Pegasus Post: October 10, 2017

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Fire rages, homes at risk
• By Sophie Cornish
MENTAL HEALTH
organisation Step Ahead is
demonstrating the benefits of
artwork for improving mental
stability.
The Eastside Gallery in Linwood
is currently hosting an art
exhibition containing 100 pieces
made by about from Step Ahead.
The annual exhibition runs
until Friday. It coincides with
mental health awareness week,
The exhibition has a diverse
range artwork including mix media
photography, stone carving,
mosaic and craft including wood
turning.
Seventeen pieces were sold in
the first two days.
The not-for-profit organisation
provides programmes that offer
social, educational and recreational
activities for adults aged
BEACH
ART:
Members
of Step
Ahead have
artwork on
display at
Linwood’s
Eastside
Gallery.
Art exhibition raises
mental health awareness
18-65 years with mental illness.
Said Step Ahead Operations
Manager Di Cockburn: “It provides
an opportunity not readily
available for members to showcase
their talents to the wider
community and sell some work.
“Basically it provides a goal to
work towards and an opportunity
to recognise and celebrate
skill and achievement.”
Ms Cockburn believes the benefits
are enormous and members
are given a sense of pride, self
worth and achievement.
Art is a big part of Step
Ahead’s programme and several
art groups meet every week.
Other activities the organisation
offers are health and fitness
related such as cooking, sport,
walks and tramping and social
and life skills such as employment,
technology and educational
support.
PERFORMING: Class Disruption during the Rockshop Bandquest regional finals.
Young musicians take rock title
•From page 1
Orange Studios is located in
Woolston and is one of the more
well known studios in the South
Island.
The band is made up of Dylan
Jonkers (vocals, songwriting and
bass), Sho Woodhouse (drums),
Hiromu Crosado (keyboard) and
Jacob Carey (guitar).
Hiromu also won the national
award for best keyboardist.
During the regional heats, the
band performed a cover of Rush’s
Tom Sawyer, and an original
written by Dylan called Take
It Away, a song about having
FLAME FILES
• By Mark Thomas - Specialist fire
investigator
A RECENT call to Hei Hei
presented a bit of a challenge for
the Sockburn crew.
A child in a wheelchair was
stuck in her bedroom because
the door handle had broken.
She had been there for some
hours before the family admitted
defeat in their endeavours to
make entry.
The fire crew called managed
to get one of their number
through a window into the room
with some small tools that were
sufficient to break out.
Family reunited.
confidence in yourself and not
giving up.
The band was then required to
submit a six-minute video to be
judged alongside all of the other
regional winners.
Learning the piano at age four
was just the start for 13-year-old
Dylan, who can also play bass,
guitar, trombone and drums.
He has written 12 songs for the
band, which they hope to make
into an album later this year.
Auditions were held at the start
of the year for new members (Jacob
and Hiromu) to join the year
8s Dylan and Sho who needed to
Water reported flowing from
a house in Stanmore Rd turned
out to be the downfall for some
indoor gardeners.
Helpful firefighters looking
inside were worried that the
chemicals visible were part of a
methamphetamine lab.
They weren’t, but several
rooms full of spiky leafed illegal
plants were found by the police
experts called in.
A resident of Aranui was
recently taken to hospital with
burns to the hand.
You guessed it!
Stovetop fire.
Every week the same!
replace two members who went
on to high school.
Jacob came up for the idea of
naming the band Class Disruption
which the band says has
no reflection of their classroom
behaviour.
Music programme co-ordinator
Judith Bell said the band has
started a Google document to
brainstorm ways the $3000 prize
money can be spent.
Dylan hopes they will be able
to get more cymbals for the drum
kit and an instrument called a
theremin, an electronic device
which can create sound effects.
Fires, rescues - just another week
Spreydon’s fire crew had the
unpleasant job of removing a
bicycle brake handle from a bike
last Tuesday.
That bit sounds easy. But the
handle was impaled through the
rider’s hand at the time.
The delicate use of a serious
pair of bolt cutters allowed the
patient to be taken to hospital
for expert surgery to remove the
handle from hand.
Finally, someone in Aranui
was cold on Wednesday night.
They opened the boarded up
fireplace and lit a fire.
It was boarded for a reason.
No flue, no chimney!
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