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8 North NEWS Canterbury News, May 2, 2024 Council receives 336 LTP submissions ByDAVID HILL, Local Democracy Reporter Waimakariri residents havehad their say on the Long Term Plan and given councillors plenty to consider. Acouncil spokesperson says ‘‘a healthy’’ 336 submissions havebeen received to the 2024/34 Long Term Plan, making 1670 submission points. The councilisdue to hold hearings on the submissions on Wednesday, May 8, from 9.30am, in the Ruataniwha Kaiapoi Civic Centre and then in the Oxford Town Hall from 3pm. Asecond day of hearings will be held in the council chambersinRangiora the following day from 1pm. The councilhas signalled arates hike of 8.94 percent this year, which is thought to be the lowestproposedrates rise in Canterbury. Mayor Dan Gordon said the council was feeling the effects of the cost of living crisis,while continuing to pay off its earthquake recovery and Mainpower Stadium loans. The district’s population is projected to grow from around 70,000 to 82,075 by 2034, based on Stats NZ’s high growth scenario. To support that growth, the council is proposing to spendaround $693 million over the next 10 years. Managing the natural environment, flood resilience,community facilities and transport infrastructure were being consultedon. Key projects include the proposed Rangiora eastern link road, adraft natural environment strategy, the Rangiora Library extension and expansion plans for Mainpower Oval. Once the hearings have concluded, the council will resume its Long Term Plan deliberations on May 21 and 22, before the final adoption in June. The Hurunui District Council has received around150 submissions on its Long Term Plan, with hearings scheduledfor May 6and 7. The council will resume its deliberations on May 14 and 15, before adoptingthe plan next month. Around 50 submissions had been received on the Kaikōura District Council’s Long Term Plan by Monday, with submissions due to close on Tuesday (April 30). Hearings and deliberations are planned on May 15 and 16. LDR is local body journalism cofunded by RNZ and NZ On Air. Rubbish fashion show Turning rubbish into afashion statement will be in its 27th year when the next Kaikōura Trash Fashion event is held in 2025. Kaikouraiswell known for its innovative waste ideas, and the Lions Club of Seaward Kaikourahas taken this to the next level with its twonight wearable art show. Entrants are being called on to start thinkingabout their garments, and to start ‘‘building’’ them now in preparation for the next year’s show. Categories have been sorted —Kids (a book character); Teens, (2050 ... Idream of being); Novice (Magic of the Night); Evening (Putting on the Ritz); Top Half (Head in the right direction shoulders up, black top and pants); Adventure (On the Farm Natural wonders natural fibres and elements); Open (Comedic Culture). Wedding category 2023 .. Wedding outfit made out of garden items and baking paper made by Toni Batey took second place. PHOTO: SUPPLIED Resiliencecostly By DAVID HILL, Local Democracy Reporter Almost $42 million will need to be spenttoensure Waimakariri’s three waters infrastructure is resilient to future climate change,according to a report commissionedbythe council. But the work is not budgeted for another 10 years. Waimakariri District Council three waters manager Kalley Simpson said the report is built on areport preparedbyNiwa (the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research) in 2022. It estimated$41.9 million will need to spentover a10year period from 2034 to ensure the three water’s infrastructure is resilient. Niwa’s report foundthe district would face more extremes in weather, increased river flows, more hotdays and increases in rainfall intensity. Mr Simpson saidmore work was needed to fully understand the risks, before preparing afuture renewal programme. ‘‘We need to look at what is our strategy for dealing with these risks and it needs to be included in our business as usual renewal of assets.’’ He said the $41.9 million did not include rural water infrastructure or the risks to the roadingnetwork and this will need to be factored into future planning. ‘‘This is our first cut and it is very high level, but it has given us an idea of the investment required.’’ Councillor Philip Redmond said despite the challenges, the latest report showed the council was in a good space. ‘‘I realise there are various views out there on whether climate change is real or not. ‘‘But at the end of the day we have to make certain assumptions and deal with what we are being delivered by mother nature. ‘‘Although the costs are quite mouthwatering, the cost could have been much worse, so it is quite encouraging.’’ The Niwa report presented moderate intensity and high intensity scenarios for the Waimakariri district. Under the moderate intensity scenario, Niwa predicted the average temperature will increase by between 0.5 and 1degree by 2040 and by 1to1.5 degrees by 2090. The district will experience a13 percent increase in rainfall by 2040 and up to a5%increase by 2090, while the drought index will see increased moisture deficits over longer periods, the report said. The high intensity scenario would see more extremes by 2090. LDR is local body journalism cofunded by RNZ and NZ On Air. DELIVERERS WANTED Get fit with part time work delivering newspapers and mailers into letterboxes. •Regular weekly work •Noexperience necessary • We are alocally owned company •It’s easy, wedrop the newspapers/mailers to your door Email: deliveries@alliedpress.co.nz Include your name, address, email, phone number OR SCAN THE QR CODE TO APPLY
