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4 Tuesday May 15 2018 Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi SOUTHERN VIEW GREAT AUTUMN READS IN-STORE! NEW RELEASES Eating well everyday by Peter Gordon Using easily sourced ingredients and simple methods, the Godfather of fusion cooking Peter Gordon has created over 170 dishes that demonstrate his passion for innovative flavours and textures in an everyday setting. From Chorizo on Tomato-rubbed Toast with Soft-boiled Egg to start the day, via soups and pasta dishes such as the tempting and comforting Creamy Leek, Red Lentil and Potato Soup or Cannelloni with Mushrooms and Pork, to delicious dinners including the mouth watering Braised Pork Belly with Shallots, Orange and Cardamom and Cod Poached in Creamy Leeks, Ginger and Saffron, all finished off with treats that include Spiced Pumpkin, Fig, Pinenut and Gingernut Tart. The sections, including breakfast and brunch, light meals and salads, pasta, rice and noodles, tea trolley and desserts, are complemented by sumptuous photography from Manja Wachsmuth, making this book the stylish answer to eating well, every day. The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart by Holly ringland The most enchanting debut novel of 2018, this is an irresistible, deeply moving and romantic story of a young girl, daughter of an abusive father, who has to learn the hard way that she can break the patterns of the past, live on her own terms and find her own strength. After her family suffers a tragedy, nine-year-old Alice Hart is forced to leave her idyllic seaside home. She is taken in by her grandmother, June, a flower farmer who raises Alice on the language of Australian native flowers, a way to say the things that are too hard to speak. Under the watchful eye of June and the women who run the farm, Alice settles, but grows up increasingly frustrated by how little she knows of her family’s story. In her early twenties, Alice’s life is thrown into upheaval again when she suffers devastating betrayal and loss. Desperate to outrun grief, Alice flees to the dramatically beautiful central Australian desert. In this otherworldly landscape Alice thinks she has found solace, until she meets a charismatic and ultimately dangerous man. Spanning two decades, set between sugar cane fields by the sea, a native Australian flower farm, and a celestial crater in the central desert, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart follows Alice’s unforgettable journey, as she learns that the most powerful story she will ever possess is her own. Hunting El Chapo: Taking Down the World’s Most-Wanted Drug Lord by Andrew Hogan, douglas Century This is the incredible story of D.E.A. Special Agent Andrew Hogan’s seven-year-long chase to capture El Chapo, a multibillionaire drug-lord and escape-artist posing as a Mexican Robin Hood, who in reality was a brutal sociopath responsible for the murders of thousands. His greedy campaign to take over his rivals’ territories resulted in an unprecedented war with a body count of over 100,000. This intimate thriller tells how Hogan single-mindedly and methodically climbed the ladder within the hierarchy of the Sinaloa Cartel – the world’s wealthiest and most powerful drug-trafficking organization – by creating one of the most sophisticated undercover operations in the history of the D.E.A. From infiltrating Chapo’s inner circle to leading a white-knuckle manhunt with an elite brigade of Mexican Marines, Hogan left no stone unturned in his hunt for the world’s most powerful drug kingpin. Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa by Paul Kenyon The dictator who grew so rich on his country’s cocoa crop that he built a 35-storeyhigh basilica in the jungles of the Ivory Coast. The austere, incorruptible leader who has shut Eritrea off from the world in a permanent state of war and conscripted every adult into the armed forces. In Equatorial Guinea, the paranoid despot who thought Hitler was the saviour of Africa and waged a relentless campaign of terror against his own people. The Libyan army officer who authored a new work of political philosophy, The Green Book, and lived in a tent with a harem of female soldiers, running his country like a mafia family business. And behind these almost incredible stories of fantastic violence and excess lie the dark secrets of Western greed and complicity, the insatiable taste for chocolate, oil, diamonds and gold that have encouraged dictators to rule with an iron hand, siphoning off their share of the action into mansions in Paris and banks in Zurich and keeping their people in dire poverty. 1005 Ferry rd Ph 384 2063 while stocks last (see instore for terms and conditions) Barry & kerry
SOUTHERN VIEW Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi Tuesday May 15 2018 5 News School decision fuels debate • By Sarla Donovan THE ARM-WRESTLE over a new site for Redcliffs School has heated up again. Greater Christchurch Regeneration Minister Megan Woods has given approval for changes to the District Plan, allowing the school to be built on Redcliffs Park. Friends of Redcliffs Park spokesman Chris Doudney said the minister had got it wrong. “I suspect the Kate McClelland Darren Fidler information she was given was limited and she would have been limited as to what she could base her decision on. Very much the same as the community board hearing last August where our own submission couldn’t be received or discussed because the scope of the argument was limited to considering the school on the park.” He said they wanted to get more information about the basis for the minister’s decision. For seven years the school has been operating from the Van Asch campus in Sumner, after earthquake-generated rockfall at its former site. In March 2015 the Government proposed the school’s closure but following community outcry, it agreed in June 2016 to return the school to Redcliffs – provided it be established on a different site. Deputy principal Kate Mc- Clelland was “thrilled” the school will be rebuilt at Redcliffs Park. Said Ms McClelland: “After seven years we’re very excited to be finally able to return to our home in Redcliffs. After all the work that’s been done working towards this day, we’re thrilled.” Families and pupils were notified yesterday morning, shortly after the decision was announced. Board of trustees chairman Darren Fidler was “happy and CHANGE: Greater Regeneration Minister Megan Woods has approved the rezoning of Redcliffs Park as a school. relieved” at the news. “We can finally get back. It’s been a long seven years.” He said it had been an open and transparent process. “The minister put out all the information that she used to inform her decision so the due process has been followed . . . we’re looking forward to getting back to the core business of educating kids. That’s all we’ve ever wanted to do and this has been a massive distraction from that.” Local News Now Fire rages, homes at risk Planting day planned for reserve A PUBLIC planting and gala day at Charlesworth Reserve will help establish native trees and shrubs in the area. The reserve is being gradually developed to re-establish estuaryedge ecosystem features like saltmeadow, salt-marsh and coastal bush. At present these are either very rare around the estuary or nonexistent. Work thus far has included planting of coastal bush, installation of culverts to allow tidal flows to enter the reserve, development of walking tracks and bridges, a predator trapping programme and installation of new signage. Support for the project has come from Trees for Canterbury, the city council and the Avon- Heathcote Estuary Ihutai Trust. The event is scheduled for this Sunday, 10am-noon at Charlesworth St Reserve, situated on Charlesworth St off Ferry Rd. Take along family, friends and a spade. •For more information phone Steve Bush 982 1028 or Andrew Crossland 027 434 1155.
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