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4 2 North Get in touch NEWS Canterbury News, February 22, 2024 Wouldyou like to reachmore customers and grow your profits? With coverage throughout North Canterbury and reaching 64,000 readersevery week, wecan help yougrow! Contactustoday to findout more. Managing Editor Robyn Bristow 027 312 1581 robyn.bristow@ncnews.co.nz Reporters ShelleyTopp 027 404 6137 John Cosgrove 021 195 0284 Advertising Amanda Keys 027 536 6224 amanda.keys@ncnews.co.nz Jo Padgett 027 482 0733 jo.padgett@ncnews.co.nz Phone:03313 2840 or 03 314 8335 14 AshleyStreet, Rangiora www.starnews.co.nz Editorial: info@ncnews.co.nz Advertising: sales@ncnews.co.nz Distribution: deliveries@alliedpress.co.nz Loburn community reaches out BySHELLEY TOPP AFacebook page has been established to coordinate projects in Loburn to help the community recover from the devastating January 19 fire. The Loburn Fire Recovery page was set up afew days afterthe fire by Loburn local Damon Hurley, who is working with other locals and the Waimakariri District Council to coordinate the recovery. ‘‘There has been quite abit happening in the Loburn community with people working together,’’ Damon said. ‘‘Insurance is being worked though and the community is helping the community.’’ The page provides acommon link for peoplewho need help, and those who can help, to get togetherinacoordinated way. Aplant fundraiser, reGrow Loburn, the idea of Okuku’s Thereza Rosanowski and Clare Hammond, has also been launched 2413623 INDOOR BOWLS NEW MEMBERS WELCOME in collaboration with the Loburn School. The fundraiser is an invitation to the wider community to contribute something to help make the fundraiser a success, the women say. People can help by donating any outdoor plants or seedlings, especially natives and hedge plants or donating any empty plant pots for others to fill. Donated items canbeleft at Loburn School (73 Hodgsons Rd), Monday to Friday, any time during school hours, or at Rangiora’sAutumn Leaves at 28 Southbrook Rd in Rangiora Monday to Thursday (9am to 5.30pm) or Friday (9am to 3pm). Rangiora Landscape and GardenSupplies have donated potting mix for the project, and spare pots will be available, the women say. The plants will be offered first to landowners to assist in the regrowing of their burnt properties. Spare plants will help raise money for the Mayoral Relief Fund dedicated to affected properties. Starts: t Runs every Monday until end ofSeptember Monday 26 th February 113 Raven Quay, Kaiapoi at 6.45pm For further information, please call Mary Wills on 021 047 4130 or 03 327 8561. Plant fundraiser ... Loburn’s Damon Hurley, with his son, Hiram, aged 7, alongside Okuku’s Clare Hammond, second from right, and Thereza Rosanowski, also from Okuku, with some of the plants which have been donated for the Regrow Loburn fundraiser. PHOTO: SHELLEY TOPP Mt Donald terrain hard, steep and rough From Page 1 Once at the welfare centre the couple say they were well looked after with lots of coffees and food. Later they tried to get some sleep in their truck. Phil says fightingthe fire would have been hardwork for the firefighters as Mt Donald is ahard, steep, rough place to drivein. ‘‘It’s four wheel drive country up there with few tracks and the wind can knock you over if you don’twatch out.’’ Sally says that when they woke at 6.30am the helicopters hadn’t arrived yet and they could see the firefighters were waiting to see if the blaze would catch onagain. ‘‘It looked like it wasn’ttoo bad.’’ “There was no smoke so we thought a miracle had occurred, Icould not believe it had stopped as it was burning down the hill towards us last night,’’ says Phil. ‘‘It looked like the tracks the Knowles and we had put in on the side of Mt Donald over the years had worked as fire breaks.’’ The Thomsons and other evacuees were allowed to return to their homes late on Monday evening. Evacuees ... Phil and Sally Thomson. PHOTO: JOHN COSGROVE SUMMERLAWNMASTER SPECIALS $100 of any Alloy Mower* Metro 450 NOW$579 Check outthese features • Free10hrservice • BallBearing wheels • Ready startengines (no priming) • Quality alloychassiswith LIFETIME warranty • 5Year warranty • Oiled andfully assembled 360 FlaxtonRoad,Rangiora Ph 03 313 5563 www.kingsmowersheating.co.nz ARTHUR BURKE MAZDA 26 65064 2 NORTHCANTERBURY’S ONLY MAZDADEALER Visit usfor all your Mazda needs including • New &Used Vehicle Sales • Finance &Insurance • Servicing, Repairs &WoFs • Parts &Accessory Sales 2Markham St, Amberley | 03314 0127 2643699 2628041
