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Metzger wins awards for stunning homes at Clearwater ANDREW KING
Two stunning houses at Clearwater and a house in Merivale have won top awards at the Registered Master Builders 2015 House of the Year awards. Metzger Builders won two titles for building the winning houses at Clearwater. The first award was in the Carters New Home $1 million to $2 million category. The home caught the judges eyes due to the use of american oak joinery, beautifully contrasted with the western red cedar creating “warmth, colour and texture�. Judges commended Metzger Builders for showing “pride and passion� at the awards din-
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Dinosaur Footprints: A Story of Discovery Saturday, November 14-December 5. Monday-Friday 9am-8pm and Saturdays 10am4pm. Fendalton Library is hosting Dinosaur Footprints: A story of discovery. There will be 3D dinosaur printing, augmented reality books, 3D colouring, dinosaur storytelling and more. Snap a selfie while you’re there and upload to social media with #dinosinchch and be in to win dinosaur LEGO. Dinosaur Footprints: A story of discovery is a national touring exhibition by GNS Science and New Zealand Oil and Gas and supported in Ōtautahi by Christchurch City Libraries. Entry is free or you can donate a gold coin. Fendalton Library and Service Centre, 4 Jeffreys Rd, Fendalton Art to Find, Local People, Creative Gifts November 20, 6.30-9.30pm. With Christmas around six
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weeks away you could find gifts for everyone on your shopping list, from handmade to wellknown products. Get in early to avoid the shopping rush. Admission is free. Isleworth School, 59A Farrington Ave Bishopdale. Community Gala Day Saturday, November 21, 10am-1pm. The Community Focus Trust along with Beulah Church will be holding its annual gala day. Loads of fun activities including: A bouncy castle, barbecue, cake stall, face painting, white elephant stall, kids corner, barista coffee, balloon artist and live music. Admission is free. Beulah Christian Fellowship 140 Springfield Rd St Albans. Celebrate Bishopdale Sunday, November 22, 11am2pm. Come along to Bishopdale’s community event and enjoy a wide range of stalls and activities. Be entertained by stage
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performances from local groups and schools. Plenty of free entertainment for kids including bouncy castles, soap carving, face painting and pedal-mania. Brought to you by the Fendalton-Waimairi Community Board and the Bishopdale Community Trust. Admission is free.Bishopdale Park, Harewood Rd. Christ the King School House and Garden Tour Sunday, November 22 from 11am-3.30pm. Christ the King School House and Garden Tour is a unique opportunity to view a stunning array of homes and gardens in the north-west Christchurch area. Afternoon tea will be available to purchase on the day - cash only. Tickets are limited and
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An Evening with Geraldine Brooks Wednesday, November 18 7.30-8.30pm. WORD Christchurch and Bookenz present an evening with Pulitzer prize-winning writer Geraldine Brooks, in conversation with Morrin Rout. Brooks’ new novel, The Secret Chord, takes on one of literature’s richest and most enigmatic figures – King David, a man who shimmers between history and legend. Full of drama and richly drawn detail, The Secret Chord is a vivid story of faith, family, desire and power that brings David alive. For more information phone 377 5313. Tickets $20. Merivale Lane Theatre, Merivale Lane.
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Worry over plan to axe car parks for cycleway GABRIELLE STUART
Businesses are worried they could lose customers, as almost 400 car parks in St Albans and Papanui could be removed to make way for the new Papanui Parallel cycleway. The cycleway is part of the city council’s $156m major cycle routes network. It will run from Bealey Ave to Northlands mall, travelling along Colombo, Rutland and Grassmere Sts to Main North and Sawyers Arms Rds. Under the plans, which have been released for public feedback, 380 or more car parks could be lost, as well as 48 trees. Gaby Topp, owner of Meshino Espresso on Rutland St, said it was a busy area and cutting car parks there would be “stupid”. She was worried it could hurt many of the small businesses there. “If people can’t get a park, they aren’t going to drive around the block looking for one – they’re just going to keep driving past and go somewhere else.”
