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16 th March <strong>2025</strong><br />
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, <strong>2025</strong><br />
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Cyclist ready to roll for<br />
Youth Hub fundraiser<br />
• By Jack Ward<br />
A SEMI-RETIRED<br />
accountant is about to cycle<br />
the length of the country<br />
to give back to those less<br />
fortunate.<br />
David Barker will embark on<br />
Tour Aotearoa – a 3000km bike<br />
ride from Cape Reinga to Bluff<br />
– on Saturday, to raise $50,000<br />
for Youth Hub Christchurch.<br />
The 64-year-old said he is<br />
no stranger to cycling, but this<br />
journey will be uncharted territory.<br />
“I’ve always done a bit of<br />
biking, done the odd multiday<br />
trip in the saddle but this<br />
is a bit out of left-field.”<br />
He said he had no direct<br />
connection to Youth Hub, but<br />
the work it was doing resonated<br />
with him.<br />
“Youth Hub Christchurch<br />
has the vision of enabling all<br />
young people in Canterbury<br />
the opportunity to lead<br />
healthy, safe and valued lives,<br />
fulfilling their potential and<br />
vibrantly contributing to their<br />
community,” he said.<br />
Youth Hub Christchurch is<br />
New Zealand’s first purposebuilt<br />
youth hub, complete with<br />
supported housing facilities.<br />
Barker, from Upper<br />
Riccarton, said he spoke to<br />
others who had completed<br />
Tour Aotearoa before<br />
deciding. • Turn to page 4<br />
GEARING UP: David Barker and Youth Hub Christchurch chair Dame Sue Bagshaw<br />
ahead of his Tour Aotearoa fundraiser, which starts on Saturday.<br />
Confidence<br />
in the city<br />
council up<br />
9%, survey<br />
shows<br />
A NEW NATIONAL ‘quality of<br />
life survey’ shows most people<br />
do not have confidence in the<br />
city council’s ability to make<br />
decisions in the best interests of<br />
the community.<br />
The biennial survey questioned<br />
6994 Kiwis about their life in<br />
New Zealand’s main centres<br />
– Christchurch, Auckland,<br />
Dunedin, Hamilton, Hutt City,<br />
Porirua, Tauranga and Wellington<br />
– last year.<br />
Out of the 524 respondents in<br />
Christchurch, just 38% said they<br />
have confidence in the city council’s<br />
decisions, compared to 29%<br />
in 2022. Across New Zealand’s big<br />
cities, the average was just 30%.<br />
However, 80% of the survey<br />
respondents said they are enjoying<br />
life in Christchurch, compared<br />
to 81% in 2022. The city ranked<br />
slightly higher than the average<br />
for New Zealand’s big cities of<br />
77%.<br />
Most other cities saw<br />
a larger drop in quality of life<br />
between 2022 and 2024.<br />
Of the respondents, 26%<br />
said their quality of life in<br />
Christchurch had increased,<br />
compared to 12 months ago, up<br />
from 19% in 2022.<br />
Christchurch was also<br />
considered a great place to live<br />
by 77% of people. They cited the<br />
central city coming back to life<br />
and access to recreational facilities<br />
as reasons for living in the city.<br />
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JP Clinic<br />
Thursdays, 10.30am-1pm<br />
South and Spreydon Libraries<br />
A Justice of the Peace will be on<br />
site for services including: Witness<br />
signatures on documents, certification<br />
of document copies, taking oaths,<br />
declarations, affidavits or affirmations,<br />
applications for the dissolution of<br />
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Knit ‘n’ Yarn<br />
Thursdays, 1.30-3.30pm<br />
Opawa Baptist Church<br />
During South Library’s rebuild, our<br />
knitting group has found a temporary<br />
home at Opawa Baptist Church. Bring<br />
your current work in progress, share<br />
your fibre art hopes and dreams and<br />
meet like-minded people. For more<br />
information contact Kaylene 021 113<br />
