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THURSDAY, MAY <strong>21</strong>, <strong>2020</strong><br />
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Davids calls for well-being<br />
focus in lockdown recovery<br />
• By Louis Day<br />
NEW community board<br />
chairwoman Alexandra Davids<br />
believes it is time to look at doing<br />
things differently as the country<br />
begins to adjust to a new normal.<br />
As community boards are<br />
reinstated this week after ceasing<br />
over the lockdown period and<br />
alert level 3, Miss Davids who<br />
is now heading the Linwood-<br />
Central-Heathcote Community<br />
Board believes a real focus on<br />
community well-being is needed<br />
as the city looks to recover from<br />
the Covid-19 crisis.<br />
“I feel like we have got to a<br />
point now where we have all<br />
been in lockdown and we have<br />
all started to work out what is<br />
important to us and I think community<br />
well-being is something<br />
that will be at the forefront of our<br />
decision-making.<br />
“Hopefully, there will be a lot<br />
more decision-making based<br />
around that. We have to look<br />
at how we do things differently<br />
now,” she said.<br />
Miss Davids assumed her new<br />
role of chairwoman last month<br />
after Sally Buck stepped down<br />
from the position for health<br />
reasons.<br />
• Turn to page 2<br />
NEW ROLE: Linwood-Central-Heathcote Community Board chairwoman Alexandra Davids believes a focus on community<br />
well-being is needed as the city adjusts to a new normal.<br />
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• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding<br />
THE earthquake-damaged<br />
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Page 17 But chief executive Dawn<br />
GIRL BOSS: Julia Holmes wants to be a geneticist after Page high school, 3 and feels the GirlBoss Advantage programme will Page help 10 said the community are “somewhat<br />
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PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN Page 11 said the final submission is yet to<br />
GIRL BOSS: Julia Holmes wants to be a geneticist after high school, and feels the GirlBoss Advantage programme will help Board chairman Mike Mora<br />
Baxendale said any request to<br />
her achieve her dreams.<br />
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN<br />
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“The community will be somewhat<br />
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• By Bea Gooding<br />
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demolition of the site would be<br />
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FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD Julia<br />
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in how things worked, often country to participate in the<br />
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South New Brighton School pupil Jacob McMillan enjoying the foam pit at Christchurch School of<br />
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•Story, more photos, page 5<br />
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DEDICATED: Dave Bryce is passionate about gardening as it is sustainable and promotes healthy eating.<br />
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Giving the voiceless a voice<br />
• From page 1<br />
Miss Davids said she wanted to<br />
instil an emphasis on engagement<br />
with communities across the board’s<br />
jurisdiction, with a focus on giving<br />
the voiceless a voice at a council level.<br />
Her passion for helping others was<br />
planted from an early age when her<br />
mother would put her to work at the<br />
Methodist Mission Food Bank as<br />
opposed to putting her into holiday<br />
programmes.<br />
“I think it was really to avoid paying<br />
for the holiday programmes because<br />
they are really expensive and she was<br />
on her own with three children, but<br />
it was actually a really great time and<br />
learning experience.”<br />
She has worked in a wide range of<br />
jobs which she believes has given her a<br />
well-rounded perspective of her ward.<br />
She worked in retail at Ballantynes,<br />
in a hotel, an office for a car transmission<br />
garage, where she even got to<br />
rebuild a couple of transmissions, and<br />
at a funeral home.<br />
This is now Miss Davids’ third term<br />
on the community board after first<br />
being elected in 2013, she began this<br />
term as deputy chairwoman.<br />
She described her introduction to<br />
local body politics as a “baptism of<br />
fire.”<br />
In 2013, when she ran for the then<br />
Hagley-Ferrymead Ward for both<br />
council and community board as<br />
a 27-year-old, her billboards were<br />
continuously being stolen and photos<br />
of herself viewable on her Facebook<br />