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PARKING LOSS: Meshino Espresso on Rutland St, said it was a busy area and cutting car parks there would be “stupid”. PHOTO: ANDREW KING
She planned to make a submission to the city council opposing the plan, and hoped it could be changed. Under the plan, 327 car parks would be lost in residential areas, with the number of spaces dropping from 554 to 227. In business areas, 53 or more car parks are set to go, dropping from 83 spaces to 25-30. However, fellow Rutland St business owner Lorraine Burke,
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Shirley-Papanui Ward city councillor Pauline Cotter (left) said several people had called her with concerns about the plan. However, she said it was only a proposal and the city council was open to making changes. “There are options there. Staff will usually recommend the best practice option, but sometimes we have to go with a different one, because there are things people just aren’t prepared to lose.” She said community meetings were being held to give people a chance to have their say, and their thoughts would be listened to. “It is going to be contentious for a lot of people, so we need to have those people come to us to talk about it. We know there is an overwhelming desire for cycleways, but the question is, how do we do it? And we want to hear people’s ideas.” Details of meetings can be found on the city council website, and submissions can be made online or at city council service centres.
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Different motivations around council table City councillor and FendaltonWaimairi Community Board member – Jamie Gough Some cynics would suggest that ‘democracy works’ is an oxymoron – I wouldn’t go that far, though there are times when the democratic process doesn’t feel particularly democratic. A perfect case and point is the currently in-train Representation Review. City council is recommending to the Local Government Commission an overhaul of how the councillors and community boards are elected. Do you recall the media commentary around adding more councillors, because it apparently enhances representation and is a good idea? This is what it’s all about. It’s incredibly frustrating because, to be frank, it’s not a good idea and isn’t what people even want – other than some councillors themselves and a handful of highly politically charged individuals. No one with any nous surely believes adding more councillors to the council table actually makes the council better, more strategic,
more effective or more efficient? I favour quality over quantity any day of the week. I would advocate for less, though accepting that won’t happen, you don’t need to change – at great expense – something that isn’t really broken. You may also recall that it was this city council that said it was too cash-strapped to put up the city’s Christmas decorations, yet in the next breath they are advocating adding at least three more full-time councillors to the table? I voted yes to Christmas decorations and no to more councillors. The people with the biggest vested interest (i.e. councillors) drive this to suit ideologically views and that’s the crux of it. What suits them is what you’ll potentially end up with. It’s bizarre at best and actually quite perverse. We had a little over 100 submissions (out of a city of 360,000-ish people). I think residents have bigger things to worry about than this and actually, the council has bigger things to be doing with its time too. Unlike other local authorities, we are in the middle of a District Plan Review, setting up Regenerate Christchurch and Development
Christchurch, to name only a few of the unique and extraordinary tasks at hand. Why not ask the minister to use the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Act to defer this for another council to do when timing is more appropriate? The CER Act exists because it recognises that Christchurch is not in a business as usual time. There’s a census next year so perhaps you’d be better to base all this on relevant information, not outdated data from years ago from the middle of a major earthquake recovery. But perhaps that would all just make far too much sense. I came to council from the commercial sector, and I said that my focus was on doing a job not just getting a job. I sadly feel at times – perfectly illustrated by this process – that many around the council table have completely opposite motivations to me. Do you agree with Jamie Gough’s views on adding more councillors? Email your thoughts in 200 words or less to andrew.king@starmedia.kiwi
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Stars’ bid to wipe out stigma over men who dance ANDREW KING
After having their first boy, New Zealand’s Got Talent stars Lei’ataua and Kate Limuloa, realised there was still huge stigma around men who dance. But now the duo in life and on the dance floor, have started a dance workshop in Bishopdale especially for boys to combat the stereotype. Mr and Mrs Limuloa were runners-up on the television programme New Zealand’s Got Talent in 2013. Now they have launched Silhouette Workshops, a dance class for boys at the Bishopdale YMCA. Mrs Limuloa, also dance teacher at St Margaret’s College, said she had the vision to start the dance classes seven years ago when the couple had their first boy. “Believe it or not we still have parents saying that dance isn’t for boys and we want to see that gone completely.” Mrs Limuloa said the first class, held recently, had a great turnout and gave her confidence
GREAT TURNOUT: There were 25 boys who turned up for the dance workshop started in Bishopdale for children. Right: Lei’ataua and Kate Limuloa.
