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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY <strong>18</strong>, <strong>2021</strong><br />
Connecting Your Local Community<br />
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Controversial cycleway plan<br />
to involve community more<br />
• By Eleisha Foon<br />
PLANS FOR the controversial,<br />
costly Wheels to Wings<br />
cycleway will continue – in<br />
spite of an attempt to halt the<br />
process last week.<br />
Hundreds of residents and<br />
several business owners are<br />
frustrated and upset they were<br />
not involved prior to the design<br />
work being done for the $19<br />
million project.<br />
The city council has now<br />
promised to<br />
involve the community<br />
as they<br />
try to improve<br />
the heavily criticised<br />
plans.<br />
Dubbed<br />
‘Wheels to<br />
Wings’ the cycleway<br />
is planned<br />
for the main<br />
Donna<br />
Thomsen<br />
thoroughfare of Harewood Rd<br />
– linking the central city to the<br />
airport and surrounding areas.<br />
But, it would also cut four<br />
lanes of traffic to two – and<br />
reduce on-street parking, which<br />
has raised concerns for residents<br />
and business owners in Bishopdale<br />
and Papanui who say<br />
they have no faith in the current<br />
CONCERNED: Copenhagen Bakery owner Donna Thomsen is objecting to the loss of car parks outside her business.<br />
PHOTO: ELEISHA FOON<br />
design and want to see it done<br />
better.<br />
Copenhagen Bakery owner<br />
Donna Thomsen has become an<br />
unofficial spokesperson for 10<br />
local businesses affected by the<br />
cycleway. “As a business owner<br />
and speaking on behalf of residents,<br />
many of whom are elderly<br />
and very concerned about losing<br />
their car parks and not being<br />
able to drive to local areas and<br />
get a car park.”<br />
The bakery has 12 off-street car<br />
parks, but Thomsen said these<br />
were not enough to serve all their<br />
customers, and they needed the<br />
on-street parks as well.<br />
The city council and Waka<br />
Kotahi the NZ Transport<br />
Agency’s approach had<br />
left the community feeling<br />
disempowered, she said.<br />
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Thursday <strong>February</strong> <strong>18</strong> <strong>2021</strong> 3<br />
Ruth celebrates 100 years: ‘I just kept on living’<br />
AT HER 100th birthday<br />
celebrations, Ruth Cridge<br />
showed her unflappable side.<br />
When asked the secret as to how<br />
she got to this age she says: “No<br />
idea, I just kept on living.”<br />
Ruth sat with family and<br />
friends at Woodcote Retirement<br />
Village, in Hornby, during<br />
birthday celebrations last week,<br />
showing off cards from the<br />
Queen and the governor-general<br />
while reflecting on 100 years of<br />
life.<br />
Stepdaughter Lynette West<br />
reckons her attitude to life was<br />
the key to her longevity. At 97,<br />
Ruth was still driving a car.<br />
“She’s very unflappable, gets<br />
on and she can see through a lot<br />
of the other stuff … she’s been a<br />
great friend to me,” said West.<br />
Born Ruth Harkerss in<br />
Lyttelton on <strong>February</strong> 13, 1921,<br />
her parents lived in Purau, near<br />
Diamond Harbour, where her<br />
father, Albert, was a shepherd.<br />
The family bought a farm at<br />
Hanmer Rd in Brookside, in<br />
1924, where Ruth later attended<br />
Brookside School.<br />
She then went on to attend<br />
Southbridge District High<br />
School for four years, travelling<br />
by Day’s Motors school bus along<br />
the main Springston to Leeston<br />
road.<br />
She met future husband Doug<br />
Goulden at high school at the<br />
UNFLAPPABLE: Ruth Cridge turned 100 at the weekend, celebrating in style with an<br />
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age of 16, but the pair didn’t start<br />
“going out” until 1938.<br />
“I was friends with his sister,<br />
and we just sort of met on the<br />
steps of the hall at Southbridge,<br />
after the pictures,” Ruth said.<br />
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When World War 2 was<br />
declared Goulden enlisted and<br />
went overseas from November<br />
1940. Meanwhile, Ruth became a<br />
voluntary aid detachment nurse.<br />
After what seemed like a<br />
40 years<br />
combined<br />
experience<br />
“very long wait,” they married<br />
on his return in January 1945.<br />
She recalls being given ration<br />
coupons by friends and family<br />
to buy material for the wedding<br />
dresses.<br />
The family farm was sold<br />
in 1944 and they shifted to<br />
Pennington St, Leeston, renting<br />
a house opposite the Catholic<br />
church.<br />
Goulden started a garage in<br />
Southbridge in a building on the<br />
corner of High and Hastings Sts,<br />
and the couple lived in a house<br />
next door. But in <strong>February</strong> 1986,<br />
he died.<br />
A year later, Ruth married Ken<br />
Cridge – someone she<br />
had attended Brookside School<br />
with. Before his death in 2004,<br />
the couple enjoyed traction<br />
engine rallies and ballroom<br />
dancing.<br />
Ruth continued to live in<br />
Southbridge and was still part of<br />
the wider community.<br />
