Pegasus Post: September 03, 2020

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Retaining 

volunteers 

difficult 

Hall venue 

idea gets 

support 

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Calls to ensure projects 

in east go to schedule 

• By Matt Slaughter 

THE NATIONAL Party 

candidate gunning for the 

Christchurch East seat says the 

approach needs to change if 

shovel-ready projects in New 

Brighton are to be completed on 

time. 

Central 

government 

has approved 

$7 million to 

help complete 

nine projects 

across New 

Brighton. 

Lincoln Platt 

Lincoln Platt 

says if he’s 

voted in, he will push for these 

projects to be done with the least 

bureaucracy possible. 

But incumbent Christchurch 

East Labour MP Poto 

Williams says the current 

approach to these projects is 

effective and some of them are 

already under way. She hopes 

they are on track for completion 

next year. 

Platt said these projects will 

benefit the community but 

projects in New Brighton have 

taken longer than anticipated in 

the past. 

He said he would ensure these 

community groups have direct 

communication with central 

government so these projects 

are completed as quickly as 

possible. 

Hon Poto WILLIAMS 

MP for Christchurch East 

For information and advice: 

P 03 382 0288 

E poto.williams.mp@parliament.govt.nz 

Electorate office: 

Level 1, Eastgate Shopping Centre. 

We are currently open by 

appointment only. 

Authorised by Poto Williams, Parliament Buildings, Wellington 

“We’d want the community 

groups to work directly with 

treasury for payment. So what 

we’d be doing, this would be 

really important, is that these 

funds do not go through the 

[city] council. They’re funds 

that the community groups 

have been given, this is what 

the community clubs want, the 

Government is funding it, so 

we’d make sure that we cut as 

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‘I’m intimately aware 

of the projects’ 

•From page 1 

Williams said she has worked 

closely with the community 

groups the projects are 

being completed for 

and central government 

to help secure the 

funding and ensure 

they go smoothly. 

“I’m intimately aware 

of the projects. 

“I maintain email 

contact and kind of 

progress updates [with 

the groups] too,” she 

said. 

These projects include the 

transformation of sports facilities 

at Rāwhiti Domain, the 

creation of a monarch butterfly 

and native bird sanctuary at the 

domain, reconfiguring 

the 70-year-old 

clubrooms at New 

Brighton Rugby 

Football Club, 

upgrades and 

earthquake repairs 

at South Brighton 

Tennis Club, construction 

of a new 

centre for the South 

Brighton Surf Lifesaving 

Club, and new fencing, 

lighting and security at Te Awa 

Haku outrigger canoe club. 

Poto Williams 

HUB: An open-sided canopy for Rawhiti Domain 

is another project which will get a share of the 

Government’s $7 million funding. 

PHOTO: CREATIVE INTENTIONS 

The projects the $7 

million in Government 

funding is going towards 

are: 

• Transformation of 

Rāwhiti Domain’s netball 

and tennis courts to create 

an all-weather purposemade 

floodlit facility. 

• Construction of a 

softball diamond and 

reorientation of rugby 

grounds to improve 

drainage at Rāwhiti 

Domain. 

• Reconfiguring the 

70-year-old clubrooms 

at New Brighton Rugby 

Football Club to offer 

social and community 

events. 

• A monarch butterfly 

and native bird sanctuary 

on Rāwhiti Domain, led 

by community group 

Guardians of Rāwhiti 

to return native species 

to the area. It will also 

incorporate a 1.7ha 

natural woodland play 

space and education 

centre. 

• Upgrades and 

earthquake repairs of 

courts and clubrooms at 

South Brighton Tennis 

Club to support its 

growing membership. 

• A new centre for the 

South Brighton Surf 

Lifesaving Club, whose 

club house was damaged 

in the earthquake, to 

include a community 

hall, kitchen and bar 

and a raised patrol room 

to improve beachfront 

observation. 

• A similar revamp of the 

New Brighton Surf Bathing 

and Lifesaving Club. 

• A new meeting place 

and cafe, the Bridge Hub 

South Brighton, which 

will offer social events, 

educational courses, 

physical recreation and 

craft activities, a boost 

after the earthquakes 

demolished shops to leave 

South New Brighton and 

Southshore without a focal 

point. 

• Fencing, lighting and 

security at the home of 

the Te Awa Haku outrigger 

canoe club, part of the 

New Brighton Waka 

Sports Association. 

In Brief 

ROAD RECONSTRUCTION 

Reconstruction of the kerb and 

channel on New Brighton Rd 

between the Anzac Drive roundabout 

and Barkers Lane, and repairs 

between Wattle Drive and 

Palmers Rd have now started. 