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HELP NEEDED Police are investigating a complaint that a woman was assaulted by an unknown male wearing a black hooded sweatshirt in a residential street close to the Little Brown Jug bar in Bryndwr, about 2.15am November 8. Police are looking for a missing reusable New World shopping bag which contained various items of clothing and personal items including hair straighteners. Any residents in this area who may have heard a disturbance in their street or seen anything around this time are encouraged to phone Detective Sergeant Kylie Schaare on 363 7400 or anonymously via Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. REPAIR WORK RESCHEDULED Repair work to the boardroom at the Fendalton Library has been moved back a day so it will not interrupt a community board meeting. The Fendalton-Waimairi Community Board has asked for the start date to be moved from November 30 to December 1 as it has a scheduled meeting that day. Repair work will be to the ceiling in the boardroom. TREE REMOVAL The Fendalton-Waimairi
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Producer of buskers festival the The SCIRT World Buskers Festival does not start until January 14, but producer Tim Bain is already busy sourcing unusual props and booking show-stopping entertainers. He chats to Fraser Walker-Pearce Thanks for chatting with me Tim, right now you’re super busy with setting up the buskers festival for next year. How’s that going? We launched the project this week just gone. So we’re definitely not on the home straight, but we are getting the stages ready, which is great. But then you have to worry about the performers’ visas, flights, production requirements and everything else. The festival goes from January 14-24. Realistically though, you have to have it all done before Christmas time because no one’s in town around that time. There are four of us setting up the entire festival, which is pretty
insane now that I’m saying it out loud. Considering we get about 500 applicants a year from performers, from musicians to buskers to everything that’s pretty cool. It’s got a great reputation, and the cool thing about this year is that we have 13 countries being represented, which is the most ever. What does the associate artistic director for the buskers festival mean? We actually decided to change my title to producer after we had a big discussion, it reflects what I’m doing a bit better. So basically my job is to liaise with all the performers, get all the flights, marketing, visas, everything sorted. I also have to source 500 plastic ponchos, more than 100-litres of kerosene, 40 juggling balls, 50 something cardboard boxes, 14 VCRs, 10 TVs, a kitchen sink, more than 5000 cable ties and some other random props for certain artists. Along with that,
I make sure they get here safely, and that they’ve got accommodation, well looked after and everything else. Just everything really! What performances are you most looking forward to in next year’s festival? I’m most looking forward to Yana Alana, who is a cabaret/ one-woman show. And also Buskers Burlesque which is a headline show for the festival. Who is your all-time favourite burlesque performer? It’s got to be Perle Noire. I bet there are a few stories of your time working with Mark Hadlow for MAMIL (Middle-Aged Man In Lycra? One thing that stands out during MAMIL, which is just Mark on stage, was when something would go quite wrong like a wrong prop or something, the show would not necessarily break down . . . but it sure got close a few times! A few times
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It’s pretty awesome really because you get to do stuff that you wouldn’t normally get the chance to do. I can’t think of anyone who wouldn’t jump at the chance to get paid to ride a jet ski with kids. Agreed! Where do you sign up? No, I’m joking. What would be the best part of those camps? A lot of people would say a specific event with the kids, but for me it’s the connections that I made
with the other counsellors. I still talk to people from my first camp, so that’s really awesome. Now I have connections all around the world. When you live and work with someone for eight weeks straight you really grow tight with them. When you were doing drama studies yourself, did you ever get on stage and freeze, or ruin your lines or something like that? No, I don’t think so. The environment when I was
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Tell us what’s happening at your club. Email andrew.king@starmedia.kiwi BURNSIDE GARDEN CLUB The club has around 50 members. Floral arrangements, garden visits, plant sales and speakers on gardening topics are all part of the events the club runs. Meetings are at the Lions’ clubrooms on Avonhead Rd, on the second Monday of the month at 1.30pm. Any inquiries welcome, phone Chris Thorpe 359 6705. Membership is $20 a year. The club is affiliated to Horticultural Society and Friends of the Christchurch Botanical Gardens. CHRISTCHURCH FISHING AND CASTING CLUB The Christchurch Fishing and Casting Club was established in 1967. It was formed to pass on to people interested in learning the art of casting and to give anyone interested help and advice in all aspects of fishing. It is a small-sized club with about 40 members. On offer are a recreation fishing club with fly fishing courses, fly tying, trips, workshops and visiting speakers. They meet on the first Wednesday of each month at 7.30pm, excluding
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Pre-school’s health regime earns award
A Harewood pre-school has recently been given a Healthy Heart Award. Aratupu Preschool and Nursery, run by the Christchurch Methodist Mission, on Harewood Rd received a Rito from
the Heart Foundation. It is the first of three levels available which recognises the commitment of staff to create an environment promoting healthy eating and physical activity. Marie Benns (left) is the cook at Aratupu and worked hard to ensure that all necessary requirements were met. This included providing a nutrition and physical activity policy, copy of a menu with a list of five different vegetables used across the week and one fruit serving across the day. Having the menu available to parents at any time requested and stories relating to nutrition and physical activity over the past year have also contributed to the pre-school winning the award.
