Ashburton Courier: November 14, 2019

Local news at www.starnews.co.nz Ashburton’s The Courier, Thursday 14 November 2019, Page 33
Club news
Rakaia Lions
The Lions Club of
Rakaia held their annual
fireworks night on Saturday
2nd November at the
Rakaia Domain.
People began to arrive
around 5.30pm setting up
vantage points around
the domain.
The weather was great
and as the evening went
on there was a good
crowd. How many Iam
not sure, too many to
count.
While everyone waited
for darkness to arrive
The Toy Library kept the
small ones entertained
with three bouncy castles.
The bigger ones were
entertained with live
music from Kopy Kats.
While the Rakaia
School made sure the
kids would be ready when
it got dark with the selling
of glow sticks.
There was food aplenty
from the Lions Food
caravan, coffee from the
coffee man and icecream
from Mr Kool.
The Rakaia Fire Brigade
ignited the bon fire
just before dark and soon
after that we were treated
with a great display of
fireworks.
Thanks to Fireworks
Professionals Ltd.
The night concluded
with a couple of tunes
from the Kopy Kats and
then everyone disappeared
into the darkness.
The Lions Club of
Rakaia would like to
thank everyone who
attended and hope you
had agreat night.
Neighbourhood Support
Mid Canterbury
The Annual General
Meeting of the Ashburton
District Neighbourhood
Support Inc was
held recently, with many
people attending. The
chairperson gave her
report and said it had
been achallenging year.
The Gets Ready Computer
system to Mid Canterbury
was promoted on
the radio and in the
newspaper. As at October
2019 there were 4941
households registered on
Gets Ready. Gets Ready
is recognised by Civil
Defence ­itreceived an
innovation award from
the Director of Civil
Defence Emergency
Management in 2016. It
is a purpose­built web
Anne Parnham JP, Registrar, Ian Moore JP, President. See, Ashburton
Justices of the Peace Association below. (Photo: Noel Lowe)
system where residents
can securely record their
contact details and any
special needs, resources
and skills they want to
share, to help their local
community look after
each other in an emergency.
It is a tool the
council may use to share
emergency warnings.
These may include wind,
snow, fire warnings,
water quality warnings
and fire rules and other
messages with members.
They arrive as email and
/ortexts. This is asystem
that has been built with
Neighbourhood Support
and Civil Defence groups
in mind.
The co­ordinator, Christine
Richards advised it
had been a busy twelve
months with agrowth in
the number of new
groups and with the
increasing numbers of
people registering online
to Ashburton Gets
Ready. Thanks were
extended to the street
contacts for the work
they do in welcoming
newcomers to their
respective groups. The
board has decided to
change the names to
Neighbourhood Support
Mid Canterbury and Gets
Ready Mid Canterbury.
Veronica Rabbitt was
re­elected as Chairperson,
as Ivan Blain is
retiring from the Board
he was presented with a
certificate in appreciation.
The guest speaker was
Senior Sergeant Leigh
Jenkins, he advised that
three new recruits are
coming to the Ashburton
Police Station. He was
thanked for his address
and afternoon tea was
served.
Ashburton Justices of
the Peace Association
AGM
A large gathering of
Justices and Visitors
attended the 69th Annual
General meeting held in
the Seniors Centre on
Tuesday 5th of November.
Senior Sgt Leigh Jenkins
Officer in charge of
the Ashburton Police
Station was the guest
speaker at the meeting.
He had apositive view of
the work Police do in
Ashburton and gave the
meeting some interesting
crime facts of our district.
Sgt Leigh said he would
like to see better cooperation
between the
Court, Police, and Justice
Issuing Officers to cut
down the time it takes to
get search warrants.
Officers elected for the
year include, Patron
Kevin Geddes JP, President
Ian Moore JP
Senior VP Max Cawte JP,
Junior VP Alistair Morrison
JP, Anne Parnham
JP as Registrar and Murray
Bassett JP as treasurer.
