Nor'West News: August 05, 2021

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• By Fiona Ellis 

CUSHLA O’CONNELL is 

stitching the past into her latest 

creative endeavour. 

The Belfast resident sewed her 

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‘Grunty old Singer’ key to creation 

SEW TALENTED: Cushla O’Connell used four sewing machines, including her grandmother’s Singer, to create her 

shortlist-making entry for the World of WearableArt competition. 

PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN 

way to the finals of this year’s 

World of WearableArt using 

four different sewing machines, 

one from each generation 

from her great grandmother to 

herself. 

She and Papanui resident 

Janice Elliott are among the 

102 finalists of the international 

design competition. 

The oldest of her machines 

was from 1877, but her go-to 

was the machine that had been 

her grandmother’s. 

“Hers is a grunty old Singer, 

it just keeps going,” O’Connell 

said. 

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COMMUNITY GROUPS are 

poised to get tens of thousands 

of dollars in funding. 

THe Papanui-Innes 

Community Board will 

consider tomorrow 30 funding 

applications recommended to 

be made from its Strengthening 

Communities Fund for the year 

2021-2022. 

The largest grant to be considered 

is for $40,000 to the Shirley 

Community Trust towards 

salaries and project costs for the 

Shirley Alive project. 

A grant of $25,000 also stands 

to be made to Te Ora Hou 

Otautahi. The funds would go 

towards wages for their youth 

work services co-ordinator as 

well as towards next year’s youth 

arts event, Polyphony. 

The St Albans Residents 

Association may benefit from 

an $8000 grant towards the 

community centre manager’s 

wages. 

Other grants which stand to 

be approved include: 

•$16,000 to the Community 

Focus Trust towards wages for 

their manager’s wages. 

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Mixed response to new parking 

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PARKING restrictions 

outside a block of shops 

are set to be implemented 

following a meeting of the 

Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood 

Community Board on Monday. 

The change is looked on 

with mixed feelings by those 

in business in the Kendal Ave 

shopping area. 

The board resolved to install 

three 15-minute parking spaces, 

nine 60-minute parking spaces, 

four 120-minute parking 

spaces, and a mobility park 

in the currently unrestricted 

parking space. 

Feedback was sought by 

affected businesses prior to the 

decision, and the seven formal 

responses were summarised in a 

report in the meeting agenda. 

Two supported the changes, 

while five did not. 

Concrete Solutions objected to 

time-restricted parking because 

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for their employees. 

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limiting the parking outside to 

120 minutes is unreasonable and 

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voiced concerns. 

Slightly altering the plan 

would allow another car park 

to fit in the area while retaining 

the planned mobility park, the 

submission said. 

The two submitters 

who favoured the changes 

were Cassandra English of 

photography studio Hazel&Cass, 

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the mobility park to allow one 

more park to be created. 

The board decided creating 

more parks would make 

the other parks too small. A 

raised kerb also prevented 

Page’s suggestion from being 

implemented. 

The changes would come into 

effect when signage and road 

markings were in place. 

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that the city council resurface 

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Food fight to figure out facts 

• By Bea Gooding 

FOUR HIGH School students 

are on a mission to educate 

children about what really goes 

into their food. 

Food Fight is a fun, educational 

card game created by 

Cashmere year 13 students 

Oakley Inkersell, Rosa Kelly, 

Aljaž Smrekar and Jack Carran, 

in response to child obesity in 

New Zealand. 

The Young Enterprise Scheme 

business studies project has been 

such a hit in the last few months 

that it can now be found in selected 

supermarkets and schools. 

Said Inkersell, Food Fight chief 

executive: “When I was younger 

I was overweight and I didn’t 

know anything about nutrition. 

I wish I had a resource like Food 

Fight to educate me as a kid and 

to know what it did to my body.” 

Kelly said there was not 

enough education in schools in 

relation to nutrition. 

“It’s one of the core problems 

for the child obesity crisis in New 

Zealand,” she said. 

“With this game, we feel like 

it’s a fun and interactive way to 

teach kids about nutrition and in 

schools, children will have more 

control over their health.” 

