Pegasus Post: September 20, 2016

PEGASUS POST Tuesday September 20 2016 5
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Parents set to fight
Community
• By Fraser Walker-Pearce
MARSHLAND SCHOOL
parents are lining up to fight
one another – but all for a good
cause.
They will hold a fundraising
boxing event so the school can
buy a car to assist pupils getting
to academic and sporting events.
A pair of boxing gloves signed
by Joseph Parker is one of the
items up for auction on the night.
Event organiser Melissa
McGraw said a committee of
nine parents pitched the idea of
a King of the Ring event to the
school’s board of trustees, the
principal, and to Boxing New
Zealand.
“We have a school parents’
[Facebook] page, and we put
a post up to see if anyone
was interested, and we quite
rapidly had a number of parents
interested. Then we had to meet
with the board of trustees and
the school principal, and we got
clearance,” she said.
Ms McGraw said the event
has 28 boxers, most of whom
are “mums and dads”, who have
never “stepped in the ring”
before.
“Even with that, currently in
terms of tables, we’ve sold all
the ring-side tables and also five
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AUCTIONED OFF: A pair of boxing gloves signed by Joseph
Parker will be among the auction items for Marshland
School’s King of the Ring event. ​
boxers are sponsored already. So
we’re looking for more individual
boxer sponsors. We’re well
underway,” she said.
Ms McGraw said she hopes the
night will raise enough for the
school to purchase a car.
“We worked out the minimum
we need to raise is about $20,000
for a vehicle of sorts. The
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maximum we’re looking
to raise is anything up to
$50,000. Currently we’re still
getting auction pieces together,”
she said.
Tickets to King of the Ring go
on sale on September 30.
For more information, email
kingofthering2016@hotmail.
com
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DAVID
EAST
Re-Elect
board in dark
over projects
• By Fraser Walker-Pearce
ALMOST THREE weeks after
a behind-closed-doors meeting
with city councillors, a feasibility
report on the New Brighton
hot salt water pools and North
Beach promenade is yet to be
seen by the Burwood-Pegasus
Community Board.
Reports on the North Beach
promenade and hot salt water
pools project were presented to
the city council at a staff briefing
on August 29.
Previously, Pegasus Post
reported that doubts had been
cast over whether the $2.4
million North Beach promenade
project will go ahead in its
current form.
The behind-closed-door
meetings revealed problems with
financing the project, which has
potentially jeopardised it.
The community board asked
city council staff to keep them
I have represented the Coastal Ward for 12
years on the Community Board and three
years as City Councillor for the area.
It is with immense pride that I am a fourth
generation member of our community and
follow my Great Grandfather and Grandfather
in council matters, both being elected
members of the New Brighton Borough
Council
My significant involvement in this term has
been with the QEII Pool rebuild (about to
start), new High Schools on QEII Park and
advocating for the retention of Gravity Sewerage
in Parklands. I have also been significantly
involved in Coastal Hazard management in
the Eastern Suburbs, successfully challenging
reports commissioned and advocating for a
practical and measured approach to Sea Level
rise and Coastal Hazards.
My focus for the next three years includes:
Estuary edge protection for the South Brighton
side of the Estuary, Continued advocacy
for practical approaches to Coastal Hazards,
East for the East
up to date with the progress
made on the two projects by
DCL.
But board chairwoman
Andrea Cummings said DCL
has not played its part in keeping
the board notified.
City councillor David East
said the reports presented at the
city council meeting are yet to be
seen by the board.
“They haven’t been seen by the
board yet. They have been kept
up to date with information,
but DCL are still working on
both [projects] so they haven’t
finalised anything,” he said.
City councillor Glenn
Livingstone said the board needs
to see the feasibility reports, even
if they are not fully complete.
“The board needs to see them .
. . I will push for the board to see
them,” he said.
DCL chief executive Rob Hall
did not respond to the Pegasus
Post.
Hot salt Water Pools in New Brighton, advocacy
and promotion for the future use of the
Residential Red Zone land, a coastal walkway
/ promenade, recognition of the inclusion of
Spencerville and Brooklands in the new ward
and their issues, dealing with flood management
issues in the lower Avon catchment
The Eastern Suburbs has suffered for many
years from neglect and under appreciation.
We are the Coastal window to the city and the
huge potential that the area exudes has been
undervalued, underappreciated and underconsidered
by successive Councils for many
years. My aim is to turn this prejudice around
and realise the great potential the Eastern
Suburbs offer.
I am proud to represent the Ward and continue
to be involved with many organisations. I
seek your vote to continue advocating for our
wonderful community
Coastal ward
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