4819 or Bronwen 022 085 0161.<br />
A Walk through Time – The<br />
South Library Story: Timeline<br />
Exhibition<br />
All day until <strong>February</strong> 8<br />
South Library<br />
Visit South Library and walk along our<br />
timeline, showing events from 2003<br />
until today. There are photos, articles<br />
and information about the library,<br />
community events, programmes, and<br />
staff. It is also an opportunity to learn<br />
more about Ōmōkihi, the new South<br />
Library which will connect the building<br />
back to its riverside site.<br />
Lunar New Year Bilingual Wā Kōrero Storytimes, Friday, 10.30-<br />
11am, Spreydon Library. Celebrate the Year of the Snake with our special<br />
bilingual storytimes. Meet others in our community when you and your<br />
preschooler join us for a fun variety of stories, songs and rhymes which<br />
foster children’s literacy. Perfect for 2-5 years. All whānau and caregivers<br />
welcome. Free, no bookings required.<br />
Let’s Have a Cuppa!<br />
Tuesday, 10.45-11.45am<br />
Spreydon Library<br />
Join us for a social morning with<br />
free hot drinks and snacks! Make<br />
yourself comfortable and spend some<br />
time talking to other members of the<br />
community and your local librarians.<br />
Take a trip down memory lane as we<br />
share some photos and stories from<br />
Canterbury’s rich history.<br />
Technology Help Drop-In<br />
Session (BYO Device)<br />
Tuesdays, 10.30-11am<br />
Spreydon Library<br />
Do you need help using your<br />
smartphone, iPad, or tablet? Come<br />
along to our drop-in sessions with<br />
one of our librarians for help with<br />
email, searching the internet, using the<br />
library catalogue, eBooks, and general<br />
computer queries. Bring your laptop,<br />
tablet, or smartphone for help.<br />
Spreydon Library Book<br />
Discussion Group<br />
Wednesday, 10-11am<br />
Spreydon Library<br />
For those who love reading and want<br />
to share in discussion with other<br />
friendly book lovers. We subscribe<br />
to the Book Discussion Scheme so<br />
there is a cost involved. Held on the<br />
second Wednesday of the month<br />
Places are limited so please phone<br />
03-941 7923 or email library@ccc.<br />
govt.nz to enquire about availability<br />
and cost.<br />
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Thursday <strong>February</strong> 6 <strong>2025</strong> 3<br />
Hard work pays off for dedicated<br />
gardener with host of accolades<br />
• By Geoff Sloan<br />
AVIDA PARK Lane Retirement<br />
Village & Rest Home has scooped<br />
three major awards in the<br />
<strong>2025</strong> Christchurch Beautifying<br />
Association summer garden<br />
competition.<br />
The retirement village’s<br />
beautifully landscaped<br />
grounds have won the premier<br />
commercial award, Peter<br />
Lawrence Challenge Trophy and<br />
the Russley Retirement Village<br />
Premier Challenge Trophy.<br />
The complex is home to 210<br />
residents on Whiteleigh Ave,<br />
Addington.<br />
Village manager Leigh Tabak<br />
and her gardener husband Jaron<br />
Tabak said it was a great team<br />
effort, and credited a number<br />
of residents pitching in to help<br />
where they could.<br />
Leigh said there was “a wee<br />
bit of competition” between the<br />
retirement villages, and it wasn’t<br />
uncommon for residents to go<br />
around and view each other’s<br />
gardens.<br />
Jaron’s gardens are a mix of<br />
different arrangements, with a<br />
variety of plants strategically<br />
placed to bloom all year round.<br />
He said the secret was “just<br />
keeping on top of things and not<br />
BLOOMING LOVELY: Arvida Park Lane manager Leigh<br />
Tabak and her gardener husband, Jaron Tabak. Jaron’s<br />
gardens at the retirement village have won three awards<br />
in the Christchurch Beautifying Association summer<br />
garden competition.<br />
PHOTOS: GEOFF SLOAN<br />
