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TUESDAY, DECEMBER <strong>19</strong>, <strong>2017</strong><br />
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I DO: Ashley Van de Loo and her fiance Zane Thoms will have the wedding they and their children, Millie and Luke, dreamed of<br />
after all.<br />
PHOTO: MARTIN HUNTER <br />
Wedding dream comes true<br />
• By Bridget Rutherford<br />
ASHLEY VAN de Loo cancelled<br />
her big wedding to fiance Zane<br />
Thoms when her brother was<br />
diagnosed with a rare disease.<br />
But her North New Brighton<br />
community wasn’t having a bar<br />
of it.<br />
The couple got engaged in<br />
August, and started planning<br />
Mural livens up Mairehau<br />
A drab wall on Innes Rd has<br />
been brought to life with art by<br />
primary school pupils<br />
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their big day.<br />
But four weeks later, Miss Van<br />
de Loo’s 18-year-old brother,<br />
Mitchell Pasco, was diagnosed<br />
with Takayasu arteritis, which<br />
causes chronic inflammation of<br />
large blood vessels and arteries.<br />
His condition means he<br />
could have a heart attack at<br />
any time, and has to have<br />
chemotherapy, medical<br />
appointments and daily<br />
medication.<br />
So they decided to cancel their<br />
big wedding plans to focus on<br />
his recovery.<br />
“I always dreamed of that<br />
beautiful, big wedding. But it<br />
wasn’t the right thing to do,”<br />
Miss Van de Loo said.<br />
Instead, they opted to marry<br />
at the registry office followed by<br />
Flame files finale<br />
After 518 columns Mark Thomas<br />
has one final message before<br />
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a barbecue reception at home on<br />
January 18, which will be their<br />
10-year anniversary.<br />
On Monday, Miss Van de<br />
Loo posted on the Peoples<br />
Independent Republic of New<br />
Brighton Facebook page to see<br />
if anyone had fairy lights, trestle<br />
tables or decorations for the<br />
barbecue.<br />
•Turn to page 4<br />
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• By Sarla Donovan<br />
VANDALS HAVE damaged a<br />
new $20,000 plastic roof at the<br />
Bromley School swimming pool.<br />
They cut a hole big enough for<br />
a person to climb through last<br />
Saturday.<br />
Contractor Darren King had<br />
recently finished putting on the<br />
new roof.<br />
“It’s never going to look nice for<br />
another eight years (when it will<br />
be replaced),“ Mr King said.<br />
“It’s like cutting a hole in a<br />
tent – you can patch it but it will<br />
never look the same.”<br />
The roof is made from greenhouse<br />
plastic and shade-cloth<br />
and measures 16m x 30m.<br />
“We’d have to strip it all back<br />
and replace the lot,” Mr King<br />
said.<br />
Principal Scot Kinley said it<br />
was “very disappointing” for the<br />
pupils.<br />
As well as the damaged roof,<br />
the vandals attacked the pool<br />
enclosure.<br />
They broke the toilet cisterns,<br />
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in chairs and other items.<br />
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News<br />
Clearing starts on section<br />
But owner<br />
won’t say<br />
when it will<br />
be finished<br />
• By Bridget Rutherford<br />
THE OWNER of an overgrown<br />
property in Avondale is refusing<br />
to say when the site will be<br />
completely cleared.<br />
Last week, <strong>Pegasus</strong> <strong>Post</strong><br />
reported Maree Ross had tried<br />
for 18 months to get some action<br />
on the overgrown mess on<br />
the property next door to her<br />
Woolley St home.<br />
She said it was a fire risk,<br />
attracted vermin and insects,<br />
and looked awful.<br />
On Wednesday and Thursday,<br />
the property’s owner removed a<br />
small amount of the vegetation<br />
with a weed whacker and<br />
chainsaw. But work ceased on<br />
Friday.<br />
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would not talk to <strong>Pegasus</strong> <strong>Post</strong><br />
about when they would finish<br />
clearing the site.<br />
“No comment,” he said<br />
yesterday.<br />
Ms Ross said although she was<br />
WORRIED: Maree Ross in the overgrown empty section<br />
yesterday and (right) last week. PHOTOS: MARTIN HUNTER<br />
thrilled work had started, she<br />
wanted to see more done before<br />
Christmas.<br />
She said a lot of vegetation<br />