Her community endeavours<br />
included being a cub leader,<br />
Plunket and being part of the<br />
Southbridge Horticultural<br />
Society, where she remains<br />
patron.<br />
She is also a life member of<br />
the RSA having been part of the<br />
women’s auxiliary.<br />
Ruth says she “loves life at<br />
Woodcote” and said the staff are<br />
“very good” to her.<br />
She has nine grandchildren<br />
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NOR’WEST NEWS<br />
Other design options invite<br />
feedback from community<br />
• From page 1<br />
“Many people come from<br />
destinations and they drive –<br />
they cannot get on a bike.”<br />
Most of the people she had<br />
spoken to were not opposed to<br />
the idea of a cycleway but had<br />
lots of other design ideas they<br />
wished the city council would<br />
consider instead.<br />
“We feel it’s been quite deflating<br />
because it’s out of our control to a<br />
point where we have not had any<br />
input into the design at all.”<br />
Featherstones Dairy was another<br />
affected business and manager<br />
Vidhi Patel said it was a bad idea<br />
that needed major changes.<br />
“They should have asked or<br />
gave us better options. This<br />
is the whole neighbourhood.<br />
They should ask everyone about<br />
whether we should get one or<br />
not. It is Government property,<br />
but people live on the road.”<br />
Harewood resident Scott<br />
Franicevic raised concerns with<br />
the city council over school<br />
children safely using the road.<br />
“Instead of talking about kids<br />
getting safely to school and safely<br />
using this road – the issues that<br />
really matter – we’re talking<br />
about council processes . . . but<br />
the sentiment across the city is<br />
that the engagement processes<br />
just aren’t reaching the people<br />
they need to be.”<br />
However, cycling group Spokes<br />
Canterbury is a strong supporter<br />
of the project.<br />
Chairman Don Babe told RNZ<br />
previously that it had been designed<br />
by experts and would be a<br />
welcome addition to the cycleway<br />
network in the city because it<br />
would way for cyclists to move<br />
safely around the city.<br />
He said cycleways are well<br />
used and there is even congestion<br />
on one of them during the<br />
morning commute time.<br />
Last week, two city councillors<br />
made a U-turn on their bid to<br />
stop the cycleway from going<br />
ahead. Instead they accepted<br />
the need to forge ahead with<br />
the project so long as the community<br />
is given the chance to be<br />
more involved in the plans.<br />
Harewood Ward city<br />
councillor Aaron Keown – who<br />
filed the notice of motion – said<br />
those affected should have been<br />
involved before the design was<br />
presented.<br />
A range of other design<br />
options will be presented to<br />
those in the affected area, with<br />
the hope the community would<br />
be able to have more input<br />
and give feedback which could<br />
result in changes to the overall<br />
cycleway design. – RNZ<br />
Readers respond to the<br />
proposed Wheels to<br />
Wings cycleway plan<br />
I strongly agree with Dianne<br />
Downward’s response re the<br />
proposed cycleway.<br />
Would be a complete waste<br />
of money. I live nearby and I<br />
actually don’t recall seeing any<br />
cyclists whenever I’ve been on<br />
Harewood Rd.<br />
Many of my friends and I are<br />
in our 70s and frequent The<br />
Copenhagen Bakery and usually,<br />
we have to park on the roadside.<br />
The estimated cost of $20<br />
million would be best spent<br />
on roads or streets that are<br />
still in need of repair since the<br />
earthquakes!<br />
– Edith Appleton<br />
I am opposed to this plan,<br />
both the cycleway that will affect<br />
homes and businesses and the<br />
reduction to a single lane on<br />
Harewood Rd.<br />
I am a member of the<br />
Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton<br />
Community Board but was<br />
raised in my childhood in the<br />
Burnside/Harewood area so I am<br />
very familiar with this area.<br />
Harewood Rd is a main road<br />
and in my opinion, should NOT<br />
be reduced to one lane, and as a<br />
cyclist myself and after listening<br />
to many people I am concerned<br />
about the ongoing ratepayers’<br />
expenditure of continued<br />
cycleway costs that pertain to<br />
loss of values of homes and<br />
businesses.<br />
– Halswell Ward of the<br />
Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton<br />
Community Board<br />
member Debbie Mora<br />
I sometimes wonder how<br />
transport personnel dream<br />
up such impractical plans.<br />
Harewood Rd is a major road<br />
with four lanes linking it to the<br />
motorway. The current proposal<br />
will simply result in bumper to<br />
bumper traffic congestion with<br />
queues of cars pumping carbon<br />
monoxide into the already<br />
polluted atmosphere.<br />
There is an existing steady<br />
stream of traffic, making a<br />
right-hand turn already difficult.<br />
Something that will be impossible<br />
if the lanes are reduced.<br />
Why on earth could the<br />
already cash-strapped council<br />
even contemplate spending such<br />
a significant amount of money<br />
