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THURSDAY, MARCH <strong>28</strong>, <strong>2024</strong><br />
• By Sasha Watson<br />
EXTENSIVE TRAINING was<br />
a key factor in Ailsa Newton’s<br />
walk of 8480 steps in the Les<br />
Mills City2Surf fun run.<br />
Not bad for a 92-year-old.<br />
Ailsa completed the 6.5km<br />
distance from Porritt Park to<br />
Rawhiti Domain in one hour<br />
and 43 minutes.<br />
“The event was very good<br />
and very well organised. It was<br />
a relief to finish and I was very<br />
glad to sit down.<br />
“I am quite proud of myself<br />
for having done it. As people<br />
say, use it or lose it. I must say<br />
thank you to all who supported<br />
me.”<br />
Ailsa, a resident at the<br />
Archer Retirement Village and<br />
Rest Home in Beckenham,<br />
said having its staff organise<br />
the walk helped push her to<br />
complete it.<br />
She was joined by her son<br />
Brian McCracken and fellow<br />
residents, the home’s general<br />
manager Jane Haughey and site<br />
manager Philip Hanson.<br />
The ex-Brookhaven resident<br />
had persevered with extensive<br />
training for six weeks by<br />
walking daily.<br />
On the event day, she<br />
surpassed her 6km milestone<br />
which she had achieved the<br />
week before.<br />
• Turn to page 5<br />
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92yo Ailsa’s motto:<br />
‘Use it or lose it’<br />
STEADY PACE: Ailsa Newton managed to cover 8480 steps in the Les Mills City2Surf<br />
fun run. She was supported by her son Brian McCracken, as well as fellow residents<br />
and staff from Archer Retirement Village and Rest Home.<br />
Residents<br />
call on<br />
police,<br />
patrollers<br />
to do more<br />
about crime<br />
• By Sasha Watson<br />
CAR THEFTS, home burglaries<br />
and other petty crimes have<br />
forced Avonhead and Russley<br />
residents to ask for more action<br />
from police and the community<br />
patrol.<br />
However, Christchurch North<br />
Community Patrol president<br />
Mary Chappell said the patrol<br />
needs more volunteers to monitor<br />
the behaviour.<br />
“We have<br />
about 30 regular<br />
patrollers, but<br />
each is only<br />
required to do<br />
one patrol per<br />
month.<br />
“If we had<br />
more volunteers,<br />
we could get<br />
Mary<br />
Chappell<br />
more patrols running.<br />
“Crime is constant. We get<br />
called out mostly to residential<br />
incidents.<br />
Chappell said the patrollers<br />
continue to talk to businesses in<br />
their area about crime and update<br />
them on “what’s going on”.<br />
“The crimes are worse in some<br />
areas and often, when crime<br />
dies in one spot, it increases in<br />
another,” Chappell said.<br />
“Break-ins to cars are difficult to<br />
catch as they happen in the early<br />
morning.”<br />
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‘Thieves will get inside your<br />
house even if you’re home’<br />
•From page 1<br />
“House break-ins can happen<br />
anytime during the day,”<br />
Chappell said.<br />
“It’s spooky – thieves will get<br />
inside your house even if you’re<br />
home.”<br />
The call for more action comes<br />
after residents approached<br />
Waimairi Ward city councillor<br />
Sam MacDonald to tell him<br />
about their experiences with<br />
criminal activity.<br />
MacDonald<br />
then got in touch<br />
with the patrol<br />
and police.<br />
He said it was<br />
quite concerning<br />
to hear residents<br />
Sam<br />
MacDonald<br />
concerns and he<br />
was taking them<br />
seriously.<br />
“It’s not ideal<br />
for an area of little crime.<br />
“We have to do something. We<br />
are working with the relevant<br />
organisations to help. They all do<br />
a great job.”<br />
MacDonald sent an email<br />
to Canterbury metro area<br />
commander, Superintendent<br />
Lane Todd, last week to ask<br />
if there had been an increase<br />
in crime in the area and get<br />
some advice to give back to the<br />
community.<br />
“(Todd’s) response was there<br />
had been an increase from <strong>March</strong><br />
to November last year but it has<br />
dropped back to a more normal<br />
amount, following historical<br />
trends,” MacDonald said.<br />
“The good thing is the police<br />
are aware and are continuing to<br />
monitor the area.<br />
“They have a focus on particular<br />
measures for youth crime.<br />
“But the best and biggest thing<br />
the community can do is to make<br />
sure everyone is reporting every<br />
crime.<br />
“This helps the police with the<br />
numbers and where to put resources.<br />
I also encourage anyone<br />
BROKEN: Residents posted<br />
these photos of car breakins<br />
to the Russley/Avonhead/<br />
Yaldhurst Community<br />
Group page on Facebook.<br />
who can to join the community<br />
patrol.<br />
“Some other suggestions is to<br />
not leave any valuables in your<br />
