Southern View: February 19, 2019

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2019

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Rubbish

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Lifetime of

community

service comes

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Taylors Mistake groms in epic form for Billabong series

TAYLOR’S MISTAKE’S Ava

Henderson (above) and Estella

Hungerford will go into the

final round of the Billabong

Grom Series this weekend in

hot form.

Ava, 13, collected her first

grom series win of the year,

taking out the under-16 girls title

in Whangamata recently, while

Estella, 16, finished second in the

under-18 girls division.

The final event of the series

will be held at Piha Beach,

Auckland.

North Wai Boardriders’ Ava

continued her ascent up the

grom rankings after winning

in Whangamata. She has

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national championships and

was second in the first event of

the grom series, but this was

her first win in the division.

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Midges still

plaguing

Bromley

in spite

of trapping

success

• By Matt Slaughter

“NOTHING IS working and we

have had enough after 11 years.”

This was the response from

Shortland St resident Janet Profit

to a city council study, which

found midge numbers around the

Bromley wastewater treatment

plant’s oxidation ponds have

decreased by 30 per cent.

The study credited the drop

to 30 midge traps which the city

council placed around the six

ponds early last year as part of

a $300,000 project to reduce the

midge problem.

However, Mrs Profit said the

midges are still everywhere on

her property next to the ponds.

“I’ve got a white dog and I send

her outside for a piddle and she

comes back in covered in midges

. . . it’s simple things like wanting

to sweep the backyard or getting

the windows cleaned outside, I

can’t even do that.”

Mrs Profit has been back and

forth with the city council since

the problem started more than a

decade ago.

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GOOD NEWS for motorists on page 7

today.

The Middleton, Ilam and Riccarton

Rd intersection – the city’s fourth most

dangerous junction – could become a

T intersection. It’s a proverbial of an intersection. Turning

right from Riccarton into Middleton and right from Ilam into

Riccarton can be frustrating.

So plans are afoot for a $1 million safety upgrade. It would

include restricting Riccarton Rd from Middleton Rd to left turns

in and out only, as well as narrowing the road to allow more

footpath space for pedestrians.

There are divided views on the changes as our article reveals,

but the bottom line is something has to be done, in my humble

view anyway.

– Barry Clarke

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Tuesday February 19 2019 3

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More rubbish dumped at estuary

• By Louis Day

A WILD boar carcass and

broken lime scooter have

been found next to the Avon-

Heathcote Estuary as illegal

dumping continues.

Avon-Heathcote

Estuary Ihutai

Trust co-ordinator

Tanya Jenkins said

the group collects

up to 10 tonnes of

rubbish from the

estuary each year.

Andrew

Rutledge

“It is particularly

sad that people

can’t drive a few

metres to the landfill and dispose

of it there, but I guess it has a lot

to do with cost,” she said.

Mrs Jenkins said the pollution

from illegal dumping was having

a serious impact on wildlife in

the estuary area.

“A couple years back, we had

a dead hector’s dolphin turn up

in the estuary. We had a look

and it had a plastic bottle in its

blowhole.”

Fines under the Litter Act can

range from $100-$400. However,

under the Resource Management

Act, the cost of an infringement

is $500 for an individual or

$1000 for a company. The type of

infringement is determined by

the nature of the offence.

City council head of parks

Andrew Rutledge encouraged

members of the public to report

illegal dumping.

“The public can assist us

by reporting any dumping

they see through Snap Send

Solve, our Call Centre, or

social media. If it’s related to

the waterways, the public can

also contact Environment

Canterbury’s Incident Response

Line. Recording any vehicle

details is always a great help to

investigators,” he said.

•To report illegal rubbish

dumping, phone the city

council on 941 8999 or ECan

on 0800 765 588.

DUMPED: The

city council has

removed this boar

carcass from the

Avon-Heathcote

Estuary.

Below – A broken

lime scooter was

illegally dumped

at the estuary.

