Nor'West News: October 22, 2020

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2020
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Concern
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Artist inspired
from impact
of Covid-19
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Redwood
woman’s
dedication
to young
earns award
KARLA GUERIN’S dedication
towards building resilience and
confidence in young people has
been recognised at the Graeme
Dingle Foundation Excellence
Awards.
The Redwood resident
received the outstanding
programme co-ordinator
award for making the most
significant contribution
to a school or community
programme.
Guerin co-ordinates the
foundation’s Kiwi Can
programme, a life skills and
values programme delivered
to primary and intermediate
school students.
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• By Bea Gooding
PLANS TO install an extra
transport lane on Cranford St
have not been supported by the
Papanui-Innes Community
Board.
The board decided last week to
instead endorse the current design
between Innes Rd and Berwick
St, which includes road widening
and intersection improvements
for pedestrians, cyclists and all
road users.
The options considered to
further mitigate predicted traffic
increases due to the Christchurch
Northern Motorway included a
clearway, a high occupancy vehicle
lane or a bus lane.
The city council will now take
the board’s recommendation into
account to make a final decision
on the street’s operational layout
within the next month.
This comes following calls
from the community to
prioritise the lane for public
transport, with fears that cars
were being prioritised over
the community leading up to
motorway opening.
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Residents concerned over future of lodge
• By Sally Murphy
RESIDENTS IN Papanui’s
Erica St say a boarding house
for 75 people would change the
dynamic of the community.
Erica Lodge Ltd has applied for
resource consent from the city
council to convert an existing
rest home on the street into a
boarding house.
But those who live nearby are
concerned the transformation
will bring a lot more cars and
a different demographic to the
street.
The lodge owner, Greg Nell, he
understood why residents have
concerns, but they would not be
realised.
“We run boarding houses
in Auckland and one in Hamilton
so this isn’t new for us,” he
said.
“We don’t accept everybody
and anybody, we have measures
in place to ensure we have the
right tenants.”
Nine residents are giving
submissions at a Resource
Management Act hearing panel
over the application. A decision
on the outcome of the hearing is
expected by early November.
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both of which have never had a
problem.
“They’ve actually written letters
in support of our application,
we’ve never had opposition like
this before.”
Nell said he was happy to show
anyone with concerns around
the property.
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not deem him “affected”.
“The community is really concerned
so we’ve all got together
to try and take action.”
Buchanan said when the property
was run as a rest home it
could hold about 57 people.
He wants the council to restrict
the number of residents to 36.
“There are 36 rooms on the
property with ensuites so we
think 36 residents is a better
number.
“This is a low-density housing
area so the boarding house needs
to match that – a boarding house
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Erica St.
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GEOFF SLOAN ​
with 75 people would be better
suited in a high-density housing
area like the central city.”
To go from 57 residents who
didn’t have cars to 75 younger
people was a complete change of
use of the property, Buchanan
said.
“We had no problems with
the elderly residents, they were
quiet, lived mainly inside the
facility and were nice to interact
with.”
He said the impact on the
community would change.
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people there could be upwards
of 50 cars, most of which will be
parked in the street.”
Buchanan said Nell comparing
the lodge in Christchurch to the
other ones he runs was not fair.
“He is trying to compare vehicle
use in his Auckland facilities
with those in Christchurch
- people in Auckland are used
to using public transport and if
they live in the city, most likely
don’t own cars. Most people in
Christchurch own a car.
“You have to compare apples
with apples.”
Buchanan felt the city council
could have handled the situation
better.
“They’ve excluded a significant
amount of the community –
the elderly have been excluded
because most of the information
is online, and there are a few
people in the community who
don’t have English as their first
language and all of the information
is in English.”
The city council said having
a boarding house for 75 people
in a low-density housing area
was not permitted under the
district plan, hence the need for
the proposal to be considered
through a resource consent
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Risk design will fail
• From page 1
St Albans resident Mark
Wilson was satisfied with the
board’s decision not to consider
a clearway for any future
changes to the road but was still
disappointed with the outcome.
“I’m disappointed
that
we’re still not
making a
commitment
to investing
in public
transport. But
Mark Wilson
at least what
we’re doing by
not opening a
clearway is not facilitating more
traffic,” he said.
“We’re appreciative that the
clearway wasn’t approved, but
it’s not an outright win for the
community because we haven’t
seen the traffic demand management
solutions we were looking
for.”
Even though a bus lane was no
longer on the cards, which they
preferred, Wilson said the community
was looking forward to
some certainty.
“The key thing is they need
certainty, they’re getting pretty
tired of this,” he said.
