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PAGE 6 BAY HARBOUR Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi Wednesday July 24 2019 News Lonsdale considers another shot at council, mayoralty • By Louis Day FORMER HAGLEY-Ferrymead city councillor Paul Lonsdale has not ruled out another bid for council or even a tilt for the mayoralty. Mr Lonsdale lost out to current city councillor Sara Templeton by 4095 votes to 2499 when he ran for the newly created Heathcote Ward in 2016. He said it was possible he could run again in October’s local body elections. “It is something that is on my radar, there is no question about that,” he said. He was tight-lipped over which ward he would run in. “I do have an idea of where I would run and there are multiple choices that I would have a decent shot at, but there is one in particular I’m looking at.” He also did not rule out Curios and collections, a cluster of local artists exhibit their treasures over the month of August at Little River Gallery. Lee-Ann Dixon, Jane Downes, David Lloyd, Blanche Fryer and Anthony Savill exhibit covetable and collectable, tiny and contained artworks that will tug at your heart strings and capture your imagination. Blanche Fryer’s big egg issue Elemental Clusters • Collections • Curios Lee-Ann Dixon serves up a dainty Cicada dish running for the mayoralty. Mr Lonsdale lost the 2013 mayoral election, receiving 22,855 votes while current Mayor Lianne Dalziel got 72,600. “I have stood against Lianne before, but it would not be unheard of for me to give it another crack. It is something I had not really thought of but there are people actually asking if I would run, so it will form part of my consideration,” he said. Former mayoral candidate John Minto, Paul Lonsdale who was a high profile activist and Springbok tour protestor, has also not ruled out running again against Ms Dalziel in October. He received 13,117 votes, losing to Ms Dalziel with 75,224 in the 2016 mayoral election. “I think for Lianne, this is a retirement job Sara Templeton for her and she is very much a 1980s politician and I think we need to move into the new century,” Mr Minto said. Jane Downes’ Dragonfly on leaf Little River Gallery open 7 days, Main Road, Akaroa Highway. 27 JULY – 21 AUG 2019 Main Rd, Little River Lee-Ann Dixon | Jane Downes | David Lloyd | Blanche Fryer | Anthony Savill David Lloyd’s whimsical scaled tools of timber and copper Silver serving trays offer up creatures faithfully rendered in oils. A ceramic worlds of intrigue burst from their timber-salvaged frame while giant metal insects ‘steel’ about. The miniature copper and timber tools conjure up an industrious Lilliputian community and clusters of curios from the past are repurposed for your visual pleasure. 03 325 1944 art@littlerivergallery.com PROPOSED: The Taylors Mistake Surf Life Saving Club’s new headquarters may go out for consultation. Public feedback may be sought on new Taylors Mistake clubrooms • By Jess Gibson THE PUBLIC may soon have its say on the new Taylors Mistake Surf Life Saving clubrooms. The Linwood-Central- Heathcote Community Board is set to decide today whether to approve the start of a public consultation on a process to facilitate the clubrooms’ rebuild. If public consultation goes ahead, feedback will decide whether the Taylors Mistake Surf Life Saving Club is granted a licence to occupy the site. The licence would enable it to build a new $3 million pavilion on the same site as the original pavilion, which would be demolished. Resource consent has been approved for the design at the site, meaning if the club is not granted the licence, it will need to go back through the resource Ferrymead Many a Close Run Thing by Tom Enright A New Zealand squadron leader, flying-boat captain and airliner pilot on a life of aerial adventure Planes were rarely seen above the small Central Otago sheepfarming town of Ranfurly in the 1940s. Yet as a young boy, Tom Enright had a fascination with the skies that quickly developed into a longing to become a pilot. He joined the RNZAF as an engineer in 1951, and was sent to England at just 16 to attend the revered Royal Air Force college in Cranwell. Returning to New Zealand to join the Vampire fighter squadron in Ohakea, Tom became a famed member of the RNZAF aerobatic team. Later he became a flying commander at Wigram air base, before captaining a Sunderland flying boat to isolated communities in the vast South Pacific, often to the upper limits of the plane’s endurance. From the near-catastrophic opening of Wellington airport to flying Boeing 747s into the world’s biggest airports, this is Tom Enright’s story of the mishaps, misadventures and high-altitude drama of a 45-year flying career. The Guardian of Lies by Kate Furnivall 1953, the South of France. The fragile peace between the West and Soviet Russia hangs on a knife edge. And one family has been torn apart by secrets and conflicting allegiances. Eloise Caussade is a courageous young Frenchwoman, raised on a bull farm near Arles in the Camargue. She idolises her older brother, Andre, and when he leaves to become an Intelligence Officer working for the CIA in Paris to help protect France, she soon follows him. Having exchanged the strict confines of her father’s farm for a life of freedom in Paris, her world comes alive. But everything changes when Andre is injured - a direct result of Eloise’s actions. Unable to work, Andre returns to his father’s farm, but Eloise’s sense of guilt and responsibility for his injuries sets her on the trail of the person who attempted to kill him.Eloise finds her hometown in a state of unrest and conflict. Those who are angry at the construction of the American airbase nearby, with its lethal nuclear armaments, confront those who support it, and anger flares into violence, stirred up by Soviet agents. Throughout all this unrest, Eloise is still relentlessly hunting down the man who betrayed her brother and his country, and she is learning to look at those she loves and at herself with different eyes. She no longer knows who she can trust. Who is working for Soviet Intelligence and who is not? And what side do her own family lie on? WIN THIS BOOK ENTER TO WIN THIS BOOK consent process and potentially alter the design. The club has been operating from Taylors Mistake beach for 103 years, and celebrated its centenary in 2016. The old clubhouse was red- stickered after the 2016 Valentine’s Day earthquake rendered its previous stop-gap repairs unsafe. Since then the club has had to operate out of three temporary buildings. book release We have one copy of Many a Close Run Thing to give away, courtesy of Take Note Ferrymead. To be in the draw, email giveaways@starmedia.kiwi with Many a Close Run Thing in the subject line or write to Take Note Book Giveaway, Many a Close Run Thing, Star Media, PO Box 1467, Christchurch 8140. To be eligible for the draw, all entries must include your name, address and contact number. Entries close Tuesday, August 6. Winner of The Accusation is Susan Jackson of Moncks Bay, Redcliffs.