page, which media referred to as<br />
“glamour shots,” attracted a lot of<br />
publicity.<br />
However, Miss Davids did not think<br />
it was fair to call the photos “glamour<br />
shots.”<br />
“When I saw the articles calling<br />
them glamour shots, I thought but I’m<br />
not a glamour model at all, far from<br />
it, I pity the people who had to look at<br />
my shots,” she joked.<br />
As stressful as this experience was,<br />
Miss Davids felt it prepared her well<br />
for what lied ahead in her political<br />
career.<br />
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chairwoman of the Whitau School<br />
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100th birthday celebrated via Zoom<br />
• By Devon Bolger<br />
GWENDOLINE Capill<br />
marked her 100th birthday by<br />
celebrating with family over a<br />
Zoom video call.<br />
She was expecting to celebrate<br />
her birthday on Monday with<br />
about 40 people.<br />
Her son-in-law Ross Gray<br />
said Mrs Capill still very much<br />
enjoyed the video call where she<br />
was joined by family and friends<br />
from all over the world.<br />
“A grand-niece from Los<br />
Angeles, friends and relatives<br />
from Australia and around New<br />
Zealand joined to congratulate<br />
her and wish her well.<br />
“Gwen is an amazing person,<br />
extremely agile of mind with a<br />
remarkable memory and still<br />
able to look after herself with the<br />
most minimal of assistance,” he<br />
said.<br />
Mrs Capill grew up and lived<br />
in Phillipstown until she was in<br />
her 60s and has been an active<br />
member of the community.<br />
This includes being the chairwoman<br />
of the Phillipstown School<br />
committee for many years.<br />
In 2010 she was presented<br />
with a Spreydon/Heathcote<br />
Community Board Community<br />
Service Award for her extremely<br />
long span and range of<br />
commitment to Christchurch<br />
communities.<br />
“She has experienced the tail<br />
end of the 1918 flu pandemic, the<br />
full force of Covid-19 100 years<br />
later, interspersed with the Great<br />
Depression, World War 2, the<br />
Christchurch earthquakes and<br />
more.<br />
“She has managed to keep<br />
smiling and inspiring others<br />
throughout all of these events,”<br />
Mr Gray said.<br />
“Gwen has a wonderful<br />
sense of humour, and mischief,<br />
and follows the fortunes and<br />
misfortunes of the nation with<br />
great interest.”<br />
Mrs Capill now lives in an<br />
independent cottage at the<br />
Cashmere View Retirement<br />
Village.<br />
CONNECT: Gwendoline Capill of Cashmere made the most<br />
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‘Super-volunteer’ loves making himself useful<br />
• By June Peka<br />
WHILE THOUSANDS are<br />
champing at the bit to get back to<br />
work to keep the wolf from the<br />
door, Maurice Taylor’s restless<br />
itch is for a very different reason.<br />
He just loves turning out for<br />
work and making himself useful.<br />
It’s what he’s done almost every<br />
day since he left school 63 years<br />
ago. And while he was paid for<br />
his labours for 50 of those years,<br />
nowadays he’s on the pension<br />
and works for love – and companionship.<br />
Until this Covid-enforced<br />
retirement, Mr Taylor turned up<br />
for duty at the Vinnies charity<br />
store in Papanui three days a<br />
week. He lives in Belfast, and<br />
takes full advantage of the free<br />
bus service for gold card holders,<br />
which drops him nearby.<br />
He first offered his services to<br />
the Stanmore Rd branch of the<br />
same charity.<br />
“It was the only shop I knew<br />
about really. I went in two or<br />
three times and put my name<br />
down. But in the end they said<br />
there wasn’t enough room there<br />
for another person. In that big<br />
shop, really? I think they just<br />
looked at me and thought ‘he’s a<br />
bit past it.’ But there’s still plenty<br />
of life left in some of us old fellas,<br />
even at 78.”<br />
As it turned out he didn’t even<br />
PASSIONATE: Maurice Taylor, 78, loves volunteering at the<br />
Vinnies charity store in Papanui as it “keeps him out of trouble.”<br />
have to apply at the Papanui store.<br />
Popping in one day to find his<br />
daughter Barbara (also a volunteer)<br />
needing a lift with something,<br />
he made himself useful and<br />
was asked by manager Polly Fisher<br />
if he’d like to help out officially. Of<br />
course, it was a yes.<br />
On any given day in normal<br />
times Mr Taylor will turn his<br />
hand to anything except the till,<br />
and driving the truck. Most of<br />
the time he’ll be found behind<br />
the scenes – unloading the truck,<br />
setting up bales and plastic storage<br />
containers, folding and sorting.<br />
He calls himself a general hand, a<br />
dogs-body, a gofer, a rousie.<br />
Ms Fisher calls him a supervolunteer.<br />