The students wanted to promote 

balance – no food had a 

positive or negative connotation 

HEALTHY: Year 13 

students Oakley 

Inkersell, Rosa 

Kelly and Aljaz 

Smrekar show 

off Food Fight, 

an educational 

card game for 

children. 

PHOTO: GEOFF 

SLOAN 

in the game, rather it was about 

presenting the facts and allowing 

children to make educated 

choices about their diet. 

Each of the 52 cards incorporated 

te reo Māori and contained 

a picture of food typically eaten 

by children, such as fruit, sandwiches, 

mince pies or ice cream. 

What followed was a real 

breakdown of nutrients in the 

food, including calories and fat 

and sugar content. 

Food Fight used this information 

to form a game in a similar 

style to the Top Trumps card 

game. The aim is to have the 

most cards received off of other 

players by winning rounds. 

Said Oakley: “You win rounds 

by battling with the categories on 

the cards, which are calories, fat, 

protein, carbs, sugar and price. 

The person with the highest or 

lowest statistic depending on 

what category wins that round.” 

In spite of the Food Fight team 

heading off to Canterbury University 

next year, they were still 

keen on seeing the business grow. 

So far about 120 decks have 

been sold to parents, teachers 

and businesses, with growing 

interest from doctors who saw it 

as a tool that could be prescribed. 

“We’ve also been contacted 

by parents of children with type 

1 diabetes who said that Food 

Fight has been perfect for helping 

their kids learn about how much 

sugar is in their favourite food,” 

Oakley said. 

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• $5000 to the Richmond Residents 

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• $4000 to The Linfield 

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with running the Kids in Sport 

programme before school and at 

lunch times. 

• $4000 to the St Albans 

Shirley Football Club towards 

the cost of the salary of the 

director of football. 

• $3500 to the Western Association 

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• $3000 to the Shirley Rugby 

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CREATIVE: A design by Janice Elliott is exhibited in the 2018 World of WearableArt show. 

Competition an exciting challenge 

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The purpose of using four machines 

was to connect the piece 

to her heritage. 

“My families were milliners 

and dressmakers. It’s definitely in 

my genes.” 

The unnamed piece was made 

of fabric decorated with free motion 

embroidery, she said. 

The piece was the result 

of about six months of hard 

work over evenings, weekends, 

and whenever time could be 

snatched. 

Even while in the car en route 

to Wellington to hand-deliver her 

creation the day before entries 

closed, there was still time to pull 

out a needle and thread. 

“I did a bit of stitching on the 

way up. My partner drove and I 

sewed.” 

It was her third time entering 

the competition, which was 

challenging but also exciting, she 

said. 

She would be attending the 

Wellington award show in early 

October, and looked forward 

SPREADING OUT: Cushla 

O’Connell dabbles in all 

sorts of crafts to create 

works of art. World of 

Wearable Art entry for 2015. 

to seeing other designs, which 

would debut on September 30. 

“You’re surrounded by creativity, 

it’s a magnificent outlet for 

people like ourselves.” 

Elliott also made the finals 

with a creation made of leather. 

She had plenty of experience 

behind her. 

“I’ve been doing it now just 

over 10 years,” Elliot said. 

It took a lot of work to create 

something to exhibit and she 

thought she was finished with the 

competition. 

However, she was unable to 

stop finding fresh inspiration. 

“I’ll see something and think, 

wow, I could make something 

with that. 

“I’ll always be creative. It’s 

good to be creative.” 

Competition founder Dame 

Suzie Moncrieff said judges 

would have a difficult task choosing 

their favourite designers. 

The competition would have 

three recurring categories, 

Aotearoa, avant-garde, and open. 

It would also have the three 

new themes of architecture, 

the Elizabethan era and monochrome. 

“The skills, wide range of 

materials and techniques used 

in creating their work is breathtaking.” 

Creative pupils win 

fashion awards 


LOCAL CrEAtIOns have 

wowed at Toi, the country’s 

largest annual wearable arts 

competition for schools. 

