Southern View: September 24, 2020

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2020 

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Community 

centre rebuild 

complete 

Page 4 

Harnessing 

creativity 

from ‘junk’ 

Page 13 

Residents’ recycling 

habits hitting the mark 

• By Bea Gooding 

RESIDENTS IN the southern 

suburbs appear to be well 

behaved when it comes to 

recycling habits. 

An Official Information Act 

request by Southern View has 

revealed that 16,119 yellow 

wheelie bins were rejected due 

to contamination across the city 

between January and August 

this year; excluding 

the lockdown. 

The Spreydon- 

Cashmere 

Community 

Board area 

remained largely 

Alexandra 

Davids 

off the list of the 

top 10 suburbs 

with the most 

non-collections 

per year, in the last three 

years – with the exception 

of Addington, Sydenham, 

Woolston and Cashmere. 

The suburbs of Spreydon, 

Somerfield, St Martins and 

Opawa were mostly well 

behaved, receiving the most 

gold stars for compliance out of 

30,961 awarded across the city 

between January and August 

this year. 

• Turn to page 3 

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REJECTIONS: Data obtained from the city council has 

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Composting Talk 

Saturday, 11am-noon 

Spreydon Library 

Christine Blance, manager of 

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will give her expert advice on 

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Rotary Market 

Sunday, 8.30am-12.30pm 

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the future. Running all month. 

Creative Writing on Sundays 

Sunday, 1-3pm 

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Take some pens or pencils, paper, or a 

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Manga Club 

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Citizens Advice Bureau 

Tuesday, 11am-2pm 

Linwood Library 

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free and confidential advice. They 

take the time to listen and equip you 

with the information, options and 

support that fit your needs. Phone 366 

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News 

Offending could result in bin loss 

• From page 1 

Alexandra Davids, chairwoman 

of the Linwood-Central- 

Heathcote Community Board 

and of Keep Christchurch 

Beautiful was disappointed with 

the revelation in the east. 

Eastern suburbs such as Linwood, 

Shirley, Parklands, New 

Brighton, Richmond, Wainoni 

and Aranui were included in 

the list of suburbs with the most 

yellow bin rejections, per year, 

since 2018. 

“It’s super disappointing, I 

think perhaps there is a lack of 

education around that within 

those areas,” she said. 

“I have seen bins that are still 

full at the end of collection and 

are knocked over in the street, 

and I can see people have thrown 

general waste into their recycling 

bins. 

“Unfortunately it’s a bit of laziness 

on people’s behalf, like with 

people not washing containers, 

but there’s still a lack of education 

on what can go into those 

bins.” 

The top offending items found 

in yellow bins in the last three 

years were soft plastics, plastic 

lids, food waste, dirty recycling 

and tools and appliances. 

Although fines were not issued, 

the city council had the 

power to remove bins after three 

repeated offences. 

Removals have mostly been 

in Linwood and the central city, 

and more removal requests were 

in progress in Aranui, New 

Brighton and Woolston. 

Davids believed more could 

be done to encourage better 

habits and reduce what was sent 

to landfill, such as having more 

recycling bins in public areas, 

reducing what people purchased 

to lessen manufacturing demand 

and more education. 

“Other public areas of the city 

have three bins for recycling, 

rubbish and compost, but in the 

east, we see very little of that. 

We generally just have normal 

NASTY: Food waste and 

dirty recycling shouldn’t 

be placed in the yellow 

bin. 

rubbish bins where everything 

is thrown in the same bin,” she 

said. 

“Recycling education is always 

in other people’s faces in other 

areas, but we also don’t see that 

here as often, so the council 

needs to improve communications 

around recycling and what 

can go in.” 

In Brief 

PARKING ISSUES 

A resident of Grove Rd, Addington 

addressed the Spreydon- 

Cashmere Community Board 

with concerns that any future 

residential development in close 

proximity would cause on-street 

parking congestion in the area, 

as the Government no longer 

required new developments to 

provide off-street parking. The 

area was already saturated with 

traffic from commuters and 

nearby businesses. The resident 

requested the board’s support 

for him to lease a car park at the 

nearby Hazeldean Business Park 

at a discounted rate. The community 

board has requested city 

council staff advice to improve 

car parking for residents, such as 

resident parking permits, leasing 

car parking spaces and making 

certain roads one-way. 

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while providing guidance 

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SOUTHERN VIEW 

Community centre rebuild complete 


MANUKA Cottage Addington 

Community House finally has 

a place to call home after a long, 

eight-year journey without a 

facility. 