These works are to maintain and 

improve the level of service of 

the road. The work is expected 

to be by completed mid-October. 

Meanwhile, entrances to Portman 

St and Oak St have now 

closed to replace the sewer pipes. 

As part of the Woolston Village 

upgrade, the underground sewer 

network on Ferry Rd is being 

renewed, which includes reshaping 

and resurfacing the roads. 

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until works are completed by late 

September, and the Oak St works 

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Retaining volunteers difficult for groups 

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ORGANISATIONS, charities 

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volunteering in Christchurch 

following Covid-19. 

Some reported a surge of volunteers 

post-lockdown as a way 

to support their community during 

trying times, but retaining 

them was a different story. 

In an annual report by Volunteering 

New Zealand which 

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36.6 per cent of organisations 

reported a lack of volunteers as 

their single biggest challenge. 

New Brighton based charity 

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Parker knew the struggle of getting 

a few extra hands on deck. 

“We get people that say they’ll 

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“We supported over 150 people 

during the lockdown as an essential 

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“Not one of us get an income 

DECLINE: Alison Marshall and Glenda Martin say a desire for episodic work affects 

volunteer rates in the region. 

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from this - but it’s not about the 

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as a concern, and a lack of 

younger volunteers. 

During the pandemic, many 

vulnerable volunteers, young and 

old, were forced to stop volunteering 

in order to protect their 

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work forces. 

Volunteering Canterbury strategy 

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have had to “re-think” the 

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ON BOARD: Development Christchurch Ltd is supportive of an idea to make 

Roy Stokes Hall more available for the community. 

Roy Stokes Hall venue 

idea gets support 

• By Matt Slaughter 

Chris Carrow 

CALLS FOR Roy Stokes 

Hall to be made available 

for more community 

groups and events 

have received 

a promising 

response from 

Development 

Christchurch Ltd. 

Chris Carrow, 

the director of 

the Christchurch 

Circus Trust, 

which leases the 

building off DCL, 

is advocating for 

this. 

He said if DCL approves 

the idea, the next challenge 

will be finding the between 

$300,000 and $1 million he 

estimates it could cost to 

upgrade the hall to make 

it suitable for more community 

events. 

Pegasus Post reported 

last week Carrow wants 

DCL to gift the hall to 

the community to make 

it more open for performances, 

concerts and 

activities. 

The trust is currently the 

only group which uses the 

hall. 

DCL is scoping 

out interest 

from developers 

to transform the 

old Central New 

Brighton School 

site, which the hall 

is on, into a housing 

development 

between Seaview 

Rd and Hawke St, 

New Brighton. 

Its development manager 

Cath Carter said DCL is 

exploring options for the 

hall to remain a fixture 

of the site and to be made 

available for more community 

activities. 

“DCL is already exploring 

options for making 

the Roy Stokes Hall a 

multi-use community arts 

venue.” 

She said its preference is 

to “upgrade the hall and 

see it held in trust for the 

community.” 

Carter said funding 

would need to be gained 

for this upgrade. 

Said Carrow: “What we 

do know is that both the 

city council and DCL have 

no money to do any of that 

stuff, so it sort of sits in 

this place of let’s see what 

happens.” 

Carrow said last week 

charitable trusts such as 

the Rata Foundation are 

good options for applying 

for the money needed. 

The future of Roy Stokes 

Hall has been up in the 

air since Central New 

Brighton School closed in 

2015. 

Last year, DCL sought 

feedback and ideas for the 

future of old the school site 

and found there is a lot of 

community support for the 

hall. 

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New Brighton... A real ‘eastate’ bargain 

and word is getting out 

The ‘sizzle’ has started in what the current 

market trends are showing and forecasts 

are predicting for the New Brighton area 

says, Milena Bartlett from Harcourts New 

Brighton. 

She points out that real estate stats show 

the median sale price of a property in New 

Brighton has gone up from $357,500 in 

January of this year to $369,000 in June. 

This figure reflects an increase of a 

median price in NB by 5.4% compared 

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increase of 23.4% compared to three years 

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$2 million dollars. 

Having been to all these hotspots, 

can say we have the best bargains since 

Amazon listed its first shares at $18 bucks 

each. 

Incredible as it sounds, for a sea-side 

suburb, only within this city in New 

Zealand, and very few overseas cities will 

you find these sorts of entry level house 

prices in a stunning coastal area. 

In addition, New Brighton is destined 

to becoming the premier recreational 

destination in the city. As one agent 

has described it: “affordable and rich in 

recreational and lifestyle amenities around 

a beach, river and estuary. Sometimes it is 

easier to list with photos of the beach than 

the house.” 

