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Artist donates paintings<br />
• By Julia Evans<br />
ARTIST Rangi Downes says he<br />
could paint Mickey Mouse in<br />
his sleep.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 77-year-old has painted<br />
the Disney icon more than 70<br />
times on a mission to brighten<br />
the lives of children suffering<br />
from cancer throughout the<br />
South Island.<br />
Now he is going to help blind<br />
organist Richard Hore and his<br />
family get to Disneyland Paris<br />
with daughter Megan, who is<br />
undergoing chemotherapy for<br />
cancer, by donating four paintings.<br />
“I was reading your article in<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> about Megan Hore and<br />
I knew I could help,” he said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> four paintings will be<br />
finished tomorrow.<br />
“I’ve even drawn up a couple<br />
of new ones that I’ve never<br />
painted before so it will be interesting<br />
to see how those turn<br />
out,” Downes said.<br />
Megan’s mother Marilyn Hore<br />
said the donation was “amazing”<br />
news for her Disney-fanatic<br />
daughter.<br />
It is planned three paintings<br />
will be auctioned off to raise<br />
money.<br />
TOP BLOKE: Redwood artist Rangi Downes with an example<br />
of the art work he will donate to the Hore family.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> has approached<br />
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern,<br />
former All Blacks great Richie<br />
McCaw and Commonwealth<br />
Games gold medal shot-putter<br />
Tom Walsh to sign them.<br />
Megan met Walsh following<br />
his Commonwealth Games win<br />
last year.<br />
“I absolutely fan-girled. I got<br />
to wear his medals and hold his<br />
shot put,” she said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> fourth painting will be<br />
kept by the Hore family.<br />
Downes said he wanted to<br />
help the family because he knew<br />
battling cancer was expensive.<br />
“It’s nice to be helping someone<br />
out who wants to live.”<br />
His art is hanging up in 51<br />
hospitals and doctors’ offices<br />
around the South Island.<br />
Chlorine out, UV in<br />
• By Julia Evans<br />
ONE OF the city’s largest pump<br />
stations may be permanently free<br />
of chlorine by June.<br />
<strong>The</strong> city council is expected to<br />
approve a $2.25 million ultraviolet<br />
light disinfection<br />
system for one of the<br />
city’s largest water<br />
supplies, Main Pumps<br />
station, at the south<br />
end of Colombo St.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> advantages of<br />
UV treatment is there<br />
are no taste and odour<br />
effects – we think we<br />
could have it installed<br />
at Main Pumps within<br />
10 to 12 months,’’ said<br />
city council water supply<br />
programme manager Helen<br />
Beaumont.<br />
<strong>The</strong> station takes water from<br />
six wells and feeds about 11<br />
per cent of the central zone,<br />
which provides water to about<br />
185,000 people. <strong>The</strong> city council<br />
is investigating bringing in UV<br />
treatment at “a number” of pump<br />
stations around the city, which<br />
can’t be secured otherwise.<br />
“We will not have a timeline<br />
for implementation until we have<br />
completed concept designs and<br />
estimated the costs for the plant<br />
required at each pump station,”<br />
Ms Beaumont said. A report is<br />
expected in October.<br />
Ms Beaumont said the city<br />
council has sufficient funds to<br />
complete the work that has been<br />
scoped for this financial year.<br />
“Further work needs<br />
to be done before we can<br />
provide the total costs<br />
for the longer term water<br />
supply improvement<br />
programme.”<br />
It comes as 10 pump<br />
stations around the city,<br />
which feed more than<br />
a quarter of the water<br />
supply, have become<br />
chlorine-free this<br />
Helen<br />
Beaumont<br />
month.<br />
<strong>The</strong> latest, Thompsons<br />
pump station, was stopped on<br />
Tuesday.<br />
But Ms Beaumont said it would<br />
only be possible during low water<br />
demand, such as winter, so water<br />
conservation would be needed<br />
through summer.<br />
Almost all of the city’s water<br />
supply was chlorinated in March<br />
after the city council voted for<br />
12 months of chlorination,<br />
while unsecure well heads were<br />
repaired in January.<br />
Ms Beaumont said the timeline<br />
was “challenging”, but it remains<br />
the target.<br />
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