On one side of the marble table, Bronia Brooks crimped pierogi with her usual artistic perfection. Next to her, Janek Lis proved he is indeed a master of the pierogi production line. On the other side of the table, our two pasta rollers, Anna Swain and our kitchen leader, Anna Biegańska, prepared the first batches…
It is with sadness that we inform you of the deaths of respected and loved members of our community, Iwona and Igor Drecki. They died suddenly in a car accident in the vicinity of Mt Ruapehu on Wednesday July 26. Requiem Mass will be celebrated for them by Fr Tadeusz Świątkowski, who will come from…
Date: Sunday 3 December, from 1pm – Place: Dom Polski, 1 McDonald Street, Morningside. More details at https://www.facebook.com/apapolonia/.
Date: Sunday 29 October, from 2pm – Place: Dom Polski, 1 McDonald Street, Morningside Please mark this date on your calendars. It is one where we invite our Pahiatua seniors as special guests to commemorate their first sighting of Wellington on 31 October 1944. Our Pahiatua seniors are better known as the Pahiatua children, because…
Date: Sunday, 10 September, from 1pm – Place: Dom Polski, 1 McDonald Street, Morningside Even though we have still hardly settled into winter, your new committee has confirmed that we will host a Spring Market on the second Sunday of September, when we anticipate that the coldest days will have been behind us. Our regular…
Nina Tomaszyk arrived at our AGM last Sunday with the intention of becoming more involved in the Auckland Polish Association, maybe joining the committee. When no one come forward to be the new president, she put her hand up. She was challenged, the 27 APA members at the meeting, together with their 13 proxies, went…
When our son was in third form, he and his classmates used to laugh at this favourite saying from one of their non-English-speaking teachers. On face value, they had a point but, whether it was a grammatical error or not, that teacher gave his pupils a lesson in leadership. And new leadership is exactly…