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THURSDAY, AUGUST <strong>17</strong>, <strong>2023</strong><br />

Have your<br />

say on<br />

Fendalton<br />

traffic<br />

measures<br />

PLANS TO make sections of busy<br />

Fendalton roads safer for all road<br />

users are out for public feedback.<br />

The proposal to upgrade<br />

sections of Glandovey Rd and<br />

Idris Rd between Fendalton Rd<br />

includes installing new pedestrian<br />

refuge islands, speed cushions,<br />

cycle lanes, and kerb build-outs.<br />

City council transport planning<br />

and delivery manager Jacob<br />

Bradbury said the project aims to<br />

address safety concerns brought<br />

to the city council’s attention<br />

by the Glandovey Idris Strowan<br />

Residents’ Association.<br />

Pedestrian refuge islands are<br />

proposed for three locations<br />

on Glandovey Rd, and two on<br />

Idris Rd to make it easier for<br />

pedestrians to cross the roads.<br />

Under the plan, speed cushions<br />

will be installed to slow vehicles<br />

before the crossing points.<br />

“Speed cushions are good for<br />

this area, as they force ordinary<br />

vehicles to slow down to go over<br />

them, while heavy vehicles such<br />

as buses, fire engines and<br />

ambulances are typically wide<br />

enough to straddle them,”<br />

Bradbury said.<br />

“This minimises the noise and<br />

vibration issues that sometimes<br />

occurs from these types of<br />

vehicles travelling over traffic<br />

slowing features.”<br />

•Turn to page 5<br />

MATES:<br />

Chloe<br />

Donald<br />

with her<br />

dog<br />

Bailey. ​<br />

www.starnews.co.nz<br />

Getting fit<br />

with dogs<br />

a passion<br />

project<br />

• By Briar Allen<br />

A PASSION for pups and<br />

running has led to a new<br />

business project in the<br />

Merivale area.<br />

Chloe Donald, 12,<br />

has taken two of her<br />

interests to create a dog<br />

running programme<br />

to help keep dogs fit<br />

while working off their<br />

energy.<br />

Chloe said it is a<br />

part of her ‘passion<br />

project’ at Selwyn<br />

House School,<br />

which they have<br />

been working on<br />

since term two.<br />

“We list our<br />

passions and<br />

from there we<br />

pick our top<br />

three and<br />

come up with business ideas<br />

and I chose running dogs,”<br />

she said.<br />

She said the programme<br />

aims to run dogs whose<br />

owners may be too busy to be<br />

able to do it themselves – and<br />

the dogs may be stuck inside<br />

all day due to the owners<br />

being at work.<br />

“If you’re really busy during<br />

the day and your dog is<br />

cramped in, I can take your<br />

dog and run with it to get rid<br />

of all its energy.”<br />

Chloe is a competitive<br />

runner. She finished third in<br />

the 800m and fourth in the<br />

1500m at the South Island<br />

Colgate Games in Timaru in<br />

January.<br />

“I like dogs and I am a<br />

confident runner; I am<br />

looking forward to running<br />

heaps of dogs.”<br />

•Turn to page 5<br />

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Wednesdays, 10.30am-noon<br />

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Join in for a social morning with free<br />

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Wa Pepi: Babytimes<br />

Fridays, 10.30-11am<br />

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Meet others in the community and<br />

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toddler. All whānau and caregivers<br />

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JP Clinic<br />

Saturdays, 10am-noon<br />

Fendalton Library<br />

A Justice of the Peace is on site to take<br />

oaths, declarations, affidavits and<br />

affirmations; to witness signatures<br />

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document copies. The JP can also<br />

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sponsorship applications and rates<br />

rebate applications. There is no charge<br />

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Wa Korero: Storytimes<br />

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having fun. Just come along when you can, all materials are supplied.<br />

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Mahjong Group<br />

Fridays, 2-4pm<br />

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For beginners and advanced players, if<br />

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Tuesdays, 2-5pm<br />

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Toy library to find new home<br />

