Western News: October 02, 2018
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12 Tuesday <strong>October</strong> 2 <strong>2018</strong><br />
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Your Local Views<br />
Good progress on Hornby’s<br />
community mega-centre<br />
Halswell-<br />
Hornby-<br />
Riccarton<br />
Community<br />
Board<br />
member<br />
Debbie<br />
Mora writes<br />
about the future of the<br />
community mega-centre in<br />
Hornby<br />
WELL, ITS fantastic that we<br />
are now making progress<br />
with drilling commencing at<br />
Kyle Park this week to make<br />
investigations to see if this could<br />
be a possible and viable site<br />
moving forward.<br />
I had requested deferral of<br />
making a decision for a couple<br />
of weeks pending on site further<br />
engineering on Kyle Park back<br />
at our extraordinary meeting on<br />
August 12, 2017 (minuted), this<br />
was seconded, put to the meeting<br />
and lost.<br />
However, it is great to now see<br />
progress in that direction after<br />
our board deciding it would be<br />
helpful after the reclassification<br />
of Denton Park was not<br />
desired by a large part of the<br />
Hornby community, 84 per<br />
cent of submissions against the<br />
reclassification, and the hearings<br />
panel upon listening to all the<br />
concerns from the submitters.<br />
The hearings panels<br />
recommendation to our<br />
Community Board was to not<br />
reclassify the Denton Park<br />
Recreation Reserve.<br />
I understand that it can be<br />
frustrating waiting for our<br />
desired South West Leisure<br />
centre, but it is important to get<br />
this project right and acquire all<br />
the details and data, as we don’t<br />
want problems to occur after any<br />
decision-making.<br />
I believe it is helpful to<br />
foresee any issues and discuss<br />
them, to future-proof the<br />
facility’s placement and ensure<br />
accessibility and parking is of<br />
ease for everyone.<br />
TESTS: Drilling at Kyle Park, the city council is investigating the<br />
park’s suitability for a community mega-centre.<br />
I have learned as an elected<br />
member representing the<br />
Halswell Hornby Riccarton<br />
Community Board just how<br />
passionate a large part of the<br />
Hornby community felt about<br />
their green space that was<br />
donated to the community by<br />
Stanley Denton.<br />
This was donated for “outdoor<br />
recreation” with a status as<br />
a recreation reserve, used<br />
largely by sporting groups,<br />
leisure activities and the local<br />
community at large.<br />
I have valued supporting this<br />
process and the community<br />
through all the stages of this<br />
process, learning the value that<br />
the Hornby community has<br />
with Denton Park and listening<br />
to all that contacted me with<br />
their concerns, for example<br />
traffic concerns, sports clubs,<br />
community use, parking and<br />
gifting of the park.<br />
It was emphasised in an<br />
article on September 14, by<br />
reporter Ashleigh Monk,<br />
regarding a statement by former<br />
Mayor Garry Moore “elected<br />
representatives needed to ensure<br />
their decisions were supported by<br />
residents.” I concur with this.<br />
I believe we are making<br />
positive headway, steady is the<br />
progress, and I trust the wait will<br />
be worthwhile for all.<br />
All the above is my personal<br />
opinion from my experience<br />
gained while listening to the<br />
concerns of residents and<br />
sporting groups in the Hornby<br />
community and being part of<br />
this process as a current Halswell<br />
Hornby Riccarton Community<br />
Board member.<br />
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SCHOOLS<br />
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Fire rages, homes at risk<br />
A REVEREND has been<br />
formally recognised for his role<br />
in helping establish the South<br />
Island’s first Pan-Pasifika Early<br />
Childhood Centre in Hornby.<br />
Ara Institute of Canterbury<br />
student and Pasifika community<br />
relations adviser Reverend<br />
Fitifiti Luatua was recognised<br />
by early-childcare provider Barnardos<br />
on September 14.<br />
Barnardos runs the childhood<br />
centre on Waterloo Rd.<br />
The Ministry of Education<br />
appointed Rev Luatua to the<br />
Pasifika Advisory Group of the<br />
childhood centre in 2015.<br />
He was given the role for his<br />
engagement with the Pasifika<br />
community through his 18 years<br />
of church ministry and his work<br />
with the Ara Pasifika Trades<br />
programme at Woolston and<br />
other programmes at Ara.<br />
As part of community engagement,<br />
Luatua brought Ara civil<br />
skills students to construct landscaping<br />
and sandpits – which<br />
added much needed beauty,<br />
benefited the centre and gave<br />
students real world experience.<br />
The efforts and the contribution<br />
of the students was very<br />
much appreciated by the community,<br />
parents, teachers and<br />
children.<br />
Working in tertiary education,<br />
Rev Luatua recognises that the<br />
path to success starts early in life.<br />
“Yes even from early child-<br />
RECOGNISED: Ara Institute<br />
of Canterbury student and<br />
Pasifika community relations<br />
advisor Reverend Fitifiti<br />
Luatua with his certificate of<br />
appreciation.<br />
hood if they have that engagement<br />
with tertiary they can see<br />
it is a pathway into the future.<br />
“Early childhood I would call<br />
the most difficult area, however<br />
if you build a good foundation<br />
of learning for our children right<br />
from early childhood then they<br />
will progress well into the other<br />
levels,” Rev Luatua said.<br />
Building started in April 2016<br />
and the centre was opened on<br />
March 2017, run by Barnardos<br />
and licensed for 47 children, 10<br />
of which are up to two-year-olds.<br />
HELPING<br />
OUT: Ara<br />
civil skills<br />
students<br />
help<br />
landscaping<br />
at the Pan-<br />
Pasifika Early<br />
Childhood<br />
Centre in<br />
Hornby.<br />
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