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TUESDAY, APRIL 3, <strong>2018</strong><br />

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• By Emily O’Connell<br />

WINTER COULD be a little<br />

chilly for about 45 of St Thomas<br />

of Canterbury College’s students<br />

and staff this year.<br />

Denton Park emails<br />

Community board members<br />

say council ‘failed’ them<br />

Page 3 Page 8<br />

The group had their heads<br />

shaved in a bid to raise money<br />

for Shave for a Cure.<br />

The annual event raises<br />

money for Leukaemia & Blood<br />

Cancer NZ – which receives no<br />

Tea and Tots expands<br />

Community parent initiative<br />

gets bigger<br />

St Thomas<br />

students<br />

lose their locks<br />

FOR A CAUSE: St Thomas of Canterbury College student Matthew Ryan sees the funny side of having his head shaved.<br />

Government funding.<br />

St Thomas’ social justice<br />

leader Dominic Anisy said the<br />

school tripled last year’s efforts<br />

– raising more than $12,000 for<br />

the cause.<br />

He said their initial goal was<br />

$6000 but they kept elevating it<br />

as they surpassed their target.<br />

St Thomas’ has now raised the<br />

most money out of all schools in<br />

New Zealand. •Turn to page 7<br />

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of year<br />

• By Emily O’Connell<br />

THE HALSWELL Domain skate<br />

park won’t be ready until the end<br />

of the year because of a resource<br />

consent hold up.<br />

Its consent, which is still pending,<br />

is awaiting further information.<br />

City council head of resource<br />

consents John Higgins said “the<br />

application is with a commissioner<br />

to make a decision. He has<br />

however asked a question of the<br />

applicant which the applicant is<br />

responding to.”<br />

City council head of parks Brent<br />

Smith said subject to gaining consent,<br />

the Halswell Domain skate<br />

park will be built in stages, with<br />

construction set to start at the<br />

end of August. He said the skate<br />

park would then be completed by<br />

Christmas. The Halswell Domain<br />

concept design includes a skate<br />

bowl, rising quarter pipe, mini<br />

ramp, learner ledge, fitness equipment,<br />

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WESTERN NEWS Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />

