Pegasus Post: March 19, 2019

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Tuesday March 19 2019
News
Disc golf
could be
made
permanent
• By Matt Slaughter
THE DISC golf course at
Queenspark Reserve could become
a permanent feature.
The Parklands Residents
Association has asked the
city council to take over the
ownership and maintenance of the
course.
Chairman David Baines said this
was the only way the course could
stay in the park.
City council community parks
manager Al Hardy said it has been
trialling the disc golf course in
Queenspark for the last year
and the trial period was almost
over.
But Mr Baines said the
association could not afford the cost
of maintaining and looking after
the course.
The association and Parklands
residents raised $10,000 for the
equipment needed to make a
nine-hole course in February last
year.
Mr Baines said the course had
become a huge attraction, which
was used by a large number
of residents and visitors to
Queenspark Reserve.
“We’ve observed that there are
quite a few family groups that use it
and there’s also a weekly visit by the
local disc golf club, who see it as a
unique course.”
Mr Hardy said the Parklands
Residents Association met with
the Coastal-Burwood Community
Board governance team last month
to discuss making the course a
permanent feature.
City council staff had since been
in contact with the association,
asking for the information required
to support this request, he said.
“We are now waiting for the
association to submit information
requested by the city council
to support their request for a
permanent course.”
Local
News
Now
Church rebuild gets under way
• By Matt Slaughter
A CHURCH is being rebuilt in
Richmond.
North Avon Baptist Church
was damaged beyond repair
in the February 22, 2011,
earthquake.
The new church will be a
shared space between the North
Avon Baptist Church and the
Delta Community Support
Trust.
Delta’s old building on North
Avon Rd will be demolished and
replaced with a new church for
Crossway Community Church.
The work is part of a $5.8
million project to develop a
large-scale spiritual facility,
which will stretch from 99 to 105
North Avon Rd and be used for
both worship and community
activities.
North Avon Baptist Church
treasurer Tim Weir said this
was so the three communityfocused
organisations could
work together and improve the
way they served the Richmond
community.
“We decided that due to the
age of the buildings and the
number of repairs required
A CELEBRATION is planned
for April 5 and 6 to celebrate
the past 65 years of educational
history of Linwood College.
In mid-2019, the school’s
buildings will be demolished in
preparation for a full rebuild on
site.
At $44 million the rebuild
budget is one of the largest
of any of the Ministry of
Education’s rebuild programme
since the February 22, 2011,
earthquake.
Students enrolled at the school
will be relocated to old Avonside
Girls’ High site for the full
duration of the rebuild.
When news of the rebuild was
released, approaches were made
to the school for an opportunity
to celebrate its past.
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that it was actually more cost
effective to rebuild, but we
couldn’t do that alone . . . We
realised we could get a much
better facility for the wider
community if we worked
together.”
“It really is about providing the
At the time it was built in
1954, Linwood High was the
first post-war co-educational
school to open in the entire
country.
While the school looked more
like a building site than an
educational campus on opening
day, the community soon
proudly rallied around its new
high school and ensured it had
the resources equivalent to any
existing school in the city.
To mark the demolition
of the buildings a ticketed
Conversazione event is being
hosted on April 5 and a free
open day on April 6.
The event will end with a
farewell ceremony at 3pm. This
event is open to anyone in the
community to attend.
best facilities for the whole community
and also about church
communities working together
across denominations.”
North Avon Baptist Church
senior pastor Mary Allan said
she and its members were excited
to see work underway on the
Past students from all over
New Zealand and Australia
have bought tickets to attend
the farewell says the chair of the
event’s organising committee
Linda Rutland.
“People have a real attachment
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Tim Weir is
pleased a
project to
rebuild the
church on
North Avon
Rd is in full
swing.
project after years of challenges
after the earthquakes.
“I think people are happy and
relieved and looking forward to
a new future.”
Work is on track for the entire
project to be completed by late
2020.
Saying goodbye to Linwood College
FAREWELL:
Events will be
held on April 5
and 6 before
the demolition
of Linwood
College.
to their old school with the
original 1954s remaining a very
tight-knit group.”
•Contact Linda Rutland
on 021 239 8946 or linda.
rutland@xtra.co.nz
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