vehicles, and try not to park on<br />
the street as much as possible.”<br />
MacDonald said he will<br />
continue to monitor community<br />
feedback on crime in the area.<br />
Based on what he receives, he<br />
plans to host a public meeting<br />
sometime after Easter to discuss<br />
these issues and the solutions.<br />
Plan to help<br />
disabled<br />
people take<br />
up sailing<br />
• By Dylan Smits<br />
A NEW charity helping<br />
disabled people to sail is<br />
hoping to be fully operational<br />
by spring.<br />
The SailAbility Canterbury<br />
Charitable Trust held a sailing<br />
fundraiser, which served as a<br />
test drive for their proposed<br />
service.<br />
“We want to support as<br />
many people as possible to get<br />
into sailing,” said trustee Ben<br />
Acland.<br />
“We know currently there<br />
is no way to get people with<br />
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The future sailing<br />
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• By Dylan Smits<br />
THE ICONIC Lyttelton<br />
steam tug’s sailing days could<br />
be over if it does not find<br />
about $300,000 needed for a<br />
refit.<br />
The 116-year-old tug has been<br />
out of commission since August,<br />
when the vessel’s boilers failed a<br />
safety inspection.<br />
“At the end of the day, if we<br />
don’t get the funding it will<br />
be the end of the tug,” said<br />
preservation society president<br />
Mike Bruce.<br />
The refit plan is on hold until<br />
at least $70,000 is raised, which<br />
will allow work<br />
to begin.<br />
The society<br />
has $30,000<br />
in the bank,<br />
and $70,000<br />
guaranteed<br />
from various<br />
organisations<br />
if it reaches<br />
a $190,000<br />
threshold. To<br />
Mike<br />
Bruce<br />
achieve that, it must first find<br />
another $90,000.<br />
“We’re really treading water<br />
here until we get the funds,” said<br />
Bruce.<br />
Some of the larger costs are<br />
replacing the steam tubes and<br />
installing an electric pre-heater<br />
for<br />
the boiler.<br />
The refit could give the tug<br />
another 40 to 50 years of life,<br />
said Bruce.<br />
The society is finding it<br />
difficult to get charitable or<br />
corporate sponsors on board.<br />
“You do get despondent with<br />
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End of the line<br />
for historic<br />
tug?<br />
ALL ABOARD: The Lyttelton tug has been used for harbour cruises since it was retired<br />
from service in 1971.<br />
all the rejected letters,” Bruce<br />
said.<br />
“We really don’t want to<br />
consider the fact we might not<br />
get the funding,” said Bruce.<br />
“We all believe we’re going to<br />
have a breakthrough moment.”<br />
The society is hopeful the tug<br />
will receive the necessary funding<br />
and refit within a year.<br />
A givealittle page has been set<br />
up to help crowdfund, but this<br />
has only brought in small sums<br />
to date.<br />
Bruce said the tug will need<br />
much larger grants to achieve its<br />
funding goal.<br />
Despite the challenges, it could<br />
be years until the society calls it<br />
quits on the tug as long as members<br />
stay passionate and keep up<br />
basic maintenance, said Bruce.<br />
The preservation society’s<br />
trained volunteers maintain the<br />
tug at weekly sessions, which<br />
Bruce said have a “phenomenal<br />
turnout”.<br />
The $300,000 refit is only the<br />
start of a long-term plan for a<br />
$1.5 million modernisation of the<br />
vessel.<br />
This would include a new<br />
rear canopy, visual aids and<br />
information for tour guests, and<br />
an interior renovation to make the<br />
tug more attractive for visitors.<br />
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Lyttelton’s<br />
THE LYTTELTON steam<br />
tug has a 116-year-long<br />
history.<br />
Built in 1907 by the<br />
Ferguson Brothers firm in<br />
Glasgow, it came to Lyttelton<br />
via the newly completed Suez<br />
Canal. It served as the port’s<br />
main tug until World War 2.<br />
Initially called Canterbury,<br />
its name was changed to<br />
Lyttelton in 1911.<br />
The vessel drew massive<br />
crowds in 1913 when it<br />
tugged the battlecruiser HMS<br />
New Zealand into harbour,<br />
and again in 1920 when it<br />
assisted the battlecruiser<br />
HMS Renown, which was<br />
carrying King Edward VIII<br />
when he was Prince of Wales<br />
during his tour of New<br />
Zealand.<br />
In 1942, the tug was requisitioned<br />
for service and<br />
armed by the Royal New<br />
Zealand Navy.<br />
She returned to normal<br />
port service in 1944.<br />
Following the introduction<br />
of the new tug Canterbury,<br />
the tug was retired in 1971.<br />
A museum ship ever<br />
since, it was leased for $2<br />
a year to the Tug Lyttelton<br />
Preservation Society. In 1989,<br />
the society was gifted full<br />
