Pegasus Post: May 15, 2018
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PEGASUS POST Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Tuesday <strong>May</strong> <strong>15</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 5<br />
News<br />
Old Aranui Primary may rise again<br />
• By Sophie Cornish and Georgia<br />
O’Connor-Harding<br />
A CHURCH has expressed<br />
an interest in using the former<br />
Aranui Primary School site.<br />
St George’s/Iona Presbyterian<br />
Church on Breezes Rd is looking<br />
at purchasing the school site<br />
when it becomes available.<br />
Reverend Sheena Dickson has<br />
described it as a “brave and bold<br />
move” for the small parish of 25.<br />
“What we are thinking of is<br />
a place for the community to<br />
worship . . . the possibilities are<br />
exciting,” she said.<br />
The church’s former site<br />
was severely damaged in the<br />
February 22, 2011, earthquake<br />
and it currently doesn’t have a<br />
permanent place to worship.<br />
The city council currently allows<br />
the church a permit to use<br />
a house on Pages Rd, but it will<br />
run out soon.<br />
It also shares its spaces with<br />
parishes, including the New<br />
Brighton Union Church and<br />
Linwood Avenue Union Church.<br />
The school site, located on 257<br />
Breezes Rd, is currently being<br />
passed on from the Ministry of<br />
Education to Land Information<br />
New Zealand to start the disposal<br />
process.<br />
The MoE is determining if<br />
the site is required for another<br />
POTENTIAL: St George’s/Iona Presbyterian Church has<br />
expressed an interest in purchasing the former Aranui Primary<br />
School site when it becomes available.<br />
public work. The primary school<br />
closed in 2016 when it merged<br />
with Aranui High, Avondale<br />
Primary and Wainoni School<br />
to form Haeata Community<br />
Campus.<br />
Rev Dickson said the church<br />
would like to keep the existing<br />
tenants on the school site as<br />
it wants to be “engaged in the<br />
community as much as possible.”<br />
The site is currently used<br />
by under-five parenting programme,<br />
The Incredible Years,<br />
and alternative education programme,<br />
Te Kupenga o Aranui.<br />
“It is very tentative at the moment<br />
for us . . . we would have<br />
to have huge support from the<br />
wider church,” Rev Dickson<br />
said.<br />
Coastal-Burwood Community<br />
Board member Tim Baker believes<br />
the idea “will be brilliant”<br />
and a “massive<br />
benefit to the<br />
community.”<br />
Mr Baker<br />
said retirement<br />
villages are lacking<br />
in the area<br />
and people are<br />
being forced to<br />
move out of their<br />
communities to<br />
receive this care.<br />
“They are trying to stay in<br />
their houses for as long as<br />
Tim Baker<br />
they can because they don’t want<br />
to move out of their communities.”<br />
He believes it would be a waste<br />
of money to pull the school<br />
buildings and hall down.<br />
“If (the church) bought the<br />
site, they could use the buildings<br />
and hall for church purposes,<br />
and rooms could also be rented<br />
to tenants, some of which are<br />
already there.”<br />
A timeline of when the property<br />
will be purchased could not<br />
be confirmed.<br />
Local<br />
News<br />
Now<br />
Organisation<br />
receives<br />
boost from<br />
engineering firm<br />
Fire rages, homes at risk<br />
THE CANTERBURY Down<br />
Syndrome Association has<br />
received a boost of $12,420 from<br />
structural engineering firm<br />
Constructure.<br />
To celebrate its 10th anniversary,<br />
Constructure launched a<br />
Givealittle page in April, inviting<br />
its customers to donate to a good<br />
cause as an ‘unorthodox birthday<br />
present.’<br />
The firm donated $10,000 and its<br />
clients donated $2420.<br />
Constructure founder Cory Bedford<br />
said he was excited that his<br />
clients got into the spirit.<br />
“I really want to thank all our<br />
customers for their generosity that<br />
will make a big difference for a<br />
small local charity like the CDSA.”<br />
The CDSA provides support,<br />
education, and advocacy to its<br />
members, their families and wider<br />
community.<br />
Said CDCA chairwoman Diane<br />
Mulholland: “We are just overwhelmed<br />
and grateful that this<br />
amazing gift got even bigger.”<br />
The $10,000 gift was not chosen<br />
randomly but symbolises the<br />
target of 10,000 projects the Constructure<br />
team wanted to complete<br />
by the anniversary date.<br />
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