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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, <strong>2021</strong><br />
Connecting Your Local Community<br />
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Festive season shoppers<br />
good for Papanui retailers<br />
• By Bea Gooding<br />
A SHOPPING boom in Papanui<br />
during the festive season made it<br />
one of the suburbs with the largest<br />
retail spending increase across the<br />
city.<br />
A report by economic development<br />
agency, ChristchurchNZ,<br />
revealed spending in December<br />
shot up four per cent city-wide,<br />
and nine per cent in the city<br />
centre, compared to data from the<br />
same month in 2019.<br />
Along with an 18 per cent<br />
increase in Papanui, Lyttelton<br />
and Spreydon also had the largest<br />
growth in spending.<br />
The growth follows a tough<br />
financial year for the city, with<br />
the absence of international tourists,<br />
a lockdown, and alert level<br />
changes.<br />
Garden City Produce on Cranford<br />
St only opened in November<br />
last year. Owner Daryl Morris has<br />
no regrets setting up a new business<br />
in the midst of a pandemic.<br />
The family business saw<br />
demand surge in December,<br />
particularly leading up to<br />
Christmas and has been “steady”<br />
ever since. Berries, he said, were<br />
the most popular purchase.<br />
• Turn to page 5<br />
BOOM: Garden City Produce owners Daryl and Kate Morris, and daughter Amelia Morris, who say the family business has<br />
been a success since it opened late last year.<br />
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2 Thursday <strong>February</strong> 4 <strong>2021</strong><br />
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Thursday, 10.30-11am<br />
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Encourage learning through<br />
language. Babytimes is an interactive<br />
programme including music, movement,<br />
rhymes and a story. Recommended<br />
for under two-year-olds. No<br />
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Knit ‘n’ Yarn<br />
Thursday, 2-3.30pm, at Fendalton,<br />
Friday, 10am-noon, at Papanui,<br />
Tuesday, 1-3pm, at Bishopdale,<br />
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Citizens Advice Bureau<br />
Thursday, 11am-5pm, Friday,<br />
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Wednesday, 11am-5pm<br />
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take the time to listen and equip you<br />
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support that fit your needs. Phone<br />
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Friends of the Library Booktalk, Tuesday, 12.30-1.30pm, Fendalton<br />
Library. Alan Trott, founder of Trott’s Gardens in Ashburton, will be<br />
discussing his writing. He has written two books, From Pasture to Paradise,<br />
and Paradise Through the Seasons, and for magazines. His garden is now<br />
visited by people from across the globe. Entry by gold coin donation. <br />
Open Studio<br />
Friday, 10am-noon<br />
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JP Clinic<br />
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A justice of the peace will be<br />
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Reading to Dogs<br />
Tuesday, 3.30-4.30pm<br />
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A relaxed, non-threatening<br />
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children to practise reading skills<br />
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All materials supplied. Head along<br />
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NOR’WEST NEWS Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
Thursday <strong>February</strong> 4 <strong>2021</strong> 3<br />
‘Cycleway won’t destroy<br />
local businesses’ – Dalziel<br />
Have Your Say<br />
What do you think of<br />
the cycleway plan?<br />
Email bea.gooding@<br />
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MAYOR LIANNE Dalziel<br />
has promised a planned new<br />
cycleway won’t destroy local<br />
businesses.<br />
The owners of the Copenhagen<br />
Bakery are unhappy with<br />
the loss of car parks to make<br />
way for the Wheels to Wings<br />
cycleway.<br />
The loss of<br />
parks is due<br />
to a proposal<br />
as part of<br />
the cycleway<br />
to narrow<br />
Harewood<br />
Rd from four<br />
lanes to two.<br />
Dalziel told<br />
Chris Lynch<br />
on <strong>News</strong>talk<br />
ZB they are<br />
Lianne<br />
Dalziel<br />
holding a genuine public consultation<br />
on the plans.<br />
“I have heard people make<br />
comments that this is a slam<br />
dunk, it’s a foregone conclusion,<br />
I just wanted to mention . . . the<br />
Papanui Parallel cycleway from<br />
Northlands Mall to the central<br />
city, more than 80 changes were<br />
made to that.”<br />
Dalziel said she will personally<br />
go and speak to the owners of<br />
the Copenhagen Bakery.<br />
The cycleway is expected to<br />
provide a connection for local<br />
cycling trips in the Harewood,<br />
Bishopdale and Papanui suburbs.<br />
Street parking will be reduced<br />
to three parks outside Copenhagen<br />
Bakery on Harewood Rd.<br />
Owner Donna Thomsen told<br />
PHOTO: NEWSLINE<br />
Lynch elderly customers and<br />
tradies rely on street parking<br />
when the 12 on-site parks are<br />
full.<br />
“Of course the kids need to be<br />
safe and I do love to see bums on<br />
bikes but the democracy of the<br />
process is very disingenuous. We<br />
only got approached last week.<br />
