Western News: July 12, 2016
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Tuesday <strong>July</strong> <strong>12</strong> <strong>2016</strong><br />
<strong>News</strong><br />
Funding<br />
boost for<br />
swim classes<br />
ABOUT 1300 more children<br />
will be able to join Swimsafe<br />
classes in the next year thanks<br />
to a $40,000 funding increase.<br />
The boost was approved by<br />
city council as part of its Annual<br />
Plan for <strong>2016</strong>/17.<br />
The money will go towards a<br />
transport subsidy for children<br />
travelling by bus to city council<br />
swimming pools to take part in<br />
the programme.<br />
It also agreed to introduce a<br />
25 per cent discount on entry<br />
fees to centres such as Te Hapua:<br />
Halswell Centre and Jellie Park<br />
Recreation and Sports Centre<br />
for children of Community<br />
Services Card holders in a bid to<br />
improve access to pools.<br />
The discount on entry fees<br />
will be introduced from October<br />
1.<br />
The child entry fee for swimming<br />
at council pools is due to<br />
go up from $3.10 to $3.50 in October<br />
however, city council staff<br />
are investigating how the cost<br />
can be kept as low as possible.<br />
Acting head of recreation<br />
and sports David Bailey said<br />
the extra funding would help<br />
make Swimsafe more accessible,<br />
particularly for students at low<br />
decile schools.<br />
Changeover for residents’ associations<br />
as long-time chairmen stand down<br />
• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding<br />
HALSWELL RESIDENTS’<br />
Association chairman Ron<br />
Fensom has retired from his role<br />
after leading the organisation<br />
through the changing landscape<br />
for 22 years.<br />
A handover of the role as<br />
chairman was held recently with<br />
member John Bennett stepping<br />
into the role as chairman.<br />
But Mr Fensom said he will<br />
still be active in the community<br />
with several projects he is involved<br />
with.<br />
Mr Fensom has spent 55<br />
years in Halswell and has been<br />
involved in groups including the<br />
Halswell Lions Club.<br />
In his time as chairman Mr<br />
Fensom has worked for lower<br />
speed limits around the area,<br />
and getting a memorial in Wigram<br />
to remember the men who<br />
lost their lives when two planes<br />
collided in mid-air near the former<br />
RNZAF Wigram air base.<br />
Mr Fensom was awarded with<br />
a Queen Service Medal for his<br />
contribution to the community<br />
and a Civic Award in 2006.<br />
Meanwhile, the Yaldhurst Rural<br />
Residents Association needs<br />
a new chairman, after Bob Cross<br />
(right) was stood down.<br />
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HANDOVER: New Halswell<br />
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chairman John Bennett<br />
with former chairman Ron<br />
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PHOTO: Debbie Mora <br />
He has been<br />
outspoken about a<br />
consent application<br />
for quarries to dig<br />
deeper into the<br />
water table.<br />
Mr Cross will be<br />
moving to Cust in<br />
December after living in Yaldhurst<br />
for the past 15 years.<br />
He said being 30m away from<br />
the Winstone Aggregrates, one<br />
of the quarries involved in the<br />
consent, was one of the reasons<br />
for the shift.<br />
“It was a number of reasons<br />
STEPPING DOWN: Former Halswell Resident Association<br />
chairman Ron Fensom.<br />
but basically we couldn’t<br />
continue our lifestyle . . . having<br />
a quarry on our boundary,” he<br />
said.<br />
Recently Mr Cross was<br />
awarded a community service<br />
award by the Riccarton-Wigram<br />
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Community board chairman<br />
Mike Mora said he admired Mr<br />
Cross for the work he had<br />
done over the years and<br />
he had “fought some real battles”.<br />
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