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National retailer Bunnings is<br />

proposing to close its <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />

store, with 30 staff affected, and<br />

<strong>Ashburton</strong> mayor Neil Brown is<br />

concerned more job losses in the<br />

district will follow.<br />

Six other Bunnings stores are also<br />

up for closure around the country,<br />

with the company saying trading<br />

challenges had been exacerbated as a<br />

result of the Covid­19 environment.<br />

The seven stores, employing a<br />

total of <strong>14</strong>5 staff, were no longer<br />

viable, said Bunnings NZ director<br />

Jacqui Coombes.<br />

The <strong>Ashburton</strong> store employs 15<br />

full­time staff, plus nine part­time<br />

and six casual staff.<br />

‘‘We feel for the staff at the<br />

Bunnings site,’’ Mr Brown said.<br />

The proposed job losses will add to<br />

the district’s rising unemployment<br />

figures. Numbers on the job­seeker<br />

benefit have risen from 531 in March<br />

to 652 in April.<br />

Mr Brown said he hoped<br />

government had more support<br />

planned for small and medium­sized<br />

businesses, of which <strong>Ashburton</strong> had<br />

alot. More job losses would be on<br />

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‘‘I am concerned about what is<br />

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Rangitata MP Andrew Falloon<br />

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staff who would lose their jobs<br />

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‘‘With the wage subsidy coming to<br />

an end in about amonth there will<br />

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Bunnings staff are being consulted<br />

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Bad recyclers<br />

cost ratepayers<br />

Disposable nappies, food and<br />

green waste are being put in<br />

recycling bins, causing headaches<br />

for <strong>Ashburton</strong> District Council<br />

contractors and adding thousands<br />

of dollars to the district’s waste<br />

bill.<br />

Recycling audits last week<br />

showed 50 per cent contamination<br />

in collections from Hampstead,<br />

Tinwald and <strong>Ashburton</strong> central<br />

west. Recycling from Allenton<br />

north was 10 per cent<br />

contaminated.<br />

Contractors are reporting food,<br />

nappies and garden rubbish as the<br />

main culprits contaminating<br />

recycling, but had also spotted<br />

items like corrugated iron and a<br />

vacuum cleaner.<br />

Council’sservice delivery group<br />

manager Neil McCann said<br />

kerbside recyclingwould not be<br />

sent for sorting in Christchurch<br />

until contamination came backto<br />

an acceptable level.<br />

‘‘We are aiming to get it under<br />

five per cent by volume. During<br />

level 4, it was close to 50 per cent<br />

in many areas.’’<br />

During Alert Level 4lockdown,<br />

ratepayers were allowed to mix<br />

recyclables and waste, as all<br />

kerbside collectionswent straight<br />

to landfill. Under level3,they<br />

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Delay for MSA disappoints<br />

By Mick Jensen<br />

While restaurants, cafes, and<br />

bars able to offer meals can<br />

reopen under new Alert Level 2<br />

restrictions, chartered clubs<br />

like the <strong>Ashburton</strong> Club &<br />

MSA will not be allowed to<br />

open for another week.<br />

<strong>Ashburton</strong> MSA president<br />

Murray Campbell said he was<br />

very disappointed with the<br />

decision to delay reopening.<br />

The MSA was aprivate<br />

members’ club and he was<br />

investigating whether the same<br />

rules applied.<br />

He said there was a90per<br />

cent chance the bar would<br />

remain closed until <strong>May</strong> 21,<br />

which was not good for<br />

business.<br />

The MSA was ‘‘already<br />

bleeding and it couldn’t get the<br />

band aid on quick enough,’’ he<br />

said.<br />

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Building work continues at the MSA.<br />

‘‘It’s another week without<br />

revenue.’’<br />

Mr Campbell said he<br />

expected to see anumber of<br />

bars around the country ‘‘turn<br />

themselves into restaurants’’ to<br />

comply with regulations.<br />

The <strong>Ashburton</strong> MSA had a<br />

membership of around 4000<br />

and operated 20 different<br />

sections and its members<br />

212 East Street,<strong>Ashburton</strong>. Phone 308 8309<br />

wanted to come back.<br />

‘‘The companionship and<br />

wellbeing of our members has<br />

diminished over the last seven<br />

weeks.<br />

‘‘We have anumber of older<br />

members and for them coming<br />

here is an important social trip<br />

out.’’<br />

The club used acard system<br />

for entry and when the bar was<br />

allowed to reopen maximum<br />

numbers of 100 could easily be<br />

managed, he said.<br />

There were plenty of seats<br />

and room for people to spread<br />

out to meet regulations.<br />

The bottlestore at the MSA<br />

opened under level 3<br />

restrictions and Mr Campbell<br />

said he expected it to be pretty<br />

much business as usual under<br />

level 2.<br />

He said the big rebuild and<br />

refurbishment at the MSA,<br />

including anew, relocated<br />

restaurant, was now anumber<br />

of weeks behind schedule.<br />

He expected the first floor<br />

concrete pour to start in the<br />

next couple of weeks.<br />

Restaurants and cafes can<br />

reopen under Alert Level 2,<br />

provided they follow social<br />

distancing rules and take group<br />

bookings of no more than 10<br />

people.<br />

Patience urged as facilities open<br />

Be patient, life in Alert Level 2<br />

will be slowerasretailers and<br />

council staffatfacilities like EA<br />

NetworksCentreand the public<br />

library learn new,safe ways of<br />

dealing with customers.<br />

That’s the message from<br />

<strong>Ashburton</strong> District Council chief<br />

executive Hamish Riach, who<br />

says people need to be prepared<br />

to give their namesfor contact<br />

tracing,wait in aqueueand<br />

accept new waysofaccessing<br />

businesses and services.<br />

‘‘Therewill be somepatience<br />

needed from people. The<br />

requirement for physical<br />

distancing and contact tracing<br />

will mean it will be alittlebit<br />

slower.’’<br />

Council is openingits main<br />

office building today, as well as<br />

the <strong>Ashburton</strong> Museum, the<br />

libraryand EA Networks Centre.<br />

Playgrounds and open spaces<br />

are also open, as are public<br />

toilets, whichwill see more<br />

regularcleaning. Parking<br />

enforcement will return on<br />

Monday.<br />

Mr Riach said staffwere<br />

working hard to return council<br />

services in asafe way.<br />

Physical distancing will be a<br />

fact of life, meaningoperational<br />

changes in some facilities.<br />

The stadiumatEANetworks<br />

Centrewill notopen,but gym<br />

classes will operatewith smaller<br />

numbers to ensure participants<br />

werespaced out and the swim<br />

school will resume.<br />

Mr Riachsaid ensuring<br />

physical distancingmeant some<br />

people whoturned up to swim or<br />

use the gym might find theywere<br />

out of luck.<br />

Exit and entry points have<br />

beenset up in all council<br />

buildings and people using them<br />

will havetogive their namesand<br />

contacttelephone numbers. The<br />

paper registers would be<br />

destroyed after 30 days.<br />

‘‘Contact tracing is critical to<br />

level 2functioningproperly.<br />

People will not be allowedto<br />

Bad recyclers are costing ratepayers<br />

From page 1<br />

‘‘Weexpect somelag from<br />

level4tocarry on into thenext<br />

fortnightlycycle,’’ Mr McCann<br />

said.<br />

From April 1to<strong>May</strong> 11,council<br />

sent 37 loads and1875 tonnes of<br />

recyclingtolandfill, at an<br />

additional costof$39,405.<br />

Each load of rejected recycling<br />

costs about $1065 to send to<br />

landfill.<br />

Hesaidifrecyclingcompliance<br />

didnot improveinanothertwo<br />

weeks, council would push an<br />

educationcampaign to ratepayers.<br />

Cameras on recycling trucks also<br />

gave the abilitytotrackand deal<br />

with persistentoffenders.<br />

‘‘We are hopingand trustthat<br />

people willrespondand getback<br />

to normal. Otherwise it willcost<br />

them.’’<br />

<strong>Ashburton</strong>’s glassisrecycled in<br />

Auckland. <strong>Ashburton</strong> is the only<br />

councilinCanterbury thatcollects<br />

glass separately and sends itnorth;<br />

thatservicecontinues.<br />

Mr McCann said therewas an<br />

influxofgreen waste at the<br />

resource recovery park under<br />

level3restrictions,though this<br />

come in otherwise.<br />

‘‘Wehave to havetotakeitall<br />

in the spirit we have shown in the<br />

lastsix or sevenweeks. If we<br />

want our facilities to be open, it<br />

is not business as usual.’’<br />

Leadingalargecouncilstaff<br />

through alockdown andongoing<br />

pandemichas been challenging<br />

for the district’s top civil servant.<br />

He said it comparedtothe<br />

Christchurch earthquakes,when<br />

the city and the Crusaders rugby<br />

franchise that he led then<br />

wonderedifthey had afuture.<br />

‘‘Thedifference now is that<br />

the whole world is going through<br />

this, we don’t feel as if we are in<br />

this on our own.’’<br />

had since tailed off to normal<br />

levels.‘‘Whenaveraged outacross<br />

timefrom thestart of the<br />

lockdown in March, thevolumes<br />

are aboutnormal forthis timeof<br />

year.’’<br />

He said council’s contractor<br />

EnviroWaste haddone agreat job<br />

of respondingtothechallengesof<br />

collecting the district’s rubbish<br />

duringpandemic conditions.<br />

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Ben’s home, uni studies online<br />

Lola Bryson-Boe on Mt Hutt last season.<br />

Ski family ready<br />

for the slopes<br />

Warren Bryson and his<br />

family of skiers can’t wait<br />

to hit the slopes of Mt<br />

Hutt when the skifield<br />

opens.<br />

Mr Bryson, his wife<br />

Renee Boe and teenage<br />

children Louis, 18, and<br />

Lola, <strong>14</strong>, live at Staveley<br />

and are all competent<br />

skiers.<br />

They enjoy active<br />

winters in the great<br />

outdoors together and<br />

love the challenge of allmountain<br />

skiing.<br />

The family bought this<br />

year’s season passes early<br />

and also usually get in a<br />

few ski days at the<br />

Remarkables and<br />

Coronet Peak, which like<br />

Mt Hutt are owned and<br />

operated by NZSki.<br />

‘‘They’re all great<br />

skifields, but we can get<br />

from home to the ski lift<br />

at Mt Hutt in an hour,<br />

which is great.<br />

‘‘Mt Hutt is busy and<br />

commercial, but we<br />

always get alot of skiing<br />

done.’’<br />

The family usually<br />

made apoint of making<br />

the opening and closing<br />

days and on average skied<br />

20 days over the season,<br />

but had once notched up<br />

35 days.<br />

He loved being on the<br />

snow with his family,<br />

loved the speed of<br />

downhill and also the<br />

terrific views on the<br />

mountain.<br />

Mt Huttwas also agood<br />

supporteroflocal schools<br />

and the skifield catered for<br />

all levels of skiing<br />

competence.<br />

Mr Bryson said he had<br />

enjoyed afew ski runs in<br />

his early adult years, but it<br />

was the opportunity to go<br />

up Mt Hutt withaschool<br />

group13years ago that<br />

locked in his interest.<br />

‘‘Louis was fiveand at<br />

Mt Somers Schoolatthe<br />

time and Ivolunteered to<br />

go up the mountain as a<br />

parent help.<br />

‘‘It was avery enjoyable<br />

experience and soon my<br />

daughter wanted to have a<br />

go as well.’’<br />

His wife was soon<br />

hooked, which meantit<br />

was areal family affair and<br />

something theyall looked<br />

forward each year.<br />

LouisBryson­Boe is<br />

eyeing acareer on the<br />

mountain and is keen to<br />

work in ski patrol. He has<br />

already volunteered in the<br />

role and is building up his<br />

knowledge and skills.<br />

NZSkiisexpected to<br />

announceanopening date<br />

for Mt Hutt soon.<br />

Back to school<br />

MidCanterburyschools<br />

andearlyeducation<br />

serviceswillbeableto<br />

open, with strict controls in<br />

place, on Monday.<br />

Under newAlertLevel 2<br />

restrictions therewillbe<br />

theneedfor measures such<br />

as regular handwashing,<br />

cleaningand some physical<br />

distancing, butsome<br />

normality will returntothe<br />

education system.<br />

Some schoolsand early<br />

learningcentreshave been<br />

open since April 29 for<br />

students whocould not<br />

learn fromhome because<br />

theirparents hadtoreturn<br />

to work, butthe uptakehas<br />

only been around5per<br />

cent of thenational total.<br />

Thedistrict’s biggest<br />

school,<strong>Ashburton</strong> College,<br />

whichhas arollof1200,<br />

will openfor Year 9and<br />

Year 13 students on<br />

Mondayand for all others<br />

on Tuesday.<br />

College principal Ross<br />

Preece said allstaffwere<br />

preparingtowelcome back<br />

pupils.<br />

Thecollege would setup<br />

andfollow all Covid­19<br />

AlertLevel 2health<br />

guidelines, he said.<br />

Thedirectivefromthe<br />

Ministry of Education was<br />

that physicaldistancing<br />

rules didnot apply in the<br />

classroom under Alert<br />

Level2.<br />

Good hygienepractices<br />

andregular cleaning were,<br />

however,very important.<br />

Catching up withYear<br />

13 studentsand assessing<br />

theirprogressand needs<br />

wasapriorityfor teachers<br />

overthe comingdays, said<br />

Mr Preece.<br />

Allreturningstudents<br />

willstart with a15minute<br />

health and safety briefing<br />

duringtheirAkoclass.<br />

It’s not been quite the start to university life<br />

that <strong>Ashburton</strong> College's 2019 Dux Ben<br />

Holland envisioned, but he’s adapted to the<br />

situation and like thousands of university<br />

students around the country, he is currently<br />

learning from home.<br />

Ben is studying for aBachelor of<br />

Commerce, majoring in accounting and<br />

finance, at Canterbury University.<br />

He began his university studies in mid­<br />

February and before lockdown was flatting<br />

in Christchurch. After five weeks,<br />

conventional lectures came to an abrupt<br />

end because of Covid­19.<br />

Ben elected to come back to <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />

to be with his family rather than stay in<br />

Christchurch.<br />

After afour­week break, Term 2started<br />

online two weeks ago. Ben has been<br />

learning through online tutorials, prerecorded<br />

lectures and Zoom meetings.<br />

‘‘I think I’ve adapted pretty well.’’<br />

Lectures were set to continue online<br />

until mid­June, he said, before things were<br />

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Local news at www.starnews.co.nz<br />