Tuesday <strong>April</strong> 3 <strong>2018</strong> 3<br />

<strong>News</strong><br />

Council ‘failed the board’ – emails<br />

Mega centre<br />

consultation<br />

woes revealed<br />

• By Emily O’Connell<br />

EMAILS SHOW some<br />

community board members<br />

were unhappy with the public<br />

consultation process for the<br />

$35.7 million Hornby mega<br />

centre’s location.<br />

The emails, released to <strong>Western</strong><br />

<strong>News</strong> under the Local Government<br />

Official Information<br />

and Meetings Act, reveal four<br />

Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton<br />

Community Board members<br />

wanted a second round of public<br />

consultation after learning the<br />

cost to remediate Kyle Park.<br />

The facility’s proposed<br />

location on Denton Park has<br />

been highly controversial with<br />

sports clubs fearful of losing<br />

their home ground to the new<br />

Hornby library, customer services<br />

and leisure centre.<br />

The remediation of Kyle Park<br />

was a big factor in the decision<br />

on where the centre is to be<br />

located.<br />

On June 23, board deputy<br />

chairwoman Helen Broughton<br />

emailed city council chief executive<br />

Karleen Edwards asking her<br />

PHOTO: MARTIN HUNTER<br />

DISSATISFIED: Debbie Mora (left), Helen Broughton, Ross<br />

McFarlane and Mike Mora wanted another round of public<br />

consultation on the Hornby mega centre’s location.<br />

or a general manager to attend<br />

a briefing after receiving “the<br />

worst possible outcome.”<br />

“Kyle Park is the preferred<br />

option yet we now know it probably<br />

cannot be used. If we shift<br />

away from Kyle, we will need to<br />

go out for a further round and<br />

look absolutely foolish in the<br />

public’s eyes. City council management<br />

has failed the board,”<br />

she said.<br />

Mrs Broughton emailed<br />

the board members two days<br />

later suggesting they should do<br />

another round of public consultation<br />

with just Denton and<br />

Warren parks.<br />

“I suspect many voted for Kyle<br />

as a way to remove the threat<br />

from Denton . . . I believe the<br />

board is in political if not legal<br />

difficulties if it does not undertake<br />

further consultation. There<br />

will be outrage from the clubs,”<br />

she said in an email.<br />

Board chairman Mike Mora,<br />

and members Ross McFarlane<br />

and Debbie Mora agreed.<br />

“We would be “hung drawn<br />

(and) quartered” (sic) if we do<br />

not face up to the public now<br />

and potentially someone may<br />

consider it grounds to appeal<br />

our actions or inactions,” Mr<br />

McFarlane said in an email.<br />

In July, Ms Mora asked city<br />

council staff about posing<br />

another question to submitters<br />

about Kyle Park not being an<br />

option.<br />

She was told the city council<br />

was in “the process of seeking<br />

legal advice.”<br />

A city council spokeswoman<br />

told <strong>Western</strong> <strong>News</strong> the<br />

community board was given the<br />

legal advice at the end of July,<br />

but was unable to divulge<br />

what it was as it’s “legally<br />

privileged”.<br />

“A formal resolution to<br />

re-consult was not made by<br />

any board members and the<br />

community board made the<br />

decision to recommend Denton<br />

Park as the preferred option,”<br />

the spokeswoman said.<br />

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High School. The money will<br />

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Mason, Kelly Newlands, Kate<br />

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board will also decide today<br />

whether to grant $500 from<br />

its Youth Development Fund<br />

to Nicholas Del Rey. The money<br />

will go towards the costs of<br />

Nicholas attending the an<br />

international gymnastics academy<br />

in Portugal in May. The city<br />

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to approve the grants.<br />

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4 Tuesday <strong>April</strong> 3 <strong>2018</strong><br />