Construction of their new 

$600,000 premises finished this 

month and was delayed due to 

issues finding a suitable location, 

insurance troubles with the 

original building, and changes to 

the new building’s design. 

The community development 

agency has been delivering its 

services out of the Anglican 

Church of St Mary the Virgin 

in Addington for the last eight 

years following the earthquakes. 

Said community development 

manager Cherylan Davies: “It’s 

definitely worth the wait after 

so long. There were moments 

of frustration at times, but we 

worked really hard to create this 

fantastic facility that’s brand new. 

“It’s been a long journey of 

finding the right property, at 

the right place, for the right 

purpose.” 

The new facility now boasted 

a meeting room, a kitchen, a 

central community space, staff 

offices and a patio. 

The agency aims to connect 

people living in Addington while 

addressing issues of social isolation 

through activities such as 

walking, art and writing groups, 

crafts, exercise, a fruit and vegetable 

co-op or shared lunches. 

Although there was a good 

partnership between cottage staff 

and St Mary’s church, they were 

excited to have their own space 

to better support the Addington 

community. 

Davies was personally looking 

forward to using a regular 

bathroom after having to use a 

Portaloo on the church’s front 

lawn for seven years. 

“It’s a beautiful, historic venue, 

but it’s not built for our purpose 

and it’s quite cold. We have a 

very good partnership with 

St Mary’s, so it’ll be sad to say 

goodbye,” she said. 

“We’re not a religious organisation 

so I think it has also 

possibly made it harder for some 

people to access [the agency] 

because it was inside a church.” 

She emphasised the importance 

of having a facility they 

can call their own. 

“I think it’s important for Addington 

to have the same facility 

they can travel to as there aren’t 

many community facilities in the 

area. It’s about people developing 

NEW BEGINNINGS: Community 

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Davies, of Manuka Cottage Addington 

Community House, which has finished 

construction this month. 

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Progress on transport projects 

• By Louis Day 

THE CITY council is 

currently collaborating 

with communities over two 

projects which will look to 

boost pedestrian safety in 

Beckenham and Somerfield. 

The Beckenham oriented 

project will look to make 

changes to the area’s transport 

network in order to enhance 

pedestrian safety. 

It was given $132,250 from 

the New Zealand Transport 

PLANNERS ARE considering 

“an emerging option” in a 

bid to tackle safety concerns 

along one of the city’s 

busiest roads, it has 

emerged. 

Transport planners 

are mulling the as-yet 

undisclosed option 

as part of work on 

the much-anticipated 

Brougham St/Moorhouse 

Ave project. 

The project was 

supposed to yield a 

preferred option to improve 

road safety in late 2019, but 

that was pushed to allow for 

additional work. 

New Zealand Transport 

Agency director regional 

relationships Jim Harland said 

the Covid-19 response 

had also affected time 

frames. 

However, progress 

was being made on 

the joint NZTA/city 

council project. 

As recently as 

last week, additional 

workshops with 

transport planners 

from both organisations 

were held with regard 

to an emerging option for the 

area, he said. 

A business case was expected 

Agency’s Innovating Streets for 

People pilot fund. 

The project which will 

trial lower speeds, safe crossing 

points and intersection changes. 

A report from the city 

council stated traffic speeds 

throughout the neighbourhood 

are perceived to be reducing 

pedestrian and cyclist safety. 

Data collected the space of an 

hour showed that 35 per cent 

were travelling faster than the 

50km/h speed limit. 

The Somerfield project focuses 

on making changes to the 

layout of Selwyn St in a bid to 

make the area safer for pedestrians. 

It was also given $132,250 

from the NZTA’s fund. 

The streets intersection with 

Somerfield St is a particular 

area of concern, with the site 

being the location of a serious 

crash between a cyclist and car 

in February. 

The initiative will be trialling 

changes to make crossing the 

street at its various intersections 

safer while looking to 

by either the end of this year, 

or early next year, Harland 

confirmed. 

The overall project did 

not have a price tag, but the 

government has allocated $40 

million to improve safety and 

provide better travel choices 

along Brougham st. 

That work would include creating 

prioritised north-south 

public transport routes, and 

dedicated walking and cycling 

access across the highway. 

Work is expected to get under 

way late 2022 and take two 

years to complete. 

At the Spreydon-Cashmere 

Community Board meeting 

make access to the Selwyn St 

shops more comfortable for 

pedestrians. 

The city council is now working 

in partnership with key 

stakeholders within the two 

communities in what it has 

called the “planning and codesign 

phase” for both projects. 

