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17 th March <strong>2024</strong><br />
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY <strong>29</strong>, <strong>2024</strong><br />
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Baffling<br />
case of<br />
padlock<br />
openers at<br />
Edmonds<br />
ALLEGED OFFENDERS:<br />
The Friends of Edmonds<br />
Factory Gardens Society<br />
believes these men are<br />
responsible for opening<br />
padlocks and removing<br />
them from implements<br />
sheds. <br />
gardens<br />
• By Chris Barclay<br />
THIEVES WHO open<br />
padlocks securing implement<br />
sheds at the Edmonds Factory<br />
Gardens and remove them,<br />
without taking anything else,<br />
are baffling volunteers who<br />
tend to the city landmark.<br />
While the Friends of<br />
Edmonds Factory Gardens<br />
Society’s work off Ferry Rd is<br />
routinely undermined by vandalism<br />
and rubbish dumping,<br />
the curious actions of two men<br />
present an unusual headache.<br />
How the duo, who targeted<br />
the sheds on December 8, January<br />
23 and <strong>February</strong> 7, opened<br />
the padlocks concerned society<br />
president John Hoskin.<br />
“These guys somehow or<br />
other have managed to get a<br />
key. It’s a complete and utter<br />
mystery why they’re doing<br />
this,” the 86-year-old said.<br />
Hoskin said police had been<br />
notified on each occasion and<br />
he was surprised they had not<br />
been able to trace the pair.<br />
With six CCTV cameras<br />
on site, Hoskin said they have<br />
footage of the men arriving by<br />
car, removing the locks and<br />
departing, always in broad<br />
daylight.<br />
“We’ve given them ideal<br />
photos . . . the car they come in<br />
and the registration and they<br />
still don’t seem to be able to nail<br />
them down.”<br />
Police were contacted for<br />
comment but had not responded<br />
before deadline.<br />
NO LIGHT SHED: Society president John Hoskin<br />
(right) is puzzled and frustrated by the theft<br />
of padlocks.<br />
PHOTO: CHRIS BARCLAY<br />
Hoskin said they have lost<br />
five padlocks, and only on the<br />
first incident did the men try<br />
and continue to enter the sheds,<br />
only to be thwarted by another<br />
layer of security.<br />
Now they are content to just<br />
take the padlocks.<br />
Waipapa Papanui-Innes-<br />
Central Community Board<br />
member John Miller was also<br />
perplexed about why padlocks<br />
were targeted.<br />
“It’s very bizarre. The obvious<br />
reason is metal value, they are<br />
made of brass, but a merchant<br />
told us they’re $5 each, so it<br />
seems like a hell of a lot of work<br />
and risk,” he said.<br />
The city council’s acting head<br />
of parks Rupert Bool was also<br />
puzzled.<br />
“We are unsure how these<br />
padlocks are being taken, we<br />
are looking into a new style of<br />
padlock to hope to alleviate<br />
thefts,” he said.<br />
Between September 5 last<br />
year and <strong>February</strong> 20 council<br />
staff had to replace 33 padlocks<br />
at community parks.<br />
The city council oversees<br />
infrastructure at the gardens,<br />
including a toilet block and<br />
rubbish removal. A band of<br />
devoted volunteers take care of<br />
the gardens’ upkeep.<br />
In recent months the toilet<br />
block has been vandalised on<br />
several occasions, while cyclists<br />
are ignoring signs barring access<br />
and damaging the lawns.<br />
Nine brass memorial plaques<br />
have also been removed<br />
from benches.<br />
“That is purely for scrap.<br />
We’re trying to get them<br />
replaced,” said Hoskin, who<br />
also lamented some benches<br />
had been gouged, and rose beds<br />
uprooted.<br />
”There’s always something<br />
going on, it’s very heartbreaking.”<br />
Thomas Edmonds, manufacturer<br />
of the iconic Kiwi baking<br />
powder brand, commissioned<br />
the gardens around his Ferry<br />
Rd factory in 1923.<br />
The factory, which was<br />
demolished in 1990, and<br />
gardens are recognisable<br />
nationwide thanks to featuring<br />
on the front cover of the<br />
Edmonds Cookery Book since<br />
1955.<br />
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Next Door Neighbours<br />
All week, all day<br />
South Library<br />
On display is an exhibition of acrylic<br />
and watercolour paintings called<br />
Next Door Neighbours. The works<br />
have been painted by Hugh Barwick<br />
and Ian Cocks, who are neighbours<br />