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

WESTERN NEWS<br />

RICCARTON HIGH SCHOOL<br />

Te Kura Tuarua o Pūtaringamotu<br />

FIRST CULTURE FEST A HUGE SUCCESS<br />

Image above: Riccarton Primary School’s Kapa<br />

Haka group performs for the crowd.<br />

A wonderful celebration of our school and<br />

community’s ethnic diversity was held in the<br />

assembly hall on Friday, March 23.<br />

As the school day came to a close, students,<br />

teachers, parents and people from the local<br />

community came together at RHS to enjoy<br />

exciting and colourful cultural performances,<br />

RECOGNISING EXCELLENCE<br />

and sample an array of ethnic foods at the firstever<br />

Culture Fest. The audience lapped it up,<br />

clapping and cheering for the performers and<br />

tucking into the tasty food.<br />

Suggested by Principal Neil Haywood, the idea<br />

for Culture Fest grew out of last year’s Cultural<br />

Walkthrough, where ethnic group leaders were<br />

brought together to discuss ways to celebrate<br />

the cultural diversity of the local area and<br />

create a sense of belonging for our new New<br />

Zealand residents.<br />

As a community event, it was a collaboration<br />

between the school and the Riccarton Public<br />

Library, with the school’s librarian Sally Blake<br />

and Cultural Diversity Facilitator Lulette Carney<br />

organising the food and entertainment, and<br />

the library, along with community groups and<br />

organisations, providing information about<br />

their particular areas of interest.<br />

KEEpING THEIR LANGUAGE ALIvE<br />

An innovative pilot project has been introduced<br />

to Riccarton High School this year – a Filipino<br />

Literacy and Culture Class.<br />

This followed a meeting in early February when<br />

the idea for the class was presented to parents<br />

to gauge their interest, and enrolments were<br />

sought.<br />

As a result, 35 of the school’s 102 Filipino<br />

students from Years 9-13 spend about an<br />

hour every Thursday after school with Filipina<br />

teacher aide Delia Talili, studying their native<br />

language, Tagalog, and their country’s culture.<br />

DECADES-LONG TRADITION CONTINUES<br />

Head of ESOL Angela Bland says research has<br />

shown that maintaining their native language is<br />

important for immigrant students in achieving<br />

academic success.<br />

A community project, it includes similar classes<br />

being held at Riccarton Primary School, with<br />

both principals supportive of the initiative.<br />

Generous funding for the first year has come<br />

from the Riccarton Rotary Youth Trust, Lavida<br />

and Life Resources and was used to provide<br />

laptops, Delia’s wages and a tasty afternoon<br />

tea, which rounds off the class every week.<br />

A tradition that began way back in 1959 still<br />

continues, as students from Riccarton High<br />

School and Kaikorai Valley College in Dunedin<br />

compete against each other in summer and<br />

winter sporting tournaments.<br />

Participants from the two schools travel to<br />

each others’ home turf each of the two seasons<br />

and year about, with the most recent summer<br />

tournament being held at RHS on March 15 &<br />

16. Some 70-80 boys and girls from each school<br />

competed in athletics, futsal, tennis, touch,<br />

volleyball, and girls in cricket.<br />

The winter tournament will be held in Dunedin<br />

on June 14 & 15.<br />

Sports co-ordinator David Biddick describes it<br />

as the pinnacle of the school’s sporting events,<br />

and one that the students always look forward<br />

to.<br />

Other annual interschool tournaments are held<br />

with Westland High School and Geraldine High<br />

School.<br />

NEW OUTDOOR EDUCATION FACILITY<br />

Congratulations to all of our students who<br />

achieved NCEA Level 2 endorsed with<br />

Excellence: Melanie Aitken, Alden Arduo, Sion<br />

Choi, Erica Chung, Patricia Guo, Katie Hayles,<br />

Kasey Hillary, Donna Hou, Yunru Huang,<br />

Charmaine Lam, Carmen Lionnet, Yasmine<br />

Maarouf, Hannah MacClure, Niamh Maxwell,<br />

Apoorva Patelkhana, Emma Patmore, Joshua<br />

Paul, Ruby Perring, Lehman Taleni, Nicholas<br />

Ting, Sarah Wallace, Ashley Walsh, Daniel Wei,<br />

Vanessa Ye, Francesca Zhang<br />

OUR pEOpLE<br />

SAYING FAREWELL<br />

Our long-serving sports co-ordinator David<br />

Biddick is retiring after 22 years service at<br />

RHS. After joining us as cricket coach in<br />

1996, he was asked by the principal to take<br />

on the sports co-ordinator role, which he<br />

started in 2000.<br />

That saw David organising all 34 sports<br />

RHS offers, helping students reach their full<br />

potential through representing the school<br />

in their chosen sport, and encouraging<br />

students of all sporting abilities to<br />

participate.<br />

He extends a ‘big thank you’ to teachers and<br />

parents, whose support through coaching<br />

and management he says is a major<br />

contributor to the school’s sporting success.<br />

David firmly believes that participation in<br />

sport and the values that underpin it, like<br />

teamwork and fair play, provides students<br />

with a strong foundation for life in the<br />

wider world.<br />

David leaves RHS on <strong>April</strong> 13 and looks<br />

forward to travelling overseas with his wife.<br />

We wish him all the best.<br />

Riccarton High School’s Kokiri facilty on the<br />

West Coast near Lake Brunner has served its<br />

purpose well as the Outdoor Education Centre<br />

for our Years 9 and 10 students. However,<br />

given the distance from Christchurch, and the<br />

increased gold mining and forestry in the area,<br />

the Board was looking for an alternative, more<br />

suitable facility.<br />

“We became aware that the Boys’ Brigade<br />

camp at Birch Hill in North Canterbury was<br />

up for sale and we thought that would suit us<br />

perfectly,” principal Neil Haywood says. “It’s<br />

very close to the Ashley Gorge and Mt Thomas<br />

Ph. <strong>03</strong> 348 5073<br />

E. info@riccarton.school.nz<br />

www.riccarton.school.nz<br />

Forest Park walking tracks.<br />

We are very excited to have a facility 45<br />

minutes from school, which will have a lot of<br />

other uses too, such as for geography field<br />

trips.”<br />

Work needs to be done to bring it up to the<br />

new building standard to ensure its safety,<br />

and the current capacity for 24 students will<br />

be extended to accommodate 35-40 students.<br />

Funding for this work will come from the sale<br />

of Kokiri.<br />

The opening of the new facility is planned for<br />

the start of the 2019 school year.<br />

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WESTERN NEWS Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />

Tuesday <strong>April</strong> 3 <strong>2018</strong> 5<br />

<strong>News</strong><br />

Wendy’s workers may be<br />

forced into ‘industrial action’<br />

• By Emily O’Connell<br />

WENDY’S STAFF may turn to<br />

industrial action if negotiations<br />

over lieu days break down.<br />

The move follows Lyttelton<br />

port workers striking over wages<br />

and rosters, and nurses saying<br />

strike action is likely after they<br />

rejected a pay offer from district<br />

health boards.<br />

The fast food workers’ move<br />

comes after a three-year battle<br />

over lieu days, prompted by<br />

Hornby Wendy’s staff member<br />

Rose Williams.<br />

She went to the Ministry<br />

of Business, Innovation and<br />

Employment with the lieu day<br />

issue after she had been working<br />

at the Hornby restaurant for a<br />

year.<br />

Mrs Williams said Wendy’s<br />

staff were not being given a lieu<br />

day after working on a public<br />

holiday.<br />

In November, the Employment<br />

Relations Authority ruled in<br />

favour of Mrs Williams and<br />

Wendy’s was found to have<br />

breached two sections of the<br />

Holidays Act 20<strong>03</strong>.<br />

Wendy’s was given a list of<br />

orders including giving past and<br />

present employees their days<br />

INDUSTRIAL ACTION: Hornby Wendy’s staff member Rose<br />

Williams’ battle to get employees their lieu days continues.<br />

PHOTO: ANDREW KING<br />

in lieu or equivalent pay dating<br />

back to July 1, 2012, or since the<br />

restaurants had opened.<br />

Unite Union, of which<br />

Mrs Williams is a delegate,<br />

has estimated it would cost<br />

Wendy’s $1.6 million to pay back<br />

employees’ leiu days.<br />

The union’s national director<br />

Mike Treen said it has sent a<br />

final terms of settlement to the<br />

fast food company.<br />

“If no final agreement can be<br />

achieved very soon, we will be<br />

forced to ask members to take<br />

industrial action in support of<br />

our claims,” he said.<br />

But Mr Treen says it might not<br />

come to that as he doesn’t know<br />

what Wendy’s “final position” is.<br />

“I don’t even know if there’s<br />

a problem with lieu days at<br />

Wendy’s actually because they<br />

haven’t come back,” he said.<br />

Wendy’s did not respond<br />

before deadline.<br />

• By Emily O’Connell<br />

A SMALL working<br />

party is going to assess<br />

recommendations from a new<br />

report on anti-social behaviour<br />

at the Riccarton bus lounge.<br />

The city council’s crime prevention<br />

through environmental<br />

design report, commissioned<br />

in September last year, was discussed<br />

at the Halswell-Hornby-<br />

Riccarton Community Board<br />

meeting last week.<br />

It made 11 recommendations<br />

to improve the safety of people<br />

using the lounge and surrounding<br />

area.<br />

The lounge, on the corner of<br />

Riccarton Rd and Division St,<br />

has been plagued with youth<br />

issues since it opened in December<br />

2015.<br />

Riccarton Ward city councillor<br />

Vicki Buck, Halswell-<br />

Hornby-Riccarton Community<br />

Board chairman Mike Mora,<br />

deputy chairwoman Helen<br />

Broughton and member Catherine<br />

Chu will make up the<br />

working party.<br />

Mrs Broughton said the group<br />

will look at the recommendations<br />

“in more detail” and go<br />

back to the board with their<br />

Local<br />

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Now<br />

Fire rages, homes at risk<br />

Bus lounge report<br />

with working group<br />

thoughts sometime before June.<br />

“I think it’s likely [we’ll approve<br />

some recommendations],<br />

but we actually wanted the time<br />

to go through it in-depth,” she<br />

said.<br />

The recommendations<br />

include installing additional<br />

CCTV cameras and turning the<br />

vacant cafe space into a security<br />

staff area.<br />

The report showed a decrease<br />

in victimisations in the area<br />

over the past two years. However,<br />

it said “trends indicate<br />

higher reported incidents over<br />

the mid to late afternoons of<br />

weekdays and Saturdays.”<br />

The report found continued<br />

engagement between police,<br />

security staff, beggars and bus<br />

lounge users has proved successful<br />

in reducing the number<br />

and severity of incidents.<br />

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WESTERN NEWS<br />

highlights<br />

International Rugby Programme<br />

The <strong>2018</strong> Burnside High School International Rugby Programme (IRP)<br />