Sparrows prepsfor future<br />

Richard Wilson and the team at<br />

Sparrows have wisely spent part of<br />

their time in lockdown preparing for<br />

anew future that includes online<br />

shopping.<br />

Owner Richard said preparations<br />

had included stocktaking the store’s<br />

entire range of clothing and staff<br />

learning computer skills to match the<br />

new online purchase part of their<br />

website.<br />

They plan to hit the first day of<br />

Alert Level 2with abig winter<br />

clothing sale instore, and will have<br />

their online store up as soon as their<br />

tech wizards allow.<br />

Richard said Sparrows’ winter<br />

stock had arrived in the days before<br />

lockdown and it had been frustrating<br />

not to be able to share it with<br />

customers in the usual way.<br />

In level 3, he and two other staff<br />

members have been in the store<br />

fielding telephone calls, selling and<br />

delivering goods.<br />

Richard said staff had been<br />

delivering clothes on appro, and sales<br />

had ranged from shirts to items<br />

intended as gifts.<br />

The most popular item in<br />

lockdown had been lightweight<br />

facemasks made locally by the NZ<br />

Sock Company. He estimates he has<br />

sold around 200 so far.<br />

Richard said the 130­year­old<br />

business was keen to see customers’<br />

faces again, though it was embracing<br />

online sales as apermanent part of<br />

doing business in the future.<br />

‘‘Those four weeks in lockdown,<br />

we spent working on our business<br />

rather than in our business. We’ve<br />

spent it getting ready.‘‘<br />

He said the instore experience of<br />

‘‘look, touch, feel and try’’ was still<br />

important and aspecial part of<br />

Sparrows’ service. ‘‘But things are<br />

changing and we are going positively<br />

into the future. We may be in for a<br />

scary time, but we hope locals will<br />

support locals.’’<br />

Richard said the store was<br />

receiving some rent relief, which had<br />

helped finances, and he was working<br />

with his bank to keep trading.<br />

This week’s big sale is about<br />

generating cashflow and Sparrows,<br />

Richard Wilson and Sparrows staff are taking new steps in retail.<br />

like other businesses all around the<br />

district, is keen to see people back on<br />

the main street.<br />

He’s missed his customers and<br />

having abeer with the boys on a<br />

Friday night, but counts himself<br />

lucky to have shared some special<br />

family time in his bubble.<br />

Ill health forces sale of vineyard<br />

By Toni Williams<br />

Charlie and Esma Hill have put<br />

their Mid Canterbury boutique<br />

vineyard CharRees on the<br />

market.<br />

It’s areluctant sale, fasttracked<br />

due to Mr Hill’s<br />

ongoing health issues. He has<br />

been advised to slow down and<br />

stop heavy lifting work.<br />

‘‘We don’t really want to sell,<br />

it’s just starting to reap the<br />

rewards of our efforts, but my<br />

health has just dropped. I’m not<br />

100 per cent,’’ he said.<br />

The couple, both 67, will<br />

reopen their cellar door from<br />

today and are hopeful people<br />

will buy some of their awardwinning<br />

wines over the next few<br />

weeks.<br />

The residential lifestyle<br />

property spans 9.5 hectares on<br />

Laings Road, on the outskirts<br />

of Tinwald.<br />

It was established in 1999<br />

Charlie Hill and wife Esma are selling their vineyard.<br />

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pinot gris vines, followed by<br />

1800 riesling in 2008.<br />

Mr Hill said the vineyard was<br />

initially put on the market 10<br />

days before Covid­19 lockdown<br />

but subsequently put on hold<br />

over the lockdown period.<br />

It comes with two houses; a<br />

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No timeisbeingwasted by<br />

<strong>Ashburton</strong>’s newly­established<br />

Covid­19 Economic Recovery<br />

Advisory Group,with its first<br />

meeting held yesterday.<br />

Thegroup has 12 members, plus<br />

<strong>Ashburton</strong> mayor NeilBrownwho<br />

will be chairman.<br />

Its aim is to help and support<br />

Mid Canterbury’s key business<br />

sectors and agencies recoverfrom<br />

the pandemic and transition back<br />

to full employment.<br />

Group members named so far<br />

include JamesUrquhart(NZ Ski),<br />

Greg Donaldson (contracting),<br />

Roger Sutton (EA Networks),<br />

AaronChudleigh (manufacturing),<br />

Bob McDonald (retail), Simon<br />

Wareing (transport), AndreaLee<br />

(construction),Nicky Milmine<br />

(hospitality), David Clark<br />

(farming),Karl Jackson (iwi<br />

representative), and council chief<br />

executive Hamish Riachand<br />

economic development manager<br />

BevanRickerby.<br />

Arepresentativeofthe<br />

agricultural business sector was<br />

also expected to jointhe group.<br />

Independentadvicewill be<br />

provided by the Employers<br />

Chamber of Commerce.<br />

The group will report to council<br />

and its purpose is to co­ordinate<br />

and supportawider economic<br />

recovery, and work in partnership<br />

with council, key business sectors<br />

and agencies.<br />

Members are expected to share<br />

information,communicate and<br />

consult with one another in a<br />

flexible and open way, maintaining<br />

confidentiality where appropriate.<br />

Council has also been<br />

considering how it could or should<br />

play arole in Mid Canterbury’s<br />

social and wellbeing recovery. A<br />

separate report will be discussed<br />

this week.<br />

Safer MidCanterbury andSafe<br />

Communities, whichalready<br />

receive an operational grant from<br />

council, and its 27 membergroups<br />

couldbecalled on to help.<br />

Mr Riachsaid there was much<br />

debate nationally aboutthe role of<br />

local authoritiesinthe social<br />

wellbeing of their communities<br />

over the nextseveral years,<br />

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level 2, and I’m sure that’ll<br />

be the case for alot of<br />

workplaces aroundtown.”<br />

Screens will be in place<br />

in the reception area, with<br />

sanitiser available. Extra<br />

cleaning precautions are<br />

being taken regularly.


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Meeting choice<br />

for councillors<br />

at Alert Level 2<br />

Moving to Alert Level<br />

2will change the way<br />

the <strong>Ashburton</strong> District<br />

Council holds its<br />

meetings.<br />

Electedmembers<br />

havebeen meeting<br />

onlinebyZoomas<br />

partofaweekly<br />

Covid­19response<br />

committee.<br />

Regular committee<br />

meetings andactivity<br />

reportswere<br />

suspended while the<br />

countrywas in<br />

lockdown.<br />

The response<br />

committeemeets<br />

again today (possibly<br />

for thelasttime) but,<br />

as chief executive<br />

HamishRiach pointed<br />

out to councillors last<br />

week, the committee<br />

would only existuntil<br />

councildisbandedit.<br />

‘‘The lifeofthe<br />

Covid­19 committee is<br />

completelyin<br />

council’s hands,’’he<br />

said.<br />

Councillorscould<br />

resolve its purpose<br />

had been served and<br />

return to normal<br />

meetings and council<br />

structures.<br />

Mr Riach hadasked<br />

fortoday’smeetingto<br />

remain onlineas<br />

council staff werebusy<br />

trying to establish<br />

work routines forstaff<br />

undernew Alertlevel<br />

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Medical centre move delayed<br />

By Linda Clarke<br />

Sealy Street Medical Centre has been<br />

delayed moving to new premises in the<br />

Eastfield precinct because of Covid­19.<br />

Work had been progressing on the<br />

Eastfield Health building and the practice<br />

had been planning to move in by now, but<br />

contractors were unable to finish the job<br />

under Alert Level 4restrictions.<br />

The medical centre’s business manager<br />

Tony Dann said work restarted after Anzac<br />

Day when the country moved to Alert Level<br />

3and amove­in date was now around the<br />

start of July.<br />

‘‘We are at the end stage of the build which<br />

means that there are alot of contractors<br />

working onsite, so it makes it alittle more<br />

difficult for the project manager to coordinate.’’<br />

Mr Dann said it had been an intense past<br />

six weeks while the doctors and other<br />

medical staff operated under pandemic<br />

conditions. ‘‘But we are now settling into a<br />

rhythm of how to best look after our patients<br />

safely.’’<br />

The pandemic had brought forward some<br />

operationalchanges,like more phone and<br />

video consultations.<br />

‘‘An important shift in primaryhealthis<br />

thinking about how we can make consults<br />

more convenient for our people by offering<br />

phone and video consults so they don’talways<br />

have to come into the practice, which is much<br />

betterfor people who live out of town.<br />

‘‘Because we have gone primarily to phone<br />

consults due to the pandemic this has forced<br />

both us and our patients to get used to phone<br />

consults muchfaster than anticipated.’’<br />

The practicewas alsoplanning to improve<br />

the flow of people using the new building to<br />

Staff meet patients during adrivethrough<br />

flu vaccination clinic at<br />

<strong>Ashburton</strong> ITM.<br />

decrease the number of people in the waiting<br />

roomatany given time.<br />

New doctor Maria Barrosohas alsoarrived<br />

fromSpain, touchingdown in New Zealand<br />

justbeforethe borders closed but staying in<br />

isolation until movingsouth.<br />

Her trip from Europe was stressful and<br />

includedachanged,then cancelled flight,<br />

thenalast­minuteseat to Auckland via<br />

Dubai.<br />

‘‘Needless to say Maria is very happy to be<br />

herenow and to be useful. She was feeling like<br />

she wantedtobedoing something to help<br />

whilebeing stuck in lockdown.She has been<br />

spending some time training up on the New<br />

Zealand health system and she is really<br />

looking forward to meetingour patients.’’<br />

New doctor Maria Barroso.<br />

The practice has been busy with flu<br />

vaccines, withadrive­through clinicfor over­<br />

65s at <strong>Ashburton</strong>ITM and car park clinicsfor<br />

other groups.<br />

‘‘The supply of vaccines has been patchy<br />

becausetherehas been unprecedented<br />

demand for flu vaccines nationally so we have<br />

had to be flexible in our planning for flu<br />

clinics.’’<br />

Childhood vaccinations are continuingas<br />

usual.<br />

‘‘The otherreally important thing is that<br />

people don’t sit on any healthconcerns. Our<br />

GPs, nurse practitioner and nursingteam<br />

have got plenty of capacitytoprovide advice<br />

and guidance,and if peopledelay getting<br />

help, their conditions can often get much<br />

worse thanthey need to,’’ he said.<br />

‘‘Peopleare much better off talking to us<br />

about their health needs sooner rather than<br />

later.’’<br />

Skydive rush to support Red Cross<br />

Ross Allott is stepping outside of his comfort<br />

zone and will jump out of aplane next month<br />

to support the New Zealand Red Cross. His<br />

tandem skydive, which is subject to<br />

government restrictions, will take place on<br />

June 7at<strong>Ashburton</strong> Airport and is with<br />

Skydiving Kiwis.<br />

He is one of 18 people from Canterbury<br />

lined up to jump and will take part in the<br />

initiative dubbed Jump! in June. The former<br />

Borough School and <strong>Ashburton</strong> College<br />

student is aiming to raise at least $500 and if<br />

he reaches $1000 he will also receive a<br />

skydive photo package to help him<br />

remember the experience.<br />

‘‘I'm inspired by the work of New Zealand<br />

Red Cross and want to support them by<br />

raising as much Ican,’’ Mr Allott said.<br />

In this district, Red Cross had three<br />

branches and ran two charity shops, he said.<br />

Volunteers helped deliver Meals on Wheels<br />

for the CDHB, assisted the evening district<br />

nurse, and had donated 1600 fingerless<br />

mittens to new entrant school children over<br />

the past five years. The organisation also<br />

provided life saving defibrillators at a<br />

Ross Allott (centre) at <strong>Ashburton</strong> Airport with Skydiving Kiwis staff Ben Luxton<br />

(left) and Oliver Schoenfeld.<br />

number of prominent locations here. Jump!<br />

in June would raise funds for aworthy charity<br />

that could not fundraise face­to­face because<br />

of the lockdown, he said. The 24­year­old<br />

volunteers regularly in the community,<br />

including at the community Christmas lunch,<br />

and also at FearNZ events, which fundraise<br />

for charities. ‘‘I’m missing the adrenaline I<br />

get from scaring people at horror events for<br />

their entertainment, and my own, due to the<br />

lockdown, so this will be my adrenaline fix.’’<br />

You can support him and the Red Cross by<br />

going to the everydayhero.com/nz/ website<br />

and searching for him under Jump In June.<br />

Clients supported<br />

Clients of community<br />

services provider Safer<br />

Mid Canterbury are being<br />

supported through phone<br />

calls, texts and online<br />

video like Zoom during<br />

the lockdown. Safer Mid<br />

Canterbury manager<br />

Kevin Clifford said most<br />

of the agency’s work<br />

required working directly<br />

with people and was<br />

activity­based, or in<br />

homes. That wasn’t<br />

possible under the current<br />

Covid­19 restrictionsand<br />

staff had to make thebest<br />

of the resources available<br />

to them. ‘‘For the most<br />

part our clients are coping<br />

quite well, but we have<br />

seen some extra need<br />

financially where peoples’<br />

incomes have been<br />

effected,’’ he said. ‘‘We do<br />

deliver someessential<br />

services around youth<br />

justice,however, this has<br />

been relatively quiet.<br />

Therehas been alittle bit<br />

goingon, but we have seen<br />

no spike, nor increasein<br />

our work.’’ He saidalot of<br />

work came through the<br />

courtsystem, which at the<br />

momentwas notfully<br />

operationallylocally.<br />

He anticipated arun on<br />

referrals from court work<br />

and for supportservices<br />

when the country moves<br />

down alert levels.


