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THURSDAY, AUGUST <strong>31</strong>, <strong>2023</strong><br />

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Season of success<br />

for St Andrew’s<br />

• By Jaime Cunningham<br />

ST ANDREW’S College<br />

have had a near-perfect leadup<br />

to this week’s national<br />

tournaments with four of their<br />

girls’ sides making finals within<br />

a week of each other.<br />

The school’s girls football<br />

and basketball senior teams<br />

clinched regional titles in the<br />

Connetics premier first XI and<br />

Whelan Trophy competitions<br />

respectively. St Andrew’s also<br />

made finals for netball and<br />

hockey. St Andrew’s senior<br />

basketball side won the first<br />

title of last week on Tuesday<br />

HISTORY: Sasha<br />

McIntyre chases<br />

the ball down<br />

field during the<br />

premier final.<br />

with a dominant 82-61 win over<br />

Rangiora High. Year 13 Lauren<br />

Whittaker was awarded most<br />

valuable player with a 25-point,<br />

21-rebound, 8-steal statline.<br />

• Turn to page 6<br />

More<br />

groups in<br />

need of<br />

ratepayer<br />

grants<br />

• By Briar Allen<br />

MORE ORGANISATIONS are<br />

applying for financial help from a<br />

community fund pushing it to its<br />

limit.<br />

The Waimaero Fendalton-<br />

Waimairi-Harewood Community<br />

Board had 65 applications for<br />

grants from its strengthening<br />

communities fund<br />

with 64 approved.<br />

The applicants<br />

requested just over<br />

$1 million in total,<br />

but the board only<br />

has a funding pool<br />

of $491,658.<br />

Last year 46 applications<br />

requested<br />

Sam<br />

MacDonald<br />

about $800,000 from a funding<br />

pool of about $441,905.<br />

Waimairi Ward city councillor<br />

Sam McDonald said the<br />

increase in applicants is due to<br />

the expansion of the community<br />

board boundary line last year,<br />

which now includes more of the<br />

Harewood area. He believes the<br />

rising cost of living has also had<br />

an impact.<br />

McDonald said people are making<br />

sacrifices to pay their rates<br />

and there are no plans to increase<br />

the funding pool.<br />

“I don’t think increasing the<br />

funding pool is the way to go – it<br />

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what’s on<br />

this week<br />

Te Kahui Ohua<br />

Friday, 5.30-6.30pm<br />

Fendalton Library<br />

Te Kāhui Ōhua is a casual, monthly<br />

reading group that celebrates our Ngā<br />

Pounamu Māori Collection. Each<br />

month you’ll choose any book from<br />

the collection to read - Fiction or Non-<br />

Fiction, in English or Te Reo. Share<br />

your reads with the rest of the group.<br />

All are welcome, bring the whānau.<br />

Wa Korero: Storytimes<br />

Fridays, 10.30-11am<br />

Redwood Library<br />

Meet others in our community when<br />

you and your preschooler join us for<br />

a fun variety of stories, songs and<br />

rhymes which foster children’s literacy.<br />

All whānau and caregivers welcome.<br />

Wa Pepi: Babytimes<br />

Fridays, 10.30-11am<br />

Orauwhata: Bishopdale Library and<br />

Community Centre<br />

Meet others in the community<br />

and join our relaxed, fun group for<br />

interactive songs, rhymes, and books<br />

that will delight and develop your baby<br />

or toddler.<br />

Citizens Advice Bureau<br />

Tuesdays, 2-5pm<br />

Fendalton Library<br />

Citizens Advice Bureau provides free<br />

Bedtime stories, Friday, 6.30-7.30pm Fendalton Library Come and<br />

join Margot for some Friday night fun. Themed stories, songs and simple<br />

crafts will entertain your 4-7 year olds, but the whole family is more than<br />

