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Thursday <strong>July</strong> <strong>13</strong> <strong>2023</strong> 3<br />
Embracing your inner child<br />
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“It is different from what it was<br />
– there is so much you can do,”<br />
said De Vries.<br />
“There is no wrong way to<br />
build with Lego Bricks, it is your<br />
idea you are building.”<br />
Hub Hornby senior centre<br />
manager Jason Marsden said the<br />
community mall hosted a creative,<br />
artistic and hands-on event<br />
each year.<br />
“This really ticks all of the<br />
boxes. There has been an amazing<br />
turn out here of adults and<br />
kids alike, it is relaxing, and it is<br />
cool to see people relax here,” he<br />
ALL AGES: Cathy Stevenson and her grandson<br />
Malachy, 5, play with the Lego while they wait for a<br />
haircut.<br />
PHOTOS: BRIAR ALLEN<br />
said. Marsden thinks the event<br />
will only get busier as the week<br />
goes on as it provides a good opportunity<br />
for people to come and<br />
go as they please – especially as<br />
it is free.<br />
“It is good to see people focus<br />
on something that is more tactical<br />
than technological-based.<br />
We’ll definitely bring this event<br />
back in the future.”<br />
De Vries said House of Bricks<br />
also hosts several community<br />
events, such as smaller versions<br />
of the Christchurch Brick Show,<br />
and would love to get more<br />
people involved.<br />
“It is part of what we do to<br />
inspire people to be creative,<br />
and inspire creative children to<br />
continue to be who they are so<br />
they can go on to fill those creative<br />
jobs.”<br />
Cathy Stevenson lives just<br />
down the road from Hub Hornby<br />
and was enjoying the Lego<br />
Bricks.<br />
“We came here for a haircut,<br />
but we had to wait for it, so this<br />
was ideal to do while we waited,”<br />
she said.<br />
• The play area will be<br />
open from 10am-2pm<br />
today and tomorrow<br />
DROP-OFF: A plan to stop the No 125 bus from going to<br />
the Christchurch Airport terminal has been dropped.<br />
‘Totally silly to go near<br />
the airport but not to it’<br />
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The spokesperson said when<br />
tourism returns to the same level<br />
as before Covid-19, capacity will<br />
become an issue, but ECan will<br />
address this as required and the<br />
125 bus will operate as normal.<br />
Said the spokesperson:<br />
“According to data from recent<br />
months, an average of around<br />
1000 people per day use route<br />
125 on weekdays, with the total<br />
number of passengers for the<br />
full month of June <strong>2023</strong> being<br />
27,<strong>13</strong>8.”<br />
The bus travels through<br />
Halswell, Westlake to Redwood<br />
and stops at the Hub Hornby,<br />
Russley, Christchurch Airport,<br />
Bishopdale Village Mall, and<br />
Northlands.<br />
Moore said keeping the<br />
airport stop means passengers<br />
have retained access to the<br />
airport for $2 or less.<br />
“I was quite perplexed when<br />
hearing the reason for the move<br />
while I was looking at a mostly<br />
empty bus terminal. I thought<br />
it was totally silly to go near the<br />
airport but not to it.”<br />
Moore said he has caught the<br />
bus many times. The airport<br />
terminal stop was usually empty<br />
and the bus would only stop at<br />
the airport for about 30 seconds<br />
before moving on, he said.<br />
“I was told the bus terminal<br />
area was at capacity and couldn’t<br />
handle any additional routes,<br />
but it looked empty most times<br />
when I was there, so hence my<br />
confusion as to why this stop<br />
would be removed.”<br />
He credited Swiggs for his<br />
hard work.<br />
“Many are not aware that<br />
this bus route to the airport<br />
is available to them, so now<br />
hopefully it will get used more<br />
now that people are being made<br />
aware,” Moore said.<br />
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