Wednesday July 24 2019 Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi Councillors may get childcare paid for • By Louis Day RATEPAYER MONEY could be used to pay for the childcare of councillors and community board members. This comes after a new policy from the Remuneration Authority was released at the start of this month which allows councils to reimburse elected members for childcare. If adopted by a council, members are eligible to an allowance only if their child is under 14 and the childcare is not provided by a family member. Deon Swiggs Childcare allowances are also limited to $6000 a year per child. City council secretary Jo Daly said it would consider adopting the policy before September. City councillor Deon Swiggs thought the policy would be well supported. “I would expect our council to support it and I will be supporting it myself, not necessarily for councillors but for community board members. It just takes away a bit of a barrier for people with families,” he said. Cr Swiggs did not expect the policy to lead to a rates increases should it be adopted. “I would not expect it to come from any new money from rates, I would expect this to be absorbed from other funds.” “We have a catering budget, do we need a catering budget? Those are the things I would like to look at.” Cr Aaron Keown, who has three children of his own, thought city councillors were earning enough to pay for their own childcare and community board members did not need it due to it being a part-time role. Councillors are paid $102,400 whereas the pay of community board members varies between $9864 and $24,580, chairs of community boards are paid up to $49,160. Cr Keown said it was not needed in Christchurch but could be in lower-paid councils across the country. Cr Sara Templeton said she would vote in favour of the policy and saw it as a small step to increasing diversity around the decision table. Cr Mike Davidson said he was “open-minded to it.” The Selwyn District Council adopted the policy last week. Deputy Mayor Malcolm Lyall said he believed the policy would ruffle feathers and result in backlash from the community. “There’s always going to be someone saying, what are they [the district council] doing? It’s just a part of the job and I’m just keen to get more young people around the table and that is what this is about,” he said. •HAVE YOUR SAY: Do you think city councillors and community board members should be reimbursed for their childcare costs using ratepayer money? Email your views to jess.gibson@ starmedia.kiwi BAY HARBOUR PAGE 7 Local News Now Tradies warned to lock it or lose it – police Fire rages, homes at risk POLICE ARE reminding tradies in Lyttelton and Corsair Bay to lock it or lose it after an increase in thefts from four-wheel-drive vehicles. Christchurch metro area prevention manager Inspector Leairne Dow said tradespeople in particular should be cautious and secure valuable tools left in vehicles. “Police take this offending very seriously, we know the impact it has on victims, particularly when it’s someone’s livelihood being taken,” she said. There are a number of steps tradies can take to keep their tools secure, Inspector Dow said. “Parking vehicles out of sight, removing valuable items over weekends, securing tools inside vehicles with chains and padlocks or even a tarp thrown over the top of them can be useful deterrents.” She said the Serial Number Action Partnership website is a useful tool for recording serial numbers which assist in the return of stolen property if located by police. “We encourage tradies to get their tools engraved with their driver licence number, and enter these on the SNAP website, so if the tools are recovered, we can return them.” ADVERTORIAL New-look food court to enhance customer experience Always aiming to provide an enjoyable and diverse shopping experience for its customers, the popular Westfield shopping centre in Riccarton is enhancing that experience with a facelift for its food court. Comprising 10 outlets with a variety of food choices, the whole food court area is now lighter, brighter and more open, while the addition of lush greenery, and the new improved seating layout have been designed to create a more relaxed fast/casual eating environment. “We are delighted to showcase our new-look food court to our community,” centre manager Kirstie McNulty says. She invites customers to join in the celebrations marking the launch of the upgraded food court, which kick off on Thursday evening, July 25. More FM will be on site, along with the Winning Wheel giving customers the chance to win exciting prizes. The entertainment will also include face painting, music and action entertainment, waiters with food sampling and balloon twisting. The celebrations will continue throughout the evening on Friday, July 26, August 1 and 2, and August 8 and 9, with face painting, balloon twisting, entertainment and giveaways. The food court is not the only place to enjoy a bite at Westfield, however – there are more than 30 eating places located around the centre, all under one roof. These combined with the major retailers, fashion brands and numerous other specialty stores give customers the opportunity to enjoy true one-stop shopping at Westfield, with something there for the whole family. Extensive, easily accessible free parking adds to the convenience. The food court renovations are a follow-on from the previous upgrading work that was carried out some 18 months ago at the centre and included painting of the whole interior and the addition of comfort zones and plantings, Ms McNulty says.
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