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THURSDAY, MARCH <strong>21</strong>, <strong>2024</strong><br />
• By Sasha Watson<br />
HAVING A baby can be scary<br />
– especially if you’re on your<br />
own.<br />
That’s why Halswell resident<br />
Mickenzi Askin started making<br />
baby bundle packs to donate<br />
to mums in need of some<br />
help.<br />
The packs contain<br />
blankets, lotions,<br />
lip balms, toys,<br />
creams, clothing,<br />
bottles and<br />
more.<br />
“Each pack<br />
is different but<br />
all are designed<br />
for mums to be<br />
or struggling<br />
mums with<br />
newborns to one-year-olds. The<br />
only thing we ask is<br />
what the gender<br />
is as we don’t get<br />
enough gender<br />
neutral items.<br />
“They’re<br />
based on who<br />
needs it most and<br />
if we don’t<br />
have any<br />
available,<br />
we<br />
also<br />
offer<br />
other<br />
help<br />
like<br />
referrals<br />
to organisations<br />
who can give<br />
the right support.<br />
“In today’s<br />
world,<br />
the need<br />
to support<br />
women,<br />
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Helping mums<br />
who need it most<br />
especially if pregnant, has<br />
grown. It makes me happy<br />
knowing the help I once<br />
received is being passed on,”<br />
said Askin.<br />
She became pregnant at age<br />
17 with her daughter, Scarlett,<br />
who is now eight-and-a-half.<br />
“I was still in school so I<br />
lost a lot of friends, had<br />
no money and, at that<br />
time, there was not a<br />
lot of help out there<br />
for young mums.<br />
Askin and her<br />
friend Amber<br />
Braxton<br />
make up the<br />
packs. She is<br />
helping Braxton<br />
through her first<br />
pregnancy.<br />
•Turn to<br />
page 5<br />
Milns Rd<br />
closure on<br />
the table<br />
• By Sasha Watson<br />
THE SOUTHERN end of Milns<br />
Rd could be closed to improve<br />
safety near the busy intersections<br />
of Sparks and Sutherlands Rds.<br />
If it goes ahead, motorists will<br />
have to take nearby Collier Drive<br />
to connect to Halswell Rd.<br />
The Sparks Rd end of Milns Rd<br />
will be turned into a cul-de-sac<br />
and a new road/intersection will<br />
be built 180m up Sparks Rd.<br />
This moves the intersection<br />
further from the bend, improves<br />
visibility, and simplifies the layouts<br />
for both Sutherlands/Sparks<br />
and Milns/Sparks traffic.<br />
The closure was discussed at<br />
last week’s Waipuna Halswell-<br />
Hornby-Riccarton Community<br />
Board meeting and is now up to<br />
the city council to approve.<br />
Halswell city councillor Andrei<br />
Moore said the key thoroughfare<br />
between Sparks and Halswell Rd<br />
will not be Milns Rd.<br />
“That will be Collier Drive,<br />
which will connect Sparks Rd<br />
with the Dunbars/Halswell Rd<br />
intersection.”<br />
He said the exact timing of the<br />
project will be development-dependent,<br />
but the work on the road<br />
last week was changes to road<br />
markings, which are low-cost and<br />
minor in nature.<br />
City council transport<br />
operations manager Stephen<br />
Wright said the closure of<br />
Milns Rd will be part of the<br />
resource consent conditions<br />
for the adjacent subdivision<br />
development, which is currently<br />
being processed.<br />
• Turn to page 4<br />
Thanks for your patience<br />
While work is underway on the construction of a new roundabout<br />
on Candys Road, SH75 and the entrance to RIVERSTONE.<br />
The intention of the new roundabout is to greatly<br />
improve the safety of vehicles, pedestrians<br />
and cyclists .<br />
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what’s on<br />
this week<br />
Easter Hunt<br />
Wednesday, <strong>March</strong> 27, 10.30amnoon<br />
Riccarton House and Bush<br />
Bring the family for a nature-themed<br />
Easter egg hunt. Free fluffy with<br />
every large hot drink purchased at<br />
The Quarters Café, and there will<br />
be prizes for every completed hunt.<br />
Participation is a gold coin donation.<br />
Craft Snippets<br />
Wednesday, 6.30-7.30pm<br />
Upper Riccarton Library<br />
Craft Snippets is a way to learn about<br />
artisan crafts from enthusiasts and<br />
experts who love to share. Come<br />