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Fire rages, homes at risk

RIVER FESTIVAL

Duck on Down to the River, a

new riverside festival will be held

on March 24 at Kerrs Reach from

1pm. The day will include a duck

race, water activities, music and

food, organised by the Avondale,

Burwood East and Dallington

residents associations, Dallington

Community Trust, All Saints

Anglican Church and Burwood

Christian Centre.

AVONHEAD CEMETERY

The city council has opted to

go out for public consultation

on a proposed name change

for Avonhead Park Cemetery.

Avonhead Community Group and

Friends of Avonhead Cemetery

support changing the name to

Avonhead Memorial Cemetery

in honour of the quake victims

buried there. The consultation

date has not been set yet but

Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood

Community Board chairman Sam

MacDonald said he does not want

the consultation delayed.

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McMaster & Heap

Veterinary practice

NEW CHANGES ON

THE HORIZON

What an exciting year 2019 is going to be for

the McMaster & Heap Family. A new veterinary

building, a specialist veterinarian joining the

ranks, more skilled nurses required and our

family size is fast shrinking with sons off to

pursue their dreams.

On the home front we have gone from a

family of 5 to a family of 3. Our eldest son

Connor will go into his

second year of Veterinary

training at Massey

University in Palmerston

North. Most of Connors

summer holidays have

been spent doing

practical work for his

vet degree. He spent 5

weeks on a Sheep and

Beef farm in Methven.

Connor really enjoyed all

aspects of farm life from

ploughing fields, to

vaccinating and drenching stock

to driving all the farm machinery. He gained

valuable skills in reading animal behaviours

and how to handle them and learning about

management practices. He is now spending

time at a racing stable in Templeton and

seeing some equine veterinary work. It would

be fair to say his horse handling skills are

sketchy but nothing 2 weeks in a busy racing

stables can’t fix.

Dylan our tennis man

Connor Heap - 2nd year Vet

student doing Beef and sheep

farm practical work

Our 18 year old son Dylan left in January to

pursue his tennis dream in the US, gaining

a scholarship to the university of Minnesota

in Minneapolis. Within 2 days of touching

down he was back on a plane with the

team to a training camp in Florida. He will

study business and finance while over there.

At present he’s trying to acclimatize to

temperatures that have reached -45 degrees!!

Luckily for us, our youngest 14 year old son

Isaac ,is still living with Ma and Pa. Not for

long though something tells me ,as this son

can’t wait to travel the world, meet new

people and study overseas.

On the vet front we are very excited

to welcome Richard Lucy into the

McMaster and Heap family. Richard

went through Massey with Steve a wee

while ago now (graduated in 1992)

and fairly early on pursued Radiology

and Ultrasonography as his areas of

interest. Richard passed his Veterinary

Open 7 days

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phone 338 2534, Fax 339 8624

e. mcmasterandheap@yahoo.co.nz

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Cardiology exams at the Royal Vet College in

London. On returning to NZL, Richard worked

in Auckland and Hamilton for several years

before retraining in human echocardiology

(ultrasound of the heart). He even did a stint

in human ultrasound working at Waikato

and Christchurch Public Hospitals. Richard

has since returned to his original vocation

and works solely performing

ultrasounds on the heart ,

musculoskeletal system and

abdomen of referral patients. He

will now see his South Island and

Christchurch referrals through

our practice, working Monday

through to Thursdays. Richard is

married to Linda and in his spare

time entertains his twin 3 year olds,

slaves away on his lifestyle block

and enjoys the rivers, mountains

and coasts that Canterbury and the

South Island has to offer. We are

thrilled to be able to offer Richards expert

skills and knowledge to our patients and

those that are referred to us.

So with the addition of Richard and our skilled

ultrasonographer Catherine, we will be able

to offer ultrasounds to patients Monday to

Friday.

We have just accepted a building tender to

get our exciting new build underway as soon

as possible. We are expanding quickly and

need more consulting rooms and a bigger

kenneling area as well as a state of the art

surgical suite. Works should start before the

end of the month and all going well, by the

end of August we will be enjoying loads

more space, a separate “cat only” waiting and

treatment space and loads more exciting

extras.

I apologize now for any disruptions and extra

building site noise but promise this that

the end result will be a great thing for our

patients.

