Selwyn Times: October 16, 2019
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SELWYN TIMES Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
Wednesday <strong>October</strong> <strong>16</strong> <strong>2019</strong> 11<br />
of kicking back<br />
Tell me about the move to<br />
Lincoln University?<br />
It was 2015 and we had been<br />
living out there a while and it was<br />
time for a change.<br />
It just made sense at the time.<br />
Talk me through the<br />
progression there?<br />
I was coaching the colts team<br />
and it was a great crop of guys.<br />
That first year we had Jordie<br />
Barrett, Ene Enari, Brett<br />
Cameron, George Straton,<br />
Salisi Riasi, Caleb Makene,<br />
Josh McKay, a real who’s who<br />
of Canterbury players who have embrace it and when you’d see<br />
really pushed on now.<br />
the joy when teams would beat<br />
Cullen Grace is one of the us, I thought it was great too.<br />
best products I’ve seen, he came Their advantage is they train<br />
straight out of school into our there, they have the facilities<br />
Div 1 team and played every that make it feel like a very<br />
game so he is one to watch. professional environment.<br />
We won colts titles in 2015 and After that I’d had a guts full of<br />
20<strong>16</strong> and then in 2017 I took over coaching but I had a good mate at<br />
the senior team with Ben Blair Burnside in Graeme Turner who<br />
and we won that in 2017 and got me back into the club with<br />
2018 the team did a four-peat the senior team which was a good<br />
of senior titles and at the end of fit for me at the time.<br />
the year, a lot of the guys, I had a I have a very supportive wife<br />
connection with were moving on who’s always backed my desire<br />
so I thought it was a good time to to coach so this year between the<br />
step away.<br />
Crusaders Knights, Burnside and<br />
What is it like to coach a team Canterbury B, I’ve done more<br />
that’s expected to win each coaching than I thought I would.<br />
week?<br />
When you do get spare time,<br />
I enjoyed it, I said to the guys what do you do?<br />
not to shy away from it but<br />
I like to do a bit of fishing and<br />
PLAYING DAYS: Bevan Sisson (with ball) who captained the<br />
East Coast Bays division 1 side in 1996.<br />
we have a few friends with<br />
baches that give us a chance to<br />
get away.<br />
As a guy in my early 50s I’m<br />
reasonably realistic about where I<br />
can go with my coaching.<br />
There’s a liking for former<br />
players at the moment and that<br />
makes sense because they know<br />
the environment but I love new<br />
challenges and seeing players get<br />
everything out of the talent they<br />
have.<br />
There’s a heaps of guys running<br />
around playing NPC that I’ve<br />
had a hand in coaching or being<br />
around at some point and that’s<br />
immensely satisfying.<br />
I don’t have any plans on<br />
slowing down and I’ll be back on<br />
the sidelines next year all going<br />
well.<br />
Plan to rid Arthur’s Pass<br />
of native plant pests<br />
A PLANNED community event<br />
aims to rid rivers of pest plants<br />
and protect native species in<br />
Arthur’s Pass.<br />
The Protecting Our Rivers<br />
annual event was thought<br />
up by Colleen Philip of ECO<br />
Canterbury in support of the<br />
work done by the Arthur’s Pass<br />
Wildlife Trust.<br />
The idea is to bring together<br />
as many people and groups as<br />
possible to remove lupins, gorse,<br />
broom and sedge.<br />
The weeds make the<br />
environment uninhabitable for<br />
many native plants.<br />
Volunteers from ECO<br />
Canterbury, Environment<br />
Canterbury, North Canterbury<br />
Forest & Bird, Conservation<br />
Volunteers NZ, Sustainable<br />
Ōtautahi Christchurch and the<br />
Department of Conservation<br />
will take part.<br />
It is hoped that by the end of<br />
the season the volunteers will<br />
have covered a total of 250ha.<br />
Environment Canterbury<br />
community partnerships coordinator<br />
Alison Bower will be<br />
among the volunteers.<br />
Said Ms Bower: “Communitybased<br />
organisations like the<br />
Arthur’s Pass Wildlife Trust<br />
and the dedication of the<br />
volunteers that co-ordinate<br />
them, make an incredibly<br />
generous contribution to the<br />
war on weeds in our region.<br />
Without them, our iconic<br />
landscapes would look very<br />
different,” she said.<br />
Ms Bower said the timing of<br />
the working bee will mean that<br />
the volunteers catch the lupins<br />
in their early stage of flowering<br />
which is better than the flowers<br />
already being developed and<br />
seeding.<br />
It is hoped that lupins can<br />
be eradicated from the area<br />
completely.<br />
•The event will run<br />
from November 9 until<br />
November 12 in Arthur’s<br />
Pass. Working bees will<br />
be held on each day from<br />
9.30am-noon and<br />
2.30-5pm. Register at info@<br />
sustainablechristchurch.org.<br />
nz.<br />
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