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Hangar project set for take off<br />
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@ashburtoncourier.co.nz<br />
It’salreadyrated as oneofthe<br />
bestinthe country, but plans<br />
for abig hangarextension will<br />
cement <strong>Ashburton</strong>Aviation<br />
Museum’splaceasone of the<br />
bestinAustralasia.<br />
Abuild committeehas been<br />
formed to guideand coordinate<br />
the1880m2 hangar<br />
project whichwill house<br />
aircraftand cabinetdisplays.<br />
Ashopand reception area<br />
willadd another160m2tothe<br />
build andwilllink the new<br />
building to the currentround<br />
hangar to create ahuge<br />
aviation display complex.<br />
In 2008the aviation museum<br />
built and openedthe super<br />
hangar (1920m2)toprovide a<br />
homefor the SouthernDC3<br />
aircraftZKAMY andother<br />
planes.<br />
Themuseum has 40 aircraft<br />
in its fleetand is eyeing a<br />
couplemore.<br />
Space is amajorissueand to<br />
do thecollection justice the<br />
way forwardwas to be build a<br />
new hangar, <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
AviationMuseumbuilding<br />
committee chairman Owen<br />
Moore said.<br />
An airambulance was<br />
sittingaround withoutits<br />
wings becausethere was no<br />
roomand aCessnaagwagon<br />
and otheritemswere in<br />
storage.<br />
Mr Moore said the museum<br />
would be 50yearsold in 2024<br />
and it hoped to have the new<br />
hangar builtbythen.<br />
‘‘We’re not in ahurrytodo<br />
it. We want to do it once and do<br />
it right.’’<br />
Theestimatedcostofthe<br />
project is $1.2 million.<br />
Mr Moore saidthe new<br />
hangar would feature a<br />
mezzanine floor that would be<br />
usedtodisplay memorabilia.<br />
Settingupthe displayson<br />
wheels wouldenable the<br />
space to be cleared andused<br />
as afunction area thatthe<br />
community wouldbe<br />
encouraged to use.<br />
Museum consultant Richard<br />
Arlidge hasbeen employed to<br />
helpthe museum group come<br />
up withaproject plan and<br />
plannedworkshops will fill in<br />
the gapsasthe project<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Aviation Museum president Stephen Johnston and<br />
buildingcommittee chairman Owen Moorelook over the initial<br />
plans for the newhangar.<br />
progresses.<br />
Afeasibilitystudy,<br />
including costings,will follow,<br />
and also detaileddesign<br />
plans.<br />
Mr Moore said anumber of<br />
differentfunding bodies<br />
would be approached and it<br />
washoped to havethe project<br />
open by November 2024.<br />
Theround hanger at the<br />
museum houses adozen<br />
aircraft including aPolish Mig<br />
17,TigerMoth, Spartanand<br />
aero clubplanes.<br />
The super hangar is hometo<br />
theDC3 and twodozen other<br />
planesand exhibits.<br />
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Majorupgrades ahead for<br />
Methvenwater supply<br />
MICK.JENSEN<br />
@ashburtoncourier.co.nz<br />
Methven will get anew<br />
water reservoirand new<br />
treatmentplantnext year<br />
to help alleviate the water<br />
woes faced by residentsin<br />
recent weeks, and future<br />
proof thesupply.<br />
Residents connected to<br />
the Methven and Methven<br />
Springfield water schemes<br />
have needed to boil water<br />
for anumberof days<br />
recently due to sedimentinfected<br />
water infiltrating<br />
intakegalleries.<br />
Both schemes take and<br />
treat shallowgroundwater<br />
from the north branchof<br />
the <strong>Ashburton</strong>Riverbut<br />
turbiditylevels have<br />
triggeredboil water<br />
notices.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>District<br />
Council infrastructure<br />
services managerNeil<br />
McCann said the May flood<br />
andrecent heavyrain have<br />
resulted in sedimentladen<br />
water overwhelming the<br />
intake galleries.<br />
Mr McCann said therain<br />
eventscombined with<br />
higherdrinking water<br />
standards imposed after<br />
the 2016 Havelock North<br />
water contamination<br />
incident werethe drivers<br />
for the boilwater notices.<br />
Nine boil water notices<br />
have been issued over the<br />
last 14 years, but they<br />
would be athingofthe past<br />
with the proposed<br />
upgrades,hesaid.<br />
Mr McCannsaid<br />
upgrades to Methven’s<br />
water resources werea<br />
priority for <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
District Council,were<br />
budgeted in the Long Term<br />
Planand were happening.<br />
The recommendation to<br />
council at yesterday’s<br />
meeting, (whichtook place<br />
after thepaper had gone to<br />
print), was that adetailed<br />
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Flood damage on the<br />
ground layers above the<br />
Methven intake gallery,<br />
which is 4m below the<br />
surface. The gallery has<br />
chambers and pipes which<br />
collect water filtered<br />
through the ground layers<br />
above.<br />
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designofatreatment<br />
upgradesolution forthe<br />
Methven and Methven<br />
Springfield schemes<br />
continued on thebasis of a<br />
single treatment facility.<br />
It was also recommended<br />
that physical works<br />
budgets for both upgrades<br />
be brought forward to the<br />
<strong>2021</strong>/22 financialyear.<br />
In alater, closed<br />
meeting, council<br />
considered tenders for a<br />
newMethvenwater storage<br />
reservoir. An<br />
announcement on that<br />
decision andscaleofthe<br />
project is expected soon.<br />
Most on boardbacksolutions<br />
Most Methven Community Board<br />
(MCB)members voicedtheir support<br />
for <strong>Ashburton</strong>District Council’s<br />
planstoprogress water upgrades in<br />
Methven, but one, RonSmith,<br />
remainedunsurethat theproposed<br />
reservoirupgrade was the best<br />
solution for the township.<br />
Mr Smith, whohas longargued that<br />
there are better andcheaper water<br />
sources available to Methven, saidhe<br />
wantedthe reservoir project tender<br />
put on hold and apublic meeting<br />
called.<br />
He said other water sourceslike<br />
the Pudding HillStream, Lyndhurst<br />
or awell option belowMethven could<br />
save millions.<br />
Mr Smith was shot downbyfellow<br />
board membersand Western Ward<br />
councillor Rodger Letham.<br />
Cr Letham said he had confidence<br />
in the decision making of council<br />
staffand their ability to firm up a<br />
tendercontract that was the best for<br />
Methven.<br />
He said health and safety triggered<br />
alot of what council was doing with<br />
Methven Community Board members in discussion at this week’s meeting.<br />
water in the township.<br />
MCB chairman DanMcLaughlin<br />
said it had beenalongroadtoget to<br />
thispoint.<br />
Therehad been public meetings,<br />
workshops andMCB had onlybeen<br />
able to achievesomuch.<br />
‘‘A lot of work has gone intothis and<br />
now it’stime getonand get it done.’’<br />
Mr McLaughlin said he waskeento<br />
see the water treatment upgrade for<br />
the Methven and Methven<br />
Springfield schemes brought forward<br />
to <strong>2021</strong>/22.<br />
Kelvin Holmes saidsubmitters had<br />
had inputeverystep of the way in the<br />
water process.<br />
Thereservoirwas onepart of the<br />
upgrade and that should have been<br />
done five years ago.<br />
He said Methven neededtomake<br />
the best of what council decided.<br />
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Free dental care offered to Community<br />
Services Card holders<br />
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Free dental care is being<br />
offeredatDentistry on<br />
Parkside for two days next<br />
month.<br />
Smile NZ free dentaldays,<br />
managed by the New Zealand<br />
DentalAssociation, offer to<br />
solve adentalissue of<br />
Community Service Card<br />
holders free of charge.<br />
Dentistry on Parkside<br />
practice coordinator Bernie<br />
Jopson said usually Community<br />
Services Card holders were<br />
only eligiblefor emergency<br />
treatment. ‘‘So the freedental<br />
days give the opportunity to get<br />
afilling done or checkup that is<br />
not covered underthe<br />
emergency treatment,’’ she<br />
said.<br />
Arun Velusamu, Michael<br />
Holdaway and AmandaSia are<br />
volunteeringthis year at the<br />
clinicdays on August14and 21.<br />
People wishing to book an<br />
appointment are asked to call<br />
0800 373 376 and have their<br />
current Community Services<br />
Card on hand when they ring.<br />
It was something Dentistry on<br />
Parkside like to support and<br />
give their time to, ‘‘but we<br />
would also like to encourage<br />
school children to have<br />
checkups,’’ she said.<br />
Year 9toage 18 dental care is<br />
covered undergovernment<br />
funding.<br />
‘‘So we really encourage<br />
parents to enrol their<br />
children,’’ she said. For adults,<br />
an annual checkup was<br />
recommended to prevent any<br />
surprises ‘‘prevention is better<br />
thancure.’’<br />
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patient.<br />
Flood<br />
insurance<br />
claims<br />
Insurancecustomers through the<br />
Canterbury region lodged 3538 claims<br />
costingover $43.8 million for insured losses<br />
following the May <strong>29</strong> June 1floods.<br />
Provisional figuresreleased by the<br />
InsuranceCouncil of NewZealand show<br />
there were2327 house andcontents claims,<br />
288 claimsfor motor,842 commercialand<br />
businessrelated claims, and 77 crop and<br />
other claims,which can include claimsfor<br />
livestock.<br />
ICNZ chief executive TimGraftonsaid the<br />
figures reflected the vastdamage floods<br />
leave behind, andhow importantitistohave<br />
insurancetohelpyou get back on your feet<br />
when the unexpected happens.<br />
Mr Grafton said the recent floods were the<br />
start of what is provingtobeastormy winter<br />
for the country.<br />
While insurance played avital roleto<br />
support communities managerisks, both<br />
centraland local government played akey<br />
roleto supportour adaptation to achanging<br />
climateand building more resilient<br />
communities.<br />
That could mean improving infrastructure<br />
such as stormwater systems, not consenting<br />
new properties in higher risk areas, as well<br />
as buildingmore resilientresidential and<br />
commercial buildings,MrGraftonsaid.<br />
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<strong>Ashburton</strong> College seniorAboysplayers (fromleft) BradDouglas, Riley Sa andCaleb McNulty faceoff with<br />
invitationalteam players Ashlee Strawbridge, Paul ‘Bait’ Robinson and Mark ‘Roasty’ Douglasin preparationof a<br />
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Lines drawn forgamefundraiser<br />
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The battle lines have been drawn for<br />
afundraising basketball match<br />
pitting the youth,speed and agility of<br />
the <strong>Ashburton</strong> College senior Aboys<br />
team against an experienced<br />
invitationalside.<br />
Those invitedtoplay in the<br />
invitationalteam include veterans<br />
Doug Coley, Brian Kerr and Bob<br />
Scammell, Phill Hooper, as well as<br />
the experienced Pip Johnstone,<br />
Kampbell Stills and NewZealand<br />
agegroup representative Ashlee<br />
Strawbridge.<br />
College coach Mark‘Roasty’<br />
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raise fundsfor the college team<br />
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SecondarySchools Tournament in<br />
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The side, which includes<br />
Canterbury agegroup<br />
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Thompson Trophycompetition and<br />
were hoping to build on that in the<br />
upcoming tournament.<br />
An 11strong squadwill head<br />
south,along with Roasty, assistant<br />
coach Paula Strawbridge and<br />
manager Suz Burns.<br />
Those in the invitational side have<br />
just two weekstoget in to their<br />
heyday playing condition with the<br />
game being played at the Mid<br />
Canterbury Basketball stadium, on<br />
OxfordStreet, in <strong>Ashburton</strong> on<br />
August 14.<br />
Roasty, who has been coachingthe<br />
gamefor many years, last played<br />
around four or five years ago and will<br />
face his son, Brad on the college<br />
team.<br />
Roasty has aplan to take early<br />
possession,show his skills against<br />
the younger Douglas and then sub<br />
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Specialistguard Paul ‘Bait’<br />
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Zonta supports women’s refuge<br />
Members of Zonta<strong>Ashburton</strong>have<br />
runaempowerment andpamper<br />
dayfor women through Mid South<br />
CanterburyWomen’sRefuge and<br />
Family Services.<br />
Thewomen,all completinga<br />
programme for thepast few weeks<br />
through the service,spentthe day<br />
learningself defence skills,<br />
strengtheningtheir relationships<br />
with othersand enjoying<br />
themselves.<br />
Zontaspokeswoman JudithEarly<br />
said the special day for eight women<br />
washeld in the community lounge at<br />
RosebankRetirementVillage.<br />
It startedwithagreeting and<br />
morningtea which was followed by a<br />
lesson in somebasic self defence<br />
moves courtesy of Mid Canterbury<br />
Taikwondo MOWA and Tangsodo<br />
MMA clubof<strong>Ashburton</strong>members.<br />
Fashion advicewas then offered<br />
by Christine Todd andCynthia<br />
Downswho shared tipsondressing<br />
with confidence, and how to tie<br />
scarves andhow colour can change<br />
or lift an outfit.<br />
Donated scarves and jewellery<br />
were also available for thewomen to<br />
takehome.<br />
‘‘Thiswas followed by alovely<br />
lunchprovidedbythe <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Zontaclub members andthen there<br />
wassomereal pampering with Sue<br />
fromBridge to Beauty doing<br />
makeup,JanefromJane Moore's<br />
Beauty Treatmentshelping with<br />
nails andmakeup, Kat from<br />
Bellissimo Day Spa doing nails,<br />
Debbieand Katyafrom DNA<br />
Women enjoying some hair cuts and styling during an empowerment and<br />
pampering day run by Zonta <strong>Ashburton</strong> members.<br />
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Hairdressingdoing haircutsand<br />
styling, Karen from Capelli Hair<br />
Designalso doing haircuts and<br />
styling, Rebecca fromAdagio<br />
Massage gave shoulder massages<br />
andBarma from BK Hair and<br />
Beauty Salon did eyebrow threading<br />
andhaircutsand styling.’’<br />
‘‘It was aniceway to end the<br />
programme with thewomen leaving<br />
feeling good,’’ Judithsaid.<br />
All servicesonthe day were<br />
provided free of charge fromthe<br />
businessesinvolvedand Zonta<br />
membersalso presented adonation<br />
to Women’s Refuge.
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<strong>Ashburton</strong> <strong>Courier</strong>, <strong>July</strong> <strong>29</strong>, <strong>2021</strong><br />
Vintage wedding gowns on the catwalk<br />
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@ashburtoncourier.co.nz<br />
Vintagewedding gownshad a<br />
moment to shine again last<br />
week whenthe Mid Canterbury<br />
Federation of Women’s<br />
Institutes (WI) held awedding<br />
dresses and gowns parade<br />
duringtheir annual federation<br />
cup day.<br />
Teenager Maddie Page wore<br />
the wedding gownofher great<br />
grandmother MaryPage, from<br />
1946, teamedwiththe veil of<br />
her own grandmother Isabell<br />
Page,(from 1976), nineyearold<br />
Amelia Brockhurst andher<br />
mother, Emma each woreblue<br />
wedding gowns and Heidi<br />
Wilkins wore the weddingdress<br />
of her mother MavisWilkins<br />
(from 1973).<br />
Amelia was wearing the blue<br />
linen wedding gown of her<br />
great, great, great grandmother<br />
from 1871, and Emma,her own<br />
wedding attire from 2009.<br />
Amelia offsether wedding<br />
gownwith delicate Victorianstyled<br />
leather boots of her<br />
great, greatgrandmother.<br />
The WI’s annual cupday<br />
traditionally sawmembers<br />
vying for the RugbyCup, in cup<br />
day entries in sectionsacross<br />
cooking, floral works,craft,<br />
knitting/crochet and<br />
photography.<br />
Butthis year members<br />
introduced anovelty wedding<br />
gowns paradefor fun, and it<br />
drew acrowdtothe <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Senior Centrewith onlookers<br />
keen to see thefashions of the<br />
day.<br />
There were 31 wedding<br />
dresses andninebridesmaid’s<br />
gownsinsilks, satin,linen and<br />
delicate fabrics withintricate<br />
beading, lace or buttonworks of<br />
their times,made by brides and<br />
professionaldressmakers,<br />
eitherwornbymodels such as<br />
Bella Dawson, or MillyChristie,<br />
or carried in the parade such as<br />
Jude Vaughan(1879) and Rona<br />
McConnell(1946).<br />
Manyof thegowns were the<br />
WI members own, but some had<br />
come from past generations.<br />
The heirloom gown worn by<br />
Ameliawas ownedby20yearoldSarah<br />
Ann Winifred Clark<br />
when she wedWilliam Hiley,at<br />
theTredegar parish churchin<br />
Bedwellty, Wales on August, 28,<br />
1871.<br />
It had separate bodiceand<br />
skirt, which by coincidenceso<br />
didAmelia’s mother Emma’s<br />
linen design, which wasthe<br />
fashion of the1865sstyle.<br />
Brianna Sloper (left) and Milly<br />
Christie, both 16, back stage.<br />
PHOTOS TONI WILLIAMS<br />
(from left) Isabell Page, Maddie Page, Heidi Wilkins, Bella Dawson and Mavis<br />
Wilkins get ready backstage.<br />
Maddie Page wearing the gown of her great grandmother<br />
teamed with the veil of her grandmother.<br />
Eightyearold Amelia Brockhurst with mother<br />
Emma Brockhurst and grandmother Sue<br />
ButterickKent.<br />
After-school art club ahit with creative kids<br />
The creativejuiceswereflowingon<br />
MondayatSue Yearbury’s new afterschool<br />
art club.<br />
Aimed at those aged seven to 12 years, the<br />
art sessions run for an hour from3.30pm<br />
eachMondayand classes are booked full<br />
this term.<br />
Theart clubwillexplore clay, painting,<br />
drawing,stamping,sculpting,art<br />
journalling, creativecard making,<br />
bookmarks andcollage over the coming<br />
weeks.<br />
Students willkeepajournal of simple<br />
notes of whattheylearn and will takehome<br />
worksheets and their art creations.<br />
They will also discuss techniquesand<br />
willlook at New Zealand artists.<br />
Sue YearburysaidCreative Kids Art Club<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> was about providing apositive<br />
and encouraging environment withall the<br />
tools and materials required to design and<br />
create individualworks of art.<br />
Shewas aselftaughtphotographerand<br />
facepainter andafacilitatorofart rather<br />
thanateacher.<br />
She providedthe space thatallowedthe<br />
children to explore art activitiesand<br />
expressthemselvesthoughtheir own art<br />
works.<br />
With amindtorecycling, classes will<br />
paint over reuse old canvases and other<br />
resources where possible reuse them.<br />
Sue Yearburyislooking to addasecond<br />
artclass next termthatwillrun from<br />
5.30pm until 6.30pm.<br />
She can be messagedthrough the<br />
CreativeKids Art Club <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Facebookpagefor more information.<br />
Sue Yearbury (right) checks out the efforts of<br />
her students at the clay making class.<br />
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6 <strong>Ashburton</strong> <strong>Courier</strong>, <strong>July</strong> <strong>29</strong>, <strong>2021</strong><br />
Youth survey out<br />
The YMCA South &Mid<br />
Canterbury YouthSurveyisback<br />
again for<strong>2021</strong>–with adifference<br />
aimed at enticing more complete<br />
responses fromthe region’s<br />
young people.<br />
Thetwoyearly survey seeksto<br />
give avoice to youngpeople ages<br />
1224years living in the Mid and<br />
South Canterbury region.<br />
This yearthe survey has been<br />
splitinto three parts, each of<br />
which takesonly about five<br />
minutes to complete.<br />
Thethreeparts fcous on<br />
attitudes, education and<br />
employment, andwellbeing. All<br />
threeparts are now live online<br />
and can be completed in any<br />
order and until August 22.<br />
Survey projectmanager<br />
MichèleKeggenhoff saidthe<br />
movetoathreepart survey was<br />
designed to ensure agreater<br />
proportionofcomplete responses<br />
to all sections of the survey.<br />
“Sinceour firstYouth Surveyin<br />
2014we’vealways gotten areally<br />
goodnumberofyoungpeople<br />
taking part.<br />
‘‘But it’s along survey–about 15<br />
minutes to answer all 40<br />
questions–and not everyone<br />
makes it all the waytothe end. So,<br />
we thought we’d makethings abit<br />
more youthfriendly and split the<br />
survey into shortersections that<br />
takeonly about five minutes to<br />
complete,” she said.<br />
If ayoungperson only had afew<br />
minutes,theycould answer one<br />
partand return later to complete<br />
the other parts.<br />
Newquestionsthis yearask<br />
about the effects of the Covid19<br />
pandemic on youngpeople,<br />
behaviours around drugs,<br />
alcohol, vaping, sextingand<br />
pornography, andwork<br />
readiness.<br />
Areportofthe survey results<br />
willbemadepublic in early<br />
September.<br />
“Wesharethe results widely<br />
withdecisionmakers in the<br />
government, business, health,<br />
education andsocialsectors so<br />
thatthe collective youth voiceof<br />
our entire regionisrepresented,”<br />
Ms Keggenhoff said.<br />
The survey is conducted bythe<br />
YMCA as apublicservice to both<br />
the region’s young people and the<br />
wider community. It covers the<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>, Timaru, Mackenzie<br />
and Waimate districts.<br />
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Funds for Methven promotion<br />
Methven Community Borad<br />
(MCB) will use $4300ofsundry<br />
expenditure to continue to<br />
promote business and events<br />
through the MethvenNZ domain<br />
name.<br />
The money will be used to<br />
further develop the website and<br />
social media pages and in the<br />
general promotion of local<br />
events.<br />
An incorporated society, or<br />
something similar may alsobeset<br />
up to protect the domain name.<br />
MCB chairman Dan<br />
McLaughlin saidfunding would<br />
be used to build credibility of<br />
MethvenNZ and to support and<br />
provide returns for Methven and<br />
the wider community.<br />
He said75per cent of those<br />
using the events page were not for<br />
profit organisations and event<br />
listings would remain free.<br />
Paul Sparrow (left), of New Zealand Sock Company, with Lexi Moore, 8, and her specially<br />
designed Red Nose Day appeal socks.<br />
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Eightyearold Lexi Moore’s<br />
rainbow coloured, striped<br />
Red Nose Day socks are<br />
helping raise money for Cure<br />
Kids.<br />
Thelimited editionmerino<br />
wool socks were designed by<br />
Lexi as partofanationwide<br />
competition and made by<br />
New Zealand Sock Company.<br />
Both Lexi andthe sock<br />
company are based in<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> butLexi’s winning<br />
design waschosenbyCure<br />
Kids, who were impressed<br />
with the choiceofcolours in<br />
her design and the use of the<br />
red nose dots.<br />
It was a“crazy drawing”,<br />
Lexi said, using bright<br />
colours whichjustflowedat<br />
the time and earned her, and<br />
her family,pairs of limited<br />
edition RedNoseDay socks.<br />
And, asanadded bonus,<br />
had helpedtoincrease sales<br />
of the socks forthe appeal.<br />
New Zealand Sock<br />
Company sales executive<br />
Paul Sparrow said the<br />
company hadanongoing<br />
relationship with Cure Kids<br />
and Lexi’s specially designed<br />
socks were the latest Red<br />
Nose Day product to support<br />
the annual appeal; last year it<br />
was Red Nose Day facemasks.<br />
This year marks aspecial<br />
