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THURSDAY, MAY <strong>21</strong>, <strong>2020</strong><br />
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• By Matt Slaughter<br />
UNCERTAINTY hovers over<br />
the yet-to-be-built Hornby mega<br />
facility because of the $33.2 million<br />
city council budget blowout.<br />
THe city council will reassess its<br />
spending priorities in the wake of<br />
the deficit, caused by the Covid-19<br />
crisis.<br />
Halswell-<br />
Hornby-Riccarton<br />
Community Board<br />
chairman Mike<br />
Mora is concerned<br />
Mike Mora<br />
about the virus’s<br />
impact, but believes<br />
delaying or even<br />
scrapping the mega facility is<br />
unlikely.<br />
THese were two projects<br />
prioritised in the board’s<br />
submission to the city council’s<br />
draft Annual Plan in March.<br />
The city council needs to reevaluate<br />
the priorities outlined by community<br />
boards to account for its<br />
forecasted $33.2 million deficit due<br />
to Covid-19.<br />
The city council now faces a race<br />
against time to have the new draft<br />
plan ready for public feedback from<br />
June 12 to June 29.<br />
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MEGA FACILITY: The city council’s $33.2 million budget blowout is unlikely to have an effect on the big project in Hornby, said<br />
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CONSTRUCTION OF a new pedestrian<br />
bridge connecting the City<br />
Promenade to Cambridge Tce has<br />
begun.<br />
The bridge is costing just over $3<br />
million to build and is being constructed<br />
by Fulton Hogan, who was<br />
awarded the contract by Crown<br />
rebuild agency Ōtākaro Limited.<br />
The bridge is being constructed out<br />
of concrete as it requires less maintenance<br />
than a steel structure, which is<br />
susceptible to corrosion.<br />
Ōtākaro Chief Executive John<br />
Bridgman says it is great to be getting<br />
physical work started so soon after<br />
the move to alert level 3.<br />
“Infrastructure projects are going to<br />
be an important part of our economic<br />
recovery. Fulton Hogan will have<br />
around five to eight people working<br />
at the site for much of the year and<br />
money will also be flowing through to<br />
its suppliers.<br />
“The City Promenade is increasingly<br />
being used by cyclists and pedestrians<br />
for commuting and we want<br />
to see more of that. The 32m x 3.5m<br />
bridge sits on a naturally desirable<br />
crossing point along the Promenade<br />
so it will make the journey easier for<br />
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<strong>May</strong>or Lianne Dalziel and councillors<br />
will then have to sign off on the<br />
plan by July 30.<br />
Mr Mora said the potential for the<br />
mega facility project to canned or<br />
delayed is a concern but he thinks it is<br />
unlikely this will happen.<br />
“I am concerned but I’m reasonably<br />
confident that the city council will see<br />
the need.<br />
“The council will be looking at the<br />
budget very very closely and it is going<br />
to be a difficult time.<br />
“I’m hopeful that it will go ahead,<br />
I’m reasonably confident at this stage<br />
that the work is happening. The architect’s<br />
been appointed and all of those<br />
things are happening, so I’m quite<br />
confident that it will [go ahead]. The<br />
money’s in the budget for it, I know it’s<br />
quite a lot but it’s desperately needed,”<br />
he said.<br />
The Hornby mega facility has been a<br />
long time coming after the need for a<br />
pool in the south-west of the city was<br />
first identified in the 2006 Aquatics<br />
Facility Plan. The need for a larger<br />
service centre and library was established<br />
through the South West Area<br />
Plan prior to the February 22, 2011,<br />
earthquake.<br />
Said Mr Mora: “As far as the wellbeing<br />
of the community, it [the mega<br />
facility project] is something that the<br />
community would be feeling very very<br />
very disappointed if that was to be<br />
lost.”<br />
The board will meet on June 2 to<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 />
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Popping in one day to find his<br />
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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 />
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On any given day in normal<br />
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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 />
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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 />
“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 />
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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 />
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Journey to raise funds for kids’ mental health<br />
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team-euro-nuts<br />
1984 Volkswagen Golf which<br />
resembles a German police<br />
car.<br />
“I was helping out last year<br />
and found it quite fun. I didn’t<br />
take part but this year we’ve<br />
actually made the plan to get<br />
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Mr Thompson said the event<br />
was likely to turn a few heads<br />
while teams were out and about,<br />
which was a chance to raise<br />
awareness for “a really good<br />
charity.”<br />
This year’s route was yet to<br />
be revealed, but previous<br />
journeys included an overnight<br />
stay at Hanmer Springs,<br />
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races.<br />
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Toy treats delight quarantined children<br />
HELPING HAND: The CDEM response team workers helped pack the toys for quarantined children at Christchurch hotels. <br />
DOZENS OF children<br />
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hotels were treated to a special<br />
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package and drop off the goodies<br />
to 55 children at four different<br />
hotels.<br />
The Lyttleton trust’s chair, Thea<br />
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Meals on Wheels essential service<br />
in recent weeks and swiftly coordinated<br />
last week’s efforts.<br />
“Moving fast and approaching<br />
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to secure toys for the children,”<br />
she said.<br />
“There was a real mix of ages<br />
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Puzzles, baby blankets and<br />
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The toys had been in their<br />
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While the toys provided<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 />
DYNAMIC DUO: James Lissaman and wife Pina commentating<br />
a National Basketball League game.<br />
PHOTO: NBL<br />
college and then came back.<br />
Lissaman had a taste of the<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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