Western News: May 27, 2021

THURSDAY, MAY 27, 2021 

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SUCCESS: Burnside High School performed a piece about the negative effects of fast fashion which won the top 

spot at Canterbury’s Showquest competition. 

BURNSIDE HIGH School is 

Showquest’s newest champion 

after a strong message of fast 

fashion’s detrimental impact on 

the environment struck a chord 

with the judges. 

The town hall was a 

buzz of activity last 

week when teams from 

Canterbury schools competed 

for the top spot at New 

Zealand’s biggest performing 

arts competition for 

schools. 

In the open section, the 

school took the regional 

title with a meticulously 

choreographed dance themed 

around fast fashion, wasteful 

shopping habits, and the ethics 

behind underpaid garment 

workers. 

• Turn to page 3 

• By Bea Gooding 

RESIDENTS MAY still have 

time to convince the city council 

to retain a piece of land for a 

community space in Halswell 

instead of selling it. 

The city council is yet to decide 

on whether it will sell land no 

longer required at 66 Quaifes Rd 

after it was purchased to develop 

a stormwater retention and detention 

basin. 

A number of affordable housing 

providers, including Kāinga 

Ora, have already shown interest 

in buying the site to develop as a 

whole. 

But the Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton 

Community Board wants 

at least a third of the surplus land 

to remain in city council ownership 

following calls to save it for 

the community, such as a hall. 

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Showquest 

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ADVENTURE: A youth hub in Hornby will offer a place for young people to hang out, 

have fun and connect with youth workers. 

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A NEW YOUTH hub will offer 

a safe place for young people 

to meet and connect while 

also providing access to youth 

workers. 

A $24,000 grant from the 

Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton 

Community Board to the Community 

Development Network 

Trust will help transform the 

former Plunket building in 

Wycola Park into a hangout 

space for after-school use. 

Trust manager and Hornby 

community youth worker James 

Harris said the new space offers 

an opportunity for young people 

to come together, talk to youth 

workers, play games and join in 

activities. 

“The hangout is a safe place 

for young people to come after 

school to play a game of pool 

or foosball, share a scoop of 

chips with friends, play some 

basketball and chat with a youth 

worker,” he said. 

“It also will give us a base for 

meetings on our teen adventure 

camps, and a renewed presence 

at the corner of Wycola Park.” 

Community board chairman 

Mike Mora said it is vital to 

invest in young people living in 

the community. 

“A youth hub provides 

invaluable connections and 

opportunities to build a 

stronger and united growing 

community that benefits 

everyone,” he said. 

Youth workers will be available 

at least three days a week during 

the school term and the hangout 

programme will operate for at 

least two days each week. 

The new hub is likely to open 

towards the end of the year. 

• From page 1 

Burnside team student captain 

Simone Blackie said they picked 

their theme because it was 

something relevant to everyone 

in the audience. 

“In our piece, we contrasted 

our world versus the world of the 

workers who are manufacturing 

our clothing,” she said 

“We did not expect to win. We 

didn’t even think we were going 

to place. It feels amazing. It feels 

unreal.” 

Regional competitions are 

currently under way until July 6. 

Teams were judged on their 

overall production, performance, 

movement and theme. 

Rockquest Promotions general 

manager Matt Ealand said the 

regional Showquest competition 

this year has again opened their 

eyes to how talented the young 

rangatahi are in New Zealand. 

“We are extremely grateful 

to be back with live events 

this year and yet again we are 

amazed by the high quality of 

performances,” he said. 

“The leadership and 

teamwork required in building 

DANCING: The Burnside 

High School team took 

out the top spot at the 

Canterbury Showquest 

competition with their 

choreographed dance 

routine about fast fashion. 

a performance of this level are 

immense and these school teams 

have done an incredible job.” 

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• From page 1 

Halswell Residents’ Association 

secretary David Hawke said the association 

was comfortable with that 

arrangement as the area could do 

with more recreational spaces. 

“If it didn’t [go through], we’d be 

pretty disappointed,” he said. 

“The key outcome we 

want is provision for 

community use.” 

The city council 

planned to discuss the 

sale at its meeting last 

week, but it has been rescheduled 

to a later date. 

It is now being 

discussed at the community 

board’s meeting 

next Tuesday before it proceeds to 

the city council for a decision. 

The city council always intended 

to subdivide the land for its stormwater 

work and eventually sell the 

surplus. 

More land was acquired than 

needed as the original owner was not 

willing to sell the part that the city 

council wanted to develop, therefore it 

purchased the whole site. 

The association saw this as an 

opportunity to save the land for 

residents to use before it went to the 

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In spite of what the association 

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potential housing development 

at this site as he also understood 

its importance. 

Kāinga Ora was not able to 

confirm its intentions with the 

land if it was successful. 

“It’s not appropriate for us to 

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sale of this land,” a Kāinga Ora 

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Halswell Ward city councillor 

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WESTERN NEWS 

A communal garden 

that’s big enough to 

feed a community. 

Parkstone. The space to be yourself. 

Come and see a retirement village where the communal garden is 

big enough to feed the community, where a lap of the pool isn’t the 

same as a width, and where the cinema is not just a big telly. 

Come to Bupa Parkstone where you have the space to be yourself. 

Situated in Ilam this new development is ready to move in now. 

Visit our Open Home this Saturday at 10am to 12pm, and see if 

Bupa Parkstone is right for you. 

Call Debbs on (03) 344 1422 or 027 247 4250 to book a tour. 

2 Athol Terrace, Ilam 

bupa.co.nz/parkstone

Western News: May 27, 2021

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