occasion for bothCure Kids<br />
and NewZealand Sock<br />
Company who celebrate their<br />
50th and120th anniversaries,<br />
respectively.<br />
The socks, which come in<br />
childrens,womens and mens<br />
sizes can be boughtdirect<br />
from the company in<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> or viathe company<br />
website, with $5 from each<br />
pair sold donated to theRed<br />
Nose Day appeal.<br />
The RedNose Day appeal<br />
which has been running<br />
through <strong>July</strong>, was seeking to<br />
raise $1million to help with<br />
research into awide range of<br />
child health conditions. A<br />
number of fundraising<br />
activities have been held<br />
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Round two of<br />
fund to support<br />
tourist events<br />
People organising Mid Canterbury events attracting<br />
visitors fromoutside the districtare being encouraged<br />
to applyfor up to $10,000 fromaregional event fundset<br />
up by the Ministry of Business, Innovationand<br />
Employment.<br />
MidCanterbury has $230,000 to spendoverfouryears<br />
to helpthe district attract domestic tourists. Nine<br />
eventswere allocated about $50,000 in the firstround<br />
earlier this year and now the second round is openfor<br />
applications, with $36,000 to distribute.<br />
TheSouth Island Secondary Schoolsmountain bike<br />
championships werehosted at the Mt Hutt bikepark<br />
this year by Bike Methven and organisers were<br />
allocated $3,764 fromthe regional fund to help run the<br />
event.<br />
Thechamps attractedseveral hundred riders, and<br />
theirsupport crews, whostayed in the district for<br />
several days.<br />
Theorganisers of athreedaynationalpickleball<br />
tournament heldinthe EA Networks Centre earlier this<br />
month werealso among those ninefirstround events<br />
andwere allocated $5,000 for their sportingevent.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>District Mayor NeilBrownsaid anyone<br />
with agreat event ideaand aplan to makeithappen<br />
should applyfor funding,especially if it wouldattract<br />
visitors to the districtfor an overnight stay.<br />
‘‘Thisisanopportunity forour community to put our<br />
district on the mapwith events thatwill be areal<br />
drawcard for visitors and drive spending in our local<br />
economy.’’<br />
To be eligible forfunding,events need to havea<br />
duration of between two andfouryears andmust<br />
demonstrate how theywill attract outofregionvisitors.<br />
Applications for the secondround of the regional<br />
event fundopen on September 1and closeon<br />
September20.<br />
Eventorganisers can applyfor up to $10,000per event<br />
to be heldbetween 1February and 30 June2022.<br />
To apply for funding, visit the council's website<br />
ashburtondc.govt.nz.<br />
Bantam wins<br />
for George<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> man George Whyte has<br />
taken out top prizes at multiple<br />
events with his young bird Molly<br />
in his first season of showing<br />
bantams.<br />
Molly impressed judges at the<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Fanciers Society<br />
annual show in June, and won the<br />
best mottle pekin female award.<br />
At the South Island Poultry<br />
Pigeon and Caged Bird<br />
Association Championships in<br />
Christchurch the same month, the<br />
bird was awinner again.<br />
The trifecta of wins continued<br />
with success again at ashow in<br />
Oamaru earlier this month.<br />
The novice showman has<br />
trophies and certificates to<br />
remember his memorable first<br />
year of bantam showing.<br />
George bought Molly and three<br />
other birds from Mosgiel breeder<br />
Kaye Sangster earlier this year.<br />
He plans to allow her to breed<br />
soon and is hoping her shape and<br />
markings will be passed on to her<br />
offspring<br />
George said he had enjoyed his<br />
first season on the show circuit.<br />
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<strong>Ashburton</strong> <strong>Courier</strong>, <strong>July</strong> <strong>29</strong>, <strong>2021</strong><br />
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He had not expected to win<br />
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his interest in showing.<br />
George also has ayoung male<br />
bantam called Charlie that he<br />
bought locally from breeder<br />
Russell Smith and plans on<br />
pairing him up for breeding as<br />
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Survey for community transport service<br />
The Mid Canterbury Connector<br />
community transport serviceisseeking<br />
volunteers as its user numbers slowly<br />
increase.<br />
Inductionand training as avolunteer<br />
for the service is provided.<br />
The servicerecently carried out an<br />
online survey and the results will be<br />
analysed to help decide apossible new<br />
future operating model.<br />
The service runs two days aweek and<br />
brings peopleliving in the more rural/<br />
remote areasof the districtinto<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> township for medical and<br />
dental appointments, to do business<br />
with council,see familyand friends,<br />
access government and socialservices,<br />
shopping and more.<br />
It is coordinated by Safer Mid<br />
Canterbury andisrunning for atrial<br />
period to see if there is demand for it to<br />
continue.<br />
The serviceuses volunteer drivers.<br />
Every Tuesday the connector<br />
operates from Mt Somers, Staveley,<br />
Methven, Winchmore and Wakanui to<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>.<br />
EveryWednesday it runs from Rakaia<br />
to Chertsey, Fairton/Hakatere Marae<br />
and down to Hinds, dropping peopleoff<br />
in <strong>Ashburton</strong> for afew hours before<br />
taking them home.<br />
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Areadingprogrammethat<br />
supports andimproves<br />
children'sliteracyislooking for<br />
morevolunteers.<br />
The BOOST literacy<br />
programme wasat the<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Librarylastweek<br />
takingsessions of reading<br />
games.<br />
Boostprogramme coordinator<br />
JudithSommerville<br />
saidthe school holidays were<br />
goodtime to showthatreading<br />
games outsideofschool are fun.<br />
‘‘It’s important forchildren to<br />
readathome because the prereading<br />
things are paramount to<br />
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understandsyllablesand the<br />
LETTER TO THE EDITOR<br />
AotearoaLandofthe Long<br />
White Cloud, what apleasant<br />
and awe inspiring country we<br />
live in, untilpolitics raised its<br />
uglyheadNew Zealandwas once<br />
the envy of the world, apeaceful<br />
nation with little or no animosity<br />
between varying sectorsofofthe<br />
community.<br />
Now we havealeft leaning<br />
dictatorship determined to<br />
wreak havocinall sectors of the<br />
community.<br />
soundoflanguage,soits really<br />
important before theygoto<br />
school to be readytoread.’’<br />
Nineyearold Genevieve who<br />
was taking part in the session,<br />
alsohas BOOSTtuitionat<br />
LauristonSchooland thoughtit<br />
wasreally fun and helped with<br />
her school work. ‘‘It makes it a<br />
lotbetter in class, but thisisstill<br />
better than school,’’she said.<br />
Theprogrammerelies on<br />
volunteers, ‘‘wehave63<br />
volunteers thatgointoschools<br />
and help,’’Judithsaid.<br />
Full training is provided to all<br />
volunteers, formore<br />
information contactJudith at<br />
winterviewfarm@gmail.com<br />
An attempt to nullify the<br />
farmingindustry as previous<br />
Labour governmentshave done<br />
since the1940’s<br />
Whosaved thecountry during<br />
Covid19? Farming.<br />
Thisgovernment hasborrowed<br />
billions of dollars and as interest<br />
rates rise worldwide, future<br />
generations will be left with a<br />
legacy of debt repayments for<br />
decades.<br />
AAndrews
NEWS<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> <strong>Courier</strong>, <strong>July</strong> <strong>29</strong>, <strong>2021</strong><br />
9<br />
Building consents<br />
second highest<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> District Council<br />
received building consents with<br />
avalue of $212 million for the<br />
financial year ended June, its<br />
second highest total on record.<br />
Of those, consentswere<br />
issued for building and<br />
development projects worth<br />
$162 million.<br />
The number of consents<br />
received for the yearwas 751,<br />
compared to 593 the previous<br />
year.<br />
Council strategy and<br />
compliance managerJane<br />
Donaldson said economists had<br />
predicted an economic<br />
downturn because of covid, but<br />
like other councils around the<br />
country,this district wasseeing<br />
highlevels of building activity.<br />
It would take another three<br />
monthsfor the surge to be<br />
processed and councilwas<br />
processing justover half the<br />
number of building consentsin<br />
the statutory20workingday<br />
timeframe.<br />
“Generally we receive<br />
consentsfor 12 housesamonth<br />
but in March and April we<br />
received 50 –they are normally<br />
more spread out, ”Ms<br />
Donaldson said.<br />
While homeownersand their<br />
builders arewaitinglonger for<br />
consents, theyalso face supply<br />
chain issues.<br />
Nearly 600 birds<br />
counted at lakes<br />
BY MARY RALSTON<br />
Stunning weather greeted bird<br />
watchers at the <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
LakesonSaturday for the<br />
annual winter birdsurvey.<br />
After meeting at Mt Somers,<br />
small teams dispersedtothe<br />
different lakes armed with<br />
binoculars andnotebooks. All<br />
the lakes are visited at about<br />
the sametime to minimise the<br />
chancethat some birdswill fly<br />
from one lake to another and be<br />
counted twice.<br />
There wasabit of ice on some<br />
of the lakes, but probably not<br />
enough to send the birdsto<br />
alternative sites at lower<br />
elevations. If ice cover is<br />
substantial, the birds may leave<br />
the area and go to Lakes<br />
Ellesmere or Forsyth.<br />
Across all species and lakes,<br />
numbers weregood and<br />
counting conditions were<br />
perfect, so the count was<br />
probably fairly accurate. Atotal<br />
of 5909 birds was recorded.<br />
It is always atreat to see<br />
Australasian crested grebes.<br />
These arespecial birds<br />
sometimesseenatLake Heron,<br />
the Maori Lakes, Lakes<br />
Clearwater or Camp.This year<br />
though, grebe numbers were<br />
low: only eight werespotted,<br />
NATURE MATTERS<br />
which is the third lowest tally<br />
since the survey beganin1984.<br />
Numbersofother species<br />
thoughwerehigh: this year 517<br />
coots were counted, all on Lake<br />
Heron.<br />
This is the second highest<br />
number of coots sincethe<br />
surveys were started, only<br />
surpassed in 2008 with 725<br />
birds.Another very numerous<br />
duck is the New Zealand scaup,<br />
anative duck often seeninthe<br />
high country.<br />
This year there were 2437<br />
counted across all lakes.<br />
Otherwaterfowl include<br />
blackswans,Canada geese,<br />
mallards, paradise ducks,grey<br />
teal and shoveller.<br />
There’s alsoseveraldifferent<br />
species of shags, and some<br />
wadingbirds such as piedstilts<br />
usually turn up to be counted,<br />
alongwith skylarksand<br />
harriers.<br />
Thesurvey has been running<br />
for 37 years, making it one of<br />
the longestrunningbird<br />
surveys in the country.<br />
Even thoughnumbers<br />
fluctuate year to year<br />
depending on the conditions,<br />
it’s avaluable record of bird<br />
life in the high country.<br />
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NEWS<br />
10 <strong>Ashburton</strong> <strong>Courier</strong>, <strong>July</strong> <strong>29</strong>, <strong>2021</strong><br />
Deaths<br />
ALBON Frank Robert (Bob),<br />
passed away on Friday <strong>July</strong><br />
23, <strong>2021</strong>, aged 87 years.<br />
Peacefully in his sleep,<br />
surrounded by his loving<br />
family, atRosebank Lifecare,<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>. Loved husband<br />
of Heather. Loved father<br />
and father-in-law ofGraeme<br />
and Glenda, David and Ree,<br />
Peter and Karine, and Bruce.<br />
Much loved Grandad to his<br />
grandchildren and greatgrandchildren.<br />
Loved son<br />
of the late Jean and Frank.<br />
Loving brother of Jean and<br />
brother-in-law of the late<br />
Rowley. Messages to the<br />
Albon family c/- POBox 472,<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> 7740. At Bob’s<br />
request aprivate service has<br />
been held.<br />
Paterson’s<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
FDANZ<br />
03 3077433<br />
CRUM, Michael Ralph, on<br />
<strong>July</strong> 24, <strong>2021</strong>. Passed away<br />
peacefully at Tuarangi Home,<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>, aged 77 years.<br />
Dearly loved husband of<br />
Karine. Much loved father<br />
and father-in-law of Sarah<br />
and Steve Duder, Joand Ben<br />
Needham (London), and<br />
Amy and Brian Lowe. Very<br />
special Grandad of Lois; Riley,<br />
Kinneir, Archer, and Hazel.<br />
Our heartfelt thanks to the<br />
staff of Tuarangi Home for<br />
their kind and compassionate<br />
careofMichael andhis family.<br />
Messages to the Crum family<br />
c/- POBox 472, <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
7740. Aprivatefamily service<br />
has been held.<br />
Paterson’s<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
FDANZ<br />
03 3077433<br />
Deaths<br />
DICKSON, Alan George<br />
– Passed away peacefully<br />
at <strong>Ashburton</strong> Hospital, on<br />
Monday 19 <strong>July</strong>, <strong>2021</strong>. Loved<br />
husband of Bev. Loved Dad,<br />
father-in-law and Grandad of<br />
Lana, Jonesy, Josh and Jack;<br />
the late Darryn; Vanessa and<br />
Peter; Mark, Jo-Ann, Brayden<br />
and Sarah; and Brent, Hayley<br />
and Kyle. Loved brother and<br />
brother-in-law of Murray and<br />
Catherine. Loved uncle of<br />
all his nieces and nephews.<br />
A special thank you to<br />
the caring staff of Ward<br />
1 at <strong>Ashburton</strong> Hospital.<br />
Messages to 13 Nelson Street,<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> 7700. At Alan’s<br />
request a private cremation<br />
has been held.<br />
Paterson’s<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
FDANZ<br />
03 3077433<br />
EVEREST Owen Wilfred -on<br />
<strong>July</strong> 25, <strong>2021</strong>, at <strong>Ashburton</strong>.<br />
Passed away peacefully after<br />
ashort illness,aged 86 years.<br />
Adored and much loved<br />
husband of Robin (Bridget)<br />
for 63years. Loved father and<br />
father-in-law ofPhill and Jos,<br />
Di and Nev (Australia) and<br />
Sue and Phil. Loved Grandad<br />
of Mark and Mel, Anna and<br />
James, Paul and Sarah, Loz<br />
and Jacob, Brit, Lucy, and Ben<br />
and special great Grandad of<br />
Arthur,Emma,William, Patrick,<br />
Frank and Max. Messages<br />
to the Everest family c/- PO<br />
Box 472, <strong>Ashburton</strong> 7740. In<br />
lieu of flowers donations to<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> St John would<br />
be appreciated and may be<br />
left atthe service. Aservice<br />
to celebrate Owen’s life<br />
will be held at St David’s<br />
Union Church ,Allens Road,<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> on Monday<br />
August 2nd, commencing at<br />
11.00am, followed byprivate<br />
cremation at the <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Crematorium.<br />
Paterson’s<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
FDANZ<br />
03 3077433<br />
Complete<br />
Local Care<br />
Since 1982<br />
Acknowledgement<br />
ELDER, PeterRonald Sinclair –<br />
06-08-1945 –27-05-<strong>2021</strong><br />
ELDER, Hazel Ann(nee Bond)<br />
01-01-1948 –28-06-<strong>2021</strong> –<br />
Carlene, Cameron, Greg<br />
and their families want to<br />
sincerely thank everyone for<br />
their overwhelming support<br />
in so many ways during the<br />
last 12 months.The love, visits<br />
and kindness expressed to<br />
Peter, Hazel and their family<br />
has given them strength,<br />
comfort and companionship,<br />
your caring will always be<br />
remembered.<br />
Thank you to DrTarry and<br />
Eastfield Health staff, Dr<br />
Cox and <strong>Ashburton</strong> Health<br />
First staff, Life Pharmacy<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>, The staff at<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> and Christchurch<br />
Hospitals, Palliative Care<br />
Team, District Nurses, The<br />
Cancer Society, Karen Daws,<br />
Kirsten Jones, Maggie<br />
McEwan, <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Community Mental Health<br />
team, Stepping Stones<br />
Christchurch, Mary Gluyas,<br />
Chris Harrison, St John<br />
Ambulance staff, Bernard<br />
Egan, Paterson’s Funeral<br />
Services, DJ Dave King,<br />
Lester Banks, staff at the<br />
Hotel <strong>Ashburton</strong> and the<br />
RSA. Please accept this as a<br />
personal acknowledgement<br />
from Peterand Hazel’s family.<br />
Acknowledgement<br />
SCOTT, Donal Thomas (Don)<br />
1-10-19<strong>29</strong> –4-6-<strong>2021</strong><br />
Doreen and Ross, Peter and<br />
Alison, Stephen, Keith and<br />
Flaron and their families<br />
wish to express our sincere<br />
thanks to everyone for their<br />
support and sympathy in our<br />
sad loss of a much loved dad,<br />
granddad and great-grandad.<br />
Our grateful thanks to those<br />
who sent flowers cards and<br />
baking. To everyone who<br />
attended Don’s funeral<br />
service, Paterson’s, and David<br />
Brown, thank you. Special<br />
thanks to Methven Rugby<br />
Club, Search and Rescue,<br />
David Wightman and Murray<br />
Harrison for your touching<br />
tributes.<br />
Thanks to Don’s wonderful<br />
caring neighbours. A true<br />
gentleman, family and<br />
community man greatly<br />
missed.<br />
Please accept this as our<br />
personal thank you toall.<br />
SYMONS, Sydney Osburne<br />
(Ossie) - 12<strong>July</strong> 1918 - <strong>29</strong><br />
May <strong>2021</strong>. The Symons family<br />
sincerely thank everyone<br />
for expressions of sympathy<br />
following the death of Ossie.<br />
Thank you for the thoughtful<br />
cards,letters,food, telephone<br />
calls, visits, and flowers, and<br />
to those who attended Ossie’s<br />
funeral. Specialthanks to the<br />
carers of Dad over the past<br />
fewyears.<br />
WHITE, Bruce Douglas –<br />
31.7.41 –20.5.21: Noeline,<br />
Kim, Robert and Lynda with<br />
their families wish to sincerely<br />
acknowledge everyone for<br />
their expressions of love and<br />
support in so many ways<br />
throughout Bruce’s illness<br />
and his passing. To the<br />
many who attended Bruce’s<br />
farewell, family, and friends<br />
from his sporting career of<br />
Cricket, Rugby, Indoor and<br />
Outdoor Bowls and Racing,<br />
thank you. To the Medical<br />
Day Care team, Palliative<br />
Care team, Dr Cox, Dr Emma<br />
McDonald and the Netherby<br />
Pharmacy, thank youfor your<br />
careofBruce.<br />
To Bruce’s “Mates” who<br />
supported him through his<br />
journey,abig thank you.<br />
To Paterson’s Funeral Services<br />
and Bernard Egan, thank for<br />
your support during our sad<br />
time.<br />
“Bruce was areal Gentleman,<br />
gone but never forgotten”.<br />
Please accept this as a<br />
personal acknowledgement<br />
from all of us.<br />
In Memoriam<br />
HART, Elizabeth Jane (Jane)<br />
18.07.1936 –27.07.2013<br />
HART, PenelopeJane (Penny)<br />
22.10.1960 –28.07.2019<br />
In loving memory ofour dear<br />
mum and sister.<br />
Though your smiles havegone<br />
forever<br />
Andyour hands wecannot<br />
touch<br />
We havesomanymemories<br />
Of the ones welovedsomuch<br />
Your memoryisour keepsake<br />
With which we’llnever part<br />
God has youinhis keeping<br />
We haveyou in our heart<br />
May the winds of heaven blow<br />
softly<br />
Andwhisper in your ear<br />
Howmuch we love and miss<br />
you<br />
Andwish that youwerehere<br />
Love and miss youboth<br />
dearly<br />
~Chris &Mary-Jean, Anthony<br />
&Kirsty, Michelle &Andrew<br />
and families<br />
ORSBORN, Noel Raymond<br />
31/7/2020:<br />
Remembering youiseasy we<br />
do it everyday,<br />
Missing youisheartache that<br />
never goes away.<br />
We were blessed to know you<br />
and will treasurethe time<br />
we had together.<br />
Itsbeen ayear nowand you<br />
will be in our hearts always.<br />
~Weller, Ellison & Maisey<br />
Families<br />
Birth notices listed by<br />
parents will continue to be<br />
free in the Family Notices<br />
column. The initial death<br />
notice lodged by afuneral<br />
director will be listed<br />
without charge.Therewill<br />
be asmall charge of $15<br />
for subsequent notices<br />
related to the same death,<br />
up to a maximum of<br />
35 words and on aperline<br />
basis after that. The<br />
same low charges apply<br />
to other family notices,<br />
such as engagements,<br />
acknowledgements, in<br />
memoriam notices and<br />
anniversaries.<br />
Family Notices<br />
Enquiries phone<br />
Mary,Jann or Karenon<br />
308 7664<br />
or call into<br />
199 Burnett Street.<br />
Watercolourwins<br />
Awatercolour work by Svetlana Orinko's<br />
named Sally Holmes Roses has received<br />
the most votes and receives the People's<br />
Choice Award at this year’s <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Society of Arts annual exhibition. The<br />
artwork was named the winner of the<br />
Scott Automotive watercolour award on<br />
the opening night of the longrunning<br />
exhibition, which closes tomorrow.<br />
Business<br />
networking<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>District Councilishostinga<br />
business networking eventatthe<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>TrustEvent Centre (4pm until<br />
6pm)onAugust 6tospreadthe word about<br />
the ANZBusiness of the YearAwards.<br />
The inaugural business awards havejust<br />
beenlaunched and entries arenow being<br />
encouraged. The networking event willbe<br />
achance to tell people more about the<br />
differentaward categories and whatis<br />
involved.<br />
Council communityservicesgroup<br />
managerSteve Fabish said businesses will<br />
be abletoask questions, talktothose<br />
involved and register for theawards,<br />
making the wholeprocess easier.<br />
“This is thefirst timetheseeventshave<br />
beenheld andit’s agreatopportunity to<br />
showcase you and your business within<br />
the region.<br />
“Weknowthings have been tough and<br />
we want to spread the successes, wins, and<br />
goodnewsstories of the district.”<br />
ANZhas justbeen announced as the<br />
platinumsponsor for the awards,which<br />
include aPeople’s Choice award for retail<br />
thatisdecided by public textvote.<br />
Retailers enteringthat category at the<br />
networkingevent willreceive aposter<br />
with theiruniquevoting code thattheycan<br />
share withcustomers and encourage them<br />
to vote–the voting period isfrom August<br />
1toNovember 30.<br />
All votesare by freetext to 4196. There<br />
is also aFuture BusinessLeader award<br />
and aSupremeWinner, chosenfrom the<br />
winners of categories for primary<br />
industries, export, tourism,<br />
manufacturing, notforprofit, and<br />
technologyand innovation.<br />
Winners will be revealedatagala<br />
eveningonFebruary 18 nextyear.<br />
Supporting thecommunity<br />
96 Tancred Street, <strong>Ashburton</strong>.<br />
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Volunteers,aged 17 and over,are being<br />
soughtfor up to 750various roles at the<br />
International Cricket CouncilWomen’s<br />
Cricket World Cup2022, beingheld in New<br />
Zealand.<br />
Games willbeheldinsixcities<br />
nationwide, including Christchurch and<br />
Dunedin,from March4until April 3.<br />
Volunteers canapplyatthe icccricket.<br />
com website,with interviews for<br />
successful candidates being carried out<br />
until August.
