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Nine-year-old Kiara Milner lives
dream,” Milner said.
with an extremely rare condition
Kiara entered the centre in a
known as Sonic Hedgehog
wheelchair, and after just two
Syndrome.
weeks of treatment she was walking,
She was born with part of her
with the assistance of quad
brain, the cerebellum, outside
sticks.
her skull.
Until recently, Kiwi families had
Her grandmother, Angela Milner,
no option but to travel to the Gold
said Kiara underwent her
Coast for paediatric intensive
first surgery within 24 hours
movement therapy, as it was not
of birth
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cerebellum.
That has now changed, with the
Just five days later, doctors
country’s first Centre of Movement
inserted a shunt to drain fluid
opening in Rotorua in July.
from her brain into her stomach.
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“Against all odds, she has continued
doors in Christchurch on Friday.
to defy expectations ever
Based in Riccarton, the new
since,” Milner said.
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therapy and
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surgeries.
“What they do for young ones
“Each one is a testament to her
is just phenomenal. It just brings
strength and resilience. She is in
a whole new perspective to New
every sense, our little miracle.”
Zealand families,” Milner said.
Kiara’s fight began before she
Because Kiara’s condition is
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parents she would not survive
ahead for her.
and advised terminating the
“But she’s a battler, she
pregnancy.
approaches life with a spirit
Instead, Milner said, they made Angela Milner is fundraising for her granddaughter Kiara to attend weekly therapy at the new Centre of Movement, after earlier and determination that is both
the choice to cherish whatever support enabled three weeks of treatment at the Gold Coast Centre of Movement with co-director Stephen Pennisi.
humbling and inspiring.”
time they might have with her.
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Flow turns struggle into service
​BY GEOFF SLOAN
For more than a decade, Florence
“Flow” Waaka has been
cooking meals and offering
warmth to those doing it tough.
Waaka, 58, started Feed a Bro
after being judged by others
while seeking help to feed her
family 10 years ago.
“I was struggling on a benefit
with a son and I was looking
after my grandkids at the time,”
she said.
One of her friends told her
a free food service was being
offered in the central city.
“So I went in, and all I could
hear was people saying, ‘what’s
that lady doing here? She
shouldn’t be here, she’s got a
car and she doesn’t look like she
needs these feeds’.”
She said just because she had
a car, people assumed she was
well off.
“The free food we got during
the week helped me and my
family to survive.”
The experience left a sour
taste in her mouth, so Waaka
decided to set up her own free,
non-judgemental meal service.
“I don’t judge anyone because
I’m in the same boat as a lot of
them. I really am.”
Waaka organises free weekly
meals at The Margaret Mahy
Family Playground on Mondays,
and in Cathedral Square on
Tuesdays.
She also takes food out to
homeless people living in the
Flow Waaka says about 30 people turn up for a meal each time she runs her free feeds.
red zone.
“It’s never really planned.
Just whenever I can, wherever
there’s a need.”
She said the meals weren’t
only for those sleeping rough,
but low income people with
families as well.
“They’re for anyone that’s
struggling. A lot of people
are too humble to go to these
feeds and won’t go when they
should.”
Known as ‘flowsfeeds’ on
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TikTok, Waaka has built
a strong online following,
using social media to spread
awareness.
“It’s the only way I can keep
this going – let people see what
I’m doing to get more food
“I get a lot of feedback
every day. Most people
love what I’m doing, but I
also get a lot of hate too.”
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for people in need
“Well it’s okay for them to say
that.”
Waaka said high rents and
the price of food going up were
forcing some people to live in
their cars.
“Everything is just skyrocketing.
I know what it’s like
struggling with all the prices of
food right now.”
The beneficiary isn’t aligned
to any charity or organisation.
“I look at it like it’s my job, it’s
what I do.
“Even though I’m getting a
benefit from the government,
I feel like I’m giving back, by
what I'm doing.”
Waaka has found it hard to
find work, as she doesn’t have
any qualifications.
At one point she was also
homeless with her son and two
grandchildren.