Rangi showcases talents Rangi Ruru Girls’ School students have poured all their art knowledge learnt over the past year into their final art projects. The school selected some of best portfolios to be on display in the Nor’ West News. School leader of the visual art faculty Libby Sheehy said the selected three works demonstrated independent and personalised learning. “These three works from year 11 art and year 12 painting and photography are strong examples of the diversity of style and approach our students choose to take. “The students are required
to investigate and explore their own themes and ideas through research and practical work,” she said. PAINTING TALENT: Year 12 student Lily Lee’s end-of-year painting.
A BIT OF NATURE: Year 11 student Kate Donald’s end of year piece.
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Cotswold Eco-Crusaders clean their favourite park PITCHING IN: Northwood Preschool and Nursery have been fundraising over the last month to support the charity.
Joint-effort fundraiser for Ronald McDonald House A splash of paint and a few family donations have helped one pre-school raise funds for Ronald McDonald House. The children and teachers at Northwood Preschool and Nursery created art canvases and last month the school invited families to purchase their child’s artwork. The money would then be donated to Ronald McDonald House. Centre manager Kylee Rangirangi-Teale said the art exhibition idea came about after one of the teachers received amazing support for her family from Ronald McDonald House when her daughter was sick.
Ronald McDonald House is a facility where families have free accommodation and support, while their child is receiving treatment. “We as a team wanted to pay this forward by fundraising within our centre,” said Mrs Rangirangi-Teale. The money raised will go to Ronald McDonald House’s Family Dinner programme. “We know the charity appreciates this effort made from people in the community to take time participating in the Family Dinner programme as families are spending most of their time in the hospital and
may not get a chance to cook meals for themselves,” said MRs Rangirangi-Teale. “We had a fun-filled night where parents took the opportunity to look at the artwork displayed in each of the classrooms, participate in spot prizes and a secret auction to have a chance to bid on a combined classroom art canvas,” she said. “We would like to take this opportunity to thank our families who have donated to this worthy cause and the Northwood team for all the effort they put into making the evening a success,” she said.
Three socks and carpet squares were some of the more unusual things found by Cotswold School’s Eco-Crusaders as they cleaned up Bishopdale Park. Looking after their local park has become a tradition at the school with this being the sixth year of clean-up. Eco-Crusaders are pupils who volunteer one lunchtime a week to monitor the rubbish at the school and give out tickets to those children ECO-CRUSADERS: Pupils Shylah who pick up rubbish. McLintock and Sophie Matthews clean What looked like a up Bishopdale Park. clean park actually contering their favourite park. tained a lot of rubbish, Fireworks are too dangerthe children discovered. ous for the pupils to pick up They found mainly tissues, lolly wrappers and food wrap- so some of the teachers took charge of picking those up. pings but also the odd socks In groups, they were given and carpet squares. gloves to protect their hands As fireworks went on sale earlier in the week, pupils saw before setting off on rubbish a lot of discarded fireworks lit- collection. The pupils really look forward to their trip to the park and are excited about cleaning your up. As a reward for all their hard work, the Eco-Crusaders were all allowed 10min playtime in the park at the end of their rubbish collection.
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Big achievements for jammers Selwyn House School pupils won their category in this year’s national Jump Jam competition. Grace Jenkins, Georgina Scott and Ella Stephens won the XFactor year 7-8 grade. Team organiser Jean Scott said the girls took charge of the whole project. “Georgina was in charge of verbal instruction, Ella was looking after the countdown, the showing of visual cues, and Grace was doing all the directional changes,” she said. The three girls had to perform four minutes of a pre-choreo-
graphed performance while being critiqued by judges. “It is massive to win this,” Ms Scott said. “They have to go through a preliminary round which meant they had to send in a video of doing their routine.” Selwyn House also entered 13 girls in the Strictly Jump Jam category where they had to change 25 per cent of the routine - Grace, Ella and Georgina were involved in this group also.
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WINNERS: Pupils Grace Jenkins, Ella Stephens and Georgina Scott (middle) won the year 7-8 X-Factor Jump Jam category.