It is hoping to have the initial 

designs completed for both projects 

by the end of this month. 

It will then push to have the 

designs installed by the end of 

next month. 

Bid to tackle safety concerns on busy roads 

Jim Harland 

last week, transport operator 

John McCormack urged NZTA 

to build a tunnel for pedestrians 

and cyclists. 

It would ease safety concerns 

where Brougham St intersects 

with Simeon and Collins Sts, 

immediately after the overbridge, 

he said. 

Trucks leaving the overbridge 

over Barrington St often 

travel at speeds that make it 

difficult to stop quickly enough 

at the intersection, he said. 

The board referred the 

pitch to the agency and to 

the council’s Brougham St/ 

Moorhouse Ave Investigation 

Project Team for advice. 

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SOUTHERN VIEW 

News 

Play time for kids planned on streets 

SOME LOCAL streets could be 

temporarily closed to traffic and 

turned into play areas in a series 

of pop-up events funded by the 

Government. 

The city council has received 

a grant of just over $39,000 for 

the Play Streets initiative. 

The project is being led by 

Sport Canterbury’s Healthy 

Families Ōtautahi Christchurch 

team, and transport consultancy 

ViaStrada with support from 

the council. 

There will be 12 Play Streets 

events held around the city. A 

street will be temporarily closed 

to traffic and the local community 

will be invited to scoot, bike 

and play safely. 

Play Streets is designed 

to encourage kids to be active 

and creative while boosting 

social connections between 

neighbours, and recognising the 

importance of play to children’s 

lives and community well-being. 

Council urban development 

and transport committee chairman 

Mike Davidson said many 

children were able to use their 

local street more during the 

Covid-19 lockdown. 

Many decorated pavements 

with chalk art, played sport and 

rode their bikes. 

“By introducing the Play 

Streets concept in Christchurch 

we hope to give families the 

opportunity to experience the 

streets free of traffic for a short 

time, and make them a lively 

shared space for learning and 

connecting.” 

Children will be able to walk, 

bike or scoot around the 

street and will be encouraged 

to bring play items out of their 

homes and garages to share with 

friends and neighbours. 

Sport Canterbury’s Healthy 

Families Ōtautahi Christchurch 

play systems innovator Adam 

Gard’ner is thrilled the project is 

going ahead. 

“Providing temporary closure 

on some streets to allow neighbourhoods 

and communities 

to use the space to connect and 

play can contribute to longer 

term well-connected and safe 

individuals, whānau, neighbourhoods 

and communities.” 

ViaStrada Ltd senior transportation 

engineer Gemma Dioni 

said streets “are a resource that 

are available to us all, and closing 

them for a few hours on a weekend 

will give the kids a chance to 

play freely and actively outside 

their front door in a safe and fun 

environment.” 

Each event would last for 

between two and four hours and 

ACTIVE: 

Closing 

some streets 

temporarily 

for two to 

four hours will 

allow children 

to play and 

connect 

with others. 

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the timing will be arranged with 

the community. 

There will be temporary restrictions 

on vehicle movements 

through the street for residents, 

as vehicles are not permitted to 

travel through a road closure 

(except for emergency vehicles). 

Locations will be finalised over 

the coming weeks. Play Streets 

will be held from December 2020 

to February 2021. 

Clare Reilly 

INNER LANDS 

Clare Reilly’s work has 

been described 26 September as Neo- – 28 October 2020 

Romantic. Her paintings 

are imbued with a poetic 

stillness and calm. 

She has a close affinity with 

birds in the landscape, with 

the bird motif signifying a 

sense of joy in flight, and 

hope and renewal. Clare 

lives in Otago’s Blueskin 

Bay but also spends time 

ain on Rd, Banks Little Peninsula River where | 03 325 1944 | art@littlerivergallery.com 

she is inspired by the 

landscape, flora and fauna. 

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three decades of painting 

and exhibiting throughout 

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works going overseas. 

Gallery 26 September – 28 October 

Inner Lands 

Standing at the edge of the Inner land 

Looking within and out again. 

All is clouded and clear with 

Insight, foresight, hindsight, 

and still much unknown. 

There was a time when, 

the land was stilled and hushed. 

As if resting, from the itchy human 

activity, the earth sighed with relief. 

The wind played its song 

over the ridge lines and 

the voices of birds rang out clear 

into a cleaner, quieter air. 

The streams chattered down into 

gullies of bush and ferns, and the 

passing of days were, at last, 

observed by many, from inside 

their bubbles. 

