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TUESDAY, DECEMBER <strong>18</strong>, 20<strong>18</strong><br />

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Merry<br />

Christmas<br />

Youth welfare issues<br />

Study shows concern about<br />

drug and alcohol problems<br />

‘Memorial’ cemetery<br />

Name change looking more<br />

likely in Avonhead<br />

From the<br />

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• By Anan Zaki<br />

JACK Harris-Clarke’s family<br />

has been saving money all year<br />

to buy him a BMX bike.<br />

It has been a tough ask for<br />

the Hornby family.<br />

But now their dream has<br />

come true, thanks to the<br />

Mazda Foundation, which has<br />

stepped in with a $2500 grant.<br />

Pages 4 & 5 Page 7<br />

THRILLED: Dean Harris-Clarke (left), Jack Harris-Clarke and mother Kate Harris-Clarke with the new BMX gear.<br />

Funding gets Jack on BMX track<br />

The 10-year-old from<br />

Hornby is autistic with limited<br />

speech and has sensory issues,<br />

which makes him only like<br />

fatty food.<br />

To combat his weight,<br />

mother Kate Harris-Clarke has<br />

tried to get him into various<br />

sports, without much success.<br />

But Jack finally found a sport<br />

to play last year, when he went<br />

riding at the Kyle Park BMX<br />

track in Hornby with his nineyear-old<br />

brother Dean.<br />

But proper equipment was<br />

expensive.<br />

After trying various<br />

organisations, the family<br />

received good news last month<br />

when they were granted the<br />

money.<br />

“It was incredible, I stood<br />

there and bawled my eyes out,”<br />

Mrs Harris-Clarke said.<br />

Until last month, Jack rode a<br />

cheap bike.<br />

But with the grant from the<br />

Mazda Foundation, the family<br />

has enough savings (originally<br />

intended for Jack) to buy new<br />

equipment for his younger<br />

brother too.<br />

•Turn to page 8<br />

Backlash<br />

over<br />

Riccarton<br />

Rd trees<br />

due to lack<br />

of options<br />

• By Anan Zaki<br />

A LACK of options during<br />

consultation has been blamed for<br />

the backlash over putting trees<br />

down the middle of Riccarton Rd.<br />

That’s the view of Riccarton<br />

Bush and Kilmarnock Residents’<br />

Association secretary Bob<br />

Broughton.<br />

Earlier this month, <strong>Western</strong><br />

<strong>News</strong> reported that central<br />

Riccarton residents were against<br />

the idea of a median with 27<br />

columnar hornbeam trees on<br />

Riccarton Rd between Clarence<br />

and Matipo Sts.<br />

Readers rejected the idea in more<br />

than 70 responses to the article in<br />

<strong>Western</strong> <strong>News</strong>.<br />

Mr Broughton said when the city<br />

council consulted with residents<br />

over the changes to Riccarton Rd<br />

in 2015, it didn’t give an option<br />

for a median that was not lined<br />

with trees. Residents were given<br />

two options: Option A with a treelined<br />

median to “strengthen the<br />

character” of the busy Riccarton<br />

Rd shopping area between<br />

Clarence and Matipo Sts, which<br />

was selected.<br />

•Turn to page 7<br />

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MARC DUFF sums up the long running<br />

Hornby mega centre saga on page 3<br />

today: “We can start going forward now<br />

and get the facility built for the benefit of<br />

everyone,”<br />

He’s referring to the decision to go with Kyle Park as the site,<br />

after Denton Park failed to get over the line.<br />

The western suburbs needs the big recreation facility, which<br />

will include a library. Not only for the activities it will provide<br />

but for the jobs it will create.<br />

Many will work on its construction and when it’s finished<br />

people will be needed to staff it.<br />

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WESTERN NEWS Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />

Tuesday <strong>December</strong> <strong>18</strong> 20<strong>18</strong> 3<br />

<strong>News</strong><br />

Kyle Park decision applauded<br />

• By Anan Zaki<br />

APPLAUSE ERUPTED in<br />

the city council chambers on<br />

Thursday as Kyle Park was<br />

approved as the new site for the<br />

planned Hornby mega centre.<br />

Greater Hornby Residents’<br />

Association chairman Marc<br />

Duff welcomed<br />

the decision.<br />

“We can start<br />

going forward<br />

now and get the<br />

facility built for<br />

the benefit of<br />

everyone,” he<br />

Marc Duff<br />

Raf Manji<br />

said.<br />

Supporters of<br />

the Hornby mega<br />

centre, which will<br />

include a library,<br />

recreation<br />

area, pool and<br />

customer service<br />

facility, were<br />

present at the<br />

meeting. They<br />

were hoping to<br />

see an end to the long-running<br />

saga.<br />

“It feels like you can smell the<br />

facility coming. I think it’s an<br />

opportunity for the youth of<br />

Hornby to have a facility that<br />

generations before them didn’t<br />

have,” Mr Duff said.<br />

SUPPORT: Backers of the Hornby mega centre hold up signs in support of the facility.<br />

Save Denton Park chairman<br />

Mark Peters said he can now<br />

“see the light at the end of the<br />

tunnel.”<br />

“I think it was an exciting<br />

day for Hornby. Even though,<br />

personally, I find it a little bit<br />

disappointing that they rushed<br />

it through,” he said.<br />

“So long as down the track,<br />

they [city council] don’t find out<br />

that the contamination is worse<br />

than they thought . . . this is a<br />

great thing,” Mr Peters said.<br />

Three city councillors –<br />

Pauline Cotter, Aaron Keown<br />

and Raf Manji – abstained from<br />

the vote, and the remaining 13<br />

voted for Kyle Park.<br />

Cr Manji wanted to peer<br />

review the report on Kyle Park<br />

by Tonkin and Taylor.<br />

“An unconfined landfill is<br />

sitting there with some pretty<br />

hazardous material,” Cr Manji<br />

said.<br />

Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton<br />

Community Board deputy<br />

chairwoman Helen Broughton<br />

agreed with Cr Manji.<br />

“There was no need for<br />

this rush, because it is going<br />

to be a year before they can<br />

get consents in place and a<br />

year before finalising what’s<br />

happening with the gases [in<br />

the landfill],” Ms Broughton<br />

said.<br />

Mr Duff was happy most<br />

councillors accepted Kyle<br />

Park as the mega centre’s new<br />

location. “I think if you listened<br />

to all councillors in that room,<br />

there was a general feeling that<br />

the expert opinion was all there,<br />

it was just time to get on and do<br />

it for the people of Hornby,” he<br />

said. •Soap Box. page 13<br />

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RICCARTON CENTRE<br />

A sod turning event is set to<br />

be held on Thursday to mark<br />

the start of construction on the<br />

Riccarton Community Centre at<br />

201 Clarence St. The centre will be<br />

a two-storey building, featuring<br />

a customer service area, meeting<br />

and performance hall, activity and<br />

meeting spaces and a kitchen. It<br />

will also be the main meeting place<br />

for the Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton<br />

Community Board. The ceremony<br />

is due to start at 9am. Construction<br />

is expected to be finished in<br />

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August was the most popular<br />