We employed 4 fantastic new nurses last

year due to continued practice growth.

Olivia, Rachael, Danielle and Marysha have

all brought something new and special

into the team mix and its refreshing to have

enthusiastic, inspired and fun young nurses to

help us with the important work we do.

Visit our website for more

information on our staff.

Watch this space for more

developments on our

building project and our

awesome expanding team

of vets and nurses.

Dr Michele McMaster

Welcome to Richard Lucy

McMaster & Heap

CONSERVE: The city council is asking people to only water their gardens on

alternate days between 9pm and 7am, when it’s cooler.

Help get rid of the

chlorine in our water

WITH FEBRUARY

traditionally the hottest

month of the year, the

city council is reminding

residents to keep doing

their bit to save water so

it can work to remove

chlorine from the city’s

water supply as soon as

possible.

The council is aiming

for the city’s drinking

water to be un-chlorinated

by May, which will mark

12 months since it rolled

out chlorine treatment in

response to advice from

the Canterbury medical

officer of health.

City council water supply

improvement programme

manager Helen Beaumont

said achieving the target

depends partly on people

continuing to use less

water so wells can be taken

offline and upgraded as

needed.

“We’re definitely not out

of the woods yet, and we

really need people to keep

watching their water use so

we can upgrade our wells

and continue to cut back

the chlorine across the

city,” Ms Beaumont said.

“We’re experiencing

much hotter days now,

with less rain in between,

so the temptation is to

leave the garden sprinklers

on for longer or to turn

them on more often.

“We have no issue with

people watering their

lawns or gardens, but we

do ask they use a handheld

hose or watering can,

which avoids any waste,

and only water on alternate

days between 9pm and

7am, when it’s cooler.”

Sprinklers and garden

irrigators are the biggest

users of household water,

but there are plenty of

other ways people can

help save, said Ms

Beaumont.

“Taking shorter showers,

doing one less laundry load

a week, and sweeping your

driveway instead of hosing

it are all ways people can

help save water. It may not

seem like much, but a lot of

people doing a little really

adds up.”

By May the city council

expects to have completed

temporary upgrades on 19

below-ground wells and

to have raised another 41

above ground, bringing

the total number of secure

wells to 98 out of 140.

“If we can upgrade

those wells as planned, we

should have enough unchlorinated

water to supply

the city over the winter

months, when we use

about 50 per cent less water

than we do over summer.”

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Lifetime of community service ends

Fire rages, homes at risk

• By Julia Evans

WELL-KNOWN Redcliffs

identity David Cox has died after

a long illness.

The 79-year-old gave a lifetime

of service to the community

including a stint as a city

councillor and Hagley-Ferrymead

Community Board member.

He had Parkinson’s disease

for the last three-and-a-half

years. However, Mr Cox died

on February 7 after a battle with

cancer.

Throughout his life Mr Cox

was a patron of the Redcliffs

Library, as well as chairman of

the Music Centre of Christchurch

and member on the board of

the Christchurch Symphony

Orchestra.

His wife of 56 years,

Fiona, said Mr Cox he cared

so much about the community

and was still working with the

library a month before he passed

away.

“He was living life pretty well

until just before Christmas. All

DEDICATION: Redcliffs identity David Cox died on February 7.

the family came for Christmas

and we had the best day ever,” she

said.

Mr Cox leaves behind children

and grandchildren, Sonia and

Peter Caird, Andrew and Sarah

Cox, James, Simon and Michael

Caird, and Annabel and Claudia

Cox.

He was involved in the Sumner

Lifeboat Institution, the Youth

Heritage Education Trust, a

member of the Court Theatre

Trust and a committee member

for Bromley Kindergarten,

Christchurch East School and

Linwood College.

Mr Cox was also active in a

number of sports clubs including

Christchurch United, Ferrymead

Bays Football Club, Sumner

Cricket and Canterbury Sports

Foundation.

Ferrymead Bays wore black

armbands and held a minute’s

silence in his honour before their

game on Saturday.

