Ashburton Courier: February 27, 2020

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Page 6, Ashburton's The Courier, Thursday February 27, 2020 Rural women scholarships Mid Canterbury Rural Women is offering three annual scholarships, valued at $2500, to Ashburton districtbased tertiary students. The amount is broken down to two scholarships of $1000 each and one for $500 for aresearch grant. Acommittee will Your LocalVoice I’m available to meet with constituents onMondays and Fridays, and anyday that Parliament isn’t sitting. Contact my office in Timaru or Ashburton tomake an appointment to meet orspeak with me. Ialso hold constituency clinics in other towns across the region. Andrew Falloon MP forRangitata Timaru Office AshburtonOffice 139Stafford Street, 81 Harrison Street, Timaru Ashburton 03 6831386 03 3087510 andrewfalloonforrangitata rangitatamp@parliament. .govt.nz Authorised by Andrew Falloon MP, 139 Stafford St, Timaru. GREAT RATES consider all applications. Applications close on April 1. Scholarshipforms and further details are available from Rural Women branches in the district or scholarship coordinator Pauline Hewson (303 6397 or hopelands407@gmail. com). PC Repairs, Set-up and Tutoring Icome to youday or evening! NewPCs and Laptops forsale •PCRepairs/Sales •Networks/Servers •Firewalls/Security •Spyware Clean-up •Training 20 YearsExperience Microso Cerfied Professional NETWORKS FIREWALLS AND PCS LTD Robin Johnstone 67 Aitken Street, Ashburton P: 03 308 1440 C: 027 768 4058 robinbj@xtra.co.nz 2245342 Local news at www.starnews.co.nz Behind the scenes team keep things running at the hospital By Mick Jensen An inhouse maintenance teammonitors, repairsand maintains ahidden world of plant rooms, pipesand wiringtoensure thingsrun smoothly behind thescenes at Ashburton Hospital. Hiddentunnels, workshopsand seven plant rooms arehome to thesmall team thatincludes afitter, electrician, carpenter and tradeassistant. The team, ledbyMethvenraised site maintenancemanagerDan Wilson,also includes agardener, administratorand otherswho are broughtonboard to work whenneeded. Mr Wilson,who started at thehospital as an apprenticefitter 16 years ago,says a typicalworking weekcouldfeature anything between 50 and100 jobs, both above and below ground. ‘‘It’sour role to fix and maintain things, and we tackle the workload basedon priorities and level of importance. ‘‘There can be challenges,but at the end of the day,the hospital is relianton systemsand equipmentbeingupand running, so thatitcan function.’’ Mr Wilson said computer software helped scheduletesting and checks, and alsotomonitor things. Staff in Ashburton, and also in Christchurch, received automatic alerts for more seriousplantand equipment failures,and staff here were on call 24/7. Overthe coming monthsthe hospital maintenanceteamwillbeinvolvedina new project thatwill replace the current coalfired boiler with anew groundsource heatpump. The current bigboiler was manufacturedin1960 andthe smaller one in 1985. Togetherthey producearound2400 tonnesofcarbon dioxide ayear. The heatingupgradewillreplace steam Ashburton Hospital site maintenance manager Dan Wilson and Ashburton Health Services manager Bernice Marra take awalk along one of the maintenance tunnels below the hospital. withahot water system and will reduce the hospital’senergycostsbyanestimated30 %. ‘‘The heatingupgrade will takeheat out of thegroundwater and useittoheat water circulating aroundthe hospital heatingsystem. ‘‘Itwillwork in asimilar waytoa domestic heat pumpthattransfers heat energy fromthe outside airtoinside your house,whereas ournew systemwill transfer heat energy fromgroundsource water,’’said Mr Wilson. The new heat pumpsystemwould be located in anew building behind the currentlaboratories anditwas hoped to haveitupand runningbythe endof2021. Water flow testing on a30m bore was recently ticked off and further testing would follow, said Mr Wilson. Currently the hospital’ssteel pipes carry steam at approximately 170 degrees around the hospital. Thesteam then heats the water to about80degrees for heatingand domestic hot waterfor all buildings. The new heat pumps will be ableto producewater to 80 degrees and mostof the existingsteam pipeswill be usedto disperse it around the hospital. The upgrade will be more efficient and less heatwill be lost to the atmosphere. As abyproduct of heating, the heat pump can alsoproduce chilled waterand the Canterbury District Health Board is keen to tap into it for summer cooling. Tinwald pool to close for another season The Tinwald public swimming pool will close on March 1,following another summer that included closed days because of alack of lifeguards. The outdoor pool comes under recreation facilities controlled by the Ashburton District Council’s EA Networks Centre and it has been a struggle to find and train lifeguards to the required standard. Council service delivery group manager Neil McCann saidthe lifeguard shortage was also a problem in late summer when university students employed over the holiday break went back to school. He said council’s priority was to staff the EA Networks Centre pool first, so that meant the Tinwald pool was closed. Notices were put on social media to avoid people heading to Tinwald only to find the gate locked. ‘‘We try every year to be in a better position, but we find ourselves here again,’’ Mr McCann told councillors recently. Cr Lynette Lovett said she was among those who had made atrip to the pool with grandchildren, only to be disappointed when they found it closed. EA Networks Centre assistant manager Richard Wood said the outdoor pool was usually closed uptosix days every February because of the lifeguard shortage. He said the centre had been a hive of activity over the past six weeks with holiday programmes and learn to swim classes. Few spaces remained in learn to swim classes that started in late January, while the holiday programme catered for up to 60 children aday. Mr McCann said the latest figures for learn to swim classes were being gathered for a future report to councillors, when they would consider extending the learners’ pool. ‘‘Figures had dropped slightly last year and we need the last few months to get the whole picture.’’ Mid/South CanterburyContinuous Spouting The Original Spouting Specialists LAUNDRY DREAMS Your dream laundry iseasier to achieve than youthink! Come in and talk to us today. HonAmy Adams MP forSelwyn TM TM TM Have youbeen affectedbythe recent hail storms? 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