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THURSDAY, MAY <strong>28</strong>, <strong>2020</strong><br />
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Running for fitness becomes global goal<br />
• By Jacob Page<br />
THE DESIRE to “lose a few pounds”<br />
after university has taken Jeremy<br />
Duggan all around the world one<br />
fast footstep at a time.<br />
The 33-year-old Christchurch<br />
Hospital physiotherapist and social<br />
runner decided something needed<br />
to change 15 years ago.<br />
“I’d over-indulged in the university<br />
lifestyle and things were<br />
starting to get away from me so I<br />
decided I’d set a goal to complete<br />
the Christchurch Half Marathon<br />
in 2006.<br />
“Came in with a time of 2hr 36sec,<br />
so not bad for a first time effort.”<br />
Duggan, who lives in Avonhead<br />
with wife Jo and daughter Eleanor,<br />
said running came to him at the<br />
right time.<br />
“I played cricket and hockey growing<br />
up.<br />
“Running is a personal thing, you<br />
don’t need to rely on anyone else,<br />
you just get out there and do it.<br />
“Along with going to the gym,<br />
that was the motivation I needed,”<br />
he said.<br />
Since 2006, he has completed full<br />
marathons on four continents, including<br />
Antarctica, and plans to tick off<br />
the remaining three, Asia, North<br />
America and Africa when time and<br />
travel allows.<br />
“I did the London Marathon in<br />
2013, where I dressed up as an All<br />
Black carrying a rugby ball all the<br />
way.<br />
“Two years ago I did Antarctica<br />
in March. That was all layering,” he<br />
said. • Turn to page 2<br />
DRIVEN: Physiotherapist, Jeremy Duggan started off running to lose some weight, but has taken the hobby to the next level by<br />
competing in events on multiple continents. (Inset) Duggan finishes the London Marathon dressed as an All Black.<br />
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“A couple of thermals, t-shirts, a<br />
jumper and thick socks with trail<br />
socks and away you went.<br />
“My wife and I did six months<br />
around South America after that,<br />
and I did no training, I thought<br />
the hiking we were doing would be<br />
enough but it wasn’t.<br />
“I did that one in Uruguay in<br />
Montevideo. I met the runners wall<br />
at the 21km halfway mark.<br />
“Then I did Queenstown for the<br />
Australasia leg last year and hit the<br />
wall early in that one too.<br />
“It’s not as flat as many would<br />
expect.”<br />
Duggan said he was also eager<br />
to give back to the running community,<br />
so began volunteering with<br />
Achilles New Zealand’s Christchurch<br />
chapter.<br />
The organisation helps people who<br />
are visually impaired or have other<br />
disabilities the chance to get active<br />
through running.<br />
The group meets every fortnight at<br />
the Antigua Boat Sheds.<br />
Their aim this year was to send a<br />
team to the New York Marathon in<br />
November, which is now in serious<br />
doubt due to the coronavirus outbreak.<br />
“There’s been lots of fundraising<br />
done, so we’ll just see what happens,<br />
but it may be a 2021 goal,” said<br />
Duggan.<br />
COLD SNAP: In 2018, a layered-up Jeremy Duggan completed<br />
the Antarctica Marathon on his way to trying to complete seven<br />
marathons on seven continents. PHOTO: DUGGAN FAMILY<br />
“They go up to Wellington for<br />
Round The Bays in February and<br />
they do other events throughout the<br />
year so it’s a great thing, and there’s<br />
some pretty good athletes among<br />
them.”<br />
Duggan said running had taken<br />
him to many great locations and got<br />
him to a point in his life he would<br />
not have believed he could get to at<br />
the start.<br />
“If we rewound the clock 15 years,<br />
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am now. But it’s been really good.”<br />
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He said being a physio didn’t<br />
mean he was able to resolve<br />
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than the average runner.<br />
“I’m not always one who<br />
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I just keep going. I’m not<br />
always the best as practising<br />
what I preach.”<br />
Duggan said he enjoys his<br />
role helping people regain their<br />
fitness, movement and quality<br />
of life.<br />
“There aren’t many glory<br />
cases. It’s a lot of sprained ankles<br />
after silliness on a night out, or<br />
helping out the older patients<br />
which I do really enjoy.”<br />
“Running is one of the only<br />
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athlete while travelling the world<br />
and get medals as an adult – as<br />
I say, you don’t need equipment.<br />
I’ve travelled to some amazing<br />
places for half marathons – some<br />
places that don’t attract the<br />
typical tourist like Luxembourg,<br />
Latvia and Terni in Italy.<br />
“I have also run under the<br />
midnight sun in Iceland where<br />
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runners were coming through<br />
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NOR’WEST NEWS<br />
Leaders in Learning<br />
Kia ora tātou.<br />
In light of the current situation with<br />
COVID-19, Burnside High School<br />
decided to cancel Open Evening. At<br />
