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Wednesday <strong>May</strong> 1 2<strong>01</strong>9 Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi BAY HARBOUR PAGE 11 Your Local Views Rotary sells daffodils and prints Lyttelton Rotary Club member Barry Toomey provides readers with an update of what has been happening at the club LYTTELTON Rotary has been blooming daffodil bulbs as our first fundraising project of the year. Thank you to all of you who have purchased our quality bulbs – we are aiming to make this an annual fundraiser as it has been a sell-out this year. We will be blooming again next year so come to us for your supplies in March or April. Lyttelton Rotary’s 2<strong>01</strong>9 Rotary Youth Leadership Award candidate was Candice Milner, an enterprising young Lyttelton woman who is really going places. Candice reported at our last meeting that she had a great time at the RYLAs and was inspired by the speakers, activities and super group of participants she meet there. The club currently also has a limited amount of numbered prints of Lyttelton 1987 for sale. This was a commissioned painting by Roger Haynes Hume, which is based on the John Gibbs painting of Lyttelton a century earlier but was Port Hills National list MP Nuk Korako reflects on his time in Parliament AS I DELIVER my valedictory speech in Parliament today and sign-off from my role as an MP, it is with a sense of pride that I write my last article as a Parliamentarian who has worked for our Port Hills community. As autumn descends, the days shorten, and the temperature HISTORY: Long-serving Lyttelton Rotary Club members Ray Adams and Dick Brown with a limited Lyttelton 1987 print. brought up to date for 1987. The Lyttelton Rotary Club is privileged to have Ray Adams, a true Lytteltonian, as one of our members. Ray’s local knowledge is amazing, and he spent time researching the changes which occurred over the century since the Gibbs painting was done. lowers I feel the same sense of ‘change’ for my own political career. But while this is the autumn of my political career, it is in fact the spring of my new life. I could in this article talk about all the amazing experiences I have had. I could write about my accomplishments. But this article is about you – my Port Hills community. What an honour to have worked for you and with you, and to have had your support. We have been through so much together. From the hardships of the earthquakes, Each print sold has a copy of this attached for your own reference. The port landscape has changed again, though, with the earthquakes and the changes which have followed from this in the area. At $50 per print, this is a great deal when you consider the relevance this artwork has to Lyttelton. To purchase one of these numbered, limited edition prints to put in your home, or if you wish to know anything about Lyttelton Rotary, feel free to give me a call on 027 479 9678. the tragedy of the Port Hills fire, through to the horrors of the attack on our Christchurch Muslim community – we have walked the path together. We in the Port Hills are defined by the multitude of individuals that make up our wonderful electorate. And that is no better illustrated than by our local community organisations and businesses, driven by hardworking people. As an early morning person, I have met many of those hardworking people, from the tradies, health workers, business owners, council workers and New activities, events to lift visitor numbers at Lyttelton rec centre THE LYTTELTON Recreation Centre is offering a fresh programme of events, classes and activities. It comes after the city council partnered with Project Lyttelton to revitalise the centre. City council head of community support, governance and partnerships John Filsell said he felt the centre could be put to better use if it was actively managed by a community group. “Since reopening in 2<strong>01</strong>6, it was clear the centre wasn’t achieving the numbers it had enjoyed pre-quake,” he said. “We reached out to Project Lyttelton to see if they’d be interested to form a partnership to activate and manage the centre.” Project Lyttelton chairwoman Margaret Jefferies said the partnership would help bring the community together. “The Lyttelton Recreation Centre is the largest facility available for community use Korako bids farewell to life as a Port Hills list MP many more at the Hoon Hay BP Station, when I too wait in line for my morning caffeine fix, being served by the night shift of Nepalese, Pakistani, Indian, Sri Lankan, Filipino, Maori, and pakeha. We are all just New Zealanders getting on with making Christchurch and the Port Hills a great place to live. What unites us is that we sit as one family in the Port Hills, irrespective of where our heritage might once have come from. That is who we are. That is the Port Hills I chose to work for. I may be retiring from in Lyttelton. In years past, it had high use for recreational sport, community groups and occasional hire. Many a child’s birthday party was held at the rec centre.” “We’re delighted to partner with the city council and the Lyttelton community to transform our much-loved recreation centre into a thriving, self-sustaining hub.” Project Lyttelton has been funded through the city council’s resilience partnerships fund to manage the reactivation of the centre. The reactivation John Filsell project was started last year with a programme of new, regular activities, and has already seen a 53 per cent uptake in users from last year. The recreation centre project is the first partnership of its kind as city council explores ways to give communities a bigger role in the long-term management of their local facilities. Parliament, but there is much more that I want to do, especially for our Maori people, and I plan to spend more time with my whanau. I was privileged to be a Parliamentarian and will hold the experience as a milestone in my life. Thank you to those who supported me and to those who did not but gave me the reason why that was so. I always enjoyed listening to all sides. Chris, myself and our four young men wish you, your friends and whanau the very best and I look forward to seeing you in our unique area of Christchurch. Visit our new website: www.min.nz A professional realtor with local expertise and a personal touch COASTAL REAL ESTATE SPECIALISTS We’ll help you live the dream. 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