Selwyn Times: February 07, 2018

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CANTERBURY SPORTS AWARDS 2018
Springfield church repairs needed
• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding
ONE OF Springfield’s oldest
buildings is in need of repairs.
The St Peter’s Community
Church committee is calling
for the Springfield community
to support its bid to repaint the
roof and undertake repairs to the
woodwork on the exterior.
Originally built in 1885, the
church’s congregation is planning
to run various fundraising
ventures to preserve the building.
The committee’s chairman
Graeme Dawson said it is a
“beautiful little church” and not
a lot of money has been spent on
it in the last 20 to 30 years.
He said the repaint of the
church’s roof is expected to
start at the end of February
while a time line for the exterior
of the building is yet to be established.
“The building is not going to
fall down – that is overstating it
but it does need maintenance so
it doesn’t fall down,” Mr Dawson
said.
Work on the exterior includes
replacing rotten weatherboards,
the window sills and the surrounds
of the window.
“It is still 100 per cent usable
at this stage . . . but it is just if we
don’t start it may get to the stage
where things are going downhill
SPECIAL: The St Peter’s Community Church in Springfield is in need of repairs.
pretty quickly,” Mr Dawson said.
While the interior of the
church was damaged in the
earthquake, repairs were covered
by insurance.
Mr Dawson said the costs of
the repairs are yet to be confirmed.
Venerable Susan Baldwin said
the church is the spiritual centre
of the community’s heart.
“It is a place where people look
for spiritual moments – weddings,
funerals or baptism,” she
said.
She said because of the growth
in Springfield, the church will be
moving to having two services
a month – on both the first and
third Sunday of the month.
Springfield is expected to reach
a population of 527 by 2025.
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Mr Dawson said because of
the age and type of the building,
the committee is getting several
inquiries for weddings which
could be the future of the
church.
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Maddie
released
from
hospital
•From page 1
They flew from Christchurch
to Auckland early the
following day and Maddie
underwent the initial
operation and then a second
operation to reposition the
kidney hours later at Starship
Children’s Health.
Maddie received a kidney
transplant from her father
Adam Collins five years ago
but her body rejected it. With
only a two per cent chance, the
family did not expect to find
another kidney match in New
Zealand.
They were planning a trip
to The John Hopkins Hospital
in Baltimore, United States,
which had been looking at
new kinds of transplants, to
find a match.
Mrs Manson-Collins said
Maddie will have more surgery
in two weeks and then “it’s
all about when she’s stable
enough to go home.”
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