Nor'West News: March 21, 2017

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A step closer for new Mairehau church
WORK
ashion
ON building a new
church for Mairehau’s St Francis
of Assisi Parish is moving closer
as a successful fundraising
campaign gathers momentum.
The new development is
estimated to cost $9 million, of
which $2 million is earmarked
to come from the parish’s own
fundraising programme.
Father Rick Loughnan,
administrator for the Catholic
Gardening
Diocese while it awaits the
appointment of a new bishop,
said that the local fundraising
campaign is approaching 50 per
cent of its target.
“We had a parish community
fundraising dinner this month
with more than 150 people
• By Julia Evans
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Bishopdale to feature in city documentary
BISHOPDALE will be the
subject matter of this year’s
Christchurch Documentary
Project.
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Christchurch City Libraries in
conjunction with the Canterbury
University School of Fine Arts is
collating a photographic record
of the city.
DESIGN: Sketches of what the new Mairehau church will look like. ​
attending, including MPs Nicky reach our target,” he said.
Wagner and Poto Williams. With the local fundraising
While this certainly added to moving towards achieving its
the pace of our fundraising target, work could be expected
campaign, we still need support to start on the new church next
to raise a lot more money to year.
Photos of the community will
be taken until August and the
final project will be available in
November as an exhibition in
Bishopdale and online.
The point of the project is to
capture the city post-natural
disaster for future generations to
see.
Project manager Sam
Ludemann said Bishopdale was
chosen to capture the significant
change it is going through at the
moment.
He said it is also to coincide
with the new library and community
facility that is set to open
in June or July.
“There’s going to be something
of real value at the end of the
year – an exhibition but also a
body of work that represents the
“Parish fundraising is only a
part of the equation. Insurance
funds and the proceeds from
the realisation of assets across
the diocese will also assist,” he
said.
people in the community.”
The six interns from the
university who will be taking
photos for the documentary
are Lucas Perelini, Thomas
Herman, Robert Earl, Liam
Lyons, Elise Williams and
Janneth Gil.
Last year’s project, Edge of the
East is currently on display at
the New Brighton Library until
The new St Francis of Assisi
Parish is an amalgamation of
the former Holy Family Parish
of Burwood, Our Lady of Fatima
Parish of Mairehau and St Paul’s
Parish from Dallington.
April 1 and the 2015 Halswell
project is available online.
Christchurch City Libraries
is currently reaching out to
the local community for any
potential subjects.
Anyone in Bishopdale who
wants to be a part of the project
should phone 941 7923 or email
library@ccc.govt.nz to express
interest.
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