Longevity in Don’sgenes By JOHN COSGROVE Living along life is in Don Keen’s family genes. Today, Donald (Don) Keen, of Rangiora celebrates his 100th birthday, at Holmwood Care Centre. Don’s mother Ethel, reached 109, an older brother 106 and another sister reached 102. Ethel was the oldest living New Zealander in 1982 when she died. About 30 relatives and friends joined his three children —Donna, Sharon and David (who had travelled from Perth,) for afamily celebration at the facility. When Don was ayoungster,his father Edwin Keen used horses to cultivate the family’s market garden plots at Morven just north of the Waitaki River on the way to Waimate in South Canterbury. ‘‘We had two horses, some cows and afew pigs. My job in the mornings before Iwould set out to catch the train to secondary school was to separate the cream using a churning separator.’’ His mum Ethel made their butter and any surplus was sold to the Waimate Creamery. She was also adab hand at curing bacon. With 11 children in the family, sleeping arrangements in the small family homestead included five of the children in an outside hut containing an oil drum furnace to heat it in the winter. Life was hard but fun in the small rural community which boarded the main trunk railway line in Morven. The second youngest of the family, Don still recalls being carried on his older brother Tom’s Don Keen shoulders as they crossed the Waihao River bridge during one of many flood events, surrounded by raging water, trees and debris. He also recalls family fishing trips to the nearby coast to supplement the family meals. He says he prefers eels to trout, and the fishing trips often produced more than they could eat, so the excess was used for manure on the paddocks. While Don was at technical college in Timaru, his father died at the age of 59. His father had volunteered for military service in the Boer War, but was invalided home after contracting severe illnesses including Influenza and Dysentery. When WW II started Don was working as aclerical cadet with New Zealand Railways. He was called up in 1941, and after his basic training, was posted to an antiaircraft battery on the foreshore of Dunedin. In 1943 he was recalled to the Railways department and lived in Alexandra before he was recalled back into the army in May of 1945. With the war ending Don volunteered to join the J Force contingent to serve in Japan where he witnessed the devastation caused by the atomic bomb at Hiroshima. Discharged in 1947 he returned to the railways, working at Ravensbourne in Dunedin. In 1949 he married Estelle Kennedy. The couple had three children. He became station master at Seacliff where he had many adventures with patients absconding from the nearby mental health facility. He and his growing family then moved to Clyde. Acouple of years later, he was transferred to Springfield, then eventually Sockburn. He retired after 40 years of service to NZ Railways in 1980. But didn’t stay retired for long, working in the transport industry in Christchurch. Estelle died in 1983. Don retired again, and took up lawn bowls where he met an old friend of his late wife. Amel and Don were married in 1986. The couple travelled and played bowls for the next 17 years until Amel died in 2003.Don moved to Holmwood, in September 2023. NEWS North Canterbury News, May 2, 2024 9 Exploring nature ... Members of the Chen family, Coco, left, with her daughter Iris, aged one, and son George, aged eight, from Christchurch, during avisit to the Northbrook Wetlands in Rangiora for one of Waimakariri’s iNaturalist NZ City Nature Challenge events, the Mini BioBlitz of Northbrook Wetlands. PHOTO: SHELLEY TOPP Mini wetlands bioblitz Asmall group of nature enthusiasts took part in amini bioblitz of Northbrook Wetlands in Rangiora last Sunday. The bioblitz, which is afocus on finding and identifying as many species as possible in a specific area over ashort period of time, was hosted by Waimakariri District Council ecologist Dr Bex Dollery. The environmental event was part of the Waimakariri District Council and the Waimakariri Biodiversity Trust’s collaboration with the iNaturalist NZ City Nature Challenge. There were four other Waimakariri events included in the challenge, which ran from April 26 to April 29, and was part of the annual fourday global City Nature Challenge. It is organised by San Francisco’s California Academy of Sciences and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, and hosted by community groups in other participating countries. The aim is to provide scientists, educators, urban planners, and policymakers with key data on the status of local and global biodiversity. 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