16 Tuesday <strong>February</strong> <strong>13</strong> <strong>2018</strong> Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi 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 <strong>February</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 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 <strong>13</strong>,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 10 FEBRUARY - 7 MARCH Main Rd, Little River | 03 325 1944 art@littlerivergallery.com
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