along this month and meet Rie<br />
Natalenko, editor of Yarn Magazine<br />
and a passionate textile artisan. After<br />
the talk, feel free to look at craft books<br />
new to the library as well as chat about<br />
what is happening or coming up craftwise<br />
in and around the city.<br />
Auahatanga - Creative Time<br />
Wednesday, 10-11.30am<br />
Te Hāpua: Halswell Centre<br />
Drop in and have a go with creative<br />
technologies including 3D printers,<br />
Roland BN-20 vinyl printer, photo/<br />
slide scanner, craft cutter, badge<br />
maker, USB vinyl turntable music and<br />
DJ Gear, VR, music software, design<br />
and photo editing software including<br />
Adobe Creative Cloud apps for iMac<br />
studio computers, cameras, tripods<br />
Te Hāpua Dungeon Delvers Introduction – 10-14 years, Friday<br />
3.30-4pm. Te Hāpua: Halswell Centre. Be the hero in a tabletop roleplaying<br />
game where everything rests on a roll of the dice. Create a character and<br />
join in a shared story to adventure across unexplored lands, slinging spells,<br />
or fighting against the dangerous denizens of dungeons. The Dungeon<br />
Delvers programme provides free introductory drop-in sessions in <strong>March</strong><br />
and April. Suited to ages 10-14 years.<br />
and microphones. Staff will be on<br />
hand if you need help. These sessions<br />
are geared towards people aged 16 and<br />
older.<br />
English Conversation Group<br />
Wednesday, 2-3pm<br />
Hornby Library<br />
The conversation group is a drop-in<br />
group where anyone is welcome to<br />
come and practice conversations in<br />
english, in a friendly and relaxed<br />
environment. This is not a class, but<br />
an opportunity to talk with others in<br />
english and to meet new people in the<br />
community. Especially good for ESOL<br />
learners. Free. Bookings not required.<br />
Mobile Discovery Wall<br />
All week, all day<br />
Hornby Library<br />
The Discovery Wall at Tūranga has<br />
a smaller, mobile ‘sibling’. Heritage<br />
comes to life with this unique<br />
interactive touchscreen technology<br />
that lets you explore the history of<br />
the city. Try it out as it visits the<br />
community libraries.<br />
Judge A Book By Its Cover<br />
Tuesday, 3.30-4.30pm<br />
Upper Riccarton Library<br />
Go along and explore the community<br />
library’s rainbow reads for young<br />
adults in the style of speed dating.<br />
Judge the book by its cover and<br />
then take a deeper look – you might<br />
make a surprising connection with<br />
a truly amazing book. Explore<br />
the rainbow reads at https://<br />
my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/<br />
or request a custom list of reading<br />
recommendations. Suitable for ages<br />
12-14. Free.<br />
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Thursday <strong>March</strong> <strong>21</strong> <strong>2024</strong><br />
Gnome away from home for Judy<br />
• By Sasha Watson<br />
JUDY RICE, a self-proclaimed<br />
‘mistress’ to her gnome Winkle,<br />
is about to store her collection<br />
of indoor and backyard buddies<br />
and embark on a country-wide<br />
adventure.<br />
The 69-year-old Sockburn<br />
resident has collected more than<br />
400 garden friends since 1990,<br />
but when she and her partner<br />
Murray Wilson move into a 30ft<br />
Rockwood caravan, only a few<br />
will join.<br />
“The house is on the market,<br />
and we have already placed a<br />
deposit on our caravan. I’m<br />
getting old – if we don’t go now,<br />
we will never do it.<br />
“Winkle, his girlfriend Trixie,<br />
Moonshine the Joker and a few of<br />
Murray’s will come. The rest will<br />
go into storage – they won’t be<br />
happy about it either.”<br />
Judy hopes to be off by<br />
June, picking up Murray from<br />
Ashburton and then following<br />
the warmer weather around the<br />
country.<br />
Having left in November 2022<br />
for a five-month trip across the<br />
North Island, she is not new to<br />
travelling for long periods.<br />
“It was on my bucket list for a<br />
long time and came to fruition<br />
after my mother died from agerelated<br />
issues in January 2022 and<br />
my husband’s death five weeks<br />
later, from surgery complications<br />
