The Star: September 26, 2019

The Star Thursday September 26 2019
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NEWS
Roads still an issue
•From page 7
“The council under her
[Lianne Dalziel’s] leadership has
not done enough for the east.
There are too many unrepaired
roads while at the same time
they are building million-dollar
archways on the other side of
town,” he said.
Jono Jones
of New
Brighton said
he was “pretty
keen to vote
for anyone
who would fix
the roads.”
Marek
Christensen
who works in New Brighton
and lives in Linwood said he did
not plan to vote for any of the
mayoral candidates.
“None of the mayoral
candidates do it for me. I would
like to see Lianne Dalziel gone
but no-one is going to come
close.”
Andy Tzoumais is backing Ms
Dalziel.
“I’m thinking I will probably
vote for Lianne Dalziel again. I
think she has done pretty well
for the east,” he said.
Craig Ennis, was loading pine
cones into his car, when The Star
approached.
He thought Ms Dalziel had
done “a fair job” and he said
he was glad to see Mr Minto
running again.
But he wasn’t a fan of Mr Park
and said he would not be voting
for him.
“Anyone can charge $11 for
a beer and think they are a
businessman,” Mr Ennis said
in reference to Mr Park’s part
ownership of Christchurch bars.
•Next week: The west
POTHOLES:
Phillip Cossar
says there
are too many
unrepaired
roads in the
east.
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Russley pupils back at school
• By Sophie Cornish
CLASSES HAVE resumed for
Russley School pupils after an
unexpected holiday when a fire tore
through four classrooms.
About 120 year 7 and 8 pupils lost
“virtually everything” when the
fire, caused by an electrical fault,
broke out eight days ago.
Once the fire was extinguished,
safety officials found evidence of asbestos
and the site remained closed.
The school was deemed safe on
Monday.
Yesterday, the school reopened,
housing the majority of the displaced
senior pupils in the hall,
with some of the younger classes
sharing with others.
Said principal Greg Lewis: “It’s
really good to be back, I’ve seen lots
of happy kids, smiling faces and
general energy in the school.”
“At the moment our plan has
been very much around trying to
make it to Friday this week. That
means we did quite a bit of internal
shifting and juggling.”
“We also had to relocate our entire
school administration because
the administration block is not
inhabitable. We’ve had to pare back
some admin services to get us back
up and running, including reconnection
of fibre internet, phones
sorted, power sorted.”
“A part from dealing with the
obvious, there’s been a whole bunch
of not-so-obvious stuff to deal
with,” he said.
BACK TO LEARNING: Russley School has reopened after
a fire, caused by an electrical fault, tore through four
classrooms eight days ago. PHOTOS: GEOFF SLOAN