Delivering his annual
report for 2019, President
Ian reported on the Federation
Annual Conference
in Blenhiem and the
Southern Regional Conference
in Gore where he
represented the Ashburton
Association. He said
our Association was
equal or better than alot
of other Associations in
New Zealand when it
came to training done by
Justices and the work we
do in our Community.
The Royal Federation
of JPs Associations vicepresident
Terry Byrne
thanked President Ian for
his full report and congratulated
the Justices of
Ashburton for the voluntary
work they do for the
Community. The Southern
Royal Federation of
JPs representative Lindsey
Dow thanked President
Ian for his leadership
and offered some
training tips for JPs.
Membership is 60
active Justices and 10 JP
Retired, We had 5New
Justices appointed during
the year and one Justice
waiting to be Sworn In.
There are at present 6
Justice nominees in the
pipeline. One Justice has
been appointed as an
Issuing Officer during the
year. Congratulations to
Sandra Leak JP.
JP Signing Centre
work is still increasing. A
300% increase from May/
June 2012 to May/June
2019 figures. The average
documents per client are
also increasing. Our
Council has just setup to
run two 2hour sessions
on Tuesdays and Fridays
in the lunch hours at
Community House starting
December 3rd. The
figures for the last twelve
months to end of October
are Documents 3568
Clients 908 and Hours
288
Ian RMoore JP, President
Ashburton Writers’
Group
President Julie
Fechney welcomed members
to the November
meeting of the Ashburton
Writers’ Group.
Stacey read aquotation –
“The role of awriter is
not to say what we all
want to say but what we
are unable to say”
By Anais Nin
Rae read the chapter
for the progressive story
that she had written,
Stacey is to write the next
chapter.
The Christmas lunch
was discussed, to be on
Tuesday 3December.
Stacey gave areport of
the recent Wham Bam
event in Christchurch
that she had organised.
$650 had been raised for
CanInspire.
The Assignment for
the meeting was “How
Did We Even/Ever”.
Members wrote of
divorce papers, what to
be, elusive gold, small
town, spoken words and
eggs. This caused some
lively discussion on the
best way to print one of
the stories which was a
true adventure story.
Should it be in the first
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was aquestion that was
discussed as well.
The February assignment
is “Shadow for the
Day”.
Visitors are welcome,
contact Rae on 3088927.
Mid Canterbury Rural
Women
Rural Women NZ
summit meeting and
AGM will be held Friday
22nd and Saturday 23rd
November in Wellington.
Five Mid Canterbury
Rural Women are attending.
Policy workshops
include: Education: How
are our Rural Schools.
Health: Rural Women
and family wellbeing.
Environment: Water,
Land and Air.
Friday evening our
Premier Partnership NZI
Rural Women New Zealand
Business Awards
Dinner will showcase the
entrepreneur and
innovatived winners from
the 7Categories, Emerging
Business, Love of the
Land, Creative Arts,
Rural Health and Wellbeing
Excellence, Innovation,
Rural Champion
and Bountiful Table. At
the conclusion the
Supreme Winner will be
announced.
Rakaia Gorge’s,
Amanda King is category
winner of the Emergency
Business. A business
starting out on its journey
and achieving exceptional
Results.
Amanda’s Business
‘‘By the Horn’’ operates
from home, she transforms
her photography
passion of animals, landscapes
and seascapes into
print form and on to
canvas Her online customers
are worldwide.
Amanda’s contact is
bythehorns.co.nz
Congratulations to
Winchmore member
Margaret Kelk on receiving
her Branch Life
Membership. Margaret
has held President and
Treasurer positions and
contributed a tremendous
amount to Rural
Women within Winchmore
and Mid Canterbury
over many years.
Our November Provincial
Meeting is being held
at the Lake House Restaurant
9.30am Wednesday
13th November.
Kerry Smith is speaking
on her Associated Country
Women of the World
(ACWW) work undertaken
recently in London.
Marion Dent, Provincial
President Mid Canterbury
Rural Women.
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