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Methven hot air balloon operator<br />
Graeme Church reckons the views of<br />
the Canterbury Plains, foothills and<br />
mountains at 6000 feet (1829m) are<br />
hard to beat on agood day.<br />
Mr Church runsAdventure Balloons<br />
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of the lay of the land below.<br />
Flights usually take place in the early<br />
morning when weather conditions are<br />
calm and stable and that can happen<br />
year round.<br />
Mr Church hails fromnorthern<br />
England, but has piloted hotair<br />
balloons in Methvenfor the past 15<br />
years on andoff.<br />
He worked for longtime balloon<br />
operator George Currie for anumber<br />
ofyears and three years ago set up on<br />
his own.<br />
He runs four balloons, the latest an<br />
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12 passengers.<br />
The balloon wastested acouple of<br />
weeks ago and is awaiting its final<br />
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Mr Church piloted balloons over the<br />
scenic LakeDistrict in England for<br />
many years, but is now considering New<br />
Zealand as his long term base.<br />
‘‘Thegreat thing about ballooning<br />
over Methven and the surrounding area<br />
is that it is protected to alarge extent by<br />
the Southern Alps.<br />
‘‘There can be light windsyear<br />
round, and althoughIdid more balloon<br />
flights this last summer, this area in the<br />
winter and withsnowonthe mountains<br />
is asight to behold.’’<br />
Mr Church saidthreequarters of his<br />
customers wereusually from overseas,<br />
but that would change in the coming<br />
months.<br />
Withthe promotion of domestic<br />
tourism, he hopes moreKiwis will take<br />
flights and will jump in aballoon to<br />
enjoy theexhilaration and thrill of<br />
floating above the land.<br />
Like anumber of Methven<br />
businesses, he is asupporter of a<br />
campaign run by Mt Hutt skifieldthat<br />
promotes a‘‘kids for free’’ package.<br />
Youngsters aged five and upwards<br />
are able to go on aballoon flight with<br />
their parents.<br />
Moreinformationonballooning can<br />
be found on the Adventure Balloons<br />
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It’s been awhirlwind few<br />
months for <strong>Ashburton</strong> bike<br />
shop owners Paul and Monique<br />
Brake, who are currently riding<br />
awave of cycling resurgence.<br />
The couple, who run Stoked<br />
Cycles on Burnett Street, began<br />
operating in midFebruary, but<br />
five weeks later were forced to<br />
shut up shop because of the<br />
Covid19 lockdown.<br />
The business reopened for<br />
contactless click and collect<br />
bike maintenance under level 3<br />
and since level 2has been flat<br />
out with bike servicing and<br />
sales.<br />
Extra staff have been<br />
employed to meet servicing<br />
demand and some long days<br />
have been put in by the Brakes.<br />
Paul Brake said alot of<br />
people had rediscovered alove<br />
of biking during lockdown, or<br />
had enjoyed the time off to get<br />
on their bikes.<br />
Families and people of all<br />
ages had jumped into the<br />
saddle to get exercise and to<br />
keep their sanity.<br />
‘‘We’re flat out right now,<br />
but Idoexpect things to calm<br />
Stoked Cycles owners Paul and Monique Brake.<br />
down abit soon.<br />
‘‘From abusiness point of<br />
view, it’s been great for us, but<br />
it’s gone from having no work<br />
to having more than we can<br />
handle at times.’’<br />
He said up to 40 bikes had<br />
been lined up for servicing and<br />
repair work in recent days.<br />
He and his team were<br />
catching up with the backlog.<br />
Monique Brake said new<br />
bike sales had also been brisk.<br />
Electric bikes and children’s<br />
bikes had been big sellers<br />
lately.<br />
Mrs Brake said her husband<br />
had been packing in regular<br />
13hour days and working<br />
weekends to meet demand.<br />
The couple’s three children<br />
had been cared for by willing<br />
grandparents on anumber of<br />
occasions over the past few<br />
diesel, dust, men &machine<br />
by Kevin Freeman<br />
212 East Street,<strong>Ashburton</strong>. Phone 308 8309<br />
weeks. ‘‘We’re grateful for the<br />
support of family and friends<br />
and we’re also grateful to the<br />
customers who have been<br />
understanding at this very busy<br />
time.’’<br />
The Brakes are looking<br />
forward to getting out on their<br />
bikes as afamily when things<br />
calm down abit, but for now,<br />
they’re happy with the decision<br />
to buy their own business.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> show goes on, for now<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> A&P secretary<br />
Lucille Brown<br />
By Toni Williams<br />
Organisers of the <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
A&P Show will plough ahead,<br />
planning for an annual show but<br />
keeping the budget in mind.<br />
There is plenty of support for<br />
the twoday event to go ahead as<br />
usual on October 30 and 31, but<br />
that will centre on government<br />
restrictions around Covid19.<br />
Members confirmed their<br />
backing at the association’s<br />
annual general meeting this<br />
week and duly elected Peter<br />
Stewart to the president’s role,<br />
with Victor Schikker as senior<br />
vicepresident.<br />
Ray Colville continues as<br />
show patron.<br />
Association secretary Lucille<br />
Brown said those present were<br />
keen for organisers to proceed<br />
but keep costs low so if it was<br />
cancelled there would be little,<br />
or no financial loss.<br />
Aworst case scenario will see<br />
the show cancelled, but sections<br />
could be held as standalone<br />
events.<br />
“Every section of the A&P<br />
association has their own<br />
committee and their own<br />
meetings,” she said, and that<br />
could make events easier to<br />
manage.<br />
“They were all very keen.”<br />
The annual show attracts<br />
several thousand visitors.<br />
It’s avery enthusiastic<br />
committee with new members<br />
coming through, she said.<br />
“It was lovely to see.”<br />
There were also presentations<br />
to association stalwarts Lynette<br />
Lovett, Marion Brown and<br />
David Butterick.<br />
Mrs Lovett was awarded an<br />
honorary life membership,<br />
following numerous roles on the<br />
committee including as<br />
president and with the home<br />
industries pavilion.<br />
Mrs Brown has retired after<br />
many decades involvement with<br />
the home industries pavilion.<br />
And Mr Butterick was<br />
presented with an engraved<br />
silver salver for his role as<br />
immediate past president.<br />
Kevin Freeman’s Diesel,Dust,Men &Machine is awell<br />
researched and well written ode to the men and the<br />
machines “thatbuilt the earth dams,canals,lakes<br />
and structures forwhich we areindebted as we go<br />
about our daily lives.” Thebook covers the vehicles<br />
and contractors who made the Hydrodams and<br />
canals of the South Island in the 60s,70s and 80s.<br />
Filled with pictures and information, Freeman captures<br />
an importantpartofour NZ’shistory.<br />
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WI member Dianne Carter, with <strong>Ashburton</strong> Hospital maternity unit manager Julie Dockrill and WI members<br />
Yvonne Lister and president Mavis Wilkins holding some of the donated woollen goods.<br />
Winter woollies<br />
knittedwithlove<br />
By Toni Williams<br />
Scores of baby blankets, singlets, hats<br />
and booties have been lovingly<br />
knitted by the ladies of the Women’s<br />
Institute for infants in the <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Hospital maternity unit.<br />
Wool garments for infants are<br />
regularly knitted by the Mid<br />
Canterbury Federation of WI<br />
members, but this was the largest<br />
blanket drop with around 35<br />
donated.<br />
It was helped by members who<br />
picked up their knitting needles<br />
during lockdown.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Hospital maternity unit<br />
manager Julie Dockrill, who received<br />
the donation this week, welcomed<br />
the wool items.<br />
She said the babies and their<br />
families keep each of the donated<br />
items they are given, which if<br />
purchased could be quite costly.<br />
The knitted goods helped bring<br />
the community together and gave the<br />
newborns valuable wool garments<br />
from ladies with life experience.<br />
There are around 140 births at the<br />
unit ayear; this can swell up to 300<br />
babies and mothers annually if they<br />
return to the unit from birthing in<br />
Christchurch.<br />
She said natural products were<br />
always better to use than polar fleece<br />
to keep babies warm.<br />
The brightly coloured blankets<br />
were also ideal for cots, pepe pods<br />
and car seats and as it was breathable<br />
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World Smokefree Day<br />
<strong>2020</strong> is about becoming<br />
smokefree, says Stop<br />
Smoking practitioner Gina<br />
Straker.<br />
Ms Straker works for<br />
Waitaha Primary Health<br />
and Te Ha Waitaha and<br />
helps people in <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
in their journey to<br />
becoming smokefree.<br />
Ms Straker said<br />
becoming smokefree was a<br />
big step, but “one of the<br />
best decisions you will ever<br />
make”.<br />
Stopping smoking can<br />
be hard and there is no<br />
magic cure, however there<br />
is plenty of support to help<br />
you, she said.<br />
The annual day is<br />
celebrated globally on <strong>May</strong><br />
31 and comes as<br />
government officials, just<br />
this week, passed abill to<br />
make smoking in cars with<br />
children an offence.<br />
Police will be able to<br />
issue people breaching the<br />
law with onthespot fines<br />
of $50.<br />
It is expected to benefit<br />
thousands of children who<br />
will have healthier lungs as<br />
aresult.<br />
Associate Minister of<br />
Health Jenny Salesa said<br />
the law makes it an offence<br />
to smoke in amotor<br />
vehicle carrying anyone<br />
under 18.<br />
‘‘We’re doing this<br />
because children are<br />
especially vulnerable to<br />
the harmful effects of<br />
secondhand smoke due to<br />
their smaller lungs, higher<br />
respiratory rate and more<br />
immature immune<br />
systems.<br />
“We know that secondhand<br />
smoke can<br />
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even with the windows<br />
down.<br />
‘‘That presents an<br />
unacceptable risk to kids<br />
who never asked to be<br />
exposed to secondsmoke,<br />
and deserve afighting<br />
chance at alife of healthy,<br />
clean lungs,’’ she said.<br />
New Zealand will join<br />
Australia, Finland, the<br />
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Aviation buffs soar again<br />
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The <strong>Ashburton</strong> Aviation<br />
Museum is looking forward to<br />
welcoming visitors and members<br />
back now gathering numbers<br />
have been lifted to 100.<br />
The museum houses its<br />
collection in two hangars at the<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Airport and pride of<br />
place is aHarrier jump jet used<br />
in the Falkland’s war.<br />
The museum has been shut<br />
since early March because of<br />
Covid19 and its members have<br />
not met for fear of catching and<br />
spreading the virus.<br />
But from tomorrow, they will<br />
be able to resume their<br />
workshop gatherings on<br />
Wednesdays and Saturdays, and<br />
the museum will be able to open<br />
again daily from 13pm.<br />
President Warren Janett said<br />
up to 25 members at atime<br />
attended the workshops, which<br />
were about maintaining and<br />
improving their collection of<br />
aviation items and socialising.<br />
Members had missed their<br />
regular catchups, he said.<br />
The museum also uses<br />
another hangar for restoration.<br />
It currently houses an English<br />
plane built in 1945 and which<br />
turned up on Kiwi shores three<br />
years later.<br />
The Chrislea Super Ace is a<br />
recreational plane, built to<br />
compete against the likes of the<br />
Piper Cubs.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Aviation Museum president Warren Janett is keen to see visitors again.<br />
Mr Janett said the museum<br />
collection included <strong>28</strong> planes<br />
and attracted up to 10 people a<br />
day. When bad weather closed<br />
Mt Hutt to skiers, many of them<br />
make their way down the plains<br />
to check out planes and aviation<br />
equipment of bygone eras.<br />
Some pay for the chance to fly<br />
in the museum’s flight simulator,<br />
which provides arealistic flight<br />
experience for wouldbe pilots.<br />
The software includes realistic<br />
flight scenery and the pilot and<br />
copilot see the world from<br />
above just as apilot would.<br />
The operator can adjust the<br />
flying experience to show snow<br />
in the winter. The simulator uses<br />
the controls of an ATR aircraft<br />
used in provincial New Zealand.<br />
Mr Janett said it had been very<br />
popular.<br />
The aviation museum is<br />
planning an open day to<br />
celebrate the end of Covid19<br />
restrictions.<br />
Cheers as MSA members return<br />
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Regulars are back enjoying a<br />
beer and ayarn with mates at<br />
the <strong>Ashburton</strong> Club and MSA.<br />
Bars like the MSA reopened<br />
last week after an eightweek<br />
shutdown due to Covid19.<br />
There was abuzz in the air<br />
and asteady stream of members<br />
heading through the door for<br />
postwork drinks late last Friday<br />
afternoon when the <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
<strong>Courier</strong> paid avisit.<br />
MSA president Murray<br />
Campbell greeted most by first<br />
name as they signed in and<br />
found atable to sit at.<br />
Unlike previous times, the<br />
bar has to provide table service<br />
for now and numbers are<br />
limited to amaximum of 100.<br />
Enjoying afavourite ale on a<br />
table of four were drinking<br />
mates Guildford Lane, Trevor<br />
Robertson, Malcolm<br />
McCormick and Tony Inwood.<br />
Collectively they share<br />
around 150 years of MSA<br />
membership.<br />
Catching up for ayarn and abeer at the MSA on Friday were (from left) Guildford Lane, Trevor<br />
Robertson, Malcolm McCormick and Tony Inwood.<br />
Guildford Lane said he had<br />
missed his regular trips to the<br />
MSA and the camaraderie he<br />
enjoyed there.<br />
The beer and atmosphere at<br />
the venue were both good and<br />
he had been amember for<br />
around 45 years.<br />
‘‘It took me eight years to get<br />
balloted in, but Iwouldn’t drink<br />
anywhere else.’’<br />
The MSA has taken on two<br />
extra staff members to manage<br />
the current table service<br />
requirement.<br />
Avideo running on one of the<br />
screens shows in virtual reality<br />
how the venue will look after the<br />
current big refurbishment<br />
project has been completed.<br />
Mr Campbell said the project<br />
has been delayed but work is<br />
well under way again. He said<br />
the newlook MSA would<br />
feature three ground floor<br />
restaurants and combined<br />
seating for 200 people.<br />
There was also aretractable<br />
roofplanned and billiardsand<br />
conference rooms would be<br />
relocatedupstairs.<br />
Mr Campbell said it was<br />
great to see the venue back<br />
operating and goodtosee the<br />
smiles and hearthe banter of<br />
members.<br />
Ecan rate rise disgraceful, says councillor<br />
Environment Canterbury<br />
(ECan) hashalved its proposed<br />
rate rise of 9.8 per cent but Mid<br />
Canterbury councillor Ian<br />
Mackenzie said the regional<br />
authority should have tried<br />
harder to lower rates even more.<br />
Cr Mackenzie was one of five<br />
mainly rural councillors to vote<br />
against anew proposed rate rise<br />
of 4per cent.<br />
He believes this will be<br />
difficult for ratepayers as they<br />
struggle with the economic<br />
fallout of Covid19.<br />
He said ECan staffhad<br />
worked hard on a2.3 per cent<br />
rise option that would have seen<br />
no existingprogrammes cut and<br />
some cash reservesused.<br />
But after along and tense<br />
debate,city councillors<br />
(supported by one South<br />
Canterbury councillor and one<br />
from Rangiora) pushed for more<br />
spending on climate change<br />
engagement, anew coastal plan<br />
and atree plantingprogramme<br />
and public transport.<br />
Cr Mackenzie said the 4per<br />
cent rise, that will be officially<br />
voted on next month as part of<br />
the annualplan process, would<br />
see small decreases for urban<br />
people in Mid Canterbury and<br />
small increases for rural folk in<br />
the district.<br />
But it would mean double<br />
digit increases for ratepayers at<br />
Rangiora, Leeston and Darfield.<br />
He said it was adisgraceful<br />
decision, given the economic<br />
uncertainty caused by the<br />
pandemic and the stressmany<br />
people are under now.<br />
‘‘We argued that it didn’t<br />
make sense at atimeofcrisis and<br />
significant hardship for ECanto<br />
raise any more money than<br />
absolutely necessary.”<br />
Cr Mackenzie said council<br />
should have shown more<br />
empathy with their ratepayers.<br />
‘‘There are people who have<br />
lost their business or their job.<br />
They have come out of lockdown<br />
stunned and the last thing they<br />
need is to get the message that<br />
the regional council doesn’t care.<br />
‘‘I would have thought the<br />
prudent decision was to keep<br />
rates as low as possible and<br />
review our options in six months<br />
time.’’