Open Evening we showcase our school<br />
to the community with students and<br />
staff sharing what we stand for, what<br />
we believe in, what makes Te Kura o<br />
Waimairi-iri Burnside High School<br />
special, and why we are proud to be part<br />
of this learning community.<br />
In the absence of this event, please<br />
refer to our school website www.<br />
burnside.school.nz where you will<br />
find comprehensive information on<br />
curriculum, extra-curricula opportunities,<br />
our Student Support systems, and much<br />
more. Our Prospectus, Enrolment Forms<br />
and information are also available on the<br />
website. Printed copies can be collected<br />
or posted.<br />
Our School.<br />
The Burnside High School ethos is<br />
expressed in our vision, mission and<br />
values. We provide an excellent learning<br />
environment that makes a positive<br />
difference to people’s lives. We pride<br />
ourselves on being a successful school<br />
that is highly regarded in the community<br />
for its high-quality, values-based learning<br />
and specialist facilities. We are a larger<br />
school with a community feel, offering<br />
a wide range of opportunities in a safe,<br />
friendly atmosphere, and with high<br />
standards and expectations of ourselves<br />
and our students. We base our culture<br />
on a vision of personal excellence and<br />
caring for others. Our key values of<br />
Manaakitanga - being respectful, Mana<br />
- having pride, and Rangatiratanga -<br />
striving to excel, guides the way that<br />
students and staff act, feel, and think<br />
about themselves and about others.<br />
Burnside High School has an outstanding<br />
reputation for its ability to ensure that<br />
students achieve very well. We do<br />
this through our focus on providing a<br />
high-quality, co-educational learning<br />
environment. We are delighted that, over<br />
the next few years, there will be a major<br />
redevelopment of our campus.<br />
Our size and all the advantages that this<br />
brings is a point of difference and is what<br />
makes this decile 8, state, co-educational<br />
school special<br />
Here, in no particular order, are the seven<br />
significant features that make Burnside<br />
High School a leader of learning:<br />
• We are a centre for academic<br />
excellence with an emphasis on<br />
high-quality teaching practices and<br />
outstanding achievement.<br />
• We are co-educational and multicultural,<br />
reflecting the social reality of<br />
our nation and our world, and allowing<br />
young female and male student’s<br />
opportunities to develop learning<br />
relationships based on absolute and<br />
genuine respect and equality.<br />
• Our roll of around 2,500 students<br />
enables us to provide an extensive,<br />
diverse and specialised curriculum that<br />
caters for and challenges students of<br />
all abilities.<br />
• We provide an exceptionally wide<br />
range of co-curricular opportunities<br />
(music, drama, dance, clubs and sports)<br />
for students to enjoy, learn new skills, to<br />
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• We are a caring school where students<br />
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learning environment.<br />
• We value effective relationships<br />
with parents/whānau and the wider<br />
community to improve outcomes for<br />
students.<br />
• We are innovative and responsive to<br />
the evolving nature of society through<br />
continuous and rigorous review and<br />
evaluation of our systems, practices<br />
and procedures.<br />
Burnside High School, in partnership with<br />
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students develop the skills, attributes,<br />
and attitudes to make a success of their<br />
lives in the workplace, in the community,<br />
and as members of supportive and<br />
loving families. I believe in and am<br />
proud of Burnside High School; and feel<br />
privileged to be its principal.<br />
Whāia te iti kahurangi, ki te tūohu koe<br />
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Pursue excellence, and if you are to ever<br />
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Aoraki.<br />
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Teddy book to support food banks<br />
• By Bea Gooding<br />
A FAMILY known for their<br />
creative teddy bear displays<br />
during the lockdown are due to<br />
release a book next week while<br />
raising money for Christchurch<br />
food banks.<br />
The adventures of Theodore<br />
Bear and Rudolph brought joy to<br />
the Opawa neighbourhood in the<br />
past few weeks, with the bears<br />
undertaking different outdoor<br />
activities each day.<br />
Whether it was chopping<br />
wood, having a bear picnic,<br />
washing the car or playing board<br />
games, local families loved it so<br />
much that they asked for more –<br />
a book that compiled all of their<br />
adventures in one place.<br />
Opawa resident Susan Doherty<br />
said her daughter, Emma, developed<br />
30 ideas for the setup one<br />
day before the lockdown began;<br />
not satisfied with simply placing<br />
bears by the window.<br />
“I shared Theodore Bear and<br />
Rudolph’s adventures on Facebook<br />
and Instagram. Later I received<br />
messages from people who were by<br />
themselves, feeling isolated, enjoying<br />
