Selwyn Times: October 20, 2021

Selwyn Times Wednesday October 20 2021
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NEWS
• By Susan Sandys
LOCKDOWN AND alert level
restrictions have delayed the
opening of Te Ara Ātea, which
will now be December 2.
The Rolleston library opening
was initially planned for next
month.
At the same time, a new
sensory space to feature in the
town square around the library,
is taking shape and will open by
the end of next month.
Group manager community
services and facilities Denise
Kidd told councillors at last
week’s district council meeting
that access to the building
site had been impacted by the
nationwide August Covid-19
lockdown.
At the same time, the supply
of materials had been impacted
by the pandemic.
The district council will close
the current Rolleston Library
on November 25, transferring
books and equipment to Te
Ara Ātea the next day. The first
programme at the $22 million
facility will be that evening. It
will be a New Zealand art history
talk at 6pm.
The projected physical collection
at Te Ara Ātea is about
45,000 items, including books,
audio and DVDs, puzzles, games
and tech kits.
A district council spokesperson
said this was more than
double the collection size from
2017, when it started planning
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New opening date for library
Te Ara Ātea will open onto
the town square, most of
which will be completed by
the end of next year.
District council major projects
manager Phil Millar said
the square was being developed
in stages. The first small
stage comprising the sensory
experience and a tamariki
zone, on the western side of Te
Ara Ātea, would open at the
end of next month.
“We’re currently finalising
the design for the main part of
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the development and procurement
of items for the new
building. The 2200 sq m twostorey
building will feature a
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the square on the south west
side of Te Ara Ātea,” Millar
said.
The district council was
aiming to start the project
prior to June next year and
having it completed by the end
of the year.
“Once this is complete the
majority of the square and
its features will be in place,
but there will still be further
smaller stages to complete
adjacent to future buildings,”
he said.
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performance space, community
space, studio and workshop,
café, art exhibition areas, a
museum experience and display
cabinets, alongside the mixed
mode library.
It will open onto the town
square, which will feature the
sensory experience. The experience
will be a “fun and quiet
refuge” for residents of all ages,
regardless of physical ability or
neurodiversity.
Designed to engage all the
senses, the experience will be
surrounded by raised gardens
and trees with a water feature,
a musical walk and outdoor
instruments.
Plants, rocks, seats, walls and
paths are being placed to give different
sensations as the weather
and seasons change. Surfaces
have been chosen with different
textures and patterns to appeal
to sight, feel and touch.
There will also be a pergola
with coloured panels with designs
for holding community art
works. Schools and local artists
have been involved with the
The sensory space has
been designed in partnership
with Waitaha School, with
support from accessibility
Trust named as
finalist in
business awards
• By Susan Sandys
THE HORORATA Community
Trust has been named as a finalist
in the prestigious Westpac
Champion Business Awards.
The trust is in the finals for
the Rata Foundation Champion
Community Impact – Small Enterprise
award, alongside Foodbank
Canterbury and YWCA
Christchurch.
Chairman Richard
Lang said the recognition
was timely
after a particularly
tough year for the
community.
The trust had
recently had to cancel
one of its signature
events, the Hororata Highland
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Lang
Games, due to Covid-19 restrictions.
Fortunately, the games were
able to go ahead last year, while
the trust’s other signature event,
the Hororata Glow Festival, was
also able to be held earlier this
year.
“We are really proud of that
nomination, it’s pretty huge for
a rural community trust to be
recognised at that level,” Lang
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