• By Briar Allen<br />

THE SALE of the building it<br />

resides in was not the early<br />

birthday present the Papanui Toy<br />

Library had in mind.<br />

The library will celebrate its<br />

30th birthday next month and is<br />

now on the hunt for a new place<br />

to call home.<br />

Library supervisor Natalie<br />

Sisson who has been with the<br />

library for about 10 years said it<br />

has been based in a garage for<br />

the past six years, which is damp<br />

and the insulation is not great.<br />

“It is pretty miserable in winter<br />

but good in the summer. We are<br />

looking for a space that is 60-80<br />

square metres,” she said.<br />

Sisson said a nice, warm<br />

classroom would be ideal<br />

with a car park which can<br />

fit at least 10 cars at a time.<br />

“As well as being under<br />

$10,000 a year, which is<br />

the big problem. We are a<br />

not-for-profit group, we get<br />

funds through grants and<br />

our own fundraisers and we<br />

have just under 1000 toys<br />

all boxed and bagged that<br />

need to be stored.”<br />

She said the library has been<br />

told by the landlord nothing is<br />

going to happen in the next nine<br />

months.<br />

“But there are already people<br />

looking, it is very stressful.<br />

“It would be nice to be moved<br />

by the end of the year at the<br />

latest.”<br />

The toy library currently<br />

provides 67 members with the<br />

option of loaning out up to<br />

eight toys at a time for up to two<br />

weeks.<br />

“People pay a membership<br />

FAREWELL: The Papanui Toy Library’s<br />

current premises on Cavendish Rd.<br />

fee, with the duty<br />

membership being<br />

slightly cheaper as<br />

people are required<br />

to come volunteer<br />

occasionally.<br />

“We currently<br />

have 41 duty memberships and<br />

26 non-duty memberships. You<br />

tend to lose memberships when<br />

you move and it can take a while<br />

to build it back up,” she said.<br />

Sisson said the library is<br />

sustainable and good for<br />

low-income households, as it<br />

saves people so much money.<br />

“It makes a huge difference<br />

to those who cannot afford<br />

new toys every time, we<br />

have grandparents who have<br />

grandchildren who visit from<br />

overseas, members get to<br />

know each other, it is a real<br />

community orientated place.”<br />

• Visit the Papanui Toy<br />

Library Facebook page to<br />

contact the team about<br />

potential new locations<br />

In Brief<br />

RESIDENTS ASKED TO<br />

REPORT POTHOLES<br />

Innes Ward city councillor<br />

Pauline Cotter is encouraging<br />

people to use the Snap Send<br />

Solve app to report potholes<br />

or footpath damage. Cotter<br />

said she has noticed potholes<br />

re-emerging after rain has<br />

fallen and damaged roads and<br />

footpaths appearing around<br />

housing construction sites.<br />

Reporting the damage helps the<br />

city council stay on top of the<br />

repairs, she said.<br />

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<strong>17</strong>. It features building photos,<br />

activities and class photos<br />

from the school’s past. The<br />

jubilee book will be available<br />

at the school office and can<br />

be bought at the reunion. Fro<br />

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Thursday <strong>August</strong> <strong>17</strong> <strong>2023</strong> 5<br />