Even the rain could not stop teachers being the target at the Roydvale Primary School fair this year. The biennial event saw the teachers get water dropped onto them by pupils. Fairgoers also had an opportunity to smash up a car as part of the fair and refuelled with all the food on offer. Principal assistant Karen Dow was thrilled that the event was
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DUNKED: Roydvale Primary School teacher Fiona Lill didn’t mind a bit of water on fair day.
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GOOD JOB GIRLS: Paparoa St School placed second in the year 1-4 novice national Jump Jam challenge section. Front row from left: Clare, Katia, Paige, Miah, Caitlin and Lucy. Middle crouching from left: Kylie Wood (coach), Sophie, Lucy, Hazel and Judy West (coach). Standing at back from left: Charlotte and Kate.
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KEEPING YOU INFORMED | NOVEMBER 2015
Fix and fasten preparedness campaign goes live EQC’s new TV advertisements, which are airing throughout the country, encourage people to think about earthquake preparedness in the same way as the other the things we do naturally and automatically to protect our families – like moving the handle of a boiling pot out of the reach of children. Cantabrians lead the way in earthquake preparedness, but there is still more do to. For information on how to fix and fasten your home go to www.eqc.govt.nz/fixfasten. Left to right – Leanne Curtis (CanCERN) and Paula McPhail (EQC)
Winning hard yards with community advocates As CanCERN shuts its doors for the last time in December, the Earthquake Commission (EQC) recognises the important role this group of community-minded people played in improving EQC’s customer focus. CanCERN is one of a group of independent Canterbury advocacy agencies who meet regularly with EQC to provide feedback on its work in Canterbury. They have championed the use of everyday language, more regular customer contact and relevant, consistent information. They especially pushed for more face-to-face opportunities for customers to get answers on their individual claims, and the chance to help as independent advocates in the most challenging EQC-customer situations. It has not been an easy path, says EQC Chief Executive, Ian Simpson. “As I recall, we invited these groups to meet us after some of their members protested outside our offices in Christchurch. We recognised quickly that, whatever we were doing wasn’t working, and we had to listen and learn.” One of the most vocal critics of EQC was Leanne Curtis of CanCERN. “The EQC customer advocates group meetings never happened particularly well at the beginning, but the attitude changed and we were able to help EQC think through the strategies from a resident’s perspective,“ Ms Curtis says.
“However, If the benefit of strategies did not trickle down to the homeowner – they’d be irrelevant. I have seen what some EQC staff tried to do to help customers, and they need support from the rest of the organisation.” Ms Curtis predicts that 2016 will be one of the most difficult for EQC and other rebuild agencies. “You’ll be dealing with the hardest, most exhausted customers and this makes ties between community advocates and EQC even more important.” “CanCERN will be gone, but that community voice is important because you want help from solutions-based people who are focused on making things better for the homeowners.” One of the biggest milestones for the groups was their input to EQC plans for settling earthquake damage claims on land, in particular properties with Increased Vulnerability to Flooding, and Liquefaction (IFV and ILV). The first “Land Hubs” were launched at the end of 2014, in which Government agencies and the community advocates groups made themselves available in a church hall to provide information on land. This template proved so successful that a more permanent information centre was set up under the In The Know Hub brand, at the Eastgate Shopping Centre in April 2015. The hub is open 9am to 5pm, Monday to Thursday, at the same location to the end of the year. Paula McPhail, EQC’s Canterbury Customer Solutions Manager says: “EQC remains fully committed to continuing to work with these groups, because it’s working for our customers. What form that will take though, with CanCERN closing and some of the other agencies preparing to reduce their footprint in Christchurch, is still being discussed. For now though, we’re happy to keep talking to customers.”
ILV community meetings A 90-minute meeting, featuring presentations on Increased Liquefaction Vulnerability (ILV) land damage from EQC Head of Canterbury Land, Keith Land, and EQC’s engineers, Tonkin + Taylor. Monday 16 November, 7pm
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Tuesday 17 November, 10am
South New Brighton Community Hall, 74 Beatty Street
Monday 23 November, 7pm
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Tuesday 24 November, 10am
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Thursday 26 November, 10am
North New Brighton Hall, 93 Marine Parade
Friday 27 November, 7pm
Beulah Church, St Albans, 140 Springfield Road
Monday 30 November, 7pm
Burwood Christian Centre, 52 Bassett Street
To reserve a place, please visit www.eqc.govt.nz/ILV or call 0800 326 243.