“They’re sick of consultations
when everyone feels like there’s
an ulterior motive, so that’s
why we wanted the community
board to provide some certainty
and to make a decision.”
Supported by the board, periodic
traffic monitoring will take
place to measure the impact the
new motorway was having on
the community once completed.
A report by city council staff
said there was a risk that the
current design will fail to accommodate
all traffic, resulting
in more than 30 per cent traffic
increases through local streets.
If traffic exceeds more than
30 per cent, then a clearway or
managed lane option will be
explored.
Board chairwoman Emma
Norrish said the current design
was endorsed because it offered
flexibility to quickly make
changes to the road layout in the
future if it does not manage traffic
sufficiently.
“For me, it made sense to wait
and see what the traffic does
when the motorway opens first.
If changes do need to be made
then the planning’s already been
done and decisions can be made
and implemented faster,” she
said.
She believed community
feedback was considered and
that the design was enough to
manage traffic levels.
“If we were putting cars
before the community then
we would’ve put the clearway
option in.”
Positive child development
one of foundation’s goals
• From page 1
She accepted the award on
behalf of the organisation’s
Kiwi Can team, who work with
rangatahi on the front lines.
“They are the ones who are
face-to-face with the students
each day. They are the ones
that were there for them the
day of the shootings when
most of our schools went into
lockdown. They stayed in their
schools until all students were
back with their carers and safe,”
she said.
Kiwi Can is an all-inclusive,
12-month weekly programme
at schools across Christchurch
and is split into two parts –
weekly lessons and an annual
community
project.
Both are aimed at making
an impact, with themes having
direct links to positive child
development by engaging
students, reducing bullying
and truancy, and improves
communication skills.
“As I visit our 19 schools, I see
the big smiles on the children’s
faces. I get to see the evidence
first hand of how it impacts so
many lives of so many incredible
children who all deserve to be
loved.
‘The ethos of our
foundation is focused
on helping young New
Zealanders overcome
obstacles.’
– Sir Graeme Dingle
“No matter what challenges
they face in life, what they have
inside them is greater than any
obstacle,” Guerin said.
Sir Graeme Dingle said
this year’s awards, at a time
when Covid-19 changed lives,
showcased what the foundation
was all about.
“The ethos of our foundation
is focused on helping young New
Zealanders overcome obstacles.
We want them to have a life full
of possibilities so they can achieve
their dreams and make the most
of their unique talents. We want
to help them make a contribution
to society.”
• Hornby High School student
Jaleel Aratuara-Collins was also
an award winner, receiving the
Project K Excellence Award for
her outstanding achievements
when overcoming difficult
obstacles at the Graeme Dingle
Foundation 2020 Excellence
Awards.

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Squash club seeks further funds
• By Avneesh Vincent
BURNSIDE Squash Club
needs another $60,000
to upgrade its changing
room.
THe club has received a
$60,000 grant from New
Zealand Community
Trust for the work. But it’s
only half of what the club
needs, said president Deb
Salisbury.
THe club had applied for
$120,000.
Salisbury said the
changing room was as old
as the building which was
built 50 years ago.
“When you look up
the ceiling of the room,
you can see the exposed
pipes. So not particularly
attractive,” she said.
THe club would now
be seeking to raise the
$60,000 it needs for the
upgrade which could
include fundraising, and
FUNDRAISING: Deb Salisbury hopes upgrading
rooms will attract new members to the
Burnside Squash Club.
a loan that members
would pay off through
subscriptions.
At present, the club has
one toilet each for men
and women with shower
facilities.
THe additional funding
would help with total
expenses like covering the
overhead pipes while other
upgrades would include
an extra women’s toilet, a
men’s urinal, improving
the shower, and replacing
the hot water cylinder.
Aside from health and
safety concerns. She said
the complete makeover of
the changing room to suit
“modern requirements”
would help increase
membership, as the room
looked quite outdated.
Salisbury said that the
upgrade was not possible
until they received the full
amount.
Plans for the upgrade
start early January next
year and would take two
months to complete.
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Artist takes inspiration from impact of Covid-19
• By Bea Gooding
DARRYN GEORGE believes
the world needs a little bit more
innocence.
The Christ’s College head of
art’s painting, Mara #26, represents
the beauty and joy of the
world and has been recognised at
this year’s Wallace Art Awards.
The competition celebrates the
country’s best visual artists and
is one of the largest and most
distinguished of its kind in New
Zealand.
Placed second out of more
than 650 entries, he was awarded
$22,000 in lieu of a residential
placement at the British School
at Rome next year.
