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Hornby mega facility
• By Matt Slaughter
Mike Mora
UNCERTAINTY hovers over the
yet-to-be-built Hornby mega facility
because of the $33.2 million city
council budget blowout.
The city council will reassess its
spending priorities in the wake of
the deficit, caused by the Covid-19
crisis.
Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton
Community
Board chairman
Mike Mora
is concerned
about the
impact of the
virus, but believes
delaying
or even scrapping
the mega facility is unlikely.
Mr Mora is hopeful the project
for a library, service centre and
pool facility to be built in Kyle
Park and other projects, including
the extension of Halswell Junction
Rd will go ahead as planned.
These were two projects prioritised
in the board’s submission
to the city council’s draft Annual
Plan in March.
The city council needs to reevaluate
the priorities outlined by community
boards to account for its
forecasted $33.2 million deficit due
to Covid-19. • Turn to page 2
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cast doubt over projects
• From page 1
The city council now faces
a race against time to have
the new draft plan ready for
public feedback from June
12 to June 29.
Mayor Lianne Dalziel and
councillors will then have
to sign off on the plan by
July 30.
Mr Mora said the potential
for the mega facility
project to canned or delayed
is a concern but he thinks it
is unlikely this will happen.
“I am concerned but I’m
reasonably confident that the
city council will see the need.
“The council will be looking
at the budget very very
closely and it is going to be
a difficult time.
“I’m hopeful that it will
go ahead, I’m reasonably
confident at this stage that
the work is happening.
The architect’s been appointed
and all of those
things are happening, so
I’m quite confident that
it will [go ahead]. The
money’s in the budget for
it, I know it’s quite a lot
but it’s desperately needed,”
SAFETY: The extension of Halswell Junction Rd is another one of the Halswell-
Hornby-Riccarton Community Board’s priorities chairman Mike Mora wants to
go ahead.
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he said.
The Hornby mega facility
has been a long time coming
after the need for a
pool in the south-west of
the city was first identified
in the 2006 Aquatics Facility
Plan. The need for a larger
service centre and library
was established through
the South West Area Plan
prior to the February 2011
earthquake.
Said Mr Mora: “As far
as the well-being of the community,
it [the mega
facility project] is something
that the community would
be feeling very disappointed
about if it was to be lost.”
Meanwhile, Mr Mora is
also hopeful the extension of
Halswell Junction Rd will not
be scrapped or delayed when
the city council decides on
the board’s revised submissions
to the Annual Plan.
The plan is to extend
Halswell Junction Rd north
of the Foremans Rd intersection
to make turning
easier for heavy vehicles
and other traffic.
“We are a bit concerned
about the Halswell Junction
Rd extension.
“We just don’t want that
to go on hold, really.
It’s an important transport
link, so that’s something
that we’ll be very very
disappointed if it was to
drop off.”
The board will meet on
June 2 to discuss if and
how they will revise the
priorities submitted to the
Annual Plan.
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surprise on her 102nd birthday
• By Matt Slaughter
A REST HOME that was at the
centre of a Covid-19 cluster had
something to celebrate last week.
George Manning Lifecare &
Village resident Rima Arney
turned 102 on Friday.
Mrs Arney stayed healthy
in spite of there bring a cluster
of 19 confirmed and probable
Covid-19 cases at the rest. Those
within this cluster have now
recovered.
Her daughter Angela Woolsten
Croft praised the job nurses and
staff there did and said she knew
Mrs Arney was in safe hands.
“I had full confidence in
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“My mum is 102 and she
can survive Covid,” said Mrs
Woolsten Croft.
Firefighters turned up to the
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to celebrate and Mrs Arney
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Croft for the first time since the
lockdown.
Mrs Woolsten Croft, who is
one of her five children, said
her mum was “quite overawed”
when she was surprised with the
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repairs to the eastern part of the
city’s footpaths, pipes and roads
as one of her main priorities for
this term.
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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
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farewell Holden
of contractors who can take
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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
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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 high school, and feels the GirlBoss Advantage programme will help Board chairman Mike Mora
Baxendale said any request to
her achieve her dreams.
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“The community will be somewhat
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east would have to be agreed
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demolition of the site would be
upon by council.
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South New Brighton School pupil Jacob McMillan enjoying the foam pit at Christchurch School of
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on any guidance to staff around
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PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN this, she said.
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later this year raising at least
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health.
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September.
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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 all 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 cu rent 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
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the economic confidence of our
city.”
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we have time to get this advice. Dawn Baxendale did not rule a
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is meeting with our economic “We’re considering a series of
development agency, Christch-
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circumstances related to the economy in response to the
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In 2010 she was presented
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long span and range of
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“She has experienced the tail
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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.”
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• 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
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coached basketball at a division 3
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college and then came back.
Lissaman had a taste of the
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
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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
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He said the people involved
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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
as ever about the work.
“The great thing is that I can
take my kids to school and I can
make the time up later. And just
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