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17 th <strong>March</strong> <strong>2024</strong><br />
THURSDAY, MARCH <strong>14</strong>, <strong>2024</strong><br />
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Cinema’s new lease of life<br />
• By Dylan Smits<br />
MAJOR renovations to the<br />
Hollywood Cinema in Sumner<br />
are under way.<br />
Contractors from Bushnell<br />
Builders have torn down the<br />
front canopy facing Marriner St<br />
as part of the first stage of the<br />
makeover.<br />
“It’s been a long time coming,<br />
so it’s good to see things finally<br />
under way,” said project manager<br />
Andy Wilkinson.<br />
Built in 1938, the oldest cinema<br />
in Christchurch will become<br />
part of the high-end Silky Otter<br />
Cinemas chain.<br />
It was owned by cinema<br />
pioneer Lang Masters for more<br />
than six decades. He died, aged<br />
92, in August last year.<br />
Masters sold the cinema to<br />
the Doig family in September<br />
2021, who are leasing it to Silky<br />
Otter.<br />
Wilkinson said the construction<br />
part of the renovation will<br />
hopefully be complete in December<br />
with the opening date<br />
yet to be determined.<br />
“What we’re figuring out right<br />
now is how the tenant’s needs<br />
are going to integrate with that.<br />
They have to install the seating,<br />
the audiovisual equipment and<br />
the fit out of the bar.”<br />
It will be determined in the<br />
coming weeks whether Silky<br />
Otter can refurbish the interior<br />
at the same time as the construction<br />
work, Wilkinson said.<br />
Three 48-seater luxury cinemas<br />
and a bar will be created.<br />
Wilkinson said the back end<br />
of the building will be extended,<br />
making room for an additional<br />
cinema to complement the<br />
VISION: Work has started on the Hollywood Cinema in Sumner. Below – an artist’s<br />
impression of the cinema after it is converted into part of the Silky Otter Cinema chain.<br />
previous two.<br />
The city council issued a<br />
building consent in November.<br />
Bushnell Builders was selected<br />
as the contractor last month.<br />
Before major structural work<br />
can begin, asbestos in the walls<br />
and ceilings will be removed.<br />
Then new foundations for<br />
the existing building and the<br />
extension will be constructed.<br />
“There’s quite a lot of work<br />
that’s got to be done inside<br />
with the structure before that<br />
rear wall can be taken out,”<br />
Wilkinson said.<br />
The neighbouring Coffee<br />
Culture, which is attached<br />
to the building, will also be<br />
renovated with designs still in<br />
the planning stage, he said.<br />
The owner of Sumner Bar<br />
and Grill next door, Shubham<br />
Kumar, welcomed the start of<br />
the renovations.<br />
“It will definitely be good. If<br />
customers go there, they will<br />
come here too.”<br />
Entries now open<br />
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Spreydon<br />
Library<br />
closing<br />
for new<br />
fit out<br />
SPREYDON Library is shutting<br />
its doors for six weeks while<br />
the city council refurbishes the<br />
building.<br />
The Barrington St library will<br />
be closed from 1pm on Saturday,<br />
<strong>March</strong> 23 until Sunday, May 5. It<br />
will reopen on Monday, May 6.<br />
During the closure, the building’s<br />
interior and exterior will<br />
be painted, windows will be<br />
replaced, new carpet will be<br />
installed and the layout will be<br />
enhanced.<br />
While the<br />
library is closed,<br />
reserved items<br />
will be available<br />
to collect from<br />
South Library.<br />
Items cannot<br />
Carolyn<br />
Robertson<br />
be returned to<br />
Spreydon Library<br />
during this period,<br />
but can be returned to any<br />
other library across the city.<br />
City council head of libraries<br />
and information Carolyn Robertson<br />
said while library users may<br />
be disrupted by the closure, the<br />
building’s refurbishment is much<br />
needed.<br />
“We are looking forward to<br />
welcoming our library users<br />
back in May to an updated and<br />
enhanced building as part of<br />
our regular renewal programme<br />
across all our facilities,” she said.<br />
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Create Pride Merch<br />
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Celebrate and choose a pride flag or<br />
another design to be printed on a<br />
t-shirt or a badge for free. Suitable for<br />
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South Library Chess Group<br />
Wednesday, 1-3pm<br />
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Wa Korero: Storytimes<br />
Fridays, 10:30-11am<br />
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Meet others in our community when<br />
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and rhymes which foster children’s<br />
literacy. All whānau and caregivers<br />
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Tuesdays, 10.30am-noon<br />