commenced on 19 March. This year there are boys and girls from Germany,<br />

Argentina, Italy, Korea, Japan, Afghanistan and Scotland in the group. The<br />

IRP provides a programme of detailed rugby skill instruction, weight-training,<br />

speed and agility sessions and of course rugby team involvement until the<br />

end of August.<br />

The first two weeks involve detailed orientation with several guest speakers<br />

as well as physical and skill testing. The orientation is designed to help<br />

the students enjoy their homestay experience, to provide advice on how<br />

to proactively interact with their team-mates and to understand the New<br />

Zealand road rules - all in all, how to enjoy the next 22 weeks of their rugby<br />

adventure. The IRP has been running at Burnside High School from 2014 but<br />

has already produced Olympians in Sevens and male and female national<br />

team players in 7s and 15s.<br />

BHS PTA Uniform Shop<br />

The PTA Uniform Shop stocks new and second hand items. The shop<br />

is located at the front of the school in A1. Now is the time to purchase<br />

winter uniforms, all items are available at the shop.<br />

Opening Hours are:<br />

Monday lunchtime 1:00pm - 2:00pm<br />

Tuesdays after school 2.45pm - 4.00pm<br />

Wednesday 4th <strong>April</strong> after school 2.30pm - 4.00pm<br />

A visit from Seasprite helicopter<br />

The Navy Seasprite Helicopter is en route to the Warbirds Over Wanaka<br />

Airshow. When the opportunity arose for the Seasprite helicopter to make<br />

school visits on its way south, Burnside High School jumped at the chance.<br />

STEM activities and exhibitions<br />

Fifteen students from Ashburton College and Burnside High School<br />

recently gathered at the Burnside Campus for four days of Germantaught<br />

STEM activities and exhibitions (science, technology, engineering<br />

& mathematics).<br />

This opportunity was offered to all German-learning students from<br />

the two schools as part of the PASCH schools program through the<br />

Goethe-Institut, and was overseen by Goethe staff member Judith<br />

Geare.<br />

The foundation of the course was laid out on the first day, Friday,<br />

where Bianca Violet and Philipp Legner from Imaginary introduced<br />

the students to several computer programs based on fractals and<br />

polynomial graphing. From there the students were set free to think<br />

up their own exhibition projects and take them from paper sketches to<br />

reality over the next three days.<br />

With Christ The King School directly across the road they were also warmly<br />

welcomed over.<br />

As part of our career development programme, we invite many tertiary<br />

providers to speak with our students throughout the year, to provide them<br />

with a wide range of information and to assist them with their decision<br />

making. It is not often that they turn up in a helicopter!<br />

Today's helicopter visit was an amazing opportunity for 20 students who<br />

have expressed an interest in the Defence Force. They not only got to see a<br />

piece of the Defence Force in action; they also got to interact with the flight<br />

crew and pick their brains about the variety of occupations available. Many<br />

subject classes also benefited from the Seasprite’s visit, including Science<br />

classes discussing the transfer of energy that occurs during a helicopter take<br />

off; Physics classes discussing the rotor blades; and Mathematics classes with<br />

problem sets based around helicopters.<br />

We are grateful to the Defence Force for offering this opportunity to our<br />

school.<br />

Ideas ranged from metre-tall double pendulums to intricate optical<br />

illusions, something from every aspect of the STEM curriculum.<br />

The exhibits will be set up for viewing at the Burnside High School<br />

library until the end of Term 1 and then will travel down to Ashburton to<br />

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Now<br />

Fire rages, homes at risk<br />

Heads<br />

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•From page 1<br />

The money will go towards<br />

information packs, emergency<br />

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and support group meetings for<br />

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Proud of his school’s accomplishment,<br />

