Western News: September 16, 2021

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
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Cutting it off for cancer
BEFORE AND AFTER: Nathaniel Willis is donating his locks to Hair Collect and also raised $850 for child cancer.
PHOTO: SARAH WILLIS ​
• By Fiona Ellis
ALTHOUGH many people may
be seeking a haircut as lockdown
restrictions ease, seven-year-old
Nathaniel Willis went in for a
more dramatic chop than most.
After growing his hair for
three years, he had it cut off on
Friday to donate to Hair Collect,
raising $850 for the Child Cancer
Foundation in the process.
His mother Sarah Willis said
they originally aimed to raise
$100 but quickly surpassed
that goal.
They changed their aim to
$500, and again surpassed the
goal.
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Shipping
delays
hold up
community
centre
• By Fiona Ellis
Nigel Cox
SHIPPING DELAYS have held
up construction of Hornby’s new
$35.7 million community centre.
Previously set to begin this
month, the build is now expected
to start in late October, as 418
tonnes of essential steel earmarked
for the Kyle Park centre
are still on a ship near Taiwan.
This has pushed the expected
opening date back into early 2023.
Also delayed was the confirmation
of a building contractor,
which was announced as Naylor
Love Canterbury last week, in
spite of earlier expectations a
contractor would be named at the
start of August.
City council
head of recreation,
sports and
events Nigel Cox
said this was
because it took
longer than expected
to agree
on the fixed
price of a lump
sum contract.
“We now have an agreement
that mitigates the risk of price
escalation for the Christchurch
City Council,” Cox said.
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Delays with new Hornby
community centre build
• From page 1
The budget for the build
had not changed, the council
confirmed.
Cox said the start of the build
was dependent on the arrival of
the 147 steel piles, which were
18 metres long and weighed 158
kilograms per metre.
The city council ordered them
in early May, but they were held
up by Covid-19 pandemic-related
shipping changes.
“This delay is typical of the
current global supply and
shipping challenges facing the
construction sector,” Cox said.
He understood the piles were
loaded into a ship in Taiwan last
week.
Earthworks were completed
at the site over winter, so Naylor
Love Canterbury would be able
to “hit the ground running,” Cox
said.
Examples of the construction
company’s handiwork included
the EA Networks Centre in
Ashburton and the Selwyn
Aquatic Centre in Rolleston, the
Ballantynes redevelopment and
the Spark Square building.
“I am sure many in the
community will watch progress
on the building with great
interest.”
A range of community and
recreational spaces would be
accommodated within the
3600sqm centre, including a
library, a creative activities room,
a lane pool, a learn-to-swim
pool, a toddlers’ wet play area, a
spa pool and a customer services
zone.
The new Hornby centre would
be a “fantastic asset” for the
community, Mr Cox said.
The city council is currently
seeking
feedback
on what
facilities and
programmes
people would
like the centre
to offer.
Submissions
Marc Duff are open until
COMING SOON:
The Hornby
Centre, with a
pool and library,
is set to open in
2022. ​
October 1.
Greater Hornby Residents
Association chairman Marc Duff
said the pandemic was a time
when people needed to be patient
about delays.
“It just means we’re going to
enjoy it more,” Duff said of the
upcoming facility.
“I’m appreciative negotiations
take time, if it gets a better
deal [and] leads to savings,
that’s awesome.”
Double
donation
• From page 1
“Every time a donation
or message came through
[Nathaniel’s] face lit up,” she said.
“My brother had cancer when
he was a child, so anything we
can do to help.” Fortunately, her
brother had recovered and the
family remained close.
Two years ago, when
Nathaniel’s hair started getting
long, Sarah and her husband
asked him if he wanted to grow
his hair to 25 centimetres, the
minimum length for a donation
accepted by Hair Collect.
Nathaniel’s hair was about
30cm long when it was cut for free
by Anna Reed of Halswell salon
BYond The Fringe on Friday.
The chop was planned to
take place last week, in time for
the Child Cancer Foundation
fundraiser Wig Wednesday.
Often a school event, Wig
Wednesday encourages
participants to “wear a wig,
shave your head or style a funky
hairdo.” It was not widely held
last week due to the Covid-19
pandemic restrictions.
Nathaniel wanted to make
someone happy with his donation
and was excited to get his hair cut,
he said. He was also pleased to
have short hair again.
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Lockdown sees rise in graffiti in the west
• By Fiona Ellis
THE COVID-19 lockdown
contributed to a rise in graffiti
reports in parts of western
Christchurch, rather than the
decrease seen in other parts of
the city.