New World owner/operator Jeremy Rooney and initial donations for the<br />
Unlock ‘n’ Restock foodbank drive.<br />
Food stocks pile<br />
in for community<br />
By Toni Williams<br />
Donations of food items for the district’s<br />
foodbanks are steadily streaming in as<br />
word of the Unlock ‘n’ Restock spreads.<br />
Businesses, individuals and schools<br />
have got behind the foodbank booster<br />
organised by Property Brokers<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>.<br />
New World owner/operator Jeremy<br />
Rooney said donations for the Unlock<br />
‘n’ Restock were slow to start but<br />
gradually picking up.<br />
Some items had already been<br />
collected by the realtors, including New<br />
World’s own donation of items.<br />
Mr Rooney said staff at the<br />
supermarket had been worked through<br />
some nerveracking conditions in the<br />
past few months.<br />
The supermarket employs 182 staff, in<br />
fulltime and parttime positions, so no<br />
additional staff were employed over the<br />
lockdown.<br />
They had worked some long days, he<br />
said.<br />
“They have been amazing. I’m super<br />
proud of them.”<br />
And there is light at the end of the<br />
tunnel as alert levels drop and<br />
restrictions eased around gathering<br />
numbers.<br />
The supermarket’s stock levels were<br />
also back at to anormal level.<br />
Mr Rooney said the supermarket’s<br />
hours would remain 8am to 8pm until<br />
June 8, and then revert to 9pm closing.<br />
He said the entry process at the door,<br />
with astaff member on duty, will remain<br />
for now as areminder for two metre<br />
physical distancing in store.<br />
It would be reviewed as government<br />
gathering restrictions eased even more.<br />
He appreciated times were tough for<br />
some people in the community and was<br />
keen to support the foodbank drive.<br />
“As we’re locally owned it’s awesome<br />
to be able to give back to the community<br />
we live in,” he said.<br />
Asentiment echoed by the Dorie<br />
School community.<br />
Senior pupils at the school were also<br />
thinking of their community when they<br />
dropped off asizeable food donation at<br />
the realtors earlier this week in support<br />
of the food drive.<br />
The student council organised a<br />
school mufti day which called for nonperishable<br />
food items as the payment.<br />
Covid19 has impacted on many in the<br />
community and foodbanks, traditionally<br />
busy in winter, are happy for the help.<br />
Food donations can be dropped off at<br />
Property Brokers <strong>Ashburton</strong>, Tinwald<br />
Supervalue, Netherby Four Square and<br />
New World <strong>Ashburton</strong> until June 5.<br />
NZ needs strong farmers<br />
Nationwide attention postCovid19<br />
lockdown is now turningtoeconomic<br />
recovery, or at least slowing the freefall,<br />
says Mid Canterbury arable farmer<br />
David Clark.<br />
‘‘We need to understand what we can<br />
do well as anation, what we can do<br />
better and what we can do to extract<br />
more value in order to earn the foreign<br />
exchange that is so desperately needed<br />
for the economic prosperity of this<br />
country.’’<br />
Mr Clark, whowas unchallenged for<br />
the role as provincial president during<br />
voting at Federated Farmers Mid<br />
Canterbury’s annual general meeting,<br />
said the closing of the borders to tourists<br />
for an extended period is the equivalent<br />
to foot and mouth disease.<br />
‘‘The ensuring (and justified in my<br />
view) lockdown during level 4has dealt<br />
acrushing blow to countless retail,<br />
hospitality and service sector businesses.<br />
‘‘We have heard of 1000 redundancies<br />
at Fletchers and afurther 1300 at Air<br />
New Zealand, this will only increase as<br />
the wage subsidies come to an end and<br />
business owners confront reality that<br />
their market may not returnfor some<br />
time,’’ he said, in his president’s report.<br />
‘‘More than ever, New Zealand needs<br />
astrong, vibrantand economically,<br />
environmentally and socially sustainable<br />
Primary Production Sector.’’<br />
He said borrowing ‘‘seemingly<br />
limitless billions of dollars from offshore<br />
to recyclewithin our economy on some<br />
grandscale socialwelfare experiment is<br />
not apathway to long term sustainable<br />
economy’’.<br />
It would be betterachieved by<br />
producinggoods and services to sell to<br />
the rest of the world.<br />
‘‘As the agricultural sector we were<br />
fortunate to be able to operate our farms<br />
pretty much as usual with only some<br />
inconvenience.’’<br />
He said more draconian restrictions<br />
could have severely limited the ability to<br />
harvest crops, establish new crops and<br />
undertake many time criticalfarm tasks.<br />
He was thankful for how well farmers<br />
were supported by our associated<br />
industries and service firms over the<br />
period.<br />
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Rangitata MP Andrew Falloon<br />
will be the spokesperson for<br />
biosecurity in arevamped<br />
National Party lineup<br />
announced this week by new<br />
leader Todd Muller.<br />
Mr Falloon is also the<br />
associate spokesperson for<br />
agriculture and associate<br />
spokesperson for transport.<br />
He said all three areas were<br />
important parts of the postcovid<br />
economic recovery.<br />
Mr Muller announced Selwyn<br />
MP Amy Adams had put her<br />
retirement from politics on hold<br />
to be the Covid19 recovery<br />
spokesperson. Nikki Kaye is the<br />
deputy leader.<br />
Mr Muller has been aregular<br />
visitor to Mid Canterbury to talk<br />
through agriculture issues with<br />
the district’s farming community.<br />
Mr Falloon, afirstterm<br />
Member of Parliament, said he<br />
was pleased the new leader had<br />
been confident to hand him the<br />
biosecurity portfolio.<br />
‘‘As we’ve seen in recent<br />
months, New Zealand’s place in<br />
the world affords us anumber of<br />
natural advantages. To maintain<br />
that advantage requires eternal<br />
vigilance to keep out invasive<br />
pests and threats to our<br />
economic and environmental<br />
wellbeing.<br />
‘‘In recent years I’ve worked<br />
Rangitata MP Andrew Falloon and new National leader Todd<br />
Muller.<br />
with local farmers hard hit by<br />
Mycoplasma bovis, an issue that<br />
sits within the biosecurity<br />
portfolio.’’<br />
Mr Falloon said he would<br />
continue to lobby government<br />
for the best outcomes for<br />
farmers and communities across<br />
the country.<br />
He said he would also work<br />
with National’s transport<br />
spokesperson Chris Bishop to<br />
ensure the South Island got afair<br />
share of infrastructure funding,<br />
instead of afocus on Auckland.<br />
‘‘Infrastructure projects are an<br />
important way that government<br />
can stimulate the economy in the<br />
short term, while also removing<br />
handbrakes to our economic<br />
growth in the longer term.<br />
‘‘Chris and Iare yet to work<br />
out my specific delegation, but<br />
naturally Ihave abig interest in<br />
provincial roading and coastal<br />
shipping. The aviation sector is<br />
another big one with huge<br />
challenges ahead of them. Air<br />
New Zealand is avital part of<br />
keeping Kiwis connected with<br />
the world, but that can’t come at<br />
the neglect of serving smaller<br />
centres.’’<br />
Mr Falloon said the new<br />
leader had an excellent business<br />
pedigree and work ethic.<br />
He had known him since<br />
before he was an MP, when he<br />
worked at Fonterra.<br />
‘‘In times of crisis he is cool,<br />
calm and collected, exactly what<br />
we need as we move to alonger<br />
term recovery and look to mend<br />
ashattered economy.’’<br />
Mr Muller says New<br />
Zealanders need the experience<br />
and management skills of his<br />
party to come through the worst<br />
economic crisis since the end of<br />
the World War 2.<br />
He will be spokesperson for<br />
small business and national<br />
security, while Ms Kaye will have<br />
the education and sport and<br />
recreation portfolios.<br />
Hamilton East MP David<br />
Bennett is the party’s agriculture<br />
spokesperson, aportfolio<br />
previous held by the new leader.<br />
Mrs Adams has Covid19<br />
recovery, while Judith Collins<br />
has economic development and<br />
regional development. Paul<br />
Goldsmith has finance, Gerry<br />
Brownlee has foreign affairs,<br />
Michael Woodhouse health,<br />
Louise Upston social<br />
development, Scott Simpson<br />
environment, Todd McClay<br />
trade and tourism, and Chris<br />
Bishop infrastructure and<br />
transport.<br />
Former deputy Paula Bennett<br />
is the spokesperson for drug<br />
reform and women. Former<br />
leader Simon Bridges says he will<br />
contest the Tauranga electorate<br />
at the election.<br />
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Work plan for dirty creek<br />
Noone is pointing fingers, but<br />
both town and rural people could<br />
be blamed for the poor water<br />
quality in Carters Creek.<br />
The Tinwald creek discharges<br />
into Lake Hood and has high<br />
ecoli, nutrient and sediment<br />
levels. Its water quality has been<br />
aproblem for 20 years.<br />
Areport to the <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Water Zone Committee this<br />
week said poor water quality<br />
could be the result of<br />
contamination by household<br />
septic tanks, the <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
District Council’s sewage<br />
oxidation ponds and livestock not<br />
fenced from the waterway.<br />
The creek has now been<br />
proposed as arehabilitation<br />
project that could involve both<br />
town and country and help grow<br />
people’s knowledge of water<br />
issues.<br />
Environment Canterbury’s<br />
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were at Grove<br />
Farm Road and<br />
Boundary Road;<br />
the creek starts<br />
west of Tinwald<br />
and runs sort of<br />
parallel with the<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> River<br />
until it veers off<br />
and discharges<br />
into Lake Hood.<br />
The creek is<br />
spring fed but also<br />
takes stormwater.<br />
Water quality<br />
readings have<br />
been better since the water has<br />
discharged into the new lake<br />
extension, but lake management<br />
is keen for contamination to be<br />
cleared up the issue at its source.<br />
It could cause algae blooms in<br />
the lake.<br />
Expensive faecal source<br />
tracking at Grove Farm Road<br />
showed contamination was most<br />
likely from sheep, cows and birds.<br />
At Boundary Road, human<br />
faecal sources were detected.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> District Council<br />
Lachie Ashton<br />
staff are helping in<br />
the investigation of<br />
contamination<br />
sources to see if<br />
wastewater oxidation<br />
ponds off Wilkins<br />
Road and sewage<br />
pipelines are<br />
contributing.<br />
Mr Ashton said the<br />
stream walk found<br />
stock not fenced from<br />
the creek, as legally<br />
required. Some<br />
lifestyle block owners<br />
need education.<br />
The potential project has<br />
already captured the attention of<br />
the Hinds Districts Lions Club,<br />
who are able to coordinate and<br />
help improve the waterway with<br />
fencing and riparian planting to<br />
prevent creek banks eroding.<br />
Zone committee member<br />
Chris Allen suggested afiveyear<br />
timeline allowing contamination<br />
sources to be identified and dealt<br />
with, and community groups to<br />
be involved with fencing and<br />
planting the creek.<br />
Staff hit the books<br />
Three<strong>Ashburton</strong> DistrictCouncil<br />
building accreditation staffare<br />
goingback to schooltomeet new<br />
regulations that theymust now have<br />
adegreeordiplomatodothe job<br />
they have been successfully doing.<br />
The newruleshave been brought<br />
in since councilwas last audited as a<br />
BuildingConsent Authority in 2018<br />
when all threestaff members were<br />
compliant.<br />
Theymustnow study 25 hours a<br />
week for three years, at acost of<br />
$12,000 each, to achieve the<br />
required paperwork.<br />
Building services manager<br />
MichaelWong said it was<br />
disappointingthe staff were no<br />
longer considered compliant,<br />
despite their relevant trades<br />
experience or qualifications.<br />
They now needed adegree or<br />
diploma in construction, surveying<br />
or architecture, he toldcouncillors<br />
whenpresenting the result of the<br />
<strong>2020</strong> audit.<br />
Failuretoaddress noncompliant<br />
issuesraised in the audit could result<br />
in council losingits accreditation.<br />
Mr Wong said the three staff were<br />
now enrolled in asuitable course,<br />
whichthe audit bodysaw as meeting<br />
compliance.<br />
He said the new rules wereabout<br />
making the industry more<br />
professional, but accreditation staff<br />
needed morethan theoretical<br />
knowledge.<br />
Lichen sprayed<br />
Fulton Hoganhas just started<br />
spraying footpaths around the<br />
district for lichen. ‘‘We do not<br />
spraylichen during summer<br />
whenthe pores are closed and<br />
lichengoes into hibernation,’’<br />
said service delivery group<br />
manager Neil McCann. He<br />
said Fulton Hogan would carry<br />
out afull lichenspray<br />
programme in <strong>Ashburton</strong>,<br />
Tinwald, Hinds, <strong>May</strong>field,<br />
Rakaiaand Methven. Grey<br />
Power has beencorresponding<br />
with council about footpathsit<br />
thinks are dangerous and<br />
slipperywhen wetbecause of<br />
the lichen. The groupsays<br />
lichenand loose stonechips<br />
are an ongoing issuefor its<br />
elderly members and they<br />
have been complainingfor<br />
several years about the stateof<br />
footpaths in town.<br />
No ACT yet<br />
The ACTparty has<br />
announced the namesof<br />
candidatesstanding in 49 of<br />
the 65 generalelectorates, but<br />
thereis no candidate for<br />
Rangitata yet. Aspokesperson<br />
at ACThead office said there<br />
was no announcementofa<br />
Rangitata candidate, but there<br />
couldbeinthe near future.<br />
Tom Corbett stood for ACTin<br />
Rangitata in 2011, 2014 and<br />
2017,polling<strong>28</strong>0, 429and 262<br />
votesateach respective<br />
election. Rangitata National<br />
MP Andrew Falloon polled<br />
19,994 votesin2017, with<br />
Labour’s Jo Luxton second<br />
with 13,663.<br />
Fatal crash<br />
One persondied following a<br />
serious crash on Maronan<br />
Roadon Tuesday evening.<br />
The twovehicle crash between<br />
Kennels and Lillsroads, was<br />
reported at 6.10pm;diversions<br />
wereinplace.
