Southern View: July 23, 2020

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League clubrooms get go-ahead
• By Bea Gooding
THE HALSWELL Hornets
Rugby League Club has been
given the go-ahead to build new
clubrooms.
Work on the $2m facility is
expected to start in November
and will replace the old earthquake
damaged clubrooms in
Halswell Domain.
Said club committee member
Colin Fenwick:
“We started
this process 10
years ago, so
we can’t wait
– we’re all looking
forward
Colin Fenwick
to it.
“We reckon
we’ll have one of the best rugby
league facilities in the South
Island, potentially even in New
Zealand.”
The previous clubrooms,
which were 40-years-old, were
deemed unsafe to occupy,
which Mr Fenwick said was
“not worthwhile” to bring them
up to standard because the
repairs would have cost more
than the construction of a new
building.
The club was able to acquire
a building consent for a new
building and was currently going
through a process to obtain
the very best
knitwear
MODERN: An artist’s impression of the new Halswell Hornets Rugby League Clubrooms. The
building will replace the earthquake-damaged building below.
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Visitors can expect a “warm
and modern” elevated facility,
with new changing rooms,
a gym and places for storage
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The space will also be available
for members to hire for
events on a regular basis, such
as birthday parties.
Securing funding had been
an issue over the years, but
they now have money from
insurance claims which took
eight years to organise, as well
as funding from the lotteries
commission.
“We consider ourselves in a
fortunate situation to be able
to provide a service for a lot of
people, 365 days a year,” said
Mr Fenwick.
Once construction begins,
the clubrooms will take
approximately nine months
to complete, which will be
located on-site at the Halswell
Domain.
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those fun memories with him
anywhere in our homeland especially
when he’s not with us anymore,” she
said.
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going to do those things and feeling
that he missed out.”
In 2015 Ms Rasmussen was overjoyed
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triplets.
That joy quickly turned sour when
a raft of complications arose, causing
the loss of one of her babies during
early pregnancy, with the other two
babies born prematurely at 24 weeks.
The twins were “fighting for their
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damage, and was also born with
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