welcome. Don’t forget to wear your PJs.<br />

and confidential advice to everyone.<br />

We take the time to listen to you<br />

and equip you with the information,<br />

options and support that fit your<br />

needs.<br />

Technology Help<br />

Thursday, 11am-noon<br />

Redwood Library<br />

A drop in session set up to help you<br />

with your device. Discussing help with<br />

email, searching the internet, using the<br />

library catalogue, eBooks, and general<br />

computer queries. Bring your own<br />

device. Free, no bookings required.<br />

Bolivia Card Game<br />

Thursdays, 1-3pm<br />

Orauwhata: Bishopdale Library and<br />

Community Centre<br />

Everyone is welcome to come along<br />

and try their hand at this fun and<br />

friendly card game.<br />

Thursday <strong>August</strong> <strong>31</strong> <strong>2023</strong><br />

Mahjong Group<br />

Fridays, 2-4pm<br />

Fendalton Library<br />

Interested in playing Mahjong? Come<br />

along and learn how to play. For<br />

beginners and advanced players. If<br />

you have your own set please bring it<br />

along, otherwise come and join in a<br />

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Councillor for Papanui Ward:<br />

Drop-in Session<br />

Thursday 2-4pm<br />

Redwood Library<br />

Do you have issues that you would<br />

like to discuss with your local City<br />

Councillor? Victoria Henstock, City<br />

Councillor for Papanui Ward will be<br />

available. Appointments are preferred,<br />

but time will be available for enquiries<br />

and chats on a drop-in basis. You can<br />

contact Victoria for an appointment<br />

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Thursday <strong>August</strong> <strong>31</strong> <strong>2023</strong> 3<br />

THEN AND NOW: St Albans Primary School in 1890, its old entrance, and the school today.<br />

