Nor'West News: March 24, 2022

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THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 2022
• By Fiona Ellis
CYCLIST SHAYLAH Sayers
has returned from her first
national championships with
six gold medals.
The 13-year-old Papanui
High School student made a
clean sweep of the under-15
category of Cycling New
Zealand’s track national championships.
“I’m super-stoked with my
results, it couldn’t have gone
any better,” she said.
“It was so much fun getting
to race all those girls and being
a part of the Canterbury team.”
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Huge success at nationals
PEDAL POWER: Shaylah Sayers (left) with coach Terry Gyde and Lizzy Thomson after the duo won the under-15 girls
500m team sprint title.
Shaylah had been a competitive
track cyclist for just
six months before taking part
in the event at the Cambridge
Velodrome.
Canterbury Track Cycling
coach Terry Gyde said when
training with the teenager, she
had reached speeds he would
expect of his elite cyclists.
“It was a surprise for everybody
else but I kind of had an
inkling.”
However, he kept quiet so
as not to pressure her with
expectations as they prepared
for nationals.
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School
pathway
plan hits
financial
road block
• By Fiona Ellis
PLANS FOR a new 700m path
connecting three Burnside
schools seem to have stalled
after the Ministry of Education
estimated the project would cost
$1.3 million.
Ilam MP Sarah Pallett, who
lobbied for the Cobham Intermediate,
Burnside Primary and
Allenvale schools pathway last
year, said this was “far in excess”
of predictions.
“I am hopeful that this conversation
can be kept open and
we can work together to find a
solution that works for the community,”
Pallett said.
The redevelopment of the
schools as part of a $1.3 billion
Christchurch Schools Rebuild
Programme raised the question of
path redevelopment, as the original
plan did not include it.
Pallett raised the issue at a
Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood
meeting last year, as reported by
Nor’West News last April.
The path keeps children, pedestrians
and cyclists off the road
when moving between schools.
The ministry’s property delivery
associate deputy secretary Sam
Fowler said the estimate was provided
by a quantity surveyor.
“[It] included provisions for
groundworks, base course and cycleway,
fencing, lighting, signage
and contractor management costs
and design and consenting fees.”
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‘It’s a nice feeling to give to people’
• By Emily Moorhouse
AN 8-YEAR-OLD’S act
of kindness has not gone
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Emilee Dawson wanted to
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line at the petrol station weren’t
getting thirsty after experiencing
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Emilee and her mum Phee
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“They were sitting out there all
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Thursday March 24 2022 5
Total clean sweep
of titles in grade
• From page 1
“People like that come probably
once a decade, once a generation.
She’s certainly opened a lot of
eyes.”
Fellow coach Hamish Ferguson
said it was very unusual to see a
total clean sweep of the grade.
“Her performance is extraordinary,
especially for somebody
who only started track cycling
in our junior development programme
a few months ago.”
This was especially impressive
given that most of her experience
was on outdoor tracks, he said.
“She’s been training hard and
racing hard at Denton Park, but
to know how to race tactically on
the indoor velodrome
is amazing.”
Shaylah opened a
stunning campaign in
the under-15 division
on day one with victories
in the elimination
race and 500m time
trial.
She also topped
the podium in the
points race, derby and
scratch race before
combining with Lizzy
Thomson to claim the
500m team sprint title
during last Saturday’s
final day of competition.
Her dad, Laurie,
who accompanied Shaylah to
nationals, said it was amazing to
watch her do so well.
“The first one was a bit of a
shock, and she just followed on
from it,” he said.
Although she had only been
track cycling for a short time,
she had been mountain biking
with her father from a young
age, Shaylah told Nor’West News
earlier this month.
Her father also recalled taking
her on bike rides when she was
small, in which she struggled to
keep up.
“Then she got older and she just
took off, now I can’t keep up with
her.”
IMPRESSIVE: Shaylah Sayers
after claiming the under-15 girls
elimination race title.
