Selwyn Times: May 16, 2017

8 Tuesday May 16 2017
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Car thrills young Jonty
FIVE-YEAR-OLD Jonty
Payne has congenital scoliosis.
He finds it hard to play with
his schoolmates from a
wheelchair, and can’t run around,
as he fast runs out of oxygen.
But volunteer charity Gobabygo
had the answer and specially
adapted an electric ride-in car for
the Templeton youngster.
Garden City and Riccarton
Rotary branches paid for the
cost of the toy BMW, and supplied
volunteers at the handover,
at Christchurch BMW, in Manchester
St.
Gobabygo board member
Bruce Jackson said it was one of
three cars handed over on the
day.
He said Jonty was “all over it,
even doing figure eights around
the sales area.”
Mr Jackson thanked the Rotary
members who turned out to help,
including car builder and fitter
John Harrington, who was ready
and able to make on-site adjustments
when the children needed
it.
He also thanked the staff
of Christchurch BMW, who
cleared a space in the showroom,
and proved very helpful on the
day.
Gobabygo is a national charity,
adapting and donating these cars
RACING READY: Jonty Payne can’t wait to leave his wheelchair
at home and race outside in his car.
PHOTO: DOLCE WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY ​
throughout New Zealand. Its
CEO, Gilli Sinclair, said: Thanks
to generous supporters and donors,
and to the wonderful work
Rotary is doing raising funds
for us, we’ve been able to import
another container of cars, ready
to adapt. All we need now are the
kids.”
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Mr Jackson said Rotary
branches throughout the South
Island are contacting child disability
networks, and are encouraging
anyone who knows a child
aged 18 months to around seven
years, who might benefit, to visit
the charity’s website, gobabygo.
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Good start to battery
recycling project
A NEW battery recycling
scheme has yielded more than
43kg of household batteries at a
Selwyn supermarket.
A scheme initiated by the
Lincoln Environment Trust and
set up at New World Lincoln is
thought to be the first battery recycling
station at a supermarket
in the country.
The trust’s project manager
Dave Fitzjohn said the station
provides the public with easy
means of ensuring their used batteries
are disposed of responsibly.
The project was supported by
New World Lincoln owner Kyle
Burnett who provided a space
to trial the concept and the
district council’s waste manager
Andrew Boyd.
Sustainable Initiative Fund
Trust general manager Maria
Wake also helped fund the startup
costs of the project.
“It’s great to see a problematic
material in the waste stream
being tackled through a
community-led initiative,” Mr
Boyd said.
The batteries were delivered
to Ecotech Services where they
were sorted, discharged where
necessary, and stored for shipment
to specialist recycling
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Mr Fitzjohn said the exciting
first for Selwyn fulfils the
important objective of keeping
toxic materials out of landfill,
which is another step towards
achieving environmental goals.
The trust is hoping to start
other stations at retail outlets
around Selwyn.
But Mr Fitzjohn said in the
meantime all are urged to keep
their batteries out of bins and
take them to New World Lincoln.
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