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Addington<br />
Anyone can come and play Scrabble<br />
at the morning session from 10.30am<br />
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4pmPioneer Recreation and Sport Centre. Bag a bargain at an annual<br />
sale with thousands of books for all ages and interests. Stock will be added<br />
throughout the sale. Fiction, non-fiction and large print are $3, young<br />
adult and children’s books are $1, premium books on art, landscape,<br />
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each or 10 for $2, audio-visual items such as DVDs, CDs, and talking<br />
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JP Clinics<br />
Thursday, 10.30am-1.30pm, at<br />
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1pm at South Library<br />
A Justice of the Peace will be available<br />
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certify document copies, hear<br />
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citizenship, sponsorship or rates<br />
rebates applications. This service is<br />
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Mahjong Group<br />
Wednesday, 2-3pm<br />
Spreydon Library<br />
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Walking with grief after double cancer blow<br />
• By Daniel Alvey<br />
JADE BELL’S solution to<br />
grief was to walk with it, after<br />
winning her cancer battle but<br />
losing her partner to the disease.<br />
To continue her walk, Bell will<br />
participate in the Relay for Life<br />
on Saturday as a solo participant<br />
for the 12-hour event.<br />
Bell, 44, was diagnosed<br />
with hodgkins lymphoma on<br />
Christmas Eve 2004 and after<br />
undergoing treatment in 2005,<br />
was able to beat the cancer.<br />
“The cancer is behind me. I<br />
do have a couple of health issues<br />
now that are treatment-related<br />
from the radiation and chemo,”<br />
she said.<br />
Bell was hoping to put the<br />
disease behind her, but that<br />
proved not to be. In 2022 she lost<br />
her partner of almost 18 years,<br />
John Wood, to pancreatic<br />
cancer.<br />
“John died on October 25, a<br />
day before our 18th anniversary<br />
and three days before his<br />
birthday.”<br />
Bell said his battle was<br />
“horrific”.<br />
“We only had two-and-a-half<br />
months from finding out that<br />
he had cancer to his passing<br />
so everything happened really<br />
quickly.<br />
“We hadn’t long been together<br />
when I was diagnosed and he<br />
helped me through my cancer<br />
and my treatment. So it was<br />
really lovely to be able to care for<br />
ON TRACK: Jade Bell<br />
started walking after the<br />
death of her partner, and<br />
last year walked more than<br />
2400km.<br />
him, but really hard to know that<br />
I wasn’t going to be able to help<br />
him through,” Bell said.<br />
After John died, Bell began<br />
walking.<br />
“I joined the Walk1200km<br />
challenge soon after he passed,<br />
and last year I walked over<br />
2400km.<br />
“I don’t say it helped me<br />
through my grief, I say I walk with<br />
my grief.”<br />
At first, she started walking<br />
around her Templeton neighbourhood,<br />
continuing her journey<br />
around the hills.<br />
“I spent many hours walking<br />
over the Port Hills, which was just<br />
amazing. I quite often say when<br />
you’re on a track like that you<br />
don’t feel alone but sometimes you<br />
can be in a room crowded with<br />
people and feel quite alone.”<br />
Bell’s first Relay for Life was last<br />
year when her friends invited her<br />
to complete a lap. This year<br />
it will be a bit different as she<br />
aims to complete a minimum<br />
of 40km and could walk up to<br />
70km.<br />
“I really want to do as much<br />
I can for the Cancer Society<br />
because they don’t receive any<br />
Government funding and the<br />
work they do is priceless,” she<br />
said.<br />
For Bell, the event offers her a<br />
chance to remember John.<br />
“It is another challenge to keep<br />
me moving forward, to remember<br />
John and other loved ones who<br />
lost the battle, to celebrate my<br />
survival and support those<br />
fighting.”<br />
• Relay for Life runs from<br />
10am-10pm on Saturday at<br />
Brookside Park, Rolleston.<br />
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BATTLE LOST: Jade Bell’s partner of almost 18 years John<br />
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Thursday <strong>March</strong> <strong>14</strong> <strong>2024</strong><br />
Riding Sumner’s waves brings boost<br />
• By Dylan Smits<br />
AS A SURFING couple ages,<br />
their bond has been strengthened<br />
by their commitment to<br />
riding the waves.<br />
Peter Garrett and Jazelle<br />
Alderdice live in Clifton and say<br />
surfing at Sumner Beach keeps<br />
them mentally and physically fit<br />
as they get close to retirement.<br />
“The main goal for me is to<br />
keep myself in shape and keep<br />