Student<br />

starts up<br />

business<br />

running<br />

dogs<br />

•From page 1<br />

Chloe said she spent term two<br />

researching; now in term three<br />

she is in the creating stage, and<br />

in term four she will present the<br />

outcome of her business.<br />

“I would be happy to continue<br />

going on with the programme<br />

if it goes well. The project really<br />

helps you find out what you are<br />

passionate about and what you<br />

might want to do as a career.”<br />

She said one of the challenges<br />

she has faced so far was figuring<br />

out how to advertise her<br />

programme to the area.<br />

“My mum is an advertiser and<br />

I talked to one of her co-workers<br />

which was quite helpful, she<br />

talked to me about the best way to<br />

advertise, who my target audience<br />

is. I ended up doing a letterbox<br />

drop of my flyers. I have really<br />

enjoyed advertising and creating<br />

the flyer.”<br />

Chloe will be charging $10 for<br />

half an hour and $<strong>17</strong> for an hour<br />

with a portion of the proceeds<br />

being donated to the SPCA. She<br />

can be contacted through her<br />

email at runmydogprogramme@<br />

gmail.com<br />

PLANS TO upgrade a section<br />

of Innes Rd have been approved<br />

by the Waipapa Papanui-Innes-<br />

Central Community Board.<br />

The renewal project will get<br />

underway in December between<br />

Mersey St and the shops past<br />

Philpotts Rd.<br />

Improvements include<br />

upgrading the carriageway and<br />

sections of kerbs and footpaths,<br />

making it safer for people<br />

travelling to school, work or<br />

across the community.<br />

Raised platforms will be<br />

installed at existing zebra<br />

crossings at Mairehau Primary<br />

School and St Francis of Assisi<br />

School, improving safety and<br />

accessibility by slowing down<br />

vehicles at crossing points.<br />

Additionally, kerb build-outs<br />

will be introduced at Ethne St,<br />

Nancy Ave and Kensington Ave<br />

intersections.<br />

A central island will be<br />

installed at the Thames St<br />

intersection and the existing<br />

central island at Philpotts St will<br />

be replaced.<br />

Community board chair<br />

Emma Norrish said with<br />

two schools in the area, it is<br />

important for children to safely<br />

travel within the area.<br />

“Innes Rd is a busy route with<br />

around 15,000 vehicles travelling<br />

along the stretch each day.<br />

These improvements provide<br />

the opportunity to address a<br />

lot of safety concerns for the<br />

PHOTO: NEWSLINE<br />

Upgrade for Innes Rd looms<br />

community, and we’re excited for<br />

the upgrades to be installed,” she<br />

said.<br />

Stop control signs will also<br />

be introduced at Thames St,<br />

Philpotts Rd, Nancy Ave and<br />

Ethne St to improve drivers’<br />

visibility of pedestrians and<br />

cyclists when approaching.<br />

Further upgrades include<br />

introducing parking restrictions<br />

to accommodate the side road<br />

safety improvements, to allow<br />

buses to enter and exit existing<br />

stops safely and to improve<br />

sightlines at side streets.<br />

Some footpaths will be<br />

widened as part of the renewal,<br />

making it safer for pedestrians.<br />

Road<br />

users to<br />

provide<br />

feedback<br />

•From page 1<br />

Improvements to the<br />

Glandovey/Fendalton<br />

intersection, including kerb<br />

buildouts and relocation of the<br />

pedestrian crossing are also<br />

included in the plan to support<br />

safety.<br />

“To accommodate this plan,<br />

some parking loss is required.<br />

However, we’ve completed<br />

parking occupancy surveys which<br />

show that, on average, enough<br />

parks will be left to support<br />

current use,” said Bradbury.<br />

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September 5. Details can be found<br />

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Thursday <strong>August</strong> <strong>17</strong> <strong>2023</strong><br />