“This will annihilate our business.”<br />
The view of Harewood Rd<br />
from the Copenhagen Bakery<br />
where it is proposed four lanes<br />
be reduced to two.<br />
The removal of on-street parking<br />
is a key part of the wider<br />
plan.<br />
City councillor Aaron Keown<br />
said the exact number of parks<br />
that are expected to be removed<br />
is not known but it is “most”.<br />
Keown said the entire<br />
Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood<br />
Community Board, which he is a<br />
member of, opposed the plan.<br />
“When you hold up traffic and<br />
keep it on the road for longer, it<br />
uses more carbon so it’s a bit of<br />
a farce when we claim climate<br />
change and say we’re going to<br />
save the planet.<br />
“A big chunk of the population<br />
isn’t going to use the cycleways<br />
so they’re [council] going to try<br />
and force them out of cars and I<br />
think the public is smart enough<br />
to know that that’s the agenda<br />
that seems to be going on.”<br />
Keown said the cost of the<br />
plan, an estimated $20 million,<br />
is far beyond what the community<br />
board was expecting.<br />
“It makes no sense.”<br />
Reader Dianne<br />
Downward responds<br />
to the cycleway plan<br />
I would like all road users to<br />
be safe.<br />
However, I don’t think<br />
turning a busy four-lane road<br />
into a two-lane road to make<br />
way for an over engineered<br />
cycleway, paid for by cars, is the<br />
answer to traffic congestion and<br />
cycle safety.<br />
I strongly feel those who are<br />
pushing for us to cycle and ride<br />
the bus need to lead by example.<br />
This includes the mayor and all<br />
the People’s Choice councillors<br />
and their staff, including the<br />
roading engineer.<br />
There are plenty of cargo<br />
bikes and weather proof trailers<br />
for bikes that will carry any gear<br />
they need that doesn’t fit into a<br />
backpack, or they can take the<br />
bus.<br />
They can be true leaders and<br />
do what they want the rest of<br />
us to do with no complaints<br />
or excuses, starting now,<br />
they can cycle to the public<br />
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4 Thursday <strong>February</strong> 4 <strong>2021</strong><br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
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Cancer Society shuttle service gets boost<br />
THE CANCER Society’s<br />
Canterbury West Coast division<br />
shuttle service received a boost<br />
recently with a combined<br />
donation of almost $13,000 from<br />
23 South Island-based Lions<br />
clubs.<br />
THe free shuttle service<br />
transports patients staying<br />
in the Cancer Society’s<br />
accommodation, Daffodil<br />
House in Merivale and Daffodil<br />
Lodge in Riccarton, to and from<br />
radiation and chemotherapy<br />
appointments at Christchurch<br />
Hospital.<br />
Janice Porter-Hoare,<br />
fundraising and events manager<br />
for the Cancer Society’s CWC<br />
division, said that the Lions<br />
Clubs’ significant donation was<br />
a huge help towards funding the<br />
$65,000 required to operate the<br />
shuttle each year.<br />
“The shuttle currently operates<br />
from 7.30am until 9pm Monday<br />
to Friday, which translates to<br />
approximately 16,000 individual<br />
patient trips. Given that the<br />
patients we are providing our<br />
service for, come from all over<br />
the South Island it is fabulous<br />
to see local Lions Clubs from a<br />
variety of regions supporting<br />
this Christchurch-based service,”<br />
Porter-Hoare said.<br />
Porter-Hoare acknowledged<br />
that this was the fourth<br />
consecutive year that the Lions<br />
Clubs had donated to the shuttle<br />
service.<br />
“The late John Cramond from<br />
Motueka organised the first<br />
donation in 2017 after having<br />
used the shuttle service himself<br />
while having cancer treatment<br />
in Christchurch,” Porter-Hoare<br />
said.<br />
“Sadly John passed away last<br />
year, but his legacy lives on in<br />
this donation, which is extremely<br />
important to us given that we<br />
anticipate the demand for the<br />
shuttle service to grow even<br />
further during <strong>2021</strong>.”<br />
Lions Club representative<br />
Christine Stewart, 1st Vice<br />
District Governor for District<br />
202J, visited Daffodil House to<br />
see the shuttle service in action<br />
and accepted a certificate of<br />
thanks from the Cancer Society<br />
on behalf of the contributing<br />
Lions Clubs.<br />
In addition to providing<br />
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services, the Cancer Society<br />
provides education and support<br />
services for cancer patients and<br />
their families, as well as coordinating<br />
and funding cancer<br />
research.<br />
As the society receives no<br />
direct government or health<br />
GRATEFUL: Cancer<br />
Society representative<br />
Hannah Godfrey<br />
(left) presents Lions<br />
Club representative<br />
Christine Stewart<br />
with a thank you<br />
certificate. Lions<br />
donated $13,000 to<br />
the society to help<br />
fund the free shuttle<br />
service.<br />
service funding, it is reliant<br />
on donations to fund its<br />
services.<br />
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NOR’WEST NEWS Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
Thursday <strong>February</strong> 4 <strong>2021</strong> 5<br />
Importing delays a concern<br />
• From page 1<br />
Said Morris: “[Demand] is<br />
improving every week – about<br />
10 per cent a week, even with no<br />