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<strong>News</strong><br />

Youth welfare a concern in Hornby<br />

• By Anan Zaki<br />

PEOPLE LIVING in Hornby<br />

are worried about their youth,<br />

drug and alcohol abuse, a recent<br />

Salvation Army study has<br />

revealed.<br />

The social agency surveyed<br />

100 people from Hornby earlier<br />

this year as part of a national<br />

study titled The State of Our<br />

Communities 20<strong>18</strong> – released last<br />

Wednesday.<br />

The report said<br />

that Hornby residents<br />

believed<br />

young people are<br />

“disengaged and<br />

getting caught<br />

Ronji Tanielu<br />

up in petty<br />

crime and other<br />

antisocial activities.”<br />

Residents also said that there<br />

was a “strong sense of community”<br />

in Hornby and liked the<br />

location and affordability of the<br />

suburb.<br />

Hornby High School principal<br />

Robin Sutton believed feelings<br />

about disengaged youth was an<br />

“interesting perception” but it<br />

was not always the case.<br />

“From my observational<br />

experience – and there’s no data<br />

behind this – is that it’s not true<br />

for the vast majority of youth,”<br />

Mr Sutton said.<br />

DISENGAGED: A Salvation Army study on the state of our communities showed that people of<br />

Hornby are worried about their youth.<br />

“As with any other community,<br />

there are pockets of disengaged<br />

youth . . . if you were able to identify<br />

them, you would probably<br />

find a strong correlation between<br />

the levels of disengagement and<br />

disaffection on one hand and<br />

pockets of really deep poverty on<br />

the other.”<br />

But Mr Sutton said that his<br />

view was based on his personal<br />

observation and not studies.<br />

“If I go a little bit further, I<br />

think for example, the Kyle Park<br />

pool and library complex is going<br />

to have a massive impact on that,<br />

purely because of its location [in<br />

Hornby].”<br />

The author of the report,<br />

Salvation Army lawyer and<br />

policy adviser Ronji Tanielu, told<br />

<strong>Western</strong> <strong>News</strong> that Hornby was a<br />

“fascinating” place to study.<br />

“Hornby, especially the Hei Hei<br />

side, has had a reputation as a<br />

working class suburb and [there<br />

was] a lot of talk about how that<br />

has changed a lot,” Mr Tanielu<br />

said.<br />

Change since the 2010 and<br />

2011 Canterbury earthquakes<br />

was a big topic of discussion in<br />

the report.<br />

“It’s going through rapid<br />

change, probably more so than<br />

any other community we covered<br />

in this project.”<br />

“There definitely needs to be<br />

better infrastructure because<br />

even visually, you’re going<br />

through the community from<br />

heavy industrial areas straight<br />

into suburban communities,” Mr<br />

Tanielu said.<br />

Respondents also highlighted<br />

that the rest of the city has a<br />

better image of Hornby since<br />

the 2010 and 2011 Canterbury<br />

earthquakes.<br />

Traffic and congestion was<br />

another concern, which made<br />

travelling around Hornby “harrowing”,<br />

the report said.<br />

Hornby residents blamed<br />

population growth without<br />

proper planning for the traffic<br />

and social issues.<br />

When Hornby residents were<br />

asked what they would say to the<br />

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern<br />

if they could talk to her, residents<br />

spoke about pride in their rapidly<br />

growing suburb.<br />

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WESTERN NEWS Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />

Tuesday <strong>December</strong> <strong>18</strong> 20<strong>18</strong> 5<br />

Local<br />

<strong>News</strong><br />

Now<br />

<strong>Western</strong> <strong>News</strong> took to the streets of Hornby to ask people their views on the<br />

Salvation Army report<br />

Fire rages, homes at risk<br />

Joan Hamilton,<br />

housewife<br />

I’ve been living here 13<br />

years and haven’t seen<br />

anything like that [social<br />

issues]. We never see<br />

anyone being horrible to<br />

anyone.<br />

The coffee shops are<br />

good, everyone says<br />

hello to everyone. When<br />

we walk on the streets<br />

we’ve got no problems in<br />

fearing anyone robbing<br />

us or anything like that.<br />

Ron Tinney, retired<br />

I don’t know if the<br />

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When I was in<br />

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Courtney Williams,<br />

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Some young people<br />

feel free to go out<br />

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I think it’s because of<br />

a lack of motivation to<br />

work.<br />

People have too much<br />

access to things that<br />

they shouldn’t have.<br />

Then people don’t have<br />

access to things they<br />

should have. There’s not<br />

enough access to jobs.<br />

Joe Misselbrook,<br />

unemployed<br />

I think it is accurate<br />

[about youth issues].<br />

I’m actually quite<br />

concerned about<br />

youths going into the<br />

future.<br />

I’m concerned about<br />

the environment that<br />

they are growing up<br />

in such as getting into<br />

trouble that sort of<br />

thing.<br />

There’s probably<br />

not [enough support<br />

measures]. There needs<br />

to be more activities<br />

[for youths], more<br />

counselling that they<br />

have now.<br />

Manav Bagal,<br />

student<br />

I personally haven’t<br />

felt much of that [social<br />

issues]. As a university<br />

student I don’t really<br />

interact with many<br />

other youths that aren’t<br />

university students.<br />

I would say Hornby<br />

has a bad reputation<br />

to some extent, but it’s<br />

more so on the eastern<br />

side of Christchurch.<br />

I’m from Dunedin,<br />

so, if anything, I feel<br />

Hornby is more<br />

family-orientated, less<br />

student-driven and less<br />

unsavoury.<br />

Troy Gillan, student<br />

I’d say it’s the same<br />

issue as everywhere, I’d<br />

say slightly more so than<br />

other areas. Hornby’s had<br />

a reputation as a dodgy<br />

part of town but it’s better<br />

now.<br />

Historically, and even<br />

now it’s been seen as<br />

a low socio-economic<br />

area. So youth issues<br />

could be attached to<br />

that. But I wouldn’t say<br />

it’s a particular Hornby<br />

problem.<br />

This part of town has<br />

got a lot more people<br />

recently so maybe the<br />

[city council] hasn’t made<br />

up for that.


