Ashburton Courier: December 12, 2019

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Page 6, Ashburton’s The Courier, Thursday 12 December 2019 Health promoter’s work recognised with medal Buy any Nutra-Life product and go in the draw to WIN ADURAND WATER FILTER ASHBURTON The Arcade (03) 308 1815 h2k11@xtra.co.nz Six to be won! www.Health2OOO.co.nz Follow Health2OOOGroup on: Paul Chamberlain was recognised for his positive contribution to Mid Canterbury with alocal hero medal awarded by Kiwibank. By Linda Clarke Ashburton’s Paul Chamberlain says improving your mental wellbeing can be as easy as taking a walk, meeting afriend for coffee or working in the garden. It’s not rocket science, he says, but it can be atricky subject to broach. Paul, or Pup as he is widely known, has been down that path himself. He likens his anxiety to the flu and says treatment has cured him; he says friends, family and community were an important part of the journey. The former police officer now works as ahealth promoter and was one of 34 Kiwibank local heroes presented with speciallymade medals recently. He says he was proud to accept the medal, because it gave the organisations and issues close to his heart ahigher profile. Pup is ahealth promoter with Community Public Health and is one of two suicide prevention workers in Ashburton employed with the Lives Worth Living project. As apolice officer, he led the DARE (drug abuse resistance education) programme in Mid Canterbury and delivered the programme to over 40 schools. He said he and fellow DARE educator Chris Wiltshire caught up regularly for acoffee and achat, and almost always were recognised by students they had taught. The network of relationships developed as apolice officer have grown in his new health promotion role and he says his focus now is on encouraging others to take responsibility for their wellness. He firmly believes in putting resources at the top of the cliff, rather than in the emergency services at the bottom. Community plays abig role in how people feel about themselves and Pup said his job was to empower the community to look after itself and be resilient. That means encouraging more people to start aconversation with afamily member, work colleague or teammate, especially if they knew that person was having a hard time. Often people just needed to vent to a genuine listener, but sometimes they needed help and support or professional counselling. ‘‘It takes just one person to say Icare and maybe take someone for a coffee or go with them to a doctor.‘‘ Pup says while parts of the community are hurting, like rural people dealing with Mycoplasma bovis, there were plenty of opportunities for all people to gather socially, from sport to service clubs, and connect with real people rather than online. In the new year, Lives Worth Living will begin rolling out its empowering programmes. WORTH $390 * *RRP may vary. Promotion ends 31st December 2019. Customers must use their rewards card toenter. Terms and conditions apply and can be viewed at www.health2000.co.nz/competitions. TAPS PP4941. Vitaco Health (NZ) Limited, Auckland. 2236882 2238158 Local news at www.starnews.co.nz Big crowd at domain Christmas concert Thousands turned out for some early festive cheer at Saturday’s Mitre 10 Mega Christmas in the Park. The Topp Twins were the headline act at the Domain Oval variety concert, which included anumber of local performers. Joining the Topp Twins on the night were Julia Bell, Nikita Hyde, Ocean Waitokia, Ange Kara Ingley, Brian Taylor, Sarah Heney, Libby Higson, Brooke Dwyer and the ABC Community Choir, as well as local dancers from Life Dance Academy. Crowds filled most of the domain oval space, with many picnicking and enjoying calm, mild conditions. Amega fireworks show rounded off the evening and lit up the night sky just before 10pm. Lisa Anderson recreated the event with the Christian Ministers’ Association in 2013 in order to bring the community together and to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas. New strategy to manage black backed gull numbers A Canterbury Southern Blackbacked Gull/Karoro (SBBG) management strategy has been developed in Ashburton, after many months sourcing input from community groups. A draft strategy to deal with the growing numbers of native SBBG was released in November last year. It was written by Wildlife Management International’s Mike Bell and Paula Harborne for Environment Canterbury (ECan). The finalised strategy, released this week, sets out key recommendations for the management of the gulls in Canterbury and will be used when prioritising and aligning control work. The authors include four recommendations; a containment control approach, that Southern Blackbacked Gull/ Karoro control be carried out on all sections of rivers which have a mammalian predator programme, efforts to reduce the Canterbury Southern Blackbacked Gull/ Karoro population by five percent ayear, for the next 20 years, and the establishment of a Southern Blackbacked Gull/ Karoro management coordinator. The gull, estimated at 60,000 birds in the lower Canterbury rivers, has no known predators. They attack and kill other native birds and their eggs, peck eyeballs from farm animals, forage in human landfill and spread disease such as salmonella and E. coli. They look similar to agiant seagull but weigh between 1kg and 1.4kg. And had been caught on camera eating eggs from nests and the chicks of other native species along braided riverbeds, manyof which had declining populations such as the wrybill, blackfronted tern and kaki/ black stilt. The blackbacked gulls are one of three native gull species the others are the blackbilled gulls (nesting in the Ashburton River) and the red billed gulls.
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