Nor'West News: May 11, 2023

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Hot winning streak for
team of young Flames
THE FASCINO Flames netball
team were given an extra lift
at the ANZ Premiership game
between the Tactix and the
Stars on Sunday.
The team of eight year 6
Harewood School pupils
received an ANZ netball grant
to subsidise their fees this
season and 10 tickets to watch
the Tactix live at Christchurch
Arena.
While at the game, the
Flames were also surprised to
be given an ANZ gear grant,
which included balls, bibs, spot
markers and gear bags.
Coach Sheree Graham said
the players were fizzing when
they received the gear.
TOGETHER:
Fascino
Flames
teammates
Stella
Usselman,
Gracie
Dwyer-
Tuiloma,
Bella
Graham,
Olivia Hay,
Kenzie Fry,
Tayla Bott,
Taya Smith
and Edith
Lynch.
“They were thrilled to
get the kit bag and getting to
sit courtside, they really loved
it.”
The team wore matching
red tutus and hair bows to the
Tactix game, which helped
them get signatures from all
their favourite players, Graham
said.
The Flames were formed
after the Covid-19 pandemic to
keep the girls playing together.
They made a strong start to
their fourth season at the
Christchurch Netball Centre,
winning their first game. The
team play St Margaret’s on
Friday.
Graham said she applied
for the ANZ grant to keep the
players together.
“There’s so much happening
in kids’ lives at the moment,
and it’s so important to keep
the girls interested in playing
netball.
“Especially at this age. They’re
all off to intermediate next year
and sport is so important for
their mental and physical wellbeing.”
“We didn’t have bibs for
practices, and it’s great to have
enough balls for everybody. We
are going to donate the pole
pads to the school so the whole
school can use them. It’s a huge
benefit to them which we’re
really appreciative of.”
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“We’re hoping every year to see
a reduction in the amount of litter
we pick up,” Jenkins said.
“We do have an issue – let’s
solve it.”
Heathcote Ward city councillor
Sara Templeton has been involved
with the clean-ups since they
began.
“I helped out at the first clean
up back in 2015 when I was chair
of the (former) Hagley/Ferrymead
Community Board and have
been a big supporter ever since,”
Templeton said.
She usually cleans up around
either the Tannery or Windsport
Park on Dyers Rd.
“It’s been amazing watching
it grow year by year . . . The
Heathcote Ward has many
waterways. Smaller ones that
BIG EFFORT:
Celia King
and Kit
Doudney
collect
rubbish along
the Estuary
during a
previous
Mother of All
Clean Ups.
‘Pick up 5’ a new
rubbish initiative
come down from the Port Hills,
the Ōpāwaho Heathcote River
and, of course, the estuary.”
The event will include a new
initiative this year – the High Five,
I Can Pick Up Five campaign. It
encourages everyone to pick up
five pieces of litter outside their
home.
“The pick up five campaign is
something people should be doing
all year round,” Jenkins said.
“If we all pick up five pieces
of rubbish . . . that would be
awesome. Then we’ll have the
cleanest city in the country.”
•To participate in the
Mother of All Clean Ups meet
outside the New Brighton
Library at 9am. Bring closedtoed
shoes, appropriate
clothing for the weather, and
a reusable drink bottle
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