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Two 8m-tall artworks which<br />
the Crusaders helped to weave<br />
have been hung on the walls at<br />
The Star, Youth January Hub 23, Christchurch.<br />
2025<br />
David Havili, Sevu Reece,<br />
Will Jordan, Scott Barrett,<br />
Codie Taylor and Tamaiti<br />
Williams were among the<br />
volunteers who helped<br />
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The artworks were placed in<br />
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which provides health, housing<br />
and social services for<br />
at-risk people aged 10-25.<br />
The Crusaders joined volunteers<br />
from businesses,<br />
retirement villages and<br />
churches to create the traditional<br />
woven panels<br />
(tukutuku) using cross-stitches<br />
to show the land, berries,<br />
plants, birds and water.<br />
Inspired by traditional Māori<br />
patterns, they represent a<br />
young person’s development.<br />
Youth Hub Trust chair Dame<br />
Sue Bagshaw said the artworks<br />
were a community project.<br />
“We wanted our supporters<br />
to be able to leave a real mark<br />
on the building.<br />
“The care and pride people<br />
put into weaving these panels<br />
has been incredibly humbling<br />
and seeing them finally<br />
installed in the atrium was a<br />
very special moment for us.”<br />
Sevu Reece, Will Jordan and Scott Barrett hand-weaving one of the panels.<br />
Right – Dame Sue Bagshaw and Jordan in front of one of the completed panels<br />
at Youth Hub Christchurch.<br />
The panels symbolise the<br />
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and achievement (poutama)<br />
young people take at the hub.<br />
“The poutama design speaks<br />
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Fundraising to complete the<br />
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continuing.<br />
The hub’s 22 bedrooms<br />
house more than 50 young<br />
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February last year.<br />
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Far from home and fearing<br />
A Kurdish woman living in<br />
Christchurch fears for loved ones<br />
in Iran as violence escalates and<br />
communication lines collapse.<br />
She talks to Dylan Smits<br />
Farah keeps her phone nearby<br />
with the ringtone turned up at<br />
all hours, waiting for the rare<br />
calls that might come from her<br />
family in Iran.<br />
Using only her first name out<br />
of fear for her family’s safety,<br />
she says the calls have become<br />
even more precious as war and<br />
unrest grip the country.<br />
With an internet blackout and<br />
phone calls into Iran shut down<br />
by the regime, Farah can only<br />
learn how her family is doing<br />
when they are able to call her –<br />
and even those connections are<br />
unreliable.<br />
“I hardly have news from<br />
my relatives. My parents can<br />
call me sometimes. I know my<br />
city was bombed as well and<br />
it was very stressful for me.<br />
You know, if anyone was hurt<br />
or died. My family is okay but<br />
three civilians have been hurt<br />
unfortunately.”<br />
Her family’s calls carry risks<br />
for them, so Farah carefully<br />
avoids any political discussion<br />
on the phone in case authorities<br />
are monitoring.<br />
“Sometimes my parents call<br />
me at 1am and I just want to<br />
make sure I am able to pick the<br />
phone. I am so glad my job is<br />
Farah has made a life for herself in Christchurch over the past <strong>12</strong> years but worries for her family who still live in Iran.<br />
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so flexible, and I’ve got amazing<br />
co-workers with me that are<br />
really understanding if I need<br />
to be on the phone.”<br />
Farah, who has lived in<br />
Christchurch since 2014, is<br />
Kurdish and says her family has<br />
long experienced oppression<br />
under the Iranian regime.<br />
Kurds make up about 10%<br />
of Iran’s population and are<br />
often targeted by authorities<br />
“I was happy but I<br />
wanted to cry at the<br />
same time. It was<br />
hard for me to believe.<br />
He was exactly like<br />
