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6 Tuesday May 21 2019 Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi Your Local Views Time for council to focus on Avonhead Avonhead Community Group chairman Somnath Sarkar Bagchi writes about the need for the city council to invest in the suburb When we shifted to Avonhead from Fendalton in 2004, it was a suburb with character. Part rural, part residential, it drew families with school-going children like my own because of its proximity to good public schools and convenient traveltime to the city centre. The majority of our neighbours were friendly, retired couples. Avonhead was no Fendalton or Merivale but it was diverse and had a sense of pride. The roads were well surfaced, the street gutters clean of leaves, the parks regularly mowed. Avonhead Mall was the main establishment, with Monteith’s Brewery Bar as its busy drawcard. Cafe Euro came up in the mid- 2000s and became a fixture for semi-social meetings. WAITING: Avonhead Community Group chairman Somnath Sarkar Bagchi said the long-planned sporting facility for Avonhead Park, which backs onto the cemetery, remains indefinitely on hold. Fast track to 2019 and Avonhead has lost that vibe of being a suburb that takes pride in itself. The mall looks tired and has one or two empty retail spaces. Monteith’s is still going strong but Cafe Euro has been closed for several months with silence hovering over its future. The semi-rural character is gone, a sprawling retirement village takes up what used to be former pasture land. The earthquakes have not been kind to the pavements. The street gutters are now leafstrewn and many patches of the roadside get surface flooding. It sometimes takes time for the lawns to be mown. Many of the elderly couples whom we knew when we first moved in have either passed away or shifted to retirement villages. Some of these changes are the inevitable result of time. Others are not. The city council’s spending priorities changed understandably after the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes. Avonhead, which was fortunate to have escaped relatively unscathed, dropped out of the city council’s list of areas to focus on. No one can complain that this was the case for the first five or six years after the earthquakes. Eight years on, however, it increasingly feels like the city council has taken Avonhead for granted. Other suburbs have got new roads and malls while Avonhead has got patchwork repairs. The long-planned sporting facility for Avonhead Park remains indefinitely on hold. The efforts to take care of the suburb and its heritage, namely the cemetery, have come mainly from the local community group. When can residents expect the city council to focus its attention back to Avonhead? WESTERN NEWS Readers respond to the Western News article on Hornby’s traffic woes Deb Flanagan – Wait until you get another 1500 gravel truck movements a day choking up the State Highway 1 from Fulton Hogan’s proposed new quarry. And the motorway extension is being overrated. People travelling in from Rolleston heading for city centre or Riccarton will still go via Hornby as they won’t want to be stuck in the increasing traffic jam in Sydenham including all the big trucks heading to port. Jo-Anne Clark – They need to put a right-turn light on the northbound lights at the Main South Rd and Carmen Rd intersection. Just like they have on the other three lights there. Heather Wilkins – It doesn’t help that at the lights there aren’t always separate turning lanes. Where there are turning lanes, they all need to turn like they do at the main set at Shands Rd and Main South Rd. That would help speed the traffic up. The Buchanans/Carmen Rds lights don’t. 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WESTERN NEWS Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi Tuesday May 21 2019 7 FUNDRAISER: Hornby High School teacher Juliet Buenaventura and her band performing a Filipino song. Concert for a cause • By Georgia O’Connor-Harding SCHOOLS HORNBY HIGH School has showcased its brightest talent to help fundraise for those impacted by the Christchurch terror attacks. The concert, organised by the school’s team of prefects has raised more than $530. The money will go towards supporting the family of the Springs Rd Dairy, an affected family at the school and for a man who works at GAS Hornby. Prefect Shardey Jade, 17, said it wanted to show how important it was to bring the school together to support those affected. “Every term we have made a goal to run events. Our goal was to arrange a fundraiser so we could bring the Hornby community together,” she said. The Hornby community was hugely affected by the attacks. The owner of the Springs Rd Dairy, Junaid Ismail died at Majhid Al Noor on March 15. A father of a student at Hornby High School and a man who works at GAS Hornby was injured during the attacks. About 100 people including the performers attended the event. The concert featured 14 acts including performances from the school choir Voices With Soul, guitar and vocal soloists and group numbers from the school’s staff. Miss Jade said the school does not yet have the full total yet for the fundraiser with donations still yet to come in from several teachers who were unable to attend the concert. Principal Robin Sutton said it was an amazing event and speaks so much for the leadership, heart and passion the students have. FAILED EARTHQUAKE REPAIRS? LET US DEAL WITH IT Do you have concerns around your scope of works? Is your settlement fair for the damage incurred? We work directly for and with the homeowner to: •Establish if your scope of works is correct, including floor levels •Assist with the insurance part of the claim if required •Manage the repairs from the initial stages to completion •Have quality tradespeople and workmanship assured Initial Consultation FREE! Speaker stolen from school • By Georgia O’Connor-Harding AN OUTDOOR speaker stolen from South Hornby School may have been built into a bicycle’s sound system. Police are continuing to follow up on the theft of a speaker from the primary school on May 5 at 11.43pm. Three young men were caught on CCTV footage at the time of the incident. Principal Wendy Huriwai said it was from talking to police she learnt it was likely the speaker was stolen to mount onto a bicycle to create into a sound system. Three panel sheets were damaged in total and two outdoor speakers will have to be replaced after an unsuccessful attempt was made to steal a second speaker. The attempt damaged the second speaker beyond repair. • By Georgia O’Connor-Harding A NEW building to help an organisation continue providing community support to the Hei Hei/Broomfield area, has rolled into the neighbourhood. The Hei Hei Broomfield Community Development Trust, also known as “126 On The Corner”, had a new building arrive last week. Community development worker Tracey Buunk said the building with two rooms and two smaller offices will give the Mrs Huriwai said it is “extremely disappointing” as the money going towards repairing the damage cannot be spent on other projects in the school. The school did not yet have an estimation on what the cost of installing the new speakers and repairing the panels would be. Last year police were investigating a spate of thefts of outdoor speakers from schools across the city after 19 were stolen in the space of a month. Mrs Huriwai said: “We have a beautiful school which is well resourced to help our tamariki meet their full potential. “Our school community works hard to provide the best for our children but unfortunately, some young men feel their need is greater and are willing to damage our buildings and steal from our children.” organisation the opportunity to do more for the area. “We want this to be a multiuse building . . . people want a place where they can go and •A police spokeswoman said inquiries are ongoing and encourages anyone with information to phone police or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. New building for community group HAVE YOUR SAY Change the speed limits? We want to make Christchurch roads safer. We’re reviewing speed limits across our roading network. meet people. There are a lot of lonely people,” she said. The organisation is calling for volunteers to refurbish the building located on 126 Hei Hei Rd. The current building will stay to allow trust to do more work in the community. •If you are interested in volunteering to refurbish the new building email tracey.heihei@accd.org.nz or phone Mrs Buunk on 022 0176 278. Phone Stewart 027 488 6975 or George 027 334 4197 www.harwelservicesltd.com eat your favourite foods again! Don’t be restricted by your teeth We are proposing to change the speed limit on Marshs Road Quaifes Road Shands Road Sabys Road Springs Road Kennedys Bush Road Halswell Junction Road Cashmere Road Hodgens Road Sutherlands Road Fountains Road Hoon Hay Valley Road Whincops Road Hendersons Road Downies Road Consultation is open until Monday 17 June 2019 Let us know what you think ccc.govt.nz/haveyoursay 233 Riccarton Road, Phone 341 5419 The Partial Denture People Information leaflets are available on request
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