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8 Ashburton NEWS Courier, February 22, 2024 www.ashburtoncourier.co.nz Obituary: Small stature withabig heart Mid Canterbury lost alongserving and dedicated volunteer on January 14, when Jillian Annette Newton, died. The list of organisationsthe 74yearold gave her time to makes for impressive reading. Jill was born in Ashburton on May 7, 1949. Apart from living 12 years in Alexandra, she spent the rest of her life in Mid Canterbury. She was twice recognised by the Ashburton District Council for her services to the community, with a district councilCommunity Civic Award in 2012 and the Mayor's Awardin2019. Since the early 1970s, Jill was an ostomate someone who has an opening in theirabdomen, changing the way waste exits the body. She spent alifetime volunteering while dealing with her own health problems. She had great empathy for people going through the ostomy journey and for people who struggled generally. Jill held various positions over ahalf century of involvement in ostomy associations in Mid Canterbury and furtherafield. This included chairingthe Ashburton branch, aposition she had for almost 21 years, following serving in the roles of secretary and treasurer. She was secretary of the South Canterbury branch for 16 years, vicepresident of the Asian and South Pacific Ostomy Association, anational executive member of the Federation of the NZ Ostomy Societies for 18 yearsand the organisations’s national president. Her national bodyduties included helping to organise regional and national meetings and conferences, as well as advocacy work. Her dedication to the ostomy societies led to her attending overseas conferences,including one in Frankfurt, Germany. At the time there was aterrorist threat, but that didn’t stop Jill goingout walking. Ostomates in nearly 25 countries received amagazine that Jill took on editing in 2003. It took her about 150 hoursfor each of the magazines that were producedthree times ayear. The camps she ran for young ostomates from 11 to 20yearolds were PROFOUND IMPACT: Volunteer Jill Newton wastwice recognised by the Ashburton community for the service she gave. fun and helped those livingwith the condition make the mostoflife. Jill was amember of the New Zealand Red Cross. As well as being abranch member, Jill wentout with the eveningDistrict Nurses,providing an extra pair of hands and support for 34 years until the programme discontinueddue to Covid. In the aftermath of the February 22, 2011, Christchurch earthquake, Jill volunteeredwith Red Cross working in Christchurch. It wasn’tthe only earthquake she stepped up to help with. She respondedasaCivil Defence volunteeratthe Kaikōura earthquake. Jill volunteeredfor more than adecade with Civil Defence and was recognised last year with along service award. Her volunteering included work with St John and the New Zealand Police. She was avoluntary ambulance officer. If the police needed to interview a young person who didn’t have an adult with them, Jill was aperson they could call on to provide this support. Her love of swimming saw her volunteerasalife guard at the Ashburton community pool for more than 30 years. She describedherself as a‘‘night owl’’,soperfectly suited to arole with Community Patrols of New Zealand in Ashburton Town Watch. For more than 25 years,Jill assisted with the patrolling the streets of the district on weekendnights. She alsoprovide 10 years’ secretarial services. In 2022 she received a commendation for 25 years of service. Her faith was an important part of who Jill was, and no doubt sustained her and gave her comfort through her many health battles and challenges. She was a member of the Salvation Army and worked as the corps office administrator. She had been an active participant when the Salvation Army provided an emergency caravan to respond to emergencies, helping the responders and those impacted by the event with refreshments. Alongside this, Jill did many things in the background to assist with the running of the church, from fillingin if the cleaner wasn’t there, to assisting with the community foodbank when needed. Other groups she gave her time to include as adriver for Presbyterian Support, member of the Kidney Foundation, board member of Neighbourhood Support, executive member with Victim Support and six years as support worker with the organisation, and volunteering at Ashburton community Christmas lunches. Jill was humble natured and very unassuming about her voluntary work. She refused to let the challenges of health obstacles stop her because she had azest for life. ‘‘Life is for living and I’m living it,’’ was afavourite saying of Jill’s and one she lived by. Jill