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91-year-old delivery driver<br />

says it’s time for a break<br />

• By Emily Moorhouse<br />

AFTER NINE years of<br />

voluntary delivery driving, Roy<br />

Labrum has decided it’s finally<br />

time for a break.<br />

“I turn 92 this June so I<br />

thought hey, maybe it’s time to<br />

sit back and have a rest.”<br />

After completing hundreds of<br />

rounds for food service Meals<br />

on Wheels, tomorrow marks<br />

Roy’s last shift.<br />

“It doesn’t seem like nine<br />

years,” Roy said. “It’s just<br />

something I like doing and it’s a<br />

pattern for my particular week,<br />

different weeks I do different<br />

rounds.”<br />

Roy alternates his schedule<br />

from Tuesdays and Wednesdays<br />

one week, to Tuesdays and<br />

Fridays the next – and said<br />

he’s only had about six days off<br />

over the nine years, except for<br />

the lockdown when deliveries<br />

stopped.<br />

Roy signed up to be a Meals<br />

on Wheels driver in 2013, a<br />

few years after his wife Shirley<br />

passed away.<br />

Shirley had cancer, as did his<br />

sister-in-law, so he spent most<br />

of his time as a caregiver, which<br />

left little time for cooking.<br />

So Roy signed them up to<br />

get Meals on Wheels delivered,<br />

and when Shirley and his sisterin-law<br />

both passed away, he<br />

decided to volunteer.<br />

Roy has a health problem<br />

DELIVERY: Roy Labrum is finally having a well-deserved rest after nine years of volunteering for Meals on Wheels.<br />

• Watch the video at starnews.co.nz<br />

PHOTOS: GEOFF SLOAN<br />

that’s left scarring on his<br />

lungs, which means he can’t<br />

do much physical work, such<br />

as gardening or housework, so<br />

delivering meals has proved a<br />

nice alternative, as long as he<br />

doesn’t overdo it.<br />

“I just like doing it, meeting<br />

different people because I’m a<br />

very solitary person,” Roy said.<br />

“It makes you conform to<br />

getting out and about instead of<br />

just sitting around and sort of<br />

vegetating.”<br />

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Thursday <strong>April</strong> <strong>28</strong> <strong>2022</strong> 3<br />

Familiar faces a welcome part<br />

of the job for volunteer driver<br />

• From page 1<br />

A Meals on Wheels volunteer<br />

who has known Roy for three<br />

years said she would often get<br />

chatting to him while they were<br />

waiting for the meals to arrive at<br />

the start of their round.<br />

“He’s a very special person who<br />

worked very hard all his life and<br />

cared for others all his life,” she<br />

said.<br />

She said Meals on Wheels was<br />

always looking for drivers and<br />

volunteers as good as Roy, with<br />

his friendly and helpful nature.<br />

What made him such a great<br />

delivery driver was “just being<br />

Roy” and giving the time each<br />

week.<br />

Roy said while he can’t stop to<br />

chat for long, he enjoys seeing<br />

the people he delivers to, and<br />

soon becomes familiar with<br />

certain faces.<br />

“Sometimes you’ll be delivering<br />

to a person for a couple of<br />

months,” he said. “There’s some<br />

now I’ve been delivering to for<br />

the last five or six years.”<br />

Roy said the secret to a good<br />

delivery service is having a reliable<br />

car, something he can boast<br />

about with his red Toyota Fitz.<br />

“People look out the window<br />

and see the little red car and<br />

know it’s me sometimes,” he<br />

said. “It does the job, I call it my<br />

WHEELS: Roy Labrum uses his own car to deliver Meals on Wheels, calling it his “little<br />

