Nor'West News: December 11, 2018
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NOR’WEST NEWS Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Tuesday <strong>December</strong> <strong>11</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 5<br />
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Fire rages, homes at risk<br />
Mia ready to make her<br />
mark on politics<br />
• By Ashleigh Monk<br />
ARMED WITH a love for<br />
science, technology and politics,<br />
16-year-old Mia Wright is ready<br />
to make her mark.<br />
The St Margaret’s College<br />
student has been selected to<br />
represent National list MP Nicky<br />
Wagner as a youth MP in the<br />
Youth Parliament next year.<br />
Mia said she has always been<br />
interested in politics and she<br />
followed last year’s election<br />
closely.<br />
“With social media and the<br />
internet in particular, youth<br />
are a lot more aware of the<br />
going-ons around them, and I<br />
think it’s really important that<br />
we have a voice in our future,”<br />
she said.<br />
“The plan in the next couple<br />
of weeks is for me to reach out<br />
to a couple of youth groups<br />
and get their point of view on<br />
what they want to see happen in<br />
Government.”<br />
Mia has a passion for science<br />
and technology.<br />
“I’m in love with technology<br />
and coding and science. I’ve<br />
done a lot of robotics in the past,<br />
and over the last six months my<br />
REPRESENTING: National list MP Nicky Wagner has selected<br />
St Margaret’s College student Mia Wright to be her youth MP<br />
next year.<br />
project has been to create a water<br />
quality testing device. I actually<br />
have won a couple of awards for<br />
the project, so that’s amazing.”<br />
Davidson v Livingstone<br />
• By Julia Evans<br />
MIKE DAVIDSON has capped<br />
off his year of sport with a<br />
win against his city council<br />
counterpart.<br />
The Papanui Ward city councillor<br />
went head-to-head with Burwood<br />
Ward’s Glenn Livingstone<br />
in the Car Park Cannon Ball<br />
challenge. The pair competed in<br />
the councillor category, racing up<br />
eight floors of a car park building.<br />
Cr Davidson won comfortably<br />
2-0. “I won’t go into the detail of<br />
how easy it was to beat him, but<br />
thank him for also supporting the<br />
cause,” he said.<br />
It was a “fantastic event” for<br />
riders and spectators, he said.<br />
“But, more importantly, the<br />
RACE: City<br />
councillors<br />
Mike<br />
Davidson<br />
and Glenn<br />
Livingstone<br />
went headto-head<br />
in<br />
the Car Park<br />
Cannon Ball<br />
challenge.<br />
reason for the event was about<br />
raising money and awareness for<br />
men’s health.”<br />
Cr Davidson will be competing<br />
again next year and challenged all<br />
councillors to do the same.<br />
“Personally this caps off a<br />
significant year for me on the<br />
sporting scene, having completed<br />
the Coast to Coast, Sea to Sky<br />
Duathalon, Le Race, Grape Ride,<br />
Christchurch Marathon, Fight for<br />
Christchurch and Car Park Cannon<br />
Ball,” he said.<br />
Cr Davidson recently got in the<br />
boxing ring with Crusaders<br />
assistant coach Brad Mooar to<br />
raise money for Cure Kids. He<br />
also dropped about 20kg when<br />
he was training for the Coast to<br />
Coast in February.<br />
Hon Nicky Wagner<br />
National List MP<br />
Wishing you & your<br />
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