Southern View: May 14, 2019

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14 • By Louis Day PRIME MINISTER Jacinda Ardern says she will “do everything she can” to be at the opening of Redcliffs School next year. Pupils sent Ms Ardern several letters inviting her to the school opening in June 2020. In her response, Ms Ardern thanked the pupils for their letters and vowed to do Jacinda Ardern Tuesday May 14 2019 News EMOTION: Jacinda Ardern may attend the new Redcliffs School opening after the old school was demolished last year due to earthquake damage. Ardern may make it to Redcliffs School opening everything she can to be at the opening. Principal Rose McInerney is confident Ms Ardern would be there. “We are pretty sure that she will be there, we are really excited that she wants to come. She knows that we have been on the biggest journey to get here,” she said. After the community campaigned to keep the school open, then-Education Minister Hekia Parata reversed her decision to close it in November 2016. It was decided the school would relocate to Redcliffs Park, sparking a separate, unsuccessful campaign by the Friends of Redcliffs Park to keep the school on its Main Rd site. Rose McInerney The school has been operating out of the van Asch Deaf Education Centre since the 2011 earthquake. Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi Rāpaki marks 150 years RĀPAKI CHURCH celebrated its 150th anniversary last week. More than 200 people gathered for a special service to commemorate the historic church, which opened in 1869. Matua Douglas Couch, who grew up in Rāpaki during the 1930s and 40s, said the church was a central meeting point for the community in those days. “We used to go there when the church bell rang. Sometimes we were down on the beach and wouldn’t hear the bell and if you got home at dinner and hadn’t been to church, you’d be in trouble,” he said. The small weatherboard church, which can hold 80 people, has recently undergone a significant restoration. The church was closed following the earthquakes and the restoration work began last year after funding was received. The restoration included repairs to the south sanctuary wall as well as the replacement of the rotten main window with a replica of an earlier window based on an old photograph. The steeple was rebuilt with a shingle finish, which is likely to be what the original CELEBRATION: A procession of visitors make their way to Rāpaki Church for a morning service last week. PHOTO: DEAN MACKENZIE steeple was clad in. The surrounding fence has been built in a style based on an 1871 painting of the church with posts made from the old Quail Island jetty. The restoration work was completed with an emphasis SOUTHERN VIEW Local News Now Fire rages, homes at risk on “minimum intervention” to ensure the cultural heritage value of the building has been left intact. This means details, such as names scratched into the wooden pews decades earlier, have been left untouched. 3 issues $20 6 issues $44.50 10 issues $65 SUBSCRIPTIONS FREEPHONE 0800 77 77 10 rugbynews.co.nz
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