shopping basket.”<br />

PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN<br />

little shopping basket.”<br />

Each delivery varies depending<br />

on the needs of the person<br />

receiving the meal. Sometimes<br />

Roy will drop it at the door;<br />

sometimes he takes it inside to<br />

the kitchen.<br />

“Each time you go you don’t<br />

know who’s on your list really,<br />

you know who your regulars<br />

are but then again you can’t<br />

guarantee because your regular<br />

might be in hospital or might be<br />

away on holiday.”<br />

Before Roy became a volunteer<br />

deliverer, he and Shirley were<br />

caretakers for Cobham Intermediate<br />

School in Burnside for 10<br />

years. Before that, they owned<br />

two dairies in Marshland for six<br />

years.<br />

Roy does three separate rounds<br />

of deliveries, mostly in the<br />

eastern suburbs, and said he’ll<br />

definitely miss going around<br />

the town.<br />

“I’m delivering meals to places<br />

that I normally don’t go as part<br />

of my other life,” he said. “I’ve<br />

been doing it for so long, it’s become<br />

a sort of pattern of my life<br />

if you know what I mean.”<br />

Roy still hasn’t decided what<br />

he’ll do in place of his delivery<br />

rounds, but said he’s looking<br />

forward to some rest and<br />

relaxation – and will even order<br />

the meals for himself during<br />

the winter.<br />

Vandalism<br />

prompts<br />

patrols to be<br />

reinstated<br />

• By Emily Moorhouse<br />

AN INCREASE in vandalism<br />

and theft around the Ōtākaro<br />

Avon River Corridor has finally<br />

prompted patrols to be reinstated.<br />

Avon River network manager<br />

Hayley Guglietta brought the issue<br />

to the Coastal-Burwood Community<br />

Board at its latest meeting<br />

and said she has been raising<br />

concerns over vandalism in the<br />

area for 10 months.<br />

Board member for the<br />

Burwood Ward Bebe Frayle said<br />

the concern about vandalism<br />

in the area was also raised at a<br />

Dallington Residents Association<br />

meeting.<br />

“This prompted me to request<br />

that staff follow up the possibility<br />

of reinstating the patrols,<br />

which the RRZ [residential red<br />

zone] team actioned almost<br />

immediately,” she said. “They will<br />

be reinstating in early May.”<br />

Frayle said the patrollers will be<br />

organised and funded by the city<br />

council.<br />

When Land Information New<br />

Zealand managed the OARC area<br />

of the red zone it contracted a<br />

group to patrol the area, but when<br />

the city council took over from<br />

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A word from Ilam MP<br />

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The school holidays are nearly over<br />

and I do hope everyone was able to<br />

find some time to relax over Easter<br />

and Anzac weekends.<br />

Ilam is such a diverse electorate<br />

and I really enjoy engaging with<br />

businesses, schools, and community<br />

organisations that service our<br />

community.<br />

Papanui Youth Development Trust is<br />

one such organisation. It was really<br />

interesting to hear about the amazing<br />

work they do to support young<br />

people and their families in north<br />

west Christchurch.<br />

Another recent highlight was my visit<br />

to the Christchurch Engine Centre.<br />

This is such a great facility to have<br />

here in Ilam, employing a large local<br />

workforce to service aircraft engines<br />

from all over the world.<br />

At my constituent clinics a range of<br />

issues have been raised, from traffic<br />

concerns to immigration issues. One<br />

issue raised was concern over the lack<br />

of Spark coverage in the McLeans<br />

Island area and the possible impact<br />

on emergency calls. I met with<br />

Spark regarding this as it is essential<br />

that calls are able to be made in an<br />

emergency.<br />

Spark confirmed that the Vodafone<br />

site with 2degrees co-locating on it<br />

provides coverage in the McLeans<br />

Island area. This is good news as it<br />

ensures that calls to 111 can be made<br />

by anyone with a mobile phone,<br />

including Spark customers. Spark<br />

is aware of their coverage issues in<br />

the McLeans Island area and have<br />

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Thursday <strong>April</strong> <strong>28</strong> <strong>2022</strong><br />

YOUNG SPORTS STARS SET THE PACE ON NATIONAL STAGE<br />

Papanui HS riders<br />

shine on the road<br />

SHAYLAH SAYERS’ stunning<br />

introduction to cycling has<br />

continued with the Papanui<br />

High School student completing<br />

another clean sweep in her first<br />

competitive outings on the road.<br />

Fresh, remarkably, from her five<br />

gold medal haul at the national<br />

track cycling championships<br />

in Cambridge last month, the<br />

13-year-old claimed the age group<br />

road race national championships<br />

under-15 time trial and road race<br />

double over Anzac weekend. FAMILIAR TERRITORY:<br />

Fellow Papanui High School Shaylah Sayers dominance<br />

student Kirsty Watts also had of under-15 grade cycling in GOLDEN DOUBLE: Kirsty<br />