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Cemetery name change likely<br />

Plan gets<br />

community<br />

board support<br />

• By Anan Zaki<br />

A CEMETERY which<br />

remembers the victims of the<br />

February 22, 2011, earthquake<br />

could get a name change.<br />

The Fendalton-Waimairi-<br />

Harewood Community Board<br />

will ask the<br />

city council<br />

to consider<br />

adding<br />

the word<br />

‘memorial’<br />

to Avonhead<br />

Park<br />

Cemetery’s<br />

Sam<br />

MacDonald<br />

name.<br />

Friends of<br />

Avonhead<br />

Cemetery chairman Clive Paris<br />

was pleased with the community<br />

board’s decision.<br />

The cemetery is home to an<br />

interment site opened on the<br />

first anniversary of the quake.<br />

Fifty-eight victims are<br />

memorialised at Avonhead Park<br />

Cemetery, the city council said.<br />

The group has been<br />

campaigning to change the<br />

CHANGE: Friends of Avonhead Cemetery chairman Clive Paris<br />

is campaigning to add the word ‘memorial’ to the cemetery’s<br />

name.<br />

name to reflect the interment<br />

site’s significance for <strong>18</strong> months.<br />

“It’s a step forward, sanity<br />

prevails, and it’s also the<br />

wishes of families of the<br />

deceased who are buried there<br />

from the [February 22], 2011,<br />

earthquake,” he said.<br />

“We’ve got a $300,000<br />

[interment] there, and referred to<br />

as a memorial by former Mayor<br />

Bob Parker,” Mr Paris said.<br />

Friends of Avonhead<br />

Cemetery will continue to urge<br />

city councillors to change the<br />

name.<br />

“I think they [city councillors]<br />

should listen to the people rather<br />

than some ideology steeped in<br />

history that the name should be<br />

retained.”<br />

Community board chairman<br />

Sam MacDonald said the board<br />

was against the recommendation<br />

from city council staff, which<br />

was to keep the existing name.<br />

“Community boards are there<br />

to represent the community. This<br />

council is commonly criticised for<br />

not being prepared to listen to the<br />

community,” Mr MacDonald said.<br />

He expects the city council<br />

to consider the board’s<br />

recommendation in February.<br />

If that recommendation is<br />

accepted, the city council will<br />

start public consultation to<br />

change the name.<br />

Board member Aaron<br />

Campbell disagreed with<br />

Friends of Avonhead Cemetery<br />

on the “sensitive” subject<br />

of changing the name. Mr<br />

Campbell was<br />

the only board<br />

member to vote<br />

against changing<br />

the name.<br />

“Particularly<br />

around the<br />

Avonhead<br />

Park cemetery,<br />

any changes<br />

that have been<br />

made have been<br />

Aaron<br />

Campbell<br />

extremely contentious,” he said.<br />

Mr Campbell also<br />

questioned why the Friends<br />

of Avonhead Cemetery didn’t<br />

submit on the name change in<br />

the Cemeteries Bylaw review<br />

earlier this year. But Mr Paris<br />

said his group did not need<br />

to submit in the bylaw review<br />

because the community board<br />

has been aware of this issue for<br />

<strong>18</strong> months.<br />

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Fire rages, homes at risk<br />

