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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER <strong>30</strong>, <strong>2023</strong><br />
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Endangered penguins<br />
are part of the family<br />
• By Monique Steele<br />
A FAMILY on Banks Peninsula<br />
are playing their part in<br />
protecting the largest little<br />
penguin colony on mainland<br />
New Zealand.<br />
Sheep and beef farmers<br />
Shireen and Francis Helps have<br />
been carrying out predator<br />
control and rehabilitation to<br />
help the now 2000-strong colony<br />
of white-flippered penguins<br />
thrive at their Flea Bay home.<br />
White-flippered penguins<br />
only live in Canterbury and are<br />
a variant of the Australasian<br />
kororā little penguin.<br />
The Helps ran an eco-tourism<br />
business, called Pōhatu Tours,<br />
which involved taking tourists<br />
from Akaroa by 4WD to the see<br />
the colony.<br />
Shireens said they have been<br />
trapping predators, putting up<br />
fencing and rehabilitating the<br />
kororā colony on their farm<br />
for decades – but the fight is<br />
not over. “We’re keeping the<br />
predators out of the colonies,”<br />
Helps said.<br />
“We got on top of the ferrets<br />
years and years ago, so actually<br />
we haven’t seen a ferret in the<br />
bay for a very long time.<br />
“We do have an ongoing problem<br />
with stoats. They’re very<br />
hard to catch. Very cunning<br />
little blighters.”<br />
Helps said the colony has now<br />
spread to neighbouring properties,<br />
including Department of<br />
Conservation land.<br />
“Of course, we graze that,<br />
because the worst enemy for<br />
penguins is long grass and<br />
dense vegetation. The predators<br />
go mad in it, and that causes<br />
problems for the rats and mice.<br />
Predators come in after them,<br />
and that’s when you start to lose<br />
birds.”<br />
Other threats to the penguins<br />
are extreme heat and severe<br />
weather events.<br />
•Turn to page 4<br />
PROTECT:<br />
Shireen<br />
Helps feeds<br />
kororā,<br />
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Saturday, 10am-1pm<br />
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Monthly community market:<br />
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Sometimes music, sometimes<br />
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Shared Reading<br />
Monday, 10.<strong>30</strong>am-11.<strong>30</strong>am<br />
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Join a reading group with a difference.<br />
Shared reading is an opportunity<br />
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Thursday <strong>November</strong> <strong>30</strong> <strong>2023</strong> 3<br />
Zonta says ‘yes’ to dragon boat racing<br />
• By Sasha Watson<br />
ZONTA SAYS no to violence<br />
and yes to dragon boat racing in<br />
an effort to raise awareness of<br />
violence against women.<br />
Zonta Christchurch-Canterbury<br />
and Zonta Christchurch<br />
South formed a dragon boating<br />
team to raise the profile of<br />
one of Zonta’s major advocacy<br />
campaigns: ‘Zonta Says No to<br />
Violence against Women and<br />
Girls’.<br />
After a few practice sessions,<br />
the team felt ready to tackle their<br />
first regatta. On Saturday the<br />
newly formed team competed<br />
against 16 teams in the Aoraki<br />
Ice Breaker Regatta at Kerrs<br />
Reach.<br />
Despite not winning any of<br />
their heats, the team managed<br />
to get within 20 seconds of first<br />
place in the three 200m races<br />
and within 40 seconds of winning<br />
the three 500m races.<br />
“We have only practised<br />
five times by<br />
paddling with<br />
wooden paddles.<br />
Our opponents<br />
have carbon<br />
fibre paddles,<br />
which we are<br />
Marie Kyle-<br />
working on getting,”<br />
said club<br />
president Marie<br />
DRAGON POWER: Zonta Christchurch-Canterbury and Zonta Christchurch South formed a dragon boating team to<br />
raise the profile of one of Zonta’s major advocacy campaigns – saying no to violence against women and girls.<br />
Stevenson<br />
Kyle-Stevenson.<br />
Zonta Christchurch-Canterbury<br />
and Zonta Christchurch<br />
South are two of four clubs in<br />
Christchurch that are incorporated<br />
societies run by volunteers.<br />
“As we got out of the boat on<br />
the last race, the Breast of Life<br />
team formed a guard of honour<br />
for us, so amazing. What a<br />
wonderfully positive community<br />
Dragon Boating is,” said Kyle-<br />
Stevenson.<br />
“Now, more than ever, it is<br />
essential that we work together<br />
to end violence against women<br />
and girls.<br />
“We also have a campaign that<br />
