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Page 10, Ashburton's The Courier, Thursday May 28, 2020 Local news at www.starnews.co.nz ENGAGEMENT Family Notices DEATHS Pass the popcorn please! MOORE- THOMAS: Lyndon and Jo, Murray and Shirley along with their extended families are absolutely delighted toannounce the engagement of Sarah and Toby. HEWSON, Valerie Marguerite (nee Ranson), Sadly and unexpectedly passed away at Ashburton Hospital on May 24, 2020, aged 85 years. Dearly loved wife of the late Alan Hewson, loved mother and mother in law ofSharon and Gary, Gene and Melanie, Wayne, and the late Phillip. Nana to Craig, Mitchell and his wife Ana, Courtenay, and Ethan, and a very much beloved sister. Messages to the Hewson family c/- P O Box 472, Ashburton 7740. Aspecial thanks to Coldstream Lifecare who cared for Val over the past months. DEATHS Supporting the community 96 Tancred Street, Ashburton. Phone 307 8317 Your support has been greatly appreciated. A private family service for Val will be held. Paterson’s Ashburton FDANZ 03 3077433 MacPHERSON: Ian Robert (Bob): After a short illness Bob passed away at Ashburton Hospital on Tuesday 19th May 2020. Loving and loved husband of Rosalie for 57 years dearly loved father and father in law of Margaret Macpherson and Chris Robertson, Pauline and Paul Watkin, Andrew and partner Christine and Chris and Kate. Adored Grandfather of Georgia, Andrew and Ella; Caleb and Caro, Jacob and Hannah and Rebekah; Beth and Shawn Beamish and Matthew; Rob and Gus and their Mum, Emma. Messages to the Macpherson family c/- P.O. Box 472, Ashburton. Bob has been privately cremated and laid to rest at AshburtonCemetery. Paterson’s Ashburton FDANZ 03 3077433 LREA2008 MCRE WELSH, John: Passed away peacefully on Sunday 24th May 2020 at Ashburton Hospital, aged 78 years. Dearly loved husband of Noelene, loved and respected brother in law of Gavin and Shona Prebble and Kevin and Lorraine Hartnett. Beloved uncle of all his nephews and nieces and their families. Messages to the Welsh family c/- P O Box 472, Ashburton 7740. Special thanks to the doctors and nurses of Ward 1 Ashburton Hospital for their extraordinary care of John. At Johns request a private service has been held. Paterson’s Ashburton FDANZ 03 307 7433 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT HARNETT, Anthony Francis (Tony): Marie and family sincerely thank everyone for their kindness and support following the passing of Tony, a much loved husband, father and grandad. We are very grateful for the phone calls, visits, cards, and flowers that were received. Thank you also to those who attended Tony’s Requiem Mass. A special thanks to Father Denis Nolan for his love and care for our family. Special thanks to the staff of Tuarangi Home, Ashburton for their care of Tony and for the way you also included all our family. Please accept this as a personal acknowledgement from our family. Aperfect venue for Functions, Funerals and Weddings. Trott’s Garden 371RacecourseRoad, Ashburton www.trotts.co.nz |Email: info@trotts.co.nz Family owned, locally owned 22 MooreStreet, Ashburton 0800 2636679 2258775 2262527 By Toni Williams Kevin Stewart and Lynn Arthur returned to work from lockdown to astore full of murder, mayhem and romance. There was also some actionpacked fighting, comedy and a few musical numbers. It’s no real surprise, they work at United Video Ashburton’s last remaining video rental store. Kevin, who has owned the store for 21 years, says reopening was agreat chance to reconnect with their members, many of who missed coming instore having achat and selecting amovie. The duo was keen to see a return of members who may have taken to online streaming sites or television’s on demand platforms over lockdown. “We are slowly building up a return (of people) to dvd hire,” Kevin says. The store reopened at Alert Level 3after athorough clean including shelves, cases and dvds. It was like an autumn springclean, Kevin says. The postlockdown clean proved agood time to sort through surplus dvds and games and there is now an extensive range available for sale. United Video’s Lynn Arthur and Kevin Stewart are surrounded by murder, action-packed adventure and romantic comedy. Lynn says dvds and cases are also cleaned down as they return from hire. She has worked in the store for 19 years and says prior to lockdown some members took up the store’s offer to hire bulk movies and games to keep them entertained. It’s now time to return them, she says with asmile. Over lockdown Lynn watched the romantic comedy movie Last Christmas and caught up on the ending of Game of Thrones. She also took up baking (along