Council data also showed a
drop in graffiti reports in the
Halswell ward between July and
August, from 45 to 15.
However, both Riccarton and
Hornby experienced a rise, from
64 to 100 and 21 to 28 respectively.
Hornby Community Patrol
secretary Anne Smith said it did
not seem that graffiti lessened
during the lockdown.
The patrol began operating in
level two but had yet to run its
dedicated graffiti patrol, she said.
However, she said she had
personally observed “a slight
increase” while out and about.
Wycola Park stood out to her
as a place where she had seen
graffiti recently.
“You’d always hope that people
would behave and not do it, but
you are allowed to go out walking,”
she said of the opportunity
for graffiti under lockdown.
In north-west Christchurch,
Harewood also experienced a
rise in graffiti reports last month,
but most areas had a decrease
between July and August.
RISE: Reports of graffiti were up during lockdown in the west, in contrast to other parts of the city.
A graffiti report for the
month of August in Tuesday’s
Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood
Community Board meeting
agenda showed just 55 incidents
were reported to the city council,
down from 102 in July.
Of these, 24 were reported in
the Fendalton ward, where the
July total was 71, and five were
reported in Waimairi, where the
July tally was 13.
However, Harewood saw a rise
in reported incidents, increasing
from 18 in July to 26 in August.
City council manager of
community partnerships and
planning Gary Watson said the
Covid-19 Alert Level 4 lockdown
was a likely factor behind this,
following last year’s pattern in
the board area.
“We had 32 reports of graffiti
in the March-May 2020 lockdown
compared to 70 reports
over the same period in 2019,”
Watson said.
Considering Harewood’s rise,
he emphasised that “five people
could report the same graffiti at
one site and it would create five
incident reports.”
“We had reports of graffiti that
required removal at the skate
park and along the fence line
at Bishopdale Park. This is a
frequented area, even during
lockdown when people were doing
their regular exercise close to
their homes.”
Although not included in the
report, the city council confirmed
that reports of graffiti in
the Papanui ward also dropped,
albeit slightly, from 57 in July to
55 in August.
In the Innes ward, the drop
was more significant, falling
from 50 in July to 29 in August.
Christchurch North
Community Patrol chairman
Sam Hall said the downturn
was “absolutely” related to the
lockdown.
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN ​
However, the community
patrol was back in action in Alert
Level Two, and it seemed that the
taggers were also back.
Across the wider patrol area,
which encompassed both the
Fendalton-Waimari-Harewood
and Papanui-Innes areas, last
week’s three-hour graffiti patrol
found 15 tags.
This was was almost average,
he said,
In July, 47 tags were found in
12 patrol hours.
“We’ve yet to actually nab
someone [doing graffiti]. It
doesn’t take long, they can have
one done in 30 seconds.”
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Water contamination sites highlighted
• By Fiona Ellis
THREE AREAS have been
highlighted as potential
stormwater contamination sites
in a Haswell-Hornby-Riccarton
Community Board submission
to the city council.
The board was among 29
submitters on the draft stormwater
management plans for the
Halswell and Heathcote Rivers.
Adjacent to the Owaka Pit on
Wilmers Rd, a
former stormwater
retention
basin was one
of the three
sites the board
recommended
for early
Mike Mora
investigation
in the board’s
Halswell River submission.
“It has been filled in now but
will likely still be contaminated,”
the submission stated.
Catering to the nearby industrial
area, the stormwater
retention basin by the intersection
of Halswell Junction Rd and
Springs Rd was also listed.
The site of a former timber
treatment plant by the same
intersection was the final area of
concern.
Chairman Mike Mora said
the plans were important to the
board because the headwaters of
both rivers were in its area.
The impact of high levels of
residential development also
made it an important issue.
“We’ve just got to keep the water
quality as high as possible,”
Mora said.
The draft plans are the first of
seven being prepared between
2020 and 2023 for the district’s
different stormwater catchments.
They set out the ways in which
the city council will meet the
requirements of its 25-year Comprehensive
Stormwater Network
Discharge Consent which was
granted by Environment Canterbury
in 2019.
The board’s submissions
supported the goals outlined in
the plans and recognised the
potential for transport changes
and cycleways to result in fewer
vehicles on roads.
This would mean would less
contamination, particularly
FEEDBACK: The city
council asked for
public submissions
on stormwater
management, such
as the Sparks Rd
stormwater flood
collection basin.