City councillor Yani Johanson

worked with Mr Cox from 2001,

when he was first elected to the

board.

“He was a really hard-working

and dedicated servant to the

community. He was involved

with young sports people,

volunteer groups, the libraries.

In terms of his service to the

community, he was incredible.”

Linwood-Central-Heathcote

Community Board member

Darrell Latham said he was a

great adviser for board matters.

“We met on several occasions

at functions and he offered great

advice and support. David Cox

has provided excellent service

and support to Christchurch city

and to his community. This will

be his enduring legacy.’’

A celebration of Mr Cox’s life

was held on Friday.

Tiny house planned for residential complex

• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding

A HALSWELL residential care

and rehabilitation service is

joining the tiny house movement

in a bid to address the city’s

housing shortage for people with

physical disabilities.

St John of God Halswell is

planning to build an accessible

small home to provide more

accommodation for its residents

looking to transition back into

independent living.

The service’s centre manager

Virginia Spoors said one of the

issues for the trust is when its

residents are ready to move

back into the community after

recovering from a stroke or

spinal injury, there isn’t suitable

housing available.

“We are over 100 per cent occupied.

It is really busy. There is

some urgency to find supportive

living,” she said.

INDEPENDENT LIVING: St John of God Halswell is joining the

tiny home movement.

About five people are currently

waiting to find suitable housing.

The tiny house will be designed

specifically to cater for

a person in a wheelchair with a

physical disability with a ramp to

the house, a wide doorway and

an accessible bathroom with a

wet area shower.

CAMERON BAILEY

It will also be single-storeyed

and have a digitally operated

ceiling hoist to allow a person to

move from one part of a house to

another.

Resident Josh Caldwell, 21, is

one of the potential candidates

who may take up residing in the

home.

His life changed dramatically

nearly three years ago when he

was diagnosed with transverse

myelitis, a rare auto-immune

disease which causes inflammation

in the spinal cord.

When he initially became sick,

he spent five days in a coma and

three weeks in Christchurch

Hospital’s intensive care unit

before he was transferred to

Burwood Hospital for five and a

half months.

He was discharged to St John

of God on August 9, 2016 and

has been there since.

Mr Caldwell has since started

working for the New Zealand

Spinal Trust to support people

with spinal cord injury.

He said options for people in

Christchurch are Laura Fergusson

Trust, St John of God or

retirement home.

“But someone my age . . . a

retirement home is not a really

good option,” he said.

Mr Caldwell said the tiny

home allows a good transition

back into independent living.

The cost to build the house is

estimated to be $80,000 and is

planned to be built by spring.

“We are hoping this is a model

that will be able to be expanded

or replicated,” Mrs Spoors said.

The tiny home will initially be

trialled on the St John of God

Halswell site where the resident

can still receive support from

staff while living in it.

A fundraiser will be held on

Sunday featuring jazz music

from Sam White’s Quartet to

raise money for the project.

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be held at St John of God

Halswell at 26 Nash Rd on

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Longer hours

for Halswell pool

• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding

HALSWELL residents calling

for the suburb’s summer pools

hours to be boosted will have

their wish granted.

The city council will trial

extending its opening hours at

the Te Hapua: Halswell Centre

Summer Pool.

It will be trialled on the basis

the Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton

Community Board will allocate

funding from its 2019-20 Discretionary

Response Fund towards

operating costs.

Last week a petition of 431

signatures was presented by city

councillor Anne Galloway calling

for the pool hours to be open

for longer.

Cr Galloway said while the

hours have not been finalised

yet, the pool could potentially be

open from 7am-7pm.

Currently, the pool hours are

11.30am-7pm.

Cr Galloway said the board

will look at funding up to 50 per

cent of the operating costs.

“The total amount city council

have talked about in terms of

opening the extra hours is about

$35,000,” she said.

She said these details will be

discussed with the board and

city council staff before the next

season.

“We do not want this to have

an impact on the rates, that is

the crux of the matter,” Cr

Galloway said.

Principal swaps Middleton for Hong Kong

• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding

WHEN RICHARD Vanderpyl

was first offered the opportunity

to become the head of a school in

Hong Kong, he turned the role

down.

