North Canterbury News: September 03, 2020
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It’sfull steam ahead for hop plans<br />
By DAVID HILL<br />
Kaikouraisgetting readytoparty<br />
amid the uncertainty of Covid19.<br />
As Doug and FondaO’Callahan<br />
prepare for the 10th annual<br />
KaikouraHop, and their first<br />
wedding anniversary, they face<br />
the possibilityofneedingto<br />
postpone it if New Zealand<br />
remains at alert level 2.<br />
‘‘Fornow we are pressing on<br />
with holdingitfrom <strong>September</strong> 16<br />
to 19, but if we need to move it,we<br />
have set aside October 17,’’ Doug<br />
says.<br />
Roadworks on State Highway 1<br />
continuetopose alogistical<br />
challengeasthe eventcontinues<br />
to increase in popularity.<br />
Doug estimatesthere were<br />
more than1500 cars at theSouth<br />
Bay Racecourse on theSaturday<br />
last yearand probably more than<br />
3000 carsparked around South<br />
Bay, adding up to around 10,000<br />
car movements throughoutthe<br />
day.<br />
‘‘Last year we had more than<br />
4000 carsand the problem is, it’s<br />
getting too big for Kaikoura, so we<br />
have to look at how we can run<br />
largenumbers of peoplein<br />
smaller groups,’’ Doug says.<br />
‘‘We’ve got afew challenges this<br />
year with the road, but the<br />
council has got behind us in abig<br />
way and we havebeen working<br />
with NCTIR(the <strong>North</strong><br />
<strong>Canterbury</strong> Transport<br />
Infrastructure Recovery alliance)<br />
and the police.’’<br />
This year’s themeis‘‘Kaikoura<br />
Hop Graffiti 10 Years’’, with<br />
festivities getting under way with<br />
aquiz night at the Groper Bar on<br />
Wedding anniversary ... Doug and Fonda O’Callahan are enjoying Fonda’s first wedding anniversary gift, a<br />
1995 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am. The pair married at last year’s hop. PHOTO: DAVID HILL<br />
Wednesday evening. The next<br />
day, Hop organisers are planning<br />
aroad triptoBlenheim to greet<br />
<strong>North</strong> Island arrivals.<br />
Fridaynightisdrivein movie<br />
night,with ascreening of<br />
American Graffiti,after the poker<br />
run around town.<br />
To manage the traffic, Fonda<br />
has two plans for the poker run.<br />
‘‘We will be winging it, so Ijust<br />
wanttosee how many people<br />
thereare. If we get not so many<br />
people, we can all go together;<br />
otherwisewewill needtosend<br />
them to different places.’’<br />
Saturday’scar show will have<br />
the usual live band, food stalls<br />
and bar, market and trade stalls<br />
and the ‘‘Miss Kaikoura Hop and<br />
her pals’’ competition, while in<br />
the evening there will be night<br />
cruising and the rock’n roll dance<br />
party,with the band Route 66<br />
performing.<br />
The week’s events will<br />
culminatewith the popular<br />
burnouts on Sunday, afundraiser<br />
for the Kaikoura Aquatic Centre.<br />
For more informationorto<br />
book tickets, go online to<br />
kaikourahop.co.nz/ or visit the<br />
Kaikoura Hop Facebook page.<br />
KAIKOURA HOP<br />
<strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> <strong>News</strong>, <strong>September</strong> 3, <strong>2020</strong><br />
Shuttle<br />
bus for<br />
visitors<br />
11<br />
The Kaikoura District<br />
Council is gettingbehind the<br />
Kaikoura Hop.<br />
With traffic flowthrough<br />
townexpectedtobeat<br />
gridlock, the councilwillbe<br />
offering ashuttlebus service<br />
fromthe town centre to the<br />
Kaiapoi Hop’sSouth Bay<br />
Racecourse venue,<br />
community development and<br />
events coordinator Jo York<br />
says.<br />
‘‘Wehad abig meeting with<br />
policeand NCTIR (the<strong>North</strong><br />
<strong>Canterbury</strong>Transport<br />
Infrastructure Recovery<br />
alliance)and the Hopteamto<br />
planhow we will manage the<br />
trafficflow.<br />
‘‘Last year we had abig<br />
turnout of daytrippers from<br />
Christchurch.<br />
‘‘NCTIR hasbeen really<br />
supportive. They will put in a<br />
temporary twolanepathway<br />
on thehill and they’re doing<br />
the traffic management for<br />
thatweekend.’’<br />
NCTIRhas beenworking<br />
to restore State Highway 1on<br />
the hill near South Bay after<br />
the road slumped, leaving<br />
justasinglelane.<br />
Thecouncil is arranging<br />
several pickup points<br />
around the townfor its<br />
temporary shuttlebus<br />
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trafficcongestion.<br />
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