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Keeping everything well watered<br />
and fertilised was also key.<br />
Gardening could be a lot of<br />
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“Especially when you’re sweating<br />
away in the hot sun.”<br />
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Thursday <strong>February</strong> 6 <strong>2025</strong><br />
‘It sounded like a<br />
great challenge’<br />
Sensory mat success<br />
Occupational therapist Anne Bridgman (left) and teacher aide Sharyn<br />
de Garnham at Ferndale School in Merivale with one of the sensory<br />
mats which have been made to help students learn how to dress<br />
themselves. Ferndale School is a specialist school catering to pupils and<br />
students aged 5-21 who have complex needs. The mats were made<br />
by a group of volunteers at a sewing bee. Organiser, St Martins resident<br />
Heather Smith said the school staff were very impressed with the first<br />
instalment of 45 mats. “They will be a great teaching aid for the children,”<br />
Smith said. There was still more sewing to do to accommodate every<br />
student at the school. “It has been a great journey so far and hopefully,<br />
the children will be able to practise their dressing skills more often on the<br />
mats,” Smith said. She felt a sense of pride for what has been achieved so<br />
far. “It’s a great feeling to know I can help – a great way to say thank you<br />
and pass the love forward. I’m very grateful to have the opportunity to do<br />
this with everyone’s support and kindness.” <br />
• From page 1<br />
Barker said Tour Aotearoa “sounded like<br />
a great challenge.”<br />
He started fundraising in September,<br />
when he reached out to his network.<br />
His target of $50,000 was a nice number<br />
to aim for, he said.<br />
As of Tuesday, he had raised $24,450.<br />
“I’ve been surprised by the amount of<br />
people who have given already, it’s quite a<br />
good kickstart.<br />
“People will be able to track my progress<br />
and I have to finish the challenge to activate<br />
the money,” he said.<br />
Barker suggests potential donors give a<br />
certain amount per kilometre travelled.<br />
“One cent per kilometre raises $30,<br />
10 cents raises $300, $1 raises $3000 – it<br />
depends on the person or business.”<br />
Said Youth Hub Christchurch chair<br />
Dame Sue Bagshaw: “This project (Youth<br />
Hub)has attracted people who just want to<br />
give.<br />
“It’s fantastic we have such people in our<br />
community.”<br />
Stage one of the hub was unveiled in October<br />
by Governor General Dame Cindy<br />
Karo.<br />
The first purpose-built youth hub in the<br />
country, it includes a youth services building,<br />
outdoor activities courtyard and supported<br />
housing wing for 22 young people.<br />
“The focus of the hub is to develop<br />
young people because those social connections<br />
have been severed,” Bagshaw said.<br />
“A place to be, a place to help and a<br />
place to connect.”<br />
Barker won’t be alone in his quest – he<br />
will joined by friends and fellow cyclists<br />
Jeremy Gould and Derek Ensor.<br />
“I talked to people who were bikers to<br />
see if they would be interested and up for<br />
it and they said ‘yes’. We are all similar<br />
ages and stages and abilities.<br />
“It is great having company and three is a<br />
good number<br />
– the more people, the<br />
more chance of something going wrong.”<br />
The goal is to complete the 3000km in<br />
under 30 days.<br />
“Time will tell,” Barker said.<br />
• To donate go to https://givealittle.<br />
co.nz/fundraiser/riding-the-length-ofnz-for-our-youth<br />
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Enjoying a timeless afternoon treat<br />
Nigel Slater whips up<br />
some flavoursome<br />
treats for a truly<br />
glorious afternoon tea<br />
in the garden<br />
AFTERNOON tea is a timeless<br />
treat that rarely fails to delight,<br />