Local news at www.starnews.co.nz <strong>Ashburton</strong>'s The <strong>Courier</strong>, Thursday <strong>May</strong> <strong>14</strong>, <strong>2020</strong>, Page 7<br />

Blast from the past for Max<br />

By Linda Clarke<br />

Agraduation photograph taken<br />

nearly 50 years ago has sparked some<br />

happy <strong>Ashburton</strong> memories for Max<br />

Alexander.<br />

Ayoung Max was snapped in his<br />

graduation gown on <strong>May</strong> 6, 1975,<br />

having completed aBachelor of<br />

Science at the University of<br />

Canterbury. The image is among<br />

thousands being held by the<br />

Canterbury Museum after<br />

Christchurch photographers<br />

Standish and Preece donated their<br />

negatives in 1992. Museum staff have<br />

recently put the photos online to try<br />

to find out more about the people in<br />

them. The images have captured 125<br />

years of social history, including<br />

many <strong>Ashburton</strong> subjects.<br />

Max said he did not have acopy of<br />

the graduation day image and was<br />

amused to see it. He did another year<br />

of study post­grad and became a<br />

secondary school teacher.<br />

He grew up in Mt Somers and<br />

went to primary school there until<br />

1966. He enrolled at <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />

College the next year, spending three<br />

hours aday on the Greenstreet bus<br />

run.<br />

He moved to <strong>Ashburton</strong> with his<br />

widowed mother later in 1967 and<br />

became atownie.<br />

Teenage years were memorable<br />

and enjoyable, with swimming at the<br />

Borough School pool and<br />

Hampstead pool and rugby, cricket<br />

and tennis. He later took up hunting<br />

and tramping.<br />

Max, and school friends, had afterschool<br />

and holiday jobs in shops,<br />

offices, dairies, service stations and<br />

delivering milk and newspaper.<br />

Max Alexander in his graduation regalia for aphotograph taken by<br />

Standish and Preece in 1975. Photo Canterbury Museum 2019.0.725<br />

‘‘Barbers were another source of<br />

employment after school, late nights<br />

on Friday nights, and school<br />

holidays. Iworked for Noel Whiting<br />

in the Triangle in his barber and<br />

tobacconist shop, sweeping the floor<br />

and serving in the shop.’’<br />

He was also an offsider on stock<br />

trucks but once he had adriver’s<br />

licence, Max worked for agrocery<br />

store in Tinwald delivering goods in<br />

aCommer van and picking up stock.<br />

At university, he spent his holidays<br />

carting hay for contractors such as<br />

Trevor Scott, who operated on<br />

payment per bale.<br />

‘‘The first season Iwas paid at one<br />

cent per bale, but after achieving my<br />

truck licence and being put in charge<br />

of the truck, that rose to 1.5 cents per<br />

bale for all that responsibility. As<br />

part of ateam of four, one thousand<br />

bales in aday was the target,<br />

sometimes met, sometimes<br />

exceeded, but when the gear broke<br />

down, sometimes we were woefully<br />

short. And wet days were stay at<br />

home, no pay days. We all usually<br />

managed to accumulate $1000 or so<br />

over the holiday period, depending<br />

on outgoings during that time.’’<br />

Max said he was lucky to make<br />

great friends through those school<br />

days, many of whom remained as<br />

valued friends today.<br />

‘‘There’s agenuineness about<br />

Mid Canterbury people that seems<br />

to endure throughout life.<br />

‘‘Perhaps it’s because when you<br />

meet them, you immediately have<br />

your roots in common, but Ialso<br />

think it goes beyond that and comes<br />

from the wonderful fabric of Mid<br />

Canterbury society and its values.’’<br />

Max taught in Greymouth for<br />

three years and then returned to<br />

<strong>Ashburton</strong>, where he worked<br />

alongside the late Bill Upton and his<br />

cousin, the late Jim Alexander in<br />

Upton’s Motor Accessories in<br />

Tancred Street. He bought the<br />

business off Bill in 1979.<br />

He owned it until the end of 1994,<br />

when he sold it and moved to<br />

Nelson.<br />

Max said he worked alongside<br />

some great staff and enjoyed valued<br />

loyalty from town and rural<br />

customers. He was an active<br />

member of the <strong>Ashburton</strong> Jaycee<br />

Chapter.<br />

‘‘That group of younger business<br />

people and others made a<br />

significant contribution to the town<br />

through avariety of community<br />

projects and leadership training,<br />

and many of them continue to do so<br />

through their community service<br />

and business leadership skills.’’<br />

Max has lived in Christchurch for<br />

the past 22 years and though retired,<br />

he still does some business advisory<br />

work.<br />

He said he kept an interest in all<br />

things Mid Canterbury and social<br />

media had made it easier to keep in<br />

touch with old contacts.<br />

ComHouse<br />

doors open<br />

Community House Mid<br />

Canterbury will open its doors<br />

today after being closed for the<br />

past seven weeks.<br />

The community­focused facility<br />

on Cass Street is home to over 20<br />

permanent tenants and last year<br />

received 25,500visitors.<br />

Around 40 people work in the<br />

building, half of those for<br />

community and social service<br />

provider Safer Mid Canterbury.<br />

Community House Mid<br />

Canterbury manager John Driscoll<br />

said the reopen was awelcome<br />

boost for tenants and the<br />

community. It had been hard for<br />

all tenants during lockdown and<br />

most had worked from home.<br />

‘‘It will take some time to get<br />

back to where we were, but it’s<br />

great to be opening again.’’<br />

Mr Driscoll said the first few<br />

days of opening would be ‘‘a bit of<br />

trial and error’’ of the systems in<br />

place.<br />

Those systems included main<br />

entrance entry only and<br />

computerised signing in.<br />

Visitors would need to adhere<br />

to physical distancing rules and<br />

tenants would be rung to come<br />

reception to meet visitors.<br />

The buildinghad anumber of<br />

separate offices, so these made<br />

sticking to the rules easier.<br />

Mr Driscoll said meetings bigger<br />

than 10 would have to be scaled<br />

down under level 2restrictions.<br />

He looked forward to returning<br />

to work and believed reopening<br />

was another step towards lifting<br />

community morale.<br />

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Local news at www.starnews.co.nz<br />