the daily posts,” she said.<br />
“It soon became apparent that<br />
this was helping members of my<br />
community, both young and old,<br />
and it was much bigger than two<br />
bears sitting at the gate.”<br />
ADVENTURE: Theodore Bear and Rudolph made daily<br />
appearances over the lockdown, much to the amusement of<br />
the local children. A book based on their exploits will donate all<br />
profits to Christchurch City Mission’s food bank.<br />
Because people had expressed<br />
an interest, the idea for the book<br />
came to life and it was now in its<br />
final stages of printing.<br />
Mrs Doherty and her daughter<br />
planned to donate all profits<br />
from the book’s sales to the<br />
Christchurch City Mission Foodbank.<br />
“I think that majority of people<br />
purchasing the book will use it as<br />
a keepsake of this period of time<br />
JOY: Susan Doherty and her<br />
daughter Emma were the<br />
masterminds behind The<br />
Adventures of Theodore Bear<br />
and Rudolph.<br />
and how we as a community got<br />
through the lockdown,” she said.<br />
In addition to the book,<br />
Theodore Bear was also featured<br />
on postage stamps this month<br />
because his photo was one of six<br />
that won New Zealand Post’s<br />
Share your Bear competition.<br />
Said Mrs Doherty: “I feel<br />
happy that I have brought joy to<br />
other people in the community<br />
which has been a difficult time<br />
for a lot of us, especially for those<br />
living alone.”<br />
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Rudolph, email: theodorebear.<br />
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• Seniors online book initiative<br />
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Firefighters give back to community<br />
• By Bea Gooding<br />
FIRE AND Emergency NZ staff<br />
donated dozens of essential<br />
items last week to those facing<br />
hardships at the Christchurch<br />
City Mission.<br />
Twenty-five bags of nonperishable<br />
groceries and toys<br />
were gifted to the mission to<br />
support the city’s struggling<br />
communities.<br />
Fire risk management officer<br />
Wayne Hamilton said his team<br />
wanted to give back to the staff for<br />
hard work they did and knew of<br />
the struggles food banks were currently<br />
facing due to high demand.<br />
“It was great to be able to talk<br />
to them and to put a smile on<br />
their faces,” he said.<br />
GRATEFUL: Wayne<br />
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City Mission staff with<br />
the donated essential<br />
goods.<br />
“We thought it was a great idea<br />
to give back to the community,<br />
especially as we have been seeing<br />
and hearing about all of the hardships<br />
they’re going through.”<br />
This is not the first time they<br />
had assisted the mission, having<br />
previously worked with them on<br />
recovery projects and providing<br />
reassurance work to those affected<br />
by the March 15 mosque<br />
attacks.<br />
They also offered home fire<br />
safety checks and were looking<br />
at other ways FENZ staff could<br />
link with the mission and the<br />
community.<br />
City Missioner Matt Mark said<br />
gestures like this made the mission<br />
feel like they were not alone<br />
in their work and that people<br />
had their back.<br />
“It’s a good feeling to have,<br />
especially in these tough times,”<br />
he said.<br />
“We always love it when community<br />
groups and organisations<br />
come together to support our<br />
work with struggling families<br />
because in a practical way, it<br />
helps us give comfort to people<br />
who need it.”<br />
Mr Mark said the donations<br />
would be included in their food<br />
boxes and care parcels that were<br />
made up for families.<br />
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Online book<br />
initiative<br />
for seniors<br />
A NEW online book programme<br />
has been set up with older<br />
Cantabrians in mind, aiming to<br />
maintain social interaction with<br />
others while physically distanced.<br />
Campfire - Stories Read Aloud<br />
for Adults was created by the city<br />
council’s libraries staff, featuring<br />
a fresh chapter read by librarians<br />
from a book every Wednesday<br />
and Friday.<br />
City council head of libraries<br />
and information Carolyn<br />
Robertson said library staff<br />
produced the programme with<br />
“our older adult community in<br />
mind and in collaboration with<br />
Age Concern.”<br />
“It is a story time for seniors<br />
as we help ensure that our older<br />
library users remain engaged<br />
during the lockdown,” she said.<br />
“We believe Campfire can boost<br />
well-being for older adults and<br />
bring a fresh face – and voice – to<br />
their day. They can watch and<br />
listen to our librarians as they<br />
read aloud.<br />
Ms Robertson said for many<br />
older people who have enjoyed<br />
books, listening to another voice<br />
can bring comfort in connection.<br />
Anyone can access Campfire<br />
via the libraries’ website.<br />
Gloves gifted to gardeners<br />
HUNDREDS OF gardening<br />
gloves have been donated to<br />
community volunteers in<br />
Christchurch as they eagerly<br />
return to their gardens.<br />
Energy company Orion<br />
made the donation of 300<br />
gloves to the Canterbury<br />