being able to go out. I’ll take<br />
what comes every day and<br />
continue enjoying what comes,”<br />
said 74-year-old Garrett.<br />
“I quite often get out of bed<br />
and go down and have a surf<br />
and then come home in time for<br />
breakfast.”<br />
He introduced Alderdice, 64,<br />
to surfing at Orewa beach near<br />
Auckland soon after they met.<br />
“He pushed me onto a wave<br />
and he said to me, ‘this is going<br />
to be the best experience of your<br />
life.”<br />
She was not convinced.<br />
“When I started riding on the<br />
wave, standing up on it for the<br />
first time, I thought, ‘oh my god,<br />
this is the best experience of my<br />
life’.’”<br />
Like Garrett, Alderdice has no<br />
plans to stop surfing.<br />
“As long as I can manage to<br />
hold my board up and my body<br />
can handle it, of course I’ll keep<br />
going.”<br />
The couple met at a festival in<br />
2010 and found a connection.<br />
DEDICATED: 74-year-old Peter Garrett has been surfing at Sumner for more than 20 years.<br />
Garrett and partner Jazelle Alderdice find many ways to stay active and enjoy nature<br />
together.<br />
“We both love food and being<br />
in the natural world. We have<br />
maturity as people to, you know,<br />
not sweat the small stuff,” said<br />
Alderdice.<br />
Alderdice also stays active<br />
through cycling and tramping,<br />
but the couple still find time to<br />
surf together.<br />
“We can share the experience<br />
and talk about the waves,” said<br />
Alderdice.<br />
Surfing is Garrett’s main<br />
hobby after starting later in life<br />
when he was 51.<br />
“When I was a beginner I was<br />
not very good, but I always work<br />
actively on improving myself. So<br />
I’ve enjoyed the journey of slowly<br />
catching up with others.”<br />
He’s surfed in Byron Bay in<br />
New South Wales and beaches<br />
in Bali, but Garrett says Sumner<br />
Beach is his personal favourite.<br />
He first enjoyed the soft but<br />
steady nature of the waves at<br />
Sumner when he was introduced<br />
to longboarding by a friend.<br />
“It’s probably one of the best<br />
beaches in the world,” he said.<br />
“Consequently it’s busy in the<br />
summertime. Sometimes you<br />
can see 60 to 80 surfers lined up<br />
along the beach.”<br />
Alderdice said it is a great spot<br />
for older surfers.<br />
“There’s really good, gentle<br />
waves, but you can still have<br />
fun.”<br />
Garrett revels in selecting a<br />
wave at the beach and executing<br />
a surf.<br />
“I’m always quite hungry for<br />
waves.”<br />
He has a passion for health<br />
and wellbeing, both physically<br />
through surfing and mentally<br />
through his career as a<br />
hypnotherapist.<br />
“You’ve got to look after your<br />
health. If you want to keep going<br />
in older age.”<br />
Surfing is not Garrett’s only<br />
method of staying fit. He also<br />
enjoys cycling, tramping and<br />
gardening.<br />
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to health and wellbeing for couple<br />
Throughout his career he has<br />
seen a growing understanding<br />
of the link between physical and<br />
mental health.<br />
“People realise that their<br />
nutrition and their exercise, and<br />
their time outdoors always factors<br />
into the journey back into a state<br />
of wellbeing.”<br />
Garrett’s said his active hobbies<br />
are critical for maintaining good<br />
mental health, a message he tries<br />
to impart to his clients.<br />
“If I wasn’t able to do those<br />
things, I’d be less happy. I’m<br />
very connected in to the natural<br />
world.”<br />
He is partially retired and<br />
winding down operations at his<br />
hypnotherapy business.<br />
Alderdice shares her partner’s<br />
love of the beach environment.<br />
“It’s this dance with nature.<br />
It’s the joy of the balance and the<br />
grace it requires.”<br />
She mostly uses a stand-up<br />
paddleboard.<br />
“I was older when we started<br />
and I knew I wouldn’t have<br />
the back or arm strength for<br />
longboarding, so I’ve stuck with<br />
the paddleboard.”<br />
Alderdice is working part time<br />
as a psychotherapist and will<br />
retire within the next few years.<br />
Like Garrett, she sees a strong<br />
connection between good physical<br />
and mental health.<br />
“There’s something about the<br />
movement and the balancing that<br />
really helps my mental health and<br />
keeps me in a good place.”<br />
SURFS UP: Peter Garrett, left and Jazelle Alderdice riding the waves at Sumner.<br />
Garrett has two adult children<br />
and five grandchildren from a<br />
past relationship. He hopes to pass<br />
on the surfing spirit.<br />
“My youngest grandson is seven<br />
years of age. I’ve got a little foamy<br />
board lined up for him.”<br />
Surfing as he gets older presents<br />
some difficulties but Garrett says<br />
he is up for the challenge.<br />
“Going from lying down to<br />
standing on your feet require a<br />
degree of agility and so you’ve got<br />