Tackling covid, keeping big picture in mind<br />

By Pup Chamberlain<br />

Many, many years ago I<br />

was the captain of my<br />

school’s First XV rugby<br />

team in Gore. Iwas a<br />

front row prop and like<br />

many lads Iwas very<br />

passionate about<br />

rugby.<br />

The fact is, Iwas a<br />

good rugby player but I<br />

was not agood captain.<br />

The reason why Iwas<br />

not agood captain was<br />

because Iwas too busy dealing with<br />

my immediate problem, Iwas<br />

focused on trying to cope with<br />

opposition that seemed to be getting<br />

Pup Chamberlain<br />

bigger and tougher<br />

than Iwas and it took<br />

all my concentration<br />

and effort to deal with<br />

this.<br />

Fortunately for me<br />

and the team, Ihad a<br />

very competent, vocal<br />

vice­captain (it was<br />

Jamie Mackay of Radio<br />

Hokonui’s farming<br />

show fame) who was<br />

capable of seeing the<br />

bigger picture, largely<br />

because he was based at<br />

fullback and therefore aware of<br />

things that were beyond my scope.<br />

Covid­19, going through the stages<br />

has been an interesting time, full of<br />

anxiety, fear, uncertainty, grief and<br />

many other emotions.<br />

Much of this is brought about<br />

through what we don’t know.<br />

Just like me on the rugby field,<br />

sometimes we get so tied up with our<br />

own immediate challenges that it is<br />

hard to see away out.<br />

This is when we can make poor<br />

decisions based on anarrow<br />

perspective, tainted by our own<br />

limited vision and viewpoint.<br />

Many people in our community<br />

are facing, and will face, uncertain<br />

times with financial struggles and<br />

associated pressures this will bring.<br />

Now is the time for us all to act as a<br />

team and look after the interests of<br />

each other.<br />

If you are the prop tied up in the<br />

middle of adark scrum, more than<br />

ever you need eyes and ears that have<br />

adifferent, and sometimes better,<br />

perspective than your immediate<br />

situation may offer. Life will go on<br />

after Covid­19 is long gone and the<br />

things that really matter will still<br />

matter.<br />

If you are feeling trapped in the<br />

“scrum” ask for adifferent view, this<br />

may be from aneighbour, afriend or<br />

someone you respect.<br />

It might be afinancial coach,<br />

government department, or other<br />

specialist.<br />

If you are feeling down, contact<br />

your GP or call the helplines such as<br />

1737.<br />

Lives Worth Living’s Connie<br />

Quigley and Ihave produced aseries<br />

of Facebook Videos which may be of<br />

help at this time. These can be found<br />

on the Safer Mid Canterbury<br />

Facebook site under Lives Worth<br />

Living.<br />

Let’s stay safe be kind and look<br />

after each other. If you need help,<br />

ask; this is not aweakness, it is part<br />

of being asuccessful team.<br />

Contact details: Paul (Pup)<br />

Chamberlain, Lives Worth Living coordinator,<br />

paul.<br />

chamberlain@safermidcanterbury.<br />

org.nz, phone 027­382­6501 and<br />

Connie Quigley, connie.<br />

quigley@safermidcanterbury.org.nz,<br />

phone 027­450­0742.<br />

YES<br />

...WE’RE OPEN!<br />

We’re excited to be back to<br />

normal and welcome you<br />

backin-store.<br />

If you can’t come in personally,just phone us<br />

and we can process your order and deliver.<br />

We look forward toseeing youvery soon.<br />

Image Credit: thespinoff.co.nz ,@SIOUXSIEW, @XTOTL<br />

Source: WHO, CDC -CC-BY-SA<br />

For thelatest info:<br />

who.int, health.govt.nz<br />

2276759 2265438<br />

Timebankers unite<br />

By Mick Jensen<br />

Mid Canterbury timebankers have<br />

been connecting, learning and<br />

supporting others during lockdown.<br />

Arecent quiz night via Zoom<br />

attracted 52 locals and others from<br />

further afield.<br />

Online gardening conversations<br />

have also been popular and arecent<br />

zero waste education session featured<br />

aquestion and answer format with<br />

waste minimisation advocates from<br />

the Rubbish Trip.<br />

Other Zoom sessions have focused<br />

on travel in Israel/Palestine and the<br />

lowdown on what timebanking is<br />

about.<br />

Crafternoons on Fridays, from 2pm<br />

until 3pm, have included advice on<br />

areas such as sewing, knitting and<br />

scrapbooking at home.<br />

Mid Canterbury TimeBank coordinator<br />

Kate White said members<br />

had been supporting each other and<br />

their neighbours during lockdown<br />

with regular phone calls.<br />

They had helped with grocery<br />

shopping and deliveries, and during<br />

Alert Level 3had helped make meals<br />

and baking for afamily who have just<br />

had ababy.<br />

Two upcoming sessions under the<br />

Teaching Tuesdays programme could<br />

be of interest to anumber of people,<br />

she said.<br />

On <strong>May</strong> 19 aZoom panel<br />

discussion will focus on living with a<br />

health condition or adisability.<br />

‘‘Hearing from those with lived<br />

experience will help us all better<br />

understand how disability and health<br />

conditions can affect people's lives<br />

and how we can be more supportive<br />

of friends, family members and<br />

colleagues.’’<br />

On <strong>May</strong> 26 there is another panel<br />

discussion with migrants and<br />

newcomers to Mid Canterbury, who<br />

Knitters and sewers on Zoom<br />

show what they’ve been making at<br />

arecent Crafternoon session.<br />

would share their experiences of<br />

settling here. Both sessions run from<br />

7pm until 8pm.<br />

Mrs White said the panel<br />

discussions, like all other sessions run<br />

during lockdown, were free and open<br />

to the wider community.<br />

TimeBanking continued to bring<br />

the community together and actioned<br />

the Mental Health Foundation’s five<br />

ways to wellbeing ­connecting, being<br />

active, taking notice, keeping learning<br />

and giving, Mrs White said.<br />

The TimeBank concept trades time<br />

rather than money and works on the<br />

premise that everyone in the<br />

community has something to offer<br />

and every person is equally valued.<br />

The Learning Exchange runs<br />

alongside TimeBank and encourages<br />

people to share their skills,<br />

knowledge and passion in the delivery<br />

of informative workshops.<br />

More information on Mid<br />

Canterbury TimeBank on its<br />

Facebook page or by emailing to<br />

coordinator@mctimebank.nz.<br />

My officesin<strong>Ashburton</strong>and Timaru<br />

arecloseddue to COVID-19.<br />

For any assistance you can still contact me<br />

by ringing 03 308 7510 or email me directly at:<br />

andrew.falloon@parliament.govt.nz<br />

Anyone with symptoms of COVID-19 should phone<br />

their doctor or Healthline on 0800 3585453<br />

Authorised by Andrew Falloon MP,<br />

139 Stafford Street, Timaru.<br />

Andrew Falloon,<br />

MP forRangitata


BE INTO<br />

Baker Matt Harvey with son Thomas restaining the fence at home.<br />

BakerMatt enjoys time<br />

away frombakehouse<br />

By Toni Williams<br />

Lockdown has given baker Matt<br />

Harvey anew lease on life.<br />

Unlike the rest of the country,<br />

Matt, who owns Harvey’s Bakehouse<br />

in <strong>Ashburton</strong> and Rakaia, did not<br />

take up baking during lockdown.<br />

Instead he chose to spend quality<br />

time with partner and business<br />

colleague Emma Halliday and<br />

children, Kaitlyn, 9and Thomas 2,<br />

doing anything but baking.<br />

He also stained the front fence, has<br />

sown anew back lawn and watched a<br />

lot of movies ranging from comedy to<br />

action and everything in between.<br />

It’s atime he has enjoyed over<br />

lockdown, into Alert Level 3and it’s<br />

rekindled ayearning for more work/<br />

life balance.<br />

As aresult Matt, who has been<br />

donning his baker’s hat for more than<br />

20 years, has decided not to open<br />

either of his Harvey’s Bakehouse<br />

bakeries on Saturdays.<br />

The decision has come as arelief<br />

for the couple who have been working<br />

six days aweek, working from 1am<br />

(baking) through to 5pm (bakery)<br />

closing.<br />

“You realise how much you missed<br />

out on working six days aweek,” he<br />

says.<br />

“I’m going to appreciate having<br />

more time together as afamily at the<br />

weekends.”<br />

And it means his staff of 10 will not<br />

Sport travel funds given<br />

Twelvesporting teams and<br />

organisationswho spendalot of money<br />

travelling to games and competitions<br />

outsidethe district have been given<br />

$13,000 fromthe Sport NZ Rural travel<br />

Fund.<br />

The fund is administered by the<br />

<strong>Ashburton</strong> DistrictCouncil and the<br />

moneyhelps coverthe costsofaway<br />

games. Many sportspeople must travel<br />

to access competitions for their relevant<br />

age and ability that are not provided in<br />

the district.<br />

Celtic Rugby was granted $1785 and<br />

<strong>Ashburton</strong> CollegeBasketball $1925,<br />

have to work any weekends too, he<br />

says.<br />

While spending time at home Matt<br />

has missed his customers and playing<br />

golf. He admits to not being agreat<br />

golfer but enjoys it.<br />

He has avoided heading into the<br />

bakery for many weeks but now both<br />

bakeries are ready for reopening<br />

today under Alert Level 2having<br />

been cleaned and stocked up.<br />

He says orders had also been<br />

placed for hand sanitiser and plans<br />

put in place for staff movements,<br />

keeping them and customers<br />

protected.<br />

Under Alert Level 2hewill “hope<br />

for the best and to get back to normal<br />

as soon as possible.”<br />

Thomas has given the family plenty<br />

of light hearted moments over<br />

lockdown but it’s Matt’s daughter<br />

Kaitlyn’s goal to own the bakery in the<br />

future but not work the hours which<br />

probably is quite telling.<br />

She doesn’t want to follow in Dad’s<br />

footsteps and be baking from one in<br />

the morning.<br />

whilethe Methven Hockey Club will<br />

receive $1800 and Mid Canterbury<br />

Hockey $1325 for Allenton, Tinwald<br />

and Wakanui teams.<br />

Other grants weremade to:<br />

<strong>Ashburton</strong> College Cricket$830,<br />

<strong>Ashburton</strong> College boys’ first XI<br />

hockey $570, <strong>Ashburton</strong>College<br />

netball teams $850, Ashcoll/Mt Hutt<br />

combined girls rugby $945, AshHutt<br />

boys’under 15 rugby$465,Mid<br />

Canterbury Combined first XV rugby<br />

$920,MountHutt Collegebasketball<br />

and rippa rugby $900 and Rakaia<br />

Hockey $685.<br />

Dry April in <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />

There was just one significant rainday<br />

in <strong>Ashburton</strong> in April andthe rainfall<br />

total for the month was less than 19mm.<br />

The only wet day in an otherwisedry<br />

April monthwas on April 18 when<br />

12.2mmfell.<br />

Two other dayssaw 1.6mmfall each<br />

day.<br />

Figures from the MetService show<br />

the highesttemperature for the month<br />

was 25.3 degrees Celcius recorded on<br />

April 30 and the lowest achilly ­0.4<br />

degrees four daysearlier.<br />

Both the high and low temperatures<br />

for the monthwere on par with<br />

historicalaverages,while the rainfall<br />

was far less than the historical average<br />

for April of 61.1mm.<br />

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DIAMOND WEDDING<br />

CLARKE,<br />

Rob and Cathie<br />

Married in <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />

on <strong>May</strong><strong>14</strong>, 1960.<br />

Congratulations and best<br />

wishes to youbothon<br />

60 years of marriage.<br />

With love from all your<br />

family and friends.<br />

DEATHS<br />

BLUETT Rosalin (Rose)<br />

(née Crawford): Passed<br />

away peacefully at the<br />

<strong>Ashburton</strong> Hospital on<br />

Friday, 8th <strong>May</strong> <strong>2020</strong>.<br />

Aged 81 years. Dearly<br />

loved wife ofBarry for 59<br />

years. Loving mum and<br />

mother-in-law of Craig<br />

and Wendy (Blenheim)<br />

and Julie (<strong>Ashburton</strong>),<br />

treasured Granny Rose<br />

of Timothy and Marcel,<br />

Andrew, Daniel and Kurt,<br />

sister and sister-in-law of<br />

Peter and Judy Crawford<br />

(Greymouth) and John<br />

(deceased) and Anne<br />

Crawford (Granity), sisterin-law<br />

of Jill and Ken<br />

Gillespie (Christchurch). A<br />

great friend to Tony and<br />

Nigel, aunt to Carol and<br />

Paul, and Kristen, John<br />

and Barry. Messages of<br />

condolence should be<br />

sent tothe Bluett family,<br />

5 Belt Road, <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />

7700. Thefamily would like<br />

to take this opportunityto<br />

thank the staff of both the<br />

SealyStreetMedicalCentre<br />

and the <strong>Ashburton</strong> Public<br />

Hospitalfor the thoughtful<br />

and compassionate care<br />

given to Rose over the<br />

last 6years. Likewise our<br />

thanks also to the clergy<br />

from St Stephen’s Anglican<br />

Parish who provided much<br />

appreciated spiritual<br />

care for Rose over the<br />

same period. Lastly a<br />

very special thank you to<br />

Jeanette and Joy for their<br />

kindness that insomany<br />

ways helped Rose cope<br />

with her ongoing illness.<br />

‘A real battler nowatrest’.<br />

Aprivate family servicefor<br />

Rose will be held at alater<br />

date.<br />

Paterson’s<br />

<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />

FDANZ<br />

03 307 7433<br />

Family Notices<br />

DEATHS<br />

HARVEY, John (GJC):<br />

Passed away on<br />

Wednesday<strong>May</strong> 6<strong>2020</strong>. In<br />

his 92nd year. Much loved<br />

husband of Denise for 61<br />

years. Loved father and<br />

father-in-law of Kristen<br />

and Michael Gerard,<br />

Simon and Lynda Harvey,<br />

Penelope and Simon<br />

Brown, Fleur and Brent<br />

Schmack. Grandfather<br />

of William, Jaquetta and<br />

Patrick; Thomas, Henry<br />

and Edward; Benjamin,<br />

Victoria and Samantha;<br />

Jessica and Hamish.<br />

Great grandfather of<br />

Annabelle and Johnny.<br />

John has lived along and<br />

wonderful life and has<br />

left behind a wonderful<br />

legacy. He will be very<br />

much missed by all his<br />

family. Sincere thanks to<br />

the staff of Wairau Hospital<br />

andHospiceMarlborough.<br />

There will be a private<br />

service followed by<br />

interment atthe Manaroa<br />

Cemetery.<br />

Respectfully cared forby<br />

GEOFFREY TSOWMAN<br />

BLENHEIM FDANZ<br />

Tel03578 4719<br />

www.sowmans.co.nz<br />

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parents will continue<br />

to be free in the Family<br />

Notices column. The<br />

initial death notice<br />

lodged by afuneral<br />

directorwill be listed<br />

without charge.There<br />

will be asmallcharge<br />

of $15 forsubsequent<br />

notices relatedtothe<br />

same death, up to a<br />

maximum of 35 words<br />

and on aper-line basis<br />

afterthat.<br />

Thesamelow charges<br />

apply to other<br />

family notices,such<br />

as engagements,<br />

acknowledgements,in<br />

memoriam notices and<br />

anniversaries.<br />

Supporting the<br />

community<br />

96 Tancred Street,<strong>Ashburton</strong>.<br />

LREA2008<br />

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Inquiries phone<br />

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or call into199 Burnett Street.<br />

DEATHS<br />

LOW, Melva Elizabeth:<br />

(nee Briden): Passed away<br />

peacefully on Saturday<br />

<strong>May</strong> 9, <strong>2020</strong> at Tuarangi<br />

Home <strong>Ashburton</strong>, aged<br />

97 years. Loved wife of<br />

the late Alan. Much loved<br />

mother and mother-inlaw<br />

of Robin (deceased)<br />

and Jen (Melbourne),<br />

David (deceased), Glenda<br />

Ryan and Mick (Methven).<br />

Loved nana of Kim and<br />

Graeme Mills, Susan and<br />

Geoff Soal. Great nana of<br />

Jack and Harry Soal,Baxter<br />

and Floyd Mills. Daughter<br />

of the late John and Violet<br />

Briden. Loving sister of<br />

Frank Briden, Ray Briden,<br />

Hilda Mullaney, Ruby<br />

Bench, Lorna Davey, Linda<br />

Vincent, Edgar Briden,<br />

Alan Briden (all deceased).<br />

Messages to the Low<br />

Family C/- P O Box 472<br />

<strong>Ashburton</strong> 7740. A huge<br />

special thanks to all the<br />

wonderful staff atTuarangi<br />

Home <strong>Ashburton</strong>. You<br />

treatedMum with respect,<br />

dignity, and special care<br />

while enjoying her sense<br />

of humour. A private<br />

cremation has been held,<br />

with aMemorial serviceto<br />

be held at alaterdate.<br />

Paterson’s<br />

<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />

FDANZ<br />

03 3077433<br />

LANE, Charles Thomas<br />

Richard (Dick): On <strong>May</strong><br />

10, <strong>2020</strong>. Passed away<br />

peacefully at <strong>Ashburton</strong>,<br />

aged 72 years. Dearly<br />

loved partner of the late<br />

Mary, and loved father<br />

and father in law ofJamie<br />

and Michelle. Messages<br />

to the Lane family c/- PO<br />

Box 472, <strong>Ashburton</strong> 7740.<br />

Aprivate service for Dick<br />

will be held at alater date.<br />

Paterson’s<br />

<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />

FDANZ<br />

03 307 7433<br />

Family Notices<br />

DEATHS<br />

WOODS Janet Estelle<br />

(nee Manson): Peacefully<br />

sleeping, on Wednesday,<br />

<strong>May</strong> 6th, <strong>2020</strong>, aged 95<br />

years.She has gone to join<br />

her dearly loved husband,<br />

Walter John (Wally) and<br />

her three sons. Loving<br />

mother and mother-inlaw<br />

of Murray, Russell<br />

and Kristine, and Wilbur<br />

(Keith) and Vicki. Also<br />

adored grandmother<br />

and great-grandmother<br />

of Darren, Sue and<br />

Hannah, Kimberlee,<br />

Jason, Kade and Jake<br />

and Kelvin, Tui, William<br />

and Griffin. Messages<br />

to the Woods family c/o<br />

PO Box 472, <strong>Ashburton</strong>,<br />

7740. A memorial<br />

service will be held for<br />

Janet –details to follow.<br />

Rest in peaceand love xx<br />

Paterson’s<br />

<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />

FDANZ<br />

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Tony’s 73km ride<br />

for Hospice MC<br />

Tony Todd has taken aleaf out of the<br />

book of Captain Tom Moore, the UK<br />

war veteran who completed 100 laps of<br />

his garden before his 100th birthday and<br />

raised millions of pounds in the process.<br />

Tony, retired retailer and ambassador<br />

for Hospice Mid Canterbury, is planning<br />

to bike 73km on his 73rd birthday to<br />

raise money for the hospice.<br />

He said the Covid­19 pandemic had<br />

made fundraising difficult for the<br />

hospice group so he was doing a<br />

sponsored ride to help raise money.<br />

Hospice Mid Canterbury runs services<br />

in the district for people with terminal<br />

and life­limiting illnesses.<br />

Tony’s ride on Wednesday, <strong>May</strong> 20<br />

will begin at the hospice base on Park<br />

Street at 10am. He will ride a10km loop<br />

and pass the hospice base seven times.<br />

He said people were welcome to join<br />

him on all or part of the ride.<br />

He is seeking lump sum donations to<br />

hospice, or sponsorship per kilometre.<br />

Tony is no stranger to biking and has<br />

cycled up to 40km during lockdown. He<br />

has cycled the Otago Rail Trail and<br />

pedalled parts of Europe.<br />

His bike is no ebike, so he is hoping<br />

for fine weather and few headwinds next<br />

week as he heads up Alford Forest Road<br />

to Farm Road, loops around Argyle<br />

Park then out to Racecourse Road and<br />

back to hospice base via Belt Road, Oak<br />

Grove, Philip, Wills and Park Streets.<br />

Tony said he thought the ride might<br />

Tony Todd is pedalling for agood<br />

cause next week.<br />

take up to five hours and he was looking<br />

for lots of encouragement and<br />

sponsorship.<br />

Friends and family have already come<br />

to the party with donations and he is<br />

hoping more will follow in the lead­up to<br />

bike day and there will be apot of money<br />

for agood cause.<br />

To pledge support, you can email<br />

manager@hospicemc.nz or phone<br />

Christine or Lorraine on 307­8387 or<br />

027­227­8387 to say how much per<br />

kilometre, you would be prepared to<br />

sponsor. Contributions $5 and over are<br />

tax deductible.<br />

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‘‘I’dlike to be abletoput my own<br />

