Bay Harbour: August 10, 2016

Wednesday August 10 2016
BAY HARBOUR
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Your Local Views
A reader responds to a
letter from another reader
regarding littering and dog
faeces issues at Lyttelton
Recreation Ground
News
Cherry Daly:
In response to Joanne
Dunningham regarding dogs in
public areas.
I am fascinated to know just
precisely how Ms Dunningham
and her ilk would like dog
owners to clean up after their dog
urinates in the park (or anywhere
else for that matter). Tiny catheter
bags, perhaps? And while we’re at
Fashion
it, what about colostomy bags for
all dogs so their owners have to
clean up after them?
Facetious, yes! And I clean up
after my dog scrupulously and
often collect other dog’s leavings as
well and, yes, I do find it frustrating
that people won’t clean up after
their dogs. But personally I think
Gardening
that dogs are absolutely entitled to
equal time in parks as children –
they are beloved family members
just the same and entitled to
exercise and play in the open air as
are the human variety. And believe
me I have seen children perform
their natural functions in parks as
well – I hope my dog doesn’t catch
anything!
Motoring
This is a light-hearted letter
about a serious problem, and I
am not talking about dogs and
their functions. I think people are
far too precious about their little
angels these days – I would like
a dollar for every dog dropping I
stepped into as a child and I seem
to have attained the age of 58
quite healthily! If that is the worst
thing that ever happens to your
child, consider yourself lucky in
this day and age.
There will always be dogs and
people who love dogs in society
and long may they all prosper, in
spite of the haters.
A reader responds to
Eugenie Sage’s column
Robert Patterson:
I fail to reconcile with the
eastern vision on the future of the
Avon River residential red zone as
mentioned by Eugenie Sage.
What with global warming, the
loss of the land for open space
which could be better used for
agriculture/horticulture etc. All
what they are proposing will create
more problems let alone costs
to the ratepayers than they would
have imagined.
What’s required is a decentsized
channel for sporting
and recreational use, with the
excavation spoils creating stop
banks as walkways, landscaped
in exotics which have far more
character and pleasing to the
eye rather than natives, where
nothing grows under them but
mosquitoes, vermin, dumping
ground for rubbish etc, even
bodies.
Also with global warming the
last thing we want is swamps full
of the likes of mosquitoes.
This is Christchurch and
Canterbury, is it not.
A reader responds to last
week’s article on the Moa
Cave pedestrian access
Chelsea Halliwell:
I’m just reading your article in
Bay Harbour News about the Moa
Cave footpath, I was pleased to
read that other residents are also
concerned, and I really don’t thing
it’s good enough that there will
not be a safe access point for the
many children who get to school
that way.
I sent the email below to the
city council last week after talking
to their call centre, but I haven’t
heard back. This is a real concern
for those of us with young children
who will need to cross that road,
particularly as there are sunstrike
issues on that road for much of the
year in the afternoon.
With the amount of remediation
work currently being
undertaken on the rocks above
that footpath, it won’t take much
more to reinstate the footpath.
Take a look at the work being
done for Peacocks Gallop for an
example of what is possible in the
name of safety.
The residual risk would be
all but removed but the risk of
crossing that busy road will be
real every day. Thanks for your
support.
Rotary award for
Sumner lifesaver
• By Barbara Crooks
ONE OF Sumner’s brightest
surf lifesavers has earned a
major Rotary award for his
leadership and role-modelling
skills.
Ferrymead Rotary presented
Seb Johnson with a Yong Totara
award in recognition of his
leadership in the Sumner Surf
Lifesaving Club, and in the surf
lifesaving movement.
He is involved in the training
and development of junior lifesavers
and is recognised as an
excellent role model. He is also
a peer leader at his secondary
school.
Seb has been chosen in
New Zealand’s 12-strong (six
males and six females) team to
compete in the world under-19
surf lifesaving championships
in the Netherlands.
The Young Totara award is an
initiative of Rotary New Zealand.
Rotary clubs are encouraged
to seek out young people
who display strength of character,
courage of conviction, care
of community and pursuit of
excellence. Rotary believes that
WELL-EARNED: Ferrymead
Rotary president Kathryn
Tovgaard and Russell Irving,
with Seb Johnson at the
presentation of his Young
Totara award. ​
recognising young people with
these qualities can promote and
encourage positive role models
for their peers.
As well as a certificate,
recipients receive a totara tree
which is seen as an appropriate
symbol of leadership and
strength. The totara is one of
New Zealand’s largest native
trees, and its timber was prized
by Maori as the best for building
their massive war canoes.
Maori also speak of the totara
and its common ancestry with
the people. They consider it a
living elder and therefore, a
sacred tree symbolising respect.
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