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6 Thursday May 12 2022 RAY WHITE BISHOPDALE & STROWAN For Sale With Ray White Bishopdale & Strowan Deadline Sale 286B Sawyers Arms Road, Bishopdale For Sale 1/5A Brogar Place, Casebrook For Sale Unit F/488 Gloucester Street, Linwood 2 1 1 1 2 2 1 2 2 2 1 2 1 1 Karen Ellis 021 519 275 Scan QR code or visit: rwbishopdale.co.nz/BHP30298 Brodie Fransen 027 556 3736 Daniel Purdie 022 011 4429 Scan QR code or visit: rwbishopdale.co.nz/BHP30307 Grace Luo 021 0893 5311 Scan QR code or visit: rwstrowan.co.nz/STW30064 Auction 3 Korowai Street, Marshland Deadline Sale 3/46 Rookwood Avenue, New Brighton Auction 10 Caroline Way, Northwood 3 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 4 2 3 3 2 Karen Ellis 021 519 275 Scan QR code or visit: rwbishopdale.co.nz/BHP30283 Karen Ellis 021 519 275 Scan QR code or visit: rwbishopdale.co.nz/BHP30320 Brent Rushworth 021 451 177 Jayne Rushworth 021 1899 177 Scan QR code or visit: rwbishopdale.co.nz/BHP30260 Auction Auction Auction 339 Burwood Road, Parklands 102 Royal Park Drive, Parklands 87 Cheyenne Street, Upper Riccarton 3 1 1 1 2 3 1 1 1 2 3 1 1 1 2 Karen Ellis 021 519 275 Scan QR code or visit: rwbishopdale.co.nz/BHP30300 Karen Ellis 021 519 275 Ray White BS Ray White BS Bishopdale & Bishopdale Strowan & Strowan 0800 YELLOW (0800 935 569) 0800 YELLOW (0800 935 569) 5/333 Harewood Road, Bishopdale | 55 Blighs Road, Strowan 5/333 Harewood Road, Bishopdale | 55 Blighs Road, Strowan rwbishopdale.co.nz | rwstrowan.co.nz rwbishopdale.co.nz | rwstrowan.co.nz Inline Realty Limited (Licensed REAA 2008) Inline Realty Limited (Licensed REAA 2008) Scan QR code or visit: rwbishopdale.co.nz/BHP30331 Kirsty Llewellyn 021 198 9056 Proudly owned by Karen Ellis 021 519 275 Barry Ellis 021 519 274 Scan QR code or visit: rwstrowan.co.nz/STW30071
Thursday May 12 2022 7 Ranger creates legacy Teen bound for maths Olympiad CREATIVE: Rate-Smith built this seat in collaboration with a local carver and weaver for one of the parks, and made a fairy house in his spare time for the children’s fairy forest in Bottle Lake Forest Park. • From page 5 When he was tasked with replacing picnic tables at The Groynes, Rate-Smith said he “wasn’t impressed” with the cost so took it upon himself to design his own tables and get an engineer to build and install them. This roughly halved the cost of ordering tables in. It’s things like this that make Rate-Smith get up in the morning feeling excited to go to work, something he feels fortunate to experience. While Rate-Smith loves his job, he said there are some aspects that he really struggles with, particularly seeing people damage the parks. “We do all of this work and there’s always an element to society that seem to congregate in parks that want to destroy stuff,” he said. “You put everything you can into it and you do believe in what you’re doing, and it might only last a week before somebody’s destroyed it.” He said the rangers had seen an increase in people doing burn-outs at The Groynes, ripping the paddocks to pieces, and wondered if this was due to frustrations with Covid. This time of year tends to be the quietest for the rangers and they spend it planning and planting as well as taking in new volunteers to help out around the parks. Outside of work, Rate-Smith enjoys pottering in his garage, gardening and painting, and is even learning how to tattoo, using his legs as a drawing board for his “doodles”. One of his favourite parts of the job is seeing changes such as rare birds coming back to an area or catching glimpses of waterways improving through the work the rangers do. “We could well be leaving something for people hundreds of years from now,” he said. “You can change things for the better so easily; you get to do something good everyday.” • By Mick Jensen BURNSIDE HIGH School student Grady Kenix has been selected as a member of the New Zealand Mathematics Olympiad team. The 17-year-old is in his final year at school and is one of just six students selected, and the only one outside of Auckland. He will compete at the 63rd International Mathematical Olympiad in Norway in July, which is expected to draw teams from more than 100 countries. Ironically, Grady elected to drop maths after Year 11, but has continued to have a strong interest in the subject outside of the formal classroom setting. His interest in maths started at primary school in Lyttelton, he said. “We had a really good teacher called Jeremy and he was the one who stirred up my interest and fascination for the subject and started the maths journey for me.’’ Grady’s quest to be part of the New Zealand Mathematics Olympiad team started over 10 months ago, alongside hundreds of other hopefuls. Over those months and after many hours of tuition, training camps and competitions, entry numbers were steadily whittled down to the final elite students. Grady was given his selection news recently and is modest about his achievements. “I’m happy to have been chosen after a long selection process and a lot of work, and I am looking forward to testing my maths skills against other students from around the world,” he said. He receives $2000 towards the costs of attending the olympiad and will use earnings from his waiter job at Lyttelton’s Nomnom Kitchen to help fund the trip. His travels will include a stopover in his birth-land of the USA, which he left at ninemonths-old to come to New Zealand. Saving those precious photos A passion for properly preserving precious family photos has been a business for Gail Ruddle since 2004. She became a distributor for Creative Memories in 2015, and based in Christchurch she is one of only three distributors in New Zealand. An avid scrapbooker, Gail loves helping people to preserve their photos and memories. Founded in the United States in 1987, Creative Memories is widely known for leading the scrapbooking industry with world-class products. Today’s Creative Memories was re-launched in 2014 under new ownership, but with the same exceptional quality and modern design. So, where are your precious photos? Answer: they are everywhere. In your phone, on your tablet. You may have a point-n-shoot camera or a DSLR. You can’t escape the selfies, Instagram, Pinterest, and Facebook. And today, people are taking more photos than ever before. It’s been estimated that in the past five years, more photos have been taken than all the prior years combined. Sadly, few of these photographs will survive beyond a year. As Gail notes, the reason most photographs being taken today will soon be totally gone is that digital images are not seen as important enough to be kept in printed form. Also, technology has changed so fast, that many photographs taken six or seven years ago are stored on media that is no longer supported, such as floppy discs. In a few years, DVDs will likely be obsolete as will USB drives. So, to preserve those precious photos, they need to be printed out and kept safe. Avid scrapbooker Gail Ruddle looks forward to hosting her Creative Memories Open Home and welcomes anyone interested in the hobby to attend. During these unexpected COVID times, Gail says, more people have been turning to scrapbooking to reinvigorate a hobby and celebrate the good times recorded in photos, from recent times, or dating back decades. Gail’s vision for this year is to get the message out that Creative Memories is still trading. She holds monthly scrapbooking workshops, during the week, evenings and on a Saturday, as well as a digital evening, where she is available to educate and provide handson assistance. She can also provide one-onone assistance in your home or hers. If you would like to know more about Creative Memories, or re-connect with the hobby, Gail is having an Open Home on Saturday, May 21, 10am to 2pm. Products will be available for purchase and to order. Check out the website www.creativememories.com. Gail has access to all products, with orders taking around three weeks to arrive. You’re invited to a Scrapbooking Open HOme We make scrapbooks And so much more 21st May Hornby 10am – 2pm Lucky draw, catalogues, Free gift when you buy or order on the day phone/text Gail for address 021 067 3858
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