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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY <strong>18</strong>, <strong>2021</strong><br />

Connecting Your Local Community<br />

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Sunday 21<br />

March <strong>2021</strong><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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NOR’WEST NEWS Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />

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 />

afternoon tea. ​<br />

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 />

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Her community endeavours<br />

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She is also a life member of<br />

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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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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 />

about my petition, go to<br />

https://www.national.org.nz/rein<br />

state-speed-limit-on-marshlandroad<br />

<br />

<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.


NOR’WEST NEWS Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />

Thursday <strong>February</strong> <strong>18</strong> <strong>2021</strong> 5<br />

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his ability to recover from any<br />

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For Jonty, the city council’s<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 />

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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 />

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“Jonty plays with everything,<br />

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His teacher, Gail Sharman, says<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 />

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ADVERTORIAL<br />

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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and nurtured the visionaries and<br />

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city and country, shaping our<br />

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generous lives, and we have<br />

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mind, body and spirit.<br />

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for girls and boys in Years<br />

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for secondary school, and a<br />

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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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in English and Mathematics<br />

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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 />

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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 />

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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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one of our ten itinerant staff.<br />

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steps in group performance.<br />

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Parare, advances our Year 7&8<br />

education outside the box, from<br />

financial literacy to outdoor ed,<br />

leadership challenges to new<br />

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art and technologies.<br />

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banks of the Avon, opposite<br />

the Riverside Farmers’ Market,<br />

ST MICHAEL’S ALUMNI<br />

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heart of our city, alumni and former staff<br />

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share our anniversary plans with you.<br />

alumni@saintmichaels.co.nz<br />

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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 />

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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 />

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education would suit your<br />

child, you are warmly welcome<br />

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Our next Open Day is coming<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 />

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term 1.<br />

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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Thursday <strong>February</strong> <strong>18</strong> <strong>2021</strong> 11<br />

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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Thursday <strong>February</strong> <strong>18</strong> <strong>2021</strong> 13<br />

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 />

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there’s not much time for<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 />

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Mike Mora<br />

to supermarket<br />

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Page 8<br />

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 />

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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 />

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technology, engineering<br />

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technology, engineering requested.<br />

demolition of the site would be<br />

FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD upon Julia by council.<br />

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South New Brighton School pupil Jacob McMillan enjoying the foam pit at Christchurch School of<br />

City councillors are yet to pass<br />

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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 />

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Ms Dalziel said the las thing the council’s budget, which is<br />

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someone to hi the panic button. the consequences that will flow<br />

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16 Thursday <strong>February</strong> <strong>18</strong> <strong>2021</strong><br />

Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />

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

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