with the rest of the country), sorted the garden and cleaned out her house, which was aprelude to the cleaning of the store. In stark contrast, Kevin took home afew new release movies but did not watch any. In an effort to stop going stir crazy inside, he took up walking the streets for up to an hour and a half each day. He also works ANZCO security, which as an essential service kept him busy too. Farmers supply mince to local foodbanks By Toni Williams Meat the Need founders Siobhan O’Malley and Wayne Langford have helped supply four months’ worth of meat to 37 foodbanks across the South Island, including Ashburton, in just six weeks. It’s all thanks to the generosity of Meat the Need donors and an idea which was put into action. Siobhan, who has previously farmed in Mid Canterbury with husband Chris, said Wayne came up with the concept and the two of them ironed out the details before calling on the rural community to lend ahand. ‘‘He dropped off some meat to his local foodbank and found out how long it would last,” she said. “He worked out that if you could scale the supply across the country, this was aquantity that might actually be able to be supplied by farmers. So together we came up with aplan to make it happen.” The duo pitched the idea of a charitable nationwide supply chain and Silver Fern Farms got in behind. Siobhan said their involvement was an enormous boost, ‘‘as we could accept cattle, deer and sheep for donation from anywhere in NZ from launch, which was huge”. They have used arural network of hidden talents, including adairy farmer from Northland who did the branding and afarmer’s daughter who made the launch video, with support from industry bodies like Beef +LambNZ and DairyNZ, to spread the word. “The response has been immediate, wholehearted support in most cases,” she said. “We had farmers donating through our website within the first 24 hours of launch, which we were very grateful for. “In the first month, approximately 125 animals were donated, and we are just getting started.” She said 100 per cent of farmer donations went to foodbanks as mince, with sponsorship and public donations sought to cover lean running costs. Mince was the preferred choice of foodbanks as it was versatile for families, easier to store and cook, and could feed multiple people from one pack, she said. The duo met while on an industry board for dairy that gives feedback to Primary ITO. Living just an hour away from each other, at Tasman and Golden Bay respectively, allowed them to meet and share ideas on projects. “We both shared an interest in NZ farming on social media (he runs YOLOFarmer and I run Pukeko Pastures) so we had some good chats.” Siobhan would like to see Meat the Need grow, not only with ongoing donations from farmers supplying highly nutritious export quality protein to foodbanks for in need families across New Zealand, but also to include other primary sector products using a similar framework to red meat. “For instance, I'd love to talk to Synlait about their farmers donating milk and them supplying baby formula, or Westland Milk Products or Fonterra supplying UHT milk,” she said. Donating meat, or money, to Meat the Need can be done via the website www.meattheneed. org or through your Silver Fern Farms representative. Kevin says Covid19 had disrupted film production globally, which would have a flowon effect with new releases to the video market. In March when the country went to into lockdown new releases included movies such as 1917, Jumanji, Star Wars, The Grudge and Dr Dolittle which are still in now, two months later. But it’s agood time to catch up on some movie viewing with amix of new releases and real classics in store. Dementia support Adementia support group in Ashburton will have its first meeting next month. The support group is being organised by Princes Court manager Lorraine Bryan and is aimed at helping families dealing withdementia and telling them about care options that are available. The first meeting will be at the Grace Presbyterian Church Hall, opposite Princes Court, on Princes Street on Thursday June 11. It will run from 1.30pm until 3pm. Lorraine said the group would run on the second Thursday of each month. Princes Courthas 35 dementia beds,but the number of people with dementia is increasing. She said fear of the unknown stopped many families affected by dementiafrom seeking help. People often waited too long. Some avoided asking for help because they feared they would lose their homesand their savings payingfor dementia care. She said lockdown had been tough for caregivers in the community, who were unable to access respite care. Many had questions that could be answered at the support group meeting. Those planning to attend should contact Princes Courton 308 0302, for catering purposes.
