Pegasus Post: January 25, 2024

17 th March 2024 

THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 2024 

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Moll’s Dolls take to the stage 

MOLL’S 

DOLLS: 

Dancers 

have been 

practising 

twice a 

week for 

the past few 

months in 

preparation 

for the 

competition 

in Dunedin 

next month. 

• By Sasha Watson 

SHUFFLE BALL change, time 

step, and buffalo are just a few of 

the most common tap dancing 

moves – ones which Molly 

Chapman knows very well. 

As the director and vice president 

of an all-female competitive 

tap-dancing team, Moll’s Dolls, 

Chapman, who teaches the team 

and competes alongside them, 

has been preparing for several 

months for the 35th New Zealand 

Masters Games. 

The event will take place in 

Dunedin from February 3-11, 

and the group of 35 to 70-yearolds 

will dance the nights away, 

competing against four teams in 

the formation dance and show 

dance categories of the dancesport 

section. 

The group will also compete 

as duos, triples and quad teams 

in the under-50s and over-50s 

categories. 

Chapman, 65, said: “The 

masters is one of the only 

competitions where we get to 

showcase our talents and compete 

against other groups. We are 

really excited about competing 

as representatives of our local 

community. 

“We’re also a masters games 

award-winning team, having won 

gold, silver and bronze medals 

in the formation team and dance 

sport at the last four games.” 

The team has received a New 

Zealand Community Trust 

grant of $2000 to help with the 

running of two minivans and 

accommodation costs. 

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Teddy Bears Picnic 

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Go along and enjoy a teddy-themed 

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Creative Bites 

Friday, 2-4.30pm 

New Brighton Library 

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The Vegan Night Mākete Saturday, 5-8pm at Phillipstown 

Community Hub. The Vegan Night Mākete showcases plant-based foods 

and goods with about 25 stalls offering a huge variety of savouries and 

sweets, plus musical entertainment. The market promotes local goods, 

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of veganism and brings the community together. Held on the last Saturday 

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Wednesday, 10.30-11am 

Aranui Library 

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Temporary traffic changes at the 

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We’re fixing sections of damaged stormwater drains 

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All through traffic lanes on Ferry, Aldwins and Ensors roads 

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Feeding vulnerable communities 

a team effort, says award recipient 

• By Sasha Watson 

FOUNDING charities to 

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Verity Verster receive a city 

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The Shirley resident was 

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“In November, I was informed 

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ACKNOWLEDGED: Verity Verster receiving her award from Mayor Phil Mauger and Linwood Ward councillor Yani Johanson, 

and with the Kai for the Community team. 

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Competing a ‘life highlight’ for dancers 

• From page 1 

Chapman donned her first pair 

of tap shoes when she was four 

and never looked back. Born 

and raised in Dunedin, she now 

lives in Bromley and has been 

teaching dance for more than 45 

years. 

She passed her love of dance 

onto her late daughter Nicola, 

who died six years ago, and her 

son Hayden, who graduated 

from the American Musical and 

Dramatic Academy in 2014 and 

is now a New York-based off- 

Broadway performer. 

“I love dancing, it has been a 

full family affair. It brings me so 

much joy and I believe it is never 

too late to learn how to dance,” 

Chapman said. 

“Moll’s Dolls is about being, 

dancing and competing together 

and enjoying yourself. We’re one 

of very few tap-dancing teams 

that actively compete . . . and we 

have an absolute blast.” 

The group was founded in 

2015 and came about when the 

mother of a young girl Chapman 

was teaching suggested setting 

MOLL’S DOLLS: 

Dancers have 

been practising 

twice a week 

for the past 

few months in 

preparation for 

the competition 

in Dunedin next 

month. 

up a class for adults, as well as 

preschoolers. 

It was while attending a masters 

games event with a softball 

team that Chapman became 

aware of the dance-sports category 

and soon after began setting 

up a competitive dance team. 

Team member and performer 

Julie Riker said Molls Doll’s was 

their “senior sports club” and 

provided an invaluable sense 

of community, happiness, and 

health. 

”Being able to dance with 

childhood friends some fifty 

years later and travel to the NZ 

Masters Games in Dunedin will 

be a life highlight for me.” 