keep yourself in shape.”<br />
Garrett surfs several days a<br />
week and finds it beneficial for<br />
maintaining mental sharpness<br />
and good psychological health.<br />
“For people who spend time out<br />
in water, it has an effect which is<br />
very much like meditation.”<br />
He said some of his most<br />
memorable surfs have been at<br />
Whitewash Head.<br />
“It’s great, you get a big wave<br />
and you’re just cruising on this<br />
mountain moving through the<br />
water.”<br />
Garrett considers himself lucky<br />
to have got away with only a few<br />
cuts and bruises throughout his<br />
time surfing, but there is one close<br />
call he still thinks about.<br />
In 2013, Garrett had finished<br />
surfing in Muriwai, near<br />
Auckland.<br />
“I got back into the car and was<br />
driving home and the radio came<br />
on. They talked about a shark<br />
attack and someone had been<br />
killed. That happened probably<br />
20 minutes after I came out of<br />
the water, only about 400m from<br />
where I’d been.”<br />
He was not discouraged from<br />
surfing by the incident and he has<br />
returned to Muriwai since, despite<br />
some added caution.<br />
There is little discussion of<br />
sharks among surfers in Sumner,<br />
said Garrett.<br />
“You tend to feel a bit more<br />
conscious of it when you’re the<br />
only one out, but if there’s 40<br />
other people out that changes the<br />
odds a bit.”<br />
Alderdice is usually<br />
unconcerned by sharks, but said<br />
the 2013 incident was scary.<br />
“I heard on the radio that there<br />
was a shark attack at the beach<br />
that he was surfing at. I heard<br />
from him soon after but it was<br />
very frightening.”<br />
Since his partial retirement,<br />
Garrett has more time to focus on<br />
improving his skills.<br />
He is also considering rejoining<br />
the Sumner Longboarders Club as<br />
he gets more time for surfing.<br />
The couple’s advice to older<br />
people who might want to<br />
try surfing is to start with<br />
paddleboarding.<br />
“Take it slowly. If you choose<br />
the wrong board you can make<br />
life very difficult for yourself,” said<br />
Garrett.<br />
Alderdice recommends surfing<br />
to all.<br />
“The fact that there’s now standup<br />
paddleboarding means it is<br />
easier for people to get into, no<br />
matter what age.”
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Tiny SUV packed with pep and personality<br />
ALONG WITH the new<br />
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They are the smallest new<br />
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With a unique design and<br />
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Distinctive SUV looks, a<br />
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Motoring with Bob Nettleton<br />
The Ignis gets runs on the<br />
board right away with its cute<br />
front end, chunky wheel arches<br />
and eye catching angled roofline.<br />
I like how the styling touches<br />
pay homage to previous Suzuki<br />
models from the mists of time.<br />
These include the “C” pillar<br />
slits from the 1970s Giugiarodesigned<br />
Fronte coupe, while the<br />
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original 1988 Vitara SUV.<br />
The three-strong model lineup<br />
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manual with a $1500 premium<br />
for the automatic. The higher<br />
spec LTD reviewed here is only<br />
available as an automatic sells for<br />
$26,500.<br />
A 1.2 litre 4-cylinder, 16-valve<br />
Ratings out of 10: Performance 6 Handling 7; Build Quality<br />
7; Comfort 6; Passenger and Load Space 6; Styling 7; Value<br />
for money 7; Safety – No ANCAP crash rating.<br />
Overall points out of 10: 7<br />
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Dualjet engine technology<br />
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litre of CO2, and the automatic<br />
slightly more at 1<strong>14</strong> grams per<br />
litre. These figures better several<br />
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While these aren’t the<br />
ingredients for fire breathing<br />
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responsiveness to satisfy most<br />
owners without sending their<br />
pulses racing.<br />
Acceleration is lively and the<br />
motor shows far more tenacity<br />
than its modest capacity would<br />
suggest. However, at higher revs<br />
it does become coarse and lumpy.<br />
The automatic in the test car<br />
proved smooth and efficient in<br />
lower speed urban driving. At<br />
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proving slow to kick down under<br />
hard acceleration when you need<br />
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The cabin is modern, inviting<br />
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There is plenty of head and leg<br />
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Playful and surprisingly<br />
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