Lack of options<br />

over Riccarton<br />

Rd trees<br />

•From page 1<br />

Option B was for trees on<br />

a widened footpath, with no<br />

mention of a median.<br />

Out of 194 submissions,<br />

98 preferred option A and 96<br />

favoured option B, the city<br />

council said.<br />

Mr Broughton took part in the<br />

consultation and said residents<br />

wanted a median to separate the<br />

traffic, but were against the idea of<br />

trees along the middle of the road.<br />

If there was an option for<br />

a median without trees, Mr<br />

Broughton believes the outcome<br />

of the consultation would have<br />

been different.<br />

Said city council manager<br />

planning and delivery transport<br />

Lynette Ellis: “The trees in<br />

conjunction with the other<br />

streetscape enhancements, such<br />

as new furniture, paving and<br />

landscaping, provide an improved<br />

and renewed sense of place to the<br />

identity of central Riccarton as a<br />

destination rather than solely as a<br />

transport corridor. A median with<br />

no trees would not have provided<br />

the same benefits,” she said.<br />

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<strong>News</strong><br />

Now<br />

Fire rages, homes at risk<br />

Branston Shield returns home<br />

PEDAL POWER: Jack Harris-<br />

Clarke (left), rides with brother<br />

Dean.<br />

New bike<br />

gets Jack<br />

on track<br />

•From page 1<br />

Jack’s interest in BMX has stuck<br />

with him all year.<br />

“We took him along [to Kyle<br />

Park] last year with his younger<br />

brother Dean. He would just ride<br />

and ride and ride,” Mrs Harris-<br />

Clarke said.<br />

“Jack would just continue<br />

riding, he was sweating and really<br />

enjoying it.”<br />

It was “thrilling” to see Jack do<br />

what other children were doing,<br />

she said.<br />

“For him to show an interest<br />

in something like BMX not only<br />

ticks the box with improving his<br />

fitness and dropping a few kilos,<br />

but also because he socially and<br />

behaviourally is part of a group,”<br />

Mrs Harris-Clarke said.<br />

She said Jack always rides under<br />

the watchful eyes of his brother<br />

Dean, who looks out for him on<br />

the track.<br />

Dean is happy to see his older<br />

brother with the new BMX bike<br />

and getting active.<br />

“It feels great because we finally<br />

have a sport for Jack. It’s always<br />

been about me so far,” he said.<br />

“It was a little bit of a risk to<br />

start [the BMX season] with Jack’s<br />

old bike so he really needed to get<br />

another one,” Dean said.<br />

Jack is “pretty fast” and “way<br />

better” on his new bike, Dean<br />

said.<br />

“I’m a little bit quicker but he’s<br />

[Jack is] not far away.”<br />

• By Anan Zaki<br />

A SYMBOL of a former Hornby<br />

school is back home.<br />

The Branston Shield was gifted<br />

to the former Branston Intermediate<br />

School in 1975 by late<br />

Hornby resident Roland Leslie<br />

“Rolly” Troon, who passed away<br />

<strong>18</strong> years ago.<br />

Mr Troon gifted the shield to<br />

the school because his son and<br />

daughter attended it during the<br />

1970s.<br />

The shield became the<br />

school logo and was placed in<br />

the hall.<br />

When Branston Intermediate<br />

closed in 2013, the shield was<br />

moved to the school’s technology<br />

block, which became the<br />

Hornby Technology Centre, part<br />

of Hornby High School.<br />

Hornby Technology Centre<br />

teacher Ron Harwood kept the<br />

Branston Shield in his workshop<br />

after Branston Intermediate<br />

closed.<br />

Mr Harwood has taught wood<br />

technology at the technology<br />

centre and former intermediate<br />

for 38 years.<br />

He hoped to find the right<br />

person to give the shield to, as<br />

the technology centre was in the<br />

process of being demolished this<br />

month.<br />

And the right person was<br />

Roland Troon’s son, Dave Troon.<br />

“My wife works at Our Lady<br />

of Victories School. My wife was<br />

talking to the caretaker there,<br />

he said he went to Branston . . .<br />

and found out his last name was<br />

Troon,” Mr Harwood said.<br />

“When she told me, I said I’ve<br />

got that shield in the store room<br />

and said the Troon family gave it<br />

to Branston.”<br />

Dave Troon was delighted<br />

to see his father’s work back in<br />

family hands.<br />

“It was really, really good<br />

because dad had done a heck of<br />

a lot of stuff for the school,” he<br />

said.<br />

The day the shield was returned<br />

was “surreal” Mr Troon<br />

said.<br />

“When I was handed it in the<br />

woodwork class, the last thing<br />

RETURNED: Hornby<br />

Technology Centre teacher<br />

Ron Harwood, left, hands the<br />

Branston Shield over to Dave<br />

Troon. ​<br />

that [this year’s] woodwork<br />

class were making were<br />

collapsible stools. And that<br />

was the last thing I made at<br />

Branston.”<br />

“When I walked in the classroom,<br />

everything was still there,<br />

the colours of the benches and<br />

it was actually quite tear-jerky,”<br />

Mr Troon said.<br />

The Branston Shield now<br />

sits proudly on the wall of<br />

Mr Troon’s “man cave” at his<br />

Hornby house.<br />

The demolition of the<br />

technology centre meant<br />

the last physical remnant of<br />

Branston Intermediate was<br />

gone.<br />

Former Branston Intermediate<br />

and technology centre<br />

head of department John<br />

Simons said he had mixed<br />

emotions about the closure.<br />

Mr Simons taught at the<br />

site for 25 years and retired<br />

this year.<br />

The technology centre<br />

was replaced in Hornby<br />

High School’s rebuild this<br />

year.<br />

“We knew when Branston<br />

shut [in 2013] that it was<br />

only a matter of time before<br />

the remnants of the school<br />

would go. We were fortunate<br />

to last five years,” Mr<br />

Simons said.<br />

He says technology at<br />

schools has changed over<br />

the years.<br />

“Technology was a very<br />

important part of the school,<br />

the kids loved it, we did four<br />

disciplines of technology,<br />

design, wood, food and<br />

textile.”<br />

“When I started teaching,<br />

boys did wood technology<br />

and girls did food tech and<br />

textiles but now they are all<br />

mixed,” Mr Simons said.<br />

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Pressure on to save water<br />

Awards honour<br />

community<br />

advocates<br />

• By Anan Zaki<br />

HORNBY AND Halswell community<br />

advocates were recognised in the Civic<br />

Awards last week.<br />

Former city councillor Bob Shearing<br />

received a civic award for community<br />

service.<br />

Vietnam War veteran Paul O’Connor<br />

MBE received the award for his community<br />

service for the Anzac Day dawn service.<br />

Mr Shearing said he was “very thankful”<br />

to receive the recognition.<br />

He served on the city council from<br />

2004-2010 and as a Riccarton-Wigram<br />

Community Board member from 1996-<br />

2004. He is also a Hornby Community<br />

Development Trust member.<br />

“This is recognition of people that I try<br />

and support,” he said.<br />

“The Hornby Community Development<br />

Trust is certainly a worthwhile<br />

organisation [I’m involved with]. The<br />

team there do a great job of supporting<br />

the local community,” he said.<br />

Mr Shearing is also on the Riccarton<br />

House and Bush Trust board and is an<br />

advocate for disabled people.<br />

Mr O’Connor said he was “quite<br />

chuffed” with the award.<br />

“I’ve been involved with organising the<br />

Anzac Day service for the about 17 years<br />

and master of ceremony for all of that time.”<br />

Mr O’Connor said his time in the<br />

Vietnam war played a “significant” in his<br />

continued advocation for soldiers.<br />

THE CITY council is taking<br />

a myth-busting approach<br />

to remind residents about<br />

the need to save water this<br />

summer.<br />

It has put out a series of<br />

fact-based articles via its<br />

website and Facebook page in<br />

an effort to correct common<br />

misunderstandings about<br />

water use in Christchurch.<br />

Water supply programme<br />

manager Helen Beaumont says<br />

it’s important people get the<br />

facts so they understand the<br />

importance of saving water<br />

this summer.<br />

“We’ve had a lot people<br />

effectively calling us out for<br />

asking them to save water<br />

when water bottling plants<br />

are taking it out of the ground<br />

every day. But there are two<br />

problems with that. Firstly,<br />

the city council doesn’t<br />

decide who can or can’t take<br />

groundwater, Environment<br />

Canterbury does, while taking<br />

environmental factors into<br />

account. And secondly, the<br />

water taken by water bottling<br />

plants doesn’t actually affect<br />

our public water supply –<br />

they’re separate issues.”<br />

Ms Beaumont says another<br />

common misunderstanding is<br />

around the need to conserve<br />

water this summer.<br />

“It’s not that we’re running<br />

out of water. The problem is<br />

we need to take some water<br />

wells out of service so we<br />

can upgrade them and stop<br />

chlorinating as fast as possible.<br />

If we keep using too much<br />

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that simple,” she says.<br />

A wet start to summer in<br />

Christchurch has seen the city<br />

council’s online water dial<br />

spend a number of consecutive<br />

days in the<br />

“green zone”,<br />

which is<br />

where the<br />

city council<br />

wants to see<br />

it stay as the<br />

city moves<br />

into the<br />

warmest part<br />

of the year.<br />

Fire rages, homes at risk<br />

Helen<br />

Beaumont<br />

Ms Beaumont says the rain<br />

means people generally don’t<br />

feel the need to turn on their<br />

garden sprinklers or irrigators,<br />

which are<br />

the biggest household water<br />

users.<br />

“Running a garden sprinkler<br />

or irrigator for an hour can<br />

use up to 1500 litres – or 150<br />

buckets – of water. That’s<br />

a huge amount when you<br />

consider we’re targeting an<br />

average daily use of 212 litres<br />

per person this summer. We’re<br />

asking people to use hand-held<br />

hoses to water – during early<br />

morning or late evening –<br />

because you can direct exactly<br />

where the water goes and<br />

avoid wasting it.”<br />

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SW Zone Athletics<br />

Selected students from Year 5-8 represented<br />

Oaklands at the SW Zone Athletics on Wednesday<br />

6th November. It was a great day for all and we<br />

had some great results. Below are our most<br />

notable results from the day.<br />

Year 5<br />

Esther Brocherie - 3rd Long Jump<br />

Scarlett Anderson - 2nd High Jump<br />

Relay 3rd - Cody Foster, Caleb Hiku, Aidan Mahony,<br />

Conlan Murray<br />

Natalia Lyford - 2nd Long Distance<br />

Year 6<br />

Carter Woodgate - 1st Long Sprint<br />

Hugo Feng - 3rd Short Sprint<br />

Kaiden Marston - 3rd Shot Put<br />

Isabel McKay-Hatcher - 2nd Long Sprint<br />

Year 7<br />

Amber Moates - 2nd Discuss and 3rd Shot Put<br />

Ella Wilson - 3rd Long Distance and 3rd High<br />

Jump<br />

Alexia Mackenzie - 1st High Jump, 2nd Long<br />

Jump<br />

Sam Iffland - 1st Short Sprint<br />

Marshall Tomkinson - 3rd Discus<br />

Devon Edwards Thomas - 3rd Short Sprint<br />

Micah Chivers - 3rd High Jump<br />

Relay Second - Taylor Foster, Felix Barnes, Ralph<br />

McFarlane, Black Castle<br />

Year 8<br />

Daniel Tomlins - 3rd Long Jump<br />

Ashley White - 3rd High Jump<br />

Maddy Laing - 3rd Long Distance<br />

Sadiyah Mann - 1st Discus<br />

Daniel Heyman - 1st Short Sprint, 2nd Long Jump<br />

Noah King - 2nd High Jump and 2nd Long<br />

Distance<br />

Riley Betman - 3rd Discuss and Shot Put<br />

Keep Christchurch<br />

Beautiful awards<br />

On 21 November Annabel Keylard and Cody<br />

Foster represented Oaklands School at the Keep<br />

Christchurch Beautiful awards.<br />

Oaklands School was presented with a John<br />

Macaulay award for 10 years participation in the<br />

programme. We also were awarded with a Caretakers<br />

award, a Waste Minimisation and Recycling award<br />

and a highly commended award for our school<br />

enhancement programme.<br />

Congratulations to Paul McAven, Ivan Rush and the<br />

team of hard working students who demonstrate their<br />

leadership capacity and the CARE values around the<br />

school throughout the year.<br />

Hear me ROAR<br />

Move over Katy Perry, Hub 1 are the<br />

new rising stars.<br />

This term for our integrated topic<br />

we have been looking at learning the<br />

lyrics to a song, adding dance moves<br />

and performing to others. This took<br />

lots of hard work, co-ordination and<br />

perseverance.<br />

We began our journey by looking at<br />

who we are, where we come from and<br />

our culture. From here we looked at<br />

different cultural dances and how we could interrupt them into one dance. With the help of one of<br />