George’s plans to study at the
prestigious art school may have
been dashed due to Covid-19,
but that has not stopped the art
teacher from revelling in his
achievement.
“I was very humbled and I
wasn’t expecting to win [the
award]. To be amongst the finalists
was an amazing honour,”
said the Bryndwr resident.
“This year felt like my work
was heading in a really good
direction, so it was the right time
to enter and test the waters.”
George was inspired to bring
joy to people through art following
the negative impact the
Covid-19 pandemic has had on
the world.
The bright colours of the oil
pastel and acrylic on canvas
painting were used to represent
the innocence of the Garden of
Eden.
The “crowd” of people in
the foreground of the painting
looked on to the scene of innocence,
“yearning” to see what
was on the other side.
“It grew out of watching the
news seeing so many bad stories
and the brokenness of the
world,” he said.
“The idea of it is to go back to
the Garden of Eden and its innocence
before the fall. I started
to think about the beauty and
purity of what that used to be,
and what it would look like from
a child’s perspective.
“I used, colour, crayons and
pastels as a child would to get
across the idea of beauty and
joy.”
George has always been drawn
to painting and prefers the
method over the likes of other
mediums such as photography
and sculpture, which were often
PRIDE: Christ’s
College head
of art Darryn
George’s
painting (right)
was one of
the finalists at
the Wallace
Art Awards.
PHOTOS: GEOFF
SLOAN
more time consuming due to the
use of materials and equipment.
Said George: “I like the fact
that I can sit in my studio and
immediately start painting,
rather than doing sculpture or
photography that can require
materials or a bigger studio.”
The British School at Rome is
home to researchers of the art,
history and culture of the western
Mediterranean from across
the globe.
As part of his award, he was
due to further his own art
history research at the school,
delving deeper into the artistic
influences of Italy.
He planned to use the prizemoney
he received instead to explore
more corners of the world
for research once international
travel became available again.
“Travelling to places like New
York and seeing art in the flesh at
galleries challenges me on what
to do next and validates what I’m
doing in my own studio, which
helps put my work in context.”
In the meantime, he was content
with doing what he loved the
most – teaching his students the
importance of art.
“I love teaching the boys, they
take risks and try out things that
I wouldn’t have the courage to
do myself; it always inspires me,”
he said.
“The key thing I teach is to
think laterally. Not all of the
boys will become artists, but the
skills are transferrable.”
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10 Thursday October 22 2020
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Every Day is Open Day
Once again, the New Zealand educational curriculum is
in the firing line – and it is perhaps hard to argue that it
shouldn’t be.* On the all-important international stage, the
latest data from PISA, the Programme for International
Student Assessment, indicates our Kiwi kids are on the
slide. The downward trend in results over the last decade
shows a lost equivalent of three to six terms of schooling in
the key subjects of Reading, Maths and Science.
This is despite a 32% increase in per-child spending since
2001 and, in Christchurch at least, the construction of
purpose-built modern learning environments deliberately
designed to foster the national curriculum’s child-centred
orthodoxy.
Of course, every child should be at the heart of their own
learning. How could they now be! But let’s not throw the
baby out with the bathwater. A child’s education should be
a balance of subject knowledge; essential skills; teaching
programmes developed to suit their demonstrated
knowledge, understanding and progress; and assessment
that offers you, your child and their teachers, honesty and
evidence of this progress.
All parents, teachers and coaches know that children learn
best when they are interested in what they are learning.
Making subject knowledge and skills
interesting is the ongoing and exciting
challenge for all of us who educate and
motivate our children.
Located in the heart of our city, St
Michael’s has been educating and
nurturing the children of Christchurch
for 169 years. For our young pupils
have limitless potential to lead exciting
and generous lives, and we have the
responsibility to educate and inspire
them, to encourage every child to flourish
in mind, body and spirit.
St Michael’s is a prep school for girls and
boys in Years 1-8. ‘Prep’ as in preparation
for secondary school, a foundation for a
fine life. For at the heart of St Michael’s
are the essential values of Christian faith
and good citizenship: respect, integrity, community, faith,
hope and love.
An independent school education at the primary level is
a great gift. Our classes are small, with year-groups of 20
pupils, ensuring your child is an individual, well known by
staff and fellow pupils alike.
Traditional foundations in English and Maths are
assured. This academic rigour then underpins our wider
curriculums in History, Geography, Science and Spanish.
IT literacy is taught, not assumed, and computer use is
measured. We like teaching and talking to our pupils!
A prep education offers balance. St Michael’s cultural
and sports’ programmes further develop your child’s
foundation, as creativity and problem-solving come in
many forms. Specialist art and music classes are enjoyed
weekly. We have three choirs, and most pupils participate
in instrumental or speech & drama lessons with our ten
itinerant staff.