Local news at www.starnews.co.nz <strong>Ashburton</strong>'s The <strong>Courier</strong>, Thursday <strong>May</strong> <strong>28</strong>, <strong>2020</strong>, Page 7<br />
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Atop walk with unbeatable views<br />
By Mick Jensen<br />
Canterburyhas plentyofhiking tracks<br />
and scenic walks,but some of the best<br />
scenery around can be found on the<br />
Peak Hillroute near Lake Coleridge.<br />
The Department of Conservation<br />
(DOC) maintained track offers<br />
sweeping views of the lakeand the<br />
majesty of the high country.<br />
DOC classes the track as expert,<br />
simplybecause the walk is exposedand<br />
suddenchangesofweatherare not<br />
uncommon.<br />
But on acalm,clear, balmy day the<br />
walk is agem and theeffort of the climb<br />
versusthe reward of the views make it<br />
areal winner.<br />
Peak Hillisaccessed off Algidus<br />
Road, which can be picked up 5km<br />
beforeLake Coleridge Village, or by<br />
going through the village and up the<br />
gravelroad andturning left to follow<br />
signs.<br />
From asignedparkingarea off<br />
Algidus Roadthere is amarked<br />
easement over private land and thena<br />
clearly markedroute to the summit.<br />
It’s prettymuch straight into agrunty<br />
climb,but the views grow witheach<br />
strideand after 3045 minutes walkers<br />
are rewarded with theimpressive sight<br />
of the easternend of LakeColeridge.<br />
From the fenceline the track<br />
continues to climband follows anarrow<br />
ridge forawhile.<br />
The reward of theascent comes with<br />
expansiveviews across the western arm<br />
of Lake Coleridge and out towards the<br />
headwaters of the Rakaia and<br />
Wilberforce rivers.<br />
The braidedriver system, steep<br />
mountains and splendour of the high<br />
country are laid bare before you.<br />
The top of the climb is marked with<br />
Mid Canterbury hiking friends Murray Thompson, Mandy Hurst and Jude O’Connor climb the steep first section of the Peak Hill track.<br />
astacked stone cairn and the flattish<br />
plateau has plentyofroom to escape<br />
fellow walkersand to take in the peace<br />
and solitude.<br />
I’ve done the walkonanumber of<br />
occasions andInever tire of the natural<br />
scenery.<br />
Sometimes there havebeen just a<br />
couple of otherwalkersonthe track<br />
and afew morethan that on other<br />
occasions.<br />
But,onthe first weekend of level2<br />
restrictions, my Sunday hike to the top<br />
withthreehiking buddies was also<br />
shared with an estimated80plus<br />
others.<br />
It was agloriousweather day with<br />
verylittle windand clearblueskies and<br />
everyone wantedataste of freedom<br />
andtheirfreshair fix.<br />
PeakHillisaknown gem and awalk<br />
enjoyedbyyoung and old.<br />
While somewere puffing hard, and<br />
others sweating off aboozy party the<br />
night before, agroupoffit, enthusiastic<br />
teenagerswere running down after a<br />
similarrapidscramble to the top.<br />
The track takesmost people<br />
between two andthree hours to the<br />
top.The descent takesalittleless time,<br />
but can be hard on the knees.<br />
Pick agood day, take acamera and<br />
the rightgear and tick off one of New<br />
Zealand’s best shortwalks from your<br />
bucketlist.<br />
We’d love to hear aboutyour favourite<br />
walkorride in our patch.Please getin<br />
touch withLinda.<br />
Clarke@ashburtoncourier.co.nz
Topping up the food<br />
of our native birds<br />
It’s that timeofyear<br />
again: almostwinter<br />
and native birds’ food<br />
suppliesmay need abit<br />
of atopup.<br />
Many townand<br />
country gardens have<br />
plants thatattract<br />
native birds,which is<br />
the bestway to support<br />
them.Putting outfood<br />
suitable for their<br />
particulardietary<br />
requirementscan also<br />
help.Nectar feeders,<br />
suchassilver eyes,<br />
bellbirds andtuis,love<br />
fruitand sugar water;<br />
silver eyes alsolike fat.<br />
Insect feeders such<br />
as fantailsand grey<br />
warblersare harder to<br />
please –the bestway to<br />
ensuretheyhave<br />
plenty of insects to eat<br />
in winteristoavoid<br />
using insectidesinthe<br />
garden,leavingleaf<br />
litter that mayharbour<br />
insectsand having<br />
flowering plants that<br />
attract insectsall year<br />
round.<br />
Don’thave abird<br />
feeder fullofseeds if<br />
you’rehoping to<br />
attract nativebirds.<br />
Seedsand grain attract<br />
sparrows; breadisalso<br />
unsuitable fornectar<br />
and insecteaters as it is<br />
madefrom grain. Milk<br />
can’tbedigestedby<br />
birdsand honey is best<br />
avoidedasit can<br />
Nature Matters, with Mary Ralston<br />
Fruit and sugar water can help native birds<br />
survive through the winter (Photo: George<br />
Hobson)<br />
attractbeesand spread<br />
bee diseases. Cooked<br />
oatsorporridge<br />
shouldn’tbefed to<br />
birds as it can harden<br />
around thebeak and<br />
cause aproblem.<br />
So, fornectar<br />
feeders,stick to fruit or<br />
sugar water andfor<br />
silvereyes,fat in awire<br />
or string holder<br />
suspended froma<br />
branch or porch.Fruit,<br />
suchashalfanappleor<br />
orange, can be nailed<br />
to aboardplaced on a<br />
picnictable. For<br />
insecteaters, keep<br />
your gardeninsectfriendlywith<br />
plenty of<br />
yearroundfoliage,<br />
fruit andflowers that<br />
will be home to insects.<br />
Sugar water can be<br />
made by dissolving half<br />
acup of sugar in four<br />
cups of warmwater<br />
(this is asugartowater<br />
ratio of 1:8). Anything<br />
highermay attract bees<br />
andwasps or start to<br />
ferment.And of course,<br />
havingacatfree<br />
garden is important.<br />
Otherpredators such<br />
as rats and stoats also<br />
pose athreat.<br />
Ski packages offered to<br />
boost Methven tourism<br />
By Linda Clarke<br />
Long weekend ski packages aimed at<br />
people in Wellington and other New<br />
Zealand cities are being promoted far<br />
and wide to attract domestic tourists to<br />
Methven.<br />
Experience Mid Canterbury (EMC)<br />
has been among the first tourism<br />
promoters out of the gates postcovid<br />
and is already pushing videos of scenic<br />
Methven and Mid Canterbury on You<br />
Tube and social media.<br />
Afourmonth campaign is under<br />
way to encourage Kiwis to shop, eat,<br />
stay and play in Mid Canterbury.<br />
EMC manager Bruce Moffat said<br />
one video post on Facebook had<br />
reached 8500 people, with 2500 people<br />
clicking the link to watch the video to<br />
the end.<br />
He said the domestic tourism market<br />
would be slow to grow as people were<br />
cautious about venturing too far from<br />
home. ‘‘People are still unsure if it is<br />
safe to travel around New Zealand. It<br />
will take time.’’<br />
Even the coming Queen’s Birthday<br />
weekend was not expected to generate<br />
crowds.<br />
Mt Hutt skifield is due to open on<br />
June 12 and more people were<br />
expected to be travelling around<br />
Canterbury by then.<br />
‘‘As Air New Zealand lifts its<br />
capacity, we will start seeing people<br />
from Wellington in particular coming<br />
down to spend afew days skiing. It is<br />
not all glum and we are looking on the<br />
positive side.’’<br />
Mr Moffat said EMC would<br />
continue to be proactive and<br />
Bruce Moffat.<br />
pragmatic about promoting the district<br />
and encouraging visitors to spend their<br />
money here.<br />
MBIE estimates showed visitor<br />
spend in the district from April 2019 to<br />
the end of March was $188 million,<br />
down $3m in the last month because of<br />
Covid19. About onethird of that was<br />
from international visitors.<br />
EMC is also part of awider regional<br />
campaign encouraging people to travel<br />
to Christchurch and Canterbury.<br />
EMC’s marketing strategy is aligned<br />
to the country’s alert levels with two<br />
scenarios at alert level 0, 1215 months<br />
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ENGAGEMENT<br />
Family Notices<br />
DEATHS<br />
Pass the popcorn please!<br />
MOORE- THOMAS: Lyndon<br />
and Jo, Murray and Shirley<br />
along with their extended<br />
families are absolutely<br />
delighted toannounce the<br />
engagement of Sarah and<br />
Toby.<br />
HEWSON, Valerie Marguerite<br />
(nee Ranson), Sadly and<br />
unexpectedly passed away<br />
at <strong>Ashburton</strong> Hospital on<br />
<strong>May</strong> 24, <strong>2020</strong>, aged 85<br />
years. Dearly loved wife<br />
of the late Alan Hewson,<br />
loved mother and mother<br />
in law ofSharon and Gary,<br />
Gene and Melanie, Wayne,<br />
and the late Phillip. Nana<br />
to Craig, Mitchell and his<br />
wife Ana, Courtenay, and<br />
Ethan, and a very much<br />
beloved sister. Messages<br />
to the Hewson family c/-<br />
P O Box 472, <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
7740. Aspecial thanks to<br />
Coldstream Lifecare who<br />
cared for Val over the past<br />
months.<br />
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<strong>2020</strong>. Loving and loved<br />
husband of Rosalie for<br />
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and Paul Watkin, Andrew<br />
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Kevin Stewart and Lynn Arthur<br />
returned to work from<br />
lockdown to astore full of<br />
murder, mayhem and romance.<br />
There was also some actionpacked<br />
fighting, comedy and a<br />
few musical numbers.<br />
It’s no real surprise, they<br />
work at United Video <br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>’s last remaining<br />
video rental store.<br />
Kevin, who has owned the<br />
store for 21 years, says<br />
reopening was agreat chance<br />
to reconnect with their<br />
members, many of who missed<br />
coming instore having achat<br />
and selecting amovie.<br />
The duo was keen to see a<br />
return of members who may<br />
have taken to online streaming<br />
sites or television’s on demand<br />
platforms over lockdown.<br />
“We are slowly building up a<br />
return (of people) to dvd hire,”<br />
Kevin says.<br />
The store reopened at Alert<br />
Level 3after athorough clean<br />
including shelves, cases and<br />
dvds. It was like an autumn<br />
springclean, Kevin says.<br />
The postlockdown clean<br />
proved agood time to sort<br />
through surplus dvds and<br />
games and there is now an<br />
extensive range available for<br />
sale.<br />
United Video’s Lynn Arthur and Kevin Stewart are surrounded by murder, action-packed<br />
adventure and romantic comedy.<br />
Lynn says dvds and cases are<br />
also cleaned down as they<br />
return from hire.<br />
She has worked in the store<br />
for 19 years and says prior to<br />
lockdown some members took<br />
up the store’s offer to hire bulk<br />
movies and games to keep them<br />
entertained.<br />
It’s now time to return them,<br />
she says with asmile.<br />
Over lockdown Lynn<br />
watched the romantic comedy<br />
movie Last Christmas and<br />
caught up on the ending of<br />
Game of Thrones.<br />
She also took up baking<br />
(along with the rest of the<br />
country), sorted the garden and<br />
cleaned out her house, which<br />
was aprelude to the cleaning of<br />
the store.<br />
In stark contrast, Kevin took<br />
home afew new release movies<br />
but did not watch any. In an<br />
effort to stop going stir crazy<br />
inside, he took up walking the<br />
streets for up to an hour and a<br />
half each day.<br />
He also works ANZCO<br />
security, which as an essential<br />
service kept him busy too.<br />
Farmers supply mince<br />
to local foodbanks<br />
By Toni Williams<br />
Meat the Need founders<br />
Siobhan O’Malley and<br />
Wayne Langford have<br />
helped supply four<br />
months’ worth of meat to<br />
37 foodbanks across the<br />
South Island, including<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>, in just six<br />
weeks.<br />
It’s all thanks to the<br />
generosity of Meat the Need<br />
donors and an idea which was<br />
put into action.<br />
Siobhan, who has previously<br />
farmed in Mid Canterbury with<br />
husband Chris, said Wayne<br />
came up with the concept and<br />
the two of them ironed out the<br />
details before calling on the<br />
rural community to lend ahand.<br />
‘‘He dropped off some meat<br />
to his local foodbank and found<br />
out how long it would last,” she<br />
said.<br />
“He worked out that if you<br />
could scale the supply across the<br />
country, this was aquantity that<br />
might actually be able to be<br />
supplied by farmers. So<br />
together we came up with aplan<br />
to make it happen.”<br />
The duo pitched the idea of a<br />
charitable nationwide supply<br />
chain and Silver Fern Farms got<br />
in behind.<br />
Siobhan said their<br />
involvement was an enormous<br />
boost, ‘‘as we could accept<br />
cattle, deer and sheep for<br />
donation from anywhere in NZ<br />
from launch, which was huge”.<br />
They have used arural<br />
network of hidden talents,<br />
including adairy farmer from<br />
Northland who did the<br />
branding and afarmer’s<br />
daughter who made the launch<br />
video, with support from<br />
industry bodies like Beef<br />
+LambNZ and DairyNZ, to<br />
spread the word.<br />
“The response has been<br />
immediate, wholehearted<br />
support in most cases,” she said.<br />
“We had farmers donating<br />
through our website within the<br />
first 24 hours of launch, which<br />
we were very grateful for.<br />
“In the first month,<br />
approximately 125 animals were<br />
donated, and we are just getting<br />
started.”<br />
She said 100 per cent of<br />
farmer donations went to<br />
foodbanks as mince, with<br />
sponsorship and public<br />
donations sought to cover lean<br />
running costs.<br />
Mince was the preferred<br />
choice of foodbanks as it was<br />
versatile for families, easier to<br />
store and cook, and could feed<br />
multiple people from one pack,<br />
she said.<br />
The duo met while on an<br />
industry board for dairy that<br />
gives feedback to Primary ITO.<br />
Living just an hour away from<br />
each other, at Tasman and<br />
Golden Bay respectively,<br />
allowed them to meet and share<br />
ideas on projects.<br />
“We both shared an interest<br />
in NZ farming on social media<br />
(he runs YOLOFarmer and I<br />
run Pukeko Pastures) so we had<br />
some good chats.”<br />
Siobhan would like to see<br />
Meat the Need grow, not only<br />
with ongoing donations from<br />
farmers supplying highly<br />
nutritious export quality protein<br />
to foodbanks for in need<br />
families across New Zealand,<br />
but also to include other<br />
primary sector products using a<br />
similar framework to red meat.<br />
“For instance, I'd love to talk<br />
to Synlait about their farmers<br />
donating milk and them<br />
supplying baby formula, or<br />
Westland Milk Products or<br />
Fonterra supplying UHT milk,”<br />
she said.<br />
Donating meat, or money, to<br />
Meat the Need can be done via<br />
the website www.meattheneed.<br />
org or through your Silver Fern<br />
Farms representative.<br />
Kevin says Covid19 had<br />
disrupted film production<br />
globally, which would have a<br />
flowon effect with new<br />
releases to the video market.<br />
In March when the country<br />
went to into lockdown new<br />
releases included movies such<br />
as 1917, Jumanji, Star Wars,<br />
The Grudge and Dr Dolittle<br />
which are still in now, two<br />
months later.<br />
But it’s agood time to catch<br />
up on some movie viewing with<br />
amix of new releases and real<br />
classics in store.<br />
Dementia<br />
support<br />
Adementia support group in<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> will have its first<br />
meeting next month.<br />
The support group is being<br />
organised by Princes Court<br />
manager Lorraine Bryan and is<br />
aimed at helping families<br />
dealing withdementia and<br />
telling them about care options<br />
that are available.<br />
The first meeting will be at<br />
the Grace Presbyterian Church<br />
Hall, opposite Princes Court, on<br />
Princes Street on Thursday<br />
June 11. It will run from 1.30pm<br />
until 3pm.<br />
Lorraine said the group<br />
would run on the second<br />
Thursday of each month.<br />
Princes Courthas 35<br />
dementia beds,but the number<br />
of people with dementia is<br />
increasing.<br />
She said fear of the unknown<br />
stopped many families affected<br />
by dementiafrom seeking help.<br />
People often waited too long.<br />
Some avoided asking for help<br />
because they feared they would<br />
lose their homesand their<br />
savings payingfor dementia<br />
care.<br />
She said lockdown had been<br />
tough for caregivers in the<br />
community, who were unable to<br />
access respite care. Many had<br />
questions that could be<br />
answered at the support group<br />
meeting.<br />
Those planning to attend<br />
should contact Princes Courton<br />
308 0302, for catering purposes.
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Hot pools work to start<br />
Fullscale groundworks on the<br />
Methven hot pools will begin<br />
soon and the project is expected<br />
to be ready by next winter.<br />
The $15 million Opuke Thermal<br />
Pools and Spa project will be<br />
built on land near the Methven<br />
Trotting Club and will offer three<br />
very separate experiences; affordable<br />
family bathing, adult exclusive<br />
bathing, and high quality spa<br />
therapies.<br />
The project, which has a$7.5m<br />
loan from the Government’s Provincial<br />
Growth Fund (PGF), will<br />
be the first of its kind in New<br />
Zealand to be heated by solar<br />
power and produce no emissions.<br />
Project steering team member<br />
James McKenzie said a lot of<br />
work had taken place in recent<br />
weeks to lock down pricing and to<br />
make the detailed design features<br />
fit into the budget.<br />
The budget was tight, but the<br />
project retained the vision of the<br />
Opuke hot pools and he was<br />
excited to be involved with it.<br />
Exploratory ground works had<br />
begun in January and the main<br />
contractors were expected on site<br />
next month, when foundation<br />
work would begin.<br />
‘‘The building consent has now<br />
Labour List MP Jo Luxton, Regional Development Minister<br />
Shane Jones and James McKenzie in front of the Blue Pub when<br />
the Provincial Growth Fund loan was announced in February<br />
last year.<br />
SAVE<br />
come through from <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
council, so it’s full steam ahead.’’<br />
Construction was expected to<br />
take around one year, but by<br />
summer the shell of the complex<br />
would be obvious, he said.<br />
Solar panels and heat pumps<br />
would be ordered later and landscaping<br />
would begin.<br />
Mr McKenzie said project<br />
investors had spoken with PGF<br />
staff recently and araft of conditions<br />
relating to the funding had<br />
been ticked off.<br />
The first tranche of PGF funds,<br />
around $1m, had been spent on<br />
the detailed design work, but the<br />
bulk would go on the build.<br />
An economic benefit study<br />
estimates that the project will<br />
create 120 jobs both directly and<br />
indirectly, and will add an estimated<br />
$162m to the local economy<br />
over 10 years.<br />
Support for migrants<br />
Hakatere Multi Cultural Council has beenproviding<br />
support for struggling migrants duringlockdown.<br />
Around 25 migrants have been given supermarket<br />
vouchersfor local shops,aswell as someheating<br />
supplies.<br />
Most of the migrants are on temporary work visas,<br />
whichhave strict conditions attached.<br />
Hakatere Multi Cultural Council coordinator Adi<br />
Avnitsaid somemigrantshad faced times of hardship<br />
over the last two months.<br />
Thosewho had lost theirjobs were struggling to pay<br />
their rent, bills and food.<br />
Eightofthe 25 helpedhad cometothe district to<br />
work in Methven, but winter jobshad been delayed.<br />
He said migrants on temporary work visas were not<br />
entitled to claim support from Winz, and theirvisas<br />
were job specific.<br />
If theylost their jobs, they needed to apply for a<br />
new visa to be able to secureadifferent job.<br />
Immigration NZ had beenclosed for aperiod<br />
during lockdown and for some migrants that had<br />
meantdelays in getting new visas,said Mr Avnit.<br />
The migrants receivinghelp hailedfrom adozen<br />
countries, includingthe UK, Czech Republic, Fiji,<br />
Ireland, India, Jordan,the Philippines, Nigeria and<br />
France.<br />
Mr Avnit said those receiving help had been very<br />
appreciative.<br />
Funding for the migrant support has come from the<br />
Covid19 Community Awareness and Preparedness<br />
GrantFund, which has distributed $4.8 million<br />
nationally.<br />
Dog fees rise<br />
Dog registration feesare<br />
about to be notified by the<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> District<br />
Council and poochownerswill<br />
find they have<br />
risen by 2.2 per cent,in<br />
linewith othercouncil fees<br />
and charges.<br />
Dogcontrol fees<br />
charged under the Dog<br />
Control Act must legally<br />
be notified amonthbefore<br />
theyare due to be<br />
collected.<br />
Thecost of registering a<br />
arural dog risesfrom $54<br />
to $55 while an unneutered<br />
urban dogwill go<br />
from$83 to $85; desexed<br />
dogsrise from $54 to $55.<br />
Menacing and<br />
dangerous dogscost more<br />
to register and there is a<br />
late feeof$42 for urban<br />
dogs and$<strong>28</strong> for rural<br />
dogs.<br />
Impounded dogs will<br />
incuracost of $84 for the<br />
firstoffence and $208for<br />