had been cut down and was now<br />
sitting on the ground, which<br />
could create a fire risk when it<br />
dried out.<br />
“If anything, it’s going to be<br />
worse than ever,” she said.<br />
“I’ve got Christmas Eve and<br />
New Year’s Eve with a fire risk<br />
and a park behind me. I’m very<br />
worried.”<br />
It had also heightened her hayfever,<br />
she said.<br />
She planned on calling Mr<br />
Hindmarsh today to ask more<br />
be cleared before Christmas.<br />
Originally, the city council<br />
said the maintenance of<br />
private properties was not its<br />
responsibility unless there was<br />
a fire risk or it encroached onto<br />
footpaths.<br />
It said there was no fire risk<br />
because the vegetation was still<br />
green.<br />
But after questions from the<br />
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later contacted the owners to ask<br />
the site be cleared, starting last<br />
week.<br />
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actioned. Because the council<br />
sure as heck wasn’t,” Ms Ross<br />
said.<br />
City council head of<br />
regulatory compliance Tracey<br />
Weston said the site would be<br />
revisited early in the new year<br />
and, if it had not been cleared,<br />
it would be reassessed as to<br />
whether it was a fire risk.<br />
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concerned about the fire risk.<br />
The owners bought the<br />
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Mural brings Mairehau alive<br />
Pupils inspire<br />
Innes Rd art<br />
• By Julia Evans<br />
A DRAB wall in Mairehau<br />
has come to life with colourful<br />
artwork – an idea sparked<br />
entirely by local children.<br />
When asked what was<br />
wrong with their community,<br />
Mairehau Primary School pupils<br />
said the area needed more<br />
colour.<br />
So Richard ‘Popx’ Baker was<br />
enlisted to paint a mural on a<br />
wall between the school and<br />
Innes Rd.<br />
The Neighbourhood Trust<br />
and Child and Youth Friendly<br />
Cities organised the artwork,<br />
which features Mairehau pupils<br />
planting a garden.<br />
Trust manager Ginny Larsen<br />
said it has been a great result<br />
from a collaborative effort.<br />
“The project started two-anda-half<br />
years ago when the trust<br />
was working with children from<br />
Mairehau Primary asking them<br />
what they liked about the area,<br />
what they didn’t like and what<br />
they would like to change,” she<br />
said.<br />
One of the main themes was<br />
that the pupils found Mairehau<br />
a “bit grey” and wanted “more<br />
LIKE BANKSY: George Croton, teacher Alice McGinty,<br />
Luseane Alexander, Chelsea Radcliffe and Amy Scott in front<br />
of the mural on Innes Rd. PHOTO: GILBERT WEALLEANS<br />
colour and vibrancy” in the<br />
area.<br />
The pupils took photos and<br />
made up a board of ideas.<br />
“One of the things they<br />
suggested was a mural,” Ms<br />
Larsen said.<br />
But the trust quickly hit a<br />
road block.<br />
Said Ms Larsen: “We thought<br />
this would be lovely but we’ve<br />
got no money.”<br />
That’s when Child and Youth<br />
Friendly Cities came on board.<br />
Ms Larsen said the group<br />
really liked the fact that it was<br />
the voices and ideas of local<br />
children being heard.<br />
Many large-scale murals by<br />
Baker feature across the city.<br />
They include a building<br />
at Phillipstown School through<br />
to the “wall of love” in New<br />
Brighton.<br />
Community steps<br />
up to give couple<br />
dream wedding<br />
•From page 1<br />
Said Miss Van de Loo: “I<br />
thought maybe someone has<br />
bought fairy lights for Christmas<br />
and were not using them.”<br />
Within an hour, more than 100<br />
people had offered help, including<br />
photography, decorations,<br />
wedding vehicles, a wedding<br />
cake, suits and a wedding dress,<br />
make-up, hair, a spray tan,<br />
pounamu necklaces, help to set<br />
up, and the use of Richmond’s<br />
Avebury House.<br />
They will now get married<br />
there on January 20.<br />
“We were just blown away<br />
with the response. We feel like<br />
we’ve won the Lotto. It’s practically<br />
a dream come true; I’m still<br />
speechless,” she said.<br />
The couple, who met as teenagers,<br />
moved to North New Brighton<br />
with their children Millie, 5,<br />
and Luke, 3, six months ago.<br />
“It’s amazing, I love how everyone<br />
