Western News: July 12, 2016

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Tuesday July 12 2016
WESTERN NEWS
Your Local Views
A reader responds to last
week’s Western News
article on the Halswell
skate park:
Bianca Watson – I have
read the article in the latest
Western News and felt I needed
to say something.
Firstly I agree totally with
the comment that community
boards are far too influenced
by the noisy minority. Approximately
seven years ago
when I was living in Redcliffs
we had the same problem.
The children and youth
wanted a skate park but whatever
the proposed location
people living close objected using
the reason of devaluing the
properties and the attraction of
undesirable people.
We went to the community
board with many submissions
– many got up and spoke
including some of the undesirable
from our community, an
83-year-old grandmother who
lived opposite the proposed site
who thought it was a great idea
to give adolescents something
to do in the local community,
school principals, parents and a
skate teacher.
All these people had positive
things to say about the influence
of supporting youth and
empowering them by listening
to the things that they wanted
in the local community.
Further opposition was
voiced by an extremely wealthy
property owner who threatened
to take the city council to
court.
Therefore, still no skatepark
in the Redcliffs-Sumner area.
Are people so short-sighted
that they can not see they are
talking about the minority of
these kids?
There are bad kids that tag
and cause havoc in all communities,
often caused from
boredom.
Halswell Domain is an
excellent location as the park
would be able to be visible from
houses while still being far
enough away that properties
would not be disturbed by the
noise.
The community centre, pool
and playing fields are also
there.
You just have to look overseas
to see the success or multiuse
areas as a focal point for
the community.
I hope the community board
makes a decision for the majority,
not a noisy minority.
Ron Towner –
Halswell Quarry sounds the
ideal place for a skateboard
park. It’s not close to houses,
and will be ideal when the cafe
opens. We could also do with a
cafe in the domain.
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Look while you cook
• By Mark Thomas – Fire Risk
Management Officer
I’VE SPENT much of the last
week in the North Island.
Firstly in Rotorua, where I visited
the New Zealand Fire Service
training facility for the first time.
It is one extremely impressive
complex, with full a number of
buildings providing scenarios for
training from cars to houses to
commercial buildings, aircraft
and ships.
It’s a quantum leap from the
bare concrete yard and tower that
sufficed 35 years ago.
While I was away, fire crews attended
the normal range of incidents
including, un-surprisingly,
four kitchen fires.
These ranged from an
overcooked chicken breast in
Dallington to a full house fire in
Barbadoes St last Friday.
I almost despair that the message,
‘keep looking while you’re
cooking’ continues to be ignored
by many in our community.
The result can be life shattering.
One of the features of fine days
at this time of year is that the sun
travels low in the sky.
This provided a shock for the
owner of a house in Hillmorton
returning home just before 5pm
on Tuesday.
She found two cushions quietly
smouldering away in her lounge.
The setting sun was reflecting
perfectly from a small concave
mirror on to the couch.
In this case she was lucky.
She came home just in time.
Electric fans today have an
oscillating feature that widens the
dispersal of air.
A fan against a wall that
prevented this movement in St
Martins last week was found to
be overheating.
Again just in time.
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