<strong>Ashburton</strong> College<br />
Individual Excellence in aSupportive Learning Environment<br />
News<br />
Issue 23<br />
<strong>29</strong> <strong>July</strong> <strong>2021</strong><br />
Acting Principal Message<br />
EnrolmentWeek and OpenNight<br />
This week the College has conducted its annual<br />
Open Evening. This is an opportunity for our<br />
students who will becoming toCollege next<br />
year to visit and go for aguided tour with their<br />
whānau.<br />
They meet some teachers and have an<br />
opportunity to get involved in some fun,<br />
interactiveactivities.<br />
It is always apleasuretowelcome people on to the College and thanks go<br />
out to the manystudents who helped as tour guides.<br />
Next week is Enrolment Week. This is where each and every student<br />
coming to College forYear 9in2022has ameetingand interview with a<br />
member of College staff.Itisanopportunityfor anyquestions to be asked<br />
and forthe school to meet our incoming cohort.<br />
This is aweek that Ialways look forward to, and it is filled with smiles,<br />
anticipation and alittle nervous energy.<br />
SubjectSelection/Career PathwayPlanning<br />
It is at this time ofyear that students and their whānau begin to look<br />
ahead to the subjects or pathways they intend to pursue in 2022.<br />
It is an exciting time, that can also be daunting. Inselecting subjects,<br />
students need to consider factors such as possible career pathways and<br />
more importantly, what they enjoy. With many options available, itis<br />
importantthat, in selecting subjects,students speak with their parents or<br />
caregivers and make use of the opportunities foradvice that exist within<br />
the College.<br />
In addition toour Careers Advisor, students are also able to access help<br />
and support from their Ako teacher, Dean, Head of School and Subject<br />
Teachers.When thinking about whatsubjects to study,itisimportant for<br />
students to bear in mind that, while they may have aclear idea of what<br />
they would like to pursue,this maychange.<br />
There are also many opportunities beyond school that they are unlikely<br />
to have ever heard of, or may not even exist yet! We do not know what<br />
the future will bring with regard tothe work force but we do know that<br />
change is acertainty.<br />
Thebest adviceIcan give to students is -whateversubjects youpursue,<br />
do your best, asmotivation and determination will be valued wherever<br />
the futuretakes you.<br />
Goals<br />
ThestartofTermThree is agood time to take aminutetostopand reflect.<br />
Early in the year,students were supportedtoset goals forwhatthey would<br />
like to achieve in <strong>2021</strong>. Taking the time to check on what your goals are,<br />
whatactions youhaveundertaken, andhow youare progressing towards<br />
the goal,will supportfuturesuccess.<br />
Whāia ekoe te iti kahurangi ki te tūohu koe, me he maunga teitei<br />
Pursue excellence–should youstumble,let it be to alofty mountain<br />
Jono Hay<br />
Acting Principal •Tumuaki<br />
Coming Events<br />
<strong>July</strong><br />
30 Hockey 1st XI Boys –Christchurch<br />
German DayatUniversityofCanterbury<br />
Junior Boys’Aand B, Junior Girls’Aand Senior Boys’BBasketball -<br />
South Canterbury WinterBasketball Competition,<br />
SouthernTrustEventsCentre, Timaru<br />
31 Crusaders Region 1st XV MCCvNelson College (away)<br />
August<br />
01 AshColl Aand BNetball,AorakiNetball Tournament, Waimate<br />
NZSS Rogaine Championships,Christchurch<br />
01-07 Cook Islands’Language Week<br />
02 Year 12 and Year 13 UniversityofCanterburyand Ara Campus Tour,<br />
Christchurch<br />
EnrolmentWeek,atCollege<br />
03 Year 11AGS Group 1, Farmbikes Day2,<strong>Ashburton</strong>Showgrounds<br />
Year 12 Rafting,Peel Forest Outdoor Centre,Rangitata<br />
Senior Girls’Basketball,Whelan Trophycompetition, Christchurch<br />
Senior Boys’Basketball,Thompson Trophycompetition,<br />
Christchurch<br />
04 Australian Maths Competition<br />
CanterburySecondary Schools’Snowand SkiChampionships,<br />
Mt Hutt<br />
Year 11AGS Group 2, Farmbikes Day2,<strong>Ashburton</strong>Showgrounds<br />
Year 13 Electors -Auditorium<br />
Hockey 1st XI Girls,Christchurch<br />
College AGirls’Netball,SuperNet,Christchurch<br />
06 Hockey 1st XI Boys –Christchurch<br />
Year 11 Rafting,Peel Forest Outdoor Centre, Rangitata<br />
Junior Boys’Aand B, Junior Girls’Aand Senior Boy’sBBasketball -<br />
South Canterbury WinterBasketball Competition,<br />
SouthernTrustEventsCentre, Timaru<br />
07 Crusaders Region 1st XV MidCanterburyCombined v<br />
Timaru Boys’Hgh School(home game)<br />
Information<br />
Please Note: Forthcoming KeyEvents<br />
forYour Diary<br />
College Closed Tuesday10August<br />
forthe purpose of an ACCORD Teacher Only Day<br />
Pleasenotethatthe College willbeclosed fornormal instruction<br />
on thisday,inorder to undertakeanACCORD Teacher Only Day.<br />
These TeacherOnly Days were allocated in the Accord<br />
between the MinistryofEducation,NZEI Te RiuRoa,<br />
and PPTATeWehengarua, and arebeing held throughout<br />
New Zealandonset days forregions.<br />
Thedaysare setasidetosupportthe implementationofchanges to NCEA,<br />
and wider strengthening of curriculum,<br />
progress andachievement practice.<br />
We do ask thatyou make alternativearrangements foryour<br />
sons/daughters on thisday and thank youfor your support.<br />
Events<br />
Office Closureat3:20pm,Thursday19August<br />
Please note: the CollegeOffice will be closed<br />
from 3:20pmonThursday 19 August.<br />
This is to allowall staff to attend aStaff Briefing<br />
relatedtothe Collegere-build programme.<br />
We thank youfor your supportofthis timing.<br />
Year 9-12 Course Information Expo, Hotel<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Wednesday11August,6:00pm-8:00pm<br />
This evening is forcurrentYear9-12 students,<br />
or forany students enrollinginYear 10-13 in 2022,<br />
and parentsand caregivers.<br />
Staff will be available at their subjectdisplaytotalk<br />
about subject choices for2022.<br />
Mid-Term Break -Friday27August<br />
PleasenotethatCollege is closed forinstructionthisday.<br />
This is aBoardofTrustees-approved leave day.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>College Library/TeWhare<br />
PukapukaMatauranga Celebrates<br />
Volunteer Appreciation Week.<br />
Towards the end of Term Two the Library celebrated Volunteer<br />
Appreciation Week, with Teacher Librarian Anne Williams, advising<br />
that the Library staff very much appreciate the contribution of the<br />
Libraryvolunteers,who are averyvaluedpartofthe Libraryteam.<br />
This year <strong>Ashburton</strong> College Library has<br />
twenty-two volunteers who helpthe Librarians<br />
in avarietyofways.<br />
TheCollege Library is recognised as averybusy<br />
space supporting teaching and learning, and<br />
promotingliteracyand researchskills.With high<br />
issue numbers,staff would struggle to caterfor<br />
all of thestudents withoutour volunteers.<br />
Our Year 13 volunteers run the front desk<br />
during one of their study periods, issuing and<br />
returning books and laptops, and dealing with<br />
studentenquiries.<br />
Our adult volunteers cover books, sort the<br />
archives,help with studentenquiries and much<br />
more.<br />
Anne said they are very grateful for this help<br />
and enjoy the contributions our volunteers<br />
maketoour librarycultureand service.<br />
<strong>2021</strong> marks the first ever celebration of Solomon<br />
Islands Language Week in Aotearoa. The week<br />
lasted from Monday 05-Sunday 11 <strong>July</strong>, falling in<br />
the first week of this month in order to coincide<br />
with the 43rd year ofthe nation’s Independence<br />
celebrations.<br />
The Solomon Islands is acomplex country with<br />
over eighty different local languages plus over<br />
300 dialects. Ithas six major islands and over 900<br />
smaller islands in Oceania, to the east of Papua<br />
New Guinea and northwest of Vanuatu.<br />
The Solomons has aland area of 28,400 square<br />
kilometres and apopulation of 652,858 people.<br />
(Pictured right): Year 10 studentDoreen Awaikera,<br />
our College student ofSolomon Islands descent,<br />
very proudly wearing cultural dress during the<br />
Solomon Islands’Language Week.<br />
(Pictured left): Our twenty-two Library<br />
volunteers.are acknowledged.<br />
Solomon Islands' Language Week<br />
Events<br />
StudentVolunteers Assist Further With<br />
Farm Clean-up<br />
On the lastThursdayofTermTwo,08<strong>July</strong>,agroup of studentvolunteers<br />
undertook community service work for neighbouring farms impacted<br />
on byy<br />
the recent floods.<br />
Students involved were: (Pictured above, back row, left to right):<br />
Simon Moore, Logan Johnson, Aidan Watson, Jake Lawson, Ben Sheppard,<br />
Alex Mackle, Matthew Binnie, Ollie Strawbridge, Casey Flett, Bailey May.<br />
(obscured).<br />
(Front row, left toright): Matt Pearce, Elizabeth Hastie, Will Rollinson,<br />
Teagan Cameron, LauraWalsh, SamRoberts.<br />
Thank You<strong>Ashburton</strong>PakekeLions fora<br />
GreatDay Out<br />
Te WhareManaakistudentsand staff hadagreat dayatthe AntarcticCentre<br />
in Christchurch, on Tuesday 06 <strong>July</strong>, courtesy of the<strong>Ashburton</strong>Pakeke Lions<br />
Club.<br />
Teacher-in-Charge Cheryl Hardy said that Te Whare Manaaki students and<br />
staff have awonderful association with this Community Service Club that<br />
has beeninvolved with theCollege over many years.<br />
They are warmly thanked for their generosity and interest in this group of<br />
students at <strong>Ashburton</strong> College.<br />
In Christchurch students learnt about Antarctic exploration, sat in aplane<br />
simulator and experienced araging southern storm with temperatures<br />
down to -15.5degrees celsius.The Little Blue Penguins were really cuteand<br />
patting thehuskies wasagreat sensory experience.<br />
Ahighlight was the 4D movie of Antarctica where, courtesy of special<br />
glasses,thebirds almost flew into the audience's faces,plus water spraying<br />
over studentsasthe ship sailed theturbulentseas. The all-terrain Hagglund<br />
vehicleridesimulateddriving over the harsh Antarctica landscape.<br />
(Pictured right):<br />
Delta Taeauga watching<br />
DomWayman (left) and<br />
Kaleb Moodie (right)<br />
riding thesnowmobiles.<br />
(Pictured left): Chattingto<br />
ahuge EmperorPenguin<br />
and chick are<br />
Niesje Burgerhout (left)<br />
and Jacob Olsen (right).<br />
(Pictured above): In the Ice Room are (back row, left to right):<br />
Jonathan Hardy, Kirsty Fortune (Learning Support Assistant - obscured),<br />
Delta Taeauga, Jenny Oliver (Learning Support Assistant), Raglan Patrick<br />
(partly obscured).<br />
(Middle row, left toright): Chelssea Cheesman, Jacob Olsen (obscured),<br />
Nathaniel Stenton, Julieann Wairepo (Learning Support Assistant),<br />
Cody Robin, Kim Sinclair-White (Learning Support Assistant),<br />
DominicWayman.<br />
(Front row, left toright): Kaleb Moodie, Alex Blackley, Rebecca Wilson,<br />
Stacey Cooper.<br />
Cheryl said this wasafantastic daythatwas enjoyedbyall and,again, avery<br />
special thankyou is giventothe PakekeLions.
<strong>Ashburton</strong> College<br />
Individual Excellence in aSupportive Learning Environment<br />
News<br />
Issue 23<br />
<strong>29</strong> <strong>July</strong> <strong>2021</strong><br />
Events<br />
Year 12PhysicsClass to RutherfordBuilding<br />
With information input from Lana Clark-Powell and Heer Giroti<br />
On Wednesday 16June, MrBell’s Year 12 Physics class of close to thirty<br />
students went to the Rutherford building at the University ofCanterbury<br />
(UC), Christchurch, to gain further knowledge about radioactivity.<br />
We worked with experts in the Physics field and built on the knowledge<br />
about the origin of atoms, how radioactive material can be identified and<br />
howitworks.<br />
(Pictured above): Students enacting Rutherford’s Gold Foil experiment<br />
where he discovered the structure of an atom. (Left back, left to<br />
right): Conner Stewart (back to camera), Cairo Hawkes, Dillon Rogers.<br />
(Students sitting/standing, left to right): Heer Giroti, Lana Clark-Powell,<br />
Maddy Young (standing).<br />
(Studentsinhi-vizvests/hats,lefttoright):MatthewAshdowne,CharlesSavage,<br />
Mitchell Taylor.<br />
Our favourite part ofthis trip was the demonstrations of the bed of nails,<br />
how momentum affects aspinning chair, playing ping-pong with ahandmade<br />
air hoverboardand howliquid nitrogen works.<br />
(Pictured right): Howoften<br />
doyou getthe chance<br />
tostand on your teacher<br />
(BryanBell) who is lying on<br />
a bed of nails?<br />
Charles Savage got this<br />
honour,while Luke Pasion<br />
(left) and Neiv Sol (right)<br />
look on, with Graeme Plank,<br />
UCTutor,managing the<br />
activity.<br />
(Pictured below, lefttoright): Measuring the radiation absorption of organic<br />
material (a carrot) are Matthew Ashdowne, Hamish Lyth, Amy Stilgoe<br />
(obscured), and Matthew Wong.<br />
We would like to thank the staff of <strong>Ashburton</strong> College who made this trip<br />
possible as well as the tutors from Canterbury University -Cliff Franklin,<br />
Graeme Plank and those from the Christchurch Arts Centre -who took the<br />
time to help us understand moreabout radioactivityand nuclear physics.<br />
The NewRutherford Centre<br />
At the centre of UC’s SciencePrecinct, the new Rutherford Regional Science<br />
and Innovation Centre (RRSIC) creates ahub for Canterbury’s science and<br />
innovation network.<br />
Stage 1 of the $220 million RRSIC, the Ernest Rutherford building,<br />
was opened in early 2018. Named for renowned UC Alumnus Ernest,<br />
Lord Rutherford, it includes specialist teaching and research laboratories for<br />
physics,astronomy, chemistry, geology,geographyand biological sciences.<br />
The Centre has been purposefully designed to encourage innovation and<br />
supportflexible learning and teaching methods,with key features including<br />
state-of-the-art laboratories, UAV/drone room, 3D medical imaging; cloud<br />
chamber; radioactivity lab; superconduction magnet lab; herbarium;<br />
informal social and study spaces.<br />
The building’s design enables easy interactions between departments,<br />
and supports face-to-face teaching methods, individual and small<br />
group investigative laboratory work, online research, and learning either<br />
individually or in groups.<br />
Year 11 Students on Field Trip to Christchurch<br />
As partofThe Foundation Studies Course,Year 11 students areencouraged<br />
andsupportedtoconsider optionsfor further education.<br />
Liz Carrick -Assistant Head ofSenior School/Senior Dean and Head of<br />
Department for Foundation Studies –advised that, on Thursday 08<strong>July</strong>,<br />
coursestudents travelled to Ara Institute Christchurch, andwereintroduced<br />
to some of the courses available.<br />
One group (pictured below) visited the Woolston Campus tosee different<br />
Trades courses; while the second group viewed Hospitality at the Madras<br />
Street Campus. These visits werethenfollowed with agroup activityfor one<br />
of theirassessments, requiring students to work as ateam.<br />
Students were<br />
teamed up to<br />
take partin<br />
Laser Tagand<br />
had to come up<br />
with aplan, and<br />
then tryand<br />
defeatthe other<br />
team.<br />
(Pictured right): The<br />
team building stage,<br />
before working outteam<br />
strategies,showing<br />
(lefttoright):<br />
James Emerson,<br />
Sophie Livingston<br />
(obscured),<br />
TasmynCameron-<br />
Neighbour,<br />
Alastair Kilgour,<br />
HenryGoodes,<br />
Jonathan Kilgour.<br />
Teachers KarenStrijbis and Liz Carrick were very impressed with this group<br />
of young people who representedthe College extremely well.<br />
Congratulations<br />
Strong CyclingResults forMaddiLowry<br />
South IslandSchools’Road Championships<br />
Maddi rode well at these Championships, held at Ruapuna Raceway in<br />
Christchurch on Saturdayand Sunday10-11 <strong>July</strong>.<br />
Maddi, as aYear 12 sixteen-year-old, was competing in the Under 20 Year<br />
Girls,representing <strong>Ashburton</strong>College.<br />
Maddi’s results were -<br />
5th placed in the Individual Time Trial.<br />
Bronze Medal in the 31km Road Race, achieving this from abunch sprint<br />
at the end of the race.<br />
(Pictured above, centre): Maddi during the<br />
Road Race.<br />
National Schools’Track Championships –<br />
4th Placing Overall<br />
Straight after the Road Race, Maddi flew<br />
to Auckland to compete in the above<br />
championships held at the Avantidrome in<br />
Cambridge,onMondayand Tuesday12and<br />
13 <strong>July</strong>, making for abusy and competitive<br />
fewdays.<br />
Racing wasoverthree events in the Omnium<br />
style, where points are awarded for each<br />
race in relation to finishing positions, to<br />
then determine overall points.<br />
Maddi’s results were as follows,also in the<br />
Under 20 Year Girls:<br />
• 5th 5kmScratchRace<br />
• 4th Keirin Heats<br />
• 9th Keirin Final<br />
• 2nd 30 lap Tempo Points Race<br />
Being competitive in all races enabled<br />
Maddi to secure 4th placeoverall.<br />
(Pictured above): Maddi ready forthe startofthe Keirin.<br />
(Pictured above): Maddi<br />
with her BronzeMedal.<br />
Congratulations<br />
Roncalli Netball DevelopmentTournament<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> College Year 10A, 9A and 9B teamscompeted inthis tournament,<br />
held in Timaru on Sunday 27 June, whereafoggy, cold startheralded in the<br />
day, but the players reportedly enjoyed the challenge of playing outside,<br />
and the tournamentwas enjoyable and well-run.<br />
College Year 10A Team<br />
In the Year 10A Grade, six teams competed: being <strong>Ashburton</strong> College,<br />
St Hilda’s Collegiate, Timaru Girls’ High School, Waitaki Girls’ High School,<br />
Roncalli College and Craighead Diocesan School.Each game was20minutes<br />
long,comprised of twoten minutehalves.<br />
As for all teams the Year 10A team had to battle against the cold, wet and,<br />
at times, windyweatherintheirgames. Allplayers playedtotheir potential<br />
in these elements that they are completely unused to, due tobeing so<br />
privilegedastoplayinsideatthe EA Networks Centrein<strong>Ashburton</strong>.<br />
The team took losses with each game but Coach Sarah Lassen said they<br />
playedhardand were able to walk away withtheir heads heldhigh, adding<br />
that it was a wonderful opportunity<br />
to play against teams of their own age<br />
group, including some which had boys<br />
playinginthe team.<br />
Team membersare – ChloeBraas,<br />
BriarClark, Sophie Gibson,<br />
Izzy Harris,Selaima Loloma, Holly Ngutu,<br />
Siasini Satui, Pairu Teokotai,<br />
MoungaUlupano,Sasha Williams,with<br />
ManagerMichelle Adams.<br />
(Pictured right): Goal Attack Chloe Braas<br />
putting up the shot, with Goal Shoot<br />
Sophie Gibson ready for arebound, if<br />
needed.<br />
(Pictured above, left toright): In action against Craighead Diocesan School,<br />
aredefences Siasini Satui (GK),SelaimaLoloma (GD) and Izzy Harris(WD).<br />
College Year 9A Team –Second Placed<br />
The Year 9A team competed against St Hilda’s Collegiate School, Columba<br />
College,Roncalli College,Timaru Girls’HighSchool and Craighead Diocesan.<br />
Coach Jasmin Strawbridge said the team was quite successful, winning<br />
three games,losing one,and drawing one.<br />
These results placed them in the topthree teams. Jasmin said they started<br />
off well with astrong warm-up in the morning,leading to the first three wins,<br />
but thatfatigue didcome into playinthe afternoon forthe last twogames.<br />
However, the girlswerecredited forgiving it 100%, as always.<br />
Team members are – Grace Johnston, Taylor Lamont, Meg Lill,<br />
Milla Overend,PennySmollett,Makeleta Ula, Marnell Vaaelua, Lucy Williams,<br />
RubyWilliams,Torry Wilson-Brown, with Manager Leisel Lambert.<br />
Special mention was made ofMarnell Vaaelua, who slipped on ice/water a<br />
couple times,for getting straightback up with asmile on her face.<br />
Overall, agreat day was had and the day ‘definitely prepared’the girls for<br />
what toexpect when playing outside, and in preparation for the South<br />
Island TournamentinChristchurch.<br />
The players appreciated the yoga session Sarah Lassen organised for the<br />
following Mondaytoreplacetraining!<br />
College Year 9B Team<br />
Coach and Manager, Paula Strawbridge and Ellie Hill said the players<br />
were disappointedtowin only the one game,but took heartfromkeeping<br />
the other scored to within only afew goals,which is encouraging forfuture<br />
competition matches. Congratulations were given toCraighead Diocesan<br />
School,winners of the six-team grade.<br />
Team members are – Isla Hart (Captain), Sabrina Cassineri,<br />
Zoe Dalton, Sophie Davis, Hariett Hill, Kelly Paterson, Kaedia Reuben,<br />
Lucy Rotch, Faith Tait,Elsie Vlaanderen.<br />
Results –Animpressive14-4 win over WaitakiGirls’High School,while the<br />
losses were against Craighead Diocesan School (7-12), Timaru Girls’ High<br />
School (8-13), St Hilda’sCollegiate School (6-10) and Roncalli College(5-11).<br />
(Pictured left): Goal Attack<br />
Elsie Vlaanderen reaches fora<br />
high ball,inthe game against<br />
Timaru Girls’HighSchool,<br />
while Wing Attack Harriet Hill<br />
prepares to move forwardfor<br />
the next stage of play.