plenty to celebrate in Hokitika New Zealand has continued Watts won the under-17<br />

with golds in the under-17 time with road success in Hokitika time trial and road race at<br />

trial and road race.<br />

following a dominant<br />

the age group road race<br />

Sayers, who only joined Canterbury<br />

Track Cycling’s develop-<br />

cycling championships.<br />

display at the national track<br />

nationals in Hokitika.<br />

ment programme last November “I actually quite like those was longer than I thought it was,<br />

now has an unprecedented eight conditions, it didn’t freak me out I just had to keep going.”<br />

national titles in her age group, too much,” she said.<br />

Watts recorded two comfortable<br />

triumphs in her events,<br />

an indication she has a promising<br />

career ahead of her.<br />

tussle in the road race, with she won the time trial in 26min<br />

However, the duo had a tighter<br />

The keen mountain biker Sayers, McIvor and Canterbury’s <strong>28</strong>.62sec, almost a minute clear<br />

cruised to victory in Friday’s Jesse Thomson separated by of Counties Manukau’s Ava<br />

15km time trial, clocking 29min a photo finish after they each Maddison (27min <strong>28</strong>.40sec).<br />

36.95sec, well clear of Southland’s<br />

Poppy McIvor (30min “That was really close. It was to the line in the road race<br />

timed 1hr 3min 25sec.<br />

She had the luxury of coasting<br />

17.92sec).<br />

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180<br />

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Sayers made light of the blustery<br />

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Wellington’s Millie Donald was<br />

few attacks. Everyone was really 47sec in a time of 1hr 57.01sec;<br />

the race against the clock.<br />

“The sprint from the corner her closest challenger.<br />

Oceania Championships<br />

beckon after national title<br />

• By Mick Jensen<br />

KIERA HALL has made<br />

big strides since she started<br />

competitive running just two<br />

years ago.<br />

The 17-year-old Rangi Ruru<br />

student is the newly-crowned<br />

national U18 800m champion<br />

and has been selected for the<br />

Athletics New Zealand team that<br />

will travel to the Oceania Championships<br />

in Mackay in June.<br />

Kiera is also one of 12 athletes<br />

selected to travel to Colombia for<br />

the World U20 Championships<br />

in August.<br />

She trains under former New<br />

Zealand middle distance rep<br />

runner Angie Petty and races for<br />

the Port Hills Athletics Club.<br />

Kiera said she was excited to be<br />

travelling overseas to compete.<br />

She was very happy with her<br />

progress on the athletics track<br />

over the last two seasons and<br />

wanted to continue to improve.<br />

‘‘The 800m race for me is a tactical<br />

race where you have to get<br />

yourself in the position to win,<br />

whereas 400m is just too quick a<br />

race.’’<br />

She said the Oceanias will act<br />

as her warm-up ahead of the U20<br />

Worlds, which were a big deal.<br />

Her goal was to beat her personal<br />

best time of 2min 8.46sec<br />

and to gain more valuable competition<br />

experience.<br />

MIDDLE DISTANCE: Kiera<br />

Hall has been selected<br />

for the world U20<br />

championships.<br />

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Kiera juggles her NCEA studies<br />

with a busy athletics training<br />

programme.<br />

Six days a week of training<br />

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locked in, the Hall family<br />

is looking at fundraising<br />

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running ambitions.<br />

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Rangi Ruru student set for world champs<br />