and dementia.<br />
“I’ve lived in Christchurch for<br />
about 45 years and I needed to go.<br />
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Judy documented their<br />
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To allow Hillmorton High School<br />
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the 75 Halswell to Hillmorton bus<br />
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minutes earlier than scheduled.<br />
The time change will be effective<br />
from <strong>March</strong> 25. The bus was at<br />
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Subdivision<br />
linked to<br />
Halswell<br />
road closure<br />
• From page 1<br />
“Subject to resource consent,<br />
the southern part of Milns Rd<br />
will be realigned through the<br />
subdivision. As part of that work,<br />
the existing southern section will<br />
be closed.<br />
“The anticipated<br />
timeframe is May<br />
2026. However,<br />
this is dependent<br />
upon private<br />
development and<br />
outside of the<br />
Stephen<br />
Wright<br />
council’s control.”<br />
Implementation<br />
will be covered<br />
by a private<br />
development agreement between<br />
the city council and the developer,<br />
and will align with Long Term<br />
Plan capital projects.<br />
A report on the new road,<br />
which was discussed at the<br />
community board meeting,<br />
follows two briefings in<br />
September 2022.<br />
It said the city council will likely<br />
only have this opportunity, as<br />
once the land is developed there<br />
will be no practical alternative<br />
solution to the problems being<br />
experienced at the intersection.<br />
When community, culture<br />
and cuisine converge<br />
COLOURFUL FLAGS and<br />
traditional garments were<br />
on show at Arvida Mayfair<br />
village’s international food and<br />
dance event last week.<br />
The Upper Riccarton<br />
retirement community<br />
has more than 22 different<br />
nationalities represented by its<br />
residents and team members,<br />
and the event was a celebration<br />
of diversity and inclusion.<br />
Arvida Mayfair village<br />
manager Vicky Knipe said<br />
more than 80 people enjoyed<br />
the day, including residents’<br />
families.<br />
“The centrepiece was the<br />
large display of flags that were<br />
actually sewn together by one<br />
of our residents. It represented<br />
our diverse backgrounds that<br />
come together to form our<br />
community.”<br />
A haka, traditional Nepalese<br />
and Filipino dances, classical<br />
Indian dance, a Japanese choir<br />
and dynamic West African<br />
drumming were highlights<br />
from the day.<br />
The performances were<br />
matched by the selection of<br />
fresh international cuisines for<br />
everyone to enjoy.<br />
GREAT DAY: Arvida Mayfair resident Olive Slater (left),<br />
clinical co-ordinator Ravneet Kaur, wellness leader<br />
Leela Shahi and resident Lynette Bendall.<br />
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Drumming up<br />
deep connections<br />
• By Sasha Watson<br />
“MUSIC connects communities”<br />
is the reason registered music<br />
therapist Liz Bolwell is running<br />
an all-inclusive group called<br />
ReSet Performers ‘24.<br />
The group has been set up to<br />
encourage those aged 9-16 from<br />
migrant families to connect and<br />
participate in their communities.<br />
Bolwell said she started the<br />
group after thinking about the<br />
potential barriers to connection,<br />
like language or culture.<br />
“It’s about building<br />
relationships between<br />
individuals, groups and music<br />
and building up the self<br />
confidence and self-esteem.<br />
Another goal is to value people<br />
resettling in New Zealand and<br />
respecting ethnic differences.<br />
“We use African drums as a<br />
tool to express ourselves, learn<br />
vocal and instrument skills and<br />
use rhythm for wellbeing.”<br />
She said it is great to see the<br />
diversity among participants and<br />
their joy in working together<br />
musically towards performance<br />
opportunities later in the year.<br />
“Some are experiencing<br />
drumming on African drums for<br />
the first time and an opportunity<br />
to use microphones to develop<br />
