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6 Tuesday July 11 2017 Latest Christchurch news at www. .kiwi News NOR’WEST NEWS Countdown to supermarket Countdown‘s upcoming appeal will help provide equipment for patients using Christchurch Hospital’s paediatric and neo-natal services. Sarla Donovan visited cancer sufferer, eightyear-old Jacob Matua, who benefits from the equipment JACOB MATUA has visited this place many times. He’s in the Children’s Haematology and Oncology Centre in the Riverside building at Christchurch Hospital, where’s he’s hooked up to an infusion pump dispensing the medicine he needs. It’ll be 10pm before this day’s treatment is over. After the eight-year-old started getting “headaches and tummy pain, neck pain, arm pain,” at the end of last year, a cancer diagnosis followed, along with nearly three months in hospital, getting treatment. Now he comes in for shorter stays – four days this time – and is crossing his fingers that he WHAT A SMILE: Eight-year-old Jacob Matua, with nurse Lucy Stephenson, is using equipment that was purchased with money from the Countdown Kids Hospital Appeal. PHOTO: MARTIN HUNTER can return to his Clyde Rd home tomorrow. Jacob’s not well enough to attend his school, Burnside Primary, at the moment. He couldn’t even eat his birthday chocolate cake in May: “Because sometimes I don’t eat,” he said. Charge nurse manager Chrissy Bond lightens the mood: “I wish I could say that!” The nurses play cards with him, including memory and skip bo. Lucy Stephenson, who is supervising today, says he’s quite the card shark. “I win every time,” Jacob says with a grin. His aunt Ula Faamoe sits with him, too, giving his mum – who has four other children including twin three-year-old’s – a break. She says he’s well at the moment: “The best I’ve seen him since starting the chemotherapy. He’s making great progress.” Beside his bed, a tall pump stand holds all kinds of medicines and beeping equipment. The $5000 stand is one of four in the centre, purchased with money from the Countdown Kids Hospital Appeal in 2013. Mrs Bond said it holds five to six pumps and keeps the medicines stable, as well as allowing nurses to easily read information on screens attached to the pumps. “DHBs find equipment like this hard to fund, because we can ‘make do’ with inferior (devices). It isn’t essential, but it just makes everybody’s life easier,” she said. Bakery factory shop (seconds available) NEW TECHNOLOGY TO TREAT FUNGAL NAILS A simple solution to a complex problem before after 37 Main South Road, Upper Riccarton | Ph 348-7910 | www.feetfirst.co.nz Bastille Day 2nds Clearance Sale This weekend - starts Friday fall in Love with your favourite furniture all over again. 30 YEARS EXCELLENT RANGE OF FABRICS EXPERIENCEFREE Recover your couches and chairs and save money! BEFORE AFTER QUOTES our shop hours Monday to Saturday 8am - 6pm Sunday 9am - 4pm 238 Port Hills Road, Heathcote corner of Port Hills and Chapmans Rds Somerfield Upholstery Ltd FURNITURE RECOVERY SPECIALIST 10 Calgary Place, Hornby | Ph 021 251 6200 | 349 0456 VISIT OUR SHOWROOM | QUALITY WORKMANSHIP GUARANTEED www.somerfieldupholstery.co.nz Paul Tainui
NOR’WEST NEWS Latest Christchurch news at www. .kiwi Tuesday July 11 2017 7 appeal Belfast principal makes Last year’s appeal raised $123,270 for Christchurch Hospital’s paediatric wards and neo-natal unit. Countdown Kids Hospital Appeal chairwoman Ruth Krippner says most kiwi kids will visit hospital at some stage in their childhood. She said Countdown is proud to play a part in helping provide these hospitals with the equipment needed to treat illness and injury. “Whether it’s a one off visit for a minor injury or a lengthy stay for a serious illness, most New Zealand children will have a brush with a children’s hospital ward at some point– just like this family,” Ms Krippner said. “Thanks to the generosity of How to donate •To donate to the appeal, visit your local Countdown and donate at the checkout or purchase a Kids Hospital Appeal wristband or raffle ticket •Contributions can be made at any Countdown, including the Northlands and Northwood stores •The appeal has raised more than $10.4 million since it began in 2007 •It fundraises for 11 children’s hospitals around New Zealand, including Christchurch Hospital •It runs from August 7 until October 29 our customers and the fundraising efforts of the Countdown teams, we’re able to help provide hospitals with the much neededequipment to treat thousands of Kiwi kids. Last year, we raised more than $1.1 million, and we’re hoping to do the same this year.” Meanwhile, Jacob is busy putting on his “best face” for the photographer. “Does a picture come out of that?” he asks. teary-eyed departure • By Julia Evans RETIRING AFTER 23 years as principal of Belfast School could be summed up in one sentence says Peter Simpson: “It was hard.” “Leaving the kids and families that have been part of my life for so long, it was difficult from that perspective,” he said. But now he’s taking on a new challenge and passing some of the knowledge he’s picked up during his time at Belfast to new principals as a leadership advisor. “It’s a chance to give something back,” he said. Although it’ll never replace being around school community. He said he had to go back to visit shortly after leaving because he missed the kids so much. On his “very emotional” last day, the school planted a Mr Simpson tree and sang To Sir, with Love. That brought a tear to my eye, he said. It was a bittersweet moment. “But I couldn’t have done any of it without the people around me. It’s not a job that you can do on your own,” Mr Simpson said. It was that sense of community that grew in Belfast over the 23 years that he said was the highlight. “Probably one of the best things is the acceptance by the wider community that Belfast is a good school,” he said. When Mr Simpson started, the school was 80 per cent New Zealand European, he said. LAST SPEECH: Peter Simpson addressing the Belfast School assembly for the last time. But when he left, there were more than 15 different ethnic groups. “I think that just represents New Zealand as a whole,” he said. “The school motto is ‘care, share, learn, grow’ and seeing that acted out through the kids and tolerance of difference was great. They accept the kids as they were and wrapped their arms around them like a family.” He said the fact that new classes and school blocks had to be built, alongside a change in school culture and growing rolls, proved his time at the school was a success. “I absolutely loved my time at Belfast,” Mr Simpson said. On July 24, the school will hold its first mihi whakatau to welcome new principal Sue Elley. Mrs Elley joined the school after being the assistant principal at Hornby High School. Have You thought about solar power for your Home or Business? winter special winter special 2kw system fully installed for just $5,990 * check our website for more details * terms and conditions apply With the ever increasing costs of power bills, by installing SOLAR PANELS you have created the most efficient and cost effective way to save. FREE NO OBLIGATION QUOTE WITH OUR CONSULTANT CALL US ON 0800 900 055 You’ve got nothing to lose except your sky high power bills! PH 0800 900 055 or 021 920 777 www.nzsolarsolutions.co.nz
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