bands together,” Miss Van de<br />
Loo said.<br />
“Within a month I would<br />
walk down the street and people<br />
would say hi. It’s just little<br />
things like that. We’ve never<br />
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Miss Van de Loo said Millie<br />
was disappointed her parents<br />
may not have had the big wedding<br />
they hoped for.<br />
“She was quite sad, even I was<br />
sad, but that was what was important<br />
to us at the time.”<br />
Now they do not have to worry<br />
about organising the wedding,<br />
they can spend more time supporting<br />
Mitchell.<br />
“It could well have been his last<br />
Christmas. He could have a heart<br />
attack at any time,” Miss Van de<br />
Loo said.<br />
Millie would be her maid of<br />
honour, while Luke would be Mr<br />
Thoms’ best man.<br />
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which most commonly<br />
affects Asians and women.<br />
It has damaged his heart so<br />
much so that it is only working<br />
at 28 per cent, Miss Van de Loo<br />
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it forward, with a surprise<br />
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Pupils first to ride new cycleway<br />
LINWOOD AVENUE School<br />
pupils pedalled their way into<br />
the history books last week<br />
when they became the first to<br />
ride on the Rapanui-Shag Rock<br />
cycleway.<br />
The first stage of the cycleway<br />
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It takes cyclists from Linwood<br />
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Eventually the cycleway will<br />
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For Linwood Avenue School<br />
pupils, the opening provided a<br />
chance to not only try out the<br />
new cycleway, but also a new<br />
bicycle.<br />
Some of the bicyles the school<br />
used for cycle safety training<br />
were stolen earlier this year so<br />
a few city council staff donated<br />
their old bikes to ICEcycles to<br />
repair. ICEcycles have already<br />
repaired and gifted one to a<br />
student for Christmas.<br />
The remaining bikes will be<br />
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the new year.<br />
“It’s fantastic to see the kids<br />
on their bikes and enjoying the<br />
new cycleway,’’ said Innes Ward<br />
city councillor Pauline Cotter,<br />
LINWOOD FLYER: Linwood Avenue School pupil Flute Kovati<br />
was one of the first people to ride along the Rapanui-Shag<br />
Rock cycleway. <br />
who heads the city council’s<br />
infrastructure, transport and<br />
environment committee.<br />
“The new cycleway routes are<br />
about making it safer for kids<br />
and people of all ages to cycle so<br />
we become less reliant on cars<br />
and lead healthier, active lives.<br />
Hopefully, some of the kids<br />
using the cycleway today will<br />
become regular users,’’ said Cr<br />
Cotter, who officially opened<br />
the cycleway with Associate<br />
Transport Minister Julie Anne<br />
Genter.<br />
The city council is building<br />
13 major cycleway routes across<br />
Christchurch.<br />
Three routes – the Papanui<br />
Parallel, the Little River Link<br />
and the Uni-Cycle – have been<br />
completed or substantially<br />
completed. The remaining 10<br />
are in various stages of planning<br />
and implementation.<br />
In late October and early<br />
November, the city council<br />
surveyed 625 cyclists who were<br />
using the completed routes to<br />
gauge their thoughts on the<br />
cycleways.<br />
Ninety-four per cent of people<br />
who answered the survey<br />
said they thought the new<br />
physically separated cycleways<br />
had improved their safety and<br />
cycling comfort.<br />
Eighty-three per cent stated<br />
the new separated cycleways<br />
had played a role in encouraging<br />
them to make more trips by<br />
cycle.<br />
Ninety-two per cent of people<br />
surveyed said they either<br />
strongly agreed or agreed that<br />
physically separated cycleways<br />
should be installed on routes<br />
throughout Christchurch.<br />
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The bright blue hydroslide<br />
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City council operations<br />
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“The 130m-long WhiteWater<br />
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News<br />
Vandals<br />