ownership of the tug by the<br />
Lyttelton Harbour Board.<br />
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long harbour life well lived<br />
HARBOUR HISTORY: The tug Lyttelton was built in Glasgow in 1907 and<br />
was initially called Canterbury. Below – boys from three children’s homes<br />
on a Christmas harbour cruise in 1970.<br />
CELEBRATED: Archer Village’s acting activities provider, Bridie O’Flaherty,<br />
helped Ailsa Newton prepare for the walk and presented her with flowers<br />
and a pair of socks.<br />
Ailsa setting sights<br />
on next challenge<br />
• From page 1<br />
“I’m still asking myself why I did it. I will<br />
never do it again.<br />
“But, I am looking at taking on a 5km<br />
Pink Ribbon walk in October. I’m resting for<br />
now, so we will see . . . I’ll be a bit older by<br />
then,” she said.<br />
Having been a keen walker for many years,<br />
Ailsa was once a part of the WEA Trampers<br />
and the Cashmere Athletic walking group.<br />
“I started walking when I was one year old<br />
. . . but I joined my groups a long time ago<br />
so I’ve been actively walking for about 75<br />
years.”<br />
She continues to walk 1.5km four days<br />
a week and takes part in the rest home’s<br />
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3 Tbsp coconut flour<br />
1 tsp baking powder<br />
Pinch of salt<br />
150ml (2/3 cup) milk<br />
3 eggs, beaten<br />
4 Tbsp runny honey<br />
1 tsp vanilla extract<br />
5 Tbsp mixed seeds, such as<br />
linseeds/flaxseeds, chia seeds,<br />
sunflower seeds, poppy seeds<br />
2 Tbsp coconut oil<br />
Cocoa sauce<br />
4 Tbsp raw cocoa powder<br />
2½ Tbsp runny honey<br />
2½ Tbsp coconut oil, melted<br />
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50g dried berries, such as goji,<br />
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100g mixed fresh berries such<br />
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flour, baking powder and salt<br />
into a mixing bowl. Combine the<br />
milk, eggs, honey and vanilla in<br />
a separate bowl and beat into the<br />
flours to make a smooth batter.<br />
Fold in the mixed seeds.<br />
• Heat the coconut oil in<br />
the ovenproof frying pan/<br />
skillet until melted. Pour in the<br />
pancake batter and transfer to<br />
the preheated oven. Bake in the<br />
preheated oven for 15 minutes<br />
until the pancake is puffed up<br />
and golden.<br />
• Meanwhile, make the cocoa<br />
sauce. Place all the ingredients<br />
in a saucepan with 4 tablespoons<br />
water and heat gently, stirring,<br />
until smooth. Keep warm.<br />
• As soon as the pancake is<br />
cooked, remove it from the oven.<br />
Spoon the yoghurt into the centre<br />
and top with the dried and fresh<br />
berries. Drizzle over the cocoa<br />
sauce and serve at once, dusted<br />
with a little icing/confectioners’<br />
sugar.<br />
Best ever Bloody Mary<br />
Serves 4<br />
400g cherry vine tomatoes<br />
olive oil, for drizzling<br />
500ml tomato juice<br />
2 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce<br />
2 Tbsp sriracha chilli sauce<br />
3cm piece of fresh horseradish,<br />
peeled and finely grated<br />
60ml freshly squeezed<br />
lime juice<br />
300ml vodka<br />
sea salt and freshly ground black<br />
pepper<br />
To garnish<br />
Celery stalks<br />
Chilli flakes<br />
Method:<br />
• Preheat the oven to 180°C.<br />
• Place the tomatoes on a<br />
baking sheet, drizzle with<br />
olive oil and season with salt<br />
and pepper. Roast for 15-20<br />
minutes, or until the skins<br />
begin to split.<br />
• Put the tomato juice and<br />
roast tomatoes in a food<br />
processor and blend until<br />
smooth.<br />
• Transfer to a large jug and<br />
stir in the Worcestershire sauce,<br />
sriracha chilli/chilli sauce and<br />
grated horseradish. Season with<br />
salt and pepper, cover with<br />
cling film and chill in the fridge<br />
for at least 30 minutes.<br />
• When ready to serve, add<br />
the lime juice and vodka and<br />
stir well.<br />
• Place a celery stalk in four<br />
highball glasses, half-fill each<br />
glass with ice and pour in the<br />
Bloody Mary mixture. Garnish<br />
each with a pinch of chilli flakes<br />
and enjoy!<br />
Sorry we’re in your way<br />
Expect delays in<br />
Bishopdale<br />
We’re working on and around Harewood Road<br />
between 25 <strong>March</strong> and early May. We’re doing<br />
investigation work to plan our approach for<br />
future projects.<br />
Temporary traffic changes include:<br />
• Intersection closures<br />
• On street parking loss<br />
• Stop/go signals<br />
• Detours<br />
We know road works are disruptive for you. We’ll work<br />
hard to minimise the impacts and keep traffic flowing.<br />
INF6979 <strong>March</strong> <strong>2024</strong><br />
Find out more<br />
ccc.govt.nz/bishopdale-works<br />
Ngā mihi nui, thanks for your patience.