Burnside water fill<br />

station to close<br />

VIBRANT: Artwork by Geri Parawa and Sharon White<br />

(below) will be on display at the Sumner Art Society’s<br />

annual exhibition this weekend.<br />

New venue for art<br />

society’s exhibition<br />

THE SUMNER Art Society is<br />

holding its annual exhibition this<br />

weekend.<br />

Previously held at the<br />

Redcliffs Bowling Club, it<br />

will be at the Mt Pleasant<br />

Yacht Club this year for<br />

the first time.<br />

The clubrooms are<br />

where art society members<br />

meet each Wednesday<br />

morning to work on<br />

their art, enjoy companionship<br />

and share creative ideas.<br />

Well-known members who will<br />

be exhibiting include Adrienne<br />

Pavelka, who works with watercolours;<br />

Maxine Burney, who<br />

has a studio at The Arts Centre<br />

and paints with acrylics; and<br />

award-winning artist<br />

Geri Parawa, whose<br />

medium is ink, which<br />

she uses to create fluid,<br />

vibrant artworks.<br />

One of her Parawa’s<br />

works will be raffled<br />

at the exhibition<br />

(the other prize is a<br />

hamper).<br />

• The free exhibition is<br />

open from 10am to 5pm<br />

on Saturday and Sunday.<br />

Art is available for purchase<br />

THE UNCHLORINATED water<br />

fill station at Burnside Park will<br />

be permanently closed to comply<br />

with drinking water laws.<br />

On May 9, Government water<br />

regulator Taumata Arowai<br />

advised it intended to decline<br />

the city council’s first chlorine<br />

exemption applications.<br />

Chlorine has since been<br />

introduced to all water supply<br />

zones in Christchurch and<br />

Banks Peninsula. This is a<br />

necessary step to comply with<br />

the Water Services Act and the<br />

associated rules and standards<br />

for community water supplies.<br />

Taumata Arowai has now<br />

confirmed that the requirement<br />

to chlorinate extends to the city<br />

council’s unchlorinated water fill<br />

stations.<br />

Head of Three Waters Brent<br />

Smith said the city council has<br />

a responsibility to comply with<br />

Government legislation.<br />

“We know this will be<br />

disappointing for some people,<br />

but we have no choice in the<br />

matter – we must comply with<br />

the law – so the stations will<br />

be permanently closed in the<br />

coming days.<br />

“Making sure Christchurch<br />

and Banks Peninsula residents<br />

have access to safe and reliable<br />

drinking water is our number<br />

PHOTO: NEWSLINE<br />

one priority.<br />

“Chlorine has been used<br />

safely all around the world<br />

for about 120 years. It keeps<br />

millions of people all over the<br />

globe – including in most of New<br />

Zealand – safe from waterborne<br />

illness.<br />

“If you are concerned about the<br />

taste of chlorine, you can keep<br />

drinking water in an open jug<br />

in the fridge. The chlorine taste<br />

will dissipate naturally over a few<br />

hours,” Smith said.<br />

Chlorine and any associated<br />

by-products can be removed by<br />

using a granulated, activated<br />

carbon (GAC) filter. These are<br />

available from hardware supply<br />

stores and water filter companies.<br />

The city council recently<br />

provided feedback on the<br />

Taumata Arowai draft exemption<br />

decisions.<br />

“In late June we sent Taumata<br />

Arowai feedback on the draft<br />

exemption decisions. They will<br />

now consider our feedback before<br />

issuing a final decision.<br />

“We not expecting the final<br />

decision to change due to the<br />

nature of feedback received in<br />

the drafts,” Smith said.<br />

The fill station at New Brighton<br />

will also close.<br />

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Thursday <strong>August</strong> <strong>17</strong> <strong>2023</strong><br />

Lifestyle leads to world champs<br />

• By Jaime Cunningham<br />

FOR BROOKE Bennett,<br />

swimming has always been a<br />

lifestyle.<br />

Before she started to swim<br />

competitively, Bennett can<br />

remember going down to the<br />

pool often with her family<br />

members.<br />

“It’s always been in the family.<br />

“My nana used to always<br />

take me down to the pool, but<br />

I mainly got into it because<br />

my sister used to swim<br />

competitively,” she said.<br />

Just six years after starting<br />

to swim competitively, the<br />

year 12 student at Villa Maria<br />

College is off to the junior world<br />

championships in Israel next<br />

month.<br />

She managed to reach what<br />

Swimming New Zealand calls<br />

a “silver” time in the 1500m<br />

freestyle event at the national<br />

age group championships in<br />

April to qualify for next month’s<br />

meet.<br />

The 16-year-old is the only<br />

South Island-based swimmer<br />

selected in the seven-strong<br />

team, and is “really excited” to<br />

represent New Zealand for the<br />

first time.<br />

“I really want to do well in my<br />

swims, and hopefully get some<br />

personal bests – but mainly I<br />

just want to enjoy the<br />

ENDURANCE: Brooke Bennett specialises in long-course freestyle events. ​<br />

experience,” the Vikings<br />

swimmer said.<br />

Bennett will race in the<br />

200m, 800m and 1500m freestyle<br />

events at the six-day meet.<br />

She goes into the meet<br />

following a successful<br />

New Zealand short course<br />

championships in Hastings<br />

last week where Bennett claimed<br />

gold in the 16 years<br />

200m, 400m and 1500m<br />

freestyle.<br />

Although Bennett’s specialist<br />

races are the longer-course<br />

freestyle events, she admits<br />

she “likes to do some<br />

breaststroke every now and<br />

then.”<br />

The junior team will travel to<br />

Dubai on Sunday for a two-week<br />

camp before the meet begins on<br />

September 4.<br />

It will be Bennett’s first time<br />

travelling further than Australia<br />

to compete, as well as the<br />

biggest meet she has ever<br />

competed in.<br />

Bennett will also represent<br />

New Zealand in the Queensland<br />

State Championships in<br />

December before heading to<br />

Sydney for the New South<br />

Wales open water<br />

championships.<br />

Although Bennett wants<br />

to wear the fern again after<br />

this year, she is focused on her<br />

short-term goals rather than<br />

the pinnacle events like the<br />

Commonwealth or<br />

Olympic Games.<br />

“I mean it’s definitely a<br />

possibility, but I don’t want to<br />

put that pressure on me. I just try<br />

to be my best.<br />

“And if that means I go to<br />

the Commonwealth Games or<br />

Olympics, that’s how it is.”<br />

SUCCESS: Brooke Bennett<br />

claimed three gold medals<br />

at the New Zealand short<br />

course championships in<br />

Hastings last week.<br />

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Thursday <strong>August</strong> <strong>17</strong> <strong>2023</strong><br />

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GT AWD form it has a claimed<br />

0-100km/h-sprint time of just 3.7<br />

seconds.<br />

The Mach-E is instantly recognisable<br />

as a Mustang with signature<br />

elements such as its long,<br />

sculptured bonnet, rear-haunch<br />

design, aggressive headlights and<br />

trademark tri-bar tail lamps.<br />

Three models are sold here,<br />

starting with a 198kw rear wheel<br />

drive priced at $79,990, allowing<br />

it to sneak with the skinniest of<br />

Motoring with Bob Nettleton<br />

margins under the $80k threshold<br />

for the Government’s $7015<br />

clean car rebate for full electric<br />

vehicles. From there, it’s a sizeable<br />

step up to the 258kw AWD<br />

retailing for $109,990 and the<br />

subject of this review.<br />

Those wanting even more<br />

hyper-amped performance get<br />

it in spades with the 358kw GT<br />

AWD. All this performance<br />

aggression comes at a cost with<br />

a real world, all-electric driving<br />

range of 490km, compared to the<br />

550km for our test drive vehicle.<br />

The entry-level rear wheel drive<br />

has a respectable all-electric<br />

driving range of 440km.<br />

The 258kw of power produced<br />

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delivering an ultra smooth and<br />