PHOTO: NEWSLINE ​
of copper and zinc, which
stormwater picked up from
roads.
Although no dates had been
set to progress the plan, the city
council said it was likely to go to
its three waters infrastructure
and environment committee in
October for endorsement.
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Knitters give babies a warm welcome
FOUR WOMEN from
Ferrymead Rotary have knitted
almost 100 garments for babies
born at the Christchurch
Women’s Hospital this year.
Pat Edward, Debbie Woolf,
Kathryn Tovgaard and Barbara
Crooks began the project about
four months ago, although the
Ferrymead Rotary group has
been providing knitted clothing
to the hospital for some time.
Kathryn has personally been
knitting for the hospital for five
years.
Barbara said they intensified
their efforts this year after
receiving a call for help from the
hospital.
All babies born at the hospital
are given a woollen hat at birth,
while woollen singlets, matinee
jackets and booties are available
for mothers to take home.
So far, the group has knitted
more than 60 woolly hats, with
Pat heading the count.
The hats produced are a variety
of different sizes and colours.
Barbara said Ferrymead
Rotary has funded some of the
wool, but all of the knitters’ time
is given voluntarily.
They estimate up to seven
hours goes into making each hat.
Most of the knitting has been
done individually, although the
four have got together from time
to time to share wool and
swap notes.
Acknowledging Rotary clubs
used to be men only, Kathryn
said: “People don’t necessarily
connect Rotarians with knitting
but anything is possible.”
She said being a part of
a Rotary club was a family
tradition.
“One thing I said a long time
ago was that I always wanted
to help out in the community
throughout my life,” she said.
“A group of people can do
so much more than just an
individual.”
CHAMPION KNITTERS:
Ferrymead Rotary’s Kathryn
Tovgaard, Debbie Woolf, Pat
Edward and Barbara Crooks
have knitted almost 100
garments for new babies,
while Pat tries on a hat for
size (above).
Ferrymead Rotary community
director Debbie Woolf said the
club is also working on making
singlets and booties for Plunket
and supplying the Methodist
Mission with bedding, jerseys,
hats, scarves, gloves and shoes.
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donated or sourced by Rotary
members, to homeless people.
For more information about
Ferrymead Rotary and its
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Line dancer, fundraiser remembered
• By Fiona Ellis
WHETHER OR not former
Governor-General Jerry
Mateparae can line dance
remains unclear, but he can not
say he was never asked.
Bromley resident Mary
Stanley-Shepherd, who passed
away last month, offered to show
him the ropes in 2016 while
receiving her Queen’s Service
Medal for services to dance and
the community.
Daughter Karen Mather said
he was one of many who had
the chance, as the founder of the
Cathedral City Line Dancers was
a brilliant teacher, who led young
and old alike.
She would teach classes to
children with cancer at the
annual Camp Quality camp
each summer, and constantly
fundraiser for the cause for over
20 years.
Denise Wood, to whom Mary
passed leadership of the line
dancing club, estimated Mary,
who she remembered as caring
and encouraging, had raised
about $50,000.
This had been done from
methods ranging from raffles
and craft sales, to donating the
payments the club received to
dance at the yearly Spencer Park
gala.
However, no one was too old
to dance, and Mather recalls
her mother visiting old peoples’
homes to teach them some
moves.
“She’d go and see the older
people, even though she was
AWARD: Mary Stanley-Shepherd receives her Queen’s
Service Medal from former Governor-General Jerry
Mateparae in 2016.
probably older than them,”
she said.
“She just loved people, she was
a true extrovert.”
Even as her health started
to fail last year, she would still
attend line dancing classes,
giving instructions and advice.
This was typical of the tenacity
and positivity her mother
embodied, her daughter said.
“She would always find the
good thing, the joy, the positive
aspects.”
She also enjoyed the fact that
line dancing brought joy to
those who might be lonely, and
as it did not require a partner,
it was suitable for single people,
widows, and widowers.
Mary’s life was not always easy.
Born in England in 1933, she
lived through the Blitz.
“I remember her saying the
war years in London were
terrible, bombs night after
night.”
She left England aged 17 to
stay in Kenya with relatives,
and although the country was
unstable, she stayed upbeat,
enjoying the weekend dances.
Shortly after moving to New
Zealand, her first husband left
her and moved back to Kenya.
“She brought me up on
her own. She was a pretty
independent, feisty woman. This
is before feminism was really
defined.”
“She had to argue a few times.”