School prepares for 150th jubilee<br />

• By Briar Allen<br />

CELEBRATING the past, the<br />

present and the future, people<br />

a part of the St Albans Primary<br />

School community are invited to<br />

its 150th jubilee.<br />

The school was founded in<br />

1873, and teacher Sam Pelham<br />

said they are looking forward to<br />

the weekend of celebrations on<br />

September 15-17.<br />

“We are really excited, it is<br />

really awesome to be able to<br />

connect with the community<br />

through the past, present and<br />

the future of the school, we value<br />

those connections,” she said.<br />

Celebrations include school<br />

tours, performances, and the<br />

tree and time capsule planting<br />

on Friday. On Saturday, tickets<br />

are available for $25 to attend a<br />

morning tea, or $75 to attend the<br />

evening celebrations. On Sunday,<br />

there will be a gala with food<br />

trucks and a community picnic<br />

with musical performances.<br />

“It is a wonderful way to<br />

celebrate the community and<br />

how strong they have been,” said<br />

Pelham.<br />

“It is also nice to be able to<br />

celebrate with so many people<br />

post Covid-19.”<br />

In the lead-up to the official<br />

celebration, the school has been<br />

holding activities, such as a<br />

Back in Time Day where pupils<br />

and staff dressed up as it was<br />

150 years ago.<br />

Pelham said it was a fabulous<br />

day and the children loved the<br />

authenticity, as the teachers<br />

made an effort to act like how it<br />

was back then.<br />

“We used chalk instead of a<br />

whiteboard, had them sitting in<br />

rows, I don’t think we have had<br />

such quiet classrooms. It was<br />

really cool to see them playing<br />

old games like knucklebones and<br />

marbles under the oak tree.”<br />

She said current tamariki<br />

interviewed past students – with<br />

the eldest being 96 – and many<br />

remembered playing marbles<br />

under the same oak tree.<br />

The school has also been<br />

preparing a time capsule to bury<br />

and each pupil is contributing<br />

something to it.<br />

“About 550 items will be added<br />

to the capsule, some things<br />

include drawings, fingerprint<br />

paintings and pictures of children<br />

with their favourite toy.<br />

It allows the children to leave<br />

behind a legacy and represents<br />

them looking to the future.”<br />

Another time capsule was<br />

buried about the time of the<br />

125th anniversary, but Pelham<br />

said they have dug up the whole<br />

field and not managed to find<br />

it, so the latest one will be well<br />

documented.<br />

She said the jubilee and learning<br />

about their cultural narrative<br />

is important for staff and pupils,<br />

as it ties them to the past and<br />

shows them where they have<br />

come from.<br />

“It is a beautiful story to learn,<br />

it allows us to reflect on how<br />

things weren’t always like this<br />

and how life was back then.<br />

“All these people have one<br />

thing that connects them and<br />

that is the school, they have all<br />

gone on to live very different<br />

lives but are connected by their<br />

time here.”<br />

• Tickets can be<br />

purchased from events.<br />

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Thursday <strong>August</strong> <strong>31</strong> <strong>2023</strong> 5<br />

Council’s computers to<br />

the community scheme<br />

Donation for<br />

dementia care<br />

• By Briar Allen<br />

A COMMUNITY organisation<br />

in Redwood is giving the city<br />

council’s old laptops a new lease<br />

on life.<br />

The scheme is administered<br />

by the Waimaero Fendalton-<br />

Waimairi-Harewood community<br />

governance team based at the<br />

Fendalton Library.<br />

The city council’s computers<br />

to the community Scheme has<br />

allowed Styx Living Laboratory<br />

Trust to save money and<br />

electronic waste by using secondhand<br />

laptops.<br />

Programme manager Anita<br />

Spencer said the laptops have<br />

allowed staff to work from home,<br />

the office or out in the field.<br />

“It has been great for the trust.<br />

The laptops may be older, but<br />

they are good quality and we<br />

don’t need the flashiest or newest<br />

ones to get the job done,” she<br />

said.<br />

Spencer said they have applied<br />

for the scheme three times, with<br />

the latest being this year where<br />

they received two laptops.<br />

“It has been really helpful<br />

when we have had some staff<br />

isolate for a week due to Covid as<br />

one of the laptops can have work<br />

loaded onto it that the person<br />

could work on at home and keep<br />

them engaged.”<br />

City council head of<br />

REUSE: Old council laptops are distributed among<br />

organisations who can make use of them. PHOTO: GETTY<br />

community support and<br />

partnerships John Filsell said<br />

the scheme started in 2007 as<br />

a partnership between the city<br />

council’s community support<br />

unit and the information and<br />

technology unit.<br />

“The computer replacement<br />

programme allows the older<br />

model surplus staff laptops and<br />

desktops to be repurposed and<br />

gifted to local not-for-profit<br />

community organisations,” he<br />

said.<br />

“The city council sees this as a<br />

way to acknowledge the amazing<br />

efforts of local groups who work<br />

hard to help build strong and<br />

inclusive communities.”<br />

He said about 400 devices<br />

are donated each year to a wide<br />

range of groups and that many<br />

of them struggle to compete for<br />

limited funding and priority is<br />

given to key costs such as staff<br />

wages and programme costs.<br />

“Obtaining funding for<br />

computers is often quite difficult<br />

and feedback from the groups<br />

says that this scheme has been<br />

a life-saver. It was particularly<br />

useful following the February 22,<br />

2011 earthquake.<br />

“It was also heavily relied on<br />

during Covid with isolation and<br />

many groups needing devices<br />

for staff working from home. We<br />

have also been able to give some<br />

of the older devices to help out<br />

Tonga, the Solomon Islands and<br />

Fiji following devastating natural<br />

disasters as one-off donations.”<br />

The scheme is open all year<br />

round and groups can download<br />

an application form on the city<br />

council’s website.<br />

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DEMENTIA Canterbury<br />

has a new car courtesy of the<br />

Bishopdale-Burnside Rotary<br />

Club.<br />

Club president Rod Finch said<br />

due to the amazing support the<br />

club receives from the public<br />

they were able to donate a Suzuki<br />

Baleno.<br />

“The support from the public<br />

when we run our annual<br />

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of meaningful community<br />

projects such as providing<br />

this much needed vehicle for<br />

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Thursday <strong>August</strong> <strong>31</strong> <strong>2023</strong><br />