the second, plusadaily<br />
sustenance fee.<br />
The cost of acallout to<br />
attending wanderingstock<br />
will jump from$54 to<br />
$120,bringing the callout<br />
fee in line with other<br />
councils.<br />
Dog registration fees<br />
will begin to be collected<br />
on July 1.<br />
Adi Avnit with boxes of donated hygiene<br />
products from Waitaha Primary Health that he will<br />
pass on to migrants being supported.<br />
Mr Avnit said he still had some funds left, and if<br />
there was still aneed when those funds had gone,he<br />
would look at seekingmore support.<br />
Migrants in need of supportshouldcall/text 027 220<br />
8791 or emailtoadi.avnit@safermidcanterbury.org.<br />
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The caravan will be parked in the<br />
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The caravan, named Pinkie, was due<br />
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<strong>Ashburton</strong> College<br />
Individual Excellence in aSupportive Learning Environment<br />
News<br />
Issue 15<br />
<strong>28</strong> <strong>May</strong> <strong>2020</strong><br />
Message From ThePrincipal<br />
Appreciation<br />
As we emerge from the COVID-19 Level 3and<br />
4 restrictions there are some really important<br />
people Iwish to acknowledgeand thank.<br />
Firstly, toour parents and caregivers. Well done<br />
on your collective wisdom. All ofusworry about<br />
our children’s and grandchilden’s safety, and our<br />
parentbody,enmasse,hasdemonstratedsupport,<br />
careand awillingness to support our nation-wide<br />
requirements. This included adherencetothe Level3guidelines of not<br />
sending their childrentoschool, unlessitwas unavoidable.<br />
Nowthatweare at Level2the vast majority of our parents have chosen<br />
to send their children back to school and on the first day that all our<br />
students could attend,weweredelighted with ahigh overall attendance<br />
rate.<br />
DistanceLearning<br />
My thanks also go to our parents for doing the best job they could<br />
in supporting their child’s distance learning. All of us have had the<br />
experience of trying to help students with work when wedonot know<br />
the answer. I really appreciated the level of support onoffer toour<br />
students.<br />
StudentBody<br />
Secondly, to our student body. Thank you for doing the best job you<br />
could in trying circumstances. Many of you have been busy getting to<br />
grips with continuous online learning and have missed the ability to ask<br />
questions and get instant feedback. All of us are committed to ensuring<br />
thatwesupportyou on your academic pathwayinto the future.<br />
Iwould also like to acknowledge our Student Executive who did a<br />
brilliant job of providing an online presence tosupport our student<br />
body. Our student leaders, inparticular, need tobeacknowledged<br />
because they epitomised the notion that intough times the tough get<br />
going. If youhave nothad achance to view their ‘Welcome Back Under<br />
Level2’video thencheck it out on our Facebook page, or on the College<br />
website (Latest News).<br />
College Staff<br />
Thirdly,toour Collegestaff. They have doneanamazing job of keeping<br />
the work flowing, organising our school under the various alert levels,<br />
preparing for our return under Level 2,supporting our students and<br />
theirfamilies,aswell as their own. In manycases our staff were having<br />
to juggle their parental or ‘bubble’challenges whilst, atthe same time,<br />
carrying out their responsibilities for<strong>Ashburton</strong> College.<br />
Going Forward<br />
Going forward, our priority is, firstly, our Year 13 students, particularly<br />
thosewho areaimingfor UniversityEntranceand/or NCEA Level3.Our<br />
focus is on supporting these students asthey have the least amount<br />
of time available to achieve their long-term goals. However, focused<br />
supportwill be available to all students.<br />
Iamsure all of us will remember the last eight weeks in many different<br />
ways, but also now looking to the future, and with anawareness of<br />
the implications of Level 4shutdown for many regarding employment<br />
goingforward.<br />
Many thanks.<br />
Ross Preece<br />
Principal •Tumuaki<br />
Staff Welcome<br />
Sophie Noreen<br />
Teacher of English<br />
Internal Appointments<br />
Susie Stewart<br />
Teacher of Science<br />
Porsha Coley –Porsha will be knowntofamilies and students as aLearning<br />
SupportAssistant. In order to take up teacher training Porsha resigned from<br />
this position. However, she has,this year,been appointedtoteacher release<br />
hours in the StudentLearning SupportUnit under her Limited Authorityto<br />
Teach status.<br />
HarmonyHodges –HarmonyisemployedasaLearning SupportAssistant<br />
and, inMarch, transferred tocontinue this work in the Student Learning<br />
SupportUnit,asopposed to working in mainstream classrooms.<br />
AshColl Values<br />
Achieve Quality ShowPride HaveRespect<br />
The most important thing we do is growyoung people.<br />
Information<br />
Post-COVID Information and Dates<br />
As the term restarts and adjustments are made to timeframes due<br />
to the COVID-19 Lockdown period we will be able to advise various<br />
arrangements and dates.<br />
This is the information we have to date,<br />
but theremay be morechanges which we will pass on<br />
as we receiveupdatedinformation from various Governmentagencies.<br />
Some currentchanges are:<br />
Year 13 Students –are required to remain on campus for interval,<br />
lunch times and study periods. They are able to study inthe Library<br />
(staff supervised). This process will be reviewed later in the term and,<br />
depending on our nationalstatus and advice, could change.<br />
Progress Reports-TermTwo Dates:<br />
These will beemailed to families by Friday 05June, Friday 19June and<br />
Friday 03July; and families can also access them through the parent<br />
portal log-on.<br />
No Teacher Only Day–<br />
The Teacher Only Day scheduled for Friday 29<strong>May</strong> is not now taking<br />
place.<br />
NCEAExamDates –<br />
NZQA has advised that the end-of-year examination dates have been<br />
pushed back bytwelve days, to allow for some additional preparation<br />
time.<br />
Therefore, NCEAExamsnow startonMonday16November<br />
and finish on Wednesday09December.<br />
Theexam timetable will be available to students via College.<br />
Thank You: First Mufti Dayfor <strong>2020</strong> –For<br />
Mosque Attack First Responders,raised $970<br />
On Monday 16March College held its first mufti day ofthe year, toraise<br />
awareness of and funding for the first responders (St John Ambulance,<br />
Canterbury) of the 15 March2019 Mosque attack.<br />
The theme was‘Colour Your Day’, with students wearing bright clothing to<br />
recognise the anniversaryofone of New Zealand’sdarkestdays.<br />
It wasdecided tohave donations go to St John Ambulance as it is run and<br />
staffed by people who arepassionate about serving their communities and<br />
caring for fellow New Zealanders, and Christchurch members were in the<br />
challenging position of beingfirst responders.<br />
Abig thank you goes toall who contributed,<br />
resultinginjust over$970 being raised for donation.<br />
Your supportwas appreciated.<br />
Phoenix Magazine 2019<br />
An update forthose who have ordered and<br />
paid forthe PhoenixMagazine.<br />
This time, the magazine covers Term Four of 2018<br />
and all of 2019. From here forward it will cover the<br />
full year and be delivered/available forcollection by<br />
familiesinTermOne of the followingyear.<br />
Naturally there have been some delays to this<br />
production.<br />
However–all who have paid will receivetheir copy<br />
–this is scheduled forthe firsthalfofTermThree.<br />
Familieswill be advised accordinglyrecollection or<br />
delivery.<br />
Furtherorders canstill be taken-$25 percopy<br />
To order:Please contactthe CollegeOffice -308 4193,<br />
or info@ashcoll.school.nz<br />
Storage Units Available forStudentDevices<br />
We remindstudents andparents/caregivers thatthere is device storage<br />
available forstudents.<br />
Is your electronic deviceweighingon your mind andyourbag?<br />
Tiredofcarrying aroundyour devicebetween classes?<br />
Worriedabout your devicegetting damaged during breaktimes?<br />
Wanting somewheresecure to store your device?<br />
TheCollege Libraryhas storage lockers available<br />
to put devices in at anytime during the day.<br />
TheLibraryhas padlocks which can be loaned to students,<br />
or students canbring their own.<br />
Access to storage lockers is available from before school<br />
until 3:30pmevery day.<br />
Formoreinformation:goto the Libraryand talk to the staff there.<br />
Events<br />
StudentExecutiveLeadersare Leaders Still<br />
When in Lockdown<br />
Informationprovided by Head Girl PoppyKilworth with Student Executiveinput<br />
During the<br />
isolation period<br />
the College’s<br />
fifteen-member<br />
Student<br />
Executive<br />
Committee was<br />
still working<br />
hard, which was<br />
challenging due<br />
to the factthat<br />
they couldn’t<br />
come together<br />
to organise<br />
events.<br />
TheExecutive<br />
worked around<br />
this by still<br />
meeting every<br />
Tuesdaymorning at 8:30am, but on aGoogle-meet virtual meeting.Here<br />
they organised futureevents, discussed current events and talked about<br />
whatcould be done to stayconnectedwith our school.<br />
These discussions ledtothe Exec coming up with<br />
dailycontent to post on the Instagram,including:<br />
Motivational Monday, TLCTuesday, Workout Wednesday,<br />
Tiktok Thursday and FundayFriday.<br />
Instagramisasocial media platformrun by Head Girl PoppyKilworth and<br />
Deputy Head Girl Maria Costas, and followed largely by the <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
College Studentbody.<br />
By posting daily on instagramthe Executivewas able to spread inspiration,<br />
stay involved and have some fun with students during the quarantine.<br />
Many students took part inthese daily posts/challenges which was super<br />
rewarding forthe Exec.<br />
At Dawn on AnzacDay<br />
On Anzac Daymanyofthe students walked to the end of their driveway,at<br />
6:00am, fortheir momentofsilenceinrespectofthe ANZACs.<br />
International Days of Celebration<br />
Alongside this, also posted were some international days of celebration<br />
that were felt to be appropriate. Ian Teves, Head of the Environment<br />
and Canteen Committee, createdsomestunning visual artworktoshow<br />
appreciation forInternational Nurse Day, Earth Dayand OrangeJuiceDay.<br />
FutureExciting Events<br />
Excitingeventswereplanned ahead: including sendingout baking to local<br />
businesses thathad to work during lockdown, and a24-hour Bike Challenge<br />
to raise funds forthe Salvation Army who areoncall 24/7. This is planned to<br />
take placelaterinthe term.<br />
As hard as these unprecedented times were,the Exec stayed strong<br />
anddid its best to stay focusedonimproving the school.<br />
Nonetheless theysaid: ‘weare happytosee the back of<br />
COVID-19 andbeback at school!’
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News<br />
Operating theatre can also be<br />
used as infection control room<br />
Congratulations<br />
This is Language –NuttyTilez Winners in Oceania TopTen<br />
In German classes,teacher TomKitchen and students use an online learning tool called 'This is<br />
Language' forvocabulary, grammar and various other language learning aspects.<br />
As with last year our College students of German took partinthe annual‘This is Language’Nutty<br />
Tilez competition, wherestudents playagainst other students in real time,recalling vocabulary<br />
they have learned.<br />
Foreach correctanswer,astudentgets apointinasquareintheir colour.Students win by either<br />
knocking out the other players (filling the entiresquarewith their colour), or by having the most<br />
amountofcolour in the squareatthe end of twominutes. Studentsonly have fivelives and lose<br />
alifebyspelling awordwrongly.<br />
Thecompetition ranoverthe weekend of 06-08 Marchwith aqualifying round on Friday, where<br />
students had to reach acertain level aftertwentyfour hours to qualify forthe finalround which<br />
ranoverSaturdayand Sunday.<br />
Excellent Results<br />
College students placed extremely well with eightfinishing within the TopTen in Oceania, and<br />
gaining all of the topthree placings as well.<br />
The College students were in the Australasian competition, competing against students from<br />
New Zealand,Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore.<br />
The eight College students and their Top Ten placings were – Tamaki Nishioka (1st),<br />
Brendan Fleming (2nd), Riley Campbell (3rd), Mao Nishioka (5th), Angela Ciora (7th),<br />
Olivia Lill (8th), Marlese Schoonderbeek (9th), Aidan Soal (10th).<br />
Blogcomments from the topthreeplace-getters are:<br />
1st placed TamakiNishioka(Year 12) said:<br />
‘I prepared forthe NuttyTilez competition in class.The competition wasverytime-consuming<br />
and Ineeded focus to pass each level in time which was kind of stressful, but overall Ithink it<br />
wasworth it’.<br />
2nd placed Brendan Fleming (Year 13) said:<br />
‘The toughest thing was how long it took to get to the final level. Istarted when there were<br />
about seven or eighthours leftsoIspentabout six of the following eighthours doing it,which<br />
wasextremely draining’.<br />
3rdplaced -Riley Campbell (Year 10) said:<br />
‘I just saw the competition and decided Iwanted totry to win it. So-Itried, but other people<br />
knew moreGerman than me but Iended up getting thirdsoIam still happyabout that’.<br />
Anew operating theatre at<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Hospital can be<br />
turned into anegativepressure<br />
infectioncontrol room to treat<br />
any Covid19patients in a<br />
serious condition.<br />
The theatre’s recovery room<br />
has also beenrepurposed in the<br />
pandemictoinvestigate and<br />
manage suspected Covid19<br />
patients, keepingthem separate<br />
fromthe restofthe hospital.<br />
The operating theatre and<br />
recovery rooms were built in<br />
2017when the <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
community gave $8.7 million for<br />
hospital improvements and<br />
construction of the new 1040<br />
square metre acuteassessment<br />
unitand day procedure theatre.<br />
Advance <strong>Ashburton</strong> Community<br />
Foundation gave$1.5m, with<br />
other funds from the Mackenzie<br />
Charitable Trust, the Lion<br />
Foundation, the <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Licensing Trust and the Trevor<br />
Wilson CharitableTrust.<br />
The unit and operating<br />
theatrehave been well used<br />
since then, and now are part of<br />
the hospital’sresponse to Covid<br />
19.<br />
Rural health specialist and<br />
consultant physician at<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Hospital Steve<br />
Withingtonsaid the operating<br />
theatrehad provedextremely<br />
useful in an unexpected way<br />
during the hospital’s pandemic<br />
preparedness planning.<br />
He said while potential for the<br />
virustospread could be<br />
prevented through the use of<br />
personal protectiveequipment,<br />
some treatments like the use of<br />
ventilators could make the virus<br />
aerosolise. Staff caring for these<br />
patients needed ahigher level of<br />
protection and contaminatedair<br />
couldspreadtolarge areas<br />
unless contained.<br />
The hospital’smaintenance<br />
team had reversed the normal<br />
positivepressure in the<br />
operatingtheatretocreate a<br />
negative pressure environment,<br />
whichkept Covid19 bugs in.<br />
He said thishad made the<br />
theatre avery suitableplace for<br />
control of infection and<br />
The acute assessment unit, below, Dr Steve Withington,<br />
consultant physician at <strong>Ashburton</strong> Hospital.<br />
minimising risk of crossinfection,<br />
as potentiallycontaminated<br />
air was not<br />
allowed to escapetoother parts<br />
of the hospital. The air was<br />
containedand exhaustedsafely.<br />
‘‘This then allows<br />
management of sick Covid19<br />
patients, whenand if they<br />
present, to be managed<br />
effectively and safely without<br />
increasing risk to staff and other<br />
patients.’’<br />
The restofthe acute<br />
assessment unit had beenable to<br />
function normally and safely for<br />
people with noncovidproblems.<br />
Dr Withington said<br />
repurposingthe new theatre and<br />
unit,plus prescreeningoutside<br />
the facility meant patients were<br />
safely navigated to the right care.<br />
Most other rural hospitals do<br />
not have negative pressure<br />
roomsand those communities<br />
were worried about how to<br />
manage if amajor cluster arose<br />
in theirarea.<br />
‘‘We are very grateful to the<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>communityfor the<br />
donations that enable us to<br />
provide the excellent standard of<br />
clinical care locally.’’<br />
This had translated into good<br />
energy as staff plannedfor the<br />
pandemic,rather than<br />
frustration at what was not<br />
available.<br />
‘‘The response to Covid19<br />
boughttogether or hospital and<br />
primary care community,<br />
everyone from the cleaners and<br />
administrationteams through to<br />
the nursing and medical<br />
workforces. Collectively they<br />
had apowerfulresourcetowork<br />
with and we are all truly grateful<br />
for this facility, and the training<br />
resources that the community<br />
has supported us with so that we,<br />
the health community,may<br />
support you.’’<br />
(Pictured above,lefttoright): Thetop three place-getters Brendan Fleming,TamakiNishiokaand<br />
Riley Campbell.<br />
Coming Events<br />
While many external events have been cancelled or postponed, there are anumber of<br />
curriculum-relatedactivities still able to takeplace, plus some additional relevant dates.<br />
Anyalterations will be advised as soon as knowntothe relevant groups.<br />
June<br />
01 Queen’s BirthdayWeekend Public Holiday<br />
03 Year13 Ara Instituteliaison visit (Zoom meeting)<br />
04 PostponementDay,College Duathlon, <strong>Ashburton</strong>Mountain Bike track<br />
05 AgricultureAcademy, Group 1, Farmbike Day, <strong>Ashburton</strong>Showgrounds<br />
08 AgricultureAcademy, Group 2, Farmbike Day, <strong>Ashburton</strong>Showgrounds<br />
09 Agriculture1and 2Farmbike Day, <strong>Ashburton</strong>Showgrounds<br />
17 Year 13 UniversityofOtago Liaison visit (Zoom meeting)<br />
22 Agriculture2,Farmbike Day, <strong>Ashburton</strong>Showgrounds<br />
30 Agriculture3,Farmbike Day, <strong>Ashburton</strong>Showgrounds<br />
Term Dates<strong>2020</strong> –Terms Two, Threeand startofTerm Four<br />
Term Two<br />
- Friday 03 July<br />
Term Three - Monday20July -Friday25September<br />
Term Four - Monday12October (final days to be confirmed)<br />
AshColl Way<br />
Valuing our volunteers<br />
Rangitata MP Andrew Falloon<br />
I’m toldthis is my secondtolast<br />
columninthis newspaper before<br />
the election,and so beforeIput<br />
pentopaper for the final time<br />
aheadofSeptember 19 Idohave a<br />
big thank you to make.<br />
When Iwas first elected nearly<br />
threeyearsago Imade apoint of<br />
visitingasmany of our local<br />
community and voluntarygroups<br />
as Icould.<br />
Growing up in <strong>Ashburton</strong> I’d<br />
dealtwith anumberofthem, but it<br />
was only when Isat down to put a<br />
list together that Icould see just<br />
how much we rely on theminthe<br />
district.<br />
From health and welfare groups<br />
to A&P showcommittees,local<br />
sports clubs to seniors, newcomers<br />
groups to budgetadvisory services.<br />
All of which rely in some way on<br />
the goodwillofvolunteers or the<br />
generosity of our community.<br />
Like alot of us many of our<br />
community and voluntary groups<br />
have been impacted by Covid19.<br />
Demand for services has<br />
increased, at the same time that<br />
some volunteershave<br />
understandably become less<br />
available,and fundraising has<br />
becomemore challenging with the<br />
cancellation of events.<br />
That’saproblem. We’re so wellservedbythese<br />
wonderful groups<br />
that Iwould struggle to imaginea<br />
world without them. It’s no<br />
exaggeration to say that for some<br />
in our community they are the<br />
difference between life and death,<br />
the difference between ahealthy<br />
or painful life,the difference<br />
between ahot meal or noneatall.<br />
The good news is that as a<br />
community we can adapt. We’re<br />
small enough that innovative ideas<br />
by committedpeople can makea<br />
real difference. Last week’s<br />
73kilometre bike ride by Tony<br />
Todd on his 73rdbirthdayisa<br />
great example, raising around<br />
$10,000 that Hospice Mid<br />
Canterbury might otherwise<br />
struggletofind.<br />
Others likeour local Rotary<br />
have been continuing to meet by<br />
Zoom, using technologythat I’m<br />
sure just afew years ago would<br />
have presented difficulties.<br />
For all of them the sameistrue.<br />
While some may be larger than<br />
others, better funded, or like so<br />
manyrun on the smell of an oily<br />
rag,attheir very heart they have<br />
people. Any organisation is only as<br />
goodasthose who serve it.<br />
In timesofcrisis it is often our<br />
community groupsand volunteers<br />
at the frontline who bear the<br />
brunt, yet conversely those who<br />
alsosufferthe most.<br />
My thanks is to you.For coming<br />
early and staying late. For<br />
volunteering that extra hour, for<br />
going that extramile.