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Toyota’s peppy hybrid hatch the best Yaris yet<br />
A GOOD EXAMPLE of SUVs<br />
being hot and hatches not is the<br />
Toyota Yaris a funky five-door<br />
hatch, which hardly gets a sales<br />
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almost $4k more.<br />
The current Yaris is now<br />
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I noticed the hybrid seemed<br />
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This compact five-door<br />
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CROSSWORD<br />
1 2 3 4 5 6 7<br />
8 9<br />
10 11<br />
341<br />
SUDOKU<br />
Every row, column and box should<br />
contain the digits 1 to 9.<br />
WordBuilder<br />
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241<br />
6<br />
U R C<br />
O L A<br />
12 13 14 15<br />
16<br />
17 18<br />
19<br />
20 21 22 23 24<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 />
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Good 14 Very Good 17 Excellent 21<br />
Solution 240: Ire, lei, let, lie, lip, lire, lit, lite, litre,<br />
pelt, per, peri, peril, pert, pet, pie, pier, pile, pit, rep,<br />
word.<br />
ret, riel, rile, rip, ripe, rite, tie, tier, tile, tiler, tip, tire,<br />
trip, tripe, TRIPLE.<br />
letters, including plurals, can you make<br />
No words beginning with a capital are<br />
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Good 14 Very Good 17 Excellent 21<br />
25 26<br />
27 <strong>28</strong><br />
29 30<br />
31 32<br />
33 34<br />
Across<br />
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5. Rush madly (6)<br />
10. Without purpose (7)<br />
11. Deliberately vague (7)<br />
12. Heat (6)<br />
15. Cow-like (6)<br />
16. Temporary stay, visit (7)<br />
17. Delight (4)<br />
18. Charges (4)<br />
19. Ruddy (7)<br />
20. Lifeless (4)<br />
22. Girl (4)<br />
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27. Entreaty (6)<br />
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31. Lack of sophistication (7)<br />
32. Minor illness (7)<br />
33. Car model; insect (6)<br />
34. Dawn (literary) (6)<br />
Decoder<br />
Down<br />
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4. Chaff (4)<br />
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6. Justification (6)<br />
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13. Nonetheless (7)<br />
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23. Unpaid performer (7)<br />
24. Military greeting (6)<br />
25. Building material (6)<br />
26. Deer horn (6)<br />
29. Ancient harp (4)<br />
30. Mad (colloq) (4)<br />
Crossword<br />
Across: 1. Kitsch, 5. Career,<br />
10. Aimless, 11. Evasive,<br />
12. Warmth, 15. Bovine, 16.<br />
Sojourn, 17. Glee, 18. Fees,<br />
19. Reddish, 20. Dead, 22.<br />
Lass, 25. Cedilla, 27. Prayer,<br />
<strong>28</strong>. Entail, 31. Naivety, 32.<br />
Ailment, 33. Beetle, 34.<br />
Aurora.<br />
Down: 2. Immerse, 3.<br />
Sweats, 4. Husk, 5. Clef,<br />
6. Reason, 7. Edifice, 8.<br />
Earwig, 9. Recess, 13.<br />
However, 14. Boudoir, 15.<br />
Bristle, 20. Depend, 21.<br />
Avarice, 23. Amateur, 24.<br />
Salute, 25. Cement, 26.<br />
Antler, 29. Lyre, 30. Gaga.<br />
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coral, cru, cur, curl, lac, lour,<br />
oar, oca, OCULAR, oral, orc,<br />
orca, our, roc<br />
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Musgroves is a<br />
household name in<br />
Canterbury and is<br />
well known throughout<br />
the South Island as a<br />
pioneer in the trading<br />
of quality recycled &<br />
new building materials<br />
and joinery.<br />
Less waste,<br />
more purpose.<br />
Doors<br />
Windows<br />
Kitchens<br />
Bathroom & Laundry<br />
& Much<br />
More...<br />
HOURS: Monday to Friday: 8am-5pm; Saturday: 8am-4pm<br />
Musgroves Ltd, 3 Musgrove Close, Wigram, Christchurch<br />
03 322 7922 sales@musgroves.co.nz<br />
www.musgroves.co.nz