Pegasus Post: October 18, 2016

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Tuesday October 18 2016
Your Local Views
Attend to the basics first
Re-elected
Burwood
Ward city
councillor
Glenn
Livingstone
talks
about the
importance of prioritising
needs in the east
Thank you to the electors of
the Burwood Ward for your
support in electing me as your
city councillor for the next three
years.
For residents in the Coastal
Ward, I will have a relationship
with you by virtue of being appointed
to the Coastal-Burwood
Community Board.
In many ways, the Burwood
Ward is a microcosm of where
the whole city is at and where I
think we need to head to over the
next city council term.
In my view, the city is living
in a state of an amplified
hierarchy of needs (in reference
to Abraham Maslow’s identified
hierarchy of needs). At one end of
the pyramid, in terms of the provision
of the most basic needs,
many are waiting for roads,
footpaths and infrastructure to
be rebuilt and repaired.
At the other end, many are
yearning to ‘reach for the stars’
and make Christchurch the best
city it can be.
The reason I say this hierarchy
of needs is amplified is that in
this rebuild phase of our city, the
call to attend to needs at both
ends of the pyramid is stronger
than it would normally be in a
city, six years on from the earthquakes,
had we not had a natural
disaster.
In Burwood, many of our
roads and footpaths are still in a
shocking state. Along with this,
most of the residential red zone is
contained within this ward.
Regeneration Christchurch is
beginning its work of taking on
the ideas from the communities
of interest and working with the
local, host communities.
In many ways, this Avon
Otakaro corridor represents the
aspirations of how many would
like Christchurch to look in
the future. And in some cases,
rebuild and repair of roads and
footpaths and the future use of
this area will go hand in glove, as
they are inter-related.
A clue to balancing the
pyramid is found in the thinking
behind Maslow’s work itself.
It’s not rocket science and you
already know the answer. Basically,
attend to the basics first
and then the community will be
more ready to support the ‘reaching
for the stars’ aspirations.
Stay in the kitchen
when cooking
• By Mark Thomas – Fire Risk
Management Officer
HOW LONG does it take for 10
litres or more of water in a large
saucepan to boil away and then
the pan to melt from the heat (in
this case a gas cooker) and set
fire to the building?
Well in the case of a house in
Stanley St, Sydenham, last Friday
night it took eight hours.
That’s the time between the
occupant forgetting the pan was
on and leaving and the place being
fully involved in fire.
Five fire trucks and a command
unit attended and, as
you would expect, damage was
severe.
This has to be counted as a
cooking fire. There were two
more reported this week. One of
them involved someone being
taken to hospital with smoke
inhalation.
It also appears this victim may
have had two or three drinks
too many. There are some classic
recipes for disaster in the above
incidents.
The first is relatively common
but doesn’t always mean a house
is completely destroyed.
The second is also quite common,
particularly amongst our
PEGASUS POST
TRICKY: It’s duckling season
again and firefighters are
expecting to rescue more of
them from drains.
fatality statistics.
Don’t drink and fry! And
stay in the kitchen when cooking.
Should be simple.
There was a smile to be had
after Woolston’s crew were sent
to Truscotts Rd up the Heathcote
Valley on Monday to rescue
some ducklings from a drain.
A thorough search failed to
find them.
The radio message back to
comms stated ‘no sign of ducklings,
we may have been sent on
a wild goose chase.’ Good reply!
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