Having spent 17 years at

Middleton Grange School, the

chance to lead Christian Alliance

International School in Butterfly

Valley “came out of the blue.”

The Middleton Grange

principal initially said the Upper

Riccarton school “had his

heart” and he had no reason or

incentive to leave.

But when he was approached

again a couple of weeks later by

the same recruitment company

asking him to reconsider, Mr

Vanderpyl decided to investigate

the role.

“I think for me as a Christian,

I felt this was the Lord’s calling

on my behalf. I felt the Lord was

really calling me to take up this

position,” he said.

Mr Vanderpyl, 55, will head to

Hong Kong on March 4 to start a

new life with his wife Linda.

“It was always going to be a

big change for me to do that and

I think as a Christian I just felt

really at peace,” he said.

The timing was right for a

range of reasons, he said. All four

of his children have grown up

and no longer depend on him.

“I have always thought about

it over the years – I would do

some sort of work at some stage

overseas,” he said.

EDUCATOR: Middleton Grange School principal Richard Vanderpyl speaking at the senior prizegiving

last year.

While Mr Vanderpyl has been

to Hong Kong about five times

to market Middleton Grange, his

understanding of Cantonese is

“extremely limited.”

But he said while it is

compulsory for students to learn

Mandarin, every other subject is

taught in English.

“(Christian Alliance

International School) is aimed at

the ex-pat and overseas market

. . . the teachers at the school are

predominantly from overseas,”

he said.

His role will involve overseeing

the implementation of the

newly-introduced education

programme, International

Baccalaureate, which allows

students entry to most

universities around the world.

Mr Vanderpyl has spent 33

years in the education sector

– starting out as a teacher at

Hornby High School in 1984.

He moved to Hamilton Boys’

High School in 1986 and taught

there for five years before he

became the assistant principal at

Cambridge High School.

Mr Vanderpyl has since

been an assistant principal

at Cashmere High, deputy

principal at Hillmorton High

and arrived at Middleton Grange

as a teacher in about 2001.

He has been the principal

for nine years and has a very

“strong connection” to

Middleton Grange which his

wife and four children all

previously attended.

Middleton Grange is New

Zealand’s largest evangelical

Christian school. It hopes to have

a new principal by the start of

term three.

Bromley midge problem: ‘Nothing is working’

•From page 1

Mrs Profit said the traps had

been relatively successful over

Christmas, but the midges had

returned to her property in huge

numbers.

“It’s absolutely atrocious

. . . it may have worked over

Christmas, but it is definitely not

working now.”

City council general manager

of city services David Adamson

said the 30 per cent reduction

in midge numbers has occurred

around the ponds themselves,

but “no monitoring of the midge

numbers is undertaken in the

surrounding areas or properties.”

Mrs Profit said the city

council’s current strategy is

costing too much considering the

results.

“They breed in the ponds but

they don’t stay there . . . they

may have 30 per cent less in the

ponds, but we haven’t got 30 per

cent less in the houses.”

She said placing salt around

the edge of the

ponds or reinserting

some sewage back

into them would

be better and

more cost-effective

options. However,

Mr Adamson said

the salt option had

been proven to be

“uneconomic” and

adding sewage had

the potential to cause an odour

and “a significant impact on the

Janet Profit

water quality of the final

effluent being discharged

out into Pegasus Bay.”

He said the current

range of the trapping

and monitoring

techniques being

used would “have a

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Fire rages, homes at risk

Safety upgrade for dangerous intersection

• By Julia Evans and Georgia

O’Connor-Harding

THE CITY’S fourth most

dangerous junction could

become a T intersection in a bid

to reduce the number of crashes.

Plans for the $1 million safety

upgrade at the Middleton, Ilam

and Riccarton Rd intersection

were revealed last week by the

city council.

Restricting

Riccarton Rd

from Middleton

Rd to left turns

in and out

only, as well as

Sue

Chamberlain

narrowing the

road to allow

more footpath

space for pedestrians has been

proposed.

