Ashburton Courier: June 24, 2021

NEWS
4 Ashburton Courier, June 24, 2021
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Fast &Furious 9
20 Years ago amovie opened here that
drew its inspiration from a magazine
article about illegal street racing.
Six billion dollars in box office receipts
(and counting) F9 opens in Ashburton.
The plot, hell you don’t need to know the
plot as it’s justawild ride,faster and higher
than the franchise has driven before.
Oh all right, Dom’sbrother,sins of the past,
worldwide plot.You get the picture.
Big,dumb,silly over the topand ahellofa
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did the crowds thatflocked to it mind? No
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Support for rural community
Businesses, organisations, groups
and individuals have steppedupto
help rural communitymembers
impacted by the damaging effectsof
recent flood waters.
The floods,which hit on May 30,
saw riversredirected across
properties, river bermsand roads
washedout,fences downed, animals
lost, anddebris strewn about.
Federated Farmers flood recovery
co­ordinator AngelaCushnieispart
of aco­ordinated team,led by
AshburtonDistrict Council, working
in Mid Canterbury to helpfarmers
withtheirflood recovery planning.
She said everyone in thedistrict’s
risk areas had been contactedand
their ongoingneedswerebeing
assessed.
In the immediate aftermath of the
flooding ­and following some
mammoth volunteer turnouts ­the
clean up was movingfrom response
and into recovery mode, shesaid.
Information on the needs of
families in the affected areas was
being processed andonceavailable,
no farmer­nor their family­would
be left behind,she said.
Itdid howeverinvolveabit of
strategic planning and wasa
marathon effort,not asprint, Mrs
Cushnie said.
However anyonewith immediate
concerns, or questions,were
encouraged to get in touch either
through the Mid Canterbury Farmy
ArmyFacebookpageorbyphoning
027 603 3457.
There had been many ‘‘bootsonthe
ground’’ volunteers since the
flooding and included skilled labour,
practical farmers, those able to
mentor, and those with lightorheavy
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Federated Farmers flood recovery co­ordinator Angela Cushnie (left) with
Mitre 10 Mega Ashburton managing director Simon Lye and adonation of
heavy­duty shovels for recovery work.
farmers and contractors.
There wasalsobaking and care
packages.
‘‘Everyone is putting in somepretty
big hours at themoment, stress levels
are highand the initialshock is
slowly wearing off,’’ she said.
‘‘Anyonestruggling in terms of
mental wellbeing canphone or text
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Mitre 10 Mega Ashburton
managing director Simon Lyehas
been oneofthe many businesses to
make contact, donating 50 heavy duty
shovels for bootsontheground
volunteers. He said it was achance
for the company to give back to those
in the ruralcommunity who were
very supportive of the business.
Recovery action plan started
AshburtonDistrict Councilhas
developed arecoveryactionplan to
establish and planfor an effective
recovery after therecent major
floodinginthe district.
Significant floodingsaw record
levels of rain fallfor three daysfrom
May 30 and the declaration of alocal
stateofemergency.
Therecovery plan is aliving
document and outlines theprinciple
aspectsofthe transition from
response to recovery.
As the recovery progresses and
moreinformation is gathered, the
plan willbereviewedand is likely to
be simplerand shorter.
Thedraft recovery plan was
receivedatlast week’s council
meetingand councillor JohnFalloon
saiditlaid downthe processes and
protocols needed to move the district
forward after the flood event.
The planwill establish timeframes
for implementing recovery activities
andwill assign responsibilities.
Fourgroups have been set up by
council to look at specific areas of
the recovery.
The initialfocus is on the social
andeconomic environmentsand a
welfare/social workinggroupwill coordinate
support services.
With farming amajorcontributor
to the local economy, arural
economy group willco­ordinate the
impact of the flood on the economic
healthofthe district.
Abuild infrastructure group will
targetareturn of damaged
infrastructure and property andwill
look at areas such as roads,water
andwastewater assets, and the
Ashburtonbridge.
And anatural environment group
will focus on resolving the effectson
the land, water and air in the district.
The working groups will work
alongside arange of taskholdersand
agencies,including NZTA,
Environment Canterbury, Federated
Farmers, theInsurance Council and
Department of Conservation.
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