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Maria,18, is studyingengineering at<br />

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Age Concern freephone<br />

Age Concern New Zealand has<br />

launched anew freephone number that<br />

anyone can call to get advice and<br />

support.<br />

Chief executive Stephanie Clare said<br />

older people needed information as the<br />

country moved to level 2.<br />

“Many older people have spoken to<br />

me about their need to reconnect with<br />

friends and family and we are happy that<br />

this re­socialisation can now start to<br />

happen.<br />

‘‘Older peopleare as able as anyone<br />

to make decisions about their own safety<br />

and we are here to help provide<br />

information and support so they can do<br />

just that,’’ she said.<br />

The freephone number is 0800<br />

652105.<br />

‘‘We know not everyone has adevice<br />

or access to the internet in their homes<br />

so this is one way we can make it easier<br />

for older people and their friends and<br />

family to get in touch with us and<br />

connect to our services, become a<br />

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‘‘Our new freephone line is the easiest<br />

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Local news at www.starnews.co.nz <strong>Ashburton</strong>'s The <strong>Courier</strong>, Thursday <strong>May</strong> <strong>14</strong>, <strong>2020</strong>, Page 11<br />

Rural&Lifestyle<br />

Ruralco Instore Days<br />

to go online this year<br />

Covid­19 has changed how the farmer co­op<br />

will run its popular instore days, afeature on<br />

the rural calendar for the past 25 years with<br />

big discounts for members.<br />

Ruralco staff worked hard over the<br />

lockdown period to set up the virtual<br />

equivalent of the instore days. Through<br />

Ruralco’s website platform, all the deals in<br />

this year’s instore days will be online from<br />

July 2­8 to farmers all over the country.<br />

“We have combined the best of both<br />

worlds in this year’s instore days celebrations,’’<br />

said CEO Rob Sharkie. ‘‘The<br />

digital format sits alongside our traditional<br />

catalogue so our team can take orders by<br />

phone, email or online through the Ruralco<br />

website.’’<br />

Purchases can be delivered or collected,<br />

subject to Covid­19 distancing protocol at<br />

stores.<br />

From June 1toJuly 8, every $250 spent<br />

with Ruralco Instore Days participating<br />

suppliers enables members to enter adraw<br />

to win anew Ford Mustang.<br />

Those members who purchase their<br />

Meridian electricity, Ballance Fertiliser,<br />

Allied Petroleum Bulk Fuel or pay for their<br />

fuel at the pump through Ruralco will also<br />

be able to enter the draw with every $250<br />

spent.<br />

Any purchase made using the Ruralco<br />

Card at any of the 90 participating Instore<br />

Ruralco CEO Rob Sharkie.<br />

Days suppliers throughout the country will<br />

also qualify for the draw. The $65,900<br />

Mustang is part of a$100,000 prize pool.<br />

“For Ruralco the silver lining in the<br />

Covid­19 cloud has been the opportunity to<br />

really turn our instore days into something<br />

even bigger and more accessible. At this<br />

tough time, they can now benefit an even<br />

wider number of our valued members who<br />

appreciate Ruralco’s focus on getting the<br />

best deal possible for their farming business,”<br />

Mr Sharkie said.<br />

Janet’s surplus vegetables,<br />

eggssoldtosupportcause<br />

By Mick Jensen<br />

Yoga teacher and <strong>May</strong>field<br />

resident Janet Cross has sold<br />

surplus home grown vegetables<br />

and eggs during lockdown to<br />

support acause close to her heart.<br />

Over 10 days she’s raised $200<br />

from community sales and will<br />

give the proceeds to Outward<br />

Bound, anon­profit organisation<br />

which helps show people their full<br />

potential through outdoor<br />

challenge and adventure.<br />

Mrs Cross is aregular supporter<br />

of Outward Bound, which has a<br />

mission ‘‘to help create better<br />

people, better communities, and a<br />

better world’’.<br />

Now was atime when the<br />

organisation needed support, and<br />

also when some people needed to<br />

get involved in aprogramme that<br />

could help them deal better with<br />

issues of anxiety, confidence and<br />

that could strengthen their<br />

resolve, she said.<br />

Mrs Cross said she had been<br />

impressed by the support of the<br />

<strong>May</strong>field community in buying her<br />

surplus vegetables and eggs.<br />

Shehad posted anoticeonthe<br />

community Facebook page<br />

telling people thattomatoes,<br />

cucumbers, peppers andother<br />

home grown vegetables were<br />

available throughanhonesty box<br />

system at her gate, andshe had<br />

received immediate and positive<br />

responses.<br />

‘‘It’s beengreat to seehow<br />

generous peoplecan be.’’<br />

Making thesurplus items<br />

available had also enabled her to<br />

connect with her communityata<br />

Janet Cross with some of her home-grown goodies.<br />

difficulttime.<br />

Overanumber of years the<br />

55­year­old hassoldher eggsat<br />

thrice weekly yogaclasses she<br />

hosts in the TinwaldCatholic<br />

Church Hall.<br />

The money raised has<br />

supported causes such as St<br />

John, Women’sRefuge andthe<br />

Cancer Society.<br />

Mrs Crossisgiving yoga<br />

sessions onlineatthe moment<br />

and can’t waittoget back to face<br />

to face classes.<br />

Moreinformation on the<br />

Outward Bound cause she<br />

supports canbefound at the<br />

websiteofthe samename.<br />

Duck season starts <strong>May</strong> 23<br />

<strong>May</strong> 23 will be the opening<br />

day of the game bird season<br />

and duck hunters will be able<br />

to travel and use their boats<br />

under Alert Level 2rules that<br />

came into force this week.<br />

Mallard ducks and paradise<br />

ducks are the most targeted<br />

game birds during the season<br />

and the <strong>Ashburton</strong> district has<br />

healthy populations.<br />

On the Rakaia and<br />

Rangitata Rivers, mallard<br />

numbers are slightly above<br />

average this year, while<br />

paradise shelduck numbers<br />

are some of the highest<br />

recorded on the Canterbury<br />

Plains since annual surveys<br />

began in 2007.<br />

Central South Island Fish<br />

and Game officer Rhys<br />

Adams said the numbers were<br />

encouraging news for<br />

<strong>Ashburton</strong> hunters and those<br />

they shared their duck dinners<br />

with.<br />

There will be no extension<br />

to the season for the central<br />

South Island, despite the<br />

delayed start. The main<br />

season finishes on the last<br />

Sunday in July, July 26.<br />

Mr Adams is reminding<br />

hunters that alicence is<br />

required to hunt game birds<br />

and that each hunter should<br />

be familiar with the <strong>2020</strong><br />

Dean Rattray in action at aMitcham pond in aprevious<br />

hunting season. Photo Richie Cosgrove<br />

season regulations.<br />

Fish and Game say the<br />

game bird season is an<br />

important national tradition;<br />

opening day is usually early<br />

<strong>May</strong> but was deferred because<br />

of Covid­19 restrictions.<br />

The organisation said<br />

hunters now had time to equip<br />

themselves, prepare their mai<br />

mais and travel to their<br />

hunting grounds.<br />

Alert Level 2conditions<br />

were more practical for<br />

hunters.<br />

They could travel interregionally,<br />

stay overnight with<br />

friends and family and use<br />

their boats.<br />

Hunters can now also visit<br />

outdoor retailers to buy<br />

instore.<br />

Limping to season end<br />

By David Hill<br />

The Lincoln University Dairy Farm is<br />

“limping” tothe end of the season, after<br />

apromising start.<br />

With the farm in lockdown, <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />

based farm adviser Jeremy Savage<br />

has been connecting with staffvia phone<br />

and Zoom meetings, as the seasonwinds<br />

down.<br />

“We had good systems inplace when<br />

we went into lockdown. We’ve been<br />

running separate teams, who have formed<br />

bubbles to reduce the risks, and<br />

we’ve put the cows on once a day<br />

milking, which is helping with staff<br />

separation.<br />

“Butit’s been avery slow autumn. We<br />

are limping through to the end of the<br />

season.”<br />

Mr Savage said the farm had agood<br />

start to the season and was on track to<br />

produce 280,000 kilograms of milk<br />

solids, or 505kgMS per cow from the<br />

555­cow herd, which was ahead of last<br />

year’s 275,000kgMS.<br />

But he said a dry and colder­thanusual<br />

autumn meant growth had been<br />

slow, while athree­week delayingetting<br />

culled cows off to the freezingworks had<br />

put extra pressure on feed supplies.<br />

“The supplement use has been abit<br />

disappointing, aswe’ve had touse more<br />

supplements than we would have liked.”<br />

It meant the farm had to revise its<br />

budget from its expected costs of $3.60<br />

per kgMS, but Mr Savage expected it<br />

would end up at $3.80/kgMS, which<br />

would still ensure afavourable payday<br />

with Fonterra’s farmgate milk price<br />

sitting at more than $7/kgMS.<br />

Mr Savage said the staff were in good<br />

health, with one vacancy to fill for the<br />

new season.<br />

“We’ve had alot of interest in the job<br />

andthere’s been agood numberofKiwis<br />

applying, some with previous experience<br />

who are wanting to come back into the<br />

industry, which is very pleasing.”<br />

While no focus days were able to be<br />

held in the near future, due to the<br />

Covid­19 restrictions, Mr Savage saidhe<br />

was planning to hold monthly online<br />

updates.<br />

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Page 12, <strong>Ashburton</strong>'s The <strong>Courier</strong>, Thursday <strong>May</strong> <strong>14</strong>, <strong>2020</strong><br />