reducing this busy thoroughfare<br />
to two lanes to provide a<br />
cycleway? Should they need it,<br />
cyclists already have direct access<br />
to the airport via the established<br />
Memorial Ave cycle lane through<br />
the safe underpass.<br />
It really dismays me as a<br />
Christchurch citizen/ratepayer<br />
to see such a pie in the sky plan<br />
being given any consideration.<br />
Regardless of Mayor Dalziel’s<br />
view that this proposal would<br />
not adversely affect the Copenhagen<br />
Bakery business. It will.<br />
This is a very popular cafe in<br />
our suburb and as an elderly<br />
disabled customer if I can’t get<br />
a convenient adjacent car park<br />
then I, for one, won’t be able to<br />
enjoy this local amenity.<br />
Please do rethink this<br />
proposal. Please use this money<br />
towards really essential core<br />
council responsibilities, for<br />
example upgrading our drinking<br />
water replacing aged wells/pipes.<br />
– Libbey Durey<br />
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It’s been a busy start to the<br />
year. Many would have seen my<br />
petition to reverse the speed<br />
limit on Marshlands Road<br />
between Chaneys Corner and<br />
Prestons Road back to 70km/h<br />
after I was contacted by<br />
frustrated residents. I have been<br />
overwhelmed by the thousands<br />
of responses I’ve received online<br />
asking me to advocate on this<br />
issue. This is obviously a<br />
pressure point for our<br />
community. Increasing<br />
commuter frustration by<br />
reducing the speed limit to<br />
60km/h cannot take the place of<br />
proper roading solutions such as<br />
safety barriers. To read more<br />
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<br />
I enjoyed catching up with<br />
Lynda Goodrick, CEO of the<br />
<br />
Belfast Community Network, at<br />
the end of the year. Lynda has a<br />
real passion for our community.<br />
I value regular catch ups with all<br />
our community organisations.<br />
I am meeting with a Belfast<br />
business next week that is<br />
having difficulty accessing<br />
markets for their produce under<br />
the current challenges. As local<br />
MP I’m always happy to meet<br />
with our businesses to see<br />
where I can help, so please<br />
reach out if there is anything I<br />
can do to assist.<br />
A local Samaritan has<br />
approached me to offer help to<br />
our community who are<br />
working on projects to help our<br />
environment. If you’re a school<br />
or community organisation<br />
doing great work in this area,<br />
then please get in touch to tell<br />
me about the work you do.
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Thursday <strong>February</strong> <strong>18</strong> <strong>2021</strong> 5<br />
Sensory spaces in touch with special needs<br />
EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Jonty<br />
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Jonty has a very rare genetic<br />
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physical problems and affects<br />
his ability to recover from any<br />
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For Jonty, the city council’s<br />
southern centre at the Pioneer<br />
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become a haven – an opportunity<br />
to explore a unique space<br />
independently and revel in the<br />
sights and sounds within a safe,<br />
interactive environment.<br />
The centre’s technology helps<br />
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adapted to meet individual<br />
needs.<br />
In 2019-20, it welcomed 7537<br />
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Jonty’s parents, Sam and Maree<br />
Smolenski, say their son is “never<br />
without a smile when exploring<br />
all the bits and bobs” at the<br />
centre.<br />
“Jonty plays with everything,<br />
and his confidence levels continue<br />
to climb as he becomes more<br />
comfortable in a very special sensory<br />
environment,” they say.<br />
His teacher, Gail Sharman, says<br />
it has been an “amazing experience”<br />
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Jonty – who is one of only two<br />
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“His hearing and visual sensors<br />
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The aquatic sensory experience will offer<br />
innovative stimulation options to support wellbeing<br />
and development for all ages and abilities.<br />
City council head of recreation, sports and events<br />
Nigel Cox says the positive community feedback to<br />
both the southern centre and the aquatic sensory<br />
experience has been overwhelming.<br />
“These special sensory facilities activate the<br />
imagination, stimulating activity and helping to<br />
realise the potential of people with a range of<br />
abilities to be more resourceful and independent,”<br />
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170 years of Prep School Excellence<br />
Educational matters have<br />
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start of the school year. At St<br />
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that history teaching has finally<br />
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for developing well-informed,<br />
