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Residents’ recycling
habits hitting the mark
• By Bea Gooding
RESIDENTS ACROSS the
western and northern suburbs
appear to be well behaved when it
comes to recycling habits.
An Official Information Act
request by Western News 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 Fendal-
ton-Waimairi-
Harewood and
Papanui-Innes
David
Cartwright
Community
Board areas remained
largely
off the list of the top 10 suburbs
with the most non-collections
per year, in the past three years
– with the exception of Papanui,
Ilam, Hornby and the central city
in 2020.
Said David Cartwright, of
Keep New Zealand Beautiful and
chairman of the Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood
Community
Board: “It’s reassuring to know
that some parts of the city are
focusing on it.
• Turn to page 3
REJECTIONS: Data obtained from the city council has
revealed the suburbs with the most non-collections due to
contamination in yellow recycling bins.
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Offending could result in bin loss
• From page 1
“This presents an opportunity
to start to teach people and to
look at how we are communicating
with those communities to
ensure messages do get through.
“We can get a clear message of
what is right to recycle and what
the best practices are at schools,
libraries, and community groups
like Rotary and Girl Guides.”
Contaminated recycling bins
were more prevalent in Linwood,
Richmond, central city and Addington
per year since 2018.
However, residents in the
southern suburbs of Spreydon,
Somerfield, St Martins and
Opawa received the most gold
stars for recycling bin compliance
out of 30,961 awarded
across the city this year, between
January and August.
The top offending items found
in yellow wheelie 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
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“The bins around our parks
also don’t offer the chance to
recycle, so this will be something
to put through towards the Long
Term Plan,” he said.
“If you don’t recycle properly
it penalises all of us, the cost to
dump the waste is borne across
Conditions apply
NASTY:
Food waste
and dirty
recycling
shouldn’t be
placed in the
yellow bin.
the whole city, so it’s really important
that everyone does it.”
“The city council declared a
climate emergency, so we should
be taking every active step to
ensure we’re living the right way,
and not just talk the talk.”
• Recycled junk, page 12
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Construction is due to start
next Monday on improving a
pedestrian island on Springs
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undertaking adjustments such
as the widening of the walkway
exiting the pedestrian island and
adjusting the angle to make it
more wheelchair accessible. There
will be no right turn onto Springs
Rd for about a week until the
works are completed.
NO STOPPING
No stopping restrictions have
been approved for the south side
of Waterloo Rd, starting at its
intersection with Smarts Rd. The
restrictions were approved at the
latest Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton
Community Board meeting,
after concerns were raised
about improving visibility at the
pedestrian crossing on Waterloo
Rd, which was a popular crossing
point for Hornby High School
students.
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Earthquake repairs taking place
at Halswell’s St Mary’s Church
WORK AT the earthquakedamaged
St Mary’s Church
in Halswell is just weeks
away from completion as the
Anglican Church closes in on
the end of a city-wide repair
programme.
Re-levelling and
strengthening work has been
completed and the repair
project is due to finish in early
October, an Anglican Diocese
of Christchurch spokeswoman
confirmed.
The landmark church
suffered liquefactioninduced
damage during
the earthquakes, which
meant parts of the building
needed to be re-levelled, she
said.
The exterior and interior
walls, and the ceilings also
needed minor repairs, and
some minor strengthening
work had also been done, the
spokeswoman said.
Access to the building had
also been improved to meet the
building code. Pathways would
be replaced due to changes in
ground levels as a result of the
earthquakes.
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was being funded through
insurance funds, while other
improvements were being
funded by the parish, the
spokeswoman said.
The Anglican Diocese has
spent the best part of the past
decade tackling the damage
caused to its buildings by the
earthquakes.
The earthquakes affected
a large number of churches,
halls and vicarages across the
Diocese area, necessitating a
big work programme.
Its earthquake recovery
programme comprises 243
repairs and rebuilds across the
Diocese, which were being
managed by Church Property
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earthquake
repairs.
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The spokeswoman said
the programme was 90 per
cent complete and due for
completion by mid-2021.
The St Mary’s Church
parishioners are worshipping at
the South-West Baptist Church
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Sports field lighting given the go-ahead
• By Bea Gooding
Devon
Harding
SPORTS FIELD lighting
upgrades at Halswell Domain
have been given the go-ahead
to promote safer conditions for
players.
The Halswell-Hornby-
Riccarton Community Board
approved the
upgrades at its
meeting last
week, subject
to the Halswell
Hornets Rugby
League Club obtaining
the necessary
resource
and building
consents prior to
installation.
