Ashburton Courier: November 12, 2020

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ASHBURTON ALTRUSA
We welcomed Danae McConnell,
the incoming governor of Altrusa International
ofNew Zealand, for the biennium
of 2021-2023 to our last meeting.
The replacement for the pre-historic
Australian Wollemi pine in the Ashburton
Domain stolen not long after being
planted, should by now have aplaque
recording the donation by Altrusa of the
tree, placed with it.
It is hoped that the tree in its new
position and secured behind a steel
structure will be safer this time.
We have reminded the Ashburton
District Council of our millennium gift to
Ashburton of the two statues of women
carved in Mt Somers stone, placed on
the Ashburton green opposite the Town
Clock.
As we move towards the end of the
year, we celebrate Christmas in the
community with our annual Christmas
Tree of Remembrance in the arcade.
This will be in place from the middle
of December.
It allows people to remember those
who won't be with us this year, by
purchasing astar and placing it on the
tree.
This is particularly poignant for all of
us who have family overseas, whom we
can't physically give them ahug.
We have collected books for children
of all ages, to be given in Christmas
hampers distributed by local charities.
On November 12 the Foot Clinic
celebrates its third birthday with a
celebratory lunch, with the 30 plus
clients and the six cutters.
Catering opportunities have
includedthe Creative Fibres celebration,
and the coming afternoon tea at Trott's
Gardens for representatives from the 10
rest homes in the area.
We will be assisting Rotary in
Ashburton with their potato sales. Plans
and dates for the coming year are
coming together as anticipate continued
good health in New Zealand.
ASHBURTON
COUNTY
LIONS
The October tea meeting of the
Ashburton County Lions was held at
Hotel Ashburton on Wednesday the
28th. President Lynette Lovett welcomed
agood turnout of members and
16 visitors from other Lions clubs in the
Ashburton area.
The speaker for the night was Sandi
Wood the executive officer of the
Advance Ashburton Community Foundation.
Sandi explained the workings of
the foundation in gathering together
donations from the community, investing
the money and returning the income
back to the community in the form of
grants and scholarships.
One of the special aspects to the
foundation is that donors are able to
specify the causes that they would like to
provide ongoing support to, meaning
that it is not just aone off donation but
something that will continue for years to
come.
Donations of toiletries were collected
to be given to Community House
for redistribution tothose in need.
Thank you letters were read from
several Ashburton youth organisations
that had recently received support from
the club.
Preparations were discussed for the
next two major events tobeheld before
the end of the year. The annual Toot for
Tucker collection on November 16 and a
new event for the County Lions Club in
the form of aChristmas Tree Festival to
be held in December.
We again look forward to the generous
support we always receive from the
community to help make these such
successful events.
The meeting then concluded with
pleasant social time, the drawing of the
raffle and some entertaining fines from
our tail twisters.
MSA BOWLING CLUB
Our busy season continues with our
green playing very well. After hosting
two rep games we received very good
comments from players on the condition
of our green, areal feather in Tony’s cap.
Last Monday 11 club members
ventured out to Rakaia who successfully
hosted the Sub Centres annual over 70s
tournament
Our members having a very successful
day with Ray Mitchell skipping
the winning team,with John Moffatt and
Sid Harrison in the runners up team
while Trevor Pearce was part of the
fourth placed team, agreat
days bowling was had by all. Well
done Rakaia.
We have ateam entered in the Sub
Centre Interclub Competition that commenced
last Wednesday we played a
very friendly and competitive, Hampstead
Club going down 6 games to 3
early days yet.
We have had two teams of triples
travel up to participate in the Methven
Club’s Noel Bilby Memorial Tournament
over the last five weeks although both
teams finished mid field they enjoyed
Methven’s hospitality.
Club championship fours are almost
completed and we will be commencing
our triples competition in the near future.
Our Thursday night weekly Biz
Bowls are down to commence next week
any team interested contact Linton Muir
0272225432.
Richmond WMC are due to visit us
Sunday November 29 for the first leg of
our annual Loftus Cup challenge so get
your names on notice board to be part of
this long running challenge.
Finally after along delay we have
our landline back up and running so if
anyone has to contact our Clubrooms
phone 3089902.
Good bowling.
ALLENTON
BOWLING
CLUB
With summer days at the start of the
week, the bowls got off to agreat start,
the greens were busy from 9amtoearly
evening with championship games and
members having a rollup, all enjoying
the facilities and the company.
Rosemary is doing agreat job with
the ladies, texting ustoget the championship
games played on time.
Congratulations to nine of our ladies
who have been selected to play for
Canterbury Country on Sunday November
29 at Timaru. (Note, date different to
in our book).
