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WESTERN NEWS Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Tuesday <strong>October</strong> 2 <strong>2018</strong> 3<br />
<strong>News</strong><br />
Charity box items go missing<br />
• By Anan Zaki<br />
A SALVATION Army store<br />
in Hornby has had enough of<br />
people taking donated goods.<br />
Items from the store’s afterhours<br />
donation box have gone<br />
missing, or have ended up damaged,<br />
Salvation Army Community<br />
Ministries Hornby director<br />
Kevin Waugh said.<br />
Mr Waugh said the donation<br />
box is left open to fit a variety of<br />
goods that the store may receive<br />
and counts on people’s honesty.<br />
But good Samaritans often<br />
alerted the store.<br />
“People from the community<br />
have said to us that during afterhours<br />
they’ve seen stuff dropped<br />
off and then seeing another car<br />
come in and go through everything,”<br />
he said.<br />
Mr Waugh is disappointed<br />
that people have taken advantage<br />
of the box.<br />
“It is [disappointing that]<br />
some in our community has<br />
decided they would like to go<br />
through them.<br />
“Stuff disappears, worst case<br />
is they throw it all around and<br />
make it unusable,” Mr Waugh<br />
said.<br />
Common items that go<br />
missing are clothing, pots and<br />
furniture.<br />
Police suggested additional<br />
security but the store will take<br />
another approach.<br />
Mr Waugh is asking people to<br />
stop donating goods after-hours<br />
and phone the store instead.<br />
“If you’ve got donations and<br />
you want to give it to us, call us<br />
and we’ll make arrangements to<br />
pick it up if it’s after-hours,” Mr<br />
Waugh said.<br />
People have also been breaking<br />
into waste bins, creating a<br />
nuisance to the store, Mr Waugh<br />
said.<br />
“When we go to use it, it’s full<br />
of other people’s rubbish. So<br />
we lock it but people have been<br />
breaking into it.”<br />
The store has gone through<br />
seven padlocks this year, Mr<br />
Waugh said.<br />
He said the “annoyances” distracts<br />
the charity from it’s job,<br />
which is to help the community.<br />
Mr Waugh believes the<br />
store’s location on the corner<br />
of Halswell Junction Rd and<br />
Columbia Ave may have contributed.<br />
“It’s an industrial area, it’s<br />
open, there’s all sorts of ways<br />
around the building nobody’s<br />
MISSING:<br />
Salvation Army<br />
Community<br />
Ministries<br />
Hornby director<br />
Kevin Waugh<br />
is upset with<br />
people sealing<br />
donated items<br />
from outside<br />
their door.<br />
there to say: ‘Don’t do that’,” he<br />
said.<br />
The store has been at it’s current<br />
location since December<br />
last year.<br />
“We won’t relocate just<br />
because this is happening. I<br />
|guess it’s part of what happens<br />
at op-shops.<br />
“Anything that’s dropped off<br />
outside is always a temptation to<br />
take,” Mr Waugh said.<br />
•To drop off an item<br />
after-hours at Salvation<br />
Army Hornby South Family<br />
Store, phone 344 2530<br />
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FUTURE OF OAK TREES<br />
The Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton<br />
Community Board last week<br />
voted to delay its decision on<br />
the future of 22 oak trees on<br />
Villa Grove, Upper Riccarton.<br />
Board chairman Mike Mora said<br />
members will inspect the street<br />
themselves next month before deciding<br />
on the future of the trees.<br />
Residents of the street complained<br />
that the trees have been causing<br />
a nuisance. The trees are 8.1m to<br />
15.8m and were planted in 1994.<br />
ICE HOCKEY TRIP TO JAPAN<br />
An Aidanfield 12-year-old has<br />
secured $500 from the Halswell-<br />
Hornby-Riccarton Community<br />
Board to travel to the Pee-wee<br />
International ice hockey tournament<br />
in Japan next year. Oakland<br />
School pupil Brianna Greaves<br />
will compete for the Canterbury<br />
Minors ice hockey team.<br />
DANCE CHAMPS GRANT<br />
Wigram dancer Molly Brown,<br />
12, is a step closer to attending<br />
the Showcase Australian dance<br />
championships on the Gold<br />
Coast in January. Molly received<br />
$500 from the Halswell-Hornby-<br />
Riccarton Community Board for<br />
the trip. She will perform in six<br />
troupes, six solo acts and compete<br />
in the dancer of the year category<br />
which was chosen through a<br />
recorded audition.<br />
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