Community Gardens<br />
Association, which supports<br />
35 gardens in the city.<br />
New Brighton community<br />
garden manager and CCGA<br />
chairwoman Catherine O’Neill<br />
said Covid-19 presented even<br />
greater hygiene challenges to the<br />
activity.<br />
“In the past when new<br />
volunteers came along to help<br />
and haven’t brought their own<br />
gloves, they were directed to the<br />
store of shared gloves,” she said.<br />
“To make sure we’re not<br />
passing anything on, now we’ll<br />
be able to give people their own<br />
pair of new gloves.<br />
“It’s such a peaceful, friendly<br />
way to spend a couple of hours<br />
with other people, and now<br />
everyone can join in without<br />
having to worry.”<br />
Ms O’Neill said they would<br />
be clearing out spent summer<br />
crops, planting garlic, beans,<br />
snow peas and much more,<br />
replenishing the soil with<br />
compost and mulch.<br />
“Whether you’re eight or 80, a<br />
GIVING BACK: Catherine O’Neill (left), Peggy Kelly of Canterbury Community Gardens<br />
Association and Orion’s Steve Hix at New Brighton Community Garden.<br />
community garden is a place you<br />
can wander into and find a place<br />
that you feel at home,” she said.<br />
Orion Connections manager<br />
Steve Hix, who has arranged<br />
power connections for a number<br />
of community gardens over<br />
the years organised the glove<br />
donation by Orion with the<br />
support of Mitre 10 Ferrymead.<br />
“We have a staff community<br />
fund, and I thought this would<br />
be a great initiative to support,<br />
in a practical way,” said Mr Hix.<br />
“It is great to see people<br />
investing their time in a<br />
community activity that<br />
builds sustainability, gets<br />
everyone together, and<br />
produces organically grown<br />
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Deputy principal Jill<br />
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to celebrate being back<br />
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“It went really well.<br />
The kids were loving it,<br />
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nests, or extensively researched<br />
about an animal<br />
they did not know about.<br />
A few even learnt how to<br />
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Mrs Evans said it was<br />
important for the kids to<br />
have a fun day after several<br />
weeks of isolation.<br />
“We’ve pulled back on<br />
assessment and are focusing<br />
on well-being, making<br />
sure they felt safe and<br />
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“They were all so excited<br />
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of the year again.’’<br />
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“A key theme that came<br />
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missed their friends, and<br />
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It feels like we’re in a “holiday resort for seniors”<br />
Bruce and Lynn say<br />
seven years of living at Diana<br />
Isaac Retirement Village has<br />
delivered them a wonderful<br />
lifestyle and the ability to keep<br />
up with friends both in and<br />
outside the Mairehau village.<br />
They say Ryman<br />
Healthcare has come to the<br />
fore to make their village,<br />
during the period of the<br />
COVID-19 crisis, better<br />
than they could have hoped<br />
for. They have a spacious<br />
townhouse, and say that<br />
keeping active and in touch<br />
with others is easy within<br />
the community.<br />
Lynn says she has<br />
prepared a letter to thank<br />
management and staff for the<br />
extra work they undertook<br />
during alert Levels 4 and 3<br />
during COVID-19, including<br />
special food parcels. “What<br />
they did for us all here was<br />
absolutely incredible. They<br />
were so generous with that<br />
huge grocery delivery.” They<br />
felt that Ryman had done a<br />
lot more for residents than<br />
other villages had.<br />
The pair are born and<br />
bred Cantabrians and were<br />
brought up in Opawa and<br />
Fendalton respectively.<br />
They met at work while still<br />
youngsters and are the proud<br />
parents of a son and daughter<br />
as well as grandchildren. They<br />
plan to visit their daughter in<br />
the Nelson region as soon as<br />
they can, given that an Easter<br />
trip had to be cancelled due<br />
to COVID-19.<br />
It is easy to see that<br />
Bruce and Lynn are an<br />
outgoing couple. They love to<br />
participate in village events<br />
and enjoy sports. Bruce<br />
became a Canterbury ‘rep’<br />
in indoor bowls in the 1970s<br />
and now partakes in outdoor<br />
bowls on the village green<br />
as well as golfing down at<br />
Everglades Country Golf<br />
Club off Marshlands Road.<br />
Lynn enjoys both helping<br />
host line dancing classes at<br />
the village and taking part<br />
in a knit & natter group that<br />
is both creative and social.<br />
She has always loved to<br />
garden and loves to keep her<br />
hand in at Diana Isaac as well<br />
as going out for coffee with<br />
old friends.<br />
The village’s social<br />
facilities include atriums,<br />
a bar, a bowling green,<br />
drining room, indoor bowls,<br />
a pool table and the village<br />
centre. Ryman Healthcare’s<br />
response began in late<br />
January with restricted visits<br />
