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NEWS<br />
6 <strong>Ashburton</strong> <strong>Courier</strong>, <strong>February</strong> <strong>17</strong>, <strong>2022</strong><br />
www.ashburtoncourier.co.nz<br />
Litter collectors clean up <strong>Ashburton</strong> CBD<br />
Litter Free <strong>Ashburton</strong> hasdone<br />
its first monthly rubbish blitz of<br />
the new year and left the<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> central business<br />
district(CBD) looking all the<br />
better for it.<br />
Elevenvolunteers donned<br />
gloves and high visvests and<br />
split up to collect in the CBD<br />
and as far north as the<br />
Countdown complex.<br />
Spokesperson Shirley<br />
Falloonsaid two new<br />
volunteers had joined regulars<br />
for the litter collection, which<br />
had amassed 16 bags.<br />
Thegrouphad been<br />
operating for three years now<br />
and was supportedby<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> District Council.<br />
Litterhot spots included the<br />
North Park Reserve,the area<br />
around theTinwald Bridge and<br />
Range Streetand central<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong>.<br />
Mrs Falloon said theupgrade<br />
of the CBD was lookinggood,<br />
butthere was still too much<br />
litter around.<br />
One unfortunate<br />
consequenceofthe upgrade<br />
was that thenew raingardens<br />
were proving acollection area<br />
for litter.<br />
Discarded face masks were<br />
also arecent additionto the<br />
cans, cigarette butts and fast<br />
food wrappers that were<br />
usually collected,she said.<br />
LitterFree <strong>Ashburton</strong><br />
volunteers meet at 1.30pm on<br />
the second Thursdayofthe<br />
month at thewater fountain on<br />
East Street. Rubbishcollectors<br />
are allocatedareas andthe<br />
collectionisfinished by around<br />
3pm.<br />
Litter Free <strong>Ashburton</strong> volunteers with the rubbish collected after arecent 90minute blitz in the <strong>Ashburton</strong> CBD.<br />
Mates and Dates at college<br />
<strong>Ashburton</strong> College has been<br />
selected to participate in anew<br />
ACC schoolbased healthy<br />
relationships programme<br />
called Mates and Dates.<br />
ACC has developed Mates<br />
and Dates to help to prevent<br />
dating and sexual violence.<br />
Statistics show that 20% of<br />
females and 9% of males at<br />
secondary schools in New<br />
Zealand report unwanted<br />
sexual contact or are made to<br />
do unwanted sexual things.<br />
ACC has worked with the<br />
Ministry of Education to ensure<br />
the programme aligns with the<br />
curriculum, and has worked<br />
with an expert advisory group<br />
to develop the content.<br />
The programme has been<br />
fully evaluated by an<br />
independent research<br />
company.<br />
Working with young people is<br />
seen as one of the most<br />
effective ways of preventing<br />
sexual violence because it<br />
equips them with relationship<br />
skills and behaviours they can<br />
carry with them throughout<br />
their lives.<br />
The programme will be<br />
delivered during Year 12 ako<br />
classes and will be appropriate<br />
for that age group and will be<br />
taught by specialist violence<br />
prevention programme<br />
facilitators over five, 50minute<br />
sessions.<br />
Mates and Dates will teach<br />
students how to have healthy<br />
relationships built on respect,<br />
negotiation and consent.<br />
It will teach them how to<br />
identify inappropriate<br />
behaviour and how to get help<br />
if they, or someone they know,<br />
are in an unhealthy<br />
relationship.<br />
The programme is not asex<br />
education programme but will<br />
include materials and<br />
discussions about sexual and<br />
relationship violence, consent,<br />
dating, relationships,<br />
pornography and other related<br />
subject matter.<br />
Attendance in the<br />
programme is not compulsory<br />
and students opting out will be<br />
placed in other classes for<br />
those lessons.<br />
At the end of the last session<br />
students will be given anoncompulsory<br />
short survey to<br />
complete, which will used to<br />
improve the facilitation and<br />
delivery of the programme.<br />
Tinwald lights<br />
likely mid 2024<br />
WakaKotahi NZ Transport<br />
Agency have engaged<br />
professional services company<br />
GHD to prepare the drawings<br />
and documents for tendering<br />
the construction work needed<br />
for new lights on State<br />
Highway 1atTinwald.<br />
The lightswill be at the<br />
Lagmhor Road/AgnesStreet<br />
intersection and as part of the<br />
project the Tinwald viaduct<br />
will become aone way, left<br />
turn only on to SH1.<br />
Over the next year, the<br />
project teamwill be<br />
undertakingsite investigations<br />
to developthe detaileddesign<br />
for the project.<br />
Construction is currently<br />
programmed to start in mid<br />
2023, subject to property and<br />
consents, and for completion<br />
in mid2024.<br />
Thelights through the<br />
Tinwald corridor havebeen<br />
proposed to make it easier for<br />
vehicles, pedestriansand<br />
cyclists to cross or turn on to<br />
the highway.<br />
They are alsoexpected to<br />
encourage traffic away from<br />
Grahams Road and cyclists on<br />
to Melcombe Street.<br />
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