It was ranked the city’s fourth

most dangerous, raking up 40

crashes with varying degree of

injury since 2011.

The intersection is known as

being difficult to navigate because

of the off-set alignment of

the three roads.

The left turn slip lanes from

Ilam Rd into Riccarton Rd

would also be removed.

The proposed changes have

received mixed views.

Ilam and Upper Riccarton

Residents’ Association Sue

SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS: Safety improvements are planned for the intersection of Ilam,

Middleton and Riccarton Rds.

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Chamberlain said it is “crazy”

vehicles will not be able to travel

from Middleton Rd to Ilam Rd

or turn right.

She said there should be

green arrows for vehicles

looking to turn right onto

Riccarton Rd.

“They should have a green

arrow on those corners which

will fix the problem just nicely

without having to do anything

else”.

But Elite Physiotherapy, which

is located near the intersection,

owner Michelle North said it is

an “extremely dangerous” intersection

and while the changes

will be inconvenient for the business,

it will be better in the end.

Receptionist Rita Noetzel said

she will “cross her fingers” when

she turns right from Ilam Rd

onto Riccarton Rd.

“At first I thought: ‘Oh my

gosh am I doing something illegal

but it is a right turn lane . . .’ it

is just a really tricky one because

there is no kind of turning lane,”

she said.

Her views were backed by

Central Riccarton Residents’ Association

chairwoman Joscelyne

Silcock, who said she dreads

driving out of Middleton Rd to

turn right onto Riccarton Rd.

But Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton

Community Board deputy

chairwoman Helen Broughton

said she was concerned there

might be an “overload” of projects

on Riccarton Rd.

She said there is an argument

the project would need to be

done in conjunction with the

NorWest Arc Major Cycle Route.

The major Riccarton Rd

roadworks are due to begin this

month and the city council is

currently out for public consultation

on the South Express Major

Cycle Route – which will run

through Riccarton.

The intersection upgrades will

enable it to have facilities for

the cycleway including crossing

signals.

Public consultation will

run until March 11. For more

information on the changes

and to make a submission go to

www.ccc.govt.nz and click on

the have your say page.

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Eastgate Kiwibank

• By Matt Slaughter

A BID to reopen Kiwibank’s

branch in the Eastgate Shopping

Centre has failed.

Port Hills MP Ruth Dyson

presented a petition to save

Kiwibank’s services in the

mall with more than 3000

signatures to Kiwibank investor

and government relations

manager Kevin Hastings on

January 29. In spite of the

number of signatures, Kiwibank

spokeswoman Kara Tait said its

decision was based on the shift

in how people are banking in the

modern age.

“Over 90 per cent of our

customers are now banking

online.” She understood that

adapting to this change could be

harder for the older generation,

but there are support services

available to help people with

online banking.

However, Woolston Community

Association chairwoman

Jackie Simons said expecting

people to change so quickly after

a lifetime of doing their banking

in person was unrealistic. “While

I understand that we should supposedly

all move with the times,

there are a whole lot of people in

that area that simply can’t.”

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CHRISTCHURCH will

soon welcome its first former

refugees via the quota since the

earthquakes – and the New

Zealand Red Cross is getting

ready to help them settle.

Groups of about 20 former

refugees from Afghanistan and

Eritrea will arrive in the city

every eight weeks from March 1.

Christchurch’s Farahnaz

Khosravi, 47, is training to

become a refugee support

volunteer with the New Zealand

Red Cross and will work in a

small team to support a new

family transition into New

Zealand life. Ms Khosravi came

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husband and children almost

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ensure other new arrivals have

the same experience.

Red Cross pathways to

settlement manager Jo Fasheun

said refugee support volunteers

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their homes, find their way

around, meet their neighbours,

navigate public transport.

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challenging – it’s about how we

can support them to make those

challenges easier and bringing

some humour into it. It’s about

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the way,” Ms Fasheun said.

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Fire rages, homes at risk

Weeds beside

railway line

being cleared

• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding

ACTION HAS been taken to

clean up the weeds next to the

train tracks adjacent to Carmen

Rd.

