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NEWS 6 Ashburton Courier, February 18, 2021 Laundry Dreams Your dream laundryis easiertoachievethan you think! Our highlyexperienced teamishappytowork withyou on your renovation or new build. The Renovation Experts Talk to us now! Free Quote BOOK NOW 606 East St, Ashburton P: 307 7131 www.kitchenexpress.co.nz 9am-5pm Mon-Fri 9.30am-12.30pm Sat >> 2355101 www.ashburtoncourier.co.nz Motorhomes draw the crowds Organisers of last weekend’s South Island Motorhomeand CaravanShoware veryhappy with how things went. Theshow, coordinatedbythe Lions ClubofAshburton, promoted all thingsto do with motorhomes andcaravansand ran bothdays at the Ashburton A&P Showgrounds. AshburtonLion andeventcoordinator PhilipLynchsaid the event hadbeen wellreceivedand feedback had beenverypositive. Numberswere particularly goodthrough thegate on Saturday and overallwereonpar withlast year. Proceedswere also likely to be on parwith last year and would once againgobackinto the communityvia the club’s charitable foundation. As well as anumber of tradeand food stalls, some180 social campersset up at theshowthis year. The South Island Motorhome andCaravan Show willreturn again next year. • Additions and Renovations • All types of maintenance • Commercial and Farm buildings • New Housing Ashburton February16, 17,18, 19, 22, 23, 24 &25 2352678 2349487 Events to help Shona Tinwald Cycling Club is hostingaquiz fundraiserand the Canterbury Track Cycling Clubhas set up aGivealittle page to support Ashburton cyclistShona McGrathasshe recovers from aserious mountain bike injury which has left her paralysed fromthe chest down. The quiz night is set for March 5at7.30pm at the cycling clubrooms andregistration is by emailtotinwaldcyclingclub@gmail.com. The Givealittle page states it hasbeenset up to support‘‘a passionate supporter of local cycling’’ andsomeone who is ‘‘inspirational andalways keen to helpwhenneeded’’. Mrs McGrath has been an official at both regional and nationalcycling eventsand has also coached and encouraged children on the track in Canterbury. More news online at www.ashburtoncourier.co.nz TANCREDSTREETDISPENSARY •Dispensingof PrescriptionMedicines •Healthcareand Advice •Freecar parking andaccessat rear of building Monday -Friday8:45am-5:30pm SteveWise, Community Pharmacist Phone307 9244. Fax307 9243. Enquiries to admin@tsd.healthcare Eastfield Health Building,135 TancredStreet Right: Arecent visitor to Shona McGrath at Burwood Hospital was Ashburton hairdresser Kim Reed from DNA. PHOTO SUPPLIED HAVELOCKSTREET 2352915 First refugee family to arrive here in mid-April Ashburton’s first Afghan refugees areexpected to arrive in the district in midApril. The family of five; two parentswith their children boys aged16and six, andagirl of 18 months, are travellingto New Zealand from Malaysia. Theywill go into aMIQ isolation facility on their arrival and will undergothe same covid testing regime as any other travellers.After their isolation period theywill head to Mangere Refugee Resettlement Centre for afive week orientation programme. Ashburton refugee settlement support team leader Kathy HarringtonWatt said the family would be visitedatMangere and told more about Ashburton and their settlement here. Ahouse to rent for the family was being sought. More refugee families would be arriving in Ashburton at the end of May and in midJune. ‘‘This is an excitingand special opportunity for both the familiesarrivingand the communityofAshburton,’’ said Mrs HarringtonWatt. Two workshopsaimed at agencies, servicesand staff that will be involved in the Ashburton refugeesettlement programme will be run here by the Red Cross early next month. An information evening for volunteers keentobeinvolved in the settlement programme will alsobeheldinthenext few weeks. Adate and venue for the evening is stilltobeconfirmed.
www.ashburtoncourier.co.nz NEWS Ashburton Courier, February 18, 2021 7 Night race canned because of dogs TONI.WILLIAMS @ashburtoncourier.co.nz The Ashburton Car Club night autocross has been pulled thisyear because it needs resource consent to operate near the Ashburtondog pound. Over the pastfouryears the event has run without consent due an oversight by the AshburtonDistrict Council. Road closure waspreviously approved without staff realising it needed resource consent. The dogs’ sensitive hearing is an issue. Council strategy and compliance manager JaneDonaldson saidthe club was mistakenly given approval for the night time racing eventback in 2017 but it actually required aresource consent. The night autocross ran from 6pm and was limited to 30 cars. It was run within theAutoSparks Street Sprint track around the Riverside industrial estate. The street sprints twoday eventduring daylight hourswas not affected. ‘‘When the club applied the first time (for the night autocross in 2017), the road closure wasapproved by one part of the council without realising that it also needed aresource consent. ‘‘This wasn’t the club’s fault, but basically they were able to hold the event without the appropriate consents,’’ she said. Mrs Donaldson said amajor problem in the area was the effect racing noise had on dogs housed at thecouncilrun dog pound in Range Street. Mostrecent figures showedan average of eightdogs amonth were seized by animal controlbetween August and December. The night racing caused ahigh level of stress on thedogswho had‘‘hearing that is much moresensitive than humans,’’ she said. Under the Ministry of Primary Industries code of welfarefor the temporary housing of companion animals, subjecting dogs to that level of noise over along period of time was not permitted. Mrs Donaldson had met with the club and explained the council’s position. Ashburton CarClub president Shayne Adams was disappointed the event had been stopped butitwould not be replacedwith another event. He looked forward tothe annual streetsprint event on May 8and 9, which been running in theindustrial areafor the past30years and was adrawcard for drivers, support crew and racing enthusiasts from around the country. Thestreet sprints operated from 7am to 6pm. ‘‘Over half of the 65 drivers arefrom out of town,’’ he said. Thestreet sprints, with rural fire brigade andmedical personnel on site, was wellsupported by the community and in turnsupported community groups who manned gates, ran barbecue and food sites or helped with clean up, he said. Curator to speak Canterbury Museum’s senior curator of naturalhistory will speak about new and significantpaleontological finds in New Zealand at an Ashburton U3A publicmeeting on February 23. Professor PaulScofield has worked at CanterburyMuseumsince 2001 and has responsibility for building and researchingits vertebrate and geological collections. Through his position as adjunctprofessor in theSchool of Geological Sciences at theUniversityof Canterbury he teaches at undergraduate and graduate level and supervisesstudents completing masters'and doctoral theses. Professor Scofield’s talkwill start at 10.15am and the doors at Ashburton TrustEvent Centre openat9.30am. New members welcome; the generalpublic pays asmallentry fee. GREAT RATES NewPCs and Laptops forsale Choir warms up for Messiah Mid CanterburyChoir hasheld its firstworkshop rehearsal aheadofits Messiahconcert at the end of March. The workshop was leadbymusical directorMartin Setchell,an international concert organist, composerand teacher, and featured the 38 members of the choirplus a Detoxtime FREE Liver Tonic Supports your digestive system when detoxing. 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