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Todd’stally passes $10,000<br />
At 26, Mathew Jack decided to ‘return<br />
to school’. “I’d been working for 11<br />
years and felt the need for achange<br />
to challenge myself both mentally and<br />
physically,” he says.<br />
Mathew wanted to get into heavy<br />
automotive engineering so enrolled<br />
for an eight-month programme at<br />
Ara Institute of Canterbury’s Timaru<br />
campus.<br />
Mathew says it was a big change<br />
‘starting from the start’ again but he<br />
got greatsupport.<br />
“It was always enjoyable, especially<br />
at the most challenging of times<br />
when you really had to rely on what<br />
you’d learnt to complete atask. Ihad<br />
no prior experience inthis field and<br />
it was sometimes difficult, but very<br />
Tony Todd raisedmore than $10,700 for<br />
Hospice Mid Canterbury last week, by<br />
biking 73km around <strong>Ashburton</strong> onhis<br />
73rd birthday and donations are still<br />
trickling in.<br />
The mammoth ride included around<br />
25 cycling friends, biking in groups, with<br />
stalwarts Paul Wylie and Kenny Johnston<br />
and cycling newcomer John Catherwood,<br />
and Lions Club of <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
members. Lions members raised $1150<br />
for their own cycling efforts, sponsored<br />
by their organisation at $2 per km each<br />
of them rode.<br />
Mr Todd said a spa and a stretch<br />
following the ride, along with rehydration<br />
followed the ride. He was grateful<br />
for the support by the community.<br />
Diesel mechanic loveshis newcareer<br />
rewarding when Ifound the solutions.”<br />
Mathew’s been in the trade for four<br />
years now. He works at Smallbone<br />
in <strong>Ashburton</strong> where he’s an Isuzu<br />
master technician (the top level) and<br />
has been promoted to the role of<br />
foreman/manager. His sights are now<br />
set on testing his skills against Isuzu<br />
mechanics from other countries, ata<br />
competition in Japan.<br />
Mathew says the excellent training he<br />
received at Ara prepared him well for<br />
his career.“It set me up to excel inan<br />
exciting and demanding career, and<br />
I’mreally grateful forthat.”<br />
To find out about trades programmes<br />
at Ara, including partial online<br />
and distance delivery options, visit<br />
ara.ac.nz.<br />
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Noel Lowe Pakeke Lions Club president and <strong>Ashburton</strong> station manager and paramedic Heather<br />
Keele with the new television. Photo Sharon Duthie, advanced paramedic.<br />
SmartTVfor training<br />
The Pakeke Lions Club has used<br />
some of the profits of its recent<br />
charity market garage sale to buy<br />
a60inch smart television for St<br />
John <strong>Ashburton</strong> for cadet<br />
training activities.<br />
Pakeke Lions Club president<br />
Noel Lowe presented the<br />
television recently and it will be<br />
used to screen operations<br />
training videos and podcasts.<br />
‘‘We were pleased to donate to<br />
such aworthy local cause,’’ Mr<br />
Lowe said. ‘‘The club wishes to<br />
acknowledge Smith &Church<br />
Electrical 100% for giving their<br />
generous support in the purchase<br />
too.’’<br />
St John station manager<br />
Heather Keele said it will make<br />
training alot easier being able to<br />
go online to view training<br />
methods with podcasts and the<br />
internet.<br />
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Preparing for Winter<br />
2<strong>28</strong>1015<br />
Rafting guide and seasonal chimney sweep Dan McKerrow.<br />
Rafting guide Dan is also<br />
your chimney sweep man<br />
By Mick Jensen<br />
Dan McKerrow splits his working year<br />
into halves. He worksasaprofessional<br />
rafting guide during the warmer months<br />
and in autumn and winter he’sachimney<br />
sweep.<br />
Dan’s rafted on some of the world’s top<br />
white water, includingonrivers in the<br />
USA, Australia, Japan and Chile,but for<br />
the past11years he’s pliedhis trade on the<br />
Rangitata.<br />
He’s been afreelance guide for the past<br />
four yearsand loves the thrill and freedom<br />
that rafting brings.<br />
No longerfollowing the raftingseason<br />
around the world, he combines his passion<br />
with the solid and practical job of a<br />
seasonal chimney sweep.<br />
‘‘Therafting usually keepsmebusy<br />
from the end of October through to<br />
March, and thenthe chimney sweeping<br />
kicksinfor afew months after that.<br />
‘‘A rafting mate put me on to chimney<br />
sweeping and I’ve been doingitaround<br />
Mid Canterbury and Geraldine for the last<br />
eightyears.’’<br />
Christchurch raised, Dan has beena<br />
rafting guide for over 20 years and also<br />
teaches rafting for the Greymouth<br />
Polytechnic.<br />
Outside of work he’s akeen hunter,<br />
snowboarder, free diverand spear<br />
fisherman.<br />
He lived in Japan for six years and<br />
immersed himself in the culture of that<br />
country.<br />
Whileheexpects his chimney sweeping<br />
business to come through the Covid19<br />
lockdown relativelyunscathed, he knows<br />
the same won’t be the casefor his rafting<br />
business.<br />
With threequarters of his clients<br />
coming from overseas,heknows therewill<br />
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He planstotake his rafting skillstothe<br />
WestCoast and around the South Island<br />
for awhileand will freelance with Eco<br />
Rafting, abusiness that takes people out<br />
intothe New Zealand wildernessfor<br />
multiple day expeditions that offer ataste<br />
of bush craft, camping, pestcontrol and<br />
rafting adventure.<br />
He will work alongside The Kiwi<br />
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huntingand outdoor adventure<br />
personality, who has built up astrong<br />
following through his adventure videos.<br />
He is hoping domestictourism will<br />
flourish and thathecan capture asliceof<br />
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‘‘It’s acase of havingtoreinvent myself<br />
withthe rafting for awhile and seeing<br />
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Local news at www.starnews.co.nz<br />
Preparing for Winter<br />
Extra funds for insulation, heating<br />
An extra 9000 Kiwi homes will be<br />
eligible for government’sinsulation<br />
and heatingprogramme due to a<br />
$56m funding boost, says Energy<br />
and Resources MinisterMegan<br />
Woods.<br />
The Covid19 Response and<br />
Recovery Fund was set up to<br />
ensurethe additional New Zealand<br />
houseswill be Warmer Kiwi Homes<br />
through the programme.<br />
“Insulation and heating helps to<br />
prevent respiratory illness,and the<br />
WarmerKiwi Homes programme<br />
protects the most vulnerable<br />
peopleinour communities,’’she<br />
said.<br />
“Over 20,000 insulationand<br />
heating retrofits have alreadybeen<br />
delivered since Warmer Kiwi<br />
Homes was launched in July2018<br />
and (the) announcement will<br />
ensuremore low income people<br />
will get achancetohave awarmer,<br />
drier,healthier home.”<br />
“The existing programme<br />
already covers twothirds of the<br />
cost of insulationand/orheating<br />
retrofits, but we knowthat coming<br />
up with the restofthe money to get<br />
retrofits done, is still out of reach<br />
for many lowincomepeople and<br />
families.<br />
“That’s why we are increasing<br />
the grant proportion available for<br />
lowincome households from 67<br />
per cent to 90 per centofthe costs<br />
of an insulationand/or heating<br />
retrofit to deliveranestimated<br />
9,000 additional retrofits.<br />
“We’re alsoproud of the<br />
significant thirdpartyfunding that<br />
has been leveraged through the<br />
programmetodate. With the<br />
Government now meeting90per<br />
centofthe cost,weexpect that topups<br />
fromthirdparty community<br />
organisations will makeretrofits<br />
freeofcharge to many applicants.<br />
The Warmer KiwiHomes<br />
programmeispart of Labour’s<br />
Confidence and Supply Agreement<br />
withthe GreenParty.<br />
Greens’ Housing spokesman<br />
Marama Davidson said ensuring<br />
lowincome people are not shut out<br />
of well insulated homes with good,<br />
efficientheating sources is vital.<br />
“By insulating homesand<br />
providingefficient heating systems,<br />
we’re helping to ensure that noone<br />
is forced to live in acold, damp<br />
home, whichweknow leads to poor<br />
health outcomes.<br />
“Investing in qualityinsulation<br />
and efficient systems is awin for<br />
Insulating homes and providingefficient heating systemshelps prevent poor health.<br />
people, the planet, and the<br />
economy. This investmenthas long<br />
been advocated for by the Greens.”<br />
The Warmer Kiwi Homes will<br />
also provide jobsand is goodfor<br />
the New Zealand economy with 90<br />
companies, employing more than<br />
1300 contractors acrosstheir<br />
businesses, to deliver Warmer Kiwi<br />
Homes.<br />
The funding will provide<br />
confidence in the viability of this<br />
important sectoraswerecover<br />
from the impact of Covid19.<br />
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Preparing for Winter<br />
Getting through the winter season<br />
There are manythings<br />
householderscan do to help<br />
themselves cope withthe cold of<br />
the winterseason,which officially<br />
starts on Monday.<br />
If you planahead for the<br />
unexpectedly cold, or themost<br />
extremeweatherconditions,life<br />
may be moreendurable when<br />
things are at theirworst;this<br />
includes makingsure you have<br />
adequateinsurance to cover your<br />
property.<br />
Keeping informed on the<br />
weather forecast may be a<br />
nationalpasttime but it does<br />
help, especially if you are<br />
considering travel,ormakingsure<br />
you have the right suppliesinthe<br />
house.<br />
Heading into the colder annual<br />
season consider what you may<br />
needathome to survive the harsh<br />
reality of winter; woodburner/<br />
electrical heating source, layering<br />
clothingtostay warm,food and<br />
water.<br />
But thereare also extra things<br />
to considersuch as ensuring the<br />
gas barbecue bottleisfull before<br />
winter forpeace of mind; it can be<br />
usedfor cooking.<br />
If snowispredicted,itmightbe<br />
helpful to movethe equipment<br />
into the garage or under a<br />
verandah, whereyou can get<br />
Layering is the best way to keep warm.<br />
access to it should you need to use<br />
the barbecue for cooking the<br />
familymeals. But make surethere<br />
is adequateventilationifusingit<br />
for cookinginanenclosedspace.<br />
Keepasnow shovel handy if<br />
snowispredicted to low levels;it<br />
may soundvery northern<br />
hemisphere but this simplepiece<br />
of equipmentmightbethe only<br />
means by which you canget to<br />
yourfirewoodsupplyorto clear<br />
the driveway.<br />
Keepingagood supply of<br />
batteries to fit portable radios will<br />
enable you to keep in touch<br />
through localradiobroadcasts<br />
and keepyou informed.<br />
In the eventofasevere<br />
snowstorm or an earthquake, civil<br />
emergency messages willlet you<br />
knowwhat is going on and what<br />
action, if any, you needtotake.<br />
But in apower outagethe<br />
household should haveaready<br />
supply of torches which should<br />
alsohave fresh batteries.<br />
Everyone should know where they<br />
can be found,along with the<br />
candles and matches.<br />
In these events acellphones can<br />
be alifeline but it needs power. So<br />
amobile phone carcharger is<br />
alwaysgood for peaceofmind.<br />
And if you have apay as you go<br />
deal, it would be agood idea to<br />
top up the creditwith abit extra<br />
overthe winterperiod.<br />
Something many of us take for<br />
granted is asupply of clean<br />
drinking water. There are no<br />
guaranteesofwater supplyinthe<br />
event of adisaster so make sure<br />
you have at least aweek’s supply<br />
based on three litres of water per<br />
personper day.<br />
This amount should be the<br />
minimum keptinstorage,whether<br />
in bottles with sealed lids or larger<br />
storage tanks. By rationingitout<br />
there should be enough for<br />
drinking purposes even if showers<br />
and baths have to be forfeitedfor<br />
the duration.<br />
Peoplewho relyonwell water<br />
for the householdwill know that<br />
when the powergoes off, so does<br />
the watersupply.<br />
That not only means nothing<br />
comingout of the taps but no<br />
flushing of the toilet either.<br />
Keeping containers of water<br />
storedfor loo flushing and hand<br />
washing is part of the preparation<br />
for the unexpected.<br />
One thing to consider is a<br />
generator which can be a<br />
lifesaver, however, there are<br />
guidelines that need to be<br />
followed. Householdersshould<br />
not expectageneratortorun the<br />
household as per normal, however<br />
a5kVA generator willgenerally<br />
supplythe basicneeds of a<br />
household by running different<br />
appliances at differenttimes.<br />
Curtains, blinds help keep the heat in<br />
Having the right curtains and blinds<br />
can keep your home warm and<br />
comfortable.<br />
It’s afinding from Consumer NZ<br />
who say installing wellfitted curtains<br />
and blinds will go along way towards<br />
keeping heat inside your home.<br />
Awellinsulated home can lose<br />
about 45 percent of heat through its<br />
windows. That drops to 30 percent<br />
for an uninsulated home (but that’s<br />
only because more heat disappears<br />
through the roof and walls).<br />
The right window covering will<br />
stop nearly twothirds of that heat<br />
from going out the window.<br />
Honeycomb blinds were the star<br />
performer they retained more than<br />
60 percent of the heat lost through a<br />
bare window. Air is agood insulator,<br />
as long as it’s not moving, and the<br />
honeycomb structure creates alarge,<br />
still air gap between the cold<br />
windowpane and the warm inside air.<br />
If you prefer curtains you are<br />
better to select heavy and long.<br />
Consumer NZ testing showed<br />
heavy lined curtains are better than<br />
the coated thermalbacked types<br />
and, for the best result, you should fit<br />
them down to the floor instead of<br />
stopping them at the sill.<br />
It’s was essential they were fitted<br />
properly close to the window and<br />
within the frame and will minimal<br />
gaps at the top, bottom and at the<br />
sides.<br />
Honeycomb blinds topped our<br />
test, but we found roman blinds and<br />
roller blinds were effective as well, as<br />
long as they were fitted correctly.<br />
Even venetians worked but keep<br />
those slats closed.<br />
The findings say regardless of<br />
personal preference or budget, any<br />
curtains and blinds are better than<br />
nothing.<br />
If you’ve got any uncovered<br />
windows, put up something.<br />
Consumer NZ also investigated a<br />
few cheap ‘hacks’ to improve your<br />
curtains for winter such as hanging a<br />
blanket behind curtains or rolling up<br />
atowel and placing it on top of the<br />
curtain rail.<br />
To make the best use of your<br />
curtains and blinds, Consumer NZ<br />
advises people keep them open<br />
during the day over winter to make<br />
the most of the sun. Close them as<br />
soon as the sun sets to trap as much<br />
heat as possible. You should also fix<br />
any draughts in the windows which<br />
can be detected by using alit candle.