our parents we explored a traditional Samoan dance. This dance had different dance moves for the<br />

boys and girls. This tested our dance skills as we had to think about our own dance moves, what<br />

was happening around us and staying in time to the music. We enjoyed exploring this type of song<br />

and dance.<br />

Next we looked at what our favourite songs were, the good old car song, school disco song, talent<br />

quest song, clean up song, what our older brothers and sisters listened to. We then reached a<br />

decision, for the Gala we would perform Roar. For this we needed to call on our inner lion to help us<br />

look the part. First we needed to learn the dance moves, we already new the lyrics as this had been<br />

our clean up song last term. We worked hard learning the dance moves, practising every day, every<br />

week, singing in the car on the way to school with our Mums and Dads and even practising the song<br />

and dance moves at home before school, after school and in the weekends. The highlight for us was<br />

coming together as a Hub in the afternoons to practice. Working out where we were going to stand,<br />

who would roar and when, which way we would go and how could we all stay in time.<br />

Finally the moment we had been working for all term, the school Gala. The students got on stage<br />

and they blew us away with their performance. They knew all the moves and we could hear<br />

them roar!<br />

Hub 5’s Camp at Woodend<br />

Hub 5 stayed at the Woodend Christian Camp on <strong>December</strong> 3 and 4th.<br />

These include:<br />

• Go-Karting. • Waterslide.<br />

• Archery.<br />

• Air Rifles.<br />

• Climbing Wall. • Team Building.<br />

• Gaga Dodgeball. • Orienteering.<br />

The students had a great time pushing themselves outside their comfort zones. Here are<br />

some of the student reflections:<br />

I found the Climbing Wall fun and kind of challenging. I enjoyed this activity because on my<br />

last turn I finally reached the top and I felt so accomplished. (Eva D)<br />

On the waterslide, I really enjoyed going on the waterslide because it cooled me down on<br />

the hot days at camp. (Sophie M)<br />

One of my favourite activities on camp was the Go Kart activity. I enjoyed that activity<br />

because I have never done Go Karting before and it was just like driving! (Sam)<br />

A & P Show!!!<br />

The Years 2’s have had an amazing day at the A&P<br />

Show!<br />

There was lots of activities for the Year 2’s<br />

to participate in while they were at the show<br />

including:<br />

• Visiting the farmyard to see the farm animals<br />

and patting/feeding them<br />

• Riding a horse<br />

• Participating in the scavenger hunt to collect the<br />

stamps around the show<br />

• Looking at the tractors and getting to sit in them<br />

• Watching the motorbike riders doing tricks<br />

• Joining in the Lolly Scramble<br />

• Watching the woodchopping competition<br />

• Seeing the Earthquake simulator<br />

• Watching the helicopter flying above the show<br />

and taking off<br />

• Getting to touch a bee hive<br />

• Going to and from the show in a bendy bus!<br />

Thank you to all the parent helpers who<br />

volunteered to help out for the day. Without you the<br />

trip would not have been possible.<br />

Oaklands Kapahaka at<br />

Hoon Hay Fiesta<br />

Thursday 15th November was a momentous<br />

day as schools in our Kāhui Akō joined together<br />

with the Christchurch City Council to create the<br />

SouthWest Cluster Cultural Festival which was held<br />

as entertainment at the Hoon Hay Fiesta.<br />

Oaklands Kapahaka students put hours of effort<br />

into this performance. A big change was made<br />

when it was decided to combine the Kakanō and<br />

Kauri groups for the occasion- especially as the<br />

Kakanō students had to learn all the Kauri waiata<br />

and actions, which they did successfully, with<br />

enthusiasm. Some fabulous Year 6-8 students took<br />

time to help the young ones learn, before combined<br />

rehearsals began. After that, there were hour long<br />

rehearsals for the combined group and other<br />

additional rehearsals for the Kakanō students to<br />

pull off our mighty performance. The two Kapahaka<br />

groups combined reaches around <strong>18</strong>0 studentsaround<br />

100 were available to perform on Thursday<br />

and they were truly stunning. Our kids always sing<br />

loudly and proudly and we were blown away by their<br />

mana on the day.<br />

Students from Oaklands, Hoon Hay School,<br />

Halswell, Rowley Ave and Hillmorton all joined<br />

forces to create this special event.<br />

A huge thanks to the amazing parent help for<br />

helping get everyone dressed, fed and sunscreened<br />

and cleaning up the kitchen so well. Also to Detroit<br />

for his special blessing/karakia before we left<br />

for Hoony Hay Park.. Thanks to Mrs Trotter for<br />

organising a great afternoon tea to everyone and<br />

to the teachers that took time out of their Friday<br />

evening to support the group. Some great flexibility<br />

also with managing the organisation while students<br />

and teachers were out of class for rehearsals. He<br />

waka eke noa- we are all in this together.


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Tuesday <strong>December</strong> <strong>18</strong> 20<strong>18</strong> 13<br />