The group offers classes for 

women of all skill levels at St 

John’s Church in Woolston, 

ranging from absolute beginners 

to seasoned tappers, and offers 

the opportunity to dance at 

corporate functions, community 

events, rest homes and other 

performances. 

Said Angela Yannakis, who 

is also a part of the performing 

team: “Moll’s Dolls are a funloving 

dance group with one 

thing in common – a passion for 

tap dancing. 

“We constantly strive not only 

to perform to a high standard but 

also to have the most wonderful 

time doing it.” 

COMPETE: Moll’s Dolls have won gold, 

silver and bronze medals at the past four 

Masters Games. 

Name correction 

The spelling of 

Canterbury’s first born 

baby for 2024 in a recent 

edition of Pegasus Post 

was incorrect. 

Amrinder Singh and 

his wife Jaspreet Kour, 

welcomed their 3.9kg 

newborn Ayzal Kaur at 

Christchurch Women’s 

Hospital three minutes 

after midnight on New 

Year’s Day. 

Unfortunately the baby’s 

name was incorrectly 

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Chicken feet an 

unwelcome find 

WHAT 

A CASEBROOK couple feared 

their children or pets could 

have been poisoned after raw 

chicken feet painted with pink 

nail polish on the claws were 

thrown onto a Cavendish Rd 

property. 

The house was also egged 

earlier this month, but it was 

the unusually decorated chicken 

feet which concerned the adult 

occupants, who wished to 

remain anonymous. 

Although a common pet food 

for dogs, uncooked chicken 

feet can cause outbreaks of 

bacteria-related salmonella, 

campylobacter and listeria. 

“The nail polish can be toxic 

and we’ve got no idea what else 

could have been done to them,” 

said the mother-of-two. 

Her children are aged two and 

six, while there is also a cat in the 

household. 

“We had six (chicken feet) 

dotted across our front lawn. Our 

cat was trying to eat them, we 

had to get her away from them,” 

she said. 

“We also have young children 

on the property so they’re a 

potential danger to them as well. 

RAW EMOTION: A 

Casebook couple were 

appalled to find potentially 

harmful raw chicken feet 

on their lawn after their 

property was targeted by 

pranksters. 

“It was quite disturbing to us 

and it would have been just as 

disturbing to the children, had 

they seen them.” 

The chicken feet were found in 

the early hours of January 5, and 

it was not an isolated incident, 

leading the woman to believe 

local youth were emulating a 

social media trend. 

“Apparently there is some viral 

TikTok prank about this which 

originated in America,” she 

said. 

“Our best guess is someone 

is trying to replicate it here. It 

surprise me if there’s a video of it 

happening here as well.” 

The woman, who lodged 

a report with police and is 

awaiting the chicken feet to be 

taken away for analysis, posted 

her concerns on the Bishopdale/ 

Burnside/Casebrook Community 

Facebook page and soon learned 

other members had been 

targeted. 

Another Cavendish Rd resident 

found chicken feet crammed into 

a letterbox the same morning; a 

woman who lives on Casebrook’s 

Regents Park Drive found 

chicken feet on her car. 

Pizza boxes into 

recycling, aerosol 

cans into rubbish 

YOU can place in your 

yellow, green, and red bins for 

kerbside collection is changing 

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across the country. 

From February 1, the 

Government is standardising 

what materials can be collected 

from households for recycling 

and organics across the 

country. 

The only items able to be 

recycled from home will be 

plastic bottles, clear meat 

trays and containers number 1, 

2 and 5, food and drink tins and 

cans, paper and cardboard, and 

glass bottles and jars. 

Christchurch residents will be 

able to put empty pizza boxes 

into the yellow recycling bin. 

Tea bags, shredded paper, 

serviettes, paper towels and 

aerosol cans will need to go into 

the red rubbish bin. All lids, soft 

plastics and drink cartons must 

continue to go in the red bin. 

Collecting the same materials 

through kerbside collections 

will make it easier for everyone 

to put items in the correct bin, 

no matter where they are in New 

Zealand. 

Residents can still drop off 

their recycling and hazardous 

waste items for free at the 

EcoDrop recycling centres, 

as well as dispose of large 

quantities of green waste or 

refuse at the transfer stations. 