PERFORMING: Chris Harbin,10, Jemimah Samaila, 9,<br />
and Esther Altaner, 9, play African drums during a ReSet<br />
Performers ‘24 music therapy session.<br />
PHOTO: NEIL MACBETH<br />
vocal skills.”<br />
Bolwell started the group in the<br />
first week of <strong>March</strong> and has four<br />
to six members already – but the<br />
group is looking for more.<br />
“I’m hoping to have about 12<br />
performers but we can take on<br />
up to 20. I’m looking forward to<br />
building up the group and then<br />
performing in community spaces<br />
from July to October.<br />
“The whole idea is to attract<br />
children, collaborate with<br />
community musicians and<br />
hold workshops which focus on<br />
different cultural influences.”<br />
The free music therapy<br />
group is funded by the city<br />
council’s Creative Communities<br />
and is supported by the Oak<br />
Development Trust, which assists<br />
migrant families to transition<br />
into their new homes.<br />
“(They) have been very helpful<br />
in providing us a creative space to<br />
grow and flourish. Music therapy<br />
is about building relationships<br />
alongside others with established<br />
therapeutic goals and outcomes,”<br />
she said.<br />
The public is invited to join<br />
in a group session from 4-5pm at<br />
the Riccarton Baptist Church on<br />
April 10, during Music Therapy<br />
Week.<br />
• To find out more, email<br />
Liz Bolwell at lizbolwellmt@<br />
gmail.com<br />
‘I basically<br />
raised my<br />
children alone’<br />
•From page 1<br />
Said Askin: “With Madeline,<br />
who is five-an-a-half, my second<br />
pregnancy, I had a partner<br />
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Thursday <strong>March</strong> <strong>21</strong> <strong>2024</strong> 7<br />
Runners play the waiting game<br />
MEDALLIST: Cooper Wightman<br />
finished second in the under-20<br />
1500m event at the national track<br />
and field championships.<br />
PHOTO: ALISHA LOVRICH<br />
• By Sam Coughlan<br />
TWO YOUNG runners<br />
will have to wait until next<br />
month to see if they have<br />
made the New Zealand<br />
team for the junior world<br />
championships in Peru in<br />
August.<br />
Christchurch Boys’ High<br />
School student Cooper<br />
Wightman, 16, and recent<br />
St Thomas’ alumnus Daniel<br />
Prescott, 17, are among seven<br />
runners who have achieved<br />
the qualifying time for the<br />
1500m event, but only two<br />
can be selected.<br />
The pair, who both run<br />
for the Selwyn Athletic<br />
Club, went head-to-head at<br />
the national track and field<br />
championships over the<br />
weekend.<br />
Wightman finished second<br />
in a personal-best time of<br />
3min 47.11sec, and Prescott<br />
was fourth 3sec behind<br />
Wightman.<br />
But, even if selected,<br />
Prescott said he is unlikely to<br />
be able to travel to Lima due<br />
to upcoming United States<br />
college commitments.<br />
He has also already been<br />
selected to represent New<br />
Zealand at the world crosscountry<br />
championships<br />
in Serbia which start next<br />
Saturday.<br />
“I’ll just be focusing on<br />
that now,” he said.<br />
Prescott is a member of<br />
the six-strong New Zealand<br />
team who will run in the<br />
under-20 race – and the only<br />
one from the South Island.<br />
“It’s going to be a good<br />
international experience,” he<br />
said.<br />
He said the<br />
competition in the<br />
race will be fierce.<br />
“There’s a lot of<br />
quick people from,<br />
for example, Africa.<br />
And usually they<br />
always go out and<br />
they’re the ones that<br />
are leading, so I’ll<br />
just be doing the<br />
best I can, I guess.<br />
“I’ll see what I can do.”<br />
Prescott has “three or<br />
four” US college running<br />
scholarship offers on the<br />
table for the school year<br />
starting in August, but hasn’t<br />
decided where he’ll go yet.<br />
His potential college<br />
commitments mean he<br />
is unlikely to be able to<br />
represent New Zealand at the<br />
junior world championships<br />
if selected.<br />
“I was hoping to (be able<br />
to travel to Peru), but I’ll<br />
have my commitments to US<br />
colleges,” he said.<br />
“But just to know that I’d<br />
be selected, if selected, would<br />
