Bay Harbour: April 11, 2018

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Cave Rock Apartments
dispute finally settled
•From page 1
Within the next eight weeks,
the body corporate will meet to
decide whether to rebuild or sell
the property ‘as is, where is’.
Mr White said it was more
likely the owners would sell.
“Judging by the responses
thus far, most people just want
to be rid of the whole problem
and move on.”
A resource consent to rebuild
the main block of apartments
remains in place until January
next year, along with architectural
plans.
The consent was obtained
in 2012/13, based on an understanding
with IAG that
reinstatement would go ahead,
said Mr White.
“When IAG changed their
mind, that’s when we got into
litigation with them.”
Meanwhile, concerns were
last week raised about the apartments’
underground car park,
accessed off Wakefield Ave.
Children have been playing in
the abandoned space, which has
been described as “a scene from
a horror movie.”
A padlock on the door was
broken off and the chain link
damaged, allowing people access.
Sumner resident Paul Strangwick
raised the issue on the
Sumner Community Facebook
page last week, warning that
children were daring each other
to go into the basement. He
said the power was still on with
lights flickering and water continually
dripping onto the floor.
He and builder Andrew
Spencer offered to board up
the entrance after Mr White
contacted him on Sunday. It has
since been secured.
Mr White confirmed there
was power to the basement as it
was a reticulated system.
There were also pumps
running 24/7 to control the
inflow of groundwater from
earthquake-damaged sumps
underground.
The door has been vandalised
at least three times over the
past year, which has been “very
frustrating,” Mr White said.
“We do our best to keep it as
secure as we can, but whoever
does it keeps breaking in again.”
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Calvert family meet Parker in UK
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Their love for the sport has seen
them travel to a number of high
profile fights around the world,
including the Floyd Mayweather
Jr v Manny Pacquiao fight in Las
Vegas in 2015.
However, the world title fight
between Parker and Joshua on
Easter Sunday was unlike any the
family had travelled together to
see before. They were made to feel
like part of the Parker family in
the build up to his biggest fight to
date.
Mr Calvert’s main connection
to the Parker camp comes
through Parker’s trainer Kevin
Barry, who also trained Mr Calvert
in the early 1990s.
“We got made to feel like part of
the family. His mum would come
down to breakfast every morning
and say hello and give us a hug
and a kiss,” said Mr Calvert.
“We were lucky enough to be
invited on his team walk the
morning of the fight. It’s something
he does the morning of his
fights; just goes for a 15min walk
to relax.”
Mr Calvert won four New
Zealand titles in his career as a
welterweight. He also won the
Jameson Belt in 1992. The belt is
awarded to the best boxer at the
national championships each
year. Mr Calvert’s first boxing
trainer was his grandfather
Ryan Mitchell. This was before
Fire rages, homes at risk
FAMILY: Dean Calvert, Joseph Parker, Bryce Calvert and George
Calvert in the UK.
he worked with Barry who was
training David Tua at the same
time.
Mr Calvert had 70 amateur
fights before going on to register a
professional record of eight wins
from eight fights. He took what
was originally set to be a short
break from fighting at 24. However,
Mr Calvert never returned
to training.
“I do regret it sometimes, but
then I’ve had a lot of other great
memories since doing other
things.”
After boxing, Mr Calvert
worked for his family cleaning
business for 17 years before
buying the Valley Inn Tavern in
2004.
“I like the social side. It’s a good
place to catch up with friends and
the locals.”
Although Mr Calvert was lucky
enough to be at Cardiff’s Millennium
Stadium 10 rows back from
the action, he says the Valley Inn
Tavern was as good a place as any
to watch the fight.
“We were chock-a-block for the
Parker fight. We had a couple of
hundred people here, every time
he’s fought it’s been like that.”
As for the future of his favourite
boxer, Mr Calvert believes, at just
26, Parker has the determination
to bounce back.
“He was talking to us on the
plane on the way home and
he’s just determined to get
back in there and get back to
the top.”
Frocks, Feathers & Fabrication
John Emery’s latest exhibition at Little River Gallery
Although born and raised in the American Midwest,
John Emery has spent the past twenty-five years shuttling
back and forth between Dayton, Ohio and Burkes Pass,
New Zealand, where he established a second home and
studio in 2000.
“It is not just the object, but also its history--its
veritable shadow-- that I set out to record in my work.
It is the fragmented story that haunts me. Memories,
symbolism, physical similarities, all play a part in creating
the “fabrication”. Objects are often from a bygone era, or
worn with repeated use,
reflecting time’s passage.
At times they are literally
in pieces: the shattered
porcelain, the cast-off
sardine tin, a bird feather,
or watching the flight of a
fantail. In reclaiming them
for my own tromp l’oiel
still life constructions, I
conjure them into a new
world. Like life itself,
each work resonates with
both the story and history
associated with some
objects, and the imagined
potential of others.
My painting process typically begins with a solitary
object, a toy bear, or a Victorian hunting dress. A visual
narrative is then constructed in the same way that I
fabricated stories about the neglected objects found in
my grandparents’ long forgotten trunks. As with all my
works, some elements become three-dimensional as I
form them from paper, the most versatile material I know”
John Emery.
Time flies over us, but
leaves its shadow behind.
--Nathaniel Hawthorne
Christchurch City Council
Strengthening
Communities Funding
If your organisation needs funding to make things
happen in your community applications are now
open for the Strengthening Communities Fund.
Applications are invited from not-for profit
community groups who contribute to community well
being in the areas of community, social, recreation,
sports, arts, environment or heritage.
Applications are accepted from Tuesday 3 April until
midnight Tuesday 8 May 2018.
Frocks, Feathers & Fabrications
John Emery
7 APRIL – 9 MAY 2018
Visit ccc.govt.nz or phone 941 8999
for more information.
The Invincibles
Killer Look
Main Rd, Little River | 03 325 1944
art@littlerivergallery.com