Community day `awesome’ By SHELLEY TOPP Loburn School hosted an open day last Friday to thank the community and emergency crews who fought the nearby January 19. Those who attended said it was an ‘‘awesome idea.’’ School principal Stuart Priddy said the school had been closed on the day of the fire because of the school holidays. It had not been damaged, but the neighbouring preschool had to be evacuated. ‘‘We wanted to show our support for our surrounding community and the people who helped us on that day, by inviting them to the school to give our thanks and let people know we are here to help,’’ he said. Some emergency crew members. many of them volunteers, were unable to attend due to fire fighting commitments on Christchurch’s Port Hills. However representatives from the police, Fire and Emergency New Zealand (FENZ), the Waimakariri District Council civil defence emergency team, plus Waimakariri District Mayor Dan Gordon, along with many members of the Loburn community and children from the preschool next door, did attend. They were treated to aperformance of songs by the Loburn School children led by te reo/Maori language teachers, Norman Paul and his daughter Bonnie Paul. Gift baskets were presented and ‘‘thank you’’ artwork, by the children, was presented to the emergency crews’ representatives. Morning tea followed, along with the chance to meet the emergency crews’ representatives to thank them personally. Mr Gordon said the community day was areal sign of how much this community cares about each other. He also said the council would provide Giving thanks ... Guests, emergency service and Loburn School personal gathered at the school. PHOTO: SHELLEY TOPP whatever support it could to help the Loburn community recover from the fire. Rangiora Constable Brad Moore, who was commander of the police response team on the day of the fire, said the school’s community day was an awesome event, and he was pleased to be able to attend. Three members of the Sefton Rural Fire Brigade, Clive Goddard, Estelle Harmse and Joseph Donoghue also attended along with Dean Eades the council’s emergency management adviser. ‘‘The fire roared through the small community ‘‘like aspeeding, unstoppable freight train’’ one local, Bill White said, incinerating homes, buildings and gardens. But as devastating as the inferno was, some locals consider the cleanup is even worse because of the lingering smoketainted air, the soot, the dust, the noise of chainsaws felling firedamaged trees, and the rubberneckers who seem to think it is okay to go on to private property to take photographs without permission. Sharon Gooderham and her husband Paul lost arow of 50, 30yearold pine trees and ahighwall fence along the road frontage of their property. Paul is working with Rangiora silviculturist John Woods on the the cleanup, chopping down the charred trees and cutting them up for firewood. The loss of their fence and the subsequent invasion of privacy by rubberneckers has made her feel ‘‘very vulnerable’’. However the community support they received since the fire had been ‘‘incredible. NEWS North Canterbury News, February 22, 2024 3 Cure Boat Club mural Kaiapoi will soon have anew waterside visual attraction. Walkers crossing the William Street bridge or wandering along the Kaiapoi River banks will soon be able to view a mural championing the Cure Boating Club and Kaiapoi. Work should start by the end of the month on the new mural, which is acollaboration with acclaimed artist, Mel Eaton and the Waimakariri Public Arts Trust. Cure Club vice president Peter Midgley says they hope it will help to promote their side of the river and the township. ‘‘We’re on amission to adorn our 40metre long river front building with a spectacular wraparound mural that will become an icon for Kaiapoi,’’ he says. The club hopes that at high tide visitors will see the town’s name reflected in the river and use it as abackdrop for shareowner visitor photos. Mr Midgley says the club has set up a donations page to invite residents and visitors to donate towards this vision and help them bring it to life. ‘‘It's hoped that the mural will excite and engage with the community as part of a larger project,’’ he says. The mural will be completed first, with any additional funding going towards the completion of the rebuild (postearthquake) which has been along and ongoing project for the small club. ‘‘We’ve been on the river for 154 years and we think this stunning mural will help lift the profile of our townand help us to finish the work started 13 years ago on the rebuild.’’ Depending on the weather and funding, work on the mural is plannedtobegin on March 1. It will be completed in around 710 days. 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