runs worldwide with a focus on<br />
activism for 16 days to December<br />
10. During this time, you will<br />
see many buildings around<br />
Christchurch lit up in orange.”<br />
Zonta is an international<br />
organisation originating in<br />
Chicago with a mission to build<br />
a better world for women and<br />
girls.<br />
“We are achieving this<br />
through education against child<br />
marriage, climate change, living<br />
free from violence, and offering<br />
various scholarships to young<br />
women in Tertiary education,”<br />
said Kyle-Stevenson.<br />
Zonta clubs support women<br />
and girls in 63 countries<br />
around the world and there are<br />
about 535 members in<br />
New Zealand.<br />
Way safer intersections in Shirley<br />
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We’re upgrading the intersection of Marshland,<br />
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Learn more<br />
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‘We ended<br />
up with <strong>30</strong><br />
chicks in<br />
the kitchen’<br />
•From page 1<br />
The area near the Helps’<br />
property has been a hub of<br />
restorative and reconstruction<br />
work over the past few years<br />
after severe floods on the<br />
peninsula, especially in<br />
December 2021, damaged<br />
roads, and destroyed critical<br />
conservation fencing to keep<br />
predators out.<br />
It caused landslips down the<br />
back of the Helps’ property<br />
towards the colony’s habitat.<br />
“The fences were munted . . .<br />
the team was running around in<br />
the rain rescuing penguins out<br />
of the boxes and burrows as the<br />
hill started to fall down and the<br />
creek came up,” she said.<br />
“The penguin boxes were just<br />
going out to sea so we ended up<br />
with <strong>30</strong> chicks in the kitchen<br />
here in cages.<br />
“Plus the sheep in the house,<br />
too.”<br />
Environment Canterbury allocated<br />
$132,000 over two years<br />
to re-instate about 6km of fencing<br />
and under take floodgate<br />
repairs.<br />
ECan zone delivery lead for<br />
Banks Peninsula and Selwyn/<br />
Waihora, Gill Jenkins, said the<br />
post-flood recovery of biodiversity<br />
was a key priority for the<br />
zone.<br />
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Thursday <strong>November</strong> <strong>30</strong> <strong>2023</strong> 5<br />
Christmas parade in four years<br />
• By Geoff Sloan<br />
THE FESTIVE season was<br />
launched in style with the first<br />
ever Christmas Show Parade at<br />
Canterbury Agricultural Park.<br />
Blue skies and warm temperatures<br />
attracted more than<br />
35,000 people to the colourful<br />
spectacle on Sunday.<br />
Parade director Jason Reekers<br />
said it was great to finally<br />
get the event up and running<br />
after a four-year break due to<br />
Covid and rain last year.<br />
“We have all of the old traditional<br />
Santa parade floats that<br />
date back 75 years,” he said.<br />
The last Christmas parade<br />
in the city was held in 2019 on<br />
Madras St.<br />
“We’ve restored them<br />
all, fixed all the motors, and<br />
we’ve got some new ones.<br />
We’ve got 66 entries in the<br />
parade, all singing,<br />
all dancing and they’re looking<br />
beautiful.”<br />
The floats will include a giant<br />
Mother Goose, Disney Princesses<br />
and traditional favourites<br />
like the Mad Hatter.Reekers<br />
said logistics meant rethinking<br />
the event and combining the<br />
parade with a festival.<br />
“We couldn’t get the parade<br />
in the city. Christchurch has<br />
been designed in a way that it<br />
can’t really host a parade. So<br />
we’ve had everything here at<br />
the park, but we couldn’t just<br />
bring people here to the park<br />
just for a parade. So we’ve had<br />
to supply entertainment.”<br />
The event is run by the<br />
Christchurch Children’s Christmas<br />
Parade Trust, which want<br />
to re-establish it as the city’s<br />
premier Christmas celebration.<br />
Headline act Santa Claus arrived<br />
on time to an appreciative<br />
audience.<br />
– Public Interest Journalism<br />
funded through NZ On Air<br />
•Watch<br />
the video at<br />
starnews.co.nz<br />
FESTIVE: Disney characters the Hatter and the Queen of Hearts featured in the parade, with<br />
Santa making a guest appearance for the crowd despite his busy schedule.<br />
PHOTOS: GEOFF SLOAN<br />
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We want to make the intersections at Shirley Road/Hills Road<br />
and Shirley Road/Marshland Road (outside The Palms)<br />
way safer for everyone.<br />
Find out what’s planned and tell us<br />
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Santa’s Brekkie Pancakes<br />