and never more so than in a<br />
shady corner on a summer’s<br />
afternoon.<br />
Homemade scones, freshly<br />
baked biscuits and a pot of<br />
tea is a treat beyond measure,<br />
especially if the rain stops for<br />
long enough to set them up on a<br />
table outside.<br />
Feta scones with<br />
watercress and cucumber<br />
butter<br />
Ingredients<br />
Makes 9 scones<br />
Ready in 45 minutes<br />
225g plain flour<br />
3 tsp baking powder<br />
A fat pinch of salt<br />
75g butter<br />
1 Tbsp thyme leaves<br />
100g feta cheese<br />
150ml sheep’s yoghurt<br />
Egg and milk for glazing<br />
For the butter:<br />
120g butter<br />
120g cucumber<br />
3 Tbsp watercress leaves, chopped<br />
You will need a baking sheet lined<br />
with baking parchment<br />
Method<br />
• Preheat the oven to 220°C. Sift<br />
together the flour, baking powder<br />
and salt. Cut the butter into small<br />
pieces and rub into the flour with<br />
your fingertips, or blend in a food<br />
processor until the texture is that<br />
of fresh soft breadcrumbs.<br />
• Chop the thyme leaves, stir<br />
them in, then add to the mixture.<br />
Crumble the feta cheese into<br />
small pieces, then stir in with the<br />
yoghurt. Bring together into a<br />
ball and place on a floured board,<br />
then pat or roll into a thick disc<br />
about 2.5cm in depth.<br />
• Using a 6cm round cutter, cut<br />
out 9 scones (8 from the original<br />
disc of dough, one from the cuttings,<br />
pressed together and patted<br />
into shape.) Place them on the<br />
lined baking sheet. Break the egg<br />
into a small bowl and pour in a<br />
splash of milk, beat briefly with a<br />
fork. Brush the top with a little of<br />
the egg wash, taking care not to<br />
let it run down the sides. Bake for<br />
15 minutes until risen and pale<br />
gold, leave to cool a little, then<br />
transfer to a cooling rack.<br />
• For the cucumber butter:<br />
remove the butter from the<br />
fridge and leave to soften at room<br />
temperature. Coarsely grate the<br />
cucumber into a colander or<br />
sieve, place it on a shallow dish or<br />
in the sink and sprinkle it with<br />
salt. Leave for 30 minutes.<br />
• Beat the butter until soft<br />
and creamy. Squeeze the water<br />
from the cucumber in the palm<br />
of your hand, then stir into the<br />
butter with chopped watercress<br />
(if you don’t have watercress,<br />
add a grinding of black pepper).<br />
• Serve the cucumber butter<br />
with the scones.<br />
Vanilla shortbread with<br />
pistachio and cherries<br />
Ingredients<br />
Makes 16 pieces of shortbread<br />
Ready in 1 hour, plus cooling<br />
For the shortbread:<br />
250g butter<br />
125g caster sugar<br />
1 tsp vanilla bean paste, or a few<br />
drops of vanilla extract<br />
250g plain flour<br />
50g fine semolina<br />
50g cornflour<br />
2 good pinches sea salt<br />
To finish (for six):<br />
18 cherries<br />
250ml cream<br />
A little vanilla bean paste, or<br />
vanilla extract<br />
3 tbsp shelled pistachios<br />
Method<br />
• Set the oven at 180°C. Line a<br />
shallow-sided baking tin measuring<br />
20cm x 30cm with a piece of<br />
baking parchment.<br />
• Cut the butter into small<br />
pieces, put it in the bowl of an<br />
electric mixer with the sugar, then<br />
beat until light and creamy. Mix<br />
in the vanilla paste or extract. Stir<br />
together the flour, fine semolina,<br />
cornflour and a couple of<br />
generous pinches of sea salt.<br />
• Mix the dry ingredients into<br />
the creamed butter and sugar,<br />
then turn out the dough onto<br />
the lined baking sheet and press<br />
it into shape. Be gentle, taking<br />
care not to compact the dough,<br />
carefully patting it out to fit the<br />
baking sheet. Prick all over with<br />
a fork.<br />
• Cut the dough into 16 pieces<br />
(8 across the long side, 2 across<br />
the short), then bake in the<br />