articulate Kiwi citizens.<br />
For at St Michael’s, history<br />
is our foundation. As New<br />
Zealand’s oldest prep school,<br />
for 170 years we have educated<br />
and nurtured the visionaries and<br />
dreamers who have built our<br />
city and country, shaping our<br />
history and future.<br />
At St Michael’s, our<br />
young pupils have limitless<br />
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generous lives, and we have<br />
the responsibility to educate<br />
and inspire them, to encourage<br />
every child to flourish in<br />
mind, body and spirit.<br />
St Michael’s is a prep school<br />
for girls and boys in Years<br />
1-8. ‘Prep’ as in a preparation<br />
for secondary school, and a<br />
foundation for a fine life. For<br />
at the heart of St Michael’s<br />
are the essential values of<br />
Christian faith and good global<br />
citizenship: respect, integrity,<br />
faith, hope and love.<br />
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desk and chair, locker and peg<br />
– their own space in which to<br />
establish their own sense of<br />
place and identity.<br />
Traditional foundations<br />
in English and Mathematics<br />
are assured at St Michael’s.<br />
The mechanics of English –<br />
punctuation, grammar, spelling,<br />
vocabulary and sentence<br />
construction – are taught,<br />
practised and tested. Learning<br />
to read develops into reading<br />
to learn, and the delights of<br />
children’s literature, poetry<br />
and drama. Simple sentences<br />
become finely crafted creative<br />
writing, accounts and studies.<br />
Maths teaching has been<br />
in the media firing line again<br />
recently as our national results<br />
continue to slide against key<br />
international markers. At St<br />
Michael’s, we keep it simple<br />
and teach proper, ‘good, old<br />
fashioned’ maths. Our pupils<br />
are taught and have to learn<br />
basic facts, times tables and<br />
essential algorithm methods.<br />
We don’t bundle anything! Our<br />
parents can help their children<br />
with their maths homework,<br />
because they recognise it!<br />
This academic rigour then<br />
underpins our wider curriculums<br />
in History, Geography and<br />
Science. Spanish and, for the<br />
older pupils, Latin, offer the<br />
enrichment of learning another<br />
language and about another<br />
culture. IT literacy is taught,<br />
not assumed, and computer use<br />
is measured. We like teaching<br />
and talking to our pupils!<br />
A prep education offers<br />
balance. St Michael’s cultural<br />
and sports’ programmes<br />
further develop each child’s<br />
foundation, as creativity and<br />
problem-solving come in many<br />
forms. Specialist art and music<br />
classes are enjoyed weekly.<br />
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or speech & drama lessons with<br />
one of our ten itinerant staff.<br />
Our several choirs, Stage Band<br />
and Orchestra offer key early<br />
steps in group performance.<br />
Our senior programme,<br />
Parare, advances our Year 7&8<br />
education outside the box, from<br />
financial literacy to outdoor ed,<br />
leadership challenges to new<br />
sports, citizenship and civics to<br />
art and technologies.<br />
Nestled as we are on the<br />
banks of the Avon, opposite<br />
the Riverside Farmers’ Market,<br />
ST MICHAEL’S ALUMNI<br />
To help us celebrate 170 years of St<br />
Michael’s Prep School excellence at the<br />
heart of our city, alumni and former staff<br />
are warmly invited to contact us so we can<br />
share our anniversary plans with you.<br />
alumni@saintmichaels.co.nz<br />
St Michael’s extended campus<br />
is spectacular: the art gallery,<br />
museum, library, theatres and<br />
Hagley Park are frequent haunts<br />
only minutes away.<br />
Many of our parents work<br />
in the thriving city centre, and<br />
Lincoln and Riccarton Road<br />
hubs, but they live city-wide.<br />
They comment on the comfort<br />
of knowing their children are in<br />
school nearby and the benefits<br />
of popping over for an hour to<br />
catch a performance or watch a<br />
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With the central bus exchange<br />
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children arrive from all corners<br />
of the city.<br />
An independent school<br />
education is a precious gift<br />
and it doesn’t have to break the<br />
bank. If you think a St Michael’s<br />
education would suit your<br />
child, you are warmly welcome<br />
to discover for yourself our<br />
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inclusive prep school.<br />
Our next Open Day is coming<br />
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Please pop in during the day<br />
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the principal, please contact<br />
registrar, Bec Hitchcock:<br />
registrar@saintmichaels.co.nz<br />
or 03.379.9790.<br />
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✓ Before & after school care: 7.30am - 5.30pm<br />
✓ Central city location<br />
Taking enrolments for 2022.<br />
Some places available for <strong>2021</strong>.<br />
Open Day: Wednesday 3 March<br />
www.saintmichaels.school.nz 249 Durham Street Phone (03) 379 9790 to book your tour.