damage<br />
school<br />
pool<br />
•From page 1<br />
The pool had to be completely<br />
drained and cleaned and fresh<br />
chemicals were added, which Mr<br />
Kinley said was very frustrating<br />
given the city has been close to<br />
imposing water restrictions.<br />
Mr King went<br />
to the school to<br />
repair the damage<br />
on Thursday.<br />
He said it would<br />
cost between $400<br />
to $500 to fix,<br />
but his company<br />
Tunnel House<br />
Tech would do<br />
Scot Kinley the work free of<br />
charge.<br />
“It’s about the kids in that<br />
school . . . Those kids wouldn’t<br />
have any other means of learning<br />
to swim.”<br />
Roll growth has prompted<br />
the Ministry of Education<br />
to implement a zone around<br />
Bromley and several other schools<br />
in the city’s east this year.<br />
ACHIEVERS: Mitchell Rowe, George Cox, Izak Dobbs and<br />
James Hunt went to Government House in Wellington to<br />
receive their Queen’s Badge awards. <br />
IN SPITE of everything the<br />
earthquakes threw at them,<br />
four young leaders have been<br />
awarded the highest award in<br />
the Boys’ Brigade – the Queen’s<br />
Badge.<br />
Shirley brigade members<br />
James Hunt, George Cox, Izak<br />
Dobbs and Mitchell Rowe<br />
were recently presented with<br />
their badges and travelled to<br />
Government House,<br />
Wellington, to receive the<br />
Local<br />
News<br />
Now<br />
Digital reindeer invade Marshland park<br />
A MARSHLAND park<br />
will be transformed into a<br />
winter wonderland where a<br />
misbehaving yeti has trapped<br />
Santa’s reindeer in an ice<br />
world.<br />
The city council is sponsoring<br />
a Magical Park app experience<br />
at Ouruhia Reserve on Chenery<br />
Ave off Marshland Rd.<br />
Children will help free the<br />
reindeer captured by a yeti in a<br />
snowy ice world and show them<br />
the way to Santa’s sleigh, as<br />
well as retrieve presents that<br />
have been thrown around by<br />
a bad elf.<br />
The game, which uses a<br />
mobile device and the Magical<br />
Park app, allows children to<br />
experience the park through<br />
GAMER: From Friday, children<br />
will be able to play an<br />
app-based game at Ouruhia<br />
Reserve on Chenery Ave off<br />
Marshland Rd. <br />
blended virtual worlds seen<br />
through the app. The game will<br />
be live from Friday and will run<br />
until <strong>December</strong> 31.<br />
City council head of parks<br />
Brent Smith said Magical Park<br />
used technology as a tool to get<br />
young people outside enjoying a<br />
local park.<br />
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“We’re sure that kids are going<br />
to have a lot of fun playing this<br />
one, especially with a Christmas<br />
theme this year. But they’ll also<br />
be able to get some exercise<br />
in the fresh air and enjoy the<br />
natural world around them.”<br />
The game is suitable for<br />
children aged six to 11, has three<br />
levels, and will take 30-60min<br />
to play.<br />
The app runs on iPhone and<br />
iPads and Android devices with<br />
compass, gyroscope, GPS and<br />
accelerometer sensors.<br />
You will need access to mobile<br />
data or a hotspot to play.<br />
Shirley boys earn Queen’s<br />
Badge for brigade work<br />
accompanying certificate from<br />
Governor General Dame Patsy<br />
Reedy.<br />
To qualify for the prestigious<br />
award, each boy had to<br />
undertake at least 45 hours<br />
community service, plan<br />
and undertake a three-day<br />
expedition, attend a week-long<br />
leadership training course, as<br />
well as qualify for several other<br />
badges in the company over a<br />
six-year period.<br />
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McLachlan swims to medals<br />
South Brighton<br />
athlete eyes<br />
up world stage<br />
• By Andrew King<br />
SOUTH NEW Brighton’s<br />
Samantha McLachlan took out<br />
four medals in the pool at the<br />
Special Olympics New Zealand<br />
national summer games in<br />
Wellington.<br />
The 21-year-old won gold in<br />
the 25m butterfly, silver in the<br />
25m and 50m freestyle and<br />
bronze in the 4x25m medley<br />
relay.<br />
Her mother, Hayley, said she<br />
has loved swimming since she<br />
first got in the pool as an eightyear-old.<br />
“She took the event very seriously<br />
and trained about four<br />
times a week in preparation for<br />
it with others at the Graham<br />
