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Davids calls for well-being
focus in lockdown recovery
• By Louis Day
NEW community board
chairwoman Alexandra Davids
believes it is time to look at doing
things differently as the country
begins to adjust to a new normal.
As community boards are
reinstated this week after ceasing
over the lockdown period and
alert level 3, Miss Davids who
is now heading the Linwood-
Central-Heathcote Community
Board believes a real focus on
community well-being is needed
as the city looks to recover from
the Covid-19 crisis.
“I feel like we have got to a
point now where we have all
been in lockdown and we have
all started to work out what is
important to us and I think community
well-being is something
that will be at the forefront of our
decision-making.
“Hopefully, there will be a lot
more decision-making based
around that. We have to look
at how we do things differently
now,” she said.
Miss Davids assumed her new
role of chairwoman last month
after Sally Buck stepped down
from the position for health
reasons.
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NEW ROLE: Linwood-Central-Heathcote Community Board chairwoman Alexandra Davids believes a focus on community
well-being is needed as the city adjusts to a new normal.
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see Lianne Dalziel’s campaign
aspirations for the area come to
fruition.
During October’s local body
elections, Ms Dalziel identified
repairs to the eastern part of the
city’s footpaths, pipes and roads
as one of her main priorities for
this term.
“We need a fully integrated
programme of works for the
east, I have loosely called this
the eastern alliance, which
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• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding
THE earthquake-damaged
former Sockburn Service Centre
could finally be demolished in
July – if the funding needed is
obtained.
port Agency
It comes as the
announced more
Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton
time was needed
to complete the
Community
$290m motorwayten
in its draft
Board has writ-
The original
submission to
scope of the
the city council’s
Readers respond
Chance to
would essentially be an alliance
Helpless to
Victorious
Delay in
Market day
project has been Mark Wilson
Annual Plan
Mike Mora
to supermarket
farewell Holden
of contractors who can take
extended include
stoked
making mall
goes green at 2019-2020,
stop property
captain the whole area bit by bit and
a third southbound lane on
requesting the city council addresses
the budget gap so the
rebranding
in style
systematically get the work
the Waimakariri River bridge and
flooding
with cup done,” she said during the
a clip-on win
exit safer
Cashmere HS
cycleway.
buildings can be removed as soon
campaign.
St Albans resident Mark Wilson
as possible.
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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
thankful” for the delay.
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PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN Page 11 said the final submission is yet to
GIRL BOSS: Julia Holmes wants to be a geneticist after high school, and feels the GirlBoss Advantage programme will help Board chairman Mike Mora
Baxendale said any request to
her achieve her dreams.
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN
pursue a specific project in the
“The community will be somewhat
thankful for a reprieve of the
• By Bea Gooding
for biology, and from a young Julia is one of 25 young were often male-dominated,
• By Bea Gooding
for biology, and from a young Julia is one of 25 young were often male-dominated, be completed but it was likely the
east would have to be agreed
age has always been interested women chosen around the with particular focus on science,
technology, engineering
age has always been interested women chosen around the with particular focus on science,
technology, engineering requested.
demolition of the site would be
upon by council.
FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD Julia
effects of this motorway for six
in how things worked, often country to participate in the
FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD Julia in how things worked, often country to participate in the
South New Brighton School pupil Jacob McMillan enjoying the foam pit at Christchurch School of
City councillors are yet to pass
Holmes is on a mission to
months, but it’s still there. Until
taking things apart just to put GirlBoss Advantage programme
next month, designed She was shocked to hear the
and maths.
Holmes is on a mission to taking things apart just to put GirlBoss Advantage programme
next month, designed She was shocked to hear the Main South Rd, has been a source
and maths.
The former service centre, on
Gymnastics, which opened its doors to pupils while the school was closed due to fire damage.
on any guidance to staff around
make a difference in the world.
decisions are made to put our
them back together.
make a difference in the world. them back together.
•Story, more photos, page 5
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN this, she said.
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it will be because most of the supermarkets
are providing online
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Mr Bryce at a ceremony held at tomatoes, berries, nuts and
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continue, or should be paused
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programme next month,
She was shocked to hear the
help,” she said.
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news from her mother.
Mrs Hodder said there is no “I just think anything to help we exist.
working and things like that, and
to the Covid-19 crisis.
Pleasant resident, who is also award for Best Sustainability
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Miss Davids said she wanted to
instil an emphasis on engagement
with communities across the board’s
jurisdiction, with a focus on giving
the voiceless a voice at a council level.
Her passion for helping others was
planted from an early age when her
mother would put her to work at the
Methodist Mission Food Bank as
opposed to putting her into holiday
programmes.
“I think it was really to avoid paying
for the holiday programmes because
they are really expensive and she was
on her own with three children, but
it was actually a really great time and
learning experience.”