Local news at www.starnews.co.nz<br />

Health workers busy hunting Covid­19<br />

Angela Leadley unwinds at home<br />

with family pet, Herb.<br />

By Toni Williams<br />

Angela Leadley, of <strong>Ashburton</strong>, is one<br />

of six health team leaders working on<br />

the front line of Canterbury’s Covid­<br />

19 response.<br />

It’s meant some long, <strong>14</strong>­hour<br />

work days, working up to six days a<br />

week.<br />

Angela's usual working week<br />

involves two days based in Timaru<br />

but she has been travelling to<br />

Christchurch. “It’s been massive,<br />

really busy,” Angela says.<br />

One saving grace during lockdown<br />

saw husband Ross, aself­employed<br />

builder, home from work and take on<br />

the home schooling of sons Brady, 8<br />

and Lachie, 7. Angela says he’s done<br />

agreat job.<br />

She works for the public health<br />

unit of Community and Public<br />

Health, abig team working across<br />

three district health boards from<br />

Kaikoura to South Canterbury and<br />

across to the West Coast.<br />

Angela says there are between 40<br />

and 50 staff working different roles in<br />

the Covid­19 response. Some are<br />

working with border control at<br />

Christchurch International Airport<br />

and the ports of Lyttelton and<br />

Timaru greeting flights and ships and<br />

advising on public health concerns.<br />

Others are investigating cases,<br />

contact tracing and daily monitoring<br />

people who have Covid­19 and their<br />

household contacts in isolation.<br />

At peak she says team members<br />

were making more than 400 calls a<br />

day, checking on how people in<br />

quarantine or isolation were doing,<br />

monitoring their symptoms remotely<br />

and supporting them.<br />

It’s included solving problems such<br />

as finding alternative homes to<br />

isolate in, medical help or getting<br />

food deliveries or help through other<br />

agencies such as CDHB welfare<br />

teams or Civil Defence.<br />

It has dropped to around 50 calls a<br />

day now.<br />

Angela runs up to 10km aday as a<br />

stress reliever. She says family time in<br />

lockdown has included watching<br />

movies and going for bike rides.<br />

The boys also celebrated their<br />

birthdays on April 7and 4<br />

respectively. On both occasions the<br />

family ‘‘dressed up and went out for<br />

dinner’’ having evening meals<br />

around aspecially set up dining<br />

table, usually covered in school<br />

material.<br />

Angela and Ross have kept their<br />

bubble small, even as the alert levels<br />

have lowered; Angela's younger<br />

sister Debbie, and partner Cawte,<br />

gave birth to their first child ­aboy<br />

named Oliver ­three weeks ago. It's<br />

put connecting with family on hold,<br />

for now.<br />

But Angela says there have been a<br />

lot of Zoom calls and plenty of<br />

birthday cakes shared online; two<br />

nieces have celebrated their fifth and<br />

first birthdays.<br />

Angela is proud of the work being<br />

done by the public health team, and<br />

says they are well supported by<br />

management and medical officers of<br />

health. It’s been achallenging time<br />

but the goal of eliminating the virus<br />

continues to provide motivation.<br />

Astep toward normality, but surgical backlog to clear<br />

Amove from level 3tolevel2<br />

represents amajor shiftinhow our<br />

country is dealing withCovid­19.<br />

Manyshopswill reopen, restaurants<br />

can again serve guests, and schools<br />

and early childhood centres will go<br />

back on Monday.<br />

For someitwillfeel like astep into<br />

the unknown.Arisk thatweare<br />

exposing ourselves to, with afear of<br />

numbers growingonceagain. It’s a<br />

valid concern, but we’re better<br />

placed than most to avoid it.<br />

As an island nationwehave strong<br />

borders,particularly with the<br />

mandatory quarantiningwe<br />

eventuallysaw introducedfor Kiwis<br />

returning home.<br />

While for afew people oneofthe<br />

mostpressingissues might be getting<br />

Comment by Rangitata MP Andrew Falloon<br />

ahaircut, for others the move from<br />

level 3to2isfar moresignificant.<br />

No precisedata hasbeen released,<br />

but the Association of Salaried<br />

Medical Specialists estimate that<br />

between 20,000and 30,000elective<br />

surgeries were cancelled, with a<br />

further 60,000 specialist<br />

appointments alsoparked.<br />

Althoughsome havebeen carried<br />

out underlevel3,level 2allowsfor a<br />

wider range of patients to be<br />

operated on.<br />

Unfortunately there is quitea<br />

backlog. Somedistricthealth boards<br />

estimate it could be ayear or more<br />

beforethey’ve caught up.<br />

Thecost of thatcould be severe,<br />

not just financial, but more<br />

importantly on the lives and<br />

wellbeing of the people the lockdown<br />

protected.<br />

For others the end of the<br />

lockdown represents achance to<br />

escape.<br />

In recent days Police haveagain<br />

repeated their concerns over family<br />

violence and harm. Even in the best<br />

of times it’s not as easy as some might<br />

expectfor victimstoreporttheir<br />

abuser.<br />

Withlockdown measuresinplace<br />

for weeksonend that task became<br />

even harder.<br />

Family violence can be hiding in<br />

places we might never expect, our<br />

neighbours, ourfriends, ourown<br />

extended families. It’s vital we all<br />

remain vigilant, call out violence<br />

when we see it, and as we move to<br />

level 2, continue to give as much<br />

supporttovictims as we can.<br />

We’ve done atremendous job to<br />

get to this point. Together, by staying<br />

apart, we’ve flattened the curve and<br />

strangled the spread of the virus. It<br />

was the right thing to do, but we must<br />

also acknowledge the socialcost of<br />

the lockdown.<br />

For many it wasn’t easy, and their<br />

relationships, their health,and their<br />

mentalwellbeing may have suffered.<br />

Flattening that curve shouldnow be<br />

oneofour priorities.<br />

Andrew Falloon


Local news at www.starnews.co.nz <strong>Ashburton</strong>'s The <strong>Courier</strong>, Thursday <strong>May</strong> <strong>14</strong>, <strong>2020</strong>, Page 13<br />

Video posts entertain in lockdown<br />

By Toni Williams<br />

People around the district have<br />

stepped up during Covid­19<br />

restrictions, entertaining captive<br />

audiences with the wide reach of<br />

the internet.<br />

Businesses, individuals and<br />

organisations have taken to social<br />

media to keep in touch with their<br />

respective communities in<br />

entertaining ways.<br />

Among them were <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />

District mayor Neil Brown, Rakaia<br />

School principal Mark Ellis and EA<br />

Network Centre’s Tayla McAdam,<br />

who between them have clocked up<br />

thousands of views from their mini<br />

video posts.<br />

<strong>May</strong>or Brown, not usually one<br />

for cooking, took over the kitchen<br />

with daughter Mikayla to make<br />

beer bread, lemon slice and carrot<br />

patties.<br />

Then he posted his success, with<br />

videos, on Facebook.<br />

His beer bread clocked up 2000<br />

views, but his mini video chats with<br />

council chief executive officer<br />

Hamish Riach, discussing arange of<br />

district issues, have clocked up<br />

more than 12,000 views.<br />

“Being safe inside has opened up<br />

new worlds for the Brown family,”<br />

he posted.<br />

“I've taken over afew times in<br />

Judy's kitchen to try my hand in<br />

baking afew experiments.<br />

‘‘You've seen my beer bread,<br />

which went down atreat, here my<br />

daughter Mikayla and Ihave made<br />

afew things on the weekend ­carrot<br />

patties and lemon slice.<br />

“Hope everyone is keeping<br />

themselves safe and sane by trying<br />

new things and looking after your<br />

mental health with positive actions<br />

Rakaia School principal Mark Ellis.<br />

and fresh air when you get it,” he<br />

said.<br />

“Keep connected with friends<br />

and family safely, and feel free to<br />

share pics of the fun and tasty<br />

experiments in the kitchen.<br />

‘‘Would love to see what the<br />

other blokes in the district are<br />

whipping up for their families.”<br />

Principal Mark Ellis has been in<br />

constant contact with his school<br />

community on Facebook.<br />

He not only unveiled his very<br />

short home haircut to them, but<br />

took on awhole new personna to<br />

entertain in one video as<br />

international soccer star Patrick<br />

Quentin Rafferty. It’s been viewed<br />

hundreds of times.<br />

Mr Ellis’s alter ego gained his<br />

status from being in the Irish Under<br />

13 team.<br />

He said the children had worked<br />

“very hard but it was really, really<br />

important to get out (side) as well”.<br />

With soccer ball at the ready, he<br />

showed some football techniques<br />

on how to kick aball properly with<br />

the inside and outside of the foot.<br />

“Inside and outside and outside<br />

and inside, practise that at home,”<br />

he said, showing his ball skills.<br />

EA Networks Centre’s Tayla<br />

McAdam used music and madness<br />

in her entertaining posts for pupils<br />

of the swim school.<br />

It’s been away to reinforce their<br />

water skills and for her to keep in<br />

contact with members.<br />

Ms McAdam showed swim<br />

strokes techniques for pupils to<br />

practise out of the water and<br />

donned her own swimming suit to<br />

sit in the bath and sing children’s<br />

songs to teach younger members<br />

water confidence.<br />

It too has been viewed thousands<br />

of times.<br />

Thomas, the family cat, became<br />

an accidental star by video bombing<br />

her post but he just added to the<br />

entertainment and was likely drawn<br />

in by songs such as Tiny Tim and<br />

Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes.<br />

<strong>May</strong>or Neil Brown took to the kitchen to entertain his family, and the<br />

community, through social media during lockdown.


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LIONSCLUBINTERNATIONAL<br />

WE SERVE<br />

What areLionsClubs?<br />

Lions Club of <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />

Lions Club of Methven<br />

Lions Club <strong>May</strong>field &Districts<br />

Lions is atruly global organisation comprising of over 47,000 Lions clubs in 200<br />

countries and with amembership of over 1.4million people. The Lions motto is<br />

“WESERVE”.<br />

Lions arededicatedtohelping their communities.Giving time and energy to othersis<br />

afantastic waytohelp the community, yet, it also provides agreat feeling foryou that<br />

can spread and have apositiveimpactinyour lifeand howyou approach the world.<br />

Along with the servicecomes the friendship and fellowship thatall Lions clubs foster.<br />

OurMission<br />

To empower volunteers to serve their communities, meet humanitarian needs,<br />

encourage peaceand promoteinternational understanding through Lions clubs.<br />

TheBenefits of being aLion<br />

When youbecome aLion, youbecome partofaglobal network of volunteers working<br />

together to make adifference.<br />

Would youliketofind outmoreabout LionsClubs in <strong>Ashburton</strong>?<br />

Clubs arealways looking to build their membership,soifyou would liketomakeenquires<br />

locally please contact:<br />

•<strong>Ashburton</strong>: g.l.edge@xtra.co.nz<br />

•<strong>Ashburton</strong>County:acl.ashburton@xtra.co.nz<br />

•<strong>Ashburton</strong>Pakeke: dwjmbennett@gmail.com<br />

•Hinds: gleneil18@gmail.com<br />

•<strong>May</strong>field: grant.jan@xtra.co.nz<br />

•Methven: irwin.wr@gmail.com<br />

•Rakaia: raewynmundt@xtra.co.nz<br />

•Media Contact: chrisstewart196@gmail.com<br />

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The Lions Club of<br />

<strong>Ashburton</strong> was Chartered<br />

in September 1963<br />

initially with 32 members.<br />

Membership has grown<br />

and remained strong over<br />

the 57 years that the Club<br />

has been in existence and<br />

currently stands at 64<br />

members. Initially a male<br />

only Club,membershipwas<br />

opened to women in 2012.<br />

The Club has undertaken<br />

many major projects with the aim of returning monies raised to the <strong>Ashburton</strong> Community<br />

along with Lions National and International humanitarian purposes.Members regularly deliver<br />

Meals on Wheels and also supportarange of other communityservices.<br />

Major events run by the Club include the Playhouse Raffle, Annual Charity GolfTournament,<br />

South Island Motorhome Show, Vintage CarClub Swap meet catering and gatekeeping,the Big<br />

Smoke versus Rural Folk Team Challenge and Auction along with gatekeeping duties, selling<br />

garden manureand revenue from the use and hireofitsFood Trailer.<br />

We are able to support community causes such as Ronald McDonald House, MSA Men’s and<br />

Phoenix Rising Choirs, health and social services including provision of defibrillators, the toy<br />

library, children’s learntoswimprogrammes,adventurecamps performing arts such as music<br />

and theatre, junior rowing, basketball, athletics and netball, <strong>Ashburton</strong> Aviation Museum,<br />

Foodbanks, Camp Quality for young cancer sufferers, suicide prevention programmes,<br />

<strong>Ashburton</strong>Cancer Support, Mid/South CanterburyLifeEducation Trust,Birthright, <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />

Pipe Band, <strong>Ashburton</strong> StJohn Cadets, Mid Canterbury Rural Support Trust, Child Cancer,<br />

Hospice Mid-Canterbury, Christchurch Cancer Society Shuttle,Trott’s Garden Charitable Trust,<br />

Berwick Outdoor Experience.<br />

TheClub holds several social events forits membersand partners throughout the year.<br />

The Club meets on the first Wednesday ofeach month (except January) from 5.45pm at the<br />

Hotel <strong>Ashburton</strong>.<br />

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TheLions Club<br />

of Methvenwas<br />

charteredin1967<br />

and has been<br />

activefor 53 years,<br />

with 76 members<br />

from diverse<br />

backgrounds.<br />

Thereisawealth<br />

of skills and<br />

enthusiasm<br />

available to<br />

raise funds for<br />

communityneeds<br />

and provide<br />

manpowertomake<br />

thingshappen.<br />

Major fundraising projects include the Discover Mt Hutt Summer Open Day (late February),<br />

Golf Tournament (<strong>May</strong>), and the Methven Mud and Steel Winch Challenge (October). Other<br />

projects include battery recycling, equipment hire, spectator logistics atthe Methven Rodeo,<br />

and Christmas trees.<br />

Theclubalso organises Methven’sAnzac Daycelebrations. Social events additional to monthly<br />

dinners are organised through the year. The club organises an array ofsocial events for<br />

members throughout the year,including bus trips and four wheel driveexcursions.<br />

All ofthe funds raised are distributed to various charitable causes. Local community groups<br />

and schools arethe main recipients.Some funds go to Lions International,which targets several<br />

national and global causes.<br />

Dinner meetings,cateredbyadifferentcommunitygroup each month, areheldatthe United<br />

Clubrooms in the MethvenDomain at 6pm on the 4th Wednesdayofeach month.<br />

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Sponsored by<br />

MethvenLions, the<br />

<strong>May</strong>field and Districts<br />

club waschartered<br />

in1978.<br />

Theclub represents<br />

the areas of <strong>May</strong>field,<br />

Mt Somers,Valetta,<br />

Lismore, Carew,<br />

Ruapuna, Anama<br />

and Montaltoand<br />

currently has 64<br />

members<br />

We have amonthly<br />

teameeting,held<br />

at the <strong>May</strong>field Golf<br />

Club on the second Tuesdayofthe month at 6pm. Various organisations within the district<br />

fundraise through catering these meals.The monthly teameetings areagreatopportunityfor<br />

members to catchupoverameal and listen to an interesting speaker.<br />

The club elects aboard each year which is charged with running the club.This board meets<br />

everythird Tuesdayofthe month.<br />

The clubs major fund raising events include the Mt Somers Mountain Bike Challenge, Annual<br />

CharityGolfMatch, Wood Chops,Used batterycollections,<strong>May</strong>field ShowChocolate Wheel and<br />

swede and onion sales.Ronald McDonald House has been amajor benefactorfromproceeds<br />

from the Mountain Bike Challenge over anumber of years.<br />

Services include hosting the IHC for aBBQ lunch and entertainment, senior citizens outing,<br />

meals on wheels and manning collections forvarious organisations.<br />

While serving the community isthe clubs driver, itisdone while having fun, with the club<br />

having agreat team spirit cultivated byanumber ofsocial activities throughout the year. A<br />

night atthe races, winter curling match, partners tea meeting and working bees to name a<br />

few. The club isalways actively looking for enthusiastic new members and would welcome<br />

enquiries.<br />

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Lions Club of <strong>Ashburton</strong>County<br />