Local<br />

<strong>News</strong><br />

Now<br />

Your Local Views<br />

Support for Kyle Park mega-centre<br />

Fire rages, homes at risk<br />

Hornby<br />

High School<br />

principal<br />

Robin Sutton<br />

explains<br />

why Kyle<br />

Park should<br />

be the<br />

location for a community<br />

mega-centre<br />

IT WAS philosopher Ludwig<br />

Wittgenstein who said: “The<br />

limits of my language mean the<br />

limits of my world.”<br />

According to Wikipedia this<br />

has also been translated as “The<br />

limits of my language stand for<br />

the limits of my world”, and “The<br />

limits of my language are the<br />

limits of my mind. All I know is<br />

what I have words for.”<br />

I reckon that this is true, and<br />

I think it is easy to imagine that<br />

this is big in our thinking on<br />

what we do in schools.<br />

It is also why I support the city<br />

council’s proposal to build the<br />

new Hornby community library,<br />

swimming pool, and service<br />

centre, on the Kyle Park site immediately<br />

cross the road from<br />

our kura [children].<br />

The site sits within five minutes<br />

walk of approximately 1200<br />

students from four schools, and<br />

immediately across the road from<br />

nearly 1000 of those. Hornby<br />

High School itself is projected to<br />

grow to 800 students within five<br />

years and is master planned out<br />

to 1200 students.<br />

Few schools can provide sufficiently<br />

broad learning resources<br />

(books especially) to meet the full<br />

needs of their community, yet<br />

those books and other text based<br />

resources help us to expand our<br />

NEW SITE: Kyle Park will be home to the new Hornby<br />

community mega centre.<br />

language and so expand the<br />

limits of our worlds. Ready access<br />

to top class library facilities will<br />

supplement in-school services.<br />

Access to civic library facilities<br />

so close to the school would support<br />

more ubiquitous learning,<br />

helping to cement that learning<br />

into the fabric of the community.<br />

The synergies that develop when<br />

such facilities are located close to<br />

schools are in evidence elsewhere<br />

in the city, the Riccarton Library<br />

is a great example.<br />

There are several delightful<br />

pieces of jargon that I hear<br />

around government circles to<br />

describe this, and I can’t resist<br />

sharing these with you. The ‘powers<br />

that be’ talk about ‘functional<br />

adjacencies’, or the ‘synergies of<br />

juxtaposition’. I love that jargon.<br />

The facilities that we provide<br />

within Te Pai Rewa and Te Pai<br />

Tūhura were designed to offer<br />

our own ‘functional adjacencies’.<br />

That is, access across a range<br />

of learning resources form text<br />

based resources to technology<br />

and design resources allows each<br />

to support the other. The whole is<br />

more than the sum of the parts.<br />

To then supplement these with<br />

the resources that now typify a<br />

forward looking and forward<br />

thinking civic library service is an<br />

exciting prospect. It offers a real<br />

shot not just at equity, but at real<br />

‘liberation’ for our community.<br />

This is the mantra of our work<br />

with the Manaiakalani Education<br />

Trust, and the Manaiakalani<br />

pedagogy ‘Learn Create Share.’<br />

This is all about ‘liberating’ our<br />

young people, by accelerating their<br />

learning, by making their learning<br />

visible. This is the way to give<br />

rangatahi and whānau options in<br />

life, and if nothing else, education<br />

is about giving people options.<br />

And modern libraries are<br />

not what they used to be. The<br />

council’s own new central library<br />

‘Turanga’ is an outstanding example<br />

of this evolution, with traditional<br />

book resources and other<br />

text, maker spaces, collaborative<br />

spaces, and much, much ore.<br />

I think that modern libraries<br />

of this sort are a great support for<br />

our ‘Learn Create Share’ pedagogy.<br />

You could even argue that<br />

they represent an ideal resource<br />

to support ‘Learn Create Share’.<br />

In addition, Hornby High<br />

School students have no easy<br />

access to aquatic facilities,<br />

meaning that they have little or<br />

no opportunity to access water<br />

safety learning. The new facility<br />

would provide access to a swimming<br />

pool for most of the 11 to<br />

<strong>18</strong>-year-olds in the community.<br />

This is a life changing (and<br />

arguably life saving) investment<br />

in its own right.<br />

You could be very clinical in<br />

your thinking and simply see this<br />

as making sure that the children<br />

of Hornby will emerge from our<br />

kura as fully functional ‘economic<br />

units’, competent workers<br />

ready to fit into the flourishing<br />

Hornby economy.<br />

That would be true. I prefer to<br />

think if this as allowing children<br />

in the Hornby community to find<br />

their true humanity, to see an<br />

expanded world, to lift some of<br />

the self imposed limits that we all<br />

have so that the world can more<br />

truly benefit from their amazing<br />

array of talents.<br />

Our Hornby community is<br />

delightfully diverse, but included<br />

in that diversity are pockets of<br />

deprivation, and large numbers<br />

who have been come to be called<br />

the working poor – whānau who<br />

often have two adults working<br />

solid honest jobs but still unable<br />

to provide for their children simply<br />

because of the exorbitantly<br />

high costs of housing compared<br />

with low minimum wages.<br />

Education for children is a<br />

powerful way to break that cycle,<br />

and supporting formal schooling<br />

with educational connection into<br />

libraries, the world of words, and<br />

the world of ‘Learn Create Share’,<br />

is perhaps the most important<br />

enabler of that.<br />

My final plea to the Halswell-<br />

Hornby-Riccarton Community<br />

Board was – ‘please don’t heap<br />

deprivation on top of deprivation’.<br />

By that I meant, please don’t<br />

deprive this community of this<br />

amazing resource.<br />

By placing it so close to these<br />

four kura, the council would be<br />

making a strategic investment<br />

that leverages off the $30m<br />

investment made by the Ministry<br />

of Education. It would be adding<br />

much more significantly to the<br />

social capital of the community.<br />

This would be smart, clever in<br />

fact.<br />

‘The whole is more than the<br />

sum of the parts’. Our language<br />

limits our world.<br />

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Tuesday <strong>December</strong> <strong>18</strong> 20<strong>18</strong><br />

<strong>News</strong><br />

Readers have their say<br />

about a city council<br />

proposal to plant trees<br />

along the middle of<br />

Riccarton Rd<br />

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<strong>News</strong><br />

Now<br />

Fire rages, homes at risk<br />

Mike Choie – For a start, this<br />

council is not thinking the right<br />

way, instead it has wasted a lot<br />

of ratepayer money and has not<br />

beautified the city.<br />

Look at what a shambles the<br />

streets are. Making Riccarton<br />

Rd narrower and planting trees<br />

is a waste of time. Crossing the<br />

road won’t be easy if the trees are<br />

there and they will stop a lot of<br />

the view, sun, traffic and parking<br />

spaces for shops on Riccarton<br />

Rd.<br />

If you want this city to be<br />

called the garden city, trees<br />

should be planted in the park<br />

not in the middle of the road.<br />

The best way for Riccarton Rd is<br />

make it four-lane traffic.<br />

Mary Smith – Just reading<br />

the article in the <strong>Western</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />

[about] trees along Riccarton<br />

Rd. I have never heard of<br />

anything more ridiculous and<br />

unsafe. How do they expect<br />

emergency services to get down<br />

such a narrow, busy road when<br />

required? This council has the<br />

most absurd, extravagant ideas. I<br />

hope people remember this in the<br />

next election. They cannot put<br />

tress along Riccarton Rd it is a<br />

safety issue.<br />

Veronica Weeks – I think<br />

the idea of trees in the middle of<br />

Riccarton Rd is a joke, whoever<br />

thought of this? The road is not<br />

wide enough for a start and the<br />

most important issue is of course<br />

access for emergency vehicles.<br />

How will they get through? How<br />

long will the trees stay up before<br />

someone crashes into them? I<br />

hope the council will reconsider<br />

and we need a clear view when<br />

driving on this road.<br />

Jaime Dowdle – I used<br />

to live there and Riccarton<br />

Rd is a nightmare for all cars,<br />

ambulance and bus. This in<br />

my view is stupid. I can just<br />

view the huge traffic lines.<br />

Plus trees can be dangerous<br />

if they fall on traffic during<br />

earthquakes. Trees are great,<br />

don’t get me wrong, but they<br />

should be off the road. Maybe<br />

create a new park or upgrade<br />

parks with trees.<br />

Readers react to Russley<br />

residents being proved<br />

right about their car parking<br />

concerns of car parking<br />

congestion near the Airport<br />

Business Park<br />

Jeremy Hawker – Here’s<br />

a novel idea, stop allowing<br />

developers to build business<br />

parks with no parking<br />

structures?<br />

Jan Driscoll – The residents<br />

tell the council lots of things, but<br />

the council thinks it knows best<br />

. . . and time proves the residents<br />

right<br />

Zoe McLaren – The<br />

council simply doesn’t have the<br />

ability to offer what the residents<br />

want, on any streets. If they<br />

enforce this on those streets it<br />

will simply push the problem<br />

out to streets just beyond this.<br />

They need to acknowledge that<br />

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Tuesday <strong>December</strong> <strong>18</strong> 20<strong>18</strong> 15<br />