to villages for people who<br />
had travelled to affected<br />
areas overseas.<br />
Ryman’s aim has been<br />
to keep the virus out,<br />
protect those residents<br />
in care who were most<br />
vulnerable to the virus, and<br />
create safe havens for our<br />
independent residents.<br />
Staff helped rollout Zoom<br />
to more than 3,800 devices,<br />
so that residents and families<br />
have been able to make those<br />
important connections.<br />
Residents have enjoyed<br />
keeping on the move with<br />
hallway exercise classes and<br />
activities like hallway bingo,<br />
Lyn and Bruce relaxing in their townhouse at Ryman Healthcare’s Diana Isaac Village.<br />
as well as getting out for some<br />
fresh air. Diana Isaac’s social<br />
facilities include atriums, a<br />
bar, a bowling green, dining<br />
room, indoor bowls, a pool<br />
table and village centre.<br />
During lockdown, there<br />
were also grocery packages<br />
and newsletter and puzzle<br />
pages delivered to residents.<br />
I did the sudoku and the<br />
crosswords and Lynn did<br />
the codecracker and all<br />
that sort of thing,” Bruce<br />
says. Staff have been<br />
“absolutely fantastic”.<br />
The pair look back to<br />
some of the wonderful<br />
things they’ve done including<br />
Lynn’s career as a shorthand<br />
typist and a homemaker and<br />
Bruce’s 50 years in the meat<br />
industry with companies<br />
including New Zealand<br />
Refrigerating Co Ltd and its<br />
subsequent owners.<br />
It was their daughter,<br />
working for Ryman at the<br />
time, that recommended<br />
they move from their<br />
Avonhead home of nearly<br />
40 years into the Mairehau<br />
village. “It was so nice coming<br />
into a brand new house again,<br />
it was fantastic,” Lynn says.<br />
The pair’s other social<br />
activities and events include<br />
whiskey tastings, walking,<br />
Triple A exercises, watching<br />
rugby and sports games<br />
ADVERTISEMENT<br />
with friends, and a moviewatching<br />
group. “I don’t<br />
believe we’re in a retirement<br />
village, I believe we’re in a<br />
holiday resort for seniors,”<br />
Bruce says. Neighbours<br />
are very supportive to each<br />
other, Lynn says.<br />
Sales Advisors Adrienne<br />
Todd and Chris Ashton say<br />
now is a great time to come<br />
into the village to take a look<br />
at the stunning townhouses<br />
available. There are many<br />
aspects to retirement<br />
living and with the recent<br />
COVID-19 based events,<br />
residents had made plenty<br />
of comments on how well<br />
they’d been cared for.<br />
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40-hour famine<br />
HUNDREDS OF young<br />
people in Canterbury are<br />
expected to take part in<br />
the World Vision 40 Hour<br />
Famine this year.<br />
Spread across 40 hours<br />
from June 5 to 7, World<br />
Vision said 90,000 young<br />
Kiwis are set to take part<br />
and raise funds for the<br />
people of Malawi, who<br />
are experiencing extreme<br />
weather events on top<br />
of added pressure from<br />
Covid-19.<br />
Cantabrian youth ambassadors<br />
Izaac Wilson<br />
and Jess McLennan, along<br />
with Alyssa Wilson, Daniel<br />
Rickman and Hayley<br />
Gotlieb – were championing<br />
the event this year.<br />
The group also travelled<br />
to Malawi late last year to<br />
meet some of the people<br />
who will benefit from<br />
the event, which was the<br />
country’s largest youth<br />
fundraiser.<br />
Said Jess: “I don’t think<br />
there was really any one<br />
moment when it just<br />
clicked for me that ‘this<br />
is the reality of living in<br />
Malawi,’ but it has sunk in<br />
a little more every single<br />
day since I’ve been back in<br />
New Zealand,”<br />
“It’s in the every day moments<br />
that I think about<br />
everyone I met and what<br />
I saw in Malawi. I look at<br />
my mum cooking dinner<br />
and think to myself: ‘I<br />
wonder if Prisca’s mum<br />
has enough food to cook<br />
meals for her kids today?’<br />
“I know that every single<br />
person who signs up for<br />
the 40 Hour Famine, and<br />
the money they raise, will<br />
help create real and actual<br />
change for the climatevulnerable<br />
Malawians who<br />
need it most.”<br />
Since it began in 1975,<br />
the NZ 40-hour famine<br />
has raised more than $80<br />
million, bringing hope<br />
to thousands of children<br />
living in poverty in more<br />
than 40 countries.<br />
World Vision NZ<br />
national director Grant<br />
Bayldon said the 40 Hour<br />
Famine was a calendar<br />
item he looked forward<br />
to each year, adding that<br />
this year it seemed all the<br />
more crucial to provide<br />
a platform for youth to<br />
rally together and make a<br />
change.<br />
“As the world shifts, the<br />
challenges Malawians face<br />
remain – and this means<br />
now, more than ever, we<br />
need to do all we can to<br />
fight hunger and injustice.<br />
“This is our chance to<br />
show the world what great<br />
global neighbours we can<br />
be. As we do what we can<br />
for the vulnerable here,<br />
let’s also do what we can<br />
for the most vulnerable<br />
around the world.”<br />
Mr Bayldon added that<br />
he was looking forward<br />
to seeing what challenges<br />
people took on.<br />
Money raised in this<br />
