North Canterbury News: November 11, 2021

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Vaccination push in Nth Canty
The Canterbury DistrictHealthBoard
(CDHB)isholding anotherbig Covid­19
vaccinationpush in Waimakaririthis
weekend.
Meanwhile the JabbaWaka will be
visiting the Hurunui District.
The HanmerSprings Health Centre,
the Amberley Medical Centre and the
Cheviot Community Health Centre are
working together to take vaccination
clinics out to the publicusing amini
JabbaWaka van.
Atotal of 89.3 percent of Waimakariri’s
eligible populationhave had their first
Covid­19 vaccination, with 75% fully
vaccinated.InHurunui 87% of the
eligible populationhave had their first
vaccinationwith 75.1% fully vaccinated.
While in Kaikoura only 83.8% of the
eligible populationhave now had their
first vaccination and 73.4% are fully
vaccinated.
Five Covid­19 vaccination clinicswill
be open in the Waimakariridistrict and
will include two special events.
‘‘Waimakariri still has abit of work to
do to get to a90percent first­dose
vaccinationrate, so we are making it as
easy as possible for peopletoget
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manager,Chelsea Dickson says.
The special events will be heldat
Kaiapoi Family Doctors whichisopen
for drop­ins all day from 9am until 5pm,
on Saturday, then on Sundayone of the
DHB’s JabberWaka mobile vaccination
teams will be in the Ravenswood New
World car parkfrom noon until 5pm,
opposite the Moscow Circus.
“If people have not yet had their
second dose,this is the day to get it. We
willhave kai including lollipops and
bikkies, and we willhave the Mike Pero
teamonthe barbecue,’’ she says.‘‘We will
alsobehanding out spot prizes
throughout the day, so come on down.
Rollyour sleeves up Waimakariri.Let’s
get it done.’’
Hanmer Springs Health Centre
practicemanager Paul Walmsley says
the purpose of the JabbaWakaistoreach
people and businessesinHurunui
communities that wouldbenefitby
vaccination clinicscoming to them.
Technologywill enablereal­time
updates into the national Covid
Immunisation Register (CIR) system.
Three dates have been confirmed but
moremay be organised, depending on
demand. Details can be obtained by
phoningthe healthcentres.
On Friday November 12, the Amberley
Health Centre staff willhave the
JabbaWaka at LeithfieldBeach from 9am
and it will be at the Leithfield Hotel, in
Leithfieldvillage,from 11.30am.
On TuesdayNovember 16, the Cheviot
Health Centre staff willbetaking the
JabbaWaka into the Cheviottownship.
From Saturday November 20, through
to Monday November 22, the Hanmer
SpringsHealthCentrewill have the
JabbaWaka in the Hanmer Springs
village, the villagegreeninWaiauand
down to the HurunuiHotel heading
towardsChristchurch on SH7. Time slots
for these areas can be confirmed by
callingthe HanmerSprings Health
Centre.
The WaimakaririCovid­19 vaccination
clinicsopen for drop­ins this weekend
are:
Saturday:
KaiapoiFamily Doctors: 9am –5pm
Rangiora Durham Health:9am –8pm
Rangiora Unichem Medical Corner:
9am –3pm
Stan's 7Day Pharmacy in Rangiora:
10am –4.30pm
Sunday:
Ravenswood New World pop­up
vaccination clinic: 12noon –5pm.
Teen looks to new challenge
By SHELLEY TOPP
Life with alopecia in apowered
wheelchair has dealt Rangiora teen Ava
Hurst extraordinary challenges.
But now the former top student, who
has apassion for numbers and
accountancy, is looking forward to
joining the workforce.
‘‘I hope to be able to get an office/
accountancy job, but Iamopen to
anything that comes my way,’’ she says.
‘‘My plans are to keep searching for a
job and not let my physical disability
stop me from becoming an independent
young adult.’’
Ava, who is 16, has been in apowered
chair since she was three years old after
being seriously injured in ahead­on car
crash when she was 22­months­old.
She suffered traumatic brain injuries,
aserious neck injury that required a
neck fusion, afractured collarbone,
pulmonary contusions, stretched spinal
cord and an eye injury in the crash.
Medical specialists told her parents
Nikki Thomson and Adrian Hurst, who
were also in the crash, that people with
such serious injuries rarely survived.
‘‘I am only alive because my spine
didn’t snap,’’ Ava says. ‘‘I am also lucky
that Dad is aStJohn Ambulance medic.’’
Adrian’s St John medical training
Ava Hurst
provided him with the skills to help Ava
and Nikki, who was also injured, before
the ambulance arrived.
The accident left Ava with limited use
of her arms and legs. Eleven months
before the crash she was diagnosed with
alopecia, caused by an immune
deficiency.
It was alot to cope with, but Ava
approaches life with apositive,
confident attitude and uses her hightech
powered wheelchair to increase
her mobility.
She attended Woodend School for the
first seven years of her education before
completing her final four years at
Rangiora New Life School.
Ava enjoys cosplay (performance art),
art, drama and singing and is apupil at
Rangiora’s Hartley School of
Performing Arts.
She loves performing on stage and has
taken part in five theatrical productions
so far, including Beauty and the Beast,in
2018 ,
Aladdin and the Arabian Nights,in
2019, The Lion the Witch and the
Wardrobe,in2020, The Oxford Wearable
Arts Show,(Glee performance) in 2020,
and Midsummer Night's Dream in 2021.
Ava is atalented artist and is
passionate about Japanese culture.
She hopes to visit the country one day
and is learning the language through
singing.
She is abig fan of the Japanese My
Hero Academia series of comics and
animation.
She also loves horses and learnt to
ride at Riding for the Disabled North
Canterbury in Rangiora.
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