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Adopt-a-Spot Keep NZ Beautiful Clean-up Week 11 - 17 September 2017 11 - 17 Sep 2017 You Choose Whether you’re an individual, family, part of a community group, business or school, Adopt-a-Spot is a simple way to volunteer a few hours to do your bit for a cleaner environment and healthier community during Keep NZ Beautiful Clean-Up Week 2017. You’ll receive free clean-up resources thanks to Keep NZ Beautiful, free rubbish disposal at any of our transfer stations if you need it thanks to EnviroWaste. Collecting rubbish from our communities keeps our waterways clear, makes our neighbourhoods cleaner, feel safer and look more beautiful all while providing the opportunity to get together with others to take pride in our public spaces and be more appreciative of our surrounds in order to protect the future of our environment for all to enjoy. For more details or to register go to www.newplymouthnz.com/AdoptASpot

Three-Month Wait No Barrier to Happy Dog Adoption 15 August 2017 Three months in the New Plymouth Dog Pound turned out to be worth the wait for greyhound-retriever cross Mya. Remove Your Headphones, Remove the Risk 14 August 2017 Keep an eye out for safety volunteers at two pedestrian railway crossings in New Plymouth tomorrow (Tuesday), as part of Rail Safety Week. The goal of the promotional campaign is to encourage people to remove their headphones before crossing railway lines. “We know from a death at the Weymouth Street crossing last year that music can be a fatal distraction, and as a Council we support KiwiRail’s national campaign to improve pedestrians’ safety,” says NPDC Infrastructure Manager David Langford. “The Council has taken steps to improve safety at our pedestrian railway crossings – but we need pedestrians to also play their part to keep themselves safe. “Trains can’t stop quickly so it’s up to pedestrians to take a moment to check whether a train is coming or not.” The national campaign promotes: Remove Your Headphones, Remove the Risk. To support the campaign locally, the Council is installing vinyl decals on the footpath entrances to pedestrian railway crossings along the Coastal Walkway. Volunteers, including Mayor Neil Holdom, will be at the Weymouth and Egmont streets’ crossings tomorrow to discuss the safety week with pedestrians. Following last year’s fatality the Council removed vegetation to improve visibility along that section of the railway line, worked with KiwiRail to assess the safety of all pedestrian crossings at railway lines and built a formal pedestrian railway line crossing at the end of Calvert Road.

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