a dragon to his own<br />
people, and the dragon<br />
had to go.”<br />
Farah, after learning of the<br />
death of Iran’s Supreme<br />
Leader Ayatollah Ali<br />
Khamenei<br />
for political and cultural<br />
repression.<br />
Her distrust of the government<br />
hardened when she was a<br />
teenager after her older brother<br />
was imprisoned and tortured.<br />
He had travelled to Turkey as<br />
a young man and began military<br />
training with the Kurdistan<br />
Workers’ Party, commonly<br />
known as the PKK.<br />
The PKK is a controversial<br />
guerrilla group fighting for an<br />
independent Kurdistan and is<br />
considered a terrorist organisation<br />
by Iran, Turkey, Australia,<br />
the European Union, the United<br />
States, and New Zealand.<br />
“He did not do any fighting,<br />
just training, but when he<br />
returned they put him in jail for<br />
several weeks.<br />
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for the safety of her family<br />
“He came out with scars and<br />
they burnt his body in many<br />
different places, and he was<br />
hanged upside down. He was<br />
hurt a lot. It was a deep punishment<br />
to make sure he’d never<br />
forget,” Farah said.<br />
In what was the toughest time<br />
for the family, Farah’s father<br />
begged local authorities not to<br />
execute his son, pleading he<br />
had been a naive young man<br />
who did not know any better.<br />
Seeing the effects of torture<br />
on her brother shaped Farah’s<br />
views of the regime.<br />
Like many other Kurds in<br />
Iran, Turkey, Syria and Iraq,<br />
Farah dreams of an independent,<br />
democratic Kurdish state.<br />
Despite the uncertainty<br />
of what comes next in Iran,<br />
she feels a sense of hope for<br />
her people after the death of<br />
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali<br />
Khamenei in a US-Israeli strike.<br />
“It was like a very mixed<br />
emotion. I still remember I was<br />
happy but I wanted to cry at the<br />
same time. It was hard for me<br />
to believe. He was exactly like a<br />
dragon to his own people, and<br />
the dragon had to go.”<br />
But the violence has also<br />
come at a heavy cost.<br />
The bombing campaigns have<br />
struck close to home, with civilians<br />
injured in the city where<br />
Farah grew up.<br />
Several weeks ago, during<br />
the crackdown on anti-government<br />
protests, her best friend’s<br />
brother was shot dead by<br />
Smoke rises over Iran’s capital Tehran as US and Israeli aircraft continue to pound the city.<br />
security forces – among an estimated<br />
more than 30,000 killed.<br />
“He was only doing Kurdish<br />
dance in the street, just seeking<br />
freedom. He had a little son,<br />
a very beautiful family, a very<br />
happy life.”<br />
Farah left Iran to escape the<br />
restrictive laws woman face<br />
such as enforced hijab (the<br />
headscarf worn by many Muslim<br />
women), and for better job<br />
opportunities which are not<br />
always available to the Kurdish<br />
minority.<br />
Although her parents are<br />
against enforced hijab, she<br />
remembers they always made<br />
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sure she wore it in public, otherwise<br />
she could have been<br />
questioned by police or even<br />
arrested.<br />
“Being Kurdish, we don’t<br />
wear hijab at home or in our<br />
culture, but we always had<br />
to wear it and cover up when<br />
on the street, at schools or<br />
Kurdish women at a rally in Paris<br />
celebrate the death of Iran’s Supreme<br />
Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and senior<br />
Iranian officials in Israeli-American<br />
airstrikes.<br />
at universities. It makes you<br />
unhappy as a girl. You want to<br />
live freely.”<br />
Moving to Christchurch was,<br />
she says, a breath of fresh air.<br />
She started out studying mathematics<br />
and physics, and is now<br />
a New Zealand citizen.<br />
“One of the first places I saw<br />
was Hagley Park and the lovely<br />
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actually reminds me a bit of<br />
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The early years were lonely.<br />
