Southern View: July 23, 2019

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Fire rages, homes at risk
Kids’ market popular
Budding entrepreneurs put their best selling
pitches forward at the popular Selwyn
Kids’ Market recently. Children had the
opportunity to sell or buy old toys, books
and sports gear at the Lincoln Event Centre.
HAPPY: Barry Botherway, 80, of Halswell, bought
a kitchen set for one of his 16 grandchildren.
PHOTOS: MARTIN HUNTER
TIME OUT: Gabriella Wakelin, 3, of Halswell,
rests after a big day shopping.
NEW HOME: Wainoni Avonside Community Services Trust
co-ordinator Betty Chapman outside the trust’s new home
behind the Burwood Christian Centre.
New home found for
community group
• By Matt Slaughter
THE WAINONI Avonside
Community Services Trust has
found its new home.
The trust will move from its
old headquarters at Wainoni
Methodist Church on Avonside
Drive to the second floor of a
newly constructed, two-storey
building behind the Burwood
Christian Centre at 52 Bassett St.
Trust co-ordinator Betty
Chapman said it hoped to move
in by the end of August, but this
would happen after a lift was
installed to help members who
struggled with stairs.
Mrs Chapman said she had
been searching for a new site for
the trust for more than a year.
Earlier this year, Land Information
New Zealand decided
the earthquake-damaged, leaky
Wainoni Methodist Church site
was unsafe to work in.
It was originally thought the
trust would move into All Saints
Anglican Church in Burwood,
but Mrs Chapman said the rent
would have been too expensive.
“They put the rent up to $300,
plus power, plus phone. We
couldn’t afford that.”
The rent at its new site will cost
the same as it did at Wainoni
Methodist Church, $200 a week.
In spite of securing a new site
meaning the trust’s future was
safe, Mrs Chapman said moving
would be hard on the about 200
people who used its services and
attended its events.
The trust’s new headquarters is
only a short distance from its old
one, but she still expected the
move would result in the loss of
some members.
“It is hard because the elderly
don’t like change . . . they don’t
want to shift.
“It’s hard on elderly to move.”
The trust has been operating
out of Wainoni Methodist
Church for more than 17 years
and Mrs Chapman said some
were struggling with the idea of
leaving.
However, a visit to the new site
on Wednesday had seen reluctant
members change their tune.
“Everyone’s finding it hard.
“But, yesterday after the walk
through, I got a lot of positive
vibes, so I’m quite relieved.”
She said, ultimately, it would
be great to be in a building that
didn’t leak.
Wainoni Methodist Church
will be demolished once the
trust moves.
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