Nor'West News: January 29, 2019

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Rallying to beautify Richmond
• By Matt Slaughter
RICHMOND IS looking greener
after a working bee was held
to install planter boxes along
Stanmore Rd.
Richmond residents and
businesses came together to take
part in the Richmond village
streetscape project.
Richmond Residents
and Business Association
chairwoman Hayley
Guglielmo said she and about 20
volunteers had got their hands
dirty installing 10 new planter
boxes along the footpath at the
North Avon Rd end of Stanmore
Rd.
Mrs Guglielmo said the
existing plantings on the footpath
also received a tidy-up.
The planter boxes were repurposed
and donated by the
city council, which also provided
some funding for the plants.
Mrs Guglielmo said the planter
boxes would add some muchneeded
vibrancy to Stanmore
Rd’s worn footpath.
“They will have a mixture of
bee-loving, colourful hebes and
herbs for restaurants and shops to
use, so it will look lush and green.
It will brighten up our Stanmore
Rd village.”
Mrs Guglielmo said the
project had been part of a
drive to clean up Richmond’s
earthquake-damaged footpaths
and provide something good for
its people.
“The Richmond Community
Garden and the residents’
association have got a really big
drive to make Richmond greener
and more edible.”
She said the Richmond
Residents and Business
Association was currently
REVITALISED: Rachel
Thwaites, Ashley Crook and
Hayley Guglielmo with the
planter boxes along Stanmore
Rd.
working with the city council
to organise more plantings
for Richmond’s earthquakedamaged
sites.
“There are quite a few sites
around Richmond that have been
left to rack and ruin just simply
because of post-earthquake
issues.”
Ruedi’s Cafe owner Irene
Liu said the planter boxes
were directly outside of her
store and had made a noticeable
difference.
“After the earthquake, the
street was damaged badly.”
She said the new planter boxes
could attract new business and
it was great to see residents and
the city council team-up to do
something about it.
The planter boxes made it feel
like Stanmore Rd now had “more
direction,” Ms Liu said.
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St Christopher’s
in the market
for new vicar
• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding
ST CHRISTOPHER’S church
in Avonhead is on the hunt for
a new vicar.
Vicar Mark Hood resigned
from the role last month
after serving at the church on
Avonhead Rd for four years.
But the priest-in-charge
of the Anglican church,
Reverend Susan Gill, who has
taken over the role temporarily,
said the church is happy to take
its time to find a new vicar.
“Things don’t move quickly
in Anglican churches,” she
said.
Reverend Gill said the
church wants to be more
focused on the wider
community this year than it
has been in the past.
“My background is in
community development
before I was ordained so I am
personally really passionate
about the church’s place in the
wider community,” she said.
The church holds various
community events throughout
the year, including book
fairs, a youth group, movie
nights and the St Christopher’s
Fair.
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