Condon pool,” she said.<br />
Samantha wants to head to a<br />
world games event at some stage.<br />
“That is her goal,” she said.<br />
She is also learning to become<br />
a swim coach through her<br />
trainer, Brid Collins.<br />
She was one of a number of<br />
Christchurch athletes to win<br />
medals at the event.<br />
•Indoor bowls<br />
Kerry Horsham, Linwood,<br />
and Carolyn Middleton,<br />
Somerfield, silver in division<br />
TOP EFFORT: Samantha McLachlan (front middle) won four<br />
medals at the Special Olympics New Zealand national summer<br />
games in Wellington.<br />
B2 team event.<br />
•Tenpin bowling<br />
Team events: Richard<br />
Willmott, New Brighton, Jessica<br />
Stevens, Linwood, Ian<br />
Dobbie, Halswell, Andrew<br />
Westgarth, Northwood,<br />
silver in the team division six<br />
category.<br />
Stevens and Dobbie,<br />
bronze in the division 12<br />
doubles category.<br />
Singles: Willmott, gold in<br />
the men’s division 13 singles<br />
category and Damian Bumann,<br />
Linwood, gold in the<br />
men’s division 21.<br />
•Swimming<br />
Team events: Shawn<br />
O’Rourke, Halswell, Nathan<br />
Winkelman, Papanui, Jonathon<br />
Smithan, Burwood,<br />
and Ethan Hamilton-Currey,<br />
Selwyn, gold in the division<br />
M1 4x50m relay. Teresa<br />
Edgecumbe, Linwood,<br />
Georgia List, New Brighton,<br />
Charlotte Rozen, Lincoln,<br />
and Rochelle Waters, Selwyn,<br />
silver in division C1.<br />
Josh List, New Brighton,<br />
Kayla Hood, Shirley, Isabella<br />
Lammer, Rolleston, and<br />
Hayley Butler, gold in the<br />
division M1 4x25m relay.<br />
Samantha McLachlan,<br />
SPORTS<br />
South Brighton, Josie<br />
Noble, Cashmere, Andrew<br />
Salisbury, Hoon Hay and<br />
Jason Webster, Hornby,<br />
bronze in the division M2<br />
4x25 medley.<br />
Singles: Samantha<br />
McLachlan, South Brighton,<br />
gold in the 25m butterfly<br />
and silver in the 25m and<br />
50m freestyle.<br />
Teresa Edgecumbe,<br />
Linwood, gold in the 100m<br />
backstroke and silver in<br />
the 50m freestyle and 50m<br />
backstroke.<br />
Georgia List, New<br />
Brighton, gold in the 50m<br />
freestyle and silver in the<br />
50m breaststroke.<br />
Kayla Hood, Shirley, silver<br />
in the 25m backstroke and<br />
bronze in the 25m freestyle.<br />
Athletics<br />
Raymond Merrett,<br />
Avonside, gold in the men’s<br />
4kg shot put and bronze in<br />
the 100m.<br />
Amanda Herbert, gold in<br />
the 50m and bronze in the<br />
100m.<br />
Gina Harrington, Parklands,<br />
bronze in the 50m.<br />
Samuel Clifford, Linwood,<br />
bronze in the 100m.<br />
Aussie rules<br />
academy<br />
picks up<br />
Shirley boys<br />
• By Andrew King<br />
SHIRLEY BOYS’ High students<br />
Layton Cahill and Devin<br />
Pullyblank have been selected<br />
to attend the AFL New Zealand<br />
Academy.<br />
They will join more than 100<br />
others from around the country<br />
at Northwood Park to hone their<br />
AFL skills over an eight-week<br />
period between February and<br />
April.<br />
Academy athletes will<br />
participate in skill development,<br />
athletic testing and<br />
measurement, gameplay and<br />
personal development.<br />
Canterbury Australian<br />
Football League president Steve<br />
Langridge said the selections<br />
provide a firm base from which<br />
the young players can learn<br />
the important skills of kicking<br />
accurately, hand-balling and<br />
ground positioning.<br />
For the past two years St<br />
Bede’s College, Papanui High,<br />
St Thomas’ College and Shirley<br />
Boys’ High have competed in different<br />
age groups in a nine-a-side<br />
competition for the AFL Cup.<br />
There are four AFL clubs in Canterbury,<br />
University Cougars, Eastern<br />
Blues, Mid-Canterbury Eagles<br />
and the Christchurch Bulldogs.<br />
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Book Group<br />
First Tuesday of every month,<br />
11-12pm<br />
Linwood Library is looking for<br />
readers to join a daytime book<br />
group. Open to men and women.<br />
Everyone reads the same book<br />
and gets together the following<br />
month to talk about it. Run in<br />
conjunction with Book Discussion<br />
Scheme. Small fee. Contact<br />
librarian Andrea Lord for details<br />
on 941 7923.<br />
Eastgate Mall, Buckleys Rd<br />
Have-A-Go at Indoor Bowls!<br />
Every Tuesday, 11am-1.30pm<br />
Indoor bowls for the senior<br />
