Selwyn Times: June 20, 2018

8 Wednesday June 20 2018
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New grants fund
for community
• By Emily O’Connell
A NEW grants fund has been set
up to assist community-focussed
initiatives in the district.
The fund is part of the district
council’s Long Term
Plan and was established
at last week’s district
council meeting.
The district council’s
Community Grants
Fund is a combination
of new and existing
funds which are available
for youth development,
community
development, environment,
arts, culture and
local history initiatives.
It doesn’t include the
$5500 Selwyn Youth
Council Project Fund,
as recommended.
District councillor
Craig Watson suggested
it be removed and left
with the youth council.
However, district
councillor Pat McEvedy
voted against establishing
the fund due to its
removal.
“If we pull these guys out, do
we pull those guys out and then
what’s the point of what we’re doing?”
he said.
Hororata Community Trust
executive officer Cindy Driscoll
said the new fund might help
with consistency between funding
decisions.
“What it could do is
provide the council more
opportunities to support
more organisations,” she
said.
Mrs Driscoll said “there
will be a bit of trial and
error, and it will depend
on their processes, but
I think it could be a
Craig Watson positive thing.”
Two Rivers
Community Trust
community services
stream manager Bev
Elder says she’s “not
happy about it” because it
tends to mean it gets put
into boxes.
“What that prevents
is the little group in the
community that’s got a
Pat McEvedy really good idea but they
don’t have a history and it
doesn’t neccessarily fit in any box
and they haven’t got anywhere to
go,” she said.
Flags fly high in Lincoln
• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding
FLAGS symbolising Lincoln’s
educational, environmental
and farming heritage have
been unfurled to beautify the
township’s main street.
Gerald St received five new
flags last week, created by
Lincoln-based graphic designer
Craig Crawford, of Evolution
Creative.
They were installed by the
Lincoln Community Committee
as a way of ensuring there
are flags on the street year
round.
The project cost about $5000
and was covered by the committee’s
discretionary funds.
Mr Crawford said while
Christmas flags and Lincoln
University flags are unrolled to
celebrate graduation throughout
the year, between times there is
nothing.
The suggestion to get the
Lincoln township on a FlagTrax
system was made by district
councillor Grant Miller about
18 months ago.
FlagTrax was invented to
allow people to raise or lower
street flags from ground level.
Cr Miller said before then
it was required to get cherry
pickers to install flags along
CAPTIVATING: A flag
featuring Lincoln University’s
Ivey Hall is one of eight
designs by Evolution
Creative to be unfurled on
Lincoln’s Gerald St. PHOTO:
GILBERT WEALLEANS
the street, so now there are no
health and safety implications.
Each flag features an individual
mono-coloured black
image.
Another five flags are expected
to be added in the coming
months.
The symbols range from a
microscope and Lincoln University’s
Ivey Hall to represent
the area’s education, to an acorn
of an oak tree, sparrow and New
Zealand flax as a way of showcasing
the area’s environmental
heritage.
Other flags feature a rooster
and gates as a “nod to the rural
sector” and an old bike to represent
the township’s rail trail, Mr
Crawford said.
Lincoln Community Committee
secretary Pauline Hayes
said the flags will generally stay
up in the township the whole
time unless other significant
functions are on.
She said it was a good way to
“spruce up” the area.
Mrs Hayes said it was a
lengthy process due to a combination
of getting a designer and
the appropriate poles for the
FlagTrax system.
•HAVE YOUR SAY: What
do you think could be done
to beautify Lincoln? Email
your views to georgia.
oconnor@starmedia.kiwi
The Selwyn District Council would like to thank all of
our Gold sponsors for their generous support.
Arts, Culture & Heritage –
Warren and Mahoney
Community Service – ANZ
Environmental – Stantec
Innovation – Monadelphous
Large Business – Buddle Findlay
People's Choice – IPort
Small Business – Storage King
Sport – HEB Construction
Tourism – Sicon Ltd
Young Achiever – Rolleston New World
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