North Canterbury News: January 20, 2022
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Waitangi Day to be celebrated<br />
By DAVID HILL<br />
After some initial uncertainty, Kaiapoi’s<br />
Waitangi Day Family Celebrations have<br />
been given the go ahead.<br />
All Together Kaiapoi coordinator<br />
Linda Dunbar says the Waimakariri<br />
District Council has approved the<br />
group’s health and safety plan, which<br />
meets the requirements of the Covid19<br />
orange traffic light restrictions.<br />
This means the free, annual event will<br />
go ahead as planned on Sunday,<br />
February 6, at Trousselot Park in Charles<br />
Street.<br />
Asection of Trousselot Park will be<br />
roped off, with one entry /exit point and<br />
vaccine passes will be required.<br />
Aface covering is also encouraged.<br />
‘‘We thought fencing off the park was<br />
going to cost thousands of dollars, but it<br />
was much easier than we thought,’’ Linda<br />
says.<br />
‘‘As long as we put some signs up and<br />
rope it off we can make it work and it’s an<br />
opportunity to get alocal contractor<br />
involved.<br />
‘‘It’s still apublic park, so we can’t stop<br />
people from gathering outside the roped<br />
off area or sitting on the bank and<br />
enjoying the music.’’<br />
Linda says there are afew changes to<br />
the usual format this year with a<br />
different range of cultural entertainment<br />
and new people performing.<br />
‘‘It was getting alittle bit stale, so we’ve<br />
decided to change it up,’’ Linda says.<br />
New this year will be paint ball target<br />
shooting, with people encouraged to<br />
have ago.<br />
What hasn’t changed is that there will<br />
be free entertainment on offer and<br />
speakers, including Kaiapoi High<br />
School’s <strong>20</strong>22 head students, who will be<br />
attending their first official engagement<br />
of the year.<br />
The day’s proceedings will be opened<br />
Kapa haka ... The Kaiapoi High School kapa haka group performs during last year’s<br />
Waitangi Day Family Celebrations.<br />
PHOTOS: FILE<br />
by Ray Harper playing the bagpipes at<br />
10am.<br />
‘‘It’s quite acool experience opening<br />
the event with alone piper,’’ Linda says.<br />
Sharon Williams will be back to MC the<br />
event and will be performing with her<br />
family band ‘‘Family Affair’’.<br />
‘‘It just wouldn’t be the same without<br />
Sharon,’’ Linda says.<br />
Joining Sharon on the stage will be up<br />
and coming musician Jaydin Shingleton.<br />
Kaiapoi High School’s kapa haka group<br />
will once again organise ahangi<br />
fundraiser, with participants able to<br />
preorder from the Kaiapoi iSite for $10<br />
per person (cash only) before the event.<br />
It will be limited to 140 tickets.<br />
There will also be plenty of market and<br />
food stalls to keep people entertained<br />
and fed.<br />
Pony rides, face painting, airbrush<br />
tattoos, aphoto booth and flip out air<br />
tracks will also be available.<br />
All together ... Hamish Bain (left) and<br />
Angus Watson taste test the All Together<br />
Kaiapoi barbecue on Waitangi Day last year.<br />
For more information on the Waitangi<br />
Day Family Celebrations, visit the All<br />
Together Kaiapoi page on Facebook.<br />
OUR TOWN KAIAPOI<br />
The <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> <strong>News</strong>, <strong>January</strong> <strong>20</strong>, <strong>20</strong>22<br />
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Search on<br />
for Kaiapoi’s<br />
best garden<br />
The Kaiapoi Garden Competitionis<br />
back.<br />
Gardeners are encouraged to gettheir<br />
entries in now, before judging in the<br />
annual gardeningcompetitionisheldon<br />
Friday,<strong>January</strong> 28.<br />
All Together Kaiapoicoordinator<br />
Linda Dunbar saysentries have been<br />
slowcoming in,but thereisstill time.<br />
Categoriesinclude‘‘walk around’’,<br />
‘‘viewfrom thestreet’’, town house,<br />
garden underthree yearsand<br />
structured landscape(built features<br />
combined withplantselection).<br />
A‘‘community pride’’categoryallows<br />
individual gardenersorgroups to<br />
present agarden outsidetheirboundary<br />
forotherstoenjoy.<br />
Theenvironmentally conscious can<br />
enter thesustainability section and<br />
there is alsoa‘‘best street’’ category.<br />
Acommercial or business premises<br />
category also allows businessestoenter.<br />
Atrophy andcertificatewill be<br />
awarded to the winner of each class,<br />
with certificates for secondand third.<br />
The‘‘supreme garden award’’ will be<br />
presentedtothe garden whichreceives<br />
themost points overallacross each of<br />
thecategories.<br />
Entry is free, but competitorscan<br />
enter only onecategory.<br />
Once againthe competition is being<br />
sponsoredbyChristine Watton of Ray<br />
White Kaiapoi.<br />
Peoplecan getentry formsonATK’s<br />
page on Facebook,byemailing<br />
alltogetherkaiapoi@gmail.comorby<br />
phoning ChrisGreengrass on (03)<br />
3277818 or 021781939.<br />
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