advertising. We didn’t know what<br />
to expect.<br />
“It was busy because of Christmas,<br />
but January was actually<br />
busier with more people knowing<br />
where we are.”<br />
In spite of the holiday season<br />
ending, Morris was feeling<br />
optimistic for the year ahead.<br />
“I’m an optimist and always<br />
look on the bright side. I wouldn’t<br />
have opened [the business] otherwise.”<br />
The same can be said at Black<br />
Sheep on Papanui Rd – the<br />
country’s leading retailer of<br />
electric scooters, e-bikes, and<br />
hoverboards.<br />
Owner Luke Ambrose said<br />
there was a “big demand” for<br />
products all year, but December<br />
proved to be different.<br />
He was relieved the business<br />
did not suffer too greatly last year,<br />
however, delays in importing<br />
products overseas were the main<br />
concern currently.<br />
“December was quite busy, last<br />
year was a lot busier than 2019,”<br />
he said.<br />
“People seem to be spending<br />
their money on bikes because<br />
they can’t go anywhere [overseas].<br />
PROMISING: Retailers in Papanui, including Garden City<br />
Produce, experienced a spike in sales during December<br />
last year compared to data from the previous year.<br />
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN<br />
It’s made people realise they want<br />
to get out a bit more.”<br />
The report said, popular items<br />
on the shopping list included<br />
apparel, home and recreational<br />
goods, personal items, groceries,<br />
and alcohol.<br />
However, fuel and automotive<br />
spending decreased by five per<br />
cent – a trend in recent years<br />
following a push for residents to<br />
use alternative transport.<br />
Spending on clothing and<br />
personal items saw the greatest<br />
growth in December, with<br />
domestic visitor spend up 20<br />
per cent compared to the same<br />
period in 2019.<br />
“Across the city, retail spending<br />
was robust in December 2020 as<br />
consumers prepared for Christmas,”<br />
the ChristchurchNZ report<br />
said.<br />
“With December being the<br />
first month of the summer and<br />
holiday season, the impact of<br />
closed borders on the visitor<br />
economy has become more<br />
apparent and will continue to do<br />
so as the season progresses.”<br />
Camera cradles to help<br />
track coastline change<br />
THE PUBLIC will be able to<br />
help track how New Brighton’s<br />
coastline is changing over time.<br />
Camera cradles have been<br />
installed at New Brighton Pier<br />
to encourage people to take part<br />
in the CoastSnap community<br />
science project.<br />
CoastSnap relies on the<br />
public taking photos at the same<br />
locations at different times and<br />
sending them to the city council.<br />
This will help determine<br />
how coastlines are changing<br />
over time due to human activity<br />
and natural processes such as<br />
storms, rising sea levels and<br />
day-to-day changes in the beach<br />
structure.<br />
Cradles have also been set up<br />
at Taylors Mistake to track how<br />
its coastline is changing.<br />
Said city council head of<br />
planning and strategic transport<br />
David Griffiths: “We have set<br />
up camera cradles at Taylors<br />
Mistake and on the New<br />
Brighton Pier in the hope that<br />
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take part in the project by<br />
taking a photo and sharing it on<br />
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or Instagram, or by emailing<br />
coastsnapchch@ccc.govt.nz<br />
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known as photogrammetry,<br />
CoastSnap turns your photos<br />
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CoastSnap will help us to better<br />
understand how the beaches<br />
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“Every photo that is taken will<br />
add to a community database<br />
that will be used by scientists and<br />
planners to map shoreline changes.<br />
That information will help<br />
us to improve how we manage<br />
treasured coastal environments,<br />
so please get snapping.<br />
“There’s a sign at each camera<br />
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plants and native plants as well.”<br />
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“I like the biogeography and<br />
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to other plants and in different<br />
countries.”<br />
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hedges.<br />
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“You get to know the name of<br />
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Pendrigh said that while he<br />
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the garden, “a lot of people<br />
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involved,” he said.<br />
In comparison to other trades<br />
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“There is a lot of knowledge<br />
that you need to know, and it<br />
takes a long time to build up that<br />
knowledge, especially that plant<br />
knowledge,” he said.<br />
“The names of plants you have<br />
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Pendrigh’s passion for<br />
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“It increased my interest in<br />
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He doesn’t have a favourite<br />
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Yacht club to celebrate 100 years<br />
PLEASANT POINT Yacht Club celebrates<br />
its centennial this weekend.<br />