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Preparing for Winter<br />
Be energy wise around your home<br />
There are simple ways to avoid<br />
wasting energy in the home,<br />
according to EECA.<br />
EECA spokesperson Dr Marcos<br />
Pelenur says it’s important to stay<br />
warm as the weather coolsbut it’s<br />
also important not to spend more<br />
money on energy billsthan is<br />
needed.<br />
It’s about beingpreparedand<br />
knowing where energy costs can be<br />
saved throughout your home.<br />
Dr Pelenur says reducing<br />
unnecessaryuse of hot water will<br />
save you money and free up more<br />
cash for heatingover the winter.<br />
“For exampleuse the cold water<br />
wash cycle when you washclothes,<br />
unless you haveanespecially dirty<br />
load. Modern washing machines<br />
and detergents clean well using cold<br />
water. Ahot water wash can use 10<br />
times more electricity than acold<br />
wash.”<br />
Cutting down the long showers<br />
will also savemoney, Dr Pelenur<br />
says.<br />
“Reducing yourshower time just<br />
abit couldsave up to $900 ayear for<br />
afamily of four.A15minute<br />
shower costs about$1a5minute<br />
shower costs about33c.”<br />
If you own adishwasher, wait<br />
untilit’s full loaded to run it –and<br />
put it on ‘eco’wash settingif<br />
available, Mr Pelenur says.<br />
“And if you rinsedishes before<br />
loading the dishwater, use cold<br />
water,” Dr Pelenursays.<br />
Othertop saving tips include;<br />
Checking to see if you are still on<br />
the best power dealtosuit the needs<br />
of the peopleinyour home.<br />
Dry clothes outsideorina<br />
clothes dryer that is vented to the<br />
outside –avoid indoor airing racks<br />
or clothes dryers that ventinto your<br />
house. The moisture in the clothes<br />
will end up in your home, makingit<br />
damp.<br />
Avoidunflued gas heaters which<br />
release toxic fumes and make your<br />
housedamp. Cheap portable<br />
electricheaters are safer and cost<br />
less to run.<br />
If you have aheated towelrail,<br />
only use it when needed. Aheated<br />
towelrail left on 24/7 can costyou<br />
$170 per year to run. You can buy<br />
timers for towel rails thatcome on<br />
automatically at certain times of the<br />
day.<br />
If you have asecond fridge you<br />
aren’t using, it couldcost you $200<br />
It’s important to stay warm but don’t spend more money on energy than you need.<br />
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Preparing for Winter<br />
Preparing for your winter driving<br />
Many areas nationwide have<br />
alreadyhad ataste of winter, with<br />
driversfacing many challengesin<br />
snow, ice and rain.<br />
If you’renot prepared, driving in<br />
the wintercan be hard.<br />
It doesn’t need to be though and<br />
good vehiclepreparation,<br />
knowledge and driving techniques<br />
will help make sure you get to<br />
wherever it is you’re going.<br />
Winter is atime of extremes.<br />
It’s atime when any problems or<br />
weaknessesinyour vehicle will<br />
show up, usually at the worst<br />
possible time. Is your vehicle<br />
approaching the time for its next<br />
scheduled service? If so, don’t put<br />
it off.<br />
Book yourvehicle in for aprewinter<br />
check with your local MTA<br />
member business.<br />
The experts know what to look<br />
for oil and antifreeze levels, wiper<br />
blades,filtersand batterycondition<br />
among otherthings. By doing this<br />
you’ll have peace of mind in<br />
knowingthat your vehicleisready<br />
for winter. Your battery can be the<br />
key. If your car isn’t starting as<br />
easily as usual, get your battery<br />
checked.<br />
In winter we tend to use<br />
electrically based accessories and<br />
systemsalot morelights,air<br />
conditioners,foglamps, interior<br />
lights.They can all place extra<br />
strain on your car’s electrical<br />
system and if your battery is not in<br />
top condition, it may let you down.<br />
All the control you haveis<br />
delivered throughfour palmsized<br />
patchesofrubber where the tyres<br />
meet the road.<br />
Make sure yourtyres are<br />
properly inflated. Overinflation<br />
Use aproper windscreen scraper or de-icer to remove ice from your<br />
vehicle.<br />
can reduce the gripping action of<br />
tyresbecausethe tread will not<br />
meet the roadsurface as it was<br />
designed to do.<br />
If the tread depth of your tyres is<br />
getting low, it may be worthhaving<br />
them replaced, eventhoughthey<br />
have more than the minimum tread<br />
depthof1.5mm. If possible, tyres<br />
should be replaced before the tread<br />
depthdropstothe minimum.<br />
Checkthe manufacturerswear<br />
indicator mark on yourtyres to see<br />
if they need replacing. All tyres<br />
have tread wearindicators,which<br />
are small bars of rubber found<br />
between the tread blocks of the<br />
tyre.<br />
When the tread is worn flush<br />
with the tread wear indicators, the<br />
tyre has reached its wear limitand<br />
mustbereplaced as it no longer<br />
provides sufficientgrip.<br />
If you’re going to be driving in<br />
the snow, makesure you have the<br />
correctchains and snowtyres (if<br />
fitted) itisnow law that whenyou<br />
use snow tyres, all four must be<br />
snowtyres.<br />
Winter often means reduced<br />
visibility, so you need to allow<br />
additional time for every trip.<br />
Before you hit the road make<br />
sureyou can see out of every<br />
window and mirror.Use aproper<br />
windscreen scraper or deicer to<br />
remove ice from yourvehicle.<br />
Don’t use warm water; it may cause<br />
yourwindscreen to crack.<br />
Yourairconditioningsystem is<br />
yourfriend.Many people only<br />
associate it with staying cool during<br />
ECan offeringheatingsubsidy<br />
Environment Canterbury can financially help home<br />
owners replace old log burners with new, cleaner forms<br />
of heating, but have astrict eligibility criteria.<br />
They understand replacing old burners can be costly<br />
and urge anyone struggling to contact them on 0800<br />
329 276.<br />
There are subsidies in different areas but people<br />
living in <strong>Ashburton</strong>, Christchurch, Timaru, Kaiapoi<br />
and Rangiora can be eligible if burners needs<br />
replacing, are the owner/occupier of the house and<br />
have acurrent Community Services Care; Health<br />
referrals in conjunction with proof of alow income are<br />
also useful.<br />
People wanting to check their eligibility can contact<br />
either Community Energy Action Charitable Trust or<br />
EnergySmart (depending on where you live).<br />
They confirm eligibility, book ahome energy check<br />
to assess your needs, then apply for the ECan subsidy<br />
on your behalf, which can be up to $5000 and used for<br />
anew heating appliance (wood burner or aheat pump)<br />
and its installation toreplace your old wood burner.<br />
People with tenanted properties are not eligible but<br />
could look at other options such as Healthier Homes<br />
Canterbury, bank loans or interest free purchasing.<br />
the summer months, but it’s equally<br />
vital for ensuring good visibility<br />
duringthe colder months. Get your<br />
systemchecked, and allow it time<br />
to work properly.<br />
Look out for vulnerable road<br />
users likecyclists and runners, they<br />
may be especially hardtosee along<br />
dimly lit roads.<br />
Make surepeople can see you.<br />
Ensureyour lights are all working<br />
properly and are correctly<br />
adjusted. Get them on early and<br />
turn them off late; you may choose<br />
to keep them on at all times.<br />
Remember to keep them dipped<br />
when travelling in foggyconditions;<br />
blasting them on to full only results<br />
in the lightbeing reflectedstraight<br />
back at you, making visibility even<br />
harder.<br />
The sun is low in the sky for most<br />
of wintersobepreparedfor<br />
sunstrike. It’sespecially important<br />
to keep your front and rear screens<br />
clean.<br />
Bridgesand overpassesice over<br />
faster than normal roads. The<br />
shadowsfrom large trees, buildings<br />
and mountains can cause isolated<br />
icy spots.Black ice is often very<br />
difficult to detect, so be especially<br />
vigilant after very cold, settled<br />
nights.<br />
Don’t expect otherdrivers to be<br />
as well prepared, allowplenty of<br />
room betweenyou and your fellow<br />
motorists. Givethem evenmore<br />
when the weather is poor, double<br />
the two second rule and give<br />
yourself four seconds.<br />
When accelerating, push the<br />
accelerator pedal gently. If you do<br />
sense wheelspin,ease back on the<br />
pedal immediatelyuntil you feel<br />
the tyres grip again. Apply the<br />
same principle when braking.<br />
Brake gentlyatfirstthen increase<br />
the pedal pressure progressively.<br />
You can brakequite hard as long as<br />
the applicationissmooth. If your<br />
vehicle is fittedwith ABS and/or a<br />
stability control system,make sure<br />
you know what this can do for you.<br />
Get experience of your vehicle’s<br />
capabilities and how it reacts,<br />
before you get stuck.<br />
Avoiddriving in heavy snowif<br />
you can, but if you haveto, do it<br />
slowly. Avoid braking suddenly;<br />
brakegently and progressively<br />
rather thanjust stamping on the<br />
pedal.<br />
Climbing and descending hills in<br />
snow needs alot of care and<br />
attention. Climb hillsinthe highest<br />
possible gear.Reducing your<br />
engine’srevs will maximise the<br />
chances of traction and minimise<br />
the chance of spinning yourwheels.<br />
Similarly, descend hills veryslowly,<br />
putting your vehicle in alow gear<br />
before starting the descent.<br />
It makes sense to have afirstaid<br />
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Duck shooters happy<br />
Dave Thomson with dog<br />
Chockie and some of the<br />
ducks shot over the weekend.<br />
Duck shootersaround the district<br />
enjoyed the delayed start of the new<br />
game bird huntingseason at the<br />
weekend.<br />
Coronavirus meant the season<br />
started three weeks later than usual<br />
and for regularshooterslike<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>rural realestate agent<br />
Dave Thomson and hisretired<br />
school principal mate John Bockett,<br />
it was achance for acatchupand<br />
the opportunity to getafewbirds<br />
for dinner.<br />
The pairshotataLowcliffe farm<br />
pond and bagged 17 birdson<br />
Saturdayand 13 on Sunday.<br />
Mr Thomson said some of the<br />
birdshave already been eatenand<br />
enjoyed by familyand friends.<br />
The duckshooting weekend was<br />
asocial thingfor himasmuch as it<br />
was asport.<br />
He said more shootersonthe<br />
opening weekend meant morebirds<br />
were movingaround and were<br />
potential targets.<br />
‘‘Theyseemedtobeflying higher<br />
this year, but it was agrand couple<br />
of days all the same.’’<br />
Fish and Game officers in the<br />
Central South Island region<br />
reported most hunters were<br />
satisfied with bags of 210mallards<br />
and paradise shelduck eachby<br />
lunchtime.<br />
Rangers in the Timaru district<br />
said theywere disappointed to<br />
encounter asmall numberof<br />
individuals huntingwithout a<br />
licence.<br />
Nationally, thousandsofhunters<br />
headedout beforedawn on<br />
Saturday to start the season.<br />
Fish and Game chief executive<br />
MartinTaylor said many regions<br />
benefited from ‘‘ducktourism’’ as<br />
hunters travelled to and supported<br />
regional economies.<br />
Sporting codes preparing for start<br />
Local sporting codes can now move forward with<br />
training and new winter competitions after the<br />
government’sdecision to liftthe mass gathering limit to<br />
100 from tomorrow.<br />
Football, hockey, netball, rugby and basketball<br />
competitionsare planning to restart, with some codes<br />
still workingout the finaldetailswith national and<br />
regional governing bodies.<br />
Football will kick off locally on June 13, with<br />
travelling teams back aweek earlier thanthat.<br />
Mid Canterbury Netball is still waiting for final<br />
confirmation from Netball New Zealand as to when<br />
training and playing can begin and will update clubs this<br />
week throughits Facebook page.<br />
The Mid Canterbury Hockey turf is also reopening<br />
this week, withgames starting on June 12.<br />
BasketballMid Canterbury president Wayne<br />
Rodgers said his sportwas still working on the logistics<br />
of anew season.<br />
Therestill needed to be meetings,discussion and<br />
advice from Basketball New Zealand.<br />
Mr Rodgers encouraged players to start practising,<br />
but warned rep competitions might still be someway off.<br />
Some tournaments had alreadybeen cancelled, he<br />
said,and while the basketballcommunity was raring to<br />
go, there were still venue issues to be worked out.<br />
Mid Canterbury Rugby Union chiefexecutive Ian<br />
Patterson said senior rugby was set to kick off on June<br />
20 and junior rugby soon after that.<br />
Clubswould resume training this week, said Mr<br />
Patterson,and any updates wouldbeposted on the<br />
union’s Facebook page.<br />
Competitive squashstarted up again this week<br />
around the district.<br />
Football season set<br />
to kick off in June<br />
By Mick Jensen<br />
Adelayed football<br />
season has now been<br />
given the green light to<br />
kick off next monthand<br />
Mid Canterbury United<br />
Football president Neil<br />
Simons could not be<br />
happier.<br />
Travelling teams start<br />
their campaign on June<br />
6, while local leagues<br />
start on June 13.<br />
Progress needed to<br />
continue to be made to<br />
eliminate Covid19, said<br />
Mr Simons, but now<br />
players, officials and<br />
supporters hadstarting<br />
dates to work towards.<br />
The return of the<br />
beautiful game was good<br />
news for footballers of<br />
all ages and for everyone<br />
involved.<br />
Prior to lockdown<br />
some170 players had<br />
registeredand that was<br />
now expected to rise<br />
with confirmation that<br />
football was goingto<br />
happen this season.<br />
Mr Simons said<br />
MainlandFootball had<br />
indicatedits season<br />
would now continue well<br />
into September, while<br />
local leagues would run<br />
for longer because of the<br />
delayed start.<br />
The fiveaside<br />
competitions, First Kicks<br />
(46 year olds) and Fun<br />
Kicks (78 year olds),<br />
would run for four weeks<br />
before and then four<br />
weeks after the July<br />
school holidays. The<br />
Super League(910 year<br />
olds), Championship<br />
(1112 year olds) and<br />
Premiership (1314 year<br />
olds)leagueswould run<br />
for four weeks before the<br />
holidays and for nine<br />
further weeks<br />
afterwards.<br />
Pitches will be marked<br />
and goal posts and nets<br />
will go up in <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Domainover Queen’s<br />
Birthday weekend.<br />
Mr Simons said there<br />
would be apush in<br />
schoolsthis week to get<br />
morenumbers involved.<br />
There was alink to<br />
registrations on the<br />
revampedmcfootball.co.<br />
nz website and updates<br />
on the Mid Canterbury<br />
United Football Club<br />
Facebook page, which<br />
had kept footballers<br />
informed of the football<br />
situation during<br />
lockdown.<br />
Thank youfor<br />
your part in keeping<br />
our communitysafe<br />
Club news<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Golf Club<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> 9holers wereback in<br />
action last week with 23 playersdusting<br />
off their clubs and playing in groups of<br />
four, following all the rulesunder<br />
Covid19 Alert Level 2.<br />
First overall, with anet score of 32<br />
was Bev Blair. Bev won aNetherby<br />
Pharmacy Voucher.<br />
Runnerup, withascore of 33, was<br />
MaryBuckland, winningaclub<br />
voucher.<br />
Topnet scorefor the men was 35 by<br />
PeterGreening, who alsowon aclub<br />
voucher.<br />
One Smithand Church gobbler<br />
Muriel Morgan.<br />
The group plays againtoday (<strong>May</strong><br />
<strong>28</strong>), and the clubrooms willbeopen<br />
with catering for lunch.Wewill play<br />
stableford, Heather Smith Trophy<br />
Round2.The new computerised<br />
scorecard system makes it so easy to<br />
scorestablefordsnow.<br />
There’sstill alot of challenges ahead of us. Local<br />
businesses need our support to recover. Some in our<br />
community willbeleftfeeling vulnerable or isolated<br />
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Rural&Lifestyle<br />
O’Malleys return to dairy dream<br />
By ToniWilliams<br />
Meat the Need cofounder Siobhan<br />
O’Malley is a10year convert to dairy<br />
farming.<br />
She, along with husband<br />
Christopher, only decided to go dairy<br />
farming after returning from their<br />
Irish OE, back in 2009.<br />
Siobhan may have been green to<br />
living arural lifestyle then but has<br />
been afast learner, working on<br />
multiple farming opportunities<br />
Canterburywide and making some<br />
wonderful rural connections.<br />
“I grew up in Christchurch and had<br />
no connection to farming at all. I<br />
never stepped foot on to afarm until<br />
Imet Christopher.”<br />
The couple went sharemilking for<br />
the first time in 201112, and have<br />
worked on farms in Darfield,<br />
Oamaru, Grey Valley and Mid<br />
Canterbury. The past 18 months they<br />
have been running ahop garden and<br />
beef operation in Tasman.<br />
It’s afar cry from the Latin<br />
Language and Classical Studies she<br />
studied at university before teaching<br />
secondary school English.<br />
They have three children, Finnian,<br />
8, Aisling, 6, and Ruairi, 3, and this<br />
weekend will return to a5050<br />
sharemilking operation milking 400<br />
cows, this time near Hokitika, on the<br />
West Coast.<br />
Siobhan says they have moved<br />
eight times on Moving Day since<br />
2009, and afew times in between.<br />
In Mid Canterbury the couple had<br />
a5050 sharemilking job working for<br />
Graham Brooker on Thompsons<br />
Track in Lauriston, from 2015 to<br />
2018.<br />
