North Canterbury News: May 13, 2021
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Cameron soars with Eagles<br />
By SHELLEY TOPP<br />
Woodend guitarist Cameron<br />
Walsh has been chosen for an<br />
Eagles tribute band touring<br />
Australia and New Zealand<br />
later this year.<br />
The fourmonth Hotel<br />
California: The Eagles<br />
Experience tour, which<br />
celebrates the Eagles’ enduring<br />
countryrock legacy of hits,<br />
including Hotel California, Lyin’<br />
Eyes, New Kid In Town, Take It<br />
To The Limit and Heartache<br />
Tonight,will begin in July and<br />
end in October.<br />
The first three months of the<br />
tour will be in Australia, with<br />
the final month in New<br />
Zealand, including aconcert at<br />
the Christchurch Town Hall’s<br />
James Hay Theatre on October<br />
23.<br />
Cameron graduated with a<br />
Bachelor of Music Arts degree<br />
from Christchurch’s Ara<br />
Institute of <strong>Canterbury</strong> in 2019.<br />
He specialises in funk, blues<br />
and roots music.<br />
Cameron says he is<br />
influenced by Stevie Ray<br />
Vaughn, David Gilmour and<br />
Robben Ford, and regularly<br />
plays in cover bands and<br />
backing bands in New Zealand<br />
and Australia.<br />
He also plays at live<br />
entertainment venues in<br />
Christchurch every week with<br />
his two blues trios, South Street<br />
Trio,onWednesday nights at<br />
Boo Radley’s from 7:30pm, and<br />
the Cathcart Walsh Blaikie trio,<br />
Great opportunity ... Cameron Walsh will be touring for four months<br />
in an Eagles tribute band.<br />
at ARolling Stone on Thursdays<br />
from 7:30pm.<br />
However, he is now busy<br />
preparing for the Eagles tour.<br />
‘‘There is alot of material to<br />
learn,’’ he says. ‘‘Learning<br />
these Eagles songs note for note<br />
on guitar makes me realise how<br />
incredibly creative and<br />
detailed their music is, and how<br />
high their level of expertise was<br />
and still is.’’<br />
NEWS<br />
The <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> <strong>News</strong>, <strong>May</strong> <strong>13</strong>, <strong>2021</strong><br />
Award recognises<br />
flexible work hours<br />
By ROBYN BRISTOW<br />
Local electricity distributor<br />
MainPower has been<br />
gaining attention for an<br />
industryleading employee<br />
wellbeing initiative that<br />
offers staff the chance to<br />
work anineday fortnight.<br />
The company was<br />
recognised at the New<br />
Zealand Energy Excellence<br />
Awards gala in Wellington<br />
recently, winning the wellbeing<br />
category, which<br />
celebrates excellence in<br />
caring for employees.<br />
MainPower, one of the<br />
largest employers in <strong>North</strong><br />
<strong>Canterbury</strong>, offers staff the<br />
option of working hours<br />
that effectively make every<br />
second weekend three<br />
days.<br />
MainPower chief<br />
executive Andy Lester said<br />
the initiative was ahot<br />
topic at the awards gala.<br />
‘‘This initiative is valued<br />
by our staff and is looked at<br />
within our industry as an<br />
impressive and innovative<br />
idea,’’ he says.<br />
The nineday fortnight<br />
work pattern, as it is known,<br />
was implemented in late<br />
2019 after two trials.<br />
The trials found there<br />
was asignificant positive<br />
impact on employees’ sense<br />
of wellbeing and aboost in<br />
worklife balance.<br />
The company’s core<br />
5<br />
activity is carrying out<br />
maintenance on the power<br />
distribution network in<br />
<strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong>.<br />
MainPower altered its<br />
scheduling and planning<br />
processes to ensure there<br />
was no change to the work<br />
delivery in the community.<br />
MainPower’s general<br />
manager of people and<br />
culture, Sandra<br />
O’Donohue, says staff have<br />
indicated that having a<br />
weekday off makes life<br />
easier in terms of booking<br />
appointments, keeping up<br />
with household tasks, and<br />
finding time to exercise.<br />
‘‘People are also noticing<br />
bonuses like saving money<br />
on commuting and child<br />
care,’’ she says.<br />
‘‘The nineday fortnight<br />
work pattern is apoint of<br />
difference for the company,<br />
who were the first in the<br />
electricity industry to offer<br />
the flexible working<br />
arrangement to staff.<br />
‘‘Being an industry leader<br />
in this area gives us an edge<br />
at the recruitment stage<br />
and better enables us to<br />
attract and retain talent,<br />
who would be unable to<br />
find asimilar level of<br />
flexibility and focus on<br />
wellbeing elsewhere,’’ she<br />
says.<br />
‘‘This is critical in today’s<br />
competitive labour<br />
market.’’<br />
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