One of the most noticeable trends came 

from the Covid 19 lock-downers fretting 

in claustrophobic city suburbia, observing 

it was business (within the rules) as usual 

out coastal way, and soon there was a 

steady stream of traffic to join the many 

local cyclists and walkers re-discovering 

“our” freedom and 

beauty. 

That certainly 

sowed a few seeds in 

the minds of CHCH 

westies. 

The next decade 

will witness a 

level of change 

incomprehensible 

to many, and one 

of those will be the $800 million (plus) 

ecological Otakaro spine connection to 

the city, already in start-up mode. 

An agent who lives locally says “we 

have seen spike in activity and a lot of 

new-comers to the area from other parts 

of the city and NZ, since the opening of 

the Shirley Boys & Avonside Girls High 

Schools, the hot pools and the general 

media focus on the area”. 

As a Kiwi born overseas, Harcourts 

sales consultant Milena Bartlett says the 

diversity of environment on peoples back 

door, from Bottle Lake in the North to the 

dune landscape of Southshore is a “joy of 

living here every day.” 

This increasingly positive perception 

is attracting families into the area and 

buying much of the rental stock leaving 

both a current chronic shortage of places 

to let, and houses to buy. “It will be 

interesting to see effects of wage subsidy 

end and an increase in jobless,” but Ms 

Bartlett anticipates the desire to move out 

this way will continue. 

For some comparison (though these 

are January 2020 figures) reflecting the 

median value and annual change, however 

I believe the Southshore and South New 

Brighton are also now slowly trending 

upwards. 

Scarborough $1.62m (+5.7%) 

Christchurch central $474,950 (+1.2%) 

Southshore $459,450 (-1.1%) 

Burwood $446,050 (+1.8%) 

South New Brighton $384,300 (-0.4%) 

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HEALTH & AWARENESS 

PEGASUS POST 

Joint pain: Do I have arthritis or 

could it be mainly my muscles? 

The team at Physical Sense in Sydenham 

sees clients with a range of symptoms but 

many of their middle-aged and senior clients 

visit complaining of pain in one of their joints. 

Physiotherapist Ietje van Stolk suggests 

that a major part of the pain could be due 

to muscle pain rather than simply arthritis. 

“Even if an x-ray shows arthritis, the reason 

for the pain may be the muscles around 

the joint,” she explains. The images show 

how a muscle knot (the crosses) in a back 

muscle can give hip pain (aches and pain 

are the red areas in the drawings), a knot 

in a muscle on the back of the shoulder 

blade can give a deep pain in the front of 

the shoulder and a muscle knot all the way 

near the groin can give an ache in the knee 

(especially at night in bed). 

Ietje recalls one case where an 89 year 

old client with severe arthritis who walked 

with a stick, told her, “I will end up in 

a wheelchair, I cannot put any weight 

through my right leg due to pain in my hip 

and buttock”. “Within 4 treatments, she 

was walking with her stick but without the 

severe pain,” says Ietje. “The arthritis was 

one of the factors that made her muscles 

spasm but the other was that older people 

move less and the flexed position the hip 

is in when we sit is particularly bad for 

the hip.” Ietje is happy with the fact that 

although the client was 89 and could have 

been “given up on” or told to live with the 

pain, she made a difference to her health 

and wellbeing. 

The same lack of movement can be the 

reason for your knee pain or your shoulder 

pain and the same few treatments could 

make a huge difference for you. 

At Physical Sense, hands-on techniques 

(massage and triggerpoint deactivation 

techniques) are used to release the muscles. 

The client also gets a home exercise 

program designed to mobilize and stretch 

the joint, strengthen the important core 

muscles and increase general strength and 

SHOULDER 

PAIN 

KNEE PAIN 

(the crosses are the areas of the muscle spasms, the red areas is where the pain is felt) 

balance. They teach a movement sequence 

that stretches the joint in all directions 

whilst the client is able to lie safely on their 

bed, perfect for older or less mobile clients. 

In many cases having the muscles 

released and being taught how to maintain 

it, is enough to stay on top of the problem. 

HIP PAIN 

If severe arthritis is the underlying cause, 

some maintenance therapy may be 

necessary, but that is often more affordable 

and, for older patients, better tolerated 

than surgery. After only one treatment you 

should know that it will work for you. Call 

and only pay $50 on that treament. 

Physical Sense Gym and Physio is located at 300 Colombo Street, Sydenham. The Blue Line Bus stops in front of the 

door and there is ample parking. To enquire about joint pain treatment, phone 377-2577 or visit www.triggerpoints.co.nz 

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SENIOR LIVING 

Natural vision support 

Bilberry and marigold are two natural 

herbs with a long history in supporting the 

health of the eyes and good vision. 