An application for a new
lease to facilitate the rebuild
of the club’s earthquakedamaged
pavilion was also
under way.
Said club president Devon
Harding: “We’re lucky to have
[the upgrades]. We needed
to upgrade the lighting to
improve the standards and
provide a more professional
environment.”
The current lighting needed
to be replaced due to its
aged condition and its poor
illumination resulting in safety
issues during trainings at night,
especially during the winter.
Twelve of the existing poles
will be removed and replaced
with eight new poles with
improved digital LED lighting
technology on both of the club’s
allocated playing fields.
The lights would be used
during training in the evenings
between Monday to Friday from
February 1 to August 31 each
year.
Public consultation on the
proposal earlier in the year saw
the majority in favour of the
upgrades, with 19 out of 23 submissions
in support and believed
in its benefits.
The club’s new $2 million facility
is due to start construction by
the end of the year and will take
about nine months to complete.
The new clubrooms will have
changing rooms, a gym, storage
facilities and would also be
available for members to hire for
events on a regular basis, such as
birthday parties.
Harding said the installation
of the new lights would not start
until the clubrooms were rebuilt,
which was expected to begin by
the middle of next year.
“I think it’s going to be great
for the community, and a place
where our members are able
to connect and celebrated each
other’s successes,” he said.
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Foodbank to target ethnic communities
• By Bea Gooding
A RICCARTON charity has
taken it upon themselves to
support migrants who have now
become food vulnerable as a
result of the global pandemic.
The Oak Development Trust
has established a new foodbank
service which specifically targets
multicultural communities in
the wider Riccarton area.
The trust worked with groups
from a variety of backgrounds,
such as Korean, Chinese, Middle
Eastern, Filipino, Japanese and
Indian groups to provide ethnically
targeted food parcels that
differed from those usually filled
with staple items.
Trust manager Carol Renouf
said the new initiative filled a
gap in social support services
because migrants did not have as
many options for support compared
to other vulnerable New
Zealanders.
“We were all migrants one day,
and the reality is that they come
here with such high hopes for a
better future, so to them, giving
up isn’t easy,” she said.
“It may look like they have a
lot of money, but they’re struggling
to survive here. So we’re
supporting them through a time
of crisis.”
The trust’s social worker,
Chang Hun Yu, worked with the
Korean Society of Christchurch
to offer support during the
nationwide lockdown and discovered
migrants with working
visas became more vulnerable
during Covid-19.
They were more likely to lose
jobs, did not have access to
WINZ, were paying high rent
and costly international fees for
education which affected having
enough left over for basic needs.
After Yu provided Korean food
parcels for the community, it
inspired the idea behind serving
other multi-cultural groups, and
was able to secure funding from
the Ministry of Social Development
for the initiative.
SUPPORT:
Chang Hun
Yu, social
worker and
Jo Atara
McKenzie,
cultural
support
worker.
PHOTO:
GEOFF SLOAN
The trust was now providing
parcels with familiar treats
sourced from local businesses,
which meant migrants had
more time to focus on what was
important, such as job seeking,
or supporting families back in
home countries.
Renouf said by building relationships
and addressing issues
that led them there in the first
place, such as help with navigation,
learning English or finding jobs,
they were less likely to come back.
“We set it up so that it’s not just
about giving out food parcels, we
want people to be able to sustain
themselves going forward,” she
said.
“The food parcel is our priority,
so we can give tangibly give
them something that’ll nurture
them to have the courage to
make the next step, like going to
find a job.”
Equipped with the knowledge
of the current pandemic, the
trust was now working with
other agencies to develop a Food
Secure Communities Plan – a
network put in place where organisations
can share resources.
“It’ll be a collaboration with
other organisations who work
with vulnerable people. We
wanted to initiate a plan in place
for when the next pandemic
comes so we know where food
will come from,” said Renouf.
“This includes offering gardening
or cooking skills so people
can make the most of the food
that they’re given and can become
self-sustainable.”
•To learn more about Oak
Development Trust’s new
foodbank, phone Chang
Hun Yu on 021 155 8062
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Commitment,
Achievement,
Resilience,
Respect
New skills
required for
the 21st
century
Kia ora koutou. Talofa. Kia Orana. Malo e lelei. Bula.
Fakaalofa atu. Namaste. Kumusta. Haere mai haere mai ki
Te Kura Huruhuru Ao o Horomaka. Warm greetings to the
Hornby High School community.
Educators keep talking about creating an education system
for the 21st century. Odd when you think of it because we
are already 20 per cent of the way through the century.
