Pegasus Post: May 10, 2016

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4 Tuesday May 10 2016 your local Views Readers respond to the Pegasus Post article on the fireworks display being moved away from New Brighton for the next two years: Paul Jennings: I have read about the fireworks being canned from the pier until repairs are complete. I think Hagley Park would be a better place than Scarborough. Think about the traffic. There is only one way in and out of Scarborough. Hagley Park is more central for all. Louise Macdonald: If we lose the fireworks to somewhere else, for example Sumner, we definitely won’t see the venue back in New Brighton. Also has anyone thought of the oneway road into Sumner, on Guy Fawkes night? It would be a nightmare for parents taking their families on the night of November 5. Can you imagine the chaos on the road into, and back out, especially in the dark? And don’t forget November 5 doesn’t always fall on a Saturday night, so children have to be back to school the next morning, and if it’s late, then hitting one-way traffic out of Sumner could mean they don’t get back home until after 11pm. It is bad enough driving home Something on your mind? Email fraser.walker@starmedia.kiwi in 200 words or less. Facebook us on https://www.facebook.com/riseupchristchurch/ out of New Brighton – I know because one year our family went up from South Brighton to New Brighton, and when the fireworks finished, it took an hour or more to get back to South Brighton, with all the traffic. So from then on we just go over to the beach and watched from there. New Brighton certainly doesn’t need to lose any venues, it’s already suffering through lack of shops. Compared that to what it was like in its hay day. I agree with Tim Sintes’ comment, “promises have a habit of being broken around here” – meaning New Brighton. So true. Flame files Attending to need MARK THOMAS – FIRE RISK MANAGEMENT OFFICER Only about 30 per cent of the calls we attend now actually involve fires. The other 70 per cent includes false alarms, car crashes, hazardous substance incidents and medical emergencies where we provide manpower with first aid skill to back up the experts from St John. Some of our work does not neatly fit into any of the normal categories. An elderly caller last Thursday had knocked a cushion that had fallen down the side of her hot water cylinder. She wondered if it was a fire risk. It probably wasn’t. But St Albans Red Watch crew went to her house and retrieved the cushion which almost certainly saved her days and nights of worry. We also saw the Wainoni crew travelling to Collingwood St in New Brighton the same day to a child who had managed to trap their leg in a gate. All the efforts of the locals were to no avail. A tool known as a hooligan bar, a kind of short crowbar, was utilised by the crew to bend the railings enough to release the PEGASUS POST SUSPICIOUS: Wednesday’s fire on the Port Hills. PHOTOS: SIMON COOPER trapped leg. There were a couple of potentially serious fires in the week. Both were of a suspicious nature. A camper van at the back of a vehicle dealer in St Asaph St was set alight and destroyed recently and on Wednesday night, fireworks were apparently utilised to ignite a fire on the Port Hills that was visible across the city. I’m sure police would appreciate any information that might identify either set of culprits. Rent Me Or Buy Me NO BOND REQUIRED Rental - From $75 p/w Size 10m2 • Accommodation –teenagers, elderly, guests • Cabin Sleep out • Site office • Storage • Home office/ small business • Games room 0800 HouseMe 468 736 houseme2015@xtra.co.nz Wainoni & PANDA’S PIZZA Buy 2 pizzas & get the 3rd FREE Only available with this coupon Mon - Thurs 4pm-9.30pm Fri - Sun 12 noon-9.30pm Valid until 31st May, 2016 175 Wainoni Road, Wainoni (opp Pak ‘n Save) • Phone 388 4373 LIQUID LAUNDROMATS 345 STANMORE ROAD, RICHMOND 7 DAYS: 5am-11pm WASH & DRY ALL YOUR LAUNDRY IN ABOUT 1 HOUR $4.00 WASH $4.00 DRY Wash 2 Mink Blankets, Duvets or Woolrests for only $10 DRY UP TO 4 LOADS IN ONLY 20 MINUTES! $4 SAvE TIME & ELECTRICITY Red Orchid Thai Takeaway Red Orchid Free Home Delivery Thai Takeaway 240 Stanmore Rd | PH: 389-3999 Dine In. Open for Dinner Tues-Sun *On total cost over $40 & within 4KM radius. • Fast Dryers • Sports Gear • Duvets • Mink Blankets • Bedding • Washers • Domestic Laundry Other Locations: 289 Colombo Street, Sydenham 47 Carmen Road, Hornby www.liquidlaundromats.co.nz