“Honestly, they lucked out<br />
when they turned Maurice<br />
away over there. I feel incredibly<br />
blessed to have him. I know if<br />
I’m clear about what I want done,<br />
I can leave him to it, and it will<br />
be done. I can count on him<br />
completely. He’s helped us no end.<br />
When he teamed up with Cassandra<br />
to work on linen – that’s<br />
measuring and folding sheets<br />
and curtains and smaller items<br />
while Cassandra irons – they<br />
grew the linen department about<br />
five-fold. We have customers<br />
who come in especially to check<br />
out our well-presented linens.”<br />
That’s big praise for a boy who<br />
didn’t do that well at school.<br />
“To be honest I was a bit of a<br />
handful. They didn’t know what<br />
to do with me. I couldn’t spell<br />
and I couldn’t remember stuff.<br />
I was too clever for a special<br />
class but not up there with the<br />
normal class. I fell somewhere<br />
in-between and was always being<br />
tested to see how capable I was.<br />
“The trouble was called short<br />
term memory loss – I’ve always<br />
had it. It’s a fault. That, and the<br />
fact that I just hear what I hear.<br />
I don’t read between the lines.<br />
Like when I was 15 a teacher<br />
found me taking a nap at school<br />
and he said I might as well be at<br />
home, so I went home, and got<br />
into trouble for that. Another<br />
thing is that I can find anything<br />
on a map. I don’t remember<br />
street names, or even peoples’<br />
names often. I get around that by<br />
calling everyone here ‘granny.’<br />
It doesn’t get me into too much<br />
bother.”<br />
Mr Taylor left school at 15 to<br />
learn how to be a glass beveller<br />
at Smith and Smith’s Dunedin<br />
workshop, before moving on<br />
to the Woolstores, the Woollen<br />
Mills and then farming at<br />
Milton and Lumsden where he<br />
and his wife raised a family of<br />
four girls.<br />
He wrangled his class 5 driver<br />
licence while driving a truck and<br />
fork lift for the railways, before<br />
moving to Christchurch more<br />
than 20 years ago to be near his<br />
ageing mother.<br />
Life is good to him, Mr Taylor<br />
says. He lives alone, but with family<br />
nearby and looks after himself<br />
well. He collects stemmed drinking<br />
glasses and small soft toys with<br />
messages attached, many picked<br />
up at the Vinnies.<br />
“I know how to grow and cook<br />
my own veggies, I experiment a<br />
bit with easy, but different recipes.<br />
I enjoy getting along to the<br />
Darnley social club in Kaiapoi<br />
where I help out with the garden<br />
and get a lovely meal. I feel sorry<br />
for young ones going through<br />
this lockdown, who have big<br />
families, big rents and no vegie<br />
gardens.<br />
“But I don’t feel guilty about<br />
pinching someone’s job. Because<br />
this one doesn’t put money in the<br />
bank, but it’s still useful to the<br />
community, and keeps me out of<br />
trouble.”<br />
Jacqui Gibbs Chamberlain<br />
MoMents In tIMe<br />
“We are currently all living in a time of unprecedented<br />
uncertainty and disruption. It gives us a time to slow<br />
down and to listen to our thoughts and reflect on what is<br />
happening around us.<br />
Our thoughts are influenced by what we listen to and<br />
we are then challenged by what we assume we need<br />
and to what is important. In every moment we now have<br />
room to reflect and to embrace change. It has given<br />
me the ability to entertain change and to open up my<br />
imagination.<br />
In these paintings I have tried to express this through<br />
subject, colour and movement. I have allowed myself<br />
to dream and to challenge my mind to new choices; to<br />
create images representing energy and fun, expressing<br />
love and dance, risk, and freedom to express. Food<br />
replenishes love and caring. The flower presents beauty<br />
and the art of giving. It is also a time to meet your<br />
shadows, to let your mind play, to have a conversation<br />
with yourself.<br />
Freedom of thought and expression has no boundaries<br />
to ones imagination. The art to create is a great<br />
healer for me and is a way in which I can express and<br />
communicate my thoughts, desires and feelings.<br />
“Moments in time are special - embrace them, enjoy<br />
them, celebrate and share them.” - Jacqui Gibbs<br />
Chamberlain<br />
While Jacqui’s subject matter is invariably the human<br />
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movement, colour and texture.<br />
Jacqui lives and paints on an isolated farm in<br />
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Thursday <strong>May</strong> <strong>21</strong> <strong>2020</strong> 7<br />
Canterbury basketball’s role player<br />
SPORT<br />
• By Jacob Page<br />
JAMES LISSAMAN has carved<br />
out a niche for himself as a jack<br />