Girls’ teams claim multiple titles<br />

• From page 1<br />

It was also the fourth<br />

consecutive year St Andrew’s<br />

claimed the Canterbury<br />

secondary schools’<br />

championship.<br />

A day later, the success<br />

continued for St Andrew’s in<br />

football.<br />

With the Challenge Shield<br />

already secured, St Andrew’s<br />

were favourites to claim the<br />

Connetics schools premier 1st XI<br />

competition for the third year in<br />

a row, having gone through the<br />

regular season unbeaten.<br />

Kyra Lazor (Year 13) led the<br />

charge for her side, scoring three<br />

goals, while Amber de Wit (Year<br />

11) and Alyssa Sanders (Year 10)<br />

both scored one goal each in St<br />

Andrew’s 5-0 win over Avonside<br />

Girls High.<br />

It capped off a dominant week<br />

for St Andrew’s, which was<br />

preceded by the school’s netball<br />

and hockey sides making their<br />

respective finals.<br />

Despite losing to rivals St<br />

Margaret’s College 34-26 in<br />

the SuperNet final, St Andrew’s<br />

senior A netball side will go<br />

down to Invercargill for South<br />

Island secondary schools with<br />

confidence after their strong<br />

MATCH-UP: Goal keeper<br />

Charlotte Galvan defends<br />

St Margaret’s goal<br />

attack Ivy Brown in the<br />

SuperNet final.<br />

showing against last year’s<br />

national finalists.<br />

They managed to fight back<br />

in the second half following<br />

an 11-4 second quarter to St<br />

Margaret’s.<br />

Meanwhile, the school’s girls<br />

first XI hockey side will be<br />

looking to record their best-ever<br />

finish at the Federation Cup in<br />

Christchurch this week.<br />

St Andrew’s go into the<br />

tournament after they were<br />

narrowly pipped by Rangi Ruru<br />

in the school’s first appearance<br />

in the Connetics secondary<br />

schools premier final.<br />

Despite losing 1-0, St<br />

Andrew’s made Rangi fight for<br />

their win after they scored in<br />

the first four minutes of the<br />

game.<br />

This week’s secondary schools<br />

national winter tournaments are<br />

run in various locations, with<br />

most sports finishing up on<br />

Thursday, Friday or Saturday.<br />

UNBEATEN: St Andrew’s<br />

College capped off an<br />

unbeaten season with a 5-0<br />

win over Avonside Girls’ to<br />

claim the Connetics premier<br />

1st XI football title for the<br />

third year in a row.<br />

• To find out more about<br />

each tournament go to:<br />

https://www.schoolsportnz.<br />

org.nz/Sport-1/Events/<br />

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DOMINANT:<br />

The Whelan<br />

Trophy was<br />

won by St<br />

Andrew’s<br />

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fourth year<br />

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Tuesday.<br />

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Thursday <strong>August</strong> <strong>31</strong> <strong>2023</strong> 7<br />

