Bay Harbour: December 20, 2023
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER <strong>20</strong>, <strong>20</strong>23<br />
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Orchard remembers<br />
earthquake victims<br />
TRIBUTE:<br />
Owen<br />
Wright<br />
(above) and<br />
Ian Foldesi<br />
died in the<br />
February<br />
22, <strong>20</strong>11<br />
earthquake.<br />
• By Dylan Smits<br />
A LONG-AWAITED memorial<br />
orchard for two Lyttelton men<br />
who died in the February 22,<br />
<strong>20</strong>11 earthquake is finally under<br />
way.<br />
Located on the corner of<br />
Somes Rd and Norton Cl,<br />
volunteers have been planting<br />
apple trees over the past two<br />
Sundays.<br />
Owen Wright, one of the men<br />
honoured by the memorial,<br />
was in Woolston when the 6.3<br />
magnitude earthquake struck.<br />
He drove other stranded<br />
Lyttelton residents up the<br />
Bridle Path in his vehicle,<br />
before setting off on foot to<br />
get home on the other side of<br />
the hill.<br />
He was on the Major<br />
Hornbrook track, 10 minutes<br />
from his Norton Cl home<br />
when boulders loosened by an<br />
aftershock struck him.<br />
• Turn to page 5<br />
Password<br />
trips up<br />
stranger who<br />
approached<br />
young girl<br />
• By Dylan Smits<br />
A MOTHER is urging parents to<br />
give passwords to their children<br />
so they know what to do if they<br />
are approached by a stranger.<br />
It comes after her 8-year-old<br />
daughter said she was approached<br />
by a man after she left school for<br />
home. She felt a hand tap her on<br />
the shoulder from behind.<br />
She turned and saw a stranger<br />
who said her parents had asked<br />
him to pick her up from school.<br />
The incident happened about<br />
3pm on <strong>December</strong> 12 near Norman<br />
Kirk Memorial Pool on Oxford<br />
St, Lyttelton. The girl attends<br />
the nearby primary school.<br />
“I said, ‘what’s the password,’<br />
and I was backing up at the same<br />
time. I didn’t know him. My<br />
parents wouldn’t send someone<br />
to pick me up,” the girl told <strong>Bay</strong><br />
<strong>Harbour</strong> News.<br />
The girl said he replied: “I’m the<br />
best.”<br />
She then ran off. “I turned and I<br />
spinned my little legs up the hill.”<br />
She felt “scared, nervous,<br />
worried.”<br />
When her daughter told her<br />
what had happened, the mother<br />
warned the school and then<br />
called the police.<br />
• Turn to page 5<br />
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