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4 Thursday April 8 2021 Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz PEGASUS POST NEW RELEASES GREAT Autumn READS INSTORE! Gulf Wars How We Kept The Cup by richard Gladwell Gulf Wars is a pictorially driven celebration of Emirates Team New Zealand’s America’s Cup win in Auckland 2021, written from an on the water perspective by one of the world’s most influential America’s Cup photo-journalists, Richard Gladwell. Richard Gladwell is an international sailing journalist and photographer who lives in New Zealand. He began sailing when he was ten years old and first wrote about the America’s Cup five years later. A Kiwi representative sailor, he competed internationally in dinghies and keelboats for 12 years, sailing with and against some of the current senior members of Emirates Team New Zealand. He has covered the America’s Cup and Team New Zealand in its various renditions for the past 35 years. Between Five Eyes 50 years of Intelligence Sharing by Anthony r. Wells UK/US intelligence and the wider Five Eyes community of Canada, Australia and New Zealand is primarily about one main thing: Relationships. In this remarkable book, Anthony Wells charts fifty years of change, turmoil, intense challenges, successes and failures, and never-ending abiding Five Eyes relationships. He traces the development of institutions that he firmly believes have sustained, and indeed may have saved, Western democracies and their allies from those ill disposed to the value system and culture of our nations. More than a chronology of the UK/US intelligence community during this fifty-year period, it is also a personal insight into key relationships and the abiding strength of the United States and the United Kingdom and its Five Eyes allies relationships. The author is the only living person to have worked for British Intelligence as a British citizen and US Intelligence as a US citizen. He was a fully trained and accredited security officer for two US intelligence organizations, and used his own extensive unclassified collection of papers, personal notes and diaries, as well as his family library for source material to create this book. A Nurse’s Story by Louise Curtis with Sarah Johnson Moving, honest and inspiring – this is a nurse’s true story of life in a busy A&E department during the Covid-19 crisis. Working in A&E is a challenging job but nurse Louise Curtis loves it. She was newly qualified as an advanced clinical practitioner, responsible for life or death decisions about the patients she saw, when the unthinkable happened and the country was hit by the Covid-19 pandemic. The stress on the NHS was huge and for the first time in her life, the job was going to take a toll on Louise herself. In A Nurse’s Story she describes what happened next, as the trickle of Covid patients became a flood. And just as tragically, staff in A&E were faced with the effects of lockdown on society. They worried about their regulars, now missing, and saw an increase in domestic abuse victims and suicide attempts as loneliness hit people hard. By turns heartbreaking and heartwarming, this book shines a light on the compassion and dedication of hospital staff during such dark times. The Auschwitz Photographer Based on the true story of Wilhelm Brasse by Luca Crippa and Maurizio Onnis When Germany invaded Wilhelm Brasse’s native Poland in 1939, he was asked to swear allegiance to Hitler and join the Wehrmacht. He refused. He was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp as political prisoner number 3444. A trained portrait photographer, he was ordered by the SS to record the inner workings of the camp. He began by taking identification photographs of the prisoners as they entered the camp, went on to capture the criminal medical experiments of Josef Mengele, and also recorded executions. Between 1940 and 1945, Brasse took around 50,000 photographs of the horror around him. He took them because he had no choice. Eventually, Brasse’s conscience wouldn’t allow him to hide behind his camera. First he risked his life by joining the camp’s Resistance movement, faking documents for prisoners, trying to smuggle images to the outside world to reveal what was happening. Then, when Soviet troops finally advanced on the camp to liberate it, Brasse refused SS orders to destroy his photographs. ‘Because the world must know,’ he said. Crusade On! Celebrating 25 years Of The Crusaders By Matt McIlraith The Crusaders are not just another sports team. Out of a modest beginning grew the most formidable professional club entity rugby has ever seen. Yet sustained on-field excellence is just part of the story of a team that succeeded by living its stated ethos of hard work, the embracement of diversity, and a commitment to represent its people with pride and humility. 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PEGASUS POST Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz Thursday April 8 2021 5 Helping cats live out their nine lives • By Bea Gooding JOYCE LATHAM never grew up with a pet. But when a furry feline invited itself into her family home one day her relationship with cats changed forever. Now, the president of the Cats Protection League Canterbury is the proud owner of six cats, most of whom have special needs. And for the past 13 years, she has been on a mission to save as many cats in the city as possible. “My family didn’t have cats, but a cat walked in once and from there, I became very much a cat person,’’ said the Bryndwr resident. It was not difficult to foster her own felines, she said, having plenty of experience running a cattery herself with usually 40 to 50 cats at a time. The league rescue, rehabilitate and rehome stray and abandoned cats, and provide assistance to those who could not afford to desex their cats through its Feline Fix programme. Desexing your cat, particularly tomcats, was crucial to help reduce the rate of feline AIDS and decrease the number of kittens being brought into places like the league. About 50 volunteers came in MISSION: Joyce Latham with Hope who has found a new home. PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN once a week to help out in the cattery, office and shop, as well as about four managers who worked there regularly. They also often found new homes for cats that could no longer be looked after, such as an owner who was moving into a retirement home. Last year, the league rehomed 535 cats and kittens. But it did not stop there – the protection league provides emergency cat food assistance and for unexpected vet bills as well. “Sometimes their own cats have had kittens and we do take them in when approached to help rehome them,” Latham said. “There are enough cats in Christchurch and Canterbury to go well around all of the organisations, we’ve actually got a waiting list.” Its second-hand shop in Linwood was also a vital part of the fundraising efforts, especially with no government funding. All store proceeds went towards work to help the felines of Canterbury. When she is not reading or gardening at home, Latham volunteers her time feeding the cats and acts as the matchmaker when facilitating the rehoming process. After leaving a government office job, she decided to dedicate most of her energy to the league and has done so since 2007. “I like to match appropriate cats to people with cats that suit them,” she said. “Some of them are a little older or have special needs and need medication, but we just talk with people about what the cats are like; their personalities.” With so many success stories, it was hard for Latham to pick a particular instance that impacted her the most. But on the protection league’s website, there were endless pages of updates and photos from owners on how their little furry friend was getting along in their new forever home. There was one case where a lost cat was brought into the cattery and eventually reunited with its owner after four years thanks to its microchip. Said Latham: “It’s why all of us volunteer. When people give feedback and say how the cats have settled down, how much they love them, it’s a constant reward to know you’ve done a really good job of helping to match them up. “It’s rewarding to know these cats have had a second chance in life and they’ve gone to really loving homes.” But there was always a downside. Even though the league was sheltered from tending to abused or injured animals due to the statutory role the SPCA played, it was impossible to save them all. During the Covid-19 level 4 lockdown, things were made worse when they were unable to rehome any cats. But rest assured, the cats that do need homes end up finding one, even if it takes a couple of years. “Cats are being surrendered to us from homes, so we don’t see the neglect and abuse – that’s the SPCA’s role,” Latham said. “The downside is knowing that you can’t save every single cat out there who don’t have homes and aren’t desexed, therefore are having kittens after kittens. “But we save what we can and focus on the ones we do save, and that’s the main thing.” PERFECT BROWS today & always JOIN US NOW! See website for details Only $599+gST Payment can be split over the two sessions. Session one $350+, second session $249+ BEFORE AFTER Changing Face owner operator Jess Drake is passionate about achieving healthy skin for her clients and offers a wide range of treatments including Lip Rejuvenation, Dermaplaning, LED (light emitting diode therapy), Fibroblast Eyelift and Microblading. 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