Pegasus Post: October 15, 2020
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PEGASUS POST Thursday <strong>October</strong> <strong>15</strong> <strong>2020</strong> 5<br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
Your Local Views<br />
$7m for shovel-ready projects a surprise<br />
WHO DOESN’T love a pleasant<br />
surprise or an unexpected gift?<br />
This year my wife bought me a<br />
set of binoculars for my birthday<br />
and I have to admit, even at my<br />
age, I was delighted.<br />
I’ve always wanted a pair but<br />
just never quite got around to<br />
getting some.<br />
Now I can tell her all sorts<br />
of useful things – like what the<br />
seagulls are doing over the other<br />
side of the park or exactly which<br />
of my friends is biking past in<br />
the distance.<br />
The recent Government<br />
announcement of $7 million for<br />
“shovel-ready” infrastructure<br />
projects in our area was like<br />
another birthday present for<br />
me.<br />
I knew something was coming<br />
but when the projects were<br />
announced I was stoked for our<br />
community.<br />
Nine projects in and around<br />
New Brighton will and are benefiting<br />
from the money.<br />
Two New Brighton institutions<br />
– the New Brighton Surf Bathing<br />
and Lifesaving Club and the<br />
From the board<br />
Kelly Barber, chair<br />
Waitai/Coastal-Burwood Community Board<br />
South Brighton Surf Lifesaving<br />
Club will have help advancing<br />
their rebuilds.<br />
The South Brighton Tennis<br />
Club will be able to finish earthquake<br />
repairs and support its<br />
growing membership and there<br />
is money to help complete the<br />
fantastic new meeting place and<br />
café progressing at the Bridge<br />
Hub South Brighton,<br />
Rāwhiti Domain is going to<br />
see a lot of action in the coming<br />
months with the Guardians of<br />
Rāwhiti taking the lead on a native<br />
bird and butterfly sanctuary<br />
and a natural woodland play<br />
space and education centre.<br />
There will be ground drainage<br />
improvements, a new softball<br />
diamond and the completion of<br />
the flood-lit, all-weather netball<br />
and tennis facility and the reconfiguring<br />
of the 70-year-old clubrooms<br />
at New Brighton Rugby<br />
Football Club to offer social and<br />
community events.<br />
So it was fitting that on a typically<br />
beautiful New Brighton day<br />
last week your whole community<br />
board turned out at the domain<br />
with a large crowd to welcome a<br />
special guest.<br />
Our Prime Minister Jacinda<br />
Ardern, as a guest of our local<br />
MP and Associate Greater<br />
Christchurch Minister Poto Williams<br />
and Eastern Community<br />
Sports and Recreation, dropped<br />
INJECTION: A ceremony<br />
attended by the Prime<br />
Minister Jacinda<br />
Adern celebrated the<br />
annoucement of $7 million<br />
for community projects.<br />
Some of the money will be<br />
used to finish reconfiguring<br />
the 70-year-old clubrooms<br />
at New Brighton Rugby<br />
Football Club.<br />
by to celebrate the funding with<br />
locals.<br />
The prime minister said that<br />
the term “shovel ready” doesn’t<br />
really capture the fact that this<br />
money is for great community<br />
organisations doing great work<br />
in their community.<br />
I think our local city councillor<br />
James Daniels captured our<br />
sentiment best when he said:<br />
“This funding injection is a shot<br />
in the arm that we accept with<br />
pleasure, pride and appreciation.”<br />
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