Selwyn Times: June 13, 2017

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Safe route for children
A NEW footpath in Springfield
is encouraging children to stay
away from the roads to get to
and from school.
A footpath installed
recently along Tramway Rd,
Pocock Rd and Springfield
School is one of several projects
to help create a walkway/
cycleway network in the township.
The Springfield Township
Committee is currently
working on a walkway to
link up the township with the
Kowai Pass Domain Camping
Ground and it is expected to
be finished at the end of the
year.
The committee and the
school’s board of trustees first
put in a request for the footpath
to the district council’s
Annual Plan in 2015.
“It was a highly anticipated
piece of work, and it is now
great to see children using
the footpath over the road for
play and for getting to school,”
committee member Catherine
Barnett said.
She said it helps keep younger
members of the community
safer and with an added benefit
of making Springfield look
smarter.
FUN: Springfield children now have a safe route to and from
school.
Tradesman loses
tools after break-in
• By Georgia O’Connor-
Harding
ROLLESTON RESIDENTS are
rallying around a local builder
who has had his tools stolen.
Old School Builders
(Christchurch) Ltd builder
Travis Jansen had about $15,000
of tools, and a trailer, stolen
from a work site in Avonhead on
Sunday night.
The front window of the
house, located on Brookby Cres,
was broken into and Mr Jansen’s
tools were taken from the bedroom,
the trailer was taken from
the garage.
The self-employed builder had
left his equipment in the house
overnight.
“I could have taken all my
tools home but because it was
raining. I left all of my tools in
one of the bedrooms,” he said.
The tools include a nail
gun, rotating laser, finishing
gun, impacting drill, hammer
drill, drop saw, small
screwdrivers, skill saw, router
and sabre saw.
“It has taken me two years to
build up my tools . . . basically
it is back to square one,” Mr
Jansen said.
But after posting on Facebook’s
Rolleston Community
Page, Mr Jansen said he had
been left humbled by the number
of people who had messaged
him, offering tools he could
borrow.
A police spokeswoman said
a scene of crime officer has attended
but there was no forensic
evidence.
No arrests have been made.
Mr Jansen, who has a wife
and two children, said he
was unlikely to have any luck
making an insurance claim,
having only just changed
insurance companies about a
week ago.
He said he will never leave his
equipment on-site again and will
be looking to get GPS tracking
devices and portable cameras in
the future.
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