Breens Intermediate School 

entries placed second and third 

in the competition’s junior category, 

and three more placed in 

the top 10. 

Visual arts teacher Sarah 

Turpin said the school was proud 

of the pupils, who all gave each 

other plenty of encouragement. 

“[They] worked extremely 

hard to produce outfits that were 

creative and well constructed,” 

Turpin said. 

Kiwi Kai, a creation by pupils 

George Keene, Iris Mills, Sofia 

Collins, and Jordyn Mason, was 

the second-place winner and also 

won the award Star of the Night. 

Just Call Me Honey, by pupils 

Jasmine Young and Jennifer 

Auckram, was the third-place 

winner. 

Other awards scooped by the 

school in the competition of over 

250 entries included awards for 

Best Interpretation of Design 

Brief for creations Backyard 

BBQ, A Walk in the Future, and 

Cinderella. 

Showquest and Toi National 

Coordinator Kelsey Moller said 

the technical skill shown by 

entrants was impressive. 

“It was brilliant to see student 

designers thinking out of the box 

creatively,” said Moller. 

“We saw that students were 

considering sustainable practices, 

and have been foraging, recycling, 

and involving their community 

in collecting all numbers 

of weird and wonderful items to 

create wearable art with.” 

Teams were judged by Dame 

Suzie Moncrieff and Heather 

Palmer from World of WearableArt 

on four main areas – 

concept, originality and innovation, 

quality of construction, and 

health and safety. 

KIWI KAI: Breens 

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Sofia Collins dresses in the 

award-winning costume 

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Overcoming demons to help those 

with mental illness and disability 

Wayne Gibson’s battle 

with his own demons 

pushed him to help 

people with disabilities 

and mental illnesses 

experiencing longterm 

unemployment. 

The PEEEP Trust yard 

manager speaks to 

reporter Bea Gooding 

about finding your voice 

in the face of adversity 

Wayne Gibson is still healing 

from the wounds that depression 

left behind nearly three decades 

ago. 

But in spite of the stigma men 

face about their mental health – 

both nowadays and back in the 

1990s – Gibson has learned to 

cope, coming out the other side 

of it a better person. 

It is a message of hope he 

now instils in the volunteers 

he leads at PEEEP Trust, who 

are experiencing long-term 

unemployment as a result of 

mental illness or disability. 

The People Empowerment and 

Environmental Enhancement 

Programme is a safe space for 

people to gain skills leading to 

job opportunities that might not 

have been there otherwise. 

“Our jobs give them a bit of 

a lift in life, makes them feel 

important, and builds up their 

confidence and self-esteem,” said 

Gibson. 

“A lot of the guys that come in 

here are really reserved and not 

sure where they’re going in life. 

My job is to make sure they leave 

here happy every day, feeling 

more positive about themselves.” 

The trust has provided 

training and work experience for 

unemployed people since 1993, 

with a focus on improving the 

local environment. 

Referred from agencies 

such as the Ministry of Social 

Development, all volunteers 

FRESH START: After turning his own life around, PEEEP yard manager Wayne Gibson now 

helps others. 

PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN 

have experienced long-term 

unemployment. 

Many are recovering from 

drug or alcohol addictions, have 

physical or social disabilities, 

or are dealing with mental 

illnesses. 

PEEEP offers stability, purpose 

and belonging, contact with 

nature, teamwork experience, 

and staff encouragement 

through contracted work. 

It could be graffiti removal 

for the city council one day, 

grounds maintenance at parks, 

businesses or homes the next, 

or beach clean-ups and dune 

management. 

Said Gibson: “It’s the simplest 

of things they can lack that we 

help them with. Most have never 

used a computer so we show 

them how to go on Google – 

things people would take for 

granted.” 

As yard manager, Gibson loves 

balancing his time between coordinating 

future jobs from the 

office and working side-by-side 

with the volunteers. 

After all, he has been in 

their shoes, starting as a casual 

volunteer eight years ago 

mowing lawns at the former 

Queen Elizabeth II Park while 

battling his own demons. 

Before PEEEP, Gibson was a 

labourer. 