community. No experience necessary<br />
and all abilities welcome.<br />
Go along to try it out. Please wear<br />
soft shoes. Cost per person is $2.<br />
First session free. Phone Tania<br />
Smith at ACTIS on 963 7070, or<br />
027 540 5442 with any inquiries.<br />
Aranui/Wainoni Community<br />
Centre<br />
Ascot Petanque Club<br />
Tuesday and Friday, 9.30-<br />
11.30am<br />
It is open for all ages, lots of<br />
fun and laughter and a great way<br />
to meet new people. For more<br />
information phone Ron on 388<br />
4834 or Lex on 980 8005.<br />
Ascot Community Centre, 12<br />
Ascot Ave<br />
Email sophie.cornish@starmedia.kiwi<br />
by 5pm each Friday<br />
Reading to Dogs<br />
Wednesday, 3.30-4.30pm<br />
Encourage your children’s<br />
reading skills in a relaxed and<br />
fun environment. The programme’s<br />
animals have all been<br />
trained and tested for health,<br />
safety and temperament. Library<br />
staff and a dog handler will be<br />
present at all times to help facilitate<br />
the sessions. Sessions are<br />
15min.<br />
New Brighton Library, Marine<br />
Pde<br />
Aranui Creation Station<br />
Wednesday 10am-noon<br />
This initiative from Otautahi<br />
Creative Spaces encourages people<br />
to use their imagination and<br />
encourage their crafty side. Make<br />
new friends and share ideas and<br />
tips on creative projects. It’s free<br />
to take part and everyone is welcome<br />
to go along and share their<br />
crafty side.<br />
109 Aldershot St. Free entry<br />
Game Zone<br />
Thursday, 3.30-4.30pm<br />
An hour of fun playing favourite<br />
games like mine-craft,<br />
charades, Connect Four and<br />
Pictionary. Learn and develop<br />
strategies in new games such as<br />
dutch blitz, heads up, hand and<br />
foot, and group games. Join in<br />
for X-box and PS4 tournaments.<br />
CREATE: If you are looking for something festive and creative to do with the children this<br />
Wednesday, <strong>December</strong> 20, try one of these workshops. Create gorgeous popsicle stick<br />
decorations to make your Christmas tree look amazing. Free event, no bookings required. All<br />
ages welcome. Caregivers are required to be present. Parklands Library from 1.30-2.30pm and<br />
Aranui Library from 2-4pm. <br />
Take your friends or meet some<br />
new ones; all children aged eight<br />
to 12 welcome. No booking or<br />
payment required.<br />
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Shopping Centre<br />
Family Christmas Storytimes<br />
Thursday, 5.30-6.30<br />
Celebrate the Christmas season<br />
at this special family Christmas<br />
storytimes session. Go after work,<br />
after shopping or after a summer<br />
swim and listen to some classic<br />
stories, hear some new stories<br />
and sing some traditional songs.<br />
Free. No bookings required. All<br />
ages welcome.<br />
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Buckleys Rd<br />
Babytimes<br />
Fridays 11-11.30am<br />
Come along to our Scrabble<br />
club. No obligation, just<br />
visit when you can and join our<br />
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Friday.<br />
Linwood library, Eastgate Mall,<br />
Buckleys Rd<br />
Learner Licence Course<br />
Friday, 9.30-11.30am<br />
Get the knowledge and confidence<br />
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This course is delivered by Literacy<br />
Christchurch who provide<br />
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the class time to sit practice tests<br />
and for researching questions.<br />
The course does not include the<br />
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Ascot Scrabble Group<br />
Friday, 12.45pm<br />
Challenge your word knowledge<br />
with other like-minded folk.<br />
Join in with this friendly group<br />
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Ascot Community Centre, Ascot<br />
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Imagination Station<br />
Friday-Monday, 9.30-5.30pm.<br />
Lego lovers, head down to the<br />
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Carnaby Lane, New Brighton<br />
Mall<br />
Seaside Market<br />
Saturday, 10-2pm<br />
Head to the seaside this weekend<br />
and enjoy live entertainment,<br />
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more.<br />
New Brighton Mall<br />
Seaside Toy Library<br />
Saturday, 9.30-11.30am<br />
Catering for children six months<br />
to seven years with toys, games<br />
