North Canterbury News: December 21, 2023
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The <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> <strong>News</strong>, <strong>December</strong> <strong>21</strong>, <strong>2023</strong><br />
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Christmas goodies ... Nathan Begley, Sarah Stalker, Richard Bisley, Kelly Gilbert, Bayden Doggett, Brooke Close (tutor), Zara Backhurst<br />
Smith, Emma Tull and Noah Fearnley with their bags of Christmas goodies they made, to give as gifts.<br />
PHOTOS: SUPPLIED<br />
Classes cater forkeen learners<br />
By ROBYN BRISTOW<br />
Young people are lining up to join<br />
cooking classes at Comcol <strong>North</strong><br />
<strong>Canterbury</strong> thanks to apartnership<br />
between Comcol and the IHC <strong>North</strong><br />
<strong>Canterbury</strong> Association.<br />
The classes kicked off last year and <strong>21</strong><br />
trainee cooks each spent 9to10weeks in<br />
the Comcol <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong>'skitchen<br />
learning equipment safety, hand<br />
hygiene, safe food handling and food<br />
shopping.<br />
Association committee member Kay<br />
Pearce says the introductory courses<br />
will continue in 2024 for students 18 and<br />
over.<br />
At the same time the project will move<br />
to amore advanced level, with<br />
graduates from the basic course being<br />
subsidised by the association to enrol in<br />
Level 2course.<br />
‘‘We are going to subsidise it by 50<br />
percent.<br />
‘‘The committee feels this is afair way<br />
of sharing funding to those in our<br />
community with intellectual<br />
disabilities, and ensuring as many<br />
people as possible have the opportunity<br />
of extending skills learnt in Level 1,’’<br />
Kay says.<br />
Comcol Programme coordinator and<br />
tutor Brooke Close will run the two<br />
courses, supported by Faye Gread.<br />
Brooke says the advanced course,<br />
offered initially as apilot, builds on the<br />
trainees kitchen skills with more mealbased<br />
cooking, but adds an introduction<br />
to barista skills and education outside<br />
the classroom.<br />
Both courses take seven students and<br />
start in February. IHC <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong><br />
Association committee will fund three<br />
sessions in <strong>2023</strong>.<br />
The introductory courses are fully<br />
funded by the association.<br />
Concentrating ... Nathan Begley pouring<br />
chocolate into moulds.<br />
RotaryClub thanks generous supporters<br />
More than $60,000 has been raised by<br />
Rotary Club of Rangiora this year, with<br />
the funds distributed by way of grants to<br />
deserving causes and lessprivileged<br />
residents of <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong>.<br />
The club says massive thanks are due<br />
to all residents of <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> and<br />
many from further afield, who supported<br />
the club by giving generously of their<br />
time and money for it’s fundraising<br />
activities.<br />
‘‘Everyone was enthusiastic and<br />
generous in their response to our<br />
firewood sales, flowering bulbs sale,<br />
Book Fair and, of course our weekly<br />
barbecue sausage stall. Together those<br />
efforts raised more than $50,000,’’ the<br />
club says.<br />
Rotary Club members raised another<br />
$10,000 themselves through donations<br />
and several smaller exercises. Alot of<br />
the funds go to youth programmes and<br />
scholarships. These include the UC<br />
Science Summer Camp, school speech<br />
competitions, school visits to the Boyle<br />
River Centre, Youth Leadership Awards,<br />
Spirit of Adventure and Outward Bound<br />
placements, providing students with<br />
materials that enable them to be ‘ready<br />
to learn’, books for newborns, and the<br />
Totara Awards –recognising youngsters<br />
who have made significant contributions<br />
to their communities.<br />
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