NEWS<br />
14 <strong>Ashburton</strong> <strong>Courier</strong>, <strong>July</strong> <strong>29</strong>, <strong>2021</strong><br />
www.ashburtoncourier.co.nz<br />
Pupils get ataste of garage work<br />
DANIEL.TOBIN<br />
@ashburtoncourier.co.nz<br />
Budding mechanics were hard<br />
at work at Fairton School<br />
checking tyres, tightening bolts<br />
and polishing headlamps.<br />
Theschool’s new entrant/<br />
Year 2pupils camebackfrom<br />
the holidaystoagarage<br />
workshop in the corner of their<br />
classroom.<br />
Fairton School junior<br />
teacherAndrea Smallsaiditis<br />
all part of the structured playbased<br />
learning.<br />
‘‘It’s learningthrough play<br />
howeveritisin contextand<br />
structured, so children don't<br />
just free play, everythingis<br />
planned and purposeful, they<br />
are learning incidentally<br />
through play.’’<br />
This year Andreamadea<br />
designated playbasedlearning<br />
corner with adifferent theme<br />
each term.<br />
Term one wasahome corner<br />
with kitchen, cafe and acot<br />
with babies, term two a<br />
veterinary surgery, this term it<br />
is transport.<br />
‘‘The kids were pretty excited<br />
whenthey saw the garage,the<br />
boys werestraightinand had<br />
the nuts and bolts in the vice,’’<br />
she said.<br />
Playbasedlearning islinked<br />
to the school’s curriculum<br />
objectives, pupils experience<br />
making choices anddecisions,<br />
setting goals and usingtheir<br />
initiative.<br />
It encourages discovery,<br />
invention, imagination,<br />
experimentation and<br />
exploration as ameans of<br />
learning.<br />
‘‘The workshop iscool<br />
becausethere wasall rusty<br />
stuff likeinreal cars,’’ said<br />
Year2 pupil Jackson,who was<br />
working on aheadlight.<br />
Fairton School pupils (from left) Jackson, 6, Chance, 5, and William,<br />
8, hard at work in their classroom garage. PHOTO DANIEL TOBIN<br />
Tourism funds for<br />
scenic reserves<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> District Council<br />
hasreceived$158,328fromthe<br />
Tourism Infrastructure Fund<br />
for enhancementstorestareas<br />
at Taylors Stream and Awa<br />
AwaRata Reserve.<br />
The proposed<br />
enhancements include new<br />
replacementtoilets and<br />
landscaping and furnitureat<br />
bothlocations.<br />
Taylors Stream camping and<br />
picnicking area is located<br />
on theInlandScenic Route<br />
north of Staveley,and is<br />
used by picnickers and<br />
freedom campers.<br />
Awa Awa Rata Reserve is<br />
anotherpopular picnicarea<br />
14km fromMethven and<br />
2kmfrom theMtHutt ski<br />
field turnoff. It is widely<br />
knownfor its springdisplay<br />
of rhododendrons.<br />
Arhododendron in<br />
bloom at the popular<br />
Awa Awa Rata<br />
Reserve.<br />
Move over<br />
dots. Here<br />
come the<br />
yellowsquares.<br />
In-storeand online now.<br />
Queen. King. Super King.<br />
Sameprice.<br />
Sleepyhead<br />
Limited Edition Bed<br />
$2499<br />
Up to<br />
68% off<br />
Loveevery detail.<br />
Especially the price.<br />
LG 48” 4K SmartOLEDTV<br />
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Offers validfromWednesday 28 <strong>July</strong> <strong>2021</strong>,end dates mayvary, whilestockslastorunless otherwisestated. Some products on displayinselectedstoresonly
<strong>Ashburton</strong> bridge works to resume<br />
The recent rain and higher<br />
river levels delayed planned<br />
repairsto<strong>Ashburton</strong>’s SH1<br />
bridge over the <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
River/ Hakatere, says Waka<br />
KotahiNZTransport Agency.<br />
However, this workwill<br />
continue next week, early<br />
August, weather dependent.<br />
One of the bridge’s piers<br />
settledslightly in the high<br />
rainfall flood and bank to bank<br />
river flows at the end of May/<br />
early June. Thisrequireda<br />
day’s closure while it was<br />
assessed andtestedwith heavy<br />
loads.Subsequently the bridge<br />
reopened to all traffic.<br />
“Given the currentriver<br />
flows, ourrepair crew cannot<br />
get close enough to the<br />
damagedpier. However, we<br />
are working to divert the main<br />
flow away from this pier this<br />
week,” says John Keenan,<br />
Waka Kotahi Maintenance<br />
Contract Manager, South and<br />
Mid Canterbury.<br />
“Monday, 2August, is the<br />
proposed first nightfor three<br />
nights of single laneStop/Go<br />
traffic management with afull<br />
nightclosure anddetour<br />
pushedout to Sunday,15<br />
August.”<br />
Emergency Services<br />
vehicleswill still be able to<br />
passoverthe bridgeonthis<br />
night.<br />
Planned closures<br />
Three overnight singlelane<br />
closures are planned on August<br />
2, 8and 9.<br />
There is afull bridge closure<br />
proposed for August 15, from<br />
9pm to 5am.<br />
Work on <strong>Ashburton</strong> bridge is set to resume.<br />
Little Mermaid Junior next show<br />
Mid Canterbury Children's Theatre is back<br />
on stage and will present Disney's The<br />
Little Mermaid Junior in October.<br />
Some 52 children have begun rehearsals<br />
for the show and are being supported by a<br />
host of helpers backstage.<br />
The longrunning theatre group took a<br />
break from the stage last year due to covid,<br />
but the cast and crew came together for<br />
their first rehearsal on Sunday, following<br />
registrations and auditions last term.<br />
Rehearsals are being held in Variety<br />
Theatre <strong>Ashburton</strong> rooms and will be<br />
ramped up as the show dates get closer.<br />
The production will be directed by<br />
Cherie Livingstone, with Jo Castelow as<br />
musical directors and Jessie Thomson as<br />
choreographer.<br />
Disney’s The Little Mermaid is a1989<br />
American animated movie based on an<br />
1837 Danish fairytale.<br />
Like most fairytales, the story is full of<br />
larger than life characters, including ared<br />
headed mermaid, her trusty friends<br />
Flounder and Scuttle the seagull, a<br />
Caribbean crustacean Sebastian, an evil<br />
minded ambitious sea witch Ursula.<br />
Shows at the <strong>Ashburton</strong> Trust Events<br />
Centre will be performed on October 8<br />
(7pm), October 9(5pm) and October 10<br />
(2pm).<br />
Tickets are available from the venue or<br />
website ateventcentre.co.nz<br />
Photo: Some of the The Mid Canterbury<br />
Children's Theatre cast this week in<br />
rehearsal.<br />
PHOTO DANIEL TOBIN<br />
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<strong>Ashburton</strong> <strong>Courier</strong>, <strong>July</strong> <strong>29</strong>, <strong>2021</strong><br />
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JULY30<br />
Mighty musterers from the<br />
mountainstakeonthe Methven<br />
Senior Brugby teaminthe annual<br />
Rakaia Gorge Musterers vs<br />
Methven RugbyClub annualcharity<br />
match at Methvenshowgrounds.<br />
Kick off at 7pm.<br />
JULY31<br />
The Geraldine Floral Art Group is<br />
hosting the SouthCanterburyArea<br />
Floral Art Society (FASNZ) annual<br />
FloralDesigner of theyear<br />
competition at St AndrewsChurch<br />
hall. Viewing is from 1.30pm to<br />
4.30pm.<br />
Admissionis$10 andincludes<br />
refreshmentsand demonstrations.<br />
AUGUST 1<br />
The South Island HalfMarathonis<br />
beingheld at Lake Hood<strong>Ashburton</strong>.<br />
The lakewill host the South Island<br />
Half Marathonand 1/6 marathon<br />
and caters for all runners from<br />
beginners to elite runners.<br />
AUGUST 7<br />
The NewZealand Mountain Film<br />
Festivalat<strong>Ashburton</strong>Trust Event<br />
Centre.Featuringselectionoffilms<br />
either made in NZ or madebyNew<br />
Zealanders.Adults $25 /Youth 14<br />
years and under $15 (feesincluded)<br />
AUGUST 8<br />
The <strong>Ashburton</strong> MusicalClub is<br />
delightedtoagain host The<br />
ChaperonesPiano Trio(Jane<br />
Jarrett, Jillaine Watsonand<br />
MargaretMaw), 6hands on one<br />
pianoattheirAugust concert in the<br />
Sinclair Centre, ParkStreet. The<br />
second halfofthe concert will<br />
feature the At Violinos Piano Trio -<br />
RuthHall (violin), Alan Bower(cello)<br />
and DeborahSloper(piano).<br />
Afternoontea willbeserved after<br />
the concert. Public admission by<br />
‘Open Hat’. Starts at 2pm.<br />
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16 <strong>Ashburton</strong> <strong>Courier</strong>, <strong>July</strong> <strong>29</strong>, <strong>2021</strong><br />
Five Star Beef Feedlot, at Wakanui,has been notedasapossible source of Mbovis infection.<br />
Bufferarea for feedlot<br />
Acattlefree buffer areahas<br />
been placed aroundFive Star<br />
Beef feedlot at Wakanui to<br />
prevent anyrecurrencesof<br />
Mycoplasma bovis in<br />
Canterbury.<br />
It is one of the changes put in<br />
place after recommendations<br />
fromthe Technical Advisory<br />
Group (TAG), who found New<br />
Zealandwas on track to<br />
eradicateMycoplasmabovis.<br />
Genomic information still<br />
traced the outbreaktoasingle<br />
source introduced aroundlate<br />
2015.<br />
MbovisProgramme director<br />
Stuart Anderson said TAG<br />
found themostrecent<br />
Canterbury clusterwas likely<br />
fromunrecorded animal<br />
movements, and also<br />
recommended Five StarBeef<br />
Feedlot at Wakanui, near<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> was ‘‘apossible<br />
source of infection to be<br />
examined closely’’.<br />
‘‘Since the TAGfirst<br />
considered information in<br />
December, we have looked into<br />
this property closely, tested<br />
animals andtracedmovements.<br />
‘‘Inthe Programme's view<br />
thereare more likelysources<br />
from withinthe clusterof<br />
infected farmsitself, such as<br />
animalmovements, shared<br />
grazing,insecure boundaries<br />
between neighbouring<br />
propertiesandsharing ofdairy<br />
platforms.<br />
Acattlefree buffer area<br />
around the feedlot would<br />
remain in place, along with<br />
strict biosecurity measures<br />
being adhered to,untilitwas<br />
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cleared of Mbovis.The<br />
programme would work closely<br />
withthefeedlotowner ANZCO<br />
on depopulation,although the<br />
exact timing of thathad still not<br />
beendetermined. It will be<br />
planned well in advance, he<br />
said.<br />
‘‘The feedlot is ofsignificant<br />
economicimportance to the<br />
local communityand careful<br />
consideration is required to<br />
minimise the impact of the<br />
depopulation exercise on all<br />
those connectedtoit,’’ hesaid.<br />
“This includesnot only the<br />
feedlot’sstaff andcontractors,<br />
but also the farmers nationwide<br />
whosupply it with livestock and<br />
feedgrains.”<br />
The group made14<br />
recommendationstothe Mbovis<br />
Programmeall wereaccepted.<br />
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Mbovis on track<br />
for eradication<br />
It’s been four years since the<br />
bacteria Mycoplasma bovis was<br />
first found in New Zealand<br />
cattle, and plans to become the<br />
first country in the world to<br />
eradicate the disease are on<br />
track.<br />
There are just three active<br />
properties in Canterbury, all<br />
located in Mid Canterbury, but<br />
about 100 properties<br />
nationwide under active<br />
surveillance. More than $200<br />
million has been paid out to<br />
farmers in compensation to<br />
date and more than 170,000<br />
cattle culled.<br />
Massey University Professor,<br />
and vet, Scott McDougall, said<br />
there was cautious optimism<br />
that eradication was<br />
achievable, but longterm<br />
surveillance would be<br />
required.<br />
The eradication programme<br />
had evolved significantly over<br />
the four years, and had<br />
significantly impacted on<br />
affected farmers.<br />
However improvements in<br />
the process, shortening of<br />
turnaround times for<br />
compensation, as well as<br />
support from numerous<br />
organisations had helped to<br />
reduce impacts.<br />
“Not unexpectedly, due to the<br />
attimes cryptic nature of<br />
infection with this bacteria,<br />
combined with unrecorded<br />
cattle movements, cases have<br />
been detected outside of<br />
tracing networks via the<br />
background surveillance<br />
system,’’ he said.<br />
‘‘The recent Canterbury<br />
cluster, and anumber of<br />
recent bulk milk test positive<br />
samples, reinforce the need<br />
for ongoing care with cattle<br />
movements and National<br />
Animal Identification and<br />
Tracing (NAIT) recording,’’<br />
he said.<br />
Bovis causes untreatable<br />
mastitis in dairy and beef<br />
cows, severe pneumonia in<br />
up to 30 per cent of infected<br />
calves, and other symptoms<br />
and was first identified in<br />
<strong>July</strong> 2017.<br />
In May 2018 the<br />
government committed to<br />
investing $880 million over 10<br />
years to eliminate the<br />
disease in New Zealand,<br />
including farmer<br />
compensation, something<br />
never attempted elsewhere.<br />
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Early season lambsenjoying thesun<br />
Early season lambs at Windermere, just south of <strong>Ashburton</strong>, are enjoying some drier weather compared to when they were born<br />
in early June. The six week old lambs, (pictured) are on the dryland property of Dave and Rose Thomson.<br />
Co-op valuing staff wellbeing<br />
Ruralco has joined the<br />
WorkWell workplacewellbeing<br />
initiative and is well on its way<br />
to silver afterrecently<br />
completing bronze<br />
accreditation.<br />
The free initiative,developed<br />
by Toi Te Ora Public Health,<br />
provides practical tailored<br />
workplacehealthand wellbeing<br />
support and mentoring for staff,<br />
with resources, workshops,<br />
networkingopportunitiesand<br />
recognition through<br />
accreditation.<br />
Ruralco’s group manager of<br />
peopleand capability Sarah<br />
Green saidWorkWellformally<br />
acknowledgedRuralco’s<br />
working policies and practices,<br />
and gave opportunity to network<br />
and join forces withother likemindedbusinesses<br />
with<br />
successes and continual growth<br />
to supporttheir teaminthe<br />
workplace.<br />
‘‘WorkWell is afree initiative<br />
for businesses and has become<br />
part of Ruralco’s broader<br />
wellbeing strategy,’’ she said.<br />
‘‘Wellbeinghas always been<br />
business as usual for Ruralco,<br />
however it was historically<br />
drivenfrom the top.<br />
‘‘Ruralco wanted a<br />
mechanism to empower its<br />
wellbeing committee and to<br />
support them to make a<br />
difference. Workwell has done<br />
just that,‘‘ she said. Ruralco’s<br />
bronzeaccreditation<br />
recognised the focus the cooperative<br />
was puttinginto<br />
developing ahigh level of<br />
wellbeing for its staff in its goal<br />
to achieving an allround<br />
healthyworkplace, she said.<br />
The initiative, whichcan be<br />
adaptedtoany workplace,<br />
provided astrong framework<br />
and the supporttosucceed.<br />
‘‘It has enabledour committee<br />
to feel empowered to make a<br />
difference,”Sarah said.<br />
WorkWell’s goal is to work<br />
better through wellbeing and<br />
help createahappier, healthier<br />
and more productive<br />
workplacesacrossNew<br />
Zealand. Any businesses<br />
Ruralco’s Sarah Green, left, receives the WorkWell bronze<br />
accreditation from adviser Carly McDowell, of Community<br />
Public Health.<br />
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interestedinthe programme<br />
can contact Mrs McDowell via<br />
email at carly.mcdowell@cdhb.<br />
health.nz or check out the<br />
website www.workwell.<br />
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<strong>Ashburton</strong> <strong>Courier</strong>, <strong>July</strong> <strong>29</strong>, <strong>2021</strong><br />
IN BRIEF<br />
17<br />
HINDS PLOUGH<br />
National championBob Mehrtens<br />
continued his winning form taking<br />
outthe Silver classtitleinthe recent<br />
Hinds Ploughingmatchat Hinds.<br />
Thematch,onJune 27, startedin<br />
extremely foggy conditions but<br />
turned out to be agood day of<br />
ploughing.<br />
Thevintage plough was won by<br />
Alistair Chambers,the horseplough<br />
by John Chynoweth andthe open<br />
by John Stalker.<br />
Full results: Silverfirst R<br />
Mehrtens,second RCasey,thirdM<br />
Ridge; Vintage:AChambers,P<br />
Watson, CBoon; Horses: J<br />
Chynoweth,JBooth(A), JBooth<br />
(B); Open: JStalker, CBegg,L<br />
Parnham.<br />
WORKABLE PLANS<br />
Farmers and growers have been<br />
askedtoprovidepracticalideasto<br />
help develop high-quality and<br />
workable freshwaterfarm plans, in<br />
line withgovernment freshwater<br />
goals. Ministershavereleased<br />
consultation documents for<br />
freshwaterfarmplansand stock<br />
exclusion low slopemaps andare<br />
seekingcommentonnew,more<br />
accurate,mapping approach for<br />
stockexclusion to reflect what<br />
farmers see on-the-ground.<br />
The discussion document and<br />
submission forms are on the<br />
Ministry for the Environment and the<br />
Ministry for Primary Industries<br />
websites.<br />
Public consultation, which<br />
includes farmers, agriculturalsector<br />
groups,iwi, councilsand<br />
environmentalgroups, will run until<br />
September 12.<br />
SPREADER AWARDS<br />
Georgia Voice, of Philip Wareing<br />
Group, was runnerupinthe annual<br />
New Zealand Groundspread<br />
FertilisersAssociation awards.It<br />
was wonbyTobyEvans, of Brooks<br />
Spreading Ltd.<br />
The awards were presented by<br />
association president Graeme<br />
Martin at the recent conferenceat<br />
Aoraki,MtCook.<br />
Other winners wereJohn<br />
Whitehead, of JWELtd, who won<br />
the Innovation Award andThe<br />
President’s Award.<br />
The runnersupfor those<br />
categories (respectively), were<br />
Travis Churchill, of SpreadTest NZ<br />
and MatthewBlomfield, of<br />
Transport ServicesSouthland Ltd.<br />
Nick Hyslop,ofHyslop<br />
GroundspreadingLtd,was awarded<br />
the Health and Safety Award,and<br />
runner wasspreader operator,<br />
Anne-Marie Davison, of Wealleans.<br />
Farm sales down, price<br />
per hectare increases<br />
Therewere 392 farm salesnationwide in<br />
thethree monthsended June <strong>2021</strong>,<br />
compared to 450salesfor the three months<br />
ended May <strong>2021</strong>.<br />
Data fromtheRealEstateInstituteof<br />
NewZealand (REINZ)showstherewere<br />
1748farms sold in the yeartoJune<strong>2021</strong>,<br />
which was 51.5percent more than were<br />
sold in the previous year.<br />
The median price perhectare forall<br />
farms sold in thethree monthstoJune<br />
<strong>2021</strong>was $27,181, compared to $23,678 for<br />
the same period last year.<br />
REINZ rural spokesman Brian<br />
Peacocke said sales figures for the three<br />
monthsendingJune<strong>2021</strong>reflectedan<br />
easing on the previous quarter, as to be<br />
expectedfor theearly part of winter,but<br />
nevertheless, was astrong result and<br />
significantly aheadofthe equivalent<br />
periodsin2019and2020.<br />
‘‘Grazing and finishing properties<br />
tussledfor topspot in the numbers game,<br />
withdairyfarm sales comingadistant<br />
third. Putting the statistics to one side,<br />
onfarmconditions in manyregions<br />
reflected acontinuation of the late<br />
autumnwith mild weather and<br />
surprisingly good grassgrowing<br />
conditions,’’ he said.<br />
In Canterburythere were strong prices<br />
for finishing properties throughout the<br />
Hurunui,Waimakariri, Selwynand<br />
Timaru regions, but it wasquieterinthe<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>and Mackenziedistricts.<br />
For the three months ended June <strong>2021</strong>,<br />
the median sales price per hectare for<br />
dairy farmswas $34,282, for finishing<br />
farms was$35,747 and for grazing farms<br />
was $11,284.<br />
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We‛re not catering for<br />
ageneration of “Cotton<br />
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AgriDay is so much fun!<br />
In the morning we go and<br />
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At our School we love PIES! Pies often get<br />
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We’re proud to offer our<br />
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Ilove all the sport we get to play<br />
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Feel free to check out and explore our<br />
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If you have any questions or would like<br />
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Please give us acall to arrange atime.<br />
It‛s awesome having apool<br />
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With the <strong>Ashburton</strong> <strong>Courier</strong><br />
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Iknow itworks due to the amount<br />
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-Keith, AtoBAutos Ltd<br />
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COUNCILBRIEF<br />
5Baring SquareWest,<strong>Ashburton</strong> |POBox 94, <strong>Ashburton</strong>, NewZealand 7740 | Telephone (03) 307 7700 | Website ashburtondc.govt.nz<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> District Community HonoursAwards<br />
Nominations are being sought<br />
for the <strong>2021</strong> Community Honours<br />
Awards, whichrecognise individuals<br />
and/or organisations who have<br />
carried out meritorious voluntary<br />
communityserviceinthe <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
District.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> District Mayor Neil Brown said<br />
the awards areanopportunitytopublicly<br />
acknowledgethe valuable and important<br />
workofour volunteers.<br />
“We have a lot of incredible people<br />
from diverse backgrounds who work so<br />
selflesslyfor the benefitofothersand it's<br />
important toshow them how much the<br />
community appreciates what theydo.”<br />
People can be nominated from four<br />
categories: the Mayor’s Award for Public<br />
Service, the <strong>Ashburton</strong> Medal, Civic<br />
Awards, andHonoraryCitizens.<br />
Selecting the recipients from the<br />
nominations will be Mayor Brown, Deputy<br />
Mayor LizMcMillan, and Councillors Leen<br />
Braam, Angus McKay,and Stuart Wilson.<br />
“The awards' sub-committee is looking<br />
for individuals and/ororganisations who,<br />
through their volunteer work, make this<br />
community more welcoming, vibrantand<br />
inclusive,” Mayor Brown said.<br />
“I know thereare many people who work<br />
tirelessly to support othersand thosenew<br />
to our community to settle and feel more<br />
at home. Many are volunteers from a<br />
variety of cultures whooffertheir skills and<br />
timetosupport community members.<br />
“As our district continues to welcome<br />
peoplefromdiversebackgrounds,itwould<br />
be greatto see some of these volunteers<br />
rewarded forthe work they do.”<br />
Volunteering can include being<br />
involved in organisations like school<br />
boards, managing or coaching sports<br />
teams, assisting with church activities,<br />
conservation projects, helping in the<br />
health, elderly, or social service sector,<br />
being aleader or helper with ayouth<br />
organisation orgiving your time in the<br />
area of art,cultureorheritage.<br />
Individuals or organisations can be<br />
nominated in any of the following four<br />
categories:<br />
Mayor’s Award for Public Service -The<br />
Mayor’s Award for Public Service is the<br />
highest civic honourbestowedbyCouncil.<br />
Mayor’s Awards are rare awards given to<br />
people who have madeasignificant and<br />
sustained contribution to the district.<br />
The award recognises the recipients as<br />
stewards ofthe district and as people of<br />
special note. Nominees must have made<br />
asignificant contribution to the district<br />
formorethan 20 years. This civic honour<br />
is bestowed upon anindividual for their<br />
lifetime. There isnolimit to the number<br />
of people recognised as worthy of the<br />
Mayor’s Award for Public Service. Worthy<br />
nominees areidentified andassessed on a<br />
case-by-case basis.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Medal -The <strong>Ashburton</strong> Medal<br />
honours the significant achievement of<br />
individuals or teams who havebeen very<br />
successful in their chosen field and who<br />
have made an outstanding contribution<br />
to the district as awhole, or outstanding<br />
national or international achievements.<br />
Only one <strong>Ashburton</strong> Medal may be<br />
awardedeachyear.<br />
Thursday,<strong>29</strong><strong>July</strong> <strong>2021</strong> | ISSUE 39<br />
CivicAwards-CivicAwardsareawardedin<br />
recognition of substantial service, usually<br />
of avoluntary nature or beyond normal<br />
employment, benefiting <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Districtand its people. Thenominees will<br />
have generally carriedout predominantly<br />
voluntary work but payment for services<br />
will not necessarily disqualify receivingan<br />
award. Substantial service includes shortterm<br />
or long-term projects or activities<br />
that have benefited the whole of the<br />
district, adding tothe quality of life of<br />
residents.Inexceptional circumstances an<br />
awardmay be granted to anon-resident of<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>, if the servicehas beencarried<br />
out in <strong>Ashburton</strong> District. Nomore than<br />
five CivicAwardsmay be madeeachyear.<br />
HonoraryCitizens -Honorarycitizenship<br />
is an extraordinary honour granted to<br />
individuals who have given great service<br />
to <strong>Ashburton</strong>. Honorary citizenship is a<br />
symbolic gesture. It does not grant any<br />
legalrightstocitizenship of NewZealand.<br />
Honorarycitizenship maybegranted to an<br />
individual, organisation or aposition/title.<br />
Honorary citizenship may beawarded at<br />
any time.<br />
Nominations can be made by<br />
organisations, associations, societies, or<br />
clubswith two membersasnominators.<br />
Nominations areopenuntil Friday 20<br />
August and volunteersofany agecan<br />
be nominated.<br />
HamishRiach -Chief Executive<br />
Newbusiness awards need<br />
your backing<br />
The health of adistrict’s economy<br />
canoftenbeseen in thenumberof<br />
