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18 Selwyn Times Wednesday January 31 2024 CouncilCall Wednesday 31 January 2024 For facility opening hours on Waitangi Day visit selwyn.govt.nz/news Kerbside Collections will be the same Nationwide from 1 February From 1 February, kerbside practices nationwide will be standardised. That means most Kiwis will now be able to recycle the same things from home. These changes are part of the Government’s move to standardise household kerbside collections across Aotearoa New Zealand, led by the Ministry for the Environment. The Council’s Resource Recovery and Waste Manager, Andrew Boyd said these changes are designed to make recycling easier for everyone. “In Selwyn we are already recycling in line with most of these new requirements so for our residents this means there isn’t a lot of change”. What is changing for our district, is you can no longer place cardboard or paper, including pizza boxes into your household green organics bin. These go in your yellow recycling bin. Pizza boxes need to be empty - free of food and sauce. Oil stains are fine. The exception to this, is that you can still use newspaper to line the bottom of your organics bin, or supermarket paper bags, that you might use to line your food scraps bin inside. Aerosol cans must now also go in your red bin. Remember that the Pines Resource Recovery Park does accept a wider range of recyclable items that may not be able to be accepted in your kerbside recycling bins. To find out more about what Pines Resource Recovery Park accepts please visit selwyn.govt.nz/pines For more information on all kerbside recycling changes, and for a full list of details of what can go into your bins, please visit selwyn.govt.nz/ kerbsidechanges Important update for Residential Pool Owners If you own a pool, including a portable one, it’s important that you are aware of, and comply with, the safety requirements. This will likely mean you need to install a barrier or fence, which may require a building consent. Any pool or spa normally used for swimming, paddling, or bathing that is capable of holding a depth of water of 400mm or more, is required to have a physical barrier that safeguards against accidental access by unsupervised children under 5 years. Pop-up pools sold by retailers also require a compliant pool barrier; even if you don’t fill up your pool all the way or only use it for a short time. There are strict requirements for the barrier depending on the type of pool. A building consent is required for most pool barriers, except where the pool is a small, heated pool (like a spa) with a water surface area of 5m 2 or less that has a compliant safety cover. We keep a record of all the pools in the district and the barriers surrounding each pool need to be inspected every three years. The Council charges a fee of $215 for this inspection. Our building compliance team are currently focusing on outstanding non-compliant pools. If your pool has previously been inspected, and found to be non-compliant, you can expect a follow up visit from one of our inspectors in the next two months. If your pool remains non-compliant, you will receive a notice to fix, providing you with 30 days to comply. If you don’t meet this timeframe you will be given an infringement notice and charged a fee of $500. For more information about the requirements for pool fencing please visit selwyn.govt.nz/news Dog Microchipping Clinics If your dog was first registered after 30 June 2006 and is not a working dog, the law requires him or her to be microchipped. This free monthly service is available at the following places. Friday 9 February Darfield Library & Service Centre: 9am to 9.30am Lincoln Library & Service Centre: 9am to 9.30am Council Offices Rolleston: 11am to 11.30am Leeston Library & Service Centre: No clinic this time around Please note, all clinics last for only half an hour. The Rolleston venue is in Norman Kirk Drive (off Rolleston Drive). Microchipping will not take place if wet. Clinics in Darfield and Leeston will be alternated each month. Any questions regarding microchipping, please contact Animal Control on 0800 SELWYN (735 996) We’re heading back to school Please watch out for us Council and Community Board Meetings Long Term Plan Workshop* Wednesday 31 January 1pm, Rolleston Council Offices Audit & Risk Subcommittee* Wednesday 7 February 9am Rolleston Council Offices Selwyn Waihora Zone Committee Monday 12 February 4pm, Tai Tapu Community Centre Council Meeting* Wednesday 14 February 1pm, Rolleston Council Offices Please notify Therese Davel or Charlotte Bennet if you wish to speak at a Council meeting at least five days beforehand by emailing meeting.changes@selwyn.govt.nz * Livestreamed on the Selwyn District Council website and via our YouTube channel. Events Back to School Lunches Thursday 1 February, 6.30-7.30pm Lincoln Library Bookings required at selwynlibraries.co.nz/events Kite Day Saturday 3 February, 11am-3pm Foster Park Find out more at selwyn.govt.nz/summerinselwyn BMX Coaching Sunday 4 February, 12-2pm Pump Track, Prebbleton Domain Bookings required at selwyn.govt.nz/summerinselwyn FREE FREE FREE For all the latest news and events visit our website selwyn.govt.nz or follow us SelwynDistrictCouncil or 0800 SELWYN (735 996) E24_310124