“I was working part-time and
then my daughter needed some
help. It wasn’t working out
with childcare and all that, so
I threw my job in to look after
them.”
She said rent became too
much to afford and she was out
on the street.
“I was staying at my sister’s
and living in a car for probably
about eight months before I got
a house through Kāinga Ora.”
She said much of the country
still lacks compassion or understanding
around the causes of
homelessness.
“Yes, some choose it, but
for many, it’s circumstance
Flow Waaka and her volunteer
helpers at The Margaret Mahy Family
Playground always have a line-up of
people needing a free meal.
– whether that’s losing a job or
rent going up.”
Waaka encourages people not
to simply “walk away” when
they see others struggling.
“Jump in and try and do
something for them. It doesn’t
matter if it’s just making a pot
of food and taking it down to
them. There’s a lot of homeless
people out there.”
She said she was always looking
for things to do and ways
to encourage people to donate
goods to “keep this thing going”.
“This is it. This is my life.”
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Historic Heathcote
school bell taken
​BY KEES CHALMERS
A stolen 165-year-old school bell
is believed to have been cut up
and an attempt made to sell it
for scrap.
The Heathcote Valley School
bell was stolen over the weekend
of September 27-28.
Principal Bruce Ellison said
he was told by a parent the
person involved in the theft
attempted to take the cut-up
bronze bell to a scrap metal
yard, but it was not accepted.
“It’s got a lot of significance
to the community, the fact it’s
been there for so long, it’s an
iconic piece of our identity,”
Ellison said.
Said school board member
and parent Luke Gardiner:
“The reaction is extremely sad,
I didn’t think that was something
that would happen with
the amount of years it’s hung
there.”
Ellison took a photo of where
the bell was usually located on
Monday, September 29, during
the school holidays. Two days
later, he looked at the photo and
realised the bell was missing.
He assumed it had been taken
over the weekend.
The bell is believed to have
been with the school since it
was founded in 1860 by Captain
William Morgan, who used part
of his Morgan’s Valley house as
a classroom.
The school was established at
Heathcote Valley School’s bronze bell
was stolen during the school holidays.
its current location in 1864.
The bell, which Ellison
thought weighed about 15-20kg,
had a cast iron striker.
Many generations of children
had heard the bell to go out to
play or come back into class, he
said.
The school has been loaned
a small hand bell while it
determines a long-term
solution.
“I can imagine there would
be enthusiasm in replacing it
with something similar,” Ellison
said.
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​BY KEES CHALMERS
Howard Wilson has been raising
awareness for prostate cancer,
one push-up at a time.
He completed 739 push-ups
over September, representing the
739 men who died from prostate
cancer last year.
The 69-year-old Akaroa GP took
on the challenge to raise money
for Blue September, an initiative
that supports awareness and
research for prostate cancer.
Wilson is chair of the Akaroa
Men’s Shed Trust, which has
previously run events for the
campaign. This year, the focus
was on exercise, encouraging
participants to walk, cycle, or do
push-ups for the cause.
Having worked as a GP at
Akaroa Health for 33 years,
Wilson has seen first-hand the
importance of getting checked
before it is too late.
He decided to take on the
challenge himself, though early
practice runs in August proved
tougher than expected.
Wilson set a fundraising goal
of $1000, thinking it might be
difficult to reach.
“It’s quite a small
community over here in
Akaroa but they really
came to the party with
the donations”
Howard Wilson
He ended up raising $5972
– the fifth-highest total by an
individual nationally, and the
most by anyone doing push-ups.
“It’s quite a small community
over here in Akaroa but they
really came to the party with the
donations,” Wilson said.
“I was probably a little bit
overwhelmed by the amount.”
Wilson began posting daily
videos of his push-ups on social
media and quickly gained
support from the community.
He completed push-ups in
all sorts of places – starting
in Croatia while on holiday,
doing his first set aboard a boat
heading down the Adriatic Sea.