At a Canterbury secondary principals’ meeting last week I
was reminded of this with a presentation from the CEO of
ChristchurchNZ in which we were presented with data on the
Christchurch economy, and in particular what employers are
looking for in employees if they are to create the agile and
productive economy that will be the base for our collective
prosperity. This survey repeated things we have been told for
the past 20 years, that it is not specific subject skills like those
presented in economics (my own subject), or maths, or history,
or whatever, that employers are looking for.
They are looking for employees who can collaborate (work
with others in teams), who can communicate, who can think
creatively and critically.
This is a huge affirmation of the changes we are making at
Hornby High School (for junior students at the moment). We
are putting more time and effort into what we call the “front
end of the curriculum”. This is the part of the curriculum that
emphasises the skills of thinking, of collaboration, the skills we
call the five key competencies: thinking, managing self, relating
to others, communicating with language, symbols and text, and
participating and contributing.
The foundation of our junior curriculum is the development
of these key competencies which have been at the centre
of the New Zealand curriculum for more than 15 years. We
have built into the learning day time that we call “wānanga”,
time in which relationships are key, and in which those key
competencies are both implicitly and explicitly developed
and taught. We are already seeing the benefits of this for
our students. They are increasingly well engaged with their
learning, their focus continues to grow – from an already
high base, I might add. This will provide an ever better base
for those senior years of study, years in which students are
equipped for the rigours of senior study, and the demands
of that essential post-secondary school preparation for
employment and life. This is perhaps the most important part
of “education for the 21st century”. Join us in this journey.
Jayden, Year 8
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Hair-raising fundraiser
On Wednesday,
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raising $470.10 to
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kids with
cancer.
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Right: Deputy
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Alex, Year 10
Volunteers help planting project
The Graeme Dingle Foundation’s
Stars-opoly is all about exploring
opportunities in the school and
community, and learning about
community-based organisations. It
aims to connect young people with
their community by giving them
opportunities to explore resources
and support through interviews and
challenges.
Groups have two hours to complete a
series of challenges across a Monopolystyle
board, designed to simulate their
school journey and connections with
their community.
By questioning organisations, students
are able to define Turangawaewae – “a
place to stand my feet” – and where
they stand in it.
The organisations involved were: Surf
Lifesaving, Family Planning, Volunteer
Canterbury, NZ Police, NZ Fire &
Emergency, Keep Canterbury Beautiful,
St John, YMCA, Christchurch City
Council Regional Parks, Graeme Dingle
What a stunning day we had on
Thursday, September 3, planting
trees with Christchurch City
Council for our Hornby High
School Stars
Community
Project!
More than
50 ākonga
volunteered
their time
and energy
to help
re-vegetate
parts of the
Broken River
Run in Wigram.
Community projects
teach our rangatahi the importance of
positive citizenship and giving back. They
also learn valuable skills such as team
Foundation, and Jude Howie from
Hornby High School.
Participating organisations create and
strengthen links with the school and
have opportunities to get to know our
students and how they can work with
them.
Stars is a 12-month interactive
programme that supports, motivates,
work, caring for the land, and how to use a
garden spade!
Many thanks to park rangers Heidi and
Yvette for your guidance, and Sanitarium
Health Food Company NZ for the
sustenance needed to get the job done!
Stars-opoly boosts community links
and reinforces Year 9 students during
their first year at high school.
The Graeme Dingle Foundation aims
to inspire all school-age New Zealand
children to reach their full potential
through programmes that build selfesteem,
promote good values, and
teach valuable life, education and
health skills.
Students explore leadership roles at camp
Every year, Year 13 students, whether
they like it or not, act as role models for
the junior students and are ‘asked’ by
staff to step up into senior student roles
around the school.
Students are often unsure about what
it means to be a role model. Are they
ready to ‘Step Up’ or are they more
comfortable in a supporting role – a
leader is only as effective as the people
who are supporting them.
The aim of the
Next Steps Camp
is to provide
senior students
with a chance to
experience what
it is to be a leader/
role model and
also experience
different styles of
leadership.
Staff are able to
observe those at
camp and will be
able to make a
better informed
choice, from those
who attend camp,
as to what role they
could fill as senior
student leaders/role models.
From the moment the campers assemble
at school the challenges begin, all
Students working their way around the Stars-opoly board.
designed to get them working
together as teams using the
skills they have.
They begin with some puzzles
based at school before using
bus money to get themselves
to camp at Blue Skies in
Kaiapoi. Along the way they
need to find certain locations
and answer questions. They
need to arrive at camp by
a particular time with as
many questions answered as
possible and with change and
receipts that tally up.
