. The next Hawk and Hurl will be in February so look out for the advertising. Click on the images below to view in full size.
Any old iron?
Grabbbing a ‘dog
Pat shows her style
Spinning a good yarn?
Portobello Gothic
Portobello School Keep the Peninsula Beautiful
Nineteen year 7&8 pupils from Portobello School put their gumboots on and cleaned up the beach areas around Latham Bay in Portobello on Tuesday 24th September. Supervised by teacher Candace Christensen and Portobello Community Inc. Chairman, Paul Pope the group collected a full array of harbour rubbish that included plenty of glass and plastic. Some of the more interesting finds was a new shoe, boat hatch cover and five fluorescent road cones. Helped by the low tide the busy group covered a 1.25 kilometre stretch of Latham Bay and made their mark on two of the popular pocket beaches in the area. Once again it was great to see our young people give up their time to keep the Peninsula beautiful. Well done, tino pai!
Keeping the Peninsula Beautiful
With Keep New Zealand Beautiful Week in full swing a few hard-working people turned out to make their mark on the local landscape on Saturday 21st September. Thomas Pope (9) along with big sister Georgia (12) and their father Paul decided to tackle Harington Point Road. In a 2.5 kilometre section from the golf course to Harwood they picked up 8 bags of rubbish, 2 televisions, a truck tyre and some assorted car parts. A special thanks to Cathy Barron and her children Fergus and Ivy who cleaned up Portobello Park. While Melissa Bulger-Patrick and her children Brooke and Elly tackled Portobello Domain, the cemetery and adjacent streets. It was great to see local kids working at keeping their town in tip-top shape. Pupils from Portobello School will be tackling the area around Latham Bay on Tuesday 24th. It’s little things like this that make a difference to our area and the community and don’t just have to be part of a bigger event. Let’s try to make a difference everyday.
October Hawk and Hurl
Its time for that important spring clean around your place so bring your rubbish, recycling and saleable stuff to the Portobello Hawk and Hurl. Run in conjunction with the Dunedin City Council’s Community Clean Up Day this is a great way to turn your
- old toys
- clothes
- kitchen ware
- tools
- crafts
- garden plants and anything else you can imagine into cash.
Stalls are just $10.00 with proceeds going to Portobello School. So if you’d like have a great spring clean up while recycling some of those things you can’t bear to throw away contact Paul Pope, Wayne Cameron or Dave Fenwick
Portobello Hawk & Hurl at the Portobello Domain, starts at 10:00am
Creating a Garden Township
The Portobello Community Incorporated lad’s team have competed a second landscaping project in the main street of the township. After pruning and removing a trailer load of rubbish and weeds a few weeks ago the edging and planting has now been completed. The newly completed planted area adjacent to the public toilets has allowed more light and less litter in the area. Using the timbers from the old Portobello jetty and mulch donated from local contractor John Clearwater the new border is a welcome complement to the other planting undertaken besides the hotel. There are many other areas around the township that planting could improve for the benefit of the community. If you have any thoughts about these sorts of projects you can drop Chairman, Paul Pope a line through the website contact form. A special thanks to Jenny and Levi for delivering the fresh baking and a welcome hot drink while the work was being finished.
Keep New Zealand Beautiful Week
Keep Dunedin Beautiful and the Dunedin City Council are asking residents to beautify their favourite part of our city by ridding it of litter. So Portobello Community Incorporated are going to play their part by undertaking a clean up around our area on Saturday 21st September. If you’d like to take part in the clean up then meet at the Portobello Store at 10:00 am, grab a bag, hi-viz, some gloves and make a difference in your community. Get your family, friends or neighbours involved. Rubbish bags will be collected and disposed of appropriately
The amount of time you spend on it is entirely up to you as every little bit counts. See you there.
Portobello Community 