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She replaces principal of<br />
12 years, Jacqui Pascoe, who<br />
moved to an education<br />
consultant role working with<br />
principals and teachers on<br />
New<br />
principal<br />
Leigh<br />
Fowler<br />
checks out<br />
Marshland<br />
School’s<br />
playground.<br />
appraisal and coaching.<br />
Marshland School is in its<br />
third year at the new site on Te<br />
Korari St, Marshland, which has<br />
landscape projects, court extension<br />
work, a new sports shed and<br />
scooter track due to be completed<br />
soon.<br />
Fowler will be formally<br />
welcomed during the school’s<br />
Mihi Whakatau assembly this<br />
month.
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HEALTH & AWARENESS<br />
Joint pain: Do I have arthritis or<br />
could it be mainly my muscles?<br />
The team at Physical Sense in Sydenham<br />
sees clients with a range of symptoms but<br />
many of their middle-aged and senior clients<br />
visit complaining of pain in one of their joints.<br />
Physiotherapist Ietje van Stolk suggests<br />
that a major part of the pain could be due<br />
to muscle pain rather than simply arthritis.<br />
“Even if an x-ray shows arthritis, the reason<br />
for the pain may be the muscles around<br />
the joint,” she explains. The images show<br />
how a muscle knot (the crosses) in a back<br />
muscle can give hip pain (aches and pain<br />
are the red areas in the drawings), a knot<br />
in a muscle on the back of the shoulder<br />
blade can give a deep pain in the front of<br />
the shoulder and a muscle knot all the way<br />
near the groin can give an ache in the knee<br />
(especially at night in bed).<br />
Ietje recalls one case where an 89 year<br />
old client with severe arthritis who walked<br />
with a stick, told her, “I will end up in<br />
a wheelchair, I cannot put any weight<br />
through my right leg due to pain in my hip<br />
and buttock”. “Within 4 treatments, she<br />
was walking with her stick but without the<br />
severe pain,” says Ietje. “The arthritis was<br />
one of the factors that made her muscles<br />
spasm but the other was that older people<br />
move less and the flexed position the hip<br />
is in when we sit is particularly bad for<br />
the hip.” Ietje is happy with the fact that<br />
although the client was 89 and could have<br />
been “given up on” or told to live with the<br />
pain, she made a difference to her health<br />
and wellbeing.<br />
The same lack of movement can be the<br />
reason for your knee pain or your shoulder<br />
pain and the same few treatments could<br />
make a huge difference for you.<br />
At Physical Sense, hands-on techniques<br />
(massage and triggerpoint deactivation<br />
techniques) are used to release the muscles.<br />
The client also gets a home exercise<br />
program designed to mobilize and stretch<br />
the joint, strengthen the important core<br />
muscles and increase general strength and<br />
SHOULDER<br />
PAIN<br />
KNEE PAIN<br />
(the crosses are the areas of the muscle spasms, the red areas is where the pain is felt)<br />
balance. They teach a movement sequence<br />
that stretches the joint in all directions<br />
whilst the client is able to lie safely on their<br />
bed, perfect for older or less mobile clients.<br />
In many cases having the muscles<br />
released and being taught how to maintain<br />
it, is enough to stay on top of the problem.<br />
HIP PAIN<br />
If severe arthritis is the underlying cause,<br />
some maintenance therapy may be<br />
necessary, but that is often more affordable<br />
and, for older patients, better tolerated<br />
than surgery. After only one treatment you<br />
should know that it will work for you. Call<br />
and only pay $50 on that treament.<br />
Physical Sense Gym and Physio is located at 300 Colombo Street, Sydenham. The Blue Line Bus stops in front of the<br />
door and there is ample parking. To enquire about joint pain treatment, phone 377-2577 or visit www.triggerpoints.co.nz<br />
When we call, hundreds<br />
of Kiwi businesses answer.<br />
At Fire and Emergency, 80% of our people are volunteers, many running or working at businesses<br />
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Providing sanctuary for grandchildren<br />
• By Bea Gooding<br />
ANNA CLARE’S plans to<br />
reclaim independence following<br />
a lifetime of raising her own<br />
children was turned on its head<br />
the moment she realised she had<br />
to do it all over again.<br />
Her two grandchildren<br />
living in an unstable home<br />
environment involving drugs,<br />
alcohol and violence left Clare<br />
with no choice but to provide a<br />
permanent sanctuary for them.<br />
More than a decade<br />
later she channels her own<br />
unique experiences in her<br />
role as support group coordinator<br />
in Christchurch<br />
for the Grandparents Raising<br />
Grandchildren Trust NZ.<br />
Clare was in her 50s when she<br />
took over guardianship of her<br />