EQC releases results of world-leading land strengthening research The Earthquake Commission (EQC) has just released a report on more practical and affordable ways of making residential land less vulnerable to liquefaction. “The report summarises two years of world-leading research through our Ground Improvement Programme, involving New Zealand and international experts,” EQC General Manager Reinsurance, Research and Education Dr Hugh Cowan says. The research has identified repair methods previously only viable for commercial-scale projects that can now be used to strengthen residential land, making the homes built on the land more resilient in future earthquakes. “An approach that looks at the land and the house together when rebuilding a property on liquefaction-prone land will give homeowners more options and better outcomes. This is something that can now be applied throughout New Zealand and globally,” Dr Cowan says. The findings from the research are useful to anyone nationally with an interest in understanding how residential properties can be made less vulnerable to damage from liquefaction. This includes property owners and developers, architects, engineers and builders. Over the next year EQC will be engaging with these groups more closely to ensure they are aware of the Ground Improvement Programme’s findings and understand how they can use them in their work. A copy of the report Residential Ground Improvement: Findings from trials to manage liquefaction vulnerability, together with more information on the Ground Improvement Programme, can be found on the EQC website at www.eqc.govt.nz/GIP.
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Big fun at A & P Show Last week the A & P Show was on at the Canterbury Agricultural Park. Photographer Geoff Sloan was there to capture the fun.
CUTE: Chloe Laffey holding a rabbit. BRING IN THE CAVALRY: The New Zealand Mounted Rifles Parade were riding around the A & P Show on Wednesday. BIG ATTRACTION: Baby chicks were very popular at this years A & P Show, held at the Canterbury Agricultural Park.
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Burnside resident Juliette Ward has won a New Zealand Association Modern Dance Ballet scholarship. Juliette was awarded $600 and won two trophies for her first place finish. Fellow dancer Shelyse Wadley, of Marshland, placed third. Both attend Levings School of Dance, who had eight dancers attend the exams with three making the finals. The NZAMD hold examinations around the country each year in all dance disciplines. There are thousands of students that sit examinations in all dance forms. Students who achieve distinction in their exams can get
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PROUD: From left, Juliette Ward, Callahan Laird and Shelyse Wadley made the finals in the ballet category of the New Zealand Association Modern Dance Ballet scholarship.
nominated if the examiner feels they have what it takes to go through to the scholarships to Wellington at the end of the year. There were 40 dancers from around New Zealand in the ballet category, which was whittled down to eight. Levings School of Dance
owner Avril Levings said she was thrilled to have three in the final eight. “Juliette Ward, Shelyse Wadley and Callahan Laird all made it into the finals,” she said. “The results were announced at the end, Shelyse placed third and Juliette won the title it was so exciting.”
Guy Fawkes night came and went last week without major incident. I’m old enough to remember when exploding fireworks (double happies), sky rockets and jumping jacks were available and the on sale period was as long as the retailer wanted. In those times it was not uncommon to have several building fires burning at the one time. It was not uncommon for people to lose fingers, kids to lose an eye. We do appear to have more concern for people’s safety these days. Thankfully, the rockets and bangers have been banned.
But there is still the unnecessary spike in fire calls early each November. The incidents are generally not as numerous or as serious. But if such an incident coincided with someone you love being trapped in a burning house, or in a crashed car or an industrial accident I’m picking you would rather the nearest fire truck was not unavailable because the crew were cleaning up the result of some idiot being reckless with fireworks. We had another incident this week where a young child locked themselves in a car by hitting the lock and having the central locking do its thing. Something else in the endless list of things parents need to be aware of.
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WELL DONE: St Margaret’s Annabel Norris has taken home the age group player of the year at the 2015 Canterbury water polo awards.
THIRD PLACE: Rangi Ruru Girls’ School volleyball team finished third at the Canterbury Junior Volleyball Championships. Back Row: (L-R) Angelique Thompson, Ella Gardiner, Tori Field, Louise Vryenhoek, Maddy Finch and Gina Dymand (Coach). Front Row: (L-R) Alice Graham, Kate Halliday and Arwen van Pallandt.