“I enjoy helping people less 

fortunate than myself. I’ve been 

in a position in my younger years 

where I’ve been down that road, 

where I’ve been very depressed 

and low,” he said. 

“It’s not a good place to be. If 

I can help somebody to get out 

of that zone, I feel like my job is 

done.” 

Gibson eventually worked his 

way up to become the supervisor, 

before accepting the manager 

role earlier this year. 

The new role was a full-circle 

moment for the father of three 

because the supervisor who 

initially hired him happened to 

be his son Tristan. 

“When I first started here as 

a casual he was my boss, but 

only until 4 o’clock – I stipulated 

that.” 

Eight years later the tables have 

turned, with Gibson becoming 

his son’s boss. 

Having a close working and 

personal relationship did not 

get in the way of putting the 

volunteers first. 

It was about finding the right 

time to “take my boss hat off and 

put my father hat on,” and vice 

versa. 

“It’s great, we’re more like best 

friends and we work really well 

together as a team,” Gibson said. 

“We don’t bring any issues we 

have into work, we talk about 

it after work. We don’t want 

the volunteers to pick up any 

negative vibes.” 

A growing reputation has 

meant the number of referrals 

has climbed, with many more on 

the waiting list. 

Along with the trustees, the 

team of three-to-four staff work 

alongside eight volunteers at a 

time. 

Gibson has always been a 

“people person at heart,” but 

empowering others to find their 

voices for the first time made 

all the challenges he faced worth 

it. 

“They don’t know it, but I get a 

lot from them as well.” 

He recalled with pride a young 

man who went from being 

socially withdrawn to securing 

an apprenticeship on his 

own, thanks to newfound 

confidence. 

“We carried him under our 

wing, and over a few months, 

we lifted his spirits so much you 

couldn’t keep him quiet,” said 

Gibson. 

“This place helped him so 

much he doesn’t get on the Xbox 

anymore now that he has a job.” 

Having been encouraged by 

his own co-workers, friends and 

family to take on a leadership 

role for the first time, Gibson 

could relate. 

“My self-esteem was a bit 

low before I became manager, I 

didn’t think I would cope.” 

The macho mentality expected 

of men, especially in the past, 

made it difficult to address the 

trauma he experienced sooner. 

“I was in a very bad situation 

and I was a broken man. Back 

then, a man was a man,” he said. 

“It’s not really a thing you need 

to hide anymore.” 

Gibson could spend all day 

tinkering away on one of his 

muscle cars if he did not have a 

trust to worry about. 

In spite of his brighter outlook 

on life, there are concerns he 

simply can’t shake off. 

“Funding is drying up – since 

Covid, applying for funding is 

less successful these days.” 

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A CHARITABLE trust that 

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Ahead of their longer-term 

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chairwoman and city councillor 

VOLUNTEERS: The Eco-Action Nursery Trust, which works with 16 schools across the city, 

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Sara Templeton said. 

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Easy to prepare mains 

with plenty of taste 

Chicken 

drumsticks will 

appeal to all the 

family, try this 

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sauce recipe to 

dress them up 

Sweet chilli chicken 

drumsticks 

Serves 4 

Ingredients 

8 chicken drumsticks 

2 tbsp citrus juice 

4 tbsp sweet chilli sauce 

2 garlic cloves 

Fresh ginger, sliced 

1 lemongrass, crushed 

Directions 

Put the drumsticks in a 

baking dish, allow 2-3 per 

person. Glug over them 

sweet chilli sauce, soy or 

oyster sauce, citrus juice, 

a bit of oil and any or all 

of the following that you 

happen to have on hand – 

crushed garlic cloves, sliced 

fresh ginger, crushed lemon 

grass, fresh chillies (if you 

like it hot) slices of whatever 

citrus you have juiced. 

Place the chicken in the 

oven and braise until the 

drums are cooked. 

Meanwhile, make a salad. 

Mix any greens with fresh 

herbs such as mint and 

basil, fresh tomatoes and 

cucumber. Try to use a 

crunchy lettuce. 