and both are enthusiastic painters.<br />
Barwick has been painting for many<br />
years in watercolours and acrylics<br />
and over the years has sold a number<br />
of his works. Cocks started painting<br />
more recently and has concentrated<br />
on painting landscapes in acrylics.<br />
The exhibition runs throughout<br />
March.<br />
South Library Chess Group<br />
Wednesday, 1–3pm<br />
South Library<br />
Come and have a game of chess and<br />
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Tuesday, 9am–5pm<br />
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SUMMER FUN: Pupils and caregivers from Te Raekura<br />
Redcliffs School challenged themselves to paddle about<br />
1.5km across the Avon-Heathcote Estuary. <br />
Paddling pupils’ Sunday fun-day<br />
• By Dylan Smits<br />
A FLOTILLA of paddleboards<br />
and kayaks were a noticeable<br />
addition to the Avon-<br />
Heathcote Estuary on Sunday, as<br />
Te Raekura Redcliffs School held<br />
its second Paddle to Kura.<br />
The outing was organised by<br />
school parents, Darren Fidler and<br />
Abby Moore, as a way of<br />
connecting families in the<br />
school community.<br />
Pupils left the Christchurch<br />
Yacht Club at 2pm<br />
with their parents and<br />
paddled about 1.5km to<br />
the Beachville Rd jetty<br />
opposite the school.<br />
Said principal Nick<br />
Nick<br />
Leith<br />
Leith: “We’re extremely<br />
fortunate to have such a<br />
strong connection to the<br />
resources in our local<br />
area and community.”<br />
Leith said the event<br />
made the most of<br />
school’s unique coastal<br />
location.<br />
“Our school community<br />
is really lucky to have members<br />
in their community who<br />
are willing to create unique and<br />
authentic opportunities for us to<br />
come together, demonstrating<br />
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Leith.<br />
Keen teachers and staff joined<br />
the pupils on their voyage. There<br />
were well-earned ice creams<br />
ready on arrival.<br />
A picnic was then held in the<br />
sun, celebrating a successful start<br />
to the school year.<br />
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case of emergency, but parents<br />
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Smart devices<br />
helping keep<br />
a close eye on<br />
bird numbers<br />
• By Dylan Smits<br />
ARTIFICIAL intelligence is<br />
being used to learn about native<br />
birds in Redcliffs’ Barnett Park.<br />
A mobile bird monitor has<br />
been recording sounds in the<br />
park for the past two years. It<br />
then uploads the data to an AI.<br />
Cacophony Project manager<br />
Matthew Hellicar said a major<br />
accomplishment of the monitor<br />
was discovering the presence of<br />
little owls in the valley.<br />
The species was introduced to<br />
the South Island from Germany<br />
between 1906 and 1910.<br />
Little owl readings have been<br />
small in number but consistent<br />
so far, said Hellicar.<br />
“Without the technology, what<br />
you get is anecdotal evidence.<br />
People might hear something at<br />
night time,” he said.<br />
“As soon as we know what<br />
we’re trying to protect, we know<br />
where to focus our efforts to<br />
PARK RESIDENT: The little<br />
owl’s presence in Barnett<br />
Park was confirmed by<br />
Cacophony’s bird monitor.<br />
support breeding habitats.”<br />
Invented in 2016, the so-called<br />
‘cacophonator’ analyses bird<br />
songs which then identifies<br />
the species and detects sound<br />
volume.<br />
“It gives you a measure of the<br />
population. It’s impossible to<br />
tell specifically how many of<br />
each bird you’re hearing, but it’s<br />
a sample of the population that<br />
DEDICATED: Cacophony Project manager Matthew Hellicar is deeply involved in<br />
conservation efforts across Canterbury, playing a role in the Banks Peninsula Conservation<br />
Trust and the Summit Road Society.<br />
tells you whether the population<br />
is doing well or not.”<br />
The monitor will have to run<br />
for several more years before<br />
more accurate estimates of<br />
population changes are made,<br />
but the technology already gives<br />
volunteers an idea of what birds<br />
are in the park, said Hellicar.<br />
There are about eight species<br />
confirmed in the park from<br />
native silvereyes to bellbirds and<br />
swallows.<br />
Silvereyes are the individual<br />
species with the highest amount<br />