“As usual, it’s important to 

prepare your items for kerbside 

collection,” says city council 

manager resource recovery Dr 

Alec McNeil. 

“This means taking the lids 

off any bottles or containers and 

rinsing all items before placing 

them in your recycling bin, 

without bagging or squashing 

them. 

“Christchurch residents 

are good at recycling, so it’s 

important to keep it this way 

and continue to put the right 

items in the right bins.” 

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McKenzie aims for Paralympics 

• By Dylan Smits 

MCKENZIE DRAGE is in 

the pool six days a week in 

preparation for the New Zealand 

championships in April, with 

a long-term goal of competing 

at the Los Angeles 2028 

Paralympics Games. 

The 19-year-old was born with 

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shoulders. 

“I have limited reach and kicking 

ability, but I follow a daily 

stretching programme to try and 

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Drage works part time as 

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attended Hagley College until 

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McKenzie 

Drage with 

the award 

qualifying her 

team for last 

year’s Oceania 

tri series. 

Drage’s longterm 

goal is 

to compete 

in the 2028 

Paralympics. 

Below – with 

coach Emma 

Smith. 

Valley with her parents and older 

brother. 

Farm life has taught her how to 

work hard. 

“I’ve learned how to get jobs 

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time.” 

The family owns 80 free range 

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She has always enjoyed swimming 

and started competing in 

year 11. 

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I really like the discipline of 

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Drage is part of the Aquagym 

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by Emma Smith. 

In September, she represented 

New Zealand for the first time at 

the Oceania tri series swimming 

‘Everyone has differences and strengths, and life is about 

making the most of what you have’ – McKenzie Drage 

championships in Hastings. 

She won the 100m individual 

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“I feel really satisfied when I 

get a personal best time in a race 

I have been focusing on,” she 

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“They don’t come easy though, 

there’s a lot of hard work and 

sometimes you get disappointed 

when you don’t make a time.” 

Drage is training hard ahead 

of the New Zealand swimming 

championships in April. 

With her eyes on the future, 

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times for the world para 

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Paralympic Games. 

Being a paraswimmer has 

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was $11,995 NOw $10,995 

Auto, NZ new 176,000kms. 

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2012 NissaN Tiida LaTiO 4 dOOR 

$5,995 

1.5 auto, 131,000kms, new WOF, drives well. 

2009 sUZUKi sX4 

$8,995 

5Dr Hatch, 2.0L auto, NZ new, 114,000kms. 

2015 TOyOTa cOROLLa GX haTch 

$12,995 

1600cc, 147,000kms, rev.camera, NZ new. 

2012 NissaN Tiida 5/haTch 

$6,995 

1.5 auto, 111,000kms. 

2007 sUZUKi swiFT 5/haTch 

$6,995 

1240cc, 87000kms, auto, just arrived. 

SOlD 

REDUCED 

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$7,995 

Auto, 73,000kms, arriving. 

2015 TOyOTa yaRis 5/haTch 

was $13,995 NOw $12,495 

1.3L, auto, NZ new, low 56,000kms. 

2012 hyUNdai i30 s/w 

$8,995 

NZ new, 1600cc, auto, 133,000kms, alloys. 

2012 hyUNdai i30 5/haTch 

$7,995 

1.6L, auto, 173,000kms, alloys. 

2002 sUZUKi aERiO 1.5 

$3,995 

Auto, 197,000kms 

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2016 NissaN NV350 

Auto, 2Ltr petrol, 5dr, ABS, ESC, 114,000kms, 

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7-seater, 87,879kms, alloys, 

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immaculate, attractive in light blue Mica. 

74,500kms, auto, alloys, air/cond, ABS, 

ESC, power/steer, superb to drive. 

Includes ORC 

$16,990 $10,950 $15,990 $11,490 

$13,990 

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2 litre, 5 speed manual, 90,252kms, 

dark blue pearl, alloys, ABS, ESC. 

2010 tOyOta Wish 

1800cc auto, alloys, 7-seater, 

ideal family wagon. 

Includes ORC 

2 litre auto, alloys, CD, Cruise, ABS, ESC, 

deep blue pearl, immaculate. 