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“The boys really got behind it<br />

and really enjoyed it,” he said.<br />

SMOOTH: About 45 St Thomas of Canterbury College<br />

students and staff had their heads shaved in a bid to raise<br />

money for Leukaemia & Blood Cancer NZ. ​<br />

CLOSE CUT: Deputy principal Brendan Biggs (left) and social<br />

justice leader Dominic Anisy under the razor.<br />

PROCESS: The Halswell Domain skate park won’t be ready until<br />

the end of the year. Construction on the Knights Stream skate<br />

park is scheduled to start today.<br />

Halswell Domain skate<br />

park opening delayed<br />

•From page 1<br />

Work is scheduled to start<br />

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park today.<br />

The $350,000 Knights Stream<br />

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Hunter Civil and is expected to<br />

be completed by the end of July.<br />

Initially, both skate parks were<br />

supposed to be completed at the<br />

start of the year. But this was then<br />

extended to <strong>April</strong>.<br />

Mr Smith says it’s very satisfying<br />

that work is about to start at<br />

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“We know there are a lot of<br />

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PROPOSAL: An architect’s<br />

impression of what the<br />

proposed toilet in Harrington<br />

Park would look like.<br />

Toilet proposed for<br />

Harrington Park<br />

THE CITY council is looking for<br />

feedback on a proposal to install<br />

a toilet in Riccarton’s Harrington<br />

Park.<br />

The park, on Peverel St, currently<br />

has no toilet.<br />

Its closest public toilets are located<br />

in Westfield Riccarton, The<br />

Warehouse on Blenheim Rd and<br />

Middleton Park.<br />

The placement of the new toilet<br />

has been selected to tie in with<br />

existing services, and visibility to<br />

the road.<br />

Funding has become available<br />

to install a toilet with some new<br />

landscape planting. The city council<br />

plan to undertake this work<br />

next month and in June.<br />

Public consultation on the proposal<br />

finishes on <strong>April</strong> 16.<br />

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A COMMUNITY initiative<br />

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the Hei Hei and Broomfield<br />

community.<br />

HNZ tenancy manager Zoe<br />

Wood, who lives and works in<br />

the area, devised the Tea and<br />

Tots programme for under fiveyear-olds<br />

in<br />

August.<br />

Miss Wood<br />

wanted to<br />

demonstrate<br />

the kind of<br />

support HNZ<br />

can provide<br />

in a community.<br />

She started<br />

holding a monthly gathering<br />

for parents and carers of young<br />

children at 126 on the Corner<br />

– which is owned by the Hei<br />

Hei Broomfield Community<br />

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Miss Wood said the community<br />

feedback had been overwhelming<br />

and two volunteers,<br />

impressed with the programme<br />

and its aims, had offered to<br />

come on board.<br />

This means the monthly programme<br />

is now weekly.<br />

And it’s not only locals who<br />

are supporting the programme<br />

– the city council has approved<br />

a $500 community grant so<br />

new toys can be bought for the<br />

group.<br />

Miss Wood was thrilled with<br />

the grant and ongoing support<br />

from families.<br />

“The objective of the group<br />

is to have our community mixing,<br />

meeting, supporting and<br />

having fun with one another,”<br />

she said.<br />

HNZ area manager Angela<br />

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Local<br />

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WESTERN NEWS<br />

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HEALTH & BEAUTY<br />

The health<br />

effects of sugar<br />

Should we be alarmed or is this<br />

likely to be another area that science<br />

backtracks on?<br />

The answer to that question is Yes,<br />

we should be worried, there are real<br />

problems caused by the volume of sugar<br />

being consumed by the average person<br />

and when look back over the last decades<br />

the problem is getting worse, not better.<br />

developments in research and<br />

understanding the fields of nutrition<br />

and food safety change how we view<br />

products we consume and patterns of<br />

consumption can make the negative<br />

effects of foods more pronounced.<br />

while these advances should be<br />

embraced, as each development leads<br />

to better understanding and health<br />

outcomes it can also be frustrating to<br />

the average consumer who can feel like<br />

just when they ‘get’ a good healthy eating<br />

plan together, the rules change.<br />

The recommendations for sugar are a<br />

good example of how information can<br />

be confusing, some sources encourage<br />

the complete ban on all sugar containing<br />

products and others, such as the heart<br />

foundation recommend a reduction<br />

rather than complete removal.<br />

It’s not so confusing though really, at<br />

no time in history has sugar ever been<br />

presented as a healthy food, but as in the<br />

past it took more effort to consume sugar<br />

it was less of a problem, we could ‘get<br />

away with it’.<br />

In the past sugar was something that<br />

you could control through how much<br />

you added, in baking and to your cup of<br />

tea. This knowledge then transferred into<br />

the first generation of convenience food,<br />

if it was sweet, it had sugar in it.<br />

what we now face as a challenge is<br />

not that suddenly sugar is bad, but that<br />

it is added, often quietly, to many of the<br />

processed foods we consume, even when<br />

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The availability and often-reduced<br />