The city council began clearing

away the overgrown grass on

Saturday to remove any potential

fire risk in the short term.

Greater Hornby Residents’ Association

member Mark Peters

said it was a positive outcome

for the site and it is long overdue.

He said hopefully KiwiRail

will keep it maintained in the

long-run.

KiwiRail previously told

Western News it has advised the

leaseholder and is working with

them to get it sorted as soon as

possible.

Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton

Community Board Mike Mora

has suggested keeping the area

beautified with agapanthus.

He said they are not a fire risk

and are easy to maintain.

Mr Mora said he is looking to

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and the Hornby community

upon getting permission from

KiwiRail.

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LYTTELTON TUNNEL will

be closed on three consecutive

nights from Sunday in order to

install a multi-million dollar fire

protection system.

The closures are required in

order to install and carry out

testing of a new $29 million fire

protection system in the tunnel.

The NZ Transport Agency

has planned to close the tunnel

between 11pm and 4am on February

24, 25 and 26.

The tunnel will open to traffic

for 10min on the hour each of

these nights. Outside of these

times, only emergency vehicle

access will be available.

NZTA senior project manager

Chris Collins said work on the

project will be completed in

April.

“Installing the new fire protection

system often involves

working in confined spaces.

Single and full tunnel traffic lane

closures are critical to successfully

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night and in the early hours of

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Christchurch Yacht Club’s new

boat shed has created a choke

point on the coastal pathway.

The $1.3 million boat shed

will have a deck which will add

4m of width to the pathway,

eliminating the

choke point.

However,

Christchurch

Yacht Club boat

shed project

manager Frank

Sara

Templeton

Coppens said

the deck would

not be ready

until June or July.

Linwood-Central-Heathcote

Community Board member and

city councillor Sara Templeton

said a temporary solution is being

looked at.

Redcliffs Residents’

Association secretary Pat

McIntosh said the current state

of the path was disgraceful and

something needed to be done

before June.

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complaints from residents

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Pedestrians have been forced

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road due to the pathway on the

other side of the road being

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This section of the coastal

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Cr Templeton hoped a temporary

solution could be put in

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CASHMERE TENNIS Club

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SOUTHERN VIEW Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi

Tuesday February 19 2019 15

PLAY FOOTBALL 2019

Burwood

AFC

Welcome to the 2019 football season. Burwood AFC is a

progressive club with Junior and Senior teams.

We expect to have 3-4 Senior teams, with our Senior 1st team in

the Canterbury Championship League. New Senior and Junior

players are most welcome.

Burwood supports the Whole of Football framework initiated

by NZ Football and run by Mainland Football. This concept works

for our First Kicks (4-6 years) and Fun Football (7-8 year). Both

these grades are run In-house with the help of Mainland Football

and other clubs. Older Junior grades run under the Mainland

competitions. Registration is now online, for more information

see our website www.burwoodafc.co.nz.

ainland Football

Get In to football this year by joining up with your local Football Club. Your local club will provide you

with a range of opportunities to get involved with the Worlds No 1 Sport. Our First Kicks and Fun Football

programs are focused on the basic skills and are developed to ensure all players are highly involved. For the

older kids there are winter competitions that club teams play in. From playing to refereeing to coaching there

is something for the whole family. So get in touch with your local club to get registered.

If you are looking for your closest club visit www.mainlandfootball.co.nz and check out our club

directory for contact details.

Coastal Spirit

Football Club

Coastal Spirit Football Club are entering their 12th

season since the amalgamation of New Brighton

AFC and Rangers AFC. Coastal are a family club

that offers football for everyone regardless of age,

gender and ability. Gary Bennett, the Football

Development Manager is starting his second season

with the club and comes with experience of working

in four different countries including several years

at Southampton FC in England. Coastal Spirit care

about the development of the players as people and

as players and always put the player first.

Registrations are now open online for more

information see our website www.coastalspirit.

co.nz

Gary Bennett, Football Development Manager

COASTAL SPIRIT

FOOTBALL CLUB

2019 Registration

Southern View: February 19, 2019

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