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The Star Thursday July 27 2023 6 NEWS Videos to watch starnews.co.nz/south-today-video A collaboration with the Pacific Shirley Community Centre’s future to be decided Community group making a difference Easy rider’s treasure trove Rubbish trucking – the new frontier Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz ‘I wanted to test myself’ • From page 1 “At the beginning when I was feeling good, I was setting myself goals of 10km, then 20km . . . then when it was getting tough it was breaking it down to the next 10 minutes, get through the next kilometre, get through the next 100m.” She was allowed a two-anda-half hour break to sleep, but could not manage to drift off. “Even just having a lie down was good, I felt refreshed when I got up again.” She was pleased to make it through the 48 hours without major injury or strain, aside from some bad blistering on her toes. Timmis said she set herself the treadmill challenge to test her mental limits, and that was exactly what it did. “I wanted to test myself mentally . . . to see how far I could push myself . . . and it most definitely was the biggest mental challenge I’ve ever taken on in my life.” Once verified by officials, 48 hours on a treadmill will be Timmis’ third Guinness World Record. After the successful challenge, Timmis, who hails from Derby in England, but now lives in Reefton, has set her sights on her next ambitious goal – breaking the world record for the greatest distance run covered on a treadmill in one week. The current record is 833.05km, set by United Kingdom’s Sharon Gayter in 2011. For the next challenge, Timmis said she would fundraise for Street Freaks, a Christchurch charity that used running and walking to aid recovery from addiction and other mental SUPERWOMAN: Timmis in training for her worldrecord breaking attempt. PHOTO: FACEBOOK health issues. And if the treadmill record is not awesome enough, Timmis, who is an artist, also has other endurance credentials. She has roller skated across the Netherlands, and wrote, illustrated and published a children’s book about her adventure of running 4000km across Africa. – The Westport News CARE CENTRE NOW OPEN Rest Home & Hospital Care Memory Assisted Care TELEPHONE 03 351 7764 HOLLYLEA.CO.NZ
Thursday July 27 2023 The Star • By Amy Wiggins A PRESCHOOL teacher hit a child on the head with her knuckles after he refused to share a toy in what has been described as an “extremely serious and concerning incident”. The Teachers’ Disciplinary Tribunal found Nora Fa’amelea Lepaila guilty of serious misconduct and censured her. Lepaila admitted she hit a 3-year-old on the head with her knuckles after he repeatedly refused to share a toy while the children were playing outside in August 2020. Lepaila was working at Tino e Tasi Preschool in Aranui. She held the boy’s hand and walked him inside. Once inside she hit him on the head with her knuckles. The tribunal determined Lepaila be censured, have an annotation attached to her name on the teacher’s register for two years and complete a course in managing child behaviour. “The hit made a knocking noise that was heard by Teacher A, who did not see the incident but was also in the Lupe room,” the report said. The child was visibly upset and on the verge of tears. He told another teacher Lepaila hit him. Lepaila, a registered teacher, did not defend the charges. She told the tribunal it was a “brief and isolated incident” and she was aware it was misconduct. The tribunal was told in Lepaila’s 10 years of working as an early childhood teacher, she had never behaved in this way or been the subject of disciplinary investigation. Lepaila said she was passionate about teaching and felt privileged to help guide the next generation. She said she had already enrolled in an online Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz Teacher censured for hitting child course to help her learn ways to deal with difficult behaviour. The tribunal found it was done as a form of punishment and pointed to the fact the”force used” was enough for another teacher to hear a knocking sound. The tribunal noted it has commented many times that the use of force for corrective purposes will generally amount to serious misconduct. It described the case as PUNISHED: The Teachers’ Disciplinary Tribunal found preschool teacher Nora Fa’amelea Lepaila guilty of serious misconduct after she hit a child. PHOTO: RNZ “an extremely serious and concerning incident”. “It is never acceptable to hit a child, and teachers must find a way to deal with stressors, and/or challenging behaviours, which does not in any way involve force. The respondent is required to find strategies in situations like those which occurred in this case, and never resort to lashing out as a solution,” the ruling read. – NZ Herald NEWS 7 Rules for Airbnb operators NEW RULES for how Airbnb accommodation can operate in the city have been released. The new rules came into place on Monday following the release of a city council District Plan change, aimed at managing the impacts of the increasing number of properties available on Airbnb. It comes after Airbnb lodged an appeal to the Environment Court following public consultation on the plan change, which sets rules on accommodation in different zones of the city. Under the new rules, released by the Environment Court, hosted visitor accommodation for up to eight guests will generally be a permitted activity in most residential and rural zones. This means property owners who live on site and rent out rooms will not need resource consent, provided they don’t have more than eight guests per booking. But they are required to notify the city council and keep a record of the number of nights they rent rooms out for. In residential zones, houses or units where the owner does not live on site can be rented out for a maximum of 60 nights per year without needing a resource consent. •For the full list of rules, visit ccc. govt.nz/guestaccommodation free CONSULTS At Better Denture we have a range of services and options available. New Dentures > Relines > Repairs > 6 Brynley St, Hornby, Christchurch Phone: 03 349 5050 www.betterdenture.co.nz HEAT PUMP SALE NOW ON! HEAT PUMPs froM $ inc GsT 2449INsTALLED 0800 131 812 info@powersmart.co.nz powersmart.co.nz T’s & C’s apply 2022 2022 Heat Pumps Heat Pumps Up to $400 cashback and 60 months interest free 2022 Heat Pumps frEE consultation from your local Accredited Heat Pump Expert EXPORT QUALITY MEATS AT AFFORDABLE PRICES WWW.PRIMERANGEFRESH.CO.NZ 303 COLOMBO STREET, SYDENHAM MON-FRI 8:45AM-6:00PM SAT 8:45AM-5:30PM SUN 8:45AM-5:00PM Instore & Online 24 July - 30 July
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