Serve it all in bowls on 

the table or plate it. 

Butterflied Lamb 

Serves 4 

Ingredients 

1 butterflied boneless leg 

of lamb 

2 tsp fresh rosemary 

1 tsp dried oregano 

1 lemon 

1 tsp lemon juice 

¼ cup oil 

2 garlic cloves 

Salt and freshly ground 

pepper 

Directions 

Place the lamb in a shallow 

dish and sprinkle over 

rosemary, dried oregano, 

lemon rind(grated), juice, 

garlic and oil. Season with 

pepper. 

Refrigerate overnight if 

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from the fridge at least 1 

hour prior to cooking. 

Lift lamb from the marinade, 

season with salt and 

cook on a hot barbecue for 

15min each side or longer if 

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Rest for 10min prior to 

serving. 

Salmon and spinach 

packets 

Serves 2 

Ingredients 

1 tbsp orange, finely 

grated rind 

3cm fresh ginger, peeled 

and julienned 

1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil 

3 tbsp orange juice 

4 cups baby spinach, 

washed and drained 

1 tbsp wholegrain mustard 

2 salmon fillets, about 

150g each, 

Freshly ground black pepper 

Directions 

Cut two pieces of baking 

paper to about 30cm x 

30cm. 

Place two cups of baby 

spinach in centre of each 

piece. Top with orange 

rind, salmon, ginger, orange 

juice, mustard and pepper. 

Drizzle with a little oil. 

Bring long sides of paper 

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couple of times to make a 

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parcel. 

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Serve with steamed vegetables 

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We’re rolling out 

COVID-19 vaccinations 

to Aotearoa New Zealand 

Everyone aged 60+ can book their vaccination now 

New Zealanders aged 60+ can book now at BookMyVaccine.nz or call 

0800 28 29 26. If you’re in one of our priority groups (Groups 1, 2 and 3) 

and haven’t been vaccinated, don’t worry, you can still make your booking. 

We’re rolling out Group 4 in age bands 

Everyone in Aotearoa New Zealand will be able to get the vaccine – it’s free and there’s enough vaccine for everyone. 

With more than 2.5 million people aged under 65, to make the process flow smoothly, we’re breaking it down by age bands. 

We’re starting with the oldest and working our way down to the youngest. 

Important dates 

28 July Everyone 60+ Can book now 

11 August Everyone 55+ Bookings open 

Bookings will open soon to the rest of Aotearoa in age bands, 

from oldest to youngest. Remember, once you’re eligible to be 

vaccinated, you can book at any time. There’s no cut off. 

60 + 

55 + 45 + 35 + 16 + 

When it’s your time to book a vaccination 

Step 1: Receiving an invitation 

When you’re eligible, you’ll receive a letter inviting you to book 

at BookMyVaccine.nz. We’ll follow up with an email and text. 

Step 2: Make your booking 

Once you’ve received your invitation, or when your age band is 

open, go to BookMyVaccine.nz to book your appointments. 

If you’re unable to book online, you can ring the COVID Vaccination 

Healthline on 0800 28 29 26 (8am to 8pm, 7 days). We’ll make the 

booking for you and answer any questions. Interpreters are available 

if you need them. 

You can expect to have your first vaccination six to eight weeks after 

you make your booking. Depending on where and when you’d like to 

be vaccinated, you might find an appointment earlier. You’ll need 

to leave at least three weeks between your first and second doses. 

Step 3: Get your vaccination 

We’ll send a reminder the day before each appointment. It’s very 

important to get two doses of the vaccine – this will give you the 

best protection. 

Other ways to get vaccinated 

There are other ways to be vaccinated, including workplace 

vaccinations and other vaccination events around the country. 

In many remote rural communities, we will vaccinate all age groups 

at the same time. 

Many GPs are also providing COVID-19 vaccinations and are taking 

bookings directly. To find out if your GP is offering this service, 

visit healthpoint.co.nz/covid-19-vaccination 

The stronger our immunity, the greater our possibilities. 

Find out more at Covid19.govt.nz

Nor'West News: August 05, 2021

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