<strong>News</strong><br />

Aidanfield gardener sees red<br />

over dogs peeing on his lawn<br />

• By Anan Zaki<br />

MURRAY Holmwood takes<br />

pride in his Aidanfield garden.<br />

The retired maintenance<br />

worker spends hours keeping<br />

his lawn weed-free and<br />

plants looking top notch. He<br />

has picked up community<br />

gardening accolades throughout<br />

his life.<br />

But he has a problem – dogs<br />

urinating on his lawn.<br />

Mr Holmwood recently<br />

installed a new lawn on the<br />

berm outside his house of seven<br />

years.<br />

“It’s the council berm but<br />

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grass, you mow it, you fertilise<br />

it.”<br />

But Mr Holmwood’s hard<br />

work is being soiled by dog<br />

walkers.<br />

“I’d like to think I’ve got a<br />

very nice lawn and garden.”<br />

“A certain few people with<br />

their dogs . . . they let their dogs<br />

go on these long extending leads<br />

and then they go and urinate on<br />

the lawn,” he said.<br />

Dogs have also urinated in<br />

his private lawn and garden.<br />

But urinating on his newly-laid<br />

lawn was the “last straw”.<br />

Dog pee forms “dirty big<br />

brown patches” on the lawn, he<br />

said.<br />

“It kills the grass because it’s<br />

a huge amount of urea, which is<br />

what urine is all about.”<br />

Mr Holmwood says the issue<br />

has been ongoing for a number<br />

of months and he contacted<br />

city council animal control, but<br />

without results.<br />

“That is not good enough in<br />

my view,” he said.<br />

The city council says it is not<br />

an offence if dogs urinate in<br />

ENOUGH:<br />

Aidanfield<br />

resident<br />

Murray<br />

Holmwood<br />

wants<br />

an end<br />

to dogs<br />

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manicured<br />

lawn.<br />

public places.<br />

Mr Holmwood says he doesn’t<br />

hate dogs and has owned dogs<br />

throughout his life.<br />

“I love dogs . . . but these<br />

people [owners] shouldn’t be<br />

doing this.”<br />

He says dogs should be<br />

trained to toilet in parks or the<br />

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to come together in worship.<br />

Churches across the city are<br />

recognising Christmas and<br />

what it means for Christians in<br />

a number of ways, often with<br />

music at the centre.<br />

Most churches offer Carol<br />

Services encouraging us all to<br />

revisions:<br />

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SPOUTING CLEANING<br />

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School Run to some<br />

“Wide range of coaches and buses<br />

:tamrof<br />

for Charter & Tour”<br />

run date position private sortschools<br />

cost (excl gst)<br />

Tues <strong>18</strong> Dec ex Sits vac $214.11<br />

Selwyn/Halswell area<br />

www.travlon.co.nz | Phone: 03 325 2959<br />

Email: info@travlon.co.nz<br />

TILER/CARPENTER<br />

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4311440.<br />

TILING<br />

Flooring - Splashbacks -<br />

Wall incl tile removal, reg<br />

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audio amps, soundbars.<br />

Aerial & satellite<br />

installations, kitsets, 480D<br />

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1400<br />

VHS VIDEO TAPES<br />

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converted to DVD, video<br />

taping special occasions,<br />

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WINDOW CLEANING<br />

Average 3 bdrm house<br />

inside or out $40. Both<br />

$70. Phone Trevor 344-<br />

2170<br />

“Wide range of coaches<br />

Phone: 03 325 2959<br />

Holiday<br />

Email: and info@travlon.co.nz<br />

buses Gardening for<br />

Accommodation & Supplies<br />

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SUNSHINE<br />

A GARDEN OR<br />

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Gardening, consistently<br />

COAST www.travlon.co.nz<br />

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service. Nick’s Garden TOOLS<br />

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ADD SOME<br />

URL<br />

tested:<br />

Christmas at the<br />

Transitional Cathedral<br />

PLEASE NOTE:<br />

that we have prepared this<br />

advertisement proof based on our<br />

understanding of the instructions<br />

received. FRIDAY In approving 21 DECEMBER the<br />

advertisement, 3.00pm Children’s it is client’s responsibility<br />

Christmas Service<br />

to check the accuracy with Animals of both the<br />

advertisement, the media and the<br />

position SUNDAY nominated. 23 DECEMBER<br />

Cancellation 8.00am of adverts Holy Eucharist booked with<br />

media 10.00am will incur Choral a media Eucharist cancellation<br />

fee of 7.30pm $50. Service of 9 Lessons & Carols<br />

Wanted To Buy<br />

AAA Buying goods<br />

furniture,<br />

Beds, Stoves, Washing<br />

machines, Fridge Freezers.<br />

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Dealers. Phone 980 5812<br />

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mechanical, engineering,<br />