teenage granddaughter.<br />
“I think the hardest part is<br />
when you get a grandchild, it’s<br />
at a time of your life when you’re<br />
becoming free. You’ve got a bit<br />
more disposable income, you’ve<br />
got friends who don’t have<br />
children, so you go out and do<br />
things with them, like dinners or<br />
movies,” she said.<br />
“But suddenly we’re back in<br />
the situation where you’ve got<br />
babysitters, you can’t do things<br />
spontaneously. You spend a lot<br />
of your time trying to organise<br />
therapy, supporting a return to<br />
school, going to court meetings<br />
or researching what help is<br />
available.<br />
“Leaving them [at home] is difficult,<br />
for a start, especially when<br />
you’re trying to build trust.”<br />
About 95 per cent of<br />
grandparents accessing<br />
support from the trust took<br />
grandchildren into their care<br />
as a result of trauma, often<br />
encountering issues they never<br />
dealt with before.<br />
Although they had different<br />
stories to tell, common factors<br />
included mental illness and<br />
substance abuse.<br />
“In our case, it was a<br />
developing situation over the<br />
years primarily with drugs,<br />
alcohol and violence in the<br />
home,” Clare said.<br />
BATTLE: Support group co-ordinator Anna Clare draws knowledge from her own life<br />
experiences for her role at the Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Trust NZ.<br />
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN<br />
The transition of raising her<br />
granddaughter full-time was<br />
made easier by the fact Clare had<br />
regular contact with her prior to<br />
moving in.<br />
Like many families, she was<br />
against the alternative of foster<br />
care at the hands of Oranga<br />
Tamariki.<br />
But it was when she took in<br />
her grandson, years after her<br />
granddaughter, where things<br />
were “a lot harder the second<br />
time around,” especially when he<br />
started becoming violent.<br />
“It changes grandparents’ lives<br />
significantly. You’ve got children<br />
who are traumatised when they<br />
come into your care. It takes a<br />
lot of time, energy and money,”<br />
she said.<br />
“I was in a different headspace<br />
when I took on my grandson, I<br />
was 10 years older, I’d had less<br />
contact with him and he’d had<br />
some real problems. He’s come a<br />
long way since then.”<br />
The GRG trust provides<br />
support services to grandparents<br />
across the country who raise<br />
their grandchildren on a fulltime<br />
basis.<br />
‘I think there’s a lot<br />
more pressure on families<br />
than there used to be,<br />
there’s a lot more access<br />
to drugs, more poverty.’<br />
– Anna Clare<br />
This is carried out in the form<br />
of counselling sessions, support<br />
groups, education, training,<br />
financial and legal support and<br />
referrals to relevant agencies and<br />
organisations.<br />
Membership is diverse<br />
both ethnically and socioeconomically,<br />
ranging in<br />
age from early 40s to 90s.<br />
Sometimes, this includes<br />
great-grandparents raising greatgrandchildren.<br />
Many grandparents initially<br />
struggled financially when<br />
taking on a grandchild as the<br />
transition process took some<br />
time.<br />
Many did not know they were<br />
entitled to financial support<br />
such as the Unsupported Child<br />
Benefit.<br />
Advocating for families and<br />
being able to help change their<br />
lives was rewarding, Clare said,<br />
knowing what it felt like herself.<br />
Over the years, the trust has<br />
seen demand increase.<br />
“I think there’s a lot of pressure<br />
on young families. I think there’s<br />
a lot more pressure on families<br />
than there used to be, there’s a<br />
lot more access to drugs, more<br />
poverty,” said Clare.<br />
“And with that comes a lack of<br />
hope.”<br />
Across the country, the<br />
trust supports more than 5900<br />
grandparents and families,<br />
with about 230 families in<br />
Christchurch alone. They either<br />
come voluntarily or are referred<br />
by another organisation.<br />
The initial stage of talking to<br />
grandparents was always difficult<br />
for Clare, particularly when<br />
they shared feelings of “parental<br />
guilt.”<br />
“Not only do you have the<br />
struggle of having to look after<br />
your own grandchild who’s<br />
traumatised, but the fact that it’s<br />
your son or daughter letting the<br />
family down.”<br />
The biggest value in a local<br />
support group is that it is a safe<br />
place to vent with people who<br />
understood.<br />
“It could be difficulties dealing<br />
with WINZ, Oranga Tamariki,<br />
the court system, or the child<br />
itself.<br />
“Contact with the parents can<br />
also actually be a huge fear for<br />
the grandparents because they<br />
don’t know what the child’s<br />
going back into when they visit.”<br />
Clare has been involved<br />