He later did push-ups on the
Howard Wilson completed his first set of push-ups for the Blue September
challenge aboard a boat in the Adriatic Sea while on holiday in Croatia. Once back
home, he was permitted to use the Akaroa fire station for his daily push-ups, but
only if he did the challenge shirtless and in firefighter gear.
bar at the Common Café and
Garden Bar, at the fire station, on
the front of the Akaroa Dolphins
sightseeing boat, and even 39,000
feet in the air while flying home.
“I must admit, I had great fun
while doing it,” he said.
He recalled being approached
by a complete stranger who told
him he was a prostate cancer
survivor and had donated to the
fundraiser.
Wilson hopes his efforts will
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For him, the 739 push-ups
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S K I
6
321 321
S K I
words of three or more letters,
How
including
many
plurals,
words
can you
of
make
three
from
or
the
more
six
letters, using each letter only once? No foreign
How words or beginning with a capital are
from many
allowed.
the words
There's
six letters, of three
at least one
using or more
six-letter
each letters,
word.
only
including once? plurals, can you make from the six
TODAY
letters, Good using 17 each Very letter Good only 20 once? Excellent No 23 foreign
No words beginning with a capital are
words
allowed.
Solution or words 320:
There’s
cedi, beginning cap, deck, with
at least
dice, a dick, capital
one
die,
six-letter
dike, are
allowed. dip, epic, There's ice, iced, at kepi, least kid, one kip, peck, six-letter pic, pick, word.
word. PICKED, pie, pied, pike, TODAY piked.
Good 17 Very Good 20 Excellent 23
letters, including plurals, can you make
Solution 320: cedi, cap, deck, dice, dick, die, dike,
dip, epic, ice, iced, kepi, kid, kip, peck, pic, pick,
PICKED, pie, pied, pike, piked.
27 28
29 30
31 32
33 34
Across
1. Abhorrence (6)
5. Scribble (6)
10. Overturn (7)
11. Examine in detail (7)
12. Window set in roof (6)
15. Metallic element, Co (6)
16. 10-sided figure (7)
17. Frigid (4)
18. Circular current of water (4)
19. Dictionary (7)
20. Swelling, bruise (4)
22. Throw (4)
25. Curving, snake-like (7)
27. Chevron (6)
28. Wobble (6)
31. Refuse an offer (7)
32. Rower (7)
33. Person owing money (6)
34. Breathe out (6)
Decoder
Down
2. Clothing (7)
3. Destroyed (6)
4. Sketched (4)
5. Fraud (4)
6. Logic (6)
7. Wilful, disobedient (7)
8. Sour or bitter tasting (6)
9. Aristocracy (6)
13. Daydream (7)
14. Largest possible quantity (7)
15. Palm tree fruit (7)
20. Adjacent (6)
21. Amazing occurrence (7)
23. Best, most favourable (7)
24. Become smaller (6)
25. Dash (6)
26. Seek (6)
29. Close (4)
30. Small, sheltered bay (4)
Crossword
Across: 1. Hatred, 5. Scrawl, 10. Capsize, 11. Analyse, 12. Dormer, 15. Cobalt,
16. Decagon, 17. Cold, 18. Eddy, 19. Lexicon, 20. Bump, 22. Toss, 25. Sinuous,
27. Stripe, 28. Teeter, 31. Decline, 32. Oarsman, 33. Debtor, 34. Exhale.
Down: 2. Apparel, 3. Ruined, 4. Drew, 5. Sham, 6. Reason, 7. Wayward, 8.
Acidic, 9. Gentry, 13. Reverie, 14. Maximum, 15. Coconut, 20. Beside, 21.
Miracle, 23. Optimal, 24. Shrink, 25. Sprint, 26. Search, 29. Near, 30. Cove.
WordBuilder
Desk, desks, die, dies, dike, dikes, disk, disks, diss, ides, ids, kid, kids, kiss,
KISSED, side, sides, sis, ski, skid, skids, skied, skies, skis.
DECODER
Each number represents a different letter of the alphabet. Write the
given letters into all squares with matching numbers. Now work out
which letters are represented by the other numbers.
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