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Zealand and I had been paid<br />
back for working very hard for<br />
Kiwis.”<br />
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Grant approval throws lifeline to historic tug<br />
BY KEES CHALMERS<br />
Mike Bruce’s dream of seeing<br />
Tug Lyttelton out on the harbour<br />
again is getting closer to being<br />
realised after a $44,000 grant<br />
was approved last week.<br />
The historic tug has been<br />
hauling ships and hosting<br />
weddings since 1907, but a<br />
broken boiler has kept it tied up<br />
at the wharf for the past twoand-a-half<br />
years. Repairs are<br />
expected to cost at least $220,000.<br />
The funding from Lotteries<br />
NZ will go towards a feasibility<br />
study to determine whether the<br />
tug can operate sustainably in<br />
the future.<br />
Bruce, the Tug Lyttelton<br />
Preservation Society president,<br />
said the study was an important<br />
step forward.<br />
“It’s an<br />
intermediary step,<br />
which is very<br />
essential to us.”<br />
The study will<br />
be carried out<br />
by Recreation,<br />
Sport, Leisure<br />
Consultancy.<br />
Bruce said the Mike Bruce<br />
timeline for its<br />
assessment is not yet known.<br />
He has been speaking with<br />
potential funders but said many<br />
were waiting for the results<br />
of a feasibility study before<br />
committing to the restoration.<br />
“Without having the feasibility<br />
study, no one would look at us,”<br />
he said.<br />
If the refit goes ahead, Bruce<br />
believes the tug could continue<br />
operating for another 50 years.<br />
Tug Lyttelton has been tied up for the past two-and-a-half years due to a broken boiler which will cost at least $220,000 to fix.<br />
He is confident the study will<br />
show the vessel can remain<br />
viable, pointing to the passing<br />
down of knowledge among<br />
current members, strong<br />
community support and plans<br />
to switch from coal to biofuel.<br />
The society currently has<br />
about $16,000 left in its account<br />
for operational costs, mostly<br />
leftover from charters during<br />
SailGP in 2024.<br />
Even while it remains tied up,<br />
the society still spends about<br />
$22,000 a year to keep the tug at<br />
the wharf, covering insurance<br />
and maritime fees.<br />
Bruce said the past 15 to 20<br />
years had been difficult for the<br />
vessel, with the earthquakes,<br />
Port Hills fires and Covid-19<br />
limiting revenue.<br />
Membership of the society<br />
has halved while the boat has<br />
been out of action, with about<br />
100 members remaining.<br />
“We lost income, we lost<br />
opportunity, we lost a lot of<br />
members,” he said.<br />
Despite this, Bruce remains in<br />
contact with former members<br />
and is confident many will<br />
return once the tug is operating<br />
again.<br />
The society has continued<br />
working on the vessel while<br />
it sits at the wharf, with 18<br />
volunteers meeting every<br />
Thursday to carry out any<br />
maintenance.<br />
It also sells Tug Lyttelton<br />
merchandise, is preparing to<br />
release a book and launched a<br />
fundraising campaign late last<br />
year encouraging 1000 people to<br />
donate $10 a month.<br />
Bruce said the campaign was<br />
beginning to gain traction.<br />
“I was about ready to pull the<br />
plug on the society – either late<br />
this year or very early next year<br />
– when I looked at what was<br />
coming up, what money we had<br />
in hand.<br />
“But now she’s got a potential<br />
future.”<br />
Bruce hopes to raise enough<br />
money to repair the boiler and<br />
get the tug back on the water by<br />
late this year or early 2027.<br />
Even if the study raises concerns,<br />
he said the society would<br />
not walk away from the vessel.<br />
“We would address it and try<br />
and overcome it and go back<br />
again. You don’t just walk away,<br />
not from a <strong>12</strong>0-year legacy,” he<br />
said.<br />
Bruce has been a member of<br />
the preservation society since<br />
1982 and has been president for<br />
the last six years.<br />