of sounds recorded with more<br />
than 200 confirmed readings<br />
since the monitor was installed.<br />
SMART DEVICES: The ‘cacophonator’ is an AI-equipped<br />
bird audio monitor. It distinguishes between bird species<br />
and supplies a population estimate based on the volume<br />
of bird song. Right, cacophony’s powerful thermal camera<br />
uses AI to make visual detections and classifications of<br />
predators and native birds.<br />
“And if you could just clip his nails….”<br />
Nail Clipping for Pets - Pampering Pedicure or Torturous Trim…<br />
As veterinarians, we often find ourselves<br />
balancing the importance of medical<br />
treatment with the emotional wellbeing<br />
of our furry patients. A common<br />
example of this delicate balance is nail<br />
trimming.<br />
This seemingly benign request that<br />
can be quick and simple to perform in<br />
a well-trained pet, can also strike fear<br />
into the hardiest of vets and nurses,<br />
as we realise that nail trimming can<br />
be a significant source of stress and<br />
anxiety for many animals making it<br />
a challenging procedure to carry out<br />
effectively.<br />
Nail care is an important aspect of<br />
pet health. When nails are kept at the<br />
proper length, it allows our pets to move<br />
around freely and maintain their natural<br />
gait. Long nails can push the toes up or<br />
to the side, changing the conformation and mechanics<br />
of the feet and legs, they can also be more likely to<br />
become torn or cracked. Whilst it is important to keep<br />
our pets’ nails trimmed to prevent these problems, nail<br />
trimming is almost never an urgent matter.<br />
Elective procedures should be carried out in a way<br />
that preserves the relationship between the veterinary<br />
team and the patient. Heavy-handed restraint should<br />
never be used as this can exacerbate the stress and<br />
anxiety experienced by our pets. It also risks physical<br />
injury to the animal or people handling them. For<br />
many patients, nail trimming is or has been a traumatic<br />
experience (for example a nail being cut to the quick,<br />
causing pain) and this association can carry over into<br />
other aspects of veterinary care if not handled properly.<br />
Just as people have varying sensitivities to touch, so do<br />
our pets. We encourage pet owners to take the time to<br />
gradually condition their pets to accept<br />
handling of their feet and nail trimming<br />
at home. This can involve gentle<br />
handling, distraction with treats, and<br />
introducing the sensation of touch and<br />
use of equipment that feels different<br />
on their paws gradually. Alternative<br />
options for keeping nails short are also<br />
available. These include scratch boards<br />
which dogs can be trained to use at<br />
home.<br />
If a pet is particularly sensitive to nail<br />
trimming or refuses to tolerate it despite<br />
gentle handling, we may recommend<br />
medical treatment with anxietyreducing<br />
medications or a degree of<br />
sedation. Our goal is always to carry out<br />
the procedure safely and effectively,<br />
without causing unnecessary stress to<br />
the animal.<br />
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UNITED: Volunteers from the Cacophony Project with members of the Barnett Park<br />
regreening group and Predator Free Redcliffs. The organisations work together with the<br />
overall goal of increasing the native bird population in Barnett Park.<br />
Cacophony also wants to help<br />
attract more native species like<br />
tūī.<br />
The current AI distinguishes<br />
between 15 bird species,<br />
providing a method of<br />
monitoring species diversity in<br />
the park.<br />
The Cacophony Project provides<br />
data to the park’s regreening group<br />
and Predator Free Redcliffs as part<br />
of an effort to protect native birds.<br />
Hellicar joined Cacophony<br />
and other groups like the<br />
Summit Road Society in 2016<br />
after moving from the United<br />
Kingdom.<br />
“My first realisation when I<br />
got involved with our trapping<br />
and monitoring processes in<br />
New Zealand was that our data is<br />
really poor.”<br />
“We’re building the cacophony<br />
index of how loud the birdsong is.”<br />
There are six volunteers in<br />
the park regreening group who<br />
regularly monitor the artificial<br />
intelligence’s analysis, said<br />
Hellicar.<br />
The volunteers listen to the<br />
monitor recordings and confirm<br />
