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<strong>Canterbury</strong> <strong>News</strong>, <strong>April</strong> <strong>18</strong>, <strong>2024</strong><br />
Poppiesaplenty in Rangiora<br />
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It’s poppy day tomorrow and joining<br />
them on stands this year will be the<br />
special CookieTime Anzac cookies.<br />
The poppies and cookies go on sale in<br />
<strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> tomorrow, Friday,<br />
<strong>April</strong> 19, as RSA’sgear up for Anzac Day.<br />
The Rangiora ReturnedServices<br />
Association’s woman’s section, have<br />
been hardatwork preparing for the<br />
annual Poppy Day street appeal.<br />
Woman’s President Pat Youngman<br />
says it takes alot of organising each year<br />
to tee up collectors, sales points and<br />
arrange transportation for over 60 boxes<br />
of the red poppies and boxes of the<br />
CookieTime cookies into Rangiora.<br />
The special cookies were launched as<br />
afund raiser just acouple of weeks ago<br />
and havealready proved popular.<br />
‘‘On Friday we will have collectors out<br />
manning points at mostsupermarkets,<br />
up and down High Street, and other<br />
select locations around Rangiora,’’ she<br />
says.<br />
The iconic poppies and Anzac cookies<br />
are sold sidebyside this year, and will<br />
be available from 9am to 4.30pm on<br />
Friday, and alsoatanumberofother<br />
sites for the next couple of weeks.<br />
Poppy Day is the biggest fund raiser<br />
for the NZ RSA’s Welfare services and<br />
Pat reminds people that everything<br />
raised in the Waimakariri District stays<br />
there.<br />
‘‘It goes to help all our veteran welfare<br />
projects helping servicemenand women<br />
in the district.’’<br />
Pat says that over the past couple of<br />
decades she has noticed aupswing in<br />
younger people attending the Anzac Day<br />
parades.<br />
‘‘It’s great to see teenagers coming<br />
along in greater numbers to the dawn<br />
parades, schools around the region are<br />
continuing to keep the memory of what<br />
the poppies commemorate and that’s<br />
good to see.’’<br />
In New Zealand the poppy has<br />
Poppy appeal ... The boxes for the RSA poppy day appeal ready for tomorrow’s Poppy<br />
Day Street Appeal. From left, Rangiora Returned Services Association’s woman's section<br />
President Pat Youngman, and committee members Anne Jones and Chris Walsh.<br />
PHOTO: JOHN COSGROVE<br />
historicalsignificance,commemorating<br />
veteranswho served in all the wars and<br />
conflicts kiwi soldiers have taken part in<br />
since WW1.<br />
The RSA planned to hold its first<br />
Poppy Day appeal justbefore Armistice<br />
Day in 1921, as other countries were<br />
doing.<br />
When the ship bringing the poppies<br />
from France arrived too late for the<br />
scheme to be properly publicised, the<br />
association decided to wait until Anzac<br />
Day 1922. All New Zealand poppies are<br />
made in the country.<br />
Weekend nightmarket mooted in Kaiapoi<br />
By DAVID HILL,<br />
Local Democracy Reporter<br />
Kaiapoi is set to have aweekend night<br />
market.<br />
The Waimakariri District Council has<br />
approved aoneyear licence with<br />
Market Investment Ltd, the company<br />
behind the Christchurch Night Market,<br />
to run aweekly night market in the<br />
Kaiapoi park and ride car park.<br />
Mayor Dan Gordon said the proposed<br />
night market was one of several<br />
‘‘exciting’’ initiatives being developed in<br />
Kaiapoi, including anew music festival<br />
‘‘Kaiapoi Riversong’’planned this<br />
Saturday, <strong>April</strong> 20.<br />
‘‘The Kaiapoi Night Market will add<br />
another dimension to the fantastic<br />
dining and shopping experiences<br />
already on offer in the town.<br />
‘‘There is such avibrancy in Kaiapoi<br />
which has been contributed to by the<br />
New Zealand Motor Caravan<br />
Association park operating in the<br />
regeneration land.<br />
‘‘Having the night market will offer<br />
these visitors another great experience<br />
of the town.’’<br />
Mr Gordon said council staff have<br />
engaged with Kaiapoi hospitality and<br />
retail businesses and found no<br />
opposition to the night market proposal.<br />
The Kaiapoi Night Market is subject<br />
to aresource consent, but is expected to<br />
start in the winter months. While no<br />
date has been set for the market’s<br />
opening, it is expected to be held on<br />
either aSaturday or Sunday night.<br />
The company anticipates amarket<br />
with 50 stalls, including amix of food<br />
and beverage providers and retail.<br />
Council staff will review the market<br />
after six months to assess its impact on<br />
Kaiapoi’s existing hospitality<br />
businesses.<br />
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