The Star: June 04, 2020
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• By Jess Gibson and<br />
Matt Slaughter<br />
A NEW SEAT honouring two<br />
key players in improving the<br />
health of the Avon-Heathcote<br />
Estuary has been stolen right<br />
before its official unveiling.<br />
A macrocarpa wooden<br />
seat with a brass plaque was<br />
installed at Windsurfer’s<br />
Reserve off Humphreys Drive,<br />
Bromley, prior to lockdown, in<br />
memory of Kevin O’Connor<br />
and Les Batcheler.<br />
Both were founding members<br />
of the Avon-Heathcote<br />
Estuary Ihutai Trust and<br />
helped make an important<br />
wastewater ocean outfall and<br />
draining systems a reality,<br />
among other things.<br />
<strong>The</strong> trust, together with the<br />
former Combined Estuary<br />
Association spent about a year<br />
arranging for the seat to be<br />
installed.<br />
Trust manager Tanya Jenkins<br />
said she had been planning the<br />
official unveiling event for the<br />
families but was “devastated”<br />
to receive a photo from a city<br />
council park ranger showing<br />
just two posts remaining.<br />
“It’s probably just vandals<br />
that thought it [would make]<br />
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nice firewood or a nice bench<br />
at home.<br />
“It’s a shame to have this<br />
happen. I will not even ask<br />
who or why but would like<br />
to plead with the thieves to<br />
return the seat and plaque as<br />
a sign of respect to the two<br />
gentlemen honoured and their<br />
families. Just quietly place it<br />
by the two posts you have left<br />
and we will reassemble the<br />
seat again.”<br />
Meanwhile, a $2500 sign<br />
purchased by the Dallington<br />
Residents Association last<br />
year, which says Welcome<br />
to Dallington was stolen on<br />
Monday night.<br />
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Memorial seat near estuary<br />
and suburb’s sign stolen<br />
Les<br />
Batcheler<br />
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Kevin<br />
O’Connor<br />
DEVASTATING: A new macrocarpa wooden seat with a<br />
brass plaque honouring two founding members of the<br />
Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai Trust has been stolen<br />
from Windsurfer’s Reserve off Humphreys Drive, and the<br />
Dallington sign that was stolen from Gayhurst Rd.<br />
Association chairwoman<br />
Bebe Frayle said wooden and<br />
metal items with resale value<br />
including gates and drains<br />
have been going missing in<br />
the area recently.<br />
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