year’s event will make a<br />
difference by providing<br />
schools and farmers with<br />
seeds for crops, watering<br />
systems and goats so the<br />
people of Malawi can<br />
build resilient and sustainable<br />
farming, reducing the<br />
impact of climate change<br />
on their communities.<br />
The work will also<br />
ensure they were able to<br />
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ACTION: Six city counci lors including<br />
Catherine Chu, Sam MacDonald (top right),<br />
James Daniels (above left) and Aaron<br />
Keown have ca led on <strong>May</strong>or Lianne Dalziel<br />
to lead a conversation on how to achieve a<br />
zero per cent rates increase this year.<br />
• By Louis Day<br />
CALLS HAVE b en made to<br />
stop rates increases in response<br />
to the Covid-19 crisis.<br />
City counci lors James Gough,<br />
Sam MacDonald, Catherine<br />
Chu, Phil Mauger, Aaron Keown<br />
and James Daniels have sent a<br />
le ter to <strong>May</strong>or Lianne Dalziel<br />
asking her to lead a conversation<br />
as to how a zero per cent rates<br />
increase could be achieved this<br />
year.<br />
The city council is proposing<br />
an average rates increase of 4.65<br />
per cent acro s a l ratepayers in<br />
this year’s Draft Annual Plan<br />
which is cu rently under public<br />
consultation until April 5 and<br />
wi l be finalised before July 1.<br />
The 2018-20<strong>28</strong> Long Term<br />
Plan also predicts a 50 per cent<br />
rates increase over 10 years.<br />
Said Cr MacDonald: “In<br />
the cu rent environment it’s<br />
clear busine s as usual is not<br />
a propriate and the council<br />
n eds to l ok at how we enable<br />
this 12-month rates increase<br />
fr eze to o cur, it’s crucial for<br />
the economic confidence of our<br />
city.”<br />
Ms Dalziel said the las thing the council’s budget, which is urchNZ, the Canterbury Employers’<br />
Chamber of Commerce<br />
the city council n eded was for not entirely funded by rates, and<br />
someone to hi the panic bu ton. the consequences that wi l flow and other key players so we are<br />
“Calm heads must and wi l from decisions we make. best prepared for the economic<br />
prevail,” she said.<br />
“The Annual Plan is not cha lenges that lie ahead.”<br />
“Our residents and busine ses signed off for thr e months so City council chief executive<br />
wi l be depending on us to we have time to ge this advice. Dawn Baxendale did not rule a<br />
make adjustments, and we wi l, A the same time, the council zero rates rise out.<br />
however, we wi l n ed advice is m eting with our economic “We’re considering a series of<br />
on the impacts on a l aspects of development agency, Christch-<br />
options in light of the extraordinary<br />
circumstances related to the economy in response to the<br />
Covid-19. We wi l discu s these Covid-19 pandemic.<br />
options with elected members The bi gest b ost is $5.1<br />
as we develop the Annual Plan,” bi lion towards wage subsidies<br />
she said.<br />
for affected busine ses in a l<br />
The push from city counci lors sectors and regions.<br />
for a fr eze on rates rises comes •Tips for weathering virus, p3<br />
shortly after Minister of Finance<br />
•<strong>May</strong>or’s column, p9<br />
Grant Robertson announced<br />
a $12.1 bi lion package to aid •From the editor’s desk, p10<br />
No review<br />
A message<br />
Councillor takes<br />
Davids heads<br />
Views on<br />
Lively group<br />
over<br />
of love, unity<br />
matters into<br />
community board cricket nets<br />
celebrate<br />
multi-storey<br />
and prayers<br />
his own hands<br />
advocating body sought<br />
St Patrick’s Day<br />
house<br />
for peace<br />
Page 3 Page 6<br />
Page 3 Page 5<br />
Page 3 Page 7<br />
Eastern<br />
Motorway<br />
Bid to<br />
suburbs<br />
opening<br />
secure<br />
repairs<br />
delay<br />
funding to<br />
could take<br />
brings<br />
demolish<br />
a while<br />
relief<br />
service<br />
RESIDENTS MOST affected by<br />
• By Louis Day<br />
centre<br />
the new Northern Motorway are<br />
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, <strong>2020</strong><br />
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IT COULD<br />
WEDNESDAY,<br />
be a while until<br />
MARCH 25, starnews.co.nz<br />
<strong>2020</strong><br />
Connecting Your Community relieved to hear the Christchurch TUESDAY, starnews.co.nz<br />
MARCH 24, <strong>2020</strong><br />
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starnews.co.nz<br />
• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding<br />
the eastern suburbs start to<br />
Northern Corridor opening has<br />
see Lianne Dalziel’s campaign<br />
been delayed by six months.<br />
THE earthquake-damaged<br />
aspirations for the area come to<br />
The CNC was due to open in<br />
former Sockburn Service Centre<br />
fruition.<br />
the middle of this year, but last<br />
could finally be demolished in<br />
During October’s local body<br />
week the New<br />
July – if the funding needed is<br />
elections, Ms Dalziel identified<br />
Zealand Transport<br />
Agency<br />
It comes as the<br />
obtained.<br />
repairs to the eastern part of the<br />
city’s footpaths, pipes and roads<br />
announced more<br />
Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton<br />
as one of her main priorities for<br />
time was needed<br />