businesses that trade within its<br />
boundaries - from farmers to<br />
manufacturerstocoffee shops.<br />
Growth in the number of businesses<br />
showsentrepreneurs arepreparedto<br />
take risksand start newventures.<br />
The good news here is the number of<br />
businesses in the <strong>Ashburton</strong> District<br />
rose to just over 5,300 in 2020. Go<br />
back 20 years, and the number was<br />
3,738.<br />
Most of those businesses aresmall to<br />
medium enterprises but collectively,<br />
they employ nearly 20,000 people,<br />
abouttwo-thirdsofour population.<br />
Thosebusinessesthatbreathelifeinto<br />
all parts of our community arebeing<br />
toastedatthe inaugural ANZBusiness<br />
of the Year Awards, and Council is<br />
partnering with eventmanagersRiRa<br />
to stagetheseawards.<br />
We hope that the Mid Canterbury<br />
community will geton board-thisis<br />
yourplace, and you have plenty to be<br />
proudabout.<br />
Twoimportanteventshavehappened<br />
in the past seven days inthe life of<br />
these awards. ANZ has joined as a<br />
platinum sponsor and the first halfdozenentries<br />
have been received.<br />
We are keen to spread the word<br />
and encourage as many entries as<br />
possible, so next Friday, 6August,<br />
Council is hosting anetworking event<br />
at the <strong>Ashburton</strong> TrustEventCentre.<br />
It’ll be achancetolearn moreabout<br />
the different categoriesand register.<br />
We know things have been tough<br />
for some businesses over the last<br />
18 months, but these awards are an<br />
opportunity totalk about some of<br />
oursuccesses, those businesses-big<br />
andsmall -that have adapted, grown,<br />
changed, or completely pivoted to<br />
survive in this challenging pandemic<br />
environment.<br />
Resilienceisacommon theme.<br />
One ofthe categories isthe People’s<br />
Choice Award, and people in the<br />
community have asignificant role in<br />
selecting the winner. Theywill be able<br />
to votebytext,solook out forsigns on<br />
retailers’ shop windows with details<br />
of voting codes.<br />
As well as the People’s Choice, there<br />
is also a Future Business Leader<br />
Awardand aSupremeWinner,chosen<br />
from the winners ofcategories for<br />
primary industries, export, tourism,<br />
manufacturing, not-for-profit, and<br />
technologyand innovation.<br />
Entries must bereceived by 5pm<br />
on 30 November, and winners will<br />
be revealed at agala evening on 18<br />
Februarynextyear.<br />
Thebusinessnetworkingeventwillbe<br />
at the <strong>Ashburton</strong> Trust Event Centre<br />
on Friday, 6August, from 4pmto<br />
6pm.<br />
We’d love to seeyou there.<br />
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Flood relief<br />
RECOVERY<br />
UPDATE<br />
Landowners who suffered fresh<br />
flood damage this month are being<br />
encouraged to apply for financial<br />
help from fundsset up especially to<br />
help them.<br />
Almost 250 flood-damaged properties<br />
have been assessed following May’s big<br />
rain event but the <strong>Ashburton</strong> River broke<br />
out again in places after high flows mid-<br />
<strong>July</strong>.<br />
Farmers and those who live next to the<br />
river have been cleaning updebris and<br />
shingle deposits and dealing with lost<br />
fences, pastureand crop damage.<br />
The Ministry for Primary Industries is<br />
reminding people that applications from<br />
its Canterbury Flood RecoveryFund close<br />
on Friday, 30 <strong>July</strong>.<br />
Council’s Mayoral Fund remains open for<br />
emergencyrelieffunding.<br />
It is estimated 13,000 hectares in the<br />
districthas been affected by the flooding<br />
eventsand while work is being carriedout<br />
in the river byEnvironment Canterbury<br />
to create shingle bunds for protection,<br />
propertiesremain vulnerable.<br />
Flood-affected properties who have not<br />
yetcompletedaneedsassessment, that is<br />
part of the financial aid criteria,shouldcall<br />
Federated Farmers on 0800 327646.<br />
Mid Canterbury Rural Support Trust is also<br />
available to help on 0800 787 254.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>’s new welcoming mural<br />
has been described as a positive<br />
and happy addition to the urban<br />
landscape.<br />
The mural was officially finished on<br />
Saturday (24 <strong>July</strong>) when artist Koryu<br />
Aoshima added his signaturetothe street<br />
art that stretches 27 metres along the<br />
southern side of the Armadillo’s building<br />
on thecorner of Burnettand CassStreets.<br />
The final flourish was witnessed by<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> District Deputy Mayor Liz<br />
McMillan, mural panel members, and<br />
others who have been involved in its<br />
evolution.<br />
Koryu said it was significant to him that<br />
the mural waslaunched at the same time<br />
as the opening of the Olympicgames in his<br />
homelandJapan.<br />
He saidseeing theflags of the worldcome<br />
together was aligned with his inspiration<br />
to paint arainbow flag on the mural,<br />
representing people around the world<br />
comingtogetherin<strong>Ashburton</strong>.<br />
Building owner Brian Davidson praised<br />
Koryu’stalent and saidhehad spentalot<br />
of time watching him work; others had<br />
watchedthe muralprogresswithinterest<br />
tooand beeninspired.<br />
He said street art had come along way<br />
Newevent fundinground<br />
abouttoopen<br />
People organising Mid Canterbury<br />
events that will attract visitors<br />
from outside the district are being<br />
encouraged to apply for up to<br />
$10,000 from aregional event fund<br />
set upbythe Ministry ofBusiness,<br />
Innovation and Employmenttohelp<br />
boost domestic tourism.<br />
Mid Canterbury has $230,000 to spend<br />
overfouryears.<br />
Nine events wereallocatedabout$50,000<br />
in the first round earlier this year and<br />
the second round will open soon for<br />
applications,with $36,000 to distribute.<br />
The South Island Secondary Schools<br />
mountain bike championships were<br />
hosted atthe Mt Hutt bike park this year<br />
by Bike Methven and organisers were<br />
allocated $3,764 from the regional fund to<br />
help run theevent.<br />
The champs attracted several hundred<br />
riders, and their support crews, who<br />
stayed in the district forseveral days.<br />
The organisers ofathree-day national<br />
pickleball tournament held in the EA<br />
Networks Centre earlier this month<br />
were also among those nine first-round<br />
events and were allocated $5,000 fortheir<br />
Artistsigns welcoming mural,<br />
completesbeautiful additionto the CBD<br />
Welcoming mural panel members (from left) building owner BrianDavidson, <strong>Ashburton</strong>Art<br />
Galleryand Heritage Centre director Shirin Khosraviani, Council'sWelcoming Communities'<br />
Janice McKay, artist KoryuAoshima,<strong>Ashburton</strong> YouthCouncil memberJohn Magyaya and<br />
Tiipene Philip,ofHakatereMarae.<br />
in 30 years and was pleased tosee the<br />
mural had been painted in collaboration<br />
with the <strong>Ashburton</strong> District Council and<br />
Government.<br />
Tiipene Philip of theHakatereMarae said<br />
the Maori name Hakaterehad been used<br />
to describe <strong>Ashburton</strong> at least 800 years<br />
agoand he waspleasedtoseethe artwork<br />
respect that connection.<br />
The mural was described by those at<br />
the celebration ceremony asabeautiful<br />
addition to the CBD and street art that<br />
captured asense of belonging and invited<br />
sportingevent.<br />
The tournament attracted over 100<br />
players from outside the district, from as<br />
farawayasAuckland and Gore.Another 20<br />
local players also took part in the national<br />
event.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> District Mayor Neil Brown<br />
said anyone with agreat event idea and<br />
aplan to make ithappen should apply<br />
for funding, especially if it would attract<br />
visitorstothe district foranovernight stay.<br />
"This is an opportunity forour community<br />
to put our districtonthe map with events<br />
that will be arealdrawcardfor visitorsand<br />
drive spending in our local economy."<br />
To be eligible forfunding, eventsneedto<br />
have aduration of between twoand four<br />
yearsand mustdemonstratehow theywill<br />
attract out-of-regionvisitors.<br />
Applications for the second round of the<br />
RegionalEventFundopenon 1September<br />
and close on 30 September.<br />
Event organisers can apply for up to<br />
$10,000 per event to be held between<br />
1Februaryand 30 June 2022.<br />
To apply for funding, visit the Council's<br />
website(ashburtondc.govt.nz).<br />
people to engage, with its film frame for<br />
selfies andphotographs.<br />
The Welcoming Communities project<br />
sought ideas for the mural from the<br />
community and then invited artists to<br />
submit designs. Over600 people took part<br />
in apublic vote and Koryu’s design was<br />
selected.<br />
The Ministry for Business, Innovation<br />
and Employment supplied funding for<br />
the project and it was also supported<br />
by Resene, Armadillo’s, Gordon Harris,<br />
Steeltech, and Spraymarks.<br />
PUBLIC NOTICE<br />
PROPOSED ROAD<br />
CLOSURE<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> District Council gives public<br />
noticeofaproposal to temporarily<br />
closeroads to ordinaryvehicle traffic<br />
to enable theholdingofacommunity<br />
event–<strong>Ashburton</strong>Car Club‘Winslow<br />
Willowby Road StandingQuarter Mile<br />
Sprint’.<br />
Roadproposed to be closed:<br />
• WINSLOW WILLOWBY ROAD,from<br />
the Longbeach Road intersection<br />
to approximately500mfromthe<br />
intersectionwith StateHighway 1<br />
Period of Closure: From 9.00am until<br />
5.00pm on Saturday,04September<br />
<strong>2021</strong>.<br />
Detourswillbeavailable on adjacent<br />
roads and these will besignposted.<br />
This proposed closureismade<br />
under theLocal GovernmentAct<br />
1974-Schedule 10 (11(e))and will be<br />
consideredatthe Council meeting on<br />
18August <strong>2021</strong>.<br />
Any person objecting to the proposal<br />
should lodgenotice of theirobjection<br />
andthe grounds fortheirobjectionin<br />
writing by postoremail to the Council,<br />
5BaringSquareWest,<strong>Ashburton</strong> by<br />
4.00PM, Friday 06 August<strong>2021</strong>.<br />
NEIL McCANN<br />
Group Manager InfrastructureServices<br />
PUDDINGHILL BRIDGE<br />
TO CLOSE FORREPAIRS<br />
Arundel Rakaia GorgeRoadatthe<br />
Pudding Hill stream bridge will be<br />
closedfor fivedaysnext week for<br />
emergencyrepairwork on the bridge<br />
andbridgeapproach.<br />
Theapproach was temporarily<br />
reinstatedafterbeingwashed out in<br />
theMay flood because theroadwas a<br />
detour when the SH1 <strong>Ashburton</strong> bridge<br />
wasclosed.<br />
Contractorsnow need to permanently<br />
repair the approach and the side rail of<br />
thebridge, which werealso damaged in<br />
the flood.<br />
The bridgeapproach will be completely<br />
rebuilt.Thisinvolvesbuilding up a<br />
strong foundationinlayers from the<br />
riverbed to the bridgedeck withlarge<br />
rocks,thenconstructing the road on top<br />
of thatstrong foundation.<br />
Kerbing and railingthat was damagedin<br />
the flood will alsobereplaced.<br />
Detourswillbeinplacefor the length of<br />
theclosure, from 6am Monday<br />
2August untilcompletion on Friday<br />
6August,weather dependent.<br />
NEIL McCANN<br />
GroupManager Infrastructure Services<br />
STOCK IMPOUNDED<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> District Council was<br />
dispatched to wandering piglets on<br />
Pannetts Roadon17<strong>July</strong> <strong>2021</strong>. Two<br />
piglets arebeingkept in atemporary<br />
stock pound. Theyare saddleback<br />
piglets, whiteand blackand theother<br />
is pink. If you arethe ownerofthis<br />
stock,please contact poundkeeper<br />
Rick Catchpowleat<strong>Ashburton</strong> District<br />
Councilregardingfees and release of<br />
this stock.<br />
Wherestock hasnotbeenreleased from<br />
the pound beforethe time fixed forthe<br />
sale thereof in the notice referred to in<br />
subsection(2) of Section 46,the stock<br />
shall be soldbypublic auction. Stock<br />
must be claimed by Monday 1August<br />
<strong>2021</strong>.<br />
Rick Catchpowle<br />
EnvironmentalMonitoringManager<br />
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NEWS<br />
24 <strong>Ashburton</strong> <strong>Courier</strong>, <strong>July</strong> <strong>29</strong>, <strong>2021</strong><br />
www.ashburtoncourier.co.nz<br />
Do the job, but get home safely<br />
This profile is partofaseries from WorkSafe<br />
New Zealand.<br />
FMG Young Farmer of the Year winner<br />
Jake Jarman is working with ANZ’s rural<br />
lending team in <strong>Ashburton</strong>and sees real<br />
value in good health and safety practices.<br />
“In my experience, afarmthatmakes<br />
health and safety apriority is aproductive<br />
and profitable farm,” he says.<br />
Jake’sown health and safety focus<br />
began with asolid grounding on his<br />
family’s dairy farm andcontinuedthrough<br />
his studiesatLincoln and Massey<br />
universities and practical farm<br />
placements.<br />
“Mum and Dad were keenfor us to be<br />
out on farmwith themfromanearlyage,<br />
but wewere verywellsupervised,” says<br />
Jake.<br />
“Therewere always strictly‘no go’ areas<br />
and veryclear expectations around<br />
behaviour. As we got older and started<br />
using farm bikes and equipment, they<br />
made sure we understood how to use<br />
everything safely.<br />
“Therewerevery strict rules around the<br />
bikes. Never use them on unevensurfaces<br />
and be very aware of wet or muddy<br />
ground. The approach was always, if in<br />
doubt ‘get offand walk –check overthe<br />
next rise, check for things like creeks,<br />
before youget back on’.<br />
“Therewere also strong rules around<br />
speed and wearing seat belts in all<br />
vehicles, and if you were taking something<br />
like atractoronthe road, use flashing<br />
lights and bevery visible and always have<br />
the forks pointing down.<br />
“Therewas training about towing or<br />
lifting heavy loads and checking guards<br />
and behaviour around things like PTO<br />
shafts.Itwas verymuch sequential<br />
learning, learningaswewent butwith<br />
very good supervision.”<br />
Jake believesall parts of afarm’s<br />
structure can play arole in goodhealth<br />
Jake Jarman in action during the FMG Young Farmer of the Year, in Christchurch.<br />
PHOTO SUPPLIED<br />
andsafety. Fromyoung staffthrough to<br />
roles like his, as consultantsoradvisers.<br />
“Sometimes you getsoboggeddown<br />
with thedaytoday graft that it is hard to<br />
see wheresmall improvements can make<br />
abig difference. If we stop seeing health<br />
andsafety as compliance and look at it as<br />
productive farming with thriving staff, we<br />
might see an improvementinour pretty<br />
miserabletrack record of injuries and<br />
deathsonfarm.”<br />
Jake has aBachelor of Agricommerce at<br />
Lincoln University and then aMasters in<br />
Agricultural Science, throughMassey<br />
University –completinghis studies in<br />
Hamilton with the support of aDairyNZ<br />
postgraduate scholarship. He then spent<br />
time working parttimefor Dairy Trust<br />
Taranaki and on the family farm before<br />
joiningANZ in February <strong>2021</strong>.<br />
Those experiencescontinued his health<br />
andsafety learning.<br />
Jake won his FMG YoungFarmer<br />
regional title at his first attempt, and<br />
enjoyed acleansweep, winning the most<br />
points in allfour contest strainers.<br />
Tourism<br />
contract<br />
‘tighter’<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> District Council has<br />
more effectivekey<br />
performanceindicators (KPIs)<br />
in place and a‘‘tighter’’<br />
contractlined up for district<br />
widetourism promotion.<br />
Speaking at Methven<br />
community Board (MCB)<br />
meeting this week council<br />
economic development<br />
managerSimon Worthington<br />
said it washoped to penanew<br />
three year contract with<br />
ChristchurchNZ very soon. The<br />
contractwas worth $195,000 per<br />
year,as per the previous year.<br />
Mr Worthington said the<br />
contractcontained KPI’s that<br />
would allow better<br />
benchmarking and progression<br />
moving forward.Itwas hoped<br />
thatthrough adigital marketing<br />
specialist at ChristchurchNZ<br />
more traffic could be driven<br />
throughthe Mid Canterbury<br />
eventswebsite<br />
(midcanterburynz.com) and<br />
online platforms.<br />
Mr Worthington said atighter<br />
contractwith ChristchurchNZ<br />
would give more uplift to local<br />
tourism events.His team<br />
plannedtoupdate and tidy up<br />
the midcanterburynz.com<br />
website over the next couple of<br />
weeksand therewould be local<br />
rather thanregional control<br />
overit.<br />
He urged tourismoperators,<br />
like those in Methven, to upload<br />
their events and use the free<br />
site.<br />
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NEWS<br />
25 <strong>Ashburton</strong> <strong>Courier</strong>, <strong>July</strong> <strong>29</strong>, <strong>2021</strong><br />
Bright plans dimmed<br />
There’s been ahitch with plans to<br />
lightuptwo big oaks in the<br />
Methven township thiswinter.<br />
Theoaksoutside the BluePub<br />
and Methven MedicalCentre were<br />
lineduptohave colour changing<br />
lightsput up in them, butmajor<br />
upgradestothe electrical supply<br />
arenow needed andthe cost of the<br />
worklooks likely to make<br />
installing them prohibitive.<br />
Speakingatthe Methven<br />
CommunityBoard(MCB) meeting<br />
on Monday,<strong>Ashburton</strong> District<br />
Councileconomicdevelopment<br />
managerSimon Worthingtonsaid<br />
the electrical supply needed abig<br />
overhaul and the healthofthe two<br />
trees was also ‘‘not great’’.<br />
He saidthe cost of upgrading<br />
electrics was $9000for oakone<br />
and $9600 for oak two.<br />
One of the trees was around 100<br />
years old andthe other was<br />
younger.<br />
He saidthe cost of the project,<br />
includinglight costs of $2330,was<br />
now $21,600 and farhigher than<br />
expected.<br />
MCB initiallyagreed to use<br />
discretionaryfunds to payfor half<br />
of the costs of the lights,uptoa<br />
maximumvalueof$3500, withthe<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>council paying the rest.<br />
MCB has deferred its decision<br />
on the treelightsand other<br />
options willnow be investigated.<br />
Transport health<br />
and safety project<br />
Acrosssectorproject between<br />
WorkSafe NZ and industry<br />
representatives hasbeen<br />
established to help improve<br />
health and safetyoutcomes across<br />
the Transport,Postaland<br />
Warehousing sectors.<br />
WorkSafe data also shows that<br />
in Transport, Postal, and<br />
Warehousing in 2019 therewere<br />
57 fatal crashes, 170serious<br />
injuries and521 minorinjuries<br />
involvingtrucks.<br />
“These numbersare<br />
concerningly high,and it was<br />
clearthere wassomework<br />
needed to be donetotry and<br />
create solutionstoreduce<br />
vehiclerelatedrisks,” says Ruth<br />
Cook, WorkSafe Engagement and<br />
Implementation Lead.<br />
MackieResearch were tasked<br />
by WorkSafe to helpfind<br />
solutions andhave made 13<br />
recommendations to improve<br />
vehiclerelatedhealth andsafety<br />
and actively managesupply chain<br />
pressurestominimisevehiclerelated<br />
risks.<br />
“A collaborative approach<br />
between WorkSafe and the<br />
industry wasneeded to gain<br />
insight into who wasbest placed<br />
in the transport and logistics<br />
chain to improve health and<br />
safety outcomes.<br />
The research involved reviews<br />
of existingresearch and<br />
initiatives, and intensive<br />
engagement with industry<br />
stakeholders.Itwas carried out<br />
over11months anddesigned to<br />
build on existing andnew<br />
programmes of workby industry<br />
andNew Zealand government<br />
agencies.<br />
The 13 recommendations to<br />
minimisevehiclerelated harm<br />
across supply chainsrepresent a<br />
mixoffive broad, enabling<br />
initiatives, with eight targeting<br />
specificareas of focus. “We’re<br />
hopeful this research contributes<br />
to astep change in greater shared<br />
responsibility for safety by all the<br />
partiesinfluencing thesupply<br />
chain,” says NickLeggett, Chief<br />
Executive at RoadTransport<br />
Forum New Zealand.<br />
“The research’s findings<br />
support our view that typically<br />
harmisnot the resultof<br />
individual behaviour but rather<br />
the symptom of asystemthat is<br />
notworkingwell.”<br />
WorkSafe is leading the<br />
establishment of the System<br />
Group as outlined in<br />
recommendation 1ofthe report.<br />
This work hascommenced.<br />
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BOARDING SCHOOL<br />
Discover, challenge and<br />
extend at Nelson College<br />
Youngmen want to explore.<br />
Theywantlearningtobefunand<br />
challenging;aplace wheretheycan<br />
question andtestnew ideas, as well as<br />
acquirethe skillsand knowledgethey<br />
need to succeed in thenext chapter<br />
of their educationand in lifebeyond<br />
college.<br />
At Nelson College, ourcurriculum<br />
andteachingisdesignedfor boys. We<br />
want ourstudents to be excitedabout<br />
lifeand to discover andpursuetheir<br />
dreams.School shouldbesomewhere<br />
that provides thespacesand support<br />
foryoung mentolearn andfind their<br />
passion. Aplace to be encouragedand<br />
extendedtosucceed in learning.<br />
Ourfocus is on buildingstudents’<br />
keycompetenciessuchasliteracy, selfmanagement,<br />
andcriticalthinking;to<br />
buildafoundationfor furtherlearning.<br />
As aspecialistinboys’ education, we<br />
provide thestructure,opportunities<br />
andpastoralcarethatwill see your son<br />
succeed at school andbeyond.<br />
Nelson CollegeBoardingiswell-known<br />
forits welcomingfamilyenvironment.<br />
‘Wehaveboysfromall around New<br />
Zealandand overseas,’ says Director<br />
of BoardingSamme Hippolite. ‘and we<br />
know howimportant it is forthemto<br />
have asense of belongingwithin our<br />
community.<br />
We want ourboystothriveand<br />
succeed in theseformulative years,<br />
so we ensure that they’resupported<br />
throughout theirstudies, as well as<br />
encouraged in their owninterests<br />
andendeavours. Becauseour two<br />
hostelsare on theschool grounds,<br />
it’s easy forthe boys to getinvolved<br />
in extracurricular school activities.<br />
We want them to safely have fun,<br />
make lifelongfriendshipsand create<br />
incredible memories of their life at<br />
Nelson College.<br />
StartyourlegacyatNelsonCollege.<br />
Nelson College offers theverybestinboarding. Talk to us<br />
about life-changing opportunitiesfor your son.<br />
•Welcoming family environment<br />
•High-levelacademic &leadership programmeswith<br />
tutorsupport<br />
•35differentsportsoptions<br />
•Year-round outdoor activitiesacrossthe Nelsonregion<br />
•Competitive rates&no school fees<br />
Educatingfor the futuresince 1856.<br />
Contact us forenrolmentinformation or aBoarding Prospectus:<br />
boarding@nelsoncollege.school.nz |03548 3099 |www.nelsoncollege.school.nz
BOARDING SCHOOL<br />
The experience ofalifetime<br />
SammyHoodisakeenadvocateofall<br />
that boardinghas to offer.<br />
She’sbeenboardingatStMargaret’s<br />
Collegesince she startedinYear9.Now<br />
in Year 13, Sammyisthe school’s Head of<br />
Community Relations.<br />
“I wasbuzzingwithexcitementtostart<br />
boardingatSMC.Itwas awhole new<br />
experience butitdidn’ttakemelongto<br />
getusedtothe boardinglife. The friendly<br />
andcompassionate staff definitely made<br />
thetransitionfromhomein<strong>Ashburton</strong> to<br />
boardingmucheasier.They helpedusall<br />
adjust to thenew rules andtolivingwith<br />
othergirls.<br />
“Livinginthe dormsduringmyfirst<br />
twoyears made it very easy to form<br />
newfriendshipsand theseconnections<br />
definitely helpedwhenIdid feel home<br />
sick.”<br />
The boarding communityisatthe<br />
heartofStMargaret’sand theculture is<br />
closelyalignedwiththe school’s vision<br />
of aholisticeducation,embracing the<br />
spiritualand emotionalwellbeingofthe<br />
girls,aswellastheir academic growth<br />
andtheir developmentinsport andthe<br />
arts.<br />
The threeboardinghousesare arranged<br />
in year groups andstructuredtothe<br />
specific needsofeach developmental<br />
stage. In Julius House(Years7-10) the<br />
environment is structured andnurturing<br />
forthe girlstomakethe transitioninto<br />
boarding. KilburnHouse (Years 11-12)<br />
encouragesthe girlstobegin personally<br />
integratingthese skills.Cranmer House<br />
(Year13) allowsfor more freedomto<br />
helpthemdevelop lifeskills andbecome<br />
driven, self-managed youngwomen, all<br />
in amonitored setting. These seniorgirls<br />
thrive astheybecomethe leadersofthe<br />
boardingschooland the‘oldersisters’of<br />
theyoungergirls.<br />
SammysaysboardingatSMC has<br />
helped hertobecomemore independent.<br />
“Asyou progressthrough theyear<br />
levels,yourindependence grows. The<br />
connectionsand relationshipsyou<br />
build in theSMC boardingcommunity,<br />
whetheritbegirls in your year group or<br />
thestaff, areall valuableand also helpyou<br />
grow as aperson. The academic support<br />
andpastoralcareprovidedbystaffis<br />
exceptional.Ithelps thegirls to strive to<br />
their full potential. At thesametime, staff<br />
are always keepingacloseeye on each<br />
girl’s wellbeing.<br />
“I’vebuilt strongfriendshipsthatwill<br />
last alifetime, andit’salot of fun! Youget<br />
to meet adiverse range of people from all<br />
backgrounds andeveryoneistreated as<br />
equals.”<br />
To learnmoreabout lifeat<br />
St Margaret’s College, visit<br />
www.stmargarets.school.nz or call<br />
03 379 2000 to arrangeapersonal tour<br />
of the BoardingHouse andCollege.<br />
Empowering Girls<br />
to Learn, Live &Lead.<br />
Learnmoreabout aStMargaret’s<br />
Collegeeducation foryourdaughter<br />
–bookapersonaltourtoday.<br />
Contact Susie Campbell,<br />
Admissions Manager<br />
(03) 353 2563<br />
enrol@stmargarets.school.nz<br />
Balanced<br />
foundations,<br />
bright futures.