with the trust ever since her<br />
granddaughter came to live with<br />
her permanently.<br />
A few support group meetings<br />
over the years eventually led<br />
to a decision to establish a<br />
Christchurch group after seeing<br />
how much the trust had an<br />
impact on her own life.<br />
Before she found her calling<br />
in Christchurch, she lived in<br />
Auckland on and off along with<br />
a five-year stint in the United<br />
States.<br />
Family is constantly at the<br />
forefront of her mind, whether<br />
it is at the trust or in her own<br />
time with her two children and<br />
grandchildren.<br />
Aside from her work at the<br />
trust, she was a part-time<br />
support worker for a young<br />
person with autism.<br />
“It’s all about family really,<br />
there’s not much time for<br />
anything else.”<br />
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• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding<br />
the eastern suburbs start to<br />
Northern Corridor opening has<br />
see Lianne Dalziel’s campaign<br />
been delayed by six months.<br />
THE earthquake-damaged<br />
aspirations for the area come to<br />
The CNC was due to open in<br />
former Sockburn Service Centre<br />
fruition.<br />
the middle of this year, but last<br />
could finally be demolished in<br />
During October’s local body<br />
week the New<br />
July – if the funding needed is<br />
elections, Ms Dalziel identified<br />
Zealand Transport<br />
Agency<br />
It comes as the<br />
obtained.<br />
repairs to the eastern part of the<br />
city’s footpaths, pipes and roads<br />
announced more<br />
Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton<br />
as one of her main priorities for<br />
time was needed<br />
this term.<br />
to complete the<br />
Community<br />
“We need a fully integrated<br />
$290m motorwayten<br />
in its draft<br />
Board has writ-<br />
programme of works for the<br />
east, I have loosely called this<br />
The original<br />
submission to<br />
Readers respond<br />
Chance to the eastern alliance, which<br />
scope of the<br />
Delay in<br />
Market day the city council’s<br />
would essentially be an alliance<br />
project has been Mark Wilson<br />
Annual Plan<br />
Mike Mora<br />
to supermarket<br />
farewell Holden<br />
of contractors who can take<br />
extended to include<br />
a third southbound lane on<br />
requesting the city council ad-<br />
making mall<br />
goes green at 2019-2020,<br />
the whole area bit by bit and<br />
rebranding<br />
in style<br />
systematically get the work<br />
the Waimakariri River bridge and<br />
exit safer<br />
Cashmere dresses the HS budget gap so the<br />
done,” she said during the<br />
a clip-on cycleway.<br />
buildings can be removed as soon<br />
campaign.<br />
St Albans resident Mark Wilson<br />
as possible.<br />
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GIRL Page BOSS: Julia 17 Holmes But chief wants executive to be a Dawn geneticist after Page high school, 3 and feels the GirlBoss Advantage programme will Page help 10 said GIRL the BOSS: community Julia Holmes are “somewhat<br />
her achieve thankful” her for dreams. the delay.<br />
Page 3<br />
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN Page 11 said the final submission is yet to<br />
wants to be a geneticist after high school, and feels the GirlBoss Advantage programme will help Board chairman Mike Mora<br />
her achieve her dreams. Baxendale said any request to<br />
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN<br />
• By Bea Gooding<br />
pursue a specific for biology, project in and the from a young Julia is one of 25 young were often male-dominated, •“The By community Bea Gooding will be somewhat<br />
thankful for a reprieve of the<br />
for biology, and from a young Julia is one of 25 young were often male-dominated, be completed but it was likely the<br />
east would have age to has be always agreed been interested women chosen around the with particular focus on science,<br />
technology, engineering<br />
age has always been interested women chosen around the with particular focus on science,<br />
technology, engineering requested.<br />
demolition of the site would be<br />
FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD upon Julia by council.<br />
effects<br />
South New Brighton School pupil Jacob McMillan enjoying the foam pit at Christchurch School of<br />
City councillors are yet to pass<br />
Gymnastics, which opened its doors to pupils while the school was closed due to fire damage.<br />
Holmes is on a mission on to<br />
in how things worked, often country to participate in the<br />
FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD of this motorway for Julia six in how things worked, often country to participate in the<br />
months, but it’s still there. Until<br />
taking things apart just to put GirlBoss Advantage programme<br />
next month, designed She was shocked to hear the<br />
and maths.<br />
