North Canterbury News: November 18, 2021
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<strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> <strong>News</strong>, <strong>November</strong> <strong>18</strong>, <strong>2021</strong><br />
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Books galore ... Rangiora Rotary President Marilyn Ayers and event organiser Bruce<br />
Walker unloading books at the A&Pshowgrounds for the annual Rotary Book Fair.<br />
Booksgalore are beingdonatedfor the<br />
Rangiora RotaryAnnual Book Fair,with<br />
organiser Bruce Walker saying this year’s<br />
annual salecould be the biggest yet.<br />
‘‘They’re coming in fromall overthe<br />
district and we havebeen clearing the<br />
book dropoff points at the Rangiora New<br />
Worldand ZServicestations everyfew<br />
hours,’’ he says.<br />
The RotaryBook Fair has beengoing for<br />
36 yearsand this year will haveanew<br />
venueatthe <strong>North</strong>ern A&PShowgrounds,<br />
Ashley Street,onFriday ,<strong>November</strong> 26,<br />
and Saturday,<strong>November</strong> 27.<br />
The fair starts at 8.30am and runs<br />
through to 7pm each day.<br />
One of the biggest jobs is sortingthe<br />
donationsofbooks,CDs, records and<br />
puzzles. Bruce sayssortingiscarried out<br />
by adedicated team who do agreat job.<br />
This year the sorting venue has moved to<br />
new premises thankstothe donationof<br />
space by Rangiora businessman, Daniel<br />
Smith.<br />
Rangiora Rotary president Marilyn<br />
Ayers says the response thisyear has been<br />
overwhelmingand very much appreciated.<br />
“Therehas beenamazing support and the<br />
incomefrom sales will go to our<br />
community,” she says.<br />
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By DAVID HILL<br />
Kaikouraphotographer Andrew Spencer’s<br />
attempt to remember the devastating<br />
earthquake of 5yearsago is beingthwarted<br />
by the latest naturaldisaster.<br />
As he prepared to hold alaunchfor his<br />
new book, Remembering Kaikoura<br />
Earthquake,onTuesday evening, a<br />
shipment of books was stuck in Auckland<br />
due to Level 3restrictions.<br />
The projectwas born out of the 7.8<br />
magnitudeearthquakeon<strong>November</strong> 14,<br />
2016.Andrew grabbed his camera and went<br />
out and explored the worldaround him.<br />
‘‘It was kind of areactivething which<br />
turned into adailythingand went for a<br />
month,’’hesays.<br />
‘‘It’s asnapshot of history andwhat was<br />
happening in the town and closetothe town<br />
and along the roadsupthe coast.’’<br />
The photosquickly gained afollowing on<br />
Facebookasexpats,thosewith family<br />
connections or had visited thetown over<br />
the years,wanting to knowwhat was<br />
happening on the ground. Some of the<br />
photos were captured from ahelicopter<br />
ride whichmade Andrew deeplyaware of<br />
the isolation of the towninthe days and<br />
weeksafter the quake.<br />
His wifeMichelle Spencer, who is a<br />
school principalinBlenheim, was in<br />
Kaikoura at the time of the quake. She flew<br />
back to Blenheim,leaving her car in<br />
Kaikoura.<br />
‘‘I didn’tsee her again for amonth and it<br />
was anine hour trip to takeher car backto<br />
her,’’Andrew says. ‘‘But now it’sanamazing<br />
road, the commute is now an hourand 20<br />
minutes. They’vedone agreatjob for us.’’<br />
The idea for the booksurfaced earlier<br />
this yearwhen KaikouraPaperPlus owner<br />
Mark Fissenden suggested it was time<br />
Andrew did something with his collection<br />
of quake photos.<br />
‘‘He gave me abit of ahurry up, and so I<br />
delved intothe archives and looked at these<br />
pictures Ihaven’t looked at for awhile,’’<br />
Andrew says.<br />
Kim BoyceCampbell assisted with<br />
writing an introduction and added some<br />
stories to the book,while Ngati Kuri elder<br />
Rawiri Manawatu provided ashortkarakia<br />
‘‘to captureabit of history’’.<br />
Remembering Kaikoura Earthquake,a128<br />
page book by Andrew Spencer, with Kim<br />
BoyceCampbell, is selling for $29.99.<br />
It will be available for purchase at<br />
PaperPlusbookstores or youcan order<br />
from asphoto.co.nz for asigned copy.<br />
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