Wendy W, Raylene, Melva, Anne
and Rachel in senior. Development girls:
up to ten years, Rose, Linda, Millie and
Ashley. Well done to you all, I’m sure you
will enjoy the Quadrangular tournament.
Ladies 2x4s played on Saturday
morning was awin 20/17 another great
effort against Canterbury. Keep it up you
are going well.
Our Wednesday 5s teams again
played well with Division 1, Having a
close loss on agg, to Woodend, our
Division 3Ladies had aconvincing win
over Morrison Ave and Division 4also
had a win playing Barrington United.
Good job Girls, well played.
It was disappointing to have the Mid
Canterbury Sevens delayed until Novemebr
16. I’m sure you will cope regardless
of this hiccup. Also the Centre
Triples because of inclement weather,
good bowls to the teams that had
entered, hopefully a new date will be
found soon.
Our Charene Tournament is on
November 20th and open to all ladies,
9.30am for acuppa, it is aFours format
with asales table and lots of raffles to
enjoy, ifyou haven’t got your entry in yet
contact Sandra Holdom or the club. We
are looking forward to having you with
us. Good Bowling to you all, wherever
you maybe.
ASHBURTON BOWLING
CLUB
Rain, rain go away! That was the
theme for the past few days, but things
are looking brighter for the days ahead!
At the Sub centre O’70’s fours on
Monday at Rakaia, Ashburton’s Wendy
Herriott, as part of acomposite team,
came 3rd. It was areally enjoyable day!
Ashburton Ladies Championship
Singles started on Thursday with afull
day’s play. It was quite amuggy day, but
lovely and still for bowling. They will
continue this week on Tuesday and
Thursday starting at 9.30 am.
In the Men’s Interclub 3 ⁄4’s on Saturday,
Ashburton had avery decisive 3-0
win against Cashmere! Well done gentlemen!
Our Club Saturday Rollover Triples
drew fewer players than normal (probably
the weather forecast is to blame)
and the results are: 1st with 3wins and
10 ends were RDaker and WHerriott.
2nd with 1win and 7ends were TBlain
and MPatterson.
Sadly the Ashburton Open Triples –
Skip to It –scheduled for Sunday,had to
be called off due to the heavy rainfall.
Our next Inhouse Day – the Quaich
Trophy – is coming up on the 21st
November.
Ladies are reminded to supplyXmas
themed raffle prizes for the forthcoming
Bowman Cup on 23rd November.
Thanks.
Happy bowling everyone!
MSA PETANQUE CLUB
Over the past few weeks we have
welcomed three new member to our club
and wish them many happy hours
playing petanque.
We had five members take part in
the national singles and doubles
recently and all performed very well.
Karen and Neville Bensdorp and
Richard Browne finished third in the
Mark Choveaux Triples in Caversham
last weekend.
Six players took part in the Club NZ
TriplesatPapanui with Jan Guilford, Lyn
Whinham, and Marion Harrison winning
the plate section.
November 21 and 22 we have two
players taking part in the senior doubles
in Dunedin.
At the end of the month we are
hosting the Tri Star which involves
regions from Wellington, Southern and
Canterbury, and two of our members are
part of the Canterbury team.
Neville Bensdorp will be umpiring
this event.
We recently had some college
students who showed plenty of talent
and enthusiasm.
Club days are going well and we see
improvement all the time in several of
our players.
Our main fundraiser starts this week
by selling meat raffle tickets at the MSA
so come along and buy a ticket and
enjoy our club atmosphere.
CLUB NEWS
Ashburton Courier, November 12, 2020
JP council service recognised
LOCAL LISTENING
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JPs retiring from the Ashburton council were (from left) former patron
Kevin Geddes, retiring registrar Anne Parnham, president Ian Moore and
new patron Noel Lowe.
The AshburtonJustices of the
Peace Association welcomedsome
new faces onto its local council,
and recognisedthe long service of
others, at its annual general
meeting recently.
Five JPs retired from the JP
council: Kevin Geddes, Noel Lowe,
Eric Weir, Jan Butterick and Anne
Parnhamwere presented with
certificates acknowledgingtheir
total 100 yearsservice to the
association.
They remain as active JPs in the
community.
The officerselected for the
2020/21 year are patron Noel
Lowe, president Ian Moore,
registrar SandraLeak, seniorvice
president Max Cawte, junior vice
president Alistair Morrison and
treasurer Murray Bassett.
There were two new members
elected to the JP council, Kirsty
Shearer and AlisonDriscoll. The
guest speaker meeting was Brian
Harre from Geraldinewho spoke
on living and exploring with the
Pigmy TribesinCameroon.
JP retired certificates were
presented to Harvey Eggleston for
34 years’ service and Graham
Campion for 25 yearsofserviceto
the community.
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