Nestled on the banks of the Avon, opposite the Riverside
Farmers’ Market, our extended campus is spectacular: the
Art Gallery, Museum, Tūranga – the
central library, and Hagley Park are
just minutes away.
Many of our parents now work in
the thriving city centre or Lincoln
and Riccarton Road hubs, but they
live city-wide. They comment on the
comfort of knowing their children are
in school nearby and the benefits of
popping over for an hour to catch a
performance or watch a race. With the
central exchange only a block away,
senior children arrive by bus from all
corners of the city.
You and your child are warmly
welcome to discover our purposeful,
wholehearted and inclusive prep
school. Our next Open Day is
coming up, on Tuesday 3 November. Pop in during
the day between 8.30am – 4.00pm for a tour, and to
book an appointment on the day with the principal,
please contact registrar, Bec Hitchcock: registrar@
saintmichaels.co.nz or 03 379-9790.
St Michael’s School
Your school at the heart of the city
✓ Co-educational, Years 1-8
✓ Small classes
✓ Specialist teachers
✓ Musical excellence
✓ Christian values
✓ Traditional classrooms; academic rigour
✓ Before & after school care: 7.30am - 5.30pm
✓ Central city location; easy access
Taking enrolments for 2022.
Some places available for 2021.
Open Day: Tuesday 3 November
www.saintmichaels.school.nz 249 Durham Street Phone (03) 379 9790 to book your tour.

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Thursday October 22 2020 11
Gautam’s determination pays off
• By Bea Gooding
AFTER MIGRATING from a
small town in India to building
a life in Christchurch for the last
17 years, Sunita Gautam believes
it’s her time to give back.
A determination to serve her
community has paid off for the
Edgeware resident, as she has
now been elected to represent the
Central Ward in the Linwood-
Central-Heathcote Community
Board.
Last week’s by-election results
saw Gautam receiving 958 votes
for the seat, over candidates
Celeste Donovan, Clive Antony,
Paul Lonsdale, Wayne Hawker,
Faimeh Burke and John Stringer.
Gautam is looking forward to
the journey ahead and is taking
over the position after the death
of long-serving community
board member and former city
councillor Sally Buck.
“I’m excited, this is just the
beginning. I’m really proud of
the Central Ward,” she said.
“I really want to thank the
people of central Christchurch
for seeing beyond my skin
colour. I’m grateful for the opportunity
and I will not let them
down.”
Her vision for the ward includes
making it a place where
PRIDE: Sunita Gautam wants to improve the state of Linwood Village as the newlyelected
Central Ward representative of the Linwood-Central-Heathcote Community
Board.
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN
everyone felt safe, valued and
had a sense of belonging.
“We also need to sort out
parking for residents, unhosted
home-share accommodation and
footpaths and roads.”
A major focus was on encouraging
more civic participation in
her ward as she identified a lack
of engagement and education on
what a community board can do
for residents.
The recent by-election saw a
23.46 per cent voter turnout, and
33.43 per cent at the local elections
last year.
“Engagement – it’s what is
lacking and it’s a frustration.
I want to make sure the community
understands the process
as people have no idea what the
structure is,” she said.
“Like if people want to move
a tree on their street, you need
to go through the community
board. Most of the time the process
isn’t clear to the public.”
She also wanted to prioritise
taking steps to ensure Linwood
Village gets a revamp and becomes
a safer place to be in.
Gautam moved from Shaktinagar
(UP) – a small Indian town
700km north-west of Kolkata
– to Christchurch nearly two
decades ago after an arranged
marriage to join her husband,
Sunil Ranjan, in the city.
In that time she has worked as
a business mentor, a justice of the
peace, a marriage celebrant, and
a business and management lecturer
at Canterbury University.
She will also be finishing her
PhD later this year in immigrant
entrepreneurship at UC.
Gautam’s experience in the
migrant and wider community
and a passion for people was
what drew her to the Central
Ward role.
“The council is doing great, but
I wanted to be at the table where
decisions are made,” she said.
“I’m not a complainer, I’m a
person who looks for solutions
and I was getting frustrated that
things weren’t getting done.”
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Charities to benefit from fundraising students
MORE THAN 1000 packs of
sanitary products have been
donated to two charities in
Linwood who support victims of
violence and sexual harm.
Canterbury University
students are fighting the
country’s period poverty crisis
by donating sanitary products
to Te Puna Oranga and Aviva
Families, raising $1000 in the
process.