whether the artificial intelligence<br />
is correct in identifying the<br />
species.<br />
“That’s how the AI is learning,<br />
so it’s really critical.”<br />
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TWO YEAR 13 students were<br />
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Hannah Watson and David<br />
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Both Watson and Templeton<br />
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Watson has returned with<br />
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She has been interested in the<br />
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Batch cook to save time and effort<br />
MAXIMISE YOUR kitchen<br />
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Setting aside a few hours on<br />
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Imagine coming home after a<br />
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Cooking in bulk can also help<br />
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while having the satisfaction of<br />
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When packing food away,<br />
we recommend cooling before<br />
putting in the fridge, otherwise<br />
they will raise the temperature of<br />
the fridge and this may be a food<br />
safety risk. Always remember to<br />
get your meals in the fridge within<br />
two hours of cooking. Then<br />
transfer into the freezer once<br />
cooled from the fridge, putting<br />
hot food in the freezer may cause<br />
foods around it to defrost, which<br />
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Ready to try out batch<br />
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Stews and soups: Chicken<br />
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Curries: Butter chicken, beef<br />
rendang, vege stalk and kumara,<br />
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Casseroles and slow-cooked<br />
meals: Whether it’s a sausage<br />
casserole, shepherd’s pie, a<br />
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cooking.<br />
Chowders: Corn chowder,<br />
fish or seafood chowder are all<br />
comforting options that freeze<br />
and reheat well.<br />
Rice or grain bowls: Prepare<br />
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choice of grain, such as quinoa,<br />
and pair them with different proteins<br />
and vegetables. Just be sure<br />
to cool your rice quickly so it’s<br />
safe to eat. Risotto and jambalaya<br />
are also great rice dishes that suit<br />
batch cooking.<br />
Baked pasta dishes: Make a<br />
big tray of lasagna, macaroni and<br />
cheese, or your favourite pasta<br />
bakes, and portion into smaller<br />
servings. Try out our versatile<br />
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own.<br />
Stir-fries: Cook up a variety of<br />
stir-fried vegetables and proteins,<br />
pair them with your favourite<br />
sauces and seasonings, and serve<br />
with rice or noodles.<br />
Creamy one-pot pasta<br />
Ingredients<br />
½ packet (250g) dried pasta<br />
400g cooked shredded chicken<br />
2-3 cups chopped fresh veges or<br />
frozen veges<br />
2 Tbsp oil<br />
About 2 cups stock or water<br />
2 cups milk<br />
Salt and pepper<br />
Optional additions/toppings<br />
Grated cheese<br />
Fresh herbs (basil, parsley, sage<br />
etc.)<br />
Extra veges (steamed, roasted,<br />
fresh leafy salad or crisp slaw)<br />
Method<br />
1. Combine pasta, chicken,<br />
veges, oil, stock or water and<br />
milk in a large pot. Stir to<br />
combine, then bring to a simmer<br />
over medium high heat.<br />
2. Simmer for 10 minutes<br />
or until most of the liquid is<br />
absorbed and the pasta is almost<br />
cooked, stirring occasionally.<br />
3. Season with salt and pepper<br />
to taste.<br />
4. Finish by adding your<br />
choice of toppings and serve<br />
with extra veges if desired.<br />
Cooking tips<br />
• Use these recipes as a starting<br />
point for ideas and inspiration<br />
to make it your own. Using what<br />
you already have in your fridge,<br />
freezer, and pantry and using<br />
them first is a great way to make<br />
your food go further.<br />
• If cooking for a larger<br />
family or members with a larger<br />
appetite, increase the ingredient<br />
quantities.<br />
• Shredded chicken can be<br />
substituted for 2 cans (800g)<br />
drained and rinsed lentils, or 1<br />
can (400g) drained canned fish.<br />
If using canned fish, mix through<br />
at the end.