She has worked in a wide range of
jobs which she believes has given her a
well-rounded perspective of her ward.
She worked in retail at Ballantynes,
in a hotel, an office for a car transmission
garage, where she even got to
rebuild a couple of transmissions, and
at a funeral home.
This is now Miss Davids’ third term
on the community board after first
being elected in 2013, she began this
term as deputy chairwoman.
She described her introduction to
local body politics as a “baptism of
fire.”
In 2013, when she ran for the then
Hagley-Ferrymead Ward for both
council and community board as
a 27-year-old, her billboards were
continuously being stolen and photos
of herself viewable on her Facebook
page, which media referred to as
“glamour shots,” attracted a lot of
publicity.
However, Miss Davids did not think
it was fair to call the photos “glamour
shots.”
“When I saw the articles calling
them glamour shots, I thought but I’m
not a glamour model at all, far from
it, I pity the people who had to look at
my shots,” she joked.
As stressful as this experience was,
Miss Davids felt it prepared her well
for what lied ahead in her political
career.
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BUSY: Alongside
her new role as
chairwoman of
the community
board, Miss Davids
also serves in a
number of other
roles including
chairwoman
of Keep New
Zealand
Beautiful and
chairwoman of
Local Government
New Zealand’s
community
board executive
committee.
Aside from her new role, she is also
chairwoman for Local Government
New Zealand’s community board
executive committee, chairwoman
of both Keep Christchurch Beautiful
and Keep New Zealand Beautiful,
chairwoman of the Whitau School
board, a representative on LGNZ’s
young elected members committee
and a trustee of the Graeme Dingle
Foundation.
On top of this, she also manages
to find time to fulfil her duties
as a Resource Management Act
commissioner and role at the
Women’s Refuge.
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CALLS HAVE been made to
stop rates increases in response
to the Covid-19 crisis.
City counci lors James Gough,
Sam MacDonald, Catherine
Chu, Phil Mauger, Aaron Keown
and James Daniels have sent a
le ter to Mayor Lianne Dalziel
asking her to lead a conversation
as to how a zero per cent rates
increase could be achieved this
The city council is proposing
an average rates increase of 4.65
per cent acro s a l ratepayers in
this year’s Draft Annual Plan
which is cu rently under public
consultation until April 5 and
wi l be finalised before July 1.
The 2018-2028 Long Term
Plan also predicts a 50 per cent
rates increase over 10 years.
Said Cr MacDonald: “In
the current environment it’s
clear busine s as usual is not
appropriate and the council
needs to look at how we enable
this 12-month rates increase
freeze to occur, it’s crucial for
the economic confidence of our
city.”
Ms Dalziel said the last thing
the city council needed was for
someone to hi the panic bu ton.
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Chamber of Commerce
not entirely funded by rates, and
the consequences that wi l flow and other key players so we are
from decisions we make. best prepared for the economic
“The Annual Plan is not cha lenges that lie ahead.” she said.
signed off for three months so City council chief executive
we have time to ge this advice. Dawn Baxendale did not rule a
A the same time, the council zero rates rise out.
is meeting with our economic “We’re considering a series of
development agency, Christch-
options in light of the extraordinary
circumstances related to the economy in response to the
Covid-19. We wi l discuss these Covid-19 pandemic.
options with elected members The biggest boost is $5.1
as we develop the Annual Plan,” bi lion towards wage subsidies
for affected busine ses in a l
The push from city counci lors sectors and regions.
for a freeze on rates rises comes •Tips for weathering virus, p3
shortly after Minister of Finance
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Grant Robertson announced
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100th birthday celebrated via Zoom
• By Devon Bolger
GWENDOLINE Capill
marked her 100th birthday by
celebrating with family over a
Zoom video call.
She was expecting to celebrate
her birthday on Monday with
about 40 people.
Her son-in-law Ross Gray
said Mrs Capill still very much
enjoyed the video call where she
was joined by family and friends
from all over the world.
“A grand-niece from Los
Angeles, friends and relatives
from Australia and around New
Zealand joined to congratulate
her and wish her well.
“Gwen is an amazing person,
extremely agile of mind with a
remarkable memory and still
able to look after herself with the
most minimal of assistance,” he
said.
Mrs Capill grew up and lived
in Phillipstown until she was in
her 60s and has been an active
member of the community.
This includes being the chairwoman
of the Phillipstown School
committee for many years.
In 2010 she was presented
with a Spreydon/Heathcote
Community Board Community
Service Award for her extremely
long span and range of
commitment to Christchurch
communities.
“She has experienced the tail
end of the 1918 flu pandemic, the
full force of Covid-19 100 years
later, interspersed with the Great
Depression, World War 2, the
Christchurch earthquakes and
more.