A time of meditative connection 

to leave distractions of everyday life 

and find the meaning in being. 

Now take me to those Inner Lands, 

on the journeys of the mind, 

where coastal forests give way 

to the place of dreams, and 

the mind can settle and rest, 

and sustain the momentary 

beauty of existence. 

Clare Reilly - Sept 2020 

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SOUTHERN VIEW 

News 

Event to bring neighbours together 


CHRISTCHURCH residents will 

soon be reconnecting with their 

neighbours in style. 

The city council’s Summer 

with your Neighbours event is 

due to start next month, which 

brings people closer together 

while celebrating 

the unique 

and diverse 

mix of each 

neighbourhood. 

A strong 

focus this 

year was for 

John Filsell 

neighbours to 

re-establish 

connections with each other following 

the Covid-19 lockdown. 

The event allows residents to 

apply for funding to organise 

events within their community, 

including street parties, neighbourhood 

clean-ups, fundraisers 

or sports days. 

Said John Filsell, city council 

head of community support, 

governance and partnerships: 

“Getting to know your neighbours 

creates a greater sense of 

community connectedness and 

safety.” 

Following the 2010 and 2011 

earthquakes, he said there was 

a “huge swell” of community 

connections with neighbours 

developing strong relationships 

and supporting each other. 

The same could be said for the 

current pandemic. 

“Due to the Covid-19 lockdown, 

people were out in their 

neighbourhoods again and 

connecting from a distance; 

checking on vulnerable people 

and making sure they had access 

CONNECTING: Neighbourhoods can apply for funding to 

organise a street party, clean-ups or sports day. 

to food,” said Filsell. 

“Summer with your Neighbours 

events will help bring 

people together again and 

provide an opportunity to build 

on relationships, and even thank 

neighbours for their help.” 

The event was previously 

known as Neighbourhood Week 

and was first held in 1998. 

After community feedback, the 

city council decided three years 

ago to extend the event until the 

end of summer. 

“Weather was often an issue 

during October, and by extending 

it through to March allowed 

events to be held over Christmas 

and in the new year when the 

weather tends to be better,” said 

Filsell. 

Last year the Halswell-Hornby- 

Riccarton Community Board 

distributed $4500 in funding to 

local events in the city’s west. 

• Summer with your 

Neighbours starts 

October 23 and will run 

until March. 

Reinforcing links 

GETTING to know your 

neighbour isn’t just a nice thing 

to do – it might help you and 

your community meet and then 

recover from shocks and crises. 

Research suggests wellconnected 

communities do 

better in the aftermath of 

natural disasters, University of 

Canterbury Associate Professor 

Lucie Ozanne says. 

Their members also benefit 

from a sense they live in 

a community that is well 

connected, that cares about 

itself and the people in it, the 

community resilience expert said. 

“There are so many benefits 

for the place and for the people 

who live there,” she said. 

“The literature suggests there 

are positives for people’s sense 

of belonging, their sense of 

community, and even physical 

well-being. 

“So, the more we can do to 

foster links with other people 

in our neighbourhoods, the 

more people will feel they are 

somewhere that people care, 

and will help them and the 

wider community.” 

Ozanne welcomed the city 

council’s Summer with your 

Neighbours programme 

as a good way to help 

neighbourhoods reinforce their 

links. 

The programme will this 

year focus on re-establishing 

connections following the 

Covid-19 lockdown. 

Applications were still being 

processed, but it was anticipated 

street parties, neighbourhood 

clean-ups, fundraisers or sports 

days would be in the mix. 

Such events would 

help reaffirm pride in the 

community while introducing 

people to each other, and 

establishing new social links. 

This was important in a city 

where many neighbourhoods 

had pockets of transient people, 

or had many new residents, she 

said. 

Simply getting together with 

others was difficult postlockdown, 

as people continued 

to be wary of others from 

outside their bubbles. 

The Summer with your 

Neighbours programme could 

help reintroduce people to their 

neighbourhoods in the alert 

level 1 environment. 

Associate Professor 

Billy O’Steen, an expert 

on community and civic 

engagement, said community 

events could help foster 

stronger neighbourhoods. 

They could help break-down 

social isolation by introducing 

people to their neighbourhood, 

and by encouraging people to 

get to know each other. 

“The key is, people need to 

make it work. We all have a 

responsibility to make the effort 

to support each other, and make 

the effort to be known to each 

other.” 

People responded to the 

shock of the March 15 terror 

attacks by wanting to be part 

of events and gatherings 

that demonstrated a sense of 

community. 