Lions Club of <strong>Ashburton</strong>Pakeke<br />

Lions Club of Hinds &Districts<br />

Lions Club of Rakaia<br />

<strong>Ashburton</strong> County Lions<br />

originated in June 1987<br />

as a Lioness Club with<br />

25 women attending a<br />

meeting to explore the<br />

possibility ofestablishing<br />

a club, a President and<br />

board of Directors were<br />

appointed, sponsored by<br />

the <strong>Ashburton</strong> Lions Club.<br />

Five years later in <strong>May</strong><br />

1992 the club chartered<br />

as a Lions Club with 32<br />

members. Ten of those<br />

members arestill members of the club today. Ourclubisanall female club with 56 members.<br />

We have adinner meeting onthe 4th Wednesday ofeach month at the Hotel <strong>Ashburton</strong> at<br />

6.30pm.<br />

Alarge part ofwhat the club does is focused on service inthe community. Members assist<br />

with Meals on Wheels,drive forDay Careonaweekly basis,and help with street appeals.The<br />

club has made up gift baskets or donatedtoiletries forPresbyterian Support, Birthright“Seeds”,<br />

Hospiceand Women’s Refuge.<br />

Moneyisdonatedeach year from araffle to Camp QualitySouth. TheClub most years sponsors<br />

acandidate over the age of 18 to Berwick Outdoor Experience, its objectiveistobroaden ones<br />

experiences in lifebyusing teamwork to improveindividual confidenceand selfesteem on this<br />

eightday course.<br />

The Clubs biggest local community service isthe annual Toot for Tucker, growing each year<br />

thanks to community support, in donated non perishable foods for the local food banks, it<br />

hasbecome ahuge undertaking forthe club and all those groups thatsupportitonthe night,<br />

over 400 banana boxes offood divided up between St Vincent dePaul, Salvation Army and<br />

Presbyterian Support.<br />

<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />

Pakeke Lions<br />

celebrate their<br />

40th birthday<br />

this year having<br />

been Chartered<br />

in September<br />

1980.<br />

We areamixed<br />

gender club with<br />

37 members.<br />

Non-member<br />

wives and<br />

partners are<br />

welcome at our<br />

monthly tea<br />

meetings and<br />

oftenassist us<br />

with our manyprojects throughout the year.<br />

We meet at the Hotel <strong>Ashburton</strong>Function Room 4th Mondayofeach month at 5.30pm, where<br />

we enjoyatwocourse meal with entertainmentand aguest speaker.<br />

Our very first project was providing funding for the Allenton Scout Den. Two ofour notable<br />

projects wasplanting daffodils on East St green and building abridgeinthe Domain. We also<br />

do gate keeping and street collections supporting other charitable organizations.<br />

For our Lions Centennial project weare refurbishing the Sextons Building at the <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />

Cemetery.<br />

Our main fundraiser is the Annual Charity Market and Garage Sale held at the <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />

Racecourse which involves all our club members with our wives and partners helping.<br />

Throughout the year the club organises manysocialoutings and functions formembers.<br />

TheHinds club is<br />

36 years old,being<br />

established in 1984<br />

and sponsored by<br />

the <strong>May</strong>field Lions<br />

club.<br />

We areanall<br />

male club,with a<br />

membership of 49.<br />

Hinds Lions meet<br />

on the third<br />

Tuesdayofeach<br />

month at the<br />

Hinds Community<br />

centre.The usual<br />

programme<br />

includes asocial<br />

hour beforeameal at around 7:00pm, and oftenthereare interesting speakers invited along.<br />

Meals areprovided by groups and organisations from around the area, providing auseful flow<br />

of funds to supportthem.<br />

Activities centre around the sale of straw and manure (big hit with gardeners), as well as<br />

running the Longbeach Coastal Challenge in conjunction with Longbeach School. Other<br />

activities include arangeofservices such as delivering Meals on Wheels,organising the ANZAC<br />

serviceaswell as helping with the running of local events.<br />

Social activities include bike trips,the occasional bus trip and sometimes extend to four-wheel<br />

driveexcursions.<br />

Contributions are made tothe Global Lions effort, and financial support goes to the Maia<br />

Foundation, St Johns,Westpac Trust and Cancer and Stroke support.<br />

Abig focus for our club is providing assistance, both financial and manpower, for local youth<br />

activities.<br />

Agroup of<br />

communityminded<br />

menformed The<br />

Lion’s Club of Rakaia<br />

44 years ago in 1976.<br />

Sincethattimethey<br />

have been holding<br />

meetings at various<br />

venueswithin our<br />

districtonthe 2nd<br />

Wednesdayofeach<br />

month at 6:30 pm.<br />

Members partners are<br />

also invited along to<br />

usually four meetings<br />

each year as they can<br />

also be involved with whateverprojects,activityorsocial eventasmuch as they like.<br />

Currently we have 47 members which is equal to the most we have ever had. Five ofthose<br />

members areladies and ahusband and wifecouple areboth members. Wewouldwelcome the<br />

opportunitytohavenew members join our club.<br />

Selling swedes on the roadside trailer has been the most long running projectundertaken for<br />

fundraising but selling lily and freesia bulbs has been the most financial.<br />

Rakaia Lions most notable project was the erection of our landmark“Salmon”and currently<br />

instigated byLions, the Salmon site isgetting redeveloped to cater for the increased number<br />

of tourists thatstop.<br />

We support many community groups and we like to focus on charities that assist the less<br />

fortunate members of our community.<br />

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and bedding down Trott’s Garden.<br />

She’s been back on deck since level3<br />

restrictionswere introduced and is working<br />

solo.<br />

‘‘Itisvery quiet here at the moment and<br />

I’m missing the many volunteers who<br />

usually help out in the garden.’’<br />

She said volunteershelped her with<br />

mowing duties and generalgardening and<br />

wereasociablecrowd, but they wouldnot be<br />

returning untilgiven the go­ahead.<br />

Now was abusy time for her and all about<br />

tidying up the garden for winter.<br />

Her biggestjob was cutting back the 110<br />

metres of perennial borders.<br />

The bordersare various shades of brown<br />

at the moment and quite differentfrom<br />

their summer colours.<br />

The border work was likely to take a<br />

couple of months, on and off, and all the<br />

waste would be composted.<br />

‘‘The compost I’m puttingonthis year<br />

camefrom the cuttings from lastyear, so it’s<br />

all about recycling.’’<br />

The sizeable compost heap at Trott's will<br />

growbigger overthe coming weeks.<br />

Joining the pile will be large piles of<br />

leaves collected from around the 4ha<br />

garden, and other garden waste.<br />

Aride­on mower is usedtoclear up the<br />

bulkofthe leaves.<br />

Leanne said Trott’s was afour season<br />

garden and atranquil spot with plenty of<br />

birdlife.<br />

Her favourite seasonwas summer, when<br />

she also enjoyed taking visitors on formal<br />

garden tours.<br />

Trott’s also features ared border area,<br />

woodland areas developed around curves<br />

and English­inspiredformal gardens.<br />

There are around 50 speciesofmagnolia,<br />

70 kinds of maples and varieties of<br />

dogwood,azaleas, and over500<br />

rhododendrons, all underplantedwith<br />

woodland plants and groundcover.<br />

Summer is the busiest month for visitor<br />

numbers, helped by the fact that Trott's<br />

Garden is recognised as aGarden of<br />

InternationalSignificance and has been<br />

2263526<br />

Trott’s Garden tour guide and gardener<br />

Leanne Smith at work, and, right, an<br />

impressive autumn vista.<br />

awarded six stars by the New Zealand<br />

Gardens Trust.<br />

International visitorsusually accounted<br />

for between20and 30 per cent of summer<br />

gardentour numbers, and adollar value<br />

that was higher again,said Trott’s Garden<br />

marketing and administrator Nicola<br />

Walker.<br />

She said international numberswere<br />

expected to drop sharply because of the<br />

impactofCovid­19.<br />

The charitable trust that ownedthe<br />

gardens would look at and plan the next<br />

seasontosee how the dropoff in overseas<br />

tourists could be filled, she said.<br />

The garden would reopen in September<br />

for garden tours and walk up garden<br />

visitors, but venue bookings and inquiries<br />

can be made year round.<br />

Still time to sow your broad beans<br />

Traditionally,broad beans are sown from March<br />

until mid­<strong>May</strong>,tostand through the winterand bear<br />

crops in early summer.<br />

Renowned for their hardiness, broadbeans are a<br />

favourite vegetable with many gardeners, as not<br />

only do seeds germinate in cold groundbut the<br />

plantsprefer heavier soils.<br />

The soil for broadbeans should be welldrained<br />

and enriched with plenty of compost.<br />

Phosphates, supplied by adding bone dustor<br />

superphosphate,will encourage healthy growth.<br />

Applying lime at the rate of 50g per sqmsome time<br />

beforesowing sweetenssour, acidsoils.<br />

Tall broad bean plantsneed to be supported, and<br />

can provideexcellent windbreaks for tender spring<br />

crops.Site the rows where they will be useful shelter<br />

for the likesoflettuce, outdoortomatoes and<br />

Frenchbeans.<br />

Sow broad beansindouble rows, about 20cm<br />

apart,with theseeds placed about10cm apartand<br />

5cm deep. Sow afew extra seeds at the end of rows<br />

to transplant into any gaps.<br />

If you are growing red­flowered or other heritage<br />

broad beans and wanttosave seeds, be aware they<br />

Broad beans, renowned for their hardiness, are a<br />

favourite vegetable with many gardeners.<br />

will crosspollinate with other broadbeans within<br />

bee­flying distance and may not breed true.<br />

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Good numbers at<br />

foothills reunion<br />

Close to 100 people<br />

attended an informal<br />

reunion of people who<br />

went to Springburn<br />

Schoolorlived in the<br />

Springburn/Staveley area<br />

in the 1950s,‘60s and ‘70s.<br />

The reunion was<br />

organised by former<br />

resident Barry Burgess<br />

and held at the Staveley<br />

Hall before the Covid­19<br />

lockdown kickedin.<br />

Mr Burgesssaid it was a<br />

‘‘magic day’’ for him and a<br />

numberofothers.<br />

The Staveley Hall had<br />

been the gathering point<br />

for the community for<br />

decades and memoriesof<br />

country dances, local<br />

bands and jovialitywere<br />

recounted, along with the<br />

moviesthat were shown<br />

on Friday nights.<br />

Although he had left<br />

the foothills area in 1971,<br />

he had still managed to<br />

recognise anumber of<br />

peopleatthe reunion and<br />

many he hadn’t seen in<br />

more thanfour decades.<br />

There were<br />

representatives fromthe<br />

Pawsey, Smith, Syme,<br />

Stewart, Lamb,McRae,<br />

Mehrtens, Wightman, Lill<br />

and Totty families, as well<br />

as from the Gray,Lister,<br />

Hewit,Greenslade, Hydes<br />

and Burgess families.<br />

‘‘Lois Moody was<br />

probably the most senior,<br />

not that you would think it<br />

Jenny Wightman and Alf Wightman were among<br />

those at the March reunion.<br />

The 1955 class at Springburn School.<br />

to see her.’’<br />

There weresome great<br />

chin wags and stories<br />

sharedand the road near<br />

the Staveley Hall was<br />

packedwith cars on the<br />

day.<br />

‘‘The carswere modern<br />

and the people abit older,<br />

but it really brought back<br />

to me what agreat little<br />

community Igrew up in.’’<br />

House prices up in March<br />

Median house prices across New<br />

Zealand increased by 13.7% in March to<br />

anew record medianprice of $665,000,<br />

up from $585,000 in March 2019.<br />

Data from the Real EstateInstitute of<br />

New Zealand shows eight regions<br />

recording new high median prices in the<br />

month.<br />

The median price for houses sold in<br />

the <strong>Ashburton</strong> District in Marchwas<br />

$375,000, compared to $350,000 in<br />

February and $360,000 in March 2019.<br />

Some 58 homes were sold in the<br />

district in March compared to 43 the<br />

previous month.<br />

In the Canterbury region there was a<br />

6.8% increase in the median price of<br />

homes soldinMarch ($490,000)<br />

compared with the same month in 2019<br />

($459,000).<br />

Agroup from Timaru tackles beading at aCanBead workshop.<br />

Trust wants surplus<br />

beads, fishing gear<br />

The CanInspireCharitableTrust is after any<br />

surplus beading or fishing itemsthat it can reuse<br />

to run workshops for people affectedbyillness,<br />

traumaorpersonal loss.<br />

The trustisinvitingpeople to have aCovid­19<br />

clean out.<br />

It works with agencies suchasthe Cancer<br />

Society, the Brain Injury Trust and othersto<br />

provide awelcomedistraction and connection to<br />

othersexperiencing similar situations.<br />

Through CanBead, the trust offers beading and<br />

jewellery workshops.<br />

Bead stocks are comprised mostly of<br />

deconstructed broken or unwanted jewellery<br />

donated to us by the public. Volunteerswash,<br />

dismantle and put together bead packs for use at<br />

workshops.<br />

CanTackle workshops teach participants how<br />

to fly fishand uses atutor to work through areas<br />

such as tying your own fly, to castingarod and<br />

what to do onceyou make thatmagic catch.<br />

Anyone with unwanted rods or fly tying kits<br />

and feathers is encouraged to donate themfor<br />

thebenefit of others.<br />

TheCanInspire Charitable Trusthas gone<br />

from strengthtostrengthsince it was set up in<br />

2010. It has seven regional offices and has<br />

reached hundreds of people.<br />

Donated items can be droppedoff at<br />

Community House Mid Canterbury(44 Cass<br />

Street)when it reopens, or can be collectedon<br />

request.<br />

More information on the caninspire.org.nz<br />

website.<br />

<strong>Ashburton</strong> A&P meeting on soon<br />

The<strong>Ashburton</strong> A&P Show<br />

committeewillholdits annual<br />

general meetingatthe end ofthe<br />

month, wherethe new incoming<br />

president will be confirmedand<br />

thereisexpected to be alot of<br />

discussion on theupcoming show,<br />

duetorun on October 30and31.<br />

AssociationsecretaryLucille<br />

Brownsaysthe committee was<br />

remainingvery positive about<br />

holding the showatthe end of the<br />

year, however it will depend on<br />

numbersallowedbygovernmentdue<br />

to Covid­19.<br />

Theshowhasanumberofevents<br />

such as equestrian anddog trials<br />

whichare used as qualifying events<br />

fortheir grandfinals so could leave<br />

theshow in abetterposition to go<br />

ahead, even in small sections.<br />

UnliketheNew Zealand<br />

AgriculturalShow, which announced<br />

thecancellation of theirNovember<br />

show last week,the <strong>Ashburton</strong> A&P<br />

Show didnot needtomakeafinal<br />

decision untillater in the year.<br />

ACTIVE ESCAPE<br />

• Peel Forest activities<br />

Horse trekking •hiddenwaterfalls •stargazing<br />

• Horse treks<br />

• Bush walks<br />

• Geraldine stargazing<br />

• Motel packages<br />

• CentralSouth Island<br />

holidaylocation<br />

PLANHERE FORLATER:<br />

DISTRICT


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Gianna debating, sharing<br />