is survived by son Gavin, daughter Jillian and their families. Dellwyn Moylan BOOST TO RANKS FOR MID CANTERBURY CHOIR Mid Canterbury Choir has had aboost to its ranks after holding open rehearsals. Manager Carol Gunn said the two open rehearsals, on each of the last two Monday nights, attracted 12 potential new members. Nine were keen to join. They represented agood mix of tenor, altos and sopranos. The number of active choir members was currently 37, ranging in age from about 20 to 75, so the new members could see numbers boosted to 46. ‘‘Singing feeds our souls, we make new friends, learn new techniques and have a great time rehearsing and performing. The open rehearsals have allowed people to experience this over anight or two and the choir is excited about the new faces and voices joining us,’’ Gunn said. ‘‘Our uniform person will be busy sorting uniforms for them! ‘‘Men are aprecious commodity for us but we have eight regular men, and one more from the newbies.’’ Mid Canterbury Choir will have its first concert for the year on April 14 at 2pm at Baring Square Church. It will feature international organistMartin Setchell, who will be in Ashburton for the weekend to dedicate the church’s refurbished organ. Application closing dates Operationalcosts (programme or event) Up to $15,000 22nd March2024 Major Grants Round Over $20,000 (Phone to discuss priortoapplying) 3rd May 2024 Capital projects Up to $20,000 26th July2024 Seeour websitefor further informationand to makeanonline application. www.comtrust.org.nz To discussany applications Phone: 03 687 7360 or 0800 672 287 Email: crm@comtrust.org.nz 2646013 Researchers untangle faults BYJAMIE MORTON New Zealand Herald Researchers have untangledone of New Zealand’s most complex fault zones, in agroundbreaking study with potentialglobal implications for earthquake science. Their recentlypublished findings reconstruct thousands of years of activity in the Marlborough Fault System, which stretches acrossmuch of the northern South Island. It linked New Zealand’s two behemoth, bigrisk plate boundary systems –the AlpineFault and the Hikurangi Subduction Zone –while endlessly absorbing local pressure from “strikeslip” motion, where rocks at the boundary slipped past each other. Over millions of years,rocks within the system were being transferred from the Pacific plate to the Australianplate, as the boundary itself gradually shifted to the southeast. Runningparallel within it lay four major faults –Wairau, Awatere, Clarence and Hope –which have been active for tens of millions of years. While they’ve been involvedinbig events in the past –including a7.5 event in 1848 that caused widespread damage –intriguingly, none were among the incredible 25 set off by the 2016 massive Kaikoura Earthquake. Just why, remainedone of the biggest questions still facing The Marlborough Fault System linking the Alpine Fault and Hikurangi Subduction Zone stretches across much of the northern South Island. WIKIMEDIA COMMONS scientists –yet the new findings, publishedinthe journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters,have taken them much closer to understanding how the system works. Study author and GNS Science geologist Dr Russ Van Dissen said he and colleagues, from the University of Southern California and University of Sheffield, wanted to know whether the plate motion was always being accommodated in the same way across the system – or if it was being shouldered by individual faults within it, at different times. The answer lay within telltale signs of displacement in exposed river terrace surfaces. Contrarytolongheld assumptions, they discovered it had maintained asteady boundaryslip rate over the last 12,000 to 14,000 years –allowing the entiresystem to “keep up” with hundreds of metres of plate movement. Moreinterestingly, they found the faults essentially worked together to take up this motion, with some slipping faster than others at different periods. “It’s like atradeoff: we might see one fault speeding up and another slowing down, but the rate of motion across the system stays the same,” Van Dissen said. The findings raised the need to consider fault systems as awhole – and could ultimately help change what scientists understand about similar ones overseas, in areas like SouthernCalifornia. “Of this type of study, Ithink this is the first and the best –and it’ll stay the best for awhile.” Beyond meregeological curiosity, the findings had implications for estimating the region’s earthquake risk. “By knowing there’s more individual variability between these faults, it can help us forecast the seismic hazard of the area more realistically.”
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