Ashburton Courier: December 05, 2019

Page 4, Ashburton’s The Courier, Thursday 5 December 2019
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Knives Out
Here’s a modern whodunnit in the style of
Agatha Christie.
The detective isnoother than Daniel Craig. An
unlikely role for him after playing James Bond.
The rest of the cast of usually serious actors get
to have awhale of atime.
So it goes like this. There’s afamily party in the
huge stately home.
The head of the family announces that hewill
stop anymoney he’s been paying out to them as
from today. So it’s notsurprising thathedoesn’t
last long afterthat.
They all look guilty.
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Angus McKay will represent
the Ashburton
council on the Canterbury
Water Management
Strategy Regional Committee.
Mr McKay is aformer
regional councillor and
has a strong interest in
water issues.
Reviewed by Rowena Hart
The moviemakers previous movie was “Star
Wars: Episode VIII—TheLast Jedi”—!!!!
He sure has created anentertainment that’s as
smart, funny, stylish and exhilarating as any
movie lovercould wish for.
It’s the sortofmovie they don’t make anymore!
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The end of along, winding road
So this, then, isthe last.
I’ve written hundreds
of these columns for The
Courier; tens of thousands
ofstories for newspapers.
Now it’s time to go.
Iwalked into thisbuilding
in Burnett Street 47
years ago.
I didn’t think I’d sign
off from it.
In those days, newspapers
were turning
advertisers away.
That isnot always the
case today.
Over nearly five
decades Ihave seen the
best and worst of newspapers
and those who
make them tick.
There have been brilliant
writers and some
Courier comment
whose copy had to be
untangled; the stories of
some were written by others.
Much has changed, not
least the way newspapers
are made.
Had it not changed,
newspapers would not
exist: they were labourintensive.
Think reporter, subeditor,
copyholder,
reader, setter, compositor,
printer.
Now most of it is done
on ascreen.
I have been a senior
man and ajunior.
I’ve covered death, fire
and disease, rascals and
wastrels, seen far too
many accident victims
and, Iamashamed to say,
knocked on the doors of
the bereaved.
That was done only
under instruction, and I
protested.
Some say newspapers
are failing.
That’s not true.
Some are struggling.
Not this one.
This paper, like most
community papers, knows
its audience.
It seeks tolet youknow
what ishappening in your
neck of the woods asonly
alocal paper can.
Long may it prosper.
Thank you for letting
me into your world and
allowing me toshare it.
It has been aprivilege,
and I’ll finish with astory
that, to date,has notbeen
shared.
It involved ahigh peak,
a helicopter and human
waste.
The helicopter was
used to take material up
the mountain and,
because it was already
there, to take waste down
to disposal.
The bucket was
removed from the mountainsidetoilet
as thechopper,
strop down, hovered.
The bucket was
Fire museum gears up for abusy month
By Linda Clarke
The Ashburton Fire
Museum isgearing up for
abusy month.
Retired firefighters
manned the decks for an
influx of children from
RakaiaSchoolonMonday
as the youngsters
converged at the Plains
Museum for aschool day
out.
Principal Mark Ellis
saidthe 200 students swam
at the EA Networks pool,
visited the fire museum,
went for aride on the rail
car and played other
activities atthe Plains.
Fire museum chairman
Dave Eddingtonand other
retired firefighters, known
as the greywatch, were on
hand to answer questions
about the brigade’s early
days and about how the
old fire trucks worked.
The Ashburton brigade
started in 1874 and the
first firefighters used iron
buckets, hand tools and
ladders. Within two years,
their numbers had grown
to 26 and theyhad ordered
their first horse­drawn fire
engine from London.
Many of thebrigade’spast
engines have been
restored and are onshow
in themuseum,along with
uniforms and abig display
of miniature engines.
One of the longestserving
firefighters was
Walter Dolan, who was
part of the brigade in the
Mountain­bikers remember Paul Skinner
The mountain bike
community came
together recently to
celebrate the life of
local man Paul Skinner,
who died unexpectedly
in September.
Around 80 riders
hopped on bikes for the
Skids for Skinny
memorial bike ride
which followed a loop
along the river trail
from near Mania­
O­Roto Scout Park to
the skills park and back.
At the skills park, a
memorial bench to Mr
Skinner was unveiled
and a memorial tree
planted by his family.
Mid Canterbury MTB
Club president James
Reid said the ride was
about remembering and
saying thank you to
‘‘Skinny’’, who had been
a club member for the
last couple of years and
had done a lot for the
trails and to promote
mountain biking in the
community.
He said Mr Skinner
was passionate about
the skills park and had
had lots of ideas for it.
The locally made
bench seat sits on arise
among new landscaping
attached ­orwas it? ­to
the strop and the helicopter
began to go up.
But just asitrose, the
bucket came loose.
Thoseofyou whoknow
helicopters will befamiliar
with the force ofthe
down­draught.
It is considerable ­so
great, in fact, that it dislodged
the compacted
contents of the bucket
and spread them wideand
far.
The cold air was filled
with aheady mix of aromas,
not least of which
was that of Jeyes Fluid.
AllIcan say nowisthat
it was fortunateIam short
and that the mountain
had an exposed boulder.
­John Keast
early days for57years and
remains one of the
longest­serving firefighters
on record inthe country.
Netherby School
students are set to visit on
Friday.
The museum will be
open, along with the rest
of the Plains, onDecember
8 for the Tinwald
Christmas festival,
December 15, January 5
and January 12.
Photo: Students (from
left) Hesandu, 9, Penaisi
7, and Ethan, 10, checked
out one of the early appliances.
and has views across to
the still evolving skills
park.
Paul Skinner owned
and ran a mower and
bike repair and sales
business at the Netherby
Shopping Centre
for a number of years
and was just 47.
Photo: Sitting on the
new memorial benchare
Paul Skinner’s sister Di
Brenssell, his wife Andrena
Skinner, son Jacob
Skinner and nephew
Harry Brenssell.
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