Local news at www.starnews.co.nz Ashburton's The Courier, Thursday May 28, 2020, Page 11 Hot pools work to start Fullscale groundworks on the Methven hot pools will begin soon and the project is expected to be ready by next winter. The $15 million Opuke Thermal Pools and Spa project will be built on land near the Methven Trotting Club and will offer three very separate experiences; affordable family bathing, adult exclusive bathing, and high quality spa therapies. The project, which has a$7.5m loan from the Government’s Provincial Growth Fund (PGF), will be the first of its kind in New Zealand to be heated by solar power and produce no emissions. Project steering team member James McKenzie said a lot of work had taken place in recent weeks to lock down pricing and to make the detailed design features fit into the budget. The budget was tight, but the project retained the vision of the Opuke hot pools and he was excited to be involved with it. Exploratory ground works had begun in January and the main contractors were expected on site next month, when foundation work would begin. ‘‘The building consent has now Labour List MP Jo Luxton, Regional Development Minister Shane Jones and James McKenzie in front of the Blue Pub when the Provincial Growth Fund loan was announced in February last year. SAVE come through from Ashburton council, so it’s full steam ahead.’’ Construction was expected to take around one year, but by summer the shell of the complex would be obvious, he said. Solar panels and heat pumps would be ordered later and landscaping would begin. Mr McKenzie said project investors had spoken with PGF staff recently and araft of conditions relating to the funding had been ticked off. The first tranche of PGF funds, around $1m, had been spent on the detailed design work, but the bulk would go on the build. An economic benefit study estimates that the project will create 120 jobs both directly and indirectly, and will add an estimated $162m to the local economy over 10 years. Support for migrants Hakatere Multi Cultural Council has beenproviding support for struggling migrants duringlockdown. Around 25 migrants have been given supermarket vouchersfor local shops,aswell as someheating supplies. Most of the migrants are on temporary work visas, whichhave strict conditions attached. Hakatere Multi Cultural Council coordinator Adi Avnitsaid somemigrantshad faced times of hardship over the last two months. Thosewho had lost theirjobs were struggling to pay their rent, bills and food. Eightofthe 25 helpedhad cometothe district to work in Methven, but winter jobshad been delayed. He said migrants on temporary work visas were not entitled to claim support from Winz, and theirvisas were job specific. If theylost their jobs, they needed to apply for a new visa to be able to secureadifferent job. Immigration NZ had beenclosed for aperiod during lockdown and for some migrants that had meantdelays in getting new visas,said Mr Avnit. The migrants receivinghelp hailedfrom adozen countries, includingthe UK, Czech Republic, Fiji, Ireland, India, Jordan,the Philippines, Nigeria and France. Mr Avnit said those receiving help had been very appreciative. Funding for the migrant support has come from the Covid19 Community Awareness and Preparedness GrantFund, which has distributed $4.8 million nationally. Dog fees rise Dog registration feesare about to be notified by the Ashburton District Council and poochownerswill find they have risen by 2.2 per cent,in linewith othercouncil fees and charges. Dogcontrol fees charged under the Dog Control Act must legally be notified amonthbefore theyare due to be collected. Thecost of registering a arural dog risesfrom $54 to $55 while an unneutered urban dogwill go from$83 to $85; desexed dogsrise from $54 to $55. Menacing and dangerous dogscost more to register and there is a late feeof$42 for urban dogs and$28 for rural dogs. Impounded dogs will incuracost of $84 for the firstoffence and $208for the second, plusadaily sustenance fee. The cost of acallout to attending wanderingstock will jump from$54 to $120,bringing the callout fee in line with other councils. Dog registration fees will begin to be collected on July 1. Adi Avnit with boxes of donated hygiene products from Waitaha Primary Health that he will pass on to migrants being supported. Mr Avnit said he still had some funds left, and if there was still aneed when those funds had gone,he would look at seekingmore support. 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