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consuming as much food as possible<br />

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What we now face as<br />

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learning through a love for stories. Storytimes is an interactive programme<br />

including stories, rhymes, craft and play. This is a free session and will be held in<br />

the Upper Riccarton Library on 71 Main South Rd. ​<br />

Scrabble Group<br />

Tuesday, 9.45am-noon<br />

Go along and play<br />

scrabble with the friendly<br />

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your brain and have fun.<br />

Gold coin donation.<br />

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Centre Book Discussion<br />

Group<br />

Tuesday, 6-7pm<br />

For those who love<br />

reading and want to share<br />

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friendly book lovers. They<br />

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Scheme so there<br />

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on the first Tuesday of the<br />

month at 6pm. Places are<br />

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Craft Group<br />

Wednesday, 9.15am-noon<br />

Go along to learn new<br />

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There will be knitting,<br />

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others. Entry is $3 and it<br />

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Scrabble Club<br />

Wednesday, 1.30-3.30pm<br />

Go along to scrabble<br />

club. There’s no obligation,<br />

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Get Creative Craft<br />

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Thursday, 9.30-11.30am<br />

Go along to the group<br />

for a morning of creativity.<br />

A gold coin donation is<br />

required for morning tea<br />

and to cover the use of<br />

any craft group materials<br />

for card making- usually<br />

about $2.50 per card. For<br />

information phone Janet<br />

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Thursday, 10.30am-<br />

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their favourite woollen creations<br />

can, with the weekly<br />

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From crochet to knitting<br />

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group. There are a variety<br />

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ideas for your next project<br />

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Everyone is welcome.<br />

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Thursday, 1-2pm<br />

Go along to Fendalton<br />

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Minecraft Club<br />

Thursday, 3.30-4.30pm<br />

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Places are limited so bookings<br />

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Musical Instrument<br />

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Thursday, 3.30-7pm<br />

Book a time to go solo<br />

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Places are limited so bookings<br />

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Bedtime Stories at<br />

Fendalton<br />

Friday, 6.30-7.15pm<br />

Go along and join<br />

Margot for some Friday<br />

night fun. Themed stories,<br />

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Saturday, 1-2.30pm<br />

Go along for fun activities<br />

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HOME & HEATING<br />

Choosing the<br />

right heat pump<br />

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Whether it be a new build, or<br />

a retrofit, most homes include<br />

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you to have a very discreet way of heating<br />

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Firstly, you must select a heat pump that is<br />

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taken into consideration but also, insulation,<br />

building orientation, windows and ceiling<br />

space. There are a wide range of heat pumps<br />

available with different heating outputs so it is<br />

important to select<br />

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Heating is a major<br />

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your requirements<br />

that will handle<br />

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unit is positioned in a place that will not be<br />

constantly blowing on you. Also important, is<br />

the location of the outdoor unit. Most people<br />

do not want their outdoor unit sitting directly<br />

in their outdoor entertaining area or right<br />

outside their bedroom window.<br />

Choose a brand you can trust. Many brands<br />

have come and gone over the years but there<br />

are a number of manufacturers who provide<br />

reputable and reliable products. All brands<br />

vary in their energy efficiency, quietness of<br />

systems and price, so it depends on your<br />

application as to which will be most suitable.<br />

Major brands such as Panasonic, Fujitsu,<br />

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Ensure your heat pump is installed by an<br />

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Other things to<br />

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All houses require air exchange in order<br />

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occupants. Houses can have many sources of<br />

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pets, smokers, and even furnishings. Opening<br />

the windows can refresh the air, but is not<br />

always an option for security reasons and can<br />

also lead to heat energy being lost to outside.<br />

Although older houses have small gaps around<br />

windows and doors, you want to be able to<br />

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Modern houses are very airtight and<br />

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REAL ESTATE<br />

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WESTERN NEWS<br />

Classifieds Contact us today Phone our local team <strong>03</strong> 379 1100<br />

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Cracked tiles?<br />

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