PEGASUS POST Tuesday May 10 2016 5 neighbourhood NEWS News tips? Email fraser.walker@starmedia.kiwi or phone 364 7424 ‘Risky’ alleyways a concern Residents worry over Haeata student safety FRASER WALKER-PEARCE Avondale and Wainoni residents are concerned that when Haeata Community Campus opens next year, students will be unsafe walking home from late-night events, due to a number of “dangerous” alleyways. The opening of Haeata will see the closure of Avondale, Wainoni, Aranui Primary, and Aranui High Schools, and is only three terms away from opening its doors. But concerns have been raised over the safety of students attending Haeata, who would walk to and from the school, and use these alleyways. At a recent Active and Passenger Transport Working Group meeting, the concerns were raised by Living Streets spokeswoman Meg Christie. Mrs Christie said that in daylight hours residents living around the alleyways didn’t think it was risky using them, but in the night and early morning, they saw a risk involved. “It’s the moving around to rugby training or church events or something that is the problem. If students are walking or cycling to and from their after-school events, they need to feel safe,” she said. In the Avondale-Wainoni suburbs, six alleyways have been named as needing more lighting, some back onto parks, and most are in residential areas. The alleyways of concern are between Mervyn Drive and Woolley St, Pembroke St and Emlyn Pl, Wainoni Rd and Aldershot St, Ben Rarere Ave and Aldershot St, Ventor and Corhampton Sts, and Meon and Warblington Sts. Mrs Christie said a lot of residents said they wouldn’t feel safe walking down certain alleyways, and wouldn’t recommend others to either. “The neighbours said ‘we don’t want to encourage people to walk down there’. They said it’s really scary at night. They lived there and felt it wasn’t safe,” she said. Burwood-Pegasus Community Board member Tim Baker said he was fully supportive of the alleyways receiving more lighting. FREE UPGRADE: Your local community centre could receive a free $150,000 upgrade, if you get your vote in. SmartLift, which specialises in re-levelling building foundations is giving away a ‘lift and level’ to one of five community facilities. These are the Breezes Rd Youth Community Church, Delta Community Support Trust, Parklands Baptist Community Church, Kaiapoi Gray Raven Scout Group, and Te Waka Aroha South Brighton. Te Waka Aroha is currently leading the votes with 1437, but there is still three weeks remaining. If you’d like to vote, go to Facebook, and search SmartLift. ALLEGED ASSAULT A man suffered moderate injuries after he was allegedly assaulted last week in New Brighton. St John sent an ambulance to the incident, on Marine Parade, at about 7.30pm last Tuesday. The man, in his 50s, was taken to hospital. ROAD REPAIRS From today Travis Rd, between Blue Gum Place and Atlantis St, will be closed for Stronger Christchurch Infrastructure Rebuild Team wastewater, storm water and road repairs. This is expected to take about two months. Traffic will be diverted around the site using the former QE II slip road. Meanwhile, traffic going east towards The Palms Shopping Centre is being detoured, because of culvert repairs. Traffic management is scheduled to be uplifted by late May. Work will be undertaken at night on North Parade, between Banks Ave and Randall St, and is due to finish early this week. SPEED BUMP NOT NEEDED A speed bump will not be installed on Saltaire St, North New Brighton, after a report by city council staff told a community board there was no need for one. The report was heard at last week’s Burwood- Pegasus Community Board meeting, and said the estimated cost of installing a speed bump on the street would be more than $30,000. BREAST CANCER CAMPAIGN Customers visiting their local Robert Harris café throughout May can order off the menu and 10 per cent of their meal purchase will be donated to the New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation’s Pink Ribbon Appeal. The company is aiming to raise $100,000 by the end of the campaign. BELFAST 100TH ANNIVERSARY The Belfast Rugby Club will celebrate its 100th anniversary on Queen’s Birthday weekend, June 3, 4 and 5. The club is calling all current and former members to register their interest as soon as possible to enable them to arrange the weekend’s activities. To register email belfastrugby100years@ gmail.com or phone facility manager Glenda Spillane on 323 8024 or 027 435 9762. Rebuilding stronger in your community • Rebuilding stronger is in our very name - for good reason. • The Stronger Christchurch Infrastructure Rebuild Team (SCIRT) is committed to rebuilding pipes, bridges and retaining walls that will stand up better in the future. • SCIRT is using modern materials, best practice construction standards and the latest technologies in your area. • New resilient underground sewerage systems have been installed in Shirley, Dallington, Wainoni and Aranui. • These systems have pipes that are more flexible when the ground moves and they do not rely on gravity to move the area’s wastewater to the Bromley Treatment Plant. • 2016 is SCIRT’s final year. • Thank you for your patience, your support is helping us to get the job done. Want more info? Email: info@scirt.co.nz Phone: 941 8999 Find out about work in your area: www.scirt.co.nz Email us on: info@scirt.co.nz to get our: Weekly Traffic Update Monthly e-Newsletter Follow us on Twitter: @SCIRT_info #chchtraffic • John Kissel, a member of SCIRT’s City Care three waters crew. Thank you Christchurch for your patience and making us feel welcome in your communities Programme funded by
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