Western News: December 03, 2020

8 Thursday December 3 2020
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RECOGNISING OUR COMMUNITY HEROES
WESTERN NEWS
• From page 7
To ensure that graffiti
vandalism is removed within a
timely manner, Gayle has also
taken the time, on numerous
occasions, to contact the
contact centre when follow up
graffiti removal work is deemed
necessary.
Tag spotters like Gayle
contribute to the successful
outcomes of the Graffiti
Programme and together support
its goal of reducing the impact of
graffiti vandalism. The Graffiti
Programme could not do its
work without its amazing team
of volunteers and appreciates
Gayle’s continuing service in the
community.
Cathi Andrell – Cathi has
assisted the Riccarton West
Community Garden for six years
and volunteers at Te Pataka
Pantry providing rescued food to
the community.
She is a popular team member
and the community enjoy
her friendly banter. Cathi
bags produce for numerous
households with Food Together
Riccarton and following this task,
helps the community cafe by
operating the coffee machine for
the rest of the session.
You can often find Cathi
supporting community
events such as the Riccarton
Community Day and Connect.
She also joins the Riccarton
Community Development
Worker, visiting new people to
the area. Cathi was a founding
member of the Riccarton
Neighbourhood Support Group
and is also a part of a team that
folds the Riccarton Community
Newsletter. For three years
Cathi assisted the Riccarton
Community Church’s Mainly
Music sessions, serving morning
tea to children and their parents.
Cathi leads by example as she
constantly gives her time and
energy for the good of others.
She is greatly appreciated by the
Riccarton community.
LEADER: Rachael Clemett
with Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton
Community Board
member Mark Peters.
Rachael Clemett – Rachael is
a passionate and valued member
of the St John Hornby Youth
Division. Joining the division
seven years ago, Rachael was a
parent helper with the Penguins
Programme, and soon became a
penguin leader.
Over the years Rachael has
progressed to the voluntary role
of assistant divisional manager,
spending many hours providing
direction and support to youth
leaders and members.
Rachael is passionate about
ensuring the smooth running
of the programme, and
provides clear leadership and
communication. She enjoys the
division camps and can always
be found in the kitchen, cooking
and organising meals.
Camps on Mother’s Day
weekend are a special event, as
her family are in attendance
and are also involved with camp
activities.
As a way to build
connections between parents,
Rachael started a parent support
group at Hornby Primary School
in 2012.
She also assisted the school’s
lunch club since it was established
in 2015 until late last year.
Rachael is an amazing person
in the community who would do
anything for others.
She is always willing to help
those in need and does valuable
work behind the scenes.
The St John Hornby Division
greatly appreciate and highly
commend Rachael for her
ongoing and valued service to the
community.
‘I started dancing
when I was four’
• From page 1
Burton still remembered the
first time she saw the Royal New
Zealand Ballet perform and has
closely followed the artistic directors
over the years.
“I started dancing when I was
four and haven’t really stopped
since then,” she said.
“It’s [ballet] just been a part
of my life. The biggest change
in the company over the years
has been the technique of the
dancers. The difficulty just keeps
going up and it’s a much larger
company now.”
Burton and her daughter, Wendy,
had the opportunity to watch
RNZB’s Christmas performance
of The Sleeping Beauty this year at
the Isaac Theatre Royal.
Not only did the pair attend the
opening performance, but they
were also invited as
special guests of the RNZB for a
backstage tour as Burton is planning
a ballet performance at the
village early next year.
She will also be designing all of
the costumes herself next year at
the village showcase.
Touring wardrobe master
Alison Roigard showed Burton
and her the intricacies of
preparing for a show, how the
costumes were sorted and how
it works behind the scenes at the
PERFORMERS: Audrey
Burton with ballet dancer
Madeleine Graham, of the
Royal New Zealand Ballet.
RNZB. “We have roughly
330 costumes, but for this
show, we only have two quick
changes which is tricky,” said
Roigard.
However, the day did not
end there. The mother and
daughter also got to meet dancer
Madeleine Graham.
They exchanged stories of their
dancing and performances and
Graham shared back-stage titbits
and tales, and even gave her a
signed pair of pointe shoes.
Although Audrey has never
danced in The Sleeping Beauty
she did perform once in The
Nutcracker.
“I so much wanted to be the
Sugar Plum Fairy but I’m short,
so I ended up dancing Clara,”
said Burton.
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