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SELWYN TIMES Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />

Tuesday <strong>September</strong> <strong>26</strong> <strong>2017</strong> 5<br />

musician<br />

Your local Travel and Cruise experts<br />

Shop 18, 72 Rolleston Drive. Phone: 03 974 2010<br />

Would The Wedding Singer<br />

be one of your favorite shows<br />

you have been involved in?<br />

That is a really tricky question.<br />

There are so many shows,<br />

there is so much you don’t know<br />

about a show and it is not until<br />

you get into it you learn to love<br />

it. At the moment this is my favourite<br />

but next year depending<br />

on what we might do, that might<br />

be my favourite. You put so<br />

much effort into it and then you<br />

get it to the stage and go wow all<br />

that work was worth it. It is is a<br />

good feeling knowing audiences<br />

are enjoying it.<br />

Did you ever work in another<br />

industry or have you always<br />

been involved in the arts?<br />

I worked in retail. I started<br />

working in a music shop and I<br />

sold musical instruments, records,<br />

tapes and CDs – way back<br />

in the day. I did a bit of a stint in<br />

furniture and a stint in a hardware<br />

store but once I moved to<br />

Rolleston in 2004, I did a bit of<br />

music teaching as well.<br />

What do you think of the<br />

Rolleston community?<br />

It is so different compared to<br />

when I first got here. When I<br />

first arrived there was only one<br />

primary school, one supermarket<br />

and literally within the first<br />

two years of my girls going to<br />

GIFTED: Carla Weber has a<br />

passion for playing various<br />

instruments including the<br />

flute.<br />

PHOTO:<br />

GILBERT WEALLEANS<br />

Rolleston School the numbers<br />

literally almost doubled in a<br />

couple of years.<br />

With the township growing<br />

are there any new facilities you<br />

would like to see put in place?<br />

Obviously a performing arts<br />

centre. That would be really<br />

good. Then we can get touring<br />

people to come in. We have<br />

got opportunities local groups<br />

might use in some form or<br />

another. I think within in the<br />

last couple of years, with <strong>Selwyn</strong><br />

arts coming to the floor more, I<br />

think it would be well received.<br />

There are so many people out<br />

in Rolleston now. Sometimes<br />

people don’t want to travel 30-<br />

40min to do something, they<br />

want it on their doorstep.<br />

Tell me about your children?<br />

I remarried four or five years<br />

ago. I have got my two girls<br />

from the previous marriage and<br />

from the next marriage I have<br />

one son. One of my daughters –<br />

Nikita – is very much into theatre<br />

she is in The Wedding Singer<br />

and has been in the Halswell<br />

Drama Group for the last four to<br />

five shows. She plays a lot of instruments.<br />

She loves it so much<br />

and my husband Darren has<br />

been the musical director for the<br />

past few shows for the Kirwee<br />

Players and was in he band for<br />

The Wedding Singer. My husband<br />

is in a cover band called<br />

General Admission. He is head<br />

of music department at Lincoln<br />

High School. My other daughter<br />

Brittany loves playing the guitar<br />

and she has done many years<br />

of dance. More recently in the<br />

last few years guitar has become<br />

more of a focus for her. I am<br />

sure little Sam will grow up doing<br />

a bit of music stuff.<br />

School pool to be demolished<br />

•From page 1<br />

“I always thought with the<br />

growing roll of the school one day<br />

the MoE will come knocking and<br />

say we want land to put another<br />

building on . . . unfortunately that<br />

day has come.”<br />

Principal Kim Alexander said<br />

the pool wasn’t suitable for swimming<br />

lessons because it was deep<br />

in the middle and designed like a<br />

diving pool.<br />

She said the board of trustees<br />

supported MoE’s decision to<br />

remove it because the space could<br />

be maximised.<br />

The decision has also been supported<br />

by the district council.<br />

District council’s community<br />

relations manager Denise Kidd<br />

said while the district council is<br />

in the process of reviewing its<br />

aquatic facilities plan, it was not<br />

contemplating a replacement pool<br />

for Prebbleton.<br />

“The plan indicates that the<br />

demand from Prebbleton can<br />

CONCERN:<br />

The<br />

Prebbleton<br />

School<br />

pool is<br />

earmarked<br />

for<br />

demolition.<br />

be met through the planned<br />

expansion of the <strong>Selwyn</strong> Aquatic<br />

Centre,” she said.<br />

But Prebbleton resident Stephanie<br />

Broomhall said she was<br />

concerned the community was<br />

not consulted on the closure.<br />

She is one of several Prebbleton<br />

residents who want the pool to<br />

stay open.<br />

“My kids get such enjoyment<br />

in the summer going down to the<br />

pool and having a swim. They get<br />

to meet with people in the community<br />

. . . that alone, for me, that<br />

pool is worth keeping.”<br />

But MoE head of education<br />

infrastructure services Kim<br />

Shannon said it was not required<br />

to consult for the demolition of<br />

a Ministry-owned asset, just the<br />

school.<br />

•HAVE YOUR SAY: Are you<br />

concerned about Prebbleton<br />

School’s pool closing?<br />

Email your views to georgia.<br />

oconnor@starmedia.kiwi<br />

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