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8 Tuesday October 31 2017 Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi PEGASUS POST LEARNING: Shirley Community Trust worker and garden organiser Ian Dunbar with Ashley Pakeha, 4, of Macfarlane Park Kindergarten watering a young tomato plant in the new Shirley Community Garden. PHOTO: MARTIN HUNTER Getting food growing • By Sophie Cornish CHILDREN AT Macfarlane Park Kidsfirst Kindergarten helped with planting in the Shirley Community Garden last Tuesday. Bunnings Warehouse Shirley worked with the kindergarten to provide children with a learning experience about growing food. Children were taught about the importance of knowing • By Sophie Cornish A BEE house, part of New World’s Little Garden promotion, has been donated to the New Brighton Community Garden. The house has been built in the garden and bees are able to lay their eggs inside. The bee house was made by Creative Woodcraft New Zealand for leaf cutter bees. Leaf cutter bees do not sting, swarm or create honey, however, they are one of the most prolific pollinators in nature. The community garden, located on Shaw Ave in Rawhiti Domain is set to re-open on Saturday with a community day. Administrator for the garden how to grow food, how to identify edible plants and how to plant. Plants donated by Bunnings included blueberry and orange trees, capsicums, tomatoes, lettuces, celery, corn and herbs. The community garden recently reopened in MacFarlane Park on Jebson St. Previously it was located on Housing New Zealand land in Riselaw St. Community garden to open NATURE: New Brighton Community Garden manager Catherine O’Neill with the bee house. Joyce Bailey said there will be hundreds of vegetable plants for sale. “It’s the big push for the day,” said Mrs Bailey. The event will run from noon-3pm will have a range of family-friendly activities. IN ACTION: Avonside Girls’ High student Lilian Exton playing boccia at the National Halberg Junior Games. She is presented with an award for the best non-classified female at the event from Black Cap Grant Elliott. Success for disabled athletes TWO DISABLED athletes from Avonside Girls’ High School have recently made their mark at national events. Lilian Exton and Alisha Mill competed at the Halberg Junior Games in Auckland and the National Boccia Championships in Wellington earlier this month. Run by the Halberg Disability Sport Foundation, the Halbergs are a national three-day sport competition for physically disabled and visually impaired children and teenagers aged eight to 21. There are a variety of sports including swimming, athletics, wheelchair racing, boccia and basketball. Lilian and Alisha represented Canterbury at the Halbergs and came second and third respectively in the A-grade boccia category. Boccia is a precision ball sport similar to bowls and petanque played by athletes with physical disabilities. Lilian also received the award for the top athletics nonclassified female at the closing ceremony. “We went to closing ceremony on Sunday and no one knew who was going to get what awards. Team Canterbury got four awards. I was one of the lucky ones who got an award for athletics non-classified best female. It was an amazing feeling,” said Lilian. At the boccia champs, Alisha’s team won a silver medal and Lilian won the categories for open class champion and most improved player. Alisha has acioscaphlohumeral muscular dystrophy, causing her muscles to be weak. She has very little muscle around her shoulder, upper arms and abdomen, which makes her core unbalance, making it difficult to walk unassisted. This has also caused her facial muscles to stop working. Lilian has otospondylo megaepiphyseal dysplasia, the only person in New Zealand to have the condition which makes her bones grow too much, causing joint paint and rigidness. Both students are also deaf, their conditions affecting their ability to hear. Head of learning support at Avonside Katrina Boxall said the two girls are fiercely independent and competitive. “They have amazingly supportive families also, just really awesome people,” said Ms Boxall. MEDAL-WINNER: Alisha Mill from Avonside Girls’ High School with her silver medal from the National Boccia Championships. Help us keep the Santa Parade going... The Christchurch City Council funds 50% of this ‘not for profit’ event and we thank them for their contribution. However, the Trust is appealing for further assistance from the public through our ‘Give a little’ page. All donations are gratefully accepted. Please help with a donation www.givealittle.co.nz/org/santaparadechristchurch000 Best Motorbuys TM ANYTHING WITH A MOTOR! The South Island’s leading motoring publication FREE every Friday at hundreds of locations around the South Island, and it’s available online! www.bestmotorbuys.co.nz For advertising enquiries, ph Lea Godfrey 021 277 3086
PEGASUS POST Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi Tuesday October 31 2017 9 Introducing our brand new purpose built retirement village in the heart of Shirley. Retirement just started looking a whole lot better in Shirley! The Village Palms, opening in November, offers affordable luxury and first class care. Our stylish one bedroom apartments start at an unbelievable purchase price of $255,000 and spacious studio’s at a competitive $150,000. At The Village Palms, we also offer the full continuum of care, with care suites, Rest Home & Hospital level rooms available with care delivered 24 hours a day by Registered Nurses and experienced staff. Call us on 022 321 1872 or Freephone 0800 THE VILLAGE for your own personal guided tour The Village Palms Where new memories are made
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