this term.<br />
to complete the<br />
Community<br />
“We need a fully integrated<br />
$290m motorwayten<br />
in its draft<br />
Board has writ-<br />
programme of works for the<br />
east, I have loosely called this<br />
The original<br />
submission to<br />
Readers respond<br />
Chance to the eastern alliance, which<br />
scope of the<br />
the city council’s<br />
would essentially be an alliance Helpless to<br />
Victorious<br />
Delay in<br />
Market day<br />
project has been Mark Wilson<br />
Annual Plan<br />
Mike Mora<br />
to supermarket<br />
farewell Holden<br />
of contractors who can take<br />
extended include<br />
stoked<br />
making mall<br />
goes green at 2019-<strong>2020</strong>,<br />
stop property<br />
captain the whole area bit by bit and<br />
a third southbound lane on<br />
requesting the city council addresses<br />
the budget gap so the<br />
rebranding<br />
in style<br />
systematically get the work<br />
the Waimakariri River bridge and<br />
flooding<br />
with cup done,” she said during the<br />
a clip-on win<br />
exit safer<br />
Cashmere HS<br />
cycleway.<br />
buildings can be removed as soon<br />
campaign.<br />
St Albans resident Mark Wilson<br />
as possible.<br />
Page 8<br />
GIRL Page BOSS: Julia 17 Holmes But chief wants executive to be a Dawn geneticist after Page high school, 3 and feels the GirlBoss Advantage programme will Page help 10 said GIRL the BOSS: community Julia Holmes are “somewhat<br />
her achieve thankful” her for dreams. the delay.<br />
Page 3<br />
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN Page 11 said the final submission is yet to<br />
wants to be a geneticist after high school, and feels the GirlBoss Advantage programme will help Board chairman Mike Mora<br />
her achieve her dreams. Baxendale said any request to<br />
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN<br />
• By Bea Gooding<br />
pursue a specific for biology, project in and the from a young Julia is one of 25 young were often male-dominated, •“The By community Bea Gooding will be somewhat<br />
thankful for a reprieve of the<br />
for biology, and from a young Julia is one of 25 young were often male-dominated, be completed but it was likely the<br />
east would have age to has be always agreed been interested women chosen around the with particular focus on science,<br />
technology, engineering<br />
age has always been interested women chosen around the with particular focus on science,<br />
technology, engineering requested.<br />
demolition of the site would be<br />
FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD upon Julia by council.<br />
effects of this motorway for six<br />
South New Brighton School pupil Jacob McMillan enjoying the foam pit at Christchurch School of<br />
City councillors are yet to pass<br />
Gymnastics, which opened its doors to pupils while the school was closed due to fire damage.<br />
Holmes is on a mission on to<br />
in how things worked, often country to participate in the<br />
FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD Julia<br />
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in how things worked, often country to participate in the<br />
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The former service centre, on<br />
make a difference in the world. any guidance them to back staff together. around<br />
decisions are made to put our<br />
make a difference in the world. them back together.<br />
•Story, more photos, page 5<br />
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The Christchurch Property Market Post Covid-19 Lockdown<br />
“Forecasting future events is often like searching for a black cat in an unlit room, that may not even be there.”<br />
- Steve Davidson<br />
Prior to lockdown, the Christchurch<br />
market was busy and was already<br />
starting to get low on properties in<br />
specific price ranges and locations<br />
that were in good demand. During<br />
lockdown, transactions were very<br />
limited with sales during that time<br />
generally flowing through from prelockdown<br />
viewings or live contracts<br />
already in play.<br />
Post lockdown, buyers have swung<br />
straight back into it and are acting<br />
much like they did pre lockdown. Now<br />
we are in Level 2, some owners are<br />
still hesitant to come to the market<br />
which has the potential to create<br />
an even greater lack of available<br />
properties (demand outweighs<br />
supply) and generally when this<br />
happens there is upwards pressure on<br />
pricing. However, It’s hard to see that<br />
lasting forever and we did anticipate<br />
a bottleneck effect coming out of<br />
lockdown.<br />
There will be effects linked to the<br />
economy in the future - mid to long<br />
term. When the wage subsidies finish<br />
and mortgage holidays come off, we<br />
may see fewer buyers in the market for<br />
a period.<br />
That said - I do think that Canterbury<br />
is well placed to get through this better<br />
than some locations. Our market has<br />
been stable for the last few years and<br />
hasn’t become over inflated so it has<br />
less to fall from as the economy slows.<br />
We also have a city to keep rebuilding<br />
- provided there is money to do this<br />
there is a constant supply of jobs here.<br />
What we do know from our experience<br />
working through both the 2008 GFC<br />