“It means everything. There’s<br />
something about the ship and the<br />
people it attracts that makes me<br />
put in full-time hours as part of<br />
the preservation society to get it<br />
up and going again.<br />
“You’re building a legacy for<br />
future generations, built on<br />
the skills and knowledge and<br />
abilities of past generations.”<br />
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CHRISTCHURCH<br />
CREMATORIUM<br />
FUNERALS<br />
CROSSWORD<br />
1 2 3 4 5 6 7<br />
8 9<br />
10 11<br />
<strong>12</strong> 13 14 15<br />
16<br />
17 18<br />
19<br />
20 21 22 23 24<br />
25 26<br />
441<br />
SUDOKU<br />
Every row, column and box should<br />
contain the digits 1 to 9.<br />
WordBuilder<br />
WORDBUILDER<br />
U A R<br />
M E N<br />
6<br />
341 341<br />
M E N<br />
many words of three or more letters,<br />
How<br />
including<br />
many<br />
plurals,<br />
words<br />
can you<br />
of<br />
make<br />
three<br />
from<br />
or<br />
the<br />
more<br />
six<br />
letters, using each letter only once? No foreign<br />
How words or beginning with a capital are<br />
from many<br />
allowed.<br />
the words<br />
There's<br />
six letters, of three<br />
at least one<br />
using or more<br />
six-letter<br />
each letters,<br />
word.<br />
only<br />
including once? plurals, can you make from the six<br />
TODAY<br />
letters, Good using 19 each Very letter Good only 24 once? Excellent No 28 foreign<br />
No words beginning with a capital are<br />
words Solution or words 340: ben, beginning berk, bone, with boner, a capital bonk, bore, are<br />
allowed. allowed. born, borne, There's There’s bro, broke, at least BROKEN, at one least six-letter ebon, one eon, six-letter word. ken,<br />
word. keno, kerb, kern, knob, krone, neb, nob, nor, nork,<br />
one, orb, ore, rob, robe, TODAY roe.<br />
Good 19 Very Good 24 Excellent 28<br />
Solution 340: ben, berk, bone, boner, bonk, bore,<br />
born, borne, bro, broke, BROKEN, ebon, eon, ken,<br />
keno, kerb, kern, knob, krone, neb, nob, nor, nork,<br />
one, orb, ore, rob, robe, roe.<br />
letters, including plurals, can you make<br />
27 28<br />
29 30<br />
31 32<br />
33 34<br />
Across<br />
1. Cadaver (6)<br />
5. Accident (6)<br />
10. Din (7)<br />
11. Intimidate (7)<br />
<strong>12</strong>. Linger (6)<br />
15. Frustrate (6)<br />
16. Need (7)<br />
17. Shade (4)<br />
18. Pace (4)<br />
19. Immediate (7)<br />
20. Smack (4)<br />
22. Minor argument (4)<br />
25. Block, frustrate (colloq) (7)<br />
27. Skilled (6)<br />
28. Natural ability (6)<br />
31. Canonise (7)<br />
32. Stupid and silly (7)<br />
33. Agreement (6)<br />
34. Type of ring (6)<br />
Decoder<br />
Down<br />
2. Loud applause (7)<br />
3. Appropriate (6)<br />
4. British peer (4)<br />
5. Heath (4)<br />
6. Boil with anger (6)<br />
7. Determined (7)<br />
8. Shape (6)<br />
9. Restrained or repressed (4-2)<br />
13. Leftover (7)<br />
14. Sell to the highest bid (7)<br />
15. Cheap piece of jewellery (7)<br />
20. Worn out, threadbare (6)<br />
21. Debts (7)<br />
23. Assumption (7)<br />
24. Wobble (6)<br />
25. Figure of speech (6)<br />
26. Classification (6)<br />
29. Abscess (4)<br />
30. Prohibits (4)<br />
Crossword<br />
Across: 1. Corpse, 5. Mishap, 10. Clamour, 11. Overawe, <strong>12</strong>. Loiter,<br />
15. Thwart, 16. Require, 17. Tint, 18. Step, 19. Instant, 20. Slap, 22. Spat,<br />
25. Snooker, 27. Adroit, 28. Talent, 31. Beatify, 32. Asinine, 33. Assent,<br />
34. Signet.<br />
Down: 2. Ovation, 3. Proper, 4. Earl, 5. Moor, 6. Seethe, 7. Adamant, 8.<br />
Sculpt, 9. Pent-up, 13. Remnant, 14. Auction, 15. Trinket, 20. Shabby, 21.<br />
Arrears, 23. Premise, 24. Totter, 25. Simile, 26. Rating, 29. Cyst, 30. Bars.<br />
WordBuilder: amen, are, arm, arum, ear, earn, emu, era, man, mane,<br />
MANURE, mar, mare, mean, men, menu, mun, name, namer, near, ram,<br />
ran, ream, rue, rum, rumen, run, rune, unarm, urea, urn.<br />
DECODER<br />
Each number represents a different letter of the alphabet. Write the<br />
given letters into all squares with matching numbers. Now work out<br />
which letters are represented by the other numbers.<br />
VOLUME 1<br />
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