and sports equipment. Toy hire<br />
$2 per fortnight.<br />
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Tuesday <strong>December</strong> <strong>19</strong> <strong>2017</strong> 9<br />
FLAME FILES<br />
Fire columnist bids farewell<br />
• By Mark Thomas – fire risk management<br />
officer<br />
THIS IS the last flame files.<br />
After nearly 11 years back in<br />
Christchurch and 518 columns completed,<br />
I’ve decided it’s time to shuffle off into<br />
retirement.<br />
The column has been something I’ve<br />
always enjoyed.<br />
Sometimes the time available has been<br />
too short for comfort and some other<br />
times I’ve had a good subject and time to<br />
do it justice.<br />
I can only hope it’s been entertaining to<br />
some and even occasionally informative.<br />
I know the issues haven’t really changed.<br />
There are still too many kitchen fires.<br />
There are still too many arson fires.<br />
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Another quite satisfying part of this job<br />
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I’ve talked to older people, young<br />
people, service groups and even prisoners<br />
in jail.<br />
Some of the most satisfying feedback I<br />
ever got was being told all of the group I<br />
had spoken to at Christchurch Women’s<br />
Prison later used their phone privileges<br />
to ring home to ensure the family was<br />
protected by smoke alarms.<br />
Finally, sincere thanks are due to Star<br />
Media for providing me with the platform<br />
to preach the fire safety message.<br />
That’s a true public service and is very<br />
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The Main North Road shop<br />
has closed, and the Cranford St<br />
shop, which was opened after<br />
the earthquakes to provide<br />
furniture and linen for displaced<br />
families, has also closed<br />
its doors.<br />
“The Cranford St shop had<br />
come to the end of its season,<br />
and the opportunity arose to<br />
bring the two shops together,<br />
which has been very exciting<br />
for us,” says Pastor for Salvation<br />
Army Christchurch North, Gill<br />
Waugh.<br />
“The new premises in Restell St<br />
offer a large, bright open space<br />
with lots of room for stock.<br />
New stock is on the shop floor<br />
every day, so it pays to drop in<br />
regularly.”<br />
The huge selection includes<br />
clothing, the popular label<br />
racks for that something special,<br />
toys, books, crockery and<br />
glassware, electrical items and<br />
furniture, all donated by the<br />
public.<br />
“There’s off-street parking at<br />
the new shop, which makes it<br />
easier for people dropping off<br />
items, and also for our customers,”<br />
Gill says.<br />
The Family Store will also pick<br />
up donated goods and deliver<br />
as arranged, Monday to Friday.<br />
All the proceeds from sales go<br />
towards the Salvation Army’s community<br />
work, such as budgeting advice,<br />
advocacy, WINZ quotes, welfare<br />
support and the Positive Lifestyle Programme.<br />
(These services operate from<br />
the Belfast Centre, 794 Main North<br />
Rd.)<br />
The Family Store offers a Loyalty Card<br />
system, with customers getting their<br />
card clicked for every $10 spent. Once<br />
they have 10 clicks, they get $10 to<br />
spend in the store.<br />
New manager at the Papanui Family<br />
Store, Anne Tihore, previously worked<br />
as a Family Store volunteer. She has<br />
four employees on her team, who are<br />
assisted by 25-30 volunteers. Some<br />
ladies have volunteered for up to 20 and<br />
30 years.<br />
Anne and staff member Pauline say<br />
customer feedback on the new shop has<br />
been really positive.<br />
“They love the spaciousness, brightness<br />
and the layout, and that everything<br />
is all in one place, not in two shops,”<br />
Pauline says.<br />
Anne says the new Family Store has<br />
also brought a consolidation amongst<br />
the staff.<br />
“There’s a great team spirit. And the<br />
shop also has a community feel about<br />
it, which comes from the customers.<br />
Papanui is a very strong community<br />
and we are excited to be a part of it.”<br />
The Papanui Family Store is currently<br />
recruiting for volunteers. Anyone interested<br />
should phone Anne on 352 0515<br />
or call in to the Family Store. Hours are<br />
Monday to Friday 9.30am-4.30pm and<br />
Saturday 10am-3pm.