Once at camp groups are mixed for each
different activity, showing how you can
work with anybody and that we all have
skills to help with the challenges faced.
Boundaries are pushed and limits found,
all useful things to know for the future,
both at school and beyond.
A highlight of camp is bonfire night.
The impromptu one-minute speeches
provide entertainment for all.
Students continue to be observed back
at school, are they still using the skills
learnt on camp as we begin the process
of choosing our future leaders.
Regardless of what leadership role
or support role they have at school
and beyond, the camp provides a firm
foundation from which the students can
start.
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Event to bring neighbours together
• By Bea Gooding
John Filsell
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 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
CONNECTING: Neighbourhoods can apply for funding to
organise a street party, clean-ups or sports day.
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
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 wellbeing.
“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.
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 post-lockdown
– even while normal life
resumed.
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Leaders in Learning
WINTER TOURNAMENT WEEK
After the disappointment of the
cancellation of the traditional national and
South Island Winter Sport Tournaments,
it was a real pleasure to see some of the
Burnside High School winter sport teams
compete in regional competitions over the
original Winter Tournament Week dates,
Monday 31 August - Friday 04 September.
and Year 9A teams both competed in
the SISS Junior Netball Championships
at the Hagley Netball Centre. They had
a wonderful two days of weather for this
tournament and gained some valuable
experience playing Netball at this level of
competition.
Left to Right:
Vy Prachaktam, Katrina Too
Our Badminton teams had a very
successful week with both the
Premier A Boys and Girls teams
winning the Canterbury Secondary
Schools Senior Badminton Team
Championships. The Badminton
success didn’t stop there with the
Boys Junior Doubles Team also
winning the Canterbury Secondary
Schools Junior Championship.
This year, the Year 13 Drama class took on
the momentous challenge of Lord of the
Flies adapted by Nigel Williams as their
public performance production. The play
that started back in March, finally took
the stage on August the 19th & 20th and
due to two sold-out performances, a third
show was added to the 21st.
Both the Burnside High School Boys and
Girls 1st XI Hockey teams competed in
the South Island Premiership Hockey
Tournament here in Christchurch. The
standard of hockey at this tournament
was amazing, and the
level of sportsmanship
and skill displayed by our
teams was outstanding.
The Girls 1st XI placed
7th and the Boys 1st XI
placed 11th.
Sue Petrie
LORD OF THE FLIES
Tom Giddens
Our two Sport Climbing
teams had two fantastic
days at the Christchurch
YMCA Adventure
Centre, competing in the
South Island Secondary
Schools (SISS) Sport
Climbing Championships,
ultimately placing just
outside the top three in
the Mixed Competition.
The Netball Year 10A
Goal Attack Bella Moala,
Goal Shoot Paige Eder
The Netball A team and the Ice
Hockey team hit the road travelling to
tournaments in Timaru and Dunedin. The
Netball A team competed at the South
Island Experience Netball Tournament
in Timaru, and our Ice Hockey team
competed in Dunedin in the SISS Ice
Hockey Tournament. Both teams had
great tournament experiences and agree
that being able to compete with teams
from outside their normal competitions
was a real thrill, and the highlight of their
season.
What a way to finish. Many thanks go to
the team behind the dream that became
reality.
Noah Hartley Year 13
With all three nights sold out, the scene
was set and there was only the show to go.
With the accumulation of an amazing
ensemble cast, some spectacular student
directing, and a terrific tech crew, the
show went off without a hitch and despite
COVID-19’s best efforts, the Year 13’s got
their final dance on the mighty Aurora
Centre stage - and what a dance it was.
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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
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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.
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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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the new Northern Motorway are
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MARCH 24, 2020
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• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding
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
Agency
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
“We need a fully integrated
$290m motorwayten
in its draft
Board has writ-
programme of works for the
east, I have loosely called this
The original
submission to
Readers respond
Chance to the eastern alliance, which
scope of the
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Victorious
Delay in
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Mike Mora
to supermarket
farewell Holden
of contractors who can take
extended include
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captain the whole area bit by bit and
a third southbound lane on
requesting the city council addresses
the budget gap so the
rebranding
in style
systematically get the work
the Waimakariri River bridge and
flooding
with cup done,” she said during the
a clip-on win
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cycleway.
buildings can be removed as soon
campaign.
