Southern View: September 26, 2017

4 Tuesday September 26 2017
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SOUTHERN VIEW
Paintball
attack in
Cashmere
• By Sophie Cornish and Andrew
King
PEDESTRIANS, vehicles
and property were the target
of paintball gun attacks last
week and over the weekend in
Cashmere.
Police are looking for a Blue
Ford Ranger, possibly an early
2000s model with a canopy
on the back, in connection
with a number of incidents in
Cashmere and New Brighton,
where paintball guns were
discharged.
The attacks began on
Wednesday last week. Sergeant
Jim Currie said it was a very
serious matter and they needed
to catch who was responsible
before someone was badly hurt.
“They just don’t realise the
damage they can do or injuries
they can cause. It is classed
as a firearm, so a very serious
offence,” he said.
Pedestrians, vehicles and
properties were fired on in
Cashmere at the weekend,
Sergeant Currie said.
The New Brighton drive-by
shootings on Lonsdale St, Keyes
Rd and Marine Pde saw green
and yellow pellets fired at cars,
fences and homes.
Lonsdale St resident Samuel
Kent heard a loud bang and
discovered a window had been
smashed from a paintball gun
pellet.
Paint was splattered on his
curtains and windowsill.
Mr Kent said several
properties were hit along his
side of the street on Wednesday
night.
The New Brighton Club was
also hit six times on the same
night. Its windows required
professional cleaning.
Anyone with information
about the paintball attacks
should phone police on 363 7400
or Crimestoppers anonymously
on 0800 555 111.
Team New Zealand to back fundraiser
•From page 1
Prizes to be auctioned on the
night include a helicopter ride to
a mystery destination piloted by
Ritchie McCaw with a dual sulky
experience behind Monkey King,
New Zealand’s highest earning
harness racer.
Four other chances to fly with
GETTING OUT on the streets
is an inspiring way to find out
about people’s lives, says folk
singer Adam McGrath.
The frontman of local band
The Eastern has been spending
time with his guitar and laptop
at different sites around the city
for a project he’s calling The Sit.
McGrath received funding
from the city council’s Enliven
Places Projects Fund for his plan
to gather stories from everyday
people he meets.
Making coffee and tea on a
gas cooker and serving dried
fruit and a few other snacks,
McGrath has been in Woolston,
the central city and Linwood. He
will now head to New Brighton.
And after spending a week at
each of the four locations around
the city, he plans to record the
songs he’s written on location.
In the summer, he and The
Eastern will perform free
concerts at three of the four sites
– opposite the Peterborough St
Library, in New Brighton, and in
Linwood.
“It’s been really inspirational,
not just musically but also as a
person, just talking to people
and feeling the commonalities.
So many people and so many
different walks of life but these
common things keep repeating
themselves,” he said.
There have been some
memorable moments, such as
when a seven-year-old taught
him a song she’d learnt at school.
A few weeks into the project
he’s already written several
McCaw will also be auctioned.
Hot laps in a racing car at
the Mike Pero Motorsport
Park will also be up for grabs
along with a signed and framed
Emirates Team New Zealand
T-shirt.
Pleasant Point Yacht Club sails
on the Avon-Heathcote Estuary
songs. “There’s been a lot of
people talking about loss and
in that moment of loss finding
something within themselves
that carries them through, and
balances out the loss. That’s
been really nice and really cool,
because I’m troubled, as we all
from it’s base in South New
Brighton Park.
Members are currently
working out of five shipping
containers.
To re-build the new clubrooms,
$1 million is needed.
Once completed, club commodore
Alastair Burgess said the
are, and hearing that takes the
edge off.
City council transitional
projects adviser Brindi Joy said
the fund is about contributing
grant funding to people and
groups who are supporting the
city’s regeneration in a positive
clubrooms will be an iconic part
of the eastern suburbs with a big
deck that will provide a unique
panoramic view of the estuary.
•Tickets can be purchased
by going to www.universe.
com and searching for
Emirates Team New
Zealand.
Musician hits the streets
BARD: Folk singer Adam McGrath is turning people’s stories into songs, which he and The
Eastern will perform over summer.
way. “McGrath’s project is a
really original one that combines
telling the stories of people who
might not otherwise feel like
they have a voice, and bringing
added life to parts of the city that
are still regenerating following
the earthquakes. “
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