Selwyn Times: June 09, 2021

Wednesday June 9 2021 Selwyn Times
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Cancer survivor and
aged advocatehonoured
CANCER SURVIVOR Diana
Reid of Darfield has received
the Queen’s Service Medal for
services to cancer support.
The 80-yearold
(left) is one
of two residents
in the district
who have been
recognised in
the Queen’s
Birthday Honours.
The other
is Stephen Phillips of Rolleston,
who has been named a Member
of the New Zealand Order of
Merit, for services to seniors and
the community.
Reid helped to establish the
Malvern Cancer Support Group
in Darfield in 1983, after identifying
the need for a local group. She
is herself a bowel cancer survivor,
having contracted the illness at
the young age of 34.
Reid said she felt the medal
was not just for herself, but that it
was also for her late friend Janice
Collier, who was a co-founder of
the group.
“She died of cancer in 1999,
that was devastating for me,”
Reid said.
Reid was the group’s coordinator
for many years. The
role included providing transport
to hospital for residents receiving
treatment, supplying affected
families with meals, offering
cleaning and gardening services,
and providing companionship
and moral support.
Thirty-eight years later, she
is still an active member of the
group.
Reid has been involved with
fundraising for the Cancer Society
of New Zealand Canterbury
– West Coast Division, including
its signature Daffodil Day event
and Relay for Life.
While she is regarded as a dedicated
volunteer and inspiration to
those facing a cancer diagnosis,
she was humble about receiving
the QSM.
“I feel very grateful, but there’s
so many people, it wasn’t just
me, it’s always been a combined
effort,” she said.
Phillips was chief executive of
Age Concern Canterbury from
2008 to 2012 and has been vice
president of Age Concern New
Zealand since 2020. He was a national
board member from 2017
and a Canterbury board member
from 2014.
He has empowered older
people by establishing, promoting
and supporting initiatives to
improve the quality of services.
Since 2016, he has been an
independent trustee of Ōtautahi
Community
Housing Trust,
which manages
a social housing
portfolio
of more than
2400 units. He
has been deputy
Stephen
Phillips
chairman of
the Canterbury
District Health
Board consumer council and a
trustee of Canterbury Health
Care for Elderly Trust since 2017.
He has contributed to the
development of city-wide
policies to promote inclusive
communities and ensured
funding for organisations
working with seniors.
Phillips was instrumental in
setting up service desks after
the 2011 earthquake. He was
convener of all service desks in
Canterbury from 2012 to 2016.
He has been a Justice of the
Peace since 1996. He has had
multiple governance roles with
the Canterbury Justices of the
Peace Association, including as
president from 2011 to 2013.
2021
ARIEL: Annie Strong from Broadfield Flowers with the
sculpture on Gerald St, Lincoln.
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN
First sculpture in place
A STRIKING bronze sculpture
has been welcomed into Lincoln
by residents including Annie
Strong from nearby Broadfield
Flowers.
Ariel by Llew Summers has
taken up temporary residence on
council-owned land across the
road from the Famous Grouse
Hotel.
The Lincoln Community
Committee has partnered with
the Tai Tapu Sculpture Garden
to bring the 2010 installation to
the town.
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Committee member and district
councillor Grant Miller said
a new piece would feature at the
site every six months or so. “It’s
a great piece to start with, from
a well-known sculptor,” Miller
said.
Ariel was created in 2010 as
one of a sequence of 10 monumental
bronzes by the late artist.
It is a semi-abstract wing form,
inspired by Giotto’s frescoes in
the Scrovegni Chapel at Padua,
Italy, which Summers visited
in 1999.
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