Bay Harbour: June 20, 2018

Wednesday June 20 2018
News
Community wants
to protect
medical centre land
• By Sarla Donovan
THE DIAMOND Harbour
community wants to protect the
future of their medical centre by
owning the land it is built upon.
The centre was constructed on
city council land in 1991 with
$25,000 of community
funds and a low rate
mortgage from the city
council, which has since
been repaid.
The city council leases
out the land at a “peppercorn”
rental and the
building houses a busy
medical practice.
Former chairwoman
and current secretary of
the group Mahony May
said in 2015 the land had been
put on a list of city council assets
to be sold off.
It was later removed from the
list, but future security remains
a priority given the expanding
population in the settlement.
“Our worry is that might
happen again. We want to get
a guaranteed tenure,” said Ms
May.
Ms May last week told the
Banks Peninsula Community
Board the group wanted to acquire
the land.
Board member Felix Dawson
said there was “no question” the
medical centre provided a great
service to the community.
“We need to ensure the place
has security. It’s a nobrainer,”
Mr Dawson
said.
Ms May said the
advantage to the city
council was it kept
people in the area
because they had a
good medical service
and district nursing so
people stayed longer.
The land had a
commercial value but
wasn’t really suited to residential
development, because the entrance
is through a community
centre car park, Ms May said.
“The best thing for us would
be just gifting and no money
exchanged. If there was some inbetween
arrangement we would
certainly be wanting to consider
it but we don’t want to be stung
with a very, very large bill.”
The board asked city council
staff to prepare a report on the
issue.
Felix Dawson
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​Tennis coach returns
• By Gordon Findlater
IT WILL be a homecoming
for new Redcliffs Tennis Club
head coach Jack Tiller when he
starts his new job next month
at the club he played for as a
junior.
Tiller, 20, will take on the role
on July 21 after spending the
last year in a coaching role at
Elmwood Tennis Club.
The position at Redcliffs
became available with the
departure of Evie Ruegg who
is travelling the world with her
husband. Ruegg has spent the
past four years growing the
club’s junior programme from
obscurity after the earthquake
to a now strong position with 16
interclub teams.
Tiller, who lives in Monks
NEW GIG: Jack Tiller will take up the head coaching role
Bay, first picked up a tennis
at Redcliffs Tennis Club after returning from Southeastern
racket as a six-year-old at the Oklahoma State University last year.
Redcliffs club before relocating
to Blenheim.
As a teenager, Tiller played
for Elmwood but still remained
towards a sports coaching
degree at Canterbury University.
involved with his childhood
Redcliffs currently has 77 junior
club whenever possible and is
interclub players and 38 hot shot
SPORTS
now excited to take on the head
participants.
coaching role.
“Redcliffs has always been a
big part of my tennis and when I
got a phone call to ask if I would
be keen on the role I happily said
yes,” said Tiller.
He recently spent a year at
Southeastern Oklahoma State
University in the United States.
It was there he caught the
coaching bug.
“Being over there you see so
many guys that are unreal at
tennis. The staff and coaching
there is great and what they told
me really clicked,” said Tiller.
“I realised it’s something I’d
really like to do, it’s cool to see
kids grow and develop new
skills.”
Tiller is currently studying
Club president Sue Cooke
was thankful of departing
coach Ruegg for the position
she has left the club in going
forward. “She’s done a great job
and has contributed greatly to
the club, in particular with our
juniors, she will be missed,” said
Cooke. The club is planning on
a leaving event for Ruegg in the
coming weeks.
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has left it looking a lot smarter. Ten team members
from Mitre 10 MEGA Ferrymead spent hours weeding,
cutting, pruning and mowing as part of a community
initiative called Helping Hands. Launched to mark the
10th Anniversary of Mitre 10 MEGA Ferrymead, the store
is selecting 10 applicants whom staff will help with their
project. They can be from individual and/or community
groups and have a project that can be completed
within 10 hours with the help of 10 team members.
The Canterbury St cemetery was the first project to
receive help. It’s where the graveyard scenes from Peter
Jackson’s The Frighteners were filmed and has become
overgrown in recent years. Mitre 10 MEGA Ferrymead
spokeswoman Leah Knauf said the team from the store’s
garden centre worked from 8am through to almost
6pm at the cemetery. “It was a mammoth task, but
we got there and did as much as we could,” she said.
“It was cold to begin with but once we got under way
it was fine. Everyone was hypedup about the whole
project beforehand and by the time we got to the end
everyone was just ecstatic with the amount of work we
actually did. We could see the improvement we’d made.”
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or email marketing.ferrymead@mitre10.co.nz to
become part of the Helping Hands initiative.
Mitre 10 MEGA Ferrymead was supported by Kiwicare
which provided moss and weed killer and the city
council which helped with disposal of the weeds.
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