sawbenches, lathes, cash<br />

buyer, ph 355-2045<br />

COLOUR<br />

TO YOUR ADVERT!<br />

MONDAY 24 DECEMBER ~<br />

Amy Christmas Eve<br />

6.00pm Carol Recital by the Cathedral Choir<br />

10.15pm Carol Singing<br />

11.00pm The First Eucharist of<br />

Christmas<br />

Preacher: Dean Lawrence Kimberley<br />

Music: The Cathedral Choir<br />

your contact:<br />

TUESDAY 25 DECEMBER ~ Christmas<br />

8.00am Holy Eucharist & Carols<br />

10.00am Choral Eucharist<br />

Preacher: Revd Ben Randall<br />

Music: The Cathedral Choir<br />

5.00pm Choral Evensong<br />

Music: The men of the Cathedral Choir<br />

234 Hereford St<br />

Latimer Square<br />

Closing date<br />

checked:<br />

$0 $0 $25 $50 $75<br />

ChristChurch<br />

Cathedral<br />

Transitional<br />

raise our voices in the seasonal<br />

songs we remember from our<br />

childhood, as well as concerts,<br />

talks and recitals.<br />

It is a time when churches<br />

and faith-based organisations<br />

remind us of how fortunate<br />

we are and that it is possible<br />

to give gifts of hope that will<br />

make a true difference at this<br />

time of year. Christmas is, after<br />

all, about giving nor receiving.<br />

So why not take a moment<br />

away wrapping the expensive<br />

electronics to reflect on the<br />

true meaning of the season and<br />

call into your nearest church<br />

– all are always welcome,<br />

regardless of their faith, and<br />

especially so at Christmas.<br />

WESTERN NEWS<br />

Anglican<br />

Anglican<br />

St. Peter's Anglican<br />

Church<br />

Church Corner<br />

Sunday - 23 Dec<br />

8am & 9.30am<br />

Holy Communion<br />

Christmas Eve - 24 Dec<br />

11.15pm Candle Lit Carol<br />

Singing & Midnight Holy<br />

Communion<br />

Christmas Day - 25 Dec<br />

8.00am Festive Communion<br />

& Carols<br />

9.30am All Age Christmas<br />

Celebration & Communion<br />

St. Luke's Anglican<br />

Church<br />

School Road, Yaldhurst<br />

Christmas Eve - 24 Dec<br />

5.00pm Children’s Service -<br />

Dress-ups provided<br />

Christmas Day - 25 Dec<br />

9.30am Festive Communion<br />

& Carols<br />

All welcome<br />

VICAR - The Ven. Nick Mountfort<br />

Phone 343 3007<br />

www.stpeterschurch.nz


WESTERN NEWS Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />

Tuesday <strong>December</strong> <strong>18</strong> 20<strong>18</strong> 23<br />

What’s On<br />

Entertainment<br />

To advertise, contact<br />

Jo Fuller 027 458 8590<br />

jo.fuller@starmedia.kiwi<br />

Karaoke<br />

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CHECK OUT OUR<br />

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UNTIL 24/12/<strong>18</strong> FOR PARTIES OF 10 OR MORE<br />

SORRY, WE ARE CLOSED CHRISTMAS DAY<br />

The<br />

RESTAURANT & CAFÉ<br />

0pen daily from 6.30am<br />

Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner<br />

RACECOURSE HOTEL<br />

& Motorlodge<br />

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Christchurch. Ph 03 342 7150<br />

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IT’S GOING TO BE TOUGH. WHO WILL WIN THE GRAND TITLE?<br />

COME ALONG AND SEE! IT’S GOING TO BE AN AWESOME NIGHT!<br />

7PM THIS THURSDAY 20 DEC<br />

Settlers Cafe, Bar & Restaurant | 1060 Ferry Rd, Ferrymead | p. 03 376 4448<br />

COMING EVENTS<br />

Wednesday<br />

OPEN MIC WITH LYNN<br />

(formerly Janes Wine Bar)<br />

Thursday 7PM<br />

KARAOKE TALENT QUEST<br />

GRAND FINAL<br />

Friday 7.30PM<br />

NEIL ALEXANDER<br />

Saturday 7.30PM<br />

LYNN TIMPANY<br />

Sunday 2PM<br />

MUSO’S XMAS JAM<br />

POOL COMPETITION<br />

EVERY SUNDAY FROM 2PM<br />

Settlers Bar is striving to<br />

become, with your help,<br />

the next entertainment hub<br />

of Christchurch, focussing<br />

on Open Mic Nights, Jam<br />

Sessions, Live Music<br />

catering for most ages,<br />

Karaoke, and other<br />

entertainment most nights.<br />

As we are new, we are<br />

looking for a pool team,<br />

social club etc.<br />

Also having gaming<br />

machines and are<br />

community minded, we<br />

would like to hear from<br />

clubs locally, who we may<br />

be able to offer assistance<br />

to, or would like to run<br />

Raffles or Fundraisers.<br />

SPACIOUS GAMING<br />

MACHINE LOUNGE<br />

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fb.com/GardenHotelRestaurant www.gardenhotel.co.nz<br />

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MON - FRI $24.50<br />

SAT - SUN $25.50<br />

DINNER<br />

MON - THU $31.50<br />

FRI - SUN $33.50<br />

*SENIOR CITIZENS DISCOUNT AVAILABLE<br />

OUR CABINET ITEMS<br />

ARE HOMEMADE<br />

CREATED FRESH ON SITE DAILY<br />

$12<br />

LUNCH<br />

SPECIALS<br />

Live Music:<br />

5.30PM.SAT 22 DEC<br />

COFFEE<br />

HAPPY<br />

H O U R<br />

2PM-4PM<br />

DAILY<br />

THE GARDEN HOTEL COMPLEX | 110 MARSHLAND RD<br />

www.gardenhotel.co.nz | phone 385 3132<br />

$3.50<br />

Offer available for a limited time<br />

and includes tea, hot chocolate<br />

MON: ROAST MEAL<br />

TUE: FISH & CHIPS<br />

WED: FISH BURGER<br />

THU: ROAST MEAL<br />

SAT: FISH & CHIPS<br />

AVAILABLE<br />

FROM<br />

11.30AM-2PM<br />

FOR A<br />

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HOLIDAY TRADING HOURS<br />

The Buffet Restaurant is closed from<br />

Boxing Day (26 Dec <strong>18</strong>)<br />

and reopens on Friday 4th Jan 2019.<br />

GBC will be operating limited hours<br />

(9am - 4pm) from Friday 28th Dec<br />

to New Years Eve; and closed<br />

Tue 1st to Thu 3rd Jan 2019.<br />

We will resume normal business hours from Friday 4th Jan 2019.<br />

We wish everyone a very happy holiday and look forward to seeing you all in the New Year.<br />

1060 Ferry Rd, Ferrymead | p. 03 376 4448 | e. settlersbarcafe@outlook.co.nz<br />

What’s On<br />

TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS<br />

MEMBERS LUCKY CARD DRAW<br />

NEW YEARS EVE<br />

MONDAY 31st DEC, 7.30PM<br />

GAME OF TONES<br />

PIERVIEW<br />

RESTAURANT<br />

UPSTAIRS<br />

Open from<br />

5.30pm Fri, Sat,<br />

Sun, and Sunday Brunch<br />

from 10.30am to 2pm.<br />

SUNDAY NIGHT<br />

BUFFET $25<br />

Sunday 30th Dec<br />

NEW YEARS EVE<br />

GRILL & SALAD BAR<br />

$25<br />

Monday 31st Dec<br />

CLUB<br />

BISTRO<br />

DOWNSTAIRS<br />

Open Tues to Sat<br />

12pm - 2pm &<br />

from 5pm<br />

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Tuesday - Thursday<br />

Dine in only<br />

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202 Marine Pde | Ph 388 9416<br />

www.newbrightonclub.co.nz<br />

Members, guests & affiliates welcome<br />

|Cafe | Bar<br />

| Restaurant<br />

H ORNBY<br />

WORKINGMEN’S<br />

CLUB<br />

LIVE MUSIC<br />

SATURDAY 7PM:<br />

REMINISCE WITH<br />

ANTHONY<br />

FAMILY FRIENDLY DINING<br />

Club Café Special<br />

Save the date for<br />

the final<br />

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CUISINE NIGHT!<br />

Join us for the last of our exciting<br />

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great night at the CLUB CAFÉ<br />

The Hornby Club | ph 03 349 9026<br />

17 Carmen Rd | Hornby<br />

www.hornbywmc.co.nz<br />

Members, guests & affiliates welcome


24 Tuesday <strong>December</strong> <strong>18</strong> 20<strong>18</strong><br />

Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />

WESTERN NEWS<br />

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