BOARDING SCHOOL<br />
Aboarding home<br />
with heart at Selwyn<br />
House School<br />
Selwyn HouseSchoolisanall girls’<br />
school forYears 1to8.Weare an<br />
InternationalBaccalaureateschool, with<br />
afuture-focused curriculum basedon<br />
interculturalunderstandingand respect.<br />
Ourfocusison developing inquiring<br />
andempatheticminds andbuilding<br />
strong knowledgefoundations so that<br />
ourstudentswill face thefuturewiththe<br />
skillsand confidence to be empowered<br />
global citizens.<br />
Selwyn HouseSchoolisproud to offer a<br />
safe,nurturing,family-orientedboarding<br />
housefor girlsinYears 4to8(ages 7to<br />
13). OurBoardingHouse is conveniently<br />
locatedwithin theschool grounds,<br />
offeringahomeawayfromhomefor up<br />
to <strong>29</strong> students.<br />
Ourboarderscomefromaround<br />
NewZealand, particularly ruralareas<br />
of Canterbury,and internationally, and<br />
casual boardingarrangements arealso<br />
abletobemade.Weare proudofthe<br />
diversityinculturalbackgrounds that our<br />
bordersbring to this community,which<br />
promotes tolerance, trust, friendliness,<br />
understandingand respect.<br />
We valuethe special characterthateach<br />
girl brings to ourcommunity,and we<br />
supporteachgirls’passions andinterests<br />
with variousactivitiesofferedbothonsite<br />
andoff-site.<br />
The girlsare supportedbyacaring<br />
andprofessionalteam, whotakehuge<br />
pride in helping each girl reachher full<br />
potential. OurBoardingHouse Managers<br />
will provide awarmwelcome foryour<br />
daughter andoversee herwellbeingand<br />
developmentthroughout hertimein<br />
theBoardingHouse.Our full-timeChef<br />
will ensure that she receivesahealthy,<br />
balanced diet, andmakeprovisions<br />
forany dietaryneeds. Ateamoftutors<br />
supportthe girlswiththeir homework<br />
andfulfil abig sister role to ourboarders.<br />
We believe boardingisaunique<br />
opportunity foreachgirland we<br />
pride ourselvesoncreatingapositive<br />
environmentwhere thegirls areableto<br />
developtheir academic, socialand life<br />
skills. With theright combinationof<br />
nurture, supportand encouragement,<br />
ourboardersare giventhe toolsand the<br />
environmenttothrive.<br />
Come andsee what we have to<br />
offer at ourOpenDay on Wednesday<br />
20 October, 9am-12pm, or contact<br />
enrolments@selhouse.school.nz or<br />
phone(03) 355 7<strong>29</strong>9 to arrangea<br />
personal tour on anotherdate.<br />
BOARDING<br />
OPTIONS<br />
AVAILABLE<br />
OPEN DAY: WEDNESDAY 20OCTOBER<br />
9AM TONOON, 122 MERIVALE LANE, CHRISTCHURCH<br />
PHONE (03) 3557<strong>29</strong>9 EMAIL office@selhouse.school.nz<br />
122Merivale Lane,Merivale,Christchurch<br />
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SPORT<br />
28 <strong>Ashburton</strong> <strong>Courier</strong>, <strong>July</strong> <strong>29</strong>, <strong>2021</strong><br />
www.ashburtoncourier.co.nz<br />
New MSA Club snooker room awinner<br />
Players in the <strong>Ashburton</strong> Club<br />
andMSA Billiardsand Snooker<br />
Section haveanew snooker<br />
roomabove the Noble 600<br />
restaurant.<br />
Snooker sectionsecretary/<br />
treasurer Al Benfell said it was<br />
abeautiful largeroom.<br />
‘‘It is abig improvementas<br />
the cue would hit awallinthe<br />
previous room.’’<br />
The club currently has<br />
around 20 membersand were<br />
always keen to welcome new<br />
players with coaching offered.<br />
On <strong>July</strong> 17 the snooker room<br />
hostedthe top six available<br />
players from the<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
MSA, Timaru SA and Kaiapoi<br />
Club.<br />
At stakewas the Plains<br />
Trophy with the<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
MSAteam winning thetrophy<br />
again this year.<br />
The<strong>Ashburton</strong> team of John<br />
Ruakere, Noel Green,Liam<br />
Young, Al Benfell, Tony<br />
Benfell,and Greg Fattorini all<br />
contributedtothe successwith<br />
the highest breaksbeingmade<br />
by Tony Benfell (35) andLiam<br />
Young (33)<br />
Anybodyinterested in taking<br />
up snooker or billiards can<br />
contact Al Benfellon027 319<br />
2512.<br />
Below: the <strong>Ashburton</strong> MSA snooker team (from left) Tony Benfell,<br />
Liam Young, Alister Benfell, John Ruakere and Noel Green. Right:<br />
The new snooker room.<br />
Study tackles head collision risks for young rugby players<br />
Astudy investigatingheadgear protection<br />
in juniorrugbyplayers kicks offnextyear<br />
amid growing concern abouthealthand<br />
safety in the sport.<br />
The twoyearstudy, beingcarried out by<br />
University of Canterbury education,<br />
health and human development Professor<br />
Nick Draper, has been givenmore than<br />
$100,000 by the Canterbury Medical<br />
ResearchFoundation.<br />
It will look into headcollisionsin junior<br />
rugby andthepotential of World Rugbysanctioned<br />
headgear to reduceimpacts.<br />
Professor Draper,who is an experienced<br />
junior rugbycoach and afather of three<br />
young rugbyplaying sons, saidthe study<br />
was timely due to rising concern from<br />
parents andthe rugby union community<br />
about thehealth risks associated with<br />
head collisions.<br />
“Thereare parents whoare choosingnot<br />
to let their children play rugbyasmore<br />
concussioncasescometolight, and Ithink<br />
as researchers and as auniversity, we have<br />
aresponsibility to the community to find<br />
ways to makethe game safer forour<br />
children.<br />
The new research,starting early next<br />
year, would seek to find out if protective<br />
headgear helped reducepeak<br />
accelerations in collisions.<br />
It will use 40 junior male players from<br />
Waihora Rugby Club during two seasons;<br />
2022and 2023.<br />
Half the players willwear approved<br />
headgear,and theother half without.<br />
There wouldalso be special<br />
mouthguards equippedwith sensors to<br />
measure peak accelerations which occur<br />
duringcollisions at training andin<br />
matches, video recordings andMRI scans<br />
done preseason,postseason and afterany<br />
concussive collision as partofthe<br />
research.<br />
Mid Canterbury Combined (MCC) First XV in<br />
action during the recent Selwyn Schools<br />
Combined First XV match.
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latest Council news<br />
by followinguson<br />
social media!<br />
ISSUE <strong>2021</strong> JULY<br />
MEETING WRAP<br />
To start off this month's<br />
meeting, we were joined<br />
by Poppy and Stacey from<br />
the YMCAwheretheyran us<br />
through some team building<br />
activities and explained<br />
about their roles at the YMCA<br />
and what importance they<br />
hold.<br />
Then wehad Helen and Marlon come<br />
from the Electoral Commission to help<br />
with our understanding of elections<br />
and how all ages have different views<br />
so having adifference when it comes to<br />
voting ages is important.<br />
Helen andMarlon also taught us about<br />
voting differences from around New<br />
Zealand.<br />
We then had Steve Fabish speak on<br />
behalf of the Plains Museum Trust<br />
where we learned that the trustwas set<br />
up by theCouncil to oversee thePlains<br />
Museum, that everyone who helps<br />
there are volunteers and that they are<br />
short of volunteers.<br />
To helpthis issue they will be holding an<br />
open day to recruit new volunteers of<br />
any skilllevel.<br />
Finally we finished with general<br />
business where our topics this month<br />
werefeedback from designingthe skate<br />
park bins, who would beinterested in<br />
being an MC for the NZ Mountain Film<br />
Festival on the 7th of August and we<br />
wereassigned our articles.<br />
Wearelookingforwardtoourupcoming<br />
events this year and hope to see you<br />
there.<br />
MADDIE PAGE<br />
Secretary<br />
Let'sget social<br />
Keep up with thelatestYouthCouncil<br />
news by followinguson social media!<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
The <strong>Ashburton</strong> Youth Council is<br />
delightedtohosttheNZMountain<br />
Film Festival on 7August, forthe<br />
thirdyearrunning.<br />
We would welcome the support from the<br />
community by buying tickets and coming<br />
to view the amazing selection ofKiwi-made<br />
adventure films.<br />
The range of films covers traversing the<br />
Southern Alps onskis, climbing the airport<br />
wall in Fiordland,atrip through theGarden of<br />
Eden, acontemplationofart and adventurein<br />
the Southernwilds, aself-filmedfreeclimbof<br />
Aoraki/Mount Cook’sEast Ridgeand ayoung<br />
up and coming surfershowing off hisfavourite<br />
spots aroundNew Zealand.<br />
This isanimportant event for us, as it is our<br />
major fundraising occasion that allows us to<br />
hostBiteNight CultureFest.<br />
Bite Night Culture Fest is our biggest event<br />
of the year, where families can experience a<br />
variety of activities and enjoyment. Wewill<br />
have live sport demo games, aselection of<br />
food stallsfromdoughnutstoIndian cuisine,<br />
live music,inflatables andadragshow.<br />
This is a family-friendly event for the<br />
community with entertainment to suit all<br />
ages. This is an opportunity for the Youth<br />
Councilto givebackto theyouthof<strong>Ashburton</strong>.<br />
facebook.com/AshYouthCouncil<br />
Support AYCand come to the NZ<br />
Mountain Film Festival National Tour<br />
7<br />
TH<br />
SAT<br />
AUGUST<br />
Screening at7pm (doors open 6.30pm)<br />
There will be two selectionsoffilms from the<br />
<strong>2021</strong> NZMountain Film festival. There’s the;<br />
Award Winning Selection and the Kiwi Made<br />
Selection.<br />
KIWI MADE SELECTION<br />
Apopular package of amazing home grown<br />
films. Agreat second evening,oralternative<br />
to themostlyinternationalfilmsabove. 123<br />
minuterun time.<br />
Canterbury Alps Ski Traverse (10 mins)<br />
Director Alastair McDowell, NZ. Traversing<br />
the Southern Alps on skis... now that sounds<br />
like an adventure; through the heart of<br />
Canterbury's wild yet withering glaciers, peaks<br />
and passes, from Arthur's Pass to the Godley<br />
Valley.<br />
Airport Wall (15 mins) Director Allie Rood,<br />
NZ.Dan andMerryhavebothbeenlooking at<br />
theAirportWall in Fiordland forover 20 years.<br />
As almost aculmination oftheir careers as<br />
climbers, this is the story ofhow these guys<br />
achieved afirstascent of thismassive big wall<br />
climb. Itexplains in detail what ittakes, and<br />
what it means,for people interestedingoing<br />
thereand tryingtoclimb it themselves.<br />
Newton Peak (25 mins) Director Nick<br />
Kowalski, NZ.Four Canterburyclimbersset off<br />
ASHBURTON<br />
Acelebration ofadventurous sports &lifestyles<br />
ashburtondc.govt.nz/filmfestival<br />
ADULTS:<br />
$25<br />
YOUTH: (14 yrs &under)<br />
$15<br />
(including fees)<br />
Supporters:<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Trust<br />
Event Centre<br />
211 Wills Street, <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
into theheart of theSouthern Alpstoexplorea<br />
rarely climbedpeakwiththehopeofclimbing<br />
anew route. Their journeytakes them through<br />
the infamous ‘Garden of Eden’ iceplateau and<br />
through thethick,wildvegetationofthe West<br />
Coast bush.<br />
In theTheatreofthe Gogs (19mins) Director<br />
Richard Sidey, NZ. Acontemplation of art<br />
and adventure in the southern wilds ofNew<br />
Zealand by two Wanaka locals: landscape<br />
photographer Christopher David Thompson<br />
andadventurefilmmaker Richard Sidey. This<br />
film is the unexpected result of their two<br />
unique perspectives.<br />
PilgrimagetoPilgrim (17 mins) Director Emil<br />
Hansen, NZ.Aself-filmedfreeclimbofAoraki/<br />
Mt Cook's East Ridge. Apilgrimage tothe<br />
recently discovered route ‘Pilgrim’ -the last<br />
unclimbed routeonMtCook.<br />
Made in Aotearoa (37 mins) Directors Andy<br />
Deere and Ryan Heron, NZ. Young up-andcoming<br />
surfer Kehu Butler shows us his<br />
favourite spots around NZ as we learn about<br />
hisfamily anddeepconnections to friendsand<br />
ocean. Thisisthe first timeanNZfilm has won<br />
this award,EPIC!<br />
HENRYGOODES<br />
DeputyChairperson/<br />
EventLiaison<br />
PO Box94, <strong>Ashburton</strong>, NewZealand 7740 | Telephone (03) 307 7700 | Website ashburtondc.govt.nz |facebook.com/AshYouthCouncil
SPORT<br />
30 <strong>Ashburton</strong> <strong>Courier</strong>, <strong>July</strong> <strong>29</strong>, <strong>2021</strong><br />
Ashlee aiming for spot at<br />
Commonwealth Games<br />
Basketballer Ashlee Strawbridge is shooting for aspot this<br />
weekend to represent New Zealand at the 2022<br />
Commonwealth Games.<br />
PHOTO TONI WILLIAMS<br />
Watters Cup final time<br />
Celtic and Southern go headtohead<br />
this weekendinthe<br />
Lusetti Seeds Watters Cup<br />
senior rugby final at the<br />
showgrounds oval in<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>.<br />
Thefinalists in the district<br />
competition came from semifinal<br />
play when Southernbeat<br />
Rakaia 2119; andCeltic beat<br />
Methven2013 at Celtic.<br />
Thefinal,which will be<br />
officiated by referee Glenn<br />
Peddie,starts at2.15pm.<br />
Thecurtainraiser will<br />
featureColts teamsCeltic<br />
playingMethven Combined,<br />
on the oval from 12.30pm.<br />
TherefereeisHamish<br />
Grant.<br />
On Friday nightinthe<br />
Methven, mighty musterers<br />
from the mountains will take<br />
on the Methven Senior Brugby<br />
team in theannual Rakaia<br />
Gorge Musterers vs Methven<br />
Rugby Clubcharity match.<br />
Themusterers teaminpast<br />
Southern and Rakaia battle it out in the Lusetti Seeds Watters<br />
Cup senior rugby semifinal last weekend at Hinds. PHOTO GRAHAM SHAW<br />
had been made up from<br />
players working up the Rakaia<br />
Gorge but in recent years<br />
players had beengathered<br />
from Rakaia and <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
gorges,both sides of the<br />
MidCanterbury basketballer Ashlee<br />
Strawbridge is aimingfor amuchsort<br />
after spot representingNew Zealand<br />
at theCommonwealth Games in<br />
Birmingham, England next year.<br />
Therising basketballstarisata<br />
Tall Fernscamp in Auckland this<br />
weekend to compete in 3x3<br />
basketballevent, which will help<br />
form therepresentative team<br />
selection.<br />
Theevent starts tomorrow and runs<br />
untilSunday.<br />
Strawbridge gotthe unexpected<br />
callup to play on Monday night and<br />
took in an impromptu training<br />
session this week withthe <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
College senior boys team before<br />
flying north.<br />
She has also been invited to play in<br />
an exhibition fundraiser invitational<br />
team againstthe boys in <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
on August 14.<br />
Prior to the callup Strawbridge, a<br />
NewZealand agegroup<br />
representative and also former<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> College baller who is on<br />
break from college basketball in the<br />
United States, had been doing alot of<br />
running, cardio and gym work<br />
between helping with sessionsof<br />
Girls Got Game basketball<br />
programme in <strong>Ashburton</strong>.<br />
Rakaia River andalongthe<br />
Foothills to Mt Somers.<br />
It will be playedat the<br />
Methven showgrounds<br />
tomorrow night(<strong>July</strong> 30). Kick<br />
off at 7pm.<br />
DRAWS<br />
HOCKEY<br />
Div 1 Women Monday 2 Aug 6.00 pm<br />
Tinwald v Wakanui (C Hastie, M Marshall)<br />
7.30 pm Methven vHampstead (J Gray, S<br />
Read)<br />
Div 1 Men Tuesday 3 Aug 6.00 pm<br />
Wakanui Black vWakanui White (C Watson, S<br />
Muir)<br />
7.30 pm Allenton vTinwald (S Mealings, B<br />
Gray)<br />
Kwik Sticks Wednesday 4Aug 3.45 pm<br />
Allenton vTinwald Engineering Solutions (B<br />
Greer, SGeeson)4.55 pm Wakanui Black v<br />
Collegians/Rakaia (E Shapland, LEllis) 6.05<br />
pm Wakanui Blue vMethven White Wakanui<br />
Div 2Men Allenton Div 2Men<br />
7.15 pm Methven Black vTinwald Bonnington<br />
Painting (Hampstead Lowcliffe Div 2<br />
Men, Tinwald Div 2Men)<br />
SSL Girls Div 1Championship Nga Puna<br />
Wai 5.05 pm Lincoln High School 1st XI v<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> College 1st XI (Umpires supplied)<br />
SMALL STICKS DUTY CLUB: Allenton<br />
(Olympic Theme &BBQ) Kiwi Sticks (Yr 5)<br />
Wednesday 4Aug 4.00 pm Methven vTinwald<br />
The Tool Shed -MtHutt (Coaches) Friday 6<br />
Aug 3.45 pm Allenton/Hampstead vWakanui<br />
-Turf a(SFrench, TEllis) Tinwald Foothills<br />
(BYE)<br />
Kiwi Sticks (Yr 6) 4.30 pm Methven v<br />
Tinwald Smith & Sons - Turf a (HKidd, R<br />
Pearce) Tinwald Foothills vRakaia Blue -Turf<br />
b(KMcDonnell, RKidd) 5.15 pm Wakanui<br />
Blue v Allenton - Turf a [K McDonnell, R<br />
Pearce) Wakanui Black vCollegians/Rakaia -<br />
Turf bMethven Div 2Women, Hampstead/<br />
Tinwald Div 2Women)<br />
Div 2 Women 6.15 pm Methven v<br />
Hampstead/Tinwald (Wakanui Div 1Women,<br />
Hamsptead Div 1Women) 7.30 pm Wakanui<br />
Black vWakanui Purple (Wakanui White Div 1<br />
Men, Tinwald Div 1Women)<br />
SSL Boys Div 1Marist Park @StBedes<br />
College 7.10 pm Cashmere High School 1st XI<br />
v<strong>Ashburton</strong> College 1st XI (Umpires supplied)<br />
SMALL STICKS DUTY CLUB: Allenton<br />
(Olympic Theme &BBQ) Saturday 7August<br />
Mini Sticks 10.00 am Methven Black v<br />
Tinwald Skip-2-It -Turf a(Coaches) Methven<br />
White v Wakanui Blue - Turf b (Coaches)<br />
Wakanui Black vAllenton Mini Magic -Turf c<br />
(Coaches) Allenton Golds vTinwald Mayfield<br />
Transport (Coaches)<br />
Snr Men (Canterbury Div 1Men Champs)<br />
Mainpower Waimakariri Turf 4.15 pm Mid<br />
Canterbury v Avon Robbies Riccarton<br />
(Umpires supplied)<br />
Div 2 Men Sunday 8 August5.00 pm<br />
Tinwald Black vWakanui (Tinwald Div 1Men,<br />
Methven Div 1Women) 6.30 pm Allenton v<br />
Tinwald Orange (Wakanui Black Div 1Men,<br />
Allenton Div 1 Men) Hampstead Lowcliffe<br />
(BYE)<br />
RUGBY<br />
Friday 30th <strong>July</strong><br />
Methven SBs vRakaia Gorge (Annual<br />
Gorge Game) Methven #3 7.00pm<br />
Jeremy Robinson<br />
Saturday 31st <strong>July</strong> <strong>2021</strong><br />
Seniors –Watters Cup Final<br />
Southern vCeltic Showgrounds Oval 2:15<br />
pm Glenn Peddie –AR1 Kalifa Faalogo –AR2<br />
Hamish Grant -Subs1 Simon Bennett –Subs2<br />
Nathan Forbes –Time Mike Southby<br />
COLTS Combined<br />
Celtic vMethvenCombined Showgrounds<br />
Oval 12:30 pm Hamish Grant –AR1 Geoff<br />
Barr – AR2 Gary Clement – Subs Mike<br />
Southby<br />
1st XV Miles Toyota Cup<br />
Nelson v Mid Canterbury Combined,<br />
Nelson1, 12:00 pm<br />
Under 18 Combined<br />
TBHS vAlps, Timaru Boys High1, 2:00pm<br />
Under 16 –NORUGBY<br />
Under 14.5<br />
MCRU Final<br />
Plains v Methven Showgrounds 2<br />
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12:45pm Tololima Senetenari<br />
Playoffs:<br />
MC Alps vLeeston Tinwald 111:30am<br />
Greg Jopson<br />
Under 13<br />
Collegiate v Celtic White Coll1 12pm<br />
Moon Tuilaepa qq<br />
Rakaia vMethven Rakaia1 12pm Liz Bell<br />
Southern BYE<br />
Under 11.5<br />
Celtic Green v Southern, <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Showgrounds 3A 12:00 pm<br />
Collegiate /Rakaia vCeltic White, Collegiate2,<br />
12:45pm<br />
Methven Red v Allenton, Methven1A,<br />
12:00pm<br />
Methven White vMethven Black, Methven1B,<br />
12:00pm<br />
Tinwald v Hampstead, Tinwald3, 12:30<br />
pm<br />
Under 10<br />
Celtic v Southern, <strong>Ashburton</strong> Showgrounds,<br />
12:00 pm<br />
Hampstead vTinwald, Hamp1A, 1:00pm<br />
Methven v Collegiate, Methven2A,<br />
12:00pm<br />
Rakaia vAllenton, Rakaia4, 12:00pm<br />
Under 9<br />
Celtic White v Southern, <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Showgrounds 2A, 11:45am<br />
Methven vTinwald Metvhen2B, 12:00pm<br />
Methven/Mt Somers v Allenton, Methven4,<br />
12:00pm<br />
Rakaia v Hampstead, Rakaia 2A,<br />
12:15pm<br />
Celtic Green BYE<br />
Under 8<br />
Celtic v Southern White, <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Showgrounds 2B, 11:45am<br />
Collegiate v Southern B, Collegiate2,<br />
11:45am<br />
Methven v Methven/Mt Somers, Methven5,<br />
12:00pm<br />
Allenton Gold v Rakaia, Rakaia 2B,<br />
12:15pm<br />
Tinwald v Allenton Maroon, Tinw4,<br />
12:45pm<br />
Under 7<br />
Celtic Green v Southern R, <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Showgrounds 3A, 1;00pm<br />
Celtic White vSouthern Blue, <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Showgrounds 3B, 1:00pm<br />
Collegiate v Southern W, Collegiate3,<br />
12:30pm<br />
Hampstead v Allenton, Hamp1A,<br />
12:15pm<br />
Tinwald BvMethven, Tinwald4, 12:00pm<br />
Tinwald O v Rakaia , Tinwald 2A,<br />
12:45pm<br />
Mt Somers BYE<br />
Under 6<br />
Rakaia White vAllentonGold, Rakaia 3B,<br />
12:15pm<br />
Rakaia Black vAllenton Maroon, Rakaia<br />
3A, 12:15pm<br />
Celtic Green v Southern S, <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Showgrounds Oval East 12:45pm<br />
Celtic White vSouthern Red, <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Showgrounds Oval East, 12:00pm<br />
Collegiate v Methven Black, Colleg3,<br />
1:15pm<br />
Hampstead v Methven White, Hamp1,<br />
12:15pm<br />
Tinwald Black vSouthern White, Tinwald<br />
2A, 12:00pm<br />
Tinwald Orange vMtSomers, Tinwald2B,<br />
12:45pm<br />
Tinwald Blue v Southern B, Tinwl2B,<br />
12:00pm<br />
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<strong>Ashburton</strong> Electronic and<br />
Keyboard Club<strong>July</strong> <strong>2021</strong><br />
Welcome to our visitors and<br />
apology from Margaret and<br />
Bernard Reddecliffe.<br />
Our <strong>July</strong> Club night was<br />
organised by the lovely Irene<br />
Williams. Playinwas Iris Taylor<br />
on the keyboard.<br />
Irene is one talented lady. She<br />
writes her own songs and music.<br />
That’s very clever to say the<br />
least. Shehas been doing this<br />
foranumber of years. Iris<br />
entertained us with aselection<br />
of toe tapping tunes.<br />
First up was BevListeronthe<br />
keyboard. Irene had to twist her<br />
armtoplayfor us.Idon’tknow<br />
why, as she played beautifully.<br />
Some of thepiecesshe played<br />
were “Amazing Grace”, “I’m<br />
look over”, “The Rose”, “Sailor”<br />
and more. Thanks Bev, we are<br />
looking forward to her next<br />
performance.<br />
Next up was Rose Stead on<br />
thePiano and Irene Williams on<br />
thePiano Accordion. Rose has<br />
such abubbly personality and<br />
shehas awee giggle while<br />
playing. PoorIrene wasn’t<br />
feeling so well, butthatdidn’t<br />
stop her playing or organising<br />
theprogramme. They played a<br />
dance medley, “Schon 1st Die<br />
Jugend” and “Curtains of the<br />
Night”. Thanks Ladies, it was<br />
lovely.<br />
Then Margaret Twamley<br />
played the Technics GA3.Well it<br />
takes two hands andtwo feet to<br />
play!<br />
Margaretplayeditsowell. We<br />
enjoyed thefour super tunes<br />
sheplayed forus.<br />
Raffles were drawn and the<br />
winners were: JeanTilson, Kate<br />
Tilson, David Ford,Alison<br />
Shearer. I’ll tell you asecret <br />
David Ford is 89 year old andhe<br />
took number 89. Good on you<br />
David.<br />
Next up was Karen Smith on<br />
thekeyboard. Sheplayed a<br />
super medley plus “Hopscotch<br />
Polka”, “Castle on aCloud”,<br />
please others. Areally good<br />
choice of songs. The members<br />
were singing along and enjoying<br />
themselves.<br />
MichaelKingsbury played the<br />
