Western News: October 02, 2018

12 Tuesday October 2 2018
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Good progress on Hornby’s
community mega-centre
Halswell-
Hornby-
Riccarton
Community
Board
member
Debbie
Mora writes
about the future of the
community mega-centre in
Hornby
WELL, ITS fantastic that we
are now making progress
with drilling commencing at
Kyle Park this week to make
investigations to see if this could
be a possible and viable site
moving forward.
I had requested deferral of
making a decision for a couple
of weeks pending on site further
engineering on Kyle Park back
at our extraordinary meeting on
August 12, 2017 (minuted), this
was seconded, put to the meeting
and lost.
However, it is great to now see
progress in that direction after
our board deciding it would be
helpful after the reclassification
of Denton Park was not
desired by a large part of the
Hornby community, 84 per
cent of submissions against the
reclassification, and the hearings
panel upon listening to all the
concerns from the submitters.
The hearings panels
recommendation to our
Community Board was to not
reclassify the Denton Park
Recreation Reserve.
I understand that it can be
frustrating waiting for our
desired South West Leisure
centre, but it is important to get
this project right and acquire all
the details and data, as we don’t
want problems to occur after any
decision-making.
I believe it is helpful to
foresee any issues and discuss
them, to future-proof the
facility’s placement and ensure
accessibility and parking is of
ease for everyone.
TESTS: Drilling at Kyle Park, the city council is investigating the
park’s suitability for a community mega-centre.
I have learned as an elected
member representing the
Halswell Hornby Riccarton
Community Board just how
passionate a large part of the
Hornby community felt about
their green space that was
donated to the community by
Stanley Denton.
This was donated for “outdoor
recreation” with a status as
a recreation reserve, used
largely by sporting groups,
leisure activities and the local
community at large.
I have valued supporting this
process and the community
through all the stages of this
process, learning the value that
the Hornby community has
with Denton Park and listening
to all that contacted me with
their concerns, for example
traffic concerns, sports clubs,
community use, parking and
gifting of the park.
It was emphasised in an
article on September 14, by
reporter Ashleigh Monk,
regarding a statement by former
Mayor Garry Moore “elected
representatives needed to ensure
their decisions were supported by
residents.” I concur with this.
I believe we are making
positive headway, steady is the
progress, and I trust the wait will
be worthwhile for all.
All the above is my personal
opinion from my experience
gained while listening to the
concerns of residents and
sporting groups in the Hornby
community and being part of
this process as a current Halswell
Hornby Riccarton Community
Board member.
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A REVEREND has been
formally recognised for his role
in helping establish the South
Island’s first Pan-Pasifika Early
Childhood Centre in Hornby.
Ara Institute of Canterbury
student and Pasifika community
relations adviser Reverend
Fitifiti Luatua was recognised
by early-childcare provider Barnardos
on September 14.
Barnardos runs the childhood
centre on Waterloo Rd.
The Ministry of Education
appointed Rev Luatua to the
Pasifika Advisory Group of the
childhood centre in 2015.
He was given the role for his
engagement with the Pasifika
community through his 18 years
of church ministry and his work
with the Ara Pasifika Trades
programme at Woolston and
other programmes at Ara.
As part of community engagement,
Luatua brought Ara civil
skills students to construct landscaping
and sandpits – which
added much needed beauty,
benefited the centre and gave
students real world experience.
The efforts and the contribution
of the students was very
much appreciated by the community,
parents, teachers and
children.
Working in tertiary education,
Rev Luatua recognises that the
path to success starts early in life.
“Yes even from early child-
RECOGNISED: Ara Institute
of Canterbury student and
Pasifika community relations
advisor Reverend Fitifiti
Luatua with his certificate of
appreciation.
hood if they have that engagement
with tertiary they can see
it is a pathway into the future.
“Early childhood I would call
the most difficult area, however
if you build a good foundation
of learning for our children right
from early childhood then they
will progress well into the other
levels,” Rev Luatua said.
Building started in April 2016
and the centre was opened on
March 2017, run by Barnardos
and licensed for 47 children, 10
of which are up to two-year-olds.
HELPING
OUT: Ara
civil skills
students
help
landscaping
at the Pan-
Pasifika Early
Childhood
Centre in
Hornby.
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