and post earthquake markets is:<br />
1. Don’t panic<br />
2. Avoid unqualified or puffery style<br />
media stories<br />
3. You can’t ignore the market, a<br />
head in the sand ‘my property will<br />
Airbnb Owners - The Covid-19 Conundrum<br />
be different’ approach won’t get<br />
you anywhere<br />
4. If you buy and sell in the same<br />
market this should generally see<br />
you right<br />
If you are wondering what you should<br />
do from here about your upcoming<br />
property decision we recommend<br />
you seek some qualified advice<br />
from experienced and seasoned<br />
professionals including your agent,<br />
your accountant and your mortgage<br />
broker. Lastly, in uncertain markets or<br />
after big events we have often heard<br />
people say ‘we will wait’. Waiting for<br />
what and waiting for how long?<br />
If the team here at Ray White Papanui<br />
can be of any assistance or if you would<br />
like to discuss the market further,<br />
please do not hesitate to contact us. It<br />
would be great to hear from you.<br />
Vanessa Golightly, Claire and Stuart<br />
Morris<br />
Vanessa Golightly<br />
Licensee Agent &<br />
Business Owner<br />
027 664 9292<br />
Stuart Morris<br />
Business Owner<br />
& Auctioneer<br />
027 422 6395<br />
Claire Morris<br />
Licensee Agent &<br />
Business Owner<br />
027 662 4822<br />
Katrina Green<br />
Operations Manager<br />
Property Management<br />
027 606 0030<br />
Airbnb has a huge market in New<br />
Zealand and Kiwi’s take pride in our<br />
high standards of hospitality. The<br />
benefits of being an Airbnb host are<br />
myriad but as tourism and hospitality in<br />
New Zealand have sadly come to a halt<br />
we wanted to take a look at the options<br />
for these owners during this time.<br />
Times have changed as Kiwi’s<br />
rush home from overseas, people<br />
are displaced with the changing<br />
face of work, changes in personal<br />
circumstances and property owners<br />
who had planned to move back into<br />
their houses who are no longer able to<br />
give notice under the new legislation.<br />
All these factors have created another<br />
(less settled) market and it’s this<br />
market that might suit the Airbnb<br />
stock that is now readily available, plus<br />
with an influx of ex-pats returning to<br />
New Zealand, the extra supply of mid<br />
to long term rental properties is also<br />
something we need to consider.<br />
Could it work for you? It may seem like<br />
a big commitment, however you could<br />
initially offer the property short term<br />
for 3-6 months and then review after<br />
this time. Or you may prefer to secure<br />
a tenant for a year and have that<br />
stability.<br />
As an example I am currently dealing<br />
with the owner of an Airbnb property.<br />
She has in fact only just purchased it<br />
and has not even had her first clients<br />
booked in! We are talking through<br />
the best outcome for her. She lives<br />
in Australia and is hopeful that if the<br />
impending trans-Tasman bubble comes<br />
to fruition, it may mean there is once<br />
again demand for Airbnb property,<br />
however in the interim it is important<br />
for her to capture some income. The<br />
solution? Advertise the property as<br />
available for rent for a minimum of<br />
three months, and a maximum of<br />
six, and see who comes out of the<br />
woodwork!<br />
Will your property comply with<br />
Residential Rental legislation? In<br />
most cases, yes! Just a reminder to<br />
check you meet minimum standards<br />
for insulation and smoke alarms.<br />
Just as a side note, if the tenancy<br />
commences prior to 1st July this year,<br />
and concludes prior to 1st July 2021,<br />
the property will not need to comply<br />
with the upcoming Healthy Homes<br />
legislation, only the current smoke<br />
alarm and insulation requirements,<br />
plus of course all other Residential<br />
Tenancies Act legislation.<br />
The majority of tenants looking will<br />
likely be fully established and have a<br />
household of belongings so might not<br />
want a fully furnished property. Why<br />
not advertise the property as furnished<br />
or unfurnished and see what response<br />
you get? A secure tenancy, with regular<br />
income, may make it worthwhile to<br />
move and store the chattels from your<br />
Airbnb. Moving from short term stays<br />
to longer tenancies doesn’t need to be<br />
a dramatic upheaval. It’s simply a new<br />
chapter in your investment story<br />
Katrina Green,<br />
Operations Manager<br />
Property Management<br />
027 606 0030<br />
Tracy Thomson<br />
Licensee Salesperson<br />
027 440 3035<br />
Barbara Redway<br />
Licensee Salesperson<br />
027 432 1900<br />
Olivia Hendry<br />
Executive Assistant<br />
Tania Ikin<br />
Licensee Salesperson<br />
022 509 2755<br />
Ashleigh Pattullo<br />
Licensee Salesperson<br />
027 865 9672<br />
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Estelle Schuurman<br />
Property Manager<br />
Allie McConnell<br />
Property Management<br />
Assistant<br />
Joy Coughlan<br />
Mortgage Broker<br />
027 223 3572<br />
50 Birchs Road, Prebbleton<br />
Tracy Thomson<br />
1/29 Blakehall Place, Spreydon<br />
Vanessa Golightly<br />
118 Avonhead Road, Avonhead<br />
Tracy Thomson<br />
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