Wednesday January 31 2024 Selwyn Times SPORT 19 Killinchy’s globe-trotting triathlete • By Chris Barclay FROM PEDALLING through a blustery westerly, past hay bales on the Leeston-Dunsandel Rd, to a stationary bike in a Tunisian gym – Sarah McClure takes a breath to contemplate where triathlon has taken her. Back home in Killinchy, a dot on the Canterbury Plains and a short 6km ride from Leeston, McClure, 22, is plotting another overseas excursion, enthused by her first six weeks in Africa and Europe last year. After visiting the aspirational TriNZ training base in France, McClure competed in the Africa Triathlon Cup leg in Monastir, Tunisia, where she placed ninth in the elite women’s division in early September. Three weeks later she traded the Mediterranean Sea for the Atlantic Ocean, topping the podium in the World Triathlon Age-Group Aquabike Championships in Pontevedra. While northern Spain was a successful exercise, it was the Tunisian tourist resort – resident population about 93,306 – which provided the memorable point of difference to competing in New Zealand or Australia. “It was a bit of an eye-opener. Monastir was touristy, but the country was quite poor,” Mc- Clure said. “We biked in the gym – you couldn’t really go out on the roads until the actual race. I definitely took it for granted, just TASTE OF TRIATHLON: Sarah McClure (right) aged eight and her older sister Ella after a Weet-Bix TRYathlon in 2010. RURAL BACKWATER: The pool at Leeston School helped develop Sarah McClure’s passion for triathlon. PHOTO: CHRIS BARCLAY being able to go out anytime, anywhere.” She still has fond memories of the azure, tepid, though extremely salty waters off Monastir, particularly after a relatively chilly lap in the Leeston School pool, a key facility driving her development as a multisport athlete. McClure learned to swim in the classic concrete school pool having already been a keen runner. Getting a mountain bike for Christmas sold her on triathlon, a passion fuelled by her first Weet-Bix TRYathlon at eightyears-old. “I did ballet, hip hop and jazz dancing, tennis and other sports, but I really enjoyed those three individual sports (swim/cycle/ run) so putting them together kind of made sense,” she explained. While other girls at Leeston School might join her on the weekly run around town, they preferred netball and soccer, leaving McClure in a class of her own by year 7. When it was ‘dress up as an athlete day’ McClure was the lone Kate McIlroy, the London 2012 Olympian, amid a field of Silver Ferns and numerous Daniel Carters. “I dressed up as Kate because she had blonde hair,” said Mc- Clure. She was also inspired by Christchurch-born Andrea Hewitt, who ended her glittering 18-year international career in 2023. McClure had just joined the Canterbury Triathlon Club, aged 13, when Hewitt, who represented New Zealand at three Olympic and four Commonwealth Games, attended a Sunday session at Waimairi Beach. “It was cool to see her on TV, but to see her in person was even better to get some inspiration from her,” she said. The Triathlon Club and selection in the Canterbury Cross Country team was also vital as McClure, the lone devoted Leeston School and then Ellesmere College triathlete, was surrounded by like-minded individuals. “You’d meet up for training or on the weekends, so you felt like you weren’t the only one doing it,” she said. Although McClure is a rarity among her Kiwi counterparts in coming from a relatively remote, rural area, she says it has been the perfect environment to thrive. Meeting with the Ellesmere Road Runners on Wednesdays was pivotal, likewise the weekly 16km Leeston to Southbridge return cycling race. “The road runners got me running properly instead of just running round the lawn and the bike race helped me learn about drafts, attacks, sprints and how to do a good finish,” she said. McClure also entered her first Lake Crichton Series at 13-yearsold and as the triathlon celebrates its 10th edition over three evenings from January 19 to March 1, she said it personified a consistently supportive community for budding athletes. “When I send out volunteer emails (from her work at Selwyn Sports Trust) it’s the same people who helped me when I started out,” she said. McClure was initially coached by Jon Newsome, and later was invited by Axel Reiser to join the Canterbury Triathlon Academy. “Axel was really good in a sense because I was still quite young, 15-16, and he was like ‘I want you to have a good balance. Do your studies, play other sports. You take it seriously when you’re 20-21’.” McClure strives to adhere to the German’s advice while working at the Trust, where she leads the iBike cycle skills education programme and liaises with schools in Methven. Now coached by Cambridgebased Bruce Hunter, McClure trains 20 hours a week and has races in Wanaka, Napier and Devonport scheduled around work commitments this month and next before heading to Asia – a cheaper alternative to Europe. Napier will be the pinnacle when she competes in the opening leg of the elite-class Triathlon World Cup on February 24. “This is an exciting opportunity to step out of my comfort zone and step up to the next level of racing,” McClure said. “It’s pretty cool because New Zealand doesn’t get many (World Cup) races.” ROAD WARRIOR: Sarah McClure on the run during last year’s Oceania Cup race in Port Douglas, Queensland. What’s in a name? KILLINCHY IS easy to ignore on the Leeston-Dunsandel Rd, but the nondescript location will always resonate with the McClure family. There is no ‘Welcome to Killinchy’ proclamation – the Killinchy Community Centre’s sign is the only clue that stretch of road has a connection to Northern Ireland. The cemetery attached to All Saints Anglican Church is secluded by a hedgerow so not visible from the roadside. Its first burial was recorded in 1876 but it was rarely used from the 1920s onwards. The church was demolished in 1981. Killinchy was named by George McClure, the great, great, great grandfather of Sarah McClure. Born in Killinchy, County Down, in 1840, George Mc- Clure arrived in New Zealand aboard the Matoaka 20 years later. He was a farm worker at Styx River, north of Christchurch, and then Leeston, before he purchased his own property. That heralded a long association with the Ellesmere district, one continued by his great, great grandson Hamish McClure, Sarah’s father, who has a lifestyle block and leased farm land there. UNNY HIPPER THE COFFEE’S ON AND WE’VE ROLLED UP OUR SLEEVES. HAPPY NEW YEAR, FRIENDS. LET’S GET YOUR 2024 STARTED. 03 349 5111 | WIGRAM.LAWYER@SAUNDERS.CO.NZ | CITY, WIGRAM, PAPANUI, FERRYMEAD | SAUNDERS.CO.NZ
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