views at youth conference<br />

<strong>Ashburton</strong> Christian School student<br />

GiannaButler is mid way through the<br />

twoweekAotearoa Youth Declaration<br />

conference, acivic educationproject<br />

aimed at developingayouth perspective<br />

on public policy.<br />

TheYear10studentshould havebeen<br />

attending afive day event in Auckland,<br />

butbecause of Covid­19 is joining others<br />

through Zoommeetingsand Flack chat<br />

rooms.<br />

Theconference hours run mostly<br />

between 6pm and 9pm,and feature input<br />

from 180 students from around the<br />

country.<br />

Agedbetween 13­18, the studentsare<br />

workingintargetedgroups to create<br />

policy solutions on abroadrange of<br />

problems.<br />

Theywill discuss and debate issues<br />

and alsohear fromguest speakers.<br />

Eachgroupexamines one or two issues<br />

relevant to Aotearoa, including as access<br />

to voting,education,justice, the<br />

environment, child povertyand Te Reo<br />

in schools.<br />

Gianna is looking at rights and<br />

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students and being directedbytwo<br />

leaders.<br />

Gianna Butler is mid way through the<br />

two week Aotearoa Youth Declaration<br />

conference.<br />

‘‘At schoolwehave studied topicsthat<br />

lookedatjustice and rights and I’m keen<br />

to sharemyknowledge and opinion.’’<br />

Areaslooked at so far had included<br />

the rights of immigrants, the debate<br />

around gun lawsand the freedom of<br />

speech.<br />

‘‘We are discussing just what rightsare<br />

and how they differfrom say privileges,’’<br />

said Gianna.<br />

Each groups was working towards its<br />

own declaration and would contribute a<br />

solution to their topic.<br />

The combinationofthe solutions<br />

wouldmake up theAotearoa Youth<br />

Declaration document which would then<br />

be passed on to the decision­makers that<br />

included MPs, local councils, boards,<br />

and otherinfluential people.<br />

Gianna said she waslearning valuable<br />

skills at the conference such as effective<br />

communication, and teamwork, and<br />

enjoying the experience.<br />

‘‘I’mmixing withlike­minded people<br />

and discussing topicsI’m passionate<br />

about.’’<br />

The onlineconference wrapsupon<br />

<strong>May</strong> 22.<br />

Gianna Butler is eyeing up apossible<br />

future career as apaediatric oncologist,<br />

but has alsobeen told she would make a<br />

good lawyer.<br />

Nine groups get<br />

creative funding<br />

Nine local community<br />

groups are set to benefit<br />

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fundingfor their upcoming<br />

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beingawarded money<br />

from thesecond round of<br />

the2019/20 Creative<br />

CommunitiesScheme<br />

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The <strong>Ashburton</strong> District<br />

Council has awarded<br />

$20,880tothe groups,<br />

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Zealand's Creative<br />

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Thesuccessful recipients<br />

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CreativeFibre, <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />

Indian Multicultural<br />

Charitable Trust,<br />

<strong>Ashburton</strong> MusicalClub,<br />

<strong>Ashburton</strong> Writers' Group,<br />

Bike Methven/Hannah<br />

Kidd, CanInspire Trust,<br />

Hakatere Ceramics&<br />

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TheBig LittleTheatre<br />

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Chairofthe Creative<br />

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Projects the grantwill<br />

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concerts, free Canbead<br />

workshops forpeople<br />

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group exhibitions at the<br />

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new Mt Hutt Bike Park<br />

sign, andatravelling<br />

theatre showaround the<br />

district's halls and<br />

community venues.<br />

Creative NewZealand<br />

provides funding to local<br />

councils around the<br />

countrytodistributein<br />

their community, and<br />

<strong>Ashburton</strong>District<strong>May</strong>or<br />

Neil Brownsaidcouncil<br />

wasdelighted to allocate<br />

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Thenextroundof<br />

CreativeCommunities<br />

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Information on the grant is<br />

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Local news at www.starnews.co.nz<br />

QUALITY<br />

USED VEHICLES<br />

@<br />

AFFORDABLE<br />

PRICES<br />

<br />

WARRANTIES AA APPRAISED FINANCE BIGGEST YARD BEST SELECTION TRADE-INS<br />

2006 NISSAN BLUEBIRD SYLPHY<br />

ABS,AIR CON, CLIMATE<br />

CONTROL,<br />

TWIN AIR BAGS,<br />

2000 CC,60,300<br />

KMS<br />

2009 MAZDADEMIO SPORT<br />

1500 CC,ABS,AIR CON,<br />

CLIMATECONTROL,<br />

REAR SPOILER,<br />

70,500 KMS<br />

2006 NISSAN CUBE<br />

<strong>14</strong>00CC,42,000KMS, AUTO,<br />

TWOAIR BAGS,ABS<br />

$9995 $10,995 $8,995<br />

DAIHATSU<br />

1999 DAIHATSUTERIOS SUV, manual,petrol,4x4, 5door,central locking,<br />

rear spoiler,1300cc, 159,788 kms...........................................................$3,995<br />

HONDA<br />

2006 HONDAINSPIRE,alloys,cruise control, reverse camera, 2wheel<br />

drive, 3000 cc,57,000 kms..................................................................... $9,995<br />

2013 HONDACR-V 24G, auto5door,ABS, cruise control, alloys,tow bar,<br />

66,000 kms, 2400cc...................................................................................$22,995<br />

2004 HONDACR-V ZX, auto, petrol,5door,SUV,ABS, rear spoiler,78,100<br />

kms, 2400cc.....................................................................................................$9,995<br />

2007 HONDAELYSION PRESTAGESZ, auto, petrol,8seater, 5door,ABS,<br />

foglights,105,000 kms, 3500cc........................................................... $11,995<br />

2007 HONDASTEPWAGON G, 5door,8seater, ABS, air con, rear spoiler,<br />

95,000 kms, 2000cc......................................................................................$7,995<br />

MITSUBISHI<br />

2010 MITSUBISHI GALLANT FORTIS SPORT,5door,ABS, air con, CD<br />

changer,climate control, 97,400 kms, 1800cc....................................$9,995<br />

MAZDA<br />

2009 MAZDADEMIO SPORT, 1500cc, ABS, air con, climate control, rear<br />

spoiler,70,500kms.....................................................................................$10,995<br />

2008 MAZDAAXELA15C, ABS, body kit, spoiler,air con, 34,600 kms,<br />

1500cc................................................................................................................. SOLD<br />

2008 MAZDADEMIO SPORT, 5door,ABS, climate control, air con, body kit,<br />

19,800 kms, 1500cc.................................................................................. $11,495<br />

20<strong>14</strong> NISSAN LATIO B<br />

AUTO,31,000KMS,<br />

TWIN AIR BAGS,ABS,<br />

4DOOR SEDAN<br />

NISSAN<br />

2006 NISSANBLUEBIRDSYLPHY20S, 4door,ABS, air con, climate control,<br />

11,800 kms, 2000cc......................................................................................$9,995<br />

2006 NISSANCUBE15M, 5door,petrol,air con, ABS, CD changer,42,300<br />

kms, 1500cc.....................................................................................................$7,495<br />

2008 NISSANNOTE15X, auto, 5door,air con, climate control, petrol,<strong>14</strong>,800<br />

kms, 1500cc, ready to go............................................................................$8,995<br />

2012 NISSAN SYLPHY, 4door,auto, petrol,ABS, air con, 29,200 kms,<br />

1800cc................................................................................................................. SOLD<br />

2005 NISSAN TIIDA18G, 5door,petrol,ABS, air con, rear spoiler,60,500<br />

kms, 1800cc....................................................................................................... SOLD<br />

20<strong>14</strong> NISSAN LATIO B, auto, idling stop,twin air bags,ABS, 4door,petrol,<br />

air con, 31,100kms........................................................................................$9,995<br />

2006 NISSAN BLUEBIRD SYLPHY, 2L, sedan, wine red, twin air bags,<br />

ABS, 60,000kms ........................................................................................... $9,995<br />

2001 NISSAN CUBE, 1300 cc,5door,auto, 136,000 kms........................$3,495<br />

2007 NISSAN SKYLINE 350 GT,3500 cc,auto, paddle shift, 18in alloys,<br />

76,000 kms...................................................................................................$11,995<br />

SUBARU<br />

2008 SUBARUIMPREZA15S, 5door,petrol,ABS, air con, rear spoiler, .........<br />

78,200 kms, 1500cc......................................................................................$8,995<br />

2005 SUBARULEGACY OUTBACK, petrol,6air bags,ABS, air con, cruise<br />

control, foglights,rearspoiler,3000 cc .................................................. SOLD<br />

2005 SUBARUFORESTER 2.0X, 5door,4x4, ABS, air con, petrol,82,500 kms,<br />

2000cc...............................................................................................................$8,995<br />

2007 SUZUKISWIFT 1.5 XS<br />

AUTO,<br />

BODYKIT,AIR CON,<br />

REARSPOILER, 1500 CC,<br />

49,500KMS<br />

SUZUKI<br />

2007 SUZUKI SWIFT 1.5 XS, Auto,body kit, air con, 1500cc,<br />

49,500 kms.................................................................................................. $9,995<br />

2007 SUZUKISWIFT 1.5 XS, 5door,6air bags,ABS, air con, body kit, rear<br />

spoiler,49,500 kms, 1500cc......................................................................... SOLD<br />

2007 SUZUKISX4 XG, 5door,petrol,ABS, air con, climate control, rear<br />

spoiler,roof rails,alloys,97,200 kms, 1500 cc.....................................$8,495<br />

2007 SUZUKISWIFT 1.5XS,1500cc, white, auto, body kit, air con, 68,000<br />

kms.....................................................................................................................$9,995<br />

TOYOTA<br />

2007 TOYOTA PRIUS STOURING, hybrid,alloys,reverse camera, air con,<br />

rear spoiler,ABS, 1500cc,36,000 kms................................................ $9,995<br />

2006 TOYOTA RACTIS GL, 1500cc, ABS, cruise control, air con, rear spoiler,<br />

63,400kms ......................................................................................................... SOLD<br />

2007 TOYOTA BLADEG,5door,ABS, air con, body kit, rear spoiler,push<br />

button start, 70,500 kms, 2400cc.........................................................$10,995<br />

2009 TOYOTA ESTIMA HYBRID X4WD, 5door,8seater, Abs, air con, auto,<br />

rear spoiler,cruise control, 133,450 kms, 2400cc...........................$<strong>14</strong>,995<br />

2013 TOYOTA PRIUSL,5door,ABS, air con, petrol,parking sensors,rear<br />

spoiler,auto, 71,810 kms, 1800cc.........................................................$16,995<br />

2012 TOYOTA RACTIS G, 5door,petrol,ABS, air con, rear spoiler,cruise<br />

control, 45,400 kms, 1500cc...................................................................$11,995<br />

1999 TOYOTA RAV4,3door,petrol,ABS, air con, rear spoiler,<br />

1800cc...............................................................................................................$7,995<br />

2006 TOYOTA RUSH G, 5door,petrol,ABS, air con, climate control, rear<br />

spoiler,59,500 kms, 1500cc....................................................................$11,995<br />

2008 TOYOTA WISHXLIMITED, 5door,petrol,ABS, air con, auto, climate<br />

control, 72,500 kms, 1800cc......................................................................$9,995<br />

2004 TOYOTA FUNCARGO,1300cc, auto, air con, rear spoiler,<br />

<strong>14</strong>8,000 kms...................................................................................................... SOLD<br />

2008 NISSAN NOTE<br />

1500CC,AUTO, TWIN<br />

AIR BAGS,ABS,EASY<br />

ACCESS,<strong>14</strong>,000KM,<br />

READY TO GO<br />

$8,995 $9,995<br />

$8,995<br />

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