The club, now based in South New<br />
Brighton Park, began in 1921 on the shores<br />
of the estuary just behind where the South<br />
New Brighton School is today. The area was<br />
then known as Pleasant Point Domain.<br />
In 1929 the club moved across to the<br />
western shore to an area of mud flats at the<br />
mouth of the Avon River that would become<br />
known as Rat Island.<br />
Over the years, the club built up and<br />
improved the land together with the club<br />
facilities and held summer sailing and<br />
racing programmes, teaching hundreds of<br />
children and adults how to sail. That was<br />
until the first of the Canterbury earthquakes<br />
on September 4, 2010 damaged the<br />
buildings and land beyond repair.<br />
In the 10 years since, it found a new site<br />
and has built a new yacht club (opened in<br />
September 2019) in South New Brighton<br />
Park – just a stone’s throw from where it all<br />
began in 1921.<br />
The centennial celebrations will provide<br />
a great opportunity to relive the highs and<br />
lows of the club’s 100 years, especially the<br />
last 10 years of the rebuild.<br />
The celebrations kick off with a noggin<br />
‘n natter on Friday night, on Saturday, the<br />
Sullivan Cup, which is the club’s main open<br />
event, will be sailed, coupled with another<br />
major trophy, the Arch Lamb trophy for the<br />
Sunburst class.<br />
The races will feature multi-hulls, trailer<br />
yachts and senior and junior racing dingy<br />
classes and are open to other yacht club<br />
members.<br />
Saturday’s sailing will be followed by a<br />
celebration dinner.<br />
On Sunday, the club will run its Classic<br />
Yacht Race, first sailed at the club’s 75th<br />
celebrations. This will be coupled with a<br />
display of classic boats of all types owned<br />
by members of the Classic Boat Group of<br />
Canterbury. There will be plenty for the<br />
public to see on Saturday and Sunday.<br />
For more information, phone Ian Douglas<br />
on 027 4719 208.<br />
EXCITED: Nigel<br />
Humphreys of the<br />
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Below: The club in 1934<br />
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NOR’WEST NEWS<br />
RAY WHITE PAPANUI NEWS<br />
Make a great first impression before your buyers even get inside!<br />
First impressions always count, and it will<br />
certainly matter when potential buyers<br />
come to view your home. Before potential<br />
customers have set foot inside your house,<br />
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outside first.<br />
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are the buyer as you walk through your front<br />
yard, look at all the things that you think are<br />
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broken fence palings, weeds growing through<br />
the cracks in the footpath. There are so many<br />
little things that could turn off potential<br />
buyers, so it’s best to go through and fix<br />
those little things up.<br />
• Mow and edge trim your lawns, fertilise<br />
them ahead of time so they are nice and<br />
green for the marketing campaign<br />
• Waterblast your paths and driveway<br />
• Wash down your house or give it a touchup<br />
coat of paint if required<br />
Check Your Insurance Policy!<br />
Insurance policies, like any legal document<br />
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Recently Sold!<br />
• Trim any hedges and importantly any<br />
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• If you have outdoor lighting have this in<br />
good working order with some nice bright<br />
bulbs, this is very important during a<br />
winter sale<br />
• Tidy up any sheds, playhouses, sandpits,<br />
fishponds, water features, clotheslines or<br />
vege boxes that you have in your yard. If<br />
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take these away altogether before going<br />
to market otherwise a lick of paint or<br />
wood stain will go a long way<br />
• Add some greenery by your front door<br />
with a nice pot or planter box<br />
• A new letterbox is an inexpensive way to<br />
make your place standout from the street.<br />
To get some inspiration have a walk around<br />
your neighbourhood and see which homes<br />
standout as giving a great first impression<br />
and make some notes as to what makes them<br />
appeal without evening setting a foot inside!<br />
for my rental properties stipulates that an<br />
inspection must be done at least every three<br />
months, and I must have a documented and<br />
dated report to show that the inspection has<br />
been done. I for one don’t want to find out<br />
what the consequence of not complying is.<br />
It was also brought to my attention that if<br />
there is problem at the end of the tenancy<br />
and you have not carried out all the due<br />
diligence on checking the tenants before<br />
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you to make any claims on damages, either<br />
accidental or intentional, not to mention if<br />
the property was contaminated by meth!<br />
So in a nutshell, you need to conduct<br />
Vanessa Golightly,<br />
Business Owner<br />
and Licensee Agent<br />
Ray White Papanui<br />
027 664 9292<br />
thorough checks on tenants before they<br />
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027 606 0030<br />
Vanessa Golightly<br />
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40 Jutland Street, New Brighton<br />
Vanessa Golightly<br />
9 Weruweru Street, Marshland<br />
Tracy Thomson<br />
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