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Rangi Ruru have finished third at the Canterbury Junior Volleyball Championships, held at Pioneer Stadium. The tournament was held over November 6-8. The team lost in their semi-final to Christchurch Girls’ High School in two sets, but bounced back to
claim bronze, beating Burnside High School two sets to one. Tori Field was also named in the overall tournament team. The girls will now turn their attention to competing at the South Island championships starting on November 23.
Water polo achievements earns double award St Margaret’s College student Annabel Norris has won two top awards in water polo. Canterbury Water Polo awards were held on November 8 at Christchurch Boys’ High School to recognise the efforts of the Canterbury representative players. Norris also claimed the most valuable player award for the under-14 representative team and joint winner of the most improved for the under-16 representative team. It has been a busy year for Norris who on top of playing for two Canterbury teams has also played in two teams for her school.
Five other north-west residents also claimed awards on the night. The under-12 most valuable player awards went to Moe Gath and Ella Te Aho, both Cobham Intermediate students. Papanui High School student Sven Ewans took home the most improved for the under-14 boys team. Most valuable player for the under-16 girls team went to Burnside High School student Kayleigh Eade. Most improved player for the under-16 boys team also went to a Burnside High School student, Tom Marshall.
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ON THE RIGHT TRACK: Christchurch Boys’ High School student Caleb Cross in action at Pukekohe.
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Knowing the conditions better will be a key factor in Caleb Cross’ next outing in the 2015-2016 Toyota Finance 86 Championship. The Christchurch Boys’ High School student says his inexperience in a closed roofed car cost him in the first round at Pukekohe last week. But he finished a credible 11th at the end of three races. Cross said he was pleased with his first outing on the ‘unforgiving’ Pukekohe track driving his two-door coupe. Across the three races Cross consistently improved his lap times and in his final race he finished within 1sec of the current lap record.
Cross said it is a big change going from karting to race car driving. “It is a lot more to take into consideration; the gears and feeling how much grip there is. “Basically it’s a lot more to get right which means the margin for error is a lot less,” he said. With the race a part of the Pukekohe round of the Australian V8 Supercar series, Cross said it was a big change racing in front of nearly 120,000 people. “With the grandstands full it can be quite scary with all those people watching you,” he said. Cross also said he really enjoyed dealing with local
school students who came to the race track. “I love doing that sort of stuff. I remember as a kid doing the same thing so I’m always happy to chat with them, give them some advice.” With one round under his belt, Cross said he is looking for a big couple of rounds to help push his points up. “My overall goal is to finish fourth, with a couple of big rounds in there, just want to keep pushing up the leader board,” he said. The next race for Cross is on November 27 at Hampton Downs before seeing him in action in Christchurch on January 14-16 at Ruapuna Raceway.
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SWIMMING CHAMPS Satori Hazlitt-Black will travel with the Canterbury West Coast Swimming Squad to the Victorian Age Group Swimming Championships. They will be held at the Melbourne Aquatic Centre on December 12-17. The Shirley-Papanui Community Board has approved $400 from its youth development fund towards his travel.
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SUPREME AWARD Jessica Shaw, of Mairehau, has taken home the supreme award at the Marian College senior sports prize-giving ceremony. Shaw also claimed most valuable player in touch, senior tennis champion and player of the year for netball.
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MAKING TEAMS Four students from the north-west region were named in the tournament teams following the Canterbury Junior volleyball championships. Burnside High School students Libby Collett and Talitha Bootsma were named in the junior girls’ tournament team. Mia Thompson from St Margaret’s College and Tori Field from Rangi Ruru Girls’ School were also named.
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Aurion – big car with a big engine Whereas Toyota has just launched a new generation Camry, its stablemate, the bigengined Aurion, which shares much the same ideology, doesn’t take on such a dramatic change. However, it has had a facelift which will see it through to the end of Australian manufacture in 2017. And the reality is, there was little in the old Aurion that needed refreshing, it has been a solid performer for Toyota, its large car feel and spaciousness has been a lure for those who like six-cylinder engines and aren’t prepared to compromise on performance. In terms of change, the Aurion gets a new grille and bumper, while Sportivo models have garnish changes to enhance a sporty look such as big black wheels. Inside, there’s a lot of extra detail, minor fitment features such as upgraded gauges, rear window blind, audio upgrades, Bluetooth streaming and upgraded trim detailing. The Aurion lands here in three variations, the entry-level model sits at $50,990, while a Sportivo SX6 and ZR6 are priced at $52,490 and $54,990 respectively. The evaluation car was the mid-range model, and it performs as well as it looks.
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