“She has managed to keep
smiling and inspiring others
throughout all of these events,”
Mr Gray said.
“Gwen has a wonderful
sense of humour, and mischief,
and follows the fortunes and
misfortunes of the nation with
great interest.”
Mrs Capill now lives in an
independent cottage at the
Cashmere View Retirement
Village.
CONNECT: Gwendoline Capill of Cashmere made the most
of her 100th birthday during the Covid-19 pandemic by
celebrating over a video call with the help of her daughter
Lorraine Gray.
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route in Canterbury and complete
challenges along the way this
September.
Last year at least 10 teams collectively
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funds distributed to Cure Kid’s
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mental health.
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Butterworth in a 1984 Volkswagen
Golf which resembles a German
police car.
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while teams were out and about,
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‘Super-volunteer’ loves making himself useful
• By June Peka
WHILE THOUSANDS are
champing at the bit to get back to
work to keep the wolf from the
door, Maurice Taylor’s restless
itch is for a very different reason.
He just loves turning out for
work and making himself useful.
It’s what he’s done almost every
day since he left school 63 years
ago. And while he was paid for
his labours for 50 of those years,
nowadays he’s on the pension
and works for love – and companionship.
Until this Covid-enforced
retirement, Mr Taylor turned up
for duty at the Vinnies charity
store in Papanui three days a
week. He lives in Belfast, and
takes full advantage of the free
bus service for gold card holders,
which drops him nearby.
He first offered his services to
the Stanmore Rd branch of the
same charity.
“It was the only shop I knew
about really. I went in two or
three times and put my name
down. But in the end they said
there wasn’t enough room there
for another person. In that big
shop, really? I think they just
looked at me and thought ‘he’s a
bit past it.’ But there’s still plenty
of life left in some of us old fellas,
even at 78.”
As it turned out he didn’t even
PASSIONATE: Maurice Taylor, 78, loves volunteering at the
Vinnies charity store in Papanui as it “keeps him out of trouble.”
have to apply at the Papanui store.
Popping in one day to find his
daughter Barbara (also a volunteer)
needing a lift with something,
he made himself useful and
was asked by manager Polly Fisher
if he’d like to help out officially. Of
course, it was a yes.
On any given day in normal
times Mr Taylor will turn his
hand to anything except the till,
and driving the truck. Most of
the time he’ll be found behind
the scenes – unloading the truck,
setting up bales and plastic storage
containers, folding and sorting.
He calls himself a general hand, a
dogs-body, a gofer, a rousie.
Ms Fisher calls him a supervolunteer.
“Honestly, they lucked out
when they turned Maurice
away over there. I feel incredibly
blessed to have him. I know if
I’m clear about what I want done,
I can leave him to it, and it will
be done. I can count on him
completely. He’s helped us no end.
When he teamed up with Cassandra
to work on linen – that’s
measuring and folding sheets
and curtains and smaller items
while Cassandra irons – they
grew the linen department about
five-fold. We have customers
who come in especially to check
out our well-presented linens.”
That’s big praise for a boy who
didn’t do that well at school.
“To be honest I was a bit of a
handful. They didn’t know what
to do with me. I couldn’t spell
and I couldn’t remember stuff.
I was too clever for a special
class but not up there with the
normal class. I fell somewhere
in-between and was always being
tested to see how capable I was.
“The trouble was called short
term memory loss – I’ve always
had it. It’s a fault. That, and the
fact that I just hear what I hear.
I don’t read between the lines.
Like when I was 15 a teacher
found me taking a nap at school
and he said I might as well be at
home, so I went home, and got
into trouble for that. Another
thing is that I can find anything
on a map. I don’t remember
street names, or even peoples’
names often. I get around that by
calling everyone here ‘granny.’
It doesn’t get me into too much
bother.”
Mr Taylor left school at 15 to
learn how to be a glass beveller
at Smith and Smith’s Dunedin
workshop, before moving on
to the Woolstores, the Woollen
Mills and then farming at
Milton and Lumsden where he
and his wife raised a family of
four girls.
He wrangled his class 5 driver
licence while driving a truck and
fork lift for the railways, before
moving to Christchurch more
than 20 years ago to be near his
ageing mother.
Life is good to him, Mr Taylor
says. He lives alone, but with family
nearby and looks after himself
well. He collects stemmed drinking
glasses and small soft toys with
messages attached, many picked
up at the Vinnies.
“I know how to grow and cook
my own veggies, I experiment a
bit with easy, but different recipes.
I enjoy getting along to the
Darnley social club in Kaiapoi
where I help out with the garden
and get a lovely meal. I feel sorry
for young ones going through
this lockdown, who have big
families, big rents and no vegie
gardens.