REBUILD: Cobham Intermediate, Burnside Primary and Allenvale schools are being
redeveloped as part of a $1.3 billion Christchurch Schools Rebuild Programme, and Ilam
MP Sarah Pallett is pushing for safe access to the schools.
PHOTO: STAR MEDIA ​
Ministry initially open to some funding
• From page 1
The ministry initially indicated
that it was open to funding some
costs towards the path although
it was not technically in its remit.
As a public path, the provision
of a redeveloped path would fall
to the city council.
The ministry consulted the
schools, the city council and the
Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood
Community Board last year,
Fowler said.
“Following these discussions
and having considered the likely
investment needed and management
challenges of an accessway
alongside these operational
schools as well as the potential
benefits, we have decided not to
pursue the proposal further.”
City council head of transport
and waste management Lynette
Ellis said $180,000 had
been allocated for the
lighting of the path next
year in the draft Annual
Plan, currently out for
consultation.
This was what it had
been asked to fund, she
said.
However, this was on the assumption
the path would be paid
for by the ministry.
The pathway was used by area
residents as well as those walking,
cycling, and riding scooters
to school, Ellis said.
“Cobham Intermediate has
Bridget
Williams
had a relatively high level of active
transport . . . in 2020 40 per
cent of its students either cycled
or scootered to school.”
Community Board chairwoman
Bridget Williams
said the board’s position on
the issue was based on community
feedback.
“What we’ve been hearing
is some of the schools
don’t actually want the
path,” she said.
“For a cost of that amount, we
would hate to say this is something
we could deliver when
financially, the council can’t.”
However, the board would look
at other options if there was a
demand for it.
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Gym club on the hunt for new
premises with high ceiling
• By Fiona Ellis
LOW CEILINGS may be the
biggest challenge for young
gymnasts aiming to compete at
a national level.
THe Bishopdale-based Delta
Rhythmic Gymnastics club is
struggling to find a training
venue with a ceiling height of at
least 10ms.
THe sport involves throwing
hoops, ribbons and clubs high in
the air, carrying out movements
while the objects are airborne
and then catching them again as
part of a choreographed routine.
President Jo Walker said the
club had been hopping from
venue to venue since the
earthquake over a decade ago.
“It’s really hard, we’re just so
desperate now. We don’t really
know quite what to do,” Walker
said.
THe former New Zealand
Institute of Sport building on
Riccarton Rd had been a good
fit but was no longer an option.
“THat was bowled down at
the end of last year. That was
the only place we had that had a
really high ceiling.
“It was old but it was the
perfect height. That was bowled
over for housing, which is
completely devastating.”
THe club trained about 135
young gymnasts, about 52 of
whom were eligible to try out
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for nationals, she said.
“THat means that they’re
senior kids, which means that
they need to throw high.”
THe club now operated
from Breens Intermediate
School, Fendalton Community
Centre, Middleton Grange
School, and Rolleston
Community Centre.
“None of these places have got
a ceiling that’s high enough for
our senior girls.
“We’ve asked the council and
it can’t give us anything.”
A warehouse, hanger or barn
would serve the purpose, she
said.
THe club members had been
gearing up to work from a
warehouse, but the arrangement
fell through, leaving them once
again searching for a venue.
This caused the training regime
to be pared back.
In spite of the club’s size and
success in its field, she believed
it was not prioritised in the way
sports such as basketball were.
“It’s like the whole sport has
been forgotten, it’s like nobody
cares.”
However, she thought a good
location must exist somewhere
nearby and she remained
hopeful it would be found.
MORE THAN 250 people have
tied purple ribbons to a worry
wall as part of a public art
installation on Papanui Rd.
Priest Megan Herles-Mooar
said the All Souls Anglican
Church short-term installation
could help people deal with current
worries.
“We wanted to offer something
tactile that helps people
acknowledge and perhaps lessen
their worries about Omicron, the
war in Ukraine, and anything
else that is troubling them at
present,” Herles-Mooar said.
The wall is a series of
temporary wire fences on
which people can tie a length
of purple ribbon, which are
provided free.
Pedestrians were stopping to
find out what the bright purple
installation was all about, she
said.
