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THURSDAY, MAY <strong>21</strong>, <strong>2020</strong><br />
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• By Matt Slaughter<br />
Mike Mora<br />
UNCERTAINTY hovers over the<br />
yet-to-be-built Hornby mega facility<br />
because of the $33.2 million city<br />
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-Hornby-Riccarton<br />
Community<br />
Board chairman<br />
Mike Mora<br />
is concerned<br />
about the<br />
impact of the<br />
virus, but believes<br />
delaying<br />
or even scrapping<br />
the mega facility is unlikely.<br />
Mr Mora is hopeful the project<br />
for a library, service centre and<br />
pool facility to be built in Kyle<br />
Park and other projects, including<br />
the extension of Halswell Junction<br />
Rd will go ahead as planned.<br />
These were two projects prioritised<br />
in the board’s submission<br />
to the city council’s draft Annual<br />
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. • Turn to page 2<br />
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The city council now faces<br />
a race against time to have<br />
the new draft plan ready for<br />
public feedback from June<br />
12 to June 29.<br />
<strong>May</strong>or Lianne Dalziel and<br />
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Mr Mora said the potential<br />
for the mega facility<br />
project to canned or delayed<br />
is a concern but he thinks it<br />
is unlikely this will happen.<br />
“I am concerned but I’m<br />
reasonably confident that the<br />
city council will see the need.<br />
“The council will be looking<br />
at the budget very very<br />
closely and it is going to be<br />
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“I’m hopeful that it will<br />
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SAFETY: The extension of Halswell Junction Rd is another one of the Halswell-<br />
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he said.<br />
The Hornby mega facility<br />
has been a long time coming<br />
after the need for a<br />
pool in the south-west of<br />
the city was first identified<br />
in the 2006 Aquatics Facility<br />
Plan. The need for a larger<br />
service centre and library<br />
was established through<br />
the South West Area Plan<br />
prior to the February 2011<br />
earthquake.<br />
Said Mr Mora: “As far<br />
as the well-being of the community,<br />
it [the mega<br />
facility project] is something<br />
that the community would<br />
be feeling very disappointed<br />
about if it was to be lost.”<br />
Meanwhile, Mr Mora is<br />
also hopeful the extension of<br />
Halswell Junction Rd will not<br />
be scrapped or delayed when<br />
the city council decides on<br />
the board’s revised submissions<br />
to the Annual Plan.<br />
The plan is to extend<br />
Halswell Junction Rd north<br />
of the Foremans Rd intersection<br />
to make turning<br />
easier for heavy vehicles<br />
and other traffic.<br />
“We are a bit concerned<br />
about the Halswell Junction<br />
Rd extension.<br />
“We just don’t want that<br />
to go on hold, really.<br />
It’s an important transport<br />
link, so that’s something<br />
that we’ll be very very<br />
disappointed if it was to<br />
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• By Matt Slaughter<br />
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THE earthquake-damaged<br />
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we have time to get this advice. Dawn Baxendale did not rule a<br />
A the same time, the council zero rates rise out.<br />
is meeting with our economic “We’re considering a series of<br />
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Service Award for her extremely<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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