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Thursday <strong>October</strong> <strong>26</strong> <strong>2023</strong> 3<br />
Roll on up and get Jemesa<br />
and Nadia to the games<br />
• By Sasha Watson<br />
HOW DO taekwondo<br />
competitors become chefs? They<br />
know tai-cheese and how to kick<br />
the right flavour.<br />
Canterbury University student<br />
Jemesa Landers will be taking<br />
orders for home-baked cheese<br />
rolls until tomorrow afternoon<br />
to help raise funds for her trip to<br />
the Taekwondo Pacific Games<br />
and Oceania Championships.<br />
The two competitions, both<br />
held in the Solomon Islands at<br />
the end of November, are fully<br />
self-funded for Landers and her<br />
coach, Nadia van Vliet.<br />
“I haven’t seen a cheese roll<br />
fundraiser for a long while, so<br />
thought this would be a perfect<br />
way to earn a little bit towards<br />
the trip. Everyone loves cheese<br />
rolls,” said Landers.<br />
“I am really looking forward<br />
to the championships – it’s taken<br />
a lot of planning and training<br />
and will be epic,” she said.<br />
“This will be the second time<br />
I represent (New Zealand) at the<br />
same international competition.<br />
“The last time I went was in<br />
2018, when I gained a bronze<br />
medal, so I am hoping for a<br />
similar or better result.”<br />
The 22-year-old has competed<br />
at several key competitions<br />
throughout the year including<br />
the national team qualifier, the<br />
Kukkiwon Cup, held in Auckland<br />
in August.<br />
Landers goes to Kennedy’s<br />
Freestyle Marshall Arts club in<br />
Wigram. After starting taekwondo<br />
at age 12, she has reached<br />
first-dan black belt level.<br />
“The cup and games are the<br />
perfect opportunity for a more<br />
specialised focus on competing,”<br />
said Landers.<br />
“It is a bit of a dream to<br />
become professional with<br />
taekwondo – but it is a minority<br />
sport with little support.<br />
“It is an honour to represent<br />
New Zealand and I’m looking<br />
forward to pushing myself.”<br />
Landers said she has already<br />
had about 60 orders which adds<br />
up to “more than 200 dozen<br />
cheese rolls”.<br />
“There are even some rolls<br />
being sent to Invercargill – the<br />
community has really gotten<br />
behind us,” said Landers.<br />
“You can purchase the rolls<br />
until Friday afternoon, which<br />
will be made with love in a foodsafe<br />
kitchen on the weekend,”<br />
she said.<br />
CHEESE PLEASE: Jemesa Landers is<br />
organising a cheese roll fundraiser to<br />
send herself and coach Nadia van Vliet<br />
(left) to the Taekwondo Pacific Games<br />
and Oceania Championships.<br />
“I can arrange a pickup<br />
location (by Pioneer Stadium)<br />
or deliver them around the<br />
neighbourhood in the days<br />
following.”<br />
The cheese rolls will be frozen<br />
and sales are based on location<br />
and subject to availability.<br />
“If cheese rolls aren’t your<br />
thing, buy them for family or<br />
friends, or feel free to donate<br />
anyway,” said Landers.<br />
• For more info or to<br />
order, contact Jemesa<br />
Landers on 021 088 306<br />
45 or jemesalanders@<br />
gmail.com<br />
Shed tour<br />
• By Sasha Watson<br />
THE FIRST shed tour<br />
in Canterbury, held by<br />
Rotary Ōtautahi Passport, will<br />
showcase crafters, collectors,<br />
cultivators and more.<br />
The sheds are located all over,<br />
from South Brighton to Rolleston.<br />
“We were looking for ideas for a<br />
fundraiser that was fun, novel and<br />
different to other fundraisers,”<br />
said Rotary Ōtautahi Passport<br />
founding member Deb Gimblett.<br />
The tour will be a self-drive<br />
excursion, from 9am-4pm on<br />
Saturday, November 4, and will<br />
cover 10-plus locations.<br />
Tickets are $45 and all proceeds<br />
will go to charities that encourage<br />
under-five-year-olds to thrive,<br />
like Plunket, Parental Wellbeing<br />
Canterbury and the Rotary<br />
Community Breast Milk Bank.<br />
• Visit Facebook Rotary<br />
Ōtautahi Passport for more<br />
information<br />
New date for<br />
fundraiser<br />
Due to a double booking<br />
last weekend, Wayne<br />
Carey will now be hosting<br />
a sausage sizzle to raise<br />
funds for Ronald McDonald<br />
House this Sunday, at<br />
Mega Mitre10 Hornby,<br />
from 9am to 3pm. To find<br />
out more, contact him at<br />
timewaster2b@gmail.com<br />
CHALLENGE HALSWELL<br />
HELP CELEBRATE<br />
OUR GRAND<br />
OPENING<br />
*Competition runs between 6am, 21 Oct & 4pm, 27 Oct.<br />
Promotion terms and conditions available in store.<br />
Friday<br />
27th <strong>October</strong><br />
There will be a free<br />
sausage sizzle,<br />
giveaways<br />
and more.<br />
Make a shop<br />
or fuel purchase of $20<br />
or more for your chance to<br />
WIN<br />
one of these<br />
awesome prizes<br />
A $250 The<br />
Old Vicarage<br />
Gift voucher<br />
$100<br />
$100<br />
2 x $100<br />
Challenge<br />
Gift Cards<br />
A Weber<br />
Family Q<br />
BBQ<br />
Halswell’s<br />
345 Halswell Road, Halswell
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