During World War 2, British bomber 

pilots reported improved night vision after a 

nightly dose of bilberry jam before missions. 

Subsequent research suggested that bilberry 

extract may improve microcirculation 

within the eye, with the most significant 

effects found in people with impaired visual 

acuity. 

Bilberries contain powerful antioxidant 

compounds called anthocyanins that may 

play a major role in supporting eye health 

and even in improving the vision. 

One of the main causes of degenerative 

eye diseases such as macular degeneration 

relates to an increase in free radical activity 

that damages healthy cells in the eyes. The 

anthocyanins from the bilberry help reduce 

this free radical damage that could lead to 

serious eye disease. 

Bilberry has also been shown to improve 

oxygen and blood delivery to the eye, 

important factors for maintaining eye 

health. 

Bilberry is commonly used to support 

night vision and alleviate tired eyes, 

eye strain and dry eyes. It is considered 

beneficial for most eye conditions, including 

cataracts, disorders of the retina, and to 

prevent eye problems, especially in people 

with diabetes or high blood pressure. 

The retina is a thin layer of tissue at 

the back of the eye that transforms light 

information into neural signals for the brain 

to see images. 

The retina is very fragile and can be 

damaged by bright light, especially blue 

light. Computer monitors, cellphones, 

electronic notebooks, televisions, LED and 

fluorescent lighting all emit significant 

amounts of blue light and may have long 

term effects on the retina. 

The carotenoid lutein, as found in marigold 

flowers, is concentrated in the macula, the 

functional centre of the retina. The macula 

gives us the ability to see detail and provides 

the best colour vision. 

Lutein appears to be vital in protecting the 

macula from blue light damage. Multiple 

studies have shown that people with eye 

diseases have much lower levels of lutein 

in their eyes and that increasing intake 

of lutein can reduce the risk of macular 

degeneration, the leading cause of blindness 

in older people. 

One study of people in India, where 

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those with the highest blood levels of lutein 

had a 41% lower risk of developing cataracts, 

compared to those with the lowest levels. 

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PEGASUS POST 

Your Local Views 

BENEFIT: Community groups 

in the city’s east that organise 

events such as the New Brighton 

Duke Festival of Surfing, will soon 

benefit from the city council’s 

Strengthening Communities Fund. 

PHOTO: NEWSLINE 

Community groups 

benefit from $356,000 

FOR THE last few weeks 

it has been a joy to be part 

of the Waitai/Coastal- 

Burwood Community 

Board. 

THis because we 

have been involved in 

distributing $356,000 to 

a whole raft of fantastic 

local Coastal-Burwood 

community groups 

from Spencerville to 

Aranui, from Burwood 

to Queenspark and 

from Southshore to New 

Brighton to Waimari 

Beach. 

This Strengthening 

Communities fund looks 

to do just that – strengthen 

communities. It supports 

locally based organisations 

whose projects contribute 

to the strengthening of 

community well-being in 

the Christchurch city area. 

This Strengthening 

Communities fund is 

the city council’s way of 

recognising that not all 

the important work of the 

Council is done in town. 

It recognises there are lots 

of groups that do really important 

work in the heart 

of their communities and 

that these – now more 

than ever in the Covid environment 

– need practical 

financial support. These 

groups are what hold much 

of our society together. 

Usually staffed by either 

volunteers or part-time 

workers they often run on 

a shoe-string budget. 

From toy libraries and 

play centres, to elder 

groups and friendship 

clubs, from sports clubs 

to garden trusts to Residents 

Associations there 

is an opportunity for 

every group to get some 

assistance. Many 

take up the offer and make 

an application. Some of 

the groups run iconic local 

events New Brighton 

Duke festival of Surfing 

while others like the New 

Brighton project not only 

run the popular Saturday 

Market but are involved 

in many aspects of life in 

New Brighton. 

Other groups like the 

Aranui Community Trust 

run or access a diverse 

range of services and are 

right at the heart of our 

From the board 

Kelly Barber, chair 

Waitai/Coastal-Burwood Community Board 

community making a huge 

difference in the lives of 

our people. It’s a privilege 

for our board to support 

a small part of the life 

changing work they do. 

But the distribution of 

this fund is certainly not a 

free-for-all lolly scramble. 

It has a process. Each community 

organisation needs 

to have a proper structure 

in place, a clear intention 

as to how they are going 

to use their money and be 

accountable for that spend. 

The city council provides 

assistance with this as well. 

Our board’s support staff 

does an amazing job wrangling 

all the applicants and 

assisting them through the 

process. 

So next time you pay 

your rates, I’m sure you’ll 

be pleased to know that 

some of that comes directly 

back to your local 

groups that help sustain 

your community at the 

grass roots. 

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