Gatherings could help restore 

community links postlockdown 

- even while normal 

life resumed.



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News 

BIRDS OF THE ESTUARY 

Godwits return to 

estuary feeding spots 


THE AVON-Heathcote Estuary 

has welcomed back the first 

of the godwits from Alaska, 

who have made the eight-day, 

11,000km journey back to their 

feeding spots. 

About 125 bar-tailed godwits 

have so far arrived from their 

breeding grounds from the other 

side of the world to enjoy the 

warmer months in Canterbury, 

and many more were to be expected 

over the next few weeks. 

The city council ornithologist 

Andrew Crossland said they arrived 

on September 14, the same 

date as the previous years of 

2015 and 2017, and was expecting 

between 1300 to 1500 more 

godwits arrivals by the end of 

November this year. 

During NZ’s winter, 306 godwits 

were counted on the city’s 

estuaries. 

“Some of these birds disappeared 

during August as they 

become restless and move about 

the country.” 

Tanya Jenkins is the manager of the Avon-Heathcote Estuary Ihutai Trust, a 

non-profit organisation formed in 2002 to protect one of New Zealand’s most 

important coastal wetlands. Each week she introduces a new bird found in 

the estuary. Her column aims to raise the understanding of the values and 

uniqueness of the area. 

Innovative gull dominates other birds 

NOT FUSSY: The wide-ranging 

appetite of black-backed gulls has 

led to a large increase in numbers 

since their arrival in New Zealand. 

PHOTO: ANDREW CROSSLAND 

WORDS LIKE innovative, 

adaptable, cunning and 

survivors spring to mind 

when talking about the 

black-backed gull or karoro 

– the largest and most 

common gull species in New 

Zealand. 

They are found anywhere 

across the country in 

non-forested areas, from 

coastlines to high country 

farming areas. 

Since European arrival, 

numbers of these large birds 

have exploded due to the 

fact that they quite like the 

introduction of farms and 

especially landfills where 

these not too fussy eaters 

have done extremely well. 

With an appetite for anything 

from newborn lambs, 

rabbits, eggs and chicks from 

other bird species, landfill waste, 

public rubbish bin contents and 

fishing offal from fishing boats, 

numbers have increased from 

a few thousand to an estimated 

half million plus, with some colonies 

reaching up to 1000 birds. 

Carrying the disease salmonella, 

their waste can actually 

‘pollute’ grassed areas which can 

be detrimental to farm animals 

and cause pollution in our waterways. 

In Christchurch with the 

closure of the Burwood 

Landfill in 2005 this bird 

has dispersed throughout 

the city where it manages 

quite well. 

In 2018, black-backed 

gulls managed to raid 

the chicks from every 

single nest of the critically 

endangered black-billed gull 

in Charlesworth Reserve and 

they have, understandably, 

not returned there since 

(and neither have other 

nesting birds such as the 

pied stilt). 

Due to the current risk 

of losing a number of other 

bird species in and around 

the estuary a black-backed 

gull management strategy 

is currently under review. 

Watch this space. 

How can we help prevent 

these birds from taking over the 

estuary? Please do not encourage 

these birds to stay here by 

making it just too easy for them 

by feeding bread or left-over fish 

and chips near the estuary. 

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Harnessing creativity 

from recycled ‘junk’ 

Myriad groups 

help keep our 

community moving. 

Reporter Bea 

Gooding speaks 

to Creative Junk 

co-ordinator 

Christine Jackson 

about the 

importance of 

sustainable creativity 

What does Creative 

Junk do, and how did 

it come to be what it is 

today? 

Originally set up in 

1981, we service a demand 

for affordable materials 

that are used to promote 

creative, imaginative 

play and events in the 

community — for 

children, their families, 

artists, designers, crafters, 

cosplayers, wearable art, 

early childhood services, 

schools and a variety of 

other organisations. 

Our motto — Recycle, 

Reuse, Rethink — reflects 

the organisation’s ideals 

and its ethical and 

environmental stance. 

We are now looking to 

expand our outreach to 

more actively embrace the 

environmental side of our 

values 

What are the issues that 

your charity is currently 

facing, and what is being 

done to overcome them? 

Our biggest issue at 

present is funding, it’s been 

affected nationwide for 

everyone by the Covid-19 

crisis, so we here at 

Creative Junk are trying 

to become more selfsupporting. 