In the first week of fundraising,
the students have collected
more than 1000 packs of sanitary
products, which have been
donated to the Linwood-based
charities.
Students Romy Gellen, Serena
Cooper, Caitlin Baker, Olivia
Dobbs and Charlotte Hawkins
have been inspired by their
media and social change course
project.
As part of the project, the
students have analysed a New
Zealand-made short film from
Stuff’s Someday Stories series
named Super Special.
“When we saw the film about
period poverty right here in
Aotearoa, we were upset to
find it was a reality for so many
young people,” said Gellen.
“The group project made us
really passionate and drove us to
actually do something to combat
the issue.”
Baker said they have chosen Te
Puna Oranga and Aviva Families
because they want to support
local organisations.
A 2019 study showed that
“12.5 per cent of students who
had had their first period
missed out on menstrual items
due to cost, and that 7.5 per
cent had missed school because
they couldn’t access menstrual
products.”
In some lower socio-economic
areas, period poverty was as high
as 20 per cent, she said.
Course lecturer Dr Maja
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Charlotte
Hawkins,
Caitlin Baker
and Serena
Cooper have
launched a
fundraising
initiative to
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poverty in New
Zealand.
Zonjić said period poverty is
a fact of life for many people
in Aotearoa New Zealand and
is compounded by the social
stigma surrounding menstruation.
“To see my students get
inspired by their final group project
to tackle this critical issue
and start such an important initiative
is incredibly humbling,”
she said.
“I am very proud of them and
I hope their actions encourage
others to positively contribute to
their communities.”
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Connecting Your Community
Page 3 Page 6
Davids heads
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advocating body
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for Cantabrians
• By Louis Day
IT COULD be a while until
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the eastern suburbs start to
see Lianne Dalziel’s campaign
aspirations for the area come to
fruition.
During October’s local body
elections, Ms Dalziel identified
repairs to the eastern part of the
city’s footpaths, pipes and roads
as one of her main priorities for
this term.
“We need a fully integrated
programme of works for the
east, I have loosely called this
the eastern alliance, which
Readers respond
Chance to
would essentially be an alliance
to supermarket
farewell Holden
of contractors who can take
rebranding
in style the whole area bit by bit and
systematically get the work
done,” she said during the
Page 8
campaign.
Page 17 But chief executive Dawn
Baxendale said any request to
pursue a specific project in the
east would have to be agreed
upon by council.
South New Brighton School pupil Jacob McMillan enjoying the foam pit at Christchurch School of
City councillors are yet to pass
Gymnastics, which opened its doors to pupils while the school was closed due to fire damage.
on any guidance to staff around
•Story, more photos, page 5
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN this, she said.
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What’s in store for
the property market
in 2020?
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• By Jess Gibson
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The awards were presented to
Mr Bryce at a ceremony held at
the Matuku Takotako: Sumner
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At the moment, edible
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beans, lettuce, rhubarb, celery,
tomatoes, berries, nuts and
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RESOURCE consent has been SAVE
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Mon - Fri Christchurch City Council
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from Ohu Development - the
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The project is being funded by
the first crowdfunding campaign
under taken in New Zealand for a
commercial development.
However, before work starts on
the complex, Ohu Development
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second round of crowdfunding,
which is planned to start on
April 2.
The public will decide whether
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In a survey by Ohu
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crowdfunding campaign should
continue, or should be paused
until the Covid-19 outbreak is
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RESIDENTS MOST affected by
the new Northern Motorway are
relieved to hear the Christchurch
Northern Corridor opening has
been delayed by six months.
The CNC was due to open in
the middle of this year, but last
week the New
Zealand Transport
Agency
announced more
time was needed
to complete the
$290m motorway.
The original
scope of the
Helpless to
Victorious project has been Mark Wilson
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stoked
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stop property
captain
the Waimakariri River bridge and
flooding
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St Albans resident Mark Wilson
GIRL BOSS: Julia Holmes wants to be a geneticist after Page high school, 3 and feels the GirlBoss Advantage programme will Page help 10 said the community are “somewhat
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her achieve her dreams.
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“The community will be somewhat
thankful for a reprieve of the
• By Bea Gooding
for biology, and from a young Julia is one of 25 young were often male-dominated,
age has always been interested women chosen around the with particular focus on science,
technology, engineering
FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD Julia
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in how things worked, often country to participate in the
Holmes is on a mission to
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taking things apart just to put GirlBoss Advantage programme
next month, designed She was shocked to hear the
and maths.
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decisions are made to put our
them back together.
The year 11 St Margaret’s
community first, then there is no
That passion has landed her to mentor the female leaders news from her mother.
College student has a passion
relief,” he said.
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