Holmes is on a mission to taking things apart just to put GirlBoss Advantage programme<br />
next month, designed She was shocked to hear the Main South Rd, has been a source<br />
and maths.<br />
The former service centre, on<br />
make a difference in the world. any guidance them to back staff together. around<br />
decisions are made to put our<br />
make a difference in the world. them back together.<br />
•Story, more photos, page 5<br />
PHOTO: GEOFF The SLOAN year 11 St Margaret’s this, she said.<br />
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Christchurch city councillors to<br />
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to the Covid-19 crisis.<br />
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CALLS HAVE been made to<br />
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City councillors James Gough,<br />
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someone to hi the panic button. the consequences that will flow<br />
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“We’re considering a series of<br />
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16 Thursday <strong>February</strong> <strong>18</strong> <strong>2021</strong><br />
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CHRISTCHURCH PROPERTY MARKET<br />
RED HOT<br />
NOR’WEST NEWS<br />
The Christchurch property market is showing no<br />
signs of slowing down as summer sets in. REINZ<br />
statistics released for December set a new record<br />
for the median house price in Christchurch of<br />
$536,000, a 16.5% increase on the previous year<br />
and with activity levels continuing in the first<br />
quarter of <strong>2021</strong>, these trends are expected to<br />
continue.<br />
“The combination of overseas kiwis coming home,<br />
low interest rates for first home buyers, and the<br />
threat of higher regulation for investors in the near<br />
term has created the perfect storm for vendors<br />
looking to sell in <strong>2021</strong>” says Mitchell MacDonald,<br />
Branch Manager of Ray White Bishopdale and<br />
Strowan.<br />
“With the current levels and speed of activity<br />
we’re seeing in the market, it’s never been more<br />
important to hire an experienced agent to maximise<br />
your return as a vendor” says Mitchell.<br />
Auctions are proving time and again to be the best<br />
method of sale in the current market, and Ray White<br />
Bishopdale and Strowan demonstrated this again<br />
with two properties exceeding all expectations at<br />
their in room auctions on Friday 5th <strong>February</strong>.<br />
The first was 36 Highland Place in Avonhead,<br />
marketed and sold by Karen Ellis at Ray White<br />
Bishopdale. After 45 bids, the home sold for<br />
$668,000, an incredible $98,000 over the RV. The<br />
property had more than 40 groups through over<br />
three weeks.<br />
The second was 7 Veitches Road in Casebrook,<br />
marketed and sold by Brent and Jayne Rushworth at<br />
Ray White Bishopdale for $640,000. The property<br />
had more than 160 groups through over 3 weeks. 17<br />
Registered bidders packed out the auction rooms to<br />
bid for the keys and the home sold for a staggering<br />
$220,000 over RV.<br />
“Had these vendors sold privately they would have<br />
cost themselves a lot of money because their price<br />
expectations were substantially lower than what<br />
the market was willing to pay on the day. As your<br />
real estate expert it’s our job to understand the<br />
current local market drivers, maximise exposure of<br />
the property to the right buyers and to get the best<br />
price for your property by creating the right mix of<br />
competition and urgency” says Mitchell.<br />
“The sense of competition was clearly felt as 16<br />
disappointed buyers left the auction rooms for<br />
another weekend of open homes. Why not let them<br />
bid for the keys on your home?” says Mitchell.<br />
If you’re thinking about selling, now is the ideal<br />
time. You only have to look at the results we’re<br />
seeing, and the market statistics being released each<br />
month to realise it; and with summer in full swing,<br />
those property owners that take hold of the current<br />
momentum will be rewarded.<br />
If you’re curious to know what your property could<br />
sell for, or looking for advice on your next real<br />
estate transaction, contact the team at Ray White<br />
Bishopdale and Strowan on 0800 YELLOW<br />
(935 569) today.<br />
36 Highland Place, Avonhead, marketed by Karen Ellis<br />
sold for $668,000 ($98,000 over RV).<br />
7 Veitches Road, Casebrook, marketed by Brent and<br />
Jayne Rushworth sold for $640,000 ($220,000 over RV).<br />
Curious<br />
to know what<br />
your property is<br />
worth?<br />
Find out today,<br />
call 0800 YELLOW<br />
Ray White Bishopdale & Strowan<br />
0800 YELLOW (0800 935 569)<br />
rwbishopdale.co.nz | rwstrowan.co.nz<br />
Inline Realty Limited (Licensed REAA 2008)<br />
Proudly owned by<br />
Karen Ellis<br />
021 519 275<br />
Barry Ellis<br />
021 519 274