with fresh berries<br />
This one is not just for the kids – the sweetness of the bananas makes these<br />
pancakes scrumptious and a delicious, healthy breakfast hit for everyone!<br />
You will need:<br />
• 4-5 bananas (soft enough to mash)<br />
• 4 eggs<br />
• ½ cup rice flour<br />
• 2 tbsp whole linseed<br />
• ½ tsp salt<br />
• grated lemon rind<br />
• juice from 1 lemon<br />
• splash of vanilla<br />
• butter to cook the pancakes<br />
Method:<br />
1. Peel and mash the bananas in a bowl.<br />
2. Stir in the eggs, vanilla, linseed, salt<br />
and lemon ingredients.<br />
3. Add flour and mix to a smooth batter.<br />
4. Cook pancakes in frypan on one side<br />
until they bubble on the surface or hold<br />
together enough to be flipped over.<br />
5. If the mixture is thick, flatten the<br />
pancakes out once they’ve been turned<br />
over. Each pancake should be around<br />
1cm thick.<br />
Kid’s version:<br />
Decorate each pancake with red berries<br />
for Santa’s hat, Greek yoghurt or<br />
whipped cream for Santa’s beard and<br />
chocolate buttons or grape halves for<br />
Santa’s eyes.<br />
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MAZDA HAS launched a twopronged<br />
attack on our medium<br />
and large SUV market with its<br />
new CX-60 and CX-90, a couple<br />
of genuine standouts that should<br />
have their rivals worried.<br />
The CX-90 is a worthy flagship<br />
that’s wider, longer, and more aggressively<br />
proportioned than any<br />
current Mazda. Joining Mazda’s<br />
respected SUV range, these two<br />
are the first products to launch<br />
off Mazda’s new Large Product<br />
platform, bringing fresh new designs<br />
paired with highly efficient,<br />
electrified power trains.<br />
Both the CX-60 and the CX-<br />
90 are the most important new<br />
models for Mazda in a generation.<br />
Easily the largest and most<br />
imposing model is the highly<br />
specified $92,990 CX-90 Takami<br />
inline six being evaluated here,<br />
amidst claims about it using<br />
less fuel and producing fewer<br />
emissions from a fair lump of an<br />
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The CX-90 is offered exclusively<br />
with Mazda’s most powerful<br />
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technology. Engines of this type<br />
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to the 1980s and 1990s, to the<br />
large Ford and Holden Aussie<br />
sixes back then. Of course those<br />
motors and this newcomer have<br />
absolutely nothing in common,<br />
apart from similar engine capacities.<br />
The CX-90 motor is a totally<br />
different beast, with 254kW of<br />
power and heaps of low speed<br />
heft thanks to 500Nm of torque.<br />
Not surprisingly it’s easily outpointed<br />
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large, luxury SUVs I have<br />
driven in the $100k price bracket,<br />
with excellent low-speed throttle<br />
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Quality 8; Comfort 8; Passenger and Load Space 8; Value<br />
for money 8; Road test avg consumption 10.2L /100km;<br />
Safety – ANCAP crash rating 5 star.<br />
Overall points out of 10: 8<br />
response and pulling power.<br />
This new generation motor has<br />
a new polished gear-changing<br />
companion in the form of a<br />
freshly developed 8-speed automatic.<br />
That’s two extra ratios<br />
than the long serving 6-speed<br />
automatic that’s still a mainstay<br />
current Mazda range.<br />
The CX-90 Takami offers<br />
voluminous amounts of people<br />
and load space and 7-seat versatility.<br />
Mazda have got the luxury<br />
detailing right with a 12-speaker<br />
Bose surround sound system,<br />
360 View Monitor camera system<br />
plus Adaptive LED Headlights<br />
with glare-free high beam. Black<br />
Nappa leather trim with heated<br />
and ventilated front seats and<br />
bright roof rails give the CX-90<br />
a good nudge even further up<br />
Quality St.<br />
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Mazda sets a high benchmark<br />
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Mission Without Borders<br />
visit the Sechka’s house<br />
with support to lift them<br />
out of poverty.<br />
Families in Ukraine<br />
need your help!<br />
The Sechka family live in a rural area<br />
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40, and his wife Nadiya, 31, work hard to<br />
provide for their family. They face a massive<br />
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Mykhailo used to work in forestry, but<br />
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Son Mieko loves his parents and sees they<br />
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