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6 Tuesday <strong>August</strong> <strong>28</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />

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PEGASUS POST<br />

Fire rages, homes at risk<br />

Readers respond to the<br />

<strong>Pegasus</strong> <strong>Post</strong> article on<br />

city councillors David East<br />

and Glenn Livingstone<br />

pledging to help keep the<br />

New Brighton Guy Fawkes<br />

fireworks event at the pier<br />

Karen Hibberd – Ban all<br />

fireworks.<br />

Taina Kahutia Tawhitopou<br />

Connell – Ban it.<br />

Amanda White – Stay!<br />

They can’t do the big bangers in<br />

the city and Brighton has lost<br />

enough.<br />

Heather Knox – Get rid of<br />

it and replace with a Matariki or<br />

Parihaka event, more relevant to<br />

New Zealand.<br />

Ryan Nield – I think the<br />

current council needs to go.<br />

Sam Stoner – Keep it. It’s<br />

one of the few events we have in<br />

Christchurch.<br />

Christine Weston – Keep it<br />

in Brighton.<br />

We said:<br />

Eighteen families in<br />

Shirley have received free<br />

firewood as a result of a<br />

large community effort<br />

You said:<br />

Ryan Baker – Brilliant idea<br />

of city council and Environment<br />

Canterbury to try and push people<br />

into heat pumps and electric<br />

heating. Fastest way to cripple<br />

vulnerable people’s health and<br />

financial security.<br />

Brian Tones – I wish they<br />

would do more for pensioners, as<br />

most of our power bills in winter<br />

get up around the $400 a month<br />

mark.<br />

Stef Fagan – I’m really<br />

confused. A big load if firewood<br />

costs way less than $700 and<br />

would last longer than a month.<br />

I’m not saying they don’t struggle<br />

but it seems they attack it<br />

from the wrong end?<br />

Traci Leigh – This is<br />

great. But loads of families in<br />

Christchurch don’t have a fire as<br />

we’re not allowed them. Where<br />

is the help for them?<br />

Karen Drummond – Great<br />

to know families won’t be going<br />

cold.<br />

Stephan Lance Gardiner<br />

– Power is what you want it to<br />

be.<br />

Board gets help<br />

to understand<br />

flooding issues<br />

• By Sarla Donovan<br />

THE Linwood-Central-<br />

Heathcote Community Board<br />

has requested an “outside<br />

support person” to<br />

help it understand<br />

Higher Flood Hazard<br />

Management Areas<br />

and Restricted Unit<br />

Overlays.<br />

Christchurch<br />

Coastal Residents<br />

United deputy<br />

chairman Warwick<br />

Schaffer attended a<br />

public-excluded city<br />

council seminar about the topics<br />

last week after the city council<br />

agreed to the request.<br />

The outside adviser was to<br />

help the board “interpret the<br />

information and ask questions,”<br />

said member Darrell Latham.<br />

He said there were<br />

“incongruities” in city council<br />

policy related to HFHMA which<br />

had serious implications for<br />

residents.<br />

“We need clarification and<br />

answers now,” Dr Latham said.<br />

Darrell Latham<br />

The Coastal-Burwood<br />

Community Board was also at<br />

the seminar.<br />

CCRU is a group made up of<br />

coastal residents and experts<br />

who have recently flagged<br />

concerns about how 1486<br />

sites in a Restricted Unit<br />

Overlay within the HF-<br />

HMA are being treated<br />

by city council planners.<br />

It recently held a public<br />

meeting, which attracted<br />

more than 100 residents,<br />

to discuss the concerns.<br />

The CCRU believes a<br />

restricted discretionary<br />

activity rule, recommended by<br />

the replacement District Plan<br />

independent hearings panel,<br />

was left out when the plan was<br />

finalised last year.<br />

Without the discretionary<br />

rule, under the District Plan new<br />

developments or intensification<br />

of land use in the HFHMA is to<br />

be avoided.<br />

Dr Latham said the seminar<br />

was for information sharing<br />

rather than decision-making<br />

purposes.<br />

Pupils haul in accolades at Bandquest<br />

• By Matt Salmons<br />

PUPILS FROM schools in<br />

the <strong>Pegasus</strong> <strong>Post</strong> area have<br />

claimed a number of titles<br />

at the Canterbury Rockshop<br />

Bandquest, with Chisnallwood<br />

Intermediate hauling in the<br />

awards.<br />

Bandquest is a national music<br />

contest for intermediate and<br />

primary pupils to compete in<br />

bands of three to 10 members.<br />

Each band plays a short set of<br />

covers or originals with a focus<br />

on performance skills.<br />

Last week, 46 bands competed<br />

at St Margaret’s College over<br />

three nights. Rāwhiti School’s<br />

Molly Seal won the rock-solid<br />

bassist award and Waitakiri<br />

Primary School’s Minori Naoi<br />

took out best keyboardist on the<br />

first night.<br />

On night two, South New<br />

Brighton School band Beach<br />

Break secured two awards, best<br />

original song and the rocking<br />

drummer award to Braithan<br />

Bailey.<br />

Chisnallwood Intermediate<br />

dominated the final night,<br />

with four of the school’s bands<br />

receiving awards.<br />

Jandal Smack took out first<br />

place and a killer guitarist<br />

award for Jacob Carey. Heinrich<br />

Muller won best vocalist with<br />

Chisnallwood’s TCP while<br />

Ricochet won best original song.<br />

The Radio Wreckers’ Hiromu<br />

Crosado took home best<br />

keyboardist and Niko Tudor-<br />

Oakley the rocking drummer<br />

award.<br />

WINNERS: Chisnallwood Intermediate’s Jandal Smack at<br />

Bandquest.<br />

Community Clinics<br />

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bi-monthly basis to hear your concerns.<br />

Starting on the first Monday in<br />

March and bi monthly there after.<br />

9am – 9:40am - Linwood, Linwood Avenue, Outside<br />

the Salvation Army<br />

9:50am – 10:30am - Dallington, Cnr of Gayhurst<br />

Road and Claydon Place<br />

10:40am – 11:20am - Stanmore/Richmond,<br />

Stanmore Road opposite New World at the park<br />

11:30am – 12:10 - Shirley, Cnr Marshlands Road and<br />

Hammersley Avenue<br />

Starting on the first Friday in<br />

March and bi monthly there after.<br />

9am – 9:40am - Bromley – Outside the Bromley<br />

Community Centre on Bromley Road<br />

9:50am – 10:30am - Aranui, Aranui Library,<br />

Aldershot Street<br />

10:40am – 11:20am - Burwood, 17 Parnwell Road<br />

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