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GIVING BACK: City Harvest chief executive John Milligan (left) and<br />
organiser Joshua Jackson load groceries for 50 Christmas dinners<br />
into their van at South City New World.<br />
PHOTO: MARTIN HUNTER<br />
EVERY YEAR Marian College<br />
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In the final weeks of the term,<br />
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The teachers got together<br />
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the whole junior school.<br />
House group, Takahe 3,<br />
explored “beauty in giving” and<br />
“beauty in older generations”.<br />
There were nine students and<br />
two teachers – Sarah Southen<br />
and Yvonne Teague – in the<br />
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The project involved coming<br />
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THE Brethren of Lodge Takahe<br />
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Together they are providing a<br />
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Organiser Joshua Jackson said<br />
the idea is to provide families<br />
with quality food items to cook<br />
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homes.<br />
Some of the food was collected<br />
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A team packed and distributed<br />
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This week they will collate the<br />
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The packages included a<br />
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Mr Jackson said the initiative<br />
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are giving families luxury items<br />
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together.<br />
St Helenas was chosen as it was<br />
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welcomed the students.<br />
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Healthy snacks are always popular<br />
Christmas is a time for celebration,<br />
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• Avoid going to a function hungry, you<br />
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• Deep fried foods, crumbed and battered<br />
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fat. Choose fruit, vegetable or bread based<br />
snacks.<br />
• If you are hosting the party, offer your<br />
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• If you are taking a plate, make yours a<br />
healthy option. How about a platter of fruit<br />
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• Listen to your body and stop eating<br />
when you feel full.<br />
• Just say ‘No” to food – mentally<br />
Be aware of how much you are actually drinking<br />
practice strategies to decline food offers. For<br />
example: “It looks amazing but I am full” or<br />
“I tried it and it was great”.<br />
• Chat and mingle. If you are bored at a<br />
party you’re more likely to hover around the<br />
food table or seek out the serving platter. A<br />
good conversation can distract you from the<br />
food. Avoid standing right beside the food<br />
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• Consider your drinks, they can add to<br />
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•Be aware of how much you are actually<br />
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• Keep active. Join in the Christmas<br />
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with friends or relatives. Remember you’re<br />
aiming for 30 minutes of physical activity<br />
each day.<br />
• If your regular exercise class stops over<br />
the Christmas break, plan other types of<br />
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If you do really overdo the festive foods<br />
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Christmas EvE<br />
9.00pm Reflective Service<br />
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Christmas Day<br />
10-11am Family Service<br />
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THURSDAY 21 DECEMBER<br />
3.00pm Children’s Christmas Service<br />
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FRIDAY 22 DECEMBER<br />
12.05pm Holy Eucharist<br />
SUNDAY 24 DECEMBER<br />
~ Christmas Eve<br />
8.00am Holy Eucharist<br />
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Preacher: Bishop Victoria Matthews<br />
Music: The Cathedral Choir<br />
6.00pm Carol Recital by the Cathedral Choir<br />
10.30pm Carol Singing<br />
11.15pm The First Eucharist of<br />
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What’s On<br />
Entertainment<br />
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SAT 23 DEC, REOPENING THURS 11 JAN<br />
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Steak Sandwich<br />
The Buffet Restaurant<br />
will be closed from<br />
Tuesday 26th Dec <strong>2017</strong>,<br />
reopening on<br />
Thursday 4th Jan 2018.<br />
We wish everyone a<br />
very happy Christmas<br />
and look forward to<br />
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New Year.<br />
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MON: ROAST MEAL<br />
TUE: FISH & CHIPS<br />
WED: FISH BURGER<br />
THU: ROAST MEAL<br />
SAT: FISH & CHIPS<br />
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THE GARDEN HOTEL COMPLEX | 110 MARSHLAND RD<br />
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