Milking 500 cows for the first two<br />
years, the operation grew when they<br />
leased neighbouring land and by<br />
their final year they were milking<br />
600.<br />
“Our first year as 5050<br />
sharemilkers was (on adifferent<br />
farm) at Thompsons Track and that<br />
was the year the payout went to<br />
$3.90!<br />
“We also worked very hard to<br />
Meat the<br />
Need cofounder<br />
Siobhan<br />
O’Malley<br />
and her<br />
family<br />
are<br />
heading<br />
back to<br />
dairy<br />
farming.<br />
attract and retain good staff<br />
members, as that can be achallenge,”<br />
she said.<br />
But the district did give them a<br />
chance to be close to family in<br />
Christchurch and learn from those<br />
around them.<br />
“We learned so much just looking<br />
over the fence at arable, potatoes,<br />
drystock and seed operations.<br />
“Our son also enjoyed being at<br />
Lauriston School that took him<br />
skiing every week in the winter!<br />
“A great community of farmers<br />
around us, many of whom are still<br />
our friends.<br />
She still misses the banking team<br />
from ANZ who gave good advice<br />
during some difficult payout years<br />
and <strong>Ashburton</strong>’s great facilities, such<br />
as the EA Network Centre pool.<br />
Over the years Siobhan has been<br />
involved with Federated Farmers<br />
and Dairy Women’s Network<br />
(DWN).<br />
“The Mid Canterbury DWN is<br />
very strong and has been offering<br />
some great events recently that Iwish<br />
Icould have attended, but was abit<br />
far away,” she jokes.<br />
She says being amember of the<br />
organisations gives afeeling of being<br />
connected to other people facing<br />
similar challenges in their businesses<br />
and lives.<br />
“You can share ideas and solutions<br />
and also just have empathy from the<br />
people in the same boat. But abig<br />
aspect to organisations like Feds is<br />
the information that gets passed<br />
along about upcoming policy<br />
changes and the repercussions of<br />
those, as well as being avoice for<br />
farmers with the decisionmakers in<br />
Wellington, and Ithink this is going<br />
to be more and more important,” she<br />
says.<br />
The decision to take abreak from<br />
dairy farming and explore other<br />
options took them to Tasman, where<br />
alot of Siobhan’s extended family<br />
live.<br />
They gave growing hops atry but<br />
have missed dairy farming.<br />
As acouple, Siobhan and<br />
Christopher have along term goal to<br />
buy their own dairy farm and the<br />
West Coast has always been on their<br />
radar.<br />
“We started talking about missing<br />
dairying before Christmas (in 2019),<br />
but thought we should do another<br />
year at hops just to really give it a<br />
good go and see two full annual<br />
cycles to harvest through.<br />
“But when we both went to the<br />
West Coast to be judges for New<br />
Zealand Dairy Industry Awards in<br />
February …weboth came home<br />
fizzing, and realised that we love<br />
dairy farming so why wait to go back<br />
to it. The kids are also thrilled to be<br />
headed back to dairy,” she said.<br />
“We decided if we were going back<br />
dairy farming at all we should head to<br />
where we want to be long term and<br />
join the community.<br />
“As it happens, Kokatahi (in<br />
Westland) is where Christopher’s<br />
grandfather got afarm in the ballot<br />
after WWII.<br />
‘‘Christopher grew up visiting the<br />
area alot and his uncle's family still<br />
farm there.”<br />
They are looking forward to<br />
learning how to farm successfully<br />
where the irrigation falls out of the<br />
sky and is measured in metres!<br />
“It will be different from our<br />
farming systems in Mid Canterbury,<br />
so we need to go and learn from the<br />
neighbours and the high performing<br />
farmers in the district.<br />
Siobhan said it was abit like<br />
starting out again.<br />
Pandemic overtakes freshwater concerns<br />
Arable farmer David Clark<br />
Two new faces have been elected to<br />
Federated Farmers Mid Canterbury<br />
provincial team.<br />
Dairy farmers Rebecca Miller<br />
and Nick Giera have taken on the<br />
roles of sharemilkers section chair<br />
and dairy vicechair respectively.<br />
The duo will join existing section<br />
leaders, including David Clark<br />
(provincial president), Chris Ford<br />
(dairy chair), Joanne Burke (arable)<br />
and David Acland (vicepresident<br />
and meat and wool chair)<br />
representing farmers in the district.<br />
The positions were confirmed at<br />
the organisation’s annual general<br />
meeting carried out online via<br />
Zoom last week.<br />
Mr Clark, reelected unopposed,<br />
said in his president’s report that<br />
when he came into the role 12<br />
months ago Mycoplasma Bovis<br />
(Mbovis), freshwater regulations<br />
and climate change were topics of<br />
the day and carried imminent<br />
threats or impositions upon<br />
agriculture. ‘‘As aresult of aglobal<br />
pandemic of coronavirus, it seems<br />
events have overtaken themselves<br />
and the issues of ayear ago appear<br />
almost irrelevant.<br />
He praised the PGF funding of<br />
nearly $1 million for the Hekeao<br />
Hinds Water Enhancement Trust’s<br />
managed aquifer recharge, but had<br />
ongoing concerns around Overseer<br />
and potentially tight levels of feed<br />
reserves that would need careful<br />
planning and feed budgeting.<br />
He also spoke of Federated<br />
Farmers’ continued involvement in<br />
the <strong>Ashburton</strong> District Mbovis<br />
Advisory Group, keeping up to date<br />
with information from key industry<br />
members on the progress of the<br />
response, and sharing details of<br />
cases where process was thought to<br />
be failing.<br />
‘‘I acknowledge that while the<br />
overall goal might be beneficial in<br />
the long term for the greater<br />
industry, the stress, disruption and<br />
financial toll on individual families<br />
and businesses is significant.’’<br />
He said submissions on the<br />
Essential Freshwater Regulations<br />
caused alot of concern within<br />
Federated Farmers, among the<br />
farming community and out in the<br />
business sector once the impact of<br />
the proposed regulations became<br />
apparent.<br />
Five hundred people attended a<br />
public meeting in <strong>Ashburton</strong> to<br />
show support for Federated<br />
Farmers.<br />
‘‘Such astrong show of<br />
endorsement from our farming<br />
community was immensely<br />
powerful.’’<br />
Mr Clark also took part in the<br />
Winter Grazing Strategy Group<br />
which had anational and regional<br />
focus and aimed to help farmers<br />
struggling to formulate grazing<br />
plans in risk catchments.<br />
Covid challenges for coop<br />
Fonterra hasreported asharp lift<br />
in its earningsfor the firstnine<br />
months of its financial year and has<br />
set amilk price for the coming year<br />
of $5.40$6.90per kg of milksolids.<br />
The coop said it will contribute<br />
about$11 billion to the New<br />
Zealand economy through milk<br />
price for the year. Its advancerate<br />
schedule has been set off the midpointof$6.15/kg.<br />
The forecast for the current<br />
season is at the lower end of a<br />
previously advisedrange, at<br />
$7.10$7.30/kg.<br />
ChiefexecutiveMiles Hurrell<br />
said thatdespite Covid19<br />
challenges, the cooperative's total<br />
groupnormalisedearnings before<br />
interest andtax (EBIT)for the nine<br />
months to April 30 was<br />
$815million,anincrease of $301m<br />
on this time last year.<br />
The coop's earnings forecast for<br />
the current yeartoJuly has<br />
remained at 1525cents ashareand<br />
Hurrell said he was confidentthe<br />
result would be at the upper end of<br />
the range.<br />
However,the impacts of the<br />
Covid19 pandemic would be<br />
keenly felt over thefourthquarter.<br />
Fonterra has been reorganising<br />
its operations sincereporting a<br />
$605mloss in the pastfinancial<br />
year.<br />
‘‘Thework doneover the last<br />
year to strengthen our balance<br />
sheet, and the coop'sability to<br />
respond quickly hashelpedus<br />
manage the Covid19 situation over<br />
the last few months,’’ Mr Hurrell<br />
said.<br />
The coop was drawingonits<br />
global supply chain and diverse<br />
product and customerbase to<br />
minimise disruptions for our<br />
customers and our business.<br />
‘‘Covid19has affected virtually<br />
everycountry, marketand<br />
industry.’’
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Outdoor pantry set up at Community House<br />
An outdoor pantry has been set up at<br />
Community House Mid Canterbury to pass on<br />
surplus fruit and vegetables to people who<br />
need it.<br />
Timber donated by Bunnings <strong>Ashburton</strong> has<br />
been crafted in heavy duty pantry shelving by<br />
volunteers from the MenzShed.<br />
The pantry is already receiving food<br />
donations.<br />
Community House Mid Canterbury<br />
manager John Driscoll said people wanting to<br />
drop off surplus items could do so day or night,<br />
and those needing them could take them away<br />
and use them.<br />
The pantry was bolted to the wall and its<br />
operation would be selfregulating, he said.<br />
The pantry is located to the right of the main<br />
entrance to Community House, which is at 44<br />
Cass Street.<br />
Photo: At the opening of the outdoor pantry<br />
are Mary Banks from Bunnings <strong>Ashburton</strong>,<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> MenzShed member Jim<br />
Armstrong, Community House Mid<br />
Canterbury manager John Driscoll and<br />
SEEDS (sharing everyday experiences and<br />
drawing on skills) programme coordinator<br />
Marie McAnulty.<br />
Scootertrack proving awinner<br />
An extended scooter track at<br />
Hampstead School is proving<br />
abig hit with students.<br />
The track features rolling<br />
humps and abank.<br />
Ramps can be brought out<br />
to further test scooter and bike<br />
skills.<br />
Work on the track was<br />
completed under level 3<br />
restrictions and the project has<br />
been funded the school board<br />
of trustees.<br />
School principal Peter<br />
Melrose said the track was<br />
already awinner with students<br />
of all ages.<br />
Students used their own<br />
scooter and bikes and also<br />
borrowed from asupply store<br />
at school that had been<br />
donated or purchased by the<br />
PTA.<br />
The new track had been<br />
‘‘flat out’’ since opening and<br />
complimented other outdoors<br />
areas at the school.<br />
It kept students active and<br />
helped with both balance and<br />
coordination, he said.<br />
On the new scooter track extension are (from left) Alex<br />
Cojocaru, Ella Rose Blampied and Emily Hodzelmans.<br />
Youth conference positives<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>Christian School student Gianna<br />
Butler has takenplenty of positives away from<br />
the recentAotearoa Youth Declaration<br />
conference she attended online.<br />
At the twoweekconference the Year10<br />
studenthelped developayouth perspective<br />
on publicpolicy.<br />
‘‘I learned lots about how to correctly<br />
debateand theneedtoback up opinionswith<br />
facts they were the most valuable things that<br />
Iwill takeawayfromthe conference.’’<br />
She hasalsobroadenedher knowledgeon<br />
how areas of government and parliament<br />
function andparticularly enjoyed thedaily<br />
crisisworkshop, whendecisions needed to be<br />
madeand participants hadtothink outsideof<br />
the box.<br />
Gianna alsolearnedhow to write<br />
statementsand format themfor the best<br />
result.<br />
Students worked in targetedgroups to<br />
createpolicysolutions on abroadrangeof<br />
problems, witheach teamworking towards its<br />
own final declarationtopic.<br />
‘‘Our final statementfor rights and<br />
freedomshad threesections gun rights,<br />
freedom of speech andprivacy rights.<br />
‘‘I wasput in charge of the gunrights<br />
section andwediscussedthe safety<br />
precautions and whether there should be<br />
Gianna Butler.<br />
more.<br />
‘‘We alsodiscussed the current agelimitof<br />
owning agun and what couldchange.’’<br />
Thegroupproposed threenew policies:<br />
establishing acentral firearm registration that<br />
registersfirearmstotheir owners andrecords<br />
publicand private firearm sales; alearner<br />
firearm licence for people between theage of<br />
1618which doesnot allow the ownership or<br />
purchase of firearmsand only allowsthe use<br />
of firearmsunder thesupervisionofafull<br />
firearm licenceowner; andthe introduction<br />
of compulsory mental andphysicalhealth<br />
examsinordertoattain afirearmlicence.<br />
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Local news at www.starnews.co.nz <strong>Ashburton</strong>'s The <strong>Courier</strong>, Thursday <strong>May</strong> <strong>28</strong>, <strong>2020</strong>, Page 29<br />
Country on track to<br />
eradicate Mbovis<br />
New Zealand’s worldfirst plan to<br />
eradicate the cattle disease<br />
Mycoplasma bovis is on track<br />
according to latest technical data, says<br />
Agriculture and Biosecurity Minister<br />
Damien O’Connor.<br />
“Two years ago the Government,<br />
DairyNZ and Beef+Lamb New<br />
Zealand and industry partners made a<br />
bold decision to go hard and commit<br />
to a10year, $880 million programme<br />
to eradicate Mbovis to protect our<br />
most important sector and the<br />
economy.<br />
“Recent events have shown what an<br />
important moment this decision was<br />
for our economy.<br />
Labour MP Jo Luxton praised the<br />
efforts around eradication as the<br />
decision made two years ago to take<br />
the eradication route was not taken<br />
lightly.<br />
‘‘It is through the combined efforts<br />
of farmers, MPI, the industry and the<br />
Minister that we are getting closer to<br />
eliminating the disease,” Mrs Luxton<br />
said.<br />
“Many Mid Canterbury farmers<br />
were affected greatly by Mbovis and<br />
the mental health of our farmers due<br />
to the culling of animals they had<br />
raised was agreat concern for me.<br />
‘‘I know that groups such as the<br />
Rural Support Trust have played a<br />
huge role in helping our farming<br />
families locally. There are currently<br />
nine active cases of Mbovis in<br />
Canterbury, we know that the fight<br />
against this disease is not yet over.<br />
However we are on the right track,”<br />
she said.<br />
Mr O’Connor said had government<br />
thrown up their hands and said ‘it’s<br />
too hard’ and left this disease to run<br />
rampant, he was not sure the dairy<br />
and beef sectors would have been<br />
able to weather the economic storm<br />
of Covid19 and the challenges of<br />
drought conditions as well as they<br />
have.<br />
“Beef and dairy export prices have<br />
held up. In fact, there was record<br />
demand for our meat. In March total<br />
red meat monthly exports topped $1<br />
billion for the first time. This shows<br />
that these sectors are wellplaced to<br />
lead us out of this economic crisis,’’ he<br />
said.<br />
“As we have with our response to<br />
Covid19, this government showed<br />
leadership, made atough decision<br />
Damien O’Connor.<br />
and have managed this eradication<br />
effort with discipline and focus,<br />
because we knew we were doing it for<br />
the economic and social good of the<br />
country.<br />
“We’ve also shown, again, that<br />
we’re able to do what others countries<br />
have not in terms of disease<br />
eradication efforts. That’s something<br />
our farming community should be<br />
really proud of. I’m certainly very<br />
proud of them.<br />
“One key measure of success, the<br />
Estimated Dissemination Rate<br />
(EDR), shows strongly that we have<br />
Mbovis firmly in our sights. If the<br />
EDR is greater than one, then the<br />
disease is growing. If it’s below one,<br />
we’re shrinking the disease.<br />
“The EDR is now at 0.4, which is<br />
down from over two at the start of the<br />
outbreak, so we are looking harder to<br />
find fewer infected animals. This tells<br />
us that Mbovis is not endemic in our<br />
national herd.<br />
“We currently have 17 active<br />
properties and 232 that have been<br />
cleared of the disease. We’ve culled<br />
154,788 cattle.’’<br />
Mr O’Connor said the priority over<br />
the next 1218 months continues to be<br />
finding and eliminating the disease.<br />
“This ‘delimiting’ phase is expected<br />
to end in 2021. After that,<br />
background surveillance testing will<br />
continue for around seven years.<br />
“We will get another technical<br />
advisory group report in the coming<br />
months, but two years into a10year<br />
effort, I’m pleased by the progress<br />
made.”<br />
Lamb shank voted<br />
favourite lamb cut<br />
The humble lamb shank was voted<br />
New Zealand’s favourite lamb cut in<br />
celebration of national lamb day.<br />
Lamb shanks beat out lamb legs in a<br />
special poll to mark the occasion,<br />
which commemorates the day in 1882<br />
when the first shipment of frozen sheep<br />
meat arrived in the UK aboard the<br />
Dunedin.<br />
The ship left Port Chalmers with<br />
5000 carcasses on February 15 that<br />
year itwas the start of what is amultibillion<br />
dollar industry.<br />
Beef+Lamb New Zealand CEO<br />
Rod Slater, abutcher by trade, said the<br />
lamb shank hasn’t always been held in<br />
such high regard.<br />
“In my day, the shank was given<br />
away as dog tucker but over the years<br />
its popularity has grown so much that it<br />
is now New Zealand’s favourite lamb<br />
cut. It’s quite the turn around.”<br />
The rise in popularity of the shank<br />
can be attributed to chefs and<br />
restaurants who have profiled the cut<br />
on their menus.<br />
Lamb shanks have been voted as<br />
New Zealand’s favourite lamb cut.<br />
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Malcolm 027 475 4241<br />
FLY control and spider<br />
proofing. For all domestic<br />
and industrial pest control<br />
needs phone AJ Kerr at<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Pest Control on<br />