“But I don’t feel guilty about
pinching someone’s job. Because
this one doesn’t put money in the
bank, but it’s still useful to the
community, and keeps me out of
trouble.”
Jacqui Gibbs Chamberlain
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“We are currently all living in a time of unprecedented
uncertainty and disruption. It gives us a time to slow
down and to listen to our thoughts and reflect on what is
happening around us.
Our thoughts are influenced by what we listen to and
we are then challenged by what we assume we need
and to what is important. In every moment we now have
room to reflect and to embrace change. It has given
me the ability to entertain change and to open up my
imagination.
In these paintings I have tried to express this through
subject, colour and movement. I have allowed myself
to dream and to challenge my mind to new choices; to
create images representing energy and fun, expressing
love and dance, risk, and freedom to express. Food
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and the art of giving. It is also a time to meet your
shadows, to let your mind play, to have a conversation
with yourself.
Freedom of thought and expression has no boundaries
to ones imagination. The art to create is a great
healer for me and is a way in which I can express and
communicate my thoughts, desires and feelings.
“Moments in time are special - embrace them, enjoy
them, celebrate and share them.” - Jacqui Gibbs
Chamberlain
While Jacqui’s subject matter is invariably the human
form, it is secondary to her exploring form, structure,
movement, colour and texture.
Jacqui lives and paints on an isolated farm in
Port Levy, Banks Peninsula with her husband and
daughter Phoebe.
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Canterbury basketball’s role player
SPORT
• By Jacob Page
JAMES LISSAMAN has carved
out a niche for himself as a jack
of all trades for Canterbury
Basketball.
The 41-year-old Burwood
resident is the organisation’s
community basketball manager,
but his reach can be felt throughout
all levels of the game in the
region.
Basketball’s popularity has
surged in recent years with 177
weekend teams playing in Canterbury
each weekend last year
compared to just 81 in 2013.
The 2020 season will hopefully
get underway next month at the
earliest if coronavirus restrictions
ease.
“My role is varied,” he said.
“I commentate on games, writing,
website development, photography
and co-ordinating the
Lincoln University scholarship as
well as my competition draws.
“I try to be that contact point
for people and volunteers in our
community.”
In 2006, Lissaman and his
wife, Pina, went over to Indiana
State to do a Masters in Sport
and PE Coaching.
“We went for two years and
coached basketball at a division 3
college and then came back.
Lissaman had a taste of the
DYNAMIC DUO: James Lissaman and wife Pina commentating
a National Basketball League game.
PHOTO: NBL
organisation a decade ago before
raising a young family drew him
back to teaching.
“Late in 2009 to 2012, I worked
part time as the competitions
manager which was far smaller
of a role than what it is now. I
wasn’t paid particularly well so
I went back to primary teaching
purely for financial reasons.
“I came to the realisation that I
didn’t particularly enjoy teaching
and I was spending more time
there than at home with my oldest
child.”
Fortunately, a new role lured
him back.
“I did that for a year and then
the community coach developer
role came up at Canterbury Basketball.
That was the first time
they’d had that role in a number
of years, so I applied, got that,
and did it for three years.
“The competitions side of
things continued to grow so I
eventually moved around and
organised the draws for that, and
Lori McDaniel came on to do the
coaching role.
“It’s not a nine-to-five role. A
lot of the people are volunteers,
so being that contact point is
important.”
He said variety was stimulating.
“I go into work thinking I’m
going to complete certain tasks
and then other things pop-up
like the lockdown over Covid-19
and what an altered season
would look like for us. Then
it’s working out how much
communication we have with
our members so that we aren’t
firing out stuff to them all the
time, but also giving them
enough clarity that they know
we are giving them what they
need once it is definitive.”
Lissaman said he played all
sorts of sports during his school
days but it was not until he tried
basketball during year 7 at Cathedral
College that he found a
sport to stick at.
“It was the first sport I played
for more than two seasons and
I’ve been playing ever since.”
He said the numbers boom in
the sport has made a big difference.
“The growth of the game is
No 1.
“In terms of boys at high
school we got ahead of rugby two
years ago for the first time.
“The interest in the game has
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Thomson and Wheelan high
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“Finals night last year was
packed. The growth over the last
couple of years has been amazing.”
He said the people involved
with basketball in Canterbury
would ensure the sport could
adapt to life after the lockdown.
“We’ve been through the
earthquakes and lost our courts
at QEII. We had to farm our
teams out all over the city because
people understood we had
to adapt to play basketball.
The discussions we’ve had with
people around contact tracing and
sanitisation have been positive.
“It will just come down to what
venues we can use because we do
use school gyms at times.”
He said he remains as passionate
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I’ve really enjoyed.
“It is a job that agrees with me,
that’s for sure.”
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