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28 The Star Thursday November 26 2020 Message from the Principal At Marian College, as 2020 draws to a close, we celebrate our students who have all persevered during this challenging year. This year began with excitement for the Year 9 students starting high school and we all looked forward to the busy calendar of events, making new friendships and taking on new learning. No-one could have anticipated a global pandemic, but our students coped with the changes required with courage and commitment. As a Catholic Special Character school, our Gospel and school values have stood us in good stead in 2020. We are proud of our staff who worked hard to provide home learning during lockdown, quickly adapting to full online teaching practices and keeping in close contact with our students. They were committed to maintaining every opportunity for progress and success. We are equally proud of our students who also had to adjust to a new way of working and managed very well. On their return to school, they had a renewed respect for the relationships in our school-both with friends and with their teachers. Our sports and cultural teams quickly picked up their competitive spirit on our return back to school and were involved in summer and winter events ranging from Theatre sports to korfball. We were also fortunate to be able to celebrate our Marian College Feast Day – a wonderful, long-standing tradition. Thank you to our families for their support during this year, we have valued working with you. As a family, faith-based school, we appreciate working together for the benefit of the students. We look forward to an exciting year in 2021, as the design and plans for our new school will be finalised and work begins on building, ready for our opening in 2023 at the new site in Papanui. We anticipate sharing the innovative design with our community at the start of the school year. Wishing you every blessing this Christmas. Mary-Lou Davidson Principal Prizewinners Our Senior prize-giving and Colours assemblies celebrated a wide range of success including service to the community. Congratulations to our Dux of the College, Lucy Naylor and Proxime Accessit, Tyler Stewart and the many other students who were acknowledged. A full list of prize recipients and photographs are on the College website. Cultural Success At the recent sPACIFICally Pacific Awards, our Head Girl, Lasela Sumner, and Deputy Head Girl Mailena Fasi-Fidow were recognised for their leadership and service to Marian College. Esther Tiatia-Latu also won a Memea Leadership award and scholarship to ARA. Sport, Culture and Special Character Colours and Excellence. Award Winners Kapa Haka The Marian Kapa Haka stood for the first time at the Tūhono Festival, performing a Waiata Tira, Waiata-a ringa and a women’s haka. They were stunning and made their families and the school proud. The group is tutored by past pupil Maia Viliamu.
Thursday November 26 2020 The Star THERE WILL be many who will polarised over the defence and appeal costs for Renee Duckmanton’s killer Sainey Marong. His lawyers have received just over $189,000 so far to defend him, which covers his High Court trial and appeals to the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. He lost all three. No surprises there. Marong killed Duckmanton, a sex worker, after he picked her up from the city’s red light district in May 2016. The murder was described as “cold-blooded” and “particularly callous and cruel.” Most murders of sex workers are sadly very brutal. Often the perpetrator has an in-built hatred or disdain for women. Sex workers by the very nature of what they do can be easy targets. In Duckmanton’s case, she was strangled and her body set on fire. At his High Court trial, the jury was told the murder appeared to have a degree of planning. It was a point he used as a lever to go to the Court of Appeal. But the Court of Appeal accepted that Marong had conducted multiple internet searches “on matters relevant to killing a Christchurch sex worker and avoiding detection”. It found the murder involved Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz The question of legal aid From the editor’s desk Barry Clarke Renee Duckmanton Sainey Marong was found guilty of murdering sex worker Renee Duckmanton. calculated or lengthy planning, with a high level of brutality, cruelty, depravity or callousness. Not content with that decision, Marong then went to the Supreme Court to contest the Court of Appeal’s decision, claiming a miscarriage of justice. Marong claimed that his internet searches before Duckmanton was killed, which featured prostitutes, rape, kidnapping and necrophilia, were not directly relevant to the way she was actually killed, which was by strangulation. He also argued the Court of Appeal should not have taken account of his actions after the killing to dispose of the body – and that Duckmanton’s small stature should not have been taken into account. But the Supreme Court was having none of it and dismissed his appeal which was released with this week. The legal aid system is a good and fair one in a just and open society. But spurious grounds for appeals like Marong’s should be looked at. •Marong was sentenced to life with a non parole period of 18 years. – barry@starmedia.kiwi OPINION 29 Sanity finally prevails in Davids saga COMMONSENSE has finally prevailed in The People’s Choice v Alexandra Davids saga. The left-leaning political group in Christchurch local body politics was always going to be on a hiding to nothing when it was revealed they were planning to oust Davids from her role as Linwood- Central-Heathcote Community Board chair. Newstalk ZB’s Chris Lynch set the situation alight on air when he called The People’s Choice board members a “bunch of bastards” for trying to unseat Davids, an independent board member. That comment was reported in the following day’s Star and from there the issue snowballed. The following week, The Star reported two members of a local residents association had emailed Jacinda Ardern over the matter. The People’s Choice is aligned to Labour. Later that day, The People’s Choice issued a statement saying they were withdrawing their application for a vote to on the community board to appoint a new chairperson. Someone further up the command chain has pulled the barbarians back from the gates. But I suspect they will return. Leaking pipes and request to save water not related I GET a bit frustrated when I see commentators putting two and two together and coming up with a number that isn’t four. We have an increase in estimated leakage from our pipes and at the same time we are asking people to conserve water use. They are not related to each other. We know it’s going to be a hot summer. And we know household demand for water in Christchurch generally doubles in summer compared with winter, mainly because people start watering their gardens and lawns. Mayor Lianne Dalziel It’s this peak demand we are targeting, which is in the early evenings when parts of the city may use water faster than the network can pump it to fill the reservoirs. It makes good sense to do this watering after the sun goes down in the evening or before it rises in the morning. And when you do, you are helping ease the pressure on the system, so everyone benefits. So, what about the increased leakage and the work that needs to be done on the network of pipes? That’s one of the key issues for the Long Term Plan. The decision made by the city council to use its renewals budget to fund the repair of the earthquake-damaged pipes when it signed the cost-sharing agreement has made budgeting incredibly challenging over the past few years. We clearly need to refocus that approach at the same time as having a very open conversation with you about what the trade-offs might be. Black Friday. A great day to get a TV with blacker blacks. Samsung 50” TU7000 4K Smart TV 9064379 The Crystal display of this 4K Smart TV optimises colour, gives greater contrast, and makes the blacks blacker. Which makes it the perfect Black Friday purchase. Especially at this price. $946 $11 less than per week for 24 months interest free* Limited Stock Offers valid until Tuesday 1st December 2020, while stocks last, unless otherwise stated. Some products on display in selected stores only – please call 0800 764 847 to check availability. Personal shoppers only. *Apple, selected computers, game consoles, gift cards, clearance items and some promotional items are not available in conjunction with interest free offers. Flooring available on a maximum of 18 months interest free. Exclusions, fees, terms, conditions, and credit criteria apply. Available in-store only. Equal instalment amounts include one-off booking fee of $45.00, annual fees of $45.00 p.a. and security registration fee of $8.05, and exclude insurance. Current interest rate of 23.95% applies to any unpaid balance after expiry of (any) interest free period. See in-store or visit smithscity.co.nz/interest-free for details. SCWK31CS3
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