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and their luggage.<br />

There’s a generous 402 litres of<br />

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A front trunk storage unit made<br />

possible by the absence of a<br />

conventional petrol engine under<br />

the bonnet offers an additional<br />

81 litres of storage space.<br />

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list is Intelligent Adaptive<br />

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the vehicle centred in its lane.<br />

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CROSSWORD<br />

1 2 3 4 5 6 7<br />

8<br />

9 10<br />

309<br />

SUDOKU<br />

Every row, column and box should<br />

contain the digits 1 to 9.<br />

WordBuilder<br />

WORDBUILDER<br />

209<br />

6<br />

P E U<br />

C O L<br />

11 12<br />

13 14 15<br />

words of three or more letters,<br />

How<br />

including<br />

many<br />

plurals,<br />

words<br />

can you<br />

of<br />

make<br />

three<br />

from<br />

or<br />

the<br />

more<br />

six<br />

letters, using each letter only once? No foreign<br />

words or words beginning with a capital are<br />

allowed. There's at least one six-letter word.<br />

letters, including plurals, can you make<br />

from the six letters, using each only<br />

once?<br />

TODAY<br />

No Good words 12 beginning Very Good 15 with Excellent a capital 19 are<br />

allowed. Solution 208: There’s ceil, clef, elf, at elk, least FICKLE, one fie, file, six-letter fleck,<br />

flick, ice, ilk, lei, lek, lice, lick, lie, life, like.<br />

word.<br />

Good 9 Very Good 13 Excellent 18<br />

16 <strong>17</strong> 18 19<br />

20<br />

21 22 23<br />

24 25<br />

26 27<br />

Across<br />

1. Sibling (6)<br />

4. Necessities (6)<br />

9. Bundle of hay (4)<br />

10. Without help (10)<br />

11. Reddish brown (6)<br />

12. Unnecessary (8)<br />

13. Stone fruit (9)<br />

15. Epoch (4)<br />

16. Assist in a crime (4)<br />

<strong>17</strong>. Deserted settlement (5,4)<br />

21. Hold back (8)<br />

22. Mollycoddle (6)<br />

24. Container (10)<br />

25. Exclamation (4)<br />

26. Irony or sarcasm (6)<br />

27. Population count (6)<br />

Down<br />

1. Height (7)<br />

2. Distorts (5)<br />

3. Line around Earth (7)<br />

5. Respond (6)<br />

6. Bankrupt (9)<br />

7. Relative by marriage (7)<br />

8. Bothersome person (4,2,3,4)<br />

14. Medical care (9)<br />

16. Eternal (7)<br />

18. Hide (7)<br />

19. When in fact (7)<br />

20. Between trot and gallop (6)<br />

23. Swindles (5)<br />

Crossword<br />

Across: 1. Sister, 4. Basics,<br />

9. Bale, 10. Unassisted,<br />

11. Russet, 12. Needless,<br />

13. Nectarine, 15. Aeon,<br />

16. Abet, <strong>17</strong>. Ghost town,<br />

21. Restrain, 22. Cosset,<br />

24. Receptacle, 25. Ahem,<br />

26. Satire, 27. Census.<br />

Down: 1. Stature, 2. Skews,<br />

3. Equator, 5. Answer,<br />

6. Insolvent, 7. Stepson,<br />

8. Pain in the neck, 14.<br />

Treatment, 16. Ageless, 18.<br />

Secrete, 19. Whereas, 20.<br />

Canter, 23. Scams.<br />

WordBuilder<br />

cep, clop, clue, col, cole,<br />

cop, cope, coup, coupe,<br />

COUPLE, cue, cup, cupel,<br />

leu, lop, lope, loupe, pole,<br />

puce, pul, pule<br />

DECODER<br />

Each number represents a different letter of the alphabet. Write the<br />

given letters into all squares with matching numbers. Now work out<br />

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Thursday <strong>August</strong> <strong>17</strong> <strong>2023</strong><br />

Daffodil Day<br />

25 <strong>August</strong> <strong>2023</strong><br />

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