Survey shines a light<br />

on youth concerns<br />

• By Briar Allen<br />

ISSUES AROUND school,<br />

mental health, trust, emotional<br />

struggles, and growing up are<br />

some of the issues concerning<br />

young people in Hornby.<br />

These issues have been<br />

revealed through a survey<br />

conducted by Te Whare Awhero:<br />

Hope House. The survey will<br />

close next Wednesday but has<br />

already had more than 200<br />

responses.<br />

Director<br />

Carey Ewing<br />

said community<br />

groups and<br />

organisations<br />

have supported<br />

the survey, while<br />

Carey<br />

Ewing<br />

the city council<br />

is keen to see the<br />

results.<br />

“We will analyse<br />

the content before compiling<br />

it into a report, which will be<br />

available on our website.<br />

“I’m hopeful it will provide<br />

information to inform and have<br />

the opportunity to create further<br />

ways to engage with our youth.”<br />

Ewing said the survey<br />

came about after he and a few<br />

others attended the Greater<br />

Hornby Residents Association<br />

community meeting in June<br />

where concerns were raised<br />

WHAT MATTERS: A survey by Te Whare Awhero: Hope<br />

House highlights the concerns of youth in the Hornby area.<br />

PHOTO: GETTY<br />

about offending youth.<br />

“There was a great deal of<br />

concern around youth and<br />

how they are travelling, and<br />

them engaging in antisocial<br />

behaviours,” he said.<br />

Ewing said they decided to put<br />

out the survey to gain insights<br />

into what matters to youth.<br />

“It is really important. We<br />

need to be hearing from them.<br />

It is really insightful to hear<br />

from our youth and what it is<br />

like growing up in this world,<br />

because it is completely different<br />

to the world I grew up in.”<br />

He said young people have<br />

had to deal with the rise of social<br />

media, Covid-19, the Canterbury<br />

earthquakes and teacher strikes.<br />

• The survey can<br />

be completed at<br />

tewhareawhero.org/youthvoice-survey-<strong>2023</strong><br />

before<br />

September 6<br />

Board aims to get<br />

‘value for money’<br />

•From page 1<br />

“There is more competition<br />

which means the board has to<br />

really look into how it invests<br />

the money it has available and<br />

what is the best return for the<br />

community,” he said.<br />

McDonald said there is only so<br />

much the board can take from<br />

ratepayers while ensuring they<br />

are getting something out of it<br />

too.<br />

“The fund is such . . . value<br />

for money. If the value of<br />

an investment is $1 and the<br />

return is $11, it really makes it<br />

worthwhile.”<br />

Papanui Community Toy<br />

Library grants officer Chantal<br />

Rosenhart said the organisation<br />

was only granted one year of<br />

funding in the latest round.<br />

“The fund allows us to<br />

continue operating without<br />

having to increase our fees,<br />

although we are absolutely<br />

struggling to get people to sign<br />

up due to cost of living,” she<br />

said.<br />

Rosenhart said the fund helps<br />

pay for one employee, its toy<br />

librarian, who provides a good<br />

service to the community.<br />

“This year we applied for a<br />

multi-year grant from the board,<br />

but we were only granted one<br />

year. But we are lucky as where<br />

we are based we also come under<br />

the Waipapa Papanui-Innes-<br />

GIVING: The strengthening<br />

communities fund helps<br />

pay for one employee at the<br />

Papanui Community Toy<br />

Library.<br />

Central Community Board, and<br />

we were granted a three-year<br />

grant from them.<br />

“Others are not so lucky. It<br />

is worrying more people are<br />

applying but every one of them<br />

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McDonald said the board<br />

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return for its investment.<br />

“When I attend some of the<br />

community events and they<br />

thank me for giving them the<br />

money I tell them: ‘This is your<br />

money’.<br />

“I think if we keep thinking<br />

about it that way the better, this<br />

is the community’s investment,<br />

we just redistribute it.”<br />

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Soft plastic items including packets,<br />

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Takeaway cups<br />

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ea<br />

$ 22 00<br />

pk<br />

Cadbury Kiwi Edition<br />

Favourites 520g<br />

Two Dudes Daily Face Wash<br />

125ml or Shave Butter 130ml<br />

Behemoth<br />

6 x 330ml Cans<br />

Certain products may not be available in all stores. Savings are based on non-promotional prices. As each participating<br />

store’s usual price may differ from the recommended non-promotional price, the savings from a stores usual price<br />

may differ. The in-store price may be lower than advertised. Price Promise prices may change without notice. Limits<br />

may apply, trade not supplied. Prices apply from Monday 28th <strong>August</strong> to Sunday 3rd September <strong>2023</strong>, or while stocks<br />

last. Promotions exclude FreshChoice City Market.<br />

OWNED &<br />

OPERATED<br />

BY LOCALS

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