5 door van, auto, ABS, ESC, Lane Depart, 

airbags, economical, ideal commercial. 

Includes ORC 

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NZ new, 94,087kms, bright red, air/ 

cond, ABS, airbags, Look only. 

$11,750 $16,750 $25,990 $27,990 

$31,990 

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5 speed, 1600cc, manual, NZ new, 

5 door, alloys, very clean example. 

auto, 7 seater, alloys, side and front 

airbags, superb family coach. 

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• 6 Months Registration 

• Finance available T.A.P 

NissaN NV350 

2500cc turbo diesel, auto, 5 door, roof 

rack, 88,595kms. 

We Accept: 


High roof, LWB, 2.5 t/diesel, 5dr auto, ESC, 

ABS, dual sliders, accident avoidance 

system, super tidy.


CHRISTCHURCH 

CREMATORIUM 

FUNERALS 

CROSSWORD 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 

9 

10 11 

322 

SUDOKU 

Every row, column and box should 

contain the digits 1 to 9. 

WordBuilder 

WORDBUILDER 

222 

6 

G T A 

T R E 

12 13 

14 15 16 17 18 

words of three or more letters, 

How 

including 

many 

plurals, 

words 

can you 

of 

make 

three 

from 

or 

the 

more 

six 

letters, using each letter only once? No foreign 

words or words beginning with a capital are 

allowed. There's at least one six-letter word. 

once? 

TODAY 

Good 20 Very Good 25 Excellent 30 

letters, including plurals, can you make 

from the six letters, using each only 

No words beginning with a capital are 

allowed. There’s at least one six-letter 

Solution 221: alb, all, allot, alto, atoll, ball, BALLOT, 

bat, blat, bloat, blot, boa, boat, boll, bolt, bot, lab, 

word. lat, lob, lot, oat, tab, tall, toll. 

Good 15 Very Good 22 Excellent 28 

19 20 21 

22 23 24 25 26 

27 28 

29 

Across 

1. Forms of creative activity for an 

audience (10,4) 

10. Proportion (5) 

11. Discard (4,5) 

12. Word formed from initial letters 

(7) 

13. Last in line (7) 

14. Unnamed object (5) 

16. Spying (9) 

19. Opponent (9) 

20. Enthusiastic (5) 

22. Training meeting (7) 

25. Mythical sea creature (7) 

27. Without thought or preparation 

(9) 

28. Halt (5) 

29. Black box (aircraft) (6,8) 

Down 

2. Blackmail (9) 

3. Scowl (5) 

4. Advise in favour (9) 

5. Point of dispute (5) 

6. Pretentious, ostentatious (9) 

7. African animal (abbr) (5) 

8. Ceremonial staff (7) 

9. School absentee (6) 

15. Environmental propaganda (9) 

17. Medical emergency worker (9) 

18. Make worse (9) 

19. Forsake (4-3) 

21. Blush (6) 

23. Plain clothes (5) 

24. Detection instrument (5) 

26. Happen again (5) 

Crossword 

Across: 1. Performing arts, 

10. Ratio, 11. Cast aside, 12. 

Acronym, 13. Endmost, 14. 

Thing, 16. Espionage, 19. 

Contender, 20. Eager, 22. 

Seminar, 25. Mermaid, 27. 

Offhanded, 28. Cease, 29. 

Flight recorder. 

Down: 2. Extortion, 3. 

Frown, 4. Recommend, 

5. Issue, 6. Grandiose, 

7. Rhino, 8. Sceptre, 9. 

Truant, 15. Greenwash, 17. 

Paramedic, 18. Aggravate, 

19. Cast-off, 21. Redden, 23. 

Mufti, 24. Radar, 26. Recur. 

WordBuilder 

age, are, art, ate, ear, eat, 

era, erg, gar, gat, gate, gear, 

get, grate, great, rag, rage, 

rat, rate, ret, tag, tar, tare, 

TARGET, tart, tat, tater, tea, 

tear, teat, teg, tetra, treat 

DECODER 

Each number represents a different letter of the alphabet. Write the 

given letters into all squares with matching numbers. Now work out 

which letters are represented by the other numbers. 

Decoder 

Sudoku 

All puzzles copyright 

T H E P U Z Z L E C O M P A N Y 

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