Western News: May 27, 2021

THURSDAY, MAY 27, 2021
Connecting Your Local Community
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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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Fendalton, Hornby, Halswell and
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Thursday, Friday, Monday,
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Family History
Wednesday, 11am-1pm
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Showquest
champs
strike a chord
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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$24k grant for youth hub
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.
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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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Land sale up
for discussion
• 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
open market.
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the need for more affordable
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population continues to grow, so
several housing providers were also
contacted to gauge interest.
In spite of what the association
wanted, Hawke was not against a
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
comment at this stage, ahead
of any council decision on the
sale of this land,” a Kāinga Ora
spokesperson said.
Halswell Ward city councillor
Anne Galloway said affordable
housing was needed, particularly
due to an ageing population and
that first-home buyers like young
families “need a place to live”.
But there was a “real opportunity”
for community involvement in
planning what this space could look
like.
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of people to work with to design
a space that is going to provide an
environment we want our families to
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Prepare your
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Preventative home
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Prepare your
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Did you know that healthy trees can add
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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
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Visit our Open Home this Saturday at 10am to 12pm, and see if
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Call Debbs on (03) 344 1422 or 027 247 4250 to book a tour.
2 Athol Terrace, Ilam
bupa.co.nz/parkstone