Mather remembers choosing
a bike for 10th birthday in the
early 1970s.
Her mother was not allowed
to buy it because she needed
her husband’s name for the hire
purchase agreement.
“We had to leave that shop
and leave the bike because they
wouldn’t sign it off. The next day,
mum was on the phone to the
big boss.”
In the end, the bike made it
home.
“She had perseverance . . .
those were the women who really
trail-blazed for us, I think.”
Aged in her 60s, Mary married
“the love of her life”, the late Art
Stanley-Shepherd.
Always a keen dancer, she took
to it quickly after being introduced
to line dancing in the 1970s.
“I always thought she’d die on
the dance floor.”
Even when unwell, Mary
took care to look stylish, and
her beautiful nails even drew
comments from the nurses at
Nazareth House, where she
passed away.
Because it was lockdown
at the time, the family was
unable to hold a funeral, but
memorial festivities were in the
works.
“We will be having a birthday
bash in November.”
“We’ll be having a line dance
and entertaining afternoon,
combined with pictures and
stories and things.”
“That’s really the send-off
mum would have wanted.”
JOY: Mary and her
husband Art Stanley-
Shepherd shared a
love of line dancing.
LEADER: Mary
Stanley-Shepherd
calls the count
during a line
dancing session
at Spencer Park in
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Dinghy races start yachting season
OPEN DAY: The new Pleasant Point Yacht Club facilities will host a dinghy race meeting this weekend. Senior boats compete in one of the many races
the club holds each sailing season out on the estuary.
New Brighton Park as they host
an open race for dinghy sailors.
“Despite Covid we’ll be out
there, but because of the delay
in opening by many other clubs
in the district we are expecting
a slightly lower turnout than in
63
previous
x
years.”
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The race starts at 2.40pm and
Humphreys said spectators and
those interested in sailing are
welcome to come along.
interest in sailing.
• By John Cosgrove
TACKING through Covid-19
regulations ensures a fair wind
for the Pleasant Point Yacht Club
as it starts sailing this weekend.
On Saturday, the club will
launch its 101 st season on the
estuary.
Club committee member Nigel
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“Our 101 st season is going to
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Add cheese to your accompaniments
Chewy, stringy
mozzarella lends
itself to a multitude
of dishes, try these
easy recipes to
complement your
main meal
Mozzarella-stuffed
portobello mushrooms
Serves 4
Ingredients
28gm butter, place in frypan
and melt, then add:
4 cloves garlic, crushed
4 large portobello mushrooms
8 grape tomatoes, halved
Mozzarella cheese, sliced
¼ cup balsamic vinegar, place
in smallest saucepan with:
1 tablespoon sugar
Directions
Brush butter/garlic mixture
over both sides of the mushrooms
and place them on a
baking tray lined with non-stick
tinfoil.
Place Tomato halves inside the
mushrooms along with slices of
mozzarella.
Bake in oven at 180 deg C for
30min, during which time boil
the vinegar/sugar until liquid is
reduced by half and it thickens.
When mushrooms come out of
oven, drizzle vinegar/sugar over
them.
Grilled mini peppers with
mozzarella
Serves 4 – 6
Ingredients
2 x 2 tablespoons olive oil, place
two tablespoons of it in frypan
1 small onion, chopped
Pinch cayenne pepper
Salt (to taste)
Peppercorns
1 x 390gm can chickpeas,
rinsed and drained
¼ cup parsley, finely chopped
125gm mozzarella, grated
350gm mini peppers
Directions
Saute onion until softened, a
dd cayenne, salt, peppercorns
and chickpeas, heat for a few
seconds then roughly mash, then
stir in the parsley and mozzarella.
Thick, juicy
portobello
mushrooms
are a handy
vegetable to
serve with
dinner, or
as a meal
on their
own. Add
mozzarella
to boost the
experience.
Cut tops off mini peppers and
scrape all the seeds out from the
inside.
Fill the mini peppers with the
mixture and push the lids back
on.
Spear two mini peppers per
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Brush with the second measure
of olive oil.
Grill on medium-high for
about 10min, turning often.
Or cook in conventional oven
at 220 deg C for 30min, turning
over halfway through cooking
time.
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casserole
Serves 3-4
Ingredients
750gm–1kg blade steak (can
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1 x 400gm can tomatoes (can
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½ cup beef stock (can use red
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1 tablespoon tomato paste
1 tablespoon brown sugar
½ teaspoon salt
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2 bay leaves (optional)
2 heaped teaspoons cornflour
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