TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2019 Connecting Your Community www.star.kiwi Second campus for Belfast School Page 3 Page 8 Training to become a top debater CBHS loosie’s career may be about to take off BLINDSIDE: CBHS rugby player David Ni is mowing lawns to pay for his trip to South Africa. (Inset) – David makes a break for the first XV in the UC Championship. PHOTOS: MARTIN HUNTER • By Jess Gibson HARD WORK on and off the rugby field is paying off for 17-year-old David Ni. The Christchurch Boys’ High first XV blindside flanker will head to South Africa to play in the World Schools Festival next month. He has been mowing lawns, selling raffles and doing other odd jobs to help find $4500 to pay for his share of the trip. But mowing lawns and doing other jobs may soon take a back seat for David. A professional rugby career and the big money that goes with it is David’s goal and he may soon take his first steps towards that. David received a call from CBHS rugby master Mike Drury last week about “an agent who wanted to have a talk about playing rugby in Japan after high school.” •Turn to page 10 03 349 5050 free CONSULTS New Dentures > Relines > Repairs > 6 Brynley Street, Hornby, Christchurch www.betterdenture.co.nz Bid to save bus service to retirement village fails • By Matt Slaughter A MAIREHAU retirement village’s 11-month battle with Environment Canterbury to save their bus service has been lost. ECan says it has “run out of ideas” for a compromise, which would satisfy residents and staff at Diana Isaac Retirement Village after their Orbiter service was cut last month. The Pegasus Post reported last month ECan had raised the idea of trialling a service to transport retirement village residents to bus stops and locations they can no longer access. The vehicle would have been run by a trust and volunteers from the village. Village resident Graham Tate had supported the idea but said residents had decided this would have simply been too much work at their stage in life. “An email survey of about 20 per cent of the independent residents within this village made it clear that there is very little support for the proposed ECan Village Vehicle Community Trust model.” Mr Tate said. •Turn to page 7 BLINDS...Cleaned, Repaired & Restored... Restore your oiled CEDAR BLINDS with our re-oiling service. Rejuvenate your lacquered CEDAR BLINDS High-tech Cleaning We clean and repair all types of blinds – Venetians, Cedar, Verticals, Roller, Hollands, Romans and Pleated – with environmentally friendly cleaning products. Temperature Controlled Drying Re-oiling & Rejuvenating Fabric Blinds - such as Austrian and Roman Same Day Pick Up & Drop Off We offer a same-day, pick up and drop off service for most types of blinds. Bookings are required. Convenient Location We are located at 330 Cashel Street (near the Fitzgerald end), parking available onsite Roller Blinds cleaned from as little as $22 per blind Ph 377 0770, 330 Cashel St, Christchurch www.blindcare.co.nz SCAN QR code for Info > WE ARE OPEN Mon - Fri 8.00am to 5.00pm Pardon?! *Terms and conditions apply. Saving valued up to $2000. Offer ends 28/02/2019. Trade in your old hearing aids. Save up to $2000! * This month you can trade in your old hearing aids for new digital ones that are smaller and work better! Give us a bell to find out how. Fendalton 03 351 3535 Ferrymead 03 376 4483 Halswell 03 322 4326
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