North Canterbury News: October 03, 2019

NEWS AND CLASSIFIEDS
North Canterbury News, October 3, 2019
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Waipara fireworks
The annual fireworks display will be held at the
Glenmark Reserve, Waipara, on Friday, November
8. The postponement day will be November 9.
There will be food and entertainment. The gates
open at 5.30pm and the fireworks display will be
held when it is dark. Entry is $20 acar load; or
adults are $10 and school­aged child $5.
Preschoolers are free.
Blues and jazz concert
The celebrated Muddy Mama Blues Band from
Christchurch will deliver arich blend of
instrumental and vocal blues and jazz from 1914 to
the present day at the Balcairn Hall on Saturday,
October 12. There will be space to dance —no
stilettos. It is an alcohol­free event. Doors open at
7pm for a7.30pm start. Cost: $20, (or ask about
family/unwaged discounts). Tickets are available
from Sigrid McTurk on (03) 312 9208 or email
musicsigrid@gmail.com. There will be limited door
sales. The concert celebrates 20 years of music and
education of ‘‘Joyful Sounds Music —education for
Life’’.
Variety benefit evening
Avariety benefit concert is being held at the
Rangiora RSA on Saturday, October 12, from 7pm.
It will be presented by recording artist Danny
McGirr and will feature country artists including
Don White, Ernie Andrew, Greg and Deb Duo, Ivan
Burkin, Michael McGirr, Silverado and K­Zees
Duo. Tickets are $10, with door sales available, or
phone Ngaire Harpur on (03) 312 9378 or (021)
102 5044. Raffles will also be on sale on the night.
Proceeds will go to support Special Olympics North
Canterbury.
Rangiora Sunday Market
The Rangiora Sunday Market in the Blake Street
car park will be held twice this month, on October
13 and 27, from 9am to 2pm. As always, there will be
many bargains, including plants, clothing,
household items, garden tools, health products,
bikes, books, gift cards, handyman tools, jewellery,
toys, garden sculptures and woodcraft. Young
children will get the chance to operate Thomas and
friends at the nearby North Canterbury Model
Railway Club rooms.
Rotary Book Fair
The Annual Rotary Club of Rangiora Book Fair
returns to the Rangiora Borough School Hall this
Friday and Saturday. This annual event features
tens of thousands of books, starting at 50 cents. CDs,
records, puzzles and games are also available. The
fair runs from 8.30am to 7pm on Friday and 8.30am
to 5pm Saturday. All proceeds will be distributed
within the local community. Last year, more than
$30,000 was raised.
Golden Oldies Country Music
Tuesday Country with Smokey &Lorraine,along
with their group of followers, will be held on
Tuesday, October 15, in the Rangiora RSA, at 2pm.
There will be arelaxing hour or so of old­time songs
and the sounds of guitar, banjo, harmonica,
accordions and keyboard, along with maybe alittle
line­dancing and ‘‘walk­ups’’ if time permits.
Included in the $2 admission charge is a‘‘cuppa
and biscuits’’, with raffles available. For details,
phone Lorraine on (03) 327 3231.
Dairy Network
The Dairy Women’s Network is hosting an event on
Wednesday, October 9, at which the 2019 Dairy
Woman of the Year Trish Rankin will speak about
her journey through the Dairy Woman of the Year
contest. She will talk about her passion for creating
acircular economy in New Zealand agriculture and
how to reduce waste on farm by making good
decisions around consumption. The event is open
to all and will be held at the Hurunui Hotel at
5.30pm. To register and buy tickets, go to
facebook.com/DWNnorthcanterbury/events or
email rebecca.green@dwn.org.nz.
Juggling, poi­twirling, bubbles
Give your kids afun holiday activity that will spark
their co­ordination and dexterity. Chen Moked will
demonstrate juggling and poi, then show kids easy
games and progress to teaching patterns. Belinda
Meares will demonstrate how to make bubble
wands and abubble mix for big bubbles, and
participants will all have aplay. Time: 1.30pm to
3.30pm, Waikari Domain, Monday, October 7. Cost:
1.5 TimeBank Hurunui credits or adonation
appreciated to cover materials costs. Register: (03)
314 3406 or tbhlearningexchange@gmail.com.
All the Juicy Pastures: Greville Texidor
and New Zealand, by Margot Schwass
GrevilleTexidorwas borninEngland in
1902 and,before her arrivalinNew
Zealand as arefugee at the outbreak of
WorldWar 2, shehad worked as an artist’s
model, actress and music hall dancer, and
had fought in the anarchist militia in the
Spanish CivilWar. WhileinNew Zealand,
she turned to writing,and by the time she
left for Australia and Spain in 1947 she
had produced asmallbut impressive body
of fiction.
The Carer, by DeborahMoggach
James is getting on abit and needs full­time
help. So Phoebe and Robert,his middleaged
children, employ Mandy,who seems
willing to takehim off their hands.But as
James regales his familywith talesof
Mandy’s virtues, their shoppingtrips, and
the shared pleasure of their journeys to
gardencentres,Phoebe and Robert sense
somethingisamiss. Is this reallytheir
father, happily chortling over cuckoo clocks
and television soaps? Then something
happens that throws everything into new
relief. Phoebeand Robert discoverlife does not stop for the
elderly.
AConversation withmyCountry, by Alan
Duff
Afresh, personal account of New Zealand
fromone of our hardest­hitting writers.
Returned from livinginFrance, he views
his country with fresh eyes,asitis now:
homing in on thecrisesinparenting, our
prisons, educationand welfare systems,
and agrowingculture of entitlement that
entraps Pakehaand Maori alike. Never one
to shy away from being awhetstone on
which others can sharpen their own
opinions, Alan tells it how he sees it.
These titles are available in Waimakariri and Hurunui
libraries.For recentadditionstothe library collection go to
waimakariri.kotui.org.nzorhurunui.kotui.org.nz or visit you local
library.
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