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12 Thursday March 9 2017<br />
Latest Christchurch news at www. .kiwi<br />
The Star<br />
News<br />
Red zone<br />
planning day<br />
open to all<br />
A COMMUNITY day will be held<br />
to get input on how to shape the<br />
future of the residential red zone.<br />
Regenerate Christchurch chief<br />
executive Ivan Iafeta said this year<br />
will see a plan prepared for the<br />
regeneration of former red zone<br />
land from Avonside to Bexley and<br />
Richmond to New Brighton.<br />
The Ōtākaro Avon River Corridor<br />
Community Day will be<br />
held on March 25 from 10am-3pm<br />
at Haeata Community Campus,<br />
Wainoni. Everyone is welcome.<br />
“We’re inviting everyone to journey<br />
through an interactive experience<br />
to learn about the land and<br />
river, and then share their thoughts<br />
on how this area could shape an<br />
exciting future for Christchurch,”<br />
Mr Iafeta said.<br />
He said Regenerate Christchurch<br />
wanted to find out what the city<br />
needed and how this parcel of land<br />
could help meet those needs. It also<br />
wanted input from children.<br />
Free guided bus tours of the<br />
red zone are on offer, as well as<br />
fun, family activities including a<br />
sausage sizzle, face-painting and a<br />
bouncy castle.<br />
More information can be found<br />
at engage.regeneratechristchurch.<br />
nz.<br />
Role of women in spotlight<br />
• By Bridget Rutherford<br />
ROCHELLE TOURELL has<br />
worked in the construction<br />
industry for a decade and<br />
reckons she can do her job just<br />
as well, if not better, than any<br />
man.<br />
The L.J. Kidd painter is one of<br />
the 14 per cent of women who<br />
work in the industry across the<br />
country.<br />
Yesterday, it was the annual<br />
International Women’s Day,<br />
which calls for equality.<br />
But Ms Tourell said she feels<br />
equal in her line of work, in<br />
spite of being the only female at<br />
most building sites.<br />
“I’ve found every job I’ve<br />
been on I’ve been accepted. I’m<br />
just one of the team and I don’t<br />
expect any more than that.”<br />
She said women could be<br />
more meticulous and could do<br />
the job as well as their male<br />
counterparts.<br />
She first got into the trade<br />
because her partner was a construction<br />
worker. Having always<br />
enjoyed painting, she decided to<br />
give it a go.<br />
It was intimidating initially<br />
with it being a male-dominated<br />
industry. But she doesn’t feel<br />
that way now.<br />
METICULOUS: Painter Rochelle Tourell says she feels equal<br />
to her male counterparts, in spite of working in an industry<br />
dominated by men.<br />
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN<br />
“I think there’s more and<br />
more acceptance of women in<br />
the trade.”<br />
Yesterday, 120 women went<br />
along to a Women in Construction<br />
forum, organised by<br />
Safe/Rebuild and Canterbury<br />
Rebuild Safety Charter, at<br />
By the numbers:<br />
•Women make up 51.3 per<br />
cent of New Zealand’s<br />
population, according to<br />
the latest census<br />
•Nationally, 14 per cent<br />
of those working in the<br />
construction industry are<br />
women<br />
•International Women’s<br />
Day was first held in the<br />
United Nations in 1975<br />
Christchurch Bridge Club.<br />
It was so popular, another<br />
would be held later this month,<br />
which Ms Tourell would attend.<br />
Roofer, TJ Kereru-Daly – one<br />
of three key guest speakers<br />
– said working in a maledominated<br />
industry meant<br />
she had to earn her colleagues’<br />
support, but sometimes it was<br />
harder to do.<br />
Sometimes she was not taken<br />
seriously because of her gender,<br />
she said.<br />
Safe/Rebuild spokeswoman<br />
Jo Duffy said International<br />
Women’s Day was perfect timing<br />
for the forum.<br />
“It seems a very obvious day<br />
to run this forum. We want to<br />
celebrate women in the business<br />
and the timing is perfect.”<br />
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