pianoaccordion. He doesn’t<br />
usuallyplay solo, but it was<br />
delightful to say theleast.<br />
Michael played ascottish and<br />
irishmedley, “The Umbrella<br />
Man”, “Wheels” and“In the<br />
mood” just to name afew. No<br />
music for some of them! He is<br />
tooclever.<br />
Last up wasAnn Allott on the<br />
piano. Annalso teaches the<br />
piano. Areal pleasuretolisten<br />
to her professional<br />
performance. She played<br />
“Alone butnot lonely”, “Wishing<br />
you were somehow here again”<br />
and “Always there”. Irene<br />
then joined Ann. Irene played<br />
the piano accordion and Ann<br />
played the Melodica (reminded<br />
me of my school days). They<br />
played “Pokarekare” and “The<br />
long white cloud”.<br />
Really good duet.Special<br />
thanks to Irene for agreat<br />
programme.<br />
Supper was served by Lyn<br />
Peterson and Janet Smith.<br />
Thank Ladies.<br />
Rona Haywardhas Richard<br />
Hore C.D,’s for sale. If anyone<br />
would liketopurchase one,<br />
please phone<br />
Rona on 3080189.<br />
Our next club night is at 7.30<br />
pm on the16th August at the<br />
Senior Centre, 206 Cameron<br />
Street. All arewelcome.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Citizen’s<br />
Association <strong>2021</strong> Annual<br />
General Meeting<br />
Thursday 22nd <strong>July</strong> Greer<br />
Ricketts was reappointed,<br />
unopposed as chairperson.<br />
Thegroup was delighted to<br />
welcome guest speaker<br />
Michelle Brett –Chair of<br />
Hakatere Marae. While<br />
significant progress and<br />
development has occurred at<br />
Hakatere Marae during<br />
Michelle’s chairmanship, the<br />
group wasparticularly<br />
interested in understanding the<br />
role that the Marae played, as a<br />
Welfare Centre, during the June<br />
floods.<br />
It was reassuring to hear how<br />
prepared andwell organised<br />
the Marae Komiti and<br />
Volunteers were. The Marae<br />
were immensely humbled by the<br />
communitysupport and<br />
offerings of food, time and the<br />
very generous donations from<br />
both HarveyNorman and Noel<br />
Leemings. It was arevelation,<br />
that the <strong>Ashburton</strong> Hospital had<br />
supported with laundry and<br />
laundering services. It is never<br />
too early to startpreparing for<br />
the next State of Emergency<br />
response –contact the Marae<br />
directly, to clarify their needs.<br />
Interest was shown for the<br />
Marae Te Tiriti OWaitangi <br />
Treaty of Waitangi workshops <br />
Friday 30th <strong>July</strong> (10.30am<br />
12.30pm) and Tuesday 3rd<br />
August (5.00pm7.00pm).<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Citizen’s<br />
Association priority for the next<br />
twelve months is to become<br />
better informed on Civic<br />
matters, Civil Defence and<br />
Transport Solutions –for the<br />
betterment of the people of the<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> District.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Woodworkers<br />
ChairDaveStrong welcomed<br />
Zonta <strong>Ashburton</strong> members Carolyn Bruce (left) and Linda Petrie<br />
(centre) get some self defence advice.<br />
our 16 members to the<strong>July</strong><br />
meeting then reported on the<br />
progress of the extension to our<br />
clubrooms andadvised that<br />
Noel Graham, from the<br />
Christchurch club will be next<br />
month’s demonstrator.<br />
Show and Tell<br />
Dave Strong; walnutbowl.<br />
Les Mattingley; modelcar<br />
with fine detail and several<br />
display works of pyrography.<br />
Bill Healey; bowl, with apaua<br />
embellished epoxy rim.<br />
RogerScammell; another<br />
example of marvellous<br />
segmented jewelleryboxes.<br />
ClarrieBrake then gave us an<br />
illustrated talk on the finer<br />
points ofphotographing our<br />
wood turnings then<br />
demonstrated howadjusting the<br />
image using the computer<br />
coming up with adesired finish.<br />
RogerScammell showed us<br />
the results of restoring old<br />
family photos, for prosperity,<br />
and how to store on USB sticks,<br />
thus no photos, albums,slides.<br />
Thanks to Clarrieand Roger.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Combined<br />
Friendship Club<br />
Our first speaker was Sue<br />
Abel recently whotookoverthe<br />
role of <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
NeighbourhoodSupport coordinator.<br />
Neighbourhood<br />
Support aims to foster<br />
connections and community<br />
between neighbours andso<br />
reduce isolation. It helps<br />
neighbours to work together to<br />
keep themselves andtheir<br />
properties safe. It is about<br />
neighbours looking outfor each<br />
other.<br />
Sue is also working on the<br />
“<strong>Ashburton</strong> Gets Ready”<br />
programme. Thisisthe Civil<br />
Defence system that enables the<br />
Council to quickly communicate<br />
to residents in times of<br />
emergency by way of texts. It<br />
came into its own duringthe<br />
recent flood events when<br />
subscribers received timely<br />
updates as conditions changed.<br />
More information can be found<br />
by Googling “<strong>Ashburton</strong> Gets<br />
Ready”.<br />
Our main speaker wasFather<br />
DanDoyle, aretired Catholic<br />
Priest who has made many trips<br />
to the AmericanMcMurdo<br />
Station andthe other American<br />
bases in Antarctica.<br />
Theday he spoketous, theNZ<br />
Airforce had just returned from<br />
asuccessful winterrescueflight<br />
to McMurdo so he explained<br />
how amission like this would<br />
operate. He explained that ifa<br />
plane needed to land on the ice<br />
runway in winter the graders to<br />
clear the snow would be<br />
operated remotely from the<br />
USA; drivers were not needed.<br />
He told us aseries interesting<br />
and amusing anecdotes from his<br />
many trips south. The big<br />
military planes they flew south<br />
in were not always wellset up<br />
for passengers and couldbe<br />
very cold. Sometimes if vehicles<br />
were being transported it was<br />
possible to get amore<br />
comfortable seatinacab.<br />
Thecoldest temperature he<br />
encountered was 100 degrees,<br />
the South Pole moves afew<br />
metres from year to year and a<br />
new marker is put in every year.<br />
Back in the day there was an<br />
arrangementwith the<br />
Americans for Catholic<br />
Chaplaincy services to be<br />
supported from Christchurch<br />
and anumber of priests were<br />
rostered on for amonth at atime<br />
over thesummer season.<br />
Meetings second Tuesday of<br />
month, Senior Centre, 206<br />
Cameron Street, 9.30 am.<br />
Phone Joe 0274 339 018 or<br />
email to ashcomboclub@gmail.<br />
com<br />
Canterbury Central<br />
Friendship Club<br />
President Ken welcomed 69<br />
membersand 1visitortothe<br />
meeting andreceived13<br />
apologies.<br />
He alsoinducted Mervyn<br />
Cochrane andBrian Collinsinto<br />
the club.<br />
Our mini speakerwas John<br />
Waugh, aretiredhydrologist,<br />
who gave his viewsonthe recent<br />
flooding in the district and<br />
showed graphs on the amount of<br />
rainfall around the foothills. He<br />
said when the water escaped<br />
upstream it released pressure<br />
on the flood banks lower down<br />
and probably saved the town<br />
from flooding.<br />
The only part of <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
that would be safe would be<br />
upper part of Allenton and<br />
down to thehospital.Inthe 48<br />
hrs of the flood, theriver moved<br />
as much sediment as in thepast<br />
10 years. This was the largest<br />
flood since 1951 andall the<br />
places where damage that was<br />
donethen, was doneinthe same<br />
places this time.<br />
Our main speaker was Craig<br />
Wiggins who has had many<br />
vocations.Hegrew up in<br />
Raetihi and through the love of<br />
riding rodeo made some quick<br />
money.<br />
This lead to also<br />
commentating the sport round<br />
NewZealand and in Canada.<br />
After involvement with the<br />
administrationhetookgroups<br />
of NZ high school rodeo teams<br />
to Australia to compete.<br />
Involvement with jet sprinting<br />
led to commentating forthem<br />
which included threeworld<br />
series competitions.<br />
After marrying alocal girl and<br />
settling down in Mid<br />
Canterbury he became involved<br />
with Young Farmer of the Year,<br />
auctioneering,and writingfor<br />
the Farmers Weekly.<br />
This lead to testingfarmers<br />
physical andmental health from<br />
the back of ahorse float at sale<br />
yards and ewefairs.<br />
Surprisingly as many as<br />
2628% tested in poor health.<br />
He alsostarted up Zoom<br />
meetings with farmers to<br />
discuss their problems.<br />
As an escapefrom work<br />
pressure he rides as clerk of the<br />
courseatharness racemeetings<br />
between Timaru and Rangiora.<br />
Recently he was presented<br />
with the “Ravensdown<br />
Agricultural Communicator of<br />
the Year’’ award.<br />
Craig was thanked for histalk<br />
by Roger Paterson.<br />
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35 <strong>Ashburton</strong> <strong>Courier</strong>, <strong>July</strong> <strong>29</strong>, <strong>2021</strong><br />
Nitrate testing<br />
results aconcern<br />
Greenpeace is calling on<br />
EnvironmentCanterbury<br />
(ECan)to be upfrontabout<br />
health risks of nitrate<br />
contamination, following the<br />
release of new data that shows<br />
nitrate contamination in<br />
drinking water is rising.<br />
ECan has released the<br />
results of its annual<br />
groundwater quality survey for<br />
2020.Some322 wells were<br />
tested, with the highest nitrate<br />
reading of 22mg/L being almost<br />
double the current health limit<br />
for drinking water (11.3mg/L).<br />
Twenty wells tested by ECan<br />
wereabove the11.3mg/L limit,<br />
with 13 of thoseinthe<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>area.<br />
Greenpeace conducted free<br />
watertesting in <strong>Ashburton</strong>on<br />
the <strong>July</strong> 10, testing 101<br />
samples, with 10 being over the<br />
current healthlimit and<br />
around 90 percent overthe<br />
nitrate concentration linked to<br />
bowel cancer.<br />
Greenpeace says ECan’s<br />
data is consistent with<br />
Greenpeace’s own results from<br />
free nitrate water testing days<br />
across Canterbury,with both<br />
datasets showing concerningly<br />
high and worsening levels of<br />
nitrate.<br />
Greenpeace senior<br />
campaigner SteveAbel says<br />
ECan’s comments on the data<br />
do nottell thewhole story<br />
aboutthe risks of nitrate<br />
contamination.<br />
‘‘The current message from<br />
ECanisthat if your water is<br />
anywhere under that<br />
extremely highcontamination<br />
rate of 11.3mg per litre of<br />
nitrate, then it’s safe to drink.<br />
That denies the emerging<br />
science showing adverse<br />
health effects wellbelow that<br />
limit,’’ Mr Abelsaid.<br />
Amajor2018 Danish study<br />
has shown asignificantly<br />
increased riskof bowel cancer<br />
at just0.87mg/L of nitrate<br />
contamination in drinking<br />
water.<br />
At 5mg/L, nitrate<br />
contamination in drinking<br />
waterhas been shown to<br />
increase risk of premature<br />
birthsbyhalf, prompting the<br />
NZ College of Midwivestocall<br />
on the Government to lower<br />
the current 11.3mg/L limit.<br />
‘‘This emerging research is<br />
tellingus that there’s ahealth<br />
risk with nitrate<br />
contamination in water at<br />
much lower levels than<br />
previously thought. With<br />
nitrate contamination steadily<br />
worsening acrossCanterbury,<br />
ECan needs to be upfront with<br />
communities about the chronic<br />
healthrisks of nitrate<br />
contamination in drinking<br />
water,’’ he said.<br />
Greenpeacehas now tested<br />
over 450 water samples across<br />
the Canterbury region and is<br />
calling on the Governmentto<br />
take the nitrate health risk<br />
seriously by lowering the limit<br />
for nitrate permitted in<br />
drinkingwater, from 11.3mg/L<br />
to 0.87mg/L.<br />
Anna Jemmett and daughter Freya painted this red mini artwork on aChoruscabinet early this year.<br />
Cabinet artists needed<br />
Local budding artists arebeing<br />
asked to send in designs that<br />
will bring somecolour to their<br />
neighbourhoodsthrough the<br />
Chorus cabinet art programme.<br />
Chorus is working with the<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>District Council to<br />
deliver the programme, which<br />
will see new fivecabinets in<br />
town painted.<br />
One of them will be a<br />
Rainbow cabinet,which will<br />
celebrate andsupport diversity<br />
andinclusioninthe<br />
community.<br />
The idea behindthe artworks<br />
is that they willtell astory<br />
about the community and help<br />
foster pride.<br />
Having art on the cabinets is<br />
alsoseen as away to discourage<br />
graffiti.<br />
Designs on other local<br />
cabinets painted in recent<br />
monthsinclude afavourite red<br />
mini, asacred tree, native<br />
birds, asnapshot of what the<br />
district has to offer andand<br />
lawn bowls.<br />
Design ideas can submitted<br />
online through the Chorus<br />
website and close on<br />
September 1.<br />
Chosen artists need to be able<br />
to complete their workbythe<br />
end of Marchnext year.<br />
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RESULTS<br />
CYCLING<br />
Mid-Canterbury Social Wheelers.<br />
26 riders,<strong>July</strong> 24 -1st. Mark Summerfield<br />
25m 03s. 2nd. Noel Henderson 25m<br />
11s. 3rd. Pam Harcourt 28m 39s. 4th.<br />
Brent Kircher 28m 39s. 5th. Janette<br />
Hooper 31m 49s. 6th. Liz Wylie 31m 50s.<br />
7th. Andy Skinner 31m50s. 8th. Paul<br />
Hands 31m 55s. 9th. Charlotte Cox 26m<br />
14s. 10th Don Sutton 26m 14s. 11th.Nick<br />
Grijns 25m 55s. 12th. Ged Wall 26m 32s.<br />
13th.Jelle Hendricksen <strong>29</strong>m 37s. 14th.<br />
Larry Neal 23m 11s F/T. 15th. Rob Hooper<br />
23m 12s 2f/t. 16th. Tony Ward 23m 12s<br />
3f/t. 17th. Michael Gallagher 23m 13s 4f/t.<br />
18th. Mike Hansen 23m 13s 5f/t. 19th.<br />
Doug Coley 26m 02s. 20th. Ross Templeton<br />
26m 09s. 21st. Neil Wylie 27m 31s.<br />
22nd. Debbie Skinner 31m 21s. 23rd.<br />
Flynn Beeman 27m 13s. 24th. John Uden<br />
28m 26s. 25th. Kenny Johnston 33m 06s.<br />
26th. Ron Kennedy 33m 34s.<br />
Tinwald Cycling U17 Development.<br />
Sunday <strong>July</strong> 25 -Open Handicap 4km.<br />
1st. Katie Rollinson CT. 9.46. HT. Go. RT.<br />
9m 46s. 2nd. Charlotte Neal CT.11.15.<br />
HT.2m. RT. 9m 15s. 3rd. Logan McKnight<br />
CT.11.20. HT.2m. RT.9m 20s. 4th. Ryan<br />
Gallagher CT,11.38. HT.3.45m. RT. 7m<br />
53s F/T. 5th. Eliza McKenzie CT.11.39.<br />
Ht. 3.45m. RT. 7m 54s 2f/t. 6th. Cody<br />
Rollinson CT.11.43. HT.3m. RT. 8m 43s.<br />
Graded Results, A. 1st. Ryan Gallagher,<br />
2nd. Eliza McKenzie . B. 1st. Cody<br />
Rollinson. C. 1st. Charlotte Neal , 2nd.<br />
Logan McKnight, D. Katie Rollinson. Open<br />
Time Trial 1.6km. 1st, Ryan Gallagher 3m<br />
08s. 2nd. Eliza McKenzie 3m 11s. 3rd.<br />
Cody Rollinson 3m 30s. 4th. Charlotte<br />
Neal 3m 34s, 5th. Logan McKnight 3m<br />
51s. 6th. Katie Rollinson 4m 02s. Graded<br />
Results. A. 1st. Ryan Gallagher. 2nd. Eliza<br />
Mckenzie .B.1st. Cody Rollinson, C. 1st.<br />
Charlotte Neal 2nd. Logan McKnight. D.<br />
1st. Katie Rollinson. Mystery Teams Open<br />
1.6km. 1st. Eliza McKenzie, Charlotte<br />
Neal, Logan McKnight, 10m 36s. 2nd.<br />
Ryan Gallagher ,Cody Rollinson, Katie<br />
Rollinson 10m 40s. Graded Results. A.<br />
1st. Eliza McKenzie 2nd, Ryan Gallagher.<br />
B. 1st. Cody Rollinson, C.1st. Logan<br />
McKnight, 1st.+ Charlotte Neal, D. 1st.<br />
Katie Rollinson, Next Week 1st Aug 21,<br />
Races will be on Fords Road.<br />
SPORT<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> <strong>Courier</strong>, <strong>July</strong> <strong>29</strong>, <strong>2021</strong><br />
Mid Canterburytoplayin<br />
blockbuster day of rugby<br />
MidCanterburywill play South<br />
Canterbury in atelevised rugby<br />
triple header in Christchurch<br />
on September 4.<br />
It is tipped to be ablockbuster<br />
dayofrugby withthe<br />
Canterbury NPC clash against<br />
rivals Tasman sandwiched<br />
between Heartland rugby<br />
matches: Mid Canterbury<br />
versus South Canterbury, and<br />
Buller upagainst WestCoast.<br />
Thegames will allbeheldat<br />
Orangetheory Stadium.<br />
CRFU chief executiveTony<br />
Smailsaid the day was an<br />
opportunity to offerthe rugby<br />
lovingpublic something<br />
different and celebrate all<br />
rugby in the upper South Island.<br />
“When we saw that their<br />
rivalry round coincided with us<br />
taking on one of our closest<br />
neighbours Tasman, then itall<br />
just made sense.<br />
‘‘We’ve been givenagood<br />
indication that ourbroadcast<br />
partnerSky is on board and<br />
they’llbeshowing both<br />
Heartland games live too,which<br />
will add to theoccasion.”<br />
Mid CanterburyRugbychief<br />
executive Ian Patterson said it<br />
wasanexciting opportunity for<br />
thewhole regiontocome<br />
togetherand celebrate<br />
39<br />
something thatmeans alot to us<br />
all.<br />
‘‘Itshould be awhole lot of<br />
fun,’’ he said.<br />
South Canterburychief<br />
executive Craig Calder said it<br />
was agreat opportunity for our<br />
fanstoget to watchall of those<br />
teams in one location.”<br />
South Canterbury versus Mid<br />
Canterbury will kickoff the<br />
tripleheader at 2:05pm on<br />
September 4beforeCanterbury<br />
take on Tasman at 4:35pm.<br />
Buller willhostWestCoast in<br />
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August from Ticketek.<br />
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• Authorised SkyTVtechnician<br />
Servicing<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Geraldine<br />
Methven Rakaia<br />
andeverywhereinbetween<br />
ASHBURTON<br />
TV &AUDIO<br />
PH 308 7332 /027 277 1062<br />
ashburtontvandaudioltd.co.nz<br />
2371987<br />
2372825
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trades &services<br />
To book your spaceinthis guide,phone KarenGane 308 7664 or email karen.gane@ashburtoncourier.co.nz<br />
2401537<br />
FREE LEGAL HELP<br />
Help in person by appointment<br />
Thursday9.15am -1.45pm<br />
Ph 0508 CANLAW<br />
(0508 226 5<strong>29</strong>) to makean<br />
appointment.<br />
Help by phone Infoline<br />
03 371 3819 or 0508 226 5<strong>29</strong><br />
215 Tancred Street,<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
2379134<br />
GODSELL<br />
BRICKLAYING<br />
•Houses<br />
•Feature Walls<br />
•Fences<br />
•Blocklaying<br />
Chris Godsell<br />
027 274 2533<br />
AH 308 7117<br />
godsell@xtra.co.nz<br />
2379139<br />
Lubes WOF<br />
Allmechanical repairs<br />
TRIANGLE<br />
GARAGE LTD<br />
Victoria Street,<br />
TheTriangle,<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Phone: (03) 308 6772<br />
2379285<br />
RESIDENTIAL &<br />
COMMERCIAL SPECIALISTS<br />
Phone Quentin andPhil on<br />
027 282 8908 or 027 2828909<br />
Interior and Exterior Painting<br />
Interior Plastering<br />
Wallpapering<br />
2379104<br />
Letthe team at<br />
Insideout takecareof<br />
all your painting and<br />
property maintenance<br />
• Painting<br />
• Carpentry<br />
• Renovations<br />
• Projectwisdom<br />
• Maintenance&repairs<br />
2010 LTD<br />
Call Shanetodayon03307 7071<br />
2372182<br />
WILSONS<br />
GLASS<br />
Wilsons Windscreens 2018 Ltd<br />
We areyour one stop glass shop for<br />
AUTO and HOUSE<br />
REPAIR or REPLACE<br />
“Your placeorours”<br />
2373623<br />
152 Wills Street,<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Ph.308 8485<br />
ALL THINGS CANVAS &PVC<br />
*Awnings/Shade sails/Dropblinds*Auto seat covers &repairs<br />
*Hay&bin covers *PVC covers &repairs<br />
*Ute tonneau covers *Furnitureupholsteryrepairs<br />
*Commercial<br />
PHONE TRAVISHOWDEN 027 922 4544<br />
2379146<br />
GREAT<br />
RATES<br />
PC Repairs, Set-up and Tutoring<br />
Icome to youday or evening!<br />
2379279<br />
NewPCs<br />
and Laptops<br />
forsale<br />
•PCRepairs/Sales •Networks/Servers<br />
•Firewalls/Security •Spyware Clean-up •Training<br />
20 YearsExperience Microso Cerfied Professional<br />
NETWORKS FIREWALLS AND PCS LTD<br />
Robin Johnstone 67 Aitken Street, <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
P: 03 308 1440 C: 027 768 4058<br />
robinbj@xtra.co.nz<br />
2379245<br />
Phone 308 1366 Mobile 027 433 3601<br />
E: patsumm@xtra.co.nz<br />
•All domestic and commercial wiring<br />
•New build andalterations<br />
•Freequotes<br />
NEAT GARDENS<br />
Does your garden need monthly<br />
maintenancetokeep it tidy and<br />
looking good through the seasons?<br />
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or pruning completed?<br />
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Allgarden wasteremoved<br />
ContactCAROLYN Phone: 027 2675403 or 3082333<br />
Email: cccolt@xtra.co.nz<br />
FOR ALL YOUR ADVERTISING<br />
REQUIREMENTS, GIVE<br />
Jann or Karen acallon<br />
308 7664<br />
2379247<br />
2379231<br />
We offer the following:<br />
• Gutter and DownpipeCleaning • Weed Spraying<br />
• Moss,Mould andLichen Spraying • Spider Proofing<br />
• Gorse and BroomSpraying • FenceLineSpraying<br />
• Chimney/Flue Cleaning $75 • Heat Pump Service$90<br />
MENTION THIS AD WHEN BOOKING FOR A10% DISCOUNT<br />
ON GUTTER AND DOWNPIPE CLEANING<br />
Call Allan on 027 209 5026 an let us know howwecan help<br />
TOTAL LAWN CARE SERVICES<br />
Lawnmowing and<br />
Lawn Maintenance<br />
Hedges<br />
Garden tidy<br />
Dethatching<br />
David &Debbie Sewell<br />
Phone 027 4171732 l evenings 3078355<br />
•CARS •4WDs •CAMPERVANS<br />
Automotive<br />
Diagnostics &<br />
Servicing<br />
03 308 6646<br />
•Automotiveservicing,repairs<br />
and diagnostics<br />
•Latest scan tools and<br />
servicedata<br />
•All makes and models including<br />
European and Japanese<br />
•Vehicle transportand recovery<br />
TheBig Blue Shed<br />
CnrJohn &McLean Street,<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
2378913<br />
2399842<br />
2382531
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To book your spaceinthis guide,phone KarenGane 308 7664 or email karen.gane@ashburtoncourier.co.nz<br />
“we clean to a<br />
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UNDER NEW<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
OWNERSHIP<br />
Same exceptional CleaningServices<br />
level of service<br />
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• regular full house cleans<br />
• one off spring cleans<br />
• farm houses<br />
• builders cleans<br />
• <br />
100% LOCAL<br />
03 307 2656<br />
www.ashburtoncleaning.co.nz<br />
2379098<br />
•Manufacturer and supplier of<br />
Rylock aluminium windows and doors<br />
•Retrodouble glazing installers foradrier,<br />
warmer,quieter home<br />
Forafreequote, contactDavid &Lorayne Oakley<br />
PHONE 308 8493. EMAIL: owdrylock@gmail.com<br />
8A John Street,<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
2396040<br />
Sales l Service l Repairs<br />
E-BIKES l MOTORCYCLES<br />
P 03 308 7982 - E cliff@mckayanddonaldson.co.nz<br />
W www.mckayanddonaldson.co.nz -734 East Street,<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
2376525<br />
2396257<br />
•Restoration<br />
•Modifications<br />
•Rust Removal<br />
•Custom Fabrications<br />
•WOF Reports<br />
• MagWheel Repairs &Painting<br />
16 Cass Street,<strong>Ashburton</strong>. 03 308 0387<br />
johnsons.panelpaint@gmail.com<br />
www.johnsonpanelpaint.co.nz<br />
Ashb<br />
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rton,R Rolles<br />
