North Canterbury News: July 01, 2021

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The North Canterbury News, July 1, 2021
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Embrace Fiji given aboost
By ROBYN BRISTOW
Young entrepreneurs ... Sophie and Christina are hoping their
magazine, titled Aeipath, will be successful.
Business competition
Anationalcompetitionis
unearthing somebudding
young entrepreneurs at
Rangiora High School.
Year 13 Rangiora High
Schoolbusiness studentsare
competinginthe Young
Entrepreneurs Scheme,a
year­long national
competition aimedatthem
starting up business.
So far students in the class
have invented self drying
bags, biodegradablehand
sanitiser pods and even
educationaltoiletpaper.
Christina Malcolm and
SophieKiddey are developing
an onlinemagazine, Aeipath,
suitable for findingupcoming
New Zealand local musicians.
‘‘As ahuge supporter of New
Zealandmusic, Iconstantly
struggle with finding new
artists as all the local tunes
are so washedout by
internationalcelebrities,’’
says Sophie who has grownup
playing her own music.
The magazine willfeaturea
new artisteach week, so that
finding new local musicis
simpler thanever.
Sophie’s inspiration behind
the magazine is her personal
passion for New Zealand
music.
“I havesomany talented
friends that I’vemet through
being involved with the local
music scene, and they struggle
to get anyone to hear their art.
Aeipath is designed to fix
that.”
Swimming is proving to be just
the tonic for Christine Patterson.
Christine, who has been
battling depression for over a
decade, has taken the plunge,
and is back in the pool, which is
proving to be agreat place to find
solace.
Recently she swam 100 lengths
of Rangiora’s Dudley Park pool.
Her efforts were not just for
her own wellbeing however, but
to help raise funds for a
Salvation Army project, Embrace
Fiji,aretreat for women.
‘‘For me personally, through
helping these ladies in Fiji, I
have been helped in return,’’ says
Christine.
Her decision to get back in the
pool has been life changing.
She can now do every day jobs
like grocery shopping, and enjoys
being back in the garden.
Her problems began with pain
in her feet ­Plantar fasciitis.
With the pain being so horrific,
feet bandaged, unable to swim,
unable to walk, unable to
continue her lifeguard work, and
unable to be aswim instructor, or
work at an elderly persons home,
Christine became isolated.
The February 2011
Christchurch earthquake also
took its toll.
‘‘With the sale of our house,
and unable to begin our new
build, it must have been all too
much and depression set in.
Once the bandages were off,
she couldn’t bring herself to get
back into the pool.
But hearing about Embrace
Fiji,Christine made it her goal to
In the swim ... Christine (centre), with Stacey Bruce from the Salvation
Army in Rangiora (left) and Christine’s husband Gordon, who supported her
during her swim.
PHOTO: SUPPLIED
get back in the pool to help at
least one Fijian lady go to the
retreat, by swimming 100,
sponsored 25 metre lengths of the
Dudley Park pool.
Once back in the water,
Christine found she was
‘‘surprisingly happy’’. Each
Tuesday for three weeks she
swam, culminating in tackling
the 100 lengths. Her efforts are
helping 20 women attend the
retreat.
Embrace Fiji is the Salvation
Army New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga
and Samoa Women's Ministries
Territorial Project for 2021. ‘‘I
would like to say ahuge thank
you to folk in Rangiora, and
beyond, for your generosity in
sponsoring this swim, to support
the ladies in Fiji.’’
People can still donate to the
cause with forms available from
the Salvation Army office in
Ashley Street, Rangiora.
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