Mike Drury<br />
be good to know.”<br />
Christchurch Boys’ High<br />
School head of athletics<br />
Mike Drury said he thinks<br />
Wightman now has a “very<br />
good chance” to make the<br />
squad for junior worlds<br />
after his silver medal at the<br />
weekend.<br />
“Of the ones that<br />
have been competing<br />
in New Zealand<br />
over the summer, he<br />
certainly ranks second<br />
out of those athletes.<br />
“The only thing that<br />
could now come in as<br />
a complication would<br />
be if there was a New<br />
Zealand athlete who’s<br />
overseas on a scholarship or<br />
something, who happened<br />
to stake a claim by running<br />
the qualifying time overseas<br />
in the next three or four<br />
weeks.”<br />
Drury said Wightman<br />
is looking forward to<br />
potentially getting the<br />
opportunity.<br />
“He’s got to the point<br />
where, I think, he’s keen to<br />
go and measure himself up<br />
against the best under-20s<br />
in the world. I’m sure he will<br />
have another opportunity<br />
in a couple of years time but<br />
you never know the sorts of<br />
things that life might throw<br />
up.”<br />
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Thursday <strong>March</strong> <strong>21</strong> <strong>2024</strong><br />
MITSUBISHI’S mid-size<br />
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CROSSWORD<br />
1 2 3 4 5 6<br />
7 8 9<br />
10 11<br />
12 13 14<br />
15 16 17<br />
18<br />
340<br />
SUDOKU<br />
Every row, column and box should<br />
contain the digits 1 to 9.<br />
WordBuilder<br />
WORDBUILDER<br />
240<br />
6<br />
E T P<br />
I L R<br />
How many words of three or more letters,<br />
How including many plurals, words can you of make three from or the more six<br />
letters, using each letter only once? No foreign<br />
words or words beginning with a capital are<br />
from allowed. the There's six letters, at least one using six-letter each word. only<br />
once?<br />
TODAY<br />
Good 20 Very Good 26 Excellent 32<br />
Solution 239: Cent, chi, chin, chine, cite, echt, etch,<br />
ethic, ETHNIC, hen, hie, hint, hit, ice, inch, itch, net,<br />
word. nice, niche, nit, nth, tec, tech, ten, tench, the, then,<br />
thin, thine, tic, tie, tin, tine.<br />
letters, including plurals, can you make<br />
No words beginning with a capital are<br />
allowed. There’s at least one six-letter<br />
Good 20 Very Good 26 Excellent 32<br />
19 20 <strong>21</strong> 22<br />
23 24<br />
25 26<br />
Across<br />
7. Side on (8)<br />
9. Attack from concealed position (6)<br />
10. Join (4)<br />
11. Demoralise (10)<br />
12. Spin around (6)<br />
14. Accent (8)<br />
15. Mark of disgrace (6)<br />
16. Become smaller (6)<br />
19. Relating to ships or shipping (8)<br />
<strong>21</strong>. Exile (6)<br />
23. Simultaneous (10)<br />
24. Trim (4)<br />
25. Neutralise (6)<br />
26. Tuition (8)<br />
Down<br />
1. Quirk (6)<br />
2. Pack of cards (4)<br />
3. Reverie (8)<br />
4. Cosmetics (4-2)<br />
5. Lapse of normal standards (10)<br />
6. This symbol: * (8)<br />
8. Method (6)<br />
13. Nobleman (10)<br />
15. Experienced (8)<br />
17. Inveterate (8)<br />
18. Although (6)<br />
20. Vocation (6)<br />
22. Powerful (6)<br />
24. Sharp feeling of regret (4)<br />
Crossword<br />
Across: 7. Edgeways,<br />
9. Ambush, 10. Link, 11.<br />
Dishearten, 12. Gyrate, 14.<br />
Emphasis, 15. Stigma, 16.<br />
Shrink, 19. Nautical, <strong>21</strong>.<br />
Banish, 23. Concurrent,<br />
24. Pare, 25. Negate, 26.<br />
Training.<br />
Down: 1. Oddity, 2. Deck,<br />
3. Daydream, 4. Make-up,<br />
5. Aberration, 6. Asterisk,<br />
8. System, 13. Aristocrat,<br />
15. Seasoned, 17. Habitual,<br />
18. Albeit, 20. Career, 22.<br />
Strong, 24. Pang.<br />
WordBuilder<br />
Ire, lei, let, lie, lip, lire, lit,<br />
lite, litre, pelt, per, peri, peril,<br />
pert, pet, pie, pier, pile, pit,<br />
rep, ret, riel, rile, rip, ripe,<br />
rite, tie, tier, tile, tiler, tip, tire,<br />
trip, tripe, TRIPLE<br />
DECODER<br />
Each number represents a different letter of the alphabet. Write the<br />
given letters into all squares with matching numbers. Now work out<br />
which letters are represented by the other numbers.<br />
Decoder<br />
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