Bay Harbour: May 10, 2017

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Wednesday May 10 2017
SCHOOLS
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Riverbanks earmarked for clean-up
MIX: Benjamin Derwahl stirred
the vegetables to make chips.
Garden delights
DIAMOND HARBOUR School
pupils have been reaping the
rewards of their garden by
making some vegetable chips
from the produce.
As part of the Garden to Table
programme, the pupils collected
beetroot, artichokes and potatoes
to make the chips. They also
collected grapes and bananas to
make ice-cream before sitting
down to enjoy their reward.
DECORATE: Finn Simpson,
Maci Hemapo and Zoe Ross
• By Noah Graham
GROUPS ARE getting ready to
clean up riverbanks.
This Saturday, hundreds
of volunteers will don their
gumboots to pick up rubbish littering
Christchurch riverbanks
for the annual Mother of All
Clean Ups.
Volunteers will line the Avon-
Heathcote Estuary as well as the
Heathcote and Avon rivers to
try and clean out waste that is
further polluting the rivers.
Avon-Heathcote
Estuary
Ihutai Trust
co-ordinator
Tanya Jenkins
said the cleanup,
held on the
Helene
Mautner
eve of Mother’s
Day every year,
was an opportunity
to give a gift
back to Mother Nature.
“We were thrilled to see such
an enormous turnout of caring
people last year.
“Close to 1300 members of
the public tidied 156km of river
bank and estuary edge,” she said.
More than 20 tonnes of
rubbish was collected last year
which ranged from plastic bags
to computers and even a sheep
carcass.
RUBBISH: During last year’s Mother of All Clean Ups more
than 1300 volunteers removed more than 20 tonnes of
rubbish from the Opawaho/Heathcote River. ​
“We are hoping that we collect
less this year as the aim of the
event is to raise awareness of the
issue and for individuals to take
responsibility for their careful
disposal of rubbish,” Mrs Jenkins
said.
Opawaho-Heathcote
River Network co-chairwoman
Helene Mautner said volunteers
would not need to get into the
water, they would just be cleaning
the banks.
“We have a saying: If your feet
get wet you’ve gone too far.”
Dr Mautner said it was a great
couple of hours to be involved
in.
The two-hour clean-up starts
at 10am, with volunteers urged
to register through ohr.co.nz.
However, people are welcome to
turn up on the day.
Last year, more than 50
community groups joined the
clean-up.
Where to meet:
Forest and Bird – 10.30am,
Radley St bridge.
The Tannery – 10am,
Cumnor Tce.
Forest and Bird – 9.30am,
off Ferrymead Park Dr,
Ferrymead, Heathcote,
signposted from Bridle Path
Rd
Cashmere Stream Care
Group – 10am, Penruddock
Pl.
Cashmere Technical
Football Club – 10.30am,
Centennial Park beside the
stream, behind where ‘first
kicks’ is held.
Lower Cashmere
Residents Association
– 11.30am, footbridge by
Zeroes.
Cashmere Road
Somerfield Residents
Association – 10am,
Barrington St and
Cashmere Rd bridge
BNA and Friends of Ernie
Clark –10am, Beckenham
Scout Den.
Centaurus Rd St Martins
Scouts – 11am-1pm,
Hansens Park.
ChCh South Lions –
9.30am, Fifield Tce at
Wilsons Rd.
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