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“It’s amazing how the concept
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Thursday March 24 2022
Battle of the bridge: What’s in a name?
• By Emily Moorhouse
BURWOOD residents continue
to be frustrated over the lack
of action in naming a new
footbridge bridge over the Avon
River.
The bridge in the red zone area
near Briarmont St was opened
earlier this month.
But the city council continues
to call it the Avondale Bridge – in
spite of the long-time Avondale
Bridge connecting Avondale and
New Brighton Rds being only a few
hundred metres along the river.
The Pegasus Post reported on
residents’ concerns in November,
but still there has been no action
from the city council.
In a recent article on the city
council’s Newsline website, the
new footbridge was again called
the Avondale Bridge
future, once a co-governance “We thought it would be great
Said Burwood East Residents model is in place.
if the community could put
Association secretary Gae Johns: “An official naming process forward some ideas and then a
“It just doesn’t make sense, how will be carried out as part of decision was made by them and
ridiculous having a brand new this, and we’ll engage with both that the community board run
bridge and naming it the same the community board and local that,” Johns said.
as one that already exists 200m community,” Rutledge said. “We wanted it to come from
down the road.”
Johns said BERA had passed the community board because
Johns said the bridge should name suggestions on to the I think they would be the best
have been given a name before Coastal-Burwood Community to manage it,” she said. “Particularly
because there might be
it officially opened or even been Board but as the association was
opened to the public, and then fairly small, they wanted to see people from Avondale that have
had an official opening with a community engagement.
some suggestions because it’s on
name at a later date.
One suggestion was naming both sides of the river.”
City
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council head of parks it after Amelia
x
Rogers, a
180
postmistress
at a post office located board seemed to be on board
Johns said the community
Andrew Rutledge said the
“Avondale Bridge” could possibly on the river bank near Bassett St with BERA’s thinking and she
receive another name in the from the 1890s.
thinks most of the members
FRUSTRATION: The new pedestrian bridge being called the “Avondale Bridge” has caused confusion among residents
because it’s also the name of the road bridge that links Avondale Rd to the New Brighton Rd/Bassett St roundabout.
agree that referring to it as the
Avondale bridge is “not ideal.”
“They seem open to the idea
of investigating a new name for
it anyway which is really good,”
Johns said.
Burwood Ward city councillor
Phil Mauger said he was disappointed
the bridge wasn’t named
before it’s official opening.
“It seems a bit silly that we
know the bridge has been coming
for five years...we weren’t
on top of it,” Mauger said. “It is
disappointing.”
“The Avondale Bridge just
causes confusion, it is a bridge in
Avondale,” he said. “It’s not the
HAVE YOUR SAY: Share
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Ingredients
2 tablespoons olive oil, place in
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6 large skinless chicken breast
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Peppercorns
4 cloves garlic, crushed
3 cups chicken broth
2 tablespoons lemon juice
(squeezed from 1 large lemon)
1 lemon sliced
1 cup uncooked pasta (can use
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are ideal)
¼ cup capers, drained
½ cup heavy whipping cream
(or could use greek yoghurt)
2 teaspoons grated lemon peel
Parsley, chopped
Directions
Heat oil in frypan. Season
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then stir fry until no longer pink.
Add garlic, cook 30–40sec,
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lemon peel. Garnish with parsley.
One-pot chicken alfedo
Serves 4
Ingredients
2 tablespoons olive oil, place in
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chicken
piccata
can easily
be made
in a frying
pan. The
same for
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frypan
4 cloves garlic, crushed
Up to three skinless chicken
breast fillets, cut into chunks
Peppercorns
1½ cups blue milk
1½ cups chicken stock
440 grams spaghetti, uncooked
½ cup cream
1 cup freshly grated parmesan
cheese
Broccoli or parsley (for
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with peppercorns.
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no longer pink, rest and set
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simmer.
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through.
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stir until combined.
Simmer for 2min or until the
sauce thickens, then season yet
again with peppercorns.
Turn frypan off, slice chicken
and stir into mixture.
Garnish and serve immediately.
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