Ashburton Courier: December 19, 2019

Local news at www.starnews.co.nz Ashburton's The Courier, Thursday 19 December 2019, Page 35
Volunteers bag up, deliver baking
Store gives generously
Mid Canterbury Cancer Society volunteers with some of the festive treats, from left, Jenny
Proctor, Anita Hayes, Elaine Cochrane, Linda Croy, Vivien Bennett, Carole Hunt, Lorraine
Newlands, Judith Crozier, Penny Kerr and Gwenda Ireland.
Home baking and festive treats for people affected
by cancer have been donated and distributed
around the district by volunteers from the Mid
Canterbury Cancer Society.
Dozens of parcels of baking were delivered on
Monday.
The sweet treats included shortbread, mini
Christmas cakes, chocolate chip cookies and other
festive baking and have been donated from several
sources in the community.
The Mid Canterbury Cancer Society will also give
hampers, with additional food and vouchers in
them, to others who are facing difficult circumstances.
The festive baking initiative has run for the last
nine years.
Lions support hospital shuttle bus
Mid Canterbury cancerpatients
taking the shuttle from Daffodil
House accommodation to
radiation or chemotherapy
treatment at Christchurch Hospital
will ride with the heartfelt wishes
of seven Mid Canterbury Lions
groups.
The groupswere among 21
Lions clubsaround the upper
South Island to raise $11,500
recently for the running of the
shuttle, which makes around
16,000 patient transfers annually
and has arunning cost of around
$62,800.
The shuttle is organised by the
Canterbury West CoastCancer
Society.
Mid and South Canterbury
patients make up 22 per cent of the
users, with 35 per cent coming
from the Nelson/Marlborough area
and 30 per cent from the West
Coast.
Lions clubmembers say the
transfer service is invaluable and
the importance of the shuttle
cannot be minimised as patients
and their supporters are going
through atraumatic time in their
lives whileliving away from their
environment.
The $11,500 raisedthis year will
effectively pay the shuttle’s annual
fuel cost.
Over the past three years, the
Lions clubs have contributed
$37,250.
Mitre 10 Mega Ashburton is helping to
lighten the load for Mid Canterbury
families over Christmas through a
generous donation to Birthright Canterbury
and St Vincent de Paul.
Apallet load of children toys, sport
and recreation equipment and activity
kits, valued at around $5000, and suited
to children of all ages was given to the
two organisations last week for distribution
to their member families.
St Vincent de Paul’s Trevor Wall and
Birthright Canterbury’s Christine Muff
gratefully accepted the gifts which
would be welcomed by the people they
were working with.
Mr Wall said Mid Canterbury was
fortunate to have some ‘‘very generous
people out there’’ which helped to make
Christmas time more enjoyable for their
member families.
As afamily­based business and apart
of the Ashburton community, Mitre 10
Mega Ashburton were keen to give back
to the community, especially at this time
of year. Operations manager Michelle
Brown said not everybody had the
luxury of going through Christmas
without added support, and it was
something the company could help with
through organisations like Birthright
and St Vincent de Paul.
Photo: St Vincent de Paul’s Trevor
Wall and Birthright Canterbury’s Christine
Muff, right, gratefully receive the
generous gift from Mitre 10 Mega
Ashburton operations manager
Michelle Brown, rear.
Cemetery work done
The extensiontoAshburton Cemetery
­now completed ­will provide1300
conventionalburial plotsand almost
700 ashesplots.
The details are outlined in the
council’s annual report.
The extension, yet to be officially
opened, includesanaturalburial area
and an ashes­scatteringgarden and
should meet Ashburton’s needs for the
next 30 to 40 years.
The existingcemetery is almost full.
The extension includesnew roads
and entranceways, and water lines and
taps.
Meanwhile, the AshburtonDomain
Development Plan will go out for
consultation in the New Year.
Seasons
Greetings
Deanoand theteamteam
wish everyone asafeand
happyfestiveseasonseason
Ourtrading hours are:
Thurs 19 Dec &Fri 20 Dec
Sat21Dec
Sun 22 Dec
Mon23&Tues 24 Dec
Christmas Day
Thurs 26 Dec Boxing Day
Fri27Dec
Sat28Dec
Sun 29 Dec
Mon30&Tues 31 Dec
Wed1Jan NewYears Day
Thurs 2Jan
ASHBURTON
9am-6pm
9am-4pm
9am-2pm
9am-6pm
CLOSED
9am-2pm
9am-5.30pm
9am-2pm
9am-12pm
9am-6pm
CLOSED
Normal hours
trading resume
Skip and
the team
wish all our clients
aMerry Christmas
and asafe happy New Year
Closing from 5.30pm
Thursday, December 19th
Re-Opening,Monday, January6th
We look forward to seeing youin2020
MerryChristmas
from Samand Carrie
at Simply PetFoods
We thank all our customers
for your support
STORE CLOSED ON BELOW DATES
December 24th and 25th
January1st and 2nd
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