03 308 8147 or 027 432<br />
5447.<br />
FURNITURE removals -For<br />
all your household removal<br />
needs, call Nudges Furniture<br />
Removals. Phone 027<br />
224 0609.<br />
GARDENING, mowing,<br />
pruning, fertilising, projects<br />
or general spruce ups? Call<br />
Andrew at Spruce Gardens<br />
to get the job done right.<br />
027 765 <strong>28</strong>99 or 03 307 1693.<br />
sprucegardens@xtra.co.nz<br />
GUTTER cleaning. Book in a<br />
clean now and tell me when<br />
you want the job done. You<br />
may have trees around.<br />
Call Allan 027 209 5026.<br />
PAINTER for all your painting<br />
needs. No job too small,<br />
inside or outside. Professional<br />
friendly service.<br />
Phone Pete 03 308 1672 or<br />
027 200 1619.<br />
PAINTING wallpapering,<br />
plastering - No job too<br />
small. Interior, exterior.<br />
Professional, prompt, competitive<br />
service. Phone<br />
Tony Sivier at Paint It <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
on 021 878 794 or<br />
307 7<strong>28</strong>9.<br />
PLUMBER. Repair or<br />
replace. Taps, shower<br />
mixers, hot water cylinders,<br />
basins, tubs, toilets, vanity<br />
units, leaking pipes. Call<br />
Pete Young, experienced<br />
plumber 027 <strong>28</strong>0 0889/307<br />
7582.<br />
TINT-A-WINDOW, fade, UV<br />
block, glare, heat control,<br />
safety, security, privacy,<br />
frosting films, solar protective<br />
window films. Free<br />
quotes, 20 years local service.<br />
Phone 0800 368 468<br />
now, Bill Breukelaar, www.<br />
tintawindow.co.nz<br />
TV Reception Specialists for<br />
all your digital freeview<br />
installations and repairs,<br />
TV wall mounting, Smart<br />
TV set-up, home theatre<br />
installation. Call John at<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> TV &Audio Ltd<br />
03 308 7332 or 027 277<br />
1062.<br />
WINDSCREENS and house<br />
glass. Qualified flat glass<br />
glazier now in-house. Anything<br />
glass, give us acall.<br />
Your place or ours. Wilson<br />
Windscreens, 152 Wills<br />
Street, <strong>Ashburton</strong>. Phone<br />
03 308 8485.<br />
GARDEN SUPPLIES<br />
PEASTRAW, small bales.<br />
Delivered <strong>Ashburton</strong>. $5.50<br />
each; ex paddock $4.50<br />
each. Phone/text 027 434<br />
0442.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Plains Rotary<br />
GARDEN SUPPLIES<br />
PEASTRAW FOR SALE<br />
$3.00 per bale or<br />
$60 per 21 bales<br />
(bound as one big bale)<br />
Clean of weeds,but<br />
have afew peas<br />
in them.<br />
Pick up Winchmore<br />
Saturday30<strong>May</strong><br />
10am-12pm<br />
ContactMandy<br />
027 221 3889<br />
MUSHROOM COMPOST<br />
Nowisthe time to dig in our topqualitymushroom<br />
compost to your vegetable garden. Ideal to replenish nutrients<br />
used by previous crops and improvethe soil structure.<br />
It also adds beneficial micro-organisms to thetired soil.<br />
$50 per cubic metreor$10 bag.<br />
Freedelivery within town boundary.<br />
Open 6daysaweek at our Tinwald yard,<br />
208 Maronan Road. Phone 021 129 8936 or 03 308 3331<br />
DELIVERED<br />
$<br />
6.00<br />
per bale<br />
PEASTRAW<br />
and LINSEED STRAW<br />
Small bales<br />
Phone or txt Alisdair 027 410 6882<br />
Ian 027 432 0438; Murray 307 0353<br />
2272994<br />
PROPERTIES FOR SALE<br />
6WATERFORDPLACE,$579,000<br />
BRAND NEWHOME<br />
3 2 2 2 811m 2<br />
OPENHOME<br />
Sat&Sun –11.00am-11.45am<br />
RAFFLE RESULTS<br />
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CroquetClub<br />
1st Wilson<br />
2nd Lily Wills<br />
3rd Lois Kirkwood<br />
Apologies forthe delay<br />
in the drawing<br />
of this raffle as aresult<br />
of Covid 19.<br />
Thank youall for<br />
your support<br />
PETS<br />
Mobile<br />
groomer now<br />
servicing<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Call nowtobooka<br />
pamper foryour pooch<br />
Ph 0800454 654<br />
2<strong>28</strong>1483<br />
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2278621<br />
2277443<br />
SELL<br />
2278862<br />
LPG REFILLS<br />
9kg cylinders<br />
$27.50<br />
Askabout our<br />
deliveryservice<br />
Anysizecylinderfilled<br />
17 Grey St,<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Phone 307 2707<br />
LPG<br />
REFILLS<br />
Small LPG cylinders<br />
Off Street Parking<br />
Available<br />
Arthur Cates Ltd<br />
26 McNally Street<br />
Ph 308 5397<br />
Riverside Industrial Estate<br />
2274771<br />
2274731<br />
ALUMINIUM windows,<br />
second hand house lot, any<br />
interest? 027 587 1754.<br />
LAWNMOWER, Husqvarna<br />
LT125 ride-on, 6speed, 42<br />
inch cut. Phone 027 434<br />
0442.<br />
METAL, heavy etc. Free<br />
light-grade metal in-yard<br />
dumping 9am-5pm weekdays.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Scrap<br />
Metal Recyclers, 117 Alford<br />
Forest Road (behind<br />
Placemakers). Phone 03<br />
308 8033 or 027 249 6625.<br />
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Dangerous Goods Course,½day Mondaymornings<br />
CommunityHouse,<strong>Ashburton</strong>oryour work place<br />
Forfurther information<br />
Phone Christine 027 245 2563<br />
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Phone Jann on<br />
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SITUATIONS VACANT<br />
ThreePositions<br />
OneFulltime &Two Part-time<br />
Checkout Supervisor -Fulltime<br />
This Checkout Supervisor position is full-time,<br />
40 hours per week with aTuesday–Saturday<br />
roster acombination of early and late shifts.<br />
Thesuccessful applicantwill requirethe<br />
following skills:<br />
• Must be customer focused<br />
• Abilitytomanage staff and lead by example<br />
• Motivatedand positiveattitude<br />
• Previous experiencewould be preferred.<br />
Checkout Operator–PermanentPart-time<br />
This position is for8.5 hours on aSaturday<br />
9am –6pm.<br />
Thesuccessful applicantwill requirethe<br />
following skills:<br />
• Customer focused<br />
• Reliable<br />
• Positive attitude<br />
Cleaner –PermanentPart-time<br />
This position is for2hours 8am–10amona<br />
Sunday; Mondayand Friday 6hours<br />
(9am –3pm).<br />
Thesuccessful applicantwill requirethe<br />
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• Cleaning needs to be ahigh standardand<br />
experiencepreferred<br />
• Reliable<br />
• Must be physically fit<br />
If youthink youare the person we arelooking<br />
forplease email your covering letter and C.V.<br />
stating which position youare applying forto:<br />
HR.<strong>Ashburton</strong>@mitre10.co.nz<br />
Applications close on<br />
Wednesday 3rdJune <strong>2020</strong>.<br />
ASHBURTON COLLEGE<br />
‘Individual ExcellenceinaSupportive<br />
Learning Environment’<br />
Examination Centre Manager<br />
We areseeking an Examination Centre Managerto<br />
run the NCEA andNZScholarship<br />
examinations in <strong>2020</strong>.<br />
Thesmooth and successful running of an exam<br />
centre is important for all students participating<br />
in these examinations.<br />
Theposition requires youtocompleteanonline<br />
training programme and attend aone-day training<br />
session with NZQA in August. Therewill be an<br />
additional training dayinSeptemberfor managing<br />
digital exams. The position requires youto<br />
completeanumber of administrativetasks to plan<br />
and preparefor theexams. You must be available<br />
to work forthe entireexam period (Monday16<br />
November to Wednesday9December <strong>2020</strong>).<br />
Ahigh leveloforganisational skills with great<br />
attention to detail,strength in following processes<br />
precisely, confidenceleading people of all ages<br />
and proficiencyinusing acomputer areessential<br />
qualities forthis role.<br />
Remuneration is set by NZQA.<br />
Applicationsclose noon,Friday12June <strong>2020</strong><br />
Information package enquiries andapplications<br />
please contact<br />
Jodee Ross,Principal’s Secretary<br />
Phone (03) 308 4193 ext809<br />
Email: rj@ashcoll.school.nz<br />
Exciting opportunity<br />
in newDispensary<br />
DispensaryTechnician (or currently training)<br />
required in anew Dispensarytobelocated<br />
within the Eastfield Health Building which is<br />
nearing completion on Tancred Street.<br />
This is afull time position.<br />
Please send aone page CV to<br />
smwise@xtra.co.nz by 5th June <strong>2020</strong>.<br />
Confidentialityisassured.<br />
Tancred Street Dispensary<br />
SteveWise<br />
CommunityPharmacist<br />
2<strong>28</strong>1247<br />
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SITUATIONS VACANT<br />
Operations Co-ordinator<br />
Our small privately owned trade-basedbuilding<br />
supplies storeislooking foranoperations coordinator.<br />
The successful candidate will be someone<br />
who has the driveand passiontodeliver great<br />
customerservice whilstgetting the job done.<br />
This role will include co-ordinating stock control,<br />
organising ordersfor deliveryand collection, coordinating<br />
our yard and store staff to achieve set<br />
targets, all whilstjumping in to lendahand in a<br />
variety of other roles as needed.<br />
Anyprior experience in arole similar to this<br />
would be an advantage,aswouldacurrentforklift<br />
licence and somebuilding industryknowledge.<br />
Please submit applications, including acurrentCV,<br />
by Friday 5th June to sally@buildlinkselwyn.co.nz<br />
HEALTH &BEAUTY<br />
URGENT CARE CLINIC<br />
WEEKEND DUTYDOCTORS<br />
IN THE EVENT OF AN EMERGENCYPHONE 111<br />
Forall other medicalassistanceoutsideofnormal<br />
hours please phone your generalpracticeteam, 24/7,<br />
to speak with ahealth professionalwho will giveyou<br />
free healthadviceonwhattodoorwheretogoifyou<br />
need urgentcare.<br />
If youdon’t have aregular general practice, call any<br />
GP team 24/7 forfreetelephone health advice.<br />
All non-residents and visa holders please bring your<br />
passporttoyour surgeryappointment.<br />
New Zealanders’tobring some form of ID.<br />
The<strong>Ashburton</strong>DutyPractice for ...<br />
Saturday30th <strong>May</strong> is<br />
Sealey Street Medical Practice, Sealy Street.<br />
Consultations will be by appointmentonly.<br />
To make an appointmentcall your regular GP 24/7.<br />
Sunday31st <strong>May</strong> is<br />
MooreStreet Medical Centre, MooreStreet<br />
Consultations will be by appointmentonly.<br />
To make an appointmentcall your regular GP 24/7.<br />
Monday1st June is<br />
Tinwald Medical Centre,33Archibald Street.<br />
Consultations will be by appointmentonly.<br />
To make an appointmentcall your regular GP 24/7.<br />
Methven and Rakaia: Formedical attention on the<br />
weekend and public holidays please telephone<br />
MethvenMedical Centre on 03 302 8105<br />
or Rakaia Medical Centre on 03 303 5002.<br />
Details foraccessing the afterhours services will be<br />
on the answer phone.<br />
PHARMACIES<br />
Wises Pharmacy,CountdownComplex,<br />
East Street will be open on ...<br />
Saturday from 9.00am until 1.00pm<br />
Sunday from 10.00am until 1.00pm<br />
At Geraldine: TheGeraldine Pharmacywill be open<br />
normal trading hours during the week,and on<br />
Saturdaymorning from 9.30am to 12.30pm.<br />
Closed Sundays and Public Holidays<br />
Forfree24hour Telephone Health Advice<br />
Phone the healthline on 0800 611 116<br />
Broughttoyouby<br />
CountdownComplex, East Street, <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Phone: 03 308 6733 Fax: 03 308 6755<br />
DebraCurtin<br />
Chiropractor<br />
03 308 9516<br />
www.ashburtonchiropractic.co.nz<br />
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QUALITY<br />
USED VEHICLES<br />
@<br />
AFFORDABLE<br />
PRICES<br />
<br />
WARRANTIES AA APPRAISED FINANCE BIGGEST YARD BEST SELECTION TRADE-INS<br />
2006 HONDAINSPIRE AVANZARE<br />
3000 CC,4DOOR,<br />
ABS, AIR CON, CRUISE<br />
CONTROL,CLIMATE<br />
CONTROL 57,500 KMS<br />
2008 SUBARUIMPREZA 15S<br />
1500 CC,ABS,AIR CON, REAR<br />
SPOILER, 78,200 KMS<br />
2007 TOYOTA PRIUSSTOURING<br />
SELECTION<br />
1500CC,ABS,AIR CON,<br />
CLIMATECONTROL,REAR<br />
SPOILER, 36,000 KMS<br />
$9,995<br />
DAIHATSU<br />
1999 DAIHATSUTERIOS SUV, manual,petrol,4x4, 5door,central locking,<br />
rear spoiler,1300cc, 159,788 kms...........................................................$3,995<br />
HONDA<br />
2006 HONDAINSPIREAVANZARE, 3000 cc,4door, abs,air con, cruise<br />
control, climate control57,500 kms................................................... $9,995<br />
2006 HONDAINSPIRE,alloys,cruise control, reverse camera, 2wheel<br />
drive, 3000 cc,57,000 kms..................................................................... $9,995<br />
2013 HONDACR-V 24G, auto5door,ABS, cruise control, alloys,tow bar,<br />
66,000 kms, 2400cc...................................................................................$22,995<br />
2004 HONDACR-V ZX, auto, petrol,5door,SUV,ABS, rear spoiler,78,100<br />
kms, 2400cc.....................................................................................................$9,995<br />
2007 HONDAELYSION PRESTAGESZ, auto, petrol,7seater, 5door,ABS,<br />
foglights,105,000 kms, 3500cc, alloys,cruise control, newstyres,and<br />
loaded........................................................................................................... $11,995<br />
2007 HONDASTEPWAGON G, 5door,8seater, ABS, air con, rear spoiler,<br />
95,000 kms, 2000cc......................................................................................$7,995<br />
MITSUBISHI<br />
2010 MITSUBISHI GALLANT FORTIS SPORT,5door,ABS, air con, CD<br />
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spoiler,70,500kms.....................................................................................$10,995<br />
2008 MAZDADEMIO SPORT, 5door,ABS, climate control, air con, body kit,<br />
19,800 kms, 1500cc.................................................................................. $11,495<br />
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2006 NISSANBLUEBIRDSYLPHY20S, 4door,ABS, air con, climate control,<br />
11,800 kms, 2000cc......................................................................................$9,995<br />
2006 NISSANCUBE15M, 5door,petrol,air con, ABS, CD changer,42,300<br />
kms, 1500cc.....................................................................................................$7,495<br />
2008 NISSANNOTE15X, auto, 5door,air con, climate control, petrol,14,800<br />
kms, 1500cc, ready to go.............................................................................. SOLD<br />
2014 NISSANLATIO B, auto, idling stop,twin air bags,ABS, 4door,petrol,<br />
air con, 31,100kms........................................................................................$9,995<br />
2006 NISSAN BLUEBIRD SYLPHY, 2L, sedan, wine red, twin air bags,<br />
ABS, 60,000kms ........................................................................................... $9,995<br />
2001 NISSANCUBE, 1300 cc,5door,auto, 136,000 kms........................$3,495<br />
2007 NISSAN SKYLINE 350 GT,3500 cc,auto, paddle shift, 18in alloys,<br />
76,000 kms...................................................................................................$11,995<br />
SUBARU<br />
2008 SUBARUIMPREZA 15S, 5door,petrol,ABS, air con, rear spoiler, .........<br />
78,200 kms, 1500cc......................................................................................$8,995<br />
2005 SUBARUFORESTER 2.0X, 5door,4x4, ABS, air con, petrol,82,500 kms,<br />
2000cc................................................................................................................. SOLD<br />
SUZUKI<br />
2007 SUZUKI SWIFT 1.5 XS, Auto,body kit, air con, 1500cc,<br />
49,500kms .................................................................................................. $9,995<br />
$10,995<br />
2007 SUZUKISX4 XG, 5door,petrol,ABS, air con, climate control, rear<br />
spoiler,roof rails,alloys,97,200 kms, 1500 cc.....................................$8,495<br />
2007 SUZUKISWIFT 1.5XS,1500cc, white, auto, body kit, air con, 68,000<br />
kms.....................................................................................................................$9,995<br />
TOYOTA<br />
2007 TOYOTA PRIUS STOURING SELECTION, 1500cc,ABS, air con,<br />
climate control, rear spoiler, 36,000 kms........................................$10,995<br />
2007 TOYOTA PRIUS STOURING, hybrid,alloys,reverse camera, air con,<br />
rear spoiler,ABS, 1500cc,36,000 kms................................................ $9,995<br />
2007 TOYOTA BLADEG,5door,ABS, air con, body kit, rear spoiler,push<br />
button start, 70,500 kms, 2400cc.........................................................$10,995<br />
2009 TOYOTA ESTIMA HYBRID X4WD, 5door,8seater, ABS, air con, auto,<br />
rear spoiler,cruise control, 133,450 kms, 2400cc, alloys..............$14,995<br />
2013 TOYOTA PRIUS L, 5door,ABS, air con, petrol,parking sensors,rear<br />
spoiler,auto, 71,810 kms, 1800cc.........................................................$16,995<br />
2012 TOYOTA RACTIS G, 5door,petrol,ABS, air con, rear spoiler,cruise<br />
control, 45,400 kms, 1500cc...................................................................$11,995<br />
1999 TOYOTA RAV4,3door,petrol,ABS, air con, rear spoiler,<br />
1800cc...............................................................................................................$7,995<br />
2006 TOYOTA RUSH G, 5door,petrol,ABS, air con, climate control, rear<br />
spoiler,59,500 kms, 1500cc....................................................................$11,995<br />
2008 TOYOTA WISHXLIMITED, 5door,petrol,ABS, air con, auto, climate<br />
control, 72,500 kms, 1800cc......................................................................$9,995<br />
2007 HONDAELYSION<br />
3500CC,AUTO,<br />
PETROL,8SEATER,7<br />
DOOR,ABS,ALLOYS,<br />
CRUISECONTROL,<br />
NEWTYRES<br />
AND<br />
LOADED<br />
2008 NISSANMICRA<br />
1200CC,ABS,5SPEED,<br />
2AIR BAGS,5DOOR,<br />
96,000KMS<br />
2009 TOYOTA ESTIMAHYBRID X4WD<br />
ABS,AIR CON, AUTO<br />
DOOR, CRUISE CONTROL,<br />
ALLOYS, 2400CC,<br />
8SEATER,<br />
CRUISE<br />
CONTROL<br />
$11,995<br />
$3,995<br />
$14,995<br />
Ph: 308 1396<br />
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