Nor'West News: February 13, 2018

16 Tuesday February 13 2018
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SPORTS
NOR’WEST NEWS
Dance sport medals for teacher
• By Andrew King
ST MARGARET’S College
dance teacher Stacy Goldsworthy
helped a number of teams win
medals at the New Zealand
Masters Games in dance sport.
The 36-year-old was involved
with three teams that one gold,
silver and bronze during the
competition held on Waitangi
weekend in Dunedin.
She was one of 10 in a formation
team who won gold, which
requires the dancers to make as
many different formations as they
can in three-and-a-half minutes
while facing the four sets of
judges at all times.
The team was made up of Molly
Chapman, Rebecca Abrahams,
Sarah-Jane Haywood, Kate Podmore,
Sarah Van Hoof, Hayley
Toso, Caroline Stevenson, Kay
McDonald and Sue Gledhill.
Goldsworthy then took part
in a quartet, which also featured
Rebecca Abraham, Sarah-Jane
Haywood and Kate Podmore
tap dancing, and was awarded a
silver medal.
“In my whole dancing career
of about 33 years it was the most
fun I have had on stage. For some
DANCE STARS:
(Left to right) –
Stacy Goldsworthy,
Rebecca
Abrahams, Sarah-
Jane Haywood
and Kate Podmore
placed second in
the quartet.
reason, it was such a highlight to
dance with them,” she said.
She also received a bronze
medal for another formation routine
with a separate team made
up of Toso, Van Hoof, Chapman,
McDonald and Stevenson.
Goldsworthy got into dance
when she was three-years-old,
following in her mother tap
dancing footsteps.
Now she teaches dance at St
Margaret’s but said her passion is
about winning medals.
“I just love it, I love performing
and being on stage in a costume,
and winning medals,” she said.
• By Andrew King
ST ANDREW’S has the third
best beach volleyball junior girls
pair in the country.
Marijke Hinton and Kate Allen
took bronze in the division
one competition of the New
Zealand secondary school beach
championships at Mt Maunganui.
It was a tough competition for
the year 11 students, who had to
battle strong North Island teams
and a king tide which washed the
court away preventing play for
about an hour on day one.
THe pair made the quarterfinals
and beat Bethlehem 2-1
before losing in the semi-final to
Auckland’s Long Bay College 1-2.
They bounced back to take
bronze with a win over Marlborough
Girls’ 2-0.
Teacher in charge of volleyball
TALENTED:
Marijke Hinton
and Kate Allen
were placed
third in the
junior girls
division one
competition
beach
volleyball
competition.
Beach volleyballers from
St Andrew’s take third
Mikaele Tuu’u said it was a fantastic
result and is promising for
the upcoming indoor volleyball
season.
“I think it will be one of the
most competitive indoors season
I have seen in a while,” he said.
Burnside High’s Libby Collett
and Talitha Bootsma placed
second in the division two girls
section with coach Sam Ryburn,
known as ‘Mr Volleyball’ saying
he believes there is some really
good competition between the
Christchurch schools now.
“Looking ahead to the indoor
season I think our [Burnside’s]
time may have come. We have
had good success in the past but
the competition is looking very
strong this year,” he said.
Division one was won by
Otumoetai College and Long
Beach placed second.
Janie Porter
Headland
Janie Porter is a New Zealander and lives in Christchurch. She
trained in England, New Zealand and at the University of Fine
Arts in Hanoi, Vietnam.
She is known for her work in portraiture, landscape and birds.
Working in a variety of different mediums, mostly with a palette
knife, she builds layers of paint constantly experimenting with
light, transparency and form.
Janie has lived nearly her entire life near the sea and has loved
and observed birds since she was a child.
Headland
“Headland is about the Port Hills and Banks Peninsula,
Horomaka. Walks and wanderings. Thinking about conservation
and the sheer love and hard work of the locals who protect
and manage the land and its beautiful birds.
Our taonga. This exhibition feels like just the
beginning, there is so much left to say.”
Janie Porter February 2018
Wildside Project
The Wildside Project is a large scale collaboration
of landowners, Christchurch City Council,
Department of Conservation, Environment
Canterbury, and BPCT for the protection of a
variety of endemic, threatened, and iconic species
such as the endemic white-flippered little blue
penguin, the only titi (sooty shearwater) colony
in Canterbury, and yellow-eyed penguin at their
northern breeding range. jewelled gecko, spotted
skink, the Banks Peninsula tree weta and Akaroa daisy (both
found only on the Wildside). The Wildside covers 13,500ha and
focuses on habitat protection, with 25% of the Wildside held in
private or public reserve, and predator control, with over 700
predator traps controlling feral cats, ferrets, stoats, weasels,
and possums used in this extensive trapping programme.
The Tui Project
The Banks Peninsula Tui Restoration group translocated a
total of 72 tui from Maud Island, Marlborough Sounds to
Hinewai Reserve, Banks Peninsula in 2009 and 2010. This
NatureWatchNZ project has been set up to capture the many
observations of tui contributed by people all over Banks
Peninsula and Christchurch since the first release. The vast
majority of observations in the project are made by a small
team of volunteers, who have spent thousands of hours
observing, recording and managing this information over the
last nine years.
Janie Porter
Headland
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