preheated oven for 15-18 minutes<br />
until pale gold. Remove from the<br />
oven, sprinkle with sugar. (I also<br />
go over the score marks with a<br />
knife to make the biscuits easier<br />
to separate.)<br />
• Remove the stalks from the<br />
cherries, halve them and discard<br />
the stones. Pour the cream into<br />
a chilled bowl, stir in half a<br />
teaspoon of vanilla paste or a few<br />
drops of extract and whip until<br />
thick.<br />
• Place a shortbread biscuit on<br />
each of 6 plates and serve with<br />
cream and cherries. Roughly chop<br />
the pistachios and scatter over<br />
the cream. Keep the remaining<br />
shortbread in an airtight tin.<br />
Bin good with recycling<br />
These are the only items that can go in the yellow bin<br />
Lids in<br />
the red<br />
bin<br />
Clean cardboard and paper<br />
(now including empty pizza boxes)<br />
Clean food and drink<br />
tins and cans<br />
Clean plastic bottles and containers<br />
(4 litres and under, numbered 1, 2 and 5)<br />
Clean glass bottles<br />
and jars<br />
Remember to rinse your containers before putting them in the yellow bin. All lids go in the red bin.<br />
Download our free Christchurch Bins app<br />
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Thanks for bin good.<br />
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Thursday <strong>February</strong> 6 <strong>2025</strong><br />
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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? TODAY Good 11 Very Good 15 Excellent 18<br />
Solution 285: are, arm, armed, army, aye, dam,<br />
dame, dare, day, dear, derma, dram, dray, dream,<br />
DREAMY, drey, dry, dye, dyer, ear, era, mad, made,<br />
word.<br />
mar, mare, may, mead, ram, ray, rayed, read, ready,<br />
ream, red, rye, yam, yard, yea, year.<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 11 Very Good 15 Excellent 18<br />
25 26<br />
27 28<br />
29 30<br />
31 32<br />
33 34<br />
Across<br />
1. Respiratory condition (6)<br />
5. Entry (6)<br />
10. Viral disease (7)<br />
11. Absurd pretence (7)<br />
12. Dusk (6)<br />
15. Trouble (6)<br />
16. Plant support (7)<br />
17. Challenge (4)<br />
18. Component (4)<br />
19. Gather (7)<br />
20. Shut forcefully (4)<br />
22. Freshwater fish (4)<br />
25. Unsettle (7)<br />
27. Incarnation (6)<br />
28. Misprints (6)<br />
31. Fissure (7)<br />
32. Negligible (7)<br />
33. Alternative route (6)<br />
34. Reliable (6)<br />
Decoder<br />
Down<br />
2. Wrench (7)<br />
3. Headgear (6)<br />
4. Part of a church (4)<br />
5. Curved structure (4)<br />
6. Fashions by hand (6)<br />
7. Large farm (7)<br />
8. Entertained (6)<br />
9. Command (6)<br />
13. Cavalryman (7)<br />
14. Wail (7)<br />
15. Earnest (7)<br />
20. Grab (6)<br />
21. Educational institute (7)<br />
23. Frightened (7)<br />
24. Plays for time (6)<br />
25. Thin layer or sheen (6)<br />
26. Alloy of copper and tin (6)<br />
29. Possessive of she (4)<br />
30. Rascals (4)<br />
Crossword<br />
Across: 1. Asthma, 5.<br />
Access, 10. Measles, 11.<br />
Charade, 12. Sunset, 15.<br />
Strife, 16. Trellis, 17. Dare, 18.<br />
Unit, 19. Collect, 20. Slam, 22.<br />
Bass, 25. Perturb, 27. Avatar,<br />
28. Errata, 31. Crevice, 32.<br />
Minimal, 33. Bypass, 34.<br />
Steady.<br />
Down: 2. Spanner, 3. Helmet,<br />
4. Apse, 5. Arch, 6. Crafts, 7.<br />
Station, 8. Amused, 9. Behest,<br />
13. Trooper, 14. Ululate, 15.<br />
Sincere, 20. Snatch, 21.<br />
Academy, 23. Alarmed, 24.<br />
Stalls, 25. Patina, 26. Bronze,<br />
29. Hers, 30. Imps.<br />
WordBuilder<br />
cod, coo, coot, cor, cord, cot,<br />
DOCTOR, door, dot, orc,<br />
roc, rod, rood, root, rot, tod,<br />
too, tor, torc, trod.<br />
Sudoku<br />
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Each number represents a different letter of the alphabet. Write the<br />
given letters into all squares with matching numbers. Now work out<br />
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