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•Paving •Irrigation •Lawns<br />
•Planting •Fences •Pergolas<br />
•Water features •Outdoor fires<br />
•Raised planters •Decks<br />
•Stonework•Brick &blockwork<br />
•Artificialgrass and more...<br />
Email –Aaron@theoutdoorspace.co.nz<br />
Phone0800 688 365 /021 542 402<br />
www.theoutdoorspace.co.nz<br />
2344420<br />
QualityRepairs &Manufacturing<br />
ENGINEERING<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
General engineering and<br />
mobile workshop<br />
ALL YOUR PLUMBING NEEDS<br />
•Bathroom/<br />
kitchen renovations<br />
•New homes<br />
•24/7emergencycall out<br />
Ewan Cairns<br />
0274354 031<br />
Integritybuilds agood reputation<br />
Phone James 022 463 4606 l 03 308 8865<br />
office@premierplumbing.co.nz<br />
2396248<br />
Premier<br />
Plumbing<br />
Ltd<br />
2372238<br />
Electrician<br />
Residential and Commercial<br />
<br />
<br />
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Kitchens and bathrooms<br />
Sheds,garages,workshops<br />
Tagand test<br />
Competitiverates, free quotes<br />
Simon 021 576 044<br />
simon@simonthesparky.co.nz<br />
Fast, Friendly &Reliable<br />
Forall your tyre requirements,<br />
see the localexperts<br />
•Wheel alignments<br />
•Wheel balancing<br />
197 Wills Street,<strong>Ashburton</strong> l www.neumannstyres.co.nz<br />
Phone 03 308 6737 (24 hrs –after hours call out applies)<br />
2372186<br />
FOR ALL YOUR<br />
ADVERTISING<br />
REQUIREMENTS,<br />
GIVE<br />
Jann or Karen<br />
acall on<br />
308 7664<br />
2371984<br />
ASHBURTON<br />
GLASS LTD<br />
Experts in glass<br />
308-3918<br />
214Wills Street<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
www.ashburtonglass.co.nz<br />
office@ashburtonglass.co.nz<br />
UNDER NEW LOCAL OWNERSHIP<br />
2376763<br />
Integrity Estate Services specialise in;<br />
• Full interior house clean, including carpets<br />
• Full exterior service<br />
• Preparing/de-cluttering houses<br />
• Packing<br />
• Re-homing furniture<br />
Complimentary 30 minute walk through consultation<br />
“Professional co-ordination of your relocation needs”<br />
Kate Webster 027 500 1033<br />
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“IntegrityEstate<br />
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57 Dobson Street,<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
www.masterguard.co.nz<br />
HartleyCurd 021 328 301<br />
Keeping our communitysafefor over25years<br />
2403225<br />
Ash Solar Power<br />
South Island<br />
www.ashsolarpower.com<br />
115 Archibald Street,Tinwald,<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Phone /Fax: (03) 307 2354<br />
Email tincanup@xtra.co.nz www.tinwaldcanvas.co.nz<br />
2375756<br />
2396047<br />
2395712<br />
Bridgestone<br />
Tyre Centre<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
• New tyre sales<br />
• Wheel alignments<br />
• Wheel balancingand<br />
puncturerepairs<br />
24 HOUR CALLOUTSERVICE<br />
03 307 8438<br />
ForPassenger,Commercial<br />
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Proudly locallyownedand operated<br />
CnrCox &East St.<br />
Book nowon03 307 8438<br />
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Monday 30th August –Saturday 4th September 7-30pm<br />
Sunday 5th September 2pm;<br />
Adult $65* /Senior $55*/ Student up to 18<br />
$49* /Saturday 4th Last Supper ticket $95*<br />
The <strong>Ashburton</strong> Trust Event Centre in<br />
collaboration with Variety Theatre <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
and presented by More FM and The Breeze<br />
bring you the global phenomenon that has<br />
wowed audiences and now celebrating it’s<br />
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TheMerryLittle Christmas Market<br />
28th November 11-30am until 4pm<br />
Gold Coin Donation<br />
Join us for the Merry Little Christmas<br />
Market this November.Agreat event to<br />
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Wonderland Glow Show – Little Green ManProductions<br />
Monday 13th September<br />
0-5 years 10am. All Tickets $13.50*<br />
6-12 years 11-30am. All Tickets $15.50*<br />
Join the Glow Show team with a‘Kiwified’<br />
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Saturday 4th December 7-30pm<br />
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ACeltic Christmas by aTaste of Ireland is set<br />
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two star-crossed lovers twirl beneath the<br />
mistletoe as award winning Irish musicians<br />
complement the world’s best Irish Dancers to<br />
deliver aheart-warming performance.<br />
*Service fees apply<br />
URGENT CARE CLINIC<br />
WEEKEND DUTYDOCTORS<br />
IN THE EVENT OF AN EMERGENCYPHONE 111<br />
Forall othermedicalassistance outside of normal<br />
hoursplease phone your generalpracticeteam,24/7,<br />
to speak withahealth professional whowill giveyou<br />
free health advice on what to do or wheretogoifyou<br />
need urgentcare.<br />
If youdon’t have aregular generalpractice, call any<br />
GP team 24/7 forfreetelephone health advice.<br />
All non-residents and visa holders please bring your<br />
passporttoyour surgeryappointment.<br />
New Zealanders’tobringsome form of ID.<br />
The<strong>Ashburton</strong>DutyPractice for ...<br />
Saturday31st <strong>July</strong> is<br />
ThreeRivers Health, 7-11 Allens Road,<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Consultations will be by appointmentonly.<br />
To make an appointmentcallyour regular GP 24/7.<br />
Sunday1st August is<br />
ThreeRivers Health, 7-11 Allens Road,<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Consultations will be by appointmentonly.<br />
To make an appointmentcallyour regular GP 24/7.<br />
Methven and Rakaia: Formedical attention on the<br />
weekend and public holidays please telephone<br />
MethvenMedical Centre on 03 302 8105<br />
or Rakaia Medical Centre on 03 303 5002.<br />
Details foraccessing the afterhoursservices will be<br />
on the answer phone.<br />
PHARMACIES<br />
Wises Pharmacy,CountdownComplex,<br />
East Street will be open on ...<br />
Saturday from 9.00am until 1.00pm<br />
Sunday from 10.00am until 1.00pm<br />
At Geraldine: TheGeraldine Pharmacywill be open<br />
normal trading hours during the week,and on<br />
Saturdaymorning from 9.30am to 12.30pm.<br />
Closed Sundays and Public Holidays<br />
Forfree24hour Telephone Health Advice<br />
Phone the healthline on 0800 611 116<br />
Brought<br />
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CountdownComplex, East Street, <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Phone: 03 308 6733 Fax: 03 308 6755<br />
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2376126<br />
FOR LEASE<br />
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areas. North West<br />
town boundary. Must view.<br />
Phone 0274 754 241<br />
STORAGE available, <strong>Ashburton</strong>.<br />
Self storage, variety<br />
of sizes. Phone Rainbow<br />
Storage 03 307 0401<br />
STORAGE: Secure self storage<br />
units available, long or<br />
short term. <strong>Ashburton</strong> Storage<br />
Facilities. Contact us<br />
on 0274 362 636 or www.<br />
ashburtonstoragefacilities.<br />
co.nz<br />
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Large 4.2m x2.4m<br />
Xtra-large 4.8m x2.4m.<br />
Visit our displaycabin<br />
418WestStreet or callfor a<br />
freebrochure.<br />
www.justcabins.co.nz<br />
23797<strong>29</strong><br />
0800 58 78 22<br />
WANTED TO BUY<br />
ASHBURTON Scrap Metal<br />
Recyclers buy heavy metal<br />
etc. Free light-grade metal<br />
in-yard dumping 9am-5pm<br />
weekdays &9.30-11.30am<br />
Saturdays. 117 Alford Forest<br />
Rd, (behind<br />
PlaceMakers). Phone 03<br />
308 8033 or 027 249 6625.<br />
SELL<br />
LPG REFILLS<br />
9kg cylinders<br />
$27.50<br />
Askaboutour<br />
deliveryservice<br />
Anysizecylinder filled<br />
17 Grey St,<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Phone 307 2707<br />
LPG<br />
REFILLS<br />
Small LPG cylinders<br />
Off Street Parking<br />
Available<br />
Arthur Cates Ltd<br />
26 McNally Street<br />
Ph 308 5397<br />
Riverside Industrial Estate<br />
FIREWOOD<br />
FIREWOOD<br />
SPECIAL<br />
OFFCUTS<br />
$140 PER CORD<br />
FIREWOOD<br />
SLABWOOD<br />
3cordgreen<br />
$330<br />
1cordgreen<br />
$110<br />
C.O.D. in town<br />
2379300<br />
2379<strong>29</strong>6<br />
Adams Sawmill<br />
Malcolm McDowell Rd<br />
Phone<br />
308-3595<br />
2395886<br />
CLASSIFIEDS<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> <strong>Courier</strong>, <strong>July</strong> <strong>29</strong>, <strong>2021</strong><br />
TRADE &SERVICES<br />
CHARLIES Blind Cleaning<br />
Service -same day service<br />
and repairs. Charlie can<br />
supply new blinds and<br />
tracks and will hang<br />
drapes. Ph 03 307 1936 or<br />
020 4169 0342<br />
CHIMNEY Sweep - for a<br />
professional service call<br />
Dan McKerrow Chimney<br />
Sweep and Repairs on 021<br />
118 7580<br />
COMPUTER Problems? For<br />
prompt reliable computer<br />
servicing and laser engraving,<br />
contact Kelvin, KJB<br />
Systems Ltd, 4 Ascot<br />
Place, <strong>Ashburton</strong>. Phone<br />
308 8989. SuperGold discount<br />
card accepted.<br />
COMPUTER repairs, sales,<br />
training, setup wirelessnetworks,<br />
spyware<br />
cleanup. On-site day or<br />
evening. Low fees. Call<br />
Robin Johnstone, Networks<br />
Firewalls and PC’s Ltd, 308<br />
1440 or 027 768 4058<br />
DENTURES; Dr Peter<br />
Rumping repairs existing<br />
dentures and also provides<br />
new dentures. Phone 027<br />
220 9997.<br />
DRIVEWAYS, Patios and<br />
Paths, Plain Concrete, Coloured<br />
Concrete or Exposed<br />
Agregate Concrete.<br />
Paveco, 13 Robinson<br />
Street. 100% local. Phone<br />
307 6466 for aquote.<br />
ENGINEERING repairs, fabrication,<br />
farm equipment<br />
service and maintenance,<br />
WOF repairs, machining<br />
and welding. Odd jobs a<br />
speciality. Mobile workshop.<br />
Can collect. Phone<br />
Malcolm 0274 754 241.<br />
FLY control and spider<br />
proofing. For all your<br />
domestic and industrial<br />
pest control needs phone<br />
AJ Kerr at <strong>Ashburton</strong> Pest<br />
Control on 03 308 8147 or<br />
027 432 5447<br />
FURNITURE Removals. For<br />
all your household removal<br />
needs - urban, rural lifestyle,<br />
office relocations -<br />
call Nudges Furniture<br />
Removals, phone 027 224<br />
0609.<br />
43<br />
TRADE &SERVICES<br />
ALTERATIONS. Sewing, GARDENING, mowing,<br />
mending and trouser hemming,<br />
pruning, fertilising, projects<br />
curtain alterations or general spruce ups? Call<br />
and curtain making. Call<br />
Michelle on 027 352 7248.<br />
Andrew at Spruce Gardens<br />
to get the job done right.<br />
027 765 2899 or 03 307<br />
BUILD work to do? Contact 1693.<br />
Kiwi Building and Maintenance<br />
Ltd. Alterations,<br />
sprucegardens@xtra.co.nz<br />
Renovations, New builds. GUTTER Cleaning. Using a<br />
Qualified Tradesmen. vacuum system to clean<br />
Phone Cawte 027 418 out the debris is a faster<br />
7955.<br />
and cleaner process. Call<br />
CARPET cleaning. Powerful<br />
Allan on 027 209 5026<br />
equipment and fast drying. LOCKSMITH/Door repairs.<br />
Upholstery, mats and rugs. Keys/locks, sliding and bifold<br />
door roller repairs.<br />
Experienced owner/operator.<br />
Phone John Cameron Mobile service. Call Nigel at<br />
at Supersucker. 027 435 Doors and More. Ph 027<br />
1042 or 308 1677.<br />
516 7104<br />
CARR’S Chimney Cleaning,<br />
servicing <strong>Ashburton</strong> and<br />
PAINTER for all your painting<br />
surrounding districts, $60<br />
needs. No job too small,<br />
per chimney. Phone<br />
inside or outside. Professional<br />
friendly service.<br />
Rodney on 03 324 <strong>29</strong>99<br />
and leave amessage.<br />
Phone Pete 03 308 1672 or<br />
027 200 1619<br />
SITUATIONS VACANT<br />
PLASTERING<br />
&COATINGS<br />
Rockcote. Waterproofing.<br />
Texture/Specialist<br />
Coatings.<br />
The Finishing Company<br />
03 307 8870 2390672<br />
POTATOES; Nadine and<br />
Agria $1.25kg, or preordered<br />
10kg bags $10.<br />
Standard peastraw bales,<br />
$5 pick up or $6 delivered.<br />
Phone 03 308 3195 or 027<br />
531 9103. 81 Elizabeth<br />
Street, <strong>Ashburton</strong>.<br />
SUN Control Window Tinting:<br />
Privacy, UV, glare, heat<br />
control for homes, offices<br />
and cars. Phone Craig<br />
Rogers 307 6347, member<br />
Master Tinters NZ. www.<br />
windowtinter.co.nz<br />
TINT-A-WINDOW, fade, UV<br />
block, glare, heat control,<br />
safety, security, privacy,<br />
frosting films, solar protective<br />
window films. Free<br />
quotes, 20 years local service.<br />
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SITUATIONS VACANT<br />
SPRAY PAINTER/PREPPER<br />
Afull time position has become available in our<br />
Panel and Paintshop foraQualified Spray Painter.<br />
Theposition requires<br />
• Good work ethics<br />
• Have ahigh standardindetail and finish<br />
• Tobereliable<br />
• The abilitytoworkunsupervised<br />
• Toworkinateam and meet production deadlines<br />
• NZresidencyorvalid NZ work visa<br />
Please send resume and coverletter to<br />
TheGeneral Manager<br />
Bus and Truck Body Work Ltd<br />
PO Box51, <strong>Ashburton</strong>7740<br />
Phone Keith on 0274 274 007 or 307 0378<br />
Email busandtruckbodywork@xtra.co.nz<br />
Phone<br />
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3.6m 3 $450. or 1.8m 3<br />
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within 30km of <strong>Ashburton</strong>.<br />
Contact Dave 0274 920<br />
875<br />
EveryHome<br />
EveryWeek-that’s<br />
Phone 308 7664<br />
199 Burnett Street<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
2376123<br />
2395842
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companyproducing qualitynewspapers,magazines and on-linemedia.<br />
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helpgrow our business, throughsalesand administrationsupport.<br />
Thispositionis30hoursaweek basedinour <strong>Ashburton</strong>office with the opportunity forit<br />
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Trainee Concrete Placer<br />
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•Company health scheme<br />
•Apprenticeship opportunity<br />
•Highly respected local company<br />
•Monday to Friday, Saturdays optional<br />
Contact Martyn Wheeler, General Manager<br />
0274 508 196 or email admin@paveco.co.nz<br />
Paveco <strong>Ashburton</strong> Ltd<br />
13 Robinson Street, <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Office Administrator<br />
We require afull time Office Administrator tojoin<br />
our friendly support team in our busy <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Accountancypractice.<br />
The role includes duties which will range from<br />
managing the frontofficetomorechallenging tasks.<br />
To be successful you will need to pride yourself on<br />
accuracy and attention to detail and have excellent<br />
communication and customer service skills and<br />
ability todeal with people across the business and<br />
externally.<br />
Responsibilities include, but not limited to,<br />
liaison and assistance with the Directors and staff,<br />
management of external communications, office<br />
payables and receivables,and HR assistance.<br />
Youshould possess: -<br />
• Sound time management.<br />
• Be abletoworkwell autonomously<br />
• Have aflexible attitude<br />
• Possessclear and concise communication skills<br />
• Have an affiliation fornumbers<br />
• Advanced knowledge of the Microsoft Office<br />
suiteofapplications<br />
Interested persons should apply in writing with their<br />
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We’ve gotanumber<br />
of jobs availablefor<br />
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Short-term roleswith<br />
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WEATHERBOARD house,<br />
separate garage and small<br />
sleepout for removal/relocation.<br />
Large open plan<br />
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Enquiries Ph 027 543 7632.<br />
HOME SERVICES<br />
ROOF COATINGS: All roof<br />
types, specializing in<br />
Decramastic and Long Run<br />
Iron, Coloursteel etc, steep<br />
roofs not a problem. —<br />
Spraymaster 027-433-7780.<br />
GARDEN SUPPLIES<br />
GARDENERS Specials.<br />
Sheep or Cow manure<br />
$8/bag. Medium-square linseed<br />
straw $50. Mediumsquare<br />
pea straw $60.<br />
Phone Alan 027 496 7136,<br />
Ian 027 286 3697. AHinds<br />
Lions Project.<br />
2398939<br />
2403710<br />
PUBLIC CHRISTIAN meetings<br />
Methven Public Library<br />
Thursdays 7.30pm - 8.15<br />
pm, also Waihi Lodge<br />
Function Centre Shaw St<br />
Geraldine Sundays 4pm<br />
-5pm. Simple reverent<br />
meetings. All welcome.<br />
More information Maree<br />
0274239876<br />
MEETINGS<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Returned<br />
&Services<br />
Association (Inc)<br />
Noticeishereby<br />
giventhat theAnnual<br />
GeneralMeeting of the<br />
Association will be held<br />
in the MooreLounge,<br />
R.S.A. Clubrooms,Cox<br />
Street,<strong>Ashburton</strong>at<br />
10.00am on Sunday<br />
5th September <strong>2021</strong><br />
Merv Brenton<br />
PRESIDENT<br />
2403212<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>Branch<br />
Manchester Unity<br />
Annual General<br />
Meeting<br />
Tuesday, August 3,<br />
<strong>2021</strong> –5pm at<br />
St John meeting room<br />
241 TancredSreet,<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Allmembers<br />
welcome to attend.<br />
Followedby<br />
subsidised dinner at<br />
the MSA<br />
RSVP 022 356 5573<br />
2401423<br />
ASHBURTON HORTICUL-<br />
TURAL Society, Annual<br />
General Meeting and Pot<br />
Luck lunch. Friday, 20th<br />
August, at 12.30pm, in the<br />
Domain Pavilion, Walnut<br />
Avenue. New members<br />
welcome.<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Pigeon RacingClub<br />
AGM<br />
Sunday, 1August <strong>2021</strong><br />
at 11.30am<br />
DevonTavern<br />
All welcome<br />
GARDEN SUPPLIES<br />
2404444<br />
HospiceMid Canterbury<br />
Dealing withalifelimiting illness?<br />
We can supportyou and<br />
your family to make<br />
everyday count.<br />
Allservices arefree.<br />
Phone 307 8387 or 027 227 8387 email manager@hospicemc.nz<br />
www.hospicemc.nz facebook hospicemidcanterbury<br />
Dr Christopher McGrath<br />
PhD(Otago), MSc, DO(UK)<br />
Expert<br />
musculoskeletal care for your pain<br />
Consulting Osteopath, <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
Appointments/contactthrough web site<br />
021 0222 6378<br />
www.countrypractice.nz<br />
Ecumenical Day of Reflection<br />
Saturday, 7th August <strong>2021</strong><br />
9.45am – 3pm<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> Parish Centre<br />
Cnr Winter and Burnett Streets<br />
Speaker: Kirsten Challies<br />
Spiritual Director & Retreat Leader<br />
Experience a mix of talks, prayer and reflection<br />
on the Spirit of God at work in your life.<br />
Bring a pen, paper and your own lunch.<br />
Tea and coffee provided.<br />
For more information contact<br />
Ann/Don 03 308 5747<br />
WANTED TO RENT<br />
LONGTERM Rental required<br />
by mature professional<br />
couple with own business.<br />
Modern 3/4 bedroom, 2<br />
bathroom, double garage<br />
and heat pump. Prefer<br />
Lake Hood, but all areas<br />
considered. No children,<br />
pets or smokers. Ph 0274<br />
399 396 or email<br />
oldskiers55@gmail.com<br />
GARDEN SUPPLIES<br />
MUSHROOM COMPOST<br />
Nowisthe time to dig in our topqualitymushroom<br />
compost to your vegetable garden. Ideal to replenish nutrients<br />
used by previous crops and improvethe soil structure.<br />
It also adds beneficial micro-organisms to thetired soil.<br />
$50 per cubic metreor$10 bag.<br />
Freedelivery within town boundary.<br />
Open 6daysaweek at our Tinwald yard,<br />
208 Maronan Road. Phone 021 1<strong>29</strong> 8936 or 03 308 3331<br />
All welcome<br />
2404460<br />
Nellie<br />
and Sally<br />
6month old<br />
friends.<br />
Desexed,<br />
microshipped<br />
and vaccinated.<br />
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Thurs <strong>29</strong>th<br />
10.00 Dream Horse<br />
10.00 Antoinetteinthe Cevennes<br />
11.45 TheHitmansWifes Bodyguard<br />
12.00 Jungle Cruise<br />
1.50 Old<br />
2.10 Escape Room 2<br />
3.40 Spacejam 2<br />
3.45 Fast &Furious 9<br />
5.50 Jungle Cruise<br />
6.15 Antoinetteinthe Cevennes<br />
8.00 Old<br />
8.10 Snake Eyes GI Joe Origins<br />
PG<br />
M<br />
R16<br />
M<br />
M<br />
M<br />
PG<br />
M<br />
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Fri30th<br />
10.15 Antoinetteinthe Cevennes M<br />
10.30 Dream Horse<br />
12.00 Old<br />
12.40 Fast &Furious 9<br />
PG<br />
M<br />
M<br />
2.00<br />
3.20<br />
Black Widow<br />
Jungle Cruise<br />
M<br />
M<br />
4.30<br />
6.15<br />
Antoinetteinthe Cevennes M<br />
Snake Eyes GI Joe Origins M<br />
8.15<br />
8.30<br />
Jungle Cruise<br />
Old<br />
M<br />
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Sat31st<br />
10.00<br />
10.00<br />
11.40<br />
11.40<br />
1.25<br />
2.00<br />
3.25<br />
4.10<br />
5.45<br />
6.00<br />
8.00<br />
8.20<br />
Sun 1st<br />
10.00<br />
10.00<br />
11.40<br />
11.40<br />
1.25<br />
2.00<br />
3.25<br />
4.10<br />
5.45<br />
6.00<br />
8.00<br />
8.00<br />
Spirit Untamed<br />
Moonbound<br />
Jungle Cruise<br />
Antoinetteinthe Cevennes<br />
Dream Horse<br />
Spacejam 2<br />
Fast &Furious 9<br />
Escape Room 2<br />
Snake Eyes GI Joe Origins<br />
Black Widow<br />
Jungle Cruise<br />
Old<br />
Spirit Untamed<br />
Moonbound<br />
Jungle Cruise<br />
Antoinetteinthe Cevennes<br />
Dream Horse<br />
Spacejam 2<br />
Fast &Furious 9<br />
Escape Room 2<br />
Snake Eyes GI Joe Origins<br />
Old<br />
Jungle Cruise<br />
Black Widow<br />
Mon2nd &Tues 3rd<br />
10.00 Dream Horse<br />
10.00 Antoinetteinthe Cevennes<br />
11.45 TheHitmans WifesBodyguard<br />
12.00 Jungle Cruise<br />
1.50 Old<br />
2.10 Escape Room 2<br />
3.40 Spacejam 2<br />
3.45 Fast &Furious 9<br />
5.50 Jungle Cruise<br />
6.15 Antoinetteinthe Cevennes<br />
8.00 Old<br />
8.10 Snake Eyes GI Joe Origins<br />
Wed4th<br />
10.00<br />
11.00<br />
11.45<br />
12.00<br />
1.50<br />
3.40<br />
3.45<br />
5.50<br />
6.15<br />
8.00<br />
8.10<br />
6.00<br />
7.50<br />
8.15<br />
Antoinetteinthe Cevennes<br />
Queen Bees<br />
TheHitmans WifesBodyguard<br />
Jungle Cruise<br />
Old<br />
Spacejam 2<br />
Fast &Furious 9<br />
Jungle Cruise<br />
Antoinetteinthe Cevennes<br />
Old<br />
Snake Eyes GI Joe Origins<br />
Snake Eyes GI Joe Origins<br />
Fast &Furious 9<br />
Old<br />
PG<br />
PG<br />
M<br />
M<br />
PG<br />
PG<br />
M<br />
M<br />
M<br />
M<br />
M<br />
M<br />
PG<br />
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M<br />
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PG<br />
PG<br />
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M<br />
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PG<br />
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R16<br />
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R16<br />
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NO COMPS<br />
Jungle Cruise,Old,Queen<br />
Bees,Snake Eyes GI Joe Origins<br />
Food donations appreciated.<br />
Tuesday-Saturday<br />
Kindly sponsored by<br />
9:30am -noon<br />
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027 332 9286<br />
180216<br />
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