• By Morgan Tait<br />

GABY SMITH will swim against<br />

the world’s best para athletes in<br />

Portugal after winning bronze at<br />

the para world swimming series<br />

in the United States earlier this<br />

month.<br />

The 15-year-old Rangi Ruru<br />

student took bronze in the<br />

women’s 100m breaststroke<br />

event at the competition, held<br />

in Indianapolis. The impressive<br />

feat means she will be heading<br />

to the world champs in Maderia,<br />

Portugal, in June.<br />

Gaby, a long-time member of<br />

the Wharenui Swim Club and a<br />

ParaFed Canterbury athlete, said<br />

she was not expecting to take<br />

home a medal from her first-ever<br />

international competition.<br />

“It was quite surprising for<br />

everyone,” said Gaby, who was<br />

born with no fingers and a partial<br />

palm on her left arm.<br />

“I started doing my warm<br />

down and my manager came<br />

over and told me to get out of the<br />

pool and get dressed. I thought<br />

something must have happened<br />

or someone was hurt, but it was<br />

for the medal ceremony.<br />

“Standing next to the women<br />

who got first and second, I was<br />

just in awe, they have Paralympic<br />

medals. It was pretty cool.”<br />

While humble about her<br />

success, the Fendalton teen<br />

holds four New Zealand records,<br />

was ParaFed Canterbury’s<br />

junior sportsperson and club<br />

swimmer of the year for 2021,<br />

and emerging talent of the year<br />

in 2020.<br />

She swims eight times and has<br />

two gym sessions as part of her<br />

weekly training regime and said<br />

swimming has always been a big<br />

part of her life.<br />

“My mum took me to swimming<br />

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stopped. I love the atmosphere<br />

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As well as the 100m<br />

breaststroke, Gaby also<br />

competed in the 100m freestyle,<br />

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freestyle, 200m individual<br />

medley and 50m freestyle.<br />

BRONZE: Gaby Smith came third in the women’s 100m breaststroke at the para world<br />

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Thursday <strong>April</strong> <strong>28</strong> <strong>2022</strong><br />

Richness of rural childhood revisited<br />

Le Bons Bay resident<br />

John Stuart has<br />

published a book about<br />

his childhood in Little<br />

River in the 1950s and<br />

1960s. Gary Brittenden<br />

casts his eye over it<br />

IF YOU grew up in 1950s and<br />

1960s rural New Zealand, you<br />

don’t have to be told what a<br />

different world it was back then.<br />

John Stuart, one of Banks<br />

Peninsula’s most well-known<br />

and respected characters, grew<br />

up in Little River and now lives<br />

in Le Bons Bay. Having recently<br />

retired at 75, John has put<br />

together a collection of stories<br />

that begin with his 1950s Little<br />

River childhood and wind their<br />

way through a rich and varied<br />

life.<br />

Stuart is not just a great<br />

storyteller – he is also a very<br />

good writer. The appeal of this<br />

book does not just lie in the<br />

wonderful adventures he had<br />

as a young lad, but also in his<br />

writing, which has a touch of<br />

magic about it. There is a softness<br />

and simplicity of style and<br />

a pervading gentle humour that<br />

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Filling<br />

6 (750g) pears, peeled and thinly<br />

sliced<br />

50g butter<br />

30g white sugar<br />

30g brown sugar<br />

1 Tbsp lemon juice<br />

1 tsp ground cinnamon<br />

1 tsp ground ginger<br />

Dough<br />

600g flour<br />

300g sugar<br />

400g butter<br />

2 medium eggs<br />

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Preheat the oven to 170degC.<br />

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Thursday <strong>April</strong> <strong>28</strong> <strong>2022</strong><br />

Vanessa Golightly<br />

Can We Still Sell our House for the Best Price in Winter?<br />

I often get asked by clients if they should hold off and wait until Spring rather than sell over Winter. I don’t disagree that<br />

there is nothing like marketing a property in the beautiful months of Spring and Summer, the gardens are blooming, the<br />

weather is warm and the daylight saving hours are kind for inspection times. On the flip side, there are certainly some<br />

advantages to a winter sale that could work out to your competitive advantage.<br />

Advantage 1. There is less competition in Winter<br />

I hear time after time ‘we will wait until Spring to go to the market’. This is also the time of the year most other sellers wait<br />

for which results in an influx of properties for sale and therefore more homes competing for your buyer's attention.<br />

Advantage 2. Buyers still want to buy in Winter.<br />

Just because it's winter doesn’t mean buyers aren’t looking! Regardless of the time of year, there is still a strong buyer pool<br />

motivated to purchase. People look to purchase for a multitude of reasons, job transfers, new babies, kids leaving home,<br />

separations, health requirements, promotions/income increases, retirement, inheritance, school zoning requirements and<br />

many other motivating events including what lies ahead this year with the number of returning kiwis to Christchurch and<br />

those moving here from other regions. Buyers don’t want to wait for Spring, this is a seller's mindset.<br />

Vanessa Golightly<br />

Ray White Papanui<br />

Ray White Morris & Co Limited Licenced (REAA 2008)<br />

M 027 664 9292 | B 03 352 0567<br />

vanessa.golightly@raywhite.com

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