We have our “spare parts 

boxes” which raises money 

for us, with schools or 

anyone wanting creative 

goods all over the country, 

these boxes are posted to 

them. We have also held 

open days, sip ’n’ craft 

nights and car boot sales. 

A local Lego group has 

also stepped forward and 

provided displays in our 

upstairs space and charged 

a gold coin donation to 

view as a fundraising 

event for us, as some of 

the builders use materials 

from our warehouse to 

create landscapes for their 

displays. 

Another issue would be, 

not enough people know 

about us. Ideally, we would 

like to employ another 

person to assist with the 

co-ordinator in being able 

to get out to schools and 

other groups to learn about 

Creative Junk. Also to go 

out to businesses educate 

them, what we can use 

instead of things going to 

landfill. 

Why is an organisation 

like this important 

for Christchurch in 

terms of sustainability 

and providing creative 

resources? 

We help businesses 

and local people reduce 

the amount of products 

going into landfill, which 

is currently a big problem 

in Christchurch. We are 

constantly connecting 

with new companies who 

have what they thought 

was “rubbish” but we see 

as products to turn into 

useful creative items. Our 

workshops also help to 

educate children that they 

can look around their own 

homes and find things 

to be creative with that 

mum or dad was going to 

throw away, and that’s the 

most important step in 

sustainability - education. 

Creative Junk is unique 

and is important to all of 

New Zealand. 

What impact has 

Creative Junk had on 

groups who benefit from 

the service? 

We work with Ara, The 

Repair Shed, The children’s 

university, UCA, Learning 

Exchange Timebank, 

Otautahi Christchurch 

Creative Spaces, Skillwise 

retraining, Waitaha School 

and Volunteer Canterbury 

to name but a few over our 

39 years of being in the 

community. 

We have been able 

to provide classes with 

REPURPOSE: Creative 

Junk manager 

Christine Jackson 

and volunteer Alexia 

Martin, with creations 

made from recycled 

materials destined for 

landfill. 

PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN 

materials for projects 

ranging from classroom 

activities right up to 

materials for school 

performance costumes. 

We have found 

during hard times, like 

earthquakes, people with 

anxieties or wellbeing 

and at the moment with 

Covid-19, people go to 

a happy place of craft, 

drawing, knitting or just 

making whatever for a feelgood 

feeling within. 

With families being at 

home together because of 

Covid-19 they are doing, 

crafting, making things 

together and thinking 

outside the box, this is 

what Creative Junk is 

about. 

In what ways can 

people implement 

environmentally 

sustainable practices 

while promoting 

creativity? 

The best way is to think 

of a way to repurpose an 

item before they consider 

disposing of it. For 

instance, an old golf club 

can be repurposed into 

a colourful bird garden 

decoration or theheads of 

a golf club can be fixed to 

a board and turned into 

a coat rack. An old lawn 

bowl or bowling ball can 

be turned into a bright 

animal-themed doorstop. 

The best thing people can 

do is to stop and think 

before they put anything in 

the bin. 

•Get in touch with 

Creative Junk 

through the website 

or Facebook, www. 

creativejunk.org. 

nz, or email info@ 

creativejunk.org.nz.

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MP for Ilam 

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the eastern suburbs start to 

Northern Corridor opening has 

see Lianne Dalziel’s campaign 

been delayed by six months. 

THE earthquake-damaged 

aspirations for the area come to 

The CNC was due to open in 

former Sockburn Service Centre 

fruition. 

the middle of this year, but last 

could finally be demolished in 

During October’s local body 

week the New 

July – if the funding needed is 

elections, Ms Dalziel identified 

Zealand Transport 

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It comes as the 

obtained. 

repairs to the eastern part of the 

city’s footpaths, pipes and roads 

announced more 

Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton 

as one of her main priorities for 

time was needed 

this term. 

to complete the 

Community 

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$290m motorwayten 

in its draft 

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programme of works for the 

east, I have loosely called this 

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submission to 

Readers respond 

Chance to the eastern alliance, which 

scope of the 

Delay in 

Market day the city council’s 

would essentially be an alliance 

project has been Mark Wilson 

Annual Plan 

Mike Mora 

to supermarket 

farewell Holden 

of contractors who can take 

extended to include 

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requesting the city council ad- 

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St Albans resident Mark Wilson 

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wants to be a geneticist after high school, and feels the GirlBoss Advantage programme will help Board chairman Mike Mora 

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east would have age to has be always agreed been interested women chosen around the with particular focus on science, 

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it will 

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prevail,” she said. 

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will be depending on us to we have time to ge this advice. 

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the Canterbury Employers’ 

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