of all trades for Canterbury<br />
Basketball.<br />
The 41-year-old Burwood<br />
resident is the organisation’s<br />
community basketball manager,<br />
but his reach can be felt throughout<br />
all levels of the game in the<br />
region.<br />
Basketball’s popularity has<br />
surged in recent years with 177<br />
weekend teams playing in Canterbury<br />
each weekend last year<br />
compared to just 81 in 2013.<br />
The <strong>2020</strong> season will hopefully<br />
get underway next month at the<br />
earliest if coronavirus restrictions<br />
ease.<br />
“My role is varied,” he said.<br />
“I commentate on games, writing,<br />
website development, photography<br />
and co-ordinating the<br />
Lincoln University scholarship as<br />
well as my competition draws.<br />
“I try to be that contact point<br />
for people and volunteers in our<br />
community.”<br />
In 2006, Lissaman and his<br />
wife, Pina, went over to Indiana<br />
State to do a Masters in Sport<br />
and PE Coaching.<br />
“We went for two years and<br />
coached basketball at a division 3<br />
college and then came back.<br />
Lissaman had a taste of the<br />
DYNAMIC DUO: James Lissaman and wife Pina commentating<br />
a National Basketball League game.<br />
PHOTO: NBL<br />
organisation a decade ago before<br />
raising a young family drew him<br />
back to teaching.<br />
“Late in 2009 to 2012, I worked<br />
part time as the competitions<br />
manager which was far smaller<br />
of a role than what it is now. I<br />
wasn’t paid particularly well so<br />
I went back to primary teaching<br />
purely for financial reasons.<br />
“I came to the realisation that I<br />
didn’t particularly enjoy teaching<br />
and I was spending more time<br />
there than at home with my oldest<br />
child.”<br />
Fortunately, a new role lured<br />
him back.<br />
“I did that for a year and then<br />
the community coach developer<br />
role came up at Canterbury Basketball.<br />
That was the first time<br />
they’d had that role in a number<br />
of years, so I applied, got that,<br />
and did it for three years.<br />
“The competitions side of<br />
things continued to grow so I<br />
eventually moved around and<br />
organised the draws for that, and<br />
Lori McDaniel came on to do the<br />
coaching role.<br />
“It’s not a nine-to-five role. A<br />
lot of the people are volunteers,<br />
so being that contact point is<br />
important.”<br />
He said variety was stimulating.<br />
“I go into work thinking I’m<br />
going to complete certain tasks<br />
and then other things pop-up<br />
like the lockdown over Covid-19<br />
and what an altered season<br />
would look like for us. Then<br />
it’s working out how much<br />
communication we have with<br />
our members so that we aren’t<br />
firing out stuff to them all the<br />
time, but also giving them<br />
enough clarity that they know<br />
we are giving them what they<br />
need once it is definitive.”<br />
Lissaman said he played all<br />
sorts of sports during his school<br />
days but it was not until he tried<br />
basketball during year 7 at Cathedral<br />
College that he found a<br />
sport to stick at.<br />
“It was the first sport I played<br />
for more than two seasons and<br />
I’ve been playing ever since.”<br />
He said the numbers boom in<br />
the sport has made a big difference.<br />
“The growth of the game is<br />
No 1.<br />
“In terms of boys at high<br />
school we got ahead of rugby two<br />
years ago for the first time.<br />
“The interest in the game has<br />
surged, especially around our<br />
Thomson and Wheelan high<br />
school competition.<br />
“Finals night last year was<br />
packed. The growth over the last<br />
couple of years has been amazing.”<br />
He said the people involved<br />
with basketball in Canterbury<br />
would ensure the sport could<br />
adapt to life after the lockdown.<br />
“We’ve been through the<br />
earthquakes and lost our courts<br />
at QEII. We had to farm our<br />
teams out all over the city because<br />
people understood we had<br />
to adapt to play basketball.<br />
The discussions we’ve had with<br />
people around contact tracing and<br />
sanitisation have been positive.<br />
“It will just come down to what<br />
venues we can use because we do<br />
use school gyms at times.”<br />
He said he remains as passionate<br />
as ever about the work.<br />
“The great thing is that I can<br />
take my kids to school and I can<br />
make the time up later. And just<br />
the variety of the role.<br />
“I didn’t take the role thinking<br />
I would be doing commentating,<br />
live streaming games and<br />
learning website design, but<br />
the ability to learn new skills<br />
and become at least partially<br />
competent in them is something<br />
I’ve really enjoyed.<br />
“It is a job that agrees with me,<br />
that’s for sure.”<br />
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