Nor'West News: March 26, 2019

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Tuesday March 26 2019
News
Easter egg
hunt for
Methodist Mission
CHOCOHOLICS CAN indulge
over Easter and know it’s all for a
good cause.
The Christchurch Methodist
Mission is organising the
inaugural My Easter Egg Hunt
fundraising campaign. Anyone
can host a hunt at a venue of
their choice. The mission is
encouraging individuals, churches
and businesses to take part.
Once registered online,
participants can buy a batch of
eggs and hide them around their
backyard, work place or local park.
Participants will be encouraged to
ask people attending their hunt to
make a donation to the mission.
Easter egg hunts can be registered
online at
http://bit.ly/myeasteregghunt2019.
The hunts can be run anytime
from April 13-28.
Two Canterbury businesses
are backing the hunt. Trade Aid
is providing the chocolate, and
chocolatiers She Universe will
transform them into delicious
eggs.
The money raised will help
the mission provide food and
clothing, housing, financial
support for power bills and school
costs, budgeting advice and
support for families impacted by
family violence.
Venue offered for Anzac Day service
• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding
RANNERDALE Veterans
Village has offered to hold an
Anzac Day ceremony in Upper
Riccarton due to the closure of a
historic library in the suburb.
But the long-standing Anzac
service organised by the Upper
Riccarton Memorial Library
committee still will not go
ahead.
Rannerdale Veterans Village
general manager Charmaine
Diver told Nor’West News it was
happy for the service to be held
at its spaces and has offered it to
the committee.
Last year the library service
was held at Rannerdale because
the library was closed in
October 2017 by the city council.
Memorial library chairwoman
Aynslie Walter previously told
Nor’West News it wouldn’t be
organising a separate event at
Rannerdale because it was quite
an exercise to close off part of
the building so there can be a
dawn service.
But Ms Diver said it is not
an exercise to close off part of
Rannerdale.
“We just open up the venue so
we are not here to facilitate,” she
said.
But Mrs Walter said it has now
been decided representatives
will go to the Anzac service
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FRUSTRATION: Arthur Woods, Aynslie Walter, Mary Ibbetson, Keith Walter and Ailsa Smith
have previously protested against the closure Upper Riccarton Memorial Library.
PHOTO: MARTIN HUNTER
organised by Rannerdale.
“It is far too late for me to
arrange another service . . . we
have already told people we are
not doing a service this year,”
she said.
The library was closed after
an engineering assessment
raised concerns over structural
strength. Members of the Upper
Riccarton Memorial Library
Committee have previously
opposed the closure of the
library.
Opened on March 19, 1919,
the library was the first of seven
war memorials to be built in
New Zealand. This year would
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Fire rages, homes at risk
have marked 100 years since the
library was opened to
remember the men from the
district who gave their lives in
World War 1.
Since March last year,
volunteers have been operating
out of the annex of the building
at the library.
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