North Canterbury News: June 29, 2023

LEGO building fundraiser
By JOHN COSGROVE
It will be bricks galore when the
Kaiapoi Gray Raven Scout Group
joins with the three other scout
groups in North Canterbury Zone
to host aLEGO brick building
community fundraiser on
Wednesday, July 5.
Over 120,000 toy bricks will be
available for the young and the
young at heart, to create
everything from Duplo to
Technic, forests to space
vehicles, cars, 4x4s, buildings or
mosiacs.
Rachel de Vries of House of
Bricks will be bringing her
talents as aLEGO master
contestant to help spur the
creativity in people with two
hours of fun at the Rangiora
Borough School Hall from 10am
to noon.
Tickets cost $5.50 and funds
raised will help to get 36 scouts
and 10 leaders to the New
Zealand Scout Jamboree being
held in Hamilton over the coming
New Year period.
Scouts from the Kaiapoi,
Rangiora, Waimakariri and
Glenmark groups will be
travelling to Mystrey Creek after
Christmas.
They will join 3500 other scouts
for an action packed week long
international scout jamboree.
William Bruce, aged 13 from
Ashgrove School, says he is
looking forward to the jamboree
as he has heard there will be a
large international contingent
attending.
‘‘I am expecting alot of fun
activities and it will great to meet
all the people coming.’’
Being creative ... William Bruce, aged 13 (left), Beth Wilhelm, 12, and Liam
Visker, 13, practice building LEGO creations for the Scout Jamboree
fundraiser Brick Building Community Event.
Beth Wilhelm aged 12 of
Rangiora, says she will be
looking forward to the boating
and water activities.
‘‘These are different things to
what we do here, so it should be
alot of fun.’’
Liam Visker aged 13 of Kaiapoi
High School, says he wants to
learn lots of new things when he
goes to the Jamboree.
To get the scouts, their leaders,
all their tents and equipment
including their vehicle’s and
towed field kitchen to Hamilton,
the groups have to raise over
$3000 per scout.
There are airfares, freight
costs, jamboree registration and
attendance fees and food costs to
be covered for the group to allow
them to attend the Jamboree
which alternates between the
North and South Islands every
three years. Rangiora has hosted
one in the past but this will be the
first time any of these scouts have
attended one.
OUR TOWN KAIAPOI
The North Canterbury News, June 29, 2023
150th Jubilee
By ROBYN BRISTOW
Kaiapoi Borough School’s
150th birthday celebration
will be achance to
showcase the modern
school.
The school will celebrate
the milestone from
November 24 to 25.
It has its beginnings back
in 1873, celebrating its 100
years in 1973, and now it is
150th jubilee.
Principal Hayden van
Lent says the school has
changed alot over the
years, particularly in
modern times since the
2010­2011 earthquakes, and
will look alot different to
the many former pupils
expected to turn out to
celebrate the milestone.
Abig welcome is being
planned on Friday
afternoon, November 24,
with the school’s kapa haka
group set to add acultural
element to the
celebrations.
There will be an open
afternoon, with senior
student leaders showing
people around the school, a
tree planting and the
unveiling of aplaque to
commemorate the 150 year
milestone of one of the
oldest schools in Kaiapoi.
Adinner is planned at the
Kaiapoi Club in the
evening, with John
Warburton, aformer
principal, the Master of
9
Ceremonies. Mr Warburton
taught at the school from
1974 to 1983, and was
principal from 1989 to 2005.
On Saturday there will be
an opportunity to reflect,
connect with others and
look at photos from
yesteryear.
There will also be photos
taken by decade, and the
Parent Teachers
Association will put on a
lunch, where acake will be
cut.
‘‘We will be drawing
people together through
kai and we will have atime
capsule where people can
put their thoughts down,’’
says Mr van Lent.’’
It will then be buried to
be opened in years to come.
Mr van Lent says the 150
year celebration comes as
the school grows. Two new
classrooms will be on site
in September, just afew
months prior to the formal
jubilee.
The roll is 371, and is
expected to reach over 400
before the year ends, as the
fast growing Silverstream
continues to be one of its
main feeders. On to top of
this around 200 use the
Tech centre on site, with 11
clients school
Tickets for the
celebration are expected to
go live from Monday, July
24, at humanitix.com,
(search for Kaiapoi
Borough).
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