St Albans resident Mark Wilson
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GIRL Page BOSS: Julia 17 Holmes But chief wants executive to be a Dawn geneticist after Page high school, 3 and feels the GirlBoss Advantage programme will Page help 10 said GIRL the BOSS: community Julia Holmes are “somewhat
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wants to be a geneticist after high school, and feels the GirlBoss Advantage programme will help Board chairman Mike Mora
her achieve her dreams. Baxendale said any request to
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN
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pursue a specific for biology, project in and the
“The community will be somewhat
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from a young Julia is one of 25 young were often male-dominated, • By Bea Gooding
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east would have age to has be always agreed been interested women chosen around the with particular focus on science,
technology, engineering
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technology, engineering requested.
demolition of the site would be
FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD upon Julia by council.
effects of this motorway for six
South New Brighton School pupil Jacob McMillan enjoying the foam pit at Christchurch School of
City councillors are yet to pass
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Holmes is on a mission on to
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FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD Julia in how things worked, often country to participate in the
months, but it’s still there. Until
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as an
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what assistance
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help.
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which is planned to start on
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sure
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how
days
needed
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that
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it will
think
be
that
because
we are
most
just
of
looking
the supermarkets
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at how we
are
respond
providing
to the
online
virus.
DEDICATED: Dave Bryce is passionate about gardening as it is sustainable and promotes healthy eating. GIRL BOSS: Julia Holmes wants to be a geneticist after high school, and feels the GirlBoss Advantage programme will help
or not the second crowdfunding
delivery
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and
it’s
things
about responsiveness
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her achieve her dreams.
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bid will go ahead on that date.
it’s
to
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hard
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government
how it’s going
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the chairman of Redcliffs/Te Features and was one of seven At the moment, edible
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with particular “I
guidelines,
to pan out.
the safety of staff
WITH MORE than 100 edible
Rae Kura Eco Village Group, recognised in the Residential items in Mr Bryce’s garden
Development, people been can interested in how things women chosen around the
and
just
the
think
safety
they
of
[people]
our communities.”
just
species in his garden, Dave
was successful at the Linwood- House Category.
include pumpkins, courgettes, WEST MELTON’S choose Julia whether they worked, think oten the taking things country to participate in focus on science, technology, need to let us know what they
Bryce would give any vegetable
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need
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and
follows
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calls
do our
from
best to
shop a run for its money. Garden Awards.
Mr Bryce at a ceremony held at tomatoes, berries, nuts make and
Christchurch city councillors to
a difference continue, the world.
should together. be paused
programme next month,
She was shocked to hear the help,” she said.
the worst happens.
Network] are about, that’s why
Which is why the Mt
He received a special
the Matuku Takotako: Sumner herbs among others.
stop rates increases in response
The fifteen-year-old until has the Covid-19 outbreak That passion is has landed her designed to mentor the
news from her mother.
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to the Covid-19 crisis.
Pleasant resident, who is also award for Best Sustainability Centre earlier this month.
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• By Louis Day
CALLS HAVE been made to
stop rates increases in response
to the Covid-19 crisis.
City counci lors James Gough,
Sam MacDonald, Catherine
Chu, Phil Mauger, Aaron Keown
and James Daniels have sent a
le ter to Mayor Lianne Dalziel
asking her to lead a conversation
as to how a zero per cent rates
increase could be achieved this
The city council is proposing
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per cent across a l ratepayers in
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wi l be finalised before July 1.
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rates increase over 10 years.
Said Cr MacDonald: “In
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clear business as usual is not
appropriate and the council
needs to look at how we enable
this 12-month rates increase
freeze to occur, it’s crucial for
the economic confidence of our
Ms Dalziel said the las thing the council’s budget, which is urchNZ, the Canterbury Employers’
Chamber of Commerce Covid-19. We wi l discuss these
dinary circumstances related to
the city council needed was for not entirely funded by rates, and
someone to hi the panic bu ton. the consequences that wi l flow and other key players so we are options with elected members
“Calm heads must and wi l from decisions we make. best prepared for the economic as we develop the Annual Plan,”
prevail,” she said.
“The Annual Plan is not cha lenges that lie ahead.”
“Our residents and businesses signed off for three months so City council chief executive The push from city counci lors
wi l be depending on us to we have time to ge this advice. Dawn Baxendale did not rule a for a freeze on rates rises comes
make adjustments, and we wi l, A the same time, the council zero rates rise out.
shortly after Minister of Finance
however, we wi l need advice is meeting with our economic “We’re considering a series of Grant Robertson announced
on the impacts on a l aspects of development agency, Christch-
options in light of the extraor-
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