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8<br />
9<br />
10 11<br />
337<br />
SUDOKU<br />
Every row, column and box should<br />
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WORDBUILDER<br />
237<br />
6<br />
T M R<br />
E P I<br />
12 13<br />
14 15 16 17 18<br />
many words of three or more letters,<br />
How<br />
including<br />
many<br />
plurals,<br />
words<br />
can you<br />
of<br />
make<br />
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from<br />
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the<br />
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once?<br />
TODAY<br />
Good 24 Very Good 30 Excellent 37<br />
letters, including plurals, can you make<br />
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No words beginning with a capital are<br />
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fug, fugal, fur, furl, gal, gar, gaur, guar, gulf, lag, lug,<br />
word. rag, rug.<br />
Good 24 Very Good 30 Excellent 37<br />
19 20 21<br />
22 23 24 25 26<br />
27 28<br />
<strong>29</strong><br />
Across<br />
1. By the shortest and most direct<br />
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10. Protective garment (5)<br />
11. Appear again (9)<br />
12. Stress (7)<br />
13. Drastic reorganisation (5-2)<br />
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16. Climax (9)<br />
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20. Annotations (5)<br />
22. Hard worker (colloq) (7)<br />
25. Organise (7)<br />
27. Wash kit (6,3)<br />
28. Measure of liquid (5)<br />
<strong>29</strong>. Formal close to a letter (5,9)<br />
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Down<br />
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3. Capital of Vietnam (5)<br />
4. Account (9)<br />
5. Calm spot (5)<br />
6. Arrangement of people or things<br />
(9)<br />
7. Hopping mad (5)<br />
8. Spire (7)<br />
9. Of milk (6)<br />
15. Blind (9)<br />
17. Sluggish (9)<br />
18. Before birth (9)<br />
19. Discrimination (7)<br />
21. Metal pin (6)<br />
23. Farewell (Fr) (5)<br />
24. Jewish scholar or teacher (5)<br />
26. Sovereign (5)<br />
Crossword<br />
Across: 1. As the crow flies,<br />
10. Apron, 11. Resurface,<br />
12. Tension, 13. Shake-up,<br />
14. Class, 16. Culminate,<br />
19. Be my guest, 20. Notes,<br />
22. Grafter, 25. Arrange,<br />
27. Toilet bag, 28. Litre, <strong>29</strong>.<br />
Yours sincerely.<br />
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Hanoi, 4. Chronicle, 5.<br />
Oasis, 6. Formation, 7.<br />
Irate, 8. Steeple, 9. Lactic,<br />
15. Sightless, 17. Lethargic,<br />
18. Antenatal, 19. Bigotry,<br />
21. Skewer, 23. Adieu, 24.<br />
Rabbi, 26. Ruler.<br />
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mitre, per, pet, peri, perm,<br />
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NZSO Quartet<br />
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We are delighted to announce that a quartet from the New Zealand<br />
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