Western News: September 17, 2019
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Tuesday <strong>September</strong> <strong>17</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />
<strong>News</strong><br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
WESTERN NEWS<br />
Expert shares<br />
Minecraft tips<br />
in Riccarton<br />
A LONG-TIME lover of games,<br />
gadgets and all things creative<br />
has helped to build up one of<br />
Christchurch City Libraries’<br />
most popular clubs through the<br />
magic of Minecraft.<br />
Long-term Minecraft Club<br />
member Nathan Campbell,<br />
20, can usually be found at<br />
the Upper Riccarton Library<br />
helping young Minecraft<br />
enthusiasts. But he also “tends<br />
to the Minecraft world” at Te<br />
Hāpua: Halswell Centre and<br />
other libraries.<br />
The chance to share his passion<br />
– and unite the collective<br />
imagination of younger club<br />
members – has been inspirational.<br />
“Nothing is quite as inspiring<br />
as working with kids and seeing<br />
what everybody else is creating<br />
and exploring,” he said.<br />
City council head of libraries<br />
and information Carolyn<br />
Robertson said it has been<br />
wonderful to see a young<br />
Minecraft fan help develop the<br />
programme. Nathan shares his<br />
passion for Minecraft.<br />
“It has certainly been the<br />
catalyst for Nathan to explore<br />
his creativity,” she said.<br />
16km swim in memory of sister<br />
• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding<br />
A YOUNG para-swimmer has<br />
successfully swum 16km in<br />
memory of his late twin sister.<br />
Last year, <strong>17</strong>-year-old Cashmere<br />
High School student Nico<br />
Wildbore tragically lost his sister<br />
Bethany to suspected suicide.<br />
Every kilometre he swam,<br />
marked a year Bethany lived.<br />
As part of World Suicide Prevention<br />
Day, Nico swam nearly<br />
nine hours straight to fight the<br />
stigma tied to discussing mental<br />
health and suicide.<br />
Nico said thinking about sister<br />
helped push him to meet his<br />
goal.<br />
The challenge was even<br />
greater for Nico, who was born<br />
with a type of cerebral palsy<br />
called hemiplegia. It meant he<br />
undertook the swim with limited<br />
mobility in his right arm and leg.<br />
Between 9.30am and 6.30pm,<br />
Nico had only three 20min<br />
breaks.<br />
It is estimated with the<br />
number of donations he made<br />
on the day and with further<br />
funds to come through he will<br />
raise about $10,000 for the<br />
New Zealand Mental Health<br />
Foundation.<br />
Nico said he was feeling tired<br />
at the end of the challenge but<br />
happy he had finished what he<br />
EFFORT: Nico during one of his breaks on the way to swim<br />
16km in memory of his sister.<br />
started and he had “so much<br />
support.”<br />
The swim was held at the<br />
Waitaha Swim Club, based at<br />
the Canterbury Swim School in<br />
Hornby.<br />
Nico’s mother Keiran Horne<br />
said he showed immense<br />
“strength of character.”<br />
“He not only finished the 16km<br />
but he finished with a smile on<br />
his face. I was immensely proud<br />
of him. It was awesome,” she<br />
said.<br />
Ms Horne said the swim club<br />
had an instructor swimming<br />
alongside him all day and his<br />
coach encouraged him every step<br />
of the way.<br />
His friends jumped in the pool<br />
to help give him support too, she<br />
said.<br />
“There was always somebody<br />
swimming alongside him in the<br />
other lane which helped him<br />
along,” she said.<br />
Ms Horne said she was “flabbergasted”<br />
at how well Nico went<br />
but the exhaustion “really hit<br />
him” in the evening.<br />
•Your local views, p10<br />
•To support Nico’s effort<br />
donations can be made at<br />
the Givealittle page https://<br />
givealittle.co.nz/fundraiser/<br />
nicos-16-kilometer-swim.<br />
WHERE TO GET HELP:<br />
If you are worried about<br />
your own or someone else’s<br />
mental health, visit your<br />
GP or local mental health<br />
provider. However, if you or<br />
someone else is in danger or<br />
endangering others, call police<br />
immediately on 111.<br />
Or if you need someone to talk<br />
to phone:<br />
•LIFELINE: 0800 543 354<br />
(available 24/7)<br />
•SUICIDE CRISIS HELPLINE:<br />
0508 828 865 (0508 TAUTOKO)<br />
(available 24/7)<br />
•YOUTHLINE: 0800 376 633<br />
•NEED TO TALK? Free call or<br />
text <strong>17</strong>37 (available 24/7)<br />
•KIDSLINE: 0800 543 754<br />
(available 24